Chapter 55 (2/2)

「Iori」

Elvie said his friend's na clearly irritated

「What now!?」

「Take Marca and Aru and get out of here, right now! Then find a teacher and tell the on here no matter what it takes」

「I know thatto do!? Even the co down!」

「That thingfor Marca!」

In response to Elvi's words, the Spirit Eater's tentacles attacked in unison

In that ical power

「Purify, and protect!」

Mikoto says with a high-pitched voice, raising her hands forward There, in that moment, an invisible as erected between the monster and them

As soon as the tentacles hit the invisible wall, they

For the first time, the Spirit Eater looks to be irritated

However, beads of sweat come down Mikoto's forehead as she looks to be in a lot of pain

「My er」

「Onii-chan!!」

Marca shakes with tears welling up in her eyes, while Elvie takes out his sword and his gun He casts a quick glance at Marca and s anywhere!」

「shi+t, we're going! And we're going right now! Aru! Marcchan!」

「No ------!!」

「Senpai!!」

Iori runs away, holding the struggling Marca in his hands and taking Aru's hand

At the same time, the barrier created by Mikoto breaks down and the tentacles try to eat them instantly

They cut the eaten alive

The Spirit Eater are of the fact that its prey was trying to get away, and send a flood of tentacles to intercept them

「Like I would ever let you to do that」

He raised the gun with a loud click

In that ical poas released froh he blacked out for just a split of a second On the contrary, he was able to fire the un created by Elvie and Mikoto run solely on

In other words, it needed no ic from the atmosphere to work

Therefore, once the bullet is released, it goes straight towards its target, even if the surroundings are turned into teical vacuum The bullet would simply turn into pure shockwave in that situation

Like that, Elvie blew out the tentacles that were chasing after Iori

The crawling Spirit Eater made an unpleasant noise

For the first time, it looked Elvie in the eye

He broke into a cold sweat, as it dripped down his neck

Before he realized it, he was speaking to Mikoto in a shaky voice

「The main body moves slowly, but he covers that with those small tentacles Once they bite you, it's all over」

「Do you think these people… Are they…?」

Elvie nodded his head, after casting a quick glance at the students who fell onto the ground

「It's over once it puts you into itsleft out of my Father」

「Mikoto, think we can win this?」

「It's still young, but this power…… There are liured as much」

From what Elvie saw in the archives of Hunters Guild, the Spirit Eater was a Rank 1 hest class would be deployed to dispose of it

Mikoto's expression stiffens as well, so ht

They couldn't afford to just look from the sides any spirit

「But, let us live through this」

「Yeah」

「I cannot use, un is, our truer that」

Mikoto shakes her wand, andthe sweat off his forehead, Elvie was getting himself ready to rush at the Spirit Eater However,

He saw so unbelievable

「El-senpai! Mi-san!」

It was Aru, who should have already evacuated by now He was running towards the in the wind

「Aru!?」

「What are you doing!!」

Elvie yelled with anger while trying to rush to Aru's side

Thetowards Aru stopped

It looked like they were searching for so

Then, after the main bodyand its rin

「I knew it, their target is Aru!」

Hearing Mikoto's ragged breath so towards Aru all at once

Elvie took out his gun, but the distance was siun, but they were too far away fro that a mere ten-year-old could possibly hope to escape fro he could do

Then, for a mere moment, he could see it

He couldn't be certain, but Aru's expression becaht and cheerful self

And then Aru put one hand on the bracelet he was alearing and removes it

Then he tuned his hand towards the mass of black tentacles and said:

「INFERNO」

Just as he said, there was nothing to worry about

In this space which was supposed to be devoid ofthe stor flames that burned the monsters to cinders

It only lasted for ain awe, Aru walked over to hi it up until now」

Aru brushed his hair, showing them red bunches that were mixed in between the rest of his hair

「But, you were always the ones who protected me So this time……」

「Aru……」

「Goodbye」

Aru s down his cheek, and then he was enveloped in a bright, golden light

When the bright light finally subsided, a co in front of the neck and tail, along with a long and thin head

Mouth filled with rows of sharp fangs

Colored red, this figure was a dragon, without a shred of doubt

Seeing this ie shook Elvie to his very core, while some sort of distant memory awakened deep inside of him

Shocked and overcome with a sudden headache, Elvie drops onto his knees, and the creature lowered its head down as if thinking about soan to crawl all over his body yet again

「…! Aru!!!」

Even though Elvie tried to call hion covered in black tentacles did not look behind hi to rise up

The next thing that Elvie was able to see after all the dust and wind settled doas the appearance of a dragon heading towards the forest, while drawing the attention of monsters towards himself