Chapter 20: Accident – 3

Chapter 20: Accident – 3

After an unexpected storm passed, the office quickly returned to normal.

The reason why the office felt hot was probably because Christie had been using fire magic until just now.

“…Thank you. For saying that.”

“Does someone who’s thankful hug people so hard? Please think about Christie’s strength…”

I stared at the woman with soft brown hair and fresh green eyes in front of me.

Although it was hidden by the uniform and the lines of the body itself felt thin, it was definitely a solid-looking body.

Such a solid body made through various training and practice.

‘…She is a strong person… She virtually annihilated the criminal organization in the capital.’

I don’t know what it’s like at this point, but after the Duke died, Christie was half out of her mind for a while.

I don’t know exactly why and how the Duke died, but… judging from Christie’s reaction, it’s very easy to predict that it was an assassination.

Was it the backlash? Fifteen days after the Duke’s death. Not even a single common criminal could be seen in the capital.

In that place, only the legend of a defense commander who single-handedly smashed numerous criminal organizations and cut off their breath without an inch of mercy remained.

After a little more time, Christie overcame all that anger and loss and returned to normal.

…After that, a ghost story arose that when a high-ranking aristocrat was assassinated, blood flowed through the sewers of the capital instead of water.

Anyway, Christie, who is described in the novel, regained her mind and returned to normal after single-handedly annihilating the criminal organization in the capital.

Because of that, she had more scars, pushed people away, and was more suspicious than she is now.

Maybe if I had met Christie after the novel started… well, I don’t know, but we wouldn’t have had this kind of relationship.

…I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.

“What are you looking at so intently?”

I hesitated for a moment about what to answer that question.

…The problem is that my mouth automatically said the words.

“…Christie’s pretty face?”

Ah, I made a mistake.

It was sincere, but I made a mistake.

Of course, I had thought that she had a face that matched my taste when I was a man from the first time I met her.

…The problem is that I’m a woman now.

And, there were definitely emotional changes that came with it.

If there was a possibility that I had romantic feelings for Christie when I saw her in the past… I should say that I purely think she’s ‘pretty’ now?

Maybe even if I see a handsome man, I won’t have romantic feelings, but I’ll just think ‘he’s handsome’.

…It seemed more accurate to say that I had virtually lost my romantic feelings.

The problem is, considering Christie’s personality, the next action is…

“……”

Christie’s face quietly turns red.

Anyone could see that she was embarrassed.

Enough for emotions to be openly revealed on Christie’s face, where emotions are not usually revealed.

…Who would think that she is the defense commander who single-handedly massacred dozens, maybe hundreds, of people in the future when they see that.

“I, I have to go! I… have to! Yes, I have to finish cleaning up the office!”

I was pushed out by Christie and came out.

…I wanted to talk a little more.

***

*Congratulations. You have successfully become deeply involved with the ‘main character’ that you were trying to avoid so much?*

“Haa…”

*Oh? This time, your sigh is shorter though?*

“Because Christie is better than Elena? I just have to be careful of assassination here. ……Maybe.”

Is it because I was attacked by Elena once, or is it because I just have a strong human affection for Christie?

I didn’t dislike being involved with Christie like this.

Honestly, it felt like I was getting a little further away from the proposition of a peaceful daily life… but still, she was the main character I liked the most.

“And one person is okay, right? It seems like it would be easier to make a living in many ways if I had the Duke family as my backing.”

*I think I said something similar last time. Anyway, I’m happy? I want you and the main characters to get involved in the first place?*

“…Didn’t you never say that?”

*There’s no need to say things that you would hate without any situational context, right? It could just increase your antipathy towards the system.*

At that word, I was about to argue that you’re saying it now, so it doesn’t seem like I won’t have antipathy.

In a brief moment, I felt my five senses, which sensed the crisis, being pushed to the limit.

A faint but rapidly growing sound of cutting through the wind.

Before the information was even transmitted to my head, my body moved reflexively first.

Thwack!

With a dull sound, an arrow stuck in the ground.

…If I hadn’t moved, it would have hit my leg exactly and I would have been neutralized as it was.

“…What, you dodged it? That?”

“Tsk! Your skills have deteriorated a lot? You can’t even hit this?”

“Quiet. Focus on capturing the target.”

And, the three robbers who reveal themselves immediately after that.

…It’s ambiguous to even say that they revealed themselves because they were wrapped up from head to toe.

“…Take out the potion bottles.”

*I will supply them from the inventory whenever you need them.*

For a moment, I felt a very strong sense of skepticism about getting involved with Christie.

In addition… I felt a strong anger towards the robbers in front of me.

The kidnapping and threats of people around her, which cannot be left out when describing Christie’s past.

Human scum who don’t even hesitate to do such things if they are given money.

Today really seems to be a series of accidents all day long.

***

A robber holding a crossbow carefully examines the girl, and a robber spinning a dagger while laughing at the girl.

And… a robber with a huge shield who seems to be their leader.

In front of such three robbers stood a frail girl without any weapons.

“Hey, if you don’t resist, you can just go easily, right? There’s no need to neutralize you so you can’t move?”

“……”

The robber with the dagger threatens with a sneer.

But, the girl just glared at him coldly.

