Breaking Off The Engagement… Bring It On! Chapter 74

We departed for Sai village the next day at dawn.
The knights went ahead, followed by me, Sana, Ange-sama and Allen-kun.
Brother and Alek-sama are of course with the members of chivalric order.
It's quite a large family.

"Looks like we'll soon be entering the forest where jellyfish demon appeared, be careful everyone."

Everyone nodded to my words.
Of course, I conveyed that to the knights as well through my brother.

We arrived at the entrance to the forest.
The forest is grand and dim even in daytime.
We commenced our preparations.

We've been in the forest for ten minutes, but nothing has appeared yet.
It's quiet and creepy.
Why are there no birds chirping?

At that moment, the front of the knights group moved.
For some reason it's noisy.
We became alert of our surrounding.

I can only see trees around.

"Woaah!"

One of the nearby knights let out a loud voice.
While carefully approaching, I could see several people's knees shaking.

"What's wrong? Any damage?"

In response to my words, a knight made a pained voice.

"Li, Lillinsa, ma, run aw, ay, plea…"

The knight desperately pleaded me.
But I can't run away.
Looking around, some of the knights that were at the front seem to be kneeling.

Sana, Ange-sama and Allen-kun encircle me wary of surroundings.
I only noticed a transparent sprite when I came near.
And it seems another demon appeared where the formation was disturbed.

We became surrounded by demons.
Several kinds were waiting keeping their distance.
This time it's an unknown number of monkey, wolf, and bear types.
The bear should be challenging even for the powered-up knights.
Moreover, there are some suffering from numbness.

While the standoff continued, at last monkey types attacked.
We slayed them while defending the injured.
Monkey types are overflowing from the forest.
In contrast with that, little by little, the people afflicted by numbness are increasing…

This is slightly bad.
At present the people capable of fighting aren't tired but fighting while having to protect others is difficult.
Suddenly, something came flying when I began thinking about possibility of retreat.

Whoosh! Whack!

Huh? What?
Looking closely, something is stuck in the tree.
Perhaps it's an iron weapon.
And a jellyfish demon is impaled on it.
Where did it come from?

Looking at the direction it came flying from…

"Who… are you?"

Now, in front of me there's a pair of people with their faces covered by  cloth.
One of them took the cloth off.

"Lillinsama, are you alright?"

"Well, you're… Hanzou-san?"

The face appearing from underneath the cloth is just like that of Hanzou-san of the eastern country's ninja.
Why are you here?

"Yes, I'm Hanzou. Actually, I was asked by Princess Sumire to secretly come here. Ah, sorry! However, I didn't intend to make an unnecessary appearance unless Lillinsama was in danger. However, as you became outnumbered, I though of helping. I'm really sorry! I am aware it's an inconvenience."

Sumire-sama's a.s.sistance?
Why?
During our talk, another person who seemed to be a ninja started sowing something.
… Huh?
A jellyfish type demon that was until now invisible appeared.
It's somehow glittering.

"Ah, he's Sasuke, a ninja like me. What he swung right now is a colored gla.s.s powder. With this, you can see things that are normally invisible. It's a lot easier to fight like that."

Wow~, they are totally different from the idiot trio.

"Thank you for your support! I don't consider it an annoyance. I gladly accept your help!"

"Oh, that's a relief. Now then, we will hunt enemies over there."

Having said that, the two suddenly disappeared.
I can hear the sounds of battle from the direction they headed for.
So those are the real ninja… cool!!
Wait, that's not it.

We began hunting the glittery jellyfish types.
They were so close…
Their movement is sluggish, it'd be correct to call it drifting.
Perhaps rather than being aggressive, the jellyfish types were just trying to eliminate things that invaded their territory.

Sana and Allen-kun are moving to challenge the bear types.
Ange-sama doesn't overestimate her abilities and goes for the wolf types.
Well, thinking normally, even wolf types are amazing enough, but…
I hunted the demons around numbed knights and then went to hunt for the bear types.

I've thought of going to where Sana is but… That's right~.
Looking at it, brother's there.
Let's a.s.sist knights and let them hunt demons together?
… Ah, doesn't it somehow seem fun? Beating the bear types seems…
It can't be helped, this time I will pa.s.s up on it.

When Allen-kun pulled himself together, the fight was already settled.
That's right, Allen-kun is a child like that.

But this time I'm grateful for the two ninja.
Now then, what happened to those two?