Chapter 394 – Three Fingers

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For some reason, it felt like it had been a long time since Sasha and Cleon walked the royal road alone.

When was the last time I walked like this, surely it was the first time since the day I met Anansi.

After that, I went to see Amelia’s grandmother, brought Lilim with me…

Somehow, thanks to her follow-up to Sasha’s words her, she entrusted Sasha with everything about her lilim her, just like her older sister her who had a younger brother.

Opportunities to wander without Lilim’s company did not come so often.

Sasha must have been happy with that fact, but she took a step ahead and acted like she was younger than usual.

She swings her arms back and forth with a big bang, and her tail her, which has grown from her hips her, sways like a broomstick.

Her appearance her draws people’s attention because she feels like a rare ‘beast person’ even in the kingdom, but-

Soon, when her gaze her shifts to Cleon, who walks right behind Sasha, she hurriedly avoids her gaze her.

‘—As expected, it can’t be helped even if you don’t want to be conscious of what stands out.’

What Cleon thought so was Sasha’s side of her, not himself.

It is said that it has human ears, but the first thing that catches your eye is the cute wolf ears sticking out on its head.

If you feel that a person with such ears has passed by, and turn her head her, you can even see her tail her.

In her clothes her, from Elessia until now, Quon has specially made a hole for her tail to pass through.

After she comes to the royal capital, when she goes out with Sasha, she will attract the attention of those around her.

The dark horse clan and the beastmen, when a normal resident of the royal capital saw it, her heart her might sink.

—If you think about it, she went to the academy to find a way to restore Sasha’s body and her back to normal.

Thanks to Ruben, I almost forgot about that, but if she had to stay like this forever-

One day, a great deal may come.

If Cleon was looking at Sasha with those eyes.

Sasha pricks up her ears and looks back at her, wincing once more.

“Mr. Cleon? What are you doing?”

It seems that he noticed that Cleon was looking at him with some animal instinct.

Cleon shook her head from side to side in response to her question.

“No, nothing.”

In response to Cleon’s answer to her, Sasha said, “Is it because of her mood her?” Although I tilt my head at her.

Soon, her eyes met the cat Cleon was holding, and her face her immediately brightened.

“You’re a calm kid! Mr. Cleon keeps holding it, but he doesn’t try to run away.”

“Yes. He’s a clever guy. He seems to know where we’re trying to take him.”

The cat yawns and licks its lips while being held in Cleon’s arms.

Could it be that he thought of Cleon as a carriage or something?

Seeing that Sasha, who had been looking at the cat like that, was a little hesitant about something, Cleon shut her mouth for a moment and then-

“Do you want to touch me?”

At Cleon’s words her, Sasha nodded her head broadly.

“Lu, after becoming one with Ruben-sama, it seems that normal animals are afraid of me…”

Certainly, recalling the time when they went hunting in the forest before, even when Sasha was threatened by Ruben, ordinary wild animals hated them and ran away.

In their eyes, Sasha was not a human, but a huge human-sized wolf.

However, this guy Cleon is holding doesn’t show any signs of being afraid of Sasha, except for when Ruben’s personality came out earlier.

Perhaps, it may be that he is distinguishing between ‘Sasha’ and ‘Ruben’ based on his instincts.

Then, Cleon carefully handed over the cat to Sasha-

That guy, too, seems to be relieved about Sasha, and she calmly takes her into her arms.

“Bo, Fuzzle Fuzzle…”

When Sasha’s eyes lit up at the warm and soft touch of her hand her, Cleon thought to himself, ‘Maybe it would n’t be a bad idea to have a pet…’.

“Hey, what’s your name?”

“Nya-ong.”

When Sasha grabs her cat and asks, the guy cries as if she’s answering.

“…Did you tell me?”

When Cleon spoke in a slightly surprised tone, Sasha also turned to Cleon.

Perhaps, Sasha can understand animal speech with the power of Ruben inside her.

“…So, what’s your name?”

“Oh, there… That… Oh, sorry! It was just crying…”

When Sasha answered Cleon’s question without knowing what to do, Cleon nodded her head with a somewhat regretful ‘I see’.

“Ha, but. This kid must have told me his name his! Well, it’s just that we didn’t understand.”

“…Yes. It might be.”

Cleon smiled wryly at Sasha’s words and looked up at her.

The sun is still above their heads.

