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Chapter 5: Go East


However, unlike all the different memories KR was reviewing back in Yamato, Leonardo really was just a force of one, and that fight of his was thoroughly unpolished and clumsy. 
“Cowabungaaa!!” 
Having leapt from the red dragon with a war cry, Leonardo fell like a stone toward the Black Dragon, then pulled the man in the robe—who was waving his tentacles around, trying to tangle him in them—and the delicate girl along with him. They must have just been sitting astride the dragon, without using any special riding gear: Swept along by Leonardo’s momentum, they were flung out into empty air with startling ease. 
Naturally, Leonardo wasn’t able to fly. 
He’d only used his excellent Adventurer physical capabilities to leap from the red dragon’s back, and all he did was fall, reflecting on the physical reality of gravitational acceleration as he did so. 
“S-s-scaryyyyy…” 
“What a strange thing you’ve done.” 
“Keh-heh-heh-heh. Embraced by passionate arms, scattering petals like a dahlia…” 
The horror of his two nemeses—who were wriggling in a rather self-satisfied way—caused an abrupt premonition of danger that made him thrust out his short sword. There was a biologically repulsive sensation, as if he’d stuck the blade into damp mud, and the robed man melted, running thickly. 
Leonardo clamped down a scream in his throat. This seemed to strike the girl he held in his left arm as funny. She gave a light chuckle. 
“You amaze me, human. Are you an imbecile? Are you brave? From that height, like a red fruit, flung away. What delight. What joy.” 
“Shut up!” Leonardo yelled, feeling a horror that froze his spine for reasons he didn’t understand. He hadn’t been startled by the fact that the girl had spoken. It wasn’t unusual for NPCs to have set lines to say at the end of quests and things. This was true even of monsters. 
In addition, Leonardo knew that some monsters, such as lamias and nymphs, looked like beautiful women. 
However, this girl was something entirely different from those. He felt a similar horror toward the swarm of worms inside that robe, but the fact that this girl appeared to be delicate and lovely made her abnormality stand out even more. 
Compared with her, the People of the Earth seem way more human! 
“My, my, whatever’s the matter? Do you finally regret your foolishness, perhaps? How droll. How delightful.” 
“Hey, if I hadn’t watched Episode 104, ‘Fly, Froggers!’ I never would’ve done anything this crazy, either!” 
The gallant figures of the heroes as they leapt into action to put down an enormous pumpkin monster rose in his mind’s eye. Come to think of it, that pumpkin monster had moved its vines like writhing tentacles. It was just like that robed monster. No, since this monster had a mucky stench and made sickening viscous sounds, it was much worse. 
“A hot pulse. The scent of blood. Is this the resonance of factors in sympathy?” 
“Save the sleep-talking for when you’re asleep!” 
“Ahhh… Heartless sweet nothings. Cold talk. How wretched.” 
While Leonardo was distracted by the girl, whose smile was both pretty and cruel, the robed figure slipped out of his grasp. It extended those gray tentacles that had caused him so much grief in all directions, casting several of them into the rapidly approaching treetops. 

The green boughs were right in front of them. Leonardo had been planning to dash the robed shape to the ground and use it as a cushion, and as the figure slipped away from him, he groaned. 
“Oh my God!” 
“Two at once is extravagant. Immoral.” 
Drawing her lips into a smile, the golden-haired girl touched Leonardo’s cheek with pale, bloodless fingertips, as if he were someone precious to her. 
“My, my.” 
“Don’t give me that ‘my, my’ crap!” 
In that moment, spurred on by what felt like a ten-degree drop in his body temperature, Leonardo slashed upward with his Ninja Twin Flames. 
Although their paleness made one anticipate the feel of porcelain, the girl’s fingertips were desiccated, and the sensation he’d gotten had been one of dead wood or a mummy. Those fingers squirmed like arthropods with an intent to gouge out Leonardo’s eyes, and he shoved the sword into them. In order to do it he let go of the girl, but the ground was already right there, and Leonardo didn’t have the leeway to care. 
His drawn swords cut a branch as thick as a child’s torso in two. His speed slowed just slightly. Counting on this, Leonardo began cutting away all the branches within reach. 
The great trees were like Japanese cedars, and it took four seconds to reach the ground from their tops. 
“The end of our tryst is the ground’s embrace.” 
“Go hug yourself, pervert!” 
“U-fu-fu-fu-fu. Until death fills the world.” 
“Waaaaaaaugh!” 
The girl seemed to have finally decided to take action: Emitting horribly cold air from her lips and numbing Leonardo, she latched onto the trunk of one of the big trees in a bizarre, spidery movement. 
With a cruel sound that made you want to cover your ears, the girl’s fingernails were ripped off, her fingers bent and broken, and blood rose to the surface of her white skin as if she’d taken a grater to it. 
However, Leonardo didn’t have the heart—or the time—to sympathize. Betting on the speed he’d dampened by cutting those branches, he also dashed his curled-up body against a tree trunk, drastically changing his direction. 
I’m gonna die! I’m gonna die! Is this dying?! 
But Adventurer bodies were sturdier than Leonardo had thought. Either that, or Feather Fall, an Assassin special skill, had had some influence. Leonardo survived. Not only that, but the damage was far less than what he’d steeled himself for. 
This seemed to have been true for Leonardo’s enemy as well. 
The girl Rasfia, who was facing him on a branch five meters off the ground, dispelled the semitransparent phantasm that surrounded her with a wave of her arm. The illusion thinned and vanished, seeming to melt into thin air. From within its veil, Rasfia’s pretty—and undamaged—body appeared. 
“My God…” 
Leonardo glared at her sharply, and the girl spread both arms mischievously and smiled. In the tops of the dense conifer forest, where the winds of Aorsoi moaned, Leonardo and Rasfia, the Genius of Necromancy, squared off. 
 



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