Chapter III

I've always been a high school girl who can cheer up at any time, and the difficulties in front of me are just hurdles to break through with my natural super optimism. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info What is intuitive is enough, and a sprint with like-minded friends in the direction of progress will be successful. But when I lost my smile, when my friends left one by one, when I realized that I was no longer in the same world, my purpose, my life, and my dreams were all gone.

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In the past, every time the Great Sword Maiden entered a town, she would arrange us in a hotel, and then go hunting demons by herself, and this time, it was no exception.

The Great Sword Maiden took me into a small hotel and arranged for me to stay. I never thought that a small hotel with only two beds was so empty, they were all the same layout and the same size, but the people who were leaning against the window were gone, who was leaning against the window, Hana Koizumi who was sitting on a chair, Rin Starry who was standing next to the chair, Eri Ayase who was sitting next to the bed, Nozomi Tojo who was lying next to Eri, Mahime Nishikino who was sleeping peacefully with Nicole Yazawa in her arms, and Minami Kotori who was leaning on my shoulder.

"You're going to slay the demons." I suddenly stepped forward and grabbed the sleeve of the big sword girl, and asked, but the tone was affirmative.

The big sword girl turned her head and looked at me with her cold pupils, without a trace of emotion, it was really a pair of frightening eyes.

"Take me!" I put it this way.

"......" The big sword girl was silent for a while, thinking that she would reject me, but I didn't expect her to nod her head slightly, "Okay!" ”

When we first set off from the village of Dior, and arrived in the next town, the words of the Great Sword Maiden were still echoing in our ears: "Don't come with me, I don't care about you at all when I fight, and it has nothing to do with me if I die." ”

At this time, she just nodded and said, "Okay! ”

Is it because you can take care of me? Or is it ...... Can't bear to leave me alone?

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The streets are not bustling, but there is a hint of liveliness, which is very warm and comfortable. The warm sunlight, through the thin air, gilded the big sword girl who walked in front of me with a faint golden glow, casting a soft veil over her cold temperament.

"Look, it's a big sword!"

"Why is the Silver-Eyed Witch here?"

"I heard that the village invited you, didn't you raise money from us a few days ago?"

"Huh!? Could it be that Balu was really demonized......"

"Shhhh Who knows? Now that the Silver-Eyed Witch is here, if there is a demon, it will be found immediately! ”

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In the small village, the people look at the big sword as if they have encountered something that cannot be avoided, why is this happening? Although this big sword girl has a cold personality, she is a very kind person!

Would a truly indifferent person care about the life or death of someone who has nothing to do with it? Will they go to find people who are willing to adopt them one by one? Apparently not.

Just like her angelic face, really, a very gentle person!

This is the first time I've been with the Great Sword Maiden to witness her workflow.

Halfway down the street, a middle-aged man with a slightly wrinkled face walked out of the crowd. Holding a big bag, he faced the big sword girl, and the deep nervousness and fear made his originally very kind face collapse a little.

"You—Hello, this—This is ...... Agreed, agreed...... Amount! The stammering words fully betrayed his unwillingness to stay here for a moment longer.

I tilted my head in confusion, a little ununderstanding, although the big sword girl seems to be very indifferent, yes, but there is no need to be treated as a beast like this! And the next words of the big sword girl surprised me even more.

"No need, if I complete the task, there will be men in black who will come to collect money from you later, just give it to them."

The indifferent words and indifferent tones must be the same indifference standing on her face! Standing behind the big sword girl, I couldn't help but think so.

"Ah......h

"If I die in battle and the demon hasn't been destroyed, then there's no need to pay!"

"Ah...... Yes, that's right! The village chief replied in fear, and fine beads of sweat on his forehead flowed down the delicate lines of his skin, "Then, when will you start working?" ”

"It depends on the opponent, if it's the kind of demon who is particularly good at suppressing demonic energy, you need to ......" The big sword girl's indifferent voice suddenly paused, and then said, "No need, let's start the task now!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I only felt that a cold wind was whistling in front of me, and there was still the figure of a big sword girl in front of me.

