073: Royal Capital Escape Drama

December 3, 2020 - 6 minutes read - 1212 words

The skirt, lifted by Ra-chan’s Wind Magic, dances gracefully and exposes a certain item to the people on the street. The actual time was short, but I felt like time slowed down.

“Oh!” Shelka

Shelka reflexively protected her face, then yelped and pushed her skirt back down. The south boulevard of the capital is always busy and loud, but at this point it was silent. Shelka quickly turn as red as a tomato as she realized her skirt had shown off what it’s supposed to hide to a lot of people.

She lets go of her skirt’s hem and looks down. I can’t see her expression since her bangs are blocking my view, I’d think she’s extremely embarrassed. Ra-chan is looking on in interest.

“Grrr…” Shelka

“Eh?” Al & Eric

“Did you see it?” Shelka

Eric and I stay silent for a second, we need to choose our words carefully before saying something wrong. My intuition is telling me that the wrong words here would turn this into a big issue. I can see Eric has a tense expression while thinking of the same things.

“You must have seen it!” Shelka shouts hysterically, since we aren’t saying anything.

“I haven’t seen it!” Al & Eric

“You saw my light-blue panties!” Shelka

“No, they’re pink!” Al & Eric

There’s a short pause… Shelka led us into a trap.

“Oh” Al & Eric

Oh no, I’ve been caught! I spoke before I thought! Shelka lied that she was wearing light blue today, so we would say the correct color. What a terrifying woman to trap us like that. The scariest thing is that Shelka hasn’t gotten furious is a mystery, but I’m afraid what is about to happen.

Well, it was Ra-chan who used Wind Magic, perhaps she won’t get angry at the innocent bystanders. Let’s hope she treats it as a sisterly quarrel, nothing to do with Al or Eric. I’ll apologize like a man, because I can be responsible! Alright, that should be the right way forward. I talk with Eric to get on the same page.

We’ll apologize to Shelka, so the problem can be dealt with

That’s the right way!

“Hey Al, I can use magic in my everyday. I got to see a different face from my sister that I’ve never seen before!” Lana

“Hey Eric! Where are you going?” Al

“I’m running away! I don’t want to die from something you did! I’m getting out of here, what are you going to do?” Eric

Eric is definitely going to run, I can’t stop him now.

“Hey, look over there!” Eric

“I can’t give up, don’t run away.” Al

“No! We’ll both die at this rate!” Eric

I’m not going to get distracted and let him run away. Besides, isn’t it an overstatement that Shelka is going to kill us? I look over at Eric, who is becoming increasingly desperate.

“I desire a burning crimson…” Shelka

As I turned around, the magic was mostly done, and eight flames were floating around Shelka. She’s used an aggressive magic that’s nothing like the Wind Magic used by Ra-chan. This isn’t just a Fireball, but a different form that has increased penetrating power. Bystanders are surprised by the magic, and are moving behind cover, but they’re not running away, yet.

“She must be a student of the magic academy.” Bystander A

“She’s such a pretty young lady” Bystander B

The citizens of the royal capital seem completely nonplussed, but what are they teaching at the magic academy?

“Is Ms. Shelka going to fire off magic on the main boulevard?” Eric

“That Fire Magic doesn’t look classy!” Al

Eric and I fire off some retorts as we retreat.

“Don’t get so angry from an accidental panty shot!” Al

“Sharp Flame!” Shelka

Shelka sends a arrow-shaped flame at Eric and I.

“You don’t need the penetrating shape!” Al

“What’s going on with those sisters!” Eric

Since we’re getting attacked, running is our new strategy. Flames hit near our feet as we run.

“Wait!” Al

“Oh, you’re really relying on me now?” Eric

“Yes, it’s serious time!” Al

“Well, you’re the one that she’s shooting for, she wants your goose cooked!” Eric

Damn, so I’m the one getting blamed? Even though it was Shelka’s accident?

“Why don’t we split up here?” Eric

“What are you talking about? Isn’t it better to work together?” Al

I don’t want to let Eric run off to a side road full of rotten women alone. I feel like he’s too naive for them. Well, whether or not that’s true, I’d like to follow him instead of getting lost and cornered. It’s not possble for just one of us to escape our punishment yet.

“What is it?” Bystander A

“Oh, one of the magic academy students is rampaging!” Bystander B

“Good luck!” Bystander C

As we run down the road, we’re parting the crowd before us. I’m surprised by it, but there’s more important issues right now.

“Eric! Magic has been fired! I’m blocking it!” Al

My Shield magic can solve it, it would be useless if it could be penetrated so easily.

“What are you thing?! There’s no way you can block that magic!” Eric

“Hey! What are you talking about? I had to use it to block my sister’s sword swings, also when she empowers her fist with magic and tries to knock me down!” Al

Eleanora will cut through Fire and Water Magic, though sometimes Wind Magic can’t be cut. I think Lightning Magic would just shock her, since it’s an electric current.

“Is you sister really normal? I can’t believe it!” Eric

“That’s just how it is! Shield!” Al

I blocked the flames fired at my shoulders with a minimally sized Shield. If you make a shield as small as possible, the defense power shoots up and magic energy is reduced at the same time. I don’t want to make something big and wasteful. Well, I could make many more Shields of this size.

“Why can you use such accurate magic!” Shelka

A girl with threatening eyes is chasing while screaming and shaking her fists. As she fires off Fire Magic, I block them with Shield magic, even when she fires off four at the same time.

“I just don’t get Alfred’s skills! I want…” Shelka

It seems like Shelka has used up her Fire Magic fire spears, so she’s trying to chant the magic again. It’s quite difficult to do the chanting while running, it’s so easy to screw up the chant and fail.

“Hey Eric, you’re too close. Get away some.” Al

Eric suddenly came in close to me, he was trying to split only a little while ago? He can’t even block magic, there’s no point to this guy. He’s at least able to run, but he’s annoying.

“Should we work together to escape?” Eric

So he’s just interested in sticking together since I can block Shelka’s Fire Magic. He’s trying to stay close so I have to block for him as well, what a guy.

“Ok, I’ll cover you. Are you familiar with these roads?” Al

“Oh, it’ll be easy to lose Ms. Shelka. After all, she’s a Duke’s daughter, she wouldn’t be familiar with the side roads like I am.” Eric