Ryuu to Aitsu:Volume2 Chapter1

Chapter 1: The Girl of the Academic City

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"Razor WindKamaitachi"

Howling, the magical wind cut across the dry ashen ground, sweeping up a cloud of dust as it assaulted the crowd of black dogs blocking their way.

As their name implies, these monsters were in the form of black dogs. Their weapons are the strong teeth that can bite through even metal armor, their claws tinted with a paralyzing poison, and more than anything, their overwhelming numbers.

Just counting those ahead, there were around 30. If the ones behind were included, the total easily surpassed 50.

A novice explorer would probably not have been able to do anything. But, to me, Ange Cerezo, they were nothing to worry about.

The black dogs caught by the raging winds were decimated, turning into a spray of blood.

Holding down my violently fluttering manteau and looking backwards, I caught sight of a petite maid with a halberd dancing around the battlefield, spinning like a top.

It was Tomoe.

Unfitting of her cute doll-like appearance, she was far more skilled than the average warrior.

But that is to be expected. After all, Tomoe is an artificial life-form constructed by the magic from the old world — a golem.

Her maid uniform ruffling as she dispatched black dogs one after the other, Tomoe was much more reliable than my other teammate.

Speaking of the other teammate...

"Gyaaaaaaaa!"

He was running around while screaming pathetically.

Though I say teammate, he is actually none other than the protagonist of our journey.

Seriously... I thought he would've grown a bit from the battle with one of the Demon Lord's daughters, but his incompetence was just as before.

"Gyaaaaa! Blood, there's blood on meeeeee!"

Eyes bewildered, he topples backwards.

If you told someone who didn't know that this dumbass is the great-grandson of the hero Rayjack Ur Heidfelt, nobody would believe you.

At the start I didn't believe it either. It's not so much that I couldn't believe it, but more like I didn't want to believe it.

Regrettably, no matter how much I regretted it, the fact that this Rex Ir Heidfelt was the master that I had to serve did not change.

Spilling the umpteenth sigh since the start of this journey, I focused on the chant for the next spell.

The threads of my consciousness have already reached beyond "the scars of the world".

"Lightning BoltNarukami"

The black dog that was about to attack the fallen dumbass was scorched to the bone by the magical bolt of lightning that surged from the tip of my raised staff, marking the end of the battle.

Victory was a given. There would be no chance of winning against the Demon Lord if we struggled against mere black dogs.

That's right.

The ultimate goal of our journey is to defeat the king of the demon world, May-Hem, who has his eyes set on invading this world.

The one who entrusted this impossibly impossible task to me, a Royal Magician of the City of Swords Randall, was General Raven Gir Heidfelt—the dumbass's older brother.

General Raven is a young and valiant general whose name is known not only throughout Randall, but across the whole of the continent of Adair. On the other hand, his brother leaves the fighting to females as he tries to run away, then trips up when showered with blood. As grandsons of the same hero, there's too much of a difference.

"Mr. Rex, please get up."

I knock on the dumbass's head with the tip of my staff and hear a strangely nice knocking sound, probably because the inside of his head is empty.

I am aware that waking someone by knocking them with a staff is rather rude, but this is fine. After all, he is a dumbass.

It's already been firmly established as his label when I think of him.

Since he had shown that he could do what needed to be done at Mount Nebraska, it might not be right to call him a dumbass, but somehow I had gotten too used to thinking of him as such or something, so no matter what happens, Rex Ir Heidfelt will be a dumbass to me.

"Nnn..."

He opened his eyes with a grimace, but for some reason the dumbass did not get up.

"How long are you planning to sleep? Please get up immediately."

"But the sun's so nice and warm, I was thinking of taking a short nap. Standing's such a pain."

"Stop saying such nonsense."

Well, the weather was indeed beautiful.

Blue skies were overhead, as the lightly floating sun generously showered the ground with bright white rays of sunlight.

"Ange and Tomoe should come bask in the sun too!"

"I will kindly pass. I don't have a hobby of sun basking in a place filled with the smell of blood."

The stench of black dog blood hung thick in the surrounding air.

"Ugh"

It seems that the dumbass hadn't noticed until then, as he covered his mouth with his hand and jumped up.

"Please don't mention such things..."

"Also, if we play around here, we'll be attacked by monsters again."

After all, they were not alongside a road.

From the first destination of our trip, Mount Nabraska, to our second destination of the Academic City Fullbright, there wasn't just a single path.

Following the roads would be the safest, but we daringly chose the most dangerous path.

Thus, here we are crossing Zeburan Valley.

Zeburan Valley was a place of natural beauty, and was once a place where the aristocrats and wealthy from the town of Donna came to hunt, but now it was a nest of monsters.

Only crazy adventurers would cross this place now.

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