Vol 3 Chapter 1 (2/2)
And as if that wasn’t enough defense, the entire team was under Mary’s [LIGHT OF PROTECTION] spell which enhanced physical ability, resistances, and sped up the body’s ability to heal itself The spell probably had soon symbol floated above everyone’s left wrists while they were under the spell’s effects According to Mary, it could be cast on up to six people and lasted for up to thirty minutes Haruhiro felt the spell’s effectiveness as his body beca ability enormously
And zo also moved swiftly to finish off the elder
“THANK YOU!!!” Mogzo shouted
Of course Mogzo would use [RAGE CLEAVE] It wasn’t just his standard finishi+ng nificent, technique Mogzo’s sword crushed into the shoulder of the already off-balance elder It was almost the exact same way he had killed the first foreman
Mogzo’s forant and, unlike Ranta, he never resorted to doing weird shi+t and cheap tricks just to try to look cool He was a siood sense of the phrase He stuck to the saave them his own customized, unique form of their own
Maybe Haruhiro was overstating it a little, but there was no doubt that [RAGE CLEAVE] in Mogzo’s hands had gone fro killing blow Of course [RAGE CLEAVE]’s effectiveness s like the user’s physical strength, proficiency, and weapon quality, azo was undoubtedly his ti
Whenever he recognized an opening, Mogzo used it The precise tiive Mogzo a standing ovation every tizo even now… should he actually do it?
As Haruhiro considered that, Ranta attacked Kobold D from behind Yume already had it on the run, but Ranta’s attack finished it
“Hahaha! YESSSSS! Got my Vice!” Ranta proclaimed
“Stupid Ranta!” Yume shouted “Yume could’ve handled it alone!”
“What was that? You were gonna kill it with your own hands? Ms Washboard, seeking blood like a wild beast!? Ha! You wanna devote yourself to Lord Skulheill too?” Ranta offered
“No way!” Yume replied “Yume is a Hunter who loves the White Goddess Eldritch Yuainst the poor kobos one-and-one, Yuh to the end! And don’t call Yume flat!!!”
“Yume, it’s one-on-one…” Haruhiro couldn’t help but correct her but was, as expected, thoroughly ignored
“Flat-chested is flat-chested! If you don’t want er!” Ranta shot back
“Yuer!” Yume said earnestly
“You do it like this!” Ranta turned to Yu motion on his own chest
“sexual harassers at Ranta while Mary sighed and muttered, “Utterly despicable”
“I’ “The best sexual harasser! The utterly despicable best! Bring it on! Nothing you say will faze me! I’ll beco!”
“Hm…” Yume pondered and copied Ranta… or rather, she was actually fondling her own breasts “Do they really get bigger? ‘Cause I sure don’t feel therow ‘em than it looks?”
Mogzo rabbed Yu you do in front of other people!”
“Oh, so it only works if I do it in private?” Yume asked
“Um, no… I don’t think that’s the case…” shi+horu replied
Ranta scoffed “What’s the big deal? Keep onna see anything!”
“Douchebag Ranta!” Yume cried
“I’! I’! It’s ret it! Non to my pervertedness!”
“Quit saying that like it’s a good thing,” Haruhiro said as he began to search the kobolds’ belongings
None of their equipment was sellable, so he contented himself with their talismans As he crouched near a body and carefully re talisman from one of the worker kobolds, Ranta suddenly ju from a dead kobold nearby
Haruhiro deeply disliked Ranta’s rough treats Haruhiro disliked about Ranta In fact, he disliked aluy
“What?” Ranta glared at Haruhiro “Got so you wanna say to me?”
“Not really,” Haruhiro replied
“Let me say this to you then”
“What?”
“Haruhiro,” Ranta used his thu into the air and let it land in his open pal ideas”
“Big ideas?” Haruhiro asked “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“You think you’ve become some kind of hero, don’t you?” Ranta accused
“Hero?” Haruhiro repeated
Only stupid Ranta would think so retarded like that, was Haruhiro’s instinctive response But the words quickly grew heavy in his chest and he didn’t reply right away A hero, huh? Haruhiro had never entertained any thoughts of becohtest shadow of a thought But…
“Your ht just now,” Ranta continued in a tone so low that none of the others could hear hie, since Ranta wasn’t the considerate type “Were really weird”
“No way It was just the usual,” Haruhiro denied
“No You were acting weird,” Ranta said “Like you were one step slower than usual Orto dothat, weren’t you? The one hit kill move”
Haruhiro didn’t answer but shrugged his shoulders minutely He tried to keep his expression neutral, but felt hiht How could a guy like him even notice in the first place?
“You’re not hero material, Haruhiro,” Ranta continued “Got it? Know your limits”
He patted Haruhiro on the shoulder sy hi Haruhiro could say to a person like Ranta would matter Ranta, would you even understand? No, he wouldn’t Ranta didn’t understand how Haruhiro felt at all
Haruhiro had almost died In return for his companion’s lives, he had almost traded his own But everyone lived, they even killed Deathpatch, and everything onderful All’s well that ends well, as the saying goes But it only ended well because they had gotten lucky
Haruhiro wouldn’t have been able to do it if the line hadn’t appeared He supposed thatfortune’s favor that time and not think too deeply on it But what about next tiain? Should he just leave it up to chance then as well?
No, that wasn’t an option So what could he do?
He had two choices The first was to bet that they could avoid getting into dangerous situations in the first place And, of course, Haruhiro intended to try his best to The second was to turn chance into certainty All he had to do was make it so that he could see the line all the time
But it wasn’t that simple Master Barbara had told him before, “Sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn’t It’s not like we can will it to appear by concentrating hard or anything” It wasn’t a reliable technique and beco dependent on it would be a mistake And Haruhiro realized the wisdom of her words
However, he couldn’t resist entertaining the possibility If he could make the line appear at will, then it would mean that he was a born warrior Naturally talented And wouldn’t that be awesoht to himself
“Haru?” Mary inquired
Haruhiro hadn’t even noticed that she had crouched next to him
“Err—so?” he asked
“I should ask you the sa on your mind?”
“No… not really,” Haruhiro lied
If they weren’t on the third stratum of the Siren Mines and if no one else was around, then ardless of where and as there
“I’m fine,” he tried to reassure her
“Really… if you say so then,” Mary said, entirely unconvinced
And Haruhiro knew from her expression that she didn’t believe him The look on her facehorrible to her and made his chest ache with a dull pain
This is… completely unfair