Chapter 71

Chapter 71

Trap (4)

The girl did not refuse Nellin’s words and brought a chair to sit beside her.

“What do you want to eat? I’ll treat the food.”

“Meat. Anything.”

“Good good! Hey! Give one of the most delicious meat dishes here!”

“Yes~.”

At the all-too-quick response, Godric’s party looked at Nellin in bewilderment.

“M, Marin noona?”

“Why are you suddenly like that?”

“Huh? What?”

“No, why are you buying food for a kid who just said let’s fight out of nowhere?”

“What are you saying, Godric. Are you deaf?”

“Yes?”

Nellin smiled and patted the girl’s shoulder while saying.

“She said she’ll give money. The winning prize money. How can I not even feed food to such a praiseworthy kid?”

““...””

Godric’s party all shut their mouths and looked at Nellin while thinking.

Ah, she really doesn’t think she’ll lose, huh.

“I, I didn’t say I’d give money.”

“Yeah yeah, you said if I win you’ll give money. The result will be the same though.”

“We don’t know that yet.”

“I know though~?”

“...”

The girl looked full of irritation at a glance.

However, even so, Nellin’s attitude toward the girl did not change.

Godric’s party, anxious that she might charge in this place, looked at the two while sweating.

Fortunately, the girl did not suddenly rush at Nellin.

“The food is here!”

“Oh, looks delicious. Eat quickly.”

“...Okay.”

When the ordered meat dish came out, the girl concentrated on the meal in front of her as if nothing had happened.

“What are you guys doing not eating. The food will get cold so eat quickly!”

““Yes! Marin noona!””

With the somewhat relaxed atmosphere and Nellin’s urging, Godric’s party also resumed the meal.

After finishing the meal, Nellin said while leaving the restaurant with the girl.

“Hey, then I’ll go play with her a bit so wait.”

“Do we not need to follow?”

“Yeah. Just wait. Got it?”

Driving in the nail not to follow to Godric’s party, Nellin told the girl to come along.

While walking thud thud, the girl asked.

“Until when are you going to walk?”

“Until the guys who take unnecessary interest in others’ affairs fall off.”

The girl with the nickname Snow Flower Fist.

Claire is the winner of the Black Dragon Festival.

When she entered the store and was talking with Nellin, there were those who recognized her and took interest.

“I don’t care.”

The girl said she doesn’t care who sees, but Nellin only smiled widely and increased the walking speed even more.

Nellin, who could immediately detect the positions of those following them, shook off the tailing ones in less than 5 minutes and arrived at the outskirts of the city where people were rare.

“This should be fine.”

“Why are you caring about others’ gazes?”

The girl asked toward Nellin who did an action she couldn’t understand.

“Huh? Well, it’s for you.”

“For me?”

“Yeah. You won today, and showing the appearance of losing to someone else not even a day later is a bit... pitiful, right?”

‘Looking down on me.’

Nellin speaking confidently that she would win against the girl without a shred of doubt.

Rather, upon hearing such confident words, the girl felt that she was being looked down on, of course, and even felt like she was being laughed at.

Strong fighting spirit and unsuppressible killing intent settled in the girl’s eyes again.

“Look at those eyes. Really itching to fight. Then where...”

Nellin took out a wooden sword from the inventory at her waist and pointed it at the girl.

“Come.”

Taak!

As soon as Nellin’s words ended, the girl charged at Nellin at a speed like a gale.

She displayed the skill she hadn’t taken out until advancing to the finals because there was no one stronger than her.

Golden-like yellow eyes cut across the night.

The girl who reached right in front of Nellin in a short time clenched her fist and thrust it toward the face.

However.

Buuung!

Nellin dodged the girl’s fist just by slightly tilting her head.

The girl did not panic even though the attack missed and immediately moved to the next action.

“Haaat!”

Using the flexibility and strength of the body, she twisted and rotated her body in the air and this time launched a kick at the face.

Taaaak!

Nellin, who raised the wooden sword and leisurely blocked the kick aimed at her face, smiled while revealing her teeth.

Chill!

“...!”

The girl’s instinct warned that she must create distance right now.

But it was late.

Tup!

Nellin grabbed the girl’s ankle with the other hand and threw her onto the bare ground as is.

The girl thrown and rolling on the ground immediately took a stance and raised her body.

‘Pursuit. Didn’t do it.’

Clearly, after throwing, she could have chased and attacked herself.

But Nellin did not.

In other words.

‘She’s thinking of me as an opponent she doesn’t even need to do that for.’

It was the fact that she was thoroughly being looked down on.

The girl was angry. But the girl did not entrust her body to that anger and charge recklessly.

Because from the previous exchange, she learned how strong Nellin was.

‘Strong.’

She is not a weak opponent.

A skilled one who easily blocks her attacks and can counterattack.

But that did not become a reason for the girl to give up the fight.

‘A bit more... faster.’

“Huuuu.”

The girl exhaled deeply and began circulating the mana throughout her body.

According to the girl’s will, the mana circulating the whole body settles in the muscles and strengthens the body.

‘Oh, doing that at that age?’

While the girl strengthened her body, Nellin let out a small exclamation seeing a technique not easy to acquire at a young age.

“This time it’s different.”

Crack!

The moment the girl’s foot kicked the floor, unable to withstand the impact, a crack formed on the floor.

‘This time you can’t dodge!’

She had no intention of dragging it out long.

With the thought of ending it in one go, the girl thrust her fist.

“Savage.”

But that fist did not land on Nellin’s face.

Tuup!

Nellin blocked the girl’s fist being thrust toward her face with one hand.

“!?”

“Why are you only aiming for the face so much? The attack is all clearly visible.”

“How...”

