CH 85

[Rahaman Mine]

The village became noisy because Marco, who returned seriously injured, disappeared.

“Frick-sama, one of the horses is gone. I think Marco took it out.”

“His destination is surely the mine…”

“I also think that is the case.”

Eugene who has the villagers search the area come to report to me in the square.

If he went on a horse, he should have already traveled a considerable distance.

Should I follow him with Dimol?

I whistle to Dimol, who is searching from the sky.

“Noelia, I’m sorry, but you should stay here and wait for the person dispatched by Frontier Count-sama as they may come any time soon. I will go bring Marco back. He is an important eyewitness after all.”

Seeing Dimol coming down, Noelia who tried to go with me stop moving.

“T-there is Suzana to receive them. I will together with and help you.”

“No, if, by any chance, I take Noelia and there occur trouble with the lot of the mines, it’ll likely lead to a great war between the Frontier Count family and the Radcliffe family. In that respect, if it’s only me, a mere adventurer, even if a trouble occurs, it will lead to a big repercussion.”

“Noelia Ojou-sama. It is as Frick-sama said. I think it is better for you not to act rashly in this situation.”

Suzana also seems to agree with me, as she doesn’t want Noelia to go.

Noelia, who is stopped by me and Suzana, thinks for a while, but she eventually sighs as if she has given up.

“I understand. However, Frick-sama… please absolutely do not do anything rash.”

“Ahh, I won’t, so don’t worry.”

“Really?”

My face is reflected in Noelia’s ice-blue eyes that are looking up at me anxiously.

“Ahh, really. I swear on my sword that I won’t do anything rash.”

“I… understand. I am looking forward to your safe return.”

“I’m off.”

Saying only that much to Noelia, I jump on to the descending Dimol and take off toward the mine where Marco is likely to be heading.

After flying for a while, I see Diedur from the direction of the village with a full-body armor – which is Cinzia’s main body – on his back, following after us.

“It looks interesting, so I bring along Diedur who seems to be free.”

Cinzia – who made her nest inside my cloak, saying it was because I have a lot of magic power – flies with *flap, flap* and perches on my shoulder.

“I’m not going out to play you know. Please be quiet absolutely.”

“Yes, yee~s. Got iiit~. I’m an adult, so I also knew to choose time and place to play around.”

“I will hold you to that, okay?”

“Oka~y.”

Although I’m a little worried about Cinzia’s light hearted reply, I decide to further increase Dimol’s speed.

Eventually, I see a horse running in front of me while raising up a dust cloud, but it is already getting close to the old abandoned mine of the Rahaman Mine.

“Marco-dono!!”

I have Dimol dive down and call out to Marco, who is galloping the horse, but he just silently speeds up even more.

Does that mean he has no intention of stopping?

However, I can’t let him go as is…

“Kuee!”

At that time, it seems that Dimol has discovered something, as he is crying out a warning.

When I hurriedly turn my gaze toward the direction Dimol is looking at, I see a lot of armed beastmen lined up at the entrance of the old abandoned mine, looking this way.

“Who is it! This place is designated as off limits to anyone other than the authorized people! If you get any closer, you’ll be shot to death without a warning!”

The armed beastmen show some fear when they see the giant Wyvern Dimol, but they don’t seem to have lost their willingness to fight.

“I know. I’m not here to fight either. I just want to catch that person riding the horse.”

Although they are potential enemies, this is not the time to fight yet, so I plan to leave after securing Marco.

“I am here to fight. My brethren, get out of the way! The lot here don’t think of us beastmen as people!”

Marco who is galloping the horse pulls out a sword he got and rushes toward the beastmen who are drawing their bows.

“It’s a trespasser! Shoot the guy on the horse!”

The beastmen shoot the drawn bow one after another toward Marco who has rushed in.

All the shot arrows are flying toward Marco.

“Marco-dono, stop!! O’ unseen air. Become a solid barrier and manifests yourself in the surroundings. Wind Barrier.”

My Wind Barrier activates the place where the arrows are about to pierce Marco, and the arrows blocked by the barrier deviate to the horizon.

“Frick-dono, I appreciate your help, but… Please don’t mind me and retreat. This is the grudge of mine alone.”

“This is recklessness. I didn’t save you to do something like this.”

“I know. But… please don’t stop me.”

Without heeding my restraint, Marco makes his horse run faster and disappears into the narrow passage in the corner of the old abandoned mine.

“Chase the guy who broke through ahead! We are strictly ordered not to let anyone enter the new mine!! Kill him on sight!”

The beastmen at the entrance of the old abandoned mine are trying to follow Marco to the inside of the passage.

“Now then, it’s my turn, right? Be clad in my mana and take the form of human. Summon Golem.”

Cinzia returns to her main body which is riding on Diedur who is running after us and use Summon Golem to create a huge earth golem, blocking the path of the pursuing beastmen.