261話 遠吠えと共に駆ける
「ヒャッハー! うちの団長にかかっちゃ、【狩人の
さん! 頑張ってくれええ!」
シェリーが負けじと声を張っても、圧倒的多数の言葉にすぐかき消されてしまう。
「シンをさっさとやっちまえ! 何がPvP最強の
「見ろ! レッドさんの召喚獣に手も足も出てないぞ!」
「逃げ回ってばかりじゃないか! みっともねーな!」
「どうしたどうしたー!?」
】も大した事ないんじゃないか?」
外野が騒ぎ立てる歓声より、私の心に響いたのは――
「はぁ......やっぱり最強ほど、つまらないものはない......」
退屈そうな呟きが耳をかすめ、わずかばかりの悔しい気持ちが胸中に沸く。
声主はもちろん、暇を弄んでいる【レッド】という
私の刃を阻む壁が、障害として立ちはだかる召喚獣が強大すぎるのよね......。
レッドが召喚した白獅子は超強力な攻防一体型の獣。図体が大きいから攻撃力が尋常じゃないのは頷ける。それに加えて敏捷性も高く、私のスピードに易々とついてくるのにはウンザリ。おまけにその体毛がひどく頑丈で物理防御はもちろんのこと、高い魔法防御力も備わっているなんて......。
そんな巨体を素直に接近させないためにも、魔力の帯びた中距離魔剣アビリティを発動。白獅子の頭部、特に目を狙って牽制しても、大したダメージはないかのように猛進してくる。
白獅子の大きな腕が迫りくるなか、私は素早く地面に転がりかわす。すれ違いざまには回転を加えた双剣術を二撃おみまいすることを忘れない。
続けて相手の懐、横っ腹をすりぬけては二撃、三撃、四撃と手数を重ねてはいるけれど、まるで手ごたえが感じられないわ。
頼みの綱でもあった私の称号、【
一度でも組み伏せられたら、瞬く間にHPは全損してしまうはず。
そんな緊張感を持って私は目の前の白獅子と相対しているのに、レッドときたら呑気な様子で大きな溜息を吐き、相変わらず小さな瓦礫をポンポンしてる。一向にダメージが蓄積されない白獅子に相まって、レッドにも多少の苛立ちを覚えるわ。
最強って、あなた自身は戦わないのね、レッド」
召喚獣ばかりではなく、本人が前に出てきて戦え。召喚士からしたら召喚獣も自身の実力の内だろうし、お門違いの文句だとわかっていても、不満混じりの安い挑発をこぼしてしまう。
嫌味のつもりで放った言葉に、彼女は表情を一切動かさずに持っていた瓦礫を大きく振り被った。
「じゃあ、......『モンスター・ボール』......」
豪速球、その一言に尽きるスピードで瓦礫は私の
スキルのッッ上位アビリティ!?」
私の疑問に答えることなく、彼女は手近な石コロを拾っては独り言を吐く。
手にした石を彼女が見つめている事から、次にまた投擲がくることを悟る。
「......『スーパー・ボール』......」
次こそは避ける、そう意気込んでみるも、予想と違ってレッドが投げた石コロは地面に激突した。
先程よりも早く、重く、鋭い一撃が私の腹部を
その名の通り、スーパーボールみたいに地面からバウンドしては私にクリーンヒットしたのだわ。
そう気付いた時には遅く、クの字に曲がった私の身体は白獅子の爪に切り裂かれてしまう。
次の投擲物を見定め、地面に伏す私を見下ろしたレッドは至極残念そうに大きな溜息をついた。
細身の少女が1メートル大の
完全に私の負けね。
未知の幻獣召喚には手も足も出ず、既知の投擲スキルですらあんな風に進化するなんて思いもよらなかったわ。
そう、このゲームに関して知らない事は山ほどある。だからこそ、【感染都市サナトリウム】の支配権が他の
「それだったら、ボクら【ツキノテア六賢徒】だって!」
「【クラン・クラン研究会】もだぞ!」
「んなのはどうでもいいから、さっさとシンをキルしちまえ――――ッッ!?」
盛り上がりが最高潮に達したかに思えた、その時。
膨張し切った傲慢と熱を切り裂くようにして、冷めきった、冷酷な音が響いた。
