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Chapter 112: 【Ninja】Aomori Dungeon RTA Part 4 【Red Shadow】

The video plays on.

With Kaito-san at the head, the whole party charges into the fortress.

I'd love to call it beautiful teamwork, but the only ones actually fighting are the three front-line fighters.

Is Ao-san buffing them too?

No wait—Ao-san is the one filming, and the camera never shakes.

Maybe the call was that three is plenty.

Once things settle down, everyone gathers up equipment from the skeleton remains.

Weapons mad-modified by the dungeon are not easy on the eyes.

A subtitle explains that Blue Ocean's goal this trip is to pick out the decent-looking ones and bring them home.

The comments accelerate.

・2 million a blade! Bring home 50 and that's 100 million!!

・Spears! Spears, please, ssu!

・Ah, there goes that nice-looking axe, snapped clean in two

The 'Queen of the Sky'—a.k.a. Uehara Asuka—holds the rare job 【Merchant】 as her sub-job.

【Merchant】 has the worst stats of any known job, but it can learn the skill 【Storage】.

【Storage】 reduces your max MP in proportion to the capacity you're using—which would be a terrible deal for most people, but it's a splendid match for the 'Queen of the Sky', whose high-rank mage job gives her a massive max MP.

On top of that, she's a high-level Quadruple-Rank adventurer.

Word is, no 【Storage】 holder in the world has her capacity.

Kidnappings of rare special-skill and job holders do happen overseas—not so much lately, but they've happened.

The topic comes up a lot: if anyone ever got kidnapped in Japan, it would be her or the Association HQ's 'Holy Maiden'.

"Kasumi-san's spear and armor were drops from the 40s floors too, weren't they? If a weapon alone goes for 2 million, then armor would be..."

That spear of hers has a jagged, saw-like blade, but it cuts astonishingly well.

She said Mia-san repaired the armor for her, but even Mia-san probably can't touch the blade part...

'Forget the katanas—find us other weapons.'

'You got it.'

At leader Ao-san's word, Furuta Yukiya—bearer of the 'all-rounder job' nickname—tossed the katana in his hand away without a moment's hesitation.

The comment section erupts into wailing and gnashing of teeth.

・AH—EE—YAAAH

・2 million yen, tossed aside like trash

・The katana is a Japanese person's soul, ya know! You throwing away your SOUL?!

・Tons of people want to buy 'em—just take the katanas home and auction them off

Since this is Floor 41, the weapons the skeletons carry are the ones mainly used on Floors 1 through 10.

And nearly all of those skeleton weapons are katanas.

Which inevitably drives katana resale prices down.

"That last katana was such a beauty, too. What a waste."

Blue Ocean turned back once the Queen's 【Storage】 filled up.

Apparently they won't be going any deeper than Floor 41 this time.

June 13th, huh...

On this return trip, Blue Ocean is due to discover the scene of the 'Umemoto Incident'.

Plenty of comments say as much.

If they were carrying a camera, then naturally there's footage of it too.

Though I'm absolutely certain it will never end up on a video site...

"Number 2 is... 'Red Shadow,' huh. Decent placement—maybe he finally escapes Aomori this time?"

'【Ninja】Aomori Dungeon RTA Part 4 【Red Shadow】'

He's already failed to break the record three times.

In Aomori there's an old man known as the 'Sword Saint of the North', and before Red Shadow ever showed up, that Sword Saint of the North had set a fine record through Floor 29.

For all his declaring he won't come home until he succeeds, he apparently comes home every time to restock his items.

This video series might actually be costing him a surprising amount.

He doesn't even pick up magic stones, so I figure he's running a total loss—but a sponsor provides some of his items.

For that sponsor's sake as much as anything, I want him to succeed and show off what the items can do.

'Nin-nin. I am Red Shadow the Ninja. My sincerest apologies for the gap since my last upload, I shall say.'

・Nin-nin

・nin-nin

・Nin-Nin

・You have no idea how long I've waited

・No pressure—just upload every second, please

Clack-clack, nin-nin.

As always, it opens with the item advertisements, sponsor names read aloud one by one.

Mia-san's shop is in there again this time.

For such a hole-in-the-wall store, is Mia-san actually kind of famous?

・Getting product donations from a local business lol He's gotta move there for real lol

・Are there fewer items than last time?

・Strategy: cut the weight?

・Or the boring answer: a sponsor bailed

Clack-clack-clack-clack, the Loli Shuriken's HERE————(*｀・д・)ノ--＝＝≡≡卍卍卍.

Well, if he's not at headquarters he can't even go ask his sponsors for more, so shrinking supplies are only natural.

'Now then, the run begins, it shall.'

The start point is the Aomori 'Dungeon Gate'.

From here on, a narration provides the commentary.

