Chapter 145 – Elflandia
─I am… I’m Raon Rapenel, the vice-captain of the 3rd Ranger unit guarding the 13th Great Forest – Rapenel.
“…Was a high elf riding inside.”
Netoru couldn’t hide his surprise. Could it be that the existence that boldly infiltrated the city was a high elf?
From a human point of view, high elves were close to royalty. Of course, though, the high elves weren’t really elven royalty, it just felt that way.
In the first place, the elves had no concept of royalty.
Elflandia.
It was because this nation was an confederation of elven cities – Great Forests gathered together.
Unlike Frangia, the king did not rule the country, but it was a country where great forests, each with its own independent identity, were gathered.
And among them, the high elf meant the shaman of the world tree that exists in each great forest. No, to be precise, it should be said that he is a person with the ability to intervene in the World Tree.
Anyway, one thing’s for sure, it’s not like they’re going around other people’s cities like this.
─···Could you please come to the cockpit and help me?
The woman’s voice was quite weak.
In a way, it was natural. The holy cavalryman’s limbs were destroyed. It must have been quite a shock to the female pilot’s body connecting with the Holy Trooper.
“…Would you like me to come to the cockpit?”
─Yes… Please···.
“·······”
Netoru was silent. I was thinking of opening the cockpit and subduing them because I didn’t know if the elves who had survived might abandon the holy cavalry and run away.
However, approaching it prematurely is a bit different.
Aren’t they the ones who risked their lives fighting each other? Maybe all of that was a trap. The moment the cockpit opens, you never know what to do.
Even Netoru could be in trouble if the pilots inside attacked at the same time.
Did he read Netoru’s thoughts?
The woman who introduced herself as Raon Rattenel added her words in her urgent voice.
─Please, please… My partner is trying to kill me right now… Ugh?!
“… Are you trying to kill me?”
I feel like I heard some bad joke.
However, the elf’s voice was too earnest to just ignore it. After thinking about it for a while, Netoru eventually forced herself to get up from her cockpit.
Even in the midst of this, Rin and Ran passed out in the cockpit without regaining consciousness.
It was because Netoru put the two girls in an overheated state with excessive output during the short battle.
“…I shouldn’t have put too much strain on my body.”
If the condition is really bad, it should be treated, but the question is, will those two accept it?
You might want to reconsider this later when the two of you wake up. Netoru smiled wryly as he watched the twins get overheated in the cockpit, then opened the cockpit and went outside.
The night air wets the skin. Even at this moment, the alarm of the bug invasion was sounding loudly.
Fortunately, there was no sound of gunshots or shelling, so the bugs didn’t seem to have reached the city.
‘…How the situation is going.’
The situation was urgent, so I couldn’t properly hear Rien’s words through the voice channel, but at first glance, it seemed that Unit 392 was ambushed by the elves.
To be honest, it’s still an unrealistic story.
Why are the elves, who should be protecting their land, harassing Frangia?
The elves that Netoru knew were a race that did not dare to step forward unless their territory was being invaded. At least in this situation, they weren’t a warlike race enough to attack Frangia.
In the past, he would have thought that there might be some misunderstanding, but since he had already dealt with the Rangers in the city, he couldn’t believe it anymore.
Netoru cautiously headed for the ranger’s cavalryman lying in the corner while preparing for an unexpected situation.
Could it be because Netoru had thoroughly destroyed the holy cavalry’s limbs in the previous battle?
In the aftermath of the battle, holy blood flowed like a river from the limbs of the holy cavalry, who had collapsed with his back leaning against the outer wall of the building that had been destroyed.
Netoru walked on the muddy blood of the holy cavalry and approached the ranger’s holy cavalry. Eventually, he climbed on top of his body and opened the cockpit.
Netoru’s eyebrows twitched at the scenery inside.
I hoped, but I guess it wasn’t a lie.
“Ugh! Come on, can you help me…!”
In fact, the elven woman who was asking Netoru for help was strangled by a man expected to be her coupling partner on top of her cockpit.
