Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 103

Dungeon Capture (2)

“Aria!”

As I was about to jump out of the way of the monster in the “monster room” approaching from behind, I heard a voice from Elena, who was protected by Sera, as if she was enduring a lot of pain.

The “monster room” was a kind of dungeon trap that summoned a large number of monsters to attack the victim when he or she stepped into the empty space.

It was a highly dangerous trap that was difficult to avoid, but if there was any saving grace, it was that the monsters attracted by the “summoning” of the dungeon were generally of low rank.

Even so, “numbers” were a threat in and of themselves. Even if one monster was not a big deal, if more than ten monsters were to attack a single person, even if they were of Rank 1 or 2, they would be a threat to the knight’s life.

Dalton and the other members of Rainbow Sword were also unable to exert their full strength because they had to keep the target of their escort from getting too close and covered the knights, even though the enemy could be defeated with a single blow.

For better or worse, these “orthodox” adventurers could slaughter an ogre or troll with a single blow, but they were too powerful and their weapons too strong to take on a large number of small fry in a melee.

“What can a young girl like you do out there!”

Amol, who was royalty and was about to step forward and fight, raised his voice to interrupt me.

To someone like him, who only believed what he saw, it must be impossible for a woman no older than Elena to step forward and fight.

I could buy his enthusiasm, but there was no proper force left on our side.

The knights had not been able to return due to the melee, and a few guards remained, but their job, including Sera, was to [die as a royal shield] rather than to fight.

“There is no time. Don’t get in the way.”

“Nah.”

The monsters behind me were already close. I silenced Amol for a moment with an Intimidate, then lightly waved a hand to Elena and Sera, and dove like a machete into the waves in front of the avalanche of monsters.

I’d show you how I fight.

[Goggah!]

I quickly clicked my heels, and the blade of my heel that I had just kicked into the air as I dove to the ground tore the skull off the face of the Kobold that was running in front of me.

Before I landed, a [Slash Type] pendulum from [Shadow Storage] slashed through the throat of a goblin that tried to slip through the side, and a [Scythe Type] deeply scraped through the medulla oblongata of a hobgoblin.

[Giggles!]

Two goblins swinging rusty daggers attacked there.

The moment I landed, absorbing the impact with my knee joints and thigh muscles, I leaped out to kick the ground with my legs flailing from the momentum, and faster than the daggers were swung down, I simultaneously pierced the eyebrows of the two goblins with the black knives and black daggers in both hands.

[GAAAAHHHH!!!]

The large high kobold and orc that loomed there thrust out their rusty spears and stone axes.

Taking away my hand from the knife and dagger that had pierced the goblin and I evaded the blade as if I were just casually turning my back, then kicked the high kobold in the jaw with my toe blade from directly under it, and while leaping to avoid it, I shattered the orc’s skull with the [Heavy Type] pendulum that I had swung down.

[Gigaaah!!!]

The next Kobold and Goblin that jumped in, I slashed their necks at the same time with [Slash Type], whose power was increased by centrifugal force.

She retrieved her knife and dagger by wrapping them around a [General Purpose Type] thread, and grabbed the dagger in midair thrusting it between the eyebrows of the hobgoblin that was approaching, then grabbed the knife and spun around, slashing the neck of the high kobold that had jumped into Aria.

The wave of monsters that had been approaching stopped lightly at the fresh head of the high kobold that flew by, spraying black blood.

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However, I did not intend to stand idly by and watch. Again aiming at the goblins on the left and right ended with [Slash Type] and [Scythe Type], I pulled the two pendulum strings that tore off their necks with my all-out physical strength, slashing the necks of the two Kobolds and one goblin that were on the line, and dove straight into the midst of the monsters.

The monsters’ faces were clearly twitching as I killed them nonchalantly without stopping even for a moment.

Fear hardened their bodies. There was no such thing as “moderate fear,” as they said on the battlefield. If we did not overcome or surmount it, immediate “death” would await us.

While dodging a swarm of slow-moving monsters, she used her black knife to slice through the carotid arteries of several goblins, then drove her dagger under the jaw of a stunned and rigid High Kobold up to its brain.

[Gui…gigaaaaah!!!]

Seeing this, the monsters moved in unison, as if frightened by fear itself.

