Volume 3 - CH 7

Act 3 – 7 : The Silver Witch

When Omiros and the others turned around, what met their sight was an extremely beautiful girl who had appeared behind them unnoticed. They couldn’t help but stare at her shiny silver hair, transparent white skin, and lush body wrapped in a black dress. It was the first time they had ever witnessed such beauty, it was as if she was a Goddess who descended upon this earth. Her looks charmed them so much that they didn’t take notice of the giant scythe in her hand.

「Are you guys from Algore?」

The girl slowly opened her enchanting mouth and asked as she pointed her giant scythe toward them.

「Yeah, we did come from Algore. May I ask, what business do you have with us, Young Miss? You don’t seem to be an ordinary person.」

While everyone was speechless and unable to move, Parsish came out of his minor stupor and answered in their stead.

「I see, so you guys really did come from Algore huh. Let’s cut the chase then, do you know about Herpes?」

Omiros and his comrades looked at each other, baffled by her unusual question. They had never heard of anyone called Herpes before.

「None of you know of him? I heard he was hailed as the brave hero of Algore…」

Omiros finally understood after hearing the girl’s last remark.

「If it’s the brave hero of Algore that you’re looking for, we only have Parsish; we don’t know anyone called Herpes.」

Maxis corrected the girl.

「I see… then which one of you is Parpesh?」

Despite Maxis’ correction, the silver-haired girl didn’t seem to deem it worthy to memorize Parsish’s name.

「I’m the one called Parsish, Young Lady.」

Parsish introduced himself while flicking his long hair.

「Goblin face… so you’re the one called Herpes, huh?」

「It’s Parsish… whatever, yeah, it’s me.」

Since he knew that it was useless trying to correct her, Parsish gave up and simply played along with the girl, trying to ignore the beginning of her last sentence. On the other hand, Omiros and the others remained confused at the girl’s passing “Goblin face” remark. Parsish was even extremely handsome from their perspective as men—he was the exact opposite of an ugly Goblin.

「I see, you’re definitely that Pa-… whatever it is. Then the rest is simple, fight Kuna right now. Kuna wants to test the results of her training.」

The girl declared as she positioned herself in a fighting stance with her giant scythe. Omiros and the others couldn’t hide their shock at her unexpected exclamation.

「Why though? I have no reason to fight you?」

「Kuna just wants to see the results of Kuna’s training.」

「I don’t know what you mean but… are you by any chance a… Nargolian?」

The silver haired girl nodded upon hearing Parsish’s question.

「Yes, Kuna lives in Nargol.」

Her remark brought another wave of shock to Omiros and co.

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「You live in Nargol? That place is filled with monsters, how can you live there? Are you not human?」

「Is she that legendary daemon…. the one they call a witch?」

「I heard that the female daemon has an extremely terrifying figure. But… she’s way too beautiful.」

「Yeah, too beautiful to the point that she doesn’t look human either.」

Omiros and his comrades, ignoring the fact that the girl was right in front of them because of their shock, couldn’t help but start discussing their impressions of her.

If she was Nargolian, then the girl was supposed to be their enemy. They wondered whether that was the reason she tried to attack them?

Omiros then tilted his head.

「That’s strange, a female daemon should be more… are you really a daemon?」

Omiros finally gave rise to such a possibility after hearing Parsish’s reply. He thought that Parsish might’ve met a daemon before.

「Kuna isn’t a daemon. Kuna is Kuna.」

Though the girl looked calm on the surface, everyone could see that she was quite irritated after hearing their speculations.

「Enough with the chit-chat and draw your sword. If you’re not going to attack, I’ll be the one who comes first.」

The girl seemed to be ready to attack at any given moment.

「Given a choice, I would never choose to fight a girl but… I guess there’s no other option. I apologize if me saying this is rude, but you see, I’m quite strong.」

Parsish drew his sword and raised his shield.

