Chapter 859 – Battle of Vajra -13-

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＂Aaaaah~!! Why~!!!”

Lila raises her voice in despair with her index finger spread out.

On the other hand, Selena, who was clenching her fists in front of her, was muttering ‘I liked it…!’ And seemed to like it.

Seeing the joys and sorrows of the rock-paper-scissors game that was decided in an instant, the group may have been able to relieve some of the tension of the fight.

“Ugh… I can’t help it. Since I brought it up, I’ll go and open the door.”

Lila really hated it, but she knew that the world of competition was cruel, so she trudged from the room where the transfer door was to open the door leading to the hallway of the inner area.

What sounded like an animal’s howl from outside was still ringing, and maybe it was because of my mood, but it felt like it was a little closer than before.

Anyway, Lila swallows and stands in front of the button to open the room.

Looking at her nervous appearance, the other three people except Selena-

Diora, Riomes, and Demis think so.

‘Well… I didn’t mind going.’

─.

It was natural since Diora was not the type to be afraid of such animal cries.

Riomes is a race that can enjoy even the thrill of it by sublimating it into pleasure, even if there are monsters outside.

Because Demis was a gentleman, he had the intention not to send Lady forward.

For different reasons, I didn’t mind standing in front of Lila in her place, but-

I think that would be fun, so I deliberately don’t tell that story.

Of course, in the case of Demis, it would have been better to say that it was the will of the older sister next to him rather than his own will.

Anyway, everyone waits for Lila to press the button, looking forward to what awaits on the other side of the door.

＂… Going?＂

Lila asked, turning her head as if to confirm, and everyone else nodded as if they were ready.

The button was pressed with a beeping sound, and the metal door that was blocking the door slid to the side, revealing the entire hallway.

Then what appeared there was-

Unlike other places inside the fortress, it is a dark and gloomy hallway.

The magic lights hanging from the ceiling were blinking, and there was even one that was turned off and silent, although I don’t know if the power had already been cut off or was broken.

Moreover, just like the room they are in now, aren’t there traces of blood being stained on the wall and then wiped off?

＂Grrrr…!＂

Once again, the sound came and Lila looked to her left and right, trying to find the source of the sound.

However, no matter how much I looked left and right, I couldn’t see it, so when I suddenly raised my head to see if it was the ceiling-

Even though I confirm that there is nothing there, the sound continues.

＂Uh, where…＂

“Lila. Bottom. At your feet.”

＂Huh?＂

Then, Diora pointed out a spot near her feet that Lila’s eyes couldn’t reach, and only then did Lila lower her head and look-

＂Grrrr…＂

She found a quadrupedal animal looking up at her feet, in the posture of a cat just before hunting.

It was… What should I say, an animal whose shape did not match anything in their knowledge.

Two magnificent horns protruded from its head, like those of a water buffalo, and next to them grew long, furry ears like those of a rabbit.

The overall impression of the face is that of a kitten? Or a puppy? I couldn’t say for sure which one it was, but the button-like black nose was shining in the light.

From the head to the bottom, the hair is so thick that it almost drags on the ground.

When he sat down properly, he couldn’t see all of his legs, but that may have had to do with his short legs.

Characteristically, two long, black hairs growing from the back of the neck were swaying on the back.

It seemed like they were trying to make themselves look bigger by forcibly covering their small face and small body with fur.

Lila, who noticed a ‘grunting’ sound coming from the almost pink beast, blinked her eyes two or three times and slowly took a step back.

＂W-what is this…?＂

＂Eh, it’s a little cute…＂

Unlike Lila, who was wary of unidentifiable things, Diora relaxed even more because the beast that suddenly appeared looked no different from a small animal such as a rabbit, cat, or puppy.

“Is this a new kind of chimera?”

“… Even though he’s dead, it’s the organization where Laplace was. That could be true.”

As Selena guessed, Lila was leaning back in her nervous manner, contemplating whether she should point the tip of her wand at him.

As if taking turns with her, Diora, who found the pink beast cute, approaches her and lowers her hand –

Wow! As a sound rang out, something about her hit Diora’s arm hard.

＂Ugh!＂

She looks down at her own arms as Diora jumps behind her, letting out a scream from her unwitting victim.

