Chapter 114 – #25 Infiltration, Another Old Friend of the Hero (4)
“Kuu… !”
Hey profit!
Shukak!
A blow like the fangs of a beast attacking from a blind spot, aiming for my life without mercy.
However, Mona managed to dodge that blow.
A rumbling movement, as if sliding down the hallway.
Mona’s feet did not come off the hallway, but the shadows under her feet were used to move in an impossible way.
“… !”
Whiik!
Realizing that he had failed to defeat her Mona, Chris immediately threw the dagger she was holding in her hand into the air.
The target is a magic stone lamp that illuminates the hallway.
The two magic stone lanterns were shattered at once by a dagger imbued with magic, and the hallway went dark in an instant.
However, the sparsely placed magic stone lamps still remain, so it is not completely dark.
If he tried to break the magic lamp and run away while blindfolded, then Chris’ intention could be considered a failure.
“Wait, that’s dangerous… Now, that was downright dangerous.”
Distancing herself from Chris, Mona murmurs carelessly with her sighs.
In the meantime, the armored guard golems that had been gathering towards this place arrived and stood guarding Mona.
Behind Chris, a large number of golems also crowded there, blocking the escape route.
‘… It’s ruined.’
Chris took a spare dagger from his waistband and clicked his tongue into him, looking in front and behind him.
It’s a pity that I couldn’t defeat that demon with a single blow earlier.
If Mona had been decapitated earlier, she would have been able to at least escape through her window.
‘As expected, there was a demon… !’
He knew that there was an unusual magic hanging over Count Meln’s mansion.
In addition to that, I also realized that there were many things that could not be achieved with the ability of an ordinary alchemist in Count Meln’s actions.
So, I guessed that Earl Meln had his hands on some kind of evildoer…
“Oh my, have you given up already? Well, there’s no point in struggling in a situation like this~”
Putting down her hands holding her dagger, Mona looked down at Chris, who stood defenselessly and naturally, and said with disdain.
Mona’s red eyes scan her Chris.
From her head to toe.
I watch her body exposed as her hood comes off, as if appreciating it.
Black hair mixed with a bit of indigo, like the dark night sky.
Despite his small body for a man, he looks like a woman or some kind of pretty boy or pretty young man.
It was a simple outfit of pants and a shirt, but Mona noticed at a glance that it was hiding her body line with a piece of cloth on the inside of the dress.
‘She’s a cute girl♪’
Mona thinks, licking her lips with her tongue.
It seems like he is trying to deceive, but he can’t hide from Mona that he is a pitiful young woman who suits her well.
Other than that, if there’s anything else that’s unusual…
“That ear… It’s not like he’s a nobleman… You are mixed race Mixed race of demons.”
The final place where Mona’s eyes were nailed is Chris’s exposed ears.
It is slightly longer and sharper than the human’s, and is about half as short as Mona’s, which has returned to its original form.
In the world, there are people called long nobles, or elves, and there are occasional cases of mixed blood between them and humans.
Pointed ears are also a characteristic of such elves, but if you look closely, the ears of elves and demons are slightly different.
And even if it is of mixed blood, its characteristics remain distinct enough to be recognizable at a glance if a person of each race sees it.
Furthermore, unlike the elves, who smell the forest and nature just by being there,
That intruder in front of me had very, very dark magic.
Perhaps, a magical power similar to what Mona now possesses.
“Half… Is not Do you want a quarter?”
“… Noisy.”
“Uhuhu, it’s nice to meet my own people in a place like this. Where are you, lovely and cute baby, can you hug me?”
“Shut up, dirty bitch!”
Chris shouted while holding the daggers in both hands tightly.
“I am human! Don’t even say it’s cute! I am a man!”
“Can I not pretend to be a man? You can tell right away that you are a woman.”
“… ! Profit… !”
Koo!
Chris stomped his booted foot on the hallway floor as if driven by passion.
Beneath his feet, there was a thick shadow that extended to Chris himself, Mona, and even the golems behind him.
Recognizing her magical energy spreading through her feet, Mona grasped the situation in an instant.
‘The reason I broke the magic stone lamp a while ago was not to block my vision…’
Even if you break a couple of magic stones, this hallway won’t be so dark that you can’t see in front of you.
Therefore, Chris’ goal was not to cover his eyes, but simply to increase the amount and density of shadows.
Right, for the current blow.
Kuuk! Kwak! Wood deok! Don’t fall! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome… !
――In an instant, the corridor was filled with black thorns.
In front of and behind Chris, the aisle that is not quite narrow,
It has become like a messy forest of thorn bushes with large thorns rising from the shadows cast on the floor, walls, and ceiling.
