Lonely Attack on the Different World (WN)
Chapter 351

Day 82 – Evening, White Weirdo Inn, Girls-only Gathering

Underwater. That was the real, vicious trap, lurking beneath the surface, writhing silently beneath the waterline, a true nightmare of an enemy, and easily one of the most terrifying threats imaginable.

The nostalgic Evil Forest. That stylish cave had undergone even more renovations, remodeled and upgraded again. The garden was expanded, and apparently, he even built a pool, and not only that he also added a jacuzzi and a 50m pool too, and that’s where a full-on naval battle broke out. Inside the jacuzzi, tentacle monsters were squirming in massive numbers, slipping through the gaps in swimsuits, squirming and wriggling in those places in that way, pressing and squelching in those kinds of spots, ultimatelty sinking two Dungeon Emperor-class guests. To top it all off, a fully transparent, looped water slide had been built on the way back, and everyone went 「Sliiiider~!」 together.

「「「「We wanna go! Pool! Water slide too!」」」」

「But~ there could be those~ squirmy things under the waaater~?」

「「「「Kyaaaa! This is bad, really bad! We wanna swim, but that’s crazy!」」」」

Everyone’s red in the face and squirming in embarrassment. You can’t let your mind go there. Apparently, the tentacle monsters from the Dungeon got him competitive, and a new, utterly horrific and peerlessly vicious breed of tentacles has been developed, currently still growing and evolving!

「Cap-shaped tips! Bumpy texture! Ribbed joints!」

「That… is… really bad! You can’t, stay sane!」

Ah, they’re sinking. It was too much stimulation for their delicate maiden hearts, and now their fantasies, already dangerously vivid, have gone into overdrive. But the terrifying part is that these new weapons far surpass anything they could’ve dreamed up. Overheating in the midst of their wild, girlish delusions, they’re all sinking into the tub one after another. They were prepared for a bubbly, lotiony jacuzzi, sure, but not for a squirming, underwater tentacle hell that turned out to be heaven. This is dangerous! I mean, we’re talking tentacles with cap-like tips, bumpy textures, and ribbed joints… squirming everywhere!

「But I still want to swim… The squirmy things… the squirmy things getting inside the swimsuit… and then… squirm around inside… (bubbling)」

「Uuugh, the pool~! But underwater… they’re in the water! And when you get in, they slip right in… (glub glub)」

Of course the swimming club duo would want to swim, it’s nostalgic. They can’t let it go. That’s why Haruka-kun prepared the competition pool, for them to reclaim that piece of the past. But… the squirmy things!!

「「「We wanna go on the water slide! Maybe there won’t be squirmy things on the slide?」」」」

「But what if we splash down… right into the squirmy pool, like, surprise!!」

「「「「NOOOOOHHHNN (glub glub glub)」」」」

Still, there’s no way Haruka-kun would do something like that to them. If anything, if they were all in swimsuits, he’d probably slowly inch away. He’s a bashful, awkward, timid Sex King. Timid… but his trump card is tentacles.

And even as they drown one by one, they’re all still listening to the end. Somehow, they seem to be getting used to drowning lately.

「The bumps… they squish and squirm… and vibrate. That thing will kill me.」

「The ridges… they slurp and move around… instant death.」

It was a death sentence! Apparently, last night’s tentacle hell had already evolved even further in just half a day. To summarize: the stimulation is so overwhelming that it knocks you out, but then it’s so intense, it jolts you back to consciousness… only to knock you out again. You’re endlessly reawakened by that same unbearable stimulation, trapped in an infinite, inescapable loop of squirmy torment. It was the kind of frenzied, tentacle-infested pool that blurs the line between dream and reality. Yeah, that would kill you!

Everyone sat there listening, cheeks flushed, fidgeting and squirming as they imagined it. Ah, Erailia-san is sinking! Maybe she’s still not used to these secret girl talks, or maybe it’s because she was an elven shrine maiden, too pure, too innocent, or maybe her imagination is just too strong, but she sinks a lot. However, she always bounces back, takes her spot right up front, clenching her fists as she listens intently, nodding along. Just a short while ago, she was a bedridden patient, yet now she’s surprisingly tough!

