Chapter 105 - #104 Saving (1/2)
When I was done with my opponents, I looked in the Spear's direction. She just defeated her first opponent with an overhead slash, making a deep cut across the entire Troll's body and most likely also cutting his treasure off. I couldn't see much during this but her footing was good and her handling of the pole of the spear was also good but when I saw her fighting her last opponent, I was able to see some room for improvement.
I am not well versed in this world's spearmanship but I have some knowledge from my previous world.
”And this is the last one!” Spear shouted with a confident smile while she dodged Troll's attempt to grab her. She drew her hand holding the spear back and then performed a series of thrusting attacks, making the entire troll full of holes.
That wasn't a bad technique, her speed was much better than usual and also the strength of those attacks was much higher. Our proficiency in using spear is on around equal level. Although I can see some mistakes she makes, it doesn't mean that I would be able to perform it perfectly myself. I have never trained in her spear arts but I would perhaps have fast improvement with how I can see a lot of her mistakes. A spear was never my favorite weapon but it definitely has a few advantages like range and one can use it for many acrobatic tricks, unfortunately, such spear is rendered useless once in narrow places.
”Hmph, good! Akashi, are you done on your side?” She snorted when she saw the troll in front of her fall down and then turned around while asking aloud with a cheerful tone.
However, the moment she shows her back to the cave's entrance, I saw a similar troll charging at her with a much higher speed. Its fur was red instead of snow-white.
Maybe my time has come.
”Look out, Spear!” I shouted at her while running towards her while maintaining believable speed.
When she heard my shout she instantly snapped her head back with just to see another troll in a different color than others, throwing its fist at her head, intending to make minced meat out of her.
Her body froze as her eyes opened wide when she saw the big fist nearing her.
*Bang!* Just when she was about to get hit, I jumped at her from the side, taking her with me and narrowly dodging its fist that created a small hole in the ground. We began rolling on the ground together since I jumped towards her at full speed and grabbed her with me. While we were still rolling on the ground, I took another dagger from belt and threw it precisely at its eye.
*ROAR!!!* My dagger hit directly its right eye despite me throwing it while we were still rolling on the ground. The troll quickly slapped the dagger away from its eye but it only caused it more pain and damage which enraged it even further.
I thought with a genuinely happy smile due to remembering my past when I was usually only working with throwing daggers.
”A-Akashi?!” Spear exclaimed when she finally recovered from her shock after we stopped rolling on the ground. I was currently on top of her on my knees and hands but I didn't even bother looking at her.
...This troll is around 5 times stronger than the previous ones and its speed is also something not to be underestimated. These trolls were weak mainly due to their poor speed but this one is quite fast.
I thought while glaring at the rampaging troll with narrowed eyes but a happy smile never left my face.
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'H-He saved me? Why? He knows me only a few hours...why would he risk his life to save me?!' Spear was only staring at Akashi's face with a mesmerized expression. To her, Akashi was currently making a very particular expression that truly mesmerized her and she couldn't describe why. He looked so fearless and confident with that smile across his face while also serious with his narrowed eyes.
While Akashi saved Spear, our two hunters that were responsible for Spear's safety witnessed everything.
”FUCK! Let's go help them, we can no longer keep hiding! Lady Spear almost died if it wasn't for that guy's fast reaction!” The second more serious guy shouted at his colleague and they instantly jumped out of their hiding while reading their guns.
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I quickly helped Spear up and patted her clothes of the snow.
”I-” She still looked a bit startled but I interrupted her.
”You can thank me later, let's focus on the problem in front of us, looks like our friend finally stopped rampaging and recovered.” I said while making her focus on the troll in front of us.
”?! His eye...Did you do it, Akashi?! When?” She exclaimed with a shocked expression since she couldn't remember anything related to it.
”Be careful, his left eye is still functioning just right” I ignored her question and just warned her and she got the meaning that she should focus right now.
While we were getting ready for its next onslaught of attacks two hunters I saw previously follow us jumped out of their hiding.
”You two! We heard sounds of fighting so we decided to take a look, let us ȧssist you!” One of them said with a serious expression but the other one was slightly awkward most likely from playing this act.
No to mention...what kind of idiot would bring a gun for hunting...its loud gunfire can attract more Danger Beasts but whatever.
*bang* *bang* *bang* They started shooting at it to slow its advance to show us that they truly want to help us.
Spear didn't look surprised by the newcomers and instead looked down with a slightly guilty expression.