The remaining time until the march begins is about three hours.

Slowly, even in the air flowing around me, I began to feel something different from before.

Cleon senses a sharp sensation momentarily.

“Sasha.”

“Yes Yes?”

Right now, she was concentrating on chasing the cat’s trail with the imprint, so perhaps she didn’t pay attention to anything else.

Cleon gets close to her, petting her cat on her head her, then quietly puts her mouth close to her ear her and mumbles.

“…I’ll follow you right away. Take the cat and go to as many places as possible to be human.”

“… Yes Yes!”

Sasha nods her head as if she understands what she means and runs in front of her, and Cleon also sighs briefly with a ‘huh’.

And when she turned around behind her—there were two men, one tall and one short, dressed in party-like suits, standing on the street looking at Cleon.

“You guys are the first.”

“I see, it’s an honor. 3 million.”

When her taller side her replies, Cleon sighs once more.

“Can’t you be polite enough to call someone by name?”

“Sorry, we’re not very polite guys.”

This time, when the smaller one answered, a blade came out from the back of one hand for each of them.

“…You use a unique weapon, yes.”

“It’s good for destroying evidence.”

As Cleon looked at the two of them, he was about to take her hand her to Galatea at the waist her.

Soon, people look at the many people on the street and click their tongues.

If you openly swing your sword in broad daylight, especially on the day of the Victory Day march, you may be taken to prison and not be able to participate in Amelia’s security her.

“It must have been a mistake to come out to a place with a lot of people. Rather, it’s because you, the magic swordsman, won’t be able to use the magic sword.”

When the taller one said so, Cleon lowered the hand he had been carrying around his waist and raised one of his hands.

And then, as if to say ‘come’, he flicked his hand – the shorter man on the other end approached Cleon with quick steps.

He came close to Cleon, aimed at Cleon’s side of him, and stabbed his sword first.

His wrist blade (wrist sword) seemed to be specialized for stabbing rather than cutting, and was shaped like an awl that could pierce even thick wooden boards with a little effort.

At the point where he allowed access, he thought it was Cleon’s defeat his, and if he tried to press the sword-

Kagagak…!

There was a sound, and a metallic sound came from the smaller wrist blade as it scraped the surface of Cleon’s side of his.

“What…?”

If a man puts on a bewildered face for a while at something that would be impossible even if he strengthened his body with magic power.

What can be seen under the torn cloth is the black inner armor.

Last night, one of the things Cleon brought from the bartender’s introduction room was an inner armor that could be worn all over the body.

“Cow, you cheated-“

It was their defeat at the point where they did not feel any discomfort in Cleon’s confrontation with them so easily.

Cleon immediately grabs the hand of the short man who came close to him, and with force, breaks it in a direction that cannot be broken.

“──!?”

When he tried to scream in pain from his broken wrist, Cleon immediately covered his mouth with the other hand and—

“…Mana Shock”

In that state, he used his palm his to cast magic.

Soon after, the man receives a shock as if lightning has exploded inside his head, and he loses his strength and collapses on the spot.

“Chit.”

Seeing his colleague collapse in front of him, the taller man just clicked his tongue.

Even though the people around them didn’t seem to notice the strangeness of Cleon and the men.

Some glanced at Cleon, who was standing there as if supporting a short man.

“Don’t say anything bad. Take them back.”

“I knew that parts of my body were covered with such armor. If so, I’m just attacking somewhere else.”

The next moment, thinking that the man had smirked, Cleon quickly bent his knees and bent himself.

“No…!?”

A panicked voice came out at the fact that Cleon had avoided an attack that could not have been avoided if not for the eyes running behind him.

He saw a man whose height was equal to the height of the two men in front of him, then divided in half, brandishing his wrist blade at him.

“Shit…!”

As if that was a blow of conversion, the tall man does not hide his nervousness, and he also draws a knife from his wrist and approaches Cleon.

Pincers from the front and back, but Cleon only sighs at the sight of the two.

“For a strategy using headcount, there are many loopholes.”

When Cleon spoke like that, he put the tall man he was supporting on the ground and slightly bent his body backwards.

As it is, the two swords swung at him miss as if crossing each other.

Cleon quickly spread his arms and grabbed the two of them by the head.

Soon, bang! When the two heads collided while making a sound.

The men, who seemed to have lost their strength, fell to the ground as if they were slipping.

