Slayers: Volume 8 (eBook)
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Boy, we sure left off on a cliffhanger last time, didn't we? Good thing Chaos Dragon Gaav is dead and... Wait, YOU'RE the one who killed him? Dang, talk about a twist. This is going to mean- Hey, stop it! What are you doing with Gourry?!
Ah, jeez. Looks like I'm headed to the ghost town of Sairaag to get the big lug back. I've still got Gaav's goons on my tail, but they might actually be the least of my worries once I get there. Can the magnificent Lina Inverse stave off the end of the world yet again?! Fingers crossed!
Boy, we sure left off on a cliffhanger last time, didn't we? Good thing Chaos Dragon Gaav is dead and... Wait, YOU'RE the one who killed him? Dang, talk about a twist. This is going to mean- Hey, stop it! What are you doing with Gourry?!Ah, jeez. Looks like I m headed to the ghost town of Sairaag to get the big lug back. I ve still got Gaav s goons on my tail, but they might actually be the least of my worries once I get there. Can the magnificent Lina Inverse stave off the end of the world yet again?! Fingers crossed!
“What?!” we cried in unison.
I’d never seen or heard any suggestion whatsoever that the Sword of Light’s hilt could produce something like that... I’d never even imagined it. And I was certain Gourry, the sword’s inheritor, hadn’t either.
“Wh-What?!” Gourry writhed desperately, but the tentacles showed no sign of letting go.
“The Sword of Light... what an arbitrary name you humans have given it. Its real name is Gorun Nova,” Fibrizo said quietly. “It’s one of Dark Star’s five weapons.”
“?!”
This sudden revelation had me at a loss for words. Xellos had mentioned that name when he sold me the talismans... Dark Star, dark lord of another world.
While we stood there dumbstruck, Fibrizo continued: “I don’t know who did it or how, but Gorun Nova was drawn into this world and transformed into something usable by humans. But even shaped like a weapon, it’s still a part of Dark Star—an extension of him. It’s like a demon itself, in other words. That means it’s far closer to me than you humans, thus I can easily bend it to my will instead.
“It’s meant to be wielded by a dark lord. That’s why, Lina Inverse, you didn’t exceed its capacity even when you channeled a Dragon Slave or that other spell through it. Granted, if you’d used the true form of that spell, I suspect not even Gorun Nova would have withstood it.”
You son of a... I glared at Hellmaster with all the vehemence I could muster.
“Have you caught on to my intentions now? Of course, I doubt you’d willingly oblige me if I asked, and you couldn’t do it right now anyway... So I’m going to take him with me. To my city, Sairaag.”
“Wait—” I started to shout, but before I could finish...
Crack! With an ear-splitting sound, Fibrizo and Gourry disappeared!
“Gourry!” I crawled to my feet, but a wave of vertigo knocked me to my knees again.
Hellmaster had probably brought Gorun Nova into his resonance field and blinked through space, dragging Gourry with him. I assumed he was headed for Sairaag in the Lyzeille Empire, as he’d said. But what had he meant by “my city”?
The remaining four of us were left staring out into space.
“What... in the world just happened?” Amelia whispered, her question carried away on the wind unanswered.
I awoke from a dream I couldn’t remember. It was frightening, maybe, or sad...
Driven by urges I didn’t understand, I sat up in bed. My cheeks were wet. I must have been crying. I couldn’t recall anything about what I’d been dreaming, but my tear-stained face told me it was a nightmare. At least, I didn’t see how it could have been anything else.
Small beams of light streaked into my dim room through the plentiful cracks in the window shutters. Morning, huh?
After everything that had happened yesterday, me, Amelia, and Zel left Dragons’ Peak behind and set ourselves up at this inn in a nearby village. I was so completely spent that I didn’t even get dinner before I collapsed into bed. And then the next thing I knew, the sun was up.
I listlessly pulled myself out of bed and dragged myself down to the dining room on the first floor. There, I found Amelia and Zel already seated at a table like they were waiting for me.
Where’s Gourry? I found myself unconsciously looking for him, and then it belatedly hit me... Right, he isn’t here...
“Morning...” I said half-heartedly as I took a seat. I didn’t have much of an appetite, so I ordered a meager two helpings of the breakfast special.
“You feeling okay?” Amelia asked with a faint look of concern.
I forced a smile and said, “Oh, yeah. Totally fine. Weird dreams kept me up, is all.”
“Well, I hope that’s all it is...” she said with rare uncertainty, then fell quiet.
Eventually my breakfasts arrived, and I silently tore into them.
“So, what’s the plan?” Zelgadis asked once I started on my after-meal black tea.
“Master Zelgadis!” Amelia chastised.
He ignored her and continued, “We can’t just sit around sulking. Whatever we decide to do, it’s best to act quickly.”
