Chapter 422

The blade, which had been pushed as if scraping through the spearhead, rushes toward the man’s hands, sparking sparks.

I feel a force trying to press me down to not be pushed away, but that’s okay. It would be quicker for my sword to blow off his fingers than for him to crush me completely. If you aim for the moment when you try to hold on by trusting only the gauntlet you are wearing, and put magic on the sword, you can cut it off enough.

No matter how strong you are, you can’t pick up a weapon with a severed finger. The moment when he pushes it to such a critical moment that even his gauntlet is about to spark.

The buffalo horn released his hand from the javelin without hesitation and threw a punch.

“Chew...!”

The upper body of a guy one head taller than me lowered in an instant, pushing up my sword from the bottom with the palm of my left hand, aiming for my chin with my right fist and delivering an intense uppercut.

If you get hit, you get a counterattack, and even if you get hit, you have no choice but to allow a counterattack because the damage increases. There was no time to hesitate, so I believed in the helmet that was completed in an instant to protect my head and tried to headbutt the flying guy with his fist.

– Kwak!

“Mmm!”

It wasn’t my moans. I’m in so much fucking pain that I can’t even fucking moan.

It was such a terrible blow that I wondered if my cervical vertebrae would have gone out because of the lack of supporting power if I hadn’t pulled my body back for a moment. The fact that it inflicted such damage even though it contained the essence of shock absorption that Rummings confidently contained was enough to know the guy’s fucking power.

The shock of the ping in front of my eyes would have been enough to make me hesitate for a moment, but it was a luxury in front of the threat of life. As soon as the uppercut was blocked, I swung my left hand that was supporting my sword and protected my neck by twisting my body and quickly gripping the sword in reverse to stop the guy from trying to throw a sword at my neck.

-bang!

It was hardly the sound of a person wearing a gauntlet colliding with a sword. His whole body groaned at the level of shock that would have sent him flying with it if he hadn’t supported the blade with his right arm, but this was good enough. It didn’t change his posture, but there was a nice gap between his arms.

Hoping that even a slight touch would shatter them all, I put magic on my sword and turned the sword towards him using the snap of my wrist.

It was a swordsmanship, nothing more than just turning the sword. If it was a normal sword, even if you touched it, you wouldn’t be able to scratch your armor. A swing that emphasized speed without feeling any momentum.

“Haha?!”

It must have been, but for some reason it flew backwards with a more violent and quicker reaction than ever before. Even in the midst of that, holding two javelins that were still floating in the air and striking them down in the shape of an X to block my sword was a bonus.

“Shit.”

It was a golden chance that I might have been able to kill that monster in one blow.

If the mana recovery was even a little late, all of his javelins would have been severed and the number of his spleens would have been exposed. My only consolation was that my helmet covered my entire face, so I could hide my expression full of regret.

I don’t know how he figured it out, but the guy who ran away from death tilted his head, deftly deflected the two knights’ attacks, counterattacked, and murmured incomprehensibly.

“Hmm? It must have sent chills down my spine. What is it?”

At the same time, thanks to Koraji, who smiled expectantly, chills ran down my spine.

And when he saw me using magic to bring back the sword that had been flying into the air and grabbing it, he reacted as if he was dumbfounded.

“Will you let me know if it’s like you?”

I really wanted to save the magical grinder and sword swordsmanship as skills that would surely kill me, but I couldn’t possibly do that.

You have to mobilize everything you have to kill it somehow. There is more curiosity than hostility added to the gaze of the buffalo horns looking at me as I make up my mind and straighten my posture. Are you saying that you can feel hostility towards the opponent you are fighting with? Just when I was thinking that I really didn’t like that look, unexpected words came out of his mouth.

“No matter how you look at it, aren’t you closer to us than they are? Why are you with them?”

“...what?”

Even though it was cut in half, the attitude of the buffalo horn scratching my head while clutching at it as if it was enough is absurd... but the conversation is not bad. Since the knights were rushing to close the distance that madman had opened in an instant, it was advantageous to buy as much time as possible.

“Isn’t it polite to ask what you guys did to me before saying that?”

I straightened my sword, corrected my posture, and acted out my anger. She poured magic so that she could use the needle at any time, and shed magic not only to the mana, but also to the guy’s severed javelin. Since it is cut in half, if you overdo it a little, you should be able to eject it sufficiently.

“You don’t know that you came into a person’s life and crushed it with mud, what? Why do you stick to the kingdom army and not the demon army?

The water buffalo’s horns are still puzzled by the words he spat out while calculating this and that. No, it was a reaction that went beyond doubt and did not even understand.

“Us? You don’t know, but the demon king’s army has already figured out about you to some extent. A boy who appeared from the west with the Marquis of Levien. He’s never even stood out near the frontline before. There’s no reason for you to be hostile toward us. ...”

Because of that, the change in his expression was dramatic. As if he suddenly realized something...

“...Survivors?”

...because my emotions went over to surprise in an instant. But it wasn’t just him who had a change of heart.

I, too, had to feel a fire burning in my head and heart, which had been calm until just now. survivor? There is only one mention of the West that is likely to bring such a story.

my hometown, my village.

“You know about the raid 7 years ago.”

Without any notice, the anger that was kept in a corner of my memory raises its head. There was no answer coming back, but the expression on his face that he couldn’t believe said it all.

I know that baby.

“Thank you. I’ve never doubted it, but it’s a new feeling to have it confirmed by the mouth of the person concerned.”

No matter what happens, he must be caught.

I was rather fortunate. If I was alone, the chances wouldn’t even be 10%, but this place is right in the middle of allies. With the knights running behind him again, it would be okay somehow.

“Let’s have a more serious conversation.”

This time, even the horns of the water buffalo, which had always responded with composure and laughter, did not respond.