The Dual Swordsman Who Lost Both Arms On Stream to Save His Doomed Party Gets Exiled—Then the Heroines Go Yandere - Chapter 32-33

Chapter 32: They Got Way Too Strong Because of a Mistake

――――【From Nezha’s Perspective】

We welcomed Alicia as a new club member, and now we were finally exploring the dungeon.

Everyone’s movements were amazingly good.

No wonder. Shima-neechan had lent us the simulator, but on the first day, even when everyone moved however they wanted, Sado and the other two died over and over. Shinobu escaped danger with her concealment skill, but she couldn’t advance alone and had to retire.

They got ambushed by waiting monsters and one-shotted, or Sado and Akazawa fell for a succubus’s honey trap and had their energy drained, or they fell into a pit trap leading to a monster house and got beaten senseless…

They even struggled against slimes.

No matter how inexperienced and low-level the three were in dungeons, was Protantech’s simulator really that hard? I wondered, but I thought if it was too easy, they wouldn’t handle unexpected things in the real one, so I let them continue.

Sorry for my personal opinion, but layer 1 felt like it had monsters as strong as layer 5 and nasty traps. But when I gave detailed instructions at key points, everyone trusted me and moved exactly as told.

Days of intense simulator training came to mind.

“Awesome, just like Hinata-san said! I could even fight a hobgoblin alone!”

“I beat a metallic slime too!”

“I spotted the iron ball drop trap.”

Sado, Akazawa, and Ise each shared their growth.

It made me kind of happy.

I knew from day one they could do it if they tried, and all three had lost confidence and skipped club because of that.

“Everyone’s movements have improved so much that I need to update my instructions or I won’t keep up.”

In the real thing, we’d need big safety margins, but in the simulator, we could push pretty hard. As a result of attacking aggressively, they handled instructions I thought were tough without issue, and it surprised me.

At this level, no one would doubt they’re labyrinth exploration school students.

Shinobu watched their growth with eyes sparkling like she was looking at her favorite idol.

“Everyone, you’re amazing. Leveling up this fast in such a short time! As expected, Hinata-kun is a super elite.”

“““No doubt!”””

What!?

A weird ideal image of me formed in everyone’s minds!?

I don’t have the charisma that even enemies acknowledge like Soma, who calls himself Kaiser. I don’t have a job skill like Alicia, or special resistance like Misato, or cuteness to please viewers like Lemon…

“I’m the inferior student of labyrinth exploration school…”

When I tried to shatter that illusion, everyone’s voices drowned me out.

“That Amiro who kicked Hinata-san out must have been blind…”

“Yeah, totally weird. Hinata-san was the one fit to be leader.”

“Kaiser sounds so cringy.”

Akazawa, go easy… Soma is excellent, but pointing out his chuunibyou hasn’t cured yet…

Shinobu clapped her hands together sharply with a snap. Once everyone’s attention focused on her…

“Hey, everyone. Why here of all places… but I want to make Hinata-kun the party leader instead of me. What do you think?”

It came out of nowhere for me.

“Minister!?”

If I looked in a mirror now, my eyes would probably be wide like a dungeon monster Big Eye.

“Of course, I’ll keep handling the annoying paperwork as minister to support you. Best person for the job. Me and Hinata-kun—administration and combat. Don’t you think we’d make good partners?”

“Uh, yeah…”

Partners, huh…

Words like that could cause misunderstandings about romantic partners, so I’d like her to avoid phrasing that might lead to that…

“That sounds perfect.”

“The minister is strong, but we couldn’t move as instructed. With Hinata-san’s instructions, even we could do it.”

“You said it! But yeah… I guess I’m not great at observing surroundings. Thanks to Hinata-kun, things cleared up. With you as leader, it reminds me of old times and it’s fun.”

The three also agreed to me becoming party leader, so saying “No thanks” here would dampen the motivation they finally built.

“Got it. I’ll be leader just during explorations.”

“Yeah. Then I’ll submit the change to the association.”

When I lost both arms during an exploration, Soma somehow made me leader without me knowing, and I couldn’t do anything.

This time, everyone pushed me to be leader. I won’t let us get close to wiping out again!

But today really is quiet. Monsters aren’t coming out of their nests… This never happened before.

――――【From Shima’s Perspective】(Simulator Room)

Heh, youth is nice.

When Nezha and the others came to greet me before diving into the dungeon. I told them to hurry since time was short, but they overflowed with motivation, and I thought I wished I’d had youth like that.

“Hm?”

I thought about setting my simulator avatar to a high school girl and doing something naughty with Nezha in the nurse’s office, right when I turned the switch on.

【Simulation Stage: Death Mode】

What!?

Oh no!?

I left it on the highest difficulty Death Mode when I had them train…

W-well, they said they reached the target layer, so probably okay.

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Chapter 33: Level-Up Festival with Metallic Slimes

――――【From Nezha’s Perspective】

“They’re here…”

“If we beat even one, we’ll definitely level up, right?”

“Yeah!”

Akazawa and Ise couldn’t help but gasp at the sight in front of them. We had come to the traces of a rare metal vein that was being mined in the dungeon.

Dungeon exploration overflowed with danger. But strangely, there was a bonus that slightly reduced that danger. On dungeon layer 3, when diving with beginners, metallic slimes appeared in large numbers for some reason—a phenomenon like a beginner bonus.

Because it was like a game event, many people had long wondered if a dungeon master existed. My dad was the leading proponent of the dungeon master existence theory, and I believed it too.

Meeting White Crow turned that into certainty.

When Shinobu drove a metallic slime, it released lightning. Dodging it, Shinobu threw a kunai at it. The metallic slime jumped with a bounce to avoid the kunai.

