Chapter 151 – #32_Debtor’s Witch (6)
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One.
“Balance!”
As soon as the homunculus was located, Sharon hugged the wand and memorized her incantation.
A large green emerald adorning the tip of the wand emits light and spreads waves around it.
The waves of the barrier, copying and overwriting the surrounding landscape as if it were melting, immediately engulfed the area.
It was the first time she had ever seen a witch use a barrier, so she was a little curious.
Sharon glances at the compass and sets her course.
Without saying a word, she jumps up and kicks the walls and the outer walls of the building, then lightly climbs onto the roof like a nimble cat.
“What are you doing? Gotta go fast!”
How to say
Seeing her bouncing around with such light movements, she immediately thought, ‘Can I do something like that?’
But she couldn’t make me wait any longer.
Siwoo wrapped her entire body in armor and gathered her mana on the tip of her toe and jumped up with all her might and landed next to Sharon.
Sharon looks at her compass, she says.
“I think it’s near that parking tower.”
“But do you really need to change clothes?”
Siu asked.
In her own case, her shadow armor serves both defense and physical enhancement, but Sharon doesn’t seem to have changed at first glance except for her wand.
“Evergreen’s magnetic magic is elemental magic that is manifested through consciousness. Even the robe is so important that it is part of magic.”
Is this the coolness of an expert?
Sharon’s face, shining dignifiedly under the wide-brimmed witch’s hat, showed no signs of a creditor with tears for every penny.
I can only feel the dignity of a mature witch who has gone through her rough world.
Trustworthy
“I’ll lead the way, so be careful and follow me.”
“Okay.”
Sharon stamped her feet and she used her water lizard step (probably) to hop alternately over her roof and over power poles toward her parking tower.
Strengthening her body using her magical powers also strengthens it, but apart from that, her sense of balance seems to be excellent.
Meanwhile, there was a subtle tension in her.
Siu wasn’t used to fighting or hunting yet.
It’s only natural that I’ve been involved in accidents a few times.
Since he did not know how dangerous the homunculus he would encounter this time was, he had no choice but to be a little afraid.
“…Because I said I would.”
But no one forced it.
It was he who was determined to do what he could to prevent civilian casualties.
I have no plans to change my words now.
– Schwak!
A large wing of shadow blooms behind Siwoo’s back.
I followed Sharon and glided through her night streets.
The wind brushing her ears, the freedom from her gravity and cutting through the night air like a single bird made her heart flutter.
However, the time to enjoy the flight was not long.
The range in which the compass can detect the distortion of space is 150M, because it faced a homunculus before long.
An elevator-type parking tower made to make the most of the cramped land area in a downtown area where there is no place to park.
As Sharon said, the homunculus was hanging from a parking tower that looked like a complex steel structure as a jungle gym.
Sharon, who naturally thought she would have started her hunt first.
She stands still and looks at the current situation.
Because there was obviously something odd about it.
“What?”
“Why?”
“Look at that.”
Siwoo turns her eyes to where Sharon pointed her fingertip.
There, I saw a homunculus growling while looking down.
It had exactly the same appearance as the monster I had encountered the other day in Citizens Park and on the Rooftop of History.
When the memory of eating the man’s corpse in a public park overlaps, my eyes are furrowed involuntarily.
“Uh?”
Siu, who was looking at the parking tower with his eyes narrowed, confirmed the anomaly that Sharon had noticed first.
There is not just one homunculus.
A total of three homunculi are each approaching Sharon from the parking tower.
“Three?”
“Now is not the time to think about things.”
“Can you deal with them all alone?”
“I am watching you.”
Sharon fluttered the hem of her cloak to her side and held something in her hand.
It is bottled water in a 500mL plastic bottle.
Of course, I didn’t take it out because she was thirsty.
It was a ‘sacrifice’ to be offered to use elemental magic.
I don’t have the energy to prepare expensive sacrifices like before, so I have no choice but to lower the quality of the sacrifices as a temporary measure.
“It hurts.”
When Sharon pours water from a plastic bottle onto the floor, a magic circle emerges from there.
The water that fell to the floor immediately disappeared without a moment to wet the ground.
It was a mysterious sight that science could not explain.
In the tense air, light blue magic reflections began to flow.
At the same time, much more water than Sharon poured out of the dry asphalt formed a huge puddle.
It seems that a small pond has formed under Sharon’s feet.
-Krrrrrr…
-Kikiiik!
Was it stimulated by mana full of fighting spirit?
At the same time, the homunculus rushes at Sharon like a wild beast attacking her prey.
“They’re not the type to use complicated magic. It’s not difficult to deal with a homunculus that just pushes with its superior physical abilities.”
As Sharon raised her wand, a bulkhead the height of a three-story building instantly rose from the puddle at her feet.
It was a huge barrier like a tsunami, made up of a mixture of compressed water and mana.
“It’s enough to hunt with greater physical strength.”
The homunculus, which had been rushing like an angry wild dog, hit a bulkhead that had risen suddenly and made a loud crashing sound, but the water wall only made a gentle wave and did not move.
When even Siu received the first blow, he lost his balance and fell to the ground.
Sharon didn’t even raise an eyebrow while being attacked by the three at the same time.
“And remember. No matter how formidable a homunculus might seem…”
And Sharon’s wand drew a small circle in the air.
The water walls also changed shape, as if responding to the conductor’s commands.
