The Witch and the Doll Swear

The heavy breathing beat the heartbeat.

The blood that seeps into fear squeezes out the power from every part of the body, driving his feet to run desperately.

— There is no escape.

Despair follows everywhere.

——How could it be possible to escape.

Behind him is a nightmarish shadow.

The whole body is immersed in darkness, only the eyes are shining with phosphorescent green light, exuding the stench of beasts, and the barbed fangs are dripping hot saliva in the wide open mouth.

Wolf.

Wolves in the dark.

It is a patient predator even after chasing the defenseless human.

Human beings who can escape from the hunting of wolves, unfortunately, do not exist like that themselves.

He ran desperately, but the lights of the town were getting farther and farther away in his field of vision.

Why do wolves suddenly appear around the city?

My brain has no energy left to think, I am just an ordinary human being, I don't know magic, I only have the martial arts that can teach the gangsters a lesson, not to mention the legendary treasure that can rival an elite army of thousands of people.

—Yes, are you dead?

——First day at a new job?

"Woo!!"

I have already run to a sore foot and kicked something.

In an instant, the sky and the earth were spinning, and when the starry night sky appeared in front of my eyes, I finally realized it.

- ah ah.

--Ruined.

The wolves are also tired of such a chase.

They form a circle, are they really clever predators, even when the prey is exhausted, they are always on guard against the dying struggle?

The lungs hurt like fire, and the moment I stood up, I felt the wind from behind.

What is that, I know very well.

However, I couldn't help but look back.

There's no point in trying to avoid it.

Unlike humans, wolves attack only when they can absolutely kill their prey.

For myself.

Even if you realize it, you can't escape it.

Even if you react, there is no way to fight back.

While such hopeless and wild thoughts were churning in my mind, from behind——at this moment, in my vision when I looked back.

The wolf's fangs tear the long winds of night.

close at hand.

Then--

……………………………………………………………………………………

The legend about the ghost mansion started half a year ago.

From Moby Whale Avenue to the north about two kilometers out of the city, on the hills close to the seaside beach, at some point, the mysterious old castle appeared there.

What is certain is that until a year ago, there was only an empty hill, and it was absolutely impossible to build such a grand and ancient castle in a year.

Also, almost never seen, are the inhabitants of that castle.

Among the walls piled up with dark masonry and dull steel fences, and covered with dense lavender creepers, all the windows are covered by dark curtains, and the Gothic spire has never been lit up to symbolize " The light of human existence.

It is said that there was once, only one curious adventurer who approached this old and vicissitudes of life castle, he chose the most sunny afternoon, with the holy emblem and holy water of the Church of Virtue on his body, and entered the castle cautiously .

That night, there was a heavy rain in Yansha City.

A businessman who accidentally took shelter from the rain under the castle wall suddenly heard a man screaming like a dead soul in the castle! The adventurer's companion was terrified and wanted to escape, when suddenly a person fell from the sky and fell in front of him! It was the adventurer who went in at noon. The adventurer's face was pale, and he lost consciousness after saying the word "ghost" on the verge of death. The moment to the castle...

For the first time, the entire castle was lit up, and every window lit up...

——Blue will-o’-the-wisp——

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, that idiot Ai Lifu must have done it on purpose!!"

In the early morning dusk, the blond girl hugged her head and howled helplessly.

The story told by the colleague with a malicious smile still echoed in his mind for a long time.

It's a horror urban legend about ghosts, about an ancient castle that suddenly appeared. Every city has such a legend, which lasts for a long time, stimulating the fearless who are curious about scary things, and haunting the cowardice who are terrified of such things. By.

Although Tina has always believed that she is neither the former nor the latter, she is just an ordinary girl whose life creed is "life is precious, safety first", and she will tell horror stories " Ah, it's all made up to scare people." This kind of person who ruins the atmosphere.

but.

When she was really, personally at the birthplace of horror and strange stories, she sadly discovered that she was actually the latter.

"No, no, calm down, calm down Tina, this is, this is the mansion of the honorary adventurer, it's not some ghost castle, calm down, calm down, there is nothing to be afraid of..."

Walking back and forth in front of the iron gate covered with ivy, the girl tried her best to comfort herself.

— Really not?

Reason sighed in pity.

