Chapter 15: This is definitely not a goblin!

Realizing that the adventurer who appeared in front of him poses no particular threat, the Rookie Killer immediately rushed forward, expecting to have lunch in a couple of minutes. Hoping to strike the beast in the open, unprotected mouth, Kazuma threw his sword hand forward. At the first second, it even seemed to him that his plan worked, however, as soon as the blade was in the mouth of the monster, he simply slammed his mouth, easily breaking the sword, leaving the adventurer with a stump of the blade in his hand.

"Your mother!"

Realizing that he had no chance in a direct clash, Kazuma launched an ice blast at the beast before struggling back down the narrow path that led down to the former goblin camp. His hopes were justified, the beast, annoyed by his attacks, immediately followed him, for a while forgetting about the girl lying not far away.

- Yun-yun! Pull yourself together! Kazuma shouted, literally feeling the approach of the beast behind him.

Using the extended leap to break the distance a bit, Kazuma realized that he had exactly one spell remaining in his mana.

"It's bad, it's very bad!" - he groaned to himself that he had the strength to rush along the narrow path.

The animal behind him did not lag far behind him, but the path was too narrow for his massive carcass, so he noticeably slowed down, and now he could only move forward, which was what Kazuma hoped for, who had almost reached the turn and looked back convulsively.

"Come on, Yunyun! Do not let me down!"

Turning around, he saw behind his back not only a cautiously approaching huge beast, but also the girl who was standing on top, at the very beginning of the path. The girl, still in a state of panic, convulsively looked from her companion to the approaching beast. The sword was ineffective, and her mana reserves would not be enough for more than a spell or two.

- Yunyun, paralysis! Use it! Kazuma suddenly yelled.

Without a moment's hesitation, the girl extended both hands forward, pointing them directly at the Rookie Slayer.

- Paralysis!



At the same second, the beast froze, not even having time to bring one of its front paws to the ground.

"Now!" - flashed through Kazuma's head as his body was already in action.

After running a few meters that separated him from the beast, Kazuma already knew that he had only one chance to win - to throw this huge carcass down a steep slope. Having estimated the mass of the "kitty" on the way, he immediately began to squeeze between the frozen carcass and the stone wall, praying that Yun-yun would not run out of mana. Finding himself approximately in the middle of the long body of the monster, he slipped higher, and rested his back on the wall, and his feet on the many-kilogram carcass.

- Come on, come on! - he shouted that there are forces pushing the beast.

On the second try, the body of the monster staggered, he began to quickly fall to his right side, thanks to the front paw, still in the air.

- I can't hold back! Yunyun yelled, feeling the last of the mana drain out of her body.

At that moment, Kazuma once again struck with both legs with all his might, clearly hearing something crunch. However, it seems it was worth it, the carcass of the beast finally overcame the remaining distance to the cliff and, breaking rare vegetation, flew down an almost steep slope, crashing somewhere below.

However, even earlier, both exhausted adventurers fell to the ground, who lay on the cold ground and stones for about five minutes before Kazuma finally calmed the pounding heart in his chest and hardly got to his feet.

"And why was the demon easier to defeat than this black beast ?!"

After limping to the girl on the ground, Kazuma made sure she was okay. Except, of course, the bleeding claw marks on the shoulder and the lack of consciousness.

"No, without a heal and a tank for quests, no more foot!"

Having made this wise, albeit overdue, decision, he began to act. Having ripped off the girl's cloak, Kazuma carefully, though not skillfully, bandaged the wound, and then applied a spell with frostbite effects on his leg, giving himself anesthesia, or simply freezing it. In any case, the effect was achieved, he could walk. With a heavy sigh, heaving the still unconscious Yunyun on his shoulder and blessing her light weight, he began to descend down the path they had come from.

About halfway through, the girl finally woke up and Kazuma, with a sigh of relief, lowered her to the ground. Looking closely at the person in front of her and feeling her shoulder, Yunyun suddenly burst into tears, grabbing Kazuma's boots with his hands.

"But I didn't have enough hysterics here!" - He moaned while the girl diligently poured salt water over him, while trying to sort out all the words of gratitude that she knew.

In this position, they spent at least ten minutes before Yunyun finally calmed down and they were able to move on. From that mountain of words that Kazuma could hardly make out through her screams and tears, he found out that the girl blamed herself for what had happened, and for some reason she had shouldered an irrevocable debt for saving her own life.

"Well, it looks like now we are definitely not spilling water, most likely not even taking into account my opinion!" Kazuma chuckled to himself as they walked the road into the city. - "Although, now I'm even somehow ashamed to make plans on her account, because as she said there… I owe you my life and now I will never leave you, and I will also do everything that you just ask me, regardless of the circumstances! .... Hmm, well, how can a romantic now stir up if a real path of obedience has opened up here ?! "

At the end of the journey, the effect of "anesthesia" subsided, and Kazuma's mana had not yet recovered, so he had to use his right to "do whatever you ask" and as a result, he fell into the guild tavern, leaning on the shoulder of a fragile girl. And the first thing they heard as they crossed the threshold was Acqua's drunken voice coming from the side of the bar.

-Bartender! Another mug and livelier!