Only My Dungeon Equipment Levels Up! (SSS-Rank Weapons)

◇ Reina’s Past

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“If you put this on, Reina will become stronger.”

“It means you can do anything to protect Reina, Mama, and Papa.”

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As if recalling something, Reina equipped the gauntlet she was holding.

With her own will, to protect her family.

“Please, help me!”

She felt as if something would protect her if she wore this gauntlet.

Immediately, Reina began to shine.

Light danced around the girl, a light that even felt divine.

As if blessing the young girl’s courageous act to protect her family.

Then an announcement informed Reina.

“Occupation: Hero has manifested. Due to the effect of the brave, all stats are increased by +1000.”

Awakened hero Reina.

Her power was too strong for a 5-year-old girl.

A hero with power that could reach even a top-level explorer in a world with no equipment.

“Uwaaaaaah!!!”

And the girl ran out without understanding what was happening.

Desperately moving her confused mind, still just beginning to develop self-awareness, to protect her father and mother from that man.

She has to protect them from him. She has to defeat him.

She has to…

Kill him.

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In front of the girl was the man, covered in blood and lying down.

He was already dead, unrecognizable.

His life was extinguished by the girl’s fists, which kept hitting with all her strength.

The girl, absorbed in her actions, could not stop.

As if having lost her heart, she continued mindlessly.

The girl was ruled by fear.

She continued to hit, thinking she had to defeat him, had to defeat him.

However, this power also hurt Reina herself; blood spurted from her fists, and bones began to show.

The young girl had neither the mind nor the body to control that power.

Reina ended up injuring herself with her own power.

But the girl did not stop.

In a state of rampage, she could not understand what she was doing.

She could not stop herself, did not know how to stop.

But a light shone into the deep darkness the girl was wandering through.

She felt as if she was being embraced by someone.

By those gentle hands that always held her kindly, she felt gently embraced.

Warm… This comforting feeling must be…

“Papa? Mama?”

Then the girl regained consciousness.

Embraced by her parents, the girl regained consciousness.

Feeling the usual warmth, she remembered what she had been doing.

But immediately after, the sight she saw, the sensation she felt in her hands, made her head go blank.

Because her hands were piercing through her mother’s body…

“No… Noooo!!”

Reina had unconsciously attacked the two who tried to stop her rampaging self.

She must have attacked her father too, as he was lying beside her.

The girl ran to her father and mother.

Though they were bleeding, they were not dead yet.

They had lost consciousness, but they were not dead yet.

Because they were still warm.

And the girl touched her mother to stop the bleeding.

With that overwhelming power she still could not control.

A 5-year-old girl touched with a monstrous power she could not control.

“No, why! No! Mama!”

The wounds she tried to stop only widened further.

What she tried to suppress only spread the wounds more, and the bleeding did not stop.

The girl, confused, sought help from her father, but he had also lost consciousness.

An adult might have calmly called an ambulance.

But asking a 5-year-old girl to make that judgment while her parents were dying is far too cruel.

The girl repeatedly tried to close the wound with her hands.

She did not understand at that time that this only worsened the results.

“No, no, nooo!! Papa! Mama! Wake up!”

She shouted repeatedly to deny the results.

But the power allowed to her was uncontrollable destructive power, which she could not manage as a young child.

Blood would not stop, contrary to Reina’s efforts.

No matter how much she shouted, no matter how much she wished, Reina’s words did not reach.

“Ah… Ah… Aaaaah!!”

While feeling her parents getting colder and colder with her hands.

And covered in her parents’ blood, the girl lost her self-awareness, her heart shattered, and she lost consciousness.

On the holy night, only the sound of sirens echoed in the silver world.

In a bloodstained Christmas, only one girl waited for salvation in the darkness.

Forever…

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“I… I just wanted to save them!”

Crying in Kenya’s chest, the girl continued to cry out, sobbing.

“Mama and Papa… surely hate me. I! I took them away! I killed Papa and Mama!!”

Kenya embraced her.

The only thing the boy, who could only offer ordinary words, could do was to accept her.

He could not offer courage to a girl who lost her parents with just words.

Although he should not be the cause, he could not even imagine how much the girl was hurt by taking her parents’ lives in the end with her own power.

So he embraced her, at least to show she was not alone.

The girl cried.

For a while, in the boy’s chest.

The boy denied it.

He believed the parents surely did not hate her.

But that was merely the wish of two people who wanted to believe so.

No one could hear the voices of the dead.

No one could prove that Reina’s parents did not hate her.

Except for Reina’s parents…

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Tanaka: “It’s a letter to the future. When she faces the past again… I hope you can listen together if possible.”

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