The Straw Millionaire, the Cat, and the Princess Volume 1 Chapter 10 part 3

 
“Well, maybe, but maybe it was just a fluke, so shoot again! As long as we’re monitoring, the unit is perfectly fine, and its stealth hasn’t been compromised even by its body slamming.”
 
“Ah… okay…”
 
With a somewhat anxious feeling, I swallowed saliva to moisten my dry throat.
 
“Tonbo, regardless, we have no choice but to do something, right? If the charged particle weaponry doesn’t work, we’ll have to defeat it with brute force, won’t we?”
 
“…Of course!”
 
As Mars said, I came here not for anyone else but for myself, to protect my hometown with my own hands. There’s no avoiding it. So, even against a monster that dodges beam rifles after seeing them, there’s no choice but to fight.
 
“Let’s go!”
 
With my words, Third Eye leaped forward in a forward-leaning posture. Stirring up the path it had taken while being thrown around, the three-eyed robot flew back onto the main road with a cloud of dust.
 
Aiming at the snake’s head, which was breathing cold breath towards the place where we had just been, I pulled the trigger of the rifle while keeping a low stance. Despite launching a surprise attack, the snake swiftly dodged the beam with incredible agility.
 
“It dodged again!?”
 
“Why are there so many weird creatures on this planet!?”
 
“It’s not because of my planet!”
 
Again, to avoid being rammed by the snake, I continued to shoot the rifle as a deterrent. Although I said I was shooting continuously, I didn’t feel like I was shooting much, as there was no sound and no pink beams coming out.
 
“Is this really emitting a beam!?”
 
“It is! It’s just not hitting!”
 
“If you keep pulling the trigger recklessly, you’ll hit a building!”
 
“No matter what you say… I have no choice but to go with my fists… Uwaaaaaah!!”
 
With a cry of determination, I dove headfirst towards the snake’s head in a flying kick stance… only to have my foot bitten into by its wide-open mouth. Just as the terrifying face of the snake filled my entire field of vision in extreme close-up, I was swung around at tremendous speed and slammed haphazardly into the surrounding buildings and ground.
 
“Noooooo!!”
 
“Tonbo, now! Shoot now! Aim for the head that’s biting Third Eye’s leg!”
 
“I-I shoot? I’ll shoot!”
 
In a daze, at the moment I pulled the trigger, there was a loud explosion. With my field of vision turning completely red, I couldn’t immediately understand what that sound was. It wasn’t until I saw the remaining head of the snake, which had been torn apart, still clamped onto Third Eye’s leg amid a shower of blood, that I finally realized. That sound was the sound of the snake’s head being blown off by the beam.
 
“Tonbo! One head is still left!”
 
“I know!”
 
I tried to finish off the other head of the two-headed snake, but I couldn’t aim due to the snake thrashing around.
 
“It’s dragging me somewhere!”
 
“It looks like it’s trying to return to the Soka Dungeon!”
 
“First, use the laser blade to detach the head biting Third Eye’s leg!”
 
“Okay!”
 
However, just as I was about to use the beam sword’s emitter attached to my waist to cut off the mouth biting Third Eye’s leg, the thrashing Third Eye was slammed with all its might into a commercial building along the main road… and fell down to the underground mall.
 
In the corner of my vision, an unmanned food and drink shop street illuminated by fluorescent lights was reflected. It seemed that Third Eye had punched through the floor of the department store and fallen into the underground mall.
 
“Oh no! It went into the underground mall!”
 
“But its came off my leg .”
 
“Alright! Now we just need to deal with the other head…”
 
As I sheathed the beam sword generator at my waist, I suddenly noticed a pink hat with rabbit-like ears in my field of vision. Lifting the body of the Third Eye, I cautiously looked back at the same spot. It wasn’t a mistake. A small child was crouching in the middle of the aisle.
 
“Mars! Look!”
 
“Huh!? A child!? Late evacuee!?”
 
“This is bad! Isn’t there anything? Like a barrier!”
 
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[There’s no such convenient thing! Quickly move away so you don’t get involved!]
 
If I immediately flew out and separated, maybe this child would be saved…? As I thought this, I clearly saw a snake outside the department store, inflating its neck as it looked at us.
 
“This is bad! Fire is coming!… Into the cockpit!”
 
“Tonbo! If you open it, it’ll be bad! You won’t be able to attend college anymore if you’re exposed!”
 
For a moment, faces of parents flashed through my mind. Faces of people who had joined my company, faces of adventurers… and the face of my younger sister, who had always been a crybaby following me since childhood.
 
“College… I’m dropping out!”
 
At that moment, I acted on instinct, not even understanding what I was doing. Concerns about inconveniencing others or my future life all disappeared. In the midst of the department store burning down… on my knees, there was a cat looking up at the sky with a face I had never seen before, and a crying child.
 
