The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 269

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Part 2, Chapter 67

The Sword Master maintained his silence. But just from his eyes, you could tell his attitude wasn’t particularly favorable.

Jewelry immediately caught onto that fact.

“…Fine. Then I’ll become the bait myself! That works, right? Now there’s no reason for me to be blamed, right? If I’m unlucky enough to die… please tell Father that I brought honor to the family name before closing my eyes.”

From that point on, irritation definitely started to show.

‘Should I hit her once?’

No, I had to endure it. If even the slightest uncontrolled emotion slipped in, Jewelry’s cheekbone might cave in. In a situation where we’d entered enemy territory and were moving as a team, harming an ally wasn’t a wise choice.

I’ll have to hit her secretly later.

Hah. The Sword Master let out a short sigh and grabbed the head of Jewelry, who had roughly turned away.

“Stop, Jewelry.”

“Eek! Let go of this! Why are you stopping me! I said I’d become the bait myself!”

“Your role is to protect the team members. Stand down.”

“I don’t want to.”

Jewelry took a step back and glared at the Sword Master with rough breathing.

“You’re not going to ignore what I say, are you? I don’t want to. I clearly said I don’t want to.”

The Golden Mage, who had been rolling his eyes around, stood beside her and chimed in.

“…That’s right, Sword Master. We’re one party. We shouldn’t ignore Jewelry’s words. She says she’ll do her best to protect. It’s right to send that woman over there. She must have had enough courage to join our team.”

“….”

Something was strange.

What was strange was the Sword Master’s reaction.

The leader of this party was clearly the Sword Master.

Fairly collecting party members’ opinions was something only done in children’s games. Inefficient whining that wasn’t even righteous should have gone in one ear and out the other.

‘But he’s not doing that.’

Like an indecisive person. It was completely inconsistent with his first impression.

And Jin was….

‘She would have tried to persuade somehow, saying it was ridiculous, or ignored the opinion and tried to move alone.’

Instead, didn’t she have half-resigned eyes like someone who had properly tasted life’s bitterness?

The Sword Master observed Luna with unreadable eyes, then closed his eyes deeply before opening them.

“Crying won’t help this time. If we have to do something somehow, then I’ll just….”

But a soft, clear voice interrupted his words.

“Oh my. Are you fighting because of me right now? How kind-hearted of you all.”

Here it comes.

With a purely clear smile, Lu looked around at the people nearby one by one.

“I appreciate your concern, but it’s okay. The mage said he’d protect me, so I’ll confidently take on the scouting role. I can do it well.”

The supply managers couldn’t say anything and turned their gazes to empty air. The Sword Master, the only man who received direct eye contact, looked Lu over with a suspicious expression.

“…You can do it well? I didn’t see it that way. Are you heavily drunk or something?”

“Whew- How about it? No smell of alcohol, right?”

Without time to stop her, Lu stepped into the overgrown area.

“I’ll go inside, so please give me directions, Happy Gold.”

“…Well, sure.”

Following that completely unreliable answer, the Golden Mage glanced at Jewelry, but her expression was only cold.

“Jewelry. Magic.”

“….”

Even at the Sword Master’s command, she just stood there as if nailed down, and only after a long while did she cast protective magic with a displeased attitude before turning and disappearing.

How completely selfish.

I blocked the path of the supply managers who were trying to quietly follow.

“How heartless, where are you going? You should watch over what might be our Luna’s final mission in life.”

“Ah… Yes, th-that’s right.”

Jewelry also soon returned, carried on Jin’s shoulder.

“Eek! Let go of this! Can’t you let go?”

“No. Did you forget that your role is to protect Luna? If you drove her into danger, take responsibility for it.”

Lu slowly advanced in the direction the Golden Mage indicated.

“….”

Everyone except Jewelry watched that scene while holding their breath. No, except me too.

The Sword Master watched me just scratching my side and said coldly.

“Just smooth talk. I thought you spoke passionately about protecting the weak.”

“Luna isn’t weak. And is that something for you to say?”

He stared at me intently and gave a self-deprecating smile.

“That’s true too.”

Jin loudly informed Lu of things to keep in mind.

And finally, the moment his steps triggered the trap.

Rumble-

The ground shook.

“Ugh… Urgh. Th-this is impossible….”

Corpses reeking of decay stretched from beneath the mud and weeds. At the same time, the ground glowed and activated Liin’s binding magic circle.

Heavy iron shackles grabbed Lu’s arms and legs.

The Sword Master whispered.

“Advance.”

Drawing his sword, he scattered black frost and leaped between the corpses. Following him, Jin also began cutting down enemies with her sword.

“Luna! Please crouch down as much as possible until we reach you!”

“Got it!”

At that moment I realized.

I don’t have a sword again.

No, I have one, but it’s cut clean in half.

‘Why was it cut again?’

Because of that Sword Master bastard.

Why didn’t I get a new one? Well, because Lu said it would be more helpful if she went around barehanded….

For now, I trudged forward and punched my right fist into a rotten skull.

“Rest in peace.”

This one too.

“Go to heaven.”

While continuously wishing them peaceful rest, I slowly drew in my mind what I needed to do here.

I recalled what happened at the Corpinium Base.

The method of emanating and maintaining energy.

Right, controlling energy with mental images was quite an efficient technique. If before I had rooted a giant sword into the ground… this time, couldn’t I neutralize all the corpses at once by cutting in all directions with a giant scythe?

After putting as much distance as possible from the Sword Master and Jin.

I grabbed my waist as if drawing a sword and slashed through empty air.

Demon Sword Technique.

4th Sword Art.

The Maid is the Cleaning Leader.

Whoosh-

Energy shot out like wind and cut down nearly a hundred corpses in one strike.

At that sudden scene, both the Sword Master who had picked up Lu and Jin who had been clearing the Sword Master’s path stopped moving for a moment and looked this way.

The Golden Mage muttered blankly.

“What just happened…?”

The time it took for the destroyed corpses to rise again was only a few dozen seconds.

I trampled on skulls and approached Jin to ask.

“What should we do now?”

Jin, who suddenly came to her senses, said in a deflated voice.

“…Killing Field. We’ll begin dealing with the purification agent.”

“….”

“….”

“Golden Mage! What are you doing? Deploy the purification agent!”

The Golden Mage, who had been standing there in a daze, startled and fumbled through his robes. What soon emerged was a glass bottle containing blue liquid.

‘So that’s the purification agent.’

As he opened the bottle’s mouth and concentrated with his eyes closed, a faint energy spread in all directions like when searching for traps. The liquid also rode that energy and flew out, being carefully sprinkled over the rattling corpses.

The surroundings became quiet as if by magic.

Before long, a sigh of relief could be heard.

“These corpses won’t react to the fire of calamity for several days. The fire of calamity also won’t spread beyond the trap area… The major problem has been resolved. You really worked hard, Luna.”

“Not at all.”

Lu, who smiled brightly, immediately ran over to me. Jin, who was slowly following behind, looked up at me with a somehow deeply moved expression, then asked in a voice tinged with subtle anticipation.

“…By any chance, is that technique you just showed us also included in the swordsmanship you said you newly created?”

That girl, it seems the maid has taken a liking to the cleaning leader.

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