Chapter 1030 – The Butt That ‘Talks’

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[Look, Cleon. The butt is talking.]

Galatea let out a giggling voice, clearly summarizing the situation in front of her.

It had a more alien form than any of the monsters I had seen on the way here, and it kept struggling with its legs as if it couldn’t get out of the bushes on its own.

How on earth are they so entangled that their legs are flying in the air and not even touching the ground?

[Well, if you can’t move like that, I guess it’s okay to ignore it. Let’s get by without losing our strength in dealing with it for no reason.]

“Ah… Right…”

When Galatea spoke as if interjecting into Cleon’s thoughts, Cleon nodded quietly and tried to pass by, ignoring the leg waving in the bushes.

Jump and run…

“No! Just don’t pass by!!”

“Damn I got caught…”

The very moment Cleon tried to pass by the bush, the girl trapped in the bush made a sharp voice as if she wouldn’t let him go.

Cleon was trying to get out of there before something troublesome happened, but he had no choice but to stop, even though he felt resentful at having failed.

“Hey, please take me out! I don’t think I can tear down the vines from this bush by myself…!”

And, squinting her eyes, she’ll look at the bush.

All the plants around here were gray, and the plant in front of her was no different.

The leg extending from the plant was strangely vibrant.

They were fluttering hard and swimming in the air, and they looked full of energy.

[Eh, Cleon, are you staring at that butt right now?]

However, if you look at that bridge for too long, Galatea, who was hanging around your waist, will start making her voice.

[No matter how far I am from women…]

“That can’t be possible…”

Cleon counters her words with a sigh.

“The lower body looks like a human, but there is no guarantee that the upper body, which is hidden by the bushes, will look like that too. Perhaps, instead of a human body, the upper body could be a ferocious being with huge teeth.”

[Hey, it’s like a Mimic. Do such monsters really exist?]

“… Well.”

Cleon muttered this without dispelling her suspicions, but of course the story reached the ears of the being struggling right in front.

“Wait a minute!? I’m not that vicious of a monster!? What kind of life do you normally spend, so that you can even imagine that!?”

Usually…

When she thought about it, Cleon narrowed her eyes, remembering that the enemies who usually harassed her were always humans.

Considering that, wouldn’t it be better to deal with monsters?

“If you take it out, I will definitely repay you! Please!”

“… Ha. I can’t help it.”

For the current Cleon, it was dangerous to completely trust the other person, but climbing to the top of the mountain alone was also a risky gamble.

Ignoring this guy and moving on was one of the options, but if he was truly harmless, the aftertaste would be bad.

“Galatea.”

“Okay!”

When Cleon said so, Galatea changed her form from a sword to a human form.

And she immediately receives Caliburn from Cleon.

“If you have any ulterior motives, you’d better give up. The moment you attack me, my partner will cut you down.”

“Woah, it’s so scary…!”

Due to Cleon’s threats, she was so frightened that she froze with her legs stretched out.

Meanwhile, Cleon grabs both of her legs with her hands.

Then, he will try to slowly pull her back by applying force to both of her arms.

“Hmm…!”

Her body is pulled from the bushes while making a rustling sound.

However, she did not escape, and did not move from the spot, as if something was holding her in place.

“Now, wait a minute! It hurts! It hurts because the thorns stuck in the vine inside got caught!”

“… What are you telling me to do?”

In the end, Cleon thinks for a moment about letting go of her leg, which he had once grabbed.

Since I didn’t know what was inside the bush, I didn’t want to touch the bush if possible.

Cutting the bushes directly with a sword would have been an option, but you could have accidentally hurt the pinned-down guy.

However, if you want to take it out with magic, would the only effective magic be fire magic?

Unfortunately, the connection through the imprint was broken, so it was impossible to use fire magic right now.

“Isn’t there something like pruning scissors… Hehe…”

“You know very well that this is a ridiculous question, right?”

“Hey…”

Cleon answers her question like that, and then she glances at Galatea.

“… Why do you look at me like that? I’m a sword, there’s no way I could be scissors.”

