The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 41
“Lucua village is just up ahead, Archer.”
I braced myself at those words. As we walked on, we could see the open space in the middle of the forest and the houses standing in the distance. To get a clearer look at the situation inside, we hid in the bushes a little farther from the fence surrounding the village but a building was in the way, so it was difficult to gauge the situation from where we were hiding. With that being the case, I turned to my sister and sent her a hand sign.
Climb the trees and assess the condition.
Leave it to me, Big brother.
【Activated: Leap Enhancement】
Dagger leaped to the tree on her right and kicked the trunk to propel herself to a branch of the tree on the left. From there, she leaped onto the higher branches one after another and lightly moved onto one of the treetops.
After waiting for a while, we saw Dagger descend from the upper branches as she sent us another hand sign.
They are in the village square.
How many are there?
As if to say “Hmmm,” my sister bent and thrust out her left thumb, and, starting from the thumb on her right hand, bent another three fingers.
After we close our hand by bending all five fingers, we repeat the action of unbending them in order to represent numbers. Bending a finger on the left-hand represents 10 while bending one finger on the right means one. And since my sister opened up one finger from the left hand and three from the right, that meant thirteen.
In other words, there are thirteen goblins currently occupying Lucua village.
Comparing the goblins’ and our one-on-one combat capabilities, we could handle them by charging from the front, but I thought of another way to fight them more efficiently and safely, so I wrote it on the ground with my slate pencil.
“Liz, we need you to be our decoy.”
“Eh!?”
We started to move despite Liz’s openly distrusting expression. First, we infiltrated the village from the west side, hiding in the shadows of the houses as we spied on the goblins guarding the square.
Hmm? I’ve never seen a fat one before…and it’s huge. It was not as big as Buster, but was it not bigger than me? And it was even better equipped than the others.
(Guess I’ll just have to be careful…)
Now then, the original plan was to let Liz be captured again and round up all the goblins neatly as they swarmed around her, but she strongly refused and said “No, definitely not!”
So, left with no other choice, we did the next best option.
*clatter*
“Gii?”
A noise from the side of a house near the square caused the goblins to turn around to see a limping female cat person.
“Uwah!”
“Gigiah, gugyaoooh!!” (What a fool, going back to the village!!)
“Giggii, gyau gigiguga!!” (Haha, and she’s hurt too!)
“Ggrigia.” (Lord Heavy.)
“Gia, giigiruh.” (Alright, let’s surround her.)
Under the direction of the huge armed goblin, three of the goblins called out and approached the cat girl Liz, but as soon as they came closer, she suddenly jumped into the house and disappeared!
“Gia?” (Eh?)
“Gii!” (Wha–!?)
Suddenly, in her place was a colossal, black-armed kobold!
“Guruaaooooh!!” (I’m gonna kick your a*s!!)
Buster stepped forward with his right foot and unleashed a full-forced slash!
“Gugeyah!”
The vanguard goblin was slashed diagonally from the right shoulder and sprayed blood everywhere as it fell down.
While it died, Buster, who had raised the tip of his sword a bit after the first attack, lightly pulled his arm back, stepped forward with his left foot, and delivered another stab at the next goblin.
The blow went through its flank and skewered the second goblin in the abdomen.
“Gh… gguha…” (Gh…gguha…)
“Gyaaoou!!” (You bastaaard!!)
The third goblin used his momentum to slash at Buster with his longsword, but Buster pulled his left foot backward as he stepped backwards and held his greatsword up while backing away, effectively blocking the goblin’s slash attack.
“Gau, guruuuh!” (Hah, too slow!)
While flinging off his opponent’s blade, Buster took half a step forward, made a fist with his right hand, and punched the goblin in the face.
“Gahah!?”
And, immediately following up on the goblin who went off-balance, he raised his greatsword with both hands and swung down!
“Guuruaaah!!” (Slash!!)
“Giiiaaaaah!!”
The third goblin raised an agonized cry of pain and also breathed his last.
“A-amazing, in an instant, he…”
Liz, who watched the scene in amazement, was not injured in her right foot, but it was actually an effect of Dagger’s primary illusion magic that made it so.
【Illusion (Primary): Disguise as weak】
【Effect: To deceive the enemy by pretending that there is a deficiency in one or more body parts and catching them off guard】
