Chapter 194: Mia: Give Me a Reason Not to Kill You!
Just as the atmosphere was growing tense.
"Haah~" A lazy yawn attracted the attention of the three people present.
"Nya, it's so noisy outside."
Anya drowsily walked over, rubbing her eyes.
"How is that possible?! The effect of the sleeping incense should last for several hours!"
Chloe looked at her brown-haired kin in surprise.
"Nya, you guys seem to be fighting. Are you two Ryuu's enemies, nya?"
Anya, who had walked behind Chloe, narrowed her eyes.
The aura she emanated caused a shift in the situation.
Chloe, who had been stunned by surprise, immediately became nervous.
Since the 'sleeping incense' hadn't worked as intended, it meant that the tavern staff definitely had 'abnormal resistance', and its level is not low.
And she was carrying a long, blunt weapon wrapped in white cloth, clearly prepared for battle.
The moment the thought of 'not a weakling' arose in Chloe's mind, and she instantly turned and charged at Anya.
At the same time, Lunoire silently intercepted Ryuu.
The sudden reinforcements pushed the killer duo, who were already at a disadvantage, into a desperate situation again.
Now, they had no choice but to race against time.
If Chloe could defeat Anya before Ryuu defeated Lunoire, they might have a tiny chance of success.
Whiz, whiz, whiz!
Chloe pulled a handful of throwing knives from her waist and launched them at the brown-haired cat girl.
Ignoring the knives that were easily deflected by Anya, Chloe didn't hesitate for a moment and pressed forward.
Then...
Bang!
A smoke bomb exploded at their feet, and white smoke instantly obscured Anya's vision.
"Play around!"
In the smoke, Chloe used her magic again, this time creating not one, but two illusions!
'Feles Cruz', a short-range mirage/phantom-type magic that could create illusions mimicking the user's appearance.
The limit of the illusion is two.
The intangible illusions could neither attack nor defend, but could move freely according to Chloe's will.
It was because of this magic that the success rate of her assassination was close to one hundred percent.
'Take her down from behind while she's distracted by the illusions!'
Chloe and her illusions immediately surrounded Anya in the smoke, pouncing from three different directions.
Aiming at Anya who was stunned, Chloe licked her lips and prepared for striking a fatal blow.
But...
"I can't see anything, nya!"
Anya, whose vision was obscured, swung her 'long stick' horizontally.
Whoosh!
A huge gust of wind blew away the surrounding smoke.
The swiftly sweeping blunt weapon instantly killed the two illusions, then without a moment's hesitation, smashed towards Chloe's direction.
"Nya?!"
Although she managed to evade, Chloe was still hit on the shoulder and sent flying.
"Damn it, how could she..."
"Isn't it tiring to talk like that if you're the same race as me, nya? Don't be stubborn, nya, just show your true self, nya!"
Anya, who had successfully struck a blow, immediately became smug.
And her smug attitude instantly irritated Chloe.
"Waaaaah! Shut up, nya! Why are you bothering a lady like me, nya!"
"Oh, oh, finally you said it, nya! Nya told you that you're the same as me, nya!"
"Who's the same as an idiot like you, nya!?"
"Who's the idiot, nya!?"
Suddenly, the two cat girls, abandoning the fight, began to nya at each other non-stop.
Ryuu and Lunoire, who were fighting beside them, cast a look of disdain at them.
"Nya knows, nya! This situation is what the gods call 'character repetition', nya!"
"Whose character is repeating with you, nya!? Look closely, nya! Nya's tail and body are both more slender and attractive than you, nya!"
"But, nya's bigger here, nya!"
"Nya, nya's...!?"
Looking at Anya, who was standing with her hands on her hips and chest puffed out, Chloe suddenly suffered a critical attack.
"Uh-huh, nya... It's broken outside, nya, let's undo it, nya~"
Anya, victorious in the verbal battle, smiled smugly again, then removed the white cloth from her 'long stick'.
And from the white cloth emerged a meticulously crafted golden spear.
"The golden spear... and the style is a first-class weapon?!"
"Could it be???"
Chloe had heard of that spear.
In one of the strongest Familia in Orario, Freya Familia, there was a cat-eared adventurer who wielded a silver spear.
Allen Fromel, the current vice-captain of Freya Familia, a super strong adventurer on the verge of reaching Lv6.
"I heard he has a sister who holds the other golden spear that is paired with his silver spear."
"You wouldn't be 'Vana Alfi', would you!?"
"Haven't heard that name in a long time, nya..."
Hearing Chloe's exclamation, Anya seemed a little sad, her normally upright cat ears drooping.
Indeed, her name is Anya Fromel.
But in an instant, Anya cheered up and regained her lively smile, saying, "Nya's just an abandoned cat now, nya doesn't know any 'Vana Alfi', nya!"
She twirled her spear in preparation for attack, her whole... aura began to rise.
"Nya's going to knock you out right now, then go help Ryuu, nya!"
...
Although Anya said she was going to help Ryuu, she didn't really need to.
Unlike the back-and-forth battle here, the battle between Ryuu and Lunoire was completely one-sided.
Bang!
With a loud boom, Lunoire, who had barely managed to block the elf girl's attack, was blown away again.
"This is Lv5..."
"Her condition has deteriorated so badly yet she can still crush me, it's really..."
Facing a first-class adventurer alone had drained her stamina significantly.
If Ryuu hadn't been in a weakened state, Lunoire wouldn't have even lasted this long.
But that's about it.
As time passed, the powerful physical attributes of a first-class were gradually dissolving the effects of the sleeping incense and the poison.
Every second, Ryuu's condition was recovering.
The battle is basically over now.
Facing a fully recovered speed-focused first-class adventurer, Lunoire and Chloe had no chance of escape.
Just when the two of them were slowly beginning to despair.
A strange sound reached the ears of everyone present.
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
The enormous sound was as if something was pounding on the ground.
The moment they heard this sound, both Ryuu and Anya's faces turned pale.
"What's that sound?"
"What's wrong, nya?"
Lunoire and Chloe were puzzled by Ryuu and Anya's reactions.
But then, they saw, with bewildered expressions...
A 'monster' that was gradually approaching, accompanied by the roar of the earth.
"...Hey, you silly girls."
"I need an explanation..."
Mia looked at her 'battered and bruised' tavern and gave the girls a malicious smile.
"How did this mess happen?"
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