Chapter 48.4 : A Real Game of Tag Starting From Six

When the leader-like man retreated without worrying about his reputation, the close combat job holders who use swords and spears replaced him and attacked me with their weapon.

But such insignificant attacks are of no threat to me. Though each one of their movements are polished overall with arts, their pre-motion and post-motion leave them wide open. Though arts might be effective against monsters, such crude, telegraphed movements are just telling me when and how to do punch them. Moreover, they were wide open after their arts were finished. I know what I have to do.
I dodged their attack, and cut them to pieces. I’m using strikes, sometimes kicks, and throwing technique when I get the chance to do so. Thus, I’m dancing in the forest with those eight idiots.

Around one minutes after I started dancing with those fools I thought about using another method.

By chance none of my enemies died yet. Or rather, I’m going to let them think that I really am a monster that won’t kill them. But then, my revenge will become quite boring as long as they don’t regret what they did today.

Thus I decided to sc.r.a.pe their HP bar until barely any of it remained and send the HP bar of the guys that recovered to red zone again.

「W-What the h.e.l.l is this guys……… T-This……….. isn’t he just toying with us without killing us?! 」

One person noticed my intention and then stepped back from the fighting scene.

「D-Don’t toy with us, are you going to kill us or not?!」

「Like h.e.l.l I’m gonna let myself be toyed with by a monster」

「Ah oi, wait a minute, YOU GUYS!　……..d.a.m.n it」

A player left that place followed by another player, and then when the last one left, I open my mouth.

「Well, let’s begin then………… The hunt」

「Ha~h, Haah, haah……… d.a.m.n it, I missed my colleagues I guess……….. Well, I’m safe at this distance right? 」

That person was just raising his dead flag. I replied with coa.r.s.e voice to make that flag real.

「――WHEEERE IS THE BAD CHIIIILD」

「AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH」

I intentionally drove them apart from each other to drive their body and mind―― Mainly their mind ―― in a corner and chase them inside the dark forest.

Well, it might be enough for these guys. Next is the guy who ran over there huh?

「――WHEEERE IS THE BAD CHIIIILD」

「IKYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA」

Next.

「――WHEEERE IS THE BAD CHIIIILD」

「OOGYAAAAAAAAAAAA」

Are you a baby?. Well they shouldn’t be able to shake off my pursuit inside this forest. Let’s get going then.

To this day, the incident that happened in that forest is still causing a tumult and has become a hot topic of the legendary Namahage lurking in the Nagasaki forest but…………. Well it’s none my business.