Can someone in MyGo stay in an adventure group forever?

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The girl, wearing a black leather jacket, landed lightly, her black hair dancing wildly in the rising dust.

I am super.

Koshimura glanced at the figure standing atop the rubble of the fallen ceiling, looking down on everyone else with an air of superiority.

Hachiman Kairin?

Are you actually a monochromatic person?

The girl's long, strong fingers plucked the strings of the bass axe blade, and the phantom of a giant wolf instantly appeared behind her, its muscles bulging, its fangs sharp, its head raised proudly, letting out a deafening roar.

"Ouch——"

A bell descends from the sky, its sound filled with fury and rage!

Chapter Fifty-One: Heroic Tales

The setting sun was like blood, and the dim yellow light, like a spotlight on a stage, slanted down through the huge hole that had been smashed open in the ceiling, enveloping the figure of Hachiman Kairin standing high up, with scattered dust floating slowly in the beam of light.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment. The girl's black jacket gleamed matte in the setting sun, her knuckles were distinct as she gripped the bass axe blade, and her eyes, which usually showed little emotion, were now extremely cold, reflecting the twisted figure of the monster in the distance.

Just like a devil descending from the sky, he is really the Tai Sui God on earth.

But it's in chibi style.

Koshimura looked at the cartoon image of Hachiman Kairin, who was only three-headed and holding a proportionally shrunk bass axe blade with a serious expression.

Cute.

Just then, Hachiman Kairin suddenly raised her long, fair neck and opened her mouth slightly.

It uttered a soft call, devoid of emotion, as if it were a routine procedure.

"Ow~"

So you need to call out too?

Before she finished speaking, two fluffy, dark gray wolf ears suddenly popped out from her thick black hair and twitched slightly.

At the same time, a large, fluffy tail that looked incredibly soft swung out from behind her, swaying restlessly.

The next moment, Hachiman Kairin's aura changed instantly.

An invisible pressure emanated from the air, and her eyes instantly sharpened, even faintly glowing red.

Just looking at it... gives one the creeps and makes one's hair stand on end; it's extremely dangerous.

【Rage】

You fight with primal rage. You may enter Berserk mode during your turn with an additional action.

[During the Berserk period, as long as you are not wearing heavy armor, you will gain the following buffs:]

You have an advantage when making strength checks and strength saves.

[When you use your Strength stat to launch a melee weapon attack, you gain a damage bonus from rolling the dice. This bonus increases with your Barbarian level.]

You have resistance to blunt force, piercing, and slashing damage.

Characters with spellcasting abilities cannot cast spells or use Spell Focus during Berserk.

[Your Berserk state lasts for 1 minute. Berserk ends prematurely if you fall into a daze during its duration, or if you have not attacked any hostile creature or taken damage from the end of your previous turn to the end of this turn. You can also intentionally end your Berserk state during your turn with a bonus action.]

Your Berserk charges increase with your Barbarian level. If you run out of charges, you must take a long break before you can use Berserk again.

The Barbarian's signature trait: Berserk!

The monster trapped under the rubble finally stirred. Countless pale paper strips, like living tentacles, suddenly wrapped around the fallen ceiling fragments, quickly climbing and extending upwards with a fierce momentum, attacking Hachiman Kairin who was standing on high!

Just as the paper strip was about to touch her ankle, Hachiman Kairin moved.

She didn't even need to look down; relying solely on her keen intuition, she abruptly raised the heavy bess axe in her hand, her core tightening instantly as she gathered her strength—

Sweep!

A heavy whistling sound rang out.

An invisible wave of energy instantly spread out from the axe blade, drawing the overwhelming paper strips towards it. Like a surging white tide, the paper strips were involuntarily drawn towards the sharp axe blade, and finally, amidst a series of tearing sounds, they were cleanly cut in half.

Danger Sense

At Level 2, you gain an extraordinary ability to sense unusual situations in your surroundings, allowing you to escape danger before it occurs.

[Your Dexterity saving throw is advantageous when affected by effects you can see (such as traps and spells). You cannot benefit from this trait while blind, deaf, or disabled.]

For a girl in a berserk state with extremely sharp senses, hitting her with pure physical damage is no easy task.

