It’s been about a week since Riley fell asleep by Nainiae’s spell.
Sera’s bag, which was once full of food ingredients and expendable items, was gradually being depleted. Sera was taking care of Riley who was lying down, and the look on her face didn’t look so good. Perhaps she was concerned about the supplies.
“… This is really bad.”
Unlike a week earlier, Riley’s face looked quite red. She was also concerned about Riley.
He was feverish.
Riley never once caught cold, even when he took naps in the garden during middle of the winter. Now, he was suffering from a serious fever. He was making aching sound in pain in irregular intervals.
“He does not appear to be getting better…”
She checked the bonfire and replaced the wet towel on Riley’s forehead. She was anxiously biting on her lips. It was around that time. She could feel someone’s presence at the cave’s entrance.
‘Um? Is it Nainiae?’
Bam.
Bam.
Sera turned her head toward the direction. Having heard the heavy steps, she realized the one that came into the cave was not Nainiae but some unwelcomed guest.
“… Kuk. Again?”
She picked up her dual swords she had leaning on the wall and got up. She mumbled toward Riley who was asleep.
“Young Master. Please wait for a bit. I’ll come back after handling it.”
She placed the swords on her waist and drew both them out from the sheaths.
With muddled look on her eyes, Sera stared at the shadow of the unwelcomed that appeared near the cave’s entrance. She opened and closed her fingers holding the swords as she widened the distance between her feet to her shoulder width.
“I am sorry, but…”
Gururururu!
The unwelcomed at the cave entrance found Sera and started to exude frosted breath while drooling from the mouth.
It was showing animosity.
It had its entire body wrapped in white and bluish fur. On its rugged, bumpy hand, it was wielding a huge bone as a bat. The unwelcomed guest was Yeti, a famous monster around snowy area.
“We had the dibs on this place first, so…”
It didn’t care what Sera had to say. Yeti lowered its body so the head won’t hit the ceiling. It waved its bat around and made ‘Bam! Bam!’ sound with its feet.
“… I cannot hand it over to you?”
“Guuuurrrr, guuurrrr! Uuuuurrrrrrr!”
Yeti roared, and Sera ignited flames on her swords.
It was aura blade technique, the one that only the swordsmen with understanding of mana could use.
“…”
Sera have not fought that many monsters before. However, perhaps because she improved upon the points that Riley brought to her attention, Sera was pretty high in swordsmanship among the servants of the Iphalleta mansion.
Bam.
Bam.
To demonstrate her skill, Sera didn’t panic at all despite seeing Yeti charging at her with heavy steps. She tightly held her swords and waited for the optimal timing.
‘Come!’
It looked like she found the timing. With her eyes wide open, she slipped past the bat that was swung toward her head from above. It was when she was about to swing her swords.
“Explosion.”
Along with someone casting a spell, dark flame bloomed in front of Sera.
“… Uuhuk?!”
Yeti’s body was engulfed in black flame. Along with explosive sound, it disappeared without a trace. Sera broke cold sweat with dumbfounded face.
“… Uu…. Uuuuaaa.”
The flame suddenly appeared in front of her eyes and then subsided. Sera, who was wielding swords, vacantly stared at Nainiae who was walking into the cave.
“Hey. Nainiae, if you are going to use magic, tell me first before you do. I was shocked.”
“Ah, I am sorry.”
“If I get mixed up in it and we end up with two patients, then… really… I don’t even want to think about it.”
“That won’t happen. I always use my magic by controlling it.”
Her teacher was no ordinary one, so Nainiae was not going to make mistakes on that kind of things.
“Anyway, that was unexpected. To think a Yeti would come into the cave… In that case, I think I should cast barrier on the cave.”
Nainiae cast several layers of protective magic and an illusion magic at the cave entrance. She dusted off the snow on her head and shoulders as she walked.
“How’s Young Master?”
“He is still the same.”