The Half-Puny Priest Hopes To Retire - The Half-Puny Priest Hopes To Retire chapter 227

227 – Life Is a Flower. Love Is the Nectar of the Flower (14)

”Lowville—!”

Apis inadvertently turned around as the cry pierced his back like an arrow.

Downa is chasing after her, fully believing that she is a Reisis, with her whole body covered by a large giant blanket.

In those cloudy eyes, there was a unique, bright desperation to find light in the darkness.

This is the second time in Apis’ memory that he has seen Dauna’s face like that.

At the time, she was recruiting magicians for the party.

As soon as Dauna, who had been invited to the party by the Magic Tower’s arrangement, saw Raiges ‘face her, he was about to throw a Meteor at him.

The cause of the commotion was that Downa, who had a history of being defrauded of money by Raiges, was trying to get revenge.

It was settled like that at the time, but it was only now that Apis realized the full reality.

”Anyway…”

Kwaang!

Apis, who narrowly avoided Dauna’s magic bullet flying like a shot put, muttered angrily for a moment.

It was not uncommon for a promising party to collapse due to gender issues.

Who would have thought that even they, who had lived without such political drama, were secretly falling into that bondage.

I couldn’t really blame anyone.

Not only has there never been a case where colleagues put their personal feelings first and got in the way of the party.

Needless to say, it was nagging about how celibate the person in question, Lajis, had been living.

Even such an impulsive act of Dawna would never have happened if she had been sane.

”Go, don’t go! Lowville! Please! Please! Me! Don’t leave me alone!”

She’s been firing magic bullets non-stop for that long, so she’s probably exhausted now.

Dow Na’s tears and her young appeal and the power of her magic bullets that followed were still brutal.

Even among the elves, who are endowed with magic power that is dozens of times that of the human race, there are only a handful of people who can use magic at that level in succession.

Downa’s limit will not be far away.

Apis judged that way, and in fact, that judgment was accurate.

”Wow!”

It was right then.

Dauna, who was firing a storm of magical bullets, suddenly stopped in her place, blood pouring out of her mouth her her her her.

She tried to cover her mouth with both hands, but such a foolish response was not enough to stop the overflow of blood.

Shake it up!

”Cough! Cough!”

Even after Dauna sat down in her place, her hemoptysis continued for a while.

Spitting blood from her mouth one after another is a typical terminal symptom of magical energy exhaustion.

It could be said that it was a truly disastrous result of forcibly draining her already low mana and destroying her vitality.

”······”

Apis stopped walking without saying a word and just stared at the sad sight for a while.

How long has it been like that?

”Ro, low…Bill…!”

Even as all the drops of life were drying up, Dauna desperately cried out his name again and stretched out her hands in pity.

Even though the call and gesture were directed toward Apis, they were not directed at Apis.

The being that Dauna is currently yearning for and longing for is the Raiges shell that Apis wears.

Because it was nothing more than a faint mirage shown by a shabby building.

It was for that very reason that Apis chose to remain silent.

The most certain way to neutralize Downa was to continue pretending to be Lages and induce fainting due to magical exhaustion.

In fact, Downa was reaching its limit right now.

Tens of minutes at most. It is as obvious as hell that Downa will collapse within the next few tens of seconds.

So the best thing for Apis to do now was to quietly wait for Dauna to collapse.

But why?

Apis did not like this situation in many ways.

No, everything from one to ten. I didn’t like everything.

Keying!

Apis’ two pointed ears perked up at the unusual noise he suddenly heard.

The movement of surrounding magic power swirling like a whirlpool.

This terribly ominous sensation, as if a swarm of ants on fire were crawling all over my body.

There was no doubt about it.

Dow Na was ready to use her magic again.

And it is a level of anti-magic that is incomparable to anything we have seen before.

”I don’t like being alone…! I don’t want to be alone anymore…!”

Even though her blood vessels she had burst and black and red blood was flowing from her eyes her, Dow Na did not try to stop being subjugated by her her magical power her her her.

Apis had never seen the perfect magic formula without a single unnecessary thing look so unsightly and disheveled.

Although Apis had always had a lot of personal ill feelings towards Dauna.

I truly admired her her magic her style her her her, which was flowing and flowing yet detailed like silk woven by a craftsman, from the bottom of my heart.

Therefore, she was even more shocked.

Downa’s magic she was so different from her her own memories of her.

Because that image felt like I was watching a child throwing a tantrum at his parents

It was from that moment.

Apis was unable to suppress her own impulses that she had tried so hard to suppress.

Kwaang!

Apis planted her bow on the floor like a flag and turned her harsh gaze on Dow Na.

Now, in Apis’s mind, the original plan to remain silent until Dauna faints has long since disappeared without a trace.

”Let’s see this…!”

”Ah, Api… Su…?”

Boom!

The blanket that was wrapped around his body was also blown away by the tremendous impact.

Thanks to this, even his true identity, which he had kept hidden until now, was revealed to Dauna, but Apis did not care at all.

”Ah, Apis…? Isn’t it Lowville…? Well, Lowville… Where is Lowville…?”

Black eyes shaking aimlessly, like a butterfly with its antennae cut off.

The flowing trajectory was constantly circling around the area, never stopping at Apis in front of him.

”Do as much as you can!”

Taaat!

Immediately after that, Apis let out a sickening roar and threw her body.

Since being expelled from her native village, Apis had only had a handful of contacts with others.

She was, of course, aware that she lacked the ability to read other people’s emotions.

The rust of past years of relying on threats and violence rather than understanding and dialogue.

Because it wasn’t something that could be dissolved by her years of encounters and journeys.

Because of this, Apis, her party, knew best what a foolish judgment she had made.

To give up her surest and safest path with my own hands and risk my life and death by these uncertain means.

Apis thought that at this moment, even if she was called a hot-tempered elf, she would have nothing to say.

But at the same time.

Apis was also certain that if he didn’t punch that pathetic face right now, he would have trouble sleeping for hundreds of years.

Kaang!

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”Huh!”

”Ugh!”

Dauna barely managed to block the bow that Apis swung with her whole body with her staff and let out a short moan.

Although they are two people who have an enmity relationship that seems like something drawn from a painting.

As each person had a specialty in their field, sometimes when they competed, the fight was all about shooting arrows and magic from a distance.

So, in fact, this was the first time they were so close together and engaged in a serious hand-to-hand combat.

”What? Don’t leave me alone? Do you hate being alone? You’re not even a child! It’s making a dirty noise, it’s just making a noise!”

”······What!”

Dauna’s eyes suddenly widened at Apis’ provocation.

At that very moment, a whitish rationality appeared in Dowona’s eyes, which had been cloudy day after day, stained with her pain and sadness.

Apis did not miss that momentary fluctuation.

Pow!

”Wow!”

Apis’ knee kick flew into Downa’s defenseless exposed abdomen.

Dawna’s body flew several meters due to the unexpected impact, soon settled like a fallen leaf on the cold dirt floor.

”Keuuu…”

”Wake up. Because I haven’t beaten it yet.”

As Apis approached Dauna while saying those words, an ice crystal the size of a short arrow was stuck in his ankle

Its identity her was Downa’s magic.

Even while being beaten by Apis, he reflexively used ice magic without chanting, expressing his fighting instinct.

”I already have a lot of trouble fighting with you. That’s good.”

”······”

”Let’s have a game here. Downa.”

”······”

When Apis, who carelessly threw the broken bow on the floor, showed sharp hostility, Dauna’s eyes his, which were suddenly hovering in the air, fully acknowledged Apis’ form for the first time.