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But she didn't agree with Ganesha's order that she remain here. As Captain of the Familia, it was her responsibility to clean up the mess that had arisen from the carelessness of her subordinates. While she was stuck here playing Ganesha's games, her higher-Leveled adventurers were roaming the cities, trying to locate the monsters while enlisting the help of the Guild and other Familias. She should've been out there, helping them, but nooooo, she was stuck here on babysitting duty.
She didn't know what Ganesha was thinking, asking a random civilian to tame a Level Two monster. A Level One would have made some sense, but wasn't this too dangerous, even if she was to supervise? If this was Ganesha's idea of stalling for time while waiting for the wayward monsters to be caught, then it was self-defeating, because putting the life of an audience member at risk was not the way to do it.
The wave of applause caused her to look up, and she felt a brief moment of panic when she saw the boy reluctantly stand up and begin to walk down the stand.
No, you idiot! Sit back down! Don't fall for Ganesha's trap! All around him people began to clap and cheer for him, particularly the young girl who had been sitting next to him. Was that perhaps why the boy had given in? To impress a girl that he fancied?
Stupid boy.
Standing next to Ganesha, the god introduced the challenger as Godou, a chef from a tavern. There had been a small hope in her that Ganesha had coincidentally chosen an adventurer, but that was ruled out.
Accepting a whip from the beaming Ganesha, the boy lazily strolled across the arena and stopped in front of her. The subsequent sigh he let out told her that he really didn't want to be here.
"Why did you accept?" she hissed. "You know you might get injured, or even die, right?"
"Yeah." He rubbed his head sheepishly. "But I figured it was better for it to be me than someone else." She saw him glance momentarily at the girl he was sitting next to, and her impression of him improved only marginally. Self-sacrifice was still a sacrifice.
"You're still an idiot. Why accept if you know can't do it?" she whispered.
The boy frowned. An angry tic mark appeared in the corner of the face. "If you're so against this, why did you include it in your festival?" he seethed back.
Shakti was taken aback from the honesty behind his words. "Because Gods are stubborn idiots," she mumbled.
The boy looked surprised. Then he smiled. "Amen."
The clinking and clanking of moving chains announced the opening of the trapdoor, and a sealed cage was brought to the surface. The sound of grunts and something striking against the metal caused the boy next to her to whistle.
"Do you have a plan?" she asked. It was already too late to back out.
The boy nodded. "A few. But nothing too flashy."
"Flashy?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. He was just an ordinary civilian right? He sounded a little too confident to be one.
"Hypothetically speaking," the boy began. "If I were to just stand in front of the monster and let it attack me...you'll have no choice but to kill it, right?"
Shakti blinked. So maybe the boy wasn't as stupid as she thought. But there were other problems with that approach of course. "Yes, I suppose that would be the case, hypothetically speaking. But then it wouldn't be a very good show and a lot of the audience will be upset."
Still, Shakti would take an upset audience over a dead chef any day.
"That's true," the boy said, considering her words. "Decisions, decisions."
The door to the cage began to lower, and Shakti leaned in for one last whisper. "Do what you need to do to survive. Just remember that your life is the most important thing here."
The Battle Boar rushed out of the cage as she leaped away, trampling the door beneath its feet and letting out a guttural roar of hatred and anger.
Shakti grimaced. A Battle Boar was more than a whole head taller than Godou, and its immense strength, dexterity, and speed made it a challenge for even some Level Twos. Godou didn't stand a chance.
Shakti gulped. So why was he smiling?
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Irony? Coincidence? Fate?
Godou had no idea what to call this, but he felt like laughing.
Of all the monsters that existed in the Dungeon, the one had had to fight in the Coliseum just had to be a Battle Boar.
It looked like a much tinier version of the Boar that he could actually call out, and he briefly entertained the idea of summoning the Divine Beast to fight its miniature counterpart. He shot down the notion immediately. Firstly, there were actually people in the Coliseum this time. Secondly, he had no intention of destroying another landmark. And thirdly, he'd already decided that he wouldn't resort to any Authorities.
He was keenly aware that everybody's eyes were on him, including those of Gods. Ganesha hadn't picked him by random chance. Godou was almost certain that Ganesha recognized him and planned for this. He had been hunched over, looking at his pants, and he hadn't even had his hand up! With that in mind, he wasn't going to give the Gods the satisf
action of sating their curiosity by revealing his abilities.
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