TDADP chapter 234: Bystander

  Three black arrows move through the air. One aims straight at the heart and the other two draw an arc to the left and right, groaning as if sucked between the throat and eyebrows. However, Puriri grabs the three black arrows without hesitation. She didn’t avoid them. She grabbed the arrows flying at high speed casually.

  「It’s useless. I was surprised that you, who are not a archer, unleashed the combined skills of 『Rapid-fire』 and 『High-angle fire』, but now I have improved not only my muscle strength but also my motion vision, so the arrows you fired are moving in slow motion for me」


  The best thing for Marifa is that the arrows shoot through the key points. The next step is to attack the body or clothing. Then, the Barrett ants, wrapped on the arrows, thrust their poison needles at Puriri and the severe pain caused by the poison prevents Puriri from moving. Marifa, confronting Puriri, was waiting quietly for that moment. However, when the black arrow that Puriri holds undulates, the Barrett ants fall one after another to the ground as if the paint had come off from the arrow. Barrett ants, who fell, painfully scratched the algae for a while, but eventually stopped moving.

  「That’s why I said it was useless. I don’t want to say this much, but I can say that your compatibility with me is the worst. With all the various drugs and toxic resistance I have, I can hardly see the effect of your wood spirit magic or the insects you use」


  It’s not an exaggeration. The flowers around Puriri, which are originally as small as the ankle, are forced to grow to the waist height by Marifa´s wood spirit magic. If you look closely at the flowers at Puriri´s feet, you will find countless insect carcasses and dead poisonous flowers, or even petrified. Puriri sees Marifa’s reaction, but instead of surrendering, her fighting spirit does not show any signs of diminishing, and Marifa´s eyes catch Puriri´s figure and keep up with her.

  「It can’t be helped anymore――hee!」


  Puriri kicks the ground. The movement, approaching Marifa while pushing the wind and the flowers, is like a little child running around and has no form. But the movement was producing terrible speed. With Puriri´s speed, which easily catches even the tiger beastwoman Melanie, it will not be possible to avoid an attack rather than an escape, for Marifa, who is not an vanguard. However, Puriri’s attempt to attack stops in that position. Because Marifa had already disappeared from her position and was about to cast a new wood spirit magic against Puriri from a distance.

  「Uuuum. This was a problem」


  The 3rd rank wood spirit magic 『Spiral Explosion』, a spiral tree that is a magic that spreads and damages after penetrating the target, but Puriri grabs it as before, leaving the trunk that is trying to expand to power and crush it.

  「I was wondering what you were going to do with the saddle on the wolf, but you really can ride and fight. I’d like to dissect your wolf」


  It is reckless for Marifa, who is not an vanguard, to take on a close combat against Puriri, who strengthens her body and demonstrates extraordinary physical abilities. For this reason, Marifa compensated for her inferior physical ability by riding on Koro. There is no reaction from Marifa to Puriri, whose true intention suddenly pops out.

  「It’s the goblin queen’s magic eye, but I guess it has a similar scanning or predictive skill as a dragon’s eye. That’s proof that you were already taking evasive action before I acted」


  Despite her mobility on Koro, Marifa is evading before Puriri attempts to attack. Even if this isn’t Puriri, you’ll find that Marifa uses some kind of magic or skill to detect the attack.

  「Ah…… It’s a dilemma that I want to experiment, but I want to dissect, but I can’t do that. Would you please give up while I’m self-controlled? The beastwoman over there may have broken her arms by my blow and her depressed chest, has a broken rib stuck in her lungs. It would be too late if there were holes in both lungs. I think it’s hard for others to undo it because she has been poisoned with the petrified poison that I’ve formulated」


  As she steps forward, the petrified poison emanating from Puriri´s body causes the petals to petrify one after another. Marifa reverses Koro to maintain some distance.

  「We dedicate ourselves and our hearts to our master. Even if we fight our master’s enemies and die, Tin and Melanie will not regret even if they die」


  Although it was Marifa, who was speaking plainly, but the situation was not good. Ran, lying down on the grass and looking for an opportunity to attack, lost its right forefoot due to Puriri’s attack and petrification poison, the tail was petrified and the tail was bitten before the poison eroded. Both Tin and Melanie, who are in close proximity, fell down and Pokori and Ariane, who had cast the illusion magic from a long distance, seem to have no reason to come back for any reason. Thus――


  「Ah. It seems to have finally worked」


  Puriri happily points to Marifa. Marifa’s left fingertip had begun to petrify.

