Chapter 54 - #53 Massacre on the river (2/2)
*Bang* *Bang* We could also hear a lot of gunshots from far away.
”Well, I guess I was slightly wrong, they attack from the front and a few of them attacked from the side. They are confident if they decided to split like that.” I muttered with a slightly disappointed smile.
When Taeko heard the gunshots and also occasionally screams of those mercenaries she gripped the hilt of her sword with a cold expression.
”Stop that! We aren't going to fight, this is the ideal situation to retreat. We are quite far away from them and by now, there should be quite a lot of dead bodies floating inside the river.” Babara slapped Taeko's buŧŧ with her hand wearing the metal gauntlet.
”Eh?” Taeko blushed a bit and looked confusedly at Babara.
...She is really eager to fight even though we just said that we will retreat for now. The entire time we are talking here, the screams could be heard from far away. The dead bodies started to appear even right next to our boat.
They are pretty strong...although these dead guys couldn't be called extremely strong, they weren't exactly weaklings either.
I tried to take a better look at their faces however they were moving too fast and it was completely a dead night without any moonlight and the torches on mercenaries' boats weren't enough for me to see their faces clearly.
”Akashi, let's go dive in, we will take them by the surprise later. This plan was just to lure them out.” Babara woke me up from my thoughts.
I turned at her with a serious expression and then...
”Can't I fight with them~? They look strong!” I asked with a spoiled expression while pointing with my index finger at my excited face.
”?! *Smack* I wouldn't be able to really recognize you with your new personality...You are really great actor but unfortunately, you can't fight with them. We want them to think that they killed everyone so we can take them out once their guard will be down.” Even Babara facepalmed herself when she saw my change and then explained with a serious expression.
”Tch, I know, I know. Let's go before it is too late” I said with a slightly upset expression and jumped into the river. Babara and Taeko followed right after me.
We swam quite a large distance away from the boats before we decided to finally swim towards the shore.
We entered the forest that was right next to the shore and on the edge of the forest, we found a small ruined shack.
”...That somehow worked, thankfully there were still a lot of mercenaries who decided to jump into the river so while they were being killed, we were able to escape without them realizing it.” Babara said with slightly annoyed expression while she dropped her ȧss at one of the boxes inside the shack.
”...Now I discovered that I hate water if it's not bath...” I muttered with the same annoyed expression while squeezing my wet clothes.
”We have done pretty cruel thing to those mercenaries...” Taeko muttered, however, her face was still stoic as if she wasn't feeling sorry for them.
When I heard her words, I couldn't help but turn at her just to see her squeezing her clothes too however her nɨppŀės were visible through the wet fabric.
I rolled my eyes and redirected my gaze somewhere else.
”? Don't-talk” I noticed that Babara saw this and looked at me with a teasing grin so I said with a threatening tone.
After a few seconds of squeezing out the water from our clothes...
”So, who are our enemies exactly? Those mercenaries weren't exactly weaklings yet they were so easily massacred.” Taeko asked with a serious expression.
”They are definitely wielders of powerful weapons. Their weapons aren't on the same level as those mercenaries and only strong people can wield those. Not to mention that they wielded them very skillfully, I couldn't take a look at who were they but I saw beautiful slashes of their blades.” I answered with a carefree smile.
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'What Akashi said is the truth...They must be around the Rakshasa demons level. This might be quite hard for just 3 of us...I don't want to use Akashi's strength since it is our job and he is here just in case something went wrong.' Babara thought with a thoughtful expression while holding her chin.
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We suddenly felt a gust of wind come inside the shack and all of us turned at the source.
...A bird.
Babara immediately moved and appeared in front of it.
”What have you discovered? Depending on your information I might not make a dinner out of you.” Babara said with a sinister smile while holding kitchen knife near the bird's neck.
”?!” The bird immediately opened its eyes wide in fear.
*Puff* The smoke appeared around the bird and suddenly instead of a bird, Chelsea appeared heavily panting.
”*Pant* I have *pant* something useful so don't eat me!” Chelsea answered while panting and kneeling on the ground.
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[Name: Akashi Phoenix (Age: 17)
Title: Sloth
Class: Blade Master (Lv. 2; +3 Str, +3 Agi, +1 Const) 11/20 XP
Special Class: Yato (Lv. 4, +13 Str, +13 Const, +13 Agi, +4 Int) 2/80 SXP
[Health: 730/730]
[Energy: 1205/1205]
<Stats>
[Strength: 47 (85)]
[Agility: 50 (86)]
[Intelligence: 40 (53)]
[Constitution: 47 (72)]
[Charisma: 33 (40)]
Free Stat points: 27
Classes: Noble (Lv. 4; +5 Cha) 12/80 XP, Master Blacksmith (Lv. 7; +7 Str, +7 Const) 370/640 XP
*Passive Classes: Assassin (Lv. 10; +15 Agi, +9 Int, +6 Str, + 4 Cha), Warrior (Lv. 10, +16 Str, +11 Const, +5 Agi, +3 Cha)
Special Classes:Fire Monarch (Lv. 10; +28 Cha, +20 Int, +10 Const, +5 Str) ?/?
GOLD: 3210
SILVER: 68
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