——If not, why did you hesitate in front of the fence, and dare not open the unlocked gate no matter what?

"But, but—"

——Because of fear.

"Well!"

In the sensual and rational self-questioning, the girl didn't even have a few seconds to find an excuse for herself, and she was stabbed to pieces.

yes.

I am afraid, afraid of the closed door in front of me, and the Gothic castle covered with unusual lavender creepers.

Fear originated from here, and made her have nightmares last night after listening to her colleagues.

—Is this your job? The job you accepted yourself, right?

"Yes, that's right..."

The girl standing in front of the iron gate held a stuffed handbag in one hand and a roll of light brown paper in the other.

His name was written on the paper, Tina.

Position, Adventurer Association Salt Sand City Branch, Honorary Adventurer Liaison Officer.

Then, there was a map with a red line marking the residences of the people she wanted to contact as a liaison officer.

When she got this piece of paper this morning, Tingna twisted her neck like a rusty puppet and asked the person in charge if the route was drawn wrong or she had hallucinations in front of her eyes.

However, whether it was the person in charge who gave her the letter of appointment or the red line on the paper, they all clearly pointed her here.

The mysterious old castle on the outskirts of Yansha City, a seaside town, has become the birthplace of various horror legends in the city [here] since it suddenly appeared almost half a year ago.

"What kind of guy would he be, actually, living in a place like this..."

- I don't want to go.

——I really want to escape.

——I really want to go straight back to the Adventurer's Association and slap the person in charge on the face with this pile of death-heavy documents and orders, and tell her that I quit.

But.

This was his first job since he was transferred from the reception department in charge of contacting adventurers and came to the liaison department.

If he was overwhelmed by fear and fled back at this time, what awaited him would undoubtedly be a complete dismissal.

For a crane tail who didn't learn magic and martial arts in the academy, and couldn't graduate in the end, what kind of job will he find after leaving the Adventurer's Association?

Where can I find a job that gives me enough time to spend with my mom and dad, and pays me well enough?

Tingna turned her head in a daze. At the top of the hill, her eyes passed through the sparse morning fog blown by the sea breeze.

As far as the eyes can see is the seaside gradually becoming noisy in the morning light, the new rising sun is falling on the sea, and the fishing boats and merchant ships are ringing the bells to go to sea or return to port.

She grew up here, with sunny seas, white sandy beaches, and the city where she was born and grew up. Although it can't be compared with those bustling big cities, and there are almost no buildings with more than four floors, but But there are flocks of seagulls and warm sunny cities.

own hometown.

A place where I never thought I would leave.

"……call--"

Tina put the appointment letter in front of her eyes again.

At the end of the parchment was written the name of the person she wanted to contact.

— Liliana Einsteins.

No first name ever heard, no last name ever heard.

But since it's the honorary adventurer of the association, at least it can't be a ghost, right?

Maybe it could be a necromancer, but it can't be a ghost?

Even if there are all kinds of strange things on the mainland, it is impossible for a ghost to become an honorary adventurer of the Adventurer's Association, right?

That's right, impossible... right?

Again, took a deep breath.

Again, focus on the gate covered with signs of time.

——It should be, there is nothing to be afraid of!

Squeak——

The ear-piercing sound of the gate carved with crosses and hexagrams made the girl shy away from the little courage she mustered up. Stepping on the road paved with diamond-shaped stone bricks into the courtyard, the girl stopped a few steps.

It was so quiet.

The air here is really too quiet.

Sure enough, something is wrong... right?

- Squeak -

"Eh?"

From the iron gate behind him, that unbearably exciting voice sounded again.

--boom!

Ting Na looked back tremblingly, as expected - she saw in despair the door that she hadn't brought, but closed herself.

"No, no..."

The lavender creeper swayed its elegant leaves in the morning breeze, and the salad was ringing.

The sun was bright and warm, but Tingna regretted that she didn't wear an extra coat.

As far as the result is concerned, maybe the shock has exceeded the limit that can be tolerated.

After knowing that there was no escape route, the girl could calmly follow the path of stone bricks to the entrance, and finally, took ten minutes to walk up the three-level black marble steps with exquisitely carved handrails, and stood at the door. You can also clearly see the black door with the relief of hanging angels outside.

"Well, I'm the liaison officer of the Adventurer's Association. Excuse me, is Miss Liliana at home?"

