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  The surrounding men, not only the one that surrounded them, but also the unrelated onlookers, and stall keepers nearby, all crumbled while covering their groin with both hands.

  The barrage that seemed to continue for eternity, finally stopped in consideration of the man who already lost his consciousness. Even though it was impossible to lose consciousness with only one blow, it could be done by accumulated damage along with wind magic. As if it was a miracle, Yue who 'fuu' blew her forefinger, left her words as a parting gift.

  "... ... Good, you've become a otomen « Maiden »"

  On this day, a man died, and became the second Crystabel, and Mariabel-chan was born. This person, under training from manager Crystabel, became the manager of the branch store, and although it was able to increase its fame... ... that's a story for another time.

  Yue got her second name, "Crotch Smasher", that name caused uproars in the adventurer guild and even reached the capital, it was capable of making male adventurers shudder, but this was also a story for another time.

  Yue and Shia ignored the frightened gazes of men and continued their shopping. On their way, they could hear girls say, "Yue-oneesama...", but ignored that and continued their shopping.

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  When Yue and Shia went back to the inn, Hajime already finished his work.

  "Good work, somehow, there seems to be a fuss inside town, did something happen?"

  It seemed he noticed their commotion.

  "... ... There is no problem."

  "A~, un, that's right. There's no problem at all."

  To see a monster as the dress store manager, and had heaven call for a man, the two said it was nothing. Although Hajime felt a little suspicious of them, he shrugged his shoulders and let it go.

  "Did you buy all the necessary things?"

  "... ... Nn, don't worry."

  "That's right. There's also a lot of food, but it was okay. It truly is convenient to have Treasure Box."

  For shopping, Hajime entrusted the "Treasure Box" to them. Having seen Shia look at the ring enviously, Hajime could only reveal a wry smile. With his current proficiency, he was still unable to make "Treasure Box". It surely would be convenient, when he is capable of crafting it, he would definitely give it to them.

  "Well then, Shia. This is yours"

  While saying that, Hajime passed Shia a cylindrical object with 40 cm in diameter and 50 cm in length. A silver cylindrical object with a handle installed on its side.

  Shia who received the gift from Hajime, was immediately confused when she felt the weight and activated her body strengthening.

  "Wh-what is this? It's really heavy..."

  "Well, it's because that's your new Sledgehammer. It is good for it to be heavy"

  "Heh, this... ... is?"

  Shia's doubt was justifiable. The cylindrical object did not look like a hammer at all, and the handle was also too short. No matter what was said, it was unbalanced.

  "Aa, that's the standby state. For now, try to pour some magic into it"

  "Umm, like this? kh!?"

  As he said, she poured magic into the hammer-like thing, 'kashun! kasun!', sounds of machinery emitted from the hammer and the handle extended, it became the right length for a swing mallet.

  This Sledgehammer was an artifact : Doryukken (named by Hajime). It was equipped with some gimmicks that could be used by Shia. It operates by transforming the parts of the weapon that have magic poured into.

  What Hajime wanted to finish was this weapon. When Yue and Shia went shopping in the morning, he was making Shia's new weapon.

  "This is the limit of the current me, I'll revise it again when my ability improves, because we don't know what will happen from now on. Although you received Yue's training, it was only for ten days. It's still dangerous for you. That's why that weapon was made while thinking of how to make use of your power to the maximum. Please master it, okay? Because you have become our companion, don't die without my permission, understand?"

  "Hajime-san... ... fufu, your speech is all over the place~. It's okay. Although I am still not strong enough, I'll follow you anywhere!"

  Shia was so happy while embracing Doryukken. Because she was so happy, Yue who felt a little ill-humored by it, thought to herself that it couldn't be helped, and shrugged her shoulders. Hajime only showed a wry smile. Although he didn't say it, to witnessed a scene where a beautiful girl was happy because she got a Sledgehammer as a present, he felt it was surreal.

  With the joyous Shia in their company, they finished checking out from the inn. Even now, they ignored the inn girl who looked at them with blushing cheeks.

  When they got outside, the sun was already at its zenith, and its brilliant shine fell on and warmed them. With his arms spread, Hajime took a deep breath. When he turned around, Hajime could see Yue and Shia were also smiling.

  Hajime nodded to the two, and started to advance, followed by Yue and Shia.

  It was time to travel again.

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  Chapter 43: Great Dungeon of Raisen?

