Chapter 113: Sword Fight
Chapter 113: Sword Fight
From behind the five charging thieves, two men slowly stood up, using their swords as canes. They seemed to have injured legs. Were they the ones who had been hit by arrows while on the wall earlier? If the arrowhead was still stuck in their legs without passing through, there was no way they could walk properly. I didn’t know what kind of arrowheads the Count’s guards used, but if they were the type that were hard to remove, perhaps they had been trying to pull them out here. Or maybe the arrowheads were poisoned, and the poison had spread through their bodies while they were fleeing.In any case, they couldn’t abandon their wounded comrades, so they had stayed together. And then, unfortunately for both sides, we ran into each other.
The security team was disappointingly weak in actual combat. Maybe it was because they had the mindset of "we have more people, they have fewer," or maybe it was because they had mostly recruited complete amateurs. Either way, they were clearly outmatched.
A thief slashed at one of the security team members. He blocked with his sword, but his exposed torso was kicked and he went tumbling. Another blocked a horizontal swing while in a pathetic stance and had his entire sword knocked away. They were so weak it was painful to watch.
Even seeing the security team’s pitiful state, I wasn’t afraid. As long as Lily and Stevie were here, those thieves wouldn’t be a problem. The two of them stood like a wall in front of me. The security team retreated to the sides, which resulted in Lily and Stevie facing the thieves directly.
The thieves could have attacked together, but perhaps they underestimated the two girls. One went for Lily, another for Stevie. Lily dodged the incoming slash by a hair’s breadth and slid the thin tip of her sword across the man’s neck like a caress. The path of her sword looked like a single line of light. The tip left a thin red line, and after a moment, blood sprayed from the cut. The man, still in the momentum of his attack, staggered right in front of me.
"Lord Robby, finish him!" Lily shouted.
"Yes!"
I answered loudly, dodged the man, and thrust my sword deep into the cut on his neck that Lily had made. I think I went in deep enough to see his trachea. The slashed man dropped his sword, clutched the wound, and tried to say something, but only a whistling "Huu... huu..." sound came out. Then he collapsed. I felt something enter me from him too.
Next! I thought, turning around. Stevie had already stepped in front of a man who was raising his sword, and with a sharp shh, she slashed horizontally across his completely exposed abdomen. As the man tried to hold his stomach, she thrust her sword into his heart from the side and quickly pulled it out before the flesh could close. The man fell forward. I had no chance to act, but as I tried to approach, Lily called out.
"Lord Robby!"