ロトマゴが異常に気づいたのは、壁の向こうから聞こえた異音からだった。
突然、壁に硬いものが当たる音がして、静寂が戻った。
壁の向こうが隠し通路になっていることは、ロトマゴも承知しているし、時々近衛騎士の誰かが通っているのも知っている。というより、移動に使うことに許可が欲しいとサブナクに相談され、快諾していた。
「誰かいるのか?」
返答が無いことに不穏な空気を感じ取ったロトマゴは立ち上がり、侍女に部屋を出て誰か騎士を呼んでくるようにと伝えたが、遅かった。
「失礼します、隊長」
ノックも無く部屋から入って来たのは、3人の騎士だった。すでに剣を抜いていた彼らのうち、一人は侍女に向かって部屋の隅で座っているようにと高圧的に言った。
侍女はロトマゴに視線を向け、彼に従うようにと言われてその通りに動いた。
さらに、五名ほどの騎士が隠し通路への入口から乗り込んできた。
そのうちの一人が、返り血を浴びている。
「......随分な格好だが、何の用だ?」
「まあ、簡単なことです。全て終わってその地位を失うまで、ここで大人しく座っていていただく。それが隊長の最後の仕事です」
最初に入ってきた騎士が冷静に語り、その間にロトマゴの視線が返り血を浴びた騎士に向いたのを見て、せせら笑う。
「貴方の護衛のつもりか、二人ほど壁の向こうにいましたので、処分しました」
「おっと、無駄に抵抗するのはやめてください」
手に持った剣をロトマゴの首に向けて、騎士は言う。
「抵抗しなければ貴方もあの侍女も無事に開放いたしますよ。地位を失ってから。それよりも、あまり抵抗されると我々も余裕がなくなりますのでね。隊長だけでなくイメラリア様への対応も変更せざるを得なくなります」
怯えた様子で座り込んでいる侍女を見て、ロトマゴは溜息をついて椅子に座り直した。
「一体何をするつもりか知らんが......バールゼフォンか?」
「おや、何かに感づいておられたようですね。ですが隊長は余計な事を考える必要はありません。この国が変わり、新たな時代が始まるのを、大人しく待っていてください」
乱入した騎士たちは、ニヤニヤと笑いながらロトマゴを包囲している。
溜息をついたロトマゴは、目を閉じた。
「どうやら、私に今できることは無いようだ。状況が動くのは、どうやらここではないらしい。君たちの言うとおり、私は待つ事にしよう」
「賢明なご判断ですな」
ロトマゴの近くに武器が無い事を確認した騎士たちは、3名を残して残りは部屋を出ていった。
その動きを黙って見ていたロトマゴは、愚か者どもの運命に思いを馳せた。昨日、バールゼフォンの様子から不安を覚えたロトマゴは、彼の事を一二三に相談していた。
その時の一二三の顔を思い出す。
彼はただ「わかった」と短く言っただけだが、その表情はプレゼントをもらった子供のように無邪気な笑顔だった。
「あっはっは!」
壁の向こうから突然笑い声が聞こえて、ネルガルと談笑していたスプランゲルは驚いて肩を震わせた。目の前に居たネルガルも同様だった。
「......隣室ではパーティーでもやっておるのか?」
「わ、私にはわかりませんが......」
冗談に対して生真面目に返す奴があるか、とスプランゲルは口を尖らせ、室内に居た侍女に尋ねたが、侍女にも状況がわからないらしい。
どうする事も出来ないので、じっと室内で待っていると、ノックをして入ってきた人物がいる。フォカロルの兵を連れたアリッサだ。
「こんにちは、王様」
「おお、フォカロルのお嬢さんか。一体何が起きておるのだ?」
スプランゲルはアリッサの無邪気さが気に入ったらしく、顔を合わせると好々爺とした表情を浮かべた。
最初にこの顔を見せたとき、ネルガルを含めたホーラントの従者たちは驚いた顔で固まっていたが、もはや受け入れられつつある。
「えーと、一二三さんが言うには、“むほん”が始まってるんだって。僕たちは王様の護衛に来たんだよ」
「謀反か。他国の王がいるというのにな。まあ、わしらは突然来たからのう。お嬢さんたちが守ってくれるなら、安心できるな」
「そうですね。アリッサ軍務長官殿、王をよろしくお願いいたします」
さっと立ち上がったネルガルは、頭二つ程背の低いアリッサに対して深々と頭を下げた。
「大丈夫。王様だけじゃなくて、全員守るように言われてるから。とりあえずは、ここを監視してた人はもういないよ」
アリッサが言うと、ぐったりとした二人の騎士を引きずったフォカロル領兵が、隠し扉から笑いながら出てきた。
