Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 5 by Fujino Omori

across the chest when it was too slow to respond to her advance. She sliced another in half with one of her blades, her momentum taking her through a third rabbit monster. All three of the beasts fell in less than a second.
    The monsters’ net formation was pointless. They weren’t fast enough to protect themselves against the hooded adventurer, her cape swirling with each precise movement. Hellhounds jumped for her suddenly exposed back, saliva flying from their bared fangs. However, the hooded female spun like a top and hit their jaws from beneath with her wooden sword. The devil dogs were launched backward, their muzzles completely shattered.
    “
KYUAA!
”
    Two more Al-Miraj jumped into the fray. Squealing with all their might, both of them were armed with stone tomahawks, this floor’s landform weapon.
    The hooded adventurer saw the weapons as they were thrown straight at her. She deflected one with a quick whirl of her woodensword—and caught the second with her bare hand. She spun again and released it without any hesitation.
    The monstrous rabbit’s red eyes went wide just before it took the tomahawk to the face. The sheer force of the blow launched it straight backward.
    The remaining Al-Miraj stood in shock at the sudden disappearance of its ally before a dark shadow descended over it. The creature looked up just in time to see a wooden sword coming right for its face. “
KYU?!
” came its last squeak as its eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. The Al-Miraj fell silent.
    “S-so strong…”
    “To take on so many of them alone like that.”
    “W-whoa…”
    Takemikazuchi Familia
’s Mikoto, Ouka, and Chigusa watched the battle unfold before them with bewildered eyes. They might have had different ways of expressing it, but all of them were shocked by the dominant display of strength and skill.
    The search party had reached the thirteenth floor.
    They had made it all the way through the upper levels in a few short hours in their quest to save Bell and had now reached the middle levels. Their pace was much faster than anyone had anticipated.
    This was all thanks to the mysterious hooded adventurer.
    She was eliminating monsters on her own before anyone else had a chance to act. Once known by the title “Gale Wind,” the female adventurer was on a level far beyond that of Mikoto and the others—Level 4, to be exact.
    Even Hermes’s ace Asfi watched in awe as the hooded adventurer blazed a trail with unparalleled speed and strength through the upper levels, slaying more monsters in the process than she cared to count.
    “
OOUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!
”
    The sound of something rolling at high speed, accompanied by a low roar, reached them. Sure enough, one armadillo monster, a Hard Armored, appeared farther down the tunnel.
    Completely unfazed by the wrecking ball rolling her way, the hooded adventurer withdrew one of her small blades. She charged ithead-on, blade sticking from the bottom of her hand. Edging out of its path at the last moment, she brought the blade straight through its body on her way by.
    The monster’s body kept spinning as it fell apart.
    The massive rotating flesh hit a rock in the floor, sending four distinct chunks into the air to land at a stunned Mikoto’s feet.
    “Well, I won’t complain about this being too easy. There shouldn’t be a problem even in the middle levels as long as she’s taking the point position…Would you look at that?”
    Asfi had been enjoying the show at the front of their ranks when suddenly a few monsters emerging from the wall behind them caught her attention.
Takemikazuchi Familia
also sensed the danger and immediately moved to protect Hestia and Hermes.
    “Excuse me, step this way.”
    “Eh?”
    Ignoring the two hellhounds for the moment, Asfi grabbed Chigusa’s shoulder and pulled her back.
    Suddenly the ground beneath where Chigusa had been standing swelled and shifted as if a mole were tunneling underneath.
    Asfi swirled her white cloak to the