Volume 2 - CH 147

Yurie raised her battle-axe and, drawing on its weight to her full advantage, slammed it into Reizen.

Reizen, as he declared, seems to really intend to let himself be hit by about ten blows, and he doesn’t move at all from his position as if he is standing on the throne.

Judging from the way Yurie slammed the battle-axe into him without hesitation, it looks like she is moving with the intention of killing him. …… I wonder if this is okay.

The battle-axe, raised to a high angle, slammed into Reizen.

Nevertheless, it is a wonder that …… Reizen did not feel any pain at all, nor was he frightened and did not move as he stood there in a straight posture.

“Wha-?”

“Hah? Is this all you got?”

And then she swung her battle-axe in rapid succession, slamming it into Reizen not just ten times, but dozens of times, to no avail.

The barrage of blows was such that she could only claim to be an S-rank adventurer, and dust was flying all around them.

“Bull…..shit…….”

That’s when Yurie finally lets out a surprised voice.

The continuous blows continued, but they did not seem to be having any effect at all, and Reizen yawned and continued to receive the attacks.

Rose, who was watching next to me, could not hide her astonishment, and she was dumbfounded with her mouth open.

Well, it seems that Reizen’s defenses are not just one screw off, but all of them, so this reaction is normal, if you can call it normal. ……

“Ah, um, …… Ouren-san?”

“Hmm?”

“Was that Reizen-san was it ……? Is that person really human?”

“Hypothetically speaking. Among our party, the one with the highest defense is him. That kind of attack won’t get through his defense.”

“Eeeeh. ……”

The strongest in terms of capability in the party is Alena.

The strongest in terms of sheer skill is me, the fastest is Uchikage, and the one with the best defense and close combat is Reizen.

Yurie is completely the wrong person to fight with, …… well, I guess Reizen is not a monster and I hope he won’t take it that seriously …….

However, if it’s just Yurie, Alena can put up a decent fight too.

Weight the body with gravity,……, and then – snap.

Yep, I think she can make it.

Yurie swung her battleaxe widely to the side and hit the side of Reizen, but it was still repelled as well.

Using the recoil, Yurie took distance from Reizen.

“Hah, hah …… What the hell is going on?!”

“All right! It’s my turn then.”

Reizen took a light leap and then made a low posture as soon as he landed.

He then ran and closed in at once, kicking up the battle-axe held by Yurie.

“Crap-“

She put down the kicked-up axe and turned to attack, but Reizen avoided it with a slick step and this time kicked the battle-axe up sideways.

The battleaxe was kicked up, and Yurie was dragged along with it.

Yurie was knocked down by the force of the kick, but she managed to regain her footing and readied her battleaxe once more, but by that time Reizen was already approaching, and this time he kicked the battleaxe into the ground as if to impale it.

Watching the fight, I thought that …… Reizen was obviously out of it.

If Reizen was serious, he would have been able to strike a blow somewhere on her body, but he intentionally aimed at her weapon and attacked.

It is as if the weapon is the main body of the opponent.

However, it seems that the action is not meaningless; he is repeatedly kicked, dives into the ground, and when her weapon is kicked to the side, Yurie is blown away together with it.

Yurie, who was forced to make such impossible maneuvers, seemed to be gradually becoming exhausted, and finally he let go of her weapon, perhaps because she had lost the strength in her hands.

At that moment, Reizen kicked the battle-axe to the side, which resulted in only the battle-axe flying away this time.

Having lost her weapon, Yurie was kneeling down exhausted and seemed to be breathing heavily on her shoulders.

“hah …… hah …… hah …… hah ……”

“So weak. Are you really an S rank adventurer? No, is an S-rank adventurer actually at this level?”

(Fui : Ouch)

Sigh. He’s getting a little carried away, isn’t he?

“Reizen. Leave it at that. This is not the place to stir things up.”

“But aniki, in a situation like this, if you don’t show your ability, they will attack you again and again, won’t they?”

“Are you a yakuza or something? That’s a foolish thing to do, you idiot.”

“Which one, ……?” (Stupid/fool or idiot)

“Both. And don’t get carried away.”

“aight….”

Reizen comes back to us, a little dejected.

I was a little impressed that both of them (The girls) could do so well in such a dark place.

