Chapter 71 – 71. Abduction

Unlike the modern Earth, which is developing day by day, John’s life in the witch’s forest cabin does not change much.

The idyllic life that many people dream of. An unchanging routine, which someone would consider boring, continued every day.

Just like that routine today, Yohan was training his body and patrolling the forest.

“Did you hold on tight?”
“Yes-. I held tight.”
“Then let’s go- Hati.”
“King—!”

When John tapped Hati on the side of her foot, Hati, who received the signal, started crossing the forest in an instant.

Yohan lowered his body a little lower, feeling Beatrice’s hand gripping his back. The sound of the wind crossing my ears passes by my ears.

Compared to modern times, it was a different world with no entertainment, but this riding was the only thing I could enjoy. Riding on the back of Hati, who ran freely like a motorcycle, I could throw away all my worries.

If you think that this is why you enjoy racing, Hati, who caught the smell of the monster, carried Yohan to the front of the monster.

Whiik – As soon as he found the monster, Yohan grabbed the weapon and stuck it tightly to his body and stabbed it as it was. It was lance charging with a sword and a wolf.

─Queueeeeek!?

As a tactic that dominated thousands of years of human history before gunpowder and guns were invented, it worked well enough in another world. Johann, who finished off the struggling monster with the tip of his sword pierced by striking it to the floor, descended from Hati’s back and took care of the monster’s corpse.

They take things that can be used or sold, and hand the remaining by-products to Hati to eat. Hati cried happily and started chewing on the corpse of the evil monster.

Beatrice, who had been gazing at that figure, slightly frowned and opened her mouth.

“…… Poor.”

As the witch, who turned dolls into people and organized villages, kept her mouth shut, thinking that this was not something to say, Beatrice continued to ask questions.

“Why are you killing monsters?”
“That’s because monsters are useless creatures.”
“The white sea is useless?”
“It means that it is a creature that is not helpful because it is alive.”

Unlike animals and plants that self-purify themselves by the ecosystem, monsters that have been mutated by magical powers must control their population.

The monsters fight by biting each other and do not stop. When the number of monsters to fight decreases, they eat animals, and when the number of animals decreases, they eat plants.

There is no restraint in the process. It lasts until an ecosystem is completely destroyed. Most monsters don’t have reason to think that the end is self-destruction.

“If I let him live, I won’t be able to eat the delicious food I eat every day.”
“That’s not allowed. Yes. I’ll help, John.”
“Thank you.”

After roughly wiping the blood from the sword and Hati’s mouth, Yohan climbed onto Hati’s back again and ran to find the next monster.

Smelling the monster’s scent, Hati quickly ran and arrived in front of the monster in an instant like before.

Arriving in front of the monster, Yohan took out his sword and hesitated.

‘…… Are you already dead?’

The monster lying in front of them was bleeding and dying. I knew right away that I wasn’t pretending to be dead.

John, who approached the monster while riding his hati, realized that the monster was the giant snake monster they had seen before.

It was said to be big enough to keep up with Evangeline’s familiar, Fenrir, so I remember getting scared and running away.

‘What the hell….’

Approaching the corpse and examining the cause of death, John realized that the monster had been torn apart by overwhelming force. He didn’t even have to imagine what kind of monster could be with the strength to tear a monster this size to pieces.

“Bounce—.”

Before I could even signal to run away, John felt a chill of life radiate from behind me. Hati must have felt the same thing, and instinctively shot forward.

Right after they were shot out, a black arm fell right where they were. John glered at the owner of the arm.

‘What is that….’

It’s small enough to say that a huge snake monster the size of a train was torn in two, but a black monster larger than a decent tree appeared.

The moment he faced the monster, John couldn’t help but frown.

‘I can’t see.’

You can tell it’s a monster. You can tell that it has black fur and that it is as big as a tree. However, when you try to look at the monster, the focus is blurred.

To be precise, only the surroundings of the monster are blurred. A kind of magic that makes it impossible to see the true face of the monster. It was the unique magic possessed by demons.

Even John, who has the ability to nullify magic, cannot see through it. In order to use his magic, you have to come into direct contact with that monster after all, but giant monsters are monsters even without magic.

The monstrous power that comes from its overwhelming size is enough to crush a person even without magic.

“John.”
“Uh huh?”
“Run away first. I’ll be in charge.”

Perhaps feeling John’s fear, Beatrice, who was holding onto John’s back, slowly descended to the ground.