Before the tattered paper strips could be reassembled, Hachiman Kairin stomped heavily on the ruins and leaped down from the fallen ceiling. She did a backflip in mid-air and landed next to Koshimura Sawa, creating a gentle breeze that ruffled his hair.

"【noise】?"

She raised her bass guitar, its edges gleaming coldly, and stared intently at the monster in the distance that was slowly rising and lifting the concrete slab that had been pressing down on her.

“Hmm.” Koshimura Sawa also held his sword horizontally in front of him and said quickly, “The ability is to amplify the negative emotions in a person’s heart and turn them into paper, so don’t look into its eyes, and try not to think about negative things.”

"I understand." Hachiman Kairin nodded. "What's the solution?"

"I do not know."

"?"

Hachiman Kairin's body visibly stiffened for a moment, then she turned her head and glanced at him with her red-glowing eyes.

"Takamatsu Yuji told me you know."

This is a must-have for raising Chinese hogs.

"How could I possibly know? I just got here myself," Koshimura said helplessly. "Besides, it looks like it's coming soon—"

The heavy bass axe blade, accompanied by a whistling sound, swept past him like a guillotine, severing the black, paper-like limbs that were attacking him like venomous snakes, and slamming them heavily to the ground.

Looking at the deep cracks at his feet, Koshimura Sawa subconsciously swallowed.

"There are only two ways to solve the [noise]: find the cause of its disorder and tune it by achieving an emotional resonance with it, so that the rhythm within it can return to normal." Hachiman Kairin flicked her wrist, retracting the heavy bass, and explained, "Or use your own more powerful melody to contain it, forcing it to resonate with you—in layman's terms, just beat it down."

So you mean going for the mechanics and bursting down enemies with sheer damage, right?

But judging from its appearance... it doesn't seem like it can be easily killed.

As the monster stumbled closer, frantically absorbing the surrounding papers to repair its body, Hachiman Kairin asked without turning her head, "Should I lead the attack, or...?"

"Okay." Koshimura Sawa quickly took a step back, shielding Hachiman Kairin in front of him and hiding behind her petite figure.

Unfortunately, because he was significantly taller than her, he didn't seem to provide any real cover.

"...?"

Hachiman Kairin's wolf ears twitched in confusion.

There's no way around it. If we don't let the Barbarian, who has full physical resistance to blunt, piercing, and slashing damage after Berserk is activated, take the hits, are we supposed to make me, a poor 12 AC sorcerer who can only rely on Shield to absorb damage, stand in the front row?

Furthermore, barbarians possess a trait specifically designed to enhance their survivability: [Unarmored Defense].

【Unarmored Defense｜Unarmored Defense】

[When not wearing any armor, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. Using a shield does not affect your benefit from this trait.]

While it's not very useful in role-playing games and is generally not as practical as wearing half-plate armor, in situations where no one can wear armor, the Barbarian and Monk's "Unarmored Defense" actually has a chance to shine.

“I am, after all, a spellcaster, and I still need to research how to solve the root cause of this noise,” said Koshimura Sawa, hiding behind her, with a self-righteous air.

"Hey, what about me!"

When Koshimura looked up, he saw Yutenji Wakana standing on the stairs, holding onto the railing, glaring at him with a displeased expression.

"What is this?" Hachiman Kairin asked, following his gaze.

“One of our own.” Koshimura Sawa said succinctly.

"Oh." Hachiman Kairin responded, then stopped asking questions, picked up her bass axe blade, her muscles tensed, and she charged forward like an arrow, actively rushing towards the monster that was already close at hand.

"So don't ignore me!" Yutenji Wakana said anxiously.

Who are you?

[Hey, is it because the Arknights collaboration merchandise is selling at the bottom, and the video I painstakingly made doesn't get as many views as Miss Meowth's casual roll?]

"Teacher Da Miao, didn't you run out of your potions?" Yuecun Ze leaped into the air and fired a [Silver Light Sharp Word] at the paper darts that were ready to be launched, instantly disrupting their lock-on and transferring the advantage to Hachiman Kairin, covering her charge, and asked without looking up.

"Who told you that? And even without the potion, I still have..."

As Yutenji Wakame spoke, he looked down.

