“after… eww….”
“it’s okay? Are you out of your mind?” “… Letty?”
Kaius opened his eyes with difficulty. I felt a bitter taste in my mouth. ‘Did you lose your mind for a moment?’
It didn’t seem like he had passed out for a long time because there was still a damp cave around. He rolled his eyes and looked at Leverticia.
Leverticia was again dealing with a wound on his leg. Kaius, who watched her do it, asked in a low, hoarse voice.
“medicinal herbs? Did you go out?”
“yes. I found a way. Thank you for your help.”
“I’m glad. I thought I was in distress here.” “Relief… easy.”
Leverticia muffled her words. But Kaius didn’t notice, and just ruffled his sweat-soaked hair.
“Hey. It tastes bitter in my mouth.”
“Don’t spit. Chew the herbs, yes. It’s not completely, but it will reduce the pain a bit, and even temporarily bring down the fever.”
“after… okay. I think so.” Kaius blinked a few times.
His eyes, which had been blurry from the heat, seemed to be able to see a little better now. The burning pain I felt in my legs was also slightly reduced.
He relaxed his aching body little by little and prepared to move. “I think I can move now. let’s go.”
Staying here injured would only be a burden to Leverticia. Kaius tried to move, but she caught him.
“Wait a minute.” “why?”
“I have something to tell you.”
Leverticia’s face didn’t look good. Kaius was a little nervous at the same time.
He pondered what he had said before he fell hastily. ‘… crazy man.’
And I was overcome with the feeling of wanting to rip my hair out.
It wasn’t enough to tell her all the crappy things, he even brought up the debt that he didn’t want to talk about.
And what, you can’t get a divorce because of debt? You said such a stinkin’ and rubbish thing, did I?
Kaius bit his molars tightly. No matter how much he was drunk and said nonsense, it was a word that lost his affection. Even one hit was acceptable. I don’t want to hit him because he’s a patient.
It was the time when all sorts of thoughts filled his head as if it was about to explode.
“… Couldn’t it be better to just hit one and tell the story that didn’t exist? Or shall I kneel?”
“There are monsters out there… What?” “What?”
*
Although there were some incidents, Leverticia was able to convey the situation outside safely to him.
Upon hearing the story, Kaius nodded with a slightly more relaxed face than before.
“what. It was just that.”
“It’s not just that. I saw at least ten. It was all over the place. Besides, you….”
Leverticia stopped talking and chewed her lips.
Kaius is not in the right state to fight right now. It’s not like you can run away on your own.
Even Leverticia wasn’t in a state where she was fully prepared. In this situation, Kaiers spat out with a very relaxed attitude.
“Leave it.” “What?”
“Leave it. You can run away from them all by yourself.”
“What are you talking about. to leave you here? Does that make sense?”
Leverticia almost grabbed his collar and shook it. There was already a limit inside the cave.
Even if it didn’t, it was showing signs of collapsing, but Leverticia forcibly cleared the rubble and opened the way, and monsters thudded and shook the ground from the outside, so it looked like it would collapse again at any moment.
Kaiers shrugged.
“Then what? As soon as I leave, they smell my blood and they’ll be freaking out. Not one, but ten. I don’t want to be divided into ten pieces and become their appetizers, so waiting here for you to bring the knights is a better
chance of survival.” “….”
“Or what. Can I be the bait for a little while to buy you some time to
escape? Oh, but then there is a possibility that it will be eaten instead of bait….”
“That’s right.”
Leverticia grabbed his hand as if thinking of something.
Kaius, bewildered by the sudden touch, had no choice but to be twice as embarrassed by what she said next.
“You are the bait.”
*
chaos monster.
An unknown creature that suddenly appeared in this world.
It has already been 10 years since it appeared, but people still do not fully understand its identity.
It’s just that they always appear out of nowhere by a warlock, and their weakness is either the head or the heart.
If there was one more thing they learned through several battles, it was that they wanted the blood of living creatures.
“Kreuk… Crumple!” “Kye-eek!”
“Kong! Cuckoo!”
The monsters that were constantly hovering around the cave suddenly spit out loud cries.
They stopped moving randomly and all started moving to a certain place. It smells like human blood.
“Creep! Crumple!”
The monsters were excited and headed towards the smell of blood. The source of the smell was near the cave.
“Kye-aeek!”
All ten monsters gathered in one place. A small crevice leading into the cave.
There, the monsters found a red thing that smelled of blood and shoved their huge body straight into the small gap.
I was desperate to get it out by smashing it down with my claws somehow.
Some gnawed at it with their teeth, and some tried to cut it off with a steel- like beak.
