Chapter 2 (1/2)

02.LITTLE GIRL CALLS THEM b.i.t.c.hES

“Ah, I really ate a lot.”

The one to let out a burp after speaking this was a completely naked girl that exposed her brown skin without any shame. The girl, Bela Heiroh, was sitting at the top of a boulder that was inside a river current. While she waited for her body to dry from swimming at that river, she  had been eating her lunch. The machiini she piloted, [Aiandinna], was standing right beside her.

Here was a the river bed that was only a bit away from the Yarke town.

After purchasing the lunch she bought with the money she received from Milan a few moments ago, using her machiini, Bela went to the river bed that was outside the town with the intention to wash her body that was dirtied with the blood of the bandits.

She had laid the clothes she was using on the rock to have them dry. Because she had been using the dirtied clothes for too long, as expected, the stains from the blood of the bandits that had been spilled onto them didn´t look like they would vanish.

“But, it is really nice to be outside the village.”

Bela said while looking at the blue sky.

It has pa.s.sed one week since Bela had left the village she had been born at. Before, Milan thought the information of the doc.u.ments used for the registration in the a.s.sociation that Bela gave to him some time ago were false. However, the fact that Bela had been only raised to be sold as an slave, and was about to be one week ago, was without doubts reality.

At the Laila village, which is located at north from here, her parents were definitely still living there, and there actually were records that a girl named Bela lived there. She didn´t know what happened to the slave merchant and the other slaves that went with him at that time when she had left the village.

A red stone of the necklace hanging by her chest dimly shone.

“Ha… You are very heartless as well. It is almost like me, who killed my friends.”

The red stone Bela had spoke to shone even brighter. It was as if it had become happy. This was part of the machiini´s heart and also the most important part of the machine. It was called the dragon heart stone.

It was common sense in the Ishtaria continent that of those iron giant of three to four meters, the machiini that had sentience, are not to be piloted.

There were some times the machiini would act on its own will and act by itself. This tendency was especially strong for those that hadn´t been born since not many days.

Even when it was about Bela that it was being talked about, originally, she had planned to only hunt a few of the bandit group and get just some pocket money. However, what made it change that into a slaughtering was this machiini´s selfish actions.

“Well, you also seem to be young, so let´s enjoy the battlefields together.”

With an smile unusual to her, Bela gave the dragon heart stone a kiss. It was a young machiini that was still in its growth period. It wasn´t reliable when comparing to a machiini that was rigidly raised to maturity, but there was still a big merit in having it grow up in accordance to her own way. She was looking forward to this machiini´s growth.

“What? In the end you were here, weren´t you?”

“That brat said he saw the guy who piloted that coming here, but is it that little naked guy?”

While Bela was free of care looking at the sky thinking about the future, she heard a voice from behind her.

“Hm?”

When Bela turned her head back, she saw three  men walking off from the gaps of the trees  that were away from the river bed and walking to her way. As far as their appearances looked, they seemed to be delinquent-like unsuccessful mercenaries.

“That guy… Hey, you are unlucky today.”(TL note: I don´t know if this is really it… ヤツって……おい、ついてねえぞ)

“Is it female? Well, I will make you into a woman. It might be a little bit too narrow though.”

While the men were giving vulgar laughs, without looking like she cared about it in particular, Bela went down the huge rock that she was standing at before. In response to that, the men ran and got in between the machiini and her, surrounding her. They had heard she used a machiini before, and they weren´t stupid to the point of letting her leisurely enter in it. However, it seems it was too hasty of them to decide that the girl in front of their eyes was nothing without her machiini.

“He, what is this? Aren´t you completely naked? Where is the machiini´s dragon heart stone?”

“Hey, look properly. It´s hanging in her neck.”

By the center of her flat chest, the dragon heart stone was hanging, connected to a chain.

“”They don´t look like they have much money, I guess.””

Without feeling any interest in the conversation of the men, she decided to check the men´s clothes. There was no meaning to their talk. It was enough to know that they were going to one-sidedly steal the dragon heart stone, which could be said to be the machiini´s key, and either decide to to kill her or sell her. If there was no place for negotiations from the beginning, then you could only dismiss the idea. Unfortunately, the outside of cities, was a lawless land the demon beasts lorded over where force was everything . It was a place that there was no need to hold back in anything.

“Well then, hand it over.”

Without noticing that Bela had already thought of her next movements, one of the men moved his hand towards Bela. However, right at the next instant, right after a certain sound was made, a loud groan was raised.

“Hya, don´t put your hand on the chest of a woman, you pervert.”

And then, the man that put his hand at Bela´s chest tumbled down. Bela was holding the war hammer that was leaning next to the boulder. And thus, the hand of the man that put it on her chest was twisted in an impossible angle and a red liquid started to gush out.

“You…”