Chapter 95
Rona who got outside saw Nere’s figure standing under the illumination of the star light, Nere who stood in the middle of the garden gave off a mysterious aura .
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「Follow me . 」
After throwing out a short rude reply, Nere started walking into the forest . Rona didn’t ask for her intentions but followed behind quietly .
「Here should be good . 」
Nere muttered to herself before stopping, and turned around and looked at Rona .
They’re already quite a distance away from the house . Although there aren’t many beasts’ presences around the house, it’s different now . Rona felt there were predators around spying on them, albeit weak presences .
「So? What matter do you have? 」
Rona who didn’t have the intentions of hiding his identity asked straightly . The fact that Rona isn’t an average beast, his opponent had probably seen through that long ago . There’s no point for Rona to be pretending now .
「Fumu . It’ll be quick if you understand human speech . 」
「Heeh . You don’t seem surprised . 」
「Sorry but I’m not that unknowing to be surprised at something of this kind . 」
The strange fact that a beast is speaking human language, Nere wasn’t surprised at the slightest but scoffed at it .
「Hnn―― . Whatever . 」
On the other hand, Rona didn’t seem like he cared as he returned to the topic .
「So? I will ask again, what do you have with me? 」
With the intonation closer to interrogation than asking, Rona’s pupils that had the same color as his golden fur stared at the sky colored eyes .
「Isn’t it your side that has business with me? 」
Rona reacted at Nere who said it as a matter of fact .
「What are you saying . You’re the one who told me to follow you to this place? Aren’t you misunderstanding something? 」
「Since you looked like you had some opinions with me . I led you here because I didn’t want it to happen in front of master’s eyes . If you don’t have anything to spill, then I shall return now . 」
「Heee . That’s commendable . Should I be thanking for your consideration? 」
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「I don’t need it . If you don’t have anything――」
「Of course I have . 」
Saying so, Rona dropped and lowered his stance . Nere continued to logic at Rona who seemed to be about to leap at her at any time .
「If you’re not an instinctual creature, if you have the intelligence, it’s better to speak your intentions than baring your fangs . Attacking someone else without a reason is not what an upstanding person would do . 」
「Even if you ask that from a mere beast . 」
Rona narrowed his eyes, and retorted without giving a second though .
「I’m not asking for the impossible from you . If you wish to fight me, then go ahead and I’ll respond . But a fight without reason is not what I wish . 」
Nere asked again .
「Do you not trust me? Thinking that I’m someone to be disposed? Someone that’s dangerous? 」
Without hiding irritation on his face, Rona had a difficult expression .
「Not really . I can’t judge if you’re someone to be disposed . But, if you’re talking about trust……, I don’t know you well enough to judge . 」
「My master has quite some trust in me, how about that? There’re sure to be some time spent between you and my master? Would you not trust my master’s trust? 」
「Well, that Al had given charge of the house to you for many months . I’m sure there’s some . 」
Uninteresting――, Rona’s expression seemed to have revealed that .
「Two days――no, it’s half a year for Al huh . 」
Rona corrected himself .
「Al doesn’t seem like who he was . I’m sure that you guys are the one who affected him . I’m quite thankful to you guys . Al is able to return to his old self a little . 」
「Then why . Why are you doing the opposite, and eager to fight now? 」
Of course, Nere wouldn’t get it . That’s because Rona wasn’t being logical . It wasn’t as if he could trust Nere as a person or not .
After all, there’s suddenly a woman servant following behind his partner . It wasn’t a pleasant feeling for Rona . That’s my place . Rona’s reason was only that .
Is it the instincts of a beast, the displeasure of losing his place? Or the feeling of being left out . Rona himself couldn’t quite understand it as well . That’s why Rona had chosen the most effective way to get rid of the irritating feeling in him .
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It was none other than Rona who made this situation . Nere just accompanied him because she had felt his intentions . While laying as low as his body could go, the irritated tone reverberated in the quiet forest .
「Nope . That’s that, and this is this . 」
But―, the golden beast continued .
「――Isn’t it better that I teach the hierarchy to a newcomer? 」
With that as the trigger, the golden beast strongly kicked against the ground .
Slashes from Rona’s claw came at Nere at a frightening speed . Howeverm, only a few strands of hair were caught as Nere avoided it gracefully . Rona continued reaching out his fangs onto Nere’s legs who dodged the attack before with minimal movement .
Before the fangs reached the thin legs, Rona felt something resisting against his fangs . But Rona’s prided fangs weren’t something that can be stopped just with that . Immediately shattering the invisible resisting factor, Rona’s jaws closed like an alligator chomping .
It was only a single moment the fangs were stopped . But that time was enough for Nere to draw her weapon, and even dish out a counterattack .
Holding the dagger that she pulled out from her pocket in a reverse grip, Nere stabbed at Rona who stopped for a moment during the chomp . Of course, Rona had expected it, and retreated enough of a distance for Nere’s attack to not reach .
