Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
“This is different from what they said… Bastard, why can you still use your magic?”
“Why do you think I’ll answer you?”
I bluntly ignored the man’s doubts.
As soon as the guy realized I was mocking him, his face turned ugly and he threw the knives in his hand.
Attacks against me were meaningless, but there was something strange. With doubts, I took a closer look and was startled.
Extremely fine, almost invisible threads were tied to the handle of the knives.
They weren’t after me, they were after the shadows.
“Dodge!”
The knives suddenly changed course and pierced the shadow’s flesh.
Laced heavily with magic, the attack did not stop there; it slammed the shadow’s body against the wall and nailed him there.
“Ggh–”
“Shadow!”
“There’s no need to worry about me.”
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“Rb…, sbe…!”
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“C wbwfca bo tfrlajalbc kbeiv bcis ifjv ab beg vfjatr.”
“Ktja—!
P xcfk……..
P jirb xcfk atja!
Still, I clung to the idea there was something I could do about it.
If it was Jill, would he be able to save them? As these meaningless thoughts came and went, and the glittering silver threads swayed in my eyes—
A person who should not have been here, appeared. Our faces went pale as we were shocked into silence.
“Lilius! Are you all right?”
“Andrea……?!”
“Young master! You should not have come here!”
“—! Why are you…. Bel?! Is it you guys?! Did you hurt Bel and Lilius and the others?!”
Andrea stood across the rubble, his small body shaking with anger.
Then in a fluid motion, he pulled his left leg back and lowered his body, and put a hand on his sword while chanting a spell imperiously.
“Cut down, Dragon Thunder Flame—!”
At that moment.
Crimson flames and golden lightning wrapped around Andrea, and he kicked off the ground. With a speed too fast to follow without magic, he sped towards the men like a bullet, aiming at their necks.
When did he draw his sword? Gripped in that tiny right hand of his, was a disproportionately large sword.
Such a young child chose to fight—to take away the lives of these men.
As this reality was presented before me, everything went silent, as if the world itself had stilled.
……I closed my eyes and protected the men from Andrea’s attack.
“……”
“Lilius?! Why are you protecting these scumbags!”
How many more? How many more people did I have to keep apologizing to?
“Sorry.”
It had been so noisy before, but now my heartbeat did not show the slightest tumult.
Slowly, I opened my eyes.
And then,
“—Sleep.”
Severing the threads entangling them, I pierced the men with thorns of ice.
Update 1/2
OH MY GOD!!!??? As if the situation is not dire enough, Andrea had to come… Ahhhh… thank you for the double update… 💖😭💖