Chapter 35 – Port City (11)
Maril and Roxia, who headed to the night market to get vegetables, have been pursued by a group of people who have been following them ever since they left the guest house.
Marill, who noticed that she was being followed before she knew it, tried to head to a crowded road while evading the pursuers, but the passers-by on the road they were going to were chased far away by other gang members.
And now, the situation began to deteriorate to the extent that Roxia could feel that the number of people passing by had noticeably decreased.
“Sister Marill…”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Let’s go to the other side of the street this time. If you just pass through there, you’ll arrive at a market full of people, so it’ll be okay.”
Marill, who had been keeping her smile on her face to reassure Roxia, who looked uneasy in her expression and gestures, saw the people standing in her way, and she couldn’t keep her smile any longer. There was no
Two stern men with bulging eyes who can’t make a good impression even with empty words.
“…”
The eyes of the two men who were pulling out the blue blades from their scabbards were clearly hostile, as if they hadn’t even thought to hide their purpose.
The two women tried to go back to the way they came from, but they saw three men approaching slowly, each holding their own weapon, touching them in a similar way to the guys blocking the way.
“…Anything is fine, so prepare your attack magic while taking the time.”
“…Yes.”
Whispering softly to Loxia at her side as she drew the sword and shield from her waist, Marill shouted at the men approaching from both sides.
“You guys… What the hell?!”
Among the men approaching her question, the one with a particularly stern face thanks to a crooked nose that was hard to distinguish from a wild boar opened his mouth as the representative.
“Our boss, Mr. Petrog, asked me to bring you all. If you follow me, it will be very comfortable for both of you.”
“I don’t know when the meaning of the word ‘serve politely’ changed to ‘bringing a weapon and threatening to bring it by force,’ but am I lacking in common sense?”
The snub-nosed smiled at Marill’s sarcasm and responded by raising the blade of her ax menacingly.
Hehe, it seems that you lack common sense in the underworld. Lady, you’re treating me very politely at this level.”
“Will you give up if I politely decline?”
“Then we shouldn’t be in trouble. Even if it hurts a little, we have no choice but to bring it.”
Although they predicted it in advance, Marill and Roxia, convinced that they could not avoid the battle situation, sneaked back toward the alley behind them.
It was an act that could be criticized as a foolish act of voluntarily eliminating the way to retreat, but it was an action with the thought that it would be much better to fight with your back to the wall than to be attacked from both sides like this.
“Well… I thought it would end like this anyway. Guys, you know that you shouldn’t cut off your limbs or touch your face, right?
“Ancient!”
The organizers followed the two women side by side in formation, two, two, one by one, to enter the narrow alley. I was well aware that this was a dead-end road, so there was no need to rush.
… Moments later, at the end of the alley, it was Roxia waiting with her wand raised and Marill standing by her side.
Whoa-
This was the first time Roxia used magic with the intention of attacking people, and her hands were trembling, but with the mindset of meeting the master who was waiting for her at the inn again, she adjusted her breathing as much as possible and cast the magic she had prepared in advance. Did.
The one she chose was the first offensive magic she had learned from her teacher, Merim, and it had the most intuitive effect…
“Fireball!”
A scorching flame rose from the tip of Loxia’s wand. The fireball grew to the size of a human head and flew towards the leader.
In such a narrow alley, there is no space to escape, so avoiding is impossible.
Chii profit…
However, the ice shield that appeared in front of the organization member’s eyes offset the fireball fired by Loxia. Looking closely, I saw a skinny member at the back of the members, holding his cane high.
“I guess they were treating us as idiots too much… Just like you guys were preparing in advance, we also prepared for magic. Go!”
Tsupat!
When the upturned nose shouted, the two people in the lead jumped in at once.
Roxia was about to cast the next spell right away, but due to her nervousness about the actual battle, her magic took a little longer to complete.
Until then, it was up to her warrior, Marill, to buy her time, and she stood in front of Loxia, spinning her head over how to act.
Unlike usual, since he is wearing thin clothes rather than armor, he has no choice but to block incoming attacks with his sword and shield or avoid them with his reflexes.
However, Marill chose a much bolder attack than usual.
As long as the other party was in a position to fully capture them, they decided to put aside concerns about fatal injuries.
“Haaaaa!!”
After lightly swinging his sword once to make the two men who were about to jump hesitate, he charged at the nearest one with the buckler he was holding like a knuckle. It is a physical attack that completely gives up defense.
As if he hadn’t expected the attack to be as reckless as this, the reaction of the guy caught off guard was one beat slow. The assault was excellent.
The buckler she’s wearing now is smaller than the one she used before, but it’s small enough to cover only the weak points, but it’s also more portable and made of solid steel, so it’s more sturdy.
A solid shield can be an excellent weapon.
Like right now
Kwajik!
“Turn it off…”
The middle part of the buckler protruding like a hump crushed the face of an organization member, causing several pieces of corn to fall, and he lost consciousness in an instant.
“Over Gravity!”
The member of the organization next to her belatedly tried to take advantage of Nama Maril’s gap, but the guy’s body hesitated momentarily.
It is because of the earth attribute magic that instantly makes her body heavy, perfected by Roxia, who regained her stability as Marill watched her fight.
The wizard in the rear belatedly fired several of her ice picks at Nama Loxia, but this time, in the exact opposite way as before, it was completely offset by the flames and wind emitted from Loxia’s wand, melting or flying away.
