Slayers: Volume 6 (eBook)
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Jeez, some guys just can't take 'drop dead' for an answer! Here I am, beating up bandits and minding my own business, when all of a sudden my least favorite assassin jumps out of the woods. 'Come to Vezendi. If you don't... someone will die,' he says! Zuma's one blast from the past I really didn't need... But with a threat like that, I don't have much of a choice about playing along for now. Good thing the whole group's on board for this fun-filled, trap-laden, demon-driven ride! Darkness in Vezendi, here we come!
Jeez, some guys just can't take "e;drop dead"e; for an answer! Here I am, beating up bandits and minding my own business, when all of a sudden my least favorite assassin jumps out of the woods. "e;Come to Vezendi. If you don't... someone will die,"e; he says! Zuma's one blast from the past I really didn't need... But with a threat like that, I don't have much of a choice about playing along for now. Good thing the whole group's on board for this fun-filled, trap-laden, demon-driven ride! Darkness in Vezendi, here we come!
“Ngh!” I swiftly leaped back. The shadow’s leg lashed out, aimed right at my solar plexus. I couldn’t get out of the way!
Whoosh! The shadow suddenly flew backward without making contact.
Amelia had unleashed a kick of her own in the nick of time that had sent it sailing. It stopped where it landed and held its ground.
“Who are you?!” Amelia asked as she straightened up, but I was the one who answered.
“Hang on, I know this guy... I remember those moves,” I said, glaring at the shadow. “I really could’ve done without ever seeing you again... Zuma.”
“Are you sure?!” Amelia asked, her eyes still locked on the shadowy assassin.
C’mon, you’ve seen the guy before...
Granted, he was clad all in black with his face completely concealed except for his eyes... which was basically your standard assassin getup. It was no wonder Amelia couldn’t differentiate him from a more generic specimen.
As for this specific assassin, however, we had a history. He’d tried to kill me once and ended up in a fight with Gourry that cost him both arms. He’d fled in the end, but... he seemed to be back in fighting shape now somehow. Although I knew that high-ranked priests and such could restore limbs, I never thought failing to finish him then would lead to an encounter like this.
“What do you even want?! The person who hired you to kill me is dead! We killed him!” I knew parley was pointless, but I decided to give it a try anyway.
His response was as blunt as a cigar: “I haven’t finished the job I was paid for yet.”
Yeesh, of all the dang occupations to be a consummate professional about...
“I can see that reasoning will get us nowhere with you!” Amelia said, pointing dramatically at Zuma.
You didn’t even try reasoning with him, girl...
“Denizen of the darkness who trades human lives for money! If you cannot see the blood that stains your hands, you shall ever be denied salvation! Even if you evade the law’s judgment, I swear in heaven’s name that you shall never evade mine!”
Translated into Real Person Speak, I think she was basically saying, “Repent or I’ll kill you, stupid assassin!” Which suited me just fine, I guess.
“If you still have an ounce of human compassion—”
“Flare Arrow!” I cried, unleashing a spell that interrupted Amelia’s seemingly endless speech.
A dozen or so fiery arrows hung in the air for a second, then streaked straight toward the assassin. No way could he dodge them all!
“Guum Aeon,” he whispered... and my flaming arrows shattered midair!
“Huh?!” Amelia and I exclaimed simultaneously.
He’d probably pegged my attack and chanted that spell in advance... though I’d never seen nor heard of it before.
Next, Zuma made a beeline for me. I quickly started chanting a followup spell, but was I going to get it off in time?!
“Not so fast!”
Amelia ran forward, dashing at Zuma. When she did... Zuma suddenly changed course! He was going for her now!
“What?!” she cried in shock, her timing completely thrown off.
Whump! She took Zuma’s kick straight on and—Crash!—slammed hard into the trunk of a nearby tree.
That big jerk! He was trying to take her out first!
Zuma didn’t spare the fallen Amelia so much as a glance before going on the offensive again, his attention back on me. Too bad for him I had my spell ready now...
“Dark Mist!”
When I cast it, Zuma’s eyes went wide. It was a spell he’d used on me once before, after all. The black mist it produced engulfed the area around the approaching assassin. I couldn’t see him this way—but what mattered was that he couldn’t see me either.
I changed locations and quietly began chanting a Lighting spell. The moment Zuma emerged from my Dark Mist, I’d blind him with the light and then switch to an attack spell to finish him off!
Except... he never appeared.
“Lina! Above you!” Amelia cried out.
“Lighting!” I responded instantly.