「あ、長官! 敵は片付けて、隠し通路は制圧しました! こいつら領主様と比べると笑える程隙だらけですな」
「......比べる相手が間違ってると思う。引き続き、通路はお願いね。騎士さんたちは縛って通路に寝かせておいてね。他の人たちも、予定通りに」
やっと実戦だ。ホーラントは観光だったからなぁ、と兵士たちは談笑しながら、それぞれ部屋の内外で警備についた。
それを聞いていて、しかめ面をしているのはネルガルだ。
「......隠し通路とは? 我々は監視されていたのですか?」
怒りを押し殺したような声を出すネルガルに、アリッサではなくスプランゲルが動き、ゲンコツを打ち下ろした。
「馬鹿め。警戒のためにも警護のためにも、ひっそり監視するのは当然であろうが。本来ならば城内でわしらを守る義理もないお嬢さんたちが守ってくれたというのに、何という言い草か! ......すまんな、頭の悪い後継者でな」
「ううん。監視してたのは僕たちじゃないけど、嫌な気分なのはわかるし」
「も、申し訳ありませんでした......」
すっかり項垂れたネルガルは、たった今スプランゲルが“後継者”だとはっきり外部の者に言った事に気づいていない。
「それで、一二三殿はどうしたのかね? あの御仁なら、こういう荒事の時は真っ先に動いていそうなものだが」
スプランゲルの問いに、アリッサは腕を組んで首をかしげた。
「それが、どこに行ったかわからないんだよね。指示だけ出してどっか行っちゃった」
「ほう、それは......」
スプランゲルは顎を撫でてニヤリと笑う。
「何か楽しい事になりそうだのう」
ヴァイヤーは焦っていた。
数名の騎士が交代時間になっても戻って来ず、確認に行った者も戻らないか、行っても誰もいなかったという報告が上がってくる。
「何が起きている?」
異常事態であることは間違いないと判断し、戴冠式での護衛準備中に申し訳ないとは思いつつ、他の騎士たちには調査を命じ、連絡のために一人の騎士を伴い、サブナクの部屋へと足早に向かう。
長い廊下をもどかしく思いつつ進むと、サブナクの執務室が見える位置までたどり着いた。その扉の前には、数名の騎士が屯している。
その中には、行方不明だと報告を受けていた者の姿もあった。
一人の騎士がヴァイヤーに気づくと、腰の剣に手を当てて近づいてきた。
「誰かと思えば、近衛騎士隊の副隊長様ではありませんか」
「お前か......」
目の前の男に、ヴァイヤーは見覚えがあった。
第二騎士隊時代の同僚で、あまり顔を合わせる機会は無かったが、剣の使い手としては隊でも上位にいる人物だった。ホーラント攻めの際は、実家に呼ばれており不参加だったはずだが、ヴァイヤーが知らぬうちに戻ってきていたらしい。
「帰ってきたら驚いたよ。第二騎士隊は無くなっているし、近衛騎士隊なんてものができて、ヴァイヤーが副隊長で、
馬鹿にしたように言い放つ相手に、ヴァイヤーは努めて冷静に返す。
「変化について行けないなら、騎士をやめて帰ればいい。誰も止めはしない」
「ふざけるな! 第三騎士隊に媚を売った裏切り者が! 剣を以て国を守る騎士のくせに、あの男が持ち込んだ妙な武器を広めて騎士の品格を汚した奴の方こそ、騎士をやめろ」
他の騎士たちもその言葉に同調し、口々に第三騎士隊とヴァイヤーを罵った。
「......トオノ伯が、兵士を鍛える意味がようやくわかった気がする。フォカロル兵が戦争で勝って、第二騎士隊が敗れた理由は、こういう事なんだろう」
「ふん、さすがは副隊長。口は達者なようだ。だが、それもここまでだ」
不意に、ヴァイヤーの後頭部に激痛が走った。
朦朧とする意識を懸命に保ちながら振り向くと、そこにはヴァイヤーに同行していた騎士が、鞘に入ったままの剣を持って立っていた。
霞む視界でその表情まではわからなかったが、ただ一つ、身内にも裏切り者がいた事だけは認識できた。歯を食いしばり、自分の見る目の無さを嘆きながら、ヴァイヤーは意識を手放した。
ただ一つ気になったのは、倒れる寸前に視界の端を音もなく通り過ぎた、見覚えのある裾の広い奇妙な服を着た人物と、「注意力が足りん」と叱責する、聞き覚えのある声だった。
ヴァイヤーがサブナクの執務室へたどり着く直前、自室になだれ込んできた騎士たちを相手に、サブナクは素早く剣を抜いて対峙していた。
不意打ちをしようとした騎士は斬り殺され、サブナクの脇に転がっている。
