I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

162 – Heart (4)

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Operation.

Lacking military power, the only way for me to overcome the difficulties that come with combat was to devise a detailed yet effective strategy.

The opponent is a giant,

According to Sylvia, it is a monster that is presumed to be a hybrid of an ogre.

If I got hit just once, my body would surely crumble to pieces like a mosquito that has been hit by a human’s slap.

Without even having time to wipe away the cold sweat flowing from the tension, I racked my brain and came up with a plan.

Even a second or third alternative in case the operation doesn’t work out.

Looking at me like that, Sylvia opened her mouth in an ecstatic voice.

It was as if the voice of a little girl had found a cute kitten.

“Wow, I like it when Ash thinks so desperately.”

“…”

I tried hard to pretend not to hear, but soon I started hearing Sister Alice’s voice, which sounded like she was being ridiculous.

“What the hell, what the hell are you talking about?”

“I can’t stand the look of despair on Ash’s face when I try to destroy all his hard-worked plans with my own strength.”

“… Are you sure that the Demon King’s curse doesn’t affect your brain?”

“I’m sure your heart might explode any minute.”

“This shit, seriously.”

Finally, while I was organizing my plans and preparing myself mentally, the conversation between the two people next to me took my mind off things.

Well, no matter how hard I plan, it won’t be more powerful than Sylvia’s sword swung thoughtlessly.

No, wait,

Now is not the time to think about that.

I regained my lost concentration and spoke to Pia.

“We have to take one down first by surprise, otherwise we’re out of luck.”

Pia nodded and answered.

“What are you going to do?”

“You have to aim for the head.”

“You’re saying you’ll kill me in one shot?”

“No, unfortunately none of the magic I can use has enough power to pierce the monster’s head. So, I need to shoot the head and at the same time make the ground under the giant’s feet bounce up, so that the giant falls over.”

As soon as my briefing was over, Sister Alice’s evaluation came flying in.

“Hmm, not a bad plan. The bigger it is, the greater the impact when it lands.”

“Our Ash is so smart, hehe.”

Sylvia spoke proudly, as if she had been praised.

Sister Alice looked at Sylvia with pitiful eyes, shook her head, and muttered again.

“By the way, I really can’t get used to that sight. I know he’s talking to the spirit, but to me, no matter how I look at it, it looks like Ash is the only one talking.”

“There is a spirit next to Ash right now.”

“Can you see it?”

“No, I can barely feel it. I think it might be because I’m using Ash’s magic.”

“I see. I can’t use magic at all, so I can’t feel it.”

Unable to bear it any longer, I looked at the two people and spoke bluntly.

“Excuse me, I’m concentrating, so be quiet…”

“Oh my, what is there to focus on? I can just do it quickly.”

“That’s only true by Sylvia’s standards.”

Sister Alice said with a serious face.

“I’m leaving it to Ash because I’ve decided that he can do it. If it’s dangerous, I’ll come rescue you right away.”

“Are you coming to save me?”

“Of course, if you get hit without us being able to do anything, there’s no way out, so don’t even think about just lying down and leaving it to us. No matter how great my divine power is, if you get crushed like a piece of fruit thrown on the ground, there’s nothing we can do. It’s not my body.”

“Sister… why do you say things like that to scare people?”

Sylvia chuckled and patted my head.

“Fight, win, and come back, and I will give Ash a reward.”

“… I said it was a reward anyway…”

I quickly shut my mouth, which was about to say something.

The true identity of the reward Sylvia is giving is clearly s*xual pleasure.

There’s no way Sylvia would have prepared a gift for me in this forest.

From the beginning, it was obvious that Sylvia wanted it more than I did, but Sylvia’s shameless attitude of saying it as a reward was cute and funny, so I tried to jokingly retort.

However, I quickly stopped talking when I remembered that my older sister Alice was next to me.

It’s not like Sister Alice has committed such a great sin that she should have to hear about Sylvia and me having s*x.

She was already going through a lot of hardships, so there was no need for me to add to her suffering.

