Chapter 103 – …It hurts.
Chapter 101
We walked through the Milan Forest. While following the footprints of the monster that Estelle had discovered. After walking for a while, I finally began to see the tubes supplying nutrients to the nest.
“Looks like it’s around here.”
“Wait a minute, Abel.”
Estel, who followed slightly behind, grabbed me. She beckoned me to sit down.
“Why?”
I crouched in my seat and asked Estelle why. Then Estelle pointed in front of her and said.
“See over there? Things that look like trees but don’t look like trees.”
“…Yes?”
What riddle is it?
“Your field of view is still narrow♡ To escape from being a real crap, you need training to broaden your eyes~♡”
“So what are you talking about?”
“Hey, look closely at the trees in front. Is there something strange about it?”
“…Strange?”
It’s just a tree. What the hell…
“Huh?”
“Looks like you finally found it~♡”
Some of the trees were definitely strange. The tree trunk was moving up and down little by little, as if breathing.
“That is a monster called ‘Ent’ that belongs to the intermediate level monsters. They camouflage themselves in trees and hide, then attack and eat anything that approaches.”
“Oh…Then it could have been a big deal if I had approached without knowing.”
“Abel must have been swallowed by an Ent, right? Like an idiot♡”
…I can imagine something. The image of me screaming after being caught by the Ent. If it actually happened, I think it would have been disgraceful.
“Then shall we cut them all down?”
“Wait ♡ Because we need to figure out exactly how many Ents there are…”
Estelle looked around her and heard something in her. It was a decent sized boulder.
“If you throw a stone, it will happen by itself, right?”
“…Yes?”
“Celine, too. Eight♡”
Estelle threw a rock at the tree. Then the tree she threw shook greatly, and she revealed her true form.
It was a bit… Bizarre to see the large eyes and mouth exposed on the tree trunk. Are you nasty? Even if it’s not as good as the Agares-class monster I saw last time, it looks really ugly.
The Ent that was hit by the stone came this way, swinging its limbs that looked like tree branches and roots.
“Celine, throw it.”
“Yes, yes…”
“Abel, take care of the Ents coming this way. I can do that much now♡”
“Yes, I understand.”
I drew the holy sword. And he waited for the Ent, whom Estelle had first awakened by striking a stone, to approach.
…Now.
Suddenly!
Before Ent could react, he quickly cut off the body. Maybe it was because of his body that resembled a tree, and the feeling of cutting it was like cutting down a tree.
But looking at the blood pouring out that wouldn’t have come out if it was a tree… It’s definitely a monster.
Estelle and Celine kept throwing stones to lure the Ents, and I cut down the Ents that came. Since it was a mid-level monster, there was nothing difficult about cutting it.
“Yap, yap♡”
“…How long do I have to throw this away, saintess?”
“Until all the Ents come out~.”
…It looks like some pitcher is training to throw a ball. Celine seemed to have her arms aching, but Estelle didn’t show much of her tiredness. Why does the saintess have such good stamina?
Anyway, there were so many Ents. It would have been a big deal if I hadn’t really known. Although they are only intermediate level monsters, there are too many of them…
After slashing the last dragged Ent, I looked around and said to Estelle.
“…I don’t think it’s there anymore, Estelle?”
“Um, that’s right♡ then let’s keep following the coffin~♡”
“Yes.”
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Even after that, Estelle… Showed eccentric behavior. He harassed the monsters he met on the way to the nest, but he attracted aggro of the monsters in various ways, like a person who heard it was fun.
Throwing stones from a distance is standard, isn’t it like stabbing the nostrils of a drake who is sleeping blocking the road, or kicking a tree hard to bring a windbird sitting on a tree down and dropping all the eggs it laid? Wouldn’t it break…
…Really, when you look at it like this, there is no such thing as a crazy b*tch. You’re usually so cute
It was the same even now. Estelle quickly snatched the prey that a group of Goliaths were carrying and ran away.
No, I don’t know how he stole it. Are you good at stealing?
“Kyahahahaha♡”
“The little one is quick!!”
“Put it down now!!!”
No matter how fast Estelle was, Goliath’s stride was so large that it looked dangerous. If I leave it as it is, it will surely catch up someday, so I tried to step forward with the holy sword.
“…Wait a minute, hero.”
“Yes?”
“Over there.”