死体を苦々しく見やって悪態をついた騎士は、剣を掴んだままサブナクを睨みつける。
他にも二名ほどの騎士がおり、一人は室内にいた侍女のシビュラに剣を向けていた。
「突然入ってきて、随分な事をしてくれたけど、一体ぼくに何の用だ。忙しいから、手短にお願いしたいんだけどね」
軽口を叩きながらも、サブナクは焦っていた。
一二三に指導を受けた甲斐あって、突然の襲撃にもなんとか対応できたが、まともにやりあっては騎士隊では下の中程度の実力しかないサブナクでは、勝ち目は薄い。
「貴様には、新しい騎士隊体制のために犠牲になってもらう。この後の戴冠式でイメラリア王女には新体制を発表させ、第二騎士隊を中心とした新たな組織を作ることになっている。その為に、貴様とロトマゴは邪魔だ」
「隊長の所にも行ったのか......」
「心配せずとも、用が済めばロトマゴも後を追わせてやる」
言いながら振り抜かれた剣を、サブナクは危うい手つきで弾いた。
「二人相手にどこまで生き残れるか、最後の運試しだ」
転がるように部屋の隅に退避したサブナクは、どうにか挟み撃ちの形になるのを避ける事には成功した。
だが、正面に二人を相手どるうちに、ジワジワと傷は増えていく。
「そらそら、このままなぶり殺しがお望みか?」
「死なない方を希望するよ。まだ結婚もしてないし」
「調子に乗るな!」
激昂した騎士の剣が、サブナクの膝を斬り裂いた。
流石に立っていられなくなったサブナクは、無傷の膝で何とか身体を支え、頭に振り下ろされた剣を防いだ。
そのまま、体重をかけられてジリジリと剣が降りてくる。
その時、別の場所から悲鳴が聞こえた。
サブナクと組合っていない騎士が振り返ると、そこにはシビュラを見ていた騎士が倒れており、ナイフを持ったシビュラが震えながら立っていた。
剣を振りかぶった騎士が近づくと、シビュラは目を閉じて駆け出し、その脇を通り過ぎる。
「なにっ?」
無視された騎士が慌てて視線を向けると、シビュラが向かった先にはサブナクを殺そうと更に体重をかける仲間の姿が見えた。
「後ろだ!」
慌てて声をかけるが、遅かった。
ナイフを握り締めたシビュラは、体当たりをするようにして騎士の脇腹、鎧がない部分に深々と刃を突き刺した。
「うっ?! き、貴様!」
シビュラはそのままナイフを手放してサブナクにしがみつき、脇にナイフを突き立てたままの騎士は、振り上げた剣をサブナクではなくシビュラの背中に叩きつけた。
「シビュラ!」
ぐったりと倒れこむシビュラを抱え、サブナクは叫んだが、シビュラは夥しい血を流し、汗だくで息を吐いていた。
「大切なものを、守るのに、躊躇して、は、いけないと......」
「無理に話すな! 気をしっかりもて!」
脇を刺された騎士は悶絶し、残った騎士は怒り狂って迫って来ている。
「侍女の分際で、騎士に刃を向けるとは!」
だが、その叫びが騎士の最後の言葉となった。
言い終えたその瞬間に、喉から刀の切っ先が突き出していた。
自分に何が起きているのか理解できないまま、血を吐いてのたうちまわって、ほどなく命を失う。
直後、小さな瓶が飛来し、シビュラの顎に当たった。
慌てて瓶を掴んだサブナクは、その瓶の正体に気づき、素早く開封してシビュラの背中にバシャバシャと浴びせた。
顔をしかめて痛みに堪えていたシビュラの背中の傷は、みるみるうちに癒えていく。
それを見て、安堵の溜息をついたサブナクは、魔法薬を投げてくれた人物を見上げた。
「高級魔法薬ってのは、すごい効き目ですね、一二三さん」
残り二人の騎士に止めを刺した一二三は、刀を納めると、ソファに座った。
「そんな事より、ちょっと茶をくれ。ひと暴れしたら喉が乾いた。ああ、あとヴァイヤーが廊下に転がってるから、踏まれる前に回収しておけよ」
傷が癒えて、落ち着いた呼吸に戻って意識を失っているシビュラをそっと寝かせて、サブナクは苦笑した。
「彼女に魔法薬を全部使ってしまったんで、斬られた僕の膝がそのままなんですよ。ぶっちゃけ、ものすごく痛くて立てません」
追加の瓶は、サブナクの額にヒットした。
It was because of the strange noise audible on the other side of the wall that caused Lotomago to notice the abnormality.
