The Branded Female Fencer

Battle of the Dark Forest, Part 8 - Karevan ④ -

"I didn't know we were going to fight together in this situation. The world doesn't know what's going to happen."

"Really. I never thought I'd be working with anyone before either. Because I've always fought alone. Lifeless, what about you?

"Don't talk a lot today, Titania. Anxious?"

Lifeless irony made Titania smile lonely.

"Anxiety - maybe. If this is how I can work with others, I wanted to know that fact sooner. That way, or - and so on, I'll think of something extra."

"Think of something extra in the middle of the fight, and you'll be unconscious."

"You're right. But I thought you had the same sentiment, hero king?

- Too sharp a woman is not cute, Titania.

Lifeless also returned with a lonely laugh, beside which Dortmund stood silently. That's how Titania understood, silently, the lifeless mood.

"Is it cute? My brother used to tell me he was cute."

"You should have just walked into my back house. It's a rare beauty to have a sword."

"Such a life could have been interesting, but the sword was born part of the flesh for me. When I let go of my sword, my personality will die."

"You're just like magic to me. What's ironic is the qualities you were born with"

"I guess so."

"Leave it around there to blossom in the Kurakura story. Let's go."

It was Tetrastine who cut off the conversation. Next to Lifeless and Titania, Lissy, with her body in flames, was getting ready at some point. Lissie comes forward, wrapped in fireworks that should be described as flaming armor. Even the hair color changed to crimson.

"Well, the one called Spirit Possession."

"Exactly. If the other person is a tree, it will be effective. Evaporate the sap and rip it off the growing edge, Lissy."

"My pleasure."

Lissy cut ahead and stormed out. Later Dortmund, Lifeless continues. Titania also tries to go on, but stopped before then to look back at Tetrastine.

"I just want to ask you one thing."

"What?

"I think we each have sadness and paranoia that we can't tell people. If your paranoia is what I imagined it would be - is there anything you can do to help me?

"You're a really sharp woman, you are. Or maybe there is, but this is not the time yet. There's something I can't overlook more than being so involved in continental circumstances. If we're going to finish it all, we think it's after that."

"Okay. Speak up when the time comes. Maybe there's something I can do to help."

"... I hope so."

Tetrastine also returned it with irony and loneliness again, and a grin that made her give up on living together. Titania looked at the expression somewhat sadly, and stormed Calevan.

The ones left were Erlich and Tetrastine. They were two people who never spoke, but Erlich broke the silence first.

"Aren't you going?"

"It's this line. If you don't go, they'll tell you it's useless.

"My abilities are not front-line facing. Let me set you up here. But your abilities are front-line, right?

"That's right, but there are those who identify that Kalevan and his ability to do it. Just fighting can be an endless sharpening."

"I see. We might be thinking the same thing."

"Hmm - so why don't we just break it up at the same time?

And Tetrastine and Erlich nodded at each other when they discussed something, often thinking about it, and then acted differently. Thus, the battle between Karevan and the black magicians intensified.

"Here."

Anomaly was going behind the woods by herself. After grabbing by a forest tree earlier, Anomaly didn't dare escape. I dared to explore how the enemy would come out, but the enemy stayed to capture the anomaly and did not attack any more. So Anomaly abandoned the captured individual and turned another towards the Lamfort Forest Zone.

In fact, this was the Anomaly and Doom operation. For Doom, Kalevan's crusade can be either. Doom's purpose was to explore the ruins that Calevan would have defended, and as long as he was able to explore the ruins, he honestly didn't care about the success or failure of the Calevan crusade. Instead, if there are no ruins, you won't even have to crusade Calevan.

So as Doom came to this forest area, he was thinking of various measures. The most important thing I had to think about was knowing if there were any ruins. What Doom asked Anomaly to do was hide herself in the middle of the operation and ask her to move on alone. Anomaly swallowed this suggestion with pleasure. Because Anomaly herself had something to worry about.

It's Kalevan's properties as an organism. When I gathered as many records of the battle as I could, I noticed Anomaly unusually as that creature.

"The ability to grow, regenerate, ignoring mass and forms as organisms. And inexhaustible magic and strength. According to the record of the battle, not all groups or individuals once fought to crusade Calevan and believed to have succeeded. Ultimately, however, Calevan has withdrawn inappropriately as immortal. Is that your secret?"

"It's been a long time since anyone's been here."

Anomaly had reached the entrance to the ruins, as Doom imagined. In front of me there was a great tree that seemed to have lived for thousands of years. Given that so many big trees could not be confirmed from the sky, they would have been hidden by illusion or something. The tree was equipped with a gate so majestic that it had never seen this again, and with decorations and letters incompatible with any culture that existed.

In front of that gate, there was one girl sitting in a thin green piece. Anomaly, who realized at first glance that the girl was unusual, is already in a combat position.

Continued