The scene he had seen earlier remained unchanged. The knight who was part of the Hero party didn’t even get splashed with blood and was running with a sword in her hand.
"No way no way no way?! Is that a monster!!"
Clock shouted at the top of his lungs.
Death was clearly approaching.
Panic surged from the depths of his body.
What kind of magic had she used? What skill?
Did she really cut off Quetzalcoatl with just one slash?
Did that petite girl have the power to cut off a monster and dig into the ground and split the carriage’s rear seat in two?
"Boyit!! Do you have something?! "
"Shut up!! Don’t get scared, you brat!!"
"Ah?! No one is scared!! I’ll kill you!!"
In the underworld society, it was over if you were sneered at.
When you were provoked, you should respond with a threat.
Even if death was approaching, he wouldn’t forget that.
It didn’t change the situation, but speaking at least improved his mood a little.
Clock’s fighting spirit, which had been fading, returned slightly, and he began to think of ways to break this situation, but he had nothing.
The only uncertain factor was the man who was driving the carriage.
He wanted to expect Boyit’s unseen hand.
"Boyit! Do you have something? Unique skill? Magic?"
"There’s no way!! There’s no way I have it!! But I have a soil and ice scroll. It’s for escaping and I always carry it as a self-defense!!"
"That’s amazing!! You’re a genius!!"
"Ha ha ha ha!! You’re an idiot!!"
The two, who were overhyping each other after being cornered, were shouting wildly.
The girl knight approached with a puzzled face.
"Well, I’ll give you one shot."
Boyit decided to cut his last hand.
There was no point thinking about what would happen now. His defense instinct, which was trying to bury his fear of death, was causing excessive excitement.
He could only pray that it would work out.
"Take this!! Stone Wall Muro Di Pietra!!"
When the carriage crossed a slight slope, it created a soil wall in response.
The calculation was that it would be enough time to run away in the street.
But it wouldn’t work against the Hero party.
The girl’s body lowered slightly.
The soil wall covered her view and she disappeared.
But there was no need to worry. With her body ability, she would easily jump over it.
"Additionally! Ice Face Gearraichio!"
Boyit activated the ice scroll at the right timing.
The ground became frozen bit by bit. From the starting point, the surrounding area was covered in ice.
"Hey. What’s the point of this?"
"Well, just look."
He wasn’t freezing the opponent, but freezing the ground.
Clock didn’t understand the tactic Boyit had taken. He tilted his head at Boyit’s relaxed attitude.
While watching from behind with a puzzled face, something unexpected happened.
"—What?!"
Indeed, the girl’s voice of surprise was heard.
What he saw was the girl making a V shape with her legs.
When she landed after jumping over the soil wall, she slipped on the frozen ground.
The girl knight showed off her black spats in a perfect split.
"..."
"...Buha!! "
For a moment she made a straight face, but then both of them burst into laughter at the sight.
"Kyahaha!! What a sight!!"
"Wahahahaha!! "
The two scum laughed vulgarly at the pitiful sight of the girl who had fallen.
The appearance of the strong little girl was very interesting to the two.
But in this quiet plain, it was audible to the person herself, and it was too humiliating for a young warrior who had just entered to ignore it.
The knight who immediately recovered her posture from the fall kicked the ground with a force that was digging.
The ice and the ground below exploded and flew.
She chased after the carriage and closed the distance in one breath.
What overwhelming specs.
Clock and the others immediately made grim faces.
"Hey Boyit! Is that girl going crazy?! What are you doing?!"
"Hah?! Don’t put the blame on me!! You were laughing your ass off too!!"
The two suddenly threw the blame on each other.
When in trouble, they had survived by throwing the blame on others.
This flow was too familiar for a comrade split.
"Damn it, what do we do? I have no more moves!! Should I jump off a cliff?!"
Clock made an absurd proposal out of desperation.
He said "cliff" even though there was no cliff.
Ahead of the Arbilgo plain to the east, in the federal territory area, there was a dangerous place called Cervinia Gorge.
In other words, he was saying "jump from the cliff into the river." With that, the pursuers would definitely stop.
But the height was enormous. There was a risk of dying on impact.
It was just a body throw.
"You can’t do something that stupid!! Enter the federation!!"
"Once we enter the federation, what then? The other side is the Hero party. It’s normal for them to cross the border anyway."
"Yeah, we’ll enter the Fourth District of the Secret Forest."
"...Isn’t that the nest of magical beasts!!"
Clock frowned.
The border between Crotopone Kingdom and the Lilitt Federation was quite wide.
In one part of that border, there was a place called the Secret Forest District of the Federation, which was considered the most dangerous.
