The Dual Swordsman Who Lost Both Arms On Stream to Save His Doomed Party Gets Exiled—Then the Heroines Go Yandere - Chapter 23: The Revived Dual Swordsman Clouds the Heroines Again

Chapter 23: The Revived Dual Swordsman Clouds the Heroines Again

————【Alicia’s Perspective】

“Huh?”

They had reached the 10th floor. Just two more floors up and they would make it out of the dungeon. While taking a break in a slightly open area, she checked her phone and saw the notifications had gone wild.

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○johnson　1 minute ago
Bold decision

○Heroic　1 minute ago
Alicia is way too cool

○ayumi　2 minutes ago
I want to say such a cool line of defiance at least once

○Mentos　2 minutes ago
Sorry, I totally thought Alicia was just one of Kaiser’s harem members

○mentsuyu　3 minutes ago
Kaiser comes off as arrogant and unpleasant somehow
I never understood why Alicia was in the same party as a guy like that

○D-katsu　5 minutes ago
Like maybe Soma had some dirt on her or something

○Even So, Dungeons Are Beautiful　6 minutes ago
Alicia is a lone noble flower, an edelweiss
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“What the!?”

“That’s amazing!!”

It seemed the same thing had happened to Kakehi and Arisugawa.

She had fully expected viewers to blame her, calling her a weather vane or a traitor.

Of course, she had been prepared for that.

“I’m glad no one is saying bad things about everyone.”

“I don’t care about that stuff. Actually, Alicia, you made the right call. If you hadn’t told Amiro off back there, I might’ve stayed his boring slave forever.”

They were both relieved that their exploration boycott had worked out.

That was when it hit her that Arisugawa, the one who usually got lonely and clingy the fastest in times like this, had not come over to them.

By the time she exchanged glances with Kakehi, it was already too late…

“Nooooo!!!”

Arisugawa’s high-pitched scream echoed off the dungeon’s low ceiling.

“Arisugawa!!!”

“Lemon!”

As they tried to rush to her, about ten men had already surrounded them.

“Shut up! Don’t struggle!”

Arisugawa was pinned from behind by a thug-looking man, and a sharp knife glinted as it pressed against her neck.

“No way… EH? Explorer Hunters!?”

“Heh heh heh, correct!! Since Alicia-chan got it right, we’ll give her a big fat breeding rod as a present from us, so be grateful!”

The man who seemed to be the leader stepped out from behind Arisugawa. He bounced the flat of the knife on his palm as he approached them. Tribal tattoos covered even his face, and he did not look like an honest person at all.

These people called EH preyed on weakened explorers struggling to return from the deeper floors, stealing their valuables or committing sexual assault. They were illegal explorers, so to speak.

No, calling them explorers was too good for them.

Naturally, they were unregistered with the Labyrinth Exploration Association. Known also as fallen warrior hunters, proper dungeon explorers despised them.

“You guys hit the jackpot today. We’ve got the Mikado family’s precious young lady Alicia-chan, Kakehi Misato with a body so perfect no ordinary gal model could compete, and the JK loli VTuber Lemon-tan! You’re the perfect partners to drain us dry!”

It made her want to throw up.

The creepy stares pouring from the men. The unpleasant feeling from a suspected molester on a train was nothing compared to this. The beastly lust directed at them felt utterly repulsive…

“If you care about this girl’s life, you’ll service us nicely, yeah?”

With Arisugawa pinned and a knife at her throat, she could not move and trembled. The EH leader pressed the knife to her clothes. The buttons at the chest of her blouse and the string of her ribbon tie were cut, exposing Arisugawa’s bare skin.

“Stop it! Don’t touch Lemon!”

“Whoa! Don’t come closer. If I took a hit from Kakehi Misato, the attack specialist of an S-rank party, even we wouldn’t stand a chance.”

He kept the knife tip pressed against Arisugawa to threaten Kakehi.

No matter how much Kakehi yelled, the leader’s hand did not stop. Low, vulgar laughter from the men echoed through the dungeon.

She and Kakehi pressed close together and whispered a plan in voices too low for the men to hear.

“Damn it, these scumbags… How about we say we’ll suck them off and then bite it clean through?”

“B-Bite it off!?”

D-Does she mean that hard, hot, erect thing on a guy!?

She had only ever seen deformed versions in health class. Could she really do something like that…?

The men loosened their belts and slowly closed the distance.

Perhaps growing impatient with them for not moving, the leader grabbed both sides of Arisugawa’s blouse collar.

Riiip!!!

He tore it open in one go, exposing her pink underwear.

