Chapter 429 – Side Story – Flower Magical Girl (3)
Flora literally flew through the sky and arrived at the castle closest to her destination.
And after just having a quick meal, she went straight to the military.
Fortunately for the soldiers, the sudden royal visit did not throw the unit into chaos. It was a secret that the magical girl’s identity was the youngest princess, Flora.
Even the military commander only heard that a magical girl was cooperating, but did not hear her identity.
If she had known that the princess was coming, she would have made a mess by cleaning up all the time, so it was a good thing.
Thanks to this, the commander was able to give orders to the princess with peace of mind.
– Return after scouting in the air. We will move our troops as soon as we confirm the information. The main things you need to scout out are…
“… Location, size and, if possible, exact purpose.”
Flora flew through the sky, muttering what her commander had pointed out.
It is said to be a reconnaissance role, but in most cases, it was merely a role of more accurately confirming that the army’s scouts had already made one tour.
It was natural. No matter how much she was ordered to cooperate by a high-ranking person, the military organization was too heavy for her to act solely on information from an unknown magical girl.
Still, the role given to Flora was not at the level of simple condescension. Most of the information brought by the scouts was obtained from far away places or was conveyed through a crude sense through the wizard’s familiar.
If Flora gets accurate information from the sky and confirms her existing information, then… She said she could do something. Technical military terminology started appearing, so Flora couldn’t understand it.
Flora soon arrived at the place where the bandits were.
There were buildings built unnaturally on a relatively flat place on a low mountain.
Even though there was still a lot of daylight left, there was no chance of it being an ordinary village, as there was no one wandering around. A person who stays locked up and doesn’t come out even when the sun is shining can’t be an ordinary person.
Flora looked down on the village from the sky with an invisibility spell and delivered the information requested by the commander.
The location is as delivered, the scale is not large based on the number of buildings, and there is no guess as to the purpose yet…
Flora, who sent the information one by one in detail, decided not to go back right away but to wait a little longer.
And finally he saw a suspicious figure coming out of the building.
Several people wearing black robes who looked like they were shouting ‘I’m suspicious’ came out of the building and had a conversation.
I couldn’t hear what they were talking about because I kept a considerable distance away for fear of being caught.
Naturally, Flora did not know how to lip-read. Soira doesn’t know how to do it.
I was just thinking of doing it, but when asked if I knew how to do it, I said, ‘Huh? It was easy to picture Soira calmly replying, ‘I know how to do it.’
For your information, even though she was Soira, she didn’t know how to lip-read. You can hit it roughly with experience and feel, but the hit rate was only halved if you hit it well.
In other words, the image of her that Flora came up with was her image of Soira.
To Flora, Soira was a very mysterious person. Although she seems to live roughly, she sometimes appears strangely skilled and meticulous.
Flora briefly remembered her precious friend and smiled slightly. Still, his gaze did not drop from the two suspicious figures coming out of the building.
After a short conversation, one of the two entered another building. And then, behind the person who immediately came back, people who were tied up were dragged out.
Given the circumstances, it seemed that the people tied up were people who had been kidnapped or sold into slavery.
The people, both men and women, with their arms tied behind their backs were naked, not wearing even a single piece of cloth. However, I could not get any erotic feeling from that appearance.
If he could feel sexual desire even after seeing their faces covered in dirt, blood, and sweat, he must have been a very twisted person.
“How could you do such a cruel thing…”
Flora swallowed her breath in astonishment.
Flora wouldn’t have been so surprised if it had been covered in semen or had left traces of harsh sexual torture. She must have been upset because she remembered what she had experienced before, but she was not shocked.
It was because this world was a world inside a gay game. When it comes to sexual violence, she takes it more lightly than reality, but on the other hand, she was shocked by how it could be possible to see non-sexual violence.
Even as Flora doubted her eyes, the situation progressed.
The person wearing a black robe took the tied people and took them somewhere.
There was a large hole in the floor. The diameter is approximately 2 meters. It was a hole so deep that even Flora looking down from the sky could not see the bottom.
At first glance, it was not a hole that could be used for any normal purpose. At least there seemed to be no way for something that fell inside to come back to the ground.
And I could immediately see what the hole was for.
The person in black robes stopped the people he had dragged in front of the hole one by one and pushed them into the hole. It was obvious even without looking what would happen to someone who fell into a hole so deep that they couldn’t see the bottom.
Even though they had been sold as slaves, people who could not have imagined that they would die panicked.
Some people tried to run away and others tried to resist even though they were tied up, but more people in black robes came out of the building and forced them in.
One person, another person. Every time humans fall into a hole, an invisible evil energy rises from the hole.
Flora gritted her teeth as she watched.
Acting rationally, the most logical thing would have been to turn back now and bring the army in as quickly as possible. That was the way to save at least one more person.
