Chapter 71 – 5. Haruna, a Mother of Two Daughters, a Predator That Preys on a Predator

“Haruna-sama, do your best!!!”

“Crush the nose of a foreigner!”

“You trash man! Where are you creeping in here!”

The square was covered with thunderous shouts along with primary-color accusations. The residents of Tebra Village, located behind Haruna, seemed to be intoxicated and excited by the enthusiasm of cheering.

“Those guys…!”

“Eruka, be patient.”

[Winning Cassano!!!]

Conversely, most of the residents of Hinera Village, which is as quiet as a lie, have to cheer behind Erukawa and Tsuruka-? He says he’s the chief, but he’s a stranger. He’s the chief’s husband. They were busy whispering and sharing small talk. Encouraged by Undine’s cheering in my ear, I looked at Haruna with strength in both legs.

“Whoa… I’m sorry. It seems everyone is excited.”

“I understand. It’s hard to see a festival like this.”

“Huh, is this because the fight between the two of us is like that?”

“If Haruna-sama was defeated, it would be a greater spectacle than the festival in the imperial capital.”

“Hehe… Is that so…?”
While having a nonchalant conversation, I observed Haruna’s movements. With Minerva’s presence in the distance, she breathed out and shook her thoughts to focus on the battle that was about to take place in earnest.

“Whoa…”

I ignored the shouting and the cacophony of voices hitting my ears and turned off the shivering tension, but the trembling in my body did not stop easily. Whoa- The moment he let out another breath, the trembling that he didn’t know whether it was the excitement of the upcoming fight or the tension caused by the spirit of a strong man completely stopped.

Moment- Haruna rushed in, no- flew up.

-Quaaaaagh!

A violent sound shook the plaza, and the moment my posture collapsed as my feet shook, something was shot from the floor. Haruna’s bare feet, which hurriedly stamped her raised arm, bent her outstretched arm and moved forward.

– Pleasant!

He braced herself with her elbows and held her back, then swung them out and knocked her feet off. Haruna landed lightly through the air, and the moment her tadak-feet touched the floor, she jumped up once more.

“Keugh…!”

Even in the sparring with Haruna, the thing I always struggled with was adjusting the pace like now. The key to my victory was how to bring the flow of the fight that Haruna, who had the status of an overwhelming force, could wield as she wanted, so I calmed her impatience and focused on defense.

“Wow…”

“Hoo…”

[Cheer up-!!!]

The plaza filled with shouts gradually became quiet. Haruna’s inaction to show off her overwhelming violence seemed to only see her open-mouthed body.

“Do you have other eyes to sell?”

The moment I looked around for a moment, the terrifying voice in my ears, and Haruna’s sudden attack as he pierced her side with a fist, I allowed her to strike.

– Wow!!!

Even if you hit a punching bag instead of a human body, you wouldn’t make this kind of sound. I was able to hold on because I concentrated on the moment and gave strength to her side. Before retrieving her fist, he grabbed Haruna’s fist by tightening her right arm.

– Kwak…!

Her right arm squeezed Haruna’s arm tightly against her side, and she turned her body around. I grabbed Haruna’s wrist with her left hand and broke it, and I lay down on the floor of her plaza, lost my balance, and slid Haruna on her floor, crushing her and riding on top of her body.

-Teouk!

The moment I climbed on top of Haruna who had fallen on the floor and tried to break her arm, Haruna’s left arm, which had been released, gripped my shoulder. It happened

“Whoa…!”

Haruna, who was lying under me, took a deep breath, then used her recoil to shoot her upper body and pushed me vigorously. Sensing that if she pushed her now, her stance would be reversed and she would be hit as it was, I clenched my teeth, put her weight on it, and crushed Haruna’s arms as they were.

“Turn it off…!”

An unsightly moan leaked from her closed mouth, but she ignored it and pressed Haruna with all her might. Gradually, the power to push her shoulders weakened, and Haruna’s tightly biting lips began to turn white. It’s okay – if you just press down and break it like this –

Suddenly, Haruna’s momentum under me reversed.

“Whoa…!”

In an instant, her whole body felt lighter. She came to her senses with her vision swiveling, and her cloudless sky was clearly in sight. Bewildered, she turned her head and looked around, realizing that all she could see were the feet and legs of her crowd. Something is weird-

“It’s amazing, I almost couldn’t fight back at all.”

– Trudge

The sound of footsteps echoing in the empty plaza. Only then did I realize The strange thing was me, not everyone. Turned over by Haruna’s counterattack, I flew across the plaza and fell on the ground, looking up at everyone.

“I didn’t want to use mana in the duel with you…”

The footsteps stopped and Haruna looked down at me. Standing by her bedside, Haruna smiled bitterly and quietly – so slowly that she could see her, lifted her feet.

The soles of the shoes slowly descending, at first I could see Haruna’s figure, but the moment I closed my eyes at the sky and the crowds covered by the slowly descending soles, the moment I opened them, I turned with all my might to the soles that covered my vision.

-Kooung!

A small trembling vibration ran through his entire body. The moment Haruna, with a shocked look in her eyes, lifted her foot, I also kicked off the floor and flew towards Haruna as if bouncing.

– Wow!

My fist, wrapped in a blue remnant, was pierced into Haruna’s abdomen. Her kick, which somehow twisted her body to avoid it, caught her thigh in the meantime, and her thigh throbbed.

