Reincarnated as a demon inside a dungeon-Chapter 231

Zaria's PoV:

"What kinda hellhole is this!?!?" - Shiro

*SMACK!!*

"We heard you the first time, you loudmouth!!" - Akai

"*Falling scream of terror*!!!" - Shiro

Two of the people Mira fought with during the Thunder Tournament, the albino vampire and the muscular female Oni, are joking around as the rest of us are confused about our current situation. What happened again? Let's see...

After the Thunder Tournament, Blot used his silver tongue and managed to wrestle 5 airships from the Wakoku government. Old man Ling's back had recovered by then, so he decided to come along as well. We dragged with us the four adventurers + 1 more elf who was related to the tiger Therianthrope and then we prepared to head toward the Invidia continent.

Blot had finally finished his teleportation spell that would allow us to travel to Invidia despite the weird circumstances that were going on over there, whatever it was. I think Blot mentioned something about "the disturbance is gone!!" right before we teleported...!

"If Miss Wagarah does not know them, then should we consider them hostiles?" asked the black tiger Therianthrope called Artemis. She's the only one of the feline duo who can be called "active", as the other one, the Nekomata known as Sara, is sleeping in her sleeping bag, secured with ropes to the large bamboo container that Akai has on her back.

"Hmm, let's tie them up while they're unconscious for now. Akai, you have something solid to bind them with?" - Zaria

"Hold on a moment." - Akai

Saying that Akai removed the sleeping bag with the heartless rat-eater who tried to gobble down poor Tinkletop before and started to shake the sleeping bag not that different from when someone is trying to empty a bag for dust. Is this alright? That feline terror is many times worse than Artemis, who protected Tinkletop during the assault event before, but this treatment is a little...

"No worries. Sara's got the biggest Storage in our group, but it's a pain waking her up every time, so she's commanded the skill to release the items we want when we try to shake it out of her." - Shiro

"...Is that alright? Security-wise, I mean." - Zaria

"You can try to convince that girl while she's sleeping almost all day long. It was a miracle that she could even participate in that combat tournament before." - Shiro

Wow. And I thought Alf was a sleepyhead.

After wrapping up the two (possible) enemies with giant chains that, according to Akai, are supposed to cancel out the usage of skills, a pair of figures came running up to us from the direction where the two monsters had flown from.

"Geh!? Zombie-alert!" - Shiro

"Who are you calling a zombie!" - Regina

Oh, I know her. From the rumors, at least. She's that girl who Onyx beat black and blue so much that she returned to life as a blue-skinned Ghoul.

"Who are you five? Allies of the knights...doesn't seem like it," asked the dragon girl who had arrived with Regina.

"Do you know Noire?" I asked to confirm where the newbie was standing on the foe/friend scale.

"Noire? Is she alright? Why do you know her?!" asked, no, demanded the dragon girl as she grabbed me by my throat. Sh-she's too fast. I-I couldn't see her. C-c-can't breathe...

"Hey, calm down. That girl is this Noire's person's Guild mate," replied Regina in my place.

"***, is that true!? Sorry," said the dragon girl while releasing my throat. Who is this person!? She has enough speed and power to take over the yakuza underworld in Luxuria. And I know what I'm talking about. My poor luck made sure to make me acquaintance with probably 90% of the whole damn thing. Boohoo...

"Princess Blaze, please watch your language," said a new voice who appeared from the same direction as the other two. ...And what is he riding?

"They got scooters in this world!? Where did the fantasy go!?" - Shiro

"And as always, the idiot is babbling nonsense yet again..." - Akai

"Hohoho~, do not belite the young Migrant vampire too much. This is one of the 'scooters' she probably knows from her old world." - ???

It didn't even take him a minute to deduce Shiro's origin. It's not that impressive though, seeing how the vampire is acting like the archetypical brainless-, cough, like your common overeager Migrant.

"*Cough*, my identity is that of one of Babel's four top commanders working for your grand leader, Filyn Belial, and my name is Rivert Flamel. Please call me Flamel." - Flamel

One of the top commanders?! ...What's that?

"Holy..., it's one of the four heavenly kings...!" - Shiro

"Again, what is it you are talking about?" - Akai

"Miss Akai, I fear there is no hope for her anymore." - Artemis

"I heard that!" - Shiro

"Gah, we're wasting time here! You, bat girl. Did you see Noire anywhere?" - Blaze

"Ehh...yeah? She's fainted, but we got her to safety." - Zaria

"That..., I guess it's one of the better results after facing two of her sisters at the same time..." - Blaze

"Sisters? I thought Noire was a single child." - Zaria

"I think it is safe to say Miss Noire has some complicated family circumstances. Did you not see the other two Flugels with Noire?" - Flamel

"No, not even a single divine feather." - Zaria

"Hmm, then in the worst case, they might have fled. Regina, could you be a dear and look for them?" - Flamel

"Tch, fine. But you owe me for missing out on this challenge of the century." - Regina

"One we must not be late to. Princess Blaze, you can go ahead. I will catch up to you after I have asked these fine ladies for something." - Flamel

Regina jumped over the walls after getting the go-signal and the dragon girl, Blaze, stretched her wings and took to the skies after giving a solemn nod to Flamel. Is there something going on with her and the "lucky find" Blot was talking about before?

"Miss Zaria, I presume? Do you mind having your friends keep watch of the two prisoners? Do not try to kill them. They have resurrection effects that make them stronger if they die." - Flamel

"WHAT!? That is too OP!!" - Shiro

"...Are you sure you don't have that effect yourself?" - Artemis

"That would explain some things..." - Akai

"Don't give me that 'should I put it to the test?' look!" - Shiro

"What if they try to do suicide?" - Akai

"Don't ignore me! And suicide?! That's freaky!" - Shiro

"A reasonable worry. You can relax if you worry that they can use suicide to strengthen themselves, as their skills do not work in that fashion. But I would like to ask the two of them some questions, so having them die on me would be problematic." - Flamel

"Dark..." - Shiro

The vampire is saying her first wise sentence today. I'm getting the same vibes from this Flamel guy as I do from the many yakuza bosses I've stumbled over and survived over these many years.

"You four, the Oni, the vampire, and the two cats, you seem like you know what you're doing. I will, in the name of the Grandmaster of the Alchemists' Union, hereby issue a quest to the four of you. Keep those two from dying on you and in chains, then I will award you four with any reward that is in my power to grant you." - Flamel

"Anything!?" - Akai

"Who are you, Shen**ng!?" - Shiro

"Then...with my Lady...!" - Artemis

"Zzz...did I hear catnip?" - Sara

She woke up!? Or rather, why are these guys getting so favorable tasks?

"As for you, Miss Zaria, I think you should go and meet up with Mr. Flint. He is in the middle of the island now and in need of help. But now I have to go. I have a civilization-ruining potion to deliver to a certain king of dragons." - Flamel

That doesn't sound good. And I mean ALL of it! Let's go and help Flint. That sounds like the least dangerous item on this shopping list of doom. Still, the gizmos in this place seem...familiar. I wonder why.