Shiori obtained the key to the captain’s cabin, which she could now enter after defeating the "Parasitic Captain."

Having obtained what she wanted, Shiori immediately retraced her steps.

She returned to the door leading to the deck area.

"Phew... Now, I wonder what will come out."

After taking a deep breath and composing herself, Shiori used the key she had obtained to open the door.

"Ah, kya...!? Ah, uh, mmm... where is this..."

The moment she opened it, Shiori’s body was forcibly pushed onto the deck along with the surrounding water.

Shiori let out a small shriek at the suddenness of it all, then immediately stood up and looked around.

"There’s no water here..."

The first major change that she noticed immediately was that this deck area was not flooded with seawater, and was instead a space where air had accumulated.

Therefore, the moment the door was opened, it seemed as if the seawater that had accumulated inside the ship swept over Shiori’s body and flowed out onto the deck. However, perhaps because there was still plenty of air trapped inside, or perhaps due to some game system effect, there was no sign of any more seawater seeping in from inside the ship.

Above...From the ceiling, she could see a dome-shaped rock face that completely covered the deck area of the ship.

Before entering the dungeon, this made Shiori understand that the giant rock that had crushed the ship was actually hollow inside.

"And then... that was..."

Having confirmed all of that, Shiori’s gaze shifted to the monster pressed against the ceiling.

The octopus there was enormous, far larger than the "Small Octopus" that had been inside the ship.

"King Octopus...!"

"Tooooo... Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

The displayed name was "King Octopus Lv45".

The moment Shiori called out its name, the "King Octopus" let out a roar and landed with a thud on the deck.

In terms of size, the round part of its head was about 10 meters in diameter.

On the other hand, the length of the eight raised legs was considerable, easily exceeding several tens of meters.

"It’s huge and high level... This looks like a tough opponent..."

"Oooooooh... Shut up"

The deck area measured approximately 70 meters long and 20 meters wide.

King Octopus landed right on the edge of that spot.

As she watched the deck floor break from the impact of its landing, and the deck planks that rose up to form a wall prevented her from getting close, Shiori prepared two items: an air gun and a normal rapier. She gripped the gun in her left hand and the rapier in her right.

"Until now, I only had rapiers and bows as weapons, so I couldn’t use them at the same time, but with a rapier and a gun, I can hold each in one hand, so I can use them simultaneously."

"Leaving aside the fact that it’s difficult to use underwater... in that case, you can easily handle both at the same time here, where there’s no water."

"Ultimately, you lose in order to be violated, so... but let’s at least take it seriously enough to figure out how to win..."

When she fought the "Parasitic Captain" earlier, as Shiori said this, recalling for a moment the time she used both a gun and a rapier at the same time, she quickly raised her weapon.

"Octo, oc... Octopaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

"...Hmph! Haa... Inhale... Haaah!"

As if responding to Shiori’s fighting spirit, the King Octopus let out a roar and began attacking by manipulating its legs.

First, Shiori dodged the attack, which was brought down as if to slam down from above, by jumping to the side. She then swung her rapier vertically to inflict a cut, and then followed up with a series of wind projectiles to deal additional damage.

Then, with the rapier still embedded, she began to advance, slashing its leg as she went.

"Topaaaa...! Oooooh, Topaaaaaa!!"

"Ah...! Hmph, hah...!"

The damage was apparently too significant to ignore.

King Octopus pulled its severed leg back toward itself, then launched another attack, sweeping across the deck with its other leg.

Shiori dodged the attack by jumping, and in the process, swung her rapier, inflicting cuts on the enemy.

"Topaaaahhh...! Octoooo...tooo, paaaaahhhh!!"

"What’s next... down there...?!"

In response to the attack, King Octopus let out an irritated cry and plunged one of its legs into the deck.

Then the entire deck began to shake violently...and at the same time that Shiori, sensing danger, jumped back, a leg shot out as if to burst through the deck.

"Thump, thump! Thump! Thump!"

"...Ah, a chance...! Ha, yeah! Phew, ’Slash’!"

Having been dodged, King Octopus began to try to regain its footing, but it got caught on a broken deck board and was unable to move.

Seeing him fumbling around, Shiori immediately rushed over and launched a series of slashing attacks...and then cut it off.

"Topaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Topa, Topaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

"Ah... My leg is gone...! That means..."

When King Octopus’s leg was cut off, he screamed and raised all of his remaining legs.

Because of that action, the leg that Shiori had just cut off did not grow back.

Only seven remained, and it became clear that the one that had just been cut off had somehow disappeared from the base... Shiori began to figure out how to win.

"The way to win here is to ’cut off all of their legs.’ I don’t know if that’s the end of it or if there’s more to it, but...that’s probably it."

"It might be a little difficult if you have to dodge attacks at the same time, but... I’m sure I’ll be able to do it after a few tries."

"Okay... then..."

To summarize her thoughts on how to beat King Octopus, Shiori turned her gaze forward.

"Octopaaaaa...! Oct, topaaaaaaaaa!!"

"...!"

There, she saw King Octopus preparing to launch an attack.

And when the attack came down again, Shiori... took no action to dodge at all.

"...Ahhh...!! Ugh, ahh, uhh...!"

"Topaaaa... Top, paaaaaaaa!"

As a result, Shiori took the full force of the downward attack and was blown away from the spot.

The damage from that single blow was considerable.

That single blow completely depleted Shiori’s strength.

"Eight, Topaaaaa! Topaaaaa!"

"Ah... uh... uh... ♡"

"Well, I wonder what’s going to happen...♡"

As her consciousness sank into darkness.

As Shiori listened to the roar of the King Octopus, her consciousness drifted into darkness.