Chapter 463

I looked at the monitor and saw Niku and Toy that were fighting in the arena .

“Oh, they’re already doing it . ”

“Kehma, let me see it too . ”

While saying that, Rokuko sat down beside me without opening the monitor herself .

She smells good, like a sweet scent of Melon Bread .

“Rokuko, did you use perfume? Melon Bread scent?”

“Is those exist? I want one then . ”

“I don’t know . ”

“Who had the upper hands?”

“Hmm, for now, it’s Toy . By the way, when did Niku learn to launch five fireballs at once?”

I give Nerune a phonograph golem that contain the chant, I wonder if Niku borrowed it when Nerune had already finished with it .

How diligent she is .

“There were other chants that I recorded, but I wonder how much of it she remembers . ”

“Is that so? But, Kehma, I’m betting on Toy, so I will be rooting for her . ”

“Good luck then, Niku, give it your best . ”

I cheer for Niku through the monitor . By the way, when I looking at them like this, they show us a really similar expression .

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“Even if you’re a failure, you seem to know one or two things about magic, well, it’s pretty good . But how about physical arts?”

“I won’t lose . ”

“Oh? Not even trying to win? So, a failure puppy is just a failure after all?”

“I won’t let it get over my head . That’s all . ”

Niku closes her distance to Toy .

“Slow–”

“naive…”

Toy reacts to Niku and thrusts her club . However, Niku catches the club and then spins it around to bash her . Toy’s defenseless back got slammed twice .

“[jump]”

Toy jumped with skill from an impossible position . It’s the skill features that allow her to execute that absurd movement . Basically, it’s a physical skill that improves your jumping ability, but it can be used for emergency evasion .

“using a skill? Expected, weakling . ”

“Hm… it was a convenient skill; how can you not use it? Only an idiot will refrain from it, oh wait, there’s one puppy who did . ”

Toy snorts and laughs . Niku glares at her .

However, their eyes are locked to each other, trying to find an opponent’s opening .

“#######,#####,###,##–[Curse dance]”

“##,#############–[Fireball]”

Niku slams five fireballs into the dark-colored, disastrous spear that Toy unleashed, destroying it .

“Ahaha, could it be that’s all the spell you can use? As expected from failures, you have a very limited number of moves, huh?”

“Not showing it, why should I?”

“That’s true . But I need to show Kehma-sama my resourcefulness, so he understands the extent of my ability, so I shouldn’t hesitate to use it, right? ###,############### [cast pillar] . ”

The ground cracked . A black pillar the size of a grown man grew out of it—a purple haze created around it, giving it an unapproachable atmosphere .

“Don’t worry, this one doesn’t have the ability to kill – it’s just a cursed so anyone that touches it will be controlled . Ufufu, that’s right, would it be fun to make you do sexy dance?”

“####,###########,####—-[summon skeleton] . ”

Niku summons a bone soldier to hold the tower . The skeleton soldier begins to do belly dance, but let’s ignore that .

“Oooh? Summon spell? You seem to have the basics down, don’t you?”

“I’m going to get serious . ”

“Oh, dear . Well, then I’ll be half-serious . ”

“then, I will be half-half-serious . ”

“is that so? I will be half-half-half-serious then . ”

They started to exchange childlike talks – no, wait, they’re actually children – and glare at each other .

“Fine! I’ll… I’ll deal with you in one thirty-second (1/32)of seriousness . ”

“Then I’m, um, um, I’m one-sixteenth . See that? I can also divide by double digits . Master taught me . ”

Hmph, Nik proudly blows her nose, and Toy puts her hand over mouth and laughs a small “pfft” at her .

“Kukuku, you’re twice as serious as I am!”

“?, Isn’t 32 times two is 64? You suck at math . ”

“Haha! Wait for a second! Puahaha, It’s a fraction, my dear puppy! Oh, but I can’t blame her for not being able to do elementary level arithmetic, can I?”

The bigger the denominator – that is, the bigger the number to be divided, the smaller the result, but unfortunately, Niku hasn’t studied fractions and decimal points .

In this world, if you have the ability to count integers, that is more than enough . (Many adults cannot do multiplication and division properly . )

“I’m not sure why, but I feel like I’m being ridiculed . I’m going to hit you . ”

“I’m not making fun of you, it’s just the fact that you are an idiot . Ahahaha!”

