Painful loss

Iris snapped back to attention when she heard me calling to her.

Though there was a look on her face that seemed like she had questions for me, she put aside those questions for now as she raised her sword and gathered the lightning from her familiar.

It seemed like she was going to use a final attack.

The Kong Gorilla was an intelligent Elite Monster, so naturally it was able to tell that Iris was charging up some kind of final attack.

It knew that it had to get out of here before she finished charging that final attack or else it might be the end of it.

The only problem was that Iris wasn't the only threat to it.

No matter how the Kong Gorilla tried pulling away, it found that it wasn't able to break free of the grasp of the other human that was holding it in place. It seemed that no matter how much strength it used, it just wasn't enough.

Just what was this human that had this kind of strength?

The Kong Gorilla could tell that its death was near, which was why it became more desperate.

The look in its eyes became even more feral and it seemed like the red to its fur was increasing in intensity. It seemed that it was becoming more and more wild with the way that it was slowly changing.

It seemed that the Kong Gorilla was about to burn all of its life essence in a last ditch effort to escape.

But what it didn't know was that this was what I had been waiting for.

I had already tested it before on the King Slime, but there was a certain amount of resistance to the Echo Bat's hypnosis the higher the grade of the monster. A Boss Monster would have a high resistance while an Elite Monster would have a small resistance to the hypnosis.

Unless it was weakened, it wouldn't fall for the effects.

Now that the Kong Gorilla was willingly weakening its mind by using this final buff to increase its strength, that also meant that…

The Kong Gorilla suddenly stopped moving as if it was frozen in place.

Its eyes trembled the moment that this happened, showing that this wasn't something that the Kong Gorilla was in control of. It was something that had suddenly happened which had completely caught the Kong Gorilla off guard.

In fact, the Kong Gorilla had a trace of fear in its eyes.

It recognized that if it couldn't move, the only thing that it could wait for was death.

And naturally, it was afraid of death.

The Kong Gorilla looked around even though it was frozen, as if it was trying to find the thing that was freezing it in place. It was desperately searching for a way to break free of this restriction so that it could do anything.

But there was more and more fear and despair that filled its eyes as it realized that there was nothing that it could do.

No matter how hard it tried searching for the thing that froze it, it wasn't able to find a single thing.

It was as if this thing was completely hidden in sight.

"Get down!" Iris suddenly shouted when her sword was covered in electricity. 

She had finished charging her attack and it seemed like she was ready to release it.

The moment that I heard this, I lowered my head and leaned in a bit, pulling the Kong Gorilla forward. This put it in the perfect position so that she would be able to cut off its head in a single slash.

"Thunderclap Slash!" Iris shouted as she swung her sword out, creating a beam of light.

Though it looked like a beam of light, it wasn't actually that.

It was a sword slash that consisted of pure electricity that flew out when she slashed out in front of her.

The Kong Gorilla only had a look of despair in its eyes as it realized that there was nothing left for it to do.

The only thing that it could do was accept its fate, accept its death.

But how could it be willing to accept something like that?

The last thing that the Kong Gorilla saw wasn't the slash that cut off its head, but rather a smile.

When the Kong Gorilla looked down at the human who was restraining it, it found that there was a smile on the face of that human.

"It was you!" The Kong Gorilla shouted as its last words, it was just that the only thing that it actually said was…

"Ook!"

Naturally the humans weren't able to understand this, so Iris had no idea what the Kong Gorilla was talking about.

The Kong Gorilla's head was taken off by this electric slash from Iris and flipped twice in the air before landing on the ground. This head rolled a bit before coming to a stop.

The eyes of the Kong Gorilla were wide open like it couldn't accept the situation that it had fallen in.

But there was nothing that the Kong Gorilla could do.

After the head flew off, I let go of the Kong Gorilla's hand and released the hypnosis, causing the Kong Gorilla's body to fall to the ground with a large thud.

This was the corpse of an Elite Monster, so there was no doubt that there would be great loot to get from this corpse. The only thing was that I wasn't able to obtain this loot.

When I made that deal with Iris, I had promised that I would give her the corpse as a trophy to show her parents.

So I could only watch with regret as the dungeon's loot system turned the corpse of the Kong Gorilla into drop, which was the corpse of the Kong Gorilla since that was what this dungeon dropped.

My heart couldn't help twisting from the suffering that came from this painful loss.

If only I had been able to have the Scavenger Rabbit use its ability on the Kong Gorilla…