Chapter 19 - The second floor

After our romp in the lake Saemi and I didn't know how to face each other, that had been both mine and Saemi's first time.

"Sorry about that, even if it was in the heat of the moment I should have held back too"

I said trying to cheer Saemi up, she had been looking a little sad for a while, I assumed it was because her first time was with me, hearing my words Saemi lets out a soft smile and waves her hands to the side.

"You don't have to apologize Makoto, and that... I always thought my first time would be with Shinji, but... it was really good"

Saemi said leaning her head against my chest, at Saemi's gesture I put my hand in her hair and started stroking it.

"Yeah, I felt good too"

Saemi and I stayed like this for a while before we went to sleep, the day had been quite tiring, but the important thing and that we had managed to defeat the boss, with that, Saemi and I would be able to go to the second floor, as soon as dawn broke Saemi and I were up and ready to go to the second floor, we didn't know what would be waiting for us but we decided that we would keep moving forward until we reached the top floor.

"Are you ready?"

I asked Saemi who was standing next to me, she looked at me and nodded.

(According to Aurora-sama I just need to think about going to the second floor)

Remembering what Aurora-sama told me earlier I close my eyes and think in my mind.

"M-Makoto?"

Saemi next to me calls my name with a hesitant voice, as soon as I opened my eyes, I noticed that we were inside a blue circle, although Aurora-sama didn't tell me that this would happen I quickly assumed that this had something to do with the teleportation.

"Don't worry, this is a teleportation circle... probably"

After my words Saemi looked at me with eyes that said she was not believing what I was saying.

"Now I'm even more worried"

Those were the last words I heard from Saemi before the blue light completely enveloped us, as soon as I opened my eyes the first thing, I saw were trees, but they were not the same trees I saw on the first floor, they were trees you would normally see in swamps, feeling a wet feeling in my feet I look down and see that the place we are in is surrounded by water, looking around only one way comes into my mind to describe where we are.

"A swamp?"

Says Saemi next to me, she was totally right, the place was a swamp surrounded by trees and water, it seemed to be a pretty uncomfortable place to walk.

"Anyway, let's have a look around and then go back to the first floor"

When I said that Saemi looked at me in surprise not understanding what I meant.

"What?"

I asked confusedly to Saemi.

"Can we go back?"

Saemi asked with a clear doubt in her voice, with that I remembered that I had not told Saemi what Aurora-sama had told me.

"Well, yes, my goddess told me that we can switch between floors"

Hearing my words Saemi's face instantly lit up.

"Good, I thought we would have to stay in this swamp until we beat the boss to get to the 3rd floor.

I let out a wry smile at Saemi's comment, to tell you the truth I was thinking the same thing she was, I mean, who would want to sleep in a swamp, let alone a swamp with unknown monsters.

"Makoto, I see a blue stream behind that tree"

While I was thinking about it Saemi suddenly pointed to a tree that was relatively close to us, as soon as I looked at the top of the tree, I found nothing, but since it was Saemi who was saying it, I decided to keep looking, and after a few seconds a giant insect moved from the tree, it was a dragonfly, its size was probably that of a 10-year-old child, in short, it was huge, i stood in attack position but was soon stopped by Saemi.

"Don't worry, the blue stream inside her is calm, she probably doesn't want to fight"

Saemi said, i really didn't understand what she meant by that but I still decided to do as she said, and in a few seconds the giant dragonfly spread its wings and flew to another part of the swamp.

"You're right, thanks for warning me, we'd better avoid fights when we can.

Hearing my words Saemi's cheeks turned a little red and she cracked a big smile, after that Saemi and I started walking through the swamp, we both didn't have a clear path to follow, we didn't even know where the boss area was to begin with, all we could do was walk, while we were walking, we both strangely didn't see any monsters, although we casually heard noises no monsters appeared, I don't know if I can call it luck or bad luck, as my skill needs monsters, I think it would be good if some appeared.

"Makoto, look"

While I was lost in thought Saemi pointed somewhere in front of us, as soon as I looked where she had pointed, I saw that there was another dragonfly, but unlike the other one this one was looking directly at us, I was sure that this time it was seeing us as prey, the dragonfly quickly took off and came in a swoop toward us.

"Attack?"

I asked Saemi.

"Attack"

Saemi confirmed.

"Body armor"

After saying this I felt my skin harden, without wasting any time I stepped in front of Saemi, the dragonfly flew with everything in my direction, as soon as it collided with me it fell dizzily on the ground, this was the perfect time to finish it off.

"Dark manipulation"

Saying this I cut off the dragonfly's head with my sword made of shadows, using my gluttony skill on the dragonfly I gained a skill that would surely be extremely useful to me in the future.

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE ACQUIRED THE SKILL (WEAK SPOT VISUALIZATION)