“…Weak ones, are they really assassins? You guys.”

Cleon patted those men with his feet, then inspected what he had, including the wrist blade he was wearing on his arm.

If he had any adamantite coins, he tried to keep them, but… He didn’t seem to have any.

“…Yes?”

Instead, if it was found, it was a ring that each of them had in common.

Each, one finger from the hand with the same ring finger cut off.

Rings are seen on the thumb, ring and middle fingers.

‘…Is it a mark of the same organization?’

Looking at the fact that the ring finger is cut off, it seems to be a tissue that has a meaning in the finger.

When the accident had progressed to that point, Cleon quickly got up and looked back in the direction Sasha had walked.

“…You don’t have an index finger…!”

Cleon becomes impatient with the possibility that his index finger might have gone after Sasha, not himself.

[Sasha also walks fast. She has already fallen a lot. Hurry up to catch up.]

Above her head her, Lila says so.

As before, she was watching Cleon from the sky and helping him fight.

It was not a coincidence that the attack of the guy who attacked Cleon from behind was missed, but it was possible because of Lyla’s support of her.

“…”

Cleon follows Sasha after chasing the imprint’s reaction by kicking his tongue in her.

No matter how armed she is, her opponent is an assassin.

Plus, he’s holding a cat in his hand her.

When he is attacked, she should be safe.

With impatient steps, if you make your way through people-

I heard the voices of the people who saw the three people who had collapsed behind me.

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“…If you pass this alley…”

Sasha steps forward cautiously but quickly, holding her cat in her arms her as Cleon said.

Cleon is told to go to a crowded place, but as he walks on the road to get closer to the cat’s owner, he ends up falling away from the main street.

‘…Get the cat to the owner quickly… And I have to help Mr. Cleon…!’

While Sasha thought so, going around the alley where the trail stopped right in front of her —

In a dark alleyway, a man was driving a woman against a wall and scaring her.

“Hey girl… I think I’m lost, but I can’t just walk into a place like this.”

If you look carefully, the woman seemed a little frightened at the way she held her hand.

Brown hair, clothes made of material that clings a little to the body.

And what caught my eye was the large chest that protruded right in front of the man even though he was standing with his back against the wall.

“Hehe…”

“…Please stop. I… Just, the cat…”

As if drooling over such a woman’s chest, a man reveals his low-quality desires his and does not hide them.

“Stop!”

But then. A sonorous voice echoed from the entrance of the alley.

Naturally, if you look back at both men and women.

There, a young girl with one hand raised and pointing at a man.

There was a cat who was held in the girl’s other arm and was giving off hostility to the man by making a ‘shaaaaa’ sound.

“…What is it, kid? Don’t bother me and get out of here.”

Although the man looked at the girl-Sasha and waved his hand in annoyance.

“Forcing a weak person into a place like this… Trying to do something bad! I will never forgive you!”

Sasha says so in her determined voice her, but she doesn’t back down.

“…Damn it… Something stupid…”

The man seems to have been taken aback by Sasha’s actions of her, and takes out a small knife from his pocket of her.

Sasha, too, if she narrowed her eyes at the sight of his weapon like that.

He carefully set the cat down on the ground, and ran his hands around the back of his waist her.

“Isn’t it off!?”

And, when the man jumps on Sasha as if to scare her and tries to wield her sword-

Squeak.

As soon as he heard the sound of cutting fruit, Sasha’s body her slid past him.

“…What?”

It’s surprising that she dodged her own sword, and even more surprising, she had a dagger in her hand.

Compared to the sword he wields, it is a much better ‘battle’.

“What, what are you. Were you an adventurer?”

“… I have no loyalty to answer the wicked!”

And the next moment, when Sasha returns her own dagger to the dagger house of her loin her-

A man sees something fall from his pants his.

It is- between your precious and precious intercostal space-

“Off, aaaaa!!!”

When such a scream rang out, the woman who was frightened of her flinched.

Suddenly, he felt someone hold his hand her.

With her eyes out her, she couldn’t figure out what the hell had happened.

Sasha spoke to the woman in a puzzled voice as she picked up the cat she had left on the ground.

“I’m sorry! I’m here to give the cat back… To a place with a lot of people!”

“Yes Yes…!”

And, when Sasha led the woman through her alley, there was only the scream of a man who had lost his precious ear her.