After Accidentally Helping a Famous Streamer Who Forgot to Turn Off Her Dungeon Stream, I Began to Go Viral as a Legendary Explorer ～ The Introverted Me Accidentally Dominating with My Mysterious Skill 'Ignore Rules' - Chapter 37: The Mystery of Pheromones & Mini Comment Session

Chapter 37: The Mystery of Pheromones & Mini Comment Session

“Uh…sorry. My name is Fuka Yamakoshi. I’m a first-year student at Tsukigaoka High School.”

—A few minutes later.

We decided to sit on a convenient rock and reorganize our current situation.

By the way, Tsukigaoka High School is something like a neighboring school to the Tsukishima High School that Miyu and I attend. It doesn’t particularly concern a loner like me, but I often see students from these two schools interacting.

“So… you mentioned earlier that a Leaf King suddenly appeared. Could you tell me the details?”

“Y-Yes.”

To summarize Fuka’s story:

She wasn’t a particularly strong explorer, but she frequently visited this Tsukigaoka Dungeon. This place was ideal because strong monsters rarely appeared, and above all, she could escape from the irritating hustle and bustle of the real world.

In other words, she often walked around here because it was her favorite spot.

“But then… it suddenly appeared.”

Fuka hugged herself and began to tremble.

“I knew that there are monsters like Emergency Monsters that appear suddenly. So even while walking around, I always remained alert. But… the Leaf King was different.”

“Different, you say?”

“Yes. You know how Emergency Monsters usually make a flashy entrance with effects, like they’re announcing to explorers that a monster has arrived from another dimension?”

“Uh, yeah… now that you mention it.”

“But this time it was different. Just like a regular monster, it seemed like it had been there from the start… and it suddenly attacked me.”

“What…”

At Fuka’s words, even Miyu was at a loss for words.

“That’s absolutely strange. You’re saying it suddenly attacked you without you even noticing it was there?”

“Yes… that’s why I was so startled.”

Then Fuka covered her face with both hands and let out a trembling voice filled with tears.

“I’m scared now… I hate school, and this dungeon was my only sanctuary. Now, I can’t even come here anymore…”

“…”

Seeing her like this, I couldn’t help but lower my gaze.

I don’t know why this Leaf King appeared here. However, if a third party is intervening…

That’s something I can never forgive.

And so.

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Ristoria: That’s it, I’ve figured it out! Kirishima-kun, this is all a trap set by Yayoi Goyama! Get out of there quickly!

Yukiria: Huh? What’s wrong?

Ristoria: The Leaf King Chameleon releases a large amount of pheromones when it dies! Normally, it uses these pheromones to rob its prey of reason, enticing them to approach so it can eat them… and that ‘robbing of reason’ works on humans too!

Misato: What…? Reason?

Barufu: What we have in front of us is a girl in torn clothes… So, is that what it means…⁉

Muresu: By the way, aren’t those pheromones already in the air?

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“Huh…?”

Suddenly shown the smartphone screen by Miyu, I was taken aback.

Indeed, I do sense a pleasant scent wafting around in this cave right now… However, someone as introverted as me, the biggest loner in school, would never think of attacking a woman.

In any case, viewers have gone so far as to warn me. There’s no way I can afford not to escape now.

“This seems dangerous. Let’s go!”

Saying that, we quickly made our escape from the Tsukigaoka Dungeon.

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Barufu: But those pheromones don’t seem to be affecting Kirishima that much, do they?

Ruisu: No, no, but I definitely remember losing my sight when I defeated the Leaf King. If there had been a girl I liked there, it could have been really bad.

Misato: Wait, so does that mean Kirishima-kun is able to restrain himself? That’s too gentlemanly!

Yukiria: I don’t know much about Yayoi Goyama, but isn’t this just a case of Kirishima’s strength becoming known to the whole world?