『ウォォォォォォォオオオオオオン!』
それによって、周囲の熱気に流された馬鹿どもの意気が急速に萎んでいく。
「おいおい、なんだよこの声」
「なんだ!? どっからだ!?」
「これって......狼、たちの......?」
狼の遠吠えがそこかしこから聞こえ始める。
私へトドメをさそうとするレッドの手も止まり、辺りをゆっくりと見回す。これはチャンスと思い、すぐにこの場を離脱しようとしたけれど、私の背には重い何かがのしかかる。首を捻って見上げれば、白獅子がご主人様の命令を待つようにして、私が身動きを取れぬように爪を立てずに抑えつけきたのだ。
『アオォォォォォォォォオオオン!』
『アオォォォオン!』
『ゥゥォォォォォォォォォン』
不気味に響く狼の遠吠えは、すぐ傍から聞こえたり、遠くからのものもある。いや、これは入り組んだ街並みが【
そんな猜疑心が生まれる程に、不安を煽るような遠吠えの数だった。
いつまでも続くかのような遠吠えは、次の瞬間ピタリと止んだ。
この声は、間違いなく太郎のものだ。
そうとわかれば、ふっと笑いが込み上げてしまう。
『俺の姉をよくも......覚悟はできてるよな』
まったく嬉しい事を言ってくれる。
あとで太郎の大好きなアイス、ハーゲハゲンダッツを奢ってあげようかしら。
それにしてもどこから、どうやってこの声を私達に届けているのか。
周囲の傭兵たちも、しどろもどろになりながらキョロキョロと辺りを見回している。
【首狩る酔狂共】を追い詰めた? 違うだろ? ただ、卑怯で弱い奴らが集団リンチをしようとしただけでしょ』
太郎の詰問口調へ反発するように、一人の
「あそこだ! 何らかの意思伝達スキルを使用してるぞ!」
彼が指を差せば、一同が揃ってそちらに顔を向ける。私も例外ではない。
教会の尖塔、一段と高い場所から私達を見下ろすようにしていたのは全部で7人ぽっち。数こそ少ないものの、圧倒的な異彩を放っていた。それは一見して姉妹に見える私の愛しい弟と妹のせいだ。二人は銀の髪をなびかせ、レッドを一心不乱に睨んでいる。
あの怒りに燃える眼差しは、家族に危害を加える者には容赦しないと物語っているわね。
ここからいくら距離があっても、姉である私には二人の気持ちが理解でき――――あれは何だ?
なぜ愛しの家族の背後に、屈強な筋肉を見せつけるようにして上裸の男が5人も立っている?
何が問題って、あんな変態たちが傍にいるのがさも当然だと受け入れてる太郎とミシェルよ!
あんな子に育てた覚えはありません!
「俺達の脳内に直接、メッセージを送信してるわけか!? なんてアビリティだこりゃ!」
「PTメンバーでもないのに、フレンドでもないのに、こんな事ができるスキルなんてあったのか!」
「なぁ、あの子って『始まりの街の天使様』じゃないか......?」
今、そんな事はどうでもいいのよ!
それより問題なのは、私の大事で無垢で純粋な弟と妹を穢す、筋肉ひけらかしマッチョメンズでしょ!
「......んん、あの子は......目立って......知ったかぶりの面白い、可愛い子ちゃん?」
レッドまでもが太郎の事を知ってるなんて、さすが私の弟。って、ちょっと浮かれてる場合じゃないわ。家族の背後に付きまとう汚物を私の代わりに除去してくれるのなら、一時的にレッドを応援するのもやぶさかではないわ。
そんな私の悶々とした心境など構わずに、太郎は喋り続けた。ピッタリと背後霊のようなマッチョメン達がいるにも拘わらず!
『しかも、お前たちがしようとしたリンチ。結局は返り討ちに遭うんだから、かっこ悪いなぁ』
颯爽と教会の尖塔より降り立った太郎たちに、周囲はどよめく。
「あの高さを......どうやって、落下ダメージは......?」
私の心臓もどよめくしかないわ。
アレは間違いなく、太郎がムキムキ共を従えてるわね。何せマッチョ達は太郎の一挙手一投足に、意識を傾けているように思えるわ。
あぁ、変な趣味に目覚めたりしてないわよね?
