Ray tilts his head at the sight that unfolds before him.
　nearly a hundred pregnant prostitutes
　But the anomaly of not a single person awake.

"Huh? ... wait a minute. Aren't you small enough to be pregnant?"

　It was Marina who said so.
　Dark elves are a very difficult family to conceive, but in the case of marina it's been quite a long time since they left home.
　Therefore, I have never seen a pregnant woman once or twice.
　Most of the time, though, they were happily married.
　Compared to such a marina, Elena is busy training herself, Vichela is demanding a fight against a strong opponent, and Bune has never seen a pregnant partner, because she has done her best to survive.
　No, I've seen it before, but I think it's right that they're too busy with themselves to remember.
　That's why I didn't understand what Marina was saying.

"What? What's wrong with you? If you're pregnant, you're going to grow up, aren't you?"
"Yes, but as far as I can see, every prostitute is no different from an ordinary pregnant woman." Forget it? They must have been pregnant with giants."
'What!'

　The Vihela I asked, and the others... everyone, including Ray, was surprised by Marina's words.
　Yes, it gives birth to a giant by writing "giant."
　Then naturally the fetus in the womb should have been bigger than usual.
　But the belly of many pregnant women right in front of us doesn't seem to be filled with giants.

"What do you mean? Do you think the size of the fetus has anything to do with all pregnant women sleeping unconscious?"
"That's no use talking about it," But if this is not an abnormal situation, but a normal one, can't you imagine why?"

　That's what Marina tells me, and everyone here, including Ray, remembers one existence.
　the being that gave rise to this giant That's...

"Black Crystal"

　Ray remembers the name of the magic item.
　However, Ray doesn't even know if the black crystal is really a magic item, though he called it a magic item.
　Because, as the name suggests, it could be just a crystal.
　...and yet it was certain that he had some particular ability.

"What shall I do?"
"There's nothing you can do about it, isn't there? I'm unconscious, so I can't take them all."

　With nearly a hundred pregnant women, it's not hard to imagine how much effort it would take to take these women out of the country.
　Moreover, we came here not to help prostitutes, but to retaliate against Jaya.
　Of course, as long as you can help prostitutes who are victims of Jaya, that's fine. However, we should never have acted like forgetting our primary purpose.

"And are the giants in their stomachs? If you force them out here, they'll probably die before they give birth."

　I don't think I'm saying so with some certainty, but it still seemed to Ray that Elena's words were true.

"All right. So... you mean I'll leave it as it is, right?"
"You'd better do it," Besides, maybe... really, maybe, but if the influence of the black quartz disappears, we don't have to give birth to giants."
"... All right,"

　Marina's words make Ray nod and leave the room.
　When I checked the ground floor again, I found that there were many other huge doors lined up, similar to the ones in the present room.
　And considering what a researcher had told me on the ground floor, it was easy for Ray to imagine that this whole basement would be a room for pregnant prostitutes.

(Do you mean there are prostitutes who are pregnant with giants as many doors as there are? ...how many women have been taken away from the neighboring countries.

　mutter inwardly, frustratingly at Jaya.

'Guru'
"What?"

　Suddenly, Ray, who seemed to hear Seto's cry in his ear, hurriedly looked around.
　But there is no such thing as Seto.
　It's only natural that Seto is fighting against Jaya's forces that are about to enter this underground facility.
　Ray couldn't understand why he heard Seto's cry.
　But somehow Seto seemed to be telling him to calm down.

"What's wrong with you all of a sudden?"
"No, it's nothing,"

　Shaking his head at Marina, Ray realizes he was more irritated than he thought.
　breathe out a small sigh and open one's mouth again

"Well, shall we go?" and I might be saved if I could do something about it."

　Everyone nods to Ray's words and goes straight down the aisle.
　Strangely enough, there are no trap-like traps in this hierarchy.
　Thanks to this, Bune discovers the stairs leading to the third basement without any particular activity.

"What do you think? There were so many traps on the ground floor, but there were no traps here..."
"If you think about it normally, there is a possibility that all the traps laid on the ground floor were not fired, and that all the stairs that tried to do something about us were easily broken through, and that there was no point in setting them."
"I understand what Elena is saying, but if the trap breaks through, it doesn't hurt the Jaya, does it? Well, there might be some effort to set the trap, and there might be some expense for it."

