Chapter 105 – Episode 104. The Road to You (4)
【Calm down! Now, take a deep breath, take a deep breath!]
The real Astrid desperately soothed the panicked Astrid.
I want to look around, but Astrid doesn’t look at me at all, so it’s hard to look.
【Calm down! You said you were a man, why are you doing this!]
Even the real Astrid was embarrassed.
She is the one who stood in the snowy field until just a moment ago.
She was staring blankly at Bai Zeke, who was casting a chant, and was watching that fireball called Prominence fly away.
“What, what, what, what, what is this?!”
Astrid was also confused and looked around him in confusion.
I was standing on a wide open field of snow, and there were obviously Wolfgang and Ashley standing around, but everyone had disappeared and she was standing alone.
What I see in front of me is a huge tower, its walls.
And the snowfields spread out on both sides.
The snow field is the same, but suddenly there is a tower standing in front of my eyes, so I have no choice but to be embarrassed.
【Calm down, calm down.】
“Does it look real?!”
【What if I don’t calm down!?】
“I’m the only one who suddenly came to this place! How the hell did this happen… “
【Shh.】
With those words, Astrid, who had been looking around her with a clear expression of bewilderment, stopped.
I didn’t stop because of Astrid’s words.
Astrid felt it too.
[Shall we change for a moment?]
‘… That would be nice… ?’
After a while, Astrid’s mood changed completely.
Like a well-forged sword, Astrid’s sharp eyes flashed and grabbed the greatsword she was carrying on her back.
As if that was a signal, black shadows appeared here and there.
As if they were originally there, they slowly reveal themselves, and just by looking at them, you can tell that they are not normal beings. They have strange appearances twisted and dislocated, as if they had just climbed from the abyss on the other side of hell.
【What is that all about?】
“It is a monster. I don’t know why monsters appear where only barbarians remained… “
Astrid said that, but the fake Astrid was equally embarrassed.
She, too, had never seen a monster.
After entering the academy, she has seen the Helveiga that appeared during training and has caught it herself.
But compared to the things that now appeared before her eyes, the Helveys looked rather decent.
A humanoid monster with a three-headed club and a spider with ten arms.
Not only that, but bizarre, colorful monsters were flocking towards Astrid.
‘… Isn’t this a bit too much?’
【There are too many.】
Still, Astrid wasn’t her downtrodden expression.
Rather, she gripped the snow flower in her hand even more firmly, closing her mouth tightly.
Her apparent hostility was moving towards her.
Compared to Astrid standing alone, the number of monsters that exceeded tens and approached a hundred began to narrow the encirclement towards Astrid, dyeing the snowy field black.
Heavy overload.
At this moment, that thought was in the fake Astrid’s head.
“I cannot die here. I don’t know what this is, but those monsters… I might have a hard time with a number like that.”
Fake Astrid Mouth Her Mouth
It was the first time I had ever seen Astrid say such a thing.
It was the first time I had ever seen Astrid talk about the possibility that she would be defeated.
“But you can’t do that. I haven’t even gotten married yet. Poetry should go. Because we have to marry our Highness.”
Astrid’s eyes lit up as she undid the belt of the uniform of the Archduchess of Mitterien.
Everywhere the eyes reach is a monster, and everything they see is like a barrier.
It is not a battle of many against many, but a battle that must be fought alone.
Astrid has to fight while being vigilant in all directions.
【What are you doing?】
“I am ready to fight.”
Now, her monsters, who had approached her so far that it wouldn’t be strange if anyone attacked each other, surrounded her and seemed to solidify her encirclement.
The tip of her nose was tickled by the smell of her breath mixed with the stench of demons.
All I could see were the ugly faces of monsters who were drooling ravenously.
All you can hear is the greedy snorting of the monsters.
“… The tentacles are kind of creepy, though.”
【What are you doing?】
Astrid was tying a belt around the handle of the snow flower and her hand.
Her white belt was tightly tied to the hilt of her greatsword and her hand, not allowing it to come off an inch.
“I was afraid I might miss it. Like this.”
【Sleep, sleep… !]
Before the fake Astrid’s screaming cry was over, Astrid charged.
A greatsword drawn from the ground cut the torso of the one-eyed giant in half in front, and the curtain on the fight finally rose.
*
Astrid is gone.
Right after Prominence flew away, Astrid disappeared while stunned watching all the gruesome traces of the destruction.
Ashley, as well as Wolfgang, Baijik, and even private soldiers are mobilized to search for Astrid, who has disappeared, but there is no trace of her anywhere.