Suddenly hearing a sound of something hard hitting the wall, silence returned thereafter.
Lotomago has also been aware of the hidden pathways on the other side of the wall. He even knows that sometimes someone from the Royal Knight Order has been passing through there. Or rather Sabnak had consulted him about the permission to use it for travelling and he readily agreed.
"Is someone there?" (Lotomago)
Lotomago, feeling restless due to not receiving an answer, stood up. He told the maid to leave the room and call for some knights, but it was too late.
"Excuse me, Captain."
It was 3 knights who entered the room without knocking. While they had already drawn their swords, one of them forced the maid to sit down in a corner of the room.
Turning her sight to Lotomago, the maid moved as she had been ordered by the knight.
Furthermore, around five knights entered from the exit of the hidden pathway.
A single one amongst them has been bathed in a spurt of blood.
"... That's quite the appearance, but what's your business?" (Lotomago)
"Well, it's something simple. We want you to hold still here until everything has ended including you losing that position. That is your last task as captain."
The knight, who entered first, explains calmly. Seeing Lotomago's sight resting on the knight bathed in a spurt of blood, he laughs scornfully.
"As there were two knights on the other side of the wall intended to be your guards, we got rid of them."
"Uh-oh, please don't resist pointlessly."
Putting the sword, he held in his hand, at the throat of Lotomago, he says,
"If you don't oppose us, we will safely release you as well as that maid. After you lost your position. Also, apart from that, we will loose our leeway if you resist too much, okay? We will be compelled to change our way of treatment not only towards you, Captain, but also towards Imeraria-sama."
