The Elf Is a Freeloader

The night sky shines with four moons and countless stars.

Speaking of other lights, only the red light of a burning fire that shines by the chips in a promising spot by the street passing near a depressed forest.

Right now, around that burning fire, several young men and women were joyfully talking to each other.

But this labyrinth expedition was a hit.

A young man in heavy metal armor says happily as he pours the liquor in his water bag down his throat.

"It's true. We found a lot of gems and ornaments, as well as magic artifacts (magic items) that might contain magic. Hey, can you tell what kind of magic that dagger contains?

A girl wrapped around a robe and put a cane in a tree beside her asked another girl who was watching eagerly next door with an old dagger in the burning light.

"Hmmm... I'm pretty sure it's magical... but until what it is, it's kind of... I guess I'll just have to have it appraised somewhere when I get back to town?

When the girl seemed sorry, her long, pointy ears shook tingly to go with it.

"Oh well. You don't know what to do with an elf."

"Come on, isn't the appraisal of a magical tool an elf that uses spiritual magic, and not the realm of you magicians that use ancient language magic?

"What? 'Cause I'm not sexually fit for that kind of trickery."

"I'm sure you're a firepower specialist."

We laughed joyfully at the words of the young man in leather armor.

Adventurer.

There are those who are called that.

It is a store for whatever it takes to do anything you ask, and it is also an excavator who sometimes dives into the labyrinth and defeats demons and digs up hidden treasures and such there.

Now surrounding the burning fire by the streets, they were also adventurers, and it was on their way home that they quickly challenged there when they heard that a labyrinth had been discovered about two days on foot from the town where they were based.

Exactly couldn't reach the depths of the labyrinth in one exploration, but still discovered considerable treasures in about half a day of exploration. Besides, I even discovered a magical dagger. This is fairly lucky for middle-sized adventurers like them.

Yes. They were adventurers you could call middle-sized.

Two years after they met and formed a party. To date, he has accumulated a track record and has recently become a little known in the towns where he is based.

At first, that's what the pharmacists asked me to do. I started out with plain but solid jobs like looking for herbs around town, hunting wildlife that the butchers asked me to eat, and for a while now I also began to undertake rough things like escorting pedestrians and exterminating warcraft that ravage the fields.

It was the report of the discovery of the labyrinth that set us there. Besides, it's not that far from town.

When they heard about it, they quickly challenged the labyrinth with a combination of luck trials and arm trials, with considerable success.

First labyrinth exploration for them. And the success of exploration. All the members of the party were floating about it.

As a result, their vigilance had faded. Outside of town where we can never say we're safe now, and even though it's night.

The success of the adventure had left them with a sense of exhilaration and a sense of chronicity.

And it came suddenly.

The first thing I noticed was an elf girl. Its long ears captured the wind chipping sound of a hiccup.

Then the sound of piercing something called a pussy.

The elf girl turned to the one who sounded reflexively and took a breath with a scream that didn't sound like a hiccup as it was.

Ahead of her gaze. Between the eyebrows of a young man in leather armor grew something that hadn't happened before.

No, I didn't grow up. I stabbed him.

It took a few more moments until the girl's brain decided so.

The body of the leather-armed young man swayed about, falling on his back as it was.

Arrows are struck around the girl and her companions one after the other, as if the sound were a signal.

"Hey, what's going on?!?"

Squeeze your favorite wand around your chest and a magician girl looks around.

"Damn!! Bandits or something!? How dare you..."

A young man in metal armor rises up and sets up his favorite shield and sword. But at the next moment, something heavier than the arrow earlier flew in and hit the face of the risen young man.

The hand axe. With the thrown hand axe on his face, the young man sank into the earth with blood, bones and brains scattered around him.

"Hih!!"

The magician girl pulled forcefully the hand of the elf girl, who once again leaked a short scream, and kept her up.

"What are you doing!? I'm getting away!!"