あなたは綺麗で純真な心の持ち主なのよ。それが、あんな
「他に何人、潜んでる!?」
「俺らみたいな大規模連合を相手に、個人パーティーで挑む馬鹿がいるかよ」
太郎たちが、少人数でありながら正面から突っ込んでくるとは誰も思ってはいない。
私もそうであってほしいのだけれど、太郎が新しい世界に目覚めたのか目覚めてないのかが気になって仕方ないわ。
まぁそれはそれとして、私の弟が何の策もなしに無謀な行動に出るなんて事はないはずよ。
ましてや数で劣る太郎が、正面から突っ込むなんてありえない。
姉である私だからこそわかる。あの太郎なら、あれはデモンストレーションか囮に違いない。きっと大勢力を密かに集結させて、私を助けに来たに違いないわ。
胸の内の疑問が現実となるか、否か。弟たちを観察していれば、そのまま真っ向から歩み、そして勇み足へと変わり――――ついには走りだし、150人以上の
冗談だと思いたいのだけれど、愚弟と愚妹はたった7人で戦いを仕掛けるようだった。
しかも仲間の5人はマッチョヘンタイズ。
「......シンさんの妹さんって、変わってるね。姉も姉なら、妹さんも無謀なのか」
レッドが失笑するのも仕方ないと思う。いくら太郎が錬金術で奇策を用いようが、この戦力差を覆すのは難しいだろう。
『存分に喰らい尽くせ』
太郎がマッチョメン共に向けたかっこいい台詞も、これではただ痛いだけよ。
姉としては叱責ものだ。
『さぁ、今夜の血湧き肉踊る
太郎がそう言った瞬間、呆れの感情は恐怖の色に塗り変わった。具体的に言えば、それは背筋にゾワリと這い寄る冷たい悪寒。
なぜなら、狼の遠吠えが再び何重にも発せられたから。さっきは距離がなさそうで、ありそうだった獲物を狙うその鳴き声が......それこそ獣の息遣いがすぐ傍で聞こえそうな程の近距離から響いてきた。
「おい、見ろよ! あの子たちの後ろにいる奴らッ」
騒乱の中、一人が太郎達の方を指差し、警戒を促す。
「そんなのを従えてる【白銀の天使】って......一体、何者なんだ?」
「天使、だと? あれじゃ、まるで......【遠吠えを引き連れる悪魔】じゃねえか......!」
マッチョ達の筋肉はより膨張し、続けて白き体毛をなびかせる。頭部は獣のそれに変わり、口からは鋭い犬歯を覗かせ――――私が遭遇したどの
あれなら服がやぶけてしまうのも無理ないわ。
というと、彼らは変態じゃなかったのね。
264 261 Stories Running With Howl
"Hyah! It's on our captain, [God of the Hunter (Singh)] is just Zakoh! He's going down from the hunting side to being a prey to be hunted. Aah!?
"Sister (ah)! Good luck with that. Yeah!
Even if Shelley speaks out of defeat, she is quickly dismissed by an overwhelming majority of words.
"Just do the sin! What's the strongest mercenary regiment in PvP!
"Look! There's no hand or foot on Mr. Red's subpoena!
"Aren't you just running around! Minotaur!
"What's wrong -!?
"Isn't it a big deal, [Hunter's God (Singh)]?
It struck my heart more than the noisy cheer of the outdoors...
"Ha... I knew there was nothing more boring than the strongest..."
A boring grunt blushes his ears and just a few regrets boil in his chest.
The voice lord, of course, is a mercenary (player) named [Red] who is free. While this one is desperately playing with the white lion attack, she was bored to play with the little rubble in her hand. Just look at me repeatedly, throwing lightly up and then catching.
The wall that holds my blade is too powerful a summoning beast to stand as an obstacle......
The White Lion summoned by Red is a super powerful offensive integrated beast. I can snort that attacking power is not normal because of the large figure. Besides that, he's also highly agile, and he's unzarred to easily follow my speed. Besides, I can't believe its hair is terribly sturdy and has physical defense as well as high magic defense...
Activate the Magic Mid-Range Demon Sword Ability to keep such a giant honest away. Even if you tow at the head of the white lion, especially the eye, it will ramp up as if there is no significant damage.
