"Hey...what's with the weird music
?" asks Morrigan.
Kashiwa listens intently, and her ears pick up an intense tune with trumpets and violins playing in the distance.
"I think we're about to fight a boss," says Kashiwa.
"Stay on your guard, everyone!" says Steve.
The party descends into battle, as usual. They are met by four unarmed carrot monsters, which they dispatch easily.
"Hey!" says Io, noticing one of the carrots carrying a rock over its head. "That one's got the key!"
Io pulls out a UFO and uses it on the rock, wresting it from the carrot's hands. Astral destroys it, revealing a path leading to an open field with more mercenaries. They are dispatched, opening the way to a hill with a raider hut on top. A samurai carrying an axe comes out and stares them down.
"The name's Redonis," he bellows. "I rule this underworld. If you punks want to take it over, you'll have to go through me!"
"All right," says Steve, flashing a Twinkle Smile toward him.
Redonis stomps and growls. "No! That's not how it works! You're supposed to lay down your arms and surrender! Grrgh...fine. Men! After them! If any one of those louts leave this rock alive, I'm putting it on your heads!"
Redonis' pumpkinhead mooks don't listen, wandering off in random directions.
"Forget about the pumpkin men!" says Zetta. "They're worthless! Go after their leader!"
Steve holds up his sword and points it towards Redonis, who is running toward the group at full speed. "This one's mine."
"Hold on, there," says Meredith. "Don't think you're going to get this one all by yourself. You've got backup, you know."
Against Zetta's better judgment, they go after the pumpkin men first. Redonis strikes and cleaves Morrigan, killing her off in one hit, but with his own back exposed, Steve delivers the finishing blow.
"Cowards..." Redonis says as he slumps to the ground, dead.
Zetta congratulates the team on a successful conquest, and points out that they'll be doing his battles for him. Pram, who was watching the whole battle from above, is impressed by Zetta's ruthlessness.
One Netherworld captured, seven more to go!
