141.Wild World
アリッサが入り込んだ部屋は倉庫のようで、運よく鍵もかかっていなかったことから、倉庫外へ出るのは簡単だった。
外から見たときには四階建てだと思っていたのだが、木箱が積み重ねられた狭苦しい倉庫の外は、城のホールのように天井が高くなっているのを、室内にある仄かな灯りでかろうじて見て取れた。
「外の感じからすると、上にもう一フロアあるくらいですかね」
一人の兵士が呟き、アリッサは頷く。
「ということは......うわぁ......」
倉庫の慎重に周囲の状況を確認しながら移動すると、巨大な檻を発見した。
アリッサの腰ほどもある太さの鉄格子が並び、光がほとんど届かないその奥には、壁に背をもたれさせて眠っている巨人兵がうっすらと見える。
檻が二つあり、片方が空になっているのは、朝に一二三が倒した方が入っていたのだろうとアリッサは推測した。
アリッサはここで悩む。
巨人兵を今のうちに始末してしまえば、今後ホーラント首都へ進むにしてもかなり楽になるだろう。
だが、対応準備をしているとはいえ、三人で巨人兵を相手にして必ず勝てるとは限らない。
唸っている間に、変化は訪れる。
「火事だぁ! みんな起きろ!」
隣の建物からだろうか、遠くから慌てた様子の声が聞こえた。
その声が聞こえたのか、眠っていた巨人兵がもそもそと動き出した。
「いったん隠れよう!」
アリッサの判断で、倉庫前まで戻って暗がりに隠れ、様子を見る。
どうやら他は三班とも早々に火をつけ始めたらしく、建物の外からは大勢の人間が行き来する音や怒号、木が焼けるパチパチという音が聞こえてきた。
檻の方を見ると、すっかり目が覚めたらしい巨人兵が天井に届かんばかりの長身を伸ばし、不機嫌そうに周囲を見回している。
そこへ、上階にいたのか、ホーラントの魔法使いと思しき人物が二人、息せき切って駆け込んできた。
「強化兵を出そう!」
「いや、私たちだけだと制御が......」
「延焼して焼け死んだりしたら、責任が取れないだろ! しかもこれは敵襲だろう! 鍵を開けるぞ!」
及び腰の同僚を一括した男が、鍵らしい魔道具を鉄格子の一部に当てながら、巨人兵に向かって「大人しくしていろよ!」と叫んでいる。
巨人はのっそりと立ち上がった状態のまま、ホーラントの魔法使いたちを感情の抜けたうつろな目で見下ろしていた。
その様子を見て、アリッサは仲間たちに向き直った。
「あれを解放されたらまずいよね。行こう!」
返事を待たず、弾かれる様な勢いで飛び出したアリッサは、止めようとしていた方の男に向かって、体当たりさながらに脇差を突き立てた。
「んぎっ?」
喉から漏れたような声を出して絶命したのを確認したアリッサが視線をもう一人へ送ると、戸惑う仲間の目の前で、巨人兵に鷲掴みにされてもがいている魔法使いの姿があった。
格子を開けた途端に捕まったらしい。
「は、離せ、この......」
痛みと恐怖で汗をびっしょりとかいた魔法使いが、必死に巨人兵を止めようとするが、魔法使いを掴んだまま、巨人兵はのっそりと檻から身を乗り出そうとしている。
「二人とも距離を取って戦闘準備! あれを用意して!」
仲間に指示を出すのに、アリッサは巨人兵の注意を引くために殊更大声をだした。
巨人兵の視線がのっそりとこちらを向いたのを確認し、光の当たる目立つ場所に立ち、脇差を右手に構える。
冷や汗が、頬を伝う。
未だ馬上から叩き落とされた時の怖さが身体を振るわせていたが、脇差を握る右手だけは強い気持ちで震えを押えた。
一二三が相手を挑発する時のイメージそのままに、真似をして笑って見せた。
それに腹を立てたのか、掴んでいたホーラントの魔法使いを、巨人兵がアリッサに向けて投げつけた。
「ぶべっ」
壁に叩きつけられ、カエルのような声を出した魔法使いは、そのまま板壁をぶち破って外へと転がり出て行った。
アリッサは、横に転がって躱しながらも、巨人兵から目を離さない。
睨み合いの最中、アリッサの耳に仲間たちの声が聞こえた。
「網を使います!」
次の瞬間、大きな網が巨人兵に覆いかぶさった。
もがくほどに絡まる網を引っ張りながら苛立つように唸り声をあげる巨人兵に、アリッサは脇差を抱えて走る。
この網はサブナクが防御陣地に槍避けとして張った網を、一部譲ってもらったものだ。目が細かく、縁に重りをつけて漁に使う網のようになっている。
「たしか、一二三さんが倒した時には......」
アリッサが狙うのは、網の下から見えている巨人兵の足。具足もつけていない裸足の指は薄汚れ、分厚い爪は獣のように伸びている。
