Chapter 708

Bear-san, Settling the Battle

*Rosa PoV*

We dismounted from our horses, climbed over the collapsed fence, and rushed over to Swaying Bear-chan and the others.

“Primme-chan!” (Rosa)

“Uh, Rosa and Blitz?” (Primme)

Primme-chan noticed us.

“What’s going on? Who is that man?” (Rosa)

I approached the man lying on the ground.

He was emaciated and bleeding from the chest.

A knife was lying on the ground nearby.

“Did you do this?” (Rosa)

I asked the knight.

“It’s my knife, but Ryan-san stabbed himself.” (Knight)

“It’s true. It wasn’t him.” (Maid)

The maid said as she, too, defended the man.

I asked Primme-chan for a brief update on the situation.

Yuna and the team had successfully met with Primme’s sister, Ronne.

Then, they met Ronne’s partner, Ryan.

Next, Bellung, the Lord, found out that Yuna-chan is Primme-chan’s partner and decides to fight Yuna-chan to get Primme-chan for himself.

While Yuna-chan and Bellung were fighting, the Knight and Maid brought Ryan, who just woke up from a coma in the bas.e.m.e.nt, to here.

And that Ryan stabbed himself with a knife in the chest.

That Lord Bellung went crazy and Ronne fainted.

Ronne was now on Swaying Bear-chan’s back.

Before we started listening to Primme-chan’s story, Blitz had already begun treating the collapsed man named Ryan. While Blitz was treating the man, he noticed various patterns painted on his body.

I think these were the magic circles that Primme-Chan was talking about.

“Blitz, what is his condition…” (Rosa)

Blitz shook his head as he said, “Barely alive, but it’s only a matter of time.”

We recalled the state of the town.

We could not afford to help others right now.

There was also nothing we could do for Ryan.

I looked around me. One person who went with them to the mansion was not here.

“Primme-chan, I don’t see Noa-chan.” (Rosa)

“That’s because…” (Primme)

“Kuh-uh.”

Swaying Bear-chan squealed at Primme-chan.

“I know. Well, Noa is in a safe place, so don’t worry about her.” (Primme)

“Are you sure?” (Rosa)

“Yes, she’s in a safe place.” (Primme)

If she said so, then I would stop worrying about Noa-chan. We must take care of our current problems one at a time.

“For now, let’s get away from here.” (Rosa)

Behind me, two people were fighting.

A gust of wind was blowing. It would be dangerous to stay here.

“Kuh~n.”

Hugging Bear approached and crouched down next to the fallen man.

“You want me to put him on your back?” (Rosa)

“Kuhn.”

It was not a good idea to move Ryan, but that didn’t mean we could just let him lie here like that.

We would never know when Yuna-chan and her opponent might accidentally send their attack magic to our location.

Blitz and I slowly put the man on Hugging Bear’s back, and we left the place where Yuna-chan was fighting.

And then the man dressed as a knight, who had also calmed down, asked us.

“Hey, who are you guys?” (Knight)

“We’re adventurers who came to rescue Primme’s sister.” (Blitz)

Blitz turned to Ronne, who was unconscious on the back of Swaying Bear a.s.sisted by Primme, and the Knight and Maid also turned to look at her.

“Ronne’s sister…. So you guys are taking Ronne-sama with you?” (Knight)

“Yes, we intend to. That’s what we promised Primme.”

“And the smoke at the outskirts of town…” (Knight)

The knight looked out of the mansion.

Blitz and I nodded.

“I’m sorry, but we had to destroy the devices that siphon the inhabitants of their magic power.”

“But some of them were installed in locations that even the knights didn’t know about, so we couldn’t destroy them all.”

If we had destroyed all the devices, we would have been able to stop the man fighting Yuna-chan.

There was another gap in the Guild Master’s information.

The knight wanted to say something, but he shut his mouth tightly.

When the knight did not say anything, Blitz turned his attention to the fight between Yuna-chan and Lord Bellung.

The battle between the two was so fast-moving and their magic attacks were so fierce that there was no room for intervention. If we entered their battle, we would be in Yuna-chan’s way.

Blitz was watching their battle with a suspicious look on his face.

“What’s wrong?” (Rosa)

“There is something wrong about the way Yuna-chan is fighting.” (Blitz)

I watched Yuna-chan’s fight, but I couldn’t figure out what was wrong.

But Blitz, standing beside me, said, “She’s doing it again…”

“What do you mean she’s doing it again?” (Rosa)

“There are a few times when Yuna intentionally slows down even though she clearly had an opening to attack.” (Blitz)

I soon understood after Blitz pointed it out.

