The Unwanted Undead Adventurer: Volume 12 [Complete] by Yu Okano

Author:Yu Okano
Language: eng
Format: epub

When Guster threw the dagger at Zein, the last of Dorothea’s hope flickered out. As a hunter, Zein was hardly an unskilled combatant, but the bandit’s movements had just been so much faster. The dagger flew straight toward Zein’s neck—

Clang!

—but the very next moment, she heard the sound of the dagger being deflected from its course.

“Guh!” Guster grunted in pain and sank to the ground as the arrow Zein had fired met its mark.

“Wh-What’s the meaning of this?” Dieg hissed, clearly just as confused as Dorothea was.

All Dorothea had managed to see was that something shadowy had deflected the dagger headed for Zein, and that Guster’s body had locked up before he could fully step out of the arrow’s path. But while both were exceedingly strange occurrences, as far as she was concerned they were both unmistakably strokes of good fortune.

Guster looked to be completely out cold, and Dieg didn’t seem to have any means of fighting. The bandit’s child hostage, freed from his captor, ran over to hide behind Dorothea and Zein. The hunter kept a nocked arrow trained on Dieg—a silent warning to stay put.

The tables had been completely turned.

“Dieg,” Dorothea said. “It’s over. Give it up.”

“I...can’t,” he told her. “I need to...marry you and...become the director...of...”

Before he could continue any farther, he stiffened and collapsed as though all the energy had left his body. Dorothea looked at Zein, wondering if he had fired an arrow and she had just missed it somehow, but the hunter shook his head. He was just as taken aback as she was.

“For the moment, I’ll check if he’s really out cold,” Dorothea said, approaching Dieg. “Keep your guard up.” Examining Dieg’s face revealed that he was clearly unconscious: the whites of his eyes were showing. What was the meaning of this?

Just as her confusion was coming to a head, however...

“Dorothea!” called a voice.

She turned, and there was Rina, accompanied by two people she had never seen before.

Though Dorothea was still wondering what in the world was going on, she breathed a sigh of relief. With Rina here, they’d be fine...even if Guster woke up.

◆◇◆◇◆

“Is that true...?” Even after hearing the story from Rina, she still found it difficult to accept. “But then, that means Dieg...”

“It is,” Rina confirmed. “This person...well, this vampire was controlling him. He’s not actually a bad person, right?”

“He isn’t,” Dorothea agreed. “Back when I was still in Mystera, he had a reputation as a capable and kind young man. He wouldn’t have been able to inherit his family’s company because he had an older brother, but everyone was convinced he’d find success regardless of whether he continued to support his brother or tried to establish a business of his own. That’s why there were talks of him marrying me and taking over my father’s company.”

Rina hummed in interest. “So if you hadn’t become a traveling merchant, you would have been happy to marry him?”

Dorothea was silent for a few moments. “Always direct, aren’t you? Well...I suppose I would have been.

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