The place was in total silence, Saemi probably didn't know what to say, it's not like I could say anything to comfort her either, all I said was the truth, Saemi and I just sat there staring at the light coming from the fire, neither of us dared to say anything, it was at this moment that I realized that there was something moving behind Saemi, I thought it might be the wind so I had ignored it before, but when I looked closer there was something totally black behind Saemi, it was certainly not human, i stood up abruptly leaving Saemi surprised, without a second thought I moved quickly towards Saemi as what was behind her lowered something that appeared to be a black sword towards Saemi.

"Fast Step"

As soon as I said that I moved at an impressive speed towards Saemi, I quickly picked her up and pulled her away from the direction of the scythe arm.

"W-What are you doing, get off me"

Shouted Saemi as she tried to kick me.

"At least thank me for saving your life"

I said grumpily getting off Saemi soon after.

"What do you mean?"

Saemi said showing a confused face.

"Look"

I pointed at the humanoid creature made of shadow, as soon as Saemi moved her gaze to where I was pointing her gaze became surprised changing to amazed soon after, she probably realized that if I hadn't pushed her, she would now be broken in half, Saemi looked at me with a remorseful expression on her face.

"I'm sorry, I... I thought you were going to..."

"It's okay, you're pretty, so it's normal to think that way"

I interrupted Saemi saying this to her, hearing my words Saemi's face flushed as she said something softly that unfortunately I couldn't hear.

"Shinji never said that to me"

"What, you said something?"

Saemi was startled when I asked her that but she soon answered me in her usual way.

"I-It's nothing, let's focus on this thing first"

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Saemi said turning her gaze to the humanoid monster made of shadow, it was slowly moving towards us, looking this way it didn't seem to be that fast, at least that's what I thought, as soon as I thought about how slow this thing was it suddenly disappeared, suddenly I sensed danger behind me, without a second thought I rolled to the side dodging by a thread the shadow monster's sword arm.

"W-What the hell is that thing?"

Saemi said in horror, her legs were shaking showing how scared she was.

"Oh, that's a very rare monster to find at first level"

While thinking about how to defeat this thing Aurora-sama started talking in my head, but instead of comforting me her words made me even more anxious.

"What do you mean Aurora-sama?"

I asked hoping to figure out some way to defeat this monster.

"These monsters are called night hunters, they are basically made of shadow and only appear at night, usually they only appear from floor 5 down, so it's strange that they appear on floor 1"

"Does that mean we can't defeat them the way we are now?"

As soon as I asked that for some reason Aurora-sama gave a little smile as if she was finding our situation funny.

"Fufufu, not exactly, they have a very obvious weak point, the body you are seeing now is just a projection of his main body, do you see the shadow he is making? that is his main body, if you hit that point you will be able to inflict some damage on him, I would say that the only problem is that you don't have the weapons for that, I doubt that your knife will be able to pierce him enough to cause any damage, what we are left with is the magic of that friend of yours, I would say that you are lucky to have found him now, the place where they normally stay is totally devoid of light, it is extremely difficult to find their real bodies”

After hearing Aurora-sama's explanation I looked at the foot of the shadow, just as Aurora-sama had said it was actually casting a shadow, which honestly, I find weird, I mean, and a shadow that has a shadow, putting that thought out of my head I move quickly to Saemi using quick step and shoot her away from the monster.

"Saemi, are you okay?"

Saemi looks at me startled but is soon reassured when she realizes that it was me who was holding her.

"I am, sorry for getting in your way again, even more so since you were just trying to save me"

Saemi said, she looked at me in a way that at that very moment I felt I might lose control of myself, she was extremely cute, extremely fragile, I feel she would break with the slightest of touches.

(Oops, that was dangerous, I almost let out a weird smile at that)

I took a deep breath getting these thoughts out of my head and turned my attention back to the monster.

"Forget about that for now, we need a way to defeat that thing, its weak point and the shadow it is projecting on the ground, do you think you can hit it?"

"What? How do you know that's its weak point?"

"Just trust me"

Saemi was a little thoughtful but soon nodded, I wanted to explain to her but now was not the time, the shadow monster was already approaching us, I still did not know how he had managed to move so fast at that time, if I was not careful, we both could die.

"I'll distract it, use that time to try to hit the shadow of this thing"

"Alright, I'll try"

Saemi said, you could tell she wasn't confident, but I didn't think I could do anything with my knife, this thing moves faster than it looks, I doubt I have enough reflexes to be able to hit it, with that in mind I decide to start the plan.