「Gu, gigigi...」
Then, while Jinrai was wondering what he should do, a person started moving before his eyes. It was the assassin Mobaro who had sunk in a pool of blood just a moment ago. He started moving while making strange moans.
As expected, the enemy had a decent level of strength. There was no way even Jinrai could defeat them in one blow... or not. Jinrai perceived that there was apparently an ill-mannered manipulator of corpses present.
「Hmm. Should I have promptly incinerated him?」
Mobaro reacted to Jinrai's mutter.
『Hahahaha, a man more merciless than us.』
A laughing voice that didn't seem particularly amused was made by that being.
『Your skill is superb. I didn't think he would be able to win, but I never expected he would be killed before it became a match... it seems I misjudged your ability.』
Mobaro stood and said that. Jinrai felt that unlike Mobaro some time ago, that was the voice of someone who had many years of experience.
「Hmph. Are you our enemy?」
This time, Jinrai opened his mouth and conversed without making a surprise attack. In the end, the corpse in front of him was a puppet. Jinrai thought disposing of it had little meaning. However, he thought it was probably important that unlike some time ago, they had suddenly stopped ignoring him.
『That's right. Our target is Princess Tiara, but we're also contracted to deal with her escorts.』
Jinrai squinted at those words.
「You already knew that I'm strong. In that case, shouldn't you have left me alone and aimed at Tiara-sama's group first?」
After Jinrai's words, the atmosphere given off by Mobaro changed. Tactically speaking, aiming for the most important and weakest targets first was a natural decision. But the man before his eyes didn't do that.
『We……』
「Hmm... stalling for time?」
Jinrai muttered. He sensed some frustration from the voice.
「It looks like you really don't want to let me shoot the Thunder God Cannon.」
Jinrai asserted. Mobaro's expression became grim.
『You're unexpectedly clever, Jinrai.』
「Thinking about what your opponent dislikes is the very meaning of tactics, don't you think, hit man?」
Jinrai replied to the person controlling Maboro. It was confirmed. The impetus was probably Maboro's statement『Because you were rampaging inside the barrier, the repairs took longer?』a short while ago. It was strange that the small man appeared in front of Jinrai in the first place, but it was even stranger for them to continue aiming at Jinrai. Since they expressly separated the prodigies Yumika and Jinrai from their foremost target, they could have aimed at Tiara's group. Despite that, they were concerned about Jinrai.
In that case, there must have been some circumstance that made ignoring Jinrai impossible.
『Good grief, a foolish companion is more troublesome than a formidable enemy.』
A bitter complaint leaked from Mobaro's mouth. He knew there was no point trying to hide it. After those words, Jinrai was reminded of Kazane and Naoki.
Kazane's ridiculous behavior was a good kind of foolish, while Naoki's sister idiocy was a bad kind of foolish... Jinrai nodded to himself and replied「Well, there are different kinds of fools.」
And the man named Mobaro was a bad kind of fool.
Jinrai naturally had no way of knowing, but the man named Mobaro that Jinrai killed was an unsolicited addition sent by the leader of the Assassination Guild with the intention of monitoring the Borgiana Clowns. Beyond the irritation from being monitored, Madoru had thought that he would someday expose something he shouldn't during a job, so he had planned to incidentally use Jinrai to deal with Mobaro here, but his worry had become reality in the worst way.
Mobaro made Jinrai aware that the Thunder God Cannon was useful.
Therefore, Madoru had no choice but to come before Jinrai. They had planned to ignore Jinrai for the time being, but since Madoru was the one with the greatest fighting power, he was the one who had to go.
Yumika's spear wasn't the only reason Madoru and the others had taken this long to act. Jinrai had fired the Thunder God Cannon on the way, so Madoru had to spend more time repairing the barrier.
『I'll make one correction. I'm not here to stall for time. I'm here because I judged that I would be able to kill you. Let's send you to your companions' side, rank S.』
「That's incorrect.『Nobody』has died yet.」
『You can think that if you wish.』
After Jinrai replied to the provocation with his own provocation, Mobaro's corpse pulled the spear out of his chest and held it at the ready with one hand. In his other hand, he was holding a weapon called Yorumun's Stinger.
(Hmph. Shippuu is with Louise Nee-san and the others. It's obvious that nothing has happened.)
When Jinrai was dropped here, he sent Shippuu to Louise and the others. And although he couldn't communicate with him, Jinrai was linked to Shippuu in the same way as Yuuko-nee, so if Shippuu died, he would immediately sense it.
As for Yumika, who was separated from the party earlier, Jinrai wasn't worried at all.
(I'm not saying there's no chance she'll lose, but she won't die)
Jinrai so judged his disciple. During the time up until now, Jinrai had grasped Yumika's nature. It was astonishing that despite her low rate of injury, Yumika constantly defeated the most enemies unless Kazane used a mass destruction technique.
For some reason, before he noticed, she was often achieving results beyond Jinrai; he couldn't be negligent when it came to his disciple.
Jinrai held the spear to fight, while Yumika held the spear to live. Jinrai evaluated his disciple as a natural killer who specialized in fighting efficiently. That's why Jinrai didn't think there was any chance that Yumika would be killed. He had that much trust.
In any case, he currently had his own opponent.
Then Jinrai immediately repelled the needle that had suddenly appeared in the air behind him and tried to approach his back.
『Tch!?』
Mobaro was surprised by the speed of his reaction, but that wasn't a strange thing for Jinrai.
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