“N-Nooo… Don’t look! Don’t look!”

H-How awful!

“Come on, hurry up or Lemon-chan gets stripped, and her little beans and loli pussy get shown to the whole world!”

“P-Please stop… Don’t do that…”

The aggressive Aragami shikigami had all been used up for Soma’s RTA. She did not care what happened to her own body. Should she use the secret technique [Invite the Souls of the Dead, Yomotsu Izanami] to call for help…?

If she was fated to marry Soma, she had thought at first that she liked him, but Arisugawa’s safety mattered more.

The tuna woman Soma always talked about…

Her unconscious body would probably be mocked as a tuna while they raped her.

“What are you doing?”

She turned toward the familiar gentle voice…

“Hinata!?”

“Nezha!”

“Nataku!!!”

The arms he was supposed to have lost were properly there.

“Everyone, it doesn’t really feel like it’s been a while…”

He scratched his temple with a finger, looking perplexed by the situation they were in.

Prosthetic arms, maybe!?

She did not know much about prosthetics, but could they really move that smoothly, just like real human arms?

“Who the hell are you?”

One of the men surrounding them charged at Hinata. The leader yelled.

“You lot shut up. Haha, this is hilarious. Isn’t this the dual swordsman who got kicked out of his party just the other day? You waltz in here acting like a hero? Too bad, this is our turf! If you want Lemon-tan there to live… huh?”

Crack.

The leader had been mocking Hinata with his speech, but when he noticed their stares and the breaking sound and turned around, the wrist of the man restraining Arisugawa was bent in a direction it should not go.

“Gyaaa!!! My hand, my haaand!”

Looking closer, it was not just bent. It was an open fracture from the forearm, and the back of the hand was almost touching the upper arm.

Hinata showed no sign of having moved.

He was simply staring at the thug men with eyes quiet yet filled with anger.

“You bastard! You guys, take care of him! I’ll…”

The leader tried to take over from the man with the broken wrist and press the knife to Arisugawa.

But…

Hinata’s figure beside them vanished, and the next moment two forearms flew through the air. The leader, whose forearms had been severed, suffered a slash so fast he could not even scream…

She and Kakehi could only hold their breath.

“You got even faster than before?”

“Y-Yeah…”

They still had not processed what was happening, but when they regained their calm, someone had pressed a kunai—not a kunai, wait—against the leader’s neck from behind.

“Hey, you there. Do you know the Labyrinth Criminal Code?”

“Don’t know it! So what, uggh.”

The person pressed the kunai into the man’s throat and slit it right there.

Cut throat…

Fresh blood sprayed from his neck, and the man collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut… She did not even twitch an eyebrow despite being bathed in the spray.

“Dungeon explorers must respect each other’s lives. However, those not registered with the association have no human rights within the labyrinth. If you manage to reincarnate without falling to hell, remember that. Though you probably won’t.”

Behind the fallen leader stood a beautiful girl in a sailor uniform with a black mask over her mouth. Her glossy black bob cut was striking.

Hinata in his gakuran and her in her sailor uniform… Maybe she was a party member from the school he transferred to.

The other men, seeing their leader die, tried to scatter like startled bees but for some reason only flailed their legs and could not move forward at all.

Hinata and the girl declared that thugs like these would just repeat the same crimes, then finished them off. Eat or be eaten… Already drawn by the scent of blood, carnivorous army ants about the size of puppies gathered and carried the still-breathing men back to their nest.

In stark contrast to that scene, Arisugawa hugged Hinata with eyes half teary, half smiling.

“Nataku~! Lemon was so scared.”

“Arisugawa!?”

“Wha!?”

“Huh!?”

She, Kakehi, and the bob-cut girl stared in shock at Arisugawa’s overly innocent behavior. It was unforgivable how that childish appearance let her get away with it.

She had been scared too, and just thinking about giving her virginity to men like those made her legs shake. She wanted to throw away reputation, shame, and appearances and jump into Hinata’s chest too…

“L-Lemon… Everyone’s watching…”

“But I was scared…”

“Yeah, then it can’t be helped.”

Hinata gently stroked Arisugawa’s head with the kind touch of a father.

I want that too!

Just as she thought that and tried to step forward.

Her arm was grabbed by the bob-cut girl.

“No matter how much you’re the precious young lady of the prestigious Mikado family, it doesn’t change that you drove Hinata out. Hinata is my party member. Please don’t come near him.”

Her words drove a deep wedge into her heart. The pain of not being able to defend Hinata, jealousy toward his new companion—who was also a beautiful girl. The wedge dug in, sending heavy, throbbing pain through her chest.