Chapter 75 – The Nightmare Hides His Goodness #4

“It must be in the theater after all.”

As time passed, the doubt gradually turned to certainty. The magic hand that climbed endlessly up the stairs never left the building.
Even if there were cases where I took the wrong direction and hit the wall, the magic hand went straight up the building without fail.

“This is the end? There’s nowhere else to go up.”

The magic hand finally arrived on the 4th floor of the theater building.
It was a place that could be called the top of a large theater.
Looking around, Rebecca just had a puzzled look on her face.

“I looked around here earlier. The dressing room was right downstairs.”
“There may be places we haven’t been to.”
“Is it?”

The magic hand flew leisurely towards the end of the 4th floor corridor. The room Rebecca arrived at at the end of the hallway was a large storage room. A place where large iron shelves are tightly lined up, obstructing the view. The shelves were lined with props used for performances.
The magic hand that kept flying forward through the passage of the warehouse.

At some point, it stopped in mid-air.
Then, as if he had lost his strength, he fell helplessly to the floor.

Took.
The fact that the magic hand has fallen to the ground means that the owner is nearby. In other words, there is a wizard in this warehouse who needs to retrieve the magic hand.
However, I couldn’t help but be perplexed as I looked around the warehouse of the theater.
Rebecca whispered to me in a low voice.

“I can’t see anything. I can’t see anything like people!”

The iron shelf was blocking the view, but it was possible to look across the gap. However, no matter how much I stood still and looked around, I couldn’t see a trace of people. The pure white mask that Michelle said is nowhere to be found.

‘How did this happen?’

Was what I read in the magic book wrong?
Didn’t the Mage Hand automatically track its owner?

“…”

I took a deep breath and looked around the warehouse again slowly. While walking silently, I changed my position and saw all the sculptures in the warehouse with my own eyes.

A large warehouse lined with large steel shelves.
But shelves aren’t everything in a warehouse. Dolls and the like were piled up on the window side, and there were about ten cabinets lined up along the wall. I can’t see anything hidden between the gaps between the dolls.
Then, the only suspicious thing in this warehouse was the cabinet.

I pointed my finger at Rebecca’s cabinet so she could see it. I wanted to explain in words, but I couldn’t. My voice could be heard by the masked assailant. Fortunately, Rebecca seemed to understand what I meant by pointing.
Rebecca opened her lips and made words out of the shape of her mouth.

It’s a chance-!
I got what she was trying to say. If the masked stalker was hiding in the cabinet now, he was undoubtedly defenseless. In that cramped space, people had to stretch their bodies to hide. This means that it is impossible to hold a weapon in one’s hand or to make a sign with both hands.

If you find the stalker hiding in the cabinet.
If you open the door immediately and stab it with a knife, you’re done!
The right to go first belonged to the two of us who had drawn long swords and curved swords in advance. I exchanged glances with Rebecca and walked towards the wall. Looking through the cracks in the cabinet, I walked forward without a sound.

A total of ten cabinets line the walls.
It was easy to check the contents inside. There were several slender slits in the door of the cabinet. If you pay close attention, you can quickly find the person hiding.

Swoop-.
I bit my molars as I walked silently. Because every time I took a step forward, my heart was beating like it would explode. It sounded like the sound of a thumping heart could be heard by a stalker hiding in the warehouse. I gripped the hilt of the longsword as tight as my heart raced.
So that if someone jumped out of the cabinet, I could cut it at any time.

‘Doesn’t exist.’

Reached the third cabinet.

‘It’s not here either.’

Reached the sixth cabinet.

‘It’s over soon.’

And we reached the ninth cabinet.
Of course, no one was in sight.
Eventually, Rebecca and I stopped in front of the tenth and last cabinet, slightly apart.

Only one cabinet left!
If the assailant is hiding, there is no other place to hide. I held my breath and raised my longsword.
A small teddy bear piled up by the window looked at me with ominous eyes. It’s scary, but it’s something you can’t back down from. Because now was the only chance to kill the stalker in one blow.

Shuk-.
The moment Rebecca gave the signal with her chin!
I jumped forward and pulled on the cabinet door. I opened the door with a rattling sound and thrust the knife into the dark crack. At the same time, Rebecca’s curved sword drew a vertical line in the dark interior.

Fu-wook-!!

“…!”

The feeling that something had been stabbed passed through my hand. However, the moment the light streaming in from the window illuminated the inside of the cabinet, I couldn’t help but open my eyes wide. Because what I stabbed was not a person, but a doll.
The only thing in the cabinet was the dolls.
They were puppets that had been stabbed and cut into pieces.

“Doesn’t exist.”
“Weren’t you hiding in a warehouse?”

It was the moment when Rebecca and I opened our mouths at the same time.
Just then, a voice rang from behind.
I opened my eyes wide and turned my head to the back.

The sound came from the dolls by the window!
A large teddy bear buried among the piles of dolls!
The huge teddy bear exploded with a roar like a balloon bursting.
The piles of cotton inside were splattered in all directions. The moment the teddy bear exploded, a person jumped out of it. I couldn’t help but stare at the person with a shocked expression.

The white mask covering his face!
A man wearing a trench coat on a large body!
It must have been the stalker Michelle was talking about!

“————!!!”

The masked man shouted at me and Rebecca. Rebecca, who had responded to his provocation, set her sword and charged forward.

“Oh no! Stop it!”
“Wh-what are you talking about?!”

I tried to stop Rebecca with a quick shout. Because I saw through that this was the trap of the masked man. But Rebecca couldn’t overcome her inertia and charged forward.
Towards the masked man who completed a complicated beast sign with his fingers.

