A Strange Man (5)

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As soon as Icarus disappears from their sight, their hearts beat faster and they start looking around in a state of alert.

Failing to find Icarus using only her eyes, Lizze doesn't think twice and gives up using conventional means

'Well, I can't see you with my eyes, but let's see if you can hide from this!'

With that in mind, Lizze quickly concentrates and sends some of her mana to her paw, and then she whispers

"<Detect Area>"

After she says this, the mana concentrated on her paw, shrinks and then expands.

Therefore, with her paw being the center point, a small circle is formed.

This circle is colorless and is very difficult to detect using just the eyes, right after its formation the circle expands and quickly covers a radius of five hundred meters.

After a few seconds, Lizze finally relaxes, she deactivates her spell, so while sighing she looks at her brothers and says

"Sigh! Okay... you two can relax now. He's gone!"

Hearing this Grimes and Harker look at their sister in surprise and with confused faces, they question her

"Huh? Seriously? I thought he wanted to attack us after making us let our guard down"

Harker nods and complements his brother's comment

"Yes... Although if that were the case, it was not a very smart move to activate Skill in front of us. Even an idiot as Grimes would choose to hide before activating it!"

As Harker spoke, Grimes nodded in agreement with his brother's thoughts.

However, he soon realizes that something is wrong

"Yeah- wait, what do you mean, with idiot? Come on man, why the hell at every opportunity you have do you start offending me?"

"Offend... you? Hahaha... Man, all I'm doing is telling the truth!"

Before Grimes has a chance to attack Harker, Lizze interrupts them by saying

"Okay, this is enough, let's stop it here!"

Listening to his sister, Grimes gives up the idea of ​​fighting with his brother, and is content to look at him with hatred

Seeing this, Lizze sighs in relief and then says

"Sigh! Although my detection Skill doesn't have as high a range as Rie's, and I don't have the same talent as Gau to discern the thoughts of Stealth Skill users. It's still better than nothing! Anyway, when I used <Detect > to scan the area around us, I no longer felt his presence"

Hearing her words, the two slowly nod their heads showing that they understand

"Of course, there is a possibility that his Stealth is higher than my detection Skill and with that I cannot detect him even though he is nearby. However, I agree with Harker's thought, if he wanted to attack us, he would have waited until he was no longer in sight, and only then he would have entered Stealth. That way it would be several times easier to catch us off guard. After all, his Stealth can count as an asset against us. However, he did not do that. This intrigues me a lot, because although he is very strange, I don't think he's stupid!"

Harker agrees with her thought, and says with a thoughtful face

"Well, yes. I don't think there's anyone stupid like that..."

Then, he looks derisively at Grimes, and while laughing, he says

"Hahaha... Of course that is if you don't count Grimes"

Hearing this, Grimes finally can't help himself and tries to scratch Harker using his front legs

As if he was already expecting this, Harker easily dodges the blow, taking a few steps to the side

With that, the Grimes attack only hits the ground, leaving some marks on it.

SHHHN!

Before Grimes can even react, Harker turns his body and using his hind legs, he sends a kick towards Grimes' head

The kick hits Grimes in the face, forcing it to retreat

BLOW!

Seeing this, Harker laughs out loud and then says

"Give up man! You can't defeat me even in our normal forms... who would say on this form!"

Grimes clenches his teeth and while ignoring the pain of the kick he says

"We'll see!"

After saying this, the two start running towards each other with the intention of continuing their fight

However, before they can, their bodies start to emit a light

Seeing this, the two simultaneously stop and look at Lizze

In doing so, they notice that her right paw is raised and her body is also emitting light.

As the body of the three emits light, they begin to distort and slowly change in size.

A few seconds later, their bodies stop distorting and stabilize in a shape, so the light quickly disappears, thus revealing their bodies.

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