　That said, Marina doesn't think she really doesn't set a trap for herself, either, out of all the effort and expense she spends on it.
　Marina's prediction was that, in fact, she probably didn't expect to get this far.
　We are here without any damage because we are so talented as the Lays, but in a small country like the Lavrellina, there is no one who can normally be as good as the Lavrellina.
　That's probably why they thought this multi-layered defense team was safe: a number of defensive buildings around this underground installation, an elite guard at the entrance to the underground installation, an elite guard at the front of the gates, and a number of traps that existed on the ground floor.
　...I never thought I'd be able to move directly from the air to the underground facilities.
　And it would have been a big miscalculation for Jaya to say that the attackers were individuals like the Reyes, but they were extremely strong fighters.

(No, the information that we entered the Rossi must have been received by Jaya, too.) If so, I think we could have done something about it. Was it simply not in time, or has the measure not appeared yet? Or is the giant the trump card unexpectedly?)

　For Jaya, giants are a symbol of overwhelming military strength, so it is impossible to think of them as normal.
　Ray hasn't fought with giants yet, so he doesn't know exactly how powerful they are.
　I've got some information from the resistance I've been attacked, but I don't know how far the information is right in the first place.
　a surprise attack at a place where the main forces of the resistance are concentrated
　That would have been a complete surprise to the Resistance.
　Regardless of having fought head-on and lost, it is difficult for Ray to consider the strength of the Giants in such a situation as a standard of military strength.
　... in fact, Ray is somewhat wary of such an unknown force.
　If this had been the kind of thing he had fought before, Ray wouldn't have been too concerned about.

"At any rate, let's get off," The Giants are born on the third basement, right? Then maybe we'll have a chance to fight against them."With a big smile on his face, Vihela is naturally looking forward to fighting the giant.
　I honestly don't think so, but as long as we need to go down deeper, we go down the stairs without anyone saying anything.
　Just like the stairs I mentioned earlier, as long as there is no denying that there is a possibility of some kind of trap, proceed with caution.
　But in the end, just as I did when I went down to the second basement without any traps... no, I went down even longer stairs to the third basement.

(It seems like you're challenging dungeon.) Well, a dungeon with a door like this... isn't it unusual?)

　The Dungeon, where Ray first met Elena, had an altar of succession.
　There was a hierarchy with doors as well.

"I don't remember the first time I met Ray."

　muttered Elena as if she had read Ray's thoughts.

"Oh, there was a rumor in Gilmoo,"

　Marina, who was guildmaster at the time, naturally knows when Ray and Elena first met.
　That includes Arra's sudden attack on Ray.

"What? Really? Was there a rumor?"
"...that, for the time being, what shall we do with this third basement?"

　For Elena too, things at that time must be complicated.
　As with Arra's runaway behavior, he pretended to be a traitor and even kill his comrades.
　It was Ray who killed him exactly, but now that he's in such a situation, that's what Elena thought.
　I wonder if Elena's expression made me feel anything, but the others will not dive into the subject any further, and instead turn their eyes to the third basement.
　There are some huge doors similar to those of the second basement, but the difference is that they are overwhelmingly noisy compared to the second basement.
　What I hear is a moan that seems to be enduring pain and a cry of what I think is a baby.
　The reason why I didn't declare myself a baby here was because the voice I heard was so loud.
　That was the volume of voice as if an adult man were screaming, and it didn't sound like a baby's voice to Ray.

"What do you think?"

　In addition, when Ray asks me if I'm a giant and my voice is loud, the others nod silently.
　It's a reply as if Ray's words were too true.

(I think it's not strange that I smell blood, as long as I'm giving birth... I'm a little afraid of opening it.)

　Even so, there is no option of not opening the door, as it is absolutely necessary to look inside the room.
　After nodding, Ray reaches for the door.
　The door opens with a creaking sound of heavy metal... and then a strong bloody smell comes through the gap between the doors.
　It's not one or two. the stench of more blood
　Ray frowned slightly at it, but it was too unexpected to see them enter the field of view from there was enough space for them to enter.
　No, maybe you should have expected it when you smelled the blood.

"Well..."

　Spread throughout the room was the pregnant woman's belly... no, the giant's child.
　Despite having just been born, she looks as good as Ray.
　As long as it's that big, of course it shouldn't be able to be born normally.
　That being the case, it's no joke to come out with a pregnant woman's belly ripped apart.
　However, it can only be described as abnormal that the mother who gave birth to her is eating through the body from within.
　The way she ate her mother's internal organs, meat, skin and bones, rather than breastfeeding, despite having just been born, was enough for Ray, who had come into the world and had more experience of killing people.

"Oh, this is..."

　Elena, right behind Ray, naturally sees what Ray sees and stops moving.
　Like Ray... or more purely in his experience of running through the battlefield, the scene in front of him is beyond belief.

"This kind of behavior is unforgivable!"

　Behind it, Elena's cry echoed around her, fantasizing about the golden flame.