As the big arms of the white lion loom, I quickly roll back to the ground. Remember to take two shots at double swordsmanship with rotation.
Continue to slip the opponent's nose, flank, with two, three, four shots and a lot of trouble, but I don't feel like I can handle it.
My title, which was also the outline of my request, [Strategies of the Weak (Lancaster)], has nowhere to be found in this summons. You can't let go of a decision like this, Jiri.
Once it's assembled, HP should lose everything in an instant.
With all that tension I'm relative to the white lion in front of me, but when I'm red, I exhale big sighs in a swallowing way, and I'm still pumping small debris. Along with the White Lion, which never accumulates damage, I also find Red somewhat irritating.
"Ha! You don't fight for mercenaries, Red."
Not just summoners, but the person comes forward and fights. From the summoner, the summoner will be within his own strength, and even if he knows it's a misguided complaint, he spills a cheap provocation of dissatisfaction.
To the words she unleashed with the intention of disgust, she swayed heavily the rubble she had without moving any expression.
"Well... 'Monster Ball'..."
Fastball, the rubble crashes into my knee (knee) at a speed that runs out of that word. I can't keep up with too much speed and abrupt her behavior and hide my surprise at the phenomenon of splashing debris on my knees if I notice it. I felt quite a shock on my feet and if I checked my HP bar right away, it would have been shredded by about a quarter.
"Top Abilities for Throwing Skills!?
Without answering my question, she spits on herself when she picks up a nearby stone colo.
From the fact that she stares at the stone in her hand, she realizes that the next time she throws it again.
"... 'Super Ball'..."
Avoid next time, try to be so intent, but unlike expected, the stone colo thrown by Red clashed to the ground.
A faster, heavier, sharper blow chooses my abdomen.
As the name suggests, bouncing off the ground like a superball hit me clean.
Late when I realize that, my body, bent by the letter K, is torn by the white lion's nails.
Red, who identified the next throw and looked down at me lying on the ground, took a huge sigh of regret.
I'm also surprised at the sight of a skinny girl lifting a metre of rubble with ease, but I'm impressed by the versatility of the ability to turn an object on the spot into a murder weapon.
You're a complete loser to me.
I had no hands or feet to summon an unknown phantom beast, and I never thought even my known throwing skills would evolve that way.
Yes, there are many things you don't know about this game. That's why if [Infected City Sanatorium] 's dominance passes to other mercenaries (players), we've stepped this far because we don't know what [Reality Alteration] will happen, and we've retained the wave of offensive combinations... but it's time to limit ourselves.
"If that's the case, we [Tsukinothea Six Wise Men] because!
"So is the [Clan Clan Research Association]!
"I don't care what it is, just kill Singh - heh!?
I thought the exuberance had reached its culmination, then.
I tried to cut apart the inflated arrogance and heat, and the chilling, ruthless sound sounded.
"Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!"
That rapidly shrinks the minds of the idiots flushed by the ambient heat.
"Oh, come on, what's this voice?"
"What!? Which one!?
"What is this... wolves, of the...?
The wolf howl begins to be heard from there.
Red's hand stops trying to make a toddle of me, and he slowly looks around. Though I thought this was an opportunity and tried to leave this place immediately, there is something heavy on my back. If I twisted my neck and looked up, the White Lion would wait for your husband's order and keep my fingernails down so that I could not move.
"Aohhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"Ao wow on!"
"Wow, wow, wow."
Creepy wolf howls can be heard right from the side or some from afar. No, this may have been deliberately pronounced so that the intertwined streets echoed the howls of the [werewolves (Lycans)] and, overlapping, did not allow them to locate themselves.
To the point where such suspicion arose, it was the number of howls that fuelled anxiety.
The howl, as if it would last forever, stopped perfectly at the next moment.
This voice definitely belongs to Taro.
If I knew that, I'd be laughing all the time.
"How dare you take my sister... you're ready"
Totally happy to say something.
Maybe I'll luxury Taro's favorite ice cream, Hagehagen Daz, later.
Nevertheless, where and how is this voice delivered to us?
The mercenaries around them are also looking around in the middle of nowhere.
Did you hunt down the Mercenaries? You're not, are you? It's just a bunch of cowardly, weak people trying to do mass lynching. '
One mercenary (player) screams as he rebels against Taro's questioning tone.
