Chapter 77 (2/2)

“Hey…are you trying to kill me here?”

Lapis said it like it was nothing but cutting in alone into more than two hundred enemies was a foolish act, which wouldn’t work whether it was an ambush, or it was head on, that he wouldn’t return from alive.

Since she just told him to do that, Loren started wondering if he did something to get on her bad side.

“I’ll support you, so don’t worry.”

“But…that would kill me as well…wouldn’t it?”

“Killing the first few bandits is the key.”

Loren understood from the way she talked that she wasn’t joking and wasn’t trying to get him killed, but he still couldn’t see a win condition.

On the other hand, Lapis seemed to know that they had a good chance of succeeding.

“If it were just the two of us, I wouldn’t use this sort of plan, but with Shayna it’s a whole different story. I think that we have a good chance of winning.”

“Seriously…?”

They were against a number that was impossible to go against between the two of them, but Lapis declared that going in alone gave them the highest chance of victory.

Logically thinking, Loren couldn’t agree, but with Lapis saying so with such confidence and himself not having a better idea, he knew he couldn’t change her mind, so his only options were to go with her plan or fall back.

“Seems like an impossible plan. But I can trust you, right?”

“Leave it to me Loren. I don’t intend to let you go here, nor let those bandits do what they want.”

As Lapis put her fist on her chest and told him not to worry, Loren couldn’t find any traces of lies or hesitation in her words or her expression.

So, Loren decided to believe her and lowered the great sword from his back and held it in his hands.

“Loren, I can’t speak with Shayna. Can she hear my words through you?”

“Yeah. She said she could link her senses to mine.”

“Then please listen Shayna. What I want you to do, is to make allies. Can you do it? Please tell me if you can’t.”

‘Hmm…I understand. Please tell Onee-san that I could do it.’

“Seems like she could.”

Lapis nodded and turned towards the bandits’ camp.

Nothing seemed to have changed.

It didn’t seem that they noticed where they were, and were still making rounds, keeping watch.

“Let’s begin. Let’s show those bandits, who raided the town and ruined our dinner and beds, hell”

Lapis seemed to have said it very seriously, but Loren, who was about to run in, tripped when he heard it.

As she looked at him with a confused gaze, Loren said with a nervous laugh.

“…Didn’t your motivation just turn really stingy?”

“What do you mean Loren? It’s commonly said that a grudge over food is terrifying. And this time we have a grudge over beds as well. We have to make sure that they go dance with the devil in hell.”

“What happened to getting revenge for the residents of the town?”

At Loren’s question, Lapis gave a look like she had just remembered it, and an evil smile appeared on her face.

“If we put that into consideration, we can’t even give them time to repent.”

“You know, I’m starting to feel sorry a bit sorry for them.”

“That’s an unfavorable trend Loren. In times like these, you need to send them to the afterlife mercilessly, cold-heartedly, and cruelly.”

“Did you need to mention cruelly?”

Loren shuddered as he wondered what ‘cruelty’ was for demon kind.

Lapis replied without changing her expression or the air around her.

“It can’t be helped that the results are going to be cruel, right?”

“What am I going to be doing…”

“Nothing different than usual. Fight the enemy and cut them down. Just that.”

Loren guessed if that was the case, it wasn’t different than what he always did.

Next to him, Lapis started preparing spells or divine arts to assist him.

“I’ll leave the timing to you. I’ll assist you as I see fit.”

“Alright. I’ll be going.”

A large body and a giant sword.

With movements unexpected from someone wielding both of those, Loren flew out into the night out of the depression they were hiding in.

Not long after he did, he was spotted by the bandits on watch, and those with bows gathered to take him out.

If he kept going like this, wouldn’t he be running through a rain of arrows.

The thought crossed Loren’s mind, but when the archers raised their bows, a bright light exploded through the night from behind him and dyed the area in white.

He wasn’t affected since he had his back to it, but the archers, who were looking towards him, were blinded by the sudden bright light, more so because they had been looking into the dark for a long time.

‘Onii-san! Go, go!’

“You don’t have to tell me twice!”

It was a small opening, but it was more than enough for Loren.

He used that time to dash in and close the distance to the enemy camp and used the momentum he built to charge into a corner of the campsite.

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