Celine stopped me and she pointed to the back of Goliath, who was chasing Estelle. And there was something that was not an ordinary monster.
“…A high-risk monster, right?”
“Yes, I think so. If we go out to hunt Goliath now, that monster will attack us…”
“It’s okay.”
“Yes?”
I jumped right in front of me.
Suddenly!
And with one blow, he slashed Goliath, who was chasing Estelle. Normally, this would end here, but this wasn’t the end. I immediately raised the holy sword upwards.
Chaeeng!!!
“…Are you here?”
“!”
The sharp claws of the high-risk monster Celine had told me about were blocked by my holy sword. To be precise, even those toenails were being cut. Claws are part of the monster’s body anyway, so they couldn’t stand the sharpness of the holy sword.
SeoGung!
As I pushed the holy sword upward, the monster’s menacing claws were cut off. In terms of strength and speed… Is it Gorgon class? It doesn’t look like Leviathan.
“Abel, you’re late~!”
“I don’t think it’s too late… but please stay back.”
“Yes~♡”
Estelle walked her gun down to where Celine was hiding. It was a cute step that made me wonder if it was the woman who laughed at the Goliaths a while ago.
The monster whose claws were cut off let out a low cry and took a posture as if it would attack it at any moment. I aimed the holy sword at that monster and said.
“Where is your mother?”
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Following the kind guidance of the Gorgon-class monster, Abel was able to reach her nest.
“Thanks to you, I came here comfortably.”
“…Human…Keep your promise…”
“Yes, yes, I will let you go.”
Abel let go of the monster dragging her with one hand. Then the monster immediately tried to run away. But….
Hook!
“…A promise…A promise…”
“You kept your promise. You let go Didn’t you ever say you’d save me instead?”
When Abel pulled out the sword stuck in the monster’s body, the monster collapsed while letting out its last breath.
“Cunning…Cunning…”
“You should have been careful about that. Read the contract carefully.”
Seeing Abel do this without giving him the contract, Celine smiled.
“Would you have tried to save me if you looked closely?”
“It can’t be. It’s a monster.”
“Whoops.”
Abel looked back at Estelle after touching him to see if the Gorgon-level monster was surely dead.
“He died. Shall we raid now?”
“I do it as usual.”
“Okay.”
As she had done before clearing out the two smaller nests, Abel took her holy sword and severely slashed the coffins leading to her nest.
Suddenly, the neatly cut coffin stopped emitting light from time to time. Having cut off the coffin, Abel and her saints secretly hid themselves.
Then a response came from the nest. Because Mother had cut off the nutrients supplied to her, she sent her subordinates to find out the situation.
“Estel, come over there.”
“It is a high-risk monster. Abel, please handle it. We’ll take care of the rest.”
“Yes.”
Abel lowered her holy sword at an angle. She then looked at the blue-clad monster coming out of the nest. Judging from the appearance of it flying while slightly floating in the air with uppers wrapped around its entire body, it was a floating monster.
A number of long tentacles were attached to the underside of the upper body, and a snout protruded from where the eyes were attached. It looked like a mixture of jellyfish and octopus and put an upper on top of it.
“…It’s bigger than I thought.”
I didn’t feel it when she came from far away, but she was much bigger than I thought. One tentacle was longer than a human body. It wasn’t just the tentacles that were long, the length of the body seemed to exceed 5m.
“Looking at the size, it’s like a Behemoth. Can you?”
“If it’s a Behemoth class…Yes, I can.”
“Okay ♡ Welcome back.”
Abel grabbed her slanted holy sword and sprinted across the floor of her grass. And a bright white light flashed.
Suddenly!
“Kureuk…”
No matter how much it’s not a knight type, and it’s not like a leviathan, even so, the monster that is supposed to be a Behemoth class couldn’t react. The long tentacles were cut off in an instant by the flash-like attack.
Seeing her pitchfork and her own tentacles falling to the ground, her monster opened her snout wide. Then, the inside of the snout was clearly visible, and Abel hated it.
“Oh, that’s disgusting.”
When the protruding cylindrical snout opened, teeth like sawtooth were closely embedded in it. The monster tried to devour her Abel with its hideous, terrifying snout.
And so that the monster could easily swallow her Abel, the other subordinate monsters tried to help.
“Chwiiik! I will help!!”
“Kyaaak! Hold on!”
