What's that sound?
Ms. Ryu...?
Not again.
It's exactly the same. That thing... it's coming...
Oh... Alise...
H-hey, so...
Run away.
Huh?
You have to run!
Hurry and get away!
At the very least you have to escape! Get out of here!
Hurry up!
Too late!
We're in the presence of despair!
Yes! Come on!
Show yourself to everyone!
One more time! Let us see it up close!
A great disaster... cometh.
Take heed.
It is a banquet of tragedy.
Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? IV
Ubugoe ga agatta sono hi kara bokura mina ichiyou ni
Aomuke ni koronde sora o aoideitakke
Kimi no me ni utsutta shoukei no iro ga fukumaru hodo
Toonoite iku kimi o zutto miteita
Yume ni egaki tsuzuketeita mono ga
Hai ni nate kieru toshitemo
Soredemo kimi wa susunde yuke
Inotteiru yo
Akaku akaku ibitsu ni moeteiru
Mune no okusoko de chiisaku yureugoku hi ga
Sora o egaita shounen wa akogare no mama ni habataita
Kazoekirenai kizu to tomo ni
Juggernaut
The Destroyer
No... I hate this sound!
I'm scared...
So scared... so scared!
I know about it...
They said that something very terrifying happens
whenever you hear this sound.
What is this sound?
It's almost like the dungeon is screaming out in anguish...
It seems like it's coming from somewhere below.
Maybe the 27th floor?
Do you have any ideas, Lady Aisha?
Nope.
First time I've heard this sound.
Cassandra!
Pull it together!
Out of here...
Huh?
Get out of here.
Wh-what the hell?
I've never heard anything like this before.
We should get off this floor ASAP. This is bad news!
C'mon, Bors!
It stopped...
It can't be!
What's going on, Ouranos?
That thing has spawned!
"Thing"? What are you talking about?
I can't believe it's happening again.
It will be an awful tragedy just like before.
What are you talking about, Ouranos?
Ouranos!
A disaster has just been reborn.
What was that?
Something doesn't feel right.
We gotta hurry and find Bors' group.
Let's move.
Did you hear that?
Yeah...
What is going on?
Time to go.
W-wait, Bors!
Hurry up!
My gut says we're in deep shit.
What is happening?!
Is this because of you? Tell me!
What have you done?!
Just a ritual!
One that's gonna wake me up from this living nightmare.
Huh?
Seeing Lion act like that hasn't
tipped you off yet, Bell Cranel?
Huh?
I summoned a monster.
It's the same one that butchered
the Astrea Familia all those years ago!
And it's coming here to the 27th floor!
The Astrea Familia?
That's the group that Ms. Ryu used to belong to.
Five years ago,
the members of the Astrea Familia were constantly
fighting against those of us in the Rudra Familia.
For them it was a crusade of justice or some crap,
but to us they were nothing but pesky flies
who kept getting in the damn way.
So we set a trap in the dungeon to get rid of 'em!
You bastard!
This reminds me, when I met with Ms. Ryu on the 18th
floor...
Ms. Ryu, what is this place?
The grave of my companions from
the Familia to which I once belonged.
We fell into a trap set in the dungeon
by an enemy Familia.
And all but I...
were killed.
That means... this guy is responsible
for the death of her Familia!
It was the same back then. We stocked up on all
the blazerocks that we could get our hands on.
We lured Lion's Familia into the dungeon
intending to blow it up
and leave them buried alive under all the rubble!
Except, those assholes from
the Astrea Familia just wouldn't die!
They survived like goddamn cockroaches!
That turned the tables and
put us in a really bad situation.
But...
Something happened that
none of us could have foreseen!
And what was that?
The dungeon gave birth to an abomination!
A totally insane monster that no one
had seen or even heard of before!
Normally, nothing like this should occur.
Adventurers destroying a part
of the dungeon is inconsequential.
It should only prompt the dungeon to begin
restoring itself back to its normal state.
However, if the damage exceeds what it can repair...
Or rather, if someone made it a point to inflict
an overwhelming amount of damage...
Exactly.
The dungeon would then prioritize eliminating
that "someone" over anything else.
Excessive damage triggers its self-preservation instincts.
And the dungeon suffers so much misery from this...
that not even my prayers can reach it.
Then what happened 5 years ago... will happen again.
I'm afraid so.
On that day... all of my allies were
slaughtered until only I was left.
But guess what!
So were all of those stupid bitches
from the Astrea Familia!
I spent these past 5 years studying it.
Those guys from Evilus that I hung around with
had no idea, because I did it all by my lonesome!
What triggered the dungeon to spawn it? And what
would I need to make that abomination appear again?
I studied it down to the last detail!
Huh?
And oh boy, did I learn a lot!
Like the fact that going beyond the middle floors
and intentionally causing a staggering amount of
damage to the dungeon on a lower floor
would then spawn the monster on that very same floor!
Also, the crucial fact that the dungeon can perceive
floors 25 through 27 as one single whole!
Cheer up, Lion.
You have the honor of seeing the fruits of
my research as I announce them to the world!
Damn you, Jura!
Why?!
Why would you want to summon a horrific monster
like that a SECOND time?!
Isn't that obvious?
Because I'm going to tame it!
Tame it? You can't be serious.
Are you completely out of your mind?!
Tell me something, Lion.
When you saw it for the first time,
did you think that it was a monstrosity?