Then, suddenly there was a scream from the crowd, and then the panic of the people followed one after another, quickly forming a dense encirclement on the right behind me.

I desperately squeezed out of the crowd and saw a scene I hadn't seen in a long time.

The corpse, shattered into countless small pieces of flesh, dark red tissue under the green skin, mixed with dark purple blood, spread on the ground.

And beside it, the big sword girl stood there quietly, her right hand holding the hilt of the sword behind her back, the big sword as if it had never been pulled out.

The smell of blood was so thick that if I had followed a normal novel, I would have shivered with fear and run to the green belt or the corner of the wall to vomit! However, I was very spineless, and as soon as I tilted my head, I fainted on the spot.

In a trance, I only felt a pair of warm arms pick me up, very soft, with the unique body temperature of a girl, let me sink quietly in this darkness.

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I don't know when I woke up, I don't know the ceiling, I don't know the room, this is not a hotel!

A very kind old woman with wrinkles sat on the edge of my bed, saw me wake up, smiled and said, "You are awake! ”

"That ......" I opened my mouth to speak, only to realize that I had been with the Great Sword Maiden for so long that I didn't even know her name.

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"There's no need to tell you names, they're going to be forgotten soon!"

That day, that night, in the woods, the big sword girl said this indifferently, as if she was saying something that had nothing to do with herself.

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The old woman picked up a bowl of steaming soup from the bedside table, saw my expression, and said understandingly: "You are looking for that big sword, she left after entrusting you to me, and now she should have left the village!" Come, drink this soup! ”

When I heard this, I quickly got up, my mind went blank, I got up from the bed and rushed out of the door barefoot, ignoring the cries of the old woman who chased her, and ran out of the village. Fortunately, there is a road in and out of here, and it was the south gate when I came with the big sword girl, so when I left, I must have gone out from the north gate.

The uneven ground was a mixture of gravel and weeds, and my feet hurt, and I didn't know how I managed to chase them out in spite of the pain. My eyes were full of the slender figure at sunset.

Da, da, da!

The footsteps of metal boots finally reached my ears.

"Big sister!"

At sunset, the big sword girl was slightly stunned when she heard my call, stopped, turned around, and her delicate face was still so indifferent, but slightly confused.

"Take me with you!" I had a crying voice that even I thought was incredible, so unproductive! Obviously, everyone smiled and stayed in the family that adopted them to say goodbye to themselves. And I, at the last minute, was so unproductive.

It's scary to be in this lonely world, and your friends aren't around! I don't want that!

Seeing me like this, the big sword girl was slightly stunned, and then the corners of her mouth hooked up a smile, as beautiful as an angel, her cute little mouth opened lightly, and her voice was no longer cold.

"I'm sorry, I can't take you with me!"

The gentle smile and gentle words made me stunned and unable to say a word.

"High ...... Takasaka Honoka, right, live in the human world as a human being! Stop ...... with us Monsters are involved! ”

It wasn't until the old woman came up with her shoes and coat panting and put her coat on my shoulders that I came back to my senses and shouted at the big sword girl who had gone away: "Tell me your name, I will never, absolutely, never forget!" ”

The big sword girl turned her face sideways and said a word, although it was far away, I didn't hear the voice, but I miraculously understood her mouth: Flora, my name is Flora!

"Flora...... Is it? ”

The sunset stretched the shadow of Flora and me for a long time. That year, one night divided my life in half, one side was light, and the other was shadow!

PS: Flora, the goddess of flowers in Greek mythology, is Flora in English, originally the goddess Flora in Greek mythology. The Italians celebrate the festival of flowers from April 28 to May 3 every year, during which people gather to have fun and decorate themselves and their animals with a variety of flowers, and the environment is also full of flowers and plants. Painters have always liked to borrow mythological goddesses to express their aesthetic ideals and convey the thoughts and feelings of human nature, human affection and human love.