“—Loftrick.”

The moment when a deep voice came out of the pure white mask.
A long rope protruded from the trench coat worn by the masked man. The mask left the rope flying at Rebecca as he stepped backwards. The rope, wriggling like a snake in the air, tied Rebecca in the blink of an eye.

“Rebecca!”
“Ugh!”

As it did, Rebecca rolled on the floor and hit her body against the wall by the window. The fallen curved sword was embedded in the pile of dolls.
Rebecca tried to undo the rope with force, but it was impossible. The more he applied his magic, the stronger the rope bound Rebecca’s body.

‘Do I have to save him?’

I glared at the masked man while holding my longsword. According to the information Michelle had told him, the man with the magic mask was gasping for breath as if he was exhausted. However, the rice cake stand was so large that it was impossible to act recklessly. With a body like that, you’ll be able to display superpowers comparable to mine.

‘Fuck! If you’re that big, you shouldn’t have told me! That’s not a wizard, he’s a warrior who uses magic!’

He said he used magic, so I imagined a foolish wizard.
A rice cake stand wearing a mask came out!
The masked man opened his mouth to face me who was perplexed.
He was giggling every time he spoke, as if he had lost a screw in his head.

“Kick, giggle kick.”
“What are you laughing at?”
“I will kill anyone who gets in the way of my love for Michelle!

Like a stalker, his mental world was not normal. I got goosebumps just by looking at his fashion, which was just like a barbarian.
Could it be that if you open that coat, a sleek naked body will come out?
I didn’t look closely when I was pulling the rope earlier, but I didn’t want to see the boy’s cock!

“Take my magic, lai lai lai lai!”

He gasped for breath while remaining in the mask and began to kiss me. Is he going to use magic again?
But if it goes into a magic showdown, I will definitely win!
Because he was a wizard who only used the basic spell Loftrick once and got tired!

“Okay! Is it a magic showdown?”

I faced the masked man and signed a hand sign. I put a long sword into my side and started drawing out a magic sphere. In terms of casting speed, the magic sphere was faster than the water whip.
However, when I saw myself signing the hand sign, the mask man started screaming.

“A mama mama mama mage! A wandering wizard!!”
“It is.”
“We wandering wizards don’t even engage in magic showdowns!”
“What the fuck are you saying!”

The masked man let out a scream and rushed at me with all his might.
Giving up on making hand signs, he pulled out two daggers from under his coat.
I aimed at my body with the daggers I held in each hand.

“You said to get the magic, you bastard bastard…!!”
“Kehehehehe I’ll let go of the sword instead of the magic!”

The sport has changed from a magic confrontation to a sword fight!
I had no choice but to pull out the longsword that had been stabbed in my armpit. I gave up the beastman and swung my longsword at the masked man. It was because my body was about to be torn apart before I could pull out the magic sphere.

“This, you cowardly bastard.”
“Put that hand out here!”

The masked man cowardly aimed at my hand. For wizards, it is a hand that is no different from life.
He seemed crazy at the thought of making me crippled.
Swinging a longsword, he kept the masked man in check.
However, every time I swung the sword, I couldn’t help but be locked in doubt.

‘Wizards are fighting, why are they slicing each other?’

This is a duel between wandering wizards?!
I can’t find a flashy magic showdown even after washing my eyes!
However, whether it’s a magic confrontation or whatever, you have to take care of your life first. As I stepped back, I brandished my longsword menacingly. It is an unchanging truth that a weapon with a longer reach is more advantageous in battle. The speed of the masked man, who was launching an offensive, was slowly decreasing.

‘Is it worth trying?’

Although I was briefly frightened by the terrifying appearance.
When I bumped into it myself, it wasn’t to the level that overwhelms me. This masked man’s rice cake stand was amazing, but I, who has the body of the golden sun, was also not pushed back if it was my strength. At one point, I was moving forward little by little while swinging my longsword. The masked man screamed and stepped back. I, who had been on the defensive, took the offensive before I knew it.

“Damn that longsword.”
“Carry a rather big weapon, you bastard!!”

However, it is not possible to land a decisive blow even if you move forward. Because I had never properly learned swordsmanship, my movements were somewhat clumsy. The masked man manages to dodge the sword’s trail with his agility, which is unmatched.
It seemed like it would take a trick to defeat this masked man.
A trick to defeat the wandering wizard!

‘Right. That would be great!’

I chanted an incantation at the masked man in front of me.

“Fireball—.”

I roughly shouted out a magic I had never learned. At that moment, he opened his eyes wide and looked at my hand. Both hands that created something resembling a beastman while holding a longsword.

“F-Fireball?! How can you cast such a high-level spell?”

A gap quickly appeared.
I never thought it would be so easy to fish!

I cut down the stopped masked man with my longsword.
A blood line was drawn on his chest and his blood gushed out.
The eyes that could be seen through the pure white tumbleweed suddenly trembled.

“Quaaaaah”

A masked man rolling on the floor while letting out a scream!
As if he had no resistance to the pain, he rolled on the floor with the masked dagger dropped. It felt like a pretty deep cut, so it must have been a fatal blow.

“Aaaaah, you cheated!!”

The masked man glared at me with hateful eyes.
However, I didn’t feel particularly stung when I was stared at.

Like I said, I was thinking of using Fireball.
It was a magic I had never learned, but I could use it now.

“——Beware of the Fireball!”

I raised my clenched fist.
I hit the gap between the crotch of the masked man with all my might.
A loud sound echoed through the trench coat.

The sound of a fireball exploding