More self-defeating than finally plucking up courage, Tina tugged at the chain next to the door that was supposed to be the bell.

When—when—

From the castle, bells rang.

Grand and distant, in the silent morning, swaying with the deep purple and deep blue flowers in the courtyard.

Once again, Tina deeply regrets that she took over the job and came here.

The bell rang for a long time before it died down.

There was no reply from behind the door.

——Could it be that you haven't woken up yet? Or, no...

"...Well, who is it?"

"Yah—————————!!!!"

Screaming, ripples rippled in the courtyard pool.

A few gray sparrows fluttered from the grass to the fence, chirping and jumping a few times, then found that nothing happened, and then flew back to the grass to pick up the grass seeds.

"……ha?"

A voice from behind the door froze for a moment.

Seeing that the conversation was about to fall into awkward silence after the first sentence, Tingna blushed, and hurriedly introduced herself again.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I, I was appointed by the Adventurer's Association, Miss Liliana's liaison officer, that, may I ask you to be..."

"Ah, liaison officer, speaking of it, the association did say that..."

After the voice was silent for a while, on the door in front of Tina, the wings of the angel embossed shone with iridescent light, and slowly opened inward.

"Well, come in."

"Yes, yes... eh?"

Behind the door, there was no one in the hallway, which was as large as a small room.

"Don't be so nervous, ah, because this castle is really big and meaningless, so follow my voice, don't get lost, okay?" The voice echoed in the air.

"..."

Some bad associations suddenly came back to the girl's mind.

"...Yes, yes, yes... I will... follow, follow, follow closely..."

"Then, first go forward to the first branch road..."

"Okay, okay..." This was the second time Tingna became an unoiled puppet today. Following the guidance of the voice, she took the first step tremblingly.

——Sincerely, dear father and mother.

The door closed behind him.

——Your daughter, I may have really encountered a ghost.

…………

The interior of the castle is as spacious as the voice said.

The pillars, furniture and doors are all in normal proportions, but Tingna has the illusion that she has strayed into the kingdom of giants. She can't help but put the largest building she has ever been to, the Grand Opera House in the neighboring city, against this place, and then put two mosquito coils on it Dizzy, he walked along the path guided by the sound.

"Okay, here it is, the door is unlocked, come in."

At the end of the long corridor where a carriage could drive, before the ebony door, the voice disappeared after leaving these words.

The door in front of him also opened a crack silently.

--call.

The final destination and the truth of the castle were right in front of her eyes. Tinna, who was slowly recovering from her shock, took a deep breath, wrote the magic symbol representing "courage" on her palm and ate it.

This is the simplest [Courage Art] that she learned from a classmate who specializes in spiritual system magic and semiotics. Even ordinary people who cannot use magic can use it.

"Miss Liliana, I'm sorry—"

After a warm feeling flowed into her body because of the small magic symbol, the girl's heart froze and she pushed the door open.

Liliana Einsteins.

It was undoubtedly an aristocratic name.

On this continent, nobles represent nobility, glory, responsibility and oath, so when Tingna walked into the room, she was still thinking about what kind of scene she would see here.

In her imagination, it might be a graceful lady shaking a feather fan, holding a bone china teacup in front of the exquisite tea table, waiting for her imprudent liaison officer, and then asking herself humorously and gracefully That awkward scream at the door.

Or, what is waiting here is a resolute woman who doesn't like red tape. She stands in front of the square and thick desk, facing the morning light outside the window, and greets herself with her back. She took out all the information from the Association of Hunters and reported it to her, and then took one of them vigorously and left, and sent himself back to the association to deal with the rest of the matter.

Or... It's really a lady ghost floating in an empty room decorated with skeletons, and the real mission of the liaison officer is to become a body for her to move-no, not impossible! In order to win over these powerful honorary adventurers who have never registered with the Adventurers Association, the Association has always spared no expense! In addition to their job, the so-called liaison officer is also a maid, a handyman, and other jobs that are not easy to explain!

It was precisely because of this last thought that Tina had no choice but to use a small [Courage Art] on herself.

However, the scene in the room is not any of the above.

Round, exquisite small tea table carved and silver plated.

A large desk that can hold a lot of files and books.

Bone china tea set, steaming black tea and snacks, none of these.

