Chapter 34 (2/2)

「Fool, don’t give up!」

The moment he heard that voice, he returned to reality.

「……What?」

It was strange, he was on the verge of dying. Yet why was he still alive?　While doubting, what entered his vision were a few arrows stuck in the ground in the area where Rei and his large scythe were just before.

The moment he say the arrows and heard the shout of ‘don’t give up’, he realised it was Sunyi.

「Are you okay?」

The figure of Seryl appeared nearby, her sword set up to restrain Rei. Checking his surroundings, he finally realised he was still alive.

「Big sis, he’s strong. It seems the Griffon isn’t with him just for show.」

「It looks like it. Tch, isn’t that rookie rank G?　Who would think that he’s so strong.」

While listening to the exchange of the 2, a smile floated onto Rei’s face.

「I’m strong, is it? That’s right. Although it’s not much, I take pride that I have the strength to subdue a C rank monster.」

While swinging the Death Scythe, with a hyun~ hyun~ sound, at the two people before his eyes, he didn’t forget to check the state of the archer, Sunyi.

Being hit by an arrow before was just part of his plan. Being able to avoid the attack demonstrated that Rei’s body was close to a monster, if it were a normal person, the arrows would have hit his body without fail.

(I was surprised about that, that man called Al was clearly a decoy. When I swung the Death Scythe, I was attacked the moment I attacked. Still, he responded when she shouted out not to give up. ……I see. Trust, is it?)

After Rei participated in the subjugation quest, he was convinced that Dark Night’s Star was a party made up of thugs. However, though thugs may behave as so, there was still trust between them, he understood this for the first time.

(Still, I can’t be killed quietly. Their deaths were decided when the surprise attack began.)

Al, who somehow narrowly avoided death, was covered in cold sweat as he glanced at Rei. At the same time, Seryl, who was next to him, was in a similar situation. Sunyi pulled back her bow to shoot her arrows at Rei, given a chance.

He held the middle of the Death Scythe with his hands and swung it with a hyun~ hyun~ sound to restrain the enemy, he worked out a strategy against Dark Star while looking like a dance performance.

( In this case, the most troublesome aren’t the two people who can fight in close combat, it’s the woman called Sunyi who can support from long range.)

While brandishing the Death Scythe, Rei turned his gaze to Sunyi. On the top of the roof of an Orc house, attacks normally wouldn’t reach. Even if he used fire magic, the two people, Seryl and Al, wouldn’t give him a chance to say the incantation. So, there was no way to attack Sunyi. If he were a normal person…… But, Rei wasn’t someone you could call a normal person.

Using the centrifugal force from swinging the Death Scythe, he scooped out the dirt and stones on the ground and and flung them at the people in front of him with the handle, he then made a long jump backwards.

The next moment, he invoked the Shoes of Sleipnir while seeing arrows hit the position he was at just before.

Rei jumped to the highest point and used the Shoes of Sleipnir to step further into the air before falling.

At that moment, a few arrows flew towards Rei’s feet as he began to fall. If it weren’t for the Shoe of Sleipnir that let him step on the air, perhaps several of the arrows would have hit him. However, the magic item Shoes of Sleipnir overturned Sunyi’s calculations.

Sunyi saw her attack had missed and tried to to draw an arrow for her bow from her quiver in a hurry……

「That’s a shame.」

Rei was already in front of Sunyi’s eyes, swinging the Death Scythe.

「-!?」

Though Sunyi tried to shout something, the magic boosted Death Scythe was swung down before the words left her mouth. The huge blade cut through Sunyi diagonally from shoulder down……the next second, her body slid down, internal organs and blood scattering onto the roof.

『Sunyi!?』

Though Seryl and Al, who were watching, shouted out Sunyi’s name, the light had already faded from Sunyi’s eyes.

「You!　How dare you do that to Sunyi!」

Though Al raised a vehement shout, Rei just stared back at Al and Seryl with cold eyes.

「What, so it’s acceptable for you to kill me but not okay for me to kill you?　Is the fact that the person you try to kill is fighting back something bad? Or are you going to say you are the only people with the right to kill me?」

「Shut up!　Get down from there now!　I’ll cut you down with my sword like you did to Murgas and Sunyi!」

Although Al burst out with an angry voice, Rei had no intention of coming down.

「What, even if you can take out a thief and archer, it’s too hard to fight someone the same as you in close combat?　If you’re a man, come down and fight fairly!」

「Kuku~. Fair and square, hey. Attacking someone by surprise and 4 against 1, I can’t help but laugh……no, talent as adventurers aside, you have talent as comedians, you guys.」

「Don’t joke around!」

「I’ll stop, incidentally, joke asides, let me correct your joke. I’m not a warrior. It suffices to say……I’m a 『Magic Warrior』」

「……What?」

Ignoring Al, who unintentionally asked again in a defiant tone, Rei started an incantation.

『Flame, thou exists in my domain only and cannot in other domains. My magic power in my domain in exchange for your short life, sublimate your life for a moment.』

At the same time Rei started his incantation, a scarlet line of magic power drew and enclosed the place Al and Seryl were.

「Tch!」

Perceiving the danger of the line, Seryl escaped from the magic lines by jumping backwards. However, Al, who’s rank was lower than Seryl, didn’t have that judgement. No, maybe he knew but seeing his companions killed made the blood rush to his head and his crisis perception ability fell.

If had his usual carefulness, he might have felt the overwhelming presence of death approaching. However, that would be another story. Al was already surrounded by the magic lines, his fate decided.

『Dancing Wild Flame』

The incantation was completed and the magic activated. A bright, translucent, red dome covered the marked area the crimson line cut through. Al’s cheeks cramped when he finally realised he was in a dangerous place……a myriad of lizards appeared inside the crimson dome. So many that it was difficult to count, the next moment, the lizards exploded simultaneously, turning into fire. One of them exploded, turning into flames, similarly, the lizards touched by the flame exploded the same way……so the number of flames and explosions increased like a chain reaction, the last one exploded, turning into flames and rampaging inside the dome, the scorching flame was so dazzling you couldn’t open your eyes. Al was instantly burned without being able to say a word.