Chapter 10.2 (2/2)

The demon is heading toward me. Its movements are slow.

Its beast heads and tentacles are attacking me.

I twist my body and retreat after cutting off it’s tentacles and the second beast head.

「NO WAY！！ 」

The demon is surprised by such a scene.

I jumped behind the demon and just like that, I killed it with a slash from my sword to it’s woman-like upper body.

「N…. NO WAY…..！！ 」

Just like that, the demon had fallen.

The demon is bending its neck to look at me.

「I… I see… Y… You’re a divine being huh… To think that I took you as a mere human… Such… Such a disgrace…」

After saying so, the demon crumbles down.

「… I’m not a divine being though」

But I’m sure that it won’t be able to refute my remark.

The demon eventually disappeared along with the arising white smoke. It seems I just defeated it.

「Diehart-sama~. Are you alright？ 」

Nut is making a detour while passing the place where the demon had died and ran toward me.

「I had never seen that kind of a demon until now, quite a formidable foe huh」

I only saw goblins or ogres along our journey, thus I never saw this kind of demon.

「Yup… It’s also my first time seeing this kind of demon」

I was surprised by the fact that Nut had also never seen it before. It seems that it was quite a rare demon huh.

Well, it should be okay to ask about this demon from someone else, right.

I’m looking into the forest.

Someone was looking at us, but I can’t feel any hostility from that person’s gaze. It seems that one isn’t a goblin or an ogre. I wonder what kind of being it is.

「May I ask who’s there？」

I’m raising the question first.

When I ask that person, a girl then showed up from the shadow of the tree.

Her age might be slightly below me. She was a blue-haired beauty with white skin.

Why this kind of girl is in this place, she might be a demon of the same kind as the previous one.

But I don’t feel any hostility from her, and her gaze isn’t unpleasant like the demon from before.

「Diehart-sama. That’s an elf」

「An elf」

Surely, upon looking at her ears, I realized that it was long like the ones in the description of elf race’s features.

I’m sure that Ruugas told me before about the elven race being composed nothing but woman and having an extremely long life span compared to a human’s. In addition, every elf is far more powerful in using spirit magic than the average human, that’s why they can live inside the forest where demons are running rampant without relying on the rampart.

And, it seems that they repeatedly kidnap the human males with whom they fall in love with.

I’m looking at her. I don’t think it’s a bad thing for a young man even if he’s kidnapped by her. Well, that has nothing to do with me.

I wonder what business this elf has with me.

「Uhm… Are you a god？」

The elf girl is asking timidly.

「Nope, just a human？」

I reply as a rhetoric.

In fact, I feel a bit anxious. Is it really okay to take the people of the human race in this world as the same with the human race in my world?

Why because, irrespective of whether it was me, Reiji, or the others, we have superhuman powers far surpassing the realm of humans in this world. The only thing that didn’t have much difference is just our outward appearance.

「No way, how can a human beat that Scylla when even us, the elf race, aren’t a match against it. Are you really not a god？」

It seems the demon from before is called Scylla.

「Nope, I’m definitely not a god…」

I’m not that much of an important character to be called as a god.

「I see」

The girl is approaching me. And after she came right in front of me, she’s taking a good look at me from head to toe.

「Hum, by the way, what kind of a person are you？….Why are you in this kind of place？ 」

The girl’s face keeps approaching me.

I am reflected in her eyes. I unintentionally avert my gaze. My heart is beating loudly since no girl but Shirone had ever approached me back in Japan.

「N… No, I’m just a traveler. And I’m looking for a place to rest for a while」

I reply with a flustered tone.

「Eh, you’re not going to the residence of the humans？」

“The residence of the humans” might be referring to the rampart. I’m nodding to answer the elf girl’s question.

「Yes… I am caught in a special circumstance….」

「Hu~m, then I take that you have nowhere to go. Hey, how about coming to my house？ 」

「EH!  ？ 」

I’m perplexed. I hear that despite the fact of elven race falling in love with a young human, they’re not that friendly with the humans.

When looking at her, I can’t feel any hostility at all. Her gaze is neither unpleasant nor creepy.

After pondering for a while.

「Well then, please allow me to receive your good will」

I lost to my curiousity. I was curious in what one called as the dwelling place of the elves.

「Yup, it’s okay」

The elf girl starts guiding me into the forest with a light smile.