Chapter 47 – Arrest – 3
– Swoop!
Draw a trajectory
Chloe’s sword cut through the air. A trajectory drawn in a neat circle. The softly drawn lines, as if brush stroked on the campus, leave their mark on the world as they are.
A blue line engraved along the trajectory.
The line reached the bald merchant’s arm.
In a fleeting moment. The bald merchant who realized this belatedly looked at the arm where the line touched.
“Uh?”
The bald merchant put on a dumbfounded expression.
The distance between Chloe and the merchant was so far that it was doubtful that even a grown man could reach it even if he threw it.
Is that why I was careless?
Even though he knew that people with magical powers were unusual and nonsensical beings, the prejudice of distance in his heart made him careless.
-Chwaaaaagh!
“… Uh?”
The bald merchant’s arm was cut off. From his shoulder to his elbow. As if eating a piece of cake, his arm fell off as if it had been cut off with a knife.
The arm that fell to the ground reacted with fingers twitching as if it had continued to run. The bald merchant stared at the broken arm below his shoulder, looking at the arm on the ground with a dumbfounded expression, as if he didn’t know what had happened.
– Pop, pop!
Drops of blood falling drop by drop.
It was only then that he realized that his arm had been severed, and blood gushed from the very neatly cut shoulder. Bright red muscles that twitch and the nerves respond. And the smooth cut white bones are revealed.
The bald merchant’s face, which had only belatedly recognized about the fact that had happened in an instant, began to change in fear, and he screamed as his expression changed.
“Aaaaagh!”
The bald merchant’s scream echoed through the quiet alleyway as the pain turned his head white.
Looking at it, Chloe moved his steps.
Dark alley. Where the bald merchant’s screams echoed, Chloe slowly approached the merchant with her sword in hand.
“Noisy.”
-Months!
As if swinging his hand at a flying insect.
Chloe’s hand disappeared again.
A black line drawn in the air again. As the trajectory led, the blue line split the air along the trajectory, leaving its mark on the world, and the moment it touched the bald merchant’s other arm, even that arm was cut off, spurting blood.
-Chwaaaaagh!
“Turn it off!”
Blood gushing out like a fountain. The bald merchant’s eyes rolled over and the scream emanating from his throat was more difficult to describe as a scream. He let out moans that would no longer be thought of as human screams and wriggled like an insect while lying on the floor covered in blood oozing from his severed arms.
Looking at the bald merchant, Chloe slowly approached.
“This. I will die.”
His eyes roll over, and Chloe raises her sword as she stares coldly at the man who, lying on the ground, barely responds with a flinch.
The blue magic flowing from her body began to dwell in her sword.
Healing techniques are still in the process of learning.
As Chloe muttered, she channeled her magic power into her sword and stabbed it into the shoulder of her bald merchant while holding the blue-tinged sword.
– Fu-wook!
“Turn it off!”
It is a bald merchant who barely responds by screaming in pain from being stabbed in the shoulder by a sword, but if you look closely, you can see that the blood flowing from his severed arm has gradually decreased.
But the pain doesn’t go away. Rather, as he is being healed, he is about to lose consciousness due to extreme pain, but his lost mind is forcibly returned by the magic that heals his body.
The bald merchant was forced to wake up without being able to escape from Chloe’s punishment.
“Kkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeukkkeuk !”
“I got angry and cut it right away, but luckily I didn’t get shocked.”
His anger is not subdued enough to kill him with only two cuts. Chloe waited for the insect to slowly come to her senses with cold eyes.
“Oh, cool! How… !”
“What do you mean?”
-Puck!
The iron-reinforced shoes stamped on the bald merchant’s face.
“Aww!”
Chloe’s shoes smashed his face. Even so, the bald merchant’s face was slowly recovering with the magical energy injected through the sword shoved into his shoulder.
“Sah, save me… Cool!”
“Who said you were going to kill me? Look at it now, are you treating it?”
Back.
The sword stabbing his shoulder dug a little further.
No blood gushed out from the puncture site. It’s because the sword is treating that part as it goes in.
