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Chapter 86 - Knife fight

A few years ago, after I finished registering as an adventurer in the marine city Grey.

In the middle of the doing my first quest ‘Exterminate one or more Garugaru’, I met them.

A handsome man of the beast race, Nekomimi clan, Alcedo.

A woman of the demon race, demon clan, Miisha.

And the quiet man from the human race, team leader, Eikent.

After that they asked me to join their team temporarily to hunt Orcs…… but they were fake adventurers who drugged me, and by the time I came too, I was already tied up.

They then took my revolver and AK47, and sold me as a slave.

They even took my engagement bracelet that matched Snow’s and destroyed it.

Even now, remembering that made my blood boil.

One of the guys who made me habour all that pent up resentment was now standing right in front of me.

But―

(This is that Alcedo? No way! It’s true that he looked similar, but just now he used body strengthening and at the same time created defense barrier in mid-air…...strong enough to defense against AK47. One who is not a magician using magic recklessly like that will get all their magic drained in an instant and faint!)

I had already experienced fainting due to using magic recklessly.

They were fake adventurers that preyed on newbie adventurers, not magicians. That I knew for sure.

However, he had used magic like that and still had not fainted, so he must have the capacity of at least a B minus magician or above.

If one wasn’t born with magic talent, they would never get any higher than B minus rank, there has never been anyone in history who has done so.

My respected Eru-sensei had taught me that.

That’s why it was definitely impossible.

Yet, this fellow in front of me who looked like Alcedo talked to me with the same att.i.tude and voice in my memory of long ago.

“Heee~, from the looks of it, you seem to have been freed from being a slave. To think that you survived and returned from the Demon continent with all your limbs attached.”

…...Looks like it’s Alcedo himself, no doubt about it.

He knows that I was sold to Demon continent as a slave.

“Fortunately, I met good masters. I may even have to thank you lot for that. I don’t plan to forgive you though.”

“Interfering with my work as revenge…… You want to make her your own?”

“As if! I didn’t even know that you were here.”

“Right. I just suddenly got this work recently too. Yahahaha! This encounter must be the work of the G.o.ds, right!”

Alcedo laughed comically from the bottom of his heart.

“If that’s the case, so as to not meet again, I will slice your windpipe for you!”

He stepped in sharply.

He flashed the knife on his hand in an experienced motion.

I immediately strengthened my body. Then I took out my knife to repel his.

I somehow managed to defend against his first attack, but as time pa.s.sed and he poured in more magic into body enhancing, I couldn’t keep up with his speed.

“Lute-kun!”

“……!”

Snow and Chrisse looked over here with worried faces.

They wanted to cover me, but Alcedo stuck to me like a snake and wouldn’t let me distance myself from him.

Our knives clashed.