Awakening to a Special-Grade Explorer
Vol. 4 - Ch. 204

"Did w-we...win?"

The battlefield next moment was swallowed by a deafening silence.

Like the clear weather after the rain, a certain explorer muttered in daze after witnessing an unbelievable phenomenon. A voice so faint usually wouldn't have made it to even the ear of an adjacent person in the battlefield, but everyone heard that voice crisp clear.

It was like they all were in the theatre, and watching a movie.

The explorers were befuddled to the core, even questioning themselves; if this was what you call the work of an explorer, then what were they even doing until before this?

The professional explorers here had considered themselves to be at the top of the world. Sure, there were monsters like Limey too, but they never considered her to be an untouchable existence. Well, they might not go as far to say they could rival her, but supporting or coordination was still very much possible.

They had the valid ground to think of themselves as professionals. ---However, now they were filled with a doubt, what was exactly the finishing line for a professional?

Compared to that young man, they remained on their spot like a helpless damsel, and painfully felt that they were no different than ordinary citizens in the earlier ordeal.

The young man called Tenji Amagi had chopped the head of the monster alone.

The explorers didn't immediately burst into cheers. They all kept staring at the lone figure standing on the centre of the battlefield. They just couldn't find the words to express themselves at the moment.

"Phew. I guess it was too much to expect...to leave unhurt."

Tenji's figure staggered as he stumbled two or three steps forward..

The body of the young man looked battered, with scorch marks in some spots. He didn't go completely unaffected by the explosion just now. However that was all there was to it, he seemed to have escaped the complete explosion, or else even he would have been following the fate of that monster.

A mystical power, as if protecting their king, seemed to have neutralised the aftermath of the explosion.

Tenji hurriedly stabbed the greatsword on the ground and used it as a cane to prevent his fall.

"Hahaha......that was a twist I wasn't expecting."

The young man abruptly looked up at the rain cloud in the sky and released a hollowed laughter, apparently recalling something.

Just as the battlefield was locked into a state of silence---

The severed head of the monster thumped in the ground. The rolling on its showed no sign of life. Tenji looked at that and staggered once again.

"The second 'Compensation.' It's almost time."

Tenji was having a regretful expression as he looked at the dead body of the monster. Suddenly, a droplet of tear slid down on his dirt soiled cheeks and dropped on the ground. Without warning, his hands holding the greatsword shivered.

It was the sign of his fear.

He might have acted tough in front of Ibuki Douji and Fuyuki, but there had always been this fear housed within a corner of his mind. Was it because he heard the consequence of using comepnsation from Mui Kujira?

His mind was completely seized with the fear.

"I should move somehwere else......"

Tenji drew the greatsword from ground, and was about to leave the spot when he caught something.

Twitch

Monster's cheeks showed the sign of moving.

An unsettling hunch assailed Tenji the moment he caught that faint moment in the periphery of his vision. It was like needless were stabbing all over him.

Maybe it was the like the slight flapping of fish even after it is turned into a sashimi, the post-mortem reflex. Tenji tried to assure his wavered mind.

However, he was wrong.

The light of life was actually dwelling in its eyes. With a creaking sound, it opened its jagged mouth.

"GrruuuGrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu."

And with a howl, the monster was once again breathing, and moving.

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