“Huee …… Yurie got beated up ……”

“Is Yurie strong?”

“Yes,……. In the Kingdom of Saletana, there is almost no one who doesn’t know her, and he seems to have been asked to be a bodyguard for the royal family because of her ability… but it didn’t last very long.,…….”

“I see. Because of her personality, she was immediately dismissed from her position.”

“That is about it.”

So much she was deemed as the strong one.

It’s not surprising that she’s been rude or something,…… but I didn’t expect her to do the same thing in front of the royal family…….

But it seems that she is capable.

As far as I could tell from watching the battle, she wasn’t using her skills…… but she might have been hiding them.

I don’t think she could afford to hide her skills,…… but she may have wanted to win with her battle axe technique alone, but I guess that’s something only she can tell.

“I mean, that thing earlier, was she seriously trying to kill me?”

“Oh, no. Yurie has a non-lethal skill. She just tried to knock you out. The same way she beat up a few adventurers who came on to her. ……”

“That’s scary. ……”

“We don’t kill people we’ve just met. Except for bandits.”

“Ah, that’s right …….”

As I thought, such a person wouldn’t hesitate to kill other is exist. ……

I wonder if there will come a time when that happens to me too.

Well, there are some people who are just dangerous to keep alive. ……

I mean, anything is possible.

That’s scary.

Oh, it seems that Reizen has returned to Alena and Uchikage’s place to reflect on the battle that just occurred.

When Reizen attacked, he did not once take or parry the battle-axe.

The reason for this is that the battle was won by a very dexterous tactic of hitting only those areas that were full of openings and continuing to reduce the opponent’s strength.

If it were me, I would have slashed that battle-axe.

Or break it. ……

If I could hit it with even one blow, I could easily destroy the battleaxe.

It would be natural since he has such strong skills.

However, contrary to Reizen and the others, Yurie seems to be very depressed.

That is understandable.

After all, she couldn’t even inflict a single wound on her opponent with the weapon that she was good at.

On the contrary, she was just played around by her opponent.

If she had such high pride, it was understandable that she felt down.

“…… Hey, Rose. Is she all right?”

“She’s a little down right now this time – ……. I hope she knows how much this has cost her. Even so, Reiji-san is strong isn’t he? If that’s the case, I’m convinced that he defeated the Red Boar.”

“Hmm? It wasn’t Reizen who defeated the Red Boar you know?

“Ah, is that so? That means, the whole party isn’t it?”

“Nah, I defeated it by myself.”

“……Eh?

That was super easy.

I think it would be bad to say so, so I’ll stop here.

No, in fact, I’m actually a little happy to have defeated an S-ranked monster all by myself.

A little bragging would not be unreasonable.

No one told me to hide this, and I don’t have any problem with that.

“You’re kidding, right?”

“You can ask those three guys, but …… and I’m not kidding you know?”

“How did you handle the whole charge bash of the Red Boar?”

“Eh, what the heck. I took him down before I let him attack me like that. …… I don’t even know it can bash attack.”

There was no sign that the Red Boar was using any skill.

I think it was just a straight charge attack. ……

It was a little fast, I think.

What about the …… no wait?

Actually, isn’t that Charge Bash actually its skill name?

I have no idea what kind of skill it is from the name, but it’s a skill used by S-ranked monsters, so I’m sure it’s powerful in its own right.

But I cut it off. ……

“Hmm, I guess I don’t have a clue.”

“Eh, are you sure it’s ……?”

“I don’t know what I don’t know. Well, it was pretty big and slow, wasn’t it?”

“It wasn’t only Reizen-san who was out of …… standard.”

How rude.

The only one with out-of-spec status is Reizen.

“Well, well, …… Rose. Go comfort Yurie for now. Before she mutters some kind of curse.”

“Ah, yes.”

There is something eerie about the idea of a continuous series of grudge-filled mumblings.

I don’t want to hear them too much, so I’ve asked Rose to go comfort her for now, but I wonder if she can recover from being beaten up so …… badly.

As for me, I’m tired today too, so I’m going to take a rest.

I don’t know what those two will do, but I don’t think they’ll be leaving at this hour.

We each did what we wanted to do and then went to sleep.