episode_0061

The actual time that had passed may not have been that long, but when I came out of the cave, the sunlight I saw again was special, as if I had seen it for the first time in years.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to enjoy the warmth and brightness.

We already had to catch that murderous rabbit quickly to prevent war, but there was one more reason to hurry.

A contract with Aladikh, a spider who was exiled by the gods and lives in the shadows.

There wasn’t a specific time limit set in the contract, but none of us wanted to hold on to her poison and thread contract for too long…

Like I said, you’ll have to hurry up a little more to catch the spider with its web.

“I understand your plan. Imperial.

However, in the end, it comes back to the first problem… how to catch that rabbit.”

The female warrior of this land reminds us with a frown that she came to this cave, which was her home and grave, in the first place to solve the problem.

It’s as if he doesn’t like the current situation, where he hasn’t been able to solve the problem and has yet another problem.

“Is that horn still intact?”

As if answering my question, she again showed me the mysterious tool she had brought with her from the time she left the tribe to use for this rabbit hunt, hanging from her waist.

He tilted his head slightly as if he didn’t understand.

“…Well, you saw firsthand how useful this was when fighting that bitch…but that’s only when the cursed thing tries to fight us again.

If you blow this from afar, there’s a high chance that it will run away in the opposite direction rather than come closer, right?”

“That’s enough. What we’re trying to do is shepherd hunting.”

Her approximate location could still be traced.

If she continued to emit the mysterious roar that had once caused her such terrible pain in a specific direction, it would be possible to induce her to flee in a specific direction.

Of course, the female warrior must have pictured this in her head as well.

Nevertheless, it was also clear why she erased the picture from her mind.

That ‘specific direction’ is too broad to be protected by just us, who are less than 10 people.

However, it is not only difficult to obtain cooperation from her tribe that is far away, but also other nearby tribes that are wary of us.

I doubted how many of them would be able to find a warrior who could stop the murderous rabbit even for a moment until we arrived.

Not only would her decision to go hunting alone in the tribe after hearing the prophecy to ensure that there were no casualties be in vain, but in reality there would be no point in establishing a siege.

So what you need is-

“Of course, I will place a ‘bait’ in that direction that she will not be able to ignore and pass by.

And when her feet are tied there even for a moment… I catch her this time.”

I had no intention of losing my prey anymore.

I came all the way from the Empire to Britannia to catch her.

To stop Catenis’ endless ambition for immortality, and to prevent a war that might break out in this land.

And coincidentally, this hunt was also about thwarting the evil plan to be resurrected in a foreign land.

Failure is not tolerated.

“…I can’t believe it’s called bait…”

The female warrior quietly stretched out her hand and pointed as if to ask if it was what she expected, and I nodded in the affirmative.

“…I hope things don’t go wrong and I don’t have to deal with both of them.”

——

As another roar tore through her wounded ear, the cursed rabbit began to run again, clutching its long ears.

The blood that flowed from the wound painted red lines on the white chalcedony, but it was nothing compared to the pain her extremely sensitive ears felt from the constant noise.

Gritting his teeth, swallowing the unfamiliar pain and anger, the rabbit continued to run.

Of course, she wasn’t used to running away.

The reason she runs like this is usually because she wants to rip off someone’s throat with a knife.

Ever since she was cursed and consumed by madness, and was able to wield the chains that bound her as a weapon, she has always been a hunter, not a hunted person.

Maybe the curse placed on her is finally working ‘correctly’.

A curse that forcibly assumes the form of the weakest animal, a rabbit, and makes its weakened body pay for the slaughter it has committed.

That was the original purpose of the curse, the druid who had placed the curse on her a long time ago said.

Now, the price of that curse may be coming back to the portion that was not paid until now.

However, the rabbit, which had repeatedly stained and washed its white body with the blood of its enemies for a very long time, finally put a smile on its face again.

Even though she may have fallen into the position of prey, it was confirmed that she was a wild beast that hunters would not dare to look down on.