Through the experience of encountering magic during combat, which was the first time in his life, he quickly learned how to effectively deal with the opponent’s spells during battle.
“Because you’re such a damn bitch… Was it a triple?!”
The member of the wizarding organization, who can handle only one of her ice attributes, made an expression full of envy as she looked at Roxia, who was handling three attributes.
Marill smiled softly as a sign of thanks to Loxia, then turned her head and slashed her sword at the shoulder of the member under the influence of her magic.
Combining swordsmanship trained in real combat and innate muscle strength, the top attack cut through the gang member’s flesh, crushing her collarbone and even crushing her shoulder blades.
“…!!!”
The severely injured member of the organization fell to the ground and drooled.
Leaving aside whether or not that injury can ever recover, I won’t be able to fight again right away.
She is Marill, who is reluctant to see human blood, but she is now in a crisis situation with not only her own body but also a child to protect right next to her. There was no time to put a clumsy affection in her hand.
“Aww…!”
“Are you okay?!”
At that moment, when Marill swung her sword, an organization member aimed at her gap, and the blade was thrown sharply into Marill’s thigh.
“I’m fine… You focus on the spell.”
“Yes, four!”
The wound wasn’t deep enough to interfere with her battle, so after calming Loxia, she toughly pulled out her vido and looked at her remaining enemies.
Whoa… A combination of a rogue, a warrior, and a mage… Loxia is also helping me better than expected, and this is enough for the two of us to deal with.
Catching her breath, Marill is poised so that if her opponent pounces again, she can strike back at any moment… The members of the organization in front of them intermittently threw rain swords or blew ice to keep them in check for a long time, but did not rush at them.
It’s like there’s no need to rush any further.
As she looked at them, with a hopeless heart, she checked her belongings that she had just pulled out, and Marill realized that the tip of her veil was not only stained with her own blood, but also with her suspiciously glistening liquid. Got to figure it out.
It’s obviously poison. Poison of a kind that paralyzes the body, since it is intended to be captured alive.
As she belatedly tried to run into her gang, Marill unwittingly lost her balance and fell over due to her stiff legs.
“M-Sister Marill…!!”
The moment Roxia, who was holding her enemy’s magic in check while watching Marill fall, lost her concentration…
Hooked!
“Ahh!!!”
An unstoppable ice pick lodged in her slender shoulder.
Crew members sprinted toward the fallen Marill, disarming her as she flinched and tying her up with ropes. It’s not something you’ve done once or twice.
Roxia tried to stop them somehow, but she drained most of her mana holding her back during the battle. She also had trouble concentrating because of the pain her ice had dug into her shoulder.
“Whoa… It’s more difficult than I thought. You call the guys around you immediately and tell them to take the two fallen over there.”
“Yes, brother.”
Hearing the snub nose’s instructions, the thief-style gang member left the alley, and the wizard gang member started approaching Loxia with an arrogant expression.
“He has some talent, but he hasn’t built up much mana. She’s still just a baby… Huh?”
The gang member narrowed her eyes at the sight of the little wizard who had almost exhausted her mana and was rummaging through her backpack. .
“Little boy!! Stop it now!!! Stop you bitch!!!!”
Embarrassed by Roxia’s actions, the wizard swears at her and hastily started making blocks of ice. What I’m aiming for this time is the head, not the arms or legs. It was not a situation to pursue something like being captured alive.
After watching the wizard, the snub nose wanted to leave the fuss all of a sudden.
“Hey, what is that piece of paper that suddenly causes seizures?”
Upon hearing the snub nose’s words, the upset wizard screamed loudly, regardless of whether the other person was his older brother or Nabal.
“Ignorant bastard! That bitch is holding a scroll with magic stored in it! I don’t know what magic is written on that scroll, but I have to stop it right away!!”
Boo Woo Woo!
Despite the wizard’s cry, Roxia tore the scroll without hesitation. It was obvious that a thuggish wizard would be much quicker to tear a piece of paper than to complete a spell.
… Sorry. It was a gift from the owner, so I wanted to cherish it as much as possible, but I think now is the moment to use it.
Loxia, who apologized to her master from the bottom of her heart, recalled the conversation they had when she first received the scroll from Roden.
-Roxia, in my future life, I won’t be able to always be by your side. This is an insurance to prepare for the event that something dangerous happens that cannot be helped with your own strength.
-This… Parchment? How can I use it?
– It’s simple. You just have to tear it apart. Then, no matter what danger comes, it’s okay.
Before long, the scroll was completely torn. A complicated magic circle was carved in front of Roxia’s eyes, and smoke rose all around her.
When the smoke cleared, what Loxia could see was the back of her master holding her cleaver.
In a sudden situation, Roden found Loxia while looking around her, and as soon as he saw the ice awl stuck in her shoulder, she suddenly changed into a face like Evil God.
Then she looked at the likely suspect, the sorcerer. Just in time, seeing ice floating around him, I was sure it was the culprit.
“…What are you guys doing?”
It wasn’t a question he was specifically looking for an answer to, so he swung the cleaver he was holding into the air as he spoke.
Perhaps he had an unusual premonition that could not be expressed in words, the sorcerer intuitively felt that something was flying and made an ice shield by clumping together the ice gathered around him.
However, the sword wind that tore the ice shield created by the wizard members like paper cut his body in half like a watermelon on a summer day.
