Angel Little Sister 339

 

Chapter 339 : Unexpected Support

 

『Nicola!』(Mary)

I can’t believe I would say it but I’m happy to hear her voice.

Lia frowned and tilted her head when I changed my expression all of a sudden, but I decided to ignore her and concentrate on talking with Nicola now.

『What a good timing. Where are you?』(Mary)

I don’t know where she is but since we can talk like this, she must be somewhere not far away from here.

『I’m with Celine right now. We are hiding with the guards in the woods next to the mansion.』(Nicola)

『I thought you wouldn’t join this mission.』(Mary)

I thought Celine and Nicola were staying at the castle. That’s why I was surprised when I heard Nicola’s voice.

『Well, Celine ended up joining. She said waiting in the castle doing nothing was boring, and thinking that my ability might be useful, I ended up joining too. At first, I thought Tryon would stop me, but he let me join right away. It seemed that he could see right through me, and to be honest, I don’t like it. Now I understand why you don’t like dealing with him.』(Nicola)

Tryon has a gift that allows him to see other people’s mana, so he knew that Nicola wasn’t just an ordinary girl from the beginning.

That’s why he let her join this mission.

『I see. Anyway, I’m glad you joined.』(Mary)

『I don’t want to stay in the castle all by myself and die of boredom after all. Anyway, I’ve been using my ability to sense this entire area. I could feel a somewhat disgusting presence. Are you chasing after it?』(Nicola)

『Yeah. That disgusting presence must be Darkan. Lia and I tried to chase after him but we lost him.』(Mary)

『Aa-ahh, what a useless brother. How can you show your cool side to Lia if you can’t even capture a fat ugly middle-aged man?』(Nicola)

『You’re annoying as usual, but… You’re right. I feel pathetic… I need your help. Do you know where he went?』(Mary)

『Of course. Please follow my instructions.』(Nicola)

『Thank you. I know I can rely on you.』(Mary)

『You can thank me later by buying me some food in the city. Anyway, you should go back. That man is not heading that way.』(Nicola)

『Go back?』(Mary)

『That man turned and went a different way but you and Lia kept running straight without slowing down, so I assume that there’s a hidden door or something somewhere. You passed it and kept running because you didn’t notice it.』(Nicola)

『Hmm… With that fat body, there was no way he could run so fast. I thought he used some kind of talisman, but… I see. A hidden door, huh? Makes sense.』(Mary)

The path ahead split into two, but it seemed that Darkan didn’t go down either of these paths.

「Lia, let’s go back! That man didn’t run through here.」(Mary)

「Eh? What do you mean?」(Liane)

「We missed a hidden door somewhere. He went through it.」(Mary)

「A hidden door? But how do you know it?」(Liane)

「That’s… There’s no time to explain it! Just follow me! Come one!」(Mary)

I don’t have time to explain in detail here, and I can’t tell her about how Nicola and I were talking with each other with telepathy, so I grabbed Liane’s hand, turned around, and ran toward where we came from.

「Ma, Mary onee-sama!?」(Liane)

「I know you’re confused right now, but you should trust me!」(Mary)

「N, No, that’s not what I’m trying to say. It’s just… you’re… holding my… hand…」(Liane)

「Hm?」(Mary)

I couldn’t hear her clearly, so I turned my gaze to her.

Her face turned red for some reason.

「P, Please don’t worry about it… It’s not that I don’t like it… I was just a bit surprised…」(Liane)

I don’t understand what she’s talking about.

She shyly turned her red face away as she kept running alongside me.

Seeing her behavior, I realized that she had been acting differently toward me. Normally, I could feel her hatred toward me, but I could no longer feel it now.

『Onii-chan, stop right there!』(Nicola)

After running for a while, I heard Nicola’s voice again.

As she told me, I stopped running and let go of Liane’s hand.

Liane then rubbed her hand and sighed as if she wanted to say something.

『That’s where that man took a different direction. The hidden door should be nearby. Do you see anything suspicious around you?』(Nicola)

Anything suspicious… Hmm…

I started checking the surrounding walls, the floor, and the ceiling.

Without questioning me, Liane started checking our surroundings as well.

「…Hm?」(Mary)

At first glance, nothing was wrong with the walls, but I noticed something weird on the left wall.

There was a small circle about three centimeters in diameter with a bit darker color than the rest of the wall.

When I looked closely at it I saw a hole to put a key inside.

「Mary onee-sama? Have you found the hidden door?」(Liane)

「Yeah, I think this is it.」(Mary)

A secret door like this might have some kind of trap mechanism that prevents intruders from accessing it.

I think the safest and fastest way to open it is to blow it up.

「Lia, stay back. I’m going to destroy it.」(Mary)

「Destroy it?」(Liane)

As Lia stood right behind me, I stretched my hand toward the suspicious wall and activated earth magic.

「Stone Bullets!」(Mary)

I created nine stone bullets and fired them at the wall.

BLAST!!

The wall was more fragile than I thought. It instantly turned into a pile of rubble.

I’ve only been shooting mud balls lately, so shooting some stone bullets feels kind of refreshing.

「Whoaa… Mary onee-sama, you’re amazing! Was that Stone Bullet?」(Liane)

「Yeah. It’s my favorite spell. I can confidently say that I’m good at shooting things with this spell.」(Mary)

「I see. But it looks quite different from the Stone Bullet spell I know.」(Liane)

「Is that so?」(Mary)

I remember Celine said something similar the first time she saw me destroying a huge boulder with my stone bullet a couple of years ago.

I’ve never seen someone else using this spell, so I don’t know the difference.

After the cloud of dust disappeared, I could see the secret passageway.

『Nicola, there’s a passageway!』(Mary)

『Just as I expected. If you go down that passageway, you should find that man. But…』(Nicola)

『What’s wrong?』(Mary)

『I feel like there’s something strange with that man.』(Nicola)

『Something strange?』(Mary)

『Yeah. I can’t tell exactly by just sensing his presence, but you should be careful.』(Nicola)

『Alright.』(Mary)

Something strange, huh…?

I better not underestimate that man.

 

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