"There! You're using some kind of conveying skill!
If he points his finger at you, we'll all be together and face you. I'm no exception.
Church spires, all seven of them trying to look down on us from a height. Though few were, they emitted an overwhelming discoloration. That's because of my dear brother and sister, who at first glance looks like sisters. They twitch their silver hair and stare indifferently at the red.
You're telling me that that anger-burning eye will not condone anyone who does harm to his family.
No matter how far we are from here, I can understand how you two feel being my sister - what is that?
Why do you have five naked men standing behind your beloved family trying to show off their tenacious muscles?
It's Taro and Michelle who accept that these perverts deserve to be around!
I don't remember raising him like that!
"Are you sending messages directly into our brains?!? What an ability. Damn it!
"I'm not a PT member, but I'm not your friend, and you had the skills to do this!
"Hey, isn't that the 'angel of the city of beginnings'...?
I don't care about that right now!
More problematic than that is my precious, innocent, pure brother and sister, muscle teasing macho men!
"... Mmm, is that kid... conspicuous... the funniest, sweetheart you ever knew?
I can't believe even Red knows about Taro, that's my brother. Not if it's a little floating. If you're going to get rid of the dirt behind my family, it's not too rash to support Red temporarily.
Taro kept talking, regardless of my stuffy mood like that. Despite all the perfect and behind-the-scenes machomens!
'Besides, the lynch you guys tried to do. You end up getting paid back, so it's not cool.'
Surrounded by Taro, who descended from the spires of the church.
"Give me that height... how, what's the drop damage...?
My heart just has to keep rolling.
I'm sure Taro can follow Mukimuki. At any rate, it seems like Macho and the others are leaning towards Taro's every step of the way.
Yeah, you haven't woken up to any weird hobbies, have you?
You are the owner of a beautiful and innocent heart. That's what you do with all those perverts, samurai, and you hit them with a munch, and you order them... Oh? That might surprise you. Taro, who looks great in front of everyone, is submissive in front of me alone... maybe.
"How many others are lurking!?
"Do you have a fool to challenge a big coalition like us at a private party?"
Nobody thinks the Taro's coming in from the front, albeit in small numbers.
I hope so, too, but I can't help wondering if Taro woke up to a new world or not.
Well, that shouldn't mean my brother would act recklessly without any measures.
Not to mention Taro, inferior in number, can't possibly stick it in from the front.
I know because I'm my sister. If it's Taro, it must be a demonstration or something. You must have secretly rallied the big forces to help me.
The question in your chest becomes a reality, or no. If you observe your younger brothers, you will walk straight from them and into bravery - they will finally run and have stepped into the realm where more than 150 mercenaries (players) can wait...
I'd like to think it was a joke, but my stupid brother and my stupid sister seemed to set up a fight with only seven of us.
Plus, five of my buddies are Macho Hentaiz.
"... Mr. Singh's sister is unusual. If you're a sister and a sister, is your sister reckless?"
I don't think Red can help but laugh. No matter how much Taro uses odd tactics in alchemy, it will be difficult to mask this difference in power.
"Eat it up."
Taro's cool dialogue with both Machomen just hurts.
As a sister, it's reprimand.
"Come on, it's the start of tonight's bloody meat-dancing dinner party."
The moment Taro said that, his frightening emotions changed to the color of fear. Specifically, that's a cold chill crawling over my spine with a zoster.
Because the wolf howl was again emitted multiple times. Earlier, there seemed to be no distance, and that squeal aimed at the seemingly possible prey... that's what the beast's breath sounded like from so close a distance I could hear it right beside me.
"Hey, look at that! The ones behind those kids. Huh."
In the midst of the commotion, one fingers the Taro and the others, prompting them to be vigilant.
"I can follow that [Silver Angel]... who the hell are you?
"Angel, you say? That's like... [The Devil Who Can Bring A Howl] isn't it...!
The muscles of the machos swell more and continue to twitch the white body hair. The head turned to that of the beast, peeking sharp canine teeth out of his mouth - becoming more of a tenacious werewolf (Lycan) than any other werewolf I've encountered.
I can't even get my clothes smashed.
So they weren't perverts, were they?
I Became a Beautiful Girl, but I’m still an MMO Junkie
美少女になったけど、ネトゲ廃人やってます。
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