I could see that there was a clear red line drawn on her armor, which boasted invincible defense.

＂Are you okay, Diora!?＂

＂Ah, ugh… Ah, it hurts…!＂

She was obviously hit in the area where she was wearing solid armor, and her armor wasn’t even damaged.

The sharp touch seemed to have penetrated her armor and left a wound on her arm.

As Diora felt for the first time in a long time what it was like to be in pain to the point of bringing tears to her eyes, she looked at the other side of her arm where she had been hit – not at the back of her hand, but at the place at her wrist.

There, too, traces of the same stem and direction were clearly visible on her armor, as if they had penetrated her arm.

As Diora stepped behind her, letting out her screams, she cried out even more menacingly and sat there on guard.

“What were you attacked with?”

Lila looks at her wounds and talks because she has never seen her wounds in such a strange shape, but Diora speaks as she rubs her sore parts with her hands.

＂It didn’t look right, but… Maybe, there were two hairs growing out of that guy’s back… No, maybe, those weren’t fur, but some kind of tentacles.＂

Although it is a little different from the legs of animals such as octopuses that usually come to mind when thinking of tentacles, it was definitely a thin, flexible organ that was good for swinging like a whip.

“Contrary to its appearance, it is quite a ferocious animal.”

Demis listens to Diora and looks as wary as Lila, but Riomes speaks with his hand on her face, still looking happy.

“It might look a little cute since it’s called a tentacle…”

＂Sister…＂

Even though he was Demis, he must have gotten tired of her words and actions, and he was talking while looking back at her while sighing.

＂Tentacle is a minor genre. Unfortunately, it’s not to my taste.”

＂Oh, is that so? As a shape-shifter, you sometimes help students, right?”

It was a story of taste.

Lila, who thought she could finally see Riomes being scolded by her younger brother, suddenly turned cold and started talking to Selena, who had been quiet from before.

＂It’s gotten into trouble. It looks like he’s planning to just sit there and target us as we pass by. Selena, fire high-power magic and deal with it from a distance… Selena?”

If you look closely at Selena’s face while calling her name again-

＂Whoa…!＂

＂Huh!?＂

Selena stood there, her eyes shining, her slightly flushed face looking at the suddenly appearing beast.

With her gloved hands on both of her cheeks, she looked as if she was so adorable that she couldn’t control her body.

＂What a cute animal this is…! I want to hug you tightly…!”

Selena seemed to have failed to resist her opponent’s cute appearance, and seemed to be completely captivated by his adorable appearance.

“Ha!? What are you talking about!? Didn’t you see Diora being attacked earlier!? What is so cute about such an unknown animal!?”

When Lila raises her voice in response to her incomprehensible emotions, Selena turns to her and speaks.

＂It’s a weasel.＂

－What?＂

Lila couldn’t help but question her again, as if she had heard wrong.

However, Selena does not change her expression and answers her once again.

＂Weasel.＂

＂Where are we going…?＂

Lila listens to her Selena, and she looks towards the animal once again.

“The fur is definitely quite shaggy, but the body is a bit long, and the cute face… Short limbs. Everywhere I look, I see weasels!”

＂Where is such force? If you say so, is a Welsh corgi a weasel!? A weasel’s ears aren’t that long, and it doesn’t have horns on top of its head!”

Lila tackled Selena as if she couldn’t stand his words, but Selena seemed to have already fallen in love with him, and she couldn’t even think of moving or attacking him.

No matter where you look, the appearance is not normal, and Lila comes up with one possibility.

“… It’s dangerous. Could it be that he is spewing out some type of pheromone that has a strong attractive effect on targets that match his wavelength? … If I were to look like that, I would definitely choose to catch my opponent off guard and hunt safely…”

Otherwise, Lila thinks, Selena’s reaction cannot be explained.

“If Selena is in that state, no matter what, she won’t be able to move forward unless she gets rid of that guy.”

Diora took off the armor on her wounded arm to check her insides, and noticed that there was a mark left on that area as if she had been hit by a whip, so she tried to cool that area, hu, hu. And she blew it with her mouth and spoke to Laila.

“… Well, I can’t help it. It’s a little early, but let’s ask that guy. “They probably know something more than us.”

