How To Suck Honey With Extras [EN]: Chapter 141

“……Annoying. If that’s the case, though I don’t want to, I’ll have to deal with that brat first.”

Ellaut reached for her waist and pulled out another dagger.

She was probably planning to throw it at me.

However, before she could throw the dagger.

A bullet of ice flew from a completely unexpected direction and struck the back of her hand.

Thanks to that, the missed dagger grazed past my head.

“……Hmm, alive?”

“Forget it, just focus on attacking. Right now, I can only do this much for you.”

Rusel, who had fired the bullet a moment ago, clicked his tongue in frustration and began to command the spirits.

Although I hadn’t instructed him, Rusel probably understood that there was no chance of winning if he just stood still.

“……I don’t have the confidence to manipulate it like you do, but I can at least make it miss convincingly. So, keep going without worry.”

And then, the onslaught of three began.

The attacks that the two spiritcasters fired wildly yet precisely crashed around the two magic swordsmen, and the silver-haired boy fearlessly jumped into the midst of it as if there was nothing there.

Only the red-haired female mercenary was hampered by the aftermath of the spirit magic.

And the moment a gap appeared in that troublesome attack.

“Haaah!”

Sylvester’s sword, swung down with great force, struck her sword with all its might.

And at the moment of impact, Sylvester unleashed the power of the magic sword.

The power of the magic sword ‘Kallach Vella’ shines brighter the more its opponent deals with powerful energies such as auras or mana.

All energies that come into contact with the swordsmanship emitted through this sword gradually lose their power.

Because it is an artifact with a setting that was once called the sword of destruction.

Kwaaaang!

Ellaut’s aura wavered and her body was pushed back.

That wasn’t all.

Her knees touched the ground for a moment.

No matter how strong she was, 3-on-1 was a bit too much for her in a weakened state.

And they didn’t miss that opening.

Sylvester boldly charged forward as if to smash her to pieces.

“Oh…….”

Ellaut barely managed to deflect Sylvester’s sword, but the occasional cuts were increasing.

“It’s not over yet!”

And the moment Sylvester countered with his sword, pushing her back.

I made eye contact with her as I was preparing a new attack right behind him.

“Ah…… Brat.”

“Stop acting crazy and go home! You immature mercenary!”

Activating the gravity field, I unleashed it on her body, sending her flying.

Ellaut’s body, pushed away by the horizontally emitted gravity field, crashed into the fortress wall.

It hit properly!

“Haa…… Haa. I managed to hit her somehow.”

“…….”

I felt Sylvester’s gaze on me, as if he found it strange, but I ignored it for now.

Still, I gave a warning.

“Don’t ever let your guard down, that monster mercenary. It’s not over yet.”

I didn’t believe for a moment that she would die from such an attack.

Immediately, I heard Ellaut groaning in pain.

“Ugh. That was a little dangerous. My head was ringing for a moment.”

Ellaut kicked away the debris covering her and stood up.

Even though she looked fine, she wasn’t completely unharmed.

Perhaps because she couldn’t properly block the gravity field, blood was flowing from her forehead, and her right arm wasn’t moving right now.

Was it broken?

But the dangerous part starts now.

‘If we push her too carelessly, Ellaut will stop enjoying the fight and get serious……’

Even if we were gaining an advantage, it wasn’t enough.

‘If only there was one more way to push her further……’

Ziiiiiiing.

At that moment, I felt a strange pressure that seemed to press down on my ears.

It was the power emanating from Ellaut’s sword.

As expected, she must have decided to get serious. And her curse must have recovered quite a bit as well.

They say that true masters are most frightening when they are somewhat injured.

“I don’t know if I should be doing this much against kids…… but work is work.”

As she muttered, Ellaut burned and drew up all of the remaining half of her aura.

“I’ll acknowledge it. You are definitely opponents I have to fight with all my might.”

“That’s not a very pleasant acknowledgment.”

The real crisis would begin now.

Sylvester, too, was already tense, silently aiming his sword and stepping forward.

‘I’m not sure how long Sylvester will be able to hold out…… but if he gives it his all, will it work out somehow?’

