A Misunderstood Mentor

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

Alice kicks through the air, carving a unique rhythm.

It wasn't always as fast as I could see, but Karna's consciousness was sent more sharply to her brain than usual, and she managed to see it.

"... why? How can you move!?

Nagisa, who was caught in the rock, opened her eyes and raised her voice.

He's been shot through the head and heart, and there's a lot of blood coming out of it.

It becomes two red lines and spreads to the sky canvas.

Still, Alice talks about her usual lines as if nothing had happened.

Going.

Alice storms straight at Dagan, who holds the gun.

"Fu, haha, what's going on, that woman!

Dagan's mouth, which barely changed his expression, caught up and smiled.

"Good, then I'll give you any shot you want! Until you completely stopped moving, you could have fired any shot!!

Load the sniper gun and hold the gun again.

"Dungan!!

It was when Nagisa screamed.

Alice shook her fist loudly, setting the distance at zero in an instant.

"Aahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

Dagan focuses on pulling the iron with a roar like a demon.

The fourth shot echoed.

"Hey, Takumi, are guns stronger than swords?

I remember Alice asking questions during her adventure.

Wizard null bee.

Bandit's bats.

Knight Rick.

Sasha the monk.

And I'm the Hepcock Swordsman.

That was our respective position at the party.

"Guns are weapons that have been coming out of the South lately, right? You know that, Alice."

"We were all talking at the guild reception. The sword is out of date and the age of guns is coming."

At the time, it was thought that guns that could be easily used by anyone without major training would repaint the era as new weapons.

However, that weapon, which requires too much killing power, is only available to a limited number of top adventurers because of its danger and will not be widely used by the general adventurer.

"Surely guns may be stronger than swords. But not all swordsmen lose. They say there are also masters in the east who make flying bullets in half with their swords."

"Oh my God! So, Takumi can do even more!

Heh?

No, no, no. Instead of halving the bullets, the sword is too heavy to hit the stupid slime.

"What are you going to do? How dare you shatter a bullet just by temper!? You're going to bounce back at the same speed!?

No, no, no, no. What the hell am I like in Alice?

Here, let me tell you the truth.

"Look, Alice. I can't split a bullet in two, and I can't shatter a bullet in a mood."

Huh?

Huh?

Yeah, so why? Stop looking like that.

I can't do it normally.

Besides, I'm less than normal.

"If we're going to fight guns, there's only one thing I can do. That's....."

It calms down enough to think that the sound has disappeared from the world.

Nobody talks.

Nobody moves.

Alice is lying face to face praying with her hands together.

Duggan's gone.

Alice's strike blew him so far away that he couldn't see with Karna's abilities.

I remember what I said to Alice that time.

"... just pray not to die."

"Please don't let that old man die."

My recollections coincided with Alice's tweets.

No!!

Pray that you don't die, not the other one!!

Alice, who mistook me magnificently for what I said, stood up with a satisfied face.

The gunshot wound to the head and heart had already stopped.

"What about it?"

Nagisa, who barely rested on the rock, collapsed to the ground.

"What the hell! What the hell! Why are you praying for the safety of the blown opponent!!

Yeah, I'm sorry. It's my fault.

"Nagisa, you...."

It was when Sasha tried to approach Nagisa.

Takun!!

Karna's voice echoes loudly in her head.

Still doing it, it's not over yet! What, something's approaching!!

What?

Before I said, "Where did it come from?", it fell out of the sky between Nagisa and Sasha.

I've seen it before.

Half of his body was covered with iron-like metal.

The non-mechanical half is wrapped in a thin cloth that gives a glimpse of human skin.

The lower part of the face is covered with a machine mask and only the upper half is visible.

The front hair of the grey short bob stretches over one eye, while the opposite eye is as thin as closed.

Sometimes the mechanical part was lit up as if it were breathing, and there was a sound of air leaking.

Yes, this woman....

"Makina?"

"... no, Takun."

Karna, who once fought Makina in this mountain, denies my words without hesitation.

No makina.

Huh?

Karna told me that, but I couldn't believe it.

Right in front of you is Makina, no matter what.

Half of them are machine people, but I've never seen anything other than Makina.

"Makina, right?

"That's not true. Dear Takuya,"

The voice was not a mechanical voice, but a living human voice.

She stretches her mechanical left arm straight towards me, denying that she is Makina.

At this time, I finally realized that she was not Makina.

"... maybe"

That's right. Why didn't you notice right away?

Too big a mistake, I'll check on her again.

Disagree?

Yes, that's correct.

Unlike Makina, who always had no expression, she smiled nicely at me.

Yes, the right half was the machine, while the left half was the machine.

Takun!!

Karna rushed from the form of the Magic Sword to the human form.

But before that, Makina's left arm exploded, and the left elbow tip of the fist was spinning at a fierce speed, flying towards my face.

I can't help thinking about it.

There was only one more thing I could do.

"Please don't die."

I prayed to God.