He didn’t need to know what kind of place it was. It was a nest of magical beasts.
Even a high-rank adventurer party basically didn’t go there. With the overwhelming number and strength of the magical beasts, they had no choice but to kneel.
"Come on!! The little girl knight!! We’re going to enter the forest district!! If you can follow, come!!"
Boyit shouted.
It was provocation and threat based on the assumption that he wouldn’t want to go to the Secret Forest.
Come if you can come. If you come, you’ll die. A clear declaration.
The girl knight who had been silent the whole time.
Even she was surprised, so she showed a reaction.
"Wait!! The fat guy!! It’s fine to become food yourself, but leave that scumbag!!"
What was she saying? The girl entered to stop them with a strange way of speaking.
Clock and Boyit exchanged glances.
"I have business only with that man!! If you leave that man, I’ll let you go!!"
...What the hell is she saying...?
The knight of the Hero party who had come to execute justice was offering a compromise.
Leave the petty Clock alone in exchange for letting Boyit go, the great villain.
Was it that important to capture Clock?
Did this knight not know how dangerous a villain Boyit was? Well, probably she didn’t know.
But that didn’t matter now.
First, it was more important not to let Boyit get distracted.
He couldn’t let the enemy’s divide-and-rule work.
Clock decided on the priority and turned to Boyit.
To make sure he didn’t make a foolish judgment, he used the word "trap."
But the bearded fat man’s judgment was even faster.
"Whoa?! "
His body floated up. At the same time, the carriage moved away.
Clock was blown into the air. The carriage that had fought with him for several dozen minutes left Clock behind and went somewhere.
"Sorry, Clock!! The lady likes you!! I’m so envious!! If you survive, let’s meet again!!"
"B-boyit?! "
The body of Clock blown from the carriage stayed in the air for a moment, then fell straight down.
He hurriedly tried to break his fall, but he couldn’t kill the momentum.
"Guoo?! ...Guh, ugu...!! "
He barely succeeded in landing and didn’t fall headfirst.
But there was sharp pain in his left arm and left ankle. Sweat flowed down his back, and he realized it was a failure.
That bastard... He was hiding the wind scroll after all.
He was going to betray me when it mattered...?
Originally Clock had planned something similar, so it was a draw between them.
But Boyit had struck first. The deception had lost.
Clock moved, protecting his left hand and dragging his left foot, trying to hide in the grassland.
But the pursuer had already caught up.
He was already found, of course.
"Guaaaaaah...?! "
A stronger pain ran from the dragging left foot.
Even if he pulled it while enduring the pain, it wouldn’t move as if it was stitched.
"I finally caught you. You made me work hard."
When he turned around, it was the face of the knight girl stepping on Clock’s foot.
Perhaps because she was facing the sun, her face looked very irritated.
"I was wondering when you would use the Emergency Escape skill, but in the end you didn’t use it. Mana ran out? You have no way to escape anymore."
Escape...?
When he heard it, he didn’t understand for a moment.
Come to think of it, he had used the skill he stole from Zoll in front of the Hero party.
In other words, she had been aiming to capture him without using the emergency escape the whole time.
She could have caught him more easily, but if she cornered him too much, she would have had to consider the possibility that he would use the skill and refrained from attacking.
The skill Clock stole would return to its owner once used.
The emergency escape was only for that time. It couldn’t be used anymore.
If he could have used it, he would have used it from the beginning.
"Well..."
The knight spoke as if she had finished a job.
Was she going to drag him to the town? Clock began to think of ways to escape, but the knight girl did something he didn’t expect.
"Guh?! "
The girl released the foot she was stepping on, grabbed Clock’s neck root, and punched his stomach.
"What the hell are you doing?! Ugu, ugi?! Bu fu...!!"
Punch, punch, knee strike, knee strike.
Unable to endure it, Clock vomited blood.
He let out a pained cry and, unable to understand the situation and confused, couldn’t even raise his voice.
She made him face the opposite direction so he wouldn’t get blood on his face, beat him while carefully not killing him, and repeatedly assaulted him.
She stepped on his back many times, kicked his belly, and when he became unable to make even sounds, she kicked him again.
Completely limp and unable to move, Clock.
The girl confirmed the pulse and checked survival. She placed mana around his abdomen and cast a regeneration spell, then stepped on Clock’s face with an iron boot at the end.
"Hmph. A loser."
Holy Knight Teeto, who had finally finished her work, threw Clock over her shoulder and started running back the way she had come at a light pace.
There was no fatigue at all, and her cheeks were dyed red as if she was excited.