The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

29 – Contact

Fortunately, I was able to face the next day without the alarm magic working.

I simply ate the leftover chocolate, cleaned up my sleeping bag and campfire, and headed downstairs.

The side of the stairs without a handrail was a cliff with no bottom visible. Fortunately, no one has a fear of heights. Everyone was cautious, but they worked hard.

As Luna guessed, we went down a little and found out that this place was a mine. As if they had dug up several places, the way down was divided into several forks.

If you go down anyway, the destination is the stage where the final boss is presumed to be, so it doesn’t matter which way you choose, so we kept going down, but at this crossroads, everyone stopped and exchanged opinions.

“Stairs on one side, like now, on the other, a cave…. And the tracks are laid here.”

La Carre stroked his chin and asked for our opinions, not sure which one would be better.

“Where do you think would be better?”

“Isn’t it convenient to go down the stairs?”

Everyone nodded at Kane’s words. You don’t know what’s in the middle of the track, and you don’t know if the road is cut off in the middle. The road to the cave is rough and it takes more power than the stairs to go down.

“Then let’s go to the stairs. Everyone is nervous because there might be an attack.”

According to everyone’s opinion, Lakar took the lead and went down the stairs.

As he was going down the stairs nervously, La Car suddenly stopped his steps and took on the appearance of listening to something.

“It’s a vampire bat!”

At the same time as Lakar’s cry, a large group of bats appeared from the ceiling and rushed at us with loud flapping of their wings.

Arya, who was preparing for the attack, immediately raised her magical power and used lightning magic to knock several bats floating in the air off the cliff, but there were so many that it was not noticeable.

Shuwook-!

I instinctively swung her spear at Luna at the sound of cutting through the air.

After barely blocking the arrow shot at Luna, she hurriedly turned her head in the direction the arrow flew.

I shouted at Rakar at the sight of the goblin archers emerging from the stairway opposite us.

“A goblin archer has also appeared! We must retreat!”

Worst case of being attacked from both sides. There was not even a cover to escape the arrows.

Rakar, who grasped the situation at my cry, shouted while slashing at the vampire bat.

“Retreat! Retreat!”

As I hurriedly turned around and climbed the stairs again, vampire bats rushed at me as if they thought their prey was running away.

A vampire bat attacked my defenseless back, which was blocking the goblin archer’s arrows, but Luna blew it away with wind magic.

Without time to say thank you, I heard Aria’s cry as I focused on the arrow that flew straight.

“Go away!!!”

A vast amount of magic power burst out of Arya, and the flames of flame hit the vampire bats flying in the air.

Avoiding that attack, a vampire bat rushed towards Luna at high speed. I hurriedly stabbed her spear, but her vampire bat pushed her Luna off her cliff with its body even as it pierced her spear.

The moment her Luna’s body floated into the air, she threw away her spear and reached for her hand. Luna, who was holding the book and staff all the way in her hands, couldn’t hold her outstretched hand.

As Arya watched it, she screamed. Instinctively, I threw myself off the cliff. It was an act that I acted on my instinct to save her Luna without any thought or action.

I picked up the falling Luna in the air and quickly raised my magic power, thinking that I might be able to survive somehow if I used basic space magic.

Fortunately, Luna, who came to her senses in her arms, swung her staff, and the speed of her fall slowed down.

When you think you can safely make a dimensional exit at this speed. I stopped the magic after confirming that the large mushroom I had seen in class was on the floor.

If you think about it, this place looks real, but in the end it’s a training dungeon. He wouldn’t have let the risk of falling off a cliff and dying.

As I expected, the large mushroom served as a good matrix. He felt a slight jolt on her back and felt her fast beating heart as he cradled Luna in his arms.

If it wasn’t a training dungeon, but a real one, how likely were you to survive?

As regret and shame for acting instinctively without thinking filled my head, I finally felt Luna trembling in my arms.

I came to my senses from the body temperature and trembling that I could feel from touching each other, and I gently brushed Luna’s back.

“Are you okay?”

As if he hasn’t calmed down yet despite my question, his whole body trembles as if convulsing. He held Luna on top of the mushroom for a while, stroking her back as if comforting her little child.

As if she had calmed down with that action, after a while, Luna silently slipped out of my arms. Seeing Luna with her head bowed down and biting her lip, I let out a sigh and said,

“Because this is a training dungeon, there were mushrooms to prevent death from falling. If it were a real dungeon, both would have died.”

Knocking even more at my words, Luna repeated her words of her apology.

“Books were so precious… ?”

Let’s blame the book for not holding my hand even in an implicitly dangerous situation. Luna quickly shook her head.

Common sense doesn’t understand holding a book in your hand even in a life-threatening situation, so let’s look at it as if asking for an explanation.

Luna chewed her lips and put on a troubled expression before putting her wand in her right hand into her bosom. With her right hand she struggled to pull out her book, which she was still holding with her left hand.

While watching her strange behavior, I looked at Luna’s left hand and stared blankly at her, forgetting even to breathe.