I know that, but it was very difficult for Flora to calmly turn her back.
Still, Flora, who gritted her teeth and was trying to hurry back, saw it.
One of the tied people happened to look up at the sky and caught Flora’s eye.
We didn’t actually make eye contact. Because invisibility was working fine. I guess I just happened to be looking in the direction of Flora.
However, Flora couldn’t shake the feeling that those eyes were on her.
Even though it was a long distance, about a hundred meters in a straight line, Flora felt like she could even see the person’s eyes.
Eyes that gave up hope and gave up on everything.
Flora had seen eyes like that before. When she was kidnapped by a group of thieves and suffered as a sex slave, other women who suffered with her would look at her like that and lose their minds.
And perhaps Flora herself would soon become the same.
Fortunately, Flora was able to meet Soira before that happened, but what about them?
At that moment, the people in black robes raised their heads and looked at the sky.
Flora realized that she had been collecting magic power without realizing it and felt sorry. Invisibility hides one’s appearance, but it does not hide the movement of magical power.
A person who appeared to be the leader pointed in the direction of Flora and shouted something. Other black robes also quickly prepared for battle.
There was nothing I could do since I was already caught. Flora quickly sent an emergency signal to the military commander and began chanting magic to fight.
Although it was different from the originally planned strategy, surprisingly, Flora felt much more at ease.
At least I didn’t have to look away from those eyes.
Various attack magic and curses rained down on Flora. Flora trusted the magical girl Set’s defense and took most of her damage with her body. She poured all her strength into chanting, avoiding only the really dangerous parts.
Thanks to that concentration, the magic was completed quickly.
“『Thousand Rays』!”
A high-level flame-type magic that showers ultra-high heat rays like rain. Flora added the power of a magical girl.
Flora held up a large ruby. One of the abilities of the magical girl set, ‘You can obtain specific effects by consuming jewels.’ Ruby’s ability was an amplification of flame-type magic.
A thousand lights converge into one point. A huge amount of energy was contained in the ruby, which was half the size of Flora’s fist. Everyone on earth turned their heads or covered their eyes at the sight of a small sun rising.
Flora blasted her ruby with all her might. The target is inside the hole. The black robes, aware of Flora’s intention, used all their might to apply multiple layers of defensive magic, but as soon as they touched the light surrounding her ruby, it shattered and disappeared like a sugar artifact.
Ruby, having overcome numerous resistances, disappeared into the hole as if nothing had hindered her.
And.
Kugu—-ung.
The ground shook. The humans on the ground stumbled and fell to the ground due to a shock so huge that the entire mountain shook. One black robe that was unluckily standing near the hole lost its footing and fell into the hole.
And, the next moment, a white pillar of fire rose from within the hole.
It was a dazzling white flame, as if purifying the evil energy that had been rising every time a person was pushed into the hole.
Of course, this pillar of fire had no effect of purifying evil energy, but it was safe to say that the results were similar. Whatever was down there, there was no way it would be safe from being hit by that much firepower.
When you don’t know what the other person’s plan is, just blow away everything that looks suspicious. It was one of the many pieces of knowledge I heard while traveling with Soira.
However, projecting that much firepower was not easy, even for Flora. A huge amount of magical power was lost in an instant, causing a slight feeling of dizziness.
I wanted to sit down and rest right away, but I couldn’t do that just yet. Even though the suspicious hole had been blown out, the black-robed people were fine, and the slaves were still captured.
Flora took a potion out of his pocket and drank it. The fight is not over yet.
…
“Our secret source is because of that mischievous girl… !”
The black-robed captain gritted his teeth and glared at Flora.
The gaze was quite harsh, but he had already become unable to do anything but stare. And soon he wouldn’t even be able to do that.
Flora didn’t respond and prepared for his final blow. However, the fatigue from fighting while protecting numerous slaves slowed down Flora’s actions for a moment, and the black-robed captain took advantage of that brief moment to make his final struggle.
“Are you going to kill me like this? I… “
The captain’s body was engulfed in flames as he tried to use some kind of magic. It was almost a little too late, but Flora’s blow cut off his life before the captain’s magic could be activated.
“Phew…”
After completing the confirmed kill, Flora relaxed for a moment.
But the situation is not over yet.
“… ?!”
Puhuaak.
It is said that the Black Robe’s target was completely destroyed, but that did not mean that all the evil energy that had been collected so far disappeared.
For his final struggle, the black-robed leader gathered all the evil energy he had gathered and tried to unleash his magic. And when the attempt failed due to Flora, the gathered evil energy began to scatter around at will.
In an evil form most suitable for this world.
An unpleasant sticky pink mist, different from Flora’s bright pink, covered the surroundings.
