Chapter 65: Twin Dragon Extermination (2/2)
“Haa~”
Breathe out.
In an off-hand stance, the M700P gun’s muzzle pointed toward the steam.
In an instant — the twin dragon which hated the steam flapped its wings. With just one motion, the steam was blown off, but the opponent’s movement was also suspended.
Like frost descending on a dark night… Chrisse squeezed the trigger.
BANG!
A bullet with an initial velocity of 838m/s, which is more than twice the speed of sound, had an impact like it was sucked into the eye socket of the twin dragon which wasn’t releasing its breath.
“OoOooooooOOoOooOoO!!!”
Internal explosion!
A large quantity of blood poured out from the eyes, nose and mouth of the uninjured head of the twin dragon.
Unable to endure the pain, it violently slammed into the ground.
Chrisse pulled the bolt back and forth, releasing an empty case.
Snow immediately performed additional magic
“Gather ,O spirit of ice; dance and submerge that evil being into the ground! Freezing Ice Barrier!”
A composite binding magic of ice and water.
The ground sank, restraining the twin dragon’s arm, wings, legs and neck within a lump of ice.
With this, Snow expended a considerable amount of magical power.
Sweat formed around her forehead, and she breathed roughly.
But, the enemy already used its breath once.
Continuous use is unlikely.
Furthermore, the ice-binding restricts its movement.
Our victory is assured!
“C- Chrisse-chan, I’ll leave it to you!”
Chrisse nodded reassuringly to Snow, who was panting and soaked with sweat.
Chrisse once again took her aim and squeezed the trigger.
[OoOooooooOOoOoooOoO!!!]
“!?” x3
Unexpectedly — the twin dragon breathed flames again.
“Madams! It’s dangerous!”
Shia supported her body with body-enhancing magic, hugged the tired Snow and the concentrating Chrisse, and jumped down the cliff to avoid the breath.
The flame engulfed the bullet and curved its trajectory, as it hit off the mark.
Then it exploded.
[OoOooooooOOoOoooOoO!!!]
The twin dragon put power into its limbs as if to escape from the binding.
Cracks appeared on the ice that bounded the dragon; I predicted it toonly last for a few more seconds.
“Like I’d let you!”
Before the dragon escaped from the binding, I jumped out from the bush to stop it.
I enhanced my entire body!
I used all my magic power and approached the dragon in one second.
I raised the knife over my head and jumped.
“Got it!”
[OoOooooooOOoOoooOoO!!!]
One second later, the twin dragon escaped from the ice-binding, then it repelled the knife, which was swinging down while aimed at its eye, with its forehead.
I couldn’t endure the impact and thus let go of the knife.
The final trump card, which was the knife I made as an insurance, danced in the air.
‘Shit! To think I made such a blunder at the end!’
As I was regretting letting go of the knife, a shadow flew past me overhead.
It’s Shia!
Shia caught the knife that was spinning in the air!
Just like that, the knife pierced through the twin dragon’s eye socket.
But, just the knife in the eye alone isn’t much damage.
The knife blade is short, and there’s no poison smeared on it either.
But the real thing started from there!
“Shia! Just like that press the switch on the knife!”
“Understood, young master!”
Recalling the way to handle the knife, which I taught everyone as insurance beforehand, Shia pressed the switch.
‘Pashu!’, a little dull sound like something flew out, the gas made with magic compressed inside the knife’s handle propulsed, and it tore the inside of the head to shreds.
The twin dragon’s head was destroyed from the inside,as blood spout out, it was completely dead.
As we realized the dragon has become completely silent, everyone flopped down from wherever they were.
We were completely exhausted from fatigue and using too much magic.
I tried to stand up and walk to where Shia and everyone were.
“Thanks, Shia, for covering my mistake. You really helped me”
“Yeah, really. At the end, when Lute-kun’s knife got repelled, I broke into a cold sweat.”
[Me too.]
“I didn’t do anything to deserve praising. I only did what was natural, as young master’s servant. Rather than that, to have brought down the twin dragon with just one click, this is an amazing knife.”
She was staring at the knife she pulled out from the dragon’s head.
The knife in Shia’s hand is the [スズメバチナイフ] I made with what little magic liquid metal left–literal translation would be [wasp knife]
As the name implies, just like the hornet, you stab the knife in and the highly pressurized gas inside the knife handle (carbonated gas cylinder, this time I used magic as substitute) will travel through the blade to the tip with the press of the switch. Because of this, the stabbed internal organs or object will be pulverized into smithereens. It’s that fearsome of a knife.
Long ago, I’ve seen a video where the [wasp knife] stabbed a watermelon and blew it up from inside.
Originally, it was created to fight sharks underwater. Nowadays, only hunters that fight bears or aircraft pilots are allowed to buy it.
It was really good that I made it as insurance.
Shia really likes the knife, and she praised it repeatedly.
“I’ve used many knives, but this really is a good one.”
“If you like the knife that much, I’ll give it to you.”
“Is it okay, young master?”
“Of course! What are you saying? The one who played the most active role was Shia”
Actually, the one who played the most active role was Chrisse, but I personally wanted to give the MVP position to Shia.
Since the magic-stone idea was inspired from Shia’s words, and she saved Snow and Chrisse from the fire breath, then covered up my mistake at the end.
Thereupon hearing my words, a soft smile appeared on her face for the first time.
“Thank you, young master. I will use this knife with great care.”
Like this, we escaped from the twin-dragon crisis safely.
And we returned to Gomugo’s group, who were dying to know the result.