Looking at the maid, who is sitting down in a frightened state, Lotomago sighed and reseated himself on his chair.
"I don't know what you're planning to do, but... Balzephon, huh?" (Lotomago)
"Oya, it looks like you have suspected something. However, there's no need for you to think about unnecessary things, Captain. Please wait obediently until we change this country and a new era begins."
The intruding knights are grinning broadly while surrounding Lotomago.
The sighing Lotomago closed his eyes.
"It seems like there's nothing I can do right now to change the situation here. As you said, I have decided to wait." (Lotomago)
"A wise choice."
The knights, confirming that there were no weapons close to Lotomago, left 3 behind and exited the room.
Lotomago, who watched their actions silently, gave more than a passing thought to the fate of these fools. Yesterday, Lotomago, sensing the uneasiness he felt from Balzephon's state, discussed that matter with Hifumi.
He recalls the face of Hifumi at that time.
He only said nothing more but [Understood] , but his expression showed an innocent smile as if being a child having received a present.
"Ahhahha!"
Suddenly hearing the laughter from the other side of the wall, the shoulders of Suprangel, who had a friendly chat with Nelgal, jumped in surprised.
"... Are they holding a party in the next room?" (Suprangel)
"I-I don't know, but..." (Nelgal)
Suprangel pouts. Although he asked the maids within the room, they apparently aren't aware of the circumstances either.
Since they don't know what to do, they are patiently waiting inside the room. After a knock people entered. It's the soldiers of Fokalore led by Alyssa.
"Hello, King-sama." (Alyssa)
"Oh, the young lady from Fokalore, eh? What the heck is happening?" (Suprangel)
Apparently Suprangel was pleased with Alyssa's simple-mindedness. He showed a facial expression of a good-natured old man towards her.
At the time he made this face for the first time, the servants from Horant, including Nelgal, made all together surprised faces, but by now they have already accepted it.
"Umm~ Hifumi-san has said a "rebellion" is starting. We came to guard King-sama." (Alyssa)
"Rebellion? Despite the king of a foreign country being here? Oh well, it's because I came quite abruptly. I will be able to feel safe, if it's the young lady's group protecting me." (Suprangel)
"That's right. Military Director Alyssa-dono, please treat our king well." (Nelgal)
Nelgal, who quickly got up, very deeply bowed towards Alyssa, who was around two heads smaller than him.
"It's alright, it's not only king-sama. We've been told to protect all of you. For the time being, the people, who monitored this place, aren't here anymore." (Alyssa)
When Alyssa said that, Fokalore's territorial soldiers dragged two limp knights out through a hidden door while laughing.
"Ah, director! We have cleared the enemy and gained total control over the hidden pathway. These guys were full of openings to a laughable degree compared to Lord-sama."
"... I think you are making a mistake in the party you compare them to. Please continue to guard the pathway, okay? Tie the knight-san's and lay them down in the pathway. The same for the other people as well, as planned." (Alyssa)
"At last it's actual combat after we went sightseeing in Horant", the soldiers chatted lightly while they guarded inside and outside the room.
Hearing that, Nelgal is frowning.
"... Hidden pathway? Did you monitor us?" (Nelgal)
Towards Nelgal, who speaks as if subduing his anger, it was not Alyssa but Suprangel who moved and hit him with an iron knuckle
"Idiot. It's only natural to inconspicuously monitor for the sake of guarding and precaution. Despite the young lady's group originally has no obligation to come protect us within the castle, what's your manner of talking?! ... Excuse me for my dimwitted successor." (Suprangel)
"Er, well... It isn't us who monitored you, but I can understand the unpleasant feeling of it." (Alyssa)
"I'm very sorry..." (Nelgal)
Nelgal, whose head was completely hanging, hasn't noticed Suprangel clearly mention him as "successor" to someone else.
"So, what's the matter with Hifumi-dono? If it's that man, he's someone to stand at the vanguard of such fighting scene." (Suprangel)
Due to Suprangel's question Alyssa folded her arms and tilted her head to the side.
