51 – Let’s Not Get Involved
Chapter 51 Let’s Not Get Involved
「Oops.」
Toimi creates lightning that’s more powerful than before from his both hands. It proceeds precisely toward the approaching water polo, causing it to disperse with violent noise.
He was holding back his power before in order to make Malta fainted with a little damage as possible. However, the lightning he fired to intercept the attack was very powerful. Toimi has that much power.
「Fufu. If you don’t want to get hurt, I recommend you to surrender while you can…」
Toimi advises so to her with a fearless smile.
He’s being careless. Well, it can’t be helped. He has captured various races as a slave hunter, and he’s a strong person that has never failed. The one he’s hunting now is mermaid, a race that’s not oriented in battle… he has been hunting until now, but he didn’t get much resistance.
Leave aside elf that has an aptitude in magic or the melee combat demon, Amazons, it was strange to be completely vigilant just because a mermaid can fight a little.
「Haa!!」
「Wha!?」
Therefore, he was surprised to see Malta jumping out from the mist that was created from the water polo that got hit by the lightning. He was under the impression that she could only use magic.
However, Malta is actually approaching him with the trident spear. The speed shows that she’s a mermaid that her lower body usually in a fish form. It was so slow that it can’t be compared with Amazons and Toimi should have been able to handle that.
However, he was self-conceited and careless so he had a painful surprise.
「Hah!!」
She takes a small breath and thrust the trident spear. After all, for those who trained in close combat, that thrust is not something to be worried about.
「Guh…!?」
However, Toimi is a typical wizard and his melee combat ability is only to the extent of self-defense. As a result, although he was not skewered, his flank was torn and he shows an anguish expression.
Toimi unsteadily steps back while squeezing his wounded flank. Blood is flowing from it.
「I won’t let you escape!」
However, Malta is not a simple person who will just overlook that opportunity. When she turns Filomena’s point of spear toward him, she creates a water polo again and fires it.
「Guha !?」
Toimi gets a direct hit on his face. He’s being blown off behind while having a nosebleed.
He was thinking that the water won’t give him much damage, but the magically made water polo was as hard as a stone.
Not only nosebleed, but also some teeth were blown away and Toimi’s well-ordered face was ruined. Furthermore, he changed completely from his calm expression became a demon-like appearance.
「You damn brat…! I was being modest here and you have the nerve to get carried away!!」
「E-ehh!? You were trying to catch me, I don’t think that’s something modest though…」
Malta is clearly trembling being glared by his bloodshot eyes. Rather than scary, it was because of his unreasonableness.
「I don’t care anymore about making you as a slave…! I’ll kill you!!」
Saying so, Toimi floats lightly in the air. Also, to not get attacked again by the water Polo, he separates himself from Malta… not on the raft, but to the sky above the sea.
There, he begins to knead his magic as if he uses up all of it.
「Ooh…」
It’s a spectacle that makes Malta who sees it unconsciously leaks an admiration sigh.
Lightning overflows from Toimi’s whole body. It shines while making a terrible sound, and only around him is as bright as daytime.
「Die into pieces! Fucking mermaid!」
Toimi tries to strike the mighty lightning to Malta. It’s clear that the lightning is so powerful that it can’t be compared to the lightning until now.
Toimi who is completely had his blood rush over to his head, he’s no longer thinking about catching her alive and trying to kill her just like what he said.
If he wants to kill, he’s a powerful person who can demonstrate such power.
……Although, he looks like an idiot because of his nosebleed and missing teeth. However, no matter how he looks, the power of the lightning is certain. If Malta gets hit directly, her life will be in danger.
But…
「Fufu.」
What shown in Malta’s expression is not a fear, but a smile. To her attitude, Toimi frowns.
「Are you stupid? To think you took that attitude after seeing this lightning… I can only say it as a bottomless fool. Leave aside a golem, I don’t understand your reason to take that attitude even though you’re a mermaid, a race that gets big damage from a lightning.」
Although his tone was rough at first, Toimi’s tone is returning to a polite one. However, there’s no goodwill in it and only a mockery to Malta.
That’s a matter of course. The lightning he’s about to shoot is not something that can be absorbed by the water polo just like some time ago. Even if it were deployed again, the lightning strike would destroy the water polo and rush through, killing the target, Malta.
But, Malta also shows a mockery.
「The stupid one is you. Just like what you said many times, I’m a mermaid, you know? When you fight such a mermaid, where do you think you’re escaping to…?」
「Where……?」
Of course, to the sky.
It’s a very effective battlefield, because he can keep attacking from the out range if his opponent has no means to fly in the sky.
Mermaids are peerless in swimming but they can’t fly, so there’s no mistake in Toimi.
「D-don’t tell me…」
Something comes into his mind.
The sky in which he escapes is above the sea. That’s the only thing he can come up with when he thinks about mermaid.
But… a sky is still a sky. Malta’s attack won’t reach him.
「Whatever you do…!」
「Listen here, you saw me using water magic, right? Escaping to the sky above the sea, where there’s a lot of water, is unmistakably a poor move you know.」
Malta says so and laughs as if she’s amazed.
Then, she sets up her Filomena…
「『Gerlach』.」
When she chants the magic’s name in a low voice, there’s a rumbling sound and strange occurrence on the sea.
