Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 89

Samantha Samantha

“What are you guys doing, trying to kill each other?”

Viro said helplessly as he interrupted their fight and stopped them from killing each other, and that old demon woman laughed as if she were human.

“Hee hee, you’re too late, Viro boy.”

“… Don’t mock me, old woman. Not at all… well, anyway.”

Viro, who was complaining to the old woman as if he were dumbfounded by the situation, suddenly threw the knife somewhere.

“!!!!”

At that moment, the slender assassin, who had been attacked by the old woman and had been left battered and motionless, jumped up, and started to flee.

Viro’s grinned slightly at the sight of him, and he pulled his beloved mithril dagger from his waist, ready to attack.

“Do you think you can escape from me–“

*Hyun!

My black blade flew through the air that startled the assassin followed by my Scythe Type pendulum gouging deeply into his neck from his blind spot when he was distracted by Viro and the old woman, causing him to spurt out a large amount of blood and crumple to the ground.

I pulled the pendulum back to my hand to dispel the blood, and turned to Viro, who was frozen in place with his dagger at the ready.

“Viro…explain.”

“Aria, you, again…”

Again? Did I trouble Viro again? I didn’t think I could escape, so I was prepared to fight back, but if we had continued to kill each other, the probability of my death would have been much higher.

Was this old woman one of Viro’s comrades? If so, this old woman must be the retired party member magician… How could I have survived against a Rank 5 magician?

“Well, I mean…well, this old woman is my companion.”

“I didn’t remember hearing that you have non-human friends.”

“She’s not a Non-human. She’s a human being. She’s just a little bit crazy… She was supposed to be staying at a nearby Inn in the town, but then she detected a strange presence and suddenly ran out of there.”

“I’m not crazy, boy! I’m only 99 years old!”

“You’ve been saying the same thing for ten years!”

“…”

Is she some sort of battle maniac or something? A Rank 5 Magician who could fight with me in close combat was scary, that was a dangerous bout.

“Despite her looks, she is quite capable. She retired because of her age, but she is still a good fighter.”

“My name is Samantha Samantha, little girl!”

“I see.”

What was there to be relieved about? Samantha introduced herself normally, as if she had already forgotten that we had been killing each other until a few dozen seconds ago.

Even so, I put my knife back in its sheath and lowered my Alert Level to Caution.

According to that woman’s knowledge, it was unreasonable to rely on something that could easily go out of her control, regardless of their ability.

Certainly, if someone like were to join us, we would have no problem when it came to fighting power.

“I didn’t expect to see you here, Viro, but did you have any plans arranged already?”

“Well… we were supposed to spend the night at the Inn earlier, but since we can’t return there or find another place to stay at this point, we should probably continue on to our destination…”

The town where the Duke’s castle was?

“That’s just a meeting place. We’ll stop along the way, but the target is in the barony along the border.

“Got it.”

At Viro’s words, I pulled out the blade of the pendulum and clenched it in my hand.

There he was…Grave.

When we fought before, I couldn’t even lay a hand on him. I even had to take a gamble to survive at that time.

But now, my fighting strength had been raised to almost doubled when we previously fought, so I was not in the same situation as before, and I was Viro and Samantha this time.

If I could…I would have settled the matter on my own, but killing that guy took precedence over my personal feelings.

“Let’s go then, Aria and Samantha, we’ll be in town by the end of tomorrow.”

“What the hell do you think you’re doing, forcing us to march at this time of night?”

“You’re the one who ran out on your own, old lady!”

“…”

I was a little worried.

Samantha, who had been an adventurer for a long time (almost a hundred years), definitely had night vision as a matter of course. Even on the streets at night like this, they could all use Level 4 body enhancements, so moving around was surprisingly fast.

“Come to think of it, how can Samantha use body enhancement if she is a magician? It’s not like she has melee combat skills, right?”

“Good question, little girl!”

When I asked her what was bothering me during our fight as we moved, both Viro and I naturally turned our attention towards her. Samantha answered in a loudly.

“A magician’s natural enemy is a fast-moving light warrior type! That’s why magicians who have reached a certain level of ability learn to strengthen their bodies and to accelerate their thoughts.”

“Oh…”

Was that the reason why Master, despite being a sorcerer herself was also able to fight me in melee?

“Old lady, I didn’t know that either.”

“You boys these days don’t learn enough! Well, young magicians nowadays are so preoccupied with the power of magic that they seldom learn how to strengthen their bodies! You should be aware of this, and beware of any magician who uses body enhancement nowadays!”

“Okay.”

I see…it’s good to hear from an adventurer who has been in actual combat.

“Anyway, old lady, keep your voice down a bit. You’ll attract the demons.”

“What’s the matter, kid? It’s time for a meal!”

“We had dinner at the Inn a moment or two ago!”

“Are you sure you’re okay?”

After eating almost exclusively in our private booth, we hurried on our way, and by noon the next day we arrived in the largest city in the region, the city where the Duke Hilton’s castle was located.

Samantha and I went to to set up our lodging for the night, while Viro went to the Adventurers’ Guild to gather some information.