"So, but..."

"Those two aren't helping anymore!! They're already dead!! If we stay like this..."

Saying so with a sad look, the sorcerer's girl ran out of the elf girl's hand.

Into the night forest ruled by darkness.

When I first realized she was alone.

At first, the sorcerer's girl was pulling her hand and running, but after she jumped into the woods, she started running in the lead.

In the woods is a familiar place for the elves. Furthermore, the elves have a dark vision capability, and neither the night forest nor the daytime forest is so different.

That's why she ran through the woods, leading the magician girl.

But when I ran scared and desperate by the chaser from behind, I looked back. I didn't see the girl who was supposed to be there.

Was it elusive somewhere? Or did you run too differently? There's no way a man without dark vision can run at the same speed as an elf without a light.

The sudden raid quickly killed two of her companions, and the fear that their demon hands were reaching out to herself made her unable to afford to pay that much attention.

"I don't know what to do... I need to find it..."

Stop and squeal as you look around.

The nearby bushes shook at you as you tried to get back down the road where you came looking for the sorcerer's girl.

And it was the sorcerer's girl who emerged from that bush. Confirm her appearance, and relief spreads to the face of the elf girl.

But that will soon attract you to fear.

Mage girl fluttered out of the bush. She whispered something to the elf, whispering something to the girl as she took a few steps straight.

"And... and... and... and... and... and... and... and..."

The sorcerer's girl falls straight to the ground in front of her.

The eyes of the dark-eyed elf girl clearly showed a dagger (dagger) piercing the back of the fallen sorcerer girl.

"Huh? Oh, that...? Hey, hey...?

Too much, visual information and brain perception don't match.

As she grated without being able to do anything, three men showed themselves with pine lights in their hands from behind the bush where the magician girl appeared.

"Whoa, were you here? We finally caught up."

"Ho. Was the last one an elf? This guy's good."

"Oh. Sell it away as a slave and it'll be good money"

The men confirmed the appearance of the elf girl, with a humble grin.

"Ah... you guys..."

The elf girl looked familiar to the men.

That was during the day today, when I dived into the labyrinth. Rumors of the labyrinth already seemed to be spreading everywhere, and adventurers challenging the labyrinth were naturally besides their parties.

So are the men now in front of the girl. I was in a labyrinth with them, barely exchanging words.

Yes. They are not bandits or bandits. He's the same adventurer as the elf girls.

"Well... treasure I found in the labyrinth... shall I have it handed to you?

One of the men carelessly offered his hand to the elf girl.

"Ah, you guys... the treasure we found in the labyrinth is what we're looking for..."

"That's what happened. We can't find anything in the labyrinth... and we're running out of money. I was hoping you'd bless us for finding such a good treasure."

When I exchanged words with them in the labyrinth, the elf girl remembered that her fellow metal armored youth was bragging about finding that treasure.

Perhaps they had followed sneakily to embezzle the treasures the girls had acquired, without any dizzying discoveries in the labyrinth.

While the elf girl was thinking about them, one of the men began to examine the body of the fallen sorcerer girl.

Peel off the robe you were wearing and tear the clothes underneath. That's how the men who took all her possessions, even get their hands inside her underwear to make sure there's nothing more.

"There are jewels and ornaments that seem to be worth a lot of money. But you didn't get a little carried away. Good body for my little girl. Shit. I had enough momentum to kill him, but I should have enjoyed it before then."

"You had a hand in selling it off with this little elf girl over here."

In the woods surrounded by darkness, the laughter of the men echoes.

The elf girl clenched the dagger in her hand as she bit off her lips.

That's when she finally realized. The dagger I was looking into earlier, that I had been holding onto it for a long time.

The girl who glances at the dagger in her hand. One of the men seemed to notice something about how she was doing.

"Hey, lady. Give me that dagger."

"Oh no! This is..."