“If I had gone somewhere on my own in the first place, there would have been traces left on the snow. Baijik, there was no movement of mana?”
“No. If I had been forced to teleport, my mana would have fluctuated, but there’s no way I couldn’t feel it.”
Baijik was also just as absurd.
It’s true that he collected mana to use Prominence, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t clumsy enough to not notice the teleport happening right next to him.
If you can’t do that much, the title of magician is a waste.
“Isn’t that strange? Doesn’t it make sense that, so suddenly, she disappears without a trace?”
“So that’s what you’re doing now. Ashley, give me that piece of paper.”
Baizik held out his hand to Ashley.
Right after Astrid disappeared, a piece of paper fell in its place.
The yellow paper, from where it appeared or when it appeared, had burnt marks, and that was also really incomprehensible.
After receiving the piece of paper from Ashley, Baizik peered into the piece of paper again.
“… Wait, this… “
It was a piece of paper that had fallen on the snow and was soaking wet.
But now, quite a bit of time has passed, and the piece of paper has begun to dry up again.
The piece of paper in Baizik’s hand began to reveal its color as soon as it dried.
“This… It looks like an amulet.”
About 2/3 of it was burned, but about 1/3 of the remaining piece of paper clearly showed its original yellow color.
Red lines and figures drawn on unburnt paper.
“Wolfgang, are there aliens nearest you?”
“No. It’s been a long time since we subdued everyone around here.”
“Father, there is. There is one from a foreign country, right?”
At Ashley’s words, Wolfgang and Weizik’s gazes turned to him.
In the eyes of the two middle-aged people, who seemed to ask for an answer right away, Ashley gave Wolfgang a rather frustrated expression.
“Are you at the mansion? A convert from a foreign race.”
“… Azdabarca!”
“Yes, you are of foreign origin. Besides, he was a shaman.”
At Ashley’s words, Wolfgang grabbed Weizik’s forearm, who was still looking at the piece of amulet.
Thanks to his movement, which started moving before him, Baizik ended up being dragged by the forearm.
“Hey, let this go! Wolfgang, I will walk!”
At Baizik’s cry, Wolfgang let go of that forearm, and said in a hurry to Ashley whether Baizik would fall into the snow or not.
“Ashley, separate his soldiers and continue searching this area for three quarters. Command is left to the Cheonin Captain, and the rest of the soldiers, you, me, and Baizik, return to the mansion. It is urgent to show this amulet to Ajdavarka so that she can investigate it.”
“Yes, Father.”
While Ashley called the nearby Thousand Commander and gave Wolfgang’s instructions, Wolfgang glared at the tower that looked far away.
“It seems like a trivial trick, but… If only my daughter had been taken with her, she must be playing a cunning trick. However, you will regret it. Leopards are naturally solitary hunters.”
Wolfgang left those words and turned around.
*
Drops of blood painted red dots and embroidered the snowfield.
The handle of the sword and the belt he had tied around his hand had already been stained red for a long time, and Astrid sighed as she wiped the red blood from his eyes.
Astrid snatches the snow flower again, knocking off the tentacles flying behind her with an enemy ball punch.
This snowfield now had more black darkness than white light.
Astrid moved among the monsters and stirred them as if meeting water, and at the end of the great sword, countless monsters split and split to meet their end.
However, it was literally a heavy load, and the real Astrid and the fake Astrid were swapped due to a timeout in the middle, and the power itself plummeted.
It is said that there is divine power and divine power, but as long as the foundation is human, there is a law called a limit.
“After… Whoo, whoo… “
Astrid sighed deeply.
Neat and tidy, that graceful appearance is now hard to find.
Her uniform was all torn and bloody and ugly, and even Astrid herself was distraught.
Even so, there are still many monsters.
Fighting his staggering knees, Astrid glared directly at him.
“… I don’t know why I have to suffer like this, really. I thought you were far away from something like this.”
【I see. I thought there would be no more fights like this.]
“Still, keep your promise. Keep it tight, and I’ll go back… “
【What, what promise are you talking about?】
“What a promise.”
It stings as if my face was scratched.
Astrid took a handful of his eyes and wiped his face.
The cold energy spreads rapidly, and although it is a little, it seems to be energized.
“The promise that I will get married and you will return!”
Blame it, making footsteps and Astrid rushed at it.
There are still many monsters to kill.
It wasn’t time to rest.
【It turned out the other way around!】
