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Arc 2 - Chapter 31: Invited and Uninvited Guests

Arc 2 - Chapter 31: Invited and Uninvited Guests

“There they are!”

Lylphia's voice lifted both Yu and Yurine from where they were lying.

Lylphia opened the window to jump out, but a sound she heard made her stop suddenly and turn her head in a different direction.

“VALARFIIN! COME OUT!”

The owner of the words full of hate, pain and anger continued to shout Yu's name in ecstasy, ignoring his horrible deformed voice.

As soon as Lylphia looked at the shouting man, she turned her head towards the Sivina house, threw a fireball and jumped out of the window.

“YU VALARFIIIN! WHERE ARE YOU!?”

Yu ran to the window, holding Yurine's hand to see what was happening.

The first time Lylphia looked and yelled, there were two men and a raptor-like mount called a rino. The rino had fallen to the ground, injured by Lylphia's attack. One of the men, the one with the straw hat, was trapped under the falling animal.

The standing man was holding a long staff. In front of him stood Sivina, pointing her sword at her enemy. Ana and Raul jumped out of the window on the second floor and took their places next to Sivina. All three were wearing pajamas.

At first Lylphia couldn't decide which way to look, but when she saw that Sivina was with the two Ana and Raul, she decided it would be better to deal with the man who had woken up the whole street by shouting.

“COME OUT! COME OUT! COME OUT!”

He could recognize the man screaming like a madman by his mummified body, it was Sharley.

“How the fuck did you find us, you stupid asshole?”

Sharley had no intention of answering Yu, and it wasn't even clear if he understood Yu's words. The moment he saw Yu, he raised his hand and threw the crystal swords that appeared around him towards the window, ignoring Yurine who was next to Yu.

“DIE!”

Yu froze as the crystal swords created by Sharley came at him. He may or may not have had a second to think before the swords shattered his body, he didn't know what to do.

Fortunately, Lylphia, unlike Yu, was able to think fast and directed her flames there before Sharley's crystal swords reached Yu and Yurine.

In the blink of an eye, the flames destroyed dozens of crystal swords coming at Yu and Yurine, and when they were done, they soared up into the sky and disappeared.

“Jump down!” Yurine shouted.

Yu looked down, the distance seemed too far for him to jump. He didn't want to jump down from the second floor and break his leg.

Instead of jumping, he picked Yurine up, put on his shoes in the room and started running.

“Where are you going! Jump down!”

Even though he jumped from a height of a hundred or a hundred and fifty meters in the Sigma Tower, it was a matter of life and death and he had no choice. If he had any other choice, he would have hesitated to jump down as he does now.

He knew Yurine could make sure they got down safely, slowing down a jump of a few meters was a piece of cake for her, but instead of thinking she could do it, Yu chose to run, overcome by fear.

Yu skipped down the stairs to the lower floor and opened the door of the house and went outside. The guard dog Met, who had noticed the activity outside and started barking when the door opened, passed Yu like lightning and jumped on Sharley's leg.

Sharley and Lylphia were fighting. In fact, he wasn't sure how accurate it would be to call it as a fight. Lylphia was sending fireballs at Sharley and Sharley was desperately trying to defend himself.

Yu saw Lylphia's power for the first time. With a smile covering half her face, she sent fireball after fireball, which Sharley tried to block by creating crystal shields in the air.

As Lyplhia continued to throw fireballs, Sharley noticed the dog leaping towards his leg. Defending Lylphia's next attack with the crystal shield he had created in mid-air, he threw the crystal blades he had created at the dog.

While the dog was still in the air, the knives stabbed him and pinned him to the ground. Met died there.

“I didn't expect this.”

“VALARFIN!”

Sharley cried out as he spotted Yu and ignored Lylphia in front of her, forming crystal swords in the air again and sending them at Yu.

With dozens of swords spread over a wide area, Yu had nowhere to run. Whether he jumped to the right or left, the swords would somehow hit his and Yurine's body.

Just before he closed herself on Yurine, Yurine used a sudden spell to create a tornado, a wall of wind that rose up around them. Some of the swords that came into contact with the wall of wind shattered, others were deflected and smashed into the surrounding buildings.

When Yurine's winds dissipated, not a single crystal sword hit them. Yu was proud of his daughter.

“That bastard shouldn't be able to cast these spells, he wasn't like this the last time I saw him.”

When Yurine met Sharley in the park, Sharley was someone who had to force himself to talk. He had been weakened by a single spell and it had taken him a while to recover.

Yurine couldn't understand how he was able to cast spells non-stop now.

Before Yurine could find an answer, Lylphia's flood of flames lit up the street. As Sharley disappeared in the flames, the flames traveled a little further and headed for the sky.

Yu felt the heat of the flames on his face and understood why this spell was forbidden to be used at will.

When the flood of flames disappeared, Sharley was still standing but also trembling. Behind Sharley's trembling legs were shards of purple crystal that first dissolved into mana and then dissolved into the air.

