Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

Chapter 135: The Merciless Fog Trap

All my comrades had suddenly and unexpectedly disappeared, basically like a suspense horror, but this was no time to whine or worry. What I needed to do was take fast and decisive action.

Fuuuh, okay relax slong as its not a pitfall or teleport trap, they shouldnt have wandered far

Itd be hard to reach them if they somehow fell into a pit leading them to a lower floor, not to mention a teleport would make their location completely indeterminable. So Ill just not think about those possibilities.

That would leave other possibilities such as, like with me and the arachne, they couldve been kidnapped by some monster, fallen into some kind of illusion or hypnosis, or simply wandered off with their own two feet.

I mean, that pink gas reeealy gave the impression that itd make you see things.

They either went back from where we came, or took one of these forks

There was always the possibility that they sensed some great danger and left me as a decoy while they ran to save their skins, but I kind of felt like that wasnt what happened.

This was nothing like that intense trust towards their friends that shonen manga MCs tend to show. There was a clear trap here, this pink smog, and whoever designed it wouldnt let the people who showed up simply escape it.

And then the fog cleared away since the foolish prey did in fact fall for the trap. The trap had worked and that is what mattered.

I was fine because well, I had my handy dandy Venomic Vessel skill.

Lets start from the right

GUGAGA!

Yeah yeah going solo was a bad idea, but Id done it a few times. Everyone was missing, and the merit of finding them outweighed the risks of searching.

I steered Raptor into the large hall now cleared of fog, and went into the right hand path.

The passage was fluffy as usual, no different from the stuff weve been seeing throughout the zone.

MOAAHHH!

Outta the way!

There was the occational cloud creature blocking our path, but Raptor just trampled them over as I continued to search, for a while.

Shit, whys this place so big

Actually, this was my first time not following the compass, and blindly looking for someone in an area. I had experience scouting out the areas around a fairy square or a boss room, but nothing like this.

Its at times like these that you realize the importance of mapping .

There were no peculiarities to any of the walls, this cloud zone was insanely easy to get lost in. So before I really did get lost in here, I started scratching down the path in my notebook. I was not about to let myself get lost too.

Guess this is it, I should go back and follow the left path

I did sort of have disasterous luck, so I thought Id picked the wrong path and wasted time, and was about to go back when,

! Ahh~

I heard it, a voice.

Rem, you hear that?

Khruu!

Oh, so you got the better ears then, Raptor

Id discovered something unexpected, so, I relied on Raptors hearing that was clearly better than mine, and tracked the voice to its origin.

It was still faint, but wed definitely hit upon someones whereabouts. Finding them after that was easy.

Its here

It was a room like any other, an empty room with one entrance. From inside I could hear a mans moaning, wait It was Ueda.

The voice wasnt screaming, so I doubted that he was being gruesomely tortured or eaten alive by goma. From the tone, I suspected that he was in a situation similar to mine when Id been cocooned by the arachne and struggled to escape.

Also, other than Uedas moaning, I could hear no cries of foot steps of a monster thought to have assaulted him, so they shouldnt be more than a couple of them if theyre even there.

I checked my surroundings again so I dont end up getting ambushed.

Now, I just hoped that this Ueda wasnt a fake or illusion.

Gotta do it

Rem and Raptor nodded. Theres three of us, so we would likely be able to quickly subdue the monster, I hoped.

Please dont let there be an arachne-tier or higher mid-boss inside, I prayed as I charged in.

Eat this! Blackhair Bi

SAKURAA! SAKURAAAH! AAAAAHHHHHH!

And there he was, screaming out butt-naked.

What the even how in the. Id seen a lot of bizarre things in the dungeon, but nothing this hard to swallow.

Ok, calm, calm as an ocean, lets take this at face value for now.

Ueda, check. Screaming Souma Sakuras name for some reason, check. Naked, check.

This is where Id stopped thinking at first, but this should be a mental condition brought about by the trap so I considered the situation seriously.

The depraved figure of Ueda was on all fours in the middle of the room, moving vigorously. Especially at the hips This would normally lead me to the conclusion of him beating the meat, but just below him, I could see this extra fluffy, humanoid form. A cloud creature.