  「Oh? You´re not surprised so much. Ehehe. The answer is. It was moving while scattering a trace amount of poison for a long time. Did you think I was just repeating the attack that I didn’t think of and hit? Perhaps your goblin queen’s eye can capture hostility and intent to kill in a visible way. How’s it going? Even if it is not hit, it might not be far. So I thought. What happens if I spread the poison unconsciously?」


  Puriri, speaking with a thoughtful face, was obviously gaining time. The poison that has been sprayed in small quantities so that Marifa doesn’t notice, takes time for it to take effect. Marifa, on the other hand, notices that and doesn’t move. She was just listening to Puriri’s words. As a result, Marifa’s left hand gradually petrified from her fingertips, followed by her healing bracelet and the demon armor gauntlet.

  「That’s the end」


  Puriri happily declares while putting her palms together. She prides herself on using ordinary antidote, potions, and healing spells to cure the poison she has formulated.

  「Koro, do it」


  Puriri couldn’t understand what Marifa was saying. Towards Koro`s hesitation, Marifa orders again.

  「What are you――」


  Prior to Puriri’s words, Koro’s high-fever breath erased everything below Marifa’s left elbow.

  「What……what are you doing?」


  Puriri stared with an expression that she could not believe at Marifa´s actions. That should be it. Things are not getting any better. Even now, colorless and odorless poison is still being sprayed from Puriri’s body. It is clear that somewhere in Marifa’s body something will eventually be poisoned and begin to petrify. She couldn’t understand that Marifa had abandoned her left arm.

  「In this state, poison runs all over my body, so I just erased my left arm, but what’s wrong with it?」


  Marifa spoke as if nothing had happened, but the price paid was great. After all, the tip of the elbow of the left arm disappeared. The wound at the elbow is charred and terrible, although it does not bleed because it is charred. Fat sweat gushes from the whole body and the complexion is also bloody. Nevertheless, Marifa showed her willingness to fight with a strong spirit.

  「Do you understand. Even if you do such a thing, it’s only temporary――cough. W……hat……this is? N, No wa……y, this, is……poison?」


  Puriri, who vomits blood, crouches on the ground. That is not all. A terrible chill runs through her whole body, making it difficult to stand.

  「Finally」


  On her knees, Marifa stares at Puriri, who still can’t believe she has been poisoned. From behind, Ran, who was looking at the gap, gradually narrowed the distance.

  「When you were pretending to pretend to be time hunting, I wanted to do that as well. The insects used were killed by poison, and no matter how much I attacked with wood spirit magic, you will recover in a blink of an eye with your regenerative power. I can’t win head-on. Therefore――」


  「Po, Poison……? But, cough……normally……I, against the opponent……cough……impossible」


  While spitting blood, Puriri looks around. Despite being alerted by Ran lurking in the flowers and giving a deadly blow, Marifa was looking for a way to poison herself. If you look closely, you will find some flowers that are not native around Comer City among the flowers.

  「That’s why. Because you have absolute confidence in your poison resistance, we found a winning opportunity there. And this is my expectation, but you have a constitution that potions are hard to work with? I don’t know if it’s congenital or acquired or if it’s the effects of the drug, but you don’t even have a gesture to take an antidote」


  Marifa’s expectations were correct. Puriri has been experimenting with various organisms and plants. How much dose of the prepared poison works on creatures with poison resistance and antibodies? Occasionally, they repeat experiments with people and demons and then dissect them to see if they are damaged. And the crazy experiment extended to the own body. The administration is performed up to the lethal dose and consciousness turbidity and physical functions are confirmed in that state. In the course of such experiments, Puriri naturally had acquired skills such as 『High Poison Tolerance』 and 『High Speed ​​Regeneration』, which surpassed normal 『Regeneration』 skills. But the result. Puriri had a constitution in which not only poisons but also drugs were not effective.

  「Before killing you, you will tell us the equipment and skills of the other house guests and the magic they use」


  「I, I understand……grow」


  Puriri points to her body, which is trembling in the chills, with her arms. At the point where she pointed, six blue petals were blooming and then at the point where the red and orange colorful petals were blooming alternately, each blooming so as to hide among other flowers. Was.

  「.……No eating or drinking, cough. In this case, it’s a talking ban, cough cough」


  Things that have been incompatible for a long time are called bans. Some countries say that drinking a certain amount of alcohol with Dorian can lead to death if it is a famous story such as eel and umeboshi, cucumber and konjak.

  「Bl, Blue, cough cough……flowers are from the swampy area of the 『Demon Bird Cage』.……growing naturally, next……cough, the red and orange, flowers…… characteristic flowers which are naturally growing at the bottom layer of the 『Goblin Forest』. Th, is……」


  Puriri, who tried to stand up, staggered and got on her knees again. And Marifa begins to carry on the words.