Soon, the red color was torn into several pieces and scattered to the extent that the original shape could not be recognized.
That’s not enough. They bumped into each other and broke the gap. The rubble around the crevice cracked and became a large hole.
At that moment, the cave began to crumble with another rumble.
A few monsters that came near the crevice of the cave following the smell of red blood were buried in the crumbling rubble.
***
“They must love my blood.” “I will.”
As she ran, Leverticia nodded.
She was escaping along the forest path, supporting Kaius.
A loud roar was heard from the side of the cave they had just escaped from. As per the plan, all the monsters were headed there.
‘I’ll use your blood as bait.’
‘I… What I just said was a joke. Are you really going to throw me as food?’
‘What are you talking about? I’m using your blood, not you. You shed a lot yesterday.’
To stop bleeding, Leverticia gathered the hem of his robe that had tied his leg up, rolled it up and placed it near the entrance to the cave.
Then, after soaking the odor-eliminating paste that I had just found in the forest along with a handkerchief, I covered Kaius’ wound.
Fortunately, his wounds had stopped bleeding.
Hoping the monsters could smell the clothes instead of Kaius’ wounds, they fled when the wind blew in reverse.
“How are your legs? Are you okay?” “What. so so.”
As Leverticia moved with him, the speed of his escape was not that fast. However, thanks to the monsters, he was able to escape quite far without hindrance.
It was a moment of reassurance. “Shueeeek!”
I heard a monster cry from behind. “Oh, damn it.”
Kaius chewed his molars.
Either the ones who didn’t get caught, or the ones who turned right after they got caught.
Either way, it didn’t change that the situation was bad for them. “… four. Almost half followed.”
“Where did you get the other half out? Let’s think positively.”
Leverticia leaned Kaiers against a nearby tree. And slowly pulled the sword from the waist.
“You want to fight? with four? Where there is no cover, no knights, no topography?”
The ground was muddy mud. In addition, there were many thorn bushes nearby, so it was not suitable to run away and fight.
Two of them even had wings. It was the worst combination to deal with alone.
“I have to do something.”
However, Leverticia was not intimidated in the slightest. I wasn’t afraid either.
As always, he raised his sword in a detached manner. There was one truth that filled her in every battle.
If I don’t kill the enemy, I die.
It’s not that the strong survive, it’s that those who survive are strong. “Kye-eek!”
It was the two winged birds that attacked first. Rebertisha quickly blew off the neck of the one who flew in first. As it was, he turned the sword and
stabbed the heart of the next person.
Heart and head, only one of the two was the correct answer. The battle continued quite fiercely.
From a distance, Kaius, who had no choice but to watch, smiled in despair.
As a child, it was no different from when I was a child hiding in a carriage waiting for Leverticia to finish the battle with the assassins safely.
Kaiers grabbed the gun with trembling hands and gave up. Leverticia was fighting the monsters too close.
If Leverticia gets hit by that gun… It was over.
“Hey, like a kid from ten years ago or now. It’s still powerless.”
Kaius, who had no choice but to watch the battle, clenched his teeth. I wanted to be of some help.
Meanwhile, Leverticia had killed the second. “ha… ha….”
The damage and fatigue accumulated in the body were considerable. Because she hasn’t been able to rest recently either.
‘But there are only two left.’
Leverticia quickly raised her sword. The flying guy had his heart pierced once. So all that’s left is the head.
In order to attack the one who knew the obvious weakness first, he stepped on a wooden pole and took a big leap. And he swung his sword in the air.
“Keeek!”
The winged monster let out a short scream and fell to the floor. Leverticia also landed with a hook to the floor.
In that moment, goosebumps arose. “Leverticia! back!”
Kaiers exclaimed loudly.
Leverticia clenched her teeth. I felt a monster right behind me.
She rose from her landing position and at the same time swung her sword backwards. It was a posture that would connect naturally and quickly, like water flowing normally.
But compared to usual, his body seemed to drink water slowly. I had that thought while swinging my sword.
‘I’ll be right.’
At the same time as she cuts the monster, she will be scratched somewhere by the monster’s sharp claws.
Whether one arm is blown away or the abdomen is pierced.
I prayed inwardly that only the vital points would be avoided, and I swung my sword.
Whoops!
The body was pierced with a cruel sound. Rebertisha, who swung her sword, couldn’t believe the scene in front of her for a moment.
Before her sword could reach… “Kueeeeeek!”
… A sharp red spear protruded from the shadows beneath her feet and pierced the monster’s heart.
“… This.”
Leverticia was well aware of this red spear. A window of red shadows.
… The slayer of dragons, it was the secret of the Valtale family.