Well, not me.
Even though I was shitting and pissing myself
in sheer terror, I found myself mesmerized by it!
By the way it laid waste to everything!
By the way it totally butchered everyone!
In my eyes, it was a thing of such beauty that even
goddesses pale in comparison! And I fell in love with it!
A being of overwhelming power!
I want it! I NEED it!
ALL FOR MYSELF!
You're insane! That thing is practically the devil itself!
There's absolutely no way that you can control it!
In normal circumstances, sure!
But look...
I have this baby!
Oh right! He used that to control the Lambton!
It's a magic item!
Once I have control of that thing,
then nothing will scare me anymore!
And nobody can threaten me again!
Not even you, Lion!
I haven't gone a single day
without you haunting my dreams...
But summoning that creature here will change that.
I'll finally be able to overcome the trauma of my past!
I won't let anyone else have it!
IT WILL BE MINE!
We can't tell what's going on down there from here.
What's the matter, Lady Chigusa?
I just heard someone...
They were screaming in pain...
Are you sure about that, Lady Chigusa?
P-pretty sure.
It was very faint, but I also heard it.
Seemed to me like it was the cry
of an adventurer biting the dust.
That settles it. Something must be
happening down on the 27th floor.
Do you think Master Bell has been swept up in it?
Hold on, Lil Squeak!
Come on, you guys! Let's go down there!
Master Bell needs our help right now!
Cassandra?
What are you doing, Lady Cassandra?!
Please let me go!
We don't have time to waste!
I'm sorry... I'm so sorry...
I knew...
I knew that a disaster was looming...
But I couldn't do anything!
And because you guys are alive right now,
I'm sure that down on the 27th floor...
many other people are dying instead.
I'm sorry!
I can feel it.
It's already started.
I'm scared! So scared!
I want to run.
Go far away.
Somewhere deep within the waters.
I want to be with him.
With Bell. Right now.
Bell!
Where are you?!
A taboo of the dungeon that no one is aware of.
Making it an official regulation is difficult.
Because, inversely, doing so would make
everyone aware of that thing's existence.
We had no choice but to cover up any incident related
to it and never disclosed anything to the public.
Naturally, there is absolutely no information
about it in the Guild's records, either.
However, there is one exception. The Xenos.
Five years ago, they could sense that something
was very wrong and were more terrified than anyone.
So I told them everything.
And asked for their assistance in making sure
that nothing like this would ever happen again.
But now, in a case of awful timing,
they are busy helping us to seize
complete control over Knossos.
Yes.
We have no way to respond to this swiftly.
It seems to be located on the middle floors...
No, the lower floors.
My god! Are the ones who happened to be in its path...
the Hestia Familia?!
So there's a monster powerful enough
to wipe out Ms. Ryu's entire Familia,
and you seriously just summoned it to this floor?!
Mr. Bors!
Wait!
But Ms. Ryu! We need to hurry and
save the other adventurers down here!
It's impossible.
You can't go out there.
Fighting it is a death sentence...
Of course!
It makes sense that you wouldn't let him go, Lion!
You know even more than I do
about how horrific that thing is,
since you got to experience fighting against it firsthand!
And let's not forget, you were so desperate
to keep yourself alive during that battle
that you let all your precious little friends
die without even trying to help!
Shut up.
Oh, my mistake.
You actually just outright slaughtered all your friends with
your own two hands!
SHUT UP!
SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
Shut up! Shut up... Shut up... Shut up...
Shut up...
S-stay away!
The name of this disastrous fiend is "Juggernaut".
A destroyer that massacres any
and all adventurers it finds.
H-help...
Isn't there anything that we can do, Ouranos?
No matter what we do, it will be too late.
That thing will keep going until it's killed everyone
who happens to be in that area.
That's the entire purpose of its existence.
Just you wait, precious.
I'm going to make you mine soon enough!
Bring it on! You won't get me that easil-!
Big bro!
NO!
DAMMIT!
Hang on, Mr. Bors!
Mr. Cranel!
THAT'S ENOUGH!
Rabbit's Foot!
It hardly has any armor.
That means it's a monster built for speed and offense!
I can handle that!
It all comes down to striking first!
Where'd it go?!
Impossible. It moved that far in the blink of an eye?!
It's as strong as a Floor Boss...
No, this monstrosity is even beyond that!
It avoided that?! But it's so huge!
It must be even faster than the Iguazu!
But Mr. Bors and his group are still here,
and so is Ms. Ryu!
Running is NOT an option!
Mr. Cranel!
Fine! Let's see how it handles this!
FIRE...
No! Don't!
BOLT!
Wh-what just happened...?
Not good!
I have to counter!
GET OUT OF THERE!
BELL!
Dare mo wakaranai fukai basho
Kyou e no scenario tojita mama
Kimi wa hitori janai
Mazariatta (ah) omoi ga sasaeta
Kitto tatte kitto mae e
Kitto nante ienai kedo
Kikkake o kanjita yokogao wa mayoi mo naku
Jiuu janai sekai e to
Donna ii uta o tsurai uta o kiite todomatte
Shinji kondetemo me de mite kanjite kimetai
Okite koe no suru hou e mukau
Michi annai wa jibun de nayande shirushite yuku
Tsuyoku tsuyoku negatta mirai e kasaneyou te o
Next Time
Endless
Brutal
Next time: "Endless".