Karte 20: New Alliance

"Reurig~san, Reurig~san wake up"

Ryouta shaking the man trying to return to wake him up from his sleep, vision slowly returning to his eyes…

"Was I asleep?".

He asked confused as the thought of him taking a nap during this situation was completely unnatural, he began to sort out his thoughts,

Thinking back to what had transpired before he dozed off, "That's right, we met the knight, what's going on, what happened Ryouta?".

Ryouta gave the man a reassuring look, "there's nothing to worry about, Geraint won't attack".

Reurig sees the knight beside him, and then, although a bit surprised, he quickly calmed himself to a reasonable amount, "so what's the plan, what are we up to".

"Huh?, so you don't got questions".

Ryouta wondered why the man was not too surprised or at least, his response was a bit to level-headed,

The natural response would be to ask why the knight isn't a threat anymore?, should he be trusted?, how did Ryouta get him to comply this much? Those kinds of questions would come natural to someone waking up to something this absurd.

The plan was to bring Geraint to their side, although there would be certain questions, but the fact that the man before then was indulging them this much, would come to no surprise that their plan was indeed Successful.

"We'll forget it then, here's what we do next, we regroup with Martha and Felix first before leaving assuming they've dispatched the port guards in the time we separated".

"I guess that's the natural thing to do". Reurig replied with a nod and a sigh "I guess it's off to the battlefield then". He stood up and reached for his pouch and grabbed a bottle containing Ale,

"Might as well have a lucky sip".

Geraint stood up as well, he proceeds to use a space detection spell, a more subtle version of the clairvoyance he demonstrated, "I sense two heat signatures up the hill, should we approach them?, if they are guards I'll command them to fall back".

"I guess it's fine if we approach them, but we have got to be careful". They all had a warm expression on their faces. "Aha, you don't have to tell me twice".

They run up the hill as fast as they could and to their surprise…

"Martha? Felix?"

The two gave off a relieved look, "Ah, it's just Ryouta". They both had little stains of blood on their clothes, although a bit worried, Ryouta had already known they finished up their roles and there was no need for any many questions," I see, I take it you're done?".

Felix naturally cleaned himself up and did not answer Reurig's questions, Martha on the other hand

"Of course, did you expect someone as beautiful as me to fall by the hands of those brutes"

Reurig paid no heed to any of their weird responses. "Not like we have time for chit-chat, let's get to the others as fast as we can".

"Would it be okay if I just teleported is there?". Geraint suggested as they all began to wonder how would the man know their base, or perhaps,

"Did you always know where our base was and could attack at any time?" Ryouta was almost scared by this possibility, it would be that the man had let them continue living even though at any time he wished he could find their location and finish them off,

"I've actually been to your little hide out, at least once".

Ryouta was even more surprise,

"What? And we never took notice, the spell requires a vivid memory of the place in mind that we would be teleported to, a spatial magic requiring the memory of the location that was wished for by the owner.

『Back at the ground hall battlefield 』

The man before then had reached a state that could no longer be classified as human, a night Mariah appearance, with a tall figure and slender by sturdy limbs and a tough exterior, all black, and his eyes dyed a deeper crimson, he's teeth longer and further extended beyond what seemed to be the lips, he had truly become a true monster

"Oh no, this is bad. DARE!!"

The vampire approached Dare, and just before he was about to deliver the finishing blow, there was an interference.

"Woah, it really is instantaneous".

Shiva with a look of pure relief, release a long sigh" Ryouta, thank goodness ".