When Toimi looks down, he noticed that there’s a whirlpool with him at the center. Because it’s the sea at night, it’s dark and scary.
「I’ll kill you before that…!」
Tomi, who got a cold spine from the scene, tries to release the accumulated lightning, but…
「Uwa!?」
Before that, the whirlpool rose. The dark water that had stretched out of the sea turned like a tornado and hides Toimi in the center.
「Kuh… such a water wall like this, with my lightning…!」
The lightning, that was created from the kneaded magic power, strikes the wall of water tornado.
Bang! It creates a terrible sound and steam is generated.
With a certainty of breaking the water wall, Toimi opens his eyes with a fearless smile and…
「Wha…!?」
What reflected on Toimi’s eyes is the undamaged water wall that makes a rumbling noise while rotating.
No, it would have been damaged. Water vapor was generated, and some water would have been wiped out by the lightning strike.
However, here is the sea. There is plenty of water to replace that. No matter how much Toimi shaves the wall’s surface, it will be repaired immediately.
「Tch…! Are you going to imprison me as it is!? Then, what!?」
Malta sighs after hearing Toimi’s voice from the outside of 『Gerlach』, the water tornado.
Of course, that’s not the case. This magic is so powerful that it is almost impossible to get out from inside. Accordingly, the amount of magic power consumption is extremely large.
Although it is not so much because she uses the sea that has a large amount of water, it’s impossible to keep it for a long time.
「So, let’s end it quickly.」
Malta said so and set up the trident spear, Filomena. Her eyes caught Toimi’s figure in the roaring water tornado.
Ordinary humans might can’t do that, but Mermaids that swim and lookt at the distant sea have special eyesight.
So, at the same time as finding Tomi’s spot, Malta swings Filomena…
「See ya.」
She muttered a goodbye word in a low voice and threw the trident spear, Filomena.
With her strength, it won’t fly that far. However, this is not an ordinary weapon. It’s a special trident spear with magical power. Therefore, even if she’s the one that threw it, it has quite a power.
It progresses precisely toward Toimi, which is usually not visible from the outside, and easily penetrates the walls of 『Gerlach』, which can never be broken from the inside …
「Gyaaaaaaa!?」
Toimi’s scream can be heard. And then, the next moment is silence. A quiet night where no one speaks is back.
Then, the water tornado comes back to the sea. Inside the splash that falls like a rain, there’s Toimi’s figure that being pierced by a trident spear. He is also wet with water from his head.
And, he vomits a lot of blood from his mouth, and the pierced abdomen is even more bleeding.
「I-impossible…!? For the likes of mermaid…!?」
Toimi is surprised while having a cold sweat by the fact that he was defeated by a mermaid that never resisted and never win.
He glares at Malta, but it doesn’t last for a long time. He lost his life, lost his magic, and fell into the sea. That’s precisely like in the legend where mermaid drags humans into the sea.
「Fuu, I’m tired.」
Malta sees off Toimi who sinks to the bottom of the sea and shows a smile. She wipes her forehead as if she had done a difficult job.
「――――――」
And Alistar, who was watching it from behind, is being lost for words.
「(What with that ruthless way of winning…?)」
Restrain the opponent so that they don’t understand the situation outside, throw a spear from the place her opponent can’t see and skewer him with a single blow.
From Toimi’s side, he would have been suddenly pierced by a spear that broke through the water wall, so he wouldn’t have any idea what happened.
『My, Malta sure is strong. I thought she didn’t have the ability to fight, but it was my miscalculation.』
「(Eh? Is this the situation where you can say such a carefree thing? That way of killing, her resolution is too much, isn’t it? Is she get used to it?)」
The Holy Sword praises Malta, but for Alistar, who’s not even looking at mermaids in a good impression in the first place, he can only feel frightened after seeing her way of fighting. To him, it’s like there’s a devilish murderer next door. He knows no bounds to rudeness.
Even if he was thinking that, he already defeated several members of the Gray Guild who were trying to take away the mermaid.
Well, this is what the Holy Sword has accomplished by manipulating his body though.
「Wow. Alistar is strong too. You already defeated them.」
「Y-yeah…」
To Malta who purely praises him, he returns it with an ambiguous smile.
Because she just skewered a person, his wariness is rising.
「(…Let’s not get involved with Malta as much as possible)」
It was the moment when Alistar’s feelings became firm.
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【After the Saint Magali personally announced that she wanted to visit the fishing village that was suffering, the Hero Alistar immediately wanted to go together with her. They are being one in body and soul. Their wonderful personality was similar. They were worthy as Hero and Saint in that era.
They visited the fishing village and gently showed appreciation for their effort. What came there were mermaids, who never appeared in public. In other words, they also came to welcome Alistar and Magali.
They saw through that those mermaids were an existence that lived in isolation. The two of them were invited to the mermaid settlement, where humans have never been able to visit, and received a grand welcome. However, while they were staying, a greedy gray guild abducted the mermaids, raped them and attacked them.
There, the hero Alistar confronted the bad guys with Malta, that later being called as the most beautiful mermaid princess. Alistar and Malta worked together to fight and repel the atrocious and brutal members of the Gray Guild.
The hero Alistar has the power and kindness that he saved not only humans but also mermaids, a sub-human. It said that Malto won’t forget such his figure until she die.】
Excerpt from Chapter 4 of 『Holy Sword Legend』.
