Chapter 156 - Volume 8 (2/2)

“………tsch”

As Tiera hesitated, the men who thought that the dark elf wouldn’t care about the child were astonished for a moment, but as understanding hit them, their faces spread with vulgar smiles.

“…… You’re a pretty woman, dark elf. If you don’t want this kid to get hurt, drop your weapons…… no, take off all of your armor and clothes.”

“Heheheeheheee, we’re going to sell you too, after we do you of course!”

“W-what?”

Tiera hid her bare upper body and thighs with her arms, even as she was being ogled, and she begrudged the Demon King of a millennium ago for adopting this high-exposure armor.

“S-sister……”

“Ku-”

Should she endure the humiliation of being like this in front of the boy, or abandon the boy’s sister and defeat these underhanded men?

If it had been even a little while ago, she would surely have abandoned the girl while she raged at the cowardly men.

“………”

But…… Tiera smiled at the boy gently and begun to throw away her weapons.

*gishi……i*

There was a sudden grating sound in the air.

““““…………””””

Nothing changed. There wasn’t anything strange at all about the sound.

However, everyone present felt chills and shivered.

There was definitely something. Something that was approaching.

They didn’t know why they felt chills over that “something”, but when their heads ratcheted to face it like rusted tin dolls, they saw something that should have been impossible.

Golden hair that glistened in the sun.

A black and silver dress with a luster that they had never even seen before.

A face that looked absolutely perfect, and beautiful, silky smooth skin.

And golden irises that shined through all of her beauty like a cold doll.

A miracle of a lady that looked like she was in her early teens.

But…… was that really a human? No…… was she really of this world or even a living creature?

Her heart was enchanted with that beauty, and the [Fear of the Unknown] that bubbled up within her was stopped as Tiera unconsciously took a step back.

Although it might not have been noticeable to humans, her keen senses honed by living in the world of darkness as a dark elf instinctively caused Tiera to step back to protect her soul.

In that frozen world, the girl smiled gently only at Tiera, who had moved, and then the world began to move again.

“……whaa-”

The half-asleep voice of that little girl snapped everyone back to sanity from a state of fascination.

“……eh? Ah?”

Before anyone realized, the little girl was already in the golden girl’s arms, and the kidnappers’ eyes went wide, darting in confusion from their arms to hers.

Nobody had noticed when the girl had been moved.

As the little girl was about to start crying as she realized what had happened, a stuffed-toy bear came up from behind the golden girl and began to pat her.

[Gaugau]

“Bearrrr……”

“Are you okay?”

The girl…… smiled gently as if the whole incident up until then had been a nightmare, and the little girl’s face went from surprise to laughter as she looked at the girl’s face.

“I’m alright, big sister~”

As the tension in the air suddenly loosened, her older brother sank to the floor in exhaustion.

“…… wh-what, youuu!?”

His tongue was stuck.

The golden girl scrunched her eyebrows slightly at his impolite words.

“He’s a kidnapper, please be careful…”

Before Tiera, who had a bad feeling about this, could finish her sentence, the golden girl covered the eyes and ears of the little girl.

[Gau.]

And then the cute stuffed-toy bear leaped onto the two kidnappers.

Author’s Notes:

None this time.