I don’t know what it is, but I couldn’t let her woman die like that, so Netohru immediately got rid of the man who was strangling her woman.
“Haha… Lower jaw… Thank you for your help···.”
With the help of Netoru, her partner, who had been strangling her and holding her back, left and fell, and the woman came behind Netoru’s back, gasping for breath. Perhaps because she was on the verge of suffocation, her woman’s face was bluish.
Netoru tilted her head as she hid her woman behind his back.
“Why is your partner trying to kill you?”
“Because of a bug… Right now my partner is being manipulated by bugs.”
“Are you being manipulated by a bug?”
Do bugs have that power? Such a question came to mind for a moment, but Netoru hardened his expression as he looked at the elf who was raising her body in the corner of the cockpit.
It doesn’t look like it will end easily.
“… You better get out of here.”
“Yes? Wow?!”
With his broken left arm, he has no intention of fighting the Ranger in the cramped cockpit. So, four toru grabbed the woman’s slender waist with his right arm, jumped out of the cockpit and came down to the ground.
When she landed safely on the floor and raised her head, she saw a male elf sticking out her face from inside her cockpit.
Their gazes collided naturally in the air.
“·······”
“…”
Dull eyes. Eyes that look like dead bodies, incapable of feeling any emotion, stare at Netoru. Seeing the elf’s gaze, Netoru frowned.
…Is that guy right now alive?
For a moment, the elf’s eyes were not alive enough to ask such a question. The elf in Netoru’s eyes reminded him of an old tree with all its roots cut off.
How long did the strange confrontation continue in silence?
The elf, who had been motionless with an expressionless face since earlier, also came out of the cockpit and came down to the ground.
Then, as soon as his feet touched the ground, he kicked off the ground and rushed at Netoru.
Just in time, it was Netoru who had been waiting for an attack.
Moreover, since the opponent was a Ranger, Netoru strained his body. Even then, his left arm was broken. If he made a small mistake, this side could be defeated.
Eventually, the distance between them narrowed, and it was time for fists to come and go. Netoru inadvertently narrowed his brows. It was because the elf’s attack was unexpectedly insignificant.
“···This?”
It was like watching an immature child who couldn’t handle his body properly. After avoiding the elf’s attack several times and watching his liver, Netoru let out a devastated laugh and stomped his foot into the elf’s side.
Write it!
The elf kicked by Netoru was thrown into the air and thrown to the ground. My back fell to the ground and I glided several meters.
Surprisingly, however, as soon as the slippery body stopped, the elf immediately touched the floor with his hands and began to stand up.
It was an unpleasant scenery that is hard to explain to others unless you see it with your own eyes.
Even at the moment of the kick, the elf didn’t frown or moan at her. Shall we say that it is a state in which the necessary stimuli as a living organism are completely lacking?
Yes, it’s like a puppet being manipulated. The limbs are controlled by invisible threads… Something.
“·······”
Before long, the elf stood up. Then, staring at Netoru with his characteristic dry eyes, he started to spur the ground again.
There is not the slightest hesitation in that movement. Thanks to this, Netoru has been able to understand to some extent what the lady of hers just said.
This is incomprehensible unless you are being manipulated by a bug. I don’t know how the hell he’s controlling the elf’s body.
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Netoru began to unilaterally beat up the elves who were constantly attacking. He put his knee in his stomach and punched him in his chest.
However, it was a time when Netoru was gradually getting into trouble because of the elves who continued to attack even though they vomited blood no matter how hard they hit them.
Cried the woman who had been watching her from earlier with her restless face behind her.
“Wait a minute! Please don’t kill him! He’s my husband, even though he says he’s being manipulated by bugs now!”
“…Husband?”
She had no intention of killing her anyway.
Toru, who was attacking her elves unilaterally at the desperate cry of her woman, was taken aback. She never thought that it would be a couple relationship beyond a simple coupling partner.
But that was then. Was it the limit now?
Dump.
No matter how many times he fell, the elf’s body, which had risen again and attacked Netoru, collapsed powerlessly.
