I’m already using it while we were moving, but I used the paladin’s defense skill again on Lydia, Bridget, Yuri, and Nazuna.
…… Unfortunately, because of the sheer number of people here, I can’t use my defensive skills on all of them, so I have to make my own decisions about who to use them on.
“Fufu. There’s definitely something out there, but you don’t need to worry about it. I’ll just blow and use my flame ……”
“No, if you do that, we’ll have no place to sleep tonight.”
“…… That would be a problem.”
Valerié was moving forward alone, but she came back sadly at my words.
Well, I guess Sakura and the others are better suited to fighting in a place like this.
“Alex, it’s that house. There’s something in there.”
“Is it?”
“Yeah. The bear-eared tribe have a good sense of smell, after all.”
Bridget, as well as the other girls of the bear-eared tribe, points at the house at the end of the five houses, so I’m sure it was the right house, so I approached it and lit up the inside with my holy magic.
Immediately after that…
“[Backstab]!”
Something touched my neck.
“Hmm? What is it?”
“What!? …… I-It was my knife that broke!? I was aiming for the unprotected part, though!”
“Mister! Kuh …… I can’t believe I allowed this to happen in front of me! No matter how much of a surprise skill it is, I’m disappointed …… I won’t forgive you.”
Apparently, using some kind of skill, someone moved in behind me and cut me.
But now we have this large group of people.
It seems I was saved by a skill I acquired from Julie, a Lord Knight, which says that the more people I’m protecting, the higher my defensive power will be.
On the other hand…
“[Clone Technique]”
“What!? That woman increased!? And she’s fast!”
Kasumi using her clone technique skill is …… amazing. So she can make five clones …… wait, this is not the time to watch!
The main body and the clones each move separately, some knocking off the weapon that cut me down, some twisting her arms, some tying her up with some kind of rope, whether she took it out of somewhere or created it with some skill, and some constantly holding a dagger to her throat …… All of them were done with great speed, and made her helpless instantly.
But that aside, because even her clothes are cut down…
“Wait a minute! Kasumi, you have to stop there.”
“…… I guess you escaped death.”
A woman with big ears, bound in the most complicated way I’ve ever seen, her breasts emphasized and unable to move, hangs from the roof.
No, how did she do this in that one moment?
“Oh, it’s been a while since I’ve seen Mother get serious.”
“Yes. Instant Persecution Hanging – Extreme …… I don’t know how long it would take me to hang her in the air in that tortoise shell bondage ……”
“Big Sister Sakura and Big Sister Tsubaki. What on earth happened? I couldn’t follow Mom’s movement at all!”
Since it was at a level that surprised Sakura and the others, it must have been a great technique.
I can barely follow it with my eyes, and I might not be able to evade it if it was set on me.
“I didn’t think she had much magic power, but she could do something like that …… Actually, does Ms. Kasumi have magic power stored in her chest!?”
“Ummm. She may not be as powerful as I am in magic power, but she has great speed. If she could create five clones, she could monopolize Alex all to herself.”
“Hanging in mid-air, huh …… Come to think of it, the angels also did it with Alex while hanging in mid-air. Hmmm …… It might be good to think about whether it’s possible to apply the barrier and make it feel like it’s floating in the air.”
No, Lydia, Valerie, and Mio, what are you guys in the high magic group saying?
“H-Hey! Put me down! I mean, you stripped me naked and hung me up …… You also gave me something to drink! What the hell did you make me drink!?”
“You tried to kill my Master, didn’t you!? You must pay for that, of course.”
“D-Don’t tell me, poison ……”
“Yes. This Instant Persecution Hanging – Extreme is a torture technique. I wonder how much you can take?”
Kasumi not only hanged her, but also poisoned her, huh.
I didn’t see that either.
“Kasumi. I’m safe, so you don’t have to take her life ……”
“It’s fine. I’m not going to take her life …… I don’t know if this one can endure it or not, though.”
“…… What did you give him to drink, by the way?”
“An aphrodisiac. The Shinobi’s special potion ……”
The Shinobi’s aphrodisiac, it’s that, right? The one that Tsubaki’s doll, Tsuki used on Kate that will make her go crazy and die if I don’t pour that to her.
Moreover, if I use my medium-level antidote magic, it will work in the opposite direction.
Sakura and Tsubaki look happy, as if they already knew what I was thinking …… As I thought, is it going to end up to that!?
(T/N: I guess they fixed the poison magic they mentioned that Alex used before, which is the [Cure Poison] at v8c246, into Antidote magic.)