Then their attacks and defense begin continued .

Niku doesn’t hesitate to thrust her wooden knife, aiming for Toy face . The aim is her silly laughing face, but of course, Toy avoids it by kicking away the blade .

The next moment Niku kick aim at Toy’s club . Anticipating this, Toy drops the club and try to aim for Niku’s legs joints .

Toy abandons the club and delivers a kick to her knee’s back – her one leg is lifted, but Niku does not collapse . Golem Assist . A secret Toy doesn’t know makes reality turned out different than it 'should” be .

There is a slights moment of surprise . But after that very moment, Niku swung down her kicked-up leg back down on Toy’s head .

“ugggh!”

“Sorry, I faked the opening, and you bite it . I did that on purpose . ”

“Damn you, damn you failure dog . ”

“I’ve been training in the Demon Kingdom . By the way, what shall I call you? A Loser Dog? A good name, right?”

“How could it be good? What kind of a cheat did you use to make a failed project to become a winning dog?”

“Complete control of your body, and don’t let your opponent use you . This is the essence of the Demon King arts . ”

“Tsk, it’s the damned Demon King’s arts…!”

Toy knows . That the goal of the Demon King arts is ‘complete self-control’ . You can say It is the ultimate selfishness that is not influenced by anyone or anything . If one managed reaches the extreme peak, they can control his body, mind, and even their soul as they wish .

It was Niku’s bluff, but that was the kind of skill that the Demon King arts used . Toy didn’t expect Niku to be able to use it that well .

“Then I’ll take you seriously this time, too . The Chaos School will swallow everything . Use what you can use, even your enemies . A thousand and one changes, all things are in torrents – [Kaleidoscope]!”

The next moment, Toy divides into four .

“How about this? Failure puppy?”

“Isn’t this simply a technique for creating three illusions–?”

“The presences are perfect on all four bodies, right? that’s the difference . ”

“The original technique of what school was it…… . . I forget . Anyway, it’s a secret technique . ”

And then one by one, they spoke to Niku in turn .

…No matter how you look at it, there are four of them .

“””” Let’s go, shall we?””””

And then the four Toy come at Niku, all at once–

“…C, there . ”

— but Niku hit the second from the right without hesitation . She punched the main body Toy with her elbow .

The three clones disappear .

“Gah, ughh! Did you just find me in one shot!?”

“You’re need to concentrate to control your clones, which makes it much easier to hit you . it was an excellent move, though . ”

“…tell me, how did you know?”

“Believe it or not, it’s luck . This is my lucky day . So, do it again, and I might miss it next time, okay?”

“…liar . ”

Toy laughed enviously and flopped down .

“Well, let’s just end it as me losing today . It’s also the role of a junior to follow their senior . ”

“Good decision, Now, Toy… bow down . ”

“…like this?”

Toy bow down quietly . And then Niku climbs onto her, and stand in her head . Maid dog on maid dog .

“…Mm . It’s a moderate ride . ”

“…n . ”

Surprisingly, Toy accepts it without complaining, but it’s no surprise since she’s on the losing side . That was the way it goes for both of them .

Niku put her weight on Toy’s head a couple of times as a reminder and got off Toy .

“Let’s get back, Toy . ”

“understood~~ . ”

Toy obeyed Niku’s order meekly . She brushed the dirt from her clothes and head with a flick of her hand and followed behind Niku with a pitter-patter .

This was the end of the ranking ritual .

By the way, Niku’s earring is also a cloth golem that Kehma had prepared for her .

I’m sure you’ve known about gramophone golems, hidden inside that earing is the same mechanism to produce sound . Its purpose is to send a voice to Niku via dungeon function [communication] since she’s not a dungeon monster .

A small voice that can only be heard by Niku through the golem was Kehma’s voice . Just now, Kehma secretly delivered the following conversation to Niku .

“Hey Rokuko, if you had to guess, then which one of those four is the real one? A to D from left to right . ”

“eh, What? Well…C?”

It’s not her own victory . Niku didn’t call Toy a ‘loser’ because she realized that .

TL notes:

Why math!!

It’s hard to write technical terms in English!! If I do make a mistake on that sentence about denominator, please write down the right one in the comments, PLEASE! I’m struggling so hard in that sentence that I had to use google translate .