65 Espionage (2/2)

Unfortunately, the same with the previous attempts, I failed to enter his mind and I just continued to spy at them using the dark side of a tree nearby. The priestly-looking guy's tone is calm and is very cheerful as if he himself is in control of the situation. And then...

”That man... He can control the shadows. And this is rather bad, monsieur. Kurenai has a weapon in hand, I can sense that it's obtained from Tartarus and it's now in the brink of the evening. We should withdraw for now” the priestly-veiled creature exclaimed in front of the constituents.

What? How does he know of these details?

”WITHDRAW?! Are you asking me to look like a milksop the moment I return to the kingdom? I would RATHER DIE than withdraw myself now! Tsk! Now that the Kurenai is in our sight, I can't let this come to pass! DAINSLEIF, JUST DO YOUR ROLE! You can run if you want to and squeak like a baby!” replied the big guy in a much more hostile manner.

”Ok, ok... Calm down, you hot-tempered baloney. And if you want to increase the slight chance of capturing them, then I would suggest lowering down... your voice a bit.”

”AND WHAT MIGHT YOU MEAN BY THAT?”

”The man's eavesdropping on us, the moment we first appeared.”

”WHAT? THEN DO SOMETHING YOU USELESS MAGE!”

Then, as if he sensed where I'm spying from, he looked at the darkness where I'm performing the espionage and oh, what an unexpected demeanor it was. His face is partly a human's, with two symmetrical horns coming out from his forehead.

”You, how you doing. you heard the big guy. Go easy on us kay?” he said as if he's directly looking to me. He found out where I'm surveilling them from, and then he cast these abominable light-like rays that illuminated their whereabouts, making it impossible for me to see them, cutting my main line of anticipation.

Moreover, that light is something odd, though. Did it cancel my paradigm directly?

The face of a rather, nervous teenager then began to be apparent in my face, making Shiro a little- bit worried. Yet, this is where my inability to feel fear comes somewhat handy. I can move and think clearly without having to worry about recklessness.

”Oni-chama...” Her face began to show the usual-concerned expression. Not good. I can't let her lose her morale now.

'Shiro, I'm here okay? As long as I'm here, no one can touch us” I comforted Shiro, crouching my right knee down to the slightly-moist ground while patting her right on the head.

”Hai, oni-chama!” the little girl lifted her countenance, as she received the insurance, which were mere words, but yeah, potent enough.

”Nice, Shiro! ”

Ok, now that I have calmed the girl down, time for me to weigh in the rational facts. We're surrounded and the perpetrators can't be underestimated either. Running and hiding now, is nothing but a very foolish choice and survival's most abominable wishful thinking. Time to get real.

First. I need to get a wider view while setting up the arena where Grendel could gain more momentum. That way, I could also see where the enemy would be coming from. This is their domain, and it's without question that they had traveled this forest a thousand-time now. So,I need to change the landscape a little bit.

”Shiro, could you cut down these trees that surround us? It distorts our view of our very first moonrise, and also while you're at it, could you also kill those frozen monsters?”

”Of course oni-chama!”

Shiro, with formidable strength, throws Grendel with the strongest momentum I have ever seen that not even the hefty trees could hinder. The blades of the mythical chakram came hacking through the hundred or so monsters and also hereby, cutting down the trees making them fall in different directions.

As the girl quickly finished killing the manipulated gnome-type monsters, she then initiatively began to focus on cutting down even more trees.

Then, in a single potent throw of the former frisbee champion, about a hundred trees and more fell powerless. Then appeared a view of the last streak of dawn that is quickly being conquered by the darkness of the uprising night, and from it, the slightly chipped full moon also began to arise.

Yet, what surrounded the moon is not its clear corona but the veiled creatures who are mainly whom I and Siro are up against, drifting on the air, with the white robes that they used to conceal their identity, serving as their wings.

And one of them stood the same priestly-image who holds a scepter of power.

”Yow! Would you give us the little girl?” he said while extending his hands toward us, making Shiro, who just realized who they are really after begin to take cover in my rear.

This is going to be one heck of a showdown. It's me against a bunch of demi-human pedophiles, with their main target as my ally.