“Do you think only you know mana strengthening? And it’s too rough so mana is leaking drip drip. Like here.”

Paak!

Nellin’s wooden sword struck the girl’s side hard.

“Kehek!”

“Oh? Since it hit, this time leaking here?”

Taak!

“Ack!”

Nellin mercilessly hit the places where the mana circulation was uneven with the wooden sword.

The girl tried to resist.

However, Nellin was firmly holding her fist so she couldn’t shake it off.

In a state where one fist was sealed, she tried to block or dodge the wooden sword but Nellin’s sword dug into openings like a wriggling snake and mercilessly struck the girl.

“S, stop! I lost!”

“Speaking short?”

Tak!

“Aak! I, I lost!”

“Yeah, that’s how it should be.”

When the girl surrendered, Nellin released the fist she was holding and lowered the wooden sword.

And toward the girl who was stroking the hit places with her hand because they hurt, she smiled widely and said.

“How is it? Am I right?”

“...Yes.”

The girl had no choice but to acknowledge.

That Nellin was a strong one much stronger than herself.

And at the same time the girl was glad.

‘Found it. The person who will teach me.’

That she found the one called a master who would make herself stronger.

‘The person who will let me kill more monsters.’

That she found the person who would teach the power to kill more of the hateful monsters.

‘What? Why is she like this?’

Suddenly the girl sending an expectant gaze toward herself, Nellin was puzzled but immediately understood.

‘Am I too respectable? Haa, even if I hide the fame, the dignity emanating from this body can’t be helped, huh.’

Around the time Nellin fell into self-intoxication, the girl said.

“Follow me... yo.”

“Why?”

“I don’t have the money now... yo. It’s at the inn... yo.”

“Ah. If it’s that, it’s fine. You don’t have to give it.”

“Huh? But...”

The reaction of Nellin who immediately changed attitude at the words of giving the prize money if she loses flashed through the girl’s head.

“That was just teasing. Actually, from when you were in the store I wanted to see your skill a bit. Because you were rare in my eyes.”

“Rare?”

“Yeah. Because hatred and killing intent were full in the eyes unlike that age, so I was curious.”

“...!”

“Much stronger than mediocre guys but not refined. Well, train hard from now on.”

Feeling that Nellin was about to leave the place as is, the girl hurriedly called her to stop.

“Wait!...yo! Wait for me!...yo!”

“Huh? Why? Trying to fight more?”

The girl shook her head vigorously.

“No... yo. I have a request... yo.”

“Request?”

“Please take me as a disciple... yo. I want to become stronger... yo.”

“Di~sci~ple~?”

It was an out-of-the-blue word for Nellin.

She had only faced her with the thought of playing a bit with a little kid who doesn’t even know her own and the opponent’s skill well.

Having those eyes would personally have a pitiful story, but that did not become a reason for her to interfere.

Rather, if she carelessly interfered, it would get tangled in troublesome matters, and above all, the person concerned might get angry saying not to do unnecessary things.

“I don’t want to?”

“I’ll pay the tuition... yo. With the prize money.”

“No, I don’t even need something like tuition. I just don’t want to.”

“Why... yo?”

Nellin refusing the girl’s request was simple.

Because it was bothersome.

Already training Godric’s party for fun, if the girl joined here it seemed like it would become annoying.

Above all, she had a premonition that the hatred and killing intent the girl held would run wild and cause an accident if she carelessly raised her skill.

“Because I think you won’t listen to my words like shit.”

“I’ll listen well... yo.”

“Yeah, then why are your eyes so murderous?”

“Murderous?”

“I can see killing intent and hatred creeping up in the eyes? Guys like that are mostly ones with strong stubbornness who don’t listen like shit. Originally you.”

Nellin threw a question that pierced the girl’s core.

“Why do you want to become stronger?”

“...To kill. To kill all the monsters.”

With just that answer, it was easy to guess what kind of thing the girl experienced in the past.

“Did your family get done in by monsters?”

“Not only family... all the village people... got done in by monsters.”

‘Something like the sole survivor of the village? An even more troublesome kid.’

“So I want to become stronger. Become stronger... and kill all the monsters.”

“You know that’s impossible, right?”

“Even if impossible I’ll do it. Monsters... I’ll kill them all.”

Hatred and killing intent blazed in the girl’s eyes.

“Then it’s even more no good.”

“Why? Ah,...yo.”

“I’m looking for a monster. I’m going around here and there right now to find that monster.”

“Are you also looking for a monster to kill... yo? Don’t worry... yo. I won’t take the revenge target... yo.”

“No, it’s not revenge or something like that. I’m trying to find it and dote on it.”

“Dote on a monster? You can’t dote on monsters. You have to kill them all!”

“That’s why I can’t teach you. Because if it goes wrong I might kill that monster right away.”

“Ugh...!”

She couldn’t understand the words of doting on a monster.

Even so, she didn’t know when she would meet a strong person like Nellin again.

With the thought of wanting to become stronger and curiosity, the girl’s mouth moved.

“What kind of monster... yo?”

“Slime.”

“Slime?”

“Yeah, slime. There’s a smart slime that is friendly to people and... understands words that I met before.”

“Slime...”

To think that the slime counted as a weak monster would come out of Nellin’s mouth.

At the unexpected answer, the girl was flustered.

The monsters that attacked the village were hateful.

Therefore, if it was a monster she vaguely thought of them all as targets to kill.

Even such a girl had never dealt with a slime.

Because in order to become stronger she only fought monsters threatening to people.

By the girl’s standards, a slime was a level that didn’t even enter the category of monsters so she didn’t put it as a fighting target.

After organizing her confused head in a short time, the girl said to Nellin.

“If I find it, is that fine... yo?”

“What?”

“If I find that smart slime, will you teach me... yo?”