56 . The hero’s successor
The atmosphere is different.
Everyone present could tell at a glance.
This guy is the rumored man.
The mastermind who led the bandits, who did not know where to go, formed a system and started plundering people in earnest.
Stella stared at the man, still in disbelief at how tingling his arm was.
Until now, except for her subhumans, she thought that all humans were inferior to insects. This was the first blow she allowed.
He glanced briefly at Stella, who had been pushed behind her, and then looked around the scene of the brutal massacre inside the cave and asked a question in a low voice.
“Did you guys do all of this?”
Olivia was the one who asked the question. Eliana Noah is a character who does not communicate properly with others except Ain in the first place, and Stella is not in an emotional state where she can properly speak her words now.
Her face turned red like autumn leaves, and the veins on her neck showed the anger she felt.
“Can’t you see it?”
The red-haired man let out a deep sigh and spoke in a troubled tone.
“It’s hard to come out like this. You guys are just bandits, but first of all, they are my subordinates. They weren’t particularly close to each other, but I’ve got my plans in trouble, so I’ll have to pay the price.”
Olivia doesn’t give in to men’s threats, she smiles confidently.
“I already know that you are the head here. You won’t need to talk to each other.”
The moment Olivia finished her words and pulled her bowstring, Elia, who had been watching her man, opened her eyes wide and hurriedly opened her mouth while holding her wrist.
“Olivia, hold on!”
Olivia, who was interrupted by a completely unexpected person, asked back with a look of considerable bewilderment.
“Why?”
Ellia pointed her finger at the man in front of her with a rather serious expression.
“Look closely. Red hair, golden eyes. He’s just like the guy her dad told you about.”
“Come to think of it….”
Olivia then recalled the story of her past that her son had struggled to bring up. The hero who betrayed Ain, he came up with a story about a handsome man with impressive red hair and golden eyes, and applied it to the man in front of her.
She had never seen Leon’s face, but the man in front of her was very similar to the man in Ain’s story to them.
Olivia asked her question in a trembling voice, just in case she wanted to.
“You… name is?”
If he was really Leon, he couldn’t be killed in vain.
The culprit of Ain’s pain, the pain that humans can’t endure, and the grievous end that no one has ever experienced will not be resolved.
Seeing the elves asking for their names, the man asked again with an expression that he did not understand.
“Name? There’s no way a bandit would have such a thing. You guys look like elves playing house in the Great Forest, so why are you doing this here? Haven’t you ever heard of elves slaughtering humans?”
Elia bit her lip and replied in a tone that sounded like her annoyance welled up.
“You know that….”
Elia shuts her mouth in the middle of her words and puts on a look of realization on her part. The one question that she thought of complacently came back heavily.
The red-haired man twisted her lips as if he was waiting for Elia to say it.
“Yes, likewise, my name is none of your business. Wasn’t it you who said that there was no need to talk to each other?”
Smiling at her cynically, he drew the sword from her waistband and aimed it at them.
The children who saw the sword shed their eyes at the same time. It was an unusual sword even at first glance.
In the first place, it’s not a sword that a bandit could have, but something that looks like it was burnt by a craftsman.
The strange language inscribed on the long, outstretched blade was emitting a brilliant light even in the dark cave by receiving the colorful light.
The man opened his mouth with a more confident voice than before, as if he had been strengthened by the sword.
“Elf, if you apologize now, your life will be spared.”
It was the moment when the red-haired man took a step forward with an exciting voice.
Puck!
“Keep it off!?”
With a sound like a bag full of sand exploding, and a painful moan I had never heard before, the man slammed into the cave wall.
It happened in the blink of an eye, but the sisters knew what caused the sound.
“Stella?”
Surprised for a moment, the other three elves grasped the whole situation and remained calm. Rather, since he realized the identity of the sound, he had a calmer expression than ever before.
On the contrary, unlike her usual intelligent expression, Stella wrinkled her brow fiercely and untied her hands. Every time she twisted her wrists, turned her neck, her joints started to groan.
The man pinned to the wall stared at Stella’s face with a dumbfounded expression. It is hard to believe that he came out of a slender body. Only then did the man erase the smile from his face and, in a very different voice, flinched from the wall and tried to escape.