“Sah, live… ! Help me!”
“So you said you wouldn’t kill me?”
Chloe listened to the bald merchant’s words and pulled the knife from the merchant’s shoulder.
“Ugh!”
As the sword was pulled out, she suffered again from the carved wound, ignoring the merchant who was wriggling like a bug.
-Chwaaaaagh!
“Turn it off!”
It was possible to cut only the clothes without touching the skin, but Chloe cut off the skin thinly, causing pain to the merchant, and then looked at the small box in her arms.
It was a simple blue jewel on the outside, but in Chloe’s eyes, she could feel the shimmering magic within the jewel.
Magic stone. It was a magic stone the size of an adult man’s fist. It is superior. The quality would have to be investigated, but it seemed to be of high quality just by looking at it roughly.
There, the magical power sealed in it. Something that is sealed to prevent leakage. It is so secretly sealed that you can only feel it when you look at it up close. Moreover, the power of magical power that can be felt.
“Aristocratic. At least the magical power possessed by the title…”
Chloe’s eyebrows twitched.
No matter how you think about it, this is not something that the master of the slave guild would have.
Magic stone.
A mysterious stone that can store magical power. Its uses are diverse. So many different, dangerous things.
In some cases, an object that is dangerous enough to be directly managed by the owner of the country or territory. However, there are actually very few cases like that. Magic crystals of that quality are not easily released on the market.
In the case of small-sized magic crystals, even wealthy merchants can obtain them. In the case of items called magic stones, which are small magic stones known as fragments of magic stones, adventurers often use them.
But this is different.
Stuff like this. It’s definitely not something a single merchant would carry around.
Chloe’s expression frowned. The magical power felt from the magic stone. At this level, the power of the upper nobility was evident.
“Count… ? Marquis class? It probably won’t belong to the duchy or royalty.”
Judging from the magical power she felt, even if she recalled the magical power of other nobles Chloe knew, nothing could be guessed. So, at least it’s not Southern stuff.
Is it something belonging to the nobility of Gryutus? Are you stealing this and running away?
In fact, with a magic stone of this quality, it wouldn’t be strange if he developed such greed, and he had to run away with his life. However, according to her owner, Leoric Franz, there is something more important than this magic stone that is being sealed.
If so, it means that this item did not come over from Gryutus. Of course, bringing this object in secret was itself a crime worthy of being decapitated. If this was the capital, it wouldn’t be strange to be called treason.
Glance.
Chloe’s gaze turned to the bald merchant’s face from the magic crystal placed on his chest.
Frightened face. Eyes full of fear. Looking at the merchant’s face, a cold voice flowed from Chloe’s mouth.
“Where did you get it?”
“Huh, hee… !”
The bald merchant’s face, drenched in tears, runny nose, saliva, sweat, and blood, distorted at Chloe’s voice. Without his arms, there’s no way he’ll roll on the floor and say the right words. Chloe’s shoes took a picture of the bald merchant’s face again, as if she was so frightened that she couldn’t even speak properly.
– Kwajik!
“Where did you get it? What is the hidden object? Where is your destination?”
“Sah, save me… !”
Don’t you understand what i’m saying Chloe sighed, suppressing the irritation that welled up in her chest at the merchant who had been repeatedly begging for help.
It seems difficult to get a proper answer to this condition. It’s not that I don’t have feelings of wanting to torment you a little more, but what’s important now is to take the merchant, the head of this group, and return to the master.
Thinking so, Chloe immediately decided to take the bald merchant back.
“… Would cutting off the legs make it lighter?”
“Hee, hee hee!”
Eyes as if looking at the baggage itself. When the bald merchant was startled and terrified by Chloe’s gaze, Chloe laughed and tried to drag the merchant by the legs with her magic-enhanced physical abilities.
“Before that, seal this magic stone…”
A dangerous object that may burst at any moment.
Even if it was safe for now, it was dangerous to walk around the city with this object. Just as Chloe reached out and was about to pick up the magic stone.
-Kiyiing!
Light flowed from the magic crystal.