「In-in-inside? like, inside–inside? And then… wriggle there?」 (*Gasp, Plop*)

「They squirm inside… Squirm?! And the bumpy parts vibrate… squish-squish…?」 (*Dizzy… splash!*)

「They’re crawling around, w-w-why!? Why would they spin there!!」 (*Stagger… plunk!*)

The girls’ HP is already zero! Emergency evac, we need to take this talk to the room before they get totally steamed in more ways than one. It’s officially dangerous.

Room meeting. There’s a lot on the agenda, but top priority is tomorrow.

We need to decide the Dungeon assignments for tomorrow and discuss how to divide up the raid formations. We have to get stronger.

Haruka-kun, as usual, was apparently nearly dying on the lowest level of a Dungeon again. This time, he faced a Level 99 Dungeon Master all on his own, without letting Angelica-san, Nefertiri-san, or even Slime-san lift a finger… And he did it with a weakened body, the body that hasn’t gotten stronger at all.

「Looks like he’s in a hurry to finish the new equipment~」

「Ah, probably wants to send off Kakizaki-kun and Oda-kun’s teams properly.」

「But he looks kinda lonely, doesn’t he? If he ends up being the only guy left…」

「「「Boys are so close, right~?」」」

Truth is, both Kakizaki-kun and Oda-kun want to bring Haruka-kun with them. But he can’t leave the Frontier. That’s where the real danger is. And we can’t handle the deepest levels on our own yet.

That’s why he’s worried. We’re the ones he’s worried about.

Even though we’re the ones who are supposed to protect him… it’s always us who end up being protected.

And now Angelica-san and Nefertiri-san understand it too. When things get truly dangerous, Haruka-kun will fight, completely alone.

He goes off to fight, all alone, while still at his weakest. That truth hit us hard.

As if it’s normal. As if it’s just how things are. Always, constantly, without fail, endlessly, he tries to protect everyone, all on his own.

With nothing but a fragile body, wrapped in equipment so dangerous no one else could even handle it, he charges into battle, alone.

It’s always like this. Every time. Always doing reckless things. Even when we get angry, no matter how many times we scold him, he still insists on putting only himself in danger.

So that no one gets hurt. So that nothing is lost. So that no one can take anything away. He’s determined to let nothing be taken, and to retake every single thing.

Because by now, he must not want to lose anything ever again.

That’s why he’ll fight to protect, even if it costs him his life.

Even though that kind of thinking really will get him killed. Even though doing such dangerous things is guaranteed to break him.

And yet, even broken, he still tries to fight. Still struggles, trying to become stronger.

We want to catch up to him. We want to stand beside him. If one day it really is all over, and completely hopeless, and there’s nothing we can do, I don’t want to let him die alone. At the very least, I want us to be there with him. That’s why we have to become stronger, strong enough to stand at his side.

「…We should probably set a date for the picnic soon, huh~?」

It seems the Evil Forest has gotten a little risky. The forest itself hasn’t done anything wrong, of course, but it’s currently home to one very dangerous tentacle-equipped high school boy, back on break.

We were planning to take the orphan kids out for a picnic, but the place has gotten a bit… adult. When we asked whether it was safe to bring the children, we were told the kids would be fine, but the maidens were in serious danger.

「Well, we’ve got kids with us, so we should be okay, right?」

「I mean, if it comes to it, Pres can handle it?」

「A water battle against squirmy things?」

「「「Rest in peace~ Ameeen~」」」

「Don’t kill me off!! Just because you think that doesn’t mean you can offer me up as a sacrifice!」

Lately, everyone’s been so coldhearted! Even with 『Regeneration』, there’s no way that’s survivable. Maidens can’t fight against the tentacle assaults of 『Sex King』 and more than that, tentacles invading a maiden is a hard no. That’s a sealed, forbidden, never-ever-go-there zone, nothing should be squishing around inside thereeeeee!! (*Thud*), (*Chomp*)

Currently has a mushroom in her mouth.

Finally collapsed before anyone could even call the medics, and immediately had mushroom stuffed into my mouth… Did they have it prepared beforehand!?