The Man Whose Beloved Girlfriend Was Stolen Destroys Everything ~After Being Forced to Witness the NTR Scene, What Awaited Him Was a Dungeon.

Encounter III.

The hairs across my entire body stood on end, goosebumps rippling violently over my skin.

Looking closely, I could see it clearly now—a humanoid figure draped in the black fur of a Night Wolf. An overwhelming aura of death clung to its presence. Judging by its build alone, it stood several dozen centimeters taller than me—likely well over 180 centimeters. Its face was completely hidden behind long bangs, making it impossible to see its expression.

(Let’s back away… carefully. Don’t provoke it.)

Without taking my eyes off it for long, I glanced toward Airi-chan and the others, silently exchanging a message through our gazes.

Then I turned my eyes forward again—

—and a black wall towered before me.

“…!”

My gaze crept upward stiffly.

From between the curtain of long bangs, a pair of sharp eyes glinted viciously as they pierced into me. In the mere moments I had looked away, it had closed the distance without making a single sound.

The creature hunched forward, peering directly into my face.

The breathing I had only just managed to steady collapsed into chaos, and it felt as though a hand had seized my heart.

“…Hu…man…?”

The words it spoke were clumsy, halting—yet unmistakably human.

A scarred hand reached toward my face and began touching it, as though trying to confirm the shape of it.

I wanted to knock it away.

But my body, frozen by terror and trembling uncontrollably, refused to move.

“…Re…real… human…”

“—!!”

Again, those awkward human words reached my ears.

Normally, monsters do not speak human language. They cannot.

That is true for every monster.

And if there exists one that can—

Then it is always a Unique Monster.

“Ya… ha… aa…”

A strange sound escaped its throat.

The hand touching my cheek suddenly began trembling.

I’m going to be killed.

The thought flashed through my mind—

And in the very next moment—

“——YEEESSSS!! I DID ITTTT!!!”

“““!?!?!”””

The black figure threw its head back and shouted toward the sky.

***

“——YEEESSSS!! I DID ITTTT!!!”

Somewhere across the vast grasslands located in the middle layers of the dungeon, my voice rang out beneath a sky so blue it looked endless.

Every encounter along the way had been the same.

Monsters. Nothing but monsters, all of them brimming with hostility.

By the time my mind had been ground down to exhaustion, I had spotted a pack of Night Wolves. Without hesitation, I had charged straight into them and gone on a rampage.

That had been about an hour ago.

And now—

At long last, I had met actual human beings.

Not monsters.

Real humans.

And not just that—three beautiful girls.

But the trio standing before me were staring at me with pure fear, their bodies trembling.

…Ah.

Yeah.

Touching a girl’s face the moment you meet her for the first time is definitely crossing the line.

I hadn’t seen another human in so long that my sense of personal space had gotten completely messed up.

“Sor…ry.”

“Eh… ah…”

My throat felt strange as I forced the words out, having not spoken for so long. I withdrew my hand from her soft, mochi-like cheek and apologized.

The girl stared at me with her eyes opened as wide as they could possibly go.

The other two were wearing almost identical expressions.

“Um…”

The beautiful girl whose cheek I had touched slowly opened her mouth.

“Y-you’re… not a monster… right?”

“Eh…? Ah—yeah. Yeah. I’m definitely human.”

At first I couldn’t understand why she’d called me a monster.

But when I looked down at my own appearance, I understood instantly.

Yeah.

If I saw someone dressed like this, I’d probably mistake them for a monster too.

I quickly removed the Night Wolf head pelt I had been wearing over my head, making sure to clearly show them that I was human.

“More importantly… you all look really beat up. Are you okay? What happened?”

Only now did I notice just how badly injured they were.

Cuts and wounds covered them from head to toe.

The gal-looking girl behind them even had a bandage wrapped around one of her eyes. Blood was seeping through it slowly—it looked like a pretty deep injury.

And the other two were clearly in terrible condition as well.

“U…gh…”

“Hey, hey—don’t worry about it! You don’t have to force yourself to explain! Your bleeding is pretty bad. Let’s just head back right now.”

I said that to the somewhat sharp-looking beauty who seemed determined to answer me no matter what.

For some reason, when I refused to let her speak, despair flickered across her eyes.

But honestly, this was not the time to worry about that.

Of course, I had absolutely no idea how to get back to the surface, so I simply followed behind them.

But it quickly became obvious that all three of them were truly at their limit.

Their pace was painfully slow.

〈——garurururu〉

And at the worst possible timing, a pack of Night Wolves appeared.

They had fled when they saw me earlier, but perhaps the scent of the girls’ blood had drawn them back.