Galatea must have had an ominous feeling, so she blocked what Cleon was trying to say.

“But you can use a bow or a staff. Aren’t scissors closer to a sword than a bow?”

“…”

However, when Cleon asked again with a quite logical rebuttal, Galatea could not say anything.

Instead, you move your eyes here and there to the point where you can hear yourself searching for an excuse in your head, and then answer by huffing and clearing your throat.

“B-but. Scissors are a tool with two blades, right? Then I guess it won’t work for me either.”

“What is that logic…”

[Oh, if that’s what it is.]

At that time, Caliburn, who had been quietly observing the situation, speaks out.

[Me and Galatea can each take charge of one day~]

“Oh, that’s a clever idea! It’s not… Why do I keep having to take on a form other than the sword!?”

I think it’s because Galatea’s pride as a demon sword is at stake.

If it’s a tool for combat, she can still accept it, but if it’s something else… If it’s just garden shears for pruning, she seems to be reluctant.

[If you can help Cleon, it doesn’t matter what form it is~]

But when Caliburn said that, Galatea looked like she had been punched, blinked her eyes, and then-

He puffs out his cheeks and says, “Puuuuu.”

However, as if he could not bear Cleon’s silent gaze, he raised both his hands and showed his intention to surrender.

“Okay, I’ll do it. You can do it!”

[Hehe~ Then, suppress the magic power to reduce backlash as much as possible~]

And when Galatea is once again surrounded by light, the Caliban she holds in her hand reacts to it and transforms, glowing together.

Kali, who was a one-handed sword, changed the shape of her handle into a pair of scissors, and Galatea also changed her appearance.

Finally, a mysterious pair of garden shears with one blade black and one white blade appeared.

“I really transformed.”

Cleon himself reacted that way, perhaps because he didn’t think it would actually happen even as he held the scissors in his hands.

[That’s what Cleon told you to do!?]

Naturally, Galatea raised her voice.

“Hey! What happened? Can I just stay like this?!”

And, the guy in the bush who had been quietly forgotten for a moment asked Cleon once again.

“Okay. Just stay still. I’ll cut the bushes little by little from the outside and take them out.”

Cleon would answer her and move her scissors carefully.

Slowly, slowly.

If you cut the bushes while being careful not to accidentally cut the body of the guy inside…

“Huh?”

Before my eyes, something very similar to a human… No, a human hand itself appeared.

“Ah! My left hand is moving!”

“Ah… I can see it from this side too. … Looking at this, you can think of the upper body as human.”

[Tch.]

I heard Galatea click her tongue in disappointment.

Cleon sighed inside her and continued to move her scissors, and her body, hidden between the bushes, was slowly revealed.

Her upper body is dressed in white flowing clothes, and her long hair is a sky blue brighter than the color of the clear sky.

Anywhere you look, it must have been a human upper body, but the part that connects the upper and lower body…

The upper part of the buttocks, barely buried in the bushes.

In other words, in the tailbone area, something like a ponytail, which does not exist in humans, was sticking out and shaking.

The color is light blue, the same as the color of the hair.

“This…”

Let Cleon touch her tail as if he was a little curious.

“Huh!”

“You have senses… So, that means you’re a guy growing out of your body… So you’re not a human…”

“Well, I’m definitely not a human, but I’m not an enemy of humans!”

Now, since the only part of her left was her head, she waved her hands and made excuses to Cleon.

Then, Cleon thought for a moment, and then she said, ‘Haa’, and if she came this far, there was nothing she could do. Has he given up?

After quickly cutting off the remaining part of the bushes, I could finally see her neck.

“… Your neck is hanging on a vine. How can it become like this?”

Just as she said, a vine with thorns was wrapping around her neck.

A sharp thorn… It was natural that it would easily pierce human skin and cause blood to ooze out, but she pressed down to the point where the thorn could not penetrate the skin properly and only left a mark.

Looking at it, it showed that she was a creature with greater durability than a ‘human’.

Although it seemed like there was pain.

“I guess we should cut down this vine first.”

