"Hey. Can I leave that alone?"
Rona, who accompanied Aldis walking to the house through the Caucasus Forest, asked her, worrying about her back.
After Minerva's escort, there are people following them on their way home to their twins for the first time in a month. The trailing person may think that he is not out of luck, but Aldis and Rona, who can magically explore the surrounding creatures, are also out of the question.
"I will turn back on the way anyway."
Aldis responds appropriately with an uninteresting voice.
Aldis's drowsy attitude isn't much of a problem with being followed. You can't walk in the forest of Caucasus where carnivores like lactors roam if you can stand up a little.
In addition, Aldis was aware of the followers he was following. In the past month, he has been secretly following Aldis, who had accompanied Minerva's sanctuary as a guard.
"How long will you keep watching ..."
Bossori and Aldis muttered.
Fuyo Cup The girl who has been around Aldis for now is a girl she met the night after the quarterfinals. When he repelled an assassin suspected to have been released by Marquis Holguin, he discovered that he was lurking nearby and trying to flee, but missed it because he had no connection to the assailants.
At that time, it is bad to turn back just before he said, "I'm going to overlook it if I turn it around." Aldis regretted his remarks, saying that he should not have said anything that would allow him to keep his watch on this.
"Well, no harm so far, and I'll be back halfway anyway."
From the end of the Fuyo Cup to the time of his journey, the girl followed Aldis from the royal capital. However, it doesn't seem to be fighting enough to get into the depths of the forest. Every time I walked into the forest, I always gave up and turned back.
"Hmm? It looks like you gave up."
As Aldis predicted, after a while in the forest, the girl's magical power slowed down and began to gradually move away. It looks like he's going back as before.
However, the girl suddenly stops moving when he is about to leave Aldis's range of magic.
"Oh, it looks like you've come across a beast."
Like Aldis, Rona, who had confirmed the movement by magical exploration, stopped and turned around. The beast and the apparent magical power were approaching the magical power of the girl.
"Is this size a lactor? And it's two .... Oh, that's a stuffed girl."
Just another person. Rona's tone is quite similar.
Probably that girl isn't exactly what she looks like. Given the role of surveillance against Aldis, he should have some means of fighting. However, Aldis speculates that it may also be an anti-human technology in the city. It is unknown how much it can be used as a wild carnivore and a rival who can finally defeat a mercenary.
And not one, but two. It will be delicate whether you can survive even if you run away.
Aldis watches the movement of magic. The girl who comes into contact with Lactor takes an escape immediately and runs out of the forest. But there's another Lactor standing there. The girl's feet stop and the lactor slowly approaches from around.
That life was no longer a lit light. The image of the girl she saw before pierces Aldis's heart. It was a moment when hesitated.
"... Al?"
When Rona senses her buddy's change, he calls out, Aldis shortly tells him to drop his luggage on the ground.
"Please go back."
"Hey al, are you going?"
"... I'm still like a brat from my point of view."
Ardis turned back on his way, leaving unanswered words.
The magical power of the girl moves little by little while being sandwiched between the magical powers of Lactor. Probably somehow trying to escape.
But the next moment, the girl suddenly slowed down.
"Are you in time?"
Sewing Asking himself, Aldis runs between the trees.
The distance to the girl is over 400 meters. No matter how many trees stand in the way, Aldis can be packed in a fraction of the time.
But even with that little time, two Lactors could be fatal to the girl. Finally, the magical power of the girl stays in one place and stops moving. The magic reaction will not have died because it has not yet disappeared, but it will have to use another expression ten seconds later.
Aldis, who unknowingly knew tongue, created a small rift in the space, from which two flying swords emerged. The gate is a connection between the worlds that finally understood its senses by going back and forth between the two worlds before. Aldis is still trying to make a rift so that a sword can finally pass through it, but it was a handy power to store the flying sword just because it was just right.
Called into this world while floating in the air, the two flying swords running in parallel with Aldis fly out like arrows.