——Of course, the more important thing is that there are no skeletons hanging on the walls and ghosts floating around.

This is a large but empty room. The floor-to-ceiling windows are covered by deep black lace curtains. The morning light outside the window only leaks a brilliant light band on the mosaic wooden floor, which can be called furniture. There is only a large bed with a dark canopy, two bookcases on the left and right sides of the bed, and a bookcase that occupies the entire wall space opposite the large bed.

At most, bring along a deck chair that looks very old.

"That...Miss Liliana..."

Noble ladies, strong women, etc., of course, did not exist anywhere in this room. It would be better to say that at first glance, Tina didn't see anyone.

Slightly relieved, Ting Na didn't know what to do for a while, maintaining the posture of pushing the door open, and stood awkwardly by the door.

"This guy is still sleeping, ah, don't be restrained and don't worry about waking her up, this bed has the magic of blocking noise, come to the bed, there is a small cushion under the bed, if you don't mind, just sit there Just wait up there."

"Eh? Okay, okay, I'm sorry..." Following the instructions of the voice, Ting Na gently twisted the doorknob and closed the door, and came to the bed in confusion.

— Miss Liliana is still sleeping?

——In other words, this voice is not Miss Liliana...

"Eh?"

Ting Na, who came to the bedside, couldn't help holding her breath.

On the soft and luxurious velvet bed, a young figure was sleeping soundly.

At first glance, I thought it was a layer of platinum silk on the deep purple velvet, but it was actually the girl's long blond hair that reached to her knees. The very end is woven into a beautiful whiteness.

The tender body and limbs are curled up, like a newborn deer, but the slender and graceful lines do not give people the feeling of vitality.

Maybe it's because the fair-skinned girl doesn't look like a human being at all. It's like a delicate but fragile doll. People want to hold her in their arms and pamper them to the fullest, but worry that if they use a little force, this cute girl The child will be like the bubbles in the sun, drifting away.

"It's cute, Liliana, but don't stare at it for too long. If you are captured by the witch's magic, you may not be able to escape for the rest of your life."

In the ears of Ting Na who was staring blankly, the voice that had been guiding her since the hallway was not directly ringing in her ears for the first time.

"Eh, eh?"

Ting Na, who finally noticed the source of the voice, moved her gaze away from the girl's face little by little, turning left a little bit, turning left a little bit.

Because the sleeping girl was so cute that she completely attracted her attention, Tina didn't notice it right away, or in other words, she actually found it, but she didn't realize it.

"Yo, first time meeting, Miss Tina, my name is Alice."

Unconsciously, the doll sitting next to the pillow, wearing a gorgeous dress, has blond hair as dazzling as the sun and sapphire pupils as deep as the ocean.

"As you can see, I am a puppet."

——It is the real body of the sound.

"Live, live, live, live puppet...?"

Tina was on the verge of tears.

The creation of alchemy, the living doll that appears almost as frequently as ghosts in horror stories, I must have gone to a wrong place!

"Huh? Although I and those low-level alchemy creations are not the same thing in essence, you can think so for the convenience of your understanding. Well, after a while, Liliana should wake up too. Sit down first." Let's take a rest."

"Okay, okay, but, will this really not wake Miss Liliana..."

"It's all right... Ah, it seems that she woke up. Although it takes about two hours to get up, she wakes up around this time every day."

"Yes, is it like this..."

"Yes yes yes—ah, she's awake."

He didn't pay attention to Ting Na's face that was about to cry. The cat-sized doll leaned on the soft pillow, and looked Ting Na up and down with sea-colored eyes.

Then, as she said.

Beside the doll, the girl wrapped in a silk nightgown and velvet uttered a few whispers in her sleep, and her petite body moved for a while under the comfortable quilt.

The girl sat up sleepily, as if she hadn't fully woken up yet, and used her small hands to comb her blond hair that was messed up from sleep.

"..."

At this moment, the eerieness of the castle shattered into glass shards all over the floor.

Ting Na, once raised a group of kittens on the roof of her house who did not know when they made their home there.

During that time, Tina got up early every day to feed them. After opening the cardboard boxes that served as their nests, the kittens in the nest would wake up because of the warm sunshine, lick their paws and comb the soft fluff , meowing in a childish voice.

