Chapter 10 (1/2)

iru

Boy Magician

“Ahahahaha”

A girl’s laughter resounded in the hilly area. Following her was a swift horse clad in supple muscle.

“Hey hey, try to catch up.”

When she occasionally stopped, she would dodge under the tip of the horse’s nose.

“She’s seriously running a race against horse, that Ojou-san.”

“Without even using magic too.”

Despite being two years old, its running ability has already considerably bloomed.

Even so it still wasn’t able to catch up to Ria. How many hours have they been running together?

“Rather, that the horse could keep running is more incredible.”

“Is it really a horse? We didn’t make a mistake that it isn’t a unicorn with a broken horn?”

“Since unicorns seem to die if their horns break, I don’t think it is…”

When Ria played with Matsukaze, her mental age obviously seemed to fall.

“Ojou can also make that kind of face, huh.”

“Like when she was at Master Rufus’ house, or outside of the castle walls.”

The party crossed the hills at a steady pace, gradually going towards the main road where trees were dense.

According to the trader’s stories, the amount of demons streaming down from the north was multiplying. Normally they would go with a caravan, but at any rate they had Ria.

The pace they could go was faster, and judged that it wasn’t dangerous.

Going ahead of the rest, Ria and Matsukaze went side by side to the main path.

Having a wild sense of hearing, Matsukaze noticed something.

Matsukaze snorted roughly. After that, Ria also noticed.

From the path in the forest. Out of view, there were footsteps far ahead of them.

“Matsukaze, go back to those two.”

Saying so, Ria ran like a gale.

She saw the figure of a person far ahead of her on the path.

Running after a small kid, it was obviously a monster. It was an Orc-san that she would completely beat to death.

The kid fled from the orc by changing their pace in a juke, sometimes looking like they threw something over their shoulder.

(A magician?)

With their unusual movement’s speed, if that’s the case I could understand it. However, even though she was looking from afar, she understood from their facial expression that they were exhausted and didn’t have much time.

However, luck was on the kid’s side today.

“Do your best! Just a little more!”

Calling out, the kid seemed to notice her. The unusual speed continued, but now ran frantically in her direction.

Drawing the katana from her waist with her hand, she ran past the kid’s side.

The magnificently built orc held a club. He brandished it towards Ria.

However before he could swing it downward, Ria ran the katana through the orc’s flank.

It cut through the red muscle fibers, from there entering the orc’s organs. It didn’t die yet, but was unable to fight.

Ria faced the next orc. The movement of the orcs weren’t controlled at all, easy targets.

She cut its legs before it attacked. After that, its neck was also cut.

Neither should have been fatal wounds. At any rate they should have lost the ability to chase after the kid.

Ten or more orcs were made powerless by each stroke of her sword. The only one left in the end was an orc with a slightly bigger physique.

An individual named High Orc or Orc Leader. Even if this orc had better abilities than the usual orc, Ria didn’t change her relaxed posture.

“A ton of grease sticks to this orc, I don’t like this one.”

Looking at her blade, she averted her gaze from the orc. Having combat intuition, the orc judged it as an opening.

However, it didn’t have enough experience to understand it was just a temptation.

Although the orc quickly swung its club, there was no feedback. Ria only moved back a few millimeters, silently piercing through the orc’s neck with her katana.