両手にしっかりと握った脇差で、小指側から指を根元からごっそりと切り取った。
親指だけは、骨に引っかかったが、血を流しながら指が散らばったとたんに、巨人兵は尻餅をついた。
網に絡まり、身もだえしながらも的確に振り回してくる丸太のような腕を掻い潜りながら距離をとったアリッサは歯噛みした。
「これじゃ届かないよ」
座ったままもぞもぞと動く巨人兵を睨みつける。
網を投げた仲間たちは、武器を抜いて巨人兵に斬りかかっているが、怯む様子も見せない。
一二三の真似をして、巨人を転ばせて首か頭を狙うつもりでいたアリッサだが、座っている状態でも巨人の頭までアリッサの身長の二倍はある。
巨人の怪力で、網も次第にボロボロになっていくのを見ながら、アリッサは何か無いかと考えながら、空いている左手でリュックの中や懐を探る。そこで、手裏剣を見つけた。
「ほとんど使ったことないけど、たしか、こんな感じで」
オリガの真似をして、脇差を納めて右手で手裏剣を構え、腕を前に伸ばすようにして投擲する。
大きく外れた手裏剣が向こう側の壁にカツン、と音を立てて突き刺さる。
うなりながら二投目。
これが巨人兵の顔に刺さり、不愉快になったらしく前かがみにアリッサに迫る。
「もう一回!」
今度は大きく振りかぶって力いっぱいに叩きつける。
手裏剣は風を切って疾り、網越しに巨人兵の左目に埋まるほどの勢いで突き刺さった。
突然視界の半分を失った巨人兵は顔を押えて混乱した様子でもがいている。
「長官!」
「腕を狙って!」
再び脇差を握り、アリッサが仲間に指示を出す。
素早く対応した二人のフォカロル兵は、剣を使って巨人兵が顔面を押えている両手の手首をそれぞれ切りつけた。
痛みは感じずとも鬱陶しいのだろう、仰向けに倒れた巨人兵が腕を振り回して、兵士たちが振りほどかれたのと入れ替わりにアリッサが飛び込んだ。
「これで終わり!」
手裏剣でつぶされた目に向けて、脇差を深々と叩き込んだ。
脇差の切っ先で押し込まれた手裏剣が脳まで届いたのだろう。
残った右目を見開いたまま、巨人兵は動きを止めた。
「長官、やりましたね!」
褒めそやす仲間たちに笑顔を向けて、汗をぬぐったアリッサが、上階に資料を探しに行こうかと顔をあげると、魔法使いが投げつけられた壁の穴あたりから、すでに火が上がっているのが見えた。
「やばっ。みんな、資料はあきらめて脱出しよう! 上に行ったら火が回ってくるかも!」
「り、了解です!」
未だ外では燃え盛る建物の周りを、ホーラント兵たちが右往左往している。
その混乱に乗じて脱出することに決めたアリッサは、倒れて死んでいる巨人兵を一瞥すると、建物を後にした。
「まぁ、及第点かな」
上階へ続く階段からアリッサの戦いぶりを見つめていた一二三は、ぐいっと口の端を釣り上げて笑った。
身体能力はさておき、手裏剣を外したのはいただけないが、それにしても敵を倒す方法を設定し、指示をしっかりと出して、イレギュラーにも対応できた。今までのこの世界の戦いなら、身体能力で勝る相手なら、魔法が無ければ対応しようがなかっただろう。
“搦め手”をアリッサが選択し、効果的に利用した。
また、一二三のやり方を見て、自分でできる部分を拾い上げて実行したことも評価した。
「それじゃ、俺も次の目的地に行こうかね」
一二三がちらりと背後に視線を送る。
二階フロアには、五人のホーラント兵の死体が転がっていた。すべて一刀で斬り伏せられ、全員何が起きたかわからないという混乱の表情のままだった。
一二三は舌打ちを一つ。
「成果確認のためとはいえ、ストレスがたまるな......」
刀の鍔をこつこつと指で叩きながら不満を漏らしていると、アリッサが撤退した後の下フロアに数名のホーラント兵が雪崩れ込んできた。
「これは......強化兵がやられている?」
「そとにいる奴も死んでる。とにかくここは放棄だ! 死んでるならもうどうしようもない!」
口々に状況を話している兵士に向かって一二三が飛び降りる。
そのまま肩の上に膝を載せるようにして一人の兵士を押しつぶす。ついでに頭を掴んでいたので、後ろにそらされるようにして首が折れ、鎖骨ごと上半身を潰すようにして床に叩きつけられた兵士は即死だった。
「な、だ、誰だ?」
「あ~......そうだな。不審者ってところだな」
ゆっくり立ち上がった一二三は、懐手のまま鉄格子に背中を預ける。
「この!」
上段から振り下ろされた剣を避け、横から蹴りをくれてやると、剣は格子に引っかかり、兵士は素手のまま転がった。
