Ankoku Kishi Monogatari ~Yuusha wo Taosu Tameni Maou ni Shoukansaremashita~

Part 2

Nut is saying so with an entranced voice. He couldn’t think of anything.

「Don’t you want to go there, Diehart-sama？」

Nut is saying so while heading toward the direction of the voice.

Nut’s condition seems to be strange judging by his voice.

Somehow, he became like this after hearing this song.

「Understood, let’s go」

I wanted to see the owner of this voice too.

After walking for a while, we arrived at a vacant plot of land with a huge fountain.

There was a naked woman immersing herself in the fountain with her lower half inside the fountain; it seems this woman-like thing is the one singing this song.

「Who’s there？」

Maybe because she noticed our presence, the woman is looking at our direction.

「Ah, no… My apologies for disturbing your singing session. We were wondering who was singing with this wonderful voice」

I apologize. In fact, I am thinking, “Thank god my curiosity won over me, I got to see a rare thing.”

「It’s nothing, please don’t worry about it. How about you come to take a bath too？ 」

「No, we’ll refuse that offer. Well, we’ll excuse ourself then. Please continue your singing session」

When I’m about to leave.

「Diehart-sama. The water is so pretty. How about spending our night here？ 」

Nut, who remained on his place, is saying so.

「Nut, you can’t drink this water, you know. There’s poison mixed in the water」

「EEH, POISON！！ 」

Nut shouts with a surprised expression.

There’s poison, made of magic, mixed in the water of this fountain. It seems to be the type that will paralyze your body.

「Why that kind of poison is… Let’s rest for a while」

The woman’s saying so.

I could feel a bit of agitation in her words.

This woman is looking at myself like some kind of predator.

I became sensitive toward the gaze that neither had malice or hostile ever since I came to this world.

Even if, for example, we were separated by dozens metres, I can feel the malice as long as it’s being directed at me. According to Ruugas, it’s seems like enemy perception ability, but I don’t feel good at all on being exposed to such an unpleasant gaze.

Moreover, this woman is using charm magic upon us since a while ago.

That’s also the cause of such unpleasant feeling. Maybe, Nut becoming strange is also thanks to the song a while ago.

This woman might be a demon as I can’t feel anything on seeing her body[naked].

She was a demon that preyed on the charmed living beings that approached her because of her female-like human body and her song.

Naturally, I have no intention to be eaten by her.

But, I couldn’t get into the mood to fight this demon.

So, I’m thinking of leaving it alone. That’s why I want to leave this place immediately.

For that reason, I activate my intimidation so that she won’t be hostile toward us. Though we were frequently become targets for demons along with our journey, most of the demons will run away as long as I send my intimidation toward them.

But my prediction is way off, this woman shaped demon has turned even more hostile toward me.

「You bastard！！ 」

The woman’s expression twists into anger and a gigantic head of a beast suddenly comes out from the fountain. There are six beast heads that are rushing to attack me by stretching their long necks.

My prediction is way off, that beast didn’t have any intention to let me go. Moreover, its agility didn’t match its appearance.

「HA！！ 」

I’m avoiding one of the heads that come to attack me first and then kill it while drawing my sword.

「GUUUUUUUUUUUUU！ ！ HOW DARE A MERE HUMAN！ ！ ！ 」

The woman is showing an anguished expression. That face already lost all of its grace from a while back.

「EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE MERELY FOOD！！ ！ 」

The water of the fountain then rises in the air to form a gigantic lump of water.

「Bubble Shot（Water Splash）！！ ！ ！ ！ 」

As the demon shouted, the gigantic lump of water is descending upon me.

「Magic Shield（Magic Shield）！！ 」

A circular shield of light engulfed my entire body as I shouted that name. ‘Water splash’ is thwarted by my magic shield.

As I stopped the water shot, the demon came out of the water.

The lower half of its body hidden within the fountain became exposed in bright daylight. Several tentacles and six gigantic beast heads were its lower body parts and woman-like upper body parts respectively.

That was an ugly figure.

The demon is trying to come toward me.

It’s not that agile, so it might not be able to move quickly on the land. あ

「Are you safe, Nut？」

「Yesh… Somehow it become quite hectic」

It seems Nut couldn’t follow such a rapid development.

「Get down, Nut」

After Nut landed on the ground, he immediately retreated behind me.

「H-HOW DARE YOU TO DO THAT TO ONE OF MY HEADS！！ 」

The demon is looking at me with eyes that are filled with rage. Black blood that spilled on the ground from the head that I cut is decimating the land. White smoke is rising from the path where the black blood is flowing at. The vegetation in the surroundings where the blood spilled is withering. Maybe there’s poison in this demon blood.