  「Bullaring, Tarilaliden, these two flowers are basically harmless flowers, but certain conditions can create terrible poisons, which means that you have taken the pollen of Bullaring and Tarilaliden into your body. Curiously, smoking the pollen of Bullaring has no effect on the human body, as does Tarilaliden, which only becomes poisonous and violent when two pollens are taken in a certain amount at the same time」


  「Yo……You were running around……to resolve the pollen, but to also…… Growing……th, the flower……that lesser demon hide not just, th……flower……」


  「The effect is as you are experiencing it yourself. Even if you´re resistant to highly toxic, its ineffective against harmless pollen」


  As Marifa has said, the poison caused by the pollen cant be negated by Puriri’s high poison resistance. In fact, the resistance is at the moment when it turns into poison. However, it was not completely disabled. It deprives Puriri of the freedom of her body.

  「Here is the antidote」


  Marifa shows a small bottle of liquid to Puriri. It was time for Marifa to announce that she had an antidote. It is different from Marifa and the others who took the medicine in advance. Puriri, despite being highly poisoned by the pollen, can even afford to speak, let alone die instantly. Marifa, who judged that the power of the counterattack was still there, dared to give Puriri the survival choice of an antidote to wait for the poison to run out as she tried to save time.

  「Hu, huhu. Instead of handing out the antidote……you mean, cough……I shall hand out the information of the other house guests――」


  「Yes, if you talk, you’ll be saved――!!? Koro!!!」


  「――Don’t lick me too much!」


  Colorless and odorless poison is sprayed from Puriri´s whole body. Its power and range were converted into stone sculptures instantly from flowers within a radius of 15 meters centering on Puriri. Furthermore, the range of petrification poison continued to expand, transforming the lush plains into stone plains. And while Marifa and Koro were aware of the attack, they were able to escape out of range at a short break, but Ran, who was lying down and waiting for a chance, had lost its right front leg. It is petrified by Puriri´s poison.

  「I can kill you anytime I want, but I just don’t kill you because I was told not to kill you. Not only petrification, but also bleeding, rot, suffocation, melting, swelling if you want. I’ll let you choose your favorite death」


  Incredibly, Puriri was just beginning to adapt to the pollen poison in just a few moments. Coughing and vomiting have already stopped. The chills that deprived the body of freedom were almost subsided. And conversely, Marifa――


  「The situation is not very good」


  Petrification from the toes to the ankle had begun. Twenty percent of the whole body had already been petrified even though Koro barked anxiously. In addition, unhappiness continues.

  「Ah～, Lara-san」


  A girl dressed in gothic clothing stood in front of Marifa and Puriri. Her appearance is so mysterious that everyone seems to be convinced even if it is said that the god of death has come to tell one´s death. The appearance gave the viewer a fear of death.

  「What happened? I heard Lara-san wouldn’t participate this time」


  Lara slashed towards Puriri who had come running up to her without asking questions.

  「Thank you very much. It’s convenient, isn’t it? What was the technique of that dark sword?」


  「『Vanquishing Cursed Sword』」


  「That’s right. Thanks to you, the chills of my body have disappeared」


  The dark sword 『Vanquishing Cursed Sword』 has a technique that repels bad stats, evil spirits and ill will on the target it has slashed. If used by inexperienced people, there is a danger of letting the subject die, but Lara used it without confirming it. It can be said that she has absolute confidence in her arm.

  「Are you 『Demon Sword Princess』 Lara Tombler?」


  The emergence of one of Muss’s most influential house guests makes Marifa frustrated. Even so, she hasn’t been able to defeat Puriri alone. Then, seeing Pokori and Ariane lying on the side of Lara, she realized why they could not come to support. Lara Tombler. The more she knew the name, the more Marifa was terrified. Defeating the sand dragon Mudaro Moron, which rampaged within the territory of the Delim Empire, defeating the water dragon La Mourostel at Lake Bray, the largest lake on the Raem continent and other notable fire dragons and earth dragons, including rock dragons. She slaughtered more than a dozen of them without difficult. In the territory of the Set Republic, dozens of giants and large monsters have been defeated and dozens of demons have been killed by herself from the Free State of Hameln to the Holy Land of Jardarc. Lara is said to outstrip Joseph with only her sword skills and her magic skills are second to none in the A-ranked adventurer’s rear guard. She can fight in all ranges: short range, medium range, long range and use both sword and magic. In other words, there is no chance to take advantage of her. It is only a little investigation by Marifa, and it is only this war history. It can be said that it is not impossible to learn horror.

  「I can’t afford to die in vain」


  During this time, the petrification erodes and eats Marifa’s body. Marifa decides. Even if she can’t win, she should take at least one person with her. Rather than telling herself what to say, she tries to summon the evil insects and plants that even attack Marifa their owner.