"That is, I don't know where he went. He only gave me my orders and ran off somewhere." (Alyssa)
"Ho, that is..." (Suprangel)
Suprangel strokes his chin and laughs broadly.
"It looks like it will result in something enjoyable." (Suprangel)
Vaiya was in a hurry.
With several knights not coming back at the time of their shift change and the person, who went to check, not returning either, there was no one to send to gather information either.
"What's happening?" (Vaiya)
He judges it to doubtlessly be an abnormal situation. While feeling it to be inexcusable for the preparations of the guarding of the coronation ceremony, he has ordered the other knights to investigate and headed towards Sabnak's room at a quick pace accompanied by a single knight for the sake of communication.
As he advances while feeling irritated by the long hallway, he finally reached the place that serves as Sabnak's office. Several knights are gathering in front of its door.
Among them were also the figures of people who were reported to be missing.
Once a single knight became aware of Vaiya, he put his hand on the swords at his hips and approached.
"Just when I wondered who it was, isn't it the Royal Knight Order's Vice Captain-sama?"
"You, eh... ?" (Vaiya)
Vaiya remembered the man in front of him.
As colleague from the time at the Second Knight Order, he didn't have many chances to meet him, but he was a person in the higher ranks within the order in regards to his mastery of the sword. At the time of Horant's attack he was summoned to his family's home and shouldn't have participated in the battles, but apparently he came back without Vaiya knowing about it.
"I was surprised when I came back. The Second Knight Order has disappeared, something like a Royal Knight Order has been formed, Vaiya became a vice-captain and that ... fellow from the Third Knight Order became the captain."
Due to the other party talking as if making fun of it, Vaiya makes an effort and replies calmly,
"If you don't like the changes, it's fine for you to stop being a knight and go home. There's no one stopping you." (Vaiya)
"Don't fuck with me! Though you are a traitor, who curried favours with the Third Knight Order! In spite of using swords to protect the nation, that man brought in weird weapons and spread them dirtying the dignity of knights. They stopped being knights."
The other knights, agreeing with his words, shouted abuses at Vaiya and the Third Knight Order all over.
"... I feel I finally understood Earl Tohno's meaning of disciplining the soldiers. I guess this is the reason why the Second Knight Order was defeated whereas Fokalore's soldiers won the war." (Vaiya)
"Humph, as expected of  you, Vice-Captain. You seem to be skilled at talking. However, that's how far it goes."
Suddenly a pain ran through Vaiya's back of the head.
Once he turned around while eagerly preserving to keep his consciousness, which was about to become hazy, he saw the knight, who accompanied him, there, although he stood holding his sword, still stuck in its scabbard.
Although he didn't see his expression due to his blurry vision, he only realised one thing; him being a traitor belonging to the same organization too. While clenching his teeth and lamenting over his lack of a discerning eye, Vaiya lost his consciousness.
There was only one thing bothering him. Something had quietly passed him at the edge of his vision as he was on the brink of collapsing. As it was a person he has a recollection of wearing strange clothes with a wide hem, he heard a voice reprimanding him [You don't pay enough attention] .
Just before Vaiya finally arrived at Sabnak's office, Sabnak swiftly drew his sword and confronted the knights who rushed into his room as opponents.
Slaying the knight, who tried a surprise attack, he has fallen over at Sabnak's side.
The knight, who cursed looking at the corpse loathsomely, glares at Sabnak while holding his sword.magic
In addition there are two more knights there as well. One of them had turned his sword towards the maid, Shibyura, who was within the room.
"You came entering quite unexpectedly causing quite the situation, but what's your business with me? Since I'm busy I'd like you to keep it short though, okay?" (Sabnak)
Sabnak was sweating buckets while cracking a joke.
He was somehow able to deal with the sudden attack as result of receiving coaching from Hifumi, but Sabnak, who has no more than the level of skill to decently compete with the lower ranks of the knight order, has only a small chance of winning.