Such a figure is almost the same as the girl who is combing her hair in a daze at the moment.

"Alice...good morning...huh..."

"Liliana, good morning, we have guests."

"guest……"

The pupils that opened in a daze had a deep color.

Liliana Einsteins, the girl so called opened her black agate-like eyes slightly in a daze, and slowly moved back and forth on the faces of Alice and Tina.

"Hum..."

—— Peng.

He fell limply in the quilt and pillow that seemed to have magic power.

"……Eh?"

Tina didn't react for a while.

"Mmm..."

At this time, the girl slowly sat up again, combed her raised hair like a cat, and stretched her waist——

—— Peng.

Following the momentum of stretching, he fell limply back to the position where he got up.

"Sleepy…………"

"Really, Miss Witch, when will you be able to get rid of your inability to get out of bed? You have guests today."

"...Yes, the... liaison officer of the Adventurer's Association..."

"Yes, yes, my name is Tingna, the liaison officer, Tingna, is in charge of assisting Miss Liliana in sorting out the entrusted materials, and I'm here today to say hello."

Tina put the heavily loaded tote beside the bed.

"Well...if Miss Liliana is still sleepy..."

"...It doesn't matter...Miss Tina..."

The girl on the bed limply stretched out her hand, and at the girl's fingertips, a rainbow-colored magic circle gathered a small light ball with wings. After whirling around the girl's fingertips twice, it flew away. On Tina's shoulders.

"...it will take you to...the study...please...work there...after the information is sorted out...put it there...that's it...there is an important...magic experiment today...you can't wait week……"

"Ah, no, you don't need to be so polite, then, I, I will take my leave first!"

Ting Na almost left the bedroom as if fleeing. After the heavy wooden door closed, she pressed her chest and leaned against the wall, gasping for breath.

——Really, I can hardly bear it anymore!

If she stayed any longer, she might really be very rude and treat this honorary adventurer as a group of lazy and fluffy little milk cats!

"If, if you do such a disrespectful thing, absolutely, you will be fired... Haha..."

Heartbeat, can't stop at all.

The weak figure that couldn't get up because of sleepiness on the bed really reminded Tina of those soft and cute cats that struggled with the smell of milk and the warmth of their nests when she went to feed them in the morning.

Really, so cute...

I really want to hug her...

"I, what am I thinking! Work, yes, I'm here for work, calm down."

Crack, crack, crack.

The girl kept patting her cheek.

The small ball of light on the shoulder had already flown to the end of the corridor, after calming down, Ting Na hurriedly followed.

"But... is that an honorary adventurer?"

It was the first time for Tina to meet an honorary adventurer.

The most special organization in this adventurer's association has two characteristics.

One is strength. Many honorary adventurers possess a unique [Noble Phantasm] that proves to be the strongest class in the continent.

The second is "non-registered adventurers".

In essence, the honorary adventurer is just a title given by the Adventurers Association to ask for assistance from the strong who are not adventurers. Only the strong can get it, and the person who gets it must be the strong, so at the beginning , Tina has some strange delusions about this honorary adventurer who suddenly appeared in Salt Sand City.

A heroic knight, a burly man wielding a huge weapon, a ranger who comes and goes without a trace...

But, it's such a small girl...

And so cute.

Sensing that her train of thought was going in some bad direction, Ting Na quickly pinched herself.

When the red mark on Tina's arm increased to the tenth.

The ball of light, which was always keeping a fixed distance from the girl, stopped at the end of a corridor and turned into a rainbow-colored reminder.

【here】

It also thoughtfully attached a small arrow pointing to the door handle.

The study that Liliana was referring to was here.

Same as the temperament of the castle, it is spacious and luxurious. The sun of Saigon, which has risen after opening the door, illuminates the place with bright sunlight through the pointed arched floor-to-ceiling windows. No matter where the decoration is, it reveals an elegant and heavy atmosphere. Tingna didn't dare to guess what frightening numbers these decorations and furniture would fetch in the auction house. After sitting on the leather chair, the only material she knew in this study, she took out all the documents in her handbag and piled them up. On the desk, started working.

These are all kinds of information collected by the Adventurers Association in Salt Sand City and its surroundings today.

