Chapter 20 (1/2)
The four ent to serve as decoys… got wrapped up in intense combat they did not, as they ran around To be more precise, it was a repeat of hit, run and hide The four of them coordinated attacks as they fled
”What's with that bird!? I don't even know if erous… isn't there anything we can do about it?”
Luecke noticed they lacked the power to land anything decisive, but there, Aleist gave his opinion
”Down! It'sthe effect of status down skills!”
Aleist unraveled the gae he carried in his head What he reic and special skills They weren't particularly useful in the game
”Down? The hells that?”
But neither Eunius nor Luecke seeet it The down Aleist referred to was a special ability to lower the paraame…
”Any means to prevent it?”
Rudel understood Aleist had so But…
”There's recovery iteh…”
”By recovery item… you mean medicine? There's a medicine that'll erase this special effect? And you so?”
While Luecke thought over it, Eunius let out a sigh
”If so like that's out there, then our best bet would be the guards… but whether we can get any or not is all up to chance In that case, we can only settle it with one blow”
On Eunius' thoughts, Aleist held his head
”There's no way a boss would go down in one hit…”
Running around, those tattered four stepped forward for their final actions Luecke with his e blade… Aleist used his prided ic on both his hands
The first to move, Luecke aian its descent, giving the signal
”Now! Everyone attack!!!”
Luecke shot a large-scale ic at the bird… once the impact caused it to lose its balance and fall, this time Eunius slashed with his sword, and Rudel launched his assault Eunius' blade cut into the bird's wings, and Rudel's speciala distance… and one person was left
”D-did that do it in…!?”
The words Leucke spoke out of breath were soon answered, blood flowing all over its body, the brutal bird stood to its feet Eunius renewed his stance, but Rudel wasn't even able to stand An overuse ofthat even worse was the bird's ability
”Tsk! I never would've iinied it would be this hard to move… Leucke… can you stand?”
”Don't ht of me, Eunius! It's not that I can't stand! I just don't want to…”
On Eunius' words, Leucke showed some backbone As the three of them were assailed by the bird's ability, Aleist alone was safe But the man in question hesitated to cut at the beast's sinister form
”What are you doing, Hardie!? Get in an attack! You can still make it!”
Aleist moved at Eunius's words, but at thatthe bird to cinders… that spectacle was almost as if it was roasted on a pillar of flames
Once the fire died down, and the forest went quiet… it was right at that tihter Descending, bathed in its light, was Cattleya on her Red Dragon
Cattleya got down froon and looked around On her form, tattered as he was, Rudel couldn't help but feel excited But after taking in the situation, the conclusion Cattleya came to on her own…
”It looks like one of you persisted to the end As expected of Hardie-kun, I guess? On the other hand… Rudel, you're all beaten up, and you can't even stand You reuly are unsightly”
As Cattleya stood before the four, with Aleist being the only one left standing, and taking her own feelings into account, she couldn't think that Rudel had persisted No, she didn't want to think it Even when, froine hi to the battle…
The standing Cattleya looked down over the collapsed Rudel On her words, Rudel felt ashaed at all from the year before He had trained… he had learned… but even so, Rudel ended up being saved
Within that scene, Aleist…