It wasn’t hopeless.

As I tensed up and tried to prepare myself.

“……Huh?”

Suddenly, I heard a voice that drained my energy.

It wasn’t one of us three.

It wasn’t Princess Elenia, who had collapsed from exhaustion, or the other soldiers.

It was Ellaut herself.

“What are you doing?”

Suddenly, the pressure emanating from her sword dropped sharply.

She looked up as if she was embarrassed by something, then frowned unpleasantly.

“What are you thinking, old man?”

Only then did we notice and look in the same direction.

An old magician had appeared there.

Strangely enough, we didn’t notice him because of his presence.

We could see him now, but we couldn’t feel his presence.

Not even the mana emanating from that old man.

Still, we could recognize the identity of that person.

‘The Empire’s magician, Clopord?’

So he was here after all?

But for some reason, Ellaut seemed quite puzzled by the appearance of that old man?

“What are you thinking?”

“……I’ve come to deliver a message.”

“A…… message?”

Clopord chuckled at the puzzled Ellaut and instantly moved behind her.

Short-range teleportation.

But still, the mana when it was activated was not detected.

With my current skills, it would be impossible to detect that old man’s magic.

And the protagonist in front of me right now too.

The old man grabbed Ellaut by the back of her neck.

“……Depending on the answer, I won’t let you off even if you’re an old man.”

Of course, Ellaut glared sharply.

But her hostility subsided after hearing the next words from the old magician.

“This is a message from your client. The request is canceled.”

“……What?”

“The situation has changed…… he said. You don’t have to carry out the request anymore.”

What does that mean?

Cancellation of the request?

“Wait! What are you talking about! Cancellation! We have our pride too! Do you think it makes sense to send back a mercenary you hired as you please?!”

“Who cares? Complain to him about the payment.”

“So listen to me!”

Ellaut protested annoyedly, but Clopord didn’t listen and immediately activated his magic.

The bodies of all the enemy soldiers, including her, faintly glowed and then disappeared.

He teleported all of them away.

“Did he teleport that many people at once? But even so, it wasn’t detected…… just who is that old man…….”

Sylvester lowered his sword slightly and muttered in disbelief.

He must have been overly stimulated by the successive appearances of top-tier masters.

“What are you going to do? Are you going to chase those guys?”

Rusel asked cautiously.

I shook my head, and Sylvester didn’t react either.

Neither of us had any intention of pursuing them.

Our opinions were in agreement.

Just surviving like this was as good as winning.

We lived…….

Only then did I relax and collapse on the spot.

‘That was really close……’

We were clearly at a disadvantage, and even debuffing her by making Princess Elenia contract with the artifact and utilizing it wasn’t easy.

I realized that being in the ranks of top-tier masters was no joke.

If Sylvester hadn’t intervened, I couldn’t have been sure of the outcome.

I didn’t want to lose or die here, but there was no guarantee that it would go my way.

‘The problem is that the protagonist came here of all places……’

Maybe they were starting to enter the final development of Volume 4.

If so, there would only be one thing on his mind.

‘Did he come to get the artifact?’

Meanwhile, the protagonist in question, Sylvester, took a breath and put his sword back into its sheath and began to look around.

He had rushed to help, but he probably didn’t fully understand the situation yet.

I imagined that he was quite shaken inside.

Even though the original work was a third-person novel, his inner thoughts were often described, so I could easily imagine it.

His stomach must be burning [feeling frustrated or anxious].

Even though he looks like that, he is not yet fully developed as a person and is quite worried.

He’s the protagonist, but in reality, he’s a shy boy inside.

“……Rusel, are you alive?”

“I’m alive…… you know? More than that, Sylvester! You should have told me you were coming!”

Rusel pressed on his wound and groaned, kicking Sylvester in the shin.

However, he soon curled up and groaned, as if he was the one who was hurting more.

What is he doing?

It must be a friendly joke between friends.

In fact, he clearly looked delighted.

“More than that, how did you come back?”

“……Wait. Rusel? I told you last time, right? You had the artifact I gave you. I explained it back then, did you forget?”

“Arti……fact?”

