104. batian chase
“Hey, I’ll be chasing you soon!”
May Plov, who was running around the streets of Bhatian, screamed in frustration, but only received the jealous gaze of those around him.
“I’m sorry, because of me.”
“Okay, let’s run!”
“yes!”
She exhaled heavily and shouted at Lucia, but May knew that if someone asked her to explain why she was doing this, she wouldn’t be able to.
A dagger that brushes past my ear flies from behind.
Her hair is brushed lightly, and a few strands of her auburn hair gently fall from the sky like fluttering paper boats.
Seeing the dagger stuck in the ground, Mei widened her eyes.
“That madman!”
Doing this in the middle of the city?
However, due to the saintess election, there were so many people, the dagger disappeared as it was caught in the footsteps of the people.
Rather, I doubted the skill of the guy who boldly and accurately threw a dagger at him even though there were so many people.
‘What the hell.’
why.
Why did this happen?
Time goes back 30 minutes.
Crouching down in the alley, Mei ate candy and told her story to Lucia, her eyes shining brightly with her hands tucked into her jumper.
“Wow, you saved me from there like that?”
“yes. Actually, it was a vague feeling until then, but I think I came to like it then.”
The story of Daniel MacLean’s rescue when he was kidnapped by Zavalanco, a former pirate chief.
‘I’m living a needlessly romantic life with an 18-year-old theme.’
At that time, as he smiled and took off the eyepatch, Daniel was so intense that he would never forget it for the rest of his life.
“cool! Have you been to this school trip? I want to see you.”
“No, I didn’t come this time.”
“Yes, I am sorry.”
What would happen to Lucia’s expression if Daniel said here that he was excluded from the school trip because he disturbed the academy’s morals?
It would be quite bizarrely distorted, but I didn’t say it that far.
It would be a good memory for her to end neatly rather than a story that continues in a messy way.
Mei lowered her head slightly and looked at Lucia. The bangs covering her eyes, she said without hesitation.
“Let go. You said you were 18 too.”
“Yes, it is.”
“Okay, just let it go.”
“……OK got it!”
Looking at Lucia, who was happier than expected, May smiled. The moment I was about to tell him to go out to eat with the feeling that he was a better kid than I thought.
A man’s shadow in an alleyway.
His long shadow gave the impression that he was holding his head out as if he were going to eat the two girls at any moment.
“what.”
Also, I wondered if Telman, a 5th grader, would come and argue with me, but the physique was different.
He was the type to fight using his large size as an advantage, but the man blocking the alley was wearing a robe and hood, but it was clear that he was on the thin side.
‘……Isn’t this unusual?’
It was Mei who could be said to have become the empress of the back alley, so she instinctively sensed a chilling death.
“Who are you? Does Mei know someone?”
Lucia worriedly asked if they were fighting again, but unexpectedly, the man’s finger pointed at a blonde girl.
“If you leave her alone, I’ll pretend I didn’t see you.”
“What?”
Suddenly leaving Lucia behind?
Mei tried to explain what she was saying, making a strong impression, but a dagger brushed past her ear.
“……!”
“Don’t say it twice, go away.”
Mei, who had seen Lucia secretly, gave her a glance if she knew anything, but she only shook her head slightly saying she didn’t know.
‘I’m not usually a talented person.’
Swallowing a gulp, Mei felt something stinging in her back.
“Huh, okay. I have no intention of risking my life for a child I see for the first time today. I’ll go.”
May immediately turned around and ran out of the alleyway. Lucia also wanted to run away, but her body couldn’t move properly.
“Lucia, nun of Helios. She must be a nun who is a candidate for sainthood this time.”
“ah……”
assassin!
If until just now a vague fear clung to Lucia’s legs, now an overwhelming sense of helplessness gripped her whole body like a chain.
I couldn’t breathe properly.
I feel like my heart has been captured by him.
“Uh, how?”
The nuns are all faceless. Even the same nuns don’t know who their competition is.
I was prepared for something like this to happen.
How the hell did you find yourself?
The moment when Lucia struggled in a sense of helplessness.
Quick!
A stone the size of a fist flew and smashed the man’s head, just like the pronoun of a jjang-dol.
“Big!”
The man staggered and looked around, but Mei, who had already strengthened his body with mana, was kicking his chest.
An assassin who rolls the floor.
Mei grabbed Lucia’s hand and ran out of the alleyway.
“let’s go!”
“Me, May!”
Why are you doing this?
Mei didn’t even know why she was doing this to herself.
If it was the original Mei, it would have been natural to pretend that I didn’t see her neatly here and not get caught up in any frivolous things.
