Quest for Hikari - Episode 9: Rance vs Menad

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[ Location: Cemetery ]

I chose to do a few stretches to spend some time warming up before a battle and also to wait for Menad.

After a while, she arrived before I could almost .

"Rance? You've been waiting for me here? And you've been warming up for " Menad said, still in her gatekeeper outfit that made her look as prepared as me.

"What? I needed to get to the coliseum to participate, other details are personal. Plus, those zombies are just a piece of cake right now that I'm at a high enough level." I replied just as I finished my warmup, before that, Menad shook her head.

"Geez... you're impatient, aren't you? Because you're a high-ranking adventurer, I'd expect a lot from you."

And then, the sounds of destruction reached out ears, as we looked at the direction where the sound came from, which was from south east.

"How about a little competition? Whoever kills the more zombies has to obey only one order from the winner. How about that?"

Menad looked at me for a moment, before she became curious.

"What's the catch, Rance? I don't really know what I would like you to do if I win, but what would you make me do, anyway?"

.... You fell into my trap, Menad.

"Have sex with me."

"....."

[ Critical Hit! x1.35 ]

Menad's face reddened as her body shook.

".... H-Huh?! Have... wh-wh-what now?"

I took several steps forward, advancing towards her with a grin.

"Have sex. Straight to the point. No questions asked."

She shook her head, before slapping her cheeks with both of her hands.

"Fine...! I won't lose to you, Rance!" She spoke, determined that she wouldn't try to lose to me.

I tilted my head with a grin, knowing that several monsters were approaching us from around, appearing from behind the graves or somewhere else.

[ Cue BGM: They Come, They're Dead (Rance 01) ]

"Seems like we've attracted attention!" I said, bringing Menad out of her thoughts and making her focus on the competitive battle that was about to begin.

Once a Rotten Corpse came close enough, I leaped forward and slashed the monster with a quick horizontal slash, cutting it in two.

When I looked behind, Menad was already acting up and skillfully slashed with her spear, killing a few monsters close to her attack range.

Focusing on the competition at hand, I began killing the monsters with ease as we split up to claim our own competition.

I proceeded to count how many monsters have I killed while I proceeded deeper into the cemetery.

".... That makes fourteen." I spoke, before looking at where Menad had been, only to see her skillfully killing a group of monsters.

Swinging my sword at a wide arc sideways, I killed 7 more monsters, and proceeded even deeper while the monsters I fight became different.

Such as a flaming humanoid monster (called a Pinky), a Good Morning, a Smog Sylph, and a swarm of bee girls.

After I counted the monsters I defeated to 60 was when I met Menad again, who looked a little exhausted from fighting several monsters in a row.

[ BGM end ]

"How many monsters have you defeated right now? It seems like most of them are gone, and our job is done. Mine was around 60, how about yours?" Menad said, before I sighed.

"I always thought I had more kills than you, but disappointingly, we're tied." I replied, rubbing my nape as the gatekeeper just chuckled.

"What are you even chuckling on? Something wrong?"

"No, nothing is wrong. It's just that I had my fun cleaning up monsters here, even if it's pretty short. Here is my coliseum pass as a small thank you." Menad continued chuckling, before moving her hand towards her pocket with a satisfied smile.

It was at this moment that I noticed that something was behind her. She didn't even notice it because she was a little too focused on getting her pass.

I immediately approached her and pushed her aside, before a clawed hand hit me and I was pushed back a single inch just before I counteracted with a powerful slap towards the Gal Monster, launching it a few feel away from me.

"A zombie Elf, huh....?" I spoke, recognizing what the girl was once it stood up and walked towards me in a slow pace, it's breathing heavy and.... she is definitely aroused.

".... Need warmth...." The Zombie Elf groaned out, increasing her pace towards me, her hand extended towards me.

Looking at my side, Menad was shaking her head, getting up and grabbing her spear to assist me with fighting the Zombie Elf.

The only problem was that the Zombie Elf was already dead for now and I had to sheathe my weapon afterwards so that my cuts would be real.

"Well that makes around 61, a step ahead of you."

".... That's.. absolutely not fair...."

After this, she lost both her v-card and her coliseum pass that I could use.

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Author's Commentary: I'm not even in the mood to write an H-Scene.

[ Omake ]

Q: What do you think about Gal Monsters?

Rance: "There's three lists I could put all of them to: A hit, a miss, and a totally-must-annihilate."