It was true that Yuna was hesitating when it was time to attack.

But Yuna-chan and Bellung were moving so fast that it was difficult to tell without being aware.

“I see…” (Blitz)

Blitz looked convinced.

“Did you figure something out?” (Rosa)

“I’m sure Rosa has experienced this before… the first time you killed someone…” (Blitz)

Blitz’s words made sense to me.

The first time I killed someone was when I went out to gain some experience adventuring.

At that time, I was escorting a merchant.

The transportation routes between towns were basically safe. Because of the various people who routinely use the route, monsters have been exterminated, but this does not mean monsters will never appear.

Merchants typically hired adventurers as escorts to ensure their safety.

I, too, thought it was an easy job until that time.

I was not attacked by monsters but by bandits.

I was noticed because I was a female adventurer.

I fought the attacking bandits with all my might. And for the first time, I killed a person. The bandit was in agony as my fire magic burned his body. Finally, he died crying, “It hurts”.

It was the first time I killed someone.

He was a bandit.

If I did not kill him, I would have been the one who was killed instead.

For a while after that, I couldn’t eat, and the man with the burnt face kept haunting me in my dreams.

“It had been a while since I remembered that.” (Rosa)

Now, I could better handle my emotions.

I have no mercy for those who want to kill me.

If I become hesitant, not only myself but also my friends would be in danger. I would betray the trust of those who asked me to protect them.

A senior adventurer told me that if I was hesitant, I would end up dead. And he informed me that if I didn’t want to die, I should be prepared to kill.

They asked me not to think about those I killed, but to look at the faces of those I protected at the time.

The people I saved and the people I protected thanked me.

Their words of grat.i.tude and smiles saved me.

“If one continues to be an adventurer, one day they will definitely run into such a situation.”

“That’s true. But Yuna-chan is still a child, right?”

A girl dressed as a cute bear.

A strong, young girl, despite her appearance.

A girl who could defeat strong monsters single-handedly.

Stronger than me and Blitz.

But she was a 15-year-old girl.

When I was 15, I was learning magic, and that was when I defeated a wolf for the first time.

I still remember the fear I felt then.

“Then it’s the role of a senior adventurer to help her, right?”

“Yes, if there is a senior adventurer close by who can take over for her, they should.”

Blitz and I walked over to where the two of them were fighting.

*Yuna’s PoV*

The bear’s wind magic hit Bellung, who blocked it with a similar wind magic. I expected him to block it. While he was distracted by the magic, I turned around and kicked Bellung in the face.

Bellung was knocked down.

If I release the bear magic directly…

A moment’s hesitation delayed my action.

Bellung immediately got up and attacked.

No matter how much I hit or kicked him, he never lost consciousness. An average human would have been finished off with a single blow of my attacks.

I thought I would have to break his arms and legs to stop him, but his magic power reinforced him, and it was as if I were punching a lump of rubber.

I created a tornado around Bellung.

Bellung’s body was shredded by the tornado, sending blood everywhere.

To counter my attack, Bellung’s magic power acc.u.mulated once more, creating a powerful wind around him, erasing my tornado.

Furthermore, the wounds on his body healed.

A half-hearted attack forced Bellung to use his magic power, causing Ronne to suffer. The citizens of this town also continued to be drained of their magic power as well.

I decided not to think about it.

I punched and kicked Bellung, sending him flying backwards. I released the bear’s wind magic at the right moment.

Bellung’s right arm, which was holding the sword, flew off with a spray of blood.

For the first time, I cut a person’s arm. My heart was shaken.

But Bellung never stopped. He extended his other arm and produced a whirlpool of flame.

I blew away Bellung’s flames with wind magic and clenched my mithril knife. Then I started running towards Bellung, and went around him from a blind spot where his arm was missing.

I gripped the mithril knife tightly and thrust it toward Bellung’s chest.

Plunging this knife into his heart would end it.

However, before I extended my arm to stab the knife into Bellung’s body, a sword came out from Bellung’s chest.

The magic stone in Bellung’s chest broke, and he coughed up blood.

“…Blitz?” (Yuna)

It was Blitz who stabbed the sword through Bellung’s back.

“Yuna, I’m sorry. For taking the best part…” (Blitz)

Blitz’s words made me understand why he did so.

Bellung fell to the ground after being stabbed in the chest with the sword.

When I looked around, I saw that Rosa-san was also present.

I didn’t even notice that Blitz and Rosa-san were there.

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