Chapter 1, Episode: 23 Awakening

"What the hell is this? ! ! ! "

　The assassin Seagal cursed in his mind.
　He came here by using a magical tool to remove his body odor and to detect the location of the magical item which the priest was said to have.
　The holy beast that lives in this forest was unable to move because of a sacred ritual.
　In the meantime, he would check to see if the man was in the place indicated by the magical tool.
　If there was a man named Farne, he would kill him.
　That was the mission.
　Things were going well until halfway through.
　They've been able to eliminate the presence, eliminate the body odor, and come pretty close to the interior of the forest……
　Just as the magical tool was about to react, the situation shifted.

"Guaaaa! ! ! ! "

　One of his men was hit by a Trent and blown away.
　No way, the legendary monster Trent is in a place like this! ?
　As soon as he thought it was a tree and inadvertently used it as a foothold, one of his men was struck.

　Seagal was enraged.

　Why is there a monster in this place! ?
　Eldia forest was reported to have animals but no monsters.
　That's why he gathered assassins who were familiar with the habits of animals and were good at removing their presence....... He never expected that monsters would appear.
　Assassins who specialized in anti-monsters were different.
　The members here would not be able to defeat the monster.

　There was a cave in the area where the man was said to be and where the magical tool response was located.

　At least we can check in that one before we get out of there.

　Seagal decided to do so, and sent out instructions in code to those present. Three men drew the trents to them, one for each trent, and the rest headed for the caves.

　Although it was impossible to defeat the Trents, because of their large swinging motions, there was no obstacle to just running away from them.
　As soon as he tried to enter the cave with the rest of them while a few of his men were drawing them away.

　Whoosh! ! !

　An ivy attacked and Seagal quickly ducked it.

"Tsk! ! ! Was there a monster inside as well? ? "


　Seagal looked closer and saw a girl and a bear standing there, along with countless vines.

　He gasped at the out-of-place scene.

　The girl standing there was beautiful, her chestnut hair fluttering in the windless air.
　She had clear white skin and fiery red eyes. And yet she had a neutral face.
　The girl of mystical beauty merely smiled――

"Aaaa! "

　With these unintelligible words emanating from the girl, Seagal came to his senses as his subordinate who had entered with him was pierced by the vines.

　She was going to kill them, judging from the way she mercilessly pierced his head.

　I can't run away.

　Instinctively, he realized this.

　The girl who pierced his men one after another with a smiling face was - without a doubt - the devil.

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"Gyaaaa! ! ! ! ! "

　The demise of his companions echoed through the cave.
　That voice probably belonged to the captain, Seagal.

　Whip-whip.

　One of the assassins entered the interior of the cave, dragging his wounded leg.
　He managed to get through the ivy and the bear's eye with his stealthy skills and made it to the back of the cave.
　It was good to escape from the girl's ivy attack and bear's eye, but the cave entrance was blocked by the vines so there was no way to escape.
　He had no choice but to come to the back of the place to avoid being noticed....... There, the assassin Douglas stopped moving.

　There―― he was.
　The target priest floated in a fluffy ball of light-like object.


　This was the target……
　Douglas broke into a cold sweat.
　That girl and the bear were probably guarding this.

　So it is dangerous to stay here.

　The moment he thought that.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! ! ! ! ! "

　Douglas was pierced with a strange noise.
　On the side.

"Gah! ! ! "

"Aa! ! Aaー！ ! Aaー！ ! ! "

　The girl attacked Douglas mercilessly with vines.
　On his hands and feet. They twirled and crushed him so that he couldn't move.

"Help me! ! Help me! ! ! "

　Douglas screamed out in so much pain.
　He had been in the assassination guild and had tortured and killed many opponents.
　Perhaps the other party died in such pain.
　
　Still, it was a different story when it came to being beaten up himself.

　Even Douglas did not become an assassin because he wanted to.
　His father sold him out and forced him to join the guild.

　I don't want to die yet! I don't want to die! ! !

　That moment when he prayed.

"……Stop. Riese."

　A man's voice was heard―― and the ivy that had been attacking Douglas stopped dead in its tracks.
　As Douglas looked over there, tangled in ivy―― a man stood up from a ball of light.
　Probably the target priest.
　He was a young man, still in his twenties.

"Aaa……aa……"

　As soon as the man woke up, the girl's attack stopped.
　The girl just stood there with a surprised look on her face.

　………Did he save me?

　At that moment, Douglas thought that.
　The bear's merciless bite took Douglas' life.

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