Rusel tilted his head as if he didn’t know.

Artifact?

I have no idea about that either?

Did Sylvester give something to Rusel in the original work?

Perhaps he gave him something as the story changed.

That was probably related to his sudden intervention just now.

“…….”

“…….”

“……Huh?”

Everyone looked at Rusel, and she finally started rummaging through her pockets in a cold sweat.

“Oops…….”

What she took out with a click of her tongue was a completely faded bead-shaped artifact.

Surprisingly, I knew that item too.

It was an expensive artifact that allowed you to use teleportation magic just once.

Did Sylvester entrust it to Rusel? Just in case?

“Rusel, I told you to use that to come back if anything happened. I clearly remember saying that?”

“Ah, no, at that time…… I was out of it, so I half…… should I say I misheard…….”

“You forgot.”

“Ahahahahaha…… Ayayayayaya, the wound. My memory because of the wound.”

Rusel sweated profusely and made excuses with her elven ears drooping.

Unlike the original work, Sylvester was uneasy about leaving this place empty, so he left a colleague behind, and to make matters worse, he gave him a contingency plan that allowed him to intervene directly.

‘As expected, the protagonist is the protagonist. He thought about it in his own way.’

I wondered why he appeared just in time, so that was the inside story.

Anyway, let’s leave the cleanup to the protagonist.

‘From now on, I should subtly act like a discharged sergeant and take a nap in the corner.’

Yes! Now is the time to show off my presence, which is no better than a tree…….

“……Come to think of it, I think that spiritcaster is someone I’m seeing for the first time? Is he someone hired here?”

However, Sylvester was already paying attention to me.

Kuh! My presence must be overflowing!

That’s understandable.

I was the one who was fighting from the beginning, and I even directly supported him.

It would be difficult to back out after doing this.

I gave up, changed my expression, and stepped forward confidently.

“I’m Aileon. Just a merchant who happened to stay here a while ago.”

“……Just a merchant? ……Huh? Wait a minute? Merchant?”

The protagonist is confused.

Our protagonist is confused about the identity of the person in front of him, is the feeling.

……I know what you want to ask, but please bear with it.

Yes, I also think it’s unreasonable to insist that I’m an ordinary merchant now.

Still, I have no intention of giving up.

I’m going to keep insisting, even if I have to force it.

“More than that, Princess Elenia? Are you okay?”

I approached Princess Elenia, who was sitting down, both to divert attention and because I was worried.

She answered as if she was trying to be okay, as if she was better than before.

“Don’t worry. It’s not as hard as it is for you guys.”

“……Of course? Then would you like to lie there a little more? Fortunately, the floor doesn’t seem cold today.”

“Aileon. You should learn some consideration.”

“I’m just kidding.”

When I answered playfully. In the end, Princess Elenia honestly held out her hand.

“Okay, then help me up for now. It’s unsightly to keep sitting down.”

“Yes, yes. Of course.”

I helped the princess up for now.

She didn’t refuse and obediently grabbed me.

“By the way, is this artifact originally like this? It’s so different from what I’ve been using so far.”

“Hmm, I think the recoil was a little more than I calculated.”

“A little?”

“……I’ll admit it. It’s probably a lot more.”

Well, it’s probably not just a little.

“……It looks like you used that artifact?”

Sylvester also looked back and forth between her and the staff she was holding.

He must have finally noticed, and I could see that he was quite embarrassed.

Because she was openly carrying around the artifact that she had been having trouble taking out.

“I’ll tell you in advance, but I was the one who instructed this.”

I revealed it first.

It’s going to be revealed soon anyway.

It’s better to reveal it boldly and be confident than to hide it and be suspected.

Everything is thanks to me. Ahem!

“You…… taught her how to use this?”

“I have some knowledge in this field, so I just taught the princess how to use it in a hurry.”

“……Such a thing…… exists?”

“It’s a common thing for merchants.”

“Indeed…… Huh? Merchant?”

Sylvester is confused because he doesn’t understand the current era yet.

“Was a merchant someone who did such things?”

Perhaps the definition of the word merchant is shaking within him.