#56: Question: Brennen Tiger Hunting — Only I Can Choose as Many S-Class Rare Items and Broken Skills as I Want With the Awakened [Schrödinger's Cat]! (WN)

Listea continued raiding the Brennen Tiger nest together with Giltea.

The two of them entered the dungeon in turns and doubled their active time.

Furthermore, they traversed the dungeon at super-high speed to reduce the amount of miasma exposure and cut down their rest period.

Thanks to that, Listea and the others could dive into the dungeon at a fairly high frequency.

(…Kukukuku! It must be hard for weaklings who take so long against mere Brennen Tigers!)

Listea smiled at the corners of her mouth as she sprinted through the dungeon.

Before long, the figures of adventurers fighting Brennen Tigers entered her view.

Prey—!

The instant that happened, Listea raced through the dungeon.

“It’s her!”

“Damn it, this time for sure!”

The adventurers who noticed Listea’s approach desperately intensified their attacks on the Brennen Tiger.

That futile struggle was comical to Listea.

“Ahahahahaha! Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow!”

She closed the distance in one go while laughing loudly.

“Damn it, don’t screw with us!”

The warrior turned his back to the Brennen Tiger and cut into Listea’s path.

He held up his shield and tried to stop Listea.

“Hahahahahaha!”

Ridiculous! Was that the resistance a fool had desperately thought up!

Listea leaped.

Tap, she landed on the warrior’s shoulder, used it as a foothold to change direction—and attacked the Brennen Tiger with the force of an arrow.

Listea’s black and white twin swords flashed.

Countless slashes tore through the Brennen Tiger’s back.

By the time Listea landed and fully killed her momentum, the red tiger had already turned into a corpse.

“Y-you… again!?”

A middle-aged adventurer who looked over forty growled.

“Again, apparently. Though I don’t remember.”

Listea laughed.

She truly did not remember. She rarely remembered the faces of weaklings. A middle-aged B-class—he was doing well, but Listea, who was in the upper ranks of A-class in her mid-twenties, had no interest in him.

“Now, you’re in the way, in the way.”

“Cut it out already! You keep getting in our way!”

Listea grabbed the hand of the man who tried to seize her.

The next instant—

Thud! The man’s body forcefully flipped over and fell to the ground.

“Gah!?”

“I said you’re in the way, didn’t I? I won’t stop you if you want to die, though?”

After saying that coldly, Listea ignored the other adventurers who had become unable to move and brought her retriever close to the Brennen Tiger.

Roll—

What rolled out was a “Brennen Tiger’s Great Fang” and a magic stone.

Listea let out a grand sigh.

“Garbage. I’ll give it to you. Good for you, earning money the easy way.”

After letting out a chuckle, Listea quickly headed to the next one.

As she walked, she activated the scout skill “Keen Hearing.” She picked up the sounds echoing through the dungeon. No matter where battle broke out, Listea’s ears would not miss it.

“…I hear it, I hear it—!”

Listea’s ears caught the sound of a new battle.

A smile of finding new prey appeared at the corners of her mouth.

“Come on, come on, come on! If you take your time, the ogre will come out…!”

Listea broke into a run.

But even when she reached the place where the sound was coming from—

“Hm?”

There was no Brennen Tiger anywhere.

Only a female mage wearing a conical hat stood by the wall.

The female mage spoke to Listea with a smiling expression.

“Helloー, what’s wrong? You look so pale?”

Listea tilted her head.

“It’s been a while.”

Basically, Listea paid no attention to adventurers, but she remembered the female mage. It was an unusual composition of a man, a woman, and a cat—and also because the man had B-class equipment despite his youth.

“…Alone today? Where are your friends?”

“They’re fighting a Brennen Tiger!”

“Where?”

“Where could they be?”

The female mage grinned.

In that expression, there was a shine of pride in her own trickery.

“Hah!”

Listea laughed. She thought how fun it would be if she could distort that expression.

Listea strode toward the female mage.

“You did think a little, didn’t you? It’s a childish trick—but it’s much better than not thinking at all.”

Listea stretched her hand toward the dungeon wall.

“But too bad. I’m not capturing things visually. I’m listening with my ears.”

Listea could hear it.

The sound of battle echoing from the other side of the wall.

Listea tapped the wall. It made a sound that carried through to the other side.

“You used the magic Earth Wall to make a temporary wall and block it off—something like that, perhaps?”

The moment Listea pointed it out, the female mage’s face quickly turned pale. That change in expression felt pleasant to Listea.

The female mage shouted.

“Ios!”

“Too slow!”

After drawing a dark-colored dagger, Listea unleashed high-speed slashes at the wall.

The fake wall made by magic turned into rubble in an instant.

The female mage bit her lip in frustration.

Listea stepped into the opened space on the other side.

“Ahahahahaha! Did you think you could fool me?”

It was a space enclosed by walls, not very large.

There was a man dressed in Blue Firebird chain mail and a cat. The man clearly looked as if he had just been in a fierce battle.

But—

That was all.

Listea looked left and right, but there was nothing.

“…? Where is the Brennen Tiger—?”

Had he converted it into a drop item with the retriever?

No, that could not be. They had been in a fierce battle just a moment ago—and the Brennen Tiger had been making rough sounds.

It should have taken more time to finish it off.

The man looked at Listea.

“…There’s no such thing here. I was just training.”

Listea gritted her teeth.

It was a poorly made lie. And he was deliberately telling a bad lie. In order to provoke Listea.

However, it was true that the Brennen Tiger was not there.

And Listea did not understand that mystery. They must have done something, but she did not know what they had done. She exhaled her irritation as a sigh.

“…Well, fine.”

After saying that, Listea turned on her heel and started walking.

After a while—

The sound of fighting came from the same place again.

“Tch!”

At the same time as she clicked her tongue, Listea started running again. She would not miss it this time!

When Listea returned once more, the wall had been rebuilt, and the female mage was standing in front of it.

“Oh, did you come again?”

Listea had no intention of speaking with the female mage.

She charged straight into the wall with that same momentum.

“Ios!”

At the same time as the female mage shouted, Listea cut the wall to pieces again. She kicked it away and jumped inside—