40 – Second Puppy, Sunfish (3)
Three minutes until Mina arrives.
She was sitting hidden in a tree when she was startled by the sudden pouring rain.
I was just putting on a cosplay costume that looked like the Phantom of the Opera, so my black cloak and heavy clothes got wet from the rain and my body felt heavy.
Why is it raining? If you do this, you won’t be able to flap your cloak when you appear! That’s the coolest thing! Ahh, sitpal.
What are you doing wearing a cloak that can’t even flap? I couldn’t stop him because he couldn’t even use magic for fear of being found out by the assassins who would have been working hard by now.
‘Ehh…’
She eventually gave up on the ‘fluttering appearance’ that she hadn’t been able to do when she was in elementary school, and shoved the cloak into a space pocket.
‘Still, I can’t concede this!’
She put on a black silk hat like an English gentleman would wear and smiled contentedly. As expected, a white mask and a black hat are a perfect match!
It fulfills 120% of men’s dreams!
Do you think monsters are popular for no reason? A loose suit, a silk hat, and a fluttering cape are a trinity!
Through the sound of the rain, I began to hear the sound of the wagon rolling.
‘Is this finally the beginning?’
A situation with one minute left until the start. Fidgeting with the magic circle he had equipped in advance, he prepared for the decisive battle.
Just then, a black figure jumped out from right across from me and strode forward.
Oh my gosh! I was surprised. Why are you out there
Pom wearing a black mask is informing me that I am an assassin. It seems that those guys, like me, were completely storing mana inside to avoid getting caught.
‘I almost lost my heart.’
No matter how much I don’t use mana, those guys were also pros at killing signs like an assassin.
I held my breath and counted the number of assassins, and there were 12 in total.
The quest window says there are 24 people in total, so is the plan to attack the other half from behind the wagon?
‘You guys are so unlucky.’
At a cursory glance, he is much weaker than me. Guys specializing in stealth and agility got their backs from a wizard stronger than them?
It’s almost as if it’s already over.
If I had gone out first and started using mana, I would have found these guys hiding mana.
Even though they are using the same amount of mana, the mere fact that they can’t find me is tantamount to revealing the difference in my skills.
‘Goodbye.’
I didn’t even chant the spell by destroying the chant, and the chains of magic that extended from my fingertips bound the bodies of 12 people at the same time.
As expected, even though his limbs were suddenly bound, he fell face down on the floor without making a sound.
Seeing how quiet he is even at times like this, he looks quite like an assassin.
“You…!!”
“Shh!”
One of them, belatedly realizing that I was behind them, tried to scream without notice. Before the commotion started, it was quickly muted with magic.
Wow, I almost got in trouble.
Where now! Inadvertently shouting, our absolute sunfish could die of death!
When dealing with those guys in the back, you have to mute them before taking them down.
As the wagon got closer and closer, the guards spotted us and slowly stopped the wagon. I went up to the first assassin who was about to scream and whispered.
“I know all of you, including your identity, number of people, and goals, so don’t lose your strength and just stay still.”
Then he tore his lips apart and smiled as evilly as possible.
“The ‘weaver of pain’ is annoyed with your plans.”
Just by looking at their wide eyes, you could tell how flustered they were.
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“Ah, ah…! Wow, I’m here!! Kuhhhhh!”
As Mai Na suddenly collapsed with her arms wrapped around her shoulders, her attendant hurriedly shouted to the guards.
“A raid is coming soon! Please be prepared!”
“Yes!”
“Princess! Are you okay?”
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Myna shook off her attendant’s hand and crouched over her ears with both of her hands.
It was a trip that she had already prepared for this to happen, but whenever this situation came, she cursed her fate.
Feeling the feeling of being left alone in a dark space, she screamed as hard as she could in her heart.
‘Noisy! Noisy! Noisy!!!’
Her peculiar constitution began when she was able to use her mana in earnest.
Originally, everyone can unconsciously feel other people’s mana to some extent.
It was thanks to this that he was able to notice other people’s signs, detect emotional changes, and developed a sixth sense.
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Maina had an exceptionally good sense.
I could feel the pain of the mana rubbing against her skin that people couldn’t even feel, and the pain of the mana shaking the organs in her body.