Most honorary adventurers have identities other than adventurers, and their relationship with the Adventurers Association is not one of hiring and being hired, but of cooperating and being cooperating. Under such a relationship, it is often not that they go to the Adventurer's Association to find commissions, but instead, the Adventurer's Association requests them to complete tasks that ordinary adventurers cannot complete.

Similarly, due to their powerful strength, they have a very free scope of action and authority, and they can even take actions on their own before accepting entrustments. In many cases, even honorary adventurers will notice the omen of the situation with their sight, and after all the crises are resolved Only look for the local town or association to request the release of the entrustment.

For them with a keen sense of smell, intelligence is very important.

It is the job of the liaison officer to find out the information requested by the honorary adventurer from among the large amount of information, classify and sort it out, create files and reports for the actions of the honorary adventurer after obtaining the information, and convey the request of the association.

It is also recognized as the most tiring job of the Adventurer's Association.

"First of all... there are reports of monster sightings within one kilometer of Yansha City... Uwah, it would be very bad if there were monsters around the city... Many residents in the city were stolen, including nobles... Thieves... ...The city guards seem to have no clue..."

Liliana didn't ask Tina directly for any information.

All the girl has to do is to analyze, classify and sort out the large amount of information that the association gave her early in the morning.

"Pearl production has decreased...the number of fish schools is also less than in previous years. Is it because of overfishing? Or is it because of the emergence of predators with big appetites..."

On the way, when Tina raised her head because of hunger, the low table beside her had already served delicious lunch and dinner at some point. When she was thirsty, the teapot on the low table to the left of the chair was always warm. black tea, the study is equipped with a bathroom, and the temperature is very suitable.

"Finally...the rumors of the ghost mansion...ah, hahaha...Okay, done!"

As a result, when all the information was sorted out and attached with its own analysis, Saigon's light had completely fallen below the horizon.

The night wind blowing from the floor-to-ceiling windows carried the soft silver light of Diana's moon. Looking across the grass on the hills, on the horizon, the fishing boats caught at night are shining with orange lights.

"Before you know it...the first day has passed..."

After closing the floor-to-ceiling windows and closing the curtains, Ting Na returned to the desk and picked up her handbag.

The information on the desk is divided into three stacks, which are related to monsters, natural state and city security, and are arranged from top to bottom according to the order of their own processing.

After leaving the bedroom in the morning, Tina didn't see Alice and Liliana again, but the teapot, tableware and notes on the low table all represented that one of them had come before she was aware of it.

[After processing the information, just put it on the desk, please be careful when you go back——Liliana. 】

Tingna thought for a while, and left the word "thank you" at the end of the note.

"Okay...then, let's go back."

Picking up her handbag, Tina extinguished the lights in the study, and left the castle along the road she barely remembered.

The creaking sound from the iron gate dissipated slowly. It was obviously the second time I passed through this gate, but my mood was completely different.

"...Maybe, it will be a good job."

After looking at the castle again, which no longer felt eerie and terrifying, Tina set foot on the way home along the road leading to the city.

The girl enjoying the night wind and moonlight didn't have any vigilance at first.

The law and order around Yansha City has always been good, and it is far away from the red salt volcano and black olive forest in the north. The only monsters active here are harmless hares and foxes.

So, at first, when the girl vaguely saw black shadows moving in the corner of her field of vision, she thought she had made a mistake.

"..."

However, as she got farther and farther away from Liliana's castle, a kind of creepy coldness crept up her back.

——Something is following me.

She can be sure of that.

Although she failed to graduate from the academy in Yansha City after 6 years of courses, she is also a 5-year student. Although she doesn't know magic and martial arts and is half-baked, she has learned more than just paperwork and intelligence analysis. Bye The trend led by the No. 1 college in the mainland is what almost all colleges spend a lot of time teaching students.

- how to survive.

"Oops... oops oops oops oops!"

Walked about another hundred meters.

Finally, when Tingna turned her head unconsciously.

"?!?!"

She saw it.

Dark shadows.

Green animal pupils.

Under the moonlight, the figure is slender and ferocious.

--Wolf.

Why are there wolves within two kilometers around the city? There are only rabbits and foxes here, not enough to feed them.

Such thoughts immediately flooded the girl's thinking.

But the body's reaction is far faster than thinking.

When the girl with short blonde hair realized it, she was already running.

Run desperately.

Run desperately.