'Secret art: 【Status Escape Jutsu】, I shall reveal it.'

Name: Red Shadow

Job: 【Ninja】

Lv: 36

HP: 1800/1800

MP: 720/720

Strength: 90

Endurance: 90

Agility: 180

Magic: 72

His level hasn't changed, and it's the same monstrous stat line as ever.

Well then, here's mine. Secret art: 【Status Escape Jutsu】!

Name: Spring Shadow

Job: 【Charge Shielder】

Lv: 30

HP: 2250/2250

MP: 600/600

Strength: 120

Endurance: 150

Agility: 105

Magic: 60

I'm not losing...is what I'd like to say, but the Agility gap is so wide I don't see myself winning a dungeon RTA.

(This video is only one part?)

I go to set the playback speed to double, and that's when it hits me.

Through Floor 29, it was supposed to be a two-parter—six hours counting the way back.

Don't tell me he actually broke the six-hour mark?

Kasumi-san's call could come any minute now, so I'll skip ahead to the final stretch.

It picks up right as he finishes off the Floor 20 boss.

・One hit! These new items are way too good lol

・New ninja art! ※Only usable when solo

・Ultimate secret technique! ※Amateurs will die using it

・Insane. He's faster than last time. The record is as good as broken.

・If he just keeps last time's pace, it's in the bag.

・Huh? Where's the edit point?

・No cut at Floor 20?

・Huh?

・He always cuts before or after the boss, no?

・Bad feeling about this

・Did he get hurt on that last one?

What was that "new ninja art" supposed to be?

I'm curious—but what comes next has me even more curious.

Mid-dash through Floor 21, Red Shadow seems to notice something, and abruptly doubles back.

・What now?

・Turning back over an injury after all?

・Ah (understood)

'Here, a girl's scream reached these ears, I shall say. I have decided to head that way and investigate.'

・Ah, the record...

・＼(^o^)／

・Hey, stop! You said you'd go home with a new record!

・If he heard it, he has no choice but to go. The 'Duty to Rescue' exists

Adventurers have what's called the 'duty to rescue'—an obligation to help other adventurers in a pinch.

Even in Chiba, people passing by will call out to you even when you didn't call for help...

'There they are, I see them. Surrounded by Silver Wolves, they are. The pack's leader is among them, so more are likely to come, they shall.'

A party of five girls.

One of them seems to be injured.

Apparently the monsters of the Aomori Dungeon's 20s floors are Silver Wolves.

Wolves bigger than a person.

・That's one massive dog

・Woof. It's woover.

・They're already getting licked all over, man

・I wanna be a dog too

・Remove the mosaic

・They're done for. Use that thing from earlier

・↑ Everyone would die

・If we're dying, we're dying together

・Whoa—Red Shadow, trade places with me!

The girls' faces are covered by a mosaic.

But I'm sure they're cute.

This is the situation every adventurer dreams of.

Saving girls in a pinch.

Clack-clack: Go get 'em, Red Shadow.

'The leader first, I shall take.'

Red Shadow tosses something with a clink.

'Get down, you shall.'

The screen flashes white.

A flash grenade, that one.

By the time the picture returned, a short blade was already buried in the back of the Silver Wolf known as the pack leader—a full size bigger than the wolves around it.

He twisted it, hard.

He'd shattered the magic stone.

・Ah (understood)

・Now that is not allowed

・Friend or foe, Red Shadow the Ninja

・Red Shadow: "Exactly as aimed"

The pack-leader Silver Wolf crumpled to the ground, and the rest of the wolves—blinded—whined and staggered in place.

......The girls' party too.

While the girls cowered on the ground, Red Shadow moved through the remaining Silver Wolves, finishing each one off.

・Business as usual lol

・Nothing happened here. Right?

・He's a scout-type, so it can't be helped

・You have to take out the leader or they come flooding in forever

・The girls: "Woof. It's woover."

In the end, Red Shadow apparently waited until the girls had recovered, then escorted them all the way down to Floor 1.

'A new record was not achieved this time either, I shall lament.'

・Well done

・Good work

・There are things that matter more than records, I shall say

・Aomori's actually pretty dangerous, huh

・Word is, if you avoid that pack leader it's on the easy side

・I wanna save girls too

・↑ Then Aomori is the only place for you

Clack-clack: Sasa-Ninja—.

If it had been a plain record-update video, it probably would have had less impact than Blue Ocean's Floor 41 footage.

But this kind of rescue video is what gets popular.

Even so, it couldn't catch Kasumi-san's video...

Yeah, that one's being watched by ordinary people too, isn't it...

(I'm scared to go to school tomorrow...)

The phone rings with a piriririri.

It's Kasumi-san.

Whoops—before I answer, clack-clack: nin-nin.