A huge wall of water floated in the air and formed a sphere.
The water pressure inside the sphere, compressed and compressed to about half its size, is probably higher than anywhere in the deep sea on Earth.
“…Don’t be vigilant and do your best.”
– Hiss hiss hisss hisss
As soon as the tip of the wand touched the ground, a shrieking sound resounded dozens of times, like swinging a cane.
Dozens of ultra-high-pressure water streams extending from the compressed sphere of water were whipped like whips.
The change happened so quickly that I couldn’t even see it if Siwoo didn’t have eyes that read magic.
The water flow, sharpened with a weight heavier than mercury, shattered the body of the homunculus into pieces.
It is so sharp and neat that even though the blade cuts deep into the asphalt along with the body of the monster, there is not even a trace of the cut, let alone dirt.
“Wow….”
Siu looked at the body of the homunculus that had been slaughtered in an instant with a bewildered expression.
He wasn’t hunting recklessly like Siwoo.
With neat and refined magic, it hunts with exactly the required efficiency.
Even with this neat treatment, Sharon’s expression did not show any hint of pride or pride.
However, behind her nonchalant attitude, as if she had done the right thing, she showed a hint of disapproval.
“Sorry, I wanted to tell you more about hunting. I think something is strange.”
“What?”
“Strange. It’s strange no matter how you think about it.”
Sharon neatly reverse summoned the water floating in her air and touched her chin.
2.
For the first time, she saw the scene when the barrier was lifted, and she was very surprised.
It wasn’t just her asphalt road and homunculus that Sharon’s blow cut.
The parking tower and street lights standing in that direction were also sharply cut off.
Because it was cut with a very neat cut, it just keeps its shape without collapsing.
Of course, it wasn’t long before she couldn’t handle her weight and collapsed like a misplaced Jenga with her block…
Anyway, the sight of a corner of the bustling downtown area being restored to its original state as if rewinding as the barriers were lifted gave me a sense of awe.
Should I say it’s like magic spread by the great Duke Keter?
After rummaging through the homunculus corpse to retrieve the crystal, Sharon and Siu changed their clothes and headed to a nearby pub.
“……”
Siwoo ordered two cold draft beers and chicken.
While she waited for the chicken to be served with the beer that came out first, Sharon was deep in thought with her chin resting on her chin with a serious expression.
“What’s the big deal?”
When she said that she would serve a late-night snack, there was no expression of Sharon’s joy as if she had won the lottery.
Seeing her complicated appearance, Siwoo cautiously asked.
“Uh? Oh sorry. I sat in front of you and stayed blank.”
“That’s fine.”
“Didn’t you say that the homunculus you saw on the mountain looked just like the ones you saw earlier?”
“Oh, is that weird?”
Sharon briskly poured about half of her draft beer and tapped her on the table.
“Originally, each homunculus has a different appearance. But I’ve caught 6 of them so far. If you include what you hunted today and what you caught, you mean that there are more than 10 of the same individual, right?”
“Does that matter?”
It’s a question that Siwoo, who has just started hunting homunculus, doesn’t feel much about.
Is it so unusual that there is a homunculus of the same type?
“No, right now all I can say is that something is wrong. Maybe I’m oversensitive… I’ll have to go to the location point tomorrow and share information.”
A location point…
I wonder where it will be
However, it was also true that he was reluctant to go directly.
I wondered if it was necessary to set foot first in a place where exiles would be swarming.
“Fried, seasoned, and soy garlic combo came out.”
The long-awaited chicken came out.
Sharon, who had been chewing on the agenda with utmost care until now, opened her eyes at the smell of her savory fried batter.
She looks at her chicken with sparkling eyes as if a person has changed.
If Siwoo was Sharon’s boyfriend, she had such a hot gaze towards Chicken that she would be jealous.
Siwoo picked up a chicken leg and put it on the plate in front of Sharon.
“There’s no need to worry about buying it in advance, so let’s enjoy this for now.”
“Yes!”
Since it was just fried, it would be quite hot, but I didn’t mind at all and took a bite full of chicken legs.
Seeing Sharon like that, Siwoo smiled wryly.
It was because it didn’t match the way he lightly slaughtered the homunculus earlier.
“Whoa… Whoa… Whoa…! This is chicken… The ones I ate at the convenience store weren’t chicken…!”
Real Korean chicken gave Sharon, who had been eating leftover chicken legs until now, a fresh shock.
To be honest, I didn’t really like the chicken sold in pieces at convenience stores because the batter wasn’t crispy and it smelled like chicken.
I felt like I knew how the chicken I eat here goes so well with beer, and how Koreans turn their eyes to each other while doing chicken and beer.
Innovation in taste!
Juicy chicken legs were an Eldorado that brought out the golden taste, and beer that was cold enough to make one’s head frown was a gas station for a tired soul.
“Eat slowly.”
“Thank you…! Thank you for buying me something so delicious!”
Shiwu subtly collects all the chicken legs and puts them on a plate in front of him, and Sharon munches the chicken while shouting exclamations.
At this moment, even the strange homunculus and huge debts were put on the back burner.
Siwoo ordered two more chickens for Sharon, and the two talked back and forth until late in the morning.
Is it because of the long-awaited happiness?
Sharon didn’t notice at all.
That her tragedy, unimaginable to her today, awaits her tomorrow’s her,
That this world is infinitely heartless and cruel to the weak,
I didn’t know.