「周りもよく見て戦わないとな」
ドン、とブレストアーマーの上から足全体で踏みつけると、兵士は血を吐いて絶命する。
別の兵士が突き出した剣に対し、一二三は懐から取り出した十手を軽く振る。
それだけで引っかけられた剣は兵士の手を離れた。
突然手の内から奪われたことに唖然としていると、その喉に向かって自分の剣が投げつけられた。
魔法使いが混じっていたのか、剣を投げた一二三に火球が迫る。
だが、一二三は冷たい瞳で業火を見つめると、手袋をした左手で火球を叩き落とした。
「よっ」
驚愕する魔法使いに、一二三はゆっくりと近づくと、先ほど火球を叩き落とした時と同様に、平手で相手の顔を殴った。
「ひぃっ!」
衝撃で倒れた魔法使いの頭の真横にたち、一二三は見下ろす。
「単にまっすぐ飛んでくる火の玉なんて、百発飛ばされても全部対応できるんだよ」
だから、と一二三は左手で魔法使いを指差す。
「お前らがやってるのは石を投げてるのと何も変わらん。まして掛け声まで出しやがって。無言でいきなり火炎瓶でも投げてこられた方がもっと対応し難いわ。俺が言っている意味がわかるか?」
問いかけられても、まるで金縛りにでもあっているかのように指一本動かせずに震えているだけの魔法使いを見て、一二三は深々とため息をついた。
苛立たしげに十手を魔法使いの目に叩きつけ、痙攣して死に向かう相手に興味を無くした一二三は、残っているホーラント兵たちに向き直った。
視線を向けられた兵たちは、思わず後ずさる。
火は完全に燃え移り、元あった灯りよりも燃え盛る壁をじわじわと登っていく炎が明るい。
「何のために、わざわざマ・カルメたちをこの国に派遣したと思ってる? お前らがもっとマシな戦いができるようにだろうが。お前らも」
剣を持った兵士たちを指差した時、一二三はもう怒りの表情を隠そうともしていない。
「馬鹿みたいに剣を振り回すだけじゃねぇか。いい加減腹が立つ。俺がどんだけ我慢して、殺さずに育てる選択をしたかわかってんのか。戦い方を教えて広めるためだけじゃないぞ。強い奴が増えたら危機感を持って鍛えようって奴が増えるのを期待してたんだ。戦い方を工夫して、新しい魔法やら新しい武器やらが出てきて、命がけの争いが始まるのを期待したんだ」
次第に語気が強まるのを、ホーラント兵たちは震えながら聞いている。
「時間が無かったか? まだ戦う準備ができていないのか? じゃあなんで攻撃した。なぜ逃げようともしない?」
腰から刀を抜く。
炎の揺らめきが、刀身を怪しく輝かせる。
「ふざけるなよ、本当に。この世界、これだけ人を殺すのに恵まれた世界で、お前らは一体何をやっていたんだ。まだヒントが足りないのか? それとも、目の間で誰かが死なないとわからんのか?」
興奮し、熱い息を吐いた一二三は、切っ先で巨人兵の死体を差した。
「あれはいい。あれもホーラントが魔法を研究した結果だろう。あれを倒すのにアリッサは頭を捻った。道具を使い、必要な技術を学び、倒すことができた。最初は俺もそれなりに手こずったからな。だが、それだけか?」
切っ先は、兵士たちへと向けられる。
「ひょっとして、それだけを頼りに戦争を起こしたのか? 殺し合いの決着がそんな簡単に終わるとでも思ったのか?」
鼻から息を吸い込み、口から吐く。
「選べ。鍛えた証明を俺と戦って示すか、逃げ出して俺の言葉をお前らの親玉に伝えるか」
さあ、と一二三が一歩だけ踏み出したところで、残ったホーラント兵は全員が背中を向けて逃げ出した。
その姿を見て、一二三は深いため息をついた。
刀を納め、息を整えて気配を消した一二三は、必死で逃げてゆく兵士たちの後をそっと尾行し始めた。
Chapter 141: Wild World
As the room, which Alyssa entered, was apparently a storage, it was simple to leave outside the storage as it wasn't locked either.
At the time when she looked from the outside she thought that the building had four floors, but outside the cramped storage with its piles of wooden boxes the ceiling has become high as if it was the hall of a castle. She was barely able to perceive that with the faint light existing inside the room.
