“Wait! You bitch!!”
“You’re not getting away with this!”
“Ara~! I’m so happy that you princes are chasing me with such fervor~! I appreciate your passionate invite, but stop this violence~!”
Meanwhile, Shian and Egos gave chase to Narul, who was now near the trent.
They had completely abandoned the idea of acting like main characters, and let anger drive them as they chased Narul. But she seemed very calm, because she still had the trump card that was the trent.
The members of the cooking club felt a fight with a giant monster was about to start, and nervously prepared for battle, while Narul liquefied herself again and melted into the trent.
“Now the monster armor beast is complete! The trent birthed by absorbing a lot of magic energy from slime is the ultimate lifeform, now that it has my brain! Now I’ll take you down and take back my ideal world!!”
“What ultimate lifeform!? A monster armor beast with your unfortunate brain is going down easy!!”
“You’re gonna pay for playing with us!!”
Yelled Shian and Egos with anger, after she used the power of slime to make the trent absorb her, meaning she could now control it at will.
They held their spear and great axe, and counterattacked as Narul used the tree’s thick branch like a whip.
“Seyah! Tah!!”
“Hmph!!”
Shian brushed the branch away as it unleashed sharp thrusts, and Egos used his great axe to cut it down.
They were egotistical, but they received high stats and weapon proficiency after being reincarnated, and spoke to her smugly as they overpowered her.
“How’s that? Is that all the ultimate monster armor beast has to offer?”
“Nicely cut wood. I’ll use what I cut down with my axe for firewood!”
“Of course! The princes are strong! But don’t get c-a-r-r-i-e-d a-w-a-y too much!”
The big face that appeared on the trunk of the trent twisted, as Narul smiled.
Shian and Egos felt something was wrong, because she seemed so unconcerned, but the next moment, suffered an intense attack.
“Guah!? W-what!?”
It was the branch Egos just cut. It was cut cleanly, but… It regenerated.
They let their guard down in a situation like this, and suffered a lot of damage after being hit with what was basically a thick log. They smacked on the ground, and Narul cackled.
“How was that? A trent that’s already brimming with vitality absorbed a lot of slime, and it can do this with all that magic energy!”
“Tch…! So it’s just gonna regenerate after small attacks.”
“But that’s okay. It still has a weak point.”
No matter how many branches they cut down or how much light damage they did, it could regenerate on the spot with its magic energy.
Shian and Egos saw there was no point in chipping away at it, so they decided to hit a weak point… But Narul’s evil craftiness went beyond them, and she formed a counter plan.
“Ufufufufufu…! I know! You want to attack with fire, right? Yes, my regeneration ability wouldn’t do much if you set this whole body on fire. But… Do you think you can burn me after seeing this?”
“Ah…! Aah!?”
There was a wooshing sound, and Narul pulled away the leaves covering the upper body of the trent.
Precia was watching the fight, and yelled with surprise at what she saw.
Phi had finally caught up with them, and was also rendered speechless by what he saw.
“S-Shiroi…! No…!”
Was all he could muster from the back of his throat.
That was what Narul showed. The one villager who was still missing.
Phi and Precia were shocked to see him unconscious and attached to the trent, while Narul laughed wickedly.
“Hahahahahaha! So? Can you still burn me? Go ahead, if you can! But the kid is burning with me!”
“Y-you coward! Release him!!”
“Hahaha! You really think I will!? What now? What will you do!?”
Her thoughts went beyond wicked and straight into being evil, as she revealed her back-up plan as if mocking them.
With Shiroi as a hostage, they could not use fire, her weakness. It would burn both.
Both plans, piling on damage or attacking her weak point to bring her down in one fell swoop were unusable.
Precia and Phi, along with Hao and the others, were angered by her evil, and frustrated because they could do nothing about it… But Shian and Egos looked at each other, and said something unbelievable without hesitation.
“…Sorry you bitch, but that threat won’t work on us!”
“I feel bad for the kid… But I’m gonna burn you!!”
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“S-Shiori…! No…!”
Shiroi*
… Can’t say I didn’t expect this, but wow. That’s a new low for them.