I kept my mouth shut for a while, then slowly pulled it away and said.

“I’ll go and come back.”

“cheer up!”

Sylvia smiled and waved.

Sylvia muttered softly in a barely audible voice as she watched me slowly move forward, bending down.

“Ah, I want to see Ash’s cute, flustered appearance soon…”

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I approached the giant while hiding among the grass and trees, but I froze before I could even begin my attack.

I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t think of anything.

“Ash… why aren’t you moving?”

Pia, who had prepared a huge ball of wind to throw at the monster’s head, kept urging me on.

It seemed that Pia hadn’t noticed the situation yet.

“Ash?”

But even Pia’s urging seemed to fall apart as it hung in my ears.

Suddenly, in my confused mind, Sylvia’s muttering from a moment ago flowed in.

‘Ah, I want to see Ash’s cute and flustered appearance soon…’

Sylvia.

What did I do wrong to Sylvia?

I could only now understand what she had been mumbling.

“Pia…”

“huh?”

“…Where are you going to shoot?”

“Well… ah,”

Pia sighed.

I did the same.

Oh my god.

The giant had no head.

That doesn’t mean it’s dead, it just means there’s nothing hanging above the shoulder area.

A large, one-eyed eye was embedded in the giant’s chest, and a huge mouth that spit out a foul stench that would melt your nose was embedded in the giant’s abdomen.

I couldn’t see the nose, but judging by the fact that it was walking around with such terrible bad breath, it seemed like it didn’t even have a nose in the first place.

“Ash, they have mouths on their stomachs.”

“Digestion will be quick…”

The giants were walking, their footsteps making a noise that shook the very foundations of the earth.

I let out a small curse.

“shit,”

If Sylvia’s words are true, there may be more of these monsters around.

If I hesitate like this and these things return to my group, I will never win.

The operation was already a failure, and the second and third operations that were planned, if any, also ended up in vain.

No, how could you possibly think that you wouldn’t have a head?

I sighed and gathered my magic power.

“Ash, do you have any plans?”

“No, there isn’t.”

“Ugh… What should I do?”

“Just wait a minute.”

I peeked my head out and looked at the two monsters.

His huge body was covered in rough calluses all over.

Even the hideous thing dangling between your legs.

Even with Pia’s help, my meager magic power won’t be able to penetrate that skin.

The large mouths on their abdomens were filled with teeth that jutted out at random.

The places where the front teeth and canines should be are all blunt molars.

If you get bitten by an arm, it doesn’t seem like it’ll end with just getting cut off.

It will definitely be crushed by the eighth.

As I raised my gaze slightly, I could see the large, single eye embedded in its chest quivering.

The disgusting eyes, which bulged out slightly from the body line without eyelids, looked like bloodshot slime.

Her moist eyes, which moved back and forth with every step, were shaking as if they would fall out at any moment.

It seemed like the only place I could aim for was those eyes.

“Okay, let’s do it.”

I memorized the order.

Just two words: the word that creates fire and the word that condenses it.

Contrary to the fireball, which had to increase the size of the fire, I reduced the fire to something small enough to fit in the palm of my hand.

Naturally, the firepower also decreased, so I gathered my magic power and repeated the two words over and over again.

“… aha.”

Pia must have realized my intention just by looking at it, because she started to blow wind around her body.

I couldn’t tell if he was smart or if he could read my thoughts because we had been together for so long, but I nodded and finished reciting the spell.

“Ugh,”

I started to feel a tingling sensation in the palms of my hands and the tips of my fingers where I was collecting the fireballs.

I got burned by the heat.

But I didn’t stop and just kept repeating the spell a little more.

“Ash, stop it. Your hands will burn.”

“Ugh… ugh, with the wind of the piano…”

“I know.”

Pia pulled the magic out of my body and then wrapped a palm-sized ball of fire around me with wind.

The sight of Pia blocking out external influences while at the same time circulating air inside to keep the fire from going out was a scene that perfectly recreated my thoughts.