  「This is a killing scene」


  Lara pushes the evil sword Gram into the stoned earth as she says that. The high-ranking technique of the dark sword 『Vanquishing Cursed Sword』 is triggered. A flood of black light runs around the earth. Then, while seeing the earth that has turned into stone, it returns to its original green earth. That is not all.

  「Lara, what are you doing?」


  「What do you mean?」


  「Why do you cure the enemy?」


  The black light of Lara’s 『Vanquishing Cursed Sword』 is not only dispelling the petrified earth. It had already dispelled Tin and Ran, whose bodies had already petrified, to Marifa and Koro who were about to be petrified.

  「Lara, please explain」


  Puriri is unable to understand Lara’s actions. However, Lara didn’t keep silent.

  「Puriri misunderstands something. I just came to stop this barren struggle」


  「Is the reason why we’re fighting for Muss-sama boring for you?」


  Killing intent leaks from Puriri´s whole body. It’s not as easy as the petrification poison used against Marifa´s group. She had prepared and secreted a number of vicious poisons from her ten fingertips that would not be used unless a powerful and incomparable monster was the opponent.

  「It’s better to stop」


  Are you no longer willing to hide? Lara tells that intuitively to Puriri, who is dressed in overflowing killing intent.

  「Puriri can’t beat me」


  「Naa!?」


  The cursed sword Gram in Lara’s hand roars like a bark.

  「Hey, Gram says it too. Killing Puriri isn’t fun, so stop it」


  Even with this scorning attitude, Puriri didn’t attack. No, she couldn’t set it up correctly. No matter how and where she attacks, the next moment she will only see the image of her head being decapitated. She is not convinced, but she can’t attack. Puriri had no choice but to obey Lara. There is another person who is not convinced.

  「What are you going to do?」


  With the same words as Puriri, Marifa asks Lara.

  「Answer. Why did you cure the petrification?」


  Although it couldn’t be heard from the voice, it was clear for Lara that Marifa was full of anger.

  「Why don’t you talk silently? It’s okay right. You don’t have to thank me. There will come a day when you regret not seeing me here」


  Marifa endured the humiliating eyes of being mocked by the enemy. Even if she takes pride in fighting here, what is waiting for her is a certain death. Yuu, her master, doesn’t want that. If so, the only action taken by Marifa is withdrawal. Lara points to Marifa, who is staring at her. Tin and Melanie are lying there, but aren’t dead. Rather, their wounds were healed by Lara.

  「Kuu……」


  Marifa puts Tin and the others on the back of Ran and Koro, who have regained consciousness. And she left the plains without hesitation. Then Lara and Puriri saw her off, but one misunderstood Marifa.

  「You are short-tempered like Claudia」


  Lara kept silent at Marifa’s question, because she was not good at it.

  「Lara, I’m not convinced yet」


  「Puriri is also angry. You should thank me」


  「What are you saying, I don’t understand?」


  「Because if I hadn’t stopped you guys, Puriri would have died」


  Lara turns her gaze to a place. When Puriri sends her gaze in the same direction so that she can catch it and there is.

  「What is that……?」


  A warrior, dressed in bloody armor and a helmet, was staring at this while standing in the king. How much blood, dryness, and blood you take repeatedly to achieve such a hue? The armor and helmet were stuck with the murderous black blood. Needless to use the 『Appraisal』 skill. The armor worn by the warrior was clearly cursed. And although the face is covered with a helmet and cannot be seen, the fact that the warrior wasn’t a unknown man as he stared at them appeared. Puriri understood well that she didn’t notice him.

  「Maybe, Satou´s goblin」


  「Ah, one of Satou’s follower was a black goblin. One of the demons I want to dissect」


  「You shouldn’t. You don’t want to die yet」


  「If I can’t win, what about Lara-san?」


  「I’m second to none」


  Kuro, whose armor shattered in the battle with the wood dragon and received new armor from Yuu, was still watching at Puriri even after Marifa´s party left. Eventually, after deciding that there was no danger, Kuro also left the plain and disappeared.

  「Ah, what an excuse should I give to Yakum-san? I guess he’s going to be annoying because it’s about that person. I got it! It might be good to silence it with poison. Oh, let’s go home soon」


  「Puriri, you go home alone」


  「Eh? Why?」


  「I don’t want to get dragged into it」


  「Mouu! What is Lara-san really thinking? Puriri don’t understand」


  Puriri leaves the plain, leaving Lara alone who is unwilling to move.

  「Puriri, don’t die」


  Lara muttered without paying any attention while stroking the cursed sword Gram.