「HERE I COME!!」

The girl rushed in, swinging her scythe.

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「Fufufu, that kind of attack…」

Parsish received the gir’s scythe with his shield.

「… GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!」

And was sent flying the next moment. He was blown back while raising a strange scream, crashing against the rock behind him.

Omiros and the others were simply dumbfounded upon seeing such an impossible situation unfold.

「PARSISH-SAMA!」

「PARSISH-DONO!!」

They snapped out of their daze in the next second and hurriedly rushed toward Parsish.

「How powerful… gob…」

Parsish managed to somehow stand on his feet again after his body struck the rock. But, his staggering gait was enough to tell Omiros and co that he had received a considerable amount of damage. It looked like he was about to fall any moment now.

「No way… that Parsish-sama was…」

Omiros and his comrades were at a complete loss for words upon seeing Parsish, the most powerful warrior of Algore, easily being blown away by a girl whose frame was smaller than him.

「What are you surprised about? Kuna just poked him lightly you know.」

Those words filled Omiros and the others with even more dread than before—it seemed like the girl’s first attack was only for testing the water. If she put her full power into her attacks, then they were done for.

「It seems I really can’t underestimate you… but, I’m also just getting started.」

Despite his staggering gait, Parsish readied his sword and shield again.

「Your strength might be above me but, how about this! Fireball!!!」

Parsish fired a fireball from his hand, aiming it at the ground right in front of the girl and raising a cloud of dust. It was done intentionally to limit the girl’s field of view.

「HAAA!!!」

Parsish activated his speed magic along with his warcry. As the cloud of dust rose high enough to cover the girl’s field of view, Parsish moved like a gust of wind and, by the next moment, had circled around her and now stood behind her with a sword aimed at her back.

「I won. I will spare your life if you surrender right now.」

Parsish spoke to the girl with a smirk on his face.

「What the hell are you talking about? Is that all you’ve got?」

After saying so, the girl’s figure suddenly vanished.

「Eh?!」

Parsish was left dumbfounded upon witnessing that scene. The girl who was seconds ago right before him had suddenly vanished and was now standing behind him.

「W-WHEN DID SHE?!!」

Parsish turned around in shock.

「Now it’s my turn.」

The girl then swung her scythe.

「WUT!!」

Parsish stared in disbelief as the scythe falling towards him split into many and began attacking him.

「UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!」

Parsish couldn’t do anything but scream like a madman. The scythes were raining upon his body.

But then vanished a few seconds later.

「Eh?」

Parsish let out a dumbfounded voice once he saw the scythes had vanished. He then realized in the next moment that despite the multiple scythes that had attacked him, he was unscathed. He was baffled and couldn’t figure out what had just occurred.

「Rest assured, I won’t take your life. I just cut off your armor.」

After the girl uttered those words, Parsish’s armor started to fall, the pieces dropping on the ground one by one.

The girl’s scythe truly didn’t cut Parsish’s body, it just cut his armor, and so thoroughly at that. But then, it became clear that the armor wasn’t the only thing she cut. Parsish’s shirt under the armor got sliced too and fell on the ground.

「Oops… it seems I still need to train to control my strength.」

The moment the girl said so, Parsish’s trousers fell to the ground.

And it wasn’t just his trouser.

His underwear fell too.

「How small… you’re quite tiny… aren’t you?」

The girl muttered as she looked down at Parsish’s crotch.

Omiros and co looked at Parsish with compassion upon hearing the girl’s remark. Those words were a critical blow to any normal man.

「Uuuh… RETREAT! EVERYONE, RETREAT NOW!!」

Parsish escaped first with his tail between his leg, while covering his tiny sized p*nis.

His retreating figure was simply too uncool.

「MONSTER!!」

「WITCH! IT’S A SILVER WITCH!!」

「RUUUUUUN!!」

Omiros’ subordinates followed Parsish, retreating in haste.