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  A heap of corpses.

  Those words fit the current spectacle inside the Raisen Grand Canyon's ravine. Some demonic beasts had their heads smashed, along with the ground. While some demonic beasts had theirs pulverized, furthermore some demonic beasts had their body carbonized, although there were various killing methods, all of them died in one attack.

  Naturally, inside this hell, the place that was feared as an execution ground by people, there were...

  "One hit certain kill~!"

  ZUGANn!!

  "... ... Hindrance"

  GOBANn!!

  "Shut up"

  DOPANn!!

  It was the trio of Hajime, Yue, and Shia. After Hajime and his party got out from the town of Brook (with Yue and Shia's fans seeing them off), using the magic-driven two-wheeler, they passed through the entrance of "Raisen Grand Canyon". Currently, after advancing further and camping along the way, they had already passed through the cave concealing the path to "Orcus Great Dungeon", furthermore two days had passed since then.

  Inside "Raisen Grand Canyon", the demonic beasts kept attacking them just as usual.

  Shia's Sledgehammer, swung with immense force smashed demonic beasts, it was literally a one hit certain kill. The demonic beasts were crushed to death with a normal attack that far exceed their defense. Even the mochi pounding moon rabbit's destructive power paled in comparison to this.

  Yue closed in on the demonic beasts, then slaughtered them with magic that she instantly invoked with magical power from her equipment. Although Yue herself has enormous magical power, equipped with magical power stored inside the accessories called magic crystallization stone series, it became even more enormous. Her attack could be compared to endless bombing. Even if magical power was disintegrated in the ravine, thus the time to invoke magic became longer and the distance became shorter, she invoked ultra high temperature flames in no time and demonic beasts were killed while being carbonized without exception.

  Hajime, needless to say, was sniping the heads with Donner while driving the magic-driven two-wheeler. Although it was consuming his magic to use "Lightning-clad" and driving the magic-driven two-wheeler at the same time, there is no sign of magic depletion.

  The hell beasts that dominate the ravine were completely treated as small fish. The annihilation was treated as a side job while they searched for a sign of the Great Dungeon. The demonic beasts' corpses overflowed on their way.

  "Haa~, even though it should be somewhere inside the Raisen, it was too vast after all"

  They moved while examining if there were caves. Even though they made thorough observations, not even one was found. Hajime could only inadvertently complain.

  "Well, because no matter what happens we'll reach the Big Volcanic Mountain, it's okay to not find it at all. There might be
some clues in the Big Volcanic Mountain after all"

  "Well, even if that's so..."

  "Nn... ... but, those demonic beasts made it gloomy"

  "A~, Yue-san also dislikes this place~"

  While complaining and being disgusted by the demonic beasts that keep coming, they had kept traveling for three days. There are no results today and the dark had already set in. The beautiful shine of the crescent moon could be seen if you looked up, therefore Hajime and his party started to prepare their camp. After taking out the tent, they prepared dinner with ingredients and seasoning bought in the town. The tent and cooking utensils were artifacts Hajime made.

  The tent was created using Creation magic, with "heating stone" and "cooling stone" installed, it's always kept at a comfortable temperature. It's also equipped with "refrigerator" and "freezer" made with cooling stone. Furthermore, the metal frame was imbued with "sign interception" from the "mind-severing stone" so that it wouldn't be found easily by enemies.

  For cooking utensils, there was a frying pan and kettle with an adjustable flame that was proportionate with the amount of magic used, and a kitchen knife endowed with "wind claw" in its sharp edge that could be activated by pouring in magic. There was also a steam cleaner-like thing. They were Hajime's beloved children that help provide the meals on their travel. Moreover, because it could only be used using direct magic manipulation, it could be said that there was a crime prevention system.

  "Age of gods magic is truly a convenient one"

  Those were the words that Hajime said when he made the cooking utensil artifacts and the tent installed with a heating and cooling system. It's just like a useless technology, that wasn't that useless, that he uselessly refined.

  By the way, today's dinner was kururu chicken simmered in tomato. Kururu chicken was a chicken that was capable of flying in the sky. Its meat's quality and taste was just like chicken, a popular type of chicken meat of this world. It was a dish where the meat was cut into bite size pieces and floured. after that it was sautéd, then boiled along with various vegetables in a tomato soup. It has the right flavor of butter and meat juice inside the meat, you could feel the tomato's sourness permeate in your nose when you smell it, when you put it into your mouth, the flavors will spread through. The meat will 'horohoro', crumble inside your mouth, 'hokuhoku' the potato(fake) that's completely soaked inside the tomato soup, while carrot(fake)'s and onion(fake)'s sweetness transmitted to your tongue. To have bread melt and soften after dipping it inside the delicious soup truly made it more delicious.

