Volume 5 - CH 71

Act 5-71: To The Battlefield

After leaving the arena, I ran toward the northern gate, exclaiming all the while, reminding everyone to head to the shelter.

I had finally arrived at the north gate.

「Where’s the enemy?」

I asked the member of the Garuta tribe who happen to be on the lookout but,

「About that, I see the demon king army led by Aldebaran marching toward us while doing a strange dance from the direction of the marshland a while ago but, for some reason, I lost sight of them.」

He replied with a puzzled face, as if unsure of what he saw a while ago.

「What do you mean by Aldebaran marching with strange dance? The army vanished? Ain’t those armies just in your dream?」

Bhu who arrived at the north gate after me furrowed his eyebrows as he asked that question.

「I’M NOT LYING! I REALLY SAW THOUSANDS OF STRONG ARMY OF DEMON RACES MARCHING AT HIGH SPEED IN THE MARSHLAND WHILE DOING A WEIRD DANCE! PLEASE TRUST ME!」

The youth from the Garuta tribe on lookout raised his voice in protest.

「Even if you insist, it’s the fact that we didn’t see them right now.」

Yeah, Bhu was right, I really couldn’t see even the shadow demon king army from atop the rampart. I mean, it was literally impossible to make thousand people vanish at once.

Looking at the other monsters who are on the lookout duty along with him, it seems the youth really didn’t tell a lie. That was the reason why the short-tempered Bhu didn’t really get angry at the youth was because he realized that the youth wasn’t daydreaming.

「Naturally, we have no reason to lie to you guys. This might be part of the enemy’s strategy.」

「Is that a mere illusion? Maybe they become desperate after we defeated Cetus.」

「Uhm… I think so…」

Illusion. No matter how I think about it, it doesn’t seem to be an illusion. I mean, Aldebaran was the demon king. Will he really stoop as low as using illusion for diversion?

No matter how much I think about it, this tactic didn’t correlate with the image of Aldebaran in my head.

「Let’s return to the conference room for now.」

If this was a diversion, we need to prepare a countermeasure.

「Ye――」

Bhu’s reply was interrupted by a pillar of fire that rose to the heavens along with an extremely loud explosion from the center of the city.

after pillar of fire followed another one as if they rose in rhythm.

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「GIL!」

「Yeah, those guys have already raided our city!」

No doubt about it, Aldebaran had already raided this city.

「What shall we do then?」

「We will fight back those intruders. Bhu, go help the citizens get to the shelter!」

「What about you, Gil?」

「I’ll go to defeat their leader, Aldebaran.」

That should be enough to destroy their morale. Naturally, I’m neither a hero nor brave. The subjugation of the demon king is the job of a hero or brave, that’s why I’m aware that the chance of my victory was slim. But, I had no choice but to do this.

Bhu stared silently at me for a while but,

「I understand. Don’t die on me. You lot, help me to guide the citizens. GOGOGOGO!」

After he said so, Bhu led the guys on lookout duty to help the citizens evacuate.

Well then, now it’s my turn to head to the battle. I’ve come to love the monsters and this city too much to let those bastards do as they please.

I shut my eyes and drew the image of an arrogant blue-haired swordsman, my ideal swordsman and the teacher of swordcraft. I kicked the ground and headed toward the battlefield as soon as I felt the familiar sensation of overflowing strength from me.