Volume 2 Chapter 26 (1/2)

Volume 2 Chapter 26: Carrier that Supports

I wonder what kind of monster those rabbits are?」

I said while looking at the monsters that were approaching us.

The answer came from Axel, who stood behind us—

「Oh, they are jackalopes.」

「Jackalopes… Surely, they were mentioned in the demon beasts manual we had in the dojo……Axel-san, you heard of them?」

「Well, more or less. I’ve seen them several times. It’s a bunch that tends to inflict quite a few injuries.」

「……I thought you’d say that. It was written in the manual, and with those fangs and claws it’s pretty understandable.」

Before our eyes were fanged rabbits, they are low-level magical beasts that are a bit under one meter tall.

In the manual, it was written that they have two horns on their heads and look pretty cute from a distance but—

「Where are the horns?」

Although they indeed look cute, I don’t see any horns. The distance had shrunk to a few meters, but I still don’t see anything like that.

So I tried to ask if these really are jackalopes as Axel-san stated. At that moment—

「——!」

A jackalope suddenly accelerated and leaped at us.

Moreover, while growing two sharp horns from it’s head. Aiming to gouge out my side.

「……The horns were retractable……?!」

But I managed to respond to the sudden movement.

While sweeping away the horns that were aimed at my side, with the handle of my spear, I took a big backstep.

「——Cecile! Are you okay?」

「Of course, George.」

Since Axel managed to identify them correctly, I was able to make the minimum preparation to deal with the horns.

「——This is just a scratch……!」

The only damage was to my clothes in the abdominal area. While confirming this with a glance, I rotated the spear following my previous sweeping motion—

「【Skull Splitter]……!」

And while activating the skill, I swung it down at the Jackalope’s head with great momentum.

The blow that had the power of the skill behind it, smashed the Jackalopes head along with its horns.

「Yeah, it works on this monster as well. How about you, George?」

After seeing the Jackalope fall spilling blood from its head, I looked towards George. There, by his own means, he also dispatched a Jackalope, splendidly sending its torso flying with his big sword.

「I’m good as well. Since they are low tier, they are weak.」

He sighed looking pretty confident.

「You are right. Then…… Since there are only six of them left, let’s clean them up quickly and check if there is a magic stone attracting monsters nearby.」

As she was saying that, Cecile took a step forward. As soon as the Jackalopes saw that—

「——」

They turned around and ran off towards the woods.

「They are fleeing……?」

「What a drag…… But they aren’t that fast, let’s chase, Cecile.」

「…Right. We are going that way anyway, so it’s better to get rid of them.」

The speed of the Jackalopes hopping and jumping away wasn’t that high.

Judging that it would be troublesome if we got attacked again, I decided to get rid of them right here together with George and we went to dash after them.

「——Ah, wait, wait. It’s dangerous to fight those guys while chasing after them.」

Axel’s voice could be heard coming behind us.

「Haha, you are worrying too much, Carrier-san.」

George replied with a smile.

「You saw our moves right now, didn’t you? With our Grand Arble style, we will defeat them in the blink of an eye.」

「Right. Just wait for a bit here, Axel-san. If in that short while you see another monster, then just chase after us.」

After saying so, I rushed forward with the serious speed of a combat job, so he wouldn’t have to wait for more than necessary.

The jackalopes were still at a distance where they could be seen. At this rate, in a few seconds we can catch up with them, and after a swipe it will be over.

While thinking so, I, together with George, ran deeper into the forest.

「——Here we go, caught up already!」

As expected, it took less than 10 seconds for George, who ran ahead, to catch up. He swung his big sword at a jackalope that was running at the back. However—

——*Bonk*

Came sound from where the sword landed.

「Eh……Branches got it in way……」

Looks like George’s sword hit thick branches above his head. Nonetheless, the sword that was swung vigorously crashed into the Jackalope’s head and drew blood.

「Whatever. It felt like I cracked the skull, so it’s one down. Five more to go——」

And the moment George was about to lift his sword once again.

「——Guh?!」

「George?!」

He suddenly fell to one knee.

Looking closely, at his feet i there was a small hole.