TN: This is the last chapter …… that I could recover from the webnovel, from the next one, it’s going to be directly from the light novel.
So this is the question, I reorder the chapters and combine the chapters from the WN+LN to make the 1st and 2nd volume, or continue with the current order and just fill the next chapters from the WN with chapters from the LN. Comment which one will be better.
Pochi thrust against the approaching mantises.
One of the mantises breaks its stance and stays in that place by Pochi's body blow.
Pochi also lands in that place after the body blow, but the frogs rush there.
When Pochi intercepted the frogs that rushed, Pochi had no choice but to remain in that spot until the mantis that was hit by the body blow join the fight.
The remaining 4 mantises and rabbits are coming towards us.
If possible I would like that Pochi manages one more mantis, but I think that it's enough that he attracted one mantis and 6 frogs.
This time we are in a plaza rather than the passage, and Haku and Koku are a little on my right.
Pochi was on my left until a while ago.
The reason we were in such positions is that I judged that it was difficult to fight in a narrow passage.
However, that judgment was wrong.
The other 4 mantises were divided into 1 for me and 3 for Haku and Koku.
Regarding that, I thought 'That's bad!'
Certainly, Haku and Koku can win if it's a one to one fight with the mantis, but if it's with 3 of them, they don't have that much power.
I feel that it will be good if they can fight equally.
I wouldn't say that I would definitely win against the other two mantises, but I think that I have the power to match them.
If it goes smoothly, I could defeat them.
That's why I must attract another one.
To do that, I throw a sickle that I had in my hand towards one of the mantises that are heading to Haku and Koku.
However, the mantis easily shot down the sickle that I threw.
Chi-!
As I thought, does it become like this unless I look at a gap and throw it?
The mantises will reach us like that.
I want to draw one more mantis to me, but the mantis that came to me stand between me and them blocking my way.
You bastard!!
Don't disturb me!!
In order to help Haku and Koku, I got impatient and thrust into the mantis with my weapon.
As if it had anticipated that, the mantis enters into defense thoroughly.
It's clear that it's stalling me rather than beating me.
Dammit, I have to defeat it quickly.
In such a rush, I swing my weapon around recklessly.
But it was expected for the mantis.
My movements become sloppy with impatience, moreover, it's easier for the mantis to read them because the motion became larger, and everything is prevented.
Then I got more and more impatient and I couldn't see my surroundings.
There is a shock that something hit the back of my left knee, and my posture broke.
Wh!?
When I saw what happened there was a rabbit.
This is the result of forgetting the existence of the rabbits because I was too impatient.
Moreover, the mantis wields its sickles to me who had a broken his posture.
The mantis' attack can't be prevented properly by correcting my posture from the current state.
Then, instead of fixing my posture, I decided to just fall down.
As a result, the two sickles swung down from above missed, and I just received the two sickles raised from the bottom.
Furthermore, it doesn't kill the shock from the sickles and using that I blow backward.
With this, I was able to take distance for a moment.
I blow away and fix my posture quickly, but the mantis didn't pursue me.
No, it couldn't do it?
Well, that's fine.
I glance at Haku and Koku, but they don't have scratches that are visible, and they seem to have a good fight with the mantises.
Looking at the situation, it's still alright, so I know that there is time.
I take a big breath and try to calm down for a moment.
Even if I rush and attack as before, it's prevented by the mantis.
Moreover, I forgot the existence of the rabbits and my posture was broken.
The situation won't improve even if I'm impatient.
I have to calm down and move calmly.
Besides the mantis, I must also pay attention to the movements of the rabbits, or it will happen like a while ago.
With that in mind, I turn to the mantis.
Then, there wasn't only 1 rabbit but 9 of them.
Apparently, the rabbits didn't head to Haku and Koku, and they all came to me.
But, this is good luck for me.
Even if one rabbit headed to Haku and Koku, they would have lost their balance and would be driven into the numerical inferiority at once.
Whether it was judged that they would manage it even if the rabbits didn't go, or, that only one mantis can not control me.
Whichever judgment they have, it doesn't change that there is still time.
I think so, and head towards the mantis and wield my weapons again.
After that, the mantis devotes itself to defense.
But, I'm not focusing on the mantis alone.
I also have to worry about the movements of the rabbits.
In order to do so, if I don't make full use of my five senses, the movements of the rabbits cannot be read.
Stay focused, me.
Read only the little changes.
While wielding my weapons, I focus my senses to feel the changes in the surroundings.
Images from the eyes, sounds from the ears, smells from the nose, air flow from the skin, taste from the mouth.
I focus to find a slight difference.
Of course, I can't feel such a change saying that I have focused, so the rabbits' attacks can't be grasped, and I receive them repeatedly.
However, if I know that it's coming, it won't break my posture, and I wouldn't give a chance to attack to the mantis.
And, as time went by, somehow I began to understand the movement of the rabbits.
I was able to see an attack not visible from behind, and I was able to slash at the same time to dodge it.
Once I succeed, I can grasp the knack, and succeed twice or trice.
And when I noticed, all the rabbits on the surroundings were defeated.
After that, it's only the mantis.
Being that, it was comfortable afterward.
Since the rabbits that were greatly getting in my way disappeared, I only have to focus on the mantis.
As a result, I succeeded to defeat it easily, what was a struggle when I was in a rush.
When I defeated the mantis in front of me, I immediately look at Haku and Koku.
There, Haku and Koku were wounded, while fighting bravely though they were numerical inferior.
I saw that and found out that I was on time.
Pochi jumped in order to help Haku and Koku at the same time I took a step.
The situation of the battle was reversed just by that.
When Pochi jumped in, he immediately chewed off a mantis' neck.
The remaining mantises couldn't understand and stopped there.
Pochi can't miss such fatal gap.
Pochi jumps to one mantis that has stopped.
And, I approach at the remaining one and swing the Tsuruginata that I had in my right hand.
At that moment, the mantis starts to move, but it's already late.
The mantis cannot prevent the swung down Tsuruginata, and I succeeded in cutting its chest.
Pochi also succeeded in taking down the mantis that he jumps to.
Then I move my eyes around the plaza to look for other monsters, but there were only monsters that died in a horrible form.
That means it ended in our victory.
Did we manage to win?
But, it was more dangerous than I thought.
By no means, I didn't expect the monsters could judge over the fight.
If Pochi and I were a little late, Haku and Koku might have been killed.
When I think that, a cold sweat flow from my whole body.
I examined the wounds of Haku and Koku, but I found that none of the wounds were dangerous, and I sigh in relief.
I cut off the materials form the defeated monsters.
I cut off the sickles and the belly from the mantises and the ears from the rabbit.
When that was over, I decided to return today.
Although the wounds of Haku and Koku weren't very damaging, they had shed blood and have reduced their physical strength.
It's because they can't fight in such a state.
When I got home, I had to reflect on that battle.
It was my wrong judgment and action that almost killed Haku and Koku.
I won't let this happen again.