There's no sign of it anywhere...

Furby, Alcazar and I have been rushing through the cavern trying to find the disaster grade demon that I had recently encountered.

We're nearing the entrance of the cavern where Isaac or Serena should be standing guard right now.
"This type of demon usually doesn't travel this close to the entrance you know?" (Alcazar)

Alcazar has been harping on about where we ought to be looking.
But we've pretty much covered every nook and cranny of the cavern on our way back up.
And I'm certain it ran this way when I used my mental ability to scare it away. 

"It is odd that we haven't encountered a single delver or demon though..." (Alcazar)
Says the guy that responsible for wiping out nearly everything on the third layer and second layer.

I shouldn't complain though, because it's probably my fault that everything on the first layer is dead as well.

According to Alcazar, the demons inside the cavern ordinarily magically repopulate somehow.
But for some odd reason, none of the demons are respawning anymore.

I'm more concerned that I couldn't find Julia's corpse or Luke for that matter.
Hopefully Luke just took her somewhere safe.

The only place left to look at this point is outside of the cavern.

"Let's go check outside real quick." (Scarecrow)

"Are you even listening?" (Alcazar)

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Dead.

We arrived outside of the entrance to the cavern. But everything is barren out here.

Isaac and or Serena are nowhere in sight either.

All the grass and trees that used to be in the surroundings are dead.

"Hmmm. You might've been right to come here after all." (Alcazar)

"It looked a lot greener out here when that fat nobleman brought me into the cavern." (Alcazar)

Oh? Is that how Alcazar ended up in the cavern?

Seems like the idiot noble was the one that brought Alcazar into the cavern.
Why bring all this weird stuff along when you're going delving inside a cave though?
What was he even trying to do?

Now that I think about it, the fat idiot noble's body was gone as well.
I hope a demon ate his corpse.

*Bang*
The sound of a distant explosion.

◇◆◇

 

Furby carried us through the air towards the source of the explosion.

He seemed pretty excited to be flying in the sky for the first time.

I do envy him... being able to fly would be pretty cool...

*BANG*

Deep inside the forest we found the source.l of the commotion.

"RAAA!!!" (Sugar tooth)

There's murky purple fog everywhere below us.

It's the deadly gas from the disaster-grade sugar tooth I've been looking for! Found it!

"GRAND GUST!" (Cynthia)
Oh, that's the female guild leader fighting it down there I think?
She used some sort of wind magic to disperse the poisonous fog.

"Hmmm. That girl down there isn't half bad." (Alcazar)
Alcazar, who's sitting on my shoulder again, is complimenting her magic abilities-

"Her breasts are magnificent." (Alcazar)
...Or so I thought.

There are a dozen familiar faces standing near Cynthia.
They're all delvers that gleefully took water from my faucet at some point.
Huh? Except for one of them... isn't that...?

*BANG!*

"Don't falter! If we're defeated, everyone in the capital is done for!" (Ben)
The source of the explosions seems to have been the male guild leader, Ben.

When he attacks the sugar tooth with a punch, it produces an explosion on impact.

The sugar tooth seems unscathed though.

"Guh!!" (Ben)

"...Is that the disaster-grade demon you had in mind?" (Alcazar)

Ah... there's disappointment in Alcazar's voice- but for good reason.

Alcazar wanted the hair of a disaster-grade demon, but there's none...
The rodent-like creature has no fur whatsoever. It looks like a squirrel with skin disease.

(Uwah... now what?...)
At this rate, I'm never going to get a full potion in time.

"Ass!" (Furby)
Excuse you?

Seriously, this isn't the time to be perving on Cynthia as well-

(Oh!)

Furby is pointing his beak towards the sugar tooth's ass.

(I see it!)
We're quite a distance away from the battle, but somehow I'm able to see-

"There's still hair left between its ass cheeks!!" (Scarecrow)

"..." (Alcazar)
W- why are you looking at me like that...

Alcazar hops off of my shoulder and onto Furby's leg.

"...Go fetch it then." (Alcazar)

"R- right..." (Scarecrow)

"Let's go get him Furby!" (Scarecrow)

"No way. Scary." (Furby)

Huh?

I look at Alcazar, pleading for someone to help me fight the demon.

"Hmmm?" (Alcazar)

"Fu fu fu... you do the leg work. That was the deal." (Alcazar)

Seriously guys?

We're supposed to be companions on an adventure in another world...

My expectations for this hastily gathered crew of misfits might've been a bit too high.

Ugh... fine...

"Furby drop me over there!" (Scarecrow)

"Okido..." (Furby)
Furby opens the claws that are holding onto my arms.

As I'm falling down to the ground, I got my pose ready.

(Uwah...)
I'm glad I don't have a human body.
Furby was quite high up in the air, so I'm falling quite a distance...

 

"GGGRRrrrrr…" (Sugar tooth)

"Don't underestimate me you damned demon!!" (Ben)

"Ben! I can only disperse its deadly gas with wind magic 1 more time at best!" (Cynthia)

"Tsk- at this rate we're done for-" (Ben)

*CRASH*

"Huh?!" (Ben & Cynthia)

"..." (Sugar tooth)

Carefully wait for the smoke the disperse...

And... now!

I get up from my Superm*n landing pose and point my wooden finger at the sugar tooth.

"YOUR ASS IS MINE!" (Scarecrow)

Perfect entrance.

"Wha- what?! You're alright!" (Ben)

*Crowd cheering*
All the delvers begin cheering and clapping upon seeing me.

(Hue hue.)
This is what a protagonist's entrance ought to be like.

The hero has arrived to save the day.

"?" (Sugar tooth)
The disaster-grade demon looks irritated upon recognising me and confused by the cheering. 

Everyone that's cheering began to look down at my groin with a hopeful expression on their faces.

All the cheering suddenly dies down.

"Wha..." (Ben)

One of the veteran cavern delvers near Cynthia points down at my groin.
"His faucet is gone!" (Veteran delver)

"W- we're all going to die!" (Another veteran delver)

(...)