Ojou-sama Kiiiiiick!!

"Now then, what to do… I wonder. Do we take it down ourselves, or do we wait here for reinforcements?"

Yamato mused aloud, still knocking the slime about.

Fortunately, thanks to the Slime Golf technique Karona had taught them, endurance wasn't a concern.

"Gununununu…"

And wouldn't you know it, the moment she realized she couldn't leave, Karona was hit by an overwhelming urge to go to the bathroom. But she couldn't exactly say so. She'd just finished declaring herself fine, so admitting it now would feel like losing.

"… E-even as we stand here deliberating, no doubt a horde of scoundrels is stealthily advancing on us, eyeing our prize money with vulture-like intent! Enough! Act before you think! Desuwaaaa!!"

"Karona-jou!?"

Unable to hold it in any longer, Karona launched herself at the Huge Slime. When it flung gobs of itself at her, she batted them back with her parasol.

"If we grind it down faster than it can recover, that solves everything, yes!? Then like this! Thus! I shall! Do this!"

Sabaan!! She drove her parasol into the slime. Then, bobaa! she snapped it open. The Mithril parasol shoved the slime's mass aside and somehow managed to unfurl. What ridiculous springs.

"It's no good, Karona-jou, your weapon's going to get swallowed!?"

"That's exactly the point!"

The Huge Slime shifted to engulf the parasol.

"And here, like this!"

Gurun!! She spun the parasol as she yanked it out. The portion of slime that had tried to creep inside the parasol was gouged out, scraped clean by its ribs.

"Pigyuiiiiiiii!!!?"

"Whoa, that's insane, it's actually working!? E-everyone, follow Karona-jou! Hit the core through that gouge she just made!"

"Roger that, Leader!!"

The slime now had a massive parasol-shaped crater carved into it. Yuuta rammed his crowbar straight into the opening.

"Eat this, my Excrowbarr!!"

"And then I drive it in further with my mithril mace, kakon～!!"

Sakura drove the crowbar in deeper. Its tip closed in on the Huge Slime's core. But now that both of them had let go of their weapons, the Huge Slime's tendrils homed in on them.

Dungeon Braver: Comments

"yamato! up!"

"look out"

"up up up up up up up up up!!!!!!!!!"

The Huge Slime's tendrils unleashed water magic. Waterballs. Not ordinary water, either: attack magic that chipped HP on contact.

"Mm! … Here goes!!!"

But Yamato batted them back with the flat of his blade. Kakiiin! And then the slime's own tendril was gouged open with a boshu! by the very Waterballs it had fired, now returned to sender.

In the opening, Yuuta and Sakura retreated, leaving their weapons behind.

"Oho, I did it!!"

"You truly pulled it off, Yamato-sama! … Wait, he can actually do that…?"

Dungeon Braver: Comments

"he batted it backkkk!?!?"

"wait wait, HOMERUUUUUUUN!?"

"line drive back at the pitcher, ktkr"

Ryutanji Karona Channel: Comments

"hah?"

"he seriously reflected magic!?"

"insane. for real?"

"ojou, did you just say 'he can actually do that' just now??"

Yamato had grasped the essence. He re-tightened his grip on his sword.

But the Huge Slime's tendrils were already stretching out again, readying another spell.

"Karona-jou! I leave the finisher to you! I'll hold the line!!"

"Understood! Dosseeeeeeeeei!!!"

Sensing an attack incoming, Karona braced. Waterballs came raining down toward her, and Yamato batted each one back. With an offense-and-defense-in-one pitcher's line drive, he whittled the tendrils away.

Karona charged in alongside Yamato. Closing her parasol, she slammed it into the butt of the mithril mace, which was already driving the Excrowbarr deeper into the Huge Slime, adding her own thrust on top of theirs.

Like a fencer, like a billiards break, like a rocket pencil.

Gachin! The Excrowbarr reached the core.

"One more push!! Ojou-sama Kiiiiiick!! Desuwaaaaaaa!!!"

Pinching up the hem of her skirt ever so slightly, she front-kicked the butt of her parasol.

The impact produced a gago sound, the unmistakable crack of splitting stone.

Biki, bakin!! The Huge Slime's core shattered.

And apparently that core had doubled as the Dungeon Core itself, because— Congratulations!! The dungeon clear effect bloomed across the screen.