Landing on the floor, she took out the tiny stuffed toy she had been carrying in her arms. Soon, her magic breathed life into the dolls, and the little dolls became her guardian knights.

“But…”
“John. My friend. So I’ll keep it.”

Chow-!

Huge spread wings from the back of the doll that became a knight. A majestic appearance, as if to say that he would not lose to a monster like that.

“And, I am a witch too. Do you think you’ll lose to a monster like that?”
“…… Beatrice. Come back soon wait.”

Johan immediately hit Hati on the side and ran out of the woods. Watching Yohan run away in the distance, Beatrice stopped laughing and started winding the sewing thread around her finger.

─!@#$@!$#@%#@

“I can’t hear anything you say.”

─?

“So, even if you haven’t heard anything?”

Beatrice grinned and blew the sewing thread to stop the monster from moving. The moment a thread harder than steel seals the monster’s movement, the knight moves. A bloody battle to kill the monster has begun.

* * *

-Hee, hee! Panting!
“Hati, hold on a little longer!”

Hati, who ran dozens of kilometers in an instant, began to pant after spitting out her tongue to regulate her body temperature.

He ran so furiously that he could hear Hati’s heartbeat even to himself on his back. If he was an ordinary wolf, his heart would have exploded right away.

However, Hati was a child of Fenrir, and was a familiar who received magic from her. I didn’t die easily because of this.

The moment they arrived near the hut, Yohann jumped from above Hati as if rolling on the floor.

As soon as they kicked in, the witches gathered in the living room turned their gazes to John as they saw the door open violently.

“Master!”
“John!?”

Seeing her pupil covered in dust and scars, Evangeline, who was startedled, hurriedly ran to it. After examining John’s condition, she confirmed that he was not seriously hurt and asked what had happened to him.

“Beatrice…… !”
“Beatrice? Come to think of it, where did you leave him?”
“Over there, over there!”

At this time, there was no detailed location or time to talk. Realizing that the matter was urgent after seeing John’s reaction, Evangeline and Margaret immediately took John and flew in the direction he indicated.

“Is this right?”
“Yes Yes!”
“Then go. If you see it, tell me.”

Transcend space.
Every 0.1 second, it jumps over a distance of 1 kilometer, shortening the distance Yohan had run by a few seconds.

Indeed, not long after, Evangeline, who discovered the traces of the battle, shouted, and Margaret descended to the place where the traces remained.

“Here…….”
“This mana belongs to Beatrice…….”

As expected of archwitches who are well-versed in magic, they quickly figured out what had happened here.

Collect the mana left by Beatrice and the mysterious monster, and follow the trail. Since they were famous archwitches, Johann thought that he could find Beatrice without much worry.

“…… What is this.”
“Why, do you… ?”
“I don’t see any traces. What? No, I see…… Can’t you see?”

Gap. Recalling the magic the monster used, Yohan felt his heart sink and looked at Master.

Evangeline tried to find traces of magic several times, blinking her eyes, but in the end she couldn’t find them. Looking at John with a firm expression, she cautiously opened her mouth.

“…… Sorry.”

I didn’t want to hear that much. However, nothing else was heard.

* * *

Inside a dark cave. The monster that caught the witch kept talking to the witch I caught and tried to communicate with her.

-I found it. Finally.
“So, even if you haven’t heard?”
─Ryo Lek Kwak Litgunghu?

Unfortunately, the monster and the witch couldn’t communicate with each other. The monster had the ability to communicate, but Beatrice had a curse that prevented her from communicating with anything other than dolls.

Beatrice shrank as she hugged the broken doll. The monster seemed to treat itself very politely, but it didn’t need anything.

All she needed was John. John was needed. I wanted to see John.

“I want to go back.”
-No. Sit down.
“… You are bad.”

Beatrice couldn’t even think of getting out of this cave because of the monster that collapsed on her as soon as she got up.

─Eat or not eat?

Seeing the monster smiling and handing her food—— Beatrice felt disgust rising from the bottom of her soul.

‘John…… Come fast…….’

* * *

The library that I promised never to visit again.
John set foot on the spot himself.
The librarian here, Regina Starr, opened her eyes in surprise and looked at him.

“Did you say you could know anything?”

John asked, looking at Regina. Regina shook her head weakly. Seeing this, Yohan clenched his fists and opened his mouth.

“…… I will do anything, so there is information I want you to know.”

At that, Regina’s eyes twinkled.