“Is it pretty?”
“Does it quite? Does that cheeky sound still come out of your mouth? Do you think only humans are in a position to say such things in front of me?”
The rest of the children huddled against the wall of the cave and started chatting among themselves.
“Oh, I can’t stop that anymore. Let’s watch it until it’s over.”
“Didn’t you bring some snacks?”
They took the snacks that Ain had prepared for them one by one, and looked happy, unimaginable for the elves who were annihilating the bandits.
The man clicked his tongue at the sight of the elves ignoring him and enjoying their snacks.
Yes, there was no way I could lose. Common sense made no sense for such a slender woman to lead so many bandits that she would lose.
“I was careless for a moment….”
The man’s words were not completely finished.
With just one leap, Stella, who had been shot like an arrow, straightened his knees and took a picture of the man’s abdomen stuck in the wall.
The wall of the cave that held the man’s body cracked like broken glass, and the man’s fingers and toes were rolled in pain.
She vomited blood from her mouth as if her internal organs were damaged, and her face was viciously distorted.
Stella opened her mouth in a cold voice as she looked down at the man, who was stuck in the wall even more than before and couldn’t move properly.
“Huh? Are you that good It was me who was careless, not you.”
There was no other reason for her anger.
It was unpleasant that the body of a man other than Ain touched his own body without permission, and he could not admit that he allowed such trash to strike.
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For Stella, who pursues perfection more than anyone else, it was unpleasant enough to remain as a stain on her life.
Stella clenched her fist and started punching the man in the face.
I didn’t care about the blood splashing on my face, and I kept my voice as cold as ice.
“Can you be a hero? You take care of some trash around you, so you feel like a king?”
The man’s confident voice had long since disappeared.
All that echoed inside the cave were the heavy hitting sound and the uncomfortable sound of something breaking.
The man struggled to open his mouth while his face was crushed.
“Now, wait a minute….”
Stella, a red-haired man with all his teeth already broken and unable to speak properly, didn’t mind, letting his anger erupt freely in his face.
Consciousness gradually faded, and the man’s eyes couldn’t even see his fist properly. As the kaleidoscope was about to pass by, it was the elf he was trying to kill, not anyone else, who saved his life.
Olivia was right next to Stella, holding her wrist, shaking her head and opening her mouth.
“Isn’t this enough?”
If Olivia hadn’t stopped it, Stella would have cut the tough man’s life with just one blow.
At Olivia’s dissuade, Stella clicked her tongue, grabbed the man’s hair, pressed it against the wall, and asked a question in a stern tone.
“I ask again. What is your name?”
“My, my name is Lark… no see.”
Before you knew it, four men who were servile and even said honorifics, realized at the same time before they even heard the name.
That this person is not the hero named Leon that Ain said.
“Tsk, I just wasted my time. How will we do it?”
“It’s okay because he’s not the guy we want. Let’s just kill it.”
The man whose hope was cut off at the word “Kill” Put his hands together with a face full of despair and chanted a name.
“Le, Leon-sama….”
The movements of the elves who were trying to end the man’s life stopped at the same time. He looked as if he had never dreamed that the name Leon would come out of a bandit’s mouth.
The expressions of the elves, who had been watching the man’s face blankly with their eyes wide open and their mouths open, changed to serious expressions.
“Wait, how do you know its name?”
“What is your relationship with him?”
Questions about Leon poured out in an instant.
It was not an atmosphere in which people would open their mouths easily. Stella grabbed his thick neck at once, like an eagle snatching prey, and asked the question again with subtle strength. A voice more threatening than before, and the man’s body trembling, passed through his hand.
“Say it quickly. You’re not just willing to lay down your life for someone else, are you?”
He carefully touched Stella’s wrist as if she was slowly choking, and Stella, recognizing his intentions, slowly let go of her hand.
The man who regained freedom of his neck coughed continuously, then slowly raised his head and looked at the faces of the elves.
Those eyes are sincere.
If I didn’t tell the truth, there was a strong possibility that I would be blown away by a handful of ashes.
How did I get to this point, but such an empty ending was a no-brainer.
Rark could not stand the threat of the elves and slowly spewed out the truth.