In the innermost compartment of the handbag, there was an object with a sophisticated mechanical structure, shaped like a car key.

She hesitated for a moment, just as she was about to reach for the thing, when a deafening roar suddenly rang out not far away, causing the ground to shake violently.

Yutenji Wakana stared wide-eyed as she watched Hachiman Kairin nearly smash the monster into the ground with a bass guitar. She obediently withdrew her hand, pulled out a vial of [Flame Arrow] reagent, and precisely shattered it in mid-air with her drumstick.

The blazing rocket roared out and struck the monster's writhing paper body, igniting some of the paper with a crackling sound, but it quickly went out again.

These papers seem to have fire-resistant properties, and the fire damage is not as effective as the strong acid damage, but she has used up all of her [Acid Splash], so now she can only use whatever she can find.

"Wait, I've got it!" Koshimura's voice suddenly rang out from afar.

Yutenji Wakana turned his head and saw that he had fallen back to the ground at some point and was rubbing a piece of paper stained with blood with his fingers.

"what are you doing?"

Koshimura stopped what he was doing and looked at the white paper that he had rubbed into a ball of black ink, making the writing blurry.

"These words... seem to be able to be rubbed off."

He had vaguely noticed earlier that the edges of the writing on the paper, where his blood had stained, seemed to have become somewhat blurred.

I can't believe it actually wiped off!

He continued rubbing his hands, feeling like an unlucky student who forgot his eraser during an exam and only realized he had filled in the wrong multiple-choice questions when it was time to hand in his paper. He could only frantically rub the answer sheet and pray that he could correct his answers before the proctor took the paper away.

"No, its power is constantly increasing!" Under the intense impact, Hachiman Kairin was forced to take a step back, and traces of paper falling off the back of her hand had already begun to appear. In a brief moment of exhaustion, countless pale paper strips, like sharks smelling blood, instantly wrapped around her bass axe blade and spread towards her arm.

"Could that be the infamous jinx who wipes out every adventure party he takes...?"

"Hailin, save me..."

"They've just stayed a little too long, they don't actually think they're a member of our adventurer's group, do they?"

A cacophony of whispers seemed to echo in her mind.

Hachiman Kairin bit her tongue sharply, forcing herself to wake up. The muscles in her arms bulged, and she used brute force to break free of the paper strip binding her, leaping backward to escape.

[Noise] had completely recovered from the impact of being struck by the tree trunk on the ceiling. After reabsorbing all the scattered papers back into its body, its power suddenly increased by a level, putting Hachiman Kairin, who was originally able to suppress it, at a disadvantage.

"Are you alright?" Yuecun Ze asked hurriedly, looking at the rapidly spreading paper stains on her arm.

His hand was already on the temple of the "Children's Innocent Words" glasses, ready to put them on her immediately if things went wrong.

Anyway, I seem to have an unexpectedly high resistance to this kind of thing; it took me a long time to start using paper.

"It's alright, I should be able to hold on a little longer." Hachiman Kairin glanced expressionlessly at the paper about to slip from her arm, took a deep breath, and then... let out a sharp shout, "Wolf Spirit!"

When did the Eternal Hunters arrive?

The phantom of the black giant wolf reappeared behind her, gradually solidifying, and it raised its head, letting out a silent roar.

The paper-like parts of his arm seemed to be washed away by an invisible force, instantly returning to their original state.

The next second, the solidified wolf spirit phantom suddenly pounced out, turning into a cloud of black smoke. In an instant, it covered a distance of tens of meters, opened its huge mouth, and fiercely tore off a large wad of paper from the monster's pitch-black body.

The crumpled paper struggled violently in the wolf's kiss, then was annihilated by the violent energy.

How come your totem also has a physical form?

Are you a legitimate totem warrior?

"Are you done yet?" Beads of sweat the size of soybeans had appeared on Hachiman Kairin's forehead and began to roll down her fair cheeks.

"Does anyone have a pen?" Koshimura Sawa asked loudly.

I should have known better than to just toss my bag aside on the side of the road in my rush.

“I didn’t,” Yawata Kairin replied briefly.

Yutenji Wakana was stunned for a moment, then quickly reached into her bag and rummaged around for a while, pulled out something, and threw it at him forcefully.