“Got it!”

“There!”

Akazawa seized the opening and used his mace to upper swing the metallic slime upward. Unable to resist the momentum, the metallic slime flew toward Ise. Ise bounced it back with her short lance.

Treating the metallic slime like a ball just as trained in the simulator, they repeated a perfectly timed rally until the metallic slime vanished, leaving its core.

Then an announcement played from the two’s dungeon exploration smartwatches, called D-smarts.

【You have leveled up】

“Yes!”

“We beat it so easily…”

Akazawa pumped his fist, and Ise’s eyes grew teary with emotion.

“Next time, let’s bring Sado.”

“Yeah, let’s.”

I felt warm watching the heartwarming scene when Alicia tensed up.

“Nezha-kun! Someone’s approaching.”

“Yeah, probably them.”

“Yes.”

Alicia and I stood as a wall to keep them from reaching Akazawa and Ise, who were fighting metallic slimes, as rough-looking older men approached with smirks.

“Hey, there you are, beginners. Mind sharing some experience with us?”

Experience thieves who stole beginners’ level-up bonuses… Experience thieves recruited beginners and then finished off the metallic slimes themselves to steal the experience. The labyrinth exploration association educated beginners, and the number falling for it had dropped a lot.

But now they targeted inexperienced students.

“Isn’t experience thieving banned?”

“Thieving? No way. We just want a little share of the experience.”

“You guys can dive these layers fine, right?”

“We want to fight easier. Unlike you students diving in the dungeon half for fun.”

A crack sounded, and the pendant with a taiji diagram hanging on Alicia’s chest broke.

Maybe from overwhelming spiritual power…

“No!”

“What!? Little lady, just because you have a cute face and get spoiled doesn’t mean everything’s allowed!”

“In the end, you’re not sharing—you’re just trying to steal experience from us. Don’t you know doing awful things like that brands you unfit as an explorer and gets you expelled from association membership as penalty?”

“Shut up! We’re not members anymore anyway! If you don’t want to die, hurry and…”

“You have no human rights, then? I’ll let you choose—get your throat slit here and expose your corpse pathetically, or quietly earn honestly.”

“U-understood… I won’t do it again, let go.”

Shinobu, who had stuck to the ceiling, silently pressed a kunai to the man’s neck and asked.

“I’m always behind you. Remember that.”

“Eek!?”

Had Shinobu made a clone?

Shinobu’s figure was behind the other men too…

Overwhelmed by Shinobu, the men slunk away.

Gyaaaaah!

But as their figures vanished into the dark, screams echoed through the vein.

Countless red points glowing in the darkness…

With a grrrrr growl, dog-like monsters wrapped in miasma emerged from the dark. Carrying severed arms and legs in their mouths.

Garm Wolf!?

Not a monster for layer 3!

Kin of the Grim Reaper that hunts lives on layer 20… But at this level, maybe even current Akazawa and Ise could beat them.

As I stood surprised, Alicia shouted.

“Everyone, back! 【Kagutsuchi!】”

Responding to Alicia, we stuck to the vein wall. As she formed a seal, a flaming sword manifested and swept the monsters in a horizontal line. The slashed monsters spurted flames from their bodies and collapsed.

Even as charred corpses, the flames didn’t die, hot enough to burn through special dungeon exploration uniforms made for heat, pressure, and blade resistance if approached.

“【Hime no Mikoto】, extinguish the flames!”

Mist sprayed, weakening the fire.

“Now, you two!”

Metallic slimes bounced around, but Akazawa and Ise ignored them and relentlessly bashed the remaining burning Garm Wolves.

Then…

【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】, 【You have leveled up】

Wow! The notifications are loud!!!

Their D-smarts sounded like a noisy round. The two achieved truly massive level-ups compared to beating metallic slimes.

“As expected of Hinata-san! You planned all this too!”

“C-can I get your autograph? I haven’t yet…”

“Ise-san, that’s unfair. I haven’t either.”

“Uh, no…”

I started to say it was just Alicia and Shinobu acting precisely, and I did nothing.

“N-no, I mean, signing for weak kids like us…”

“It means get stronger, right? We’ll try hard.”

“No, that’s not it!”

They acted like little kids as I wrote my name on their gear.

“I… want one too.”

Unexpectedly, Alicia wanted my autograph. But an unexpected person objected.

“No.”

“Even if Morino-senpai is minister, I don’t remember restrictions that far!”

“You’re special.”

“Why can’t I get Nezha-kun’s autograph!”

I thought Alicia would back down obediently, but rarely, she pushed back against a senior.

“You… aren’t aware you’re an onmyoji with that much spiritual power? Knowing a true name means you can curse and kill someone without lifting a hand.”

“Uh…”

Alicia finally seemed to realize after Shinobu pointed it out…

“It’s fine. Mikado-san wouldn’t do that.”

“Thank you, Nezha-kun.”

Eh!?

A light impact hit, and Alicia—said to be the top at labyrinth exploration school—jumped into my chest.

“W-wait, wait, wait! What are you doing! We’re still in the labyrinth! It’s unclean, unclean!!! Get off!!!”

Shinobu tried to peel Alicia off me.

Translator’s Note:

The author of this novel has uploaded the erotic version of Chapter 15, I’ve decided to not delete the original one (without erotic scene) to appreciate this story.

Here’s the link to the chapter: https://zetrotranslation.com/novel/the-dual-swordsman-who-lost-both-arms-on-stream-to-save-his-doomed-party-gets-exiled-then-the-heroines-go-yandere/chapter-15-reunion-with-the-admired-big-sister-erotic-version/