As Lila said that, she looked at Mea, who was unconscious after they tied her up.

＂Riomes, wake this guy up.＂

＂I understand~＂

When Lila talks to Rio Mes, she walks away lightly and gets closer to Mea, who is lying on the ground.

Huh, he breathed into her ear, placed his finger on her danjeon, and let something like magic flow out of her.

Then-

＂Abye bye bye bye!!＂

Mea opens her eyes and shakes her body while making strange noises.

“Now, wait a minute. Wake up normally and be normal!”

Lila, who was embarrassed by Mea’s reaction, and Riomes, who smiled and took a step back, answered.

“I thought it would take a lot of stimulation to wake me up quickly…”

＂What on earth have you done…!＂

Even as Lila felt fear running down her spine, she opened her eyes and met Mea’s eyes as she came to her senses.

＂Haa… Haa…! You…! Won’t you solve this right away?!”

Even after being defeated, Mea seems to have not come to her senses and looks at Lila with a vicious look, but she has already sealed her magic.

Her body was tied tightly with rope, so it didn’t seem like she was a threat.

“Do you think this is a situation where you can give us orders? Do you think it would be wiser to be polite to someone who holds the power over life and death?”

＂Kuh…＂

Mea can’t refute Laila’s words.

＂Grrrr…＂

＂Hiik!＂

At that time, when the cry is heard again, Mea reacts by flinching and shaking her shoulders greatly.

And when she turned her head and made eye contact with the little beast, she reacted once more as if she was scared and tried to get away from him by struggling. Br〉

＂What, what! Why is that guy here!? Quickly get that guy away somewhere!”

In response to her reaction, which clearly indicates that she has some bad memories from her past, Lila bends down on her knees and talks to her.

“As expected, you know. Then will you answer me? What is that guy?”

“Ha!? Why am I…!”

＂Grrrr…!＂

The guy, probably annoyed by Mea’s loud voice, bent down towards her, aiming her whip at her.

Then Mea showed her overreaction once again, and she turned to Lila and spoke with her eyes tightly closed.

“Okay! Let me talk! “I’m going to talk to you, so please do something about that guy!”

＂Good.＂

Lila wonders if she can do it, she thinks, as she waits for her answer.

“La, it’s a chimera that Laplace once brought… Laplace called that guy ‘Buuvre’… When Laplace left the fortress, someone had escaped from the cage… At that time, the church They attacked the members at random and made several of them torn apart…!”

＂As expected, Laplace… But the name Buvre seems to be a mistake.＂

Lila mutters that and gets up from her seat.

Vivre is a monster that Lila has also heard of, and is a type of sub-dragon.

Since only a very small number of individuals are alive, only a handful have been identified in human history, and some say that its appearance is closer to a poisonous snake, while others say that it is a small-sized dragon.

However, the guy in front of me was showing the characteristics of mammals no matter where I looked.

“So? How should I handle it?”

“What!? They said they would clean it up!”

＂You have to know how to clean it up.＂

When Lila says that, Mea rolls her eyes and then responds.

“Mo, I don’t know! It wasn’t me who cleaned it up that time, it was the leader who cleaned it up!”

As Mea shouted, she closed her eyes tightly and raised her voice.

Then, perhaps because of that, the guy’s stress had reached its peak, and that beast – no, Vivre – swung the black tentacles on her back and tried to attack Mea-

＂Tch.＂

Lila decided that she would not be able to get any more information if she was attacked here and now, so she spread her magical barrier to block the tentacles.

Then-

“No, Lila! Don’t defend yourself with magic!”

＂──.＂

Upon hearing Diora’s voice, Lila confirmed her previous situation and grabbed onto Mea’s body and rolled to her side, brushing it away from her tentacles.

Wow! When she thought she heard her, Lila could see that her red line had left a mark where she and her mea had just been standing.

Lyla rolled her body but did not disarm her magic barrier, but looking towards her barrier-

The part where its tentacles passed was clearly split, and the barrier was still maintained.

“That guy’s tentacles… They’re quite dangerous.”

A tentacle that pierces both Drake’s armor and his own magic barrier.

I was worried about what the alternative material was and what the principle was, but right now, if I didn’t deal with that guy somehow, I wouldn’t be able to move forward.