If I’d bothered to look up, I wouldn’t have gotten the spell off in time. Instead, I just released it directly overhead! I closed my eyes and rolled away as the searing light from the zero-duration maximum-brightness flash pierced my eyelids.
Above me, I felt that same sense of surprise again. I wondered if I’d successfully managed to blind him, but before I could speculate any further, I felt something touch my right shoulder guard.
“Blast Wave!” came a voice right next to my ear.
Fa-foom! Just like that, my pauldron went boom! If not for Amelia’s warning, that could’ve been my head!
I don’t know when he’d leaped out of my Dark Mist, but Zuma had come at me from above. Still, even if it was only temporary, I knew he couldn’t see right now! I opened my eyes again and began reciting another spell...
But Zuma came straight at me! Was he following the sound of my voice as I chanted?!
“Elemekia Lance!” Amelia incanted from beside me. Hey, that’s my super alloy girl! Even after a kick straight to the gut, she was back on her feet in no time!
“Tch!” Zuma stopped ruefully in his tracks, allowing Amelia’s spell to pass right in front of his eyes.
Darn it, he sure wasn’t acting like he was blinded! Could he be going off of sounds on the wind and our presences?
Whatever! It was my turn now!
“Fireball!”
Bwoosh! Howling wind and flame exploded at Zuma’s feet. Yet before the smoke cleared, I saw a shadow leap out of the fire. Impossible! I thought to myself as Amelia’s voice rang out once more.
“Freeze Arrow!”
Attagirl! I shouted internally. If Zuma was dodging our attacks by reading changes in the wind, then the turbulence from my Fireball should scramble his senses. No way could he dodge all dozen or so icy arrows flying toward him right now! Or so I thought...
But with a sharp exhale and a smooth change of course, Zuma evaded the frigid volley.
Okay, I’m pretty dang sure this guy isn’t blind!
Zuma was charging at me again, and as he closed in, I saw it... His eyes were closed! There was no way he should be able to see anything like that!
A chill ran up my spine. With my options few and far between, I threw the broken shortsword still in my hand at Zuma.
The assassin’s charge... came to a halt. All was silent except for the rustling grass. The next thing I knew, Zuma was leaping backward.
Huh?
“Come to Vezendi,” he said in a low voice. His tone was that of a hunter whose prey had escaped him. “If you don’t... someone will die.”
And with those words, he whipped around and vanished into the darkness.
“What in the world just happened?” I uttered, standing there in shock.
“Perhaps he feared the arrival of reinforcements?” said a voice from behind me.
“Bwuh?!” I quickly turned around and saw a black-clad figure in the moonlight. I found myself shouting, “Xellos?!”
Indeed, standing there was the mysterious priest I’d met during an unrelated incident.
“So very good to see you again, Miss Lina. You too, Miss Amelia. But you really should be able to defeat an opponent of such mettle yourself...”
“Good to see us again, huh?!” I kept shouting as I grabbed Xellos by the collar.
“Excuse me! Excuse me, Miss Lina?!”
“You’ve got a lot of nerve showing your face to us again! You’re lucky I’m such a nice and forgiving person, but Zelgadis is gonna be pissed—I assume!”
“I see... How very troubling,” he said, seeming perfectly untroubled.
“Yeesh,” I whispered as I grudgingly released his collar. It was clear that roughing him up wasn’t going to do more than exhaust me. “So? What are you here for this time? You clearly weren’t just passing by...”
“Of course, that’s—”
“A secret, right?” Amelia interrupted.
He smiled brightly in response, raising an index finger as he assented, “Precisely.”
“Okay, whatever,” I whispered. I figured pressing the issue wouldn’t get us anywhere. “Different question, then. What do you intend to do from here?”
“Travel with you for a while, Miss Lina.”
“Are you nuts?!” This time, it was Amelia who was shouting. “You... You want to travel with Lina?!”
“Hey now...”
“I mean, Master Zelgadis and I have steeled ourselves for the inevitable, and Master Gourry’s mental condition makes him oblivious to consequences. But you—”
“Hey! Amelia!”
“I don’t know what’s driven you to this, but you’re too young to throw your life away!”
“Uh, excuse me! This is slander!” I shouted in protest.
“Honestly, Lina...” she replied with a glare. “Do you really think you lead a quiet, peaceful life?”
“Guh...” She had me there. “Well, all that aside... Xellos, I take it there’s nothing Amelia and I can say to change your...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.3.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Slayers | Slayers |
| Illustrationen | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Übersetzer | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Schlagworte | action • Anime • Fantasy • female protagonist • Light Novel • Magic • Slapstick |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7183-7474-7 / 1718374747 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7183-7474-4 / 9781718374744 |
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