The carriage that Isagi and the sibling rode was stuck due to a fallen tree that blocked the way.
Also, the carriage canât move backward because of itâs shape and it will need several people if they really want to move it.
Next problem, the coachman had little to none battle power.
Well, it seems that he had a qualification as an E ranked adventurer, but it was all thanks to the achievement that he got from transport quest.
Then the <Stardom> duo.
The big sister, Amalia was collapsed on the ground with her eyes spinning.
The little brother also couldnât move since he had to protect his big sister.
To think that they became this disordered at such crucial moment made Isagi wonder how could they even able to reach B rank.
Well then
They were being surrounded from all sided.
Isagi stroked his chin as he thought.
How âfarâ should I do it?
Isagi didnât want to do something auspicious when they are people seeing.
Thought, it wasnât really problem since they would part in the end.
So Isagi decided that he will did it like he always do.
âEveryone!â
Isagi shouted toward the presence inside the forest.
âI know that you are aiming for precious things by attacking express carriage, but itâs pointless!
The one who ride this carriage isnât a noble! We are an adventurers! If you tried to attack us, give up now before you turn into corps!â
As if to show that he didnât just bluffing Isagi started to construct spell code.
Suddenly a fireball burst out on the top of his head, creating many spark that then fall fluttering to the ground.
It was a firework magic that Shirbenia showed to him before.
Isagi glad that he practiced this magic in secret.
He able to perfectly created that magic in an instant.
Though there would be no other chance to use this magic other than in time like this.
Isagi waited for their respond.
Suddenly, he could heard a sound of something flung toward him.
It was sound of a crossbow, and itâs aim wasnât Isagi.
The bolt was aimed at the horse.
Their enemy planned to remove their ability to run away.
It is a good step to take in battle, but because of that, it become the obvious thing to do.
âSentinel!â
Isagi cast white magic that he already prepared in advance.
A barrier appeared protecting the horse and repelling the bolt leaving the horse uninjured.
Isagi once again shouted.
âIâll say it again! Drop all of your weapon and leave this place!
Listen to me, or else, you guys will turn into corpses!
If possible, I donât want to kill any of you! Go away!â
His shout reverberates inside the forest even made leaves on the tree shakes.
All of the race in Arbarisus share a same language. Figures there will be a bit of difference between them but it isnât something so big that they wouldnât be able to understand each other.
The siblings looked at Isagi who stood above them with surprised face.
Sometimes, they couldnât really understood what he actually thinking as long as they know him, but at this moment they felt like they could saw how he actually is.
Then rain of arrows descend upon Isagi despite of his warning.
All of them were aimed at Isagi who was a magician and approaching him like it was being drawn by his body.
The <Stardom> sibling were the only one capable seeing Isagiâs action in that place.
âFoolish peopleâ
Isagi mutter so cursing at them.
There were seventeen arrows held between his fingers.
Seventeen arrows, meaning that at least there were at least be seventeen people attacking them.
âDonât waste your life again on your next lifeâ
Isagi bend his body and swing his hand like a whip throwing the arrows back toward where it came.
The seventeen arrows thrown back toward the exact position they came from, pierced the seventeen people on their neck.
Suddenly, people with swords on their hand jumped out from inside the forest.
With an appearance that looked like an imp, they werenât human race but actually Goblin race.
Pitiful people who already lost their home.
Their race canât survive anymore unless they becoming a highway bandit like this.
Isagi did felt pity toward them, but thatâs all.
There were thirty or so swordmen.
Looking at them from top of the carriage, Isagi put his hand on the hilt of his sword before changing his mind.
â⊠Wait, let use thisâ
Without changing his position, Isagi started to construct code into magic world.
What he wrote was a black magic that he kept practicing on the way of his journey.
If, this attack is useless against these people then it will have no use in real battle.
In an instant Isagi finished his code.
Wide range without much power.
He made it so just one sword needed for killing one person.
âForce Blizzard!â
Isagi shouted and the magic world reacted.
Along with crackling sound, appeared a thirty small sword made from ice from thin air.
One by one of those sword fell into the ground due to the gravity.
Isagi pull out those sword and use them as a throwing knife.
As long as he could made it appear, Isagi doesnât need to make the spell anymore complex, like made it flew off automatically toward itâs target.
Isagi would do the rest by himself.
Thought it would be dubious whether he could actually call this technique as magic or not.
Almost all of the knife that Isagi threw able to precisely pierced the heart of those goblin, except one sword that broken into pieces midway because it didnât able to withstand the speed that Isagi use to throw those knife.
Without even realizing that all of itâs ally had already died, the last surviving goblin didnât stop on its rush and aiming the <Stardom> sibling.
Both of them werenât able to reach in time because they got too focused at Isagiâs performance. When they tried to draw their sword in panic the goblin already reached itâs attack range.
The goblin raised itâs rusty saber while shouting.
But nothing actually came out from its mouth as Isagi suddenly stood in front of the sibling cutting the goblinâs head into two clean cut.