[The hatch opened, so the stealth is off!]
 
“Do it again! Do it again! Bu…!”
 
[No, no, no!! Boss… no, president! It’ll take two minutes to rebuild the stealth! Get out, defeat the snake, and put the child down in a safe place during that time!]
 
“Why does it take two minutes!?”
 
[It took about the same time when you first started up, didn’t it!?]
 
My head was in turmoil, and I couldn’t say anything to the two of them. But I understood that I couldn’t put down this child on my knees without defeating that snake.
 
The Third Eye, flying out of the burning department store, moved around the snake as if gliding and shot a beam rifle into the sky. The snake, which had lost part of its head, seemed unable to avoid it as it did before, spraying blood from its severed neck as it retreated.
 
Hovering just above the ground, I pulled out the beam sword generator at my waist while flying, and slashed at the retreating snake. Although I couldn’t cut off the snake’s head with that slash, I was able to cut it shallowly. The snake continued to back away, seemingly pulled from somewhere, its blood flowing steadily, and on the umpteenth slash, it finally had its head cut off and died.
 
“Alright, that’s a relief! What about the stealth?”
 
[Twenty seconds left! I’ll navigate to blind spots in the surveillance cameras!][
 
Following the arrow that appeared in the center of the display, I moved the Third Eye and kneeled on the road in front of the mixed-use building.
 
[Don’t go outside like this. Take it out with the robot manipulator like you did when you brought the kid in.]
 
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While tears and snot soaked my clothes, I gently lifted the child’s back while he continued to cry and put him on the palm of the Third Eye and somehow managed to take him outside.
 
“Stealth reboot!”
 
With those words from the princess, I sighed deeply and said only one word, “Sorry.”
 
“Tonbo…?”
 
[…Boys! It’s not over yet! The snake’s body is being sucked into the Dungeon!]
 
“Huh!? It’s not dead yet!?”
 
When I turned towards the snake, there was no body there, only the remains of the severed head left in a sea of blood.
 
“What should we do, Tonbo?”
 
“Chase it!”
 
“You mean chasing it and diving into the dungeon with the combat robot?”
 
“If it regenerates like the dragon in 3rd dungeon, it’ll be bad if it comes out again!”
 
“Well, that might be true.”
 
I raised Third Eye’s altitude and set course for the Saitama No. 4 Dungeon. The serpent’s body was nowhere to be seen, even from above, and the main road, now a mess of destroyed cars and abandoned special vehicles, bore traces of the serpent’s blood.
 
“Come to think of it, Hime, you mentioned something about Tonbo being the boss…”
 
[It couldn’t be helped. They might have been listening in. I didn’t want to give away too much information.]
 
“She was crying, so I think she’ll be okay, but kids surprisingly listen to what adults say around them…”
 
Boss, huh… It sounded like the leader of some evil secret society, but… it was my decision, so I had no right to complain about it. If anything, I should be grateful for her quick thinking.
 
“Hime, thanks.”
 
[It’s too late to do anything about it now, but I’ll give you a lecture later!]
 
“Yeah.”
 
As I answered, I lowered Third Eye’s altitude and dove into the city, still undergoing firefighting efforts, heading towards the dungeon. Inside the dungeon, now a giant hole from the blown-off entrance, a tunnel-like path where the serpent had passed was clearly visible. Following it shouldn’t lead us astray.
 
Aiming the beam rifle deeper into the dungeon, Third Eye navigated through the rubble, avoiding collapses, and pursued the serpent with Superman-like leaps.
 
“There’s no sign of it anywhere.”
 
“It flew quite a distance, didn’t it?”
 
Despite flying relentlessly through the dark dungeon with night vision, neither the serpent nor any other creatures appeared. I started to feel uneasy and looked at Mars on my knee. He seemed to be looking at me too, his eyes reflecting the darkness.
 
“Tonbo, what if we end up in another world if we keep going like this…?”
 
“No way, that can’t be… right…?”
 
[…… What do you mean …… ……]
 
“Huh? Hime…? Hime!?”
 
“…looks like it’s too late. We’ve probably entered another world.”
 
The colors on the display, which had been bluish in night vision mode, gradually changed. Beyond the pitch-black cave, light was slowly seeping in.
 
“Something’s coming!”
 
“Huh!? Water…!?”
 
Suddenly, amidst the only sound of the wind, there was a rumble and roar. From the direction where the light was shining, a massive amount of water was flowing towards us. While Third Eye, being a space combat robot, wouldn’t be affected even if submerged in water, the amount of water was enough to sweep away and drown a human.
 
“What’s going on?”
 
“Let’s just go towards the light.”


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