612 Busted! There's No Escape!
But sometimes you just can't avoid accidental encounter no matter how prepared you are.
Like right now.
"Wha! How come that magic beast is heading straight here!? Dammit! We haven't finished all the preps yet! ...No, it can't be!? Did it shake them off? Are our watchers safe!?"
This seems to be one clever magic beast, it's shaken off the annoying men tailing it and now making a beeline here.
It must have inferred from its watchers' movement that this spot is where they're gonna bait it to.
Which tells how smart this magic beast. This is no accident. It was all precalculated.
"Is that thing far in the distance, our target? Ah, that's a..."
(The head of a red-colored monkey, the body of a... tiger I think? And the tail... Ah, must be a scorpion. It's a...)
Manticore me think? The creature is making an earsplitting 'Gyaa' voice while running this way at tremendous speed.
It looks real repulsive. The mismatched parts make it all the more terrifying. And it gets more and more clear just how big it is as it gets closer.
"Oh crap! We gotta run for it! Hey!? What the hell are you tryina pull! Get to it!"
I think it's about as big as an elephant? No wait, maybe a bit smaller but it's still huge all the same.
I fetched my katana from magic bag. Berume told me to run but that's probably impossible now.
Running here is a bad move. No humans can outrun a magic beast capable of outputting that kinda of speed.
I can, but then what's even the point of me coming all the way here.
Besides, the contact guy and Berume would fall to this magic beast if I didn't take care of it here.
Its bloodshot eyes are showing anger toward the contact guy.
It must know that he belongs to the same group of people who have been prowling around it.
Despite looking deadly pale, the contact guy seemed to have steeled his resolve as he held his ground with a round ball like thing in his hand.
(Something like, 'Who's gonna do it if not me!')
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"You two stay behind me. You're in the way. Get back to that tree over there, and don't move you hear me?"
The beast that looked so far away just earlier is only around 20 meter away now.
I've already entered Acceleration by this point. You can't make light of a wild beast's explosive power. Gotta secure a huge safety margin.
A strike to my vital is probably still gonna kill me, this power notwithstanding. There's also a chance of me surviving considering my monstrous body, but I absolutely am not gonna test it out.
(Ah, guess I could just cut its neck off? Or maybe split its face? What's the best way to reap this thing's life anyway?)
Since I never checked for it, I ended up having a weird thing to contemplate on at a weird timing.
No answer would come up regardless. Left with no choice, I decided to do it in a way that minimize the wound best.
I don't know how you're supposed to use a Manticore's materials.
What if it turned out that the neck skin is the most valuable part and I cut it off. It'd be unusable because I didn't think it through.
I could also stab it in the heart but what if the opening was on the most valuable part and I damaged it.
There's no end to 'what ifs'. As such I decided to cut off its face.
I sliced its forehead down, from the side, not ahead.
I had focused into Max State Acceleration. My katana made a clean cut of the time stopped-like Manticore and its evil face.
Not wanting to collide with the Manticore, I first took some good distance away before undoing Acceleration.
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