Even the most skilled warriors of this era realized that in order to hunt them, they had to set traps and prepare thoroughly.

Despite the pain and hurt, feeling a twisted sense of satisfaction that the gods’ curse had finally failed, even after hundreds of years had passed.

Therefore, she licks her hand covered in blood that has flowed from the wound with her tongue, then changes direction and runs away even while the ear-piercing sound of a trumpet is heard.

She doesn’t know that she is walking into a trap herself.

In the first place, it was so obvious that it was bait.

But even so… she couldn’t just ignore what her sensitive ears caught through the sound of the trumpet.

The bait left by the hunters was the latest and most valuable trophy among the many trophies she had obtained over a period of time much longer than the life of a human being.

They will know too.

That she couldn’t ignore the bait they threw at her.

That’s why he didn’t even try to hide the fact that he was bait and made her wait in the middle of the forest like that.

The white and red rabbit pulled out two swords and happily ran towards the trap waiting for her.

Then, jumping high, the swords were reversed in the air and struck as if they were striking.

“…I’m jealous. Because you seem to be able to fight happily even though you know everything about their intentions.”

The dragon soldier, who was once again armed with a sword, shield, and scale armor, looked at the rabbit and muttered briefly before raising his sword diagonally and slashing with his entire body weight.

For a moment, the metals that collided with a loud noise screamed and sparked.

The male and female rabbits, who seemed to have been stopped, quickly regained their momentum and extended towards Yong A-byeong’s neck in the same direction they had deviated from the collision.

Of course, her neck was protected by tightly woven scale armor, but Yongahbyeong was alert and raised her shield to block.

Because I knew very well what that centuries-old murderer was capable of.

There was a reason why they returned her original weapons and even treated her injuries when she acted as a decoy.

Even if it’s a dragon bottle, there’s no guarantee that you can hold that rabbit long enough unless it’s in the best condition.

When the two swords were caught with the shield stuck, Yongahyeong swung the shield downward and tried to knock down the enemy together.

On top of the rabbit’s head, which was suddenly tilted forward, Yong A-byeong slashed his sword using the weight of the handle, not the blade.

However, at that moment, the swords that were thought to be firmly embedded escape from the shield very easily.

From the grasp of a rabbit rolling on the floor, it becomes teeth that try to bite off the opponent’s feet and legs.

Yongahyeong quickly takes a few steps back and narrowly avoids the sudden attack.

“…sigh…it’s not easy after all.”

She muttered, bending her body slightly in sync with the movement of the rabbit rolling up.

No matter how much he was bound by Aladikh’s contract with Liber, the dragon soldier initially valued the performance of the mission given by his master more than his own life, so the threat of his life was meaningless.

Nevertheless, the reason why River and his group were able to get her to participate in the plan was simple.

Because she also knew that it was virtually impossible to capture the cursed rabbit alone in a situation where she did not know where her sisters had disappeared to.

For her, the only way to catch the rabbit cursed with immortality and return to the empire as Katenis had commanded was for Libert and his party’s plan to succeed and to steal the rabbit back.

Of course, it wasn’t easy, and they probably dragged her in because they were confident in stopping it…

Comparing the options, this was the best for her.

And, as if to cast doubt on whether her judgment was right, the sound of the sound resonates strongly in the forest.

Until the large spear flew faster and stuck in the back of the rabbit that was running towards her as if it had shot out its crouching body in one go.

Just as the claws of a bird of prey came down from the sky and snatched the rabbit in an instant, the spear blade broke the rabbit’s waist and rolled her to the forest floor.

The sound of the horse’s hooves was heard around the time the rabbit, which had rolled on the ground, raised its trembling body again with poison.

The imperial hunter, who had just thrown the spear carrying the speed, while riding on a half-man and half-horse that could run the fastest on earth, faced the red gaze of the cursed rabbit directly.

“…Let’s catch it here.”

I am determined not to lose sight of my prey this time.