"Judging by the impression from outside, it has at least one more floor on top."
One of the soldiers mutters and Alyssa nods.
"That means... uwah..."
Once they move while carefully checking the situation in the vicinity of the storage, they discovered a huge cage.
Iron bars with a thickness at the level of Alyssa's waist are forming a grid. Inside, where light mostly doesn't reach, a giant soldier, who is sleeping while leaning his back against the wall, is dimly visible.
There are two cages.
Alyssa is troubled at this point.
If we get rid of the giant soldier here and now, it will probably become quite easy even if we proceed towards the capital city of Horant from here on.
However, even though we have done preparations to deal with them, it's not definitely certain that we can win against a giant soldier with 3 people.
A change takes place while she is groaning.
"It's a fire! Everyone, wake up!"
It's from the neighbouring building, I guess?
Did he hear that voice? The sleeping giant soldier was stirring restlessly.
"Let's hide for the moment!" (Alyssa)
Upon Alyssa's decision, they return to in front of the storage, disappear in the darkness and watch the state of affairs.
It seems like the other 3 units have set fire quickly. There are angry roars and sounds of a crowd of people coming and going outside the building.
Once she looks in the direction of the cage, the giant soldier, who appears to be completely awake now, stretches his tall figure, which gives the impression of being about to reach the ceiling, and surveys his surroundings while looking displeased.
At this moment, two people, appearing to be magicians of Horant, rush into the place while panting (were they on the floor above?).
"Let's release the reinforced soldier!"
"No, controlling him with just us two is..."