“Shut up…!”

The moment she set her foot on the ground, suppressing the rising pain, she lifted her head and threw her upper body down to Haruna, who was wrapped around her battered abdomen.

– Bahah!

Haruna’s chin was empty, and she put her fist straight up. Even at the moment when her head was bent and her head lifted, I admired Haruna’s jaw strength pushing her fist away, aiming for the moment when her stomach became empty again and inserted her leg.

“Kuheugh…!”

Haruna, who had a precarious smile with her sharp fangs shining, felt the possibility in her eyes that were gradually loosening up, so I smiled and stretched out her fist. Haruna, who took a step back from her and corrected her posture, smiled and lunged at me in the same way.

“Nonsense…!”

“Has this ever happened…?”

[Casano, do your best-!!!]

While listening to the inaudible noises, Haruna and I laughed and engaged in a slugfest. At first, they punched each other’s fists, then more and more they beat her empty upper body, and in the end, they clung to each other while avoiding the fists that couldn’t be properly extended.

-Teouk

“Huh, huh…!”

Suppressing her pain and holding back her moaning, I clung to Haruna. I ignoring her wet uniform and Haruna’s hand pushing me away, I wrapped my arms around Haruna’s neck and relaxed her legs.

“Wow…?!”

It was the same for Haruna who had no strength. With her arms wrapped around her, I strangled Haruna and turned her body around to induce me to fall under Haruna.

“Aww… Like this…!”

– Kwaaaaak!

“Kwaaaaap…!”

He wrapped her arms tightly around her, and with her right arm, he strangled Haruna until the very end. Haruna, who struggled with her and kicked her leg, resisted until the end, scratching her arm that was strangling her neck as she was.

– Side side side side

Tears welled up along with the sound of her nails scratching her flesh, but she held back and tightened her arms. Feeling in her arms, Haruna’s body vibrated and struggled, but somehow she managed to persevere.

-Side side tsuug tsuuhh… Tsuuhuhh… Took.

The sound of scratching skin grew louder and louder. He shook his head in discomfort due to the blurry vision covered by the sweat, but did not relax his arms. The pain and sound of the arm gradually stopped, and the hand that had been scratching the arm until the end drew a long arc before dropping.

“Grrruk… I lost… Everything…”

Haruna’s cracked voice fell in my ears. Did you know you would be careless? I gritted my teeth and strangled her neck, suppressing Haruna. Kwaaaaak- We rubbed our backs on the floor and poured out all our strength, and soon the crowd surrounding us began to wrap around us.

“That…!”

“Uh…! East Sea…!”

“Arm…Lee…Uh…!”

[…Buy…! I… Did…!]

Along with the blurred vision, the high voices piercing my ears sounded like a sweet lullaby. Slowly, with heavy eyelids, my mind completely shut down.

**

Minerva looked down from the sky at the crowds running around the plaza and sighed with a languid smile.

“Haa… I didn’t expect it- To be honest, I don’t think I lost with my skills-“

Minerva skilfully unfolded the parchment she had taken from her bosom, and smiled wryly as she scribbled across the parchment with a feather pen pulled out of the air.

“I have to watch this a little longer- I have to understand Haruna-san’s intentions… Hmm… Lady Cassano’s hard work was amazing, but why did she give up at the end-“

-Goo-gu-gu-gu

Lying on her back in the air, Minerva turned around, startled by the sudden sound of a dove, and turned around again. With his dumb eyes, Minerva, who identified the barrel tied to the feet of the saving country-looking pigeon, stretched out his slender fingers and pulled the barrel out.

“Erylda hmmm- ah- I didn’t hear from her for a while, so my husband- uhm… Aha!”

After reading the letter happily alone, Minerva took the same paper out of her arms and began scribbling it carefully. Leaving behind the dove that nodded her head, Minerva, who had filled two sheets of stationery, put the rolled up stationery into the box and tied it back to the dove.

-Guguk

Tilt tilt- The pigeon that had tilted its head flew off in the sky. It will arrive at her close friend – Minerva, relieved, chewed on the news of her close friend she hadn’t heard in a long time and predicted various things. She is the Witch of Observation, Minerva, she likes to observe everything, and the next thing she likes is to make inferences based on what she observes.

“Come to think of it, wasn’t the mercenary group that Erilda escaped from was in the capital of the kingdom?”

Minerva recalled the information of her close friend, whom she often contacted, recalled information in her head that seemed to be connected to her, closed her eyes and put it together, but in the end she couldn’t find the pieces that fit together.

“Ha- I’ll have to think about it later-“

Stopping her reasoning, Minerva lay on Eruka’s back and watched Cassano’s dazed face as she was being carried to Tsuruka’s quarters. He was a man who was simply thought of as a model, but he seemed to have a lot more to draw from that level.

“Whoops-“

Excited to observe the unknown information to be extracted from Cassano, Minerva stroked her excited body and slowly headed toward her house. Fluffy – With the flying bird, Minerva looked up at the blue sky and closed her eyes.

“Casano-sama is the chief—in the end, the prophecy has come true—huh-huh-“

Minerva, the witch who guards her dreamy jungle, is excited about the upcoming disaster. Kukuk-huhuhuh- The new type of witch that spreads mischievous laughter in the blue sky gradually moved away.