The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 12] by Harunohi Biyori

Author:Harunohi Biyori
Language: eng
Format: epub

The Bandit Chief

“I knew I heard somethin’.” Upon finding his comrade’s dead body, the man glared at me in the darkness, his sword drawn. “Hey kid, did ya kill him?”

Maybe he heard me kill the guy, I thought. Either way, this one wasn’t going to drop his guard if I acted like a child, so I pointed my black knife right back at him. Not counting the incident with Viro or the goblins I’d killed during my training, this was going to be my first real battle. After having been exposed to both Feld and Viro’s threatening auras, however, I wasn’t scared enough to flinch despite how intimidating the man’s gaze was.

He wore hardleather armor and wielded a longsword; his equipment was old but typical of a fighter, and he seemed to be in his early thirties. One of the bandits here had a combat power of nearly a hundred—and if it was him, my guess was that he was either a deserter or a failed adventurer rather than an ordinary villager. I remembered hearing that some soldiers, having only ever fought humans, had fled from battles against monsters during the great outbreak that had killed my parents.

If he was indeed a deserter, maybe my father wouldn’t have died if this man had stood his ground. No, he couldn’t have known then what I did now, but I couldn’t help casting a cold, silent glare at him.

“Creepy-ass kid,” the man muttered, frowning. “Guess ya did kill him, then.”

I couldn’t fault him for thinking a child showing up out of nowhere this deep in the woods—and unafraid of a sword pointed at her, to boot—was creepy. I wasn’t about to back down. But this wasn’t personal, whether or not he was a deserter, so instead of projecting rage, I glared at him with clear intent to kill. My Intimidation drew a gasp from the man’s lips.

A cautious opponent was easier to handle than one attacking in anger. With an overall combat power of a hundred, he was likely a Rank 2 fighter and had presumably learned Level 2 Sword Mastery, plus defensive and hand-to-hand combat skills, at Level 1. He only had fifty aether points, so my guess was he hadn’t learned any sorcery, even at his age. And if he was indeed a former soldier, he might’ve been able to use a bow—but Bow Mastery was a skill separate from Throwing, so I figured that just as with magic, I had little to fear from him in terms of throwing knives and other projectiles.

Keeping surprisingly calm, I analyzed the situation as we glared daggers at one another, readied our weapons, and gradually shifted our positions in a clockwise direction. I decided to mentally call this man “bandit chief” for now and deduce his combat strategy.

Assuming the bandit chief’s main combat skill was Level 2 Sword Mastery, a direct clash would’ve simply sent me flying, given my small stature, so fighting him head-on wasn’t an option. I couldn’t afford to be

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