There was this one little, tiny chance that he pushed down and subjugated this weak monster. But I should think this more as the creature seducing him somehow.

Ah! I see, so it was a honey-trap

This was the most logical conclusion I could come up with given the whole picture.

That pink gas put a sort of suggestion into the targets mind, and this made those whod fallen for it see the cloud creature as someone they liked, or someone they found the sexiest, the end result being voila.

I couldnt tell exactly what would happen to them were they to continue being under the lustful spell, but it wont be anything good. Could be like, the cloud creatures were sucking their mana out, or something.

Aside from that, what if Id fallen into this myself? Maybe Id have this sort of experience with the illusion of Mei-chan or Randou-san. Im sure that if at some point down the line, Im dying with no hope for survival, Id be regretting not dying this way with every fiber of my being. Cant a boy dream of boobie harem heaven

Curse you Ueda, hogging the fun stuff Eat this, Blackhair Bind!

And die you, fake cloud Souma Sakura creature! ORA! DIE SAKURA!!

I was cursing in completely and utterly personal feelings, something Ruinhilde-sama was likely to scold me for, and used blackhair bind to restrain Ueda, swipe away the cloud creature, and had Rem finish it off without a moments delay.

The nude Ueda listlessly fell as I released my bindings on his arms and legs, which is the same time when Rem decapitated the cloud created with one sweep of her knife.

Moaaahhh

Making a low, airy sound, the creature deflated like a balloon and disappeared.

Now then, the main issue now was if Ueda, who Id forcefully pulled away, would wake up properly. I was pretty mad, and really yanked him with all I had, but there was a chance that this was the type where if the hypnotized person woke up in the middle, they wouldnt be able to distinguish reality from dream. If this honeytrap turns out to be like that, my actions may just have resulted in indirectly killing the guy.

Oi, Ueda! Rise and shine!

Nnh, uu S-Sakura?

No ya retard! Do I look like the hottest girl in class to you!? Rise and shine already!

Ha-!? W-wait, Momokawa!? Why the fuck are you here, whered my lovely Sakura go?

Phew, that actually worked. This hypnosis was the type that came off after a few slaps to the face.

Ueda-kun, you got tricked by the dungeon, what you were seeing was an illusion

E, Illusion? D-dont lie to me, I was doing it with

With Souma Sakura?

Uh! I, I was uh Uhm, yeah well Okay, haha, yeah, a dream, it was, just a dream

Shit man, Ive never seen anyone look so, dead.

It was probably not as funny to him. If I had some kind of Futaba-Randou fun time myself, I wouldve undoubtedly cried, even begged, to have that dream last just a bit longer. Ueda had accepted reality relatively fast, so I didnt have much right to complain.

Anyway, you can do your depression and explain what happened after you get some clothes on, alright?

Woah! Oh, yeah, sure thing, sorry

And to make matters worse, he was now quickly gathering his uniform and undies that were scattered about. Looking at that, I just felt sad.

Thats what I know, so everyone else should be caught in this kind of trap too, or more like, catching some, if you get my drift

Momokawa, I dont really need the dirty jokes right now

And together with depressed Ueda, we set off on the search.

Ueda being here meant that they hadnt gone that far away. The cloud creatures probably lured them an appropriate distance away after theyd been hypnotized.

And knowing that they should be close by made for good motivation too. While following and updating my handmade area map, we slowly extended our breadth of search.

Oh, I hear someone. This should be, Nakai

Though not as sharp as Thieves, a Swordsman like Ueda also possessed strong senses. His hearing was apparently better than Raptors.

This way

Following after Ueda for a while, I could now hear it too.

UOOOHHHH!! Asunaaa!! Im gonna cum inside!

Fumu, it appears that Nakais girl of choice was Kenzaki Asuna. Just what did he see in that crazy sword bitch anyway?

Looks like hes close to the climax, so you wanna let him finish?

That kindness will only backfire on him, Momokawa

What, are you jealous cause you didnt get to finish?

You trynna pick a fight!?

My dirty joke finishers left Ueda agonizing while holding his head. Yeah fuck you. I didnt even get one second of those dreams.

