Chapter 235: CH.231: "el gigante" of the mines.
( Yuuki's POV )
After shooting me, Ashley panicked a little, but I was okay, well because of my infant body, the bullet broke my skin and drew blood, but with a rub, the wound disappeared.
Yuuki: calm down, I'm fine, look.
I showed my intact arm to Ashley and she ran her hand over my skin and confirmed what I was saying she let out a sigh of relief, then the girls gave the shooting gallery another go and I gave it a try too and we ended up with a lot of tokens that we put into a capsule machine containing some strange key chains that made for a nice souvenir of this excursion, I saved some capsules for Hajime and Lucoa, and Erica did the same for Liliana and Claire.
With that finished we continued with our serious mission, I gave Ashley a gun and a bulletproof vest from the merchant, but I told her to only use it in emergencies, shooting a person is not easy even if that person is already dead, we come from different worlds so we didn't have those problems.
Navigating the castle was only made more annoying by the strange construction of the place but there wasn't a lock I couldn't kick down.
I wanted to find the lord of the castle to finish him off, but when we entered a room we were faced with something that caught our attention.
Ashley: What is this?
Yuuki: An execution pit? The owner of this castle is an eccentric.
In the middle of the room, there was a huge hole in the floor that seemed to have no bottom, although I had just said that I wanted to kill the owner of the castle, I could feel something down there, this was a detour worth taking.
Yuuki: Let's see what's down there!
Ashley: What?
Ashley was confused by what I said, and without explaining further I pushed Ashing into the hole.
Ashley: KYAAAHHHHHHhhhhhh.
Yuuki: let's go.
Ashley let out a mighty scream as she fell silent and I then jumped after her, Shera and Erica didn't hesitate to follow me, Ashley kept screaming all the way down while I focused on the bottom of the hole, and when I saw the ground I used my gravity control to make us descend slowly and safely when this started Ashley moved her body weirdly because of the lack of gravity and I had to use my tail to help her land, then she took a moment to catch her breath after all the screaming she did.
Ashley: Why did you push me?
Yuuki: I didn't think you would jump if I told you to.
Ashley: Of course I wouldn't.
Yuuki: See, I was right.
Erica: And what are we doing here, I don't think you just want to take the view.
Yuuki: I was sensing something here, just a feeling of mine but my instincts have never failed me.
Erica: then let's start searching.
The place where we landed was connected to an underground laboratory where someone did some experiments on humans, the girls were disgusted with what they witnessed but I was more focused on the notes from whoever had worked there, which details the creation of creatures I had defeated like the exoskeleton-wearing humanoid called Verdugo and the blind Wolverine, and others I hadn't encountered like a giant mutant.
All of that was very informative, but that was not what was calling me, we continued to go deeper into the place, and now we found a mine, but here they were not excavating minerals but samples of fossilized parasites.
So this is where all that stuff comes from, how old is this "plaga"
' un forastero '
Yuuki: oh no, these guys again.
There were more infected villagers hard at work in the mine, Ashley stayed behind while we cleaned up the place, but the presence of enemies showed that there was something important here, We were moving forward and suddenly our path was blocked by a huge rock, but that didn't stop me, I used one of my special explosive BIM bullets to clear the path, and behind the debris we saw a vent large enough for an adult to pass through, with light coming out of it.
Erica approached the vent curiously but at that moment I felt danger, I grabbed Erica and pushed her behind me, but before she could ask why I did that, a giant hand came out of the vent and grabbed me by the legs, I was pulled into the room where he was, that was some kind of giant founder, the enemy lifted me up high to slam me against the ground and from above I saw what we were facing.
In the room, there were some infected giants, but besides their incredible height, they looked like humans, one of them was even wearing armor, these creatures were in the notes that I found under the name "el gigante"
literally giant in Spanish.
Shera: Yuuki!!
Shera went through the large vent and shot at the hand that was holding me but the armored giant got in the way of her bullets, but with that distraction, I summoned my fire axe, I cut off the creature's fingers and after freeing myself I used my tails to hang from the ceiling, according to the notes I found the giant's weakness was under the back of its neck, The armored giant was the most troublesome so I aimed at him, I slingshotted myself using my tails and aimed at the neck, I spin in the air with my axe and when I hit the giant I pass through his armor and his flesh as if it were nothing, The giant became agitated, trying to throw me off his back, but before he could, I fired a laser of light into the opening I had created, his weakness to light finished him off and his body fell lifeless, I was ready to jump on the other giant but the girls were doing very well against him, Shera was at the front, dodging their giant fists with incredible agility while the others supported her.
I used my tails to trip the giant, and the girls rained bullets on him, receiving so much punishment, the parasite came out of his back, and Erica finished him off with a BIM flash, I looked at Ashley, who was out of breath, but seemed proud of what she did.