“Aria, stay here with the old lady. You too Samantha, and Aria, she is a bit of a celebrity, always attracting unnecessary glances, so it will be troublesome if you take the old lady out. Also, be careful, as the old lady will sometimes suddenly start blurting random things out of nowhere even while you’re having a normal conversation.”

“Understood.”

Since it would be troublesome if I went to the Adventurers’ Guild, I would leave the guild-related matters to Viro.

The lodging Viro took was a high-class lodging, which was typical of these first-rate adventurers.

I wondered if I would need to take care of her, but she was also an adventurer, albeit an old one, and as a senior, she could usually handle most things by telling the Innkeeper, so there would be little things for me to do.

Slam!

“Hey, little girl! Let’s eat!”

Within seconds of entering my room at the Inn, Samantha, who was supposed to be in the next room, burst into my room, kicking the door open.

“I heard you ate dinner not long ago.”

“You are the demon wife, the demon wife is here!!!”

I didn’t remember being anyone’s wife.

“What? You’re an adventurer and you’re already hungry? Then follow me. If you want a decent meal, go downstairs.”

“Oh, oh.”

We went downstairs with Samantha, who for some reason was a little taken aback, as the Innkeeper led us to a table for six where we were to eat.

“Samantha, what do you want to eat?”

“Well…meat…lamb!”

“Roger that.”

I asked her what she liked and called the waitress over to order the food.

“Lamb. One head of lamb.”

“One head?”

“She’s been complaining about her hunger for a while now, besides, we are adventurers, so there should be no problem even if we are served with a large meal.”

Viro was a man who could eat meat in the morning, and even brought it for her when she was sick. And so, I thought the old lady as his fellow adventurers should have no problem if I laid out the food according to her liking.

The surrounding customers were quiet, as an old woman and a child silently devoured the “meat” that was being brought to them one after another into their stomachs without any particular conversation.

“What is with this much amount of meat…”

“Samantha asked for a meal.”

“The little girl is the demon’s wife!”

Viro tilted his head at Samantha, who suddenly looked slightly rounder and shinier than when we had arrived at the Inn.

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“I don’t know what you are talking about. Anyway, waitress, ale over here, please… Well then, I’ll start my report for now.”

Taking a seat, Viro took the liberty of eating the meat and began whispering about the information he had gotten from the guild and what had happened so far.

It’s hard to understand because of the underworld cloak-and-dagger language he was using, but to summarize, here’s what he said.

After failing to kill me, Grave slipped away from Sera’s Dark Side and went into hiding.

He was quiet for a while after that, but then incidents of assassinations of nobles of the Noble Faction, a group that was trying to weaken the power of the royal family, began to occur.

Three nobles had been murdered so far, including a count who was rumored to have close ties to a neighboring country and who advocated that the crown prince should marry a foreign princess.

The nobles of the Noble Faction accused the Royalist Faction of killing the Count, and also demanded that the state reduce the size of the Royal Sword, the Royal Guards and the Dark Side, and insisted that the royal family should take a princess from a neighboring country even if they had to bow down.

However, such a thing could not be allowed under the current circumstances, and the head of the Dark Side, under unjustified suspicion, investigated the incident and finally found out that the culprit was Grave.

According to the Dark Side’s investigation, Grave seemed to be targeting noble families who were enemies of the royal family, and after investigating several noble families, they obtained information that a person, resembling Grave, was hiding in the Duke Hilton’s domain.

While there were two frontier counts known as the flagship of the Noble Faction opposing the Royalist Faction, Duke Hilton, who was supposed to be part of the Royalist Faction, had now changed to the Noble Faction. The Duke Hilton’s faction changed because they lost the rights that they were supposed to have been given to the Counts of the Frontier.

“Grave is waiting for the duke to get out. The information is that a nasty demon has appeared in the barony near the border, and ordinary adventurers and knights can’t stand up to it, so, well, to put it simply, the duke is sending out his own strike force to gain fame.”

It was said that Grave was likely to target the duke at that time.

Normally, it would be suicide to attack a duke protected by about 100 knights, and no one would take an assassination by a single person seriously as it was a foolish thing to do, but Grave would probably think that it would be better than targeting the Duke when he was in the castle.

The duke could not be on high alert at all times against an opponent who might attack at any moment. Under such circumstances, I was convinced that Grave would do it. There was no reason for this conviction. I just thought that even I would do the same.

And the Duke wouldn’t call off the strike from the fear of a single assailant.

“We will leave tomorrow morning for the barony. All we have to do is to defeat Grave before the Duke’s departure.”

“Hihi, why don’t we just go now without waiting for tomorrow morning! Come on, boy, get ready, little girl!”

*Pan

Samantha was about to leave immediately, but I stopped her by banging on the table.

“Not yet. There’s still meat left.”

“”…””

Adventurers must eat while they could, Viro had taught me that, and I had learned it from my first encampment in the forest, and also from the lessons I had learned in the Orc-infested forest.

One must eat while they could, since there might be a possibility that they would not be able to procure food and could only endure the hunger. That was the reason why I did not allow people to leave food behind. I stared at the two as if appealing to them, and they slowly took their seats once more and continued eating without saying a word.

The next day, we left the city early in the morning for the barony where Grave was hiding.

It was there that I had an encounter with something.