BLADE & BASTARD: Drag Him High Volume 5 by Kumo Kagyu

Author:Kumo Kagyu [KAGYU, KUMO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: Camp

“Iarumas? The corpse hauler? Haven’t seen him.”

“I see...”

Sister Ainikki stood on the edge of town, her melancholy expression looking picturesque in the evening light of the wasteland.

The adventurer she had called out to undoubtedly counted himself a fortunate man. It wasn’t often she spoke to someone without corpses, let alone outside the temple. Next to this bit of good luck, he didn’t even mind having come back from the dungeon with a poor haul. He had heard rumors of a nun—one who looked an awful lot like this one—who enjoyed casting TILTOWAIT in the gambling den, but...

Well, rumors are just rumors.

The adventurer racked his nonexistent brains, hoping to make her like him more. It might win him favor with Kadorto, and talking to a beautiful elf was one of the joys of life.

“Well, knowing him, he’s probably being slowed down by dragging four or five corpses behind him.”

“He doesn’t bring corpses back for me nearly as often these days, though...” Aine replied with a somewhat strained smile. She murmured, “But that’s a good thing...” before asking, “In that case, has anything changed inside of the dungeon?”

“You ask that, but there’re probably only a few things that haven’t changed...”

However, this adventurer understood the rules of the dungeon. He was well aware they were all drawn from experience, but...there was indeed a series of rules. Monsters inside burial chambers had chests, but wandering monsters didn’t. (Kind of obvious, if you think about it!)

Even in a place so far removed from the ordinary, there were some things that reigned absolute. So, if she was asking what had changed, well...

“If I had to reach for an answer, well, it’d be that our thief got lost even while looking at the map.”

The slender little girl standing next to him raised her voice in protest. “I told you—that’s not what happened!” A pair of cat ears sat atop her head, and a long, curling tail twitched at her rump. The felpurr thief flattened her ears like her ancestors would’ve and let out a low growl. “The layout of the dungeon changed. It was totally different from the map.”

“You made a mistake drawing it, right? And that’s why we couldn’t find the stairs.”

“Nuh-uh. It’s the dungeon that’s wrong!”

“That’s the spirit. Well, anyway, we were able to make enough on the upper floors, so we called it a day, sister.”

“I see...” Aine’s long ears swayed, and she smiled. “Thank you for your time. May your path lead you to a good death.”

“Please pray I’ll have a long path before that.”

The adventurer left with a goofy grin—the catgirl and his other companions followed behind him. Aine watched as they melted into the crowd of other adventurers and then vanished into Scale. Every adventurer was unique, yet when they were in a crowd, they all bled into one faceless mass.

It must be the dungeon that makes their lives and deaths sparkle.

With a sigh, Aine turned her eyes toward the monstrous maw of the dungeon. Many descended and were swallowed up, never to return.

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