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The fact that he might have been a Level Five, or even Level Six, adventurer was beyond any kind of rational thought.
"Are...are you hurt?" The words stumbled out of her mouth awkwardly. It was a stupid question. It was obvious that he was completely unhurt.
"I'm...uh...a little bit wet, I guess. And I got some of monster blood on me," he said almost guiltily, pointing at the red flecks on his shirt. "But I suppose it was unavoidable."
Reality dropped on her like a sack of bricks.
"You killed the Black Goliath?" she asked, her voice dropping to a low whisper.
Godou nodded.
"With what?" It was strange. Godou was alive. Against all odds, he'd faced the Black Goliath and won. Without a scratch. She'd been so worried the whole time, and now that she knew he was safe and sound, relief should have been the only thing she was feeling.
"With uh..." He pointed at the sword in his hand. "With this."
So why was there so much anger building up?
"A sword?" she asked, raising her voice. "Only a sword? What about the giant boar? And all that wind?"
Sheepishly, the boy scratched the back of his head. "Ah. You saw that, didn't you?"
"The whole Rivira saw it!"
The boy frowned. "Everyone?"
She folded her arms in front of her chest. "Do you know how worried I was for you? All this time, I thought you were just a normal human being! I felt so guilty and terrified that I brought you here! I really thought you were a goner the moment the Black Goliath appeared!"
"Well, it's dead now, so everything's okay." He gave the magic crystal a solid kick. "Though I'm not quite sure what to do with this."
Her eye twitched. There were so many reasons why she wanted to keep yelling at him.
"Sell it." A new voice appeared, and Finn landed next to her. "It's worth a few hundred thousand Valis. The magic crystal of a Floor Boss, a Black one no less. Definitely at least that much."
Riveria and the others arrived just as the Pallum finished speaking, eyeing the giant crystal with a mixture of awe and jealousy.
She turned back to Godou, who seemed to have developed a newfound interest in the magic crystal, appraising it with a strange glint in his eye.
"I think the real question here is to ask why the Black Goliath spawned in the first place." Riveria took a few steps forward, her gaze turning suspicious as she stopped in front of Godou. "If I recall correctly, Black monsters don't spawn unless certain...conditions have been met."
"Campione."
Godou visibly flinched when Finn muttered that single world, and though Shakti did not know what it mean, the cook clearly did.
Rubbing his chin, the Pallum continued to speak. "I've never heard of the term before, but that is what the tamer called you."
"None of you know what it means?" Godou asked, slightly hesitant.
Shakti shook her head, mirroring the actions of everyone else around her.
His relief was both visible and audible.
"You're not going to tell us?" Shakti asked, getting curious.
"It is a title." He smiled weakly. "One that has only given me trouble, and nothing else."
"Did you get the answers you were looking for?" Mama Mia asked him as she slid a drink across the bar table into his hands.
For once, he was a customer at the Hostess. Following Finn's advice, he'd sold the magic crystal from the Black Goliath for a rather large sum of Valis. Using the money, he'd managed to buy a small one-room flat nearby. It was shabby and in poor shape, but still habitable. After that, he'd still been left with a sizable remainder, and he hadn't known what to do with it.
So he'd shared it with the rest of the Hostess, earning him another day off and free drinks. Not that the latter would be of any use, given the fact that his Campione sturdiness meant alcohol had no real effect on his body. He took a sip of the bitter-tasting drink to be polite, trying not to show that the burning feeling in his throat was irking him.
"Some of them," he replied. It had been jarring to hear that word. Campione. The girl had looked him in the eye and said it. That alone told him that she did not truly understand what the word entailed. Unless she was very brave, and could stare a Godkiller in the eye and still have the will to fight him. He did not think that was the case.
"But not all?"
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