《 Glory Sword 》
《 Divine Arrow 》
The sword of divine power shining like the sun and the arrows of the wind intercepted the monsters. Thanks to that, Abel was able to focus on high-risk monsters comfortably again. Abel lowered her greatly. The muscles of her crouched body tightened, and he sprang forward like an arrow.
Once again, the pure white blade flashed like a flash. And the disgusting snout of the Behemoth-class monster was split in half, and the monster’s body leaned heavily.
“Grumble…”
“…Maybe it’s because it’s a floating type, but it’s less picky than a Gorgon-class knight type.”
It wasn’t for nothing that he said that knight-type monsters were difficult for warriors. Abel wiped off the monster’s blood from the holy sword and saw the monster fall down. But something was strange.
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“…Did I cut the other side too?”
The upper right upper part of the floating monster that collapsed was open. There was also an empty space that seemed to contain something.
“Abel!”
“Huh?”
Something dripped through the air. Abel raised her head in the direction of the sound. It was above her head, in the air.
Chaeeng!!!
“…Where did you come from!?”
Fortunately, Abel countered the attack with great reaction speed. However, because of receiving the shock of his falling attack, his arm felt numb even though he was blessed with a body.
Like the floating monster I saw earlier, a monster wearing blue uppers was holding Abel down with a spear. It was a monster with seven tiny, dot-like eyes embedded in its mouthless face.
Seline murmured as she watched Abel barely enduring the monster’s spear.
“I have to help the hero…”
“Celine, leave it alone.”
“Yes?”
《 Glory Blade 》
The sun-lit sword neatly cut through the other monsters heading behind Abel. Estelle, the owner of the s*xual organ, said to Celine.
“Abel can do it&”
“…Yes.”
Puck!
Abel kicked the monster that was trying to crush him. Then, the monster’s body stepped back slightly, leaving room for Abel to escape. Abel, who slipped through the gap that had opened for a moment, returned to her stance.
“Is it a Leviathan-class knight-type monster? Or the Behemoth class?”
I was confused. But Abel was sure she’d see the next move right away. When the monster grabbed the spear and moved again, its speed was similar to the Leviathan-class knight-type monsters seen in the Glacier Mountains before.
“…Leviathan level.”
Abel took a deep breath. And she followed the movement of the Leviathan-class monster with her eyes.
Obviously he couldn’t read before, but he had experience fighting Barbatos-class knight-type monsters in the Apollo Kingdom and had no difficulty in reading the movements of Leviathan-class monsters.
Close up!!!
This time I didn’t hit the spear from the front. Abel cut off the side of the spear that was being thrown at him, and let the attack flow so that his spear did not touch his body. Of course, the timing wasn’t perfect yet, and the cheek was slightly cut and blood was dripping.
“…It hurts.”
If you let go of the attack, there is an opportunity for a counterattack. Abel pushed the monster’s spear aside and swung his holy sword.
Kwajik!
The sharp sawtooth of the holy sword was embedded in the monster’s body. And Abel pulled the holy sword down.
Awesome!!!
The monster’s hard upper skin was torn by the saw blade of the holy sword. At the same time, blood poured out. The light from the seven glowing eyes was extinguished.
However, the monster held onto the spear as if in a last-ditch effort and slashed Abel’s side. However, Abel was no longer an immature warrior who couldn’t react even that much.
Abel’s Holy Sword, which was lifted up, slashed through the spear of the monster. The monster’s spear was cut right before it touched Abel’s side, and it fell to the ground.
The monster’s eyes, which lost their weapons, finally turned off all the light and fell forward. Watching the monster collapse on the floor with a thump, Abel wiped the blood from his cheek with his hand.
“Estel, Celine. Let’s go!”
“…Come here, Abel.”
“Yes?”
Abel sprinted towards Estelle who called her name. Estelle then placed her hand on the wound on Abel’s cheek and injected her divine power into it.
“What if someone who only has a face to look at hurts his face~♡”
“…Heh heh.”
“Your face is a treasure.”
“Yes?”
At Celine’s words, Estelle didn’t deny it either. The mood made Abel scratch her head a little shy of her.
“Abel, if her hair is itchy, you should have washed her hair~ It’s dirty ♡”
“…You closed it today. You’ve seen it all.”
