Chapter 101 – Why We Thugs (1/2)
“You’re a hindrance.” (Hifumi)
“Gyan!?” (Shiku)
Hifumi sent Shiku, who clung to his waist, flying with a kick.
Without a single glance at Shiku who’s rolling on the ground, Hifumi who held the kusarigama, began to advance again.
His stride is slow but powerful releasing a pressure of it being unstoppable by anyone.
“If it is Darkness magic…”
“Don’t falter! Shower him with spells and arrows!”
At the same time as the voice resounded, stones, wind blades and even compressed water currents are aimed at Hifumi.
“Uuh-oh. Those are intense.” (Hifumi)
Hifumi avoids the spells, which come flying, as if performing a light dance.
The elves can’t conceal their irritation due to Hifumi moving left and right and brandishing his kusarigama while being surrounded by 10 of them in a semicircle.
“Match your timings with your companions!”
“Too slow!” (Hifumi)
What Hifumi threw wasn’t the counterweight but the sickle part.
“Gyaa!”
The sickle deeply pierces into the nape of an elf’s neck getting only stopped by the collarbone.
The elf, who widely opened his eyes in shock, without time to pull it out, was dragged towards Hifumi.
“Yo-to*” (Hifumi) (T/N: Exclamation for pulling/reeling in something. No idea for an equivalent in English)
While pulling out the sickle with a light yell of encouragement, he tears the neck.
The elf whose limbs were flapping about, dies having his entire body shredded by wind magic while getting used as shield.
Hifumi threw the body, which lost its strength, at another elf.
“Uwaah?”
“Holy cow!”
Next, spells with arrows mixed in-between come flying at Hifumi who plunges towards the clamouring elves.
Hifumi who was directly assaulted by spells and arrows being hammered out without a single break, is naturally unable to dodge all of them. The cuts on his cheeks and arms are slowly increasing.
However, Hifumi is laughing.
“Yes, that’s right, good! Resist me desperately! Aim for my life! For the sake of protecting your own lives! For the sake of protecting someone else’s life!” (Hifumi)
Closing in upon a single elf as if sliding upon scattered sand with a *thud*, he drives his fist which tightly grasped the counterweight, into the elf’s face with all his power.
Throwing the grasped counterweight over his shoulders, he crushed the face of another elf as well.
“Fufu… fufufufu…” (Hifumi)
Wiping his cheek with a finger, he feels hot blood wetting his fingertip.
“Imagine the instance of your deaths and you will be definitely able to savour the actual feeling of being alive. To begin with…” (Hifumi)
Storing away the kusarigama, Hifumi draws the katana at his waist.
The light of the sun slightly peeked through the gaps between the trees and faintly shone onto the katana.
“At the time you avert your eyes from death, you guys likely won’t die in a decent way.” (Hifumi)
Due to Hifumi laughing while dyeing the elbows of both his arms with the blood of the elves and himself, the elves shuddered to the degree of even forgetting to release their spells.
“Oh?” (Hifumi)
Hifumi turned the point of his katana towards the remaining elves.
“Did you decide to surrender and accept your own deaths? Killing wooden dolls is boring as well though.” (Hifumi)
While enjoying the tingling feeling originating from the pain of his wounds, he takes a stance with the katana being carried on his left shoulder.
“Don’t screw around!”
There are 7 elves remaining. An elf who concluded that it was plenty to overwhelm him, shouted.
Once again a volley of spells is fired.
Even for Hifumi it’s impossible to avoid all the fast bullets which are invoked far quicker than any spell used by humans, and thus he gives up on that.
Lowering his stance, Hifumi who moves forward as if sliding, doesn’t decrease his speed even while getting struck in the stomach by stones and cut at the shoulders.
“How lukewarm!” (Hifumi)
“Giyaaa!”
Using the momentum of running through, he bisects the elf who gave directions, with a slash diagonally from the shoulder.
With a short scream the elf’s body split in two parts and dropped to the ground.
“Fuu~…” (Hifumi)
He’s already covered in wounds all over, but his expression is cheerful.
“Is that human… invincible…?”
Hifumi pouted due to the words muttered by someone.
“How rude. I will be at a loss with something like invincibility. Battles make my heart tremble since I might die.” (Hifumi)
Hifumi who took a stance of holding the pommel against the left side of his hips, approaches the next elf in one bound and kills them with the force of a thrust similar to shooting it out.
Pulling out the katana, he closed in on another elf while receiving a barrage of countless pebbles, made with Earth magic, with his back and chopped off the elf’s head while turning around.
“4 left, huh?” (Hifumi)
Swinging the katana, he clears away the blood on it.
“Don’t you have any other magic? Please show me some more.” (Hifumi)
“Kuu… This!”
What one of the elves released was a fire arrow.
“You!?”
Hifumi perceived the other eves’ surprise in a corner of his sight.
Being people who live within the forest, they mostly don’t use fire magic, or rather, they probably can’t use it.
“That’s good.” (Hifumi)
He deliberately evades the fire arrow at the last second.
The scorching heat of the arrow chars his right side and the dougi turns black.
“He survived inevitable death. It’s such a feeling, right?” (Hifumi)
The katana which Hifumi thrust out, pierces the chest of the elf and its point stabs through the elf’s back.
“Su…ch a…”
The elf’s hoarse voice is blended with blood. The katana slides out at the moment the elf collapsed.
The blood, which is dripping from the point, falls to the ground.
“3 more to go.” (Hifumi)
His murmur is small. However, all of their ear’s have surely heard it as death sentence.
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Before the attack on Hifumi there was movement at the house of the leader Zanga.
“I’m going to intrude.”
The one who came entering with a brief comment as warning for form’s sake before dawn was a man called Laboras (T/N: >> Raborasu <<) who unifies the men of the village.
He was quite different from the image of an elf. With a tall and muscled body build, he was a giant who’s good at handling knives, however, contrary to his appearance, he was also good at using magic.
“What is it Laboras? It’s quite sudden, you know.” (Zanga)
“Who of us is sudden?” (Laboras)
Laboras who sat down opposite of Zanga with the sunken hearth between them with an air of familiarity, emitted a dangerous aura from his entire body.
“I heard you allowed a human to enter this village.” (Laboras)
“Indeed, I did. Or rather, it might be better to say that I had him come here.” (Zanga)
“… I want you to tell me why you did such thing.” (Laboras)
“It’s something personal.” (Zanga)
Zanga throws a twig into the sunken hearth as the fire grew weak.