"If he is burnt to death due to the spread of fire, it will be our responsibility, won't it!? Moreover, this is an enemy attack! I will open the lock!"
The man, who rebuked his colleague's indecisive attitude in one go, yells [Stay obedient!]  towards the giant soldier while opening a part of the iron bars with a magic tool-like key.
While having stood up sluggishly, the giant looks down on Horant's magicians with blank eyes which held no emotions.
Seeing that situation, Alyssa turned around to her comrades.
"It will be bad if that one's released, right? Let's go." (Alyssa)
Alyssa, who jumped out with a force similar to being flicked away without waiting for an answer, headed towards the man who tried to stop her and stabbed him with the wakizashi just as she rammed into him.
"Nnggh?"
Once Alyssa, who confirmed his death as his voice leaks out from his throat, turns her gaze towards the other man. She saw the figure of the magician struggling while being held in an eagle grip by the giant soldier in front of her perplexed comrades.
He was apparently caught just as he opened the cage.
"R-Release me, this..."
The magician, who was drenched in sweat due to pain and fear, frantically tries to make the giant soldier stop, but the giant soldier sluggishly tries to bend himself forward from the cage while grabbing the magician.
"Both of you, take some distance and prepare for combat! Get that ready!" (Alyssa)
While issuing instructions to her comrades, Alyssa intentionally used a loud voice to attract the attention of the giant soldier.
Verifying that the giant soldier's gaze slowly turned her way, she stands in a conspicuous place where the light shines and prepares the wakizashi in her right hand.
Cold sweat traces down her cheeks.
Her body was still made to tremble by the scariness of the time when she was knocked down from atop her horse, but the shivering calmed down with only the strong sensation of holding her wakizashi in her right hand.
Just as her image of the time when Hifumi provoked his opponents, she displayed a smile while mimicking him.
Did he get angry due to that? The giant soldier threw the magician of Horant, he held, towards Alyssa.
"Bubehh."
Being slapped against the wall, the magician, who leaked a voice similar to a frog, smashed down the wooden wall and left by rolling outside.
Alyssa doesn't take her eyes off the giant soldier even while dodging the rolling magician sideways.
In the middle of the confrontation Alyssa heard the voices of her comrades.
"We will use a net!"
In the next instant a large net fell upon the giant soldier.
Alyssa dashes while carrying her wakizashi towards the giant soldier who raises groans in irritation as he pulls at the net which got entwined by him struggling.
They had Sabnak concede a share of the net which was spread out as spear protection in the defence encampment. It is a net used for fishing with weights attached at its edges and small eyes.
"If I remember correctly, at the time when Hifumi-san killed it..." (Alyssa)
What Alyssa is aiming for are the feet of the giant soldier who is visible from below the net. The bare toes, which aren't protected by armour, are slightly dirty. Thick nails have grown just like a beast.
With the wakizashi, she firmly held in both hands, she completely cut off the toes from their root at the side of the little toe.
Only the big toe was saved by the obstruction of the bone, but just as his toes were scattered about while the stumps shed blood, the giant soldier fell on his backside.
Taking distance while slipping through the log-like arm which the giant soldier swung precisely even as he was writhing and getting entangled by the net, Alyssa grind her teeth.
"This didn't get through." (Alyssa)
She glares at the giant soldier who is moving around restlessly while sitting.
Her comrades, who cast the net, have drawn their weapons and are slashing at the giant soldier, but the giant soldier doesn't look like he is faltering either.
Imitating Hifumi, Alyssa planned to aim for the head or neck after the giant was made to fall down, but even in the state of sitting, the giant's head is twice as high as Alyssa's height.
While watching as the net is gradually becoming worn-out due to the giant's superhuman strength, Alyssa wonders whether there isn't anything they can do and searches her pocket and the interior of her rucksack with her free left hand. There she found the shuriken.
"It's something I almost never used, but if I remember correctly, it goes with such feeling." (Alyssa)
Mimicking Origa, she sheathes the wakizashi, prepares the shuriken in her right hand and throws them while making sure to stretch her arm in front.
