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When Mirabelle discovered this current situation, she immediately pounced on Kirsten and pushed her down onto the ground.

The ogre waved its gigantic cudgel and swung it in their direction.

Luckily, Mirabelle had reacted quite quickly in pushing Kirsten down onto the ground.

Mirabelle then immediately turned around, pulled out the explosive arrows from behind her back, and rapidly pulled her bowstring and released the explosive arrows at the two ogres.

The two explosive arrows directly hit the ogres’ heads and instantly produced a huge explosion –

“Over here!”

Mirabelle pulled on Kirsten’s hand and ran in the opposite direction of their home.

“Mirabelle, this way is…”

“I know, this way gets close to the outer sea, but the stun effect will only last a short time. It’s unreasonable to think that we can escape from two magical beasts that are several times larger than we are…”

“In that case, do you have a plan, Mirabelle?”

“A plan? Of course I do…”

Mirabelle held onto Kirsten’s small hand as she ran towards the outer wall district.

Right when Mirabelle and Kirsten arrived at a tree embedded with elven ore, the two of them were forced to stop in their tracks.

The two of them were blocked by the outer wall in front of them.

“Eh? A dead end!? What… what should we do?”

“Don’t worry; calm down a little. It should be fine now that we’re in this area. Now, let me see…”

Mirabelle crouched down and analyzed the elven barrier on the wall.

This was quite an ordinary barrier which required every tree next to the wall to be embedded with elven ore so that the barrier would take effect.

The barrier was sufficient for a certain amount of defense and repelling the monsters.

“As expected, the magic here is far too outdated. Even I can design a barrier that’s several times stronger than this one…”

“Eh? Mirabelle, you know what barrier was placed here?”

“Ah, it’s just that this barrier’s abilities are quite weak. As long as a single part of it gets broken, a huge crack will appear in the solid eggshell. Basically, if a single weak spot appears, the other places will break from a single hit…”

“In that case, can Mirabelle slightly strengthen the barrier?”

“No, it’s likely that the elven queen – Vio O’neill has control over this barrier. Unless we obtain the command token that she possesses, even I won’t be able to change this barrier for a stronger one…”

“What will happen if we don’t change this barrier for a stronger one?”

“I’m sure that you also know what the consequences will be?”

Kirsten’s expression became pale as she looked at the barrier with a severe expression.

If the barrier wasn’t upgraded, then it would be destroyed completely.

Mirabelle deeply sighed and then spoke to Kirsten so that the latter wouldn’t worry.

“Relax, this is just a one in ten thousand chance. The chance of such a thing happening in reality is quite small. This barrier isn’t that weak…”

“Is that how it is?”

Mirabelle turned to look at Kirsten’s face.

Although Kirsten claimed to no longer have any feelings for that town, she actually still really cared about the elves in town.

Otherwise, Kirsten wouldn’t have given the map that Mirabelle spent so many days drawing to the hunters in town.

“Well, at any rate, this isn’t something that we should be worrying about now. What we need to worry about now is -”

Mirabelle turned around to discover that the two incomparably huge ogres had appeared right in front of her.

“M… Mirabelle, what should we do?”

Kirsten immediately hid behind Mirabelle, as there was nowhere at all to hide here. That was why Kirsten was certain that Mirabelle had some type of plan.

“A plan or something like that? I have nothing like that at all…”

“Mirabelle, what did you say just now!?”

“I said, I don’t have any kind of plan at all. We’ll have to leave everything up to the heavens…”

“You can actually say something like that? We’re going to be killed…”

As Mirabelle casually made such a statement, the two A rank magical beast ogres, who were around level 150, were glaring viciously in their direction. The ogres had red eyes and sharp teeth that were terrifying to behold.

“No need to worry, I’ll definitely protect you…”

When Kirsten heard Mirabelle’s claim, she blankly looked at Mirabelle’s calm side profile.

Kirsten hid behind Mirabelle’s back and kept retreating until Kirsten’s back pressed up against the stone brick wall.

“This… this is the limit, what should we do? We can’t escape…”

Kirsten showed a rather soft and weak expression as she looked at Mirabelle. However, Mirabelle still had the same expression on her face.

The ogre waved its club through the sky towards their direction.

“Ha…”

When Mirabelle saw this, she actually showed a cold smile.

A golden light blocked the giant club for both of them.

“No matter how the magical beasts attack, it won’t have any effect anymore. There’s a barrier here being supported by a large amount of elven ore, and the barrier will automatically reflect the magical beasts’ weapons…”

Mirabelle’s analysis was extremely accurate. This barrier was capable of reflecting the monsters’ attacks as well as preventing them from physically entering the barrier. However, this barrier didn’t have any counterattacking power at all.

Most barriers were nothing more than simple barriers that could only keep enemies out.

