“Gah!?”

“Kai-kun!?”

Tanaka-san tried to pull me with just his arm strength as I made a surprised face, but I stopped him with my hand. I quickly rolled back to the area with my feet.

“Huff, huff, Tanaka-san. I understand now! The torso area makes it impossible to breathe!”

As soon as I entered that area, I realized that I couldn’t take in oxygen. I don’t know if the function of the lungs was stopped or if the act of breathing was forbidden.

“I see. The torso is the lungs, which means breathing. Then, the rest…”

“Yes!”

Tanaka-san, Midori-san, and I rushed into the torso area with force and stood up. We aimed for the last area, the eye area. Even if we couldn’t breathe, as clearers with magical power, we could run dozens of meters even when holding our breath for a few seconds.

The three of us stepped into the eye area.

If my intuition was correct, this area is…

“As I thought! Tanaka-san, this is!”

“I see. I can’t see anything. It’s like my vision has been taken away. But other than that, I can move my limbs and breathe.”

“If we catch our breath here and look around while holding our breath in the torso area, we can last for a while. Then…”

We regained our breath and went to the torso area. When we opened our eyes, there were still about five people in the leg area, the entire area was covered in blood.

“Shit…”

Of the fifteen adventurers, only eight were left. Tanaka-san, Midori-san, Sato, Alfred Colonel, and three soldiers.

As well as one more person who had a emotionless, doll-like face with a sword on their shoulder.

『Stop it, why… damn it! Damn it!!』

One of the soldiers desperately resisted and grabbed the angel’s arm. He squeezed it with the force of a class A vise, but the angel launched his head as if nothing was there.

Now there were only seven left.

The angel chose its next target, Colonel Alfred.

“Shit, shit!! What is this monster!! I have to return back to the U.S. and report this!』

Alfred is unable to do anything but flutter his feet around.

Afred then spots a boy in front of him.

It’s just Sato, crying and screaming.

『Sorry, boy.』

Alfred grabs Sato with one hand and throws him towards the angel.

“Uwaaah!”

Sato collides with the angel, but the angel doesn’t even flinch and just stares at Sato with its eyeless face.

I don’t know whether Sato either can’t move from fear or is confused about why he can’t move but he just flails his arms and legs.

For a moment, a dark emotion wells up inside me as I see Sato, who had said that people like me and Nagi should just die.

But.

“…Shit!”

I hit my own cheek hard.

It might have been wrong, but there was nothing I could do since I had already acted.

“Kai-kun!?”

I run towards Sato.

I can’t breathe, but I can still run, and I can still yell since there’s still air.

“Sato! Come this way! Crawl if you have to!”

I desperately call out to Sato.

I step into the leg area and while falling, catch my breath.

“Huh?”

Sato responds to my voice while still crying. The other players react as well and run towards us with a desperate expression.

“Over here, Sato! You can’t move over there! We can breathe over here, but we need to move quickly!!”

“Ah… Ahh!”

Sato tries his best to come towards us as if he has found salvation.

The angel walks slowly from behind, but Sato seems to be faster. While in the chest area I stop my breath. stand up and pull Sato up.

“Haa… I’m sorry…!?”

Sato takes a breath and tries to calm down, but he suddenly holds his neck, looking like he’s in pain. I thought I had told him that he couldn’t breathe, but he didn’t seem to understand because he was too panicked.

Sato panics and scratches his neck because he suddenly can’t breathe.

“Calm down!!”

I try my best to calm Sato down, but I can’t stop him from struggling. I’m just an unranked player, and Sato is C-ranked. He hits me, and I fall down.

And then, in that moment…

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Sorry for the split chapter, I have tests soon so I couldn’t find the time to fully translate the chapter without dropping in quality. The rest will be up tomorrow.