Small Village Tridente Chapter 15

Time for your triweekly chapter

Small Village Tridente – Chapter 015

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June, 2XX7

Soar!

Towards the face that appeared from beneath the mask, I was unable to hide my agitation and trembled.

The kind smile from the time we first met is gone.

The reliable back from the time he invited us to make a village is also gone.

The brave figure from the time we formed the Death Scythe Mantis subjugation party is also gone.

What was there was just a demonic face, focused only on PKing me.

「Why… are you? Why did you do such a thing!?」

Why is that Tsurugi-san going around PKing those who are enjoying their time playing NW? I forced out my shaky voice to ask the question.

「To protect. Everything.」

「Protect…?」

「Ahh, that's right. Mari-jouchan, you saw that interview right? The demise, the new world. Due to that worthless delusion, we were treated like test subjects. Treated like guinea pigs.」

「B-but still… how did that come to PK…」

「Didn't I say it? It's to protect.」

Tsurugi-san took off his hood and started talking about it as he swept back his slightly long forelocks.

「After the NW Company interview, trembling in anger, I wished. I want the power to protect everyone. The ones being deceived by the NW company… The people who were being deceived by this world, I wished for the power to save them. And then G.o.d answered me. I was granted the power to protect everyone from this world. Special Skill 【Account Break】, it's a skill that appeared answering my feelings of wanting to protect.」

【Account Break】…that is the true ident.i.ty of the enforcer forcibly expelling players… is it?

「Didn't Mari-jouchan's partner say it. It took form when she felt the emotion of wanting to protect you… I'm also the same. She isn't the only one who's special!」

You're wrong……You're not the same. Tsurugi-san, your skill appeared from a different emotion.

「The players who enjoy playing NW after the interview are abnormal. That's why, with this power, I gave them salvation.」

The first one that was killed was probably a person from this village. The one who was killed… I don't know. But, the other cross cut I saw earlier was…

「Tsurugi-san, just one thing, can I ask you something?」

「What? If you agree with me then, anytime I w-…」

「Seirsan, did you PK her?」

I interrupted Tsurugi-san's words, and knocked him with the question that I have wanted to know all this time. Right now, the spear that Tsurugi-san has equipped is Seirsan's weapon.

When I saw the enforcer wielding the Tridente, I thought of three possibilities.

The first was that there was another party that defeated a Death Scythe Mantis.

The second was the possibility that the enforcer was Seirsan.

The third was the possibility that the enforcer stole the weapon by PKing Seirsan.

The first choice.

The possibility that another party had defeated a Death Scythe Mantis is low. It seems that it's a really rare monster. After defeating one of it, there weren't any reports of sightings on the boards or on SNS.

The second choice. The possibility that it might be Seirsan.

Someone who purposefully wore a mask in order to hide their ident.i.ty wouldn't use a rare weapon whose owner could easily be identified. And most of all, I wanted to believe in Seirsan.

And so, the possibility that Seirsan was PKd and her weapons was stolen was high. And to make sure of the ident.i.ty of the enforcer, I decided to destroy the mask.

「Ah, this thing? It was hard to PK Seirsan, you know. She'd heard the rumors concerning Account Break and she was always vigilant of her surroundings.」

「Where is she!? If we revive her, we might still make it… tell me!!!」

When the HP gauge reaches 0, there's still one hour for revival. There's still a chance that I can make it in time…

「Ahh, so the reason you were desperately trying to end the fight so quickly was for that? Are you dreaming? Or maybe escaping from reality? That woman's weapon is in my hands. In other words, that woman is no longer in NW!」

That's… a lie… that's a lie. I mean, I still haven't said my goodbyes to Seirsan. I still want to go on adventures with her. I want to get excited during our random conversations.

And then you say she's no longer here…

「I won't forgive you… Seirsan, she was living in this world. Those feelings, her smiling face, my important comrade… you stole them because of your selfish ideals.」

My feelings of anger exploded and I readied my weapon.

「So annoying, you guys and your wannabe hero att.i.tude! I will destroy it! Come! 」

Tsurugi-san's remaining HP is at 10% and mine is at 30%…

If I get the first hit, it's my victory!

I prepared to fire 【Scatter Shot】, aiming at Tsurugi-san, but his attack motion was faster than before.

「Destroy everything! 【Account Break】!」

Tsurugi-san crossed his arms, swung them like swords and released crimson light towards me at the speed of light. It cut down my HP until only 3% remained, and the impact blew me away

「Ugh…」

Barely enduring it, I somehow stood up.

「Tsk, I meant that to be the finishing blow, but I guess I hurried too much and wasn't able to damage more.」

It seems that, if it's not used as the finishing skill, it won't activate its forced expulsion effect. Somehow, I was able to endure right until the limit.

「What was that, that skill… it's not normal」

「Who knows. Maybe NW might have actually been taking our souls. Hey, Mari-jouchan. It'll be easier if you just admit your defeat now, you know.」

As if I will lose.

Until I stop you, I won't lose.

I won't give up.

That's why, please let the kind Tsurugi-san come back!

I mustered up my strength and entered a fighting stance. I set up my bow and stared at Tsurugi-san.