The dagger I got on my first labyrinth expedition with my buddies. Now that other people besides her had been killed, even if this was just a dagger without magic, it became an important memory for her to connect with herself and her people.

You can't give that dagger to the men, the elf girl hid the dagger behind her body.

"Hmm. Seeing how that makes it seem important, that dagger sounds both worthwhile. Hey."

One of the men glances at the other fellow. Apparently the man was a magician, who whispered something like a spell following the instructions of his fellow men.

"... that dagger has magic in it. Plus... the ear ornament that that elf is wearing on his ear. And then I can feel magic."

What the magician chanted was like magic that sensed magic.

The man was right, the girl's ear decorations were magic fixtures. This ear ornament contains the magic of translation, which she gave away as a farewell from her parents as she left the elf settlement to become an adventurer.

Sometimes I didn't really understand human language when I first came out into the human world, and this translation ear decoration was a great help.

"That's good. Give me the dagger, the ear decorations, and all the money. If you do, I'll save your life. Especially if you're sure to sell them off as slaves, right?

The elves, because of their appearance, are traded higher than human slaves.

Thin, sleek, long physique and neat appearance. And above all the characteristic long, pointed ears. They can sell men and women for high prices as slaves for fun, ornamental, and sexual intercourse.

So much so that among the rich, such as the human aristocracy, keeping elf slaves has also become a kind of status.

I've also heard about the elf girl.

They get caught and sold off as slaves. The body of the elf girl was trembling at some point as she was stuck in her own future, equal to what had already been ordained.

"Look, what's up? What, you want me to rip off all your little girl's cookies?

One of the men approaches the girl with a slightly unpleasant grin.

"Hey do it!! Don't come!!"

The girl used magic aggressively.

A water spirits contracting with her pops out of a water bag lowered to her waist listening to her wishes. The Spirit turned the water in the water bag into a water bullet and hit the approaching man.

Suddenly he gets a water bullet in his belly, and a man hits more and more and falls. But the magical power of a girl does not make it possible to defeat a man with a single blow, and a man rises again while holding his belly down.

"This... if you get out poorly, you're gonna stick it up..."

The man, whose face turned bright red with anger, was suddenly attacked by a girl.

The man who captures the girl's arm in an instant reaches out to take the dagger the girl has.

"Oh no... no!!"

Though he tries to escape from a man's hand, he cannot escape with his wrist firmly held by a man.

At least the man's hand finally reached the dagger, even if he resisted trying to protect it alone.

"Look!! Come on!!"

To the elf girl who resists forever, the frustrated man forcefully draws a dagger.

At this time.

The dagger that was tucked away in the sheath with a bounce then slits through and slightly cleaves the elf girl's fingertips on the clap.

"Ah...... Yikes!!"

Small but sharp pain running to your fingertips. Indulging in that pain, the girl who was deprived of the dagger bit the man's wrist reflexively.

"Wow!! What the fuck!?"

Suddenly he was bitten by the wrist and the man accidentally removed his dagger.

The girl who captures the zero fallen dagger at the edge of her sight reaches out to the dagger away from the man. But faster than the girl could reach, the dagger stuck straight to the ground.

And.

And it happened.

Glowing magic formations suddenly appear around daggers pierced by the ground.

The magic formations that emerged gradually reinforce that light.

"Hey, what the heck!?"

"What's happening!?"

Men deluded by the dazzling light, deprived of their sight and making noise.

The light, which is based on the magic formation, becomes stronger, illuminating the forest at night like daylight.

And at the end of the day when the light shined strong, the light abruptly disappeared.

In the woods where the forces of darkness have returned. Only the pine lights of the men dye the area thin and red.

"... hey, what was that, what's that now...?

The men, who finally regained their sight, look around slowly.

And then they realized.

And the magic formations that suddenly appeared. And a dagger pierced to the ground. And the elf girl too.

To the fact that all of that is neglectfully disappearing from the forest at night.