I remembered the reward when I defeated Sandros. If it was Eleanor who was its boss, more rewardsーーit would cost a lot more money.
「I see now」
Somehow, I understood Melissa’s circumstances.
With a few words said, something like a self-sacrificial Saint huh.
And, to Melissa who wants to do that, I was pissed more and more by the Solon Church that only makes her accompany men who were small fries.
「Saint-sama!」
I heard voice and footsteps from far away.
Speak of the devil or whatever. It looks like Melissa’s subordinated awakened, and chased after her.
I wore the mantle to hide my face, and returned to the Mysterious Swordsman Kristos.
Melissa who saw that, made a somehow complicated face.
「You were here」
「We have been searching for you」
「That is dangerous, Saint-sama, going deep to the forest alone」
What the hell are you talking about you incompetents. It wouldn’t have a difference whether its dangerous or not with you guy are around.
You took too much time with the ten of you with only one tree spirit.
『Crouch down!』
「ーー!!」
A voice suddenly echoed in my head. Eleanor who hardly lets out a loud voice, shouted.
I instinctively crouched down. Something passed on the top of my head very fast as if it was cutting it air.
「Guwaーーーーーー!!」
「ーーGofu!!」
Screams continuously.
The thing that I dodged, it attacked Melissa’s subordinates in high-speed one next to the other, the men collapsed one by one.
If I look closely, it had an appearance of a pill bug that was as big as a soft ball, and the place where it hit the men had wounds as if it was chunked away.
「Graf! Razani! Everyone!?」
「Get down!」
I pushed down Melissa who was almost got by the pill bug.
The pill bug that was deviated hit the tree ahead of it, and gouged it.
「What a ridiculous insect」
「That is Caulio……why in this season」
「……another abnormal growth huh」
I stood up, and made a stance with Eleanor.
The pill bugs that flew to meーーI slashed the Caulio or whatever into two.
It felt like I cut through steel. It fell to the ground and convulsed, and stopped moving.
「Fun, you small fry」
「Run away, quickly!」
「Run away? Why, it’s alreadyーー」
「Caulio has characteristics to follow the body liquid of its allies. If it was carelessly killedーーahh!」
I heard a sound from far away.
Just like a bee, it was the sound of a swarm of insects coming.
If I looked at it closely, the same thing with the one that I cut was flying. There was surely more than a hundred of them.
Those were flying without orders.
The forestーーit was eaten.
The trees they tackled was ripped apart, and before that fell down it was tackled again, and was devoured without leaving any traces.
The route that they passed through became barren.
「A group of them came huh」
「That is very dangerous. It is being said that a village that was attacked by a swarm of Caulio would not leave even one grass」
「Something like locusts huh……no, the upgraded version of that huh」
「Leave me alone, you should hurry up and run away」
「Leave you?」
「I will not die……un, I cannot die! So please, hurry」