Slayers: Volume 14 by Hajime Kanzaka

Author:Hajime Kanzaka [Kanzaka, Hajime]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Stars twinkled in the twilight sky. The sun had already dipped below the horizon, and the dying rays of red on the city’s west side offered little resistance against the encroaching darkness. Night was falling.

Such was the hour that Gourry and I touched down at the southern temple. Your typical tourist trap temples closed their doors at night when business died down, and indeed, the southern temple was locked shut by the time we arrived. One city guard and one mercenary stood posted at its front entrance.

“Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev from the sorcerers’ council,” I announced as we approached, before they could even ask.

“What do you want?” the soldier inquired, his expression cautious.

“We have information that someone is coming to kill Head Priest Ryan. We need to see him,” I said.

“What?!” the soldier and mercenary shouted in unison.

The mercenary’s face drained of color. “A-All right. I’ll show you the way...”

“Wait!” The soldier stopped him. “Give us the details.”

“There’s no time!” I insisted.

“If you need to talk, we can do that just fine here! Why do you need to get inside so badly?!”

“To protect him, of course!”

“The head priest has more than enough bodyguards already!”

I understood why the soldier was wary. He thought we might be assassins who’d come for Head Priest Ryan and we were just making excuses to try to get close to him. I couldn’t blame him for thinking that, given the situation. But I also couldn’t just back down. Luke was getting closer by the minute.

I looked around for a while before laying eyes on a gate lamp by the entrance. It was a little taller than me, with a post as thick as my wrist, and atop it sat a statue of a young woman holding a chalice. A magical light hung over the chalice.

I pointed to it. “Gourry, cut that.”

Gourry immediately sliced his sword through the air! Swish! Crrreak... Crash! He cleaved the bronze pillar on the diagonal, causing the lamp to crash into the garden. It was an undeniably spectacular feat of swordsmanship.

I looked at the soldier again. “If we were assassins, we wouldn’t bother talking. We’d just kill you and get our way. That’d be faster, right? Consider that we’re not taking that route. Look, the guy on his way is really tough... If the soldiers guarding the priest can all do what my buddy here just did, maybe you don’t need us after all. But if not, Head Priest Ryan is dead—no ifs, ands, or buts. So? What’s your call?”

“V-Very well...” I wasn’t sure if it was Gourry’s skill or my argument that persuaded him, but the soldier acquiesced. “B-But... I’m coming with you.”

“Suit yourself. Let’s go,” I said.

Gourry and I left the mercenary behind and followed the soldier into the temple. Inside was full of mercenaries, but there was no sign of the priests that were usually in the mix.

“No holy men at this hour?” I whispered to myself.

The soldier must have overheard. “It’s dinnertime,” he explained. “Head Priest Ryan should be eating in his private room, and the other priests take their meals in the dining hall.

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