They didnât able to understand what was just happened.
Everything felt like an illusion.
They couldnât see any trace of blood on his sword as he return his sword into his scabbard. The man with black eyepatch they had known as Isagi turned his back and said.
âSorry, is there any of you that got hurt?â
The sibling become speechless, nothing could come out from their mouth.
âWell, anyway⊠letâs gather the corps and quickly remove that log from the road.
No matter how many times I did this, I never able to get used to it, ehâŠâ
His word didnât able to enter their ears.
Only his amazing skill burned into the back of their eyes.
Amalia said, he look like a hero that came out in legend.
And since that day, the siblingâs attitude toward Isagi changed.
Since he already guess that the things would turned like this somehow, he already gave up on the thought that their attitude would change.
But, he imagined that they would get scared of him and distance themselves from him. The reality was just a little different from what he had imagined.
Amalia now look at him with look of respect and Franz completely acting over-familiar with Isagi. He kept trying to help Isagi with something even though he wasnât asked to.
The sibling impression on him seems to had increased since they saw how strong Isagi is.
This was the thing that Isagi couldnât imagine to actually happen.
In the past, Isagi were feared in Arbarisus because of the extraordinary strength that he posses.
Once again Isagi felt the difference between the twenty years gap he was gone.
Now thanks to the adventurers, the strong are respected instead of feared.
Then.
âUmm, Isa-kun, will you go out with me for a bit?â
Isagi was sorting his bag in the inn when Amalia called him.
It was early in the morning and they still had plenty of spare time before they continue their journey.
She seems to be uncomfortable with what she is about to do as her eyes swims around unlike how she usually is.
Probably it was something that is hard to talk with.
Isagi suddenly felt a wave of Deja vu.
He felt like similar thing also happened in the past, though the opponent was male at that time.
âSorry, I already have someone I hold dearâ
âHahâŠ?â
Amalia made a confused face before shakes her head.
âI donât know what are you just mean⊠but I just wanted to ask you out for sparring, thatâs all. You seems quite strong after all, Isa-kunâ
âHahahaâŠâ
He couldnât deny that.
And he knew that Amalia is a girl with a strong ambition.
â⊠Also, I showed my embarrassing side to Isa-kun, tooâ
âThat time when you canât do anything against the bandit, ehâ
â⊠Yeah.
Though excuse isnât what an adventurer suppose to do, but I will say it so just you know⊠I am capable of instantly killing enemy of that caliber if I was in my perfect condition, understand? Then, umm, I want to prove that by sparring with you!â
âI never doubt your skill you knowâ
Isagi shrugged his shoulder.
He could guess at least how strong other person is just by looking at their mannerism.
âUuhâŠ!â
Amalia groaned as her side tail sway.
It looks like she really didnât like the idea that she didnât able to do anything at that time.
Now that he thought about it, everyone just had tired expression on their face twenty years ago. But it seems things were different now. Itâs felt kinda strange.
âHey, Amalia.
I wonder, why are you wanted to become strong that bad?â
âEh?â
âFor a B class adventurer, meaning that youâre already quite amazing on your own right? You also should have a pretty convenient life with that. But why are you still choosing such dangerous path?â
â⊠Do I have to answer that question?â
âNo, I just want to ask, you donât need to answer thatâ
Amalia played with her red hair for a moment before she readied herself and looked at Isagi.
âI will say it just because it you who ask me, okay?â
âI am honouredâ
â⊠No one who know about this except meâ
Amalia held her broadsword, folding her arms.
âI have a dream.
First, I have to become strong enough to win against that guy.
Then what come next is to becoming number one adventurerâ
âHeh.. Rivalry and dream, huh. From the way you said it, that person is quite strong, right?â
âOf course. Even he is stronger than Isa-kun, you knowâ
That was what Amalia said even though she already saw Isagi sword skill from up close, then that certain personâs skill should be amazing.
It would be a lie now to say that it didnât spark Isagi interest about that person.
âHmm. So, that person is staying at Dynacity right now?
âYeah, well, it seems that he is on his dead bed thoughâŠâ
âEh?â
âThat person selfishly distancing themselves with us, and now that person ended up lying on their deathbed like that. I just couldnât understand. When we meet, the first thing I would do is to smack sanity back into that personâs headâŠâ
âDonât treat sick person too rough, okay?â
âThat is just some figurative speech, figurative speechâ
âI wonder with thatâŠâ
They could smell a freshly baked bread as they walked through the dining hall after coming down to the first floor.
They bowed to the attendant lady that was busily working before heading outside.
âCome to think of it, you said about something the first time we met, right?â
âHmm?â
âYou said that Mister Last Resort is dead.
You made really sad expression on your face when you said that⊠I wonder if you went to Dynacity for the sake of that person?â
â⊠That, is quite difficult questionâ
âEh?â
âIndeed, I could say that my battle is also the requiem of Miter Last Resort. But, I have consider more, the reason why he have to born into this world. Mister Last Resort is a person who will grant everyoneâs wish, and I want to create a world where he can sleep in peace.â
âUmm⊠Isa-kun, your ability to hold daily conversation isâŠâ
âI can do it properlyâ
âIsa-kun, youâre quite, umm, weird, yeahâ
ââŠâ
If she said it directly to his face like that, he couldnât said anything back in protest.