"We want you bastard to become a sacrifice in order to establish a new knight order organization. Princess Imeraria will announce the new system at the coronation ceremony afterwards. It is expected for the Second Knight Order to play a central part in the creation of the new system. For that reason, Lotomago and you asshole are nuisances."
"Did you go to the captain's place as well... ?" (Sabnak)
"No worries, once he's of no use, Lotomago will also follow you in death."
With these words he swung his sword. Sabnak repelled it in an unsteady manner of using his hands.
"How long will you survive against two opponents? In the end it's a test of your luck."
Sabnak, who retreated to a corner of the room as if rolling over, was one way or the other successful in avoiding a state of being pincer-attacked.
However, while dealing with the two in the front, his wounds are slowly increasing.
"Come on, come on! Do you wish to be tormented to death as it is?"
"I hope to find a way to not die. I still haven't even been married yet." (Sabnak)
"Don't get cocky!"
The sword of the enraged knight cut open Sabnak's knee.
Sabnak, losing the way to stand up, somehow supported his body with the remaining, unhurt knee and defended against the sword swung down at his head.
The sword, carrying its own weight, gradually forced him down.
At that moment a scream could be heard at another place.
Once the knight, who isn't entangled with Sabnak looked back, he saw the knight, who had watched Shibyura, fallen. Shibyura stood there holding a knife in her hands while trembling.
As the knight, brandishing his sword, approaches her, Shibyura closes her eyes and starts running passing by his side.
"What?"
Once the ignored knight turned his sight in a hurry, he could see Shibyura headed towards the figure of his companion, who put even more weight into his sword to kill Sabnak.
"Watch your back!"
He called out in panic, but it was too late.
Shibyura, grasping her knife tightly, hurled herself into the flank of the knight and stabbed the blade deeply into the un-armoured part.
"Uh?! Y-You bitch!"
Shibyura let go of the knife and clung to Sabnak. The knight, who had the knife buried in his flank, raised his sword overhead and slashed not at Sabnak but Shibyura's back.
"Shibyura!" (Sabnak)
Holding Shibyura, who has limply collapsed towards him, Sabnak screamed, but Shibyura, shedding large quantities of blood, breathed out dripping in sweat.
"Though to protect... someone important... hesitated... no good..." (Shibyura)
"Don't talk recklessly! Cling to your consciousness strongly!" (Sabnak)
The knight, who had his flank stabbed, has fainted in agony. The remaining knight is approaching in rage.
"You dare to turn your blade at a knight! You, with a standing as maid!"
But, this yell became the knight's last words.
The instant he finished saying them, the point of a katana stuck out from his throat.
Without even understanding what has happened to him, he writhes vomiting blood and before long he has parted this world.
Immediately following a little bottle came flying and hit Shibyura's chin.
Sabnak, grasping the bottle in a hurry, realizes the true nature of it. Opening it quickly, he pours it on Shibyura's back.
The wound on the back of Shibyura, who endured the pain with a frown, is healed in a twinkle.
Seeing this, Sabnak sighed in relief and looked up at the person who threw the magic potion.
"High-class magic potions have an amazing effect, Hifumi-san." (Sabnak)
Hifumi, who finished off the remaining two knights, sheathed his katana and sat down on the sofa.
"Rather than something like that, I'd like you to give me a bit tea. If a person goes on a rampage, they will get thirsty. Ah, also, since Vaiya has collapsed in the hallway, retrieve him before someone steps on him." (Hifumi)
Gently laying down the fainted Shibyura, whose breathing has calmed down after the wound healed, Sabnak smiled bitterly.
"She ended up using all of the magic potion. My knee is cut without change. To be blunt, it awfully painful making it impossible to stand up." (Sabnak)
An additional bottle hit Sabnak's forehead.
Summoned Slaughterer
呼び出された殺戮者
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