After receiving the treatment, Abel judged that there were no monsters left in her nest. No more monsters were coming out of her.
“I’ll take care of it and come back.”
“Yes.”
Only Abel’s holy sword could cut Mother anyway. As long as Estelle doesn’t use her divine power. Abel trudged into her nest alone.
As she walked in, she saw a monster with long hair and a gray upper body in the center of her nest. The eyes that looked at her Abel with fear were reverse eyes.
“It’s you.”
“Something like a human…how can this be?”
“Do these mothers always have the same repertoire? Rather, I have something to ask you.”
“…A human would ask me a question?”
Mother cackled.
“Did you think I had something to answer for a human or something?!”
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“Hey, hehehe…Now, I was wrong… I’ll tell you, so please stop…”
Mother only gave in when I tried to chop off his hair and stick the holy sword through his throat. Even though his life was at stake, he uselessly raised his pride.
“You know me. Your head said to bring me.”
“…Ah, I know. Her father commanded all his daughters. Bring a hero named Abel from Daisy Village.”
Finally, we can talk a little bit. It seems that the correct answer was to build a large nest.
“All mothers? Then why don’t the mothers send monsters to where I am?”
“That, that is…”
Thump!
Mother freaked out when I slammed the holy sword on the floor.
“Hey, ah, got it! I’ll tell you, put it away!”
“Yes.”
“We tend to follow our father’s orders, but there are orders we were designed to always put first since we were born.”
“What is it?”
“Reproduction and childbirth of monsters. So, we can put off our father’s order in the name of expanding the size of the nest. Because the top priority is always to increase the size of the nest and increase the number of monsters.”
Is that why the demons didn’t come rushing in?
“Then those with large nests don’t move…”
“…It’s probably because you don’t have to take a risky gamble with your own power. That’s why I didn’t bother looking for it.”
I see.
“Then what are the guys following?”
“That, it must be that the circumstances are so relaxed, or that the opportunity has come, so it must be a matter of both love and affection…I also wanted to send the children out to catch you because you came on your own…”
“Does the mother ever step forward?”
“Ooh, we don’t have the fighting power…”
Then, what were the Amon-class monsters and mothers that appeared in Vesta Kingdom? Mother moved herself.
“Then why does MOTHER move directly?”
“Ah, I wonder if he believed in his child next to him…Or maybe he was trying to move the nest.”
“Um.”
That makes sense. If it’s an Amon-class monster, there’s no way to trust it. It probably wasn’t meant to move the nest. There’s something Mother said.
It would be correct to assume that the queen came out to watch the battle in person. To see her own army take the spoils of her country.
“Do you know why the demon king is targeting me?”
“That, I don’t know. Because her father never explained why. It is also a strange order for us. Because I want to catch the existence that could threaten my father’s life without killing it…”
By the way, Mother is very sloppy. Thanks to that, it’s comfortable for me, but if there is such a thing as loyalty, he won’t be squeamish about the lord’s orders, right? Don’t these guys have no loyalty to the demon lord?
“Do you know a lot? It helps a lot.”
“Thank you. Will you save me then?”
“Should I?”
“…Aren’t you doing too much! I told you everything I know…!”
“Know how the monsters you gave birth have done to humans, and save them.”
Mother bowed her head. Then he suddenly burst into tears.
“Me, I have never left this forest with my children…But you came and killed all the children and tried to kill me too…”
“… Huh?”
The monster never left the Milan forest?
“How can I believe that? And monsters can reproduce freely on their own. It’s not that those breeding individuals could have gone out and hurt people.”
“I don’t know, man, but I can control my children! There are dangerous people lurking outside, so I didn’t let them leave the forest… There’s nothing lacking in the forest anyway.”
Come to think of it, the North Queen also maintained his forces in the Glacier Mountains, but he never struck the kingdom of Apollo with that force. It was only after the death of the North Queen that Agareth-class monsters and Barbatos-class monsters attacked.
“…Because of you, humans are not allowed to enter the forest.”
“Oh, don’t force yourself! What kind of human beings come into this remote forest besides eccentrics like you!”
“I don’t know.”
It’s noisy. It seems like everything this guy says is right, and I’m not saying this because I have nothing to refute.
Really.
I raised the holy sword high.
“Hee, hee!! Buy, save me! If you let me live, I will continue to tell you what my father’s orders are…!”
“…What?”