Shatei Kyokufuri Yumi-Ojisan

than exploring a quiet underground facility, and so it was better this way.
Though, it makes me sound like some kind of maniac…

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“Ah, I’m so glad that I got Thunder Arrow…!”

The mecha enemies had come out like zombies.
I had to find a keycard for every floor, go through the opened gate and go down an elevator to the next floor.
And every time we descended, the waves of enemies grew stronger.

And yet, Thunder Arrow took those waves of enemies down in a flash!

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And then there was Garbow’s Electric River!
Neither of them were powerful enough on their own to one-shot enemies, but when fused with Gatling Arrow or Garbow’s Kurokogairu, they dealt much more damage.
The clones from Kurokogairu could not use charge attacks, but they could use skills.

Furthermore, the mechas were moving through narrow hallways, and so the electricity easily traveled from one enemy to the next.
Thanks to this, we were able to take them down over a large area.
And I was also able to collect a lot of drop items from them.
The power of electricity really was amazing…it was mankind’s treasure.

“At this rate, we’ll reach the bottom floor in no time.”

While the puzzle elements, like searching for keys, sometimes slowed us down, we continued to make our way down through the ancient facility.
Enemies did not attack us while we were in the elevator, so they were moments of respite.
And then as soon as the doors opened, the mechas would come out as if they had been waiting for us.
I was now used to this, and so cleaned out the floor and searched for the next floor.

After repeating this many times, and I started to attack reflexively as soon as the doors opened, we reached a floor where we weren’t greeted to a warm welcome by the mechas.
And the elevator did not let us go any lower.
So this was the bottom floor.

“It’s another dark cave…”

I took out the torch and walked forward cautiously.
If we were ambushed, I would throw the torch at the enemy and then shoot them.
Now that I had the high speed shooting skill, Quickdraw, I could pull off such moves.

However, no wild and aggressive mechas appeared in front of me.

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Instead, I just found piles of remains of mechas that would no longer move.

“Is this a dumping ground for them…?”

There was something beautiful about broken mecha.
They had fought until they fell apart.
And now they were discarded like this, with no reward…it was rather sad.
Not just mecha, but any place that was filled with things that were thrown away made my chest tighten…

However, these mountains of discarded mecha were likely not put here to make me feel sad.
This was…the boss.

Gacha…
Gacha-gacha-gacha…
Gacha-gacha-gacha-gacha!!

The entire floor was filled by a blinding light.
Then the mountain of mecha began to move and then it transformed into a monster.
It was a great eight-headed snake from Japanese folklore…the Yamata No Orochi!

Gagyaaaaaa!!

First, an ancient alligator, and now a mythical snake.
And one that was made from the remains and hatred of discarded machines.
Was it science or supernatural… I didn’t even know what I was saying now.
It was made up of so many different parts that I was sure that this time, electricity would not take it down easily.
But strangely, I wasn’t worried.
After all, I had a reliable mecha animal with me…!