Chapter 334: The Constellation Auction (1)
Right after cutting down a Constellation, my mind wandered for a moment. I wasn’t sure if this was the right moment for this, but who cared? I had the right to do whatever I wanted.
Long, long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, a cigarette business apparently thrived[1]. Anyway, back then, every stationery store had a one-hundred-won gacha machine. At that time, these gacha machines were all the rage among children. Of course, I wasn’t even born at the time, so I knew little about the gacha craze from the past.
However, I did have a perfectly reasonable suspicion that the older generations had remained obsessed with those gacha machines. That was probably why, after some time had passed and the dinosaurs had finally gone extinct, they started playing gacha games on their phones. Why was I suddenly talking about gacha machines? Of course, I had a perfectly reasonable reason.
[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye’s existence has weakened.]
“Kieeeeeek!”
The moment I cut down the giant snake, a very small snake, as tiny as a worm, slithered out from inside the giant snake’s body with an actual pop. At that very moment, I was reminded of the contents of gacha capsules that popped out when the capsules were opened. Why was I reminded of this? No reason.
[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye has appeared.]
The snake that crawled out of the serpent’s corpse was small enough to fit in my palm. I felt bad for continuing to compare them to a worm, but they looked like they would get bullied by a slightly larger worm. However, their scales resembled the waves of the ocean. Their eyes, with the colors of the sclerae and pupils reversed compared to a human’s, glowed vividly.
In the end, I reached a reasonable conclusion and asked, “Umm... Is this your true form, Hishimit Kritz?”
“Kieeeeee—!” the worm-sized snake cried sadly.
[The Labyrinth-Dwelling Eye cannot help but cry in indignation.]
The snake bent down, repeatedly hitting my palm with their snout. It seemed they were trying to express their indignation with their utmost might. If I had been the only one witnessing this scene, I probably would have felt a touch of pity. However, sitting on my neck was a fox born with the innate ability to aggro the Constellations.