「It’s undesirable for a servant to be pointing a blade towards a guest . But I’m sure there’s no problem if I just strip the guest’s fangs off . 」
Suddenly, Nere’s surrounding lit up . Bunch of light balls that appeared without a chant came at Rona in streaks .
With the streaks of light coming at Rona from all directions, the golden beast weaved through the trees, and rushed towards Nere without ever stopping . Although the streaks seemed like they would’ve burnt Rona’s body when it landed, there wasn’t a single mark on his body even when they hit .
「I don’t need your consideration . 」
Laughing as someone who holds the upper hand, Rona compressed the surrounding air and manifested countless invisible blades .
「Then it’s my turn now . 」
Rona’s ears piqued . Along with that movement, the magic that’s specialized in rupturing everything flew at Nere .
They were blades that sucked in the surrounding leaves and branches and turned them to dust . But Nere didn’t show any signs of defending against it, only rushing at Rona with just a dagger in her hands .
「That’s good senses . 」
Rona commented like a teacher as he prepared to receive Nere’s dagger . Nere who closed the distance in a moment swung her dagger down . Rona who tried to sidestep that was disrupted by Nere, losing his foothold as Nere swiped at his feet .
「Unyaa―!? 」
Along with a yell of surprise, Rona lost balance and ate Nere’s attack that came at him from the front without mercy . However, there was something like a ringing sound that of something hard colliding .
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In the heat, Rona who judged that avoiding would be infeasible instead bit on the dagger . Of course, that’s even with Nere’s barrier halting some of its momentum .
However, Nere’s dagger was stopped by the beast’s teeth easily . It was only a single moment .
「Caught you . 」
Just managing to fend against Nere’s fierce dagger attack, there was a finger pointing towards Rona’s head who was still biting the dagger now . A small dot of light can be seen at the end of the fingertip, but the radiance it gave off was strong enough to make one cover their eyes . Rona started to have cold sweat as the light reminded him of the summer sun .
Panickily letting go of the dagger in his mouth, Rona retreated and deployed a barrier of his own .
「I wonder if you can block it? 」
With a emotionless declaration, the light that was compressed to the utmost at Nere’s fingertip shot out .
「Eek! 」
Quickly giving up trying to defend against it frontally, Rona prioritized getting out of the trajectory . The light pierced through all the layers of barrier that Rona managed to put up, and grazed Rona’s tail .
「Hot! 」
The originally fluffy golden tail now has a miserable burnt scar to it .
「Fumu . You did well avoiding it . 」
「Ah――! My tail―! 」
Contrary to Nere’s calm tone, Rona who noticed his own miserable tail was angered .
「How dare you―! Don’t blame me for getting serious! 」
Now mana started gathering around Rona quickly .
「Hou . Then I shall prepare the same too? 」
「That calm face, I will make it into a crying one! 」
While saying so, Rona started to twist the surrounding space with his enormous mana . The light that was in the middle of the forest was silent, but the murderous aura it emitted covered the entire area . Preparing for Rona’s attack, Nere had advanced her counterattack whilst deploying barriers .
The expanding atmosphere . Filled with an enormous amount of mana . There wasn’t even a sound from insects in fear of Nere and Rona’s overwhelming presence .
As if drawing back a bow, just when Rona was about to release the arrow from his tail . Suddenly something fell down from the sky, stabbing into the ground and covering Rona’s sight .
「That’s enough, Rona . 」
It was a white short sword that was stabbed into the ground . And the owner of the voice was Rona’s past partner and also Nere’s master .
「Are you planning to blow away the twins and even my house? 」
「Mu―― . Don’t interfere, Al . It’s my turn now―― . 」
「Isn’t Nere’s strength clear enough now? 」
「But the match isn’t over―」
「What’s the need for deciding the match? 」
Seriously, Ardis had his hand on his forehead with such Rona .
「I mean, I’m the stronger one, and I’ve always been with Al, I know more about Al, I’m the one――」
「Of course I know about that . But there’s no need to fight seriously with Nere right? 」
「But……」
「No buts . What did I say just now? 」
Hold back a little, Rona who was pouting just now recalled and became silent .
「Good boy . Remember now? Let’s return back peacefully, or――」
Ardis drew his sword from his waist . The blade that reminds one of the autumn sky started to crackle with Rona’s most hated lightning .
「I-I, I-I-I-I-I got it! Let’s return peacefully, quickly! 」
On the receiving end of Ardis’s might, Rona panickily dispersed the mana he collected .
「That would’ve been the right choice from the start, seriously . ――Nere? 」
「I have no objections from the beginning . 」
Putting back the dagger into her pocket, Nere followed behind Ardis as a matter of fact . That was too natural, and too graceful . That’s probably the reason why Rona was irritated . With clear displeasure aura oozing out of him, Rona had left Ardis and Nere behind and headed back to the house in advance .