This is really not a smart way to deal with it, but Ting Naye has no better choice.

Wolves who realize they have been spotted are no longer hiding.

One, two, three...

Tina didn't count how many there were, but after she started running, there were wolves behind her and to her left and right.

These ferocious and cunning monsters did not rush over immediately and swallowed her torn pieces. The wolf pack girl kept a distance, and from time to time, one or two suddenly separated out in front of her, letting her The direction of running changes.

——If this continues, if this continues!

I have deviated from the road paved with stones, and gradually penetrated into the depths of the hills. The grass around her was trampled under her feet, and gradually, gradually, buried her calf.

The hilly grassland north of Yansha City, the farther away from the city, the more luxuriant it is.

Tina knew that monsters were very smart. They knew that if they left traces of hunting, they would attract revenge from humans, which would be difficult for them to resist.

So the wolves kept their speed and distance like this, and forced her to this dense grass field, where the corpses of one or two people would be buried by the grass when they were lying on the ground.

There are no people around.

--Ruined.

The heavy breathing beat the heartbeat.

Even so, the blood that seeps into fear is squeezing power from every part of the body, driving the feet to run desperately.

— There is no escape.

Can be desperate, like a shadow.

——How could it be possible to escape.

If you want to say why, it's the wolves.

As for myself, I am just an ordinary, ordinary person who doesn't know magic and martial arts, a liaison officer of the Adventurer's Association.

How is it possible to escape a large group of wolves that suddenly appeared for no reason?

The lights of the town are getting farther and farther away in the field of vision.

The body is almost at its limit

—Yes, are you dead?

——First day at a new job?

When the idea of ​​giving up like this came up, the foot that had already been overdrawn, kicked something.

"Woo!!"

The world spun in an instant, and when the starry night sky appeared in front of my eyes, I finally realized it.

- ah ah.

--Ruined.

The results of studying in the academy were displayed, and the body instinctively made an anti-shock posture, and propped up the body in front of the spinning world, at this moment.

—— woo———

The blue pupils dilate.

Although I can't see it, I undoubtedly have a frightened expression on my face, because.

——right in front of him.

The fangs of the wolf.

close at hand.

Then--

"..."

frozen.

By the bright starlight.

"……Eh?"

To be honest, at that moment, the moment when I turned my head subconsciously, because it was so sudden that I couldn't even close my eyes, so I could only watch the wolf howling and rushing towards me.

In another instant, it was frozen into a living ice sculpture.

"……What……"

It was too late to even squeeze out a scream of confusion and fear from his throat.

Quietly.

Without any warning.

A pair of small, bare feet stepped on the top of the hoarfrost that had frozen the black wolf.

It seems to be stepping on the other side of the horizon and the sky.

"Using this body and spirit as a declaration, I offer a long-lasting oath"

chant.

The iridescent light dispelled the darkness.

"Swear to the eternal night, swear to the eternal sun."

harmony.

On the top of the ice crystal, another figure that was even smaller than the petite figure happily responded under the iridescent light.

"So, come on, put on the dress of the shadow sun for me!"

then. The rainbow-colored starlight covered her with bright clothes.

A sun-like headdress that has been cut in half.

Light and luxurious white tulle gown.

The small figure floating in mid-air waved a golden scepter half taller than her.

Then.

"Let down the Spear of Judgment of the Shadow Sun!"

In the starlight, a cold radiance emerged.

- ah ah.

Ting Na, who was slumped on the ground, opened her mouth but couldn't make a sound.

I probably will never forget such a scene.

Even when you are very old and are about to return to the dead silence of eternal silence, you must be able to recall it clearly.

The array of Frost Swords fell, bathed in the dying howls of the wolves, in front of him, in the center of the sky.

Slightly against the starlight, there is also a side face with water droplets dripping.

Slender and immature, with a dreamy body like a work of art.

The night pupils reflecting the brilliant starry sky.

The evening wind blew over the grass soaked in blood and ice chips, the wailing had disappeared, and the puppet wrapped in a gorgeous dress floated beside her. .

The wet blond hair fluttered, and a bewitching rainbow fell down.

At that time, Ting Na, who had almost lost the ability to think because of that gorgeous and noble figure, just kept echoing a question in her mind.

only.

--Why.

one question.

—is it naked?