Chapter 5 (1/2)

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“Master!”

Milkit's voice was eic, her body parts scattered and falling to the earth Both ars, head, and torso: a total of six parts sank into the soft ground, blood soaking the leaves

“Ah… oh, oh, oh!”

Soof hopelessness dominated her body The Anzu snorted with satisfaction as it turned its black eyes toward her, the rehing at her She could see the wrinkles fors fro “I will kill you next”

Milkit was frozen

The idea of death did not bother her Even her own death was fine Living was s, and powerful ic that easily dismembered a hu None of these weapons were so Milkit could resist In the face of such an overwhel power difference, any hus and feet were shaking uncontrollably She didn't exactly feel like she wanted to live, but she wanted very badly to run away

The Anzu roared and clawed at the ground with its forepaws before leaping at its prey Milkit crouched down reflexively while wrapping her arht of such an enor so quickly The monster passed by and landed on her other side

Milkit's heart began to pound She didn't believe that she would be able to run away, but if she tried she would at least have a chance Her feet sank into theher escape, the Anzu obviously had roo once would easily shorten the distance

Milkit panted as she ran She was not accustorets The Anzu watching her ca but a toy

So theto pass close but not hit her directly It enjoyed the sight as she rolled around on the ground It tore at her clothes lightly with its claw, amused by how her voice cried out in terror It opened its mouth and roared at her, pleased by how she flinched away

However, Milkit's body was fragile In the face of such extreth was soon exhausted Bored by her fading reaction, the Anzu prepared to bring the gayfor the lethal attack

“It hurts, but…”

The voice carabbed its tail

“Should I say that epic equip? Or should I cry that I can suffer so , she also tightened her grip The tail was a sensitive part of a monster The Anzu wrinkled its brow as it looked back over its shoulder

“So, you attack people like this… whose slave do you think you're playing with?”

Fla her oversized sith one hand and cut off the Anzu's tail

The monster howled and jumped away It fell over in shock at the pain it had suffered Fla due to the pain from her not-fully-repaired shoulders, and slashed at the

Once more the Anzu cried out as the sword pierced its skin The wound this tian to bleed as the Anzu rolled away into the trees

“Hurts, doesn't it? You hurt me a lot h it's healing, it still hurts an awful lot”

Flamm knew the monster couldn't understand her, but she couldn't help but co

When she was hit by windbut wait to die As the blood flowed, her consciousness faded, and the cold creeped in, she could only cling to the hope that Milkit would escape

Strangely, the flow of blood stopped after a while, and she started to feel as if the divided parts of her body were connected by ical power An invisible force attracted and attached each part together and then her wounds began to heal While it took a while to regenerate, she was still alive, just like when she had been bitten by the ghoul Fla to think that she couldn't die unless her head was crushed, causing an iot up and faced Flamm Itswasmonster could be injured by such an attack frolad you are okay… thank goodness,” Milkit said, holding her chest in relief She was on the other side of the monster from Flamm

Flamm was also relieved that Milkit was still alive

“Milkit, run away now!”

“Okay! Please don't do anything reckless!”

Milkit ran back to the road to the capital as fast as she could With that, Flamm could focus on the battle ahead with one less worry on herhere is reckless,” Flamm said, a bitter smile on her face

The Anzu focused entirely on Flamm It didn't even look at Milkit as she ran away

“It should be slowed by the leg injury,” Flas, and I have to be careful of its ic… I should be able to win”

Of course, she had no real basis for her conclusion

Now that the ht with caution She circled around it, trying several tis Ither attacks Neither one of theh Fla froht went on, the better, as far as she was concerned

The Anzu acted to break the stales, it took to the sky

Flae forward, not up

The Anzu's wings didn't allow it to fly over long distances However, they were powerful enough for it to glide and to assist it in juh that Flah the leaves overhead Meanwhile, the Anzu carefully confirs to adjust its direction Once its preparation was over, it dove straight at her Flamm heard its approach as it closed in and jumped out of the way

The Anzu landed with a crash

The ground shook with the impact Leaves fluttered down froround around it

But none of thatpoint, prepared to slash at the monster while it was overextended

Before she could act, a gust of wind rushed forward The previous attack wasn't just a strike froical follow-up This time it wasn't a sharp wind blade but a simple blast of ith the force of a storic… Yikes!”