164 – Lost Lamb (12)
Why the hell is the saintess here right now?
What else is this outfit?
Suspicion that was biting on the tail was buried in an instant under the sense of crisis that came in like a muddy stream.
”Holy Lady! It’s a nice day, so let’s go on an outing together!”
Instinct, one step ahead of reason, moved me.
After noisily hugging the saintess and blocking her view, I tried to focus her consciousness entirely on me with her unbearable demands.
but.
”Who did this?”
A cold voice that cut through my will at once. A slender hand carefully groping my rags.
All the information in front of me clearly suggested to me that it was all futile effort.
”There it is! Grab it now!”
”No! Do not come!”
A high pitched voice that hadn’t come out for a while came out reflexively. It was because it was so desperate.
No one should approach the current saintess.
It was an impartial conclusion drawn from a combination of my instincts and experience.
Charleuk!
Before I had time to stop it, the sharp chains that raced through my hair, ignoring the sound.
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Kwajik. and iron fist.
The violent reverberation that followed like tinnitus was so bloody and ominous that even I, who had seen all sorts of terrible wounds due to my position, hesitated to look back.
”Kuhhh…!”
”Ke off… ah…”
One seriously injured person was pierced in several places by a sharp chain and spewed dark red blood from his mouth.
Perhaps the location of the piercing was not good, but another severely injured person with the whole body drooping and only occasionally flinching.
All of this tragedy happened in less than a second.
”No! Well Na! Stop now!”
I firmly held the saintess by the shoulders and tried to hold her back stronger than usual, but the saintess, who had risen to the point where her hair started to bleed, seemed to have no interest in anything other than severely punishing those who had hurt me.
”I’m going to kill them all.”
A strong will that could not be firmer than this. The clear thought began to darken layer by layer due to a deep sense of despair.
It was because the crisis that the past days that had taught the innocent saintess about the weight of life would disappear in an instant was just around the corner.
No matter how bad the opponent is, no matter how bad he deserves to die, murder should be postponed as a last resort in a situation like now, where there are plenty of other alternatives.
Although it may be heinous hypocrisy for me to say such a thing, having a record of taking the lives of others with my hands praying to God using the pretext of self-defense as a shield.
As someone who has keenly experienced how the act of taking the lives of others at will becomes a soggy stain that sticks to the human soul, even if the sky were to fall, the only thing I could think of was someone’s life leaking out of the saintess’ hands. He definitely wanted to stop it.
For a man, murder must be uncomfortable, uncomfortable, disgusting, and frightening.
It should never have been easy, convenient, refreshing, and refreshing.
”Well na! calm down! look this way! Brother is fine! It’s okay!”
I hugged the saintess with all my might and restrained her.
However, like a robot whose commands were entered, the saintess’ stride towards the target did not slow down in the slightest.
”Ha ha! what! Is this the end of escape!”
At that moment, the werewolf who rang his throat exhilaratingly broke through the wind and broke into this place.
Even considering that he was a beastman with superior physical abilities than the human race, his legitimacy in traveling from a distance to where I was at once was quite astounding.
His careless attitude, unable to grasp even the slightest hint of the seriousness of the situation, only made his blood pressure rise.
”Ohh! A bird I haven’t seen yet has already soaked two! Does the joke end here? nice! Hunting is fun, but it’s not as good as killing!”
Apparently, the werewolf assumed that all of this was my doing.
Except for the innumerable number of the saintess’ chains, they were completely identical to bells in appearance.
Now that the saintess was held in my arms, it was speculated that it was because the werewolf could not see the saintess from the angle she was looking at.
”there! you! If you don’t want to die, take your comrades and disappear from here right now! Quickly!”
”Ha ha ha! what! You could even make that face! It’s been a while since my blood boils?”
He tried to appeal with a sense of desperation, but instead of calming the werewolf, such an attempt only ignited the fighting spirit inside him.
Dig!
With a powerful leap that left a crack in the ground, the werewolf flew towards me.
A quick attack that cannot be guaranteed to be safely avoided even in perfect conditions.
Now that I was hugging the saintess, I had no means of escape from the clutches of that savage beast.
But what passed through my mind at that moment was not worry about my body.
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Kwajik!
The sound of well-polished metal crossing tough leather and meat without hesitation made my ears stunned.
Like a stream of water when the end of a rubber hose was pressed with a finger, indiscriminate and vigorous bloodstains covered the entire field of view.
”Kwaaarsrs!
I was slightly relieved by the painful screams that followed.
Because that meant that the pitiful being who had accepted the savage murderous intent that spewed out from within my arms had miraculously survived.
