Volume 3 Chapter 7 Part 3 (2/2)

In Klanven’s hands, there was the second device that I saw him use earlier…… a weapon called mulit-barrelled spear. While deflecting the blades that were aimed at him, Klanven pulls on the chain and the sticks of the device converge around the red magical orb in its center, forming a genuine spear.

With their weapons blown out of their hands, the Shadows draw new ones, bringing the chairs down and breaking the table in half, sending the platters, silverware and food into the air and onto the floor.

Klanven only laughed at their attempts, brandishing his spear and striking the Shadows down one after another. He didn’t kill them. He only crushed and broke their bones, making sure that they were incapacitated and unable to continue the fight.

His long, platinum hair flew in the air. The sound of steel clashing against steel sounded like festival music to my ears. It looked like some sort of a strange dance to me, and if it wasn’t for our current situation, I might have even called it charming.

Then Klanven shifted his gaze to the Shadows that held me captive. Their grip over me became even stronger, and I can feel a slight prick of pain surging through my neck. Seeing this, Klanven turned towards me with his spear at the ready.

「If I were you, I would give it a rest at this point. See? You have clearly lost, so why shed any more blood than necessary?」

「A necessary sacrifice for the sake of achieving our goals. Now, if you don’t want that woman to be harmed, drink this medicine now.」

Said the Shadow that held me while throwing a bottle of some suspicious medicine towards Klanven. It was hard for me to discern from his voice alone if he was a man or a woman. Klanven caught it in mid-air and brought the bottle closer to his face, lifting an eyebrow.

「Hmm? To achieve your goals, you say? …… Ah well, what do I care?」

Klanven said that without any kind of irony in his voice. He opened the lid of the bottle, looked at its contents and then looked at me, flashing me his usual smile. It was poison in there for sure, so what was that “It’s fine, really” kind of look on his face supposed to mean?

「Thank you so much, Filmina. Though our time together was short, it surely was a lot of fun for me.」

「!!!」

He wasn’t joking. He seriously meant what he said. It looked as though he came to terms with his fate and accepted it.

Perhaps because Klanven took the poison bottle in his hand, the grip around my body became loose. The moment I felt that, I tightly gripped the bracelet on my left wrist without any hesitation. The Shadow made another mistake that he took the knife from my throat as well. I screamed at the top of my lungs.

「–––– EDI!!!」

Bright light comes from the bracelet on my wrist. Unsurprisingly, the Shadows instantly stepped away from me and during the commotion, Klanven slipped the poison bottle out of his hand, sending it plummeting towards the ground where it shattered into pieces.

Then, as if to make sure the poison was done for, he crushed the glass shards with the heel of his shoe.

「Good grief, why is it that you always end up summoning me in the worst possible moment?」

A familiar, annoyed voice. At that time, the light from the bracelet fades, and there he stood, dressed in blue robes and with magnificently bright golden hair.

The man glanced at the Shadows and instantaneously drew his sword from its scabbard, slashing it at the Shadows and sending them flying. The Shadows hit the wall with a very loud *THUD* sound and fell to the ground, effectively knocked out.

「Edi, lka, -sama……」

「Are you alright, Filmina?」

「Yes, thanks to you.」

「Good.」

The man answers shortly and then he proceeds to tie the Shadows with a magical rope that suddenly appeared in his hands.

When the last Shadow was appropriately apprehended, we heard an uncharacteristic sound of clapping echoing throughout the room.

「Splendid job.」

「 –––––– Your Highness.」

「I get the jist of what happened here. For now, let’s just go somewhere else.」

Hearing the man’s low voice, Klanven laughs loudly.

Certainly, we won’t be able to talk at all in this place, not with the tied-up Shadows, and pieces of silverware and furniture scattered all over the floor.

Even though the man didn’t want to agree with Klanven, one look at the destroyed room made it painfully obvious that he was right. So he stepped outside, but before he did that, he rang the bell attached to a room’s wall, summoning the guards in here.

After we handed the Shadows to the guards, he put his arm around my shoulder and lead me away from here.