“That’s... true,” I whispered after finishing my tea. I didn’t feel like I was depressed, but given how they were acting, I must have looked like it. I let out a tiny sigh and began rambling, “Thinking about it rationally... We’re up against Hellmaster Fibrizo. He effortlessly defeated Chaos Dragon Gaav and took a Ra Tilt without batting an eye... He’s a genuine monster. An entire series of Dragon Slaves probably wouldn’t be worse than a bee sting to him.
“In other words, even if I do go to Sairaag, not only will I fail to save Gourry, but I’ll be giving Hellmaster exactly what he wants... Besides, it’s not like he ever promised he’d return Gourry safe and sound if I comply. That means me going might actually put the big lug in even greater danger. He’s probably safer as a hostage if I don’t show up.
“The smartest move, then, might actually be for me to run the other way instead,” I said, then stopped. After some length of silence, I sighed with a self-effacing smile. “But still... despite his many, many faults, he is my guardian. I can’t just leave him in the lurch.”
“You mean...” Amelia started breathlessly.
“It’s off to Sairaag,” I replied with a nod.
“That’s my Lina!” she declared with a beaming smile. “Even if you are a scheming, ill-tempered, loud-mouthed, unrepentant glutton, you can sometimes do the right thing!”
“Hang on, are you trying to pick a fight?”
“I don’t mean it maliciously! Or benevolently, either!”
Well... she was honest, I had to give her that.
“Now that it’s decided, let’s get out of here! Sairaag, here we come!” Amelia proclaimed with sudden gusto.
“W-Wait a minute!” I quickly interrupted her. “I’m going to Sairaag... but I’m going alone.”
“What?” she replied, shocked by my words. “You mean... all by yourself?”
“Yeah, all by myself. I’m the one Hellmaster is after. There’s no reason for all of us to go.”
“That’s true enough,” Zelgadis whispered.
“Master Zelgadis!” Amelia exclaimed in a harsh voice.
But he responded evenly, “We’re virtually powerless here, Amelia. Our spells won’t even put a mark on Hellmaster. We’d be a drag on Lina, at best.”
“That’s true, but...” Amelia frowned when confronted with the inarguable truth.
“Still, we can’t let her go alone. So we’ll just need to keep our drag to a minimum,” Zel said matter-of-factly, looking off in a random direction.
I had to wonder if he was embarrassed by his own cheesy line.
“Th-That’s right! Of course!” Amelia shouted, her eyes sparkling again at Zelgadis’s words of encouragement. “Even if we can’t beat him, we can’t run away either! If we fight with courage in the name of justice, we’ll always find a way to victory!”
Really? Life would be a lot easier if that were true, I whispered internally. Honestly speaking, I was highly doubtful that things like smarts, courage, and friendship stood much of a chance against a beast like Hellmaster. When he kidnapped Gourry, not even the golden dragon elder Milgazia had made a single move to interfere. Nevertheless, there was no way Zel and Amelia were just going to let me run off on my own.
“Now, there’s one thing I want to get clear first,” Zel said with a cool calm that rivaled Amelia’s raging fire. “Hellmaster’s objective.”
Yeah... figured he’d go there.
He eyed me carefully as he continued, “It’s clear he means to use you for something. And judging from the way he was talking, you have some clue what that might be. So—”
“Okay, stop right there,” Amelia said, casually interrupting Zelgadis.
“What?”
“I don’t want to know what that jerk is planning.”
“You don’t?” Zel arched an eyebrow at this unexpected reaction. I mirrored the expression.
“Nope. Not one bit,” Amelia insisted.
“That’s... unexpected. You really don’t wanna know? Isn’t universal truth and justice, like, your motto?” I asked.
She grinned abashedly as she answered, “That’s exactly why I don’t want to know! There’s no way Hellmaster is up to anything good, so if you tell me what he’s really plotting, I might be forced to stop you from going—even if it means abandoning Master Gourry. And I don’t want to do that, so... I don’t want to hear it.”
“That... makes sense,” Zelgadis admitted with a wry smile at Amelia. “Then I won’t ask either. I doubt knowing Hellmaster’s plan will help us stop him, anyway.”
“You guys are sure?” I asked hesitantly.
“Who cares?” Amelia responded with a bright smile. “We’re going to go save Master Gourry together. That’s what matters, right?”
To be honest... I’d never been happier to have companions in my life.
Sairaag was the heart of the Empire of Lyzeille. Or, at least, it used to be. It had flourished long...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.5.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Slayers | Slayers |
| Illustrationen | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Übersetzer | Hajime Kanzaka |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Schlagworte | action • cute girls • Fantasy • female protagonist • Light Novel • Magic • Slapstick |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7183-7478-X / 171837478X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7183-7478-2 / 9781718374782 |
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