OAAHHH, CUM, CUMMINGGG!! Im cu

Okkey, Blackhair Bind~

Now go, Swordsman Ueda. Finish off that cloud creature playing as Kenzaki Asuna, kill her.

Heh, heheh Youre kidding, man Wheres the hidden camera

Like Ueda just now, after we force dispelled his hypnosis, Nakai tried denying reality, and looked deflated, dead in the eyes.

Nakai-kun, we arent lying to you, sadly

Ora Nakai, snap outta it, ya fag

Shit, fucking shit Why dammit I, I was serious too, me and Asuna, we were gonna be

Cmon man, enough of that, get your clothes on

Uhuuu

While crying like a little bitch, Nakai gathered his, also similarly, scattered about clothes and put them on.

Seriously, stop with the beta orbiting around a girl like Yamada. As a third party, it just feels like a pain in the keister.

No, I should at least try to have a little more sympathy.

I see, so it wasnt just the sex, you had a whole scene play out for you

I asked Ueda and Nakai to explain what theyd experienced in detail.

First, right after Id gone ahead through the large hall, the pink gas filled the whole place all the way to the exit passages. The gas was thick, and they couldnt see anything or anyone. They then started hearing sounds of monsters from every direction.

Panicking, they simply ran, and basically, everyone got separated.

Then, when I was like, Oh man, Im in some deep shit now

I saw Asu-, K-Kenzaki coming from the other side of the passage real hurt

For me it was Sakura-chan

Thats when the real act started.

The girl theyd been crushing on had chanced upon them and the two started their shattered and tragic new lives with their new partners.

The fake Sakura and the fake Asuna that Ueda and Nakai saw respectively, both said that her whole party had been eliminated and she was the only one who escaped with her life. Im alone, help me please, youre the only one I can rely on! They begged, tugged at the guys heartstrings, and transition to bed scene

I think you only see loose, desperate women like that in Hollywood movies

Sock it Momokawa, you dont even know how it feels!

Yeah, I even fucking swore that Id protect Asuna with my life!

Dont you think it was too easy

It was, alright!

It was, yeah, but cmon man

No, sorry about that. I can kinda sympathize. I cant say Id be able to take it as well as youre doing if I experienced that kind of situation

Still, this hypnotism was oddly powerful. I cant imagine the cloud creatures being smart enough to pull it off, so they could be using our memories Like, self-suggestion? You imagine a good enough reason to sleep with your girl, and no matter how convenient the situation is, you wont feel anything off, or notice it in the middle. Actually, you probably wont want to notice, you wont want to accept the sweet, sweet dream as a dream and wake up.

Which could mean that the pink gas, rather than being like an hallucinogenic drug, it was more a form of telepathy inducer.

Mmyeah, we got magic and curses, so adding telepathy to the list doesnt sound off bounds at all.

Wait, wont that mean that when Takanashi Kotori, the Sage, saw into our real Jobs, it wasnt actually like she was looking at our status screens like in an RPG but actually reading our thoughts with some sort of telepathy?

Even if she wasnt, a Sage sounded like itd have no problem having a telepathy skill or two. She couldve been reading everyones minds without anyone noticing I dismissed her as a scared little wimp, but I should be more careful the next time we meet.

Actually, speaking of whom

So. Shimokawa-kun is probably with

Yeah, you guessed it, Takanashi-san

Totes

Now three, we heard traces of Shimokawas voice after another 15 minutes of searching.

Haah, haah K-Kotori-chan, we cant, we really, oh dude, oh, ohhhh!!

I was getting tired of this already. I didnt want to hear any more dude moans. Like seriously, stop with the solo male porn already.

Momokawa, lets do him mercy

Well do it

Ok, I leave it to you two

In all honesty, this sort of work of trying to manage a manic and naked young man was difficult, dirty and dangerous, 3 Ds I want to divert away from. If they want to switch with me, they can be my guest. Shimokawa-kun, you have such nice friends whod go to these lengths for you. Im jealous, no really.

That actually kind of sounds like something Higuchi would say. Anyway, we got the totem-pole trio back.

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TL: Scallop