Aldis relied on the information obtained during the magical exploration to simultaneously pierce the two Lactors with flying blades.
A sword that relies solely on the position of its magical power is too rough to aim at, and it is almost up to luck whether it can cause fatal injuries. But at least we can divert Lactor's consciousness from the girl. That was enough for Aldis.
"Kishaaaaa!"
Lactor's scream was heard in Aldis's ear.
Capturing And then, without a pause, you can see it in your sight. The first thing I noticed was the two Lactors, and a girl lying between them, full of blood.
One of the Lactors was hit by a flying sword at the neck and the other was at the fuselage. Lactor pierced at the neck with a flying sword appears to be already moving only by reflection. Probably it was a fatal accidental success. If you leave it alone, it will soon die.
By the way, Lactor, whose body had been wounded, had slowed his movements, but turned his gaze to look for the stabbed sword master. Lactor is ready for intimidation after seeing the newly appearing Aldis.
Of course, Lactor and other beasts are just bigger for Aldis. You can call it a trivial partner. He created a blade of wind with magic, and cut off his neck the next moment.
Aldis rushes to the girl who has fallen, even if she does not even notice the deadly Lactor.
"Hey, are you alive?"
Call out with caution and check the condition of the wound visually.
Already the girl seems fainted, not even moaning. Endlessly blood flow from the red stained the abdomen, was making a blood reservoir to the ground while to see to see. If left untouched, it will die in less than five minutes.
"At all. What's wrong, Al."
A voice is heard from behind.
You don't even have to confirm with anyone. Aldis looked back, looking at the luggage carried by Rona and said like a person.
"Just right"
The luggage that Aldis carried before. Take one medicine out of it and open the seal.
"Eh, do you use it?"
Aldis got a luxury remedy that he just bought in the Imperial City today. Healing even dying wounds is a luxury product as the name suggests, with a selling price of five gold coins. It was said that mercenaries and investigators would take possession of insurance in case of emergency.
"Wasteful ..."
Hesitate It's no wonder Rona is amazed at Aldis who poured it into the girl's wound without any reason. When he runs out of medication, Aldis stands up holding the girl's body.
"What's going on?"
"If I go home alone, maybe Philia and Riana will be in a bad mood ..."
Rona followed with a face he couldn't help but say.
When Ardis moves to the exit of the forest, she lays the girl on the road where she can see the highway, and places a magical barrier around her. The effect lasts only about half a day, but as expected, the girl will wake up halfway through. While there are barriers, lactor-sized beasts can prevent them, and in the first place such beasts rarely wander near the forest exit. It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't at stake.
"Is the feeling changed?"
Rona asks Aldis, who secured the girl's safety and started walking again through the woods toward his house.
"..."
Aldis can't answer. Because it cannot be clearly denied.
It's not a good mood to be constantly monitored, no matter how deceptive. If you are an adult, Aldis will not be shy. However, Aldis is troubled because her opponent was still a girl of the same age as her twins and Minerva.
"... I didn't know."
"What? What?"
"No, nothing."
Even for Philia and Liana, for Cyrill, for Minerva. Apparently, Aldis noticed that she seemed to be very sweet to her children.
Asylum The ruthless deprivation of one's own childhood to be done. And being saved and guarded by a man, being given a lot of things, being yourself now. It seems that such a past had a great influence on his own action guidelines without knowing it.
Perhaps he wanted to get closer to him by doing the same thing as his beloved benefactor. One reason is that living in one's life is the only thing you can afford to reach out to others for the first time. Every day when death was too close, I had no time to think about this.
The unknown girl who helped earlier, my old self, and the boys and girls I met in this world. An unanswered question emerges in Aldis's mind.
Why was there any difference in circumstances just because he was born there, despite being born as the same person? While he was lying in the middle, Ardis felt irrational and unreasonable, and unknowingly rushed to the house where he had to protect.