chapter 52

—- not yet!

I grab the goblin’s arm protruding from my belly to force myself out of my dazed state.

“Two adventurers, that’s a lot of playing with fire.”

–Fire magic activated.

A blue flame is born that covers Skullhead as it engulfs me.

“Guess what?”

I can hear Skullhead’s irregular breathing sounds up close as if he’s suffering from the hot air.

At the same time, it tries to pull out his arm, so I do my best to stop it.

My back is burning as well, but I don’t have the time to worry about it.

In contrast, the goblin grabs me by the neck. An uncommon grip tries to cut out my throat.

Did it use this power to wring Neikra-san’s neck? But I can still stand it. It doesn’t matter if I don’t get crushed.

I squeeze out my voice.

“Nana!”

“Uh-”

Nana turns pale.

“If you don’t kill him, this won’t end.”

“But…”

“It’s Sen’s revenge that’s burning here!”

“Sen….”

Skullhead’s arm swung vigorously out of my abdomen.

I scream out the blood that had been stopped by the arm to flood the area.

“Now! Do it!”

“Sen!”

Nana stands up and holds up her wand.

“Seven Flashes–Thunder!”

With a thunderclap, a blinding light hit Skullhead.

Skullhead Goblin

Race: Goblin

Level: 120

HP: 0/988

The Skullhead wobbled and then disintegrated.

“Well, you know–”

The last thing I saw as the darkness was consuming my consciousness was Ouka rushing up to me.

＊＊＊

“Master, are you all right?”

I opened my eyes and saw Ouka’s upside-down face.

A soft touch on the back of my head.

“How long was I out?”

“It’s been a few dozen seconds. Don’t move.”

Ouka’s arm stretches out.

I see a green light and the pain in my abdomen gradually disappears.

So the recovery magic, unlike the recovery medicine, does not involve pain? I see; it makes sense that the church is enclosing it.

I shifted my gaze when I felt I had the energy to spare – the draugr was standing there.

“That’s all right. I don’t think he’s moving.”

I wonder if she read what I was trying to say, Ouka replies.

The draugr keeps moving its eyes in various directions as if it has lost sight of something.

“Master, what is that creature?”

“It’s a draugr, a type of undead. Looks like the creature that was cut by the sword Mr Neikra had in his possession.”

“I didn’t respond to Master’s voice at …….”

“It seems to treat the slayer as the master, not the one with the sword. Skullhead killed Sen, so he probably didn’t move because he didn’t have any instructions. There’s no Skullhead now, either.”

“……whose instructions.”

I guess we arrived at the same conclusion.

We turned our heads to look for it.

“Nana!”

Nana was approaching the draugr.

“Sen …… I killed him; I avenged you. We can go back to normal now.”

Her lips quivered, and she made a forced smile.

No good. She still hasn’t come to her senses.

“Sen–”

The distance between them became a few inches.

–the draugr grabbed Nana’s shoulder and bit her neck.

“–!”

A spray of blood dances in front of me.

The draugr’s huge mouth turns red–

“Ahhhh!!!”

“Master!”

I stood up, fighting the pain – and ran.

I took a dagger from the item box and pounced on the draugr.

“Let go of her!”

Thrusting the knife into the draugr face. I stab it again and again.

The draugr’s mouth relaxed slightly. Quickly, I grab Nana’s shoulder and pull her off.

“Nana!”

The girl on the ground had no head.

“Damn it! Spit it out!”

I thrust the dagger into the draugr’s face again.

A hard feeling – I hit the magic stone.

“Damn it!”

I concentrated on the part that seemed to have the magic stone, and the draugr fell to the ground.

I put my hand into its completely loose mouth and search.

With a click, I touch a large object. Quickly, I pulled it out with both hands.

“There.

“Master!”

“Ouka, here.”

“Master……”

When I turned around, I saw that Ouka had a pitying look on her face.

Seeing that, I regained my composure.

Ouka told me that he wouldn’t help…….

I was trying to help her.

I was a fool to think for a minute that I could take down Skullhead and save her – I was stupid enough to believe that I could save her!

I’m not helping anyone; I’m not saving anything.

“Yeah, I know, right……….. Sorry.”

I look at the girl in my arms and gently close her open eyes with my fingers.

“I’m sorry……”