Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga – Chapter 24

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Yuziro
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It didn’t matter if they fell.

Lagnis turned her body by instinct to look at the owner of the voice.

The sunrise and strong wind brought tears to her eyes, but it didn’t matter. She would have cried anyway, even if it wasn’t for that.

There was a time when she was still living a happy life in her territory, a thoughtless childhood.

Like other noble young ladies, she read a lot of novels, dreaming of romance in novels.

The fact that the war with the Demon King’s army had broken out was just a stimulating subject for her noble peers.

In their minds, there was no such thing as a life of defeat and exhaustion by the Demon King’s army, or a desperate future.

Rather, it felt like a mythical and heroic era. They were delighted that they were living in an era of glory and romance where many heroes would be born, knights would emerge, and love and honor would be sung.

Looking back, it was a thoughtless and silly childhood, but it was also true that she had dreamed of meeting such a knight.

A knight who confesses his love and kills a dragon to prove it, a knight who fights for his honor and presents glory along with a single flower, and so on. She was thrilled with various imaginations.

When some young ladies hired painters to show small drawings of the knights or princes from their imagination, she was secretly envious and wanted one too.

That’s why she could be sure.

Even if she brought all the knights she had imagined and the knights the other young ladies had imagined, none could be cooler than the sight of him falling like lightning from the sky, piercing the wyvern’s head, and cutting down the kidnapper like a flash of light.

“Eldmia!”

In joy and delight, Lagnis burst into tears.

She wanted to believe he would save her. She simply wanted to believe in him, because it wasn’t a situation where he could obviously save her.

Even though she felt disgusted to the point of trembling at herself, she could only believe and wait without doing anything, she couldn’t let go of that belief.

“It worked!”

Eldmia, who was laughing with a smile more innocent than any she had ever seen, was falling.

Of course, she and the dead wyvern were also falling. Judging from his laughter, the kidnapper, who was definitely dead, would naturally be falling as well.

But Eldmia just smiled as if he had nothing to worry about. Even while falling, he had the composure to put the sword he was holding into the sheath and tie it so it wouldn’t fall out, laughing more cheerfully and refreshingly than ever.

That’s why Lagnis laughed along.

“Now, let’s go home! Lagnis!”

“Yes!”

Believing in the light that brightened her, she smiled brightly.

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I never thought I would come to another world and do sky diving, which I had never done in my previous life, but anyway, it was undeniably a successful experience.

Except for my whole body creaking due to the physical enhancement I had used with all my might, it was perfection itself.

Gies was truly skilled enough to catch Lagnis without any burden, matching the speed, and even shortly let me ride behind him again.

“I’ve never heard that name before. I wonder if it’s an alias.”

Having avoided falling to our deaths like that, we landed on the ground, lit a bonfire, and took a short break.

The night long flight gave us a considerable amount of fatigue. Actually, the most tired ones would be Gies and the wyvern.

Still, we weren’t in a situation where we could relax enough to sleep, so I tried to have a conversation to overcome drowsiness, but Lagnis couldn’t guess Delt’s identity.

We had time until we would start flying, so I had intended to check his belongings if I was lucky enough to kill him, but now I gave up because the corpse and equipment that fell from that immense height couldn’t possibly be intact. If we found them, we would probably see fragments of the corpse, not the corpse itself.

Gies told me that even a wyvern would have a hard time maintaining an intact corpse falling from that height.

“I confirmed that there was a fairly large village nearby while flying earlier. Let’s eat something there and depart. We have to fly for a long time again.”

While we were resting, after finishing the story about Gies, Lagnis made it clear that she would protect him in the name of her own name. She even promised that while she couldn’t make a promise in the name of the Margrave now because she wasn’t an adult yet.

She would protect and reward him again through proper procedures after becoming an adult, dispelling Gies’s worries. In the process, I found out that Gies was in his mid-twenties, but I, with a mental age exceeding 30, decided not to dwell on it.

It’s awkward to call him brother now.

Thanks to that, we were able to move towards the village while maintaining a not-so-awkward atmosphere.

“Since you have a clear identity as a wyvern pilot, we won’t be turned away at the door.”

“Yeah. I’m receiving help like this again.”

“We’re already a community of destiny. It’s too embarrassing to even call this help.”

As it was an identity guaranteed by the kingdom, when we actually entered the village, Gies received not only wary gazes but also admiring gazes. Human relationships are truly unpredictable.

It’s a natural story, but the wyvern’s food expenses were higher than the three of us combined.