I ducked as if to get down from the several spears that the monsters were bringing out, and I clawed at the stone floor like a cat, leaping out like an arrow with the strength of my arms and kicking legs, simultaneously slashing at the throat of the hobgoblin with my heel blade, while I thrust up the jaws of the orc directly in front of me with my palms and slashed the rattled throat with my knife.

[Gaaah!!!]

As she deflected the spear of the hobgoblin that was being thrust out with the cuirass of her left arm, she thrust it at the Kobold that was nearby, and deflected it at the hobgoblin that released the spear while kicking up the arm of the High Kobold that had attacked him with its sharp claws as if rolling sideways, slaying both of them simultaneously with the knife and dagger.

Dodging the blades of the oncoming monsters with only extremely focused detection, I spun around to constantly change position, slashing at their necks with a pendulum wielded with centrifugal force, shattering their craniums, tearing their carotid arteries, and killing them at last.

The rest, about half–

***

“…What…is…this…”

Amol’s gravelly voice spilled out.

The adventurer was a slender girl who looked no different from his niece Elena or nephew Ervan.

The adventurer, who seemed to be an acquaintance of Elena, behaved in a manner that could be considered disrespectful to the royal family, and ignored the presence of Amol, who was trying to protect his nieces, as she headed off on her own against a swarm of monsters.

Even the Rank 3 Royal Guards present there would not be safe if they were surrounded by five hobgoblins with weapons.

And not only rank 1 goblins and kobolds, but also rank 2 hobgoblins, and even lower rank 3 orcs and high kobolds were all there. No matter how famous of an adventurer the girl was, a member of the [Rainbow Sword], there was no way she could win. Or so Amol had thought.

But the girl used her strange weapons and Taijutsu to kill dozens of monsters in the blink of an eye.

The girl’s dancing blades were sure to take a life each time they sparkled, and the blood and fumes from the monsters turned the girl’s “ashes” covered hair red, making it look like a rose made of iron.

“… “Ash Crowned Princess”…”

One of the guards let out these words in a stunned manner, causing Amol to involuntarily turn around.

“What is that…, you know that girl?”

Amol shook his head slightly as he grabbed the guard, who tried to pull back.

“Well, I don’t know all the details, but…I believe she is called the ‘ash-covered’ girl who had destroyed the assassin’s guild and several bandit guilds…”

The guard replied as if recalling a “rumor,” and one of his followers spoke up from behind him as if also remembering.

“I had also heard this story. I heard that she destroyed a horde of orcs all by herself…”

“That’s absurd…”

Amol was stunned to hear the impossible story, but the “reality” of the girl who was killing monsters in front of his eyes painted over his “common sense”.

“Aria…”

Seeing the incredible strength and growth of the girl who once swore an oath to her, Elena called out her name and put her hand on her own chest as if to confirm her “oath” once again.

“…”

Clara, too, witnessed the girl’s impossible strength, and her blue face turned white as wax.

As if seeking help, she looked at Ervan, who held her hand and said he would “protect” her, and despite her fear, his eyes only reflected the girl’s image, as if “enchanted”, and she held his hand. Clara’s fingers gripped his hand with all of her strength.

Amidst the frightened, curious, and horrified gazes, Carla Lester alone gazed entranced at the dancing, fighting girl.

The reason why Carla had remained on the sidelines so far without getting her own hands dirty was because she wanted to see the girl kill and maim rather than take the pleasure of taking someone else’s life herself.

Exhaling this distorted emotion with a hot breath, Carla turned her hot eyes on the girl.

“After all, no matter whose blood it is, bloody Aria is beautiful…”

***

[Gu…gah].

With a gurgling sound, the thread was removed from the broken neck, and the last of the high kobolds crumbled to the ground.

This was the end. The dungeon trap was finished, and the bloody corpses of more than fifty monsters were lying around me.

The other side had just finished exterminating them, too, and the knights who had returned in a hurry took a step back as if surprised to see us.

Among them were the young knights who had talked to me on the boat, but they too, seeing me covered in blood, took a step back as if they were all intimidated, and cleared a pathway for me to proceed.

I waved lightly at Elena, who was among the royalty surrounded by knights, and she let out a sigh with a slightly angry look on her face and finally smiled a little as if she had no other choice.

“Aria!”

I saw Feld and Mira running up from the path I was on, and I took that step toward the heights where they were.

I could still grow stronger.