Slayers vol.03: The Ghost of Sairaag by Hajime Kanzaka

Author:Hajime Kanzaka [Kanzaka, Hajime]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, Comics & Graphic Novels, Manga, LN
ISBN: 9781595325792
Publisher: TokyoPop
Published: 2005-03-07T23:00:00+00:00

Hurry Up And Wait

“Rezo!” The priestess who had appeared with Zelgadiss spat out his name like a curse.

“Now, now, Miss Sylphiel,” the Red Priest chided, his right hand beckoning her as his left hand gripped his priest’s staff tight. A bell fitted to the tip of the stick made a soft chime.

This Rezo appeared just as the illusion we had seen in the forest, with both eyes firmly shut and his face shrouded by a red hood.

“If you had continued as Sairaag’s quiet priestess, you would have spared yourself these difficulties,” Rezo taunted.

“Should I have let you drug me into submission like you did my father?! Don’t be absurd!” Sylphiel was defiant.

“My, my. So ugly, these deeds you accuse me of.” The priest remained cool in the face of her anger.

“No,” I muttered under my breath.

“No what?” He turned toward me and smiled.

“No, you are not Rezo,” I said, pointing as I spoke. Sure, his aura matched that of the Rezo I remembered, but there was something off.

“Oh really? I’m not?” the Red Priest raised one eyebrow. He was unperturbed. In fact, he was amused.

“You can’t be the real Rezo!” I insisted.

There. Guess I told him.

“Well, as much fun as I’m having in this thoughtful debate,” he said, pointing his staff at me and punctuating the gesture with a soft chime, “it seems there is a more important matter than whether I am who I say I am. Namely, whether or not you can defeat me.”

“We can,” I replied without hesitation. “We can, and we have. Whoever you are, you’re no more powerful than the real Red Priest.”

“Is that what you think?” He growled, his tone betraying his fury for the first time. “Try me!”

I had already begun casting my spell, and the man calling himself Rezo just stood and stared.

“Fireball!” I shouted.

I wanted to test him first. If he was an ordinary man unworthy of the name of Rezo, then one shot would be enough to finish him and there was no point in overkill.

He displayed no reaction whatsoever. No fear, no scorn… he just stood there. Silently.

Hmm…

I wasn’t gonna let my guard down, just the same.

The sphere of light I’d blasted sped straight for the Red Priest’s pretender.

“……” The pretender muttered something deci­dedly foreign, then, pointing the tip of his staff forward, drew a circle in midair. The moment the fireball contacted the circle it vanished, leaving nary so much as an ash.

“Surely you can do better than that?” he said, sound­ing extraordinarily satisfied with himself. I stared speechless.

Then I heard the recitation of a spell on the wind.

Zelgadiss!

“Try this,” Zel roared. “Goz Vu Rou!”

With that, a black shadow appeared on the ground between them, and began advancing toward the pretender.

The phony Red Priest answered, stabbing the shadow with his staff as it crept near him. There was a sound like the sizzle of water on a hot iron, and the shadow disappeared.

“My turn,” the fake Rezo declared, as he began reciting a spell that was familiar to me.

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