Chapter 88: Camouflage (1/2)

I put the broken syringe into my now empty magazine pouch so that I could investigate things later.

“Nngh……”

“Lute-kun, are you okay?”

Once I relaxed, the pain took over my body.

Snow, Chrisse, and the saberwolf Lexy ran up to me.

Thanks to Snow’s healing magic, my wounds immediately disappeared.

“Thanks, Snow. Luna, too, you aren’t injured, are you?”

“There are cuff marks on my hands and legs, but aside from that, I’m okay. Since I wasn’t treated roughly.”

“I see, it’s good that you’re safe and sound.”

I sighed in relief.

From her appearances, it didn’t look like she got assaulted, and she replied in her usual cheerful tone. There didn’t seem to be any problem mentally either, for now.

“Well, since we rescued Luna safely, let’s go back to the airship. After we returned to the airship, I will have Meiya remove the cuffs on your hands and legs, so until then, please bear with it.”

Luna and Chrisse would ride on the saberwolf Lexy’s back.

Snow and I would run back while using body enhancing technique.

After we returned to the airship, I will ask Meiya to remove the magic preventing cuffs.

Meanwhile, Snow, Chrisse and I would wait in the living room.

We would have Lexy sit in a corner of the room, too.

The destination of the airship was, of course, the High Elf Kingdom Enol.

There was a possibility that the barrier had been destroyed and the seal had become undone already.

We returned together with Luna, whose magic=preventing cuffs had been taken off by Meiya.

The first thing she did was express her gratitude for the rescue, and she lowered her head.

“I, Luna Enol Meméa, the 3rd princess of High Elf Kingdom Enol, am truly thankful for the rescue. I will never forget this favor.”

She thanked us formally and lowered her head, like a real princess with etiquette.

‘Teehee actually I’m a fake’, she wouldn’t prank us like that or anything, would she?

“But, I’m really glad that you are safe. This is thanks to Chrisse stopping the wagon.”

[It was thanks to oniichan getting me inside the effective range without getting noticed.]

“Well then, it was thanks to the camo net made from magic liquid metal that you could successfully be camouflaged, right?”

Meiya joined her hands happily.

‘Camouflage’―was the technique to change your appearance to fool the enemy into thinking it was just something else.

It was also called disguise.

It was originally a French word that meant ‘to hide’.

It got adopted into English around the time of WW1.

In order to approach the wagon transporting Luna, I returned to the airship once.

Using the magic liquid metal on the airship, and with Meiya’s help, I made the metal net for disguise.

Then we went ahead of where the transporting wagon was going.

I pasted grass onto the metal net and let the camouflaged Chrisse lay in wait inside of the effective range.

It wasn’t just the net. The helmet that Chrisse dislike, and even the M700P, I stuck grass to them all. To make it doubly sure, I even thoroughly painted Chrisse’ face with face paint.

She had already wiped the paint off with a wet towel.

Luna hugged Chrisse.

“Thank you, Chrisse-chan, for saving me! You were really cool, just like a hero in the picture book! Chrisse-chan is Luna’s hero-sama!”

Chrisse was showered with Luna’s praise, but she looked somewhat dissatisfied.

[It’s good that Luna is safe. But as for me, I felt that I was lacking in power.]

Chrisse turned to me.

[Lute-oniichan, this M700P is a wonderful sniper rifle, but I want a bigger magazine. If I had a few more bullets, I’d have been able to cover Luna-chan better, and more safely.]

Isn’t that the train of thought of a sniper from the special forces, during a hostage rescue mission with multiple terrorists?

I’ve made the PKM, the general purpose machine gun and 7.62x54mmR rounds. Since Chrisse was asking, I might have to make the SVD (Dragunov sniper rifle) as well.

“Got it. After this incident is over, I’ll try making one.”

[Thank you! Lute-oniichan.]

Chrisse heard my answer and smiled happily.

We then rested until we arrived at High Elf Kingdom Enol.

I changed into plain clothes in the room I was given, and took out the broken pieces of the syringe.

I remembered the self-destructed Alcedo.

Rather than feeling a sense of accomplishment from paying him back, I was dominated by a bad feeling.

“Maybe in this world, aside from me, there are other people with memories carried from the previous world, from earth?”

If there were, then what were they planning to do?

I had a feeling that, in a place that we don’t know off, something big was moving.

I couldn’t get rid of the kind of icky feeling of unease that was stuck in my chest.

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“Wha, what is that!?”

After we rescued Luna from the kidnappers, we returned to Enol in haste.

When we noticed something was wrong, we looked over the deck and saw smoke rising from Woodcastle, and the silhouette of something flying.

It was a monster with a lizard head, bird wings and dragon tail.