「Oh ho, so you can make that face. In that woman's shadows, you who were just cowering behind her.」

He's right. The one who's been beside me, it's always been Saya.

I have become spoiled from Saya protecting me.

But…

「I can't stay this way… always being protected.」

Not behind Saya's back, I want to stand side by side with her!

【Scatter Shot】!!!

The scatter shot that I missed earlier, I took the initiative to activate it this time. The arrows that rained down from the skies fell towards Tsurugi-san.

This time, it will be the end-…
However, the rain of arrows that he wasn't able to evade before, he was barely able to evade them all.

He avoided it!? And moreover, all of it…

I see… earlier, he was focused on protecting his mask, and he was also focused on it during the second wave…
After evading it, he immediately fired【Account Break】. Its attack speed isn't something you can just evade with simple evasion, so I used 【Instant Movement】 to avoid it and used the momentum to go around Tsurugi-san's side and fired 【Silent Arrow -Type Zero-】.

Because he had already experienced silent arrow type zero once before, he easily avoided it with an evasive action. Tsurugi-san and I, the skills we had burned into our memory after seeing them once, we tried to figure out how to evade them. Neither of our attacks. .h.i.t the other, and the equilibrium continued.

「Strong, huh… Honestly, I'm surprised. Mari-jouchan, I didn't think you had this potential. When I approached to PK you, I attacked thinking you were just a sitting duck… that was a real miscalculation.」

「I'm not strong… you're just weak.」

「Kuku… Hahaha… No way, I didn't think that someone like you would provoke me… You f.u.c.king brat! I will end this.」

Tsurugi-san used the skill 【Wild Release】 to reduce his cooldown by half. He entered the stance for 【Account Break】 and confronted me.

If 【Account Break】 turns into a barrage, it'll be bad. The cooldown for 【Instant Movement】 is 10 seconds. If the cooldown doesn't make it… then I won't be able to evade 【Account Break】.

「This is the end! 【Account Break】」

It's here!

「【Instant Movement】!」

I used 【Instant Movement】 same as last time to avoid the account break. The ground was scarred with a shining red cross, showing how much power it had.

Before i get to enter into an attacking motion, Tsurugi-san once again crossed his arms entering a posture to use account break continuously

That high powered skill that is hard to evade, a barrage with just a recast with just around 5 seconds, its mostly cheating!

「This will be the end! Fall dooooooooooooown!!!」

【Account Break】 was released with great speed, and with a big shocking sound a cloud of dust was raised up at the same time.

「Phew, did I do it?」 (9:flag)

however, what appeared from the cloud of dust was not an incapacitated me but…it was a stone wall.
An emergency defense that was used during the the battle with the Death Scythe Mantis. The materials that I had picked up from Yesterday's hunting, I still have it so I made the materials unto a wall.

「aaa, That's right….you are someone that's good with their little tricks after all! However, you don't have any chance of winning you know!」

Tsurugi-san once again barraged the 【Account Break】, and doing nothing but to destroy the wall I made.
Gathered together with Seirsan…this material right now had become my lifeline. Using all the materials, using the blind spot the walls had made, i went out with my final gamble. Tsurugi-san doing nothing but to continue attacking had destroyed the last one but, I was no longer there.

「Stealth!? where are you!」

all the skills that he had seen once had been evaded…that's why!

「Soar! 【Aerial Arrow】!」

My skill's effect had it soared up high to the skies, and from the skies the arrow wrapped in wind fell aimed and shot at Tsurugi-san.

「at the skies!? f.u.c.k! the Fuujin Bow's exclusive skill!!」

Facing a skill that Tsurugi-san for the first time had reacted late, not being able to evade in time the Aerial arrow that I fired directly hit.

Tsurugi HP 0%
Mari HP 3%

haaa….haaa….I won.
Against the Enforcer…Tsurugi-san I won.

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Winning the match, I walked slowly towards Tsurugi-san

「Please stop destroying Accounts. Please don't involve other players who are having fun playing」

「shut up….I, I am only using my power. My salvation is not a mistake」

The NW company, I wonder if they have noticed the existence of this skill.
Just a normal person, having the power to restrict others to log in, now matter how much I think about it I can't think that its as kill that NW prepared.

Anyhow I now know the Enforcer's True Ident.i.ty. I opened the menu screen, and from the Help I selected the enquire page and sent a report for a violator.

With this Tsurugi-san's disposal should be left with the NW….Thinking about it, returning my gaze to Tsurugi-san that was incapacitated…..Tsurugi-san's player character was covered with light.

Eh, this is revival magic!!!
Who in the world is this from!?

the moment Tsurugi-san rose up, he was already in the motion for 【Account Break】

It's no good, I can't evade it!

After reviving the 【Account Break】that Tsurugi-san fired directly hit me, and shaving of the my few remaining HP.
And I, fell forward as I ended up incapacitated.

「This is surprising,  I didn't even imagined that you would come for my help」

Tsurugi-san thanked the person that used revive magic on him. The figure slowly approached, and stopped beside Tsurugi-san, And used healing magic to heal Tsurugi-san.
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「That helped a lot. Karma.」
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Chapter 15 END
9: Yet another cliffhanger.

G.o.ddess bless