To be honest, the barrier here wasn’t even as strong as the one Mirabelle placed on the mountain.

“So this is why you ran to the outer wall?”

“Exactly. Although the barrier isn’t very strong, it’s plenty to keep them out. Now then, we can use the method from before to whittle down their HP and kill them…”

Mirabelle stood there with an arrow nocked in her bow.

The ogres had really low intelligence. They would only know to focus on the prey before them. That was why the ogres wouldn’t try to destroy the nearby trees. The ogres also had really simple pathing.

“Anyways, let’s hurry and kill them, Kirsten…”

“Okay!”

The two of them shot explosive arrows at the ogres’ weak point in succession – the head.

Constant explosions could be heard as the ogres immediately collapsed on the ground.

“Well, we can use this tactic against enemies like them with no intelligence. However, any slightly intelligent magical beast will first attack the nearby trees instead of us.”

“So, this strategy can only be used against ogres?”

“That’s right…”

Kirsten sighed deeply as she honestly told Mirabelle, “that’s so regrettable. I thought that this method could be used against every magical beast…”

“I say, don’t treat hunting as such easy work. Isn’t this your main job?”

Mirabelle had an expression as if she had seen through Kirsten already as she shrugged.

“Well, the ogres are all dead. Mirabelle, how about you come with me to hunt some tasty magical beasts?”

“Tasty magical beasts?”

Although Mirabelle had knowledge on all the magical beasts, there were far too many edible magical beasts out there. That was why Mirabelle didn’t know which type of magical beast Kirsten was referring to.

“Ah, boars? Well, although they’re categorized as magical beasts, aren’t they a good type?”

“It’s because they’re a good type that they’re easy to hunt and tasty to eat…”

The difference between the so-called good type and bad type magical beasts was whether the magical beast would pose a danger to the nearby area, and if they could be raised like livestock.

This was similar to how things were back on Earth. It was differentiation between harmful and harmless animals.

Sheep and wolves, the two extremes between harmless and harmful.

Although this world didn’t have the concept of animals, there were good magical beasts that had been programmed into this world which were based on animals from Earth.

However, there really was a tremendous difference between extremes in magical beasts.

SS rank magical beasts weren’t anything like a tiger or a lion that could only bite one person to death.

SS rank magical beasts were powerful enough to destroy an entire country.

Since they were hunting good types, then they wouldn’t need to especially use explosive arrows, right?

Thus, Kirsten put away all the explosive arrows and only equipped herself with blinding arrows as a precaution.

“Hah, you actually hunted so much prey…”

“Ah, that’s only natural. It’s rare for me to think of preparing food, so of course I’d want to take more back with me. It’s the same for everyone in town… right, I forgot. I thought that I was still back in town. Mirabelle and I don’t need this much food at all. We can’t finish it, and even if we take it back with us, it will only spoil…”

Kirsten was still hunting with her old habits. It was obvious that she still worried about the town, which was why she made a mistake about how much food they needed.

“Kirsten, you actually really want to go back to town, right? You care so much about them, after all…”

“What foolish things are you saying? I don’t care about them at all…”

“Kirsten, your little tricks can’t possibly fool me, so just admit it honestly. You really are worried about them…”

Kirsten’s hand upon her hunting back was shaking somewhat. She had imperceptibly started thinking of the town as her only home that she could return to.

She had been forced by the vampires to move here from her original home.

During the fourteen years together with her master, her master had been just like her deceased mother, as her master kept taking care of her until she grew up and matured.

“Kirsten, if you want to go back no matter what, then go back…”

“What about you then? If we go back, you and I must…”

Kirsten’s eyes were already filled with tears, but she hadn’t actually noticed this herself.

“It’s fine. Even if I sacrifice myself, I don’t want to see you with a sad expression…”

“No! I won’t go back there. Now then, we have enough food, so let’s go home…”

Kirsten wiped away her tears and forced herself to say that with a smile.

“…”

Mirabelle stared at Kirsten’s back with a serious expression.

Well, if she asked the current Kirsten, it was definite that Kirsten wouldn’t be willing to tell her anything at all.

If there was someone who knew more, it could only be that person.

As Mirabelle thought about this, she chased after Kirsten at the same time.

When Mirabelle caught up to her, she told Kirsten, “I thought about something important, so I’m going to hunt a different magical beast. You should just go back first and prepare dinner as I’ll be back really soon…”

“Will it be difficult? Want me to come help?”

Kirsten asked Mirabelle as she was quite worried. However, Mirabelle gently shook her head.

“I’m hunting a good magical beast, so I don’t need your assistance. I’ll be back at dinnertime…”

Mirabelle ran deep into the forest as she said this.

Kirsten saw that Mirabelle was running towards the safe district, so she let Mirabelle go by herself.