I was surprised when Gies calmly bought a whole pig, but after seeing the wyvern eat it all alone, I had no choice but to understand. It was indeed worth the expensive maintenance costs.

While having a meal, I heard that although the wyvern was clearly someone’s asset in the noble faction, it would be difficult for them to claim ownership because they had carried out the job in a dishonorable way from the beginning. That seemed to be the common opinion of both of them.
Thanks to that, Lagnis started organizing her thoughts with the intention of taking care of Gies and the wyvern together as a package deal. The fact that a cold-hearted look befitting a noble appeared on her face as she pondered was both fascinating and refreshing.

When we finally returned to the Itisel kingdom after flying for a long time again, it was just past lunchtime. It would have been better if we had arrived very late to avoid people’s gazes, but instead, we arrived when it was very bustling.

The city must have already been on alert, as the gate guards called the security forces as soon as they saw us and conducted a quasi-arrest, and we had to walk to Alisha’s inn while receiving many gazes.

“Levi!”

“Auntie!”

I never thought I would see Alisha’s crying face in my life. It wasn’t just a sad face, but seeing her running to hug Lagnis while shedding tears, it was easy to guess how much she had been worried.

As expected, she had a kind heart that couldn’t be hidden even with swear words.

“Eldi.”

Beyond that was Asirye, quietly looking at me. At that call, I had no choice but to timidly approach her, feeling my confidence that had been overflowing until just now instantly disappear and becoming discouraged.

“How did you know to come here?”

“Jin told me. How could I ignore it when he ran to me without even riding a horse, asking for help with his two feet?”

“He said he needed help?”

“Yes. He said the security forces were also anxious because the patrol team ended up like that, so he asked for help.”

He’s an amazing guy, really. If I ever get the chance, I really want to catch him and ask what the hell he used to do.

But for now, the meeting with Asirye took priority, so I decided to confess honestly since it was better to be punished first anyway.

“I judged too carelessly, and as a result of the situation getting complicated, I ended up killing someone. I’m sorry.”

“I find it hard to believe that Eldi judged carelessly”

“Lagnis and I put our heads together… but he was reading one step ahead of us.”

If Delt had perfectly grasped even my skills, he wouldn’t have considered the adventurers as disposable pawns at all and would have left nothing at the campsite. If that were the case, Lagnis wouldn’t be here. We were simply lucky.

When I explained the general course of events to her, as there was still time before the security forces’ interrogation, Asirye hugged me with a faint smile and said:

“Yeah. If you can judge like that, I don’t think it’s something for your sister to worry about. As long as you made a cool-headed judgment.”

“Thanks, sis.”

“Rather, your sister is curious about how Eldi defeated such an opponent? Even if you flew on a wyvern, it must have been very disadvantageous for Eldi, who can’t even properly use magic?”

“Ah, about that.”

Asirye’s thoughts were not wrong at all. If I had fought Delt normally, even if his swordsmanship was poor, I would have been the one to fall.

Aura is ultimately a concept of reinforcement. Whether reinforcing the body or the weapon you’re holding, simply put, the role of aura is to make it sturdier.

I’ve heard legends and rumors about crazy bastards whose swordsmanship has reached the realm of magic, but it’s not like I could imitate that.

Seriously, how can a sword wielded by a person cut through space? It must be a lie.

In the end, unless you can shoot sword energy like an arrow like in martial arts novels, or make the sword fly around on its own with shadow swordsmanship, it’s natural that you can only be hit one-sidedly by a mage in aerial combat.

“My heart was already pounding a bit. Gies, that is, the excellent flying skills of that wyvern pilot friend, played a big part.”

“Oh my, is that so?”

“Yeah. As soon as I jumped, I knew. Oh? If I go like this, I can place the sword on the wyvern’s head right away”

“…Huh?”

“I thought it was a complete lie that the world feels slow when a person is nervous, but from the moment I gripped the sword with both hands so as not to miss and struck down on its head, it only took about 1 second? 2 seconds? That time felt like an eternity. That Delt guy probably felt similarly to me…”

“Wait, Eldi? You jumped? Aiming for the wyvern’s head? From where?”

“Huh? Of course, from the wyvern we were riding on.”

When I suddenly stopped describing the situation, wondering what she was talking about, and looked at Asirye…

Asirye, who was looking at me, seemed to stiffen with a faint smile, then rolled her eyes and fainted.

“Aaaaah?! Sis?! La-Lagnis! Water! Water!”

“Eld…? Kyaaaah! Miss Asirye!!”

Oh my fucking gosh! I shouldn’t have said it!

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