The book she was holding slipped out, but Luna’s left hand somehow kept holding her book and her hand trembled.

“Sigh, sorry for hiding it…. In fact, the left side of her body was uncomfortable….”

I came to my senses at the sound of Luna’s watery voice, and felt a great sense of guilt for my stupidity.

Not even shaking her left hand when we bumped into her in the library. Not even extending her left hand when everyone was doing left hand practice. It was all because I was uncomfortable.

When looking at it from behind, I thought it was cute because of its unusual gait, waddling around like a duckling. Even though I watched from right behind me, I didn’t think at all that I was uncomfortable.

That book was just a device to hide my uncomfortable left hand. It was just impossible not to hold my outstretched hand. It wasn’t that I didn’t like me, it was just that I was uncomfortable with my body.

“Sorry, I should have noticed….”

“Oh no! It’s my fault I didn’t say…. Me, I’m very shy…. It’s hard, it’s hard to tell people like this….”

After saying that, Luna put her book in her left hand again and smiled awkwardly as she touched the hem of her skirt with her right hand.

“… I’m shy too, so I don’t have any friends other than Lakar.”

I tried to say it as if I was blaming myself to lighten the mood, but the awkward atmosphere didn’t go away easily. She opened her mouth thinking that she would suffocate in awkwardness at this rate.

“Let’s get out of here for now. You’ll meet them eventually on the stage where the boss is. If you go there, you will be able to join the crew.”

At my words, Luna, who was weighed down by the awkward atmosphere like me, nodded her head eagerly.

Unsure of what might pop out, she walked ahead with Luna behind her.

Fortunately, there were glowing mushrooms around, so it wasn’t dark under the cliff. As I walked hard, I saw a stairway that had collapsed everywhere.

“Go upstairs, the road will continue.”

Since this was the only way from where we crashed, it seemed appropriate to go upstairs.

“Let me check first.”

As I struggled up the stairs, stepping on the remaining bricks, I saw a passageway.

“There is a passage here.”

As I said that, I looked down at Luna. Can Luna, who is sick with her body, come up here?

As if reading my thoughts, Luna tried with her one hand, but she looked quite dangerous to me watching.

It was difficult for me to use both of her hands, but it seemed impossible for Luna to come up here with only one hand.

I looked around to see if there was a way to raise her luna, but there was no such thing. I checked the expedition bag again just in case, but there was nothing like a rope.

I wondered if there was a way, but one way came to my mind. The only problem was that there was a risk.

It is a way to move her Luna to where I am using basic spatial magic, but I have never moved a person before.

I didn’t even test it because if the dimensional passage was closed in the middle, terrible things would happen….

She wondered if it would be right for Luna to use this method, but there was no other way.

Fortunately, there is enough mana to use basic space magic.

Looking at my eyes, I made up my mind when I saw Luna bowing her head like a criminal.

“Luna.”

Seeing Luna raise her head at my call and look up at me, I said with a bright smile, trying to relax as much as possible.

“Would you trust me?”

I suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu. I feel like I’ve said the same thing once.

“I believe… !”

I felt strange when I saw Luna nodding her head, saying that she believed in me despite the sudden words.

“Then, when I give you a signal, count to three and then jump in place.”

“Dots, jumps?”

Luna asked with a puzzled look on her face as if this was an unexpected request.

“Yes, I will move you here with my magic.”

At her words, Luna, who had been watching how I used the spear, immediately understood her words and nodded her head.

“I will.”

I took a long breath at Luna’s answer and focused my mind.

As long as you don’t make mistakes, there’s no problem. Holding her heart like that, I recognized the spatial coordinates under Luna’s feet and shouted.

“I am ready!”

At my shout, Luna nodded and counted.

“One, two, three… !”

According to her signal, I made a dimensional entrance to the ground Luna was stepping on, and immediately she made a dimensional exit above my head.

It was not Nelson’s improved magic, which reduced the entrance to the dimension and effectively changed the consumption of mana, but the existing basic space magic, so the mana ran out in an instant, but the magic succeeded.

“Kyaa!”

As Luna suddenly loses ground to step on, she screams and falls through the exit of her dimension. I hurriedly lifted her arm and hugged Luna.

I received Luna in the posture of hugging the princess. I burst into laughter at Luna’s frightened expression as she curled up in her arms.

If Ellie was a beauty in the form of a cat, Luna was in the form of a dog with drooping eyes and a gentle look.

Luna looked so cute like a puppy, shaking her body in her arms and crying with her round eyes.

Luna, who was being held, turned red at the sound of my laughter, and she asked in a small voice.

“Please drop me….”

Let’s drop off Luna as a desperate request. Luna, who pursed her lips to see if she had anything to say, let out a small sigh and turned her head away as if she was ashamed.

I felt the corner of her mouth go up again at that action, and I shook my head to bring her to my senses. She said in a casual voice.

“Should we start now?”

“Yes, yes….”

While heading to the boss stage, Luna and I were unable to exchange a single word due to the strange atmosphere.