As Cleon says so, she carefully places the scissors behind her neck.

“Don’t move, if you don’t want to get stabbed by the scissors.”

“Hike. Yes, yes…!”

At Cleon’s words, she froze in place as if her whole body stiffened.

“… Huh?”

At that time, Cleon saw.

Her leg muscles that were trembling just now.

Is it because her body was tense, and her muscles were also strained?

On both of her legs, muscles were revealed so clearly and thickly that would be unimaginable to a human girl.

If you get kicked by this leg…

I don’t want to imagine it a bit.

“Hey, are you there yet?”

Thanks to her, she urges Cleon, who had stopped.

Cleon shook her head, shook off her distracting thoughts and moved her scissors-

Snips.

Her vines are cut off and fall from her neck.

“Okay, that’s it!”

“Wait!”

She raised her voice, but Cleon quickly pressed one of her hands to her head.

“Guhek!”

“I told you it was dangerous! What if you try to stand up before you put the scissors away!”

The blade of the scissors was still shining sharply, and she almost got stabbed in the back of her neck, leaving her in a terrible state.

“Hae, haehohehehe… (I’m sorry…)”

Hehe, Cleon sighed and put away the scissors.

Then, Galatea and Caliburn were once again surrounded by light, transformed into human form, and stood to the left and right of Cleon.

“Okay. Now that’s enough, you can get up.”

Then…

With a rustling sound, she finally pulls out her body stuck in the bush and raises her body.

Her light blue hair, which is so bright that it doesn’t fit in this gray forest, is flowing, and although it has holes here and there from thorns, she shakes off the dress that gives off a mysterious atmosphere.

… It seemed a little inappropriate to wear in the mountains like this.

And then, when she turns her body this way.

A beautiful girl with a cute expression was looking this way.

And Cleon couldn’t help but look a little surprised by that appearance.

“You…”

“Thank you! I almost starved to death while tied in the bush…”

Before Cleon could say anything, she smiled and bowed her head.

Boom! And, something sharp passes in front of Cleon’s eyes.

“Wow…!”

Cleon was embarrassed and took a step back from her, and when he felt the tip of her nose, he tried to touch it.

She was only slightly grazed, and her blood was seeping out.

“Ah! I’m sorry! It’s been so long since I’ve seen a humanoid creature other than me…! I didn’t notice the gap!”

And then the girl lowered her head again to apologize again, and Cleon took another step behind her, adjusting the distance between him and her.

“… It’s okay, it’s a minor wound. But… Those horns.”

Cleon looked at her and made a sound like she was a little embarrassed.

Then, she lifted her head again and felt her magnificent horns rising from her own forehead toward the sky.

It was about 15 cm long, shining silver, and was rooted in a cone shape on her forehead and stretched out in a straight line.

Blinking her sky-blue eyes like her hair, she looks at Cleon.

“Yes! I am not a human like you said. To be exact, I was a ‘demon beast’…”

As she said that, she put her hands together in front of her.

I could see that both of her arms were pulling her voluminous breasts together even under her loose dress.

Moreover, although I was interested in the horns, it wasn’t just the horns that caught my eye-

Similar to Sasha, the two ears that grew on her head also bothered me.

In the area where human ears should be, the naturally flowing hair hid that area and reduced the feeling of discomfort.

The ears, unlike Sasha’s, were not extremely pointed and were a little longer.

If you thought you saw it somewhere- Cleon nods.

It’s the horse’s ear.

Tail, ears, and horns and legs.

Cleon quickly combines various scattered pieces of information in his head.

A first-class rare demonic beast that lives quietly in forests and mountains where humans rarely visit.

An entity called the ‘original species’ of the ‘unicorn horses’ used in unicorn cars.

The horn is said to be an ingredient in a cure-all medicine, and its fur has magic resistance similar to that of mithril.

A symbol of nobleness, beauty, and purity.

“──Unicorn”

“That’s right! You know very well, human!”

When Cleon guessed her identity, she clapped her hands and smiled brightly.

“It’s ‘Uni’, a unicorn. Human, where do you come from?”