The Branded Female Fencer

"What?"

The girl was whining unexpectedly. Something suddenly rolled in where I was thinking about what to do with a silver-haired woman approaching me. Normally, I would follow this gap and look for the next means of escape, but it was rare for a girl, and it seemed a priority to see what jumped in.

"What's flying in..."

The girl said that much and shut her mouth. I'm pretty sure something stuck in the garbage pile, but the garbage pile was starting to turn red and discolored. Soon some of the piles of garbage collapse, and I can see some of what went into them. It's part of a person's body. It wasn't ahead of my ankle, it was probably my leg.

A girl's inquiry tells of danger. It's not safe to be here right now. But we're not sure where to run yet. The girl thought it would be equally deadly if we went in the wrong direction to escape. In making such a decision, it is questionable how this girl has crept through the training grounds.

Looking around where the girl should escape, I could see the face of the skinny girl all the way in front of me. They look at each other properly and shake their necks. It was the skinny girl who opened her mouth first. Wouldn't I still be under 10 years old when I was a year old? Looks a few younger than the thief girl.

"Sister, is that it?

"Wow, me? I 'm-"

The girl noticed much more trying to answer that much. I have my hands on the upstairs window frame now. Think from height, the girl's face can't be on her front. When a girl looks down from the neck of a lean girl all the time, there's no body that should be there, only her face peeking through the corner of the house.

As the girl tried to bring her gaze back to the front, the skinny girl's face was suddenly in front of her. Distance of each other's breath. From the shadow of the house to the window there should have been one body portion, but the skinny girl's face approached right in front of her. It's not that I'm too close, I still don't see my body. Plus, kind of, the skinny girl's mouth stinked. The burglar girl suspects. That this is unusual.

"My neck, it's stretched -"

"Anyone... can I eat?

A skinny girl opens her mouth. The mouth that opened so wide that it didn't look good on that little face was torn between looking at it, and what a stretch of the end of the mouth to the neck to tear it apart. From the open mouth, except for sharp teeth that certainly do not belong to a person. That tooth, which stunned into his mouth, reminded him of a torture instrument.

That's when the girl realized the reason for the raw odor. There were countless pieces of hair caught between the teeth of a skinny girl. The saliva had a colour of blood. In its mouth, there was still an eye that looked at this one carelessly.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey!

The girl had also forgotten to run and screamed. Even if I want to escape, my hands are stiff and I can't move. My body didn't listen to me say much about tension and fear, even though I knew in my head that I would die if I didn't run away. At that moment, everything in the world moved slowly. I can clearly see the mouth of a lean girl ripped to her neck slowly closing towards herself.

The girl tried to close too many eyes of fear, but it didn't even work. But in a world that was supposed to be slow, the moment, the vision changed. What the girl saw was the neck of a skinny girl who had been slashed off and the beautiful side of a silver-haired girl who flew with herself.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah."

"I'll have this returned"

Soon Renatica had pulled the seal out of the girl's pocket. But just because it didn't matter, the girl landed on the ground, fumbled and prompted by Renatica. The girl's feet are still stuck.

Even looking at a girl like that, Renatica remained faceless, but how much do you care? I keep an eye on that behavior for once. But Renatica had no use for this girl more than the seal came back. And Eliza also practiced healing magic herself and had already returned.

"What the hell was that?"

"I don't. But he hasn't left yet."

"Huh?"

At the same time as Eliza's reply, Renatica was taking off her cape and removing the blade from her nostalgia. Twice a Matchett-like blade to cut off twigs, used when the twig enters the mountain. Its eyes grew sharper and sharper, staring at the darkness of the alley, where monsters like girls had emerged earlier.

Then one lean girl's face floats up from the darkness. Eliza also pulled out her sword to coincide with the emergence of that skinny girl.

"I think I cut it off just now."

Renatica does not answer Eliza's words. In doing so, once again, my face rises out of the darkness. That face is exactly the same as before. Girl with thin, bloodless, but starving beast-like, yet inebriated eyes.

"What, the two of you?

"No, not yet."

"Hih."

Three or four faces emerge from the darkness so that they can withstand the screams of the thief girl. Those faces that emerged one after the other stared at the three with equally lifeless eyes. Total 8 bottles. If the decapitated earlier neck also fits, it would mean nine necks.

Eliza looked at the figure and leaked it pompously.

"Scylla..."

"Scylla?"

"It's a nine-necked monster said to lurk in the north, behind the mountains of Pilebos. You think you have a neck so stretchy that it stretches all over the cave that you eat a nasty intruder who comes into the cave? It's been a long time since the guild and other sweepstakes were confirmed, but there's no record of crusades in the nearly 200 years since it was confirmed. I'm not a demon king, but it won't make any difference that I'm a fairly high-ranking demon. It's a monster similar to that Scylla on the record."

"That's a nasty opponent"

The moment Lunatica muttered, her neck began to move simultaneously, observing the Lunaticas as they swayed at all costs.

Six are Lunatica, and two advance toward Eliza, and the two turn to themselves. Fortunately, not a single neck flew away at the girl, but Renatica was avoiding demonic attacks after reading the behavior. Because in the unlikely event that a girl is targeted, we have to let the girl get away with it as a matter of priority.

Honestly, it doesn't matter to Lunatica, like the girl from the burglar, but I have an appointment with Lisa. I will not do anything to the detriment of Alphilis. That was Lisa and Lunatica's promise. Among them is the protection of ordinary people.

So Renatica was always aware of the girl's whereabouts. Yet what Renatica saw was an unexpected sight.

"Elsia, over here"

"Layers!"

What Renatica saw was a boy trying to get the girl away from some of the buildings collapsed by Scylla's rampage. The boy called the girl Elsia, and he seemed to have the name Layer. But when was the boy even close to this fight? At least Lunatica didn't notice the signs.

Renatica accidentally tried to look into the boy's eyes, but the boy's eyes were invisible hidden in his long gold forehead. Just hidden eyes in that hair looked at Renatica for a moment, and the boy and the girl disappeared.

"(That child...)"

"Renatica, concentrate!

Reminds Renatica to pay attention while Eliza plays one of her necks. But Renatica knocked off his two necks at the same time, as he turned to the day after tomorrow. For Renatica, an attack of this magnitude could be judged even as she meditated on her eyes.

Eliza, who stands guarded, and Lunatica, who stands on its own. They look like contrasts, but it doesn't make a difference that they're both pretty strong people. And they tried to keep their backs together and looked at Scylla.

Continued