Tuduk!
After everything was over, in my relaxed mind, I faintly heard the dull sound of something rolling on the floor.
As I tried to suppress the chills that welled up on my back, I moved my gaze toward that place, and saw the werewolf’s arm the size of my torso rolling on the floor like a log that had just been cut down.
”Well I am. no. I hate dogs.”
Chew!
Right after the inorganic voice, in which I couldn’t feel the warmth as life, rang out, the chain that prowled around the saintess like a snake nervously brushed off the blood on my body.
Exciting!
His heart was beating so fast that he wondered if it was going to come out of his ear hole.
While serving as the saintess’s exclusive guardian priest, she had seen many saintesses before, but this was the first time she had seen the saintess with her own eyes so furious.
I said everything when I had a fight with the warrior, to the point where I looked like a nobleman.
”there! There he is! Everyone is this way!”
”Mr. Hans told me to capture him at all costs! If we miss, we will die!”
”Don’t be offended by the appearance that looks like a dick! It’s because Hans-san, who has a history of surviving in the pursuit of the hero’s party, acknowledged it!”
Countless footsteps and voices from far away became thick daggers in my chest and pierced me.
That raucous clamor was an ominous signal that soon a torrent of dry firewood would be poured into the embers of my anxiety that were already burning with ferocious momentum.
”Well na! please! Please stop!”
”I will kill you. I will kill you. I will kill you.”
I tried screaming urgently into her ear, but there was already a lack of reason in her stern voice.
”This, what is this…!”
”What, what! Are they all dead!?”
”N-Wolves attacked!?”
In the eyes of the guests who appeared here afterward, a look of astonishment was evident, but you and I all looked at it.
The dark murderous intent was the only emotion that could be found in the red eyes of the saintess who closely watched their movements.
”When you guys say something nice, get out of here right now!”
”Hee, hee!”
An ugly voice echoed in the air, enough to make me wonder if it was right that came out of my mouth.
As soon as I screamed, judging from their frightened behavior, it seemed that they also attributed this tragedy to me.
It was a misunderstanding that would have been corrected immediately if it was normal, but since the situation is the situation, now I decided to thoroughly exploit their misunderstanding.
”go away! If you come any closer to me, I’ll blow all your heads off!”
”Uh, what to do!? Ha, Mr. Hans told me to catch him…”
”Fuck it! Can’t you hear me!?’
”Oh, I see! All right!”
I could clearly feel that the remaining energy in my body was rapidly drying up.
It was the first time in my life that I knew how screaming at someone could cause such an extreme drain on energy.
To be honest, this was dozens of times more difficult than what I had been playing hide and seek with the mercenaries a little while ago.
Fortunately, despite my clumsy threats, they were terrified. To be honest, the circumstances were very good.
The whole body was full of holes and covered in blood, men who were barely breathing.
A lumbering werewolf with one arm missing, lying ungainly on the cold floor.
The horrendous sight, which would not have been strange if I had been a normal person, sitting there as soon as I saw it, gave a vivid sense of intimidation to my shabby threat.
”I’ll kill you. I will kill you.”
Like a killing machine, she tried her best to stop the saintess who was trying to stride toward them.
Fortunately, the murderous momentum had softened to a level where I could barely suppress it if I gritted my teeth and did my best.
It seems that holding the saintess’ petite body in my arms, as if burying it in my arms, caused her aggression to subside somewhat.
unexpected good news.
It was the first time a faint sense of relief was about to rise in the body that had been so stiffly tense.
clap clap clap
A mysterious applause came out of nowhere.
My frozen head twisted slowly in the direction the sound came from.
”That’s wonderful. amazing. I knew he was talented, but I never thought he would have this much potential. I never dreamed that you would defeat a wolf.”
The one who suddenly appeared from the dark back road was the man the mercenaries admired as their leader.
”But from my point of view, you seem to be at your limit. how is it? Am I wrong? Originally, the stronger the attack, the stronger the upper limit. Now, this is your last outburst, and it’s easy to tell just by looking at his tired expression that it was nothing more than a petty bluff.”
It’s not. Even if you picked it wrong, you picked it wrong for a long time.
Since the holy power I wielded so far was borrowed from the saintess’s power, at least for a moment, it might be inconceivable that he confuses me and the saintess’s power.
Speaking with such confidence, it was difficult for me to ask a question.
”Now, this is your last chance. Come under me and be mine. If so.”
”It’s you…”
”yes? what now’
It was then.
A gloomy voice leaked out of my arms once again, as if it had come from the other side of hell.
”That’s right… it’s you…”