The largely off shuriken pierces the wall on the opposite side while making a sound of *clonk*.
While groaning she throws the second one.
This one stabs into the face of the giant soldier. He approaches Alyssa by slouching while seeming to be very unhappy.
"Once more!" (Alyssa)
This time she throws it with a large swing using all her strength.
The shuriken moved quickly and stabbed into the giant soldier's left eye with a force of getting deeply buried into it.
Having all of a sudden lost half of his visual field, the giant soldier wriggles in a confused state while holding down his face.
"Director!"
"Aim for the arms!" (Alyssa)
Grasping the wakizashi once again, Alyssa gives directions to her comrades.
The two soldier of Fokalore, who responded to it swiftly, respectively cut at the wrist of both arms, with which the giant soldier holds his face, using their swords.
The giant soldier, who collapsed facing upwards, swung his arms and Alyssa leapt in as substitute for the soldiers who were warded off.
"This is the end!" (lyssa)
She drove her wakizashi very deeply targeting the eye which had been crushed by the shuriken.
Being pushed by the wakizashi's tip, the shuriken reached the brain.
With the remaining right eye being widely opened, the giant soldier stopped moving.
"Director, you did it!"
Alyssa, who wiped off her sweat and turned towards her cheering comrades with a smile, already saw flames rising from the hole in the wall, where the magician was thrown at, once she lifted her face wondering whether they should go to look for the documents on the floor above.
"It's terrible. Everyone, let's give up on the documents and escape! We might get surrounded by the fire if we went upstairs!" (Alyssa)
"U-Understood!"
Horant's soldiers are moving about in confusion in the vicinity of the buildings which are still burning brightly outside.
Alyssa, who decided to escape by taking advantage of that chaos, took a glance at the fallen and dead giant soldier and left the building behind.
"Well, a passing mark, I guess?" (Hifumi)
Hifumi, who observed the combat style of Alyssa from the stairway continuing to the upper floor, suddenly lifted the edges of his mouth and smiled.
Setting aside her physical ability, it's unacceptable for her to miss with the shuriken, but she created a method to kill her enemy, gave proper instructions and was even able to deal with irregularities. In case of a battle in this world up until now, there was no way to cope with an opponent, who excelled in physical ability, if there was no magic, I guess.
Choosing his "weak point," Alyssa used it effectively.
Also, watching Hifumi's way of doing things, she picked up the parts she can do herself and implemented them. This was also something he valued highly.
"Well then, shall I go to the next target location as well?" (Hifumi)
Hifumi sends a fleeting glance behind.
Five corpses of soldiers from Horant were scattered around on the second floor. Having been killed with a single stroke, all of them wore a confused expression due to not understanding what happened to them.magic
Hifumi clicks his tongue once.
"Although it's for the sake of confirming the results, my stress keeps piling up..." (Hifumi)
When he was venting complaints while tapping the guard of his katana with a finger, several soldiers of Horant rushed into the lower floor after Alyssa withdrew from there.
"This is... the reinforced soldier has been done in?"
"The fellow outside is dead as well. Anyway, this place will be abandoned! If he's already dead, it cannot be helped!"
Hifumi jumps down towards the soldiers who are discussing the circumstances.
A single soldier is flattened after having Hifumi's knee being driven on top of his shoulder. Since Hifumi grabbed the soldier's head while at it, he broke the neck by twisting it backwards and the soldier instantly died after being thrown onto the ground while Hifumi made sure to crush his upper body including the collarbone.
"Wha-, W-Who are you?"
"Ah~... let's see. A suspicious person, that's about it." (Hifumi)
Hifumi, who stood up slowly, places his back against the iron bars while staying idle.
"This!"
Avoiding the sword which was swung down from an overhead position, he delivers a kick from the side and with the sword being stuck in-between the bars, the soldier fell over while being unarmed.
