The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 2] by Harunohi Biyori

Author:Harunohi Biyori
Language: eng
Format: epub

The Visitor

After a month of work, I finally completed a bundle of spider’s silk threads. Each was about one millimeter thick, and laid end to end, they were forty meters long. While it may have sounded like a lot, my two pendulums needed eight meters each, leaving me with only three spare strings. I couldn’t afford to be wasteful.

Before learning the Thread Manipulation skill, I could only correct my pendulum’s hit rate by about ten percent. Acquiring the skill had improved my accuracy; using thread infused with my blood had increased compensation to twenty percent, and these monster-sourced threads should improve my hit rate even further.

But most importantly, these monster threads were incredibly resilient. Graves had easily cut through my cotton thread despite it being aethereally reinforced. These new threads couldn’t stop a blade on their own, of course, but should nevertheless be much harder to cut as they danced through the air.

As my mentor explained to me how to treat the monster threads to protect them from fire and decay, I went about setting up the new concealed throwing knives I had acquired as replacements for the ones I’d lost in the fight with Graves. Suddenly, my mentor looked up, and I followed her gaze toward the front door.

“Someone’s here,” I said.

“Conceal your presence, Alia,” she told me. “Stay in the back for now. I’ll handle this.”

“Understood, mistress.”

No one had visited in the five months I’d been living here, yet now there was a distinctive humanlike presence nearby. According to my mentor, a merchant she was acquainted with came by once a year to deliver salt and other items, but it wasn’t that time of the year yet. Not only that, both my mentor and I had the scouting skill Detection, but neither of us had sensed this person until they were close to the house. Having the scouting skills to move around undetected like this wasn’t necessarily indicative of power, but this person was no ordinary individual.

As instructed, I went inside a room in the back. While suppressing my presence, I peeked through the gap in the door.

“Come in,” Cere’zhula said toward the door. It opened silently, and a tall man in his midthirties emerged from the outside light.

The man bowed his head. He had dark blond hair and an easy, shallow smile, and his mannerisms reminded me of a stage actor. “It’s been a while, my beloved mentor. How have you been?”

“I don’t recall ever having you for an apprentice,” she replied coolly. “What do you want, Dino?”

Dino gave an affected shrug. “I came to greet you in my capacity as the new head of the Northern Border District’s branch of the Assassins’ Guild. And to ask my beloved mentor Cere’zhula for her assistance with a rather troublesome matter.”

“Oh? Is your organization so lacking in competent personnel that you need to resort to a hermit?”

“Normally we’d have no issues handling matters ourselves, but this time we’re up against former adventurers of great skill. A direct confrontation would

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