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Luna turned and ran towards us with a snap.

”Like h.e.l.l I'm letting you run! Gyaaa!?”

One of the men came to his senses and raised his hand towards Luna, but Chrisse didn't allow him.

She shot his shoulder with a [7.62×51mm NATO round], smas.h.i.+ng it.

However, this was the fifth shot.

Her magazine was empty.

Chrisse reloaded the bullets with practiced hands, but it still took time.

Meanwhile, the men raised their hands towards Luna.

She was a magician, but she was sealed by the magic prevention collar. This meant that she was running from the men with only the strength of a little girl.

Furthermore, there were mages among the men, and they chanted magic to capture Luna.

*gasp!*

Chrisse still hasn't finished reloading.

In exchange, it's my turn to shoot this time.

The distance was about 150 m.

Among a.s.sault rifles, the AK-47 was not the most accurate, it had a deviation of 20 cm at 100 meters.

I fired suppressive fire, taking care to not hit Luna.

Snow and I were enough to buy time until Chrisse finished reloading.

A few of the men collapsed from the suppressive fire, and once Chrisse was finished reloading her magazine, she took one target after another down in direct hits.

When they saw the weapon that they had never seen nor heard of before, the men were agitated and unable to calm their unruly horses down well.

In that case, it would be mostly fatigue duty after this.

”Luna-chan retrieved!”

”Snow, take Luna and fall back! I'll hold the rear! Chrisse, you continue the cover fire!”

Hearing Snow, I gave out instructions.

Luna's cheeks, hair, and clothes were stained from not being washed properly, but she seemed uninjured.

I sighed in relief after seeing that she wasn’t treated too badly.

Snow hugged Luna close and returned the way we came.

In order to support the two, I continued firing suppressive fire, but …

”d.a.m.n you!”

The one remaining guard seemed to know of the AK-47 and lowered himself. He shortened the distance by running in a zigzag pattern. Since he was wearing an overcoat that completely concealed his face, I wasn't able to judge.

I threw away the empty magazine and attached a new one.

I barraged him with full automatic fire to prevent him from getting close, but due to him pouring out plenty of mana into body strengthening and defense formations, it was repelled.

The man was holding knives in both hands but threw the one in his right.

”Kuh!”

I twisted my body to evade right away, but due to that attack he was able to close the distance. He swung the knife in his left, but I dodged this too, barely. However, I was of course unable to defend myself against the roundhouse kick that followed and took the blow.

The AK-47 fell from my hands and I collapsed onto the ground.

”Lute-kun!”

When he heard Snow's anxious shout, the man stopped moving.

I rolled on the ground on purpose to take my distance with the man.

”..... Lute, AK-47 … could you be that Lute? Hee, so you're alive.”

”!?”

The surprise surpa.s.sed the pain of being kicked.

I opened my eyes so wide that it hurt.

Due to that roundhouse kick just now, the overcoat covering his face had rolled down.

Thanks to that, I was able to confirm the face of my opponent.

Cat ears peeked out from his blonde hair, and he had a face that could be called handsome.

One of the men who caught me in a trap and sold me as a slave several years ago! The beastman Alcedo!

Right now, the trauma of my past flashed before my eyes.

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