Vol 3 Chapter 4 (1/2)

Running Away, Storm of a Million Thunderbolts, Illusion

Awkward… How did I not notice that tree branch right above my head?

Even though the blond haired girl’s face was expressionless, she must be laughing at me on the inside, right?

Oy, oy, oy! This isn’t the time for this! Why am I worrying about that at a time like this?

I climbed up the tree, and paid close attention as I carefully inspected our surrounding for any changes that might occur. Not even a moment had pa.s.sed, when under the starlight, I made out something that looked like a bulge on the ground, and it was moving towards us at a high speed…. Then, the bulge stopped near the leftover sh.e.l.ls of the ausenco fruit that we just ate.

‘Ba-dum, ba-dum…’ I could hear the beating of my heart; it was beating rapidly.

Hufffff… I closed my eyes, and breathed deeply, trying to calm my nerves.

I am very scared, I am afraid that the demon will discover us.

‘Kid, right now, you absolutely mustn’t do anything reckless, and don’t make a sound.’

After listening to Freed’s advice, I didn’t even dare to take a breath. I then signaled the blond haired girl to keep quiet… She took a look at me, then she focused her attention on the ground at the spot where the bulge was.

That demon stopped there for a short while, then it moved away… When I saw that it had left, I immediately let out a sigh of relief.

“Hey, human, how did you know that that boulder, Guntheru, was coming over here? Also, why does it seem like you are quite familiar with this area?

When I turned my head around, I noticed that the blond haired girl was looking at me with suspicion. It did look like she wanted to know the truth.

But, I don’t know how to answer her.

“Uhh… Maybe I have a sixth sense? One that allowed me to sense that the demon was close by?”

“Humans are capable of having that kind of ability?” The blond haired girl finally showed a third expression – astonishment.

“Ah… It varies between people. Other than that, the reason why I knew that these fruits grow around here is because they were recorded in books in the Human World.

The girl nodded, as if having learned something new about humans, “So it was like this, looks like not all humans are bad.”

Bad… Actually, you were also once a human… It is just that, through the pa.s.sage of time, those of you living in the Demon World have gradually evolved to adapt to the environment here…

“Then, let’s get back down. That demon should have gone far away by now.” The moment I said this, Yalide corrected me.

‘You idiot! It hasn’t gone far; it is still nearby!’

‘What? Why are you only telling me this now?’

“Hey, Human, hurry up and come down already. Why are you still up there looking dazed for?”

When I came to, the girl was standing on the ground yelling at me.

This is bad… If that demon is still nearby, I need to get her away from here now.

I jumped down in front of the girl, grabbed her hand, and ran towards the cave

“Human, what are you doing? Let go of my hand.”

Right when I thought that she would electrocute me again, to my surprise, I didn’t feel any sharp pain from my hand.

“That demon is still somewhere around here – we need to to hurry up and run away. He is an earth type and he has gone underground, he will be able to detect us from the vibration caused by our movement on the surface. So just now, when we jumped down from the tree onto the ground, he should have noticed us already, and is probably doubling back…”

“Since he is coming this way, then we are not leaving. I want to kill him to wash away the humiliation that he had caused me.” As she said this, the girl threw her arms up and got away from my grasp. Then, she stood squarely on the narrow path, with her arms folded in front of her, and haughtily looked straight ahead of her.

“Listen to me – you can not win against him. We need to run away now.”

“Why do I have to listen to the words of a human? Just now, it was because I saw that serious expression on your face that I decided to play along. But now, since he has already discovered our whereabouts, then we should fight him till the end. Besides, I am full of magical power right now, I don’t believe that I am incapable of beating him.”

Right, he is so fast, would we even be able to outrun him? I might as well put my faith in her. The Palm of Thunder Cut that she had used a moment ago was able to cut through that hard sh.e.l.l of the ausenco fruit.

‘Kid, earth beats lighting; are you not even familiar with the concept of how one elemental attribute can beat another? She is of the lightning type, and her lightning attack can paralyze her enemies; in addition, her electricity can electrolyze water from living creatures and achieve the result of turning her enemies into ashes. However, against a boulder, what use is electricity? Even if the lightning attack power is strong enough to split open a boulder, against a superior cla.s.s demon, what use is that level of lightning attack?

‘That makes sense… Freed, what do you think we should do?’

After hearing Freed’s explanation, I finally came to a realization. The electrolysis in a chemical reaction could separate out the water molecules from the bodies of living organisms. However, if the opponent is an earth type demon, then its body naturally wouldn’t contain any water; in other words, this would be a losing battle for us.

‘You must run!’

“We must run now. We can’t win against it.”

If we were to stay and fight, we would definitely lose. But if we were to run, so long as I could enter the wind speed state, I believed that he would not be able to catch up with us.

“Human, don’t you dare order me around. You shut your mouth and keep your eyes peeled, and watch carefully how I, Reidy, the daughter of the Reiworth family, would go about shattering that d.a.m.nable piece of rock.”

What are you saying?! Even after what you experienced during your battle in the morning, you still don’t get it? Do you still not understand that your lightning is useless against an earth type demon?

“Listen to me…”