A burning pain quickly shot up both my hands, but I gritted my teeth, endured it, and slowly took a deep breath.

And then he shouted loudly.

“Hey, you ugly monster!”

The two giants turned toward me at the same time.

The large, bulging pupils in her eyes, each with veins the size of a finger, were aimed straight at me.

I took aim too.

Wind Blaster.

Pia timed it right and threw the fireball she had prepared in front of my order.

“Please hit me!”

As soon as it was activated, a fireball that looked like a small sun was launched straight towards the monster’s eyes.

Pia cleverly used the wind to slightly flatten the fireball.

The fire, which had become a little sharper, struck straight into the slime-like pupil of one of the giants.

“…!”

A terrible, eardrum-shattering scream echoed throughout the area.

I covered my ears with my hands that were dripping pus and looked at the monster. I could still see the red glowing fireball in its eyes.

The fire, which could not be extinguished because it was not touched by water thanks to Pia’s wind, began to boil the monster’s eyeballs.

The pupils floating in the b*stard’s eyes slowly began to bubble, and soon the thick blood vessels began to burst.

I could see bright red blood filling the inside of his eyes.

The monster began to scream louder and writhe in pain.

The guy next to me seemed to be panicking as he kept looking back and forth between me and the monster and just screaming.

Then the guy was hit by the monster’s wildly swinging arm and lost his center of gravity, slowly tilting over.

I shouted at Pia amidst the monster’s roar.

“This is an opportunity, you can’t miss it!”

“Wait a minute, Ash’s hand first!”

“He was screaming really loudly. He’s still screaming! The others will come running soon!”

“What do we do now, Miss?”

thud!

I shouted to Pia as the monster fell over with a loud noise.

“Ask!”

Pia nodded and slowly gathered up some dirt from around her, pouring it over the fallen monster.

Perhaps because she had already practiced handling dirt when she sparred with Sylvia, Pia was handling the huge pile of dirt relatively well.

It looked as if a giant wave made of dirt was swallowing up the monster.

As the surrounding soil was dragged away, the forest turned into a rough, rugged terrain, and the densely packed trees around it began to lean little by little as their roots were exposed.

Meanwhile, the monster, writhing in pain with its eyes boiling, tripped and fell over without seeing the ground that had suddenly risen.

And at the spot where the monster fell, there was a tree that was tilted exquisitely.

“… Huh, huh?”

Anticipating the sight that was about to unfold, I tightly shut my eyes and covered Pia’s eyes.

Thinking back now, I should have just covered my ears.

That horrible sound that pierces the eardrums and even cuts through the screams of monsters!

The monster’s roar stopped as soon as the damp yet creepy sound was heard.

“…”

I opened only one eye slightly and looked at the monster.

The tree that had stabbed the eye of the monster that had lost its balance and fallen had stuck out through its back.

The soft, sunken eyes, following the direction of the tree’s progression, were still bubbling.

The eyeball, which had been continuously emitting hot steam through the gap where it had been stabbed, soon burst with a popping sound and spilled hot, thick liquid onto the ground.

A foul stench wafted into my nostrils on the hot wind.

“… you’re lucky.”

“Huh? You knew about it, didn’t you?”

“huh?”

“I thought Ash was after this when he buried the other monsters alive.”

“…”

Pia carefully held my hand and looked up at my face with her eyes wide open.

“…Oh, well then. Of course I knew that.”

“I didn’t know.”

Pia opened her eyes half-closed and glared at me, then sighed and carefully touched my palm.

“ouch,”

“What should I do… It looks so painful.”

Only then did I look down at the palms of my hands.

In that short time, both my hands were a mess of blisters, pus, and peeling skin.

“Why does Ash always get ruined when he fights?”

“…”

“Wasn’t the image of a wizard being cool and fighting elegantly?”

“… I know.”

That’s right.

That was so true that even when Pia nagged at me, I could only smile awkwardly.

That was when.

“They are fighting so noisily.”

Sister Alice slowly approached me.

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