Chapter 385: I Have Not Forgotten but Disaster Comes

From the forest direction something flying could be seen. At first I thought it was about an eagle. I hear even an eagle when it grows large grabs a person. But as that form gradually grows larger I come to understand it is a harmful beast I saw just recently.

"Is that not a wyvern?"

Leaving the clan chief who is sound asleep I ask Her Majesty. Her Majesty narrows her eyes,

"Yes, it may be so."

She says it without even showing a sign of being afraid. Anouk too,

"Certainly it may be so. It looks the same as what I saw before."

She says it again without a fragment of tension. But when Sandy understands it is a wyvern she starts trembling.

"W-why, d-do you have that composure? A w-wyvern? A harmful beast of disaster! People, people are easily killed! They are snatched and eaten!"

She is shouted at with a feeling this is an ordinary reaction. Yes, I think so too. When the wyvern draws near Her Majesty,

"Maids all gather here! Gather near Robbie! Robbie will protect you!!"

She shouts a terribly leaving-it-to-others thing. Among the maids there are faces of who is Robbie? but anyway they gather near Her Majesty. Among them there is a maid who came near Her Majesty and became unable to stand. They hug and tremble. Inside the Eisleben clan the threat of the thing called wyvern has penetrated I suppose.

At a distant place Agnes,

"A wyvern! We meet it and strike!!"

is shouting but unfortunately there are few healthy knights. And the two guards who followed when coming from the royal capital before are not here. Can Agnes alone defeat a wyvern?

There are large wyverns and small ones. Did they come as parent and child? There would be ten. As expected they are flying drawing circles above our heads. I take out bow and arrows. However bad it is, at least the people around Her Majesty I will protect!

When I look up at the sky one wyvern dove. Fast! And far! What is it aiming at? I thought and it aimed at a knight far from the procession squatting because of diarrhea. For an instant it hovered, opened the claws of its legs and grabbed a man from inside the grass. It grabs a man whose lower body is naked.

"Robbie, that!"

Her Majesty points. I draw the bow kiri kiri and release an arrow sha. But it misses and does not hit the wyvern. The second shot also misses... Agnes too is shooting arrows like rain but it does not reach a fatal wound at all. At this kind of time why did we not bring them? I did not bring Lily either but thinking of firepower those two were excellent! Perhaps among the ones with diarrhea there is one with more firepower but if they are not useful at this kind of time it cannot be helped!

"Why does it not hit, Robbie!!"

Her Majesty shouts but it is too far. My arrows have power but lack accuracy. Today’s bow is borrowed and the previous time the wyvern came down right nearby so it hit. Just now was like long-range sniping. I have no confidence as a sniper.

"It is far and does not hit!!"

There is no choice but to say it honestly. The maids say eeeh but for me it cannot be helped. Hitting is a matter of luck.

Knights with no abnormality in the gut shoot arrows. There are arrows that hit but they are not given great damage. Even with Agnes they cannot give damage enough to finish them.

Anyway even if I shoot lots it is far from hitting, at best a graze, and the wyvern leisurely rose while grabbing a person. Seeing that the ones who were handling diarrhea all started running this way. Surely they have not properly wiped their backsides. They cannot even pull up trousers and there are ones who fall. When they went to relieve themselves they should have taken bow and arrows or a sword but most went empty-handed. Even returning they do not try to take weapons and there are ones who hide under carriages. Drivers and odd-job men are hiding there yet they try to dive in among them. Ah, they are showing dirty backsides.

Aiming at those running ones a second wyvern dives. Far, and fast. For me to repay it one arrow it is the instant it tries to grab prey and hovers. If it does not come nearer it will not hit! When I stepped out trying to draw near the wyvern my leg was grabbed. The person who grabbed my leg was Sandy.

"Do not go!"

"Why?"

"You must not!"

"Why?"

"A wyvern always attacks women!"

"Is that so?"

"A wyvern is said to prefer a woman’s soft meat over a man’s hard meat. Therefore surely, it will always attack here! Therefore Lord Marie, do not move from here!!"

she says desperately.

"Somehow, somehow please save us! I have left a daughter! I, cannot, die!"

She pleads while tears gather in her eyes. They say nothing but the other maids too have faces that they may die. The only ones not that desperate are Her Majesty and Anouk two. If I am trusted this far I will protect these two and Sandy three no matter what! The clan chief... depending on how it goes.

"If there were a stronger bow..." ℴℴ𝘮

One more person is picked up and snatched away. The voice of the wyvern crying gyaa gyaa comes sounding as if it is laughing.

"There is!!"

Sandy reacted.

"I think Lady Sonia’s bow was in the carriage!"

"Eh, but Lady Sonia cannot draw that strong a bow?"

"She can! Ordinarily it is a weak bow but at the critical moment she draws a surprising strong bow! I will bring it!"

Sandy starts running toward the carriage loaded with luggage.

"Lady Denny!"

"Dangerous!"

"Stop!"

The maids say one after another but Sandy runs. But she is slow. I thought a guge voice happened above my head, looked that way and a wyvern had dived. Of course the aim is Sandy. This one I have to take down! I aim at the one coming down gyuun and release shu! It shifts a little from the aim and sticks in the nape. But the wyvern does not mind and comes down. As it draws near the ground the speed slows. I shoot an arrow aiming at the face. Not even twenty meters away. It sticks between the eye and the beak. It makes a face as if sneezing kwa but it is still coming down aiming at Sandy.

Sandy understood the wyvern’s dive, stopped her feet and is looking at the wyvern. Or rather she has become unable to move. If it stays like that even if I take down the wyvern if it falls as it is she seems to be crushed under the wyvern.

"Anouk!"

"Anouk, go!!"

"Yes!!"

Her Majesty reacted to my intention and calls to Anouk. Anouk jumps out from my side and runs to Sandy. The wyvern as if glad the prey increased?

Fool! Was hesitation forbidden not taught by your parents? I shout inside my heart while releasing an arrow aiming at the wyvern’s face. Anyway numbers are justice! An arrow hits the eye. Perhaps because it is softer than elsewhere the arrow sank in and buried to the feathers.

This worked I suppose. The wyvern loses balance and what tries to hover comes falling. Sandy is below! Anouk grabs the collar of Sandy’s maid clothes and starts running pulling! At that bare limit the wyvern fell! The ground rumble is transmitted.