Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

Monkey monsters didn't come all at once. Slowly, but surely, as if the number of wild horses that witnessed the scene of the accident was gradually increasing.

They were jumping and making sounds on the trees surrounding the village in a terrible excitement... However, it was strange not to come into the village, but to be vigilant about something.

Because of that, it seems that the stress has accumulated among them. As the number increases, excitement escalates among the monkey monsters, and some--

Knock it off!

Betcha!

--They start throwing branches of trees, stones, or filth towards the village.

Lucia thought to herself as she watched the situation deteriorate.

"(I'll just leave the village and erase the forest...?" No, if you do that, you won't be able to keep your promise to use your power on your own, and it would be pathetic if you attacked a monster that was just making a scene so easily.....) "

Even though she was surrounded by monsters, Lucia was calm. It wasn't a big deal for her to be surrounded by hundreds or thousands of monkeys who had survived so many hardships.

It was the same for the waltz. She still hid in the bush, and seemed to be getting smaller while praying that the students would leave the village. For her, it might be a good idea to say that she didn't even notice the monkeys.

But it is. Whatever the situation was for Waltz and Lucia, it seemed like nothing but a crisis for the students and the villagers. In particular, the students pale their faces while forming a circle and watching their surroundings.

"Chairman! We can't do this alone!" Let's call back the teachers who went there first! "

If we're the only ones surviving, we can do something about it, but we can't fight while protecting the villagers?!

First of all, you need to evacuate the villagers, right?!

Chairman!

Chairman!

The students' gaze was directed at one female student. What did she do to Lucia? After all, it seems that she was the center of the student group that stayed in the village.

Female students, who had been called committee chairmen by students, only think for a moment before making a decision.

"It's impossible to go through this monkey and get a teacher." So... someone who can afford it! Launch fire magic so that you or other students can realize that the village is under attack! "

Well then, I'll do it!

"The villagers were evacuated..."

I'll do it!

"Please, everyone else, be ready for the Gladiator runaway!"

Copy that!

The students took something from their chest and set it up. Apparently, it's a "wand" used in this country. The fact that the villagers didn't say anything when they saw the wand is probably a common "wand" in this country.

But Lucia and Waltz were different.

”(That's...)”

An object like a handle on a metal cylinder... It was a pistol. However, there seemed to be no magazine that could be loaded with bullets, and instead, it seemed to have been fitted with something like a gemstone that was large in size.

The first to use the Staff was a male student who was trying to call in reinforcements. He rode his staff into the sky and pulled the trigger.

Pasch!!

While raising such a dry sound, a ray of light vanished into the sky... And the shot (?) --

Bang!!

—— and blew it up.

His magic was originally meant to get help, but it seems to have affected the monkeys as well. The excitement rose among the sounding monkeys, and a small number of them began throwing stones.

That was a natural course of action. The schoolgirl called the chairman knew what would happen if she used fire magic while surrounded by monkeys, so she gave instructions to stay defensive.

It's just... there's one exception here. The event must have been unexpected to the schoolgirls and even to Lucia.

Shit!

"What an interesting guy!"

The waltz that had been hiding in the grass suddenly stood up with its eyes shining. Apparently, she became interested in the Staff that the students had.