‘If you like it, they look like you.’
Having come to like a wide-eyed man who interferes with other people’s affairs so damn much, I thought he was dyed similarly.
And the story goes back to the beginning.
Mei bit her lip as she saw the hair cut slightly by the dagger thrown by the assassin who was pursuing him.
“That bastard is warning you now.”
“uh?”
In response to Lucia’s question, who was unaware of this part, Mei explained it in a way that she could understand.
“The fact that he threw the dagger without hesitation in front of so many people means that he was so confident in his skills. But it didn’t hit me.”
“……”
“I’m assuming you’re telling me to throw you away right now. The bastard sees it as a very human thing.”
“Me, May. Actually I…”
“I heard it earlier.”
It was Lucia who was trying to reveal her identity, but May was bored and answered.
“I never thought I would have one of the hottest people in Batian as a friend.”
“friend……”
Lucia ponders the word friend. Mei looked around and sighed.
‘This is really dangerous.’
I wanted to call the guards, but they’d probably have a dagger thrust right into May’s throat if they got the slightest hint of it.
‘It seems that the purpose is to kidnap Lucia.’
If I wanted to kill him, I could kill him right now, but I thought I could infer the opponent’s intention just by looking at the warning.
“Eck!”
If I hadn’t dodged it just now, it would have been stabbed right into my shoulder.
If the commotion grows, he will kill himself without hesitation. The moment when Mei, who was in the crowd but felt lonely, wondered what to do.
“Oh, this ice cream is so delicious.”
A female student’s voice could be heard clearly in the crowd.
Elise, the owner of a brilliant blonde who talks to herself when there is no one in front of the ice cream shop, made eye contact with May and squinted her eyes.
“If you turn left at the skewer house at the crossroads over there, it will taste better if you eat it in the alley.”
“Lady, what are you talking about?”
The ice cream parlor had a bewildered expression on her face, but Mei spit out swear words from her mouth and let out an unbearable smile.
“How did you know, thank you so much.”
“yes? What are you talking about?”
“No, someone has appeared to help.”
Mei ran to the crossroad as it was and turned to the left from the skewered house that was clearly visible and entered the alley.
A man immediately following.
He took the dagger out of his arms and tried to act more daringly because there was no one around.
“It’s been a while, Den.”
“……”
Like white snow falling from the sky.
Sen, a former member of the Extermination Squad, appeared with his white hair fluttering.
As she lowered the dagger, she attacked the man called Den, and Den lost his focus and staggered as the dagger was lodged in his shoulder.
“sen?”
Mei turned her head and checked Sen’s back. As Elise said, I thought someone would come to help.
I didn’t know that Sen was waiting.
“Come on, I have some business with this person.”
Sen speaks coolly with his back without giving a glance. May hesitated for a moment, then ran again, holding Lucia’s hand tightly.
“thank you! I’ll buy you a meal later!”
Mei and Lucia disappeared just like that, and Sen slowly took a stand.
Den.
When I took off the hood of the robe to stop the bleeding, strangely deformed gray hair appeared just like Sen.
“Sen, traitor. I got a report that you might be there.”
“Looks like you officially became a member.”
“Unlike four years ago, I swore allegiance.”
Despite Den’s provocation, Sen’s expression did not change.
“I’m curious about the reason why the Slayer is targeting that woman, do you think you can tell me?”
“You crazy bitch, do you think you’ll tell me that?”
Den laughs. Sen nodded, saying it was natural, and pushed forward.
“You were always lower than me, but you spoke plausibly.”
“Shut up, me who became a member, you…!”
Den’s vision returns.
The pain from the injury he had just received in his shoulder was so intense that even the excavators who were accustomed to the pain could only let out a moan in agony.
“Kkeureuuuk!”
“Look, it was then and it is now. You are always at my feet.”
What the hell was going on, Den couldn’t understand. But one thing is for sure, he was defeated without ever having a chance to resist properly.
“Damn it! If there were no injuries from the surprise attack…!”
“Another excuse.”
Sen stepping hard on the wound on his shoulder. Den screamed in pain, but she was not impressed.
Sen, who seemed to be showing off his forgotten self after meeting Daniel McLain, tried to put an end to this situation quickly.
“……uh?”
It was, peculiarly, a purple line.
It’s like a child playing around with a pen and drawing lines on paper.
A supple line brushed past Sen.
There was a small hole in her side.
“lady?”
Sen, who passed behind him, closed his eyes as he ended up taking a look at the second-in-command of the Cheokcheol gang with a purple parasol draped over his shoulder at the end of the alley.