Though I noticed it doesn’t have quick movements, I’ll be safe as long as I run away, but the condition of the demon made it clear that it’ll chase me till the end.

That was a bit troublesome. Moreover, I might be able to win if I fight.

「A MERE HUMA~~N！！ 」

The demon is heading toward me. Its movements are slow.

Its beast heads and tentacles are attacking me.

I twist my body and retreat after cutting off it’s tentacles and the second beast head.

「NO WAY！！ 」

The demon is surprised by such a scene.

I jumped behind the demon and just like that, I killed it with a slash from my sword to it’s woman-like upper body.

「N…. NO WAY…..！！ 」

Just like that, the demon had fallen.

The demon is bending its neck to look at me.

「I… I see… Y… You’re a divine being huh… To think that I took you as a mere human… Such… Such a disgrace…」

After saying so, the demon crumbles down.

「… I’m not a divine being though」

But I’m sure that it won’t be able to refute my remark.

The demon eventually disappeared along with the arising white smoke. It seems I just defeated it.

「Diehart-sama~. Are you alright？ 」

Nut is making a detour while passing the place where the demon had died and ran toward me.

「I had never seen that kind of a demon until now, quite a formidable foe huh」

I only saw goblins or ogres along our journey, thus I never saw this kind of demon.

「Yup… It’s also my first time seeing this kind of demon」

I was surprised by the fact that Nut had also never seen it before. It seems that it was quite a rare demon huh.

Well, it should be okay to ask about this demon from someone else, right.

I’m looking into the forest.

Someone was looking at us, but I can’t feel any hostility from that person’s gaze. It seems that one isn’t a goblin or an ogre. I wonder what kind of being it is.

「May I ask who’s there？」

I’m raising the question first.

When I ask that person, a girl then showed up from the shadow of the tree.

Her age might be slightly below me. She was a blue-haired beauty with white skin.

Why this kind of girl is in this place, she might be a demon of the same kind as the previous one.

But I don’t feel any hostility from her, and her gaze isn’t unpleasant like the demon from before.

「Diehart-sama. That’s an elf」

「An elf」

Surely, upon looking at her ears, I realized that it was long like the ones in the description of elf race’s features.

I’m sure that Ruugas told me before about the elven race being composed nothing but woman and having an extremely long life span compared to a human’s. In addition, every elf is far more powerful in using spirit magic than the average human, that’s why they can live inside the forest where demons are running rampant without relying on the rampart.

And, it seems that they repeatedly kidnap the human males with whom they fall in love with.

I’m looking at her. I don’t think it’s a bad thing for a young man even if he’s kidnapped by her. Well, that has nothing to do with me.

I wonder what business this elf has with me.

「Uhm… Are you a god？」

The elf girl is asking timidly.

「Nope, just a human？」

I reply as a rhetoric.

In fact, I feel a bit anxious. Is it really okay to take the people of the human race in this world as the same with the human race in my world?

Why because, irrespective of whether it was me, Reiji, or the others, we have superhuman powers far surpassing the realm of humans in this world. The only thing that didn’t have much difference is just our outward appearance.

「No way, how can a human beat that Scylla when even us, the elf race, aren’t a match against it. Are you really not a god？」

It seems the demon from before is called Scylla.

「Nope, I’m definitely not a god…」

I’m not that much of an important character to be called as a god.

「I see」

The girl is approaching me. And after she came right in front of me, she’s taking a good look at me from head to toe.

「Hum, by the way, what kind of a person are you？….Why are you in this kind of place？ 」

The girl’s face keeps approaching me.

I am reflected in her eyes. I unintentionally avert my gaze. My heart is beating loudly since no girl but Shirone had ever approached me back in Japan.

「N… No, I’m just a traveler. And I’m looking for a place to rest for a while」

I reply with a flustered tone.

「Eh, you’re not going to the residence of the humans？」

“The residence of the humans” might be referring to the rampart. I’m nodding to answer the elf girl’s question.

「Yes… I am caught in a special circumstance….」

「Hu~m, then I take that you have nowhere to go. Hey, how about coming to my house？ 」

「EH! ？ 」

I’m perplexed. I hear that despite the fact of elven race falling in love with a young human, they’re not that friendly with the humans.

When looking at her, I can’t feel any hostility at all. Her gaze is neither unpleasant nor creepy.

After pondering for a while.

「Well then, please allow me to receive your good will」

I lost to my curiousity. I was curious in what one called as the dwelling place of the elves.

「Yup, it’s okay」

The elf girl starts guiding me into the forest with a light smile.