Amalia really could frankly said what she had in her mind.
Isagi wondered if he was weird.
Perhaps that was true.
⊠Even though he just answered her question honestly
They were talking while walked toward the back of the inn.
Amalia took off her mantle.
She wore a simple t-shirt with a long skirt with slit on the side below that.
Her usual dignified swordswoman look.
Facing each other, they took slight distance against each other.
âBefore we begin, please guide me wellâ
Amalia politely bowed her head.
Being told so didnât really felt that bad, Isagi thought.
He scratch his head.
âWell, attack when you are readyâ
Isagi draw his sword, holding it on his hand as he readies himself.
This was the first time in his life that he had a practice with someone who is younger than him.
Isagi himself, felt a bit nervous actually.
âI comeâ
Amalia dashed in a really low posture that its looks like her body was grazing the ground.
When a swordsman with a small stature like her â though for a girl her age, her height is kinda standart â coming attacking with this kind of stance, it will be hard for her opponent to read the trajectory of her attack.
Amelia come dashed toward him as if sliding on the ground.
âHaah!â
Amaliaâs sharp glance pierce Isagi.
Suddenly a memory flashed on Isagiâs brain.
Her overlapped with a shadow of a person that he knew.
The way she uses her sword wasnât the standardized sword school in the continent.
Itâs a sword technique named Evil sword that was used by a certain mercenary.
A skill that specializes in killing and not just to ward of your enemy.
It is came from the same sword school as Isagi.
Inside his head, Isagi could heard a shout of a man.
âHeh, so you bastard is the hero that theyâve said in rumour?
Show me what youâre capable off to the great me!â
Isagi instinctively moved his body.
He doesnât have to defend himself against the ever changing sword trajectory Amelia would use.
He just needed to attack faster, to cut her body into two.
Pressing his feet on the ground, raising his sword up high, he swung down the sword with all of his might.
A light flashed.
ââ!â
âukh!â
He then realized what he was about to do.
His sword stopped just right in front of her eyes.
If he put a little bit more power into his swing, then probably Amaliaâs face will be slashed in half by now.
Receiving the full power of Isagiâs bloodthirst from up close, Amalia crumbled to the ground.
Her face was deadly pale.
Darn it, Isagi though.
âOi, oi, are you okay⊠probably not, huhâ
Amalia dropped her gaze to the ground with unstable gaze.
She didnât give any reaction when Isagi wave his hand on the front of her face.
More than that.
â⊠Ah, Iâve done something I mustnât do to a young girl⊠Iâve done itâŠâ
He covered his eyes with his hand.
Her skirt started to get wet as she keep sitting listlessly on the ground.
The liquid that came from between her legs started to moisten the ground, and her underwear gradually change its colour.
Isagi groaned.
â⊠What should I doâŠâ
Of course he couldnât just leave her in this state here.
He realized again that he had done something bad.
Fortunately, she still unconscious.
He would have enough time to strip her naked, clean her clothes with black magic, then creating hot wind with magic and use it to dry the clothes. He can even destroy the evidence.
Then Isagi shakes his own head because of his own thought.
â⊠No way I can do itâ
He felt that there were some people who curse him because of chickening out, prolly just his imagination.
The two word, âTake responsibilityâ that Rimino showed to him on her blackboard back then weighting on his mind.
Isagi decided to call the people from the inn and then bring her to the bath.
Thatâs good, thatâs the best choice.
Isagi took a side glance at her.
He could saw her beautiful white thigh thatâs peeking out between the slit of her skirt.
Amalia indeed is beautiful.
Normally, a guy would harbour some carnal desire toward her when they saw her appearance right now.
But suddenly Isagi could saw the appearance of the person who he lovesâ overlapping with Amalia.
â âŠPleaâ
Isagi unconsciously put his hand over his mouth.
Recently, Plea image just appeared whenever he had a moment where he started to held some desire against another woman.
Isagi thought that itâs probably some kind of sickness by its own.
Isagi shakes his head, and then heading toward the inn.
âPlea, this is not good⊠If I couldnât find you sooner I probably reach enlightenment soonâŠâ
He felt like a certain part of his body would lost its function if itâs keep being unused.
With a thought that wasnât impossible entirely, Isagi started to shiver in fear.
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Isagi : Easily winning against many. His reason to fight was his requiem toward mister last resort, finally this fact is made clear. The happiest thing that he felt recently is meeting Plea in his dream.
Amalia : Red haired swordsman. 15 years old. SPD is more than 100. Using Devil Sword technique that Isagi is very familiar with. âI canât show you this part of meâ second time.
Franz : Draw his sword to protect his big sister, but changed into âBig bro, amazing! Cool!â the moment he saw Isagi in act.