“Oh? Look at this bitch’s eyes? What, do you think we can’t touch you because you have a connection with the capital’s defense commander?”

“…That’s enough.”

The robber with the huge shield warned in a low voice, but the robber with the dagger didn’t listen.

“Rather, you’re being targeted by us because of that defense commander! Our employer told us to bring anything that can strangle that great defense commander.”

“Stop! Saying more about the mission than that is a violation of the contract!”

“…Tsk. You’re such an idiot.”

Even while the robbers were making a fuss among themselves, the girl was still glaring at the robbers.

As if calculating something.

“Hey, I’ll make you an offer.”

“What is it?”

“Surrender willingly, we’ll capture you with all your limbs intact.”

The robber with the shield spoke in an imposing voice, but… the girl didn’t have any change in expression.

As if such threats were nothing.

“That’s funny. Did you think I would surrender?”

“…The negotiation has failed. Let’s start neutralizing the target.”

At the same time as that word, an arrow is fired again from the crossbow, and the robber with the dagger runs out as quickly as that arrow.

Even so, the girl stood still.

If someone else saw it, it might have looked like her body was frozen in fear…

Thwack!

The sound of the arrow that was stuck in the floor again and.

Whoosh!

The sound of the dagger cutting through the air showed that the girl was never afraid.

“Target… That’s an interesting word.”

Before she knew it, a small glass bottle was in the girl’s hand.

***

In a brief moment, the moment the robbers recognized that there was a glass bottle in the girl’s hand.

The girl’s arm moved.

The glass bottle flies towards the head of the robber who tried to grab the girl from behind but failed and lost his balance for a moment.

Smash!

It was definitely not the sound that would be made when a person’s head and a normal glass bottle collided.

It was beyond just breaking the glass bottle, it was virtually exploding, so it was understandable.

It was a natural course for the robber who was hit directly to stagger for a moment.

And the next moment, what the robber, who grabbed his aching head and barely looked ahead, caught in his sight was…

The figure of the girl clenching her fist and flying towards him.

And, the intense shock that is transmitted from the abdomen immediately after that.

…That was definitely not a shock that could be imagined from the fist of a delicate girl.

Therefore, the robber tried to regain his posture and respond somehow, even dropping the dagger he was holding…

When his body was slammed into the ground by the girl’s kick, and his head was stepped on as it was, he could no longer maintain consciousness.

It was the girl’s perfect victory.

***

“…Yeah, she’s not an ordinary one.”

One robber was neutralized in an instant, but even so, the girl was not dominant.

The other two robbers hesitated for a moment at the sight of the robber with the dagger being defeated, but they quickly got ready and attacked again.

“You won’t be able to avoid it this time!”

A robber charging with a shield, and a robber shooting arrows rapidly from the rear.

If you dodge the arrow, you will be hit by the shield of the charging robber, and if you dodge the shield, you will have no choice but to be hit by the arrow, a lose-lose situation.

The girl’s choice was to move towards the side where the arrow was flying and attack the back of the charging robber.

With the dagger that the robber she had just knocked down in her right hand, the girl moved her body.

Towards the side where the arrows keep flying, without a moment’s hesitation.

Thwack!

The sound of the arrow piercing her shoulder is clearly heard.

The girl’s left arm lost its strength and drooped as it was.

But, the girl didn’t stop.

As if she couldn’t feel the pain of the arrow stuck in her.

And… when she finally grabbed the back of the charging robber, the girl’s dagger in her right hand moved.

As if to repay the injury to her shoulder that was hit by the arrow, piercing the right shoulder of the robber holding the shield.

“Keuh!”

“Shut up. Are you in pain with just this much?”

And, the girl’s punches that continue towards the robber immediately after that.

It was a literal punch without professionalism or system…

But the girl’s irrational power was enough to knock the charging robber unconscious on the floor very easily.

“D-Don’t come!”

The last remaining robber was frightened by the sight.

The girl just gave such a robber a cold look.

“The arrow you just got hit with has pain amplification magic imbued in it! If a little more time passes, you’ll probably suffer from indescribable pain!”

“So? What does that have to do with the current situation?”

“If you move recklessly beyond that, you might faint from the pain! So I…”

The robber could no longer continue speaking.

Because he ended up screaming instead of speaking.

The dagger the girl threw.

That dagger was neatly stuck in the robber’s leg.

…It was the exact same position as the girl’s leg that he had targeted at first.

“I was wondering why the place where I got hit by the arrow was suddenly throbbing, so there was such a prank?”

“You…! What are you, some kind of monster?”

Hair that has become a subtle color from the splattered blood.

The fact that she doesn’t seem to be in much pain even though one shoulder was directly hit by an arrow.

On top of that, her abnormal superhuman strength.

It was a reasonable thought for the robber to misunderstand the girl as a monster.

However…

“I’ve been in more pain than this just by breathing my whole life… Why would this arrow be so painful?

Pain… the more you experience it, the more dull it becomes.”

The robber could be sure the moment he saw the girl’s sneer.

That this girl has never lived a peaceful life as she appears.

That the biggest mistake was that they only came among themselves because she was a delicate and weak girl.

“Let the defense force catch the rest and think about it. Then, goodbye.”

With a cold gaze until the end, the girl turned around.

…Without any sign of pain.