Chapter 105 - She’s Like a Bright Red Flame That Burns Quietly (5) (1/2)
The smallest Ruten in front of us bent down and spread its wings.
“Kunpei, wait for a bit.”
“O-oh.”
Rouge dropped me from her shoulder next to a thick tree branch.
She treated me gently, being careful of the wounds on my back.
“Lion tribe person, step back.”
She walked over to Gasara, who was crouching and holding his shoulders down, and urged him in a quiet tone.
“But…”
“Step back.”
“Ow!”
She grabbed the collar of Gasara’s down jacket and pulled it.
Gasara was sent flying two meters and landed next to me.
Isn’t that too rough of a treatment?
“Ah, sorry. It’s cause you’re bigger than Kunpei. My mistake.”
Apparently, she judged him to be sturdy with his physique.
”Hm. Even three of them is not really a big deal, but it’s the first time I’ve had to fight while protecting someone. So just in case.”
Shaking her long, bright red hair, Rouge quickly walked towards the little Ruten.
If I only looked at her back, she had zero caution and was too imposing.
”A-are you alright?”
Her appearance was so natural that it worried me. When I asked, Rouge turned around a bit and nodded.
”Hm. It looks like I can leave that one to you.”
“Eh?”
“Kuooooooooooooooo!”
That familiar stretched out cry, echoed around the area.
I looked at the sky in a hurry and saw that the airborne middle Ruten was spreading its wings and take a nosedive.
”Whoa!”
“Shit!”
I put myself on guard, and Gasara readied the magic cannon.
Rouge who was at the edge of my vision turns away from us and continues to face the Little Ruten.
”Kazamachi! It’s coming!
“Kuh!”
There’s nothing we can do about it even if we ready ourselves.
It was already falling straight towards us with sufficient speed.
Gasara shouldered the magic cannon on her shoulder, but the pain caused him to grimace.
There’s nothing we can do, it’s already in front of us!
Along with a strange high-pitched voice, an extremely colorful silhouette passed over our heads and collided with the flying Ruten.
“W-what!”
“Sister Nanairo!”
There was a ringing metallic sound.
Colorful feathers danced around us.
The feminine silhouette swung around a large lump of metal that far surpassed her own height and blew Ruten away.
”What the hell! Gasara! Aren’t you enjoying something exciting!”
A bird tribe woman with a huge yellow beak fully open and a silver down jacket of a different color from Gasara shouted out.
“We were bored over here with these small fry wolves! Why don’t you leave this huge guy to me? Huh?! Hey? Oi!”
With an expression of tremendous joy, the woman named Nanairo, who is Gasara’s sister, swung down a lump of metal as she landed.
The ‘thing’ that cracked the asphalt and stuck into the ground was a sword.
A large sword.
The unbelievably large sword acted as a brake and held Nanairo-san’s body in place.
”You did it now, Aneki!”
“Thank you! Hyah!”
She no longer had a maniacal smile plastered on her face as she pulled the huge sword out of the ground with one hand and leapt lightly down to the side.
Hey, where did the weight of the sword go? Don’t swing it around like it’s a plastic bat like that.
What’s with that person.
”G-Gasara! Your nee-chan is scary!”
“Don’t worry! I’m scared sometimes too!”
Is that supposed to be reassuring!
“Ga-sa-ra.”
“Oh my God!”
Before I knew it, there was something behind me.
I turned around, startled by the voice, and saw a huge gray beastman spreading something on my back.
I-I didn’t notice at all!
“Seijitsu Aniki!”
“I-n-e-x-p-e-r-i-e-n-c-e-d…”
“S-s-s-s-sorry, Aniki!”
“Gasara lowered his head in a hurry.”
The one who was there was a beastman from the Sloth tribe. Gasara’s Aniki.
He was holding my back tightly with one hand and spreading something on it without any regard for me.
”Eh, no, um! W-what’s your Aniki doing? What is that, guh! Ow!”
Ow! It hurts like hell!
Something sticky is being applied to my back and it’s stinging!
What is this menthol-like feeling? It’s amazingly cooling.
“D-i-s-i-n-f…”
“Oww! What did he say?!”