「OMIROS! LET’S GO!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!!!」

「I KNOW!!」

Thus, they retreated back to Algore.

A few seconds later, Omiros took one last look at the witch, noticing that she didn’t intend to go after them.

But, he noticed that another figure had already stood beside the girl.

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「Too weak. At this rate, I don’t even know whether I’ll become stronger or not.」

Kuna was grumbling as she saw the retreating figure of Omiros and the other.

「It can’t be helped. You’re way too strong for them…」

Kuroki patted Kuna’s head. Thus, Kuna’s vexed face softened a bit.

「Those people have already escaped. What shall we do, Kuroki?」

「Really now… let’s see…」

Kuroki folded his arms while pondering about what to do next.

It just so happens that they found some humans coming out of a Goblin’s nest while flying on Glorious’ back. Thus, Kuroki had decided to see whether the hero, Parsish, was among the group. But, since he pretty much realized that they would escape as soon as they saw Glorious, he decided to descend a bit away from them and had then erased his and Kuna’s presence to prevent them from noticing them, allowing them to observe their situation in secret.

Kuroki couldn’t guess their reason for coming so far in this dangerous land. But, if they were Algorian, there was a high chance that they were some of the people who were exiled with Regena to the Goblins’ nest.

He felt that he might need to reconsider his plan to send Regena back to Algore. But, he still needed to ask directly to know the situation over there. That’s why he first needed to teach them a little painful lesson to fulfill his promise to Datie to repel them from Karon kingdom.

It was during that moment that Kuna spoke to him. She told him that she wanted to see the results of her scythe training.

Despite its appearance, the scythe was an extremely tricky weapon and, sure enough, live combat was the best way to see the results of one’s training.

But, Kuroki didn’t really want to see Kuna fight, he felt that it might endanger her life. However, in the end, he could never say no to her. Though it was rather inaccurate, Kuroki had the ability to measure his opponent’s abilities to some extent. Thus, he already knew that the group they discovered was too weak to become her opponent.

After making sure that there won’t be any unexpected factors during the battle, they decided to let Kuna appear before them while also using that chance to test her power.

Naturally, Kuroki was hiding his presence nearby, just in case he needed to prevent any danger that came her way. But, it turned out to be needless worry as the other party turned out to be far weaker than his expectation and easily got scared by Kuna. As a result, Kuna couldn’t ask them for the reason why they came to this place.

Though Kuroki hesitated for a moment whether to go after them, he ended up giving up his plan.

「Come to think of it, they seemed to be talking about something, do you know what they were talking about?」

Kuroki’s hearing had reached superhuman level after he was summoned to this world. But since he was focused on their surroundings, he had failed to hear the men’s conversation.

「If I’m not wrong, it’s… Re…」

「Re？」

Kuna paused for a moment and then pondered for a while.

「Uhm, that’s all I heard. Sorry Kuroki.」

Kuna apologized to Kuroki.

「Well, I guess it can’t be helped if Kuna also didn’t hear what they were talking about.」

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Kuroki shook his head as if he also had no intention to pursue the matter anymore. In the first place, he didn’t place that much importance in their conversation. If he wanted to know, he could easily catch them and ask them directly. Yet, it’s not like they were going to answer him obediently even if he caught them. Though he could ask Kuna to use charm magic, domination magic, or lie detection magic to force them to answer, he gave up on that option since doing that might break their spirit.

「Well, let’s go back to the Demon King’s Castle.」

「Okay Kuroki.」

Thus, Kuroki rode on Glorious’ back along with Kuna and they went back to Nargol.

「Kuroki…」

Kuna then called Kuroki’s name from behind.

「What’s the matter, Kuna?」

「Yours is huge…」

「Is that so…」

Kuroki tilted his head in confusion upon hearing Kuna’s ambigous remark.

（Huge? What’s huge? Is she referring to my back which looks so big from behind?）

Thus, Kuroki and Kuna returned while having such an “innocent” conversation.