“Preparations complete.”

    “Chuu”

    Sunday.

    There was just about a week left before the start of the event.

    After finishing all my preparations which included the dangling meat fern flower net, I headed to the depths of the 3rd floor for my revenge match against Venomulard.

    “Now then…”

    In the far end of the 3rd floor… I spotted him.

    Venomulard, the『Leader Of The Poison Rats』was in his improvised bed, which looked to be thrown together using dangling meat fern flower vines and he was scarfing down a bloomed dangling meat fern flower.

    To be honest, I didn’t really have to go out of my way to defeat Venomulard like this.

    As a matter of fact, depending on how the dungeon works, there might even be a possibility that he shouldn’t be taken down.

    Something that accumulated and contained the curse was supposedly somewhere within this ordinary concrete building and I’m not entirely too sure what it was exactly, but it was likely what made this dungeon a dungeon in this first place.

    So, if Venomulard ends up severely injured in this upcoming fight and the dungeon starts to tremor, I guess I should fall back at that point.

    Although… looking at the broken cage on the 3rd floor, I have a hard time believing that Venomulard becoming a monster was the trigger for the dungeon appearing. Rather, it seems more like the dungeon called, the『Tower of Mice』manifested and in turn, caused Venomulard to transform into the monster that he is. Which means, it was probably okay for me to defeat Venomulard.

    “CHARGE!”

    “CHUU!”

    “Mmu!?”

    I leaped out from behind the corner and boldly flew towards Venomulard.

    “You flying insect!”

    In response, Venomulard tosses the dangling meat fern flower away and opens his mouth towards me, unleashing a salvo of venom.

    It was an attack that clearly showed his intentions on not allowing me to get any closer.

    “Hmph!”

    “What!?”

    However, before the venom could explode, I caught it with the poison receiving bag and stored it away, rendering it irrelevant.

    I held my poison receiving bag at the ready and conversely, I even sped up to quell the poison.

    “Sei!”

    “As if that’ll work!”

    Then, while I was pulling out my rat flail, I further accelerated my flight.

    I twisted in addition to give the flail some more momentum and tried to slam it against Venomulard’s head, but he accurately stopped the blow with his arm, preventing my attack.