Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu

ould not hit them back.

“The monsters keep running away.”

“Yeah…that’s true.
And I don’t get any experience.
Hmm.
It’s annoying that I can’t go and cut them.”

They didn’t know what the boss was yet, and had no reason to attack for now.
So they ignored the enemies and searched for the boss room.

And then, the two of them discovered an old stone monument that was covered in vines.

“Ah, Sally! There’s something here.”

“There’s no magic circle, so it’s probably not for a boss room.
But I guess we should take a look.”

As they got closer to it, they saw that there were words written on it.

“A path shall appear before the person who defeats the cunning lord of the forest.”

“Is that the boss?”

“Probably.”

“Then we better defeat it…!?”

As they were talking, Maple suddenly shot forward and her face smashed into the stone monument.

Someone had attacked her from behind.

Sally quickly looked behind her and saw that there was a giant chameleon stuck to a tree.
Its tongue now retracted into its mouth and then it turned invisible.

“That thing…!”

“Agh.
What? Did you see something?”

“Yes.
A chameleon.
It’s probably the thing that first attacked me.
Also, this is just a guess, but I think we’re already in the boss room.
Or maybe the entire field is the boss room?”

“So, does that mean we have to chase after it?”

“Probably.
But! It turned invisible.
This is going to be very hard… That attack seemed like it was only an introduction.”

With so many trees around them, the effectiveness of Maple’s ranged weapons were halved.
Sally was also unable to sense the chameleon’s presence, which meant she couldn’t dodge its attacks.
So she could not use her speed to scout the area as usual.

“Now, let’s go chase after it.”

“We’ll have to test different things! …Zzz.”

Maple said excitedly, and then immediately closed her eyes and leaned against the stone monument as she fell asleep.

“…Maple? …Ah, ‘Sleep’!”

It was a powerful status effect that was deactivated when you took damage, but made you immobile for 20 seconds.

It was probably an effect of the previous attack that they hadn’t been able to see.

And then, as if they had been waiting for this to happen, the monster monkeys started to throw the explosive fruits down on their heads.

“Cunning…huh.
It’s a good thing we have Dedicated Affection…”

However, Maple wouldn’t take any damage like this.
That meant ‘Sleep’ would not be deactivated.

“I guess I’ll just wait.”

Sally watched Maple sleep comfortably and tried to think of a way to catch the chameleon.