Sharley's body was unharmed by the torrent of flames, but fell to the ground at the last moment due to the mana he had suddenly spent in self-defense.

Lylphia appeared in the air and threw fireballs at Sharley. Sharley was forced to his knees as he formed a crystal shield.

Meanwhile, his attention was on Lylphia, and when Yurine saw that his attention was elsewhere, she took advantage of the gap and sent a wind spell to Sharley.

Sharley somehow managed to defend herself against Lylphia's fireballs, but perhaps because he hadn’t expected Yurine to attack her, he had not focused on her and was caught off guard by her attack.

Yurine sent a wind spell that hit Sharley and threw him sky. As Sharley drifted close to the ground, Lylphia stepped on the purple shield in the air, took direction, jumped and gained speed as she fell, heading in the direction of Sharley's flight.

As she jumped, her huge breasts swayed as if declaring their independence and caught Yu's attention, even though he didn't want to look.

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Sharley hadn't even touched the ground yet, but Lylphia was so fast that she fell on top of him before he touched the ground. Her feet landed on his stomach and Sharley clung to the floor, spitting blood. This move caused the floor to cave in.

Lylphia leaned down and grabbed Sharley by the arm and threw him into the air, while he was in the air she jumped again and kicked Sharley in the waist in mid-air as her breasts again flailed as if struggling for release from her body.

Sharley was traveling at such a high speed that he hit the wall of a house but could not stop and went through the wall and into the house.

When Lylphia landed on the floor, her breasts jiggled again. Yu was both disturbed by their disproportion to Lylphia's body and unable to look away.

“What are you looking at?” Yurine slapped Yu's thigh.

“It's not my fault it's so conspicuous...”

With Sharley out of the fight, they could now turn their attention to Sivina, Ana and Raul.

They turned back to come to their aid, but they were too late. When Sivina saw a rock coming at Ana, she rushed forward to protect her and pushed her to stop it from hitting her, but this time the rock hit Sivina and knocked her down.

With their opponent briefly out of the picture, the two men took advantage of the opening to escape and, mounting the wounded animal they had raised to its feet, they started to walk away.

Lylphia threw several fireballs after them to intercept them, but they either missed their target or were blocked by the walls of rock created by the mage.

“Yurine.”

With her healing magic, she could heal Sivina who was injured. Yu realized that they had forgotten to take Yurine’s shoes, so instead of making her walk, he carried her in his arms and took her to Sivina.

“It's... It's a different feeling.”

“Of course it is, my magic is nothing compared to that of humans.”

Sivina's wounds from the rock were slowly closing, but at Lylphia's word they had to interrupt the spell.

“They're running away.”

If they let them escape now, it might be too late, they might never catch them again. No one would say it, but everyone believed that one of them was the killer and this was the only chance they had to catch him.

People woke up after hearing the noises in the houses and went to the windows, balconies and streets to see what had happened. Everyone was trying to understand the fight, and the people who came out of the house Sharley had entered looked very frightened.

“If the man in that house is alive, just kill him! One of you go and report to the police station. You will be compensated.”

When he took a look at the houses, he saw that there was too much damage for a few gold coins to get rid of. He could not pay for all this out of his pocket.

“Lylphia will send the bill to the academy.”

While Yu was giving commands to the other people, Ana took the dog out of the house. The hound sniffed the ground and barked.

“I think we're one man short.”

Yu was just realizing, but Raul was gone. He looked around and saw Raul unconscious against the wall of the house where he was staying.

“Fucking unqualified.”

From the very first minutes of the struggle, he was out of the game and had lost his usefulness.

“Let's not waste time, let's run!”

Ana shouted and the three girls started running with the dog in front of them. There was a trail of blood that Rino had left on the ground, even without the dog they could have followed the animal's trail for a while, and judging by the amount of blood on the ground it was only a matter of time before the animal died before they got too far

“I can't believe we're going to chase a horse at a run.”

“It's not a horse, it’s a rino.”

“Should we discuss this now, Yurine? What difference does it make?”

Yu started running, following Sivina, Ana and Lylphia. Yurine was on his lap and so their speed was a little slowed down, but still Yu was running faster than he had ever run before. Because the girls in front of him were about to give them a gap that would be hard to close and...

“God, what beautiful things you create...”

Lylphia was a cute girl too, but Yu wasn't interested in her. Yu wasn't a man obsessed with breasts, as long as they weren't flat he was fine with it and he didn't care if the girls were tall or short. But he was still looking for proportion and the disproportion of Lylphia being short but having big breasts bothered Yu.

But when it came to Sivina and Ana, things were different. Not only were they both beautiful, they were well proportioned, well shaped, with perfect bodies. From the first moment Yu saw them, he thought they would make ideal waifus for an isekaiser’s harem.

And now that he saw them in their pajamas, he decided that they were both much more beautiful than he had thought. Especially Ana's pajamas were tighter than Sivina's and showed off the full outline of her buttocks. Although Yu didn't prefer girls with short hair, he found it hard to take his eyes off them.

