Chapter 19: Ambush
"Ahh
Reginard seemed to smell the breath that had been following the little fox since he provoked him—
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Only this time, in that breath, a malicious intent slowly seeped out.
"What's wrong? Didn't sleep well? Taylor asked naturally.
"I think it's the opposite," Reginard shrugged, raising his right hand and rubbing the tip of his nose with the outside of his index finger, "or maybe I slept too well and accidentally caught a cold." ”
Taylor nodded, "Spending the night in the forest, it's really cold at night. ”
Reginard didn't believe that he believed his words, but he tried to make him think that he wasn't suspicious. For the suspicious person in front of him, Reginard was eager to figure out what his purpose was.
He pretended to sleep dead every night. He believed in his ability to pretend to be asleep. When he was on the other side of the continent, he was successful every time he pretended to be asleep to avoid work.
But the guy, even if he was finally out of his sight, never showed any intentions.
The only thing that is certain is that he must be hiding something.
For example, every time he encounters danger, under his wide robe, the crisp sound of the blade. Even though it was just a small sound, it was enough to make him tense his nerves.
Moreover, how many times in the middle of the night, Ahri tried to get closer, but was frightened by his sudden flying knife.
Each time he would carefully withdraw all the throwing knives he had thrown out, and continue to hide them under his generous pilgrim's robes.
If you can see his weapon, you can roughly guess the identity of this guy - based on the shape, style, and forging skills of the weapon.
After all, in this era of war, weapon forging is always a secret that cannot be leaked between masters and countries.
Reginard felt that he was fairly well-informed, and if he had the chance to see - well, with that guy's small and subtle personality, his assumptions would always be just assumptions.
As for his precise and ruthless knife skills, Taylor only explained, "My family is a hunter for a living, and I have learned to use throwing weapons since I was a child. ”
Maybe he's here to kill him?
Reginard couldn't help but think. Such skill, constant alertness, and this seamless polite face-
Either a sleek and sophisticated traveler or a specially trained killer. But soon they will be out of the forest.
If this guy named Taylor really came to kill him, he would definitely be in this forest, after all, out of the forest, it is the civilized world under the control of the Ionian city-state.
And in this forest, all the assassinations can be attributed to the beasts in the forest and the spirit-absorbing nine-tailed demon fox.
On the sly.
But he didn't start for a long time, and Reginard felt that there were still a lot of flaws that he had exposed intentionally or unintentionally. If he really had ulterior motives, there was no need to hesitate.
Maybe he's suspicious?
Just as he doubted him, in times like these, in a chaotic era with the clouds of war overhead, no one could give complete trust to a passerby.
It's not bad to just use him to get out of this annoying way.
But because of him, Ahri's funny little guy really hasn't messed up his life for days.
The smell of good smell has been lingering in the distance, looming.
The journey is always boring. Reginard enjoyed the process of simply trying to trick him to change his monotonous journey life, and then frustrating that guy's ideas and bad ideas one by one.
Although her malice was too clear, it was much more reassuring to him than the traveling companion with unknown intentions in front of him.
This guy ......
Reginard thought as Taylor in front of him suddenly stopped, and suddenly, he almost hit him directly on the back.
"Who is it?" Taylor's voice came from under the hood.
Reginard expanded his mental power to perceive it, and indeed found that someone was hiding in a bush next to him. It seems to be dormant and standby.
But what surprised him even more was that Taylor's perception was really a little terrifying......
While this kind of concealment, without any magical involvement, was just as easy for Reginald to perceive, he was not yet perverted enough to sense the dangers around him at all times, especially since it was no longer a complicated forest path, but the main road connecting the town in the forest.
And he prefers to solve problems that pop up on an ad hoc basis. It was a new and challenging thing for him, even though he always felt that sooner or later he would fall for this bad habit of his.
Ordered by this, the hider had no choice but to push aside the bushes and walk up to the two of them in a rustle of branches and leaves.
It's a monkey.
The monkey man stood in front of them, but perhaps standing upright was not comfortable for it after all, so it hunched over. Mao clutched a thick branch in his hand, as if that was its weapon.
Reginard thought that the monkey seemed to be the one he had seen in the woods before, the monkey that had knocked down a tall lizardmonster.
But he's not sure. After all, all monkeys look the same.
"I heard that you two are very good at fighting, I want to ...... I want to challenge you. "The monkey waved the branch in his hand and actually spoke human words, but this is not surprising, after all, the nine-tailed demon fox can also speak human words.
In its eyes, Reginard saw the excitement, the excitement of the eagerness.
It's just a monkey.
The creatures of the Ionian forest are really interesting.
"Don't get in the way, okay?" Taylor said coldly.
The monkey lay across them, stubbornly standing in the way, like a little kid pulling at the corner of his coat and asking for candy, and the expression on his face (if that counts as an expression) was not in the least moved by Taylor.
Looks like an absolute nuisance guy.
Reginad was thinking about how to get rid of the monkey, but he didn't have any props for bananas or anything else, and even if he had brought it before, he would probably have lost it by Ahri.
Suddenly, he heard Taylor draw a knife.
The opponent is just a monkey, so he can't use such a trick, right?
Reginard was a little shocked, but at this moment, a sudden gust of wind suddenly hit in front of him, and in the empty and transparent air in front of him, a blurred outline -
It seemed to be a hairy monkey head, holding a wooden stick high on it!
Not far away, the monkey in the middle of the road disappeared after letting out a treacherous laugh that had succeeded in his trick.
There is no way to avoid it.
Countless defensive spells flashed through his mind, but if Reginald had time to open a shield, it would be more straightforward to dodge.
But Taylor was faster than the monkey.