Even the sensitivity is excessive, forcibly conveying not only the emotions contained in mana, but also the senses felt by the person concerned.
Within the range of feeling, when someone falls, the pain is transmitted. It just conveys a feeling that is unusually good. The sadness of being broken is also conveyed. It also conveys the sense of satisfaction that the desired goal has been achieved.
These symptoms are often called ‘mana hypersensitivity’. A disease that is rarer than the similarly incurable disease, ‘mana insensitivity’.
And among the mana transmitted to her, Mina called negative emotions and sensations ‘noise’. It was because they could hear the sound of mana being crushed and torn.
Every time I heard this noise came a tidal wave of emotions and sensations so terrible.
Death, pain, sorrow, regret… No good feelings flow from a murderer.
Already in front and behind her carriage, her killers were sticking out their tongues at her like her snakes that had seized her prey.
‘Please, please… Please stop!’
Her
Her attendant by her side tried to calm her down, but her action only aroused her annoyance with her mother.
She wanted to argue with him who kept trying to soothe herself.
Why are you so fine?
However, every time I asked such a question, I never got a proper answer.
I have known for a long time that other people cannot feel what I can feel. So there is nothing to do but sit still, curl up and endure.
At that moment, I heard the sound of escorts making a fuss outside the carriage and the voice of a strange man.
“hahahaha! You, who are you!”
“Maina. Could you please come out for a second?”
The voice of a man I’ve never heard before. Of course I can’t go out.
I managed to answer as if squeezing it from behind the attendant who was blocking my way.
“Who, who are you?”
“Oh, no. On second thought, you don’t have to come out. Would you please hold my hand? That is all it takes.”
A large man’s hand slipped through the window. Of course he hesitated.
Do you mean grabbing that hand knowing whose it belongs to? I might yank him suddenly and put a dagger in his throat.
If it were normal, I would never have listened to such words.
If it was as usual.
‘Why can’t I feel anything from this person?’
It was strange. Even now, the feelings of the 12 people watching him from outside are conveyed intact. And the escorts are panicking.
Only this person didn’t feel anything.
I also felt a strange charm. It was only one hand, but I could feel the charm that I couldn’t deny.
“Princess!”
So, without hearing the attendant’s cries, she absentmindedly reached out and grabbed her hand, as if possessed by something of her own.
At that moment, an amazing thing happened.
“…… Huh?”
The noise that had been ringing in her ears all at once stopped.
Her pain and her emotions that had been raging on her until just a moment ago were all felt in an instant.
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Mina, dumbfounded, grabbed the man’s hand and shouted.
“How is this!?”
She asked him with her eyes wide open at the impossibility, but the man only answered bluntly.
“It is safer this way.”
When she didn’t get the answer she wanted, Maina burst open the door of her carriage and jumped out in frustration. Then she looked up at him and cried, not caring that it was raining.
“Oh, no, that’s not it! This! Noise, this…”
The guards, who were being restrained by Mina and spread out on the dirt floor, didn’t even come into sight. I was simply mesmerized by the sight of a man standing obliquely on the driver’s seat of the carriage.
He was the manifestation of a heavenly god who descended to the earth wearing a mask as white as the moon. Even though his clothes were drooping from the rain, he couldn’t hide his off-white color.
Even though it was dark, you could clearly see the blue hair and sparkling golden eyes. The moment her eyes met, she didn’t think anything of it.
Except for the thought that I should keep my eyes on him even for a minute or a second.
“Whoops… It seems to be okay.”
Her heart pounded and her face flushed as he gently twisted her lips toward him.
It was fortunate that it was in the middle of the night. It would be a big deal if others found out that a young lady of the right age was hot at the sight of a strange man.
Said the man, tapping his ear with his finger.
“Can’t you hear the noise?”
“Uh… how…?”
“Well? Anyway, I’m glad you didn’t hear me. You will never have to suffer from noise in the future.”
He slowly got up and cast his gaze toward the rear of the carriage.
“Then… Shall we finish it soon? There are people waiting for me.”
Then, like a man out for a walk, he leisurely walked in the direction of the assassins.
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My whole body was soaked with rainwater. I stood in front of the wagon, clasping her hands in front of my chest, looking at him like that.