Chapter 61 (2/2)

“uu!”

Gakinn! The man who stops the blow of my scythe. And then he slides his sword as it is and swings it towards me. When I averted my face to the back and avoided it, this time he swung downwards at me.

I block the sword that's swung down with the blade of the scythe and give a kick to the open abdomen. Although the man immediately caught it with his left hand, there's no way he could've blocked my enhanced muscles and was blown away.

As I'm about to follow up, numerous arrows come flying from the side. I guess these two are a duo. The man restrains the enemy while the woman shoots. I suppose it's something like that.

I rotate the scythe and repel the arrows. I release the shortswords in the meantime in order to give chase, but the man who stood up and recovered in an instant repelled it with his sword once again. The wound I was able to give him was also only a graze. Well, that graze is fatal though.

As I'm being cautious of the female archer's arrows while confronting the guy who's breathing slightly heavily, a soldier approaches the female archer's side. And then she lends an ear to what the soldier has to say even while she's glaring at me. I guess the man will come in between us even if I take this opportunity and attack now.

The glaring at each other continues for a while and,

“We will retreat! All troops, retreat!”

The female archer shouts. And then a horn was sounded sharply at the same time. After the female archer glares at me annoyingly, she looks at the direction of the soldiers who are in battle. All my p.a.w.ns had been done in before I know it.

The Empire soldiers fall back one after another. I killed those fellows who tried to kill me while they're at it instead though.

And then after a while, Liscia who carried an ashen sword came. I guess her skin is glossy for some reason because she's decently satisfied.

“Umu, it's the first time I fought with the Empire soldiers but they're quite well-trained. It made for some good warm-up exercise!”

……She praises them and even that is just warm-up exercise huh. Liscia, she really is limitless huh.

We return as it is to the encampment where Melda and the others are. Around the place are wounded sitting and lying down, corpses being lined up at a location that's a slight distance away……I want 'em. I wonder if she'll give it to me? Probably not.

I head towards where Melda and the others are while feeling that it's a little bit of a waste. The inside of a simple tent that's pitched in the encampment was Melda and the others were at. It's just that, it's larger than an ordinary tent. I guess it's so that it can fit many people.

I go inside and Melda and the others who are discussing various things, along with a Dwarf who wore a splendid armour were there. Mars is sitting on a chair and looking somewhat uncomfortable.

Melda who noticed that we came in smiles broadly and comes over here.

“Hardt-dono! You are safe huh!”

“I mean, it won't even be funny if I went out that grandly and died. So what will we do from now on?”

“Yes, from now on……”

After that, we talk about the hereafter matters until the sun sets.

<script>