“Where are you looking at?”

Yurine grabbed Yu's hair and started pulling it. Yu was embarrassed to be caught. He could neither answer nor look at Yurine's face. Yurine decided that she had punished him enough and let go of his hair.

“I think I'll run faster if you let me go.”

“If I let you, I'll die, I'm serious.”

He had no jokes about it. He was not only afraid of the possibility of a seizure, he was also afraid of the Sharley they were leaving behind.

Sharley didn't look healthy at all, and Lylphia's blow to him was so strong that if it had landed on Yu, he would at best have walked away with broken bones. So, Sharley really should have been eliminated.

But if this were an RPG game, Yu's luck skill score would be zero. Which would mean this: If Yu was in trouble, the world would gladly keep Sharley alive and somehow make him come after Yu again.

When this happened and Sharley caught Yu without Yurine, of course he wasn't going to argue with him like a civilized person. Sharley would kill him as soon as he found him and turn his sights on Yurine.

“Were those people murderers?”

“I don't know, but I believe it is. In fact, I give it a ninety-eight point nine percent chance.”

He saw the clothes they were wearing but could not recognize the face of one of them because of the hat he was wearing when he fell to the ground. But the one holding the staff had brown hair.

“Why was that bastard with them?”

“Were they together? Sharley didn't seem to me to have the intelligence to cooperate with anyone.”

Sharley had come here uninvited, it must have been a coincidence that he appeared at the same time as the other two guests. Yu didn't think he had the capacity to think clearly and cooperate with anyone.

And if they assumed that one of them was the killer, it should not have been possible for Sharley to find and cooperate with the killer while no one else could. To Yu, it was just an annoying coincidence.

“You run so fast, you're very sporty.”

Yu was breathing his ass off, so to speak, his spleen hurting from running. Yurine started to make fun of Yu as his speed slowed down more and more.

“Maybe I'll run faster if you choose to cast a healing spell on me instead of talking, I'm having trouble breathing now.”

Yurine began to transfer the mana in her body into Yu's body. As the healing mana penetrated his body, the pain in his spleen disappeared and his breathing became easier.

But the gap between him and the others had widened too much and Yurine's magic did not allow Yu to run faster than his potential.

If he had taken a circuitous route, running through alleys instead of running on a straight road, he would have lost them already, and after a minute of running he had already lost sight of them.

“I think they're going out of town.”

Yurine was supporting Yu with her healing magic while Yu was running as fast as he could, pushing himself to his limits and trying to catch up with the girls in front of them.

***

Just like Yu, who was coming up behind them, Sivina and her companions realized that the men they were chasing were trying to run out of town.

“Watch out!”

Lylphia sent a huge fireball towards the rock that the sorcerer sitting behind Rino had ripped out of the ground and sent at them. The fireball and the rock collided and exploded in the air.

When the cloud of mana created by the explosion of the fire spell disappeared, they saw the fugitives running, leaving the wounded Rino in their wake. Rino was dying on the ground.

“The guy in the back was under rino.”

There were laws that prevented Lylphia from using her magic to her heart's content. She was forbidden to use fire magic directly on humans, and if she wanted to use it on a human, her opponent had to make the first move.

If it turned out to be the Redchapel Killer, at least the state wouldn't blame Lylphia for it, but if it was a common thief or if he killed Sony with his magic, there could be trouble.

So instead of attacking them on sight, Lylphia targeted rino to at least stop them from escaping.

Rino, wounded by Lylphia, fell and crushed the man next to him. The crushed man was running slower than the mage in front of him. When the mage realized that his friend was falling behind, he stopped and, after a moment's concentration, pulled out a three-meter wall that covered the entire path.

To remove the wall blocking their vision, Ana attacked it with wind and Lylphia with fire magic, but the spells were not enough to break it down.

It was more practical to jump over the wall than to try to break it down.

First Ana, who was holding the dog's leash, accelerated, picked up the dog and jumped over the wall in one leap. Then Sivina and Lylphia also jumped over the wall in one leap, as did Ana.

“Where are they?” Sivina couldn't see the men they were chasing.

“Dog!”

Ana hadn't even put the dog down when the animal started hunting. Apparently, even though they had passed rino, the scent of the animal had gotten to the fugitives. Ana put the dog down and the animal started running like crazy.

“It's good we got this.”

The dog first led them through winding roads and alleyways, then took a straight road and started running towards the exit of the town.

“Are we going into the forest?” Ana asked.

“Of course! We've come this far, this is the only chance we have to catch them.” Sivina could hardly contain her excitement as she ran alongside Ana.

“Mr. Valarfin and Yurine stayed behind.”

“It's okay.” Lylphia understood Ana's concern. “I threw little fireballs on the ground on the way in and left tracks. They'll follow the soot on the ground and catch up with us.”

Following the dog's lead, they left the town and entered the forest. The hound was running confidently and they were running after it.