Of course, there was no time to dodge the golems standing in the aisle.
All those golems, as if they had been skewered, were full of holes and chirped through the thorny forest.
He can’t move anything, he’s just stuck there in tatters.
If they were living creatures, if they were humans rather than golems, it would have become a bloody and terrible space.
And, in the middle of such a thorny forest.
“――Hey, it’s amazing. In an instant, such a spell. Aside from demonic blood, you have talent~?”
Impaled by the spikes made of those shadows, Mona clapped her hands clap clap clap clap.
No, it looks like it’s pierced, but it’s not.
Mona’s spikes of thorns, which were trying to pierce her, broke into strange shapes close to her, as if avoiding her.
That’s why Mona is fine.
Not even the slightest bit of hurt, just standing peacefully among the black thorn forest.
‘… I didn’t expect too much, though.’
Chris clicks her tongue into her again.
The first time he appeared from the shadow, and the evasion earlier…
She also realized to the extent that she was a magician with the same 『Dark attribute』 As himself, especially with shadows.
And that it would be difficult to inflict fatal wounds on her with her special skill, [Shadow Magic].
However, I couldn’t help but stick my tongue out at the way she dealt with her as if nothing was wrong with the magic she used as a surprise.
It’s not just about being ‘proficient in a certain specialty’.
It is as if the shadow itself is being treated like a limb.
Chris was quite confident in her own magic skills, and if it was a tolerable opponent…
She’s probably a mid-level demon, but she’s confident enough to deal with two or three by herself.
However, I was able to sense that the opponent in front of me, who was expected to be of the highest rank, would not be able to overcome it even if I died and woke up.
――To inflict a fatal wound on that woman…
Magic, her own speciality, would be useless.
If it wasn’t for the use of her shadow, all of her own magic was simply excellent.
Judging that she couldn’t help that demon, Chris raised her dagger again.
On the blade of the spare dagger, bluish magic power is formed.
If it wasn’t for magic, there was no choice but to defeat it with hand-to-hand combat.
“Aha. That’s how it works. He’s a bit weak when it comes to barbaric things like hitting and fucking me.
It’s because I’ve been a person who uses my hair since the old days. I left it to the kids to fight.”
On the subject of saying that, Mona passes through the thorn forest and comes closer.
Her shadows soared, her skewers bent in strange directions or melted away as Mona passed, as if giving her way.
“Mmmm, and I don’t want cute children to get hurt~. After all, I don’t want to fight.”
“…”
Chris lowered his body deeply, not responding.
Then, she gave strength to her foot that stepped on her floor, and it bounced off the spot like a spring.
Fight!
Acceleration in an instant.
She becomes a land creeper and lunges at Mona with her single breath.
There are no golems to be her shield.
If she dodges with that bizarre teleportation technique this time too, then you just have to follow her this way and bite her neck all the way.
Maybe a counterattack will come, but it’s a judge.
Chris, who jumped out with the determination of a heartless death, even assuming that one of her arms would be ripped off, aimed at her Mona’s neck and tried to swing her sword again,
“████, Stop.”
“Ugh?!”
With that command from Mona, Chris stopped her body in the same posture she was charging at.
While accelerating and running, the body suddenly stopped.
Thanks to that momentum, Chris stomped on the floor as if pushed,
Mona ducked her side to avoid Chris’s tumbling body.
After a while, as her body was freed, Chris looked at Mona with her bewildered eyes.
Now that, the word…
“Uhuhu, is this your true name? Even if it’s a quota, since it’s a demon, the true name restraint works.”
Mona chuckles.
Demons who are bound by soul units to contracts and promises,
Unusually, when its true name is called, it becomes unable to resist the opponent.
There is a special reason for this that started with the devil, but the detailed inside story is omitted here.
“Uh, how… !”
“Well. It seems that there was someone who taught me that the intruder who would come here is usually called Chris, that he was a demon, and that his true name was~.”
Mona walks over to Chris, who slumps on her floor laughing at her single single.
“Now that that’s the case, don’t resist any more.
… ■■■■ Hey, drop your weapon, lie down there and put your butt over here.”
“Sir, I don’t like… !”
Even with her words of denial, Chris’ body naturally follows Mona’s direction.
With a thump, the dagger fell powerlessly onto the carpet.
Chris prostrates himself profusely, sticking out his butt in a fawning way at Mona.
“Ha ha, cute ♪”
The buttocks wearing thick pants as if trying to cover the lines of the lower body,
Mona teased her by tapping her foot and kicking her lightly.
With her lovely ass kicked and trampled on by Umma’s feet, Chris trembles with humiliation…