"You have to fight after properly examining your surroundings." (Hifumi)
Once he tramples down with his entire foot on top of the breast armour with a *bam*, the soldier vomits blood and dies.
Hifumi lightly swings the jitte, which he took out from his pocket, towards the sword which was pushed forth by another soldier.
The sword, which got hooked with only that, left the hands of the soldier.
Once the soldier was dumbfounded by having suddenly snatched away his sword from his palm, his own sword was thrown aiming for his throat.
Was there a magician mixed in?
However, Hifumi stared at the conflagration with cold eyes and knocked down the fireball with his left hand which had a glove.
"Yo."
Hifumi slowly got close to the shocked magician and hit the face of his opponent with his palm in the same manner as he knocked down the fireball just now.
"Hii!"
Standing right next to the head of the magician who collapsed due to the impact, Hifumi looks down at him.
"Something like a fireball that merely comes flying in a straight line can be dealt with completely even if you hurl 100 of them at me." (Hifumi)
"Therefore", Hifumi points at the magician with his left hand.
"What you are doing isn't any different from throwing with stones. Not to mention that you even release a yell. The way of suddenly throwing a Molotov cocktail in silence is a lot harder to deal with. Do you understand the meaning of what I'm saying?" (Hifumi)
Looking at the magician who is simply trembling without even moving a single finger as if his hands and feet are completely bound, even when being questioned, Hifumi sighed very deeply.
Striking the eyes of the magician with the jitte in irritation, Hifumi, who lost interest in the other party who is convulsing and heading towards death, turned around towards the remaining soldiers of Horant.
The soldiers, who had that gaze turned on them, step back instinctively.
The fire has completely spread. The flame, which is slowly creeping up the wall while burning, is brighter than the original light.
"For what reason do you think I deliberately dispatched Ma Carne's unit to this country? It's so that you lot can fight a lot better, isn't it? You guys as well." (Hifumi)
When he pointed at the soldiers holding their swords, Hifumi didn't try to hide his expression of anger anymore.
"Are you only going to wield your swords like idiots? Your half-assed way makes me angry. Do you understand how much patience it took to choose to teach you without killing you? Teaching you the way how to fight isn't just for popularizing it. I had hoped that the guys, who try to train while possessing a sense of danger, will increase if the number of strong people grows. I anticipated ingenious scheming how to to fight, the appearance of new spells and weapons and the start of conflicts where lives are at risk." (Hifumi)
With his tone getting gradually stronger, the soldiers of Horant are trembling while listening.
"Wasn't there enough time? Weren't you able to prepare for fighting yet? Then, why did you attack? Why don't you try to run away?" (Hifumi)
He draws the katana from his waist.
The flames are flickering, but the katana's blade is shining dangerously.
"Don't mess around, really. Just what the hell were you doing in this world that is blessed by killing this many people? Are there still not enough people? Or, do you not understand unless someone dies between your eyes?" (Hifumi)
Hifumi, who breathed out intensely and excitedly, pointed at the corpse of the giant soldier with the katana's tip.
"Those are great. Those are likely the result of researching magic in Horant. Alyssa wrecked her brain how to defeat those. Using tools and learning the necessary technique, she was able to kill him. At first even I had quite the hard time. But, is that all?" (Hifumi)
The katana's tip is turned towards the soldiers.
"By any chance, did you start a war while relying on no more than that? Did you even think that the conclusion of the killing will be reached that easily?" (Hifumi)
Sucking in breath through his nose, he breathes it out through his mouth.
"Choose. Will you fight with me to prove that you trained? Or will you escape and convey my words to your boss?" (Hifumi)
"Hurry up", at the moment made a single step forward, all of the remaining soldiers of Horant turned their back on him and ran away.
Watching their figures, Hifumi sighed deeply.
Sheathing his katana, Hifumi, who put his breathing in order and erased his presence, started to quietly tail behind the soldiers who were running away frantically.
Summoned Slaughterer
呼び出された殺戮者
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