  Dinner was finished with full satisfaction. and while immersed in the lingering taste, Hajime and his party chatted just like they always do. Inside the tent, they could leisurely chat because the mind-severing stone was activate, which made it so that demonic beasts do not approach them. Although sometimes there were demonic beasts that came near, Hajime only needed to stick his hand out the window that installed, and shoot it. Moreover, when time for sleep, the three rotated the lookout duty until morning came.

  Today, it was about time for Yue and Shia to start preparing to sleep. The first on look out was Hajime. Because there were fluffy futons inside the tent, they could sleep comfortably despite it being a camp. Also, Shia went outside the tent before getting into the futon.

  To Hajime who was dubious of what happened, Shia said with a calm face.

  "For a while, I wanted to pick flowers"

  "There are no flowers inside the ravine, you know?"

  "Ha-ji-me-sa~n!"

  Hajime's words that lacked delicacy destroyed Shia's calm face, she angrily stared at him. Hajime who obviously knew what those words meant said, "My bad my bad", with a wryly smiling face that didn't show any remorse. Shia hurriedly went to the tent's side in anger, after a while...

  "Ha-Hajime-sa~n! Yue-sa~n! It's an emergency! Please come he~re!"

  Was what Shia shouted out, forgetting the possibility of demonic beasts hearing it. Wondering what happened, Hajime and Yue, who came from the tent, looked at each other then dashed out at the same time.

  When they arrived at the origin of Shia's voice, they saw that there was a huge monolith that leaned on the ravine's wall after it fell, and a space was revealed between the monolith and the wall. Shia was inside that space seeing something unbelievable! Being colored in excitement all the while.

  "Here, over here! I found it!"

  "I understand, for the time being get out of there. It looks like you used full body strengthening. Aren't you too excited?"

  "... ... annoying"

  The frolicking Shia was pulled out by Hajime and Yue's hands, when Hajime pulled her he got a feel, while Yue gloomily frowned because of that. Guided by Shia into the crevice between the rocks, when they entered the wall's side had a hollow interior, and it was wider than expected. Having entered that space, Shia silently, with a proud expression 'bishi', pointed her finger at the wall.

  Hajime and Yue looked at the place pointed by that finger, then they inadvertently let out "Ha?", while blinking their eyes in surprise.

  In front of the two, in that place, there was a splendid rectangular signboard that was made with cuts in the wall, and strangely woman-like characters were carved there.

  "Please come in! Into Miledi Raisen's thrilling Great Dungeon♪"

  The mark "!" and "♪" felt strangely irritating.

  "... ... the heck is this"

  "... ... what is this"

  Hajime and Yue's voice came out in succession. "I am seeing something unbelievable right now!", were the exact presentations of their expressions. The two of them, blankly looked at the signboard inside the hellish ravine.

  "To ask what, it is the entrance! Great Dungeon's! It was found by chance when I went to-... ...cough, to pick flowers. Well~, it was real, there is a Great Dungeon inside Raisen Grand Canyon"

  While Shia's slaphappy voice resounded, maybe because Hajime and Yue was finally able to get out of their surprise, they wore indescribable expressions, then looked at each other in perplexion.

  "... ... Yue. Do you think it's real?"

  "... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Nn"

  "That's a long pause there. Your basis?"

  "... ... Miledi( ...)"

  "It was that after all..."

  "Miledi", it was the first name of Raisen that appeared on Oscar's memorandum. Although the name Raisen was conveyed and known by the world, the first name was unknown. Therefore, the chance that a place with its name signed in was the Great Dungeon of Raisen is very high.

  But, no matter what, what they were honestly unable to believe was...

  "Why must it be this character..."

  There was a reason for saying that. Hajime was considering the desperate fights that happened inside the Orcus Great Dungeon, and surely the other dungeons would also be along that line, that's why the lightheartedness of this made him lose his strength. Yue also understood well the severity of a Great Dungeon, that's why, her expression said that she still thought maybe it was someone's prank.

  "But, the entrance-like place couldn't be seen, right? The interior was a dead end..."