“That swift reaction speed…… And the power of my slash ….…”
“Samurai-oneechan, you’re letting your guard down again.”
“Uh!”
Amazed at how much her physical abilities had improved, Karen was once again caught off guard.
“Shaaaaa!!”
The unharmed snake tail attacked Karen.
However, with her improved reaction speed it was easy for her to deal with it. Karen’s sword neatly cut the snake’s body vertically in half. Despite having its torso cut in half, Karen gave chase to the Nue, who was trying to control the darkness again.
“Yagyu Shinnen-ryu, Chaos Rain!”
A flurry of slashes dealt the final blow to the Nue.
“How is it Samura-oneechan? You got stronger, right?”
“Fu, fufufu……”
“Oneechan?”
“Fuhahaha!”
Karen suddenly burst out laughing.
“What an incredible power! I never thought I could be so strong! I’m confident that I can beat any swordsman now!”
She sounds kind of like a villain who has just discovered a new power.
“With this power, I’m sure I can defeat that hateful monster! No….. Now that I am like this, I can’t just stay here!”
Oi, Wait.
Why did she suddenly start running?
“Samurai-oneechan, where are you going!?”
“I must return to my hometown right now! I am grateful to you guys, but I cannot give in! Sorry!”
She shouted in reply and disappeared into the depths of the forest.
“I haven’t received the 10 million yet.”
“Now that you mentioned it, that’s true.”
“Did she run away?”
“At this timing? There seemed to be some kind of circumstance though.”
“Anyways, I’ll chase after her.”
Fana’s obsession with money is amazing…….
Was it like that before? Uhm…… maybe her personality has changed a bit due to gambling the other day.
Hmm, we don’t know where Karen’s hometown is, but it would be faster to use an airship to chase after her than to run after her.
Karen is moving through the forest at breakneck speed, but I can track her with magic so there’s no need to worry about losing sight of her.
“Eh? She stopped?”
After a while, Karen stopped in her tracks, so we caught up quickly.
“She’s lost……”
I suddenly have such idea. This samurai might be a road idiot.
“I won’t let you get away you know.”
“F-Fana-dono!?”
Karen told us the details of her situation.
“In fact, a vicious monster has settled in the mountains near my hometown. Since we don’t know when it would affect the village, Master went to exterminate it, but it ended in failure…..”
A skilled swordsman who once served as a swordsmanship instructor for the shogun, but he is said to have been defeated. Although her Master survived, he was in a state where he would never be able to properly touch a sword again.
“In order to avenge the defeat of my Master, I have gone out to train as a warrior. If I am not at least capable of surpassing my master, I will not be able to defeat that monster.”
“Then now that you got stronger, you thought you could beat it.”
“That’s right. I couldn’t just sit back so I just started running.”
“By the way, which direction is your hometown?”
“North”
“The direction Oneechan run to was South though.”
“Eh!?”
She seems to be more unfortunate than I thought.
“It would take a long time if you just ran there. Let’s go, I’ll take there in an airship.”
After successfully fetching Karen, we head to her hometown via the airship.
“It’s over there. That village is my hometown.”
Karen’s hometown was right at the foot of the mountain. Houses are scattered along the river.
“That mountain is called Giant Serpent Mountain. It is an infamous mountain where it is said that a giant snake once rampaged around here but was defeated by a master swordsman and now rests there… But now the old people in the village said that the monster has been resurrected.”
Looks like the monster that appeared on the mountain is a snake monster.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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