Chapter 17: All cards complete! It's time to kill the dragon!

Putting her palm to her cheek, the woman tilted her head when she saw us.

"Ara ara~ look who's coming, isn't this El-chan?" she said with twinkling eyes.

"Long time no see, Mila-san," replied Elvy.

"Kyaa~! It's for real El-chan! El-chan, are you okay?! Are you hurt? Thank you for saving Onee-chan, but now it's fine! Onee-chan will protect El- chan of all people!" screamed the woman named Mila while embracing and stroking Elvy's cheeks.

She kept on smiling broadly and kept on laughing "Muehehe~" while drooling kept flowing.

"Umm, Mila-san, please stop," Elvy whined with a tormented expression.

"Eeh~ don't want~ if El-chan doesn't call 'Onee-chan', Onee-chan will never let you go~!" Mila refused with a big smile.

She's stressed.

"U-Umm, Onee... -chan, please stop that. We have something to talk to you about, so please let me go." Desperate, Elvy was forced to call the woman 'Onee-chan' and finally the woman let go with a satisfied face.

This woman seems really dangerous.

Somehow she's so different from what I imagined, I thought she would be a little calmer because of hers mature appearance. I can't believe this kind of person is a Saint, isn't this a scam?

Alright, forget it, I have to believe her now.

There is no more time to continue here, because we have managed to meet Mila, who is our trump card to defeat the dragon. As soon as possible we must catch up with those who are stalling for us.

I think in a while the debuff effect received by the dragon will run out.

"Ahem." I coughed once to make the woman look at me, and when she looked up at me, I continued.

"Mila-san, would you help us to save everyone. I heard that you can use myth-grade magic, so could you use it for us?" I asked to confirm again.

I was a bit nervous because he looked more mature than me, so I unconsciously used formal language towards him.

It's the effect of not being social—no, I think it's because I'm still a virgin.

It's too much for a virgin like me to talk to a mature woman like her.

"Hmm~"

When the woman saw me, she narrowed her eyes sharply. That made me even more nervous.

Did i do something wrong?

But, then she smiled and said while looking at me from a very close distance.

It took me by surprise.

"Ara-ara~ aren't you human? Why are humans here? Besides, why are you together with El-chan? What's your relationship like, can you explain in detail to Onee-chan," she said in a soft voice, yet somehow I felt a cold thorn from behind his words.

As I thought, this woman is really dangerous.

"Mila-san, right now everyone is buying time against that dragon for us, and we're here to ask for your help, because we need you to defeat that dragon!" said Elvy worriedly, who helped me to explain the situation.

Hearing that, Mila smiled gently.

"Oh my, didn't I tell you to call Onee-chan 'Onee-chan'. But, well, how could Onee-chan refuse this cute and sweet El-chan!" she replied while hugging Elvy tightly.

Hearing that, Elvy and I smiled. Now we have found a ray of hope to be able to win this fight.

Even though I was still worried because he still misunderstood my relationship with Elvy, we didn't have time to straighten it out.

With this, all the cards needed are in our hands.

It's time to fight the damn dragon.

"—But, after everything is done. I want you to explain everything, young man," Mila added while poking my cheek with her index finger.

"Okay…"

Having no openings to fight back, I could only nod helplessly.

Seeing me like that, Elvy chuckled a little, and that only made the woman stronger and stabbed my cheek while puffing her own cheek.

It seems that after all this is over, I will still be involved in other problems.

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"So, can you guys explain the current situation?" asked Mila as we continued running through the forest to catch up with the soldiers who until now were still stalling against the dragon.

We had left the Sacred Tree, and left protection there to the Elven warriors I had brought along. Now only me, Elvy and Mila are left.

To be honest, I'm still worried about Alicia who we left alone.

But, sadly, we don't have time to think about that anymore. Judging from the passing time, it should be soon the debuffs that the dragon received would be used up.

If that happened, the Elf warriors would no longer be able to endure it, and in the end they would all just be slaughtered to bits.

"Well, in short, I want Mila-san to fire her strongest magic at that dragon, and end all this chaos," I answered to her question.

"That's really very simple. Are you sure that only with that you can kill the dragon? Aren't you underestimate it too much," said Mila who still had doubts about my plan.

Well, it's true, I never thought just firing myth-level magic could kill that dragon. After all he has high resistance to magic attacks.

"That's why, we'll weaken him first so he can be killed with just one strike," I replied with a confident smile.

"Geez, you guys are really reckless. I was indeed surprised when you could create [Buff Potion] and [Debuff Powder] of such high quality. But, are you really sure you can beat him with just that?"

"Of course not."

"Huh?"

Hearing my answer without the slightest hesitation, she looked surprised, hers expression froze.

I ignored her and continued what I was saying with a serious face.

"Well, there's no way I can confidently say that this way we can beat him. I'm not a hero, I can't arrogantly say that I can save everyone. But, at least I still want to fight. As long as I still have hope of winning, I will still fight him. I just want to prove, that even without heroes with cheat powers, we can still fight in our own way. Therefore, I will do whatever I can to win it."

"...."

"...."

When I said that with passionate gazes, the two of them continued to stare at me without saying a word.

It made the atmosphere awkward.

"Hey, seriously, don't just stay quiet! Do you guys know how embarrassed I am after saying such cool lines?! Please don't ignore me, it'll only make me look like a sick person!" I shouted desperately.

This is really embarrassing.

After that, when I thought that they finally have something to say, Mila suddenly clicked her tongue in laughter.

"Tch… Well, I guess you're safe for now."

"Wait, what do you mean by 'safe'?!"

"Riku-san, you're awesome!"

"Elvy-chan, please don't make this any more complicated! You're not helping me at all, it's just making me even more embarrassed!"

Damn, I shouldn't have to act so cool.

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"Stop you damn it! What can you do just keep running?!" Rodan shouted with his voice echoing throughout the forest as he furiously chased after the Elf who had been taunting him from earlier.

However, the Elf didn't reply at all, he just kept running and running as fast as he could while dodging every one of his attacks.

Rodan, who realized that he was just being ignored, became more and more irritated and irritated. He started to rampage even more ferociously, smashing into all the trees that got in his way and continuing to chase after the Elf desperately.

"Damn insects!! Die you!" he shrieked as he swung his long tail at the Elf, but he dodged it easily.

The reason why until now the Elf can't be caught, is because he keeps drinking [Buff Potion] to increase speed and strength, so that he can keep running without feeling tired.

Apart from that, there is also a debuff effect that Rodan has, so that he cannot optimally use his strength.

"Totally annoying!!" Rodan said with unbearable anger. "Okay, if that's what you want, I'll play with you seriously," he added, and at that moment he suddenly stopped.

The Elf who was running continuously furrowed him brows troubledly, he knew this would come soon, but he didn't expect it to be this fast.

"Should I buy more time?" he asked himself.

But, at that very moment he saw his fellow Elf telling him something.

Seeing that, a faint smile appeared on his face.

The meaning of the signal was—

"It is time to strike back."