Vol 3 Chapter 30 – Because Cutting Rocks with a Sword is Easy【Vol 3 – The First Knight Commander is a Dark Elf Half-Succubus Who Hates Men】

After leaving the frontier city where the fake illness uproar occurred, we crossed fields and mountains. After marching for about a week, we finally arrived at the magical beast habitat. From here, the expedition team would split into small platoons to search for and subjugate magical beasts. If a large target was found, they would regroup to deal with it. As for Shion and me…

“There is a temple located deep within this region. I want Master and my Senior Disciple to investigate it with me.”

“Understood.”

“That helps. I’ve tried to investigate it several times before, but we couldn’t handle it on our own.”

“What do you mean?”

Seeing is believing, so the three of us headed there. What we arrived at was a somewhat majestic ancient temple. The ceiling was over twenty meters high, and sculptures of winged monsters were carved all over the place. It was a building with an strangely intense atmosphere, making one wonder if it was the holy ground of a destroyed ancient civilization or perhaps ruins of the ancient elves. Well, to begin with, the fact that it was built in a magical beast habitat was weird enough.

“This is quite the impressive temple.”

“Indeed. Now then, first I shall enter alone. I want Master to watch from there.”

“What does that mean?”

“You’ll understand soon enough.”

Yuna-san entered the temple alone. Immediately, the things that looked like monster sculptures flapped their wings all at once and attacked Yuna-san. What appeared to be mere stone statues were all actually monsters—so-called Gargoyles. Yuna-san used magic and martial arts to fight the Gargoyles, returning after a few minutes. The moment Yuna-san exited the temple, the Gargoyles stopped their pursuit and returned to their original positions, becoming motionless stone statues once more. Watching this, Yuna-san eventually shrugged her shoulders.

“…And there you have it, Master. That is the situation.”

“I see. This certainly looks like a pain to investigate. What do you think, Shion?”

“Those Gargoyles are quite strong even individually. Having over a hundred of them pounce at once would be… tough, even for the elites of the First Knight Order.”

“Yeah. We’ve tried to capture this place many times and suffered painful consequences. On top of that, their regeneration ability is nasty.”

“Ah! It’s true, Master. Looking at the stone statues, they don’t have any damage at all!”

“Apparently, if even one of their comrades is left alive, they regenerate in just a few seconds. That is why I wanted Master and my Senior Disciple to see this and help devise a countermeasure, but…”

“I see. Well then, let’s test something out.”

“Master?”

Yuna-san gave me a suspicious look, but I stepped into the temple regardless. Naturally, the Gargoyles reactivated and pounced on me all at once. …Hmph. If it’s just this much, it should be fine.

“—Sever.”

I quietly flashed my sword in the style of Iai and sheathed it again. The guard and sheath touched, and a clink of metal echoed through the temple. In that instant, every single Gargoyle was blown away, turned into dust and debris. What used to be Gargoyles was reduced to millions of grains of sand, becoming dust clouds that slowly settled onto the floor. Even after waiting a while, there was no sign of the Gargoyles regenerating.

“I’m finished, Yuna-san.”

“A-Ah… Master, just now… what on earth did you…?”

“It’s simple. If they regenerate when you defeat them separately, I figured I just had to defeat them all at once.”

“Like hell that can be done simply!?”

“No, even if you say that…”

“Those are Gargoyles, you know!? Even ignoring their regeneration, they are monsters with overwhelmingly high defense, comparable to Golems! Furthermore, since they are made of rock, swords are overwhelmingly disadvantaged compared to maces and the like! And yet—!”

“Once you get used to it, cutting rocks with a sword is easy, so…”

“Gaaah!”

…I accidentally tried to look cool in front of my disciple, but I’m not lying, okay? It’s just that to get to the point where I could lightly slash through rock, I trained for about a few thousand years without sleeping in a subspace. Yuna-san has talent, so I think she can get there if she trains for five hundred years. As I was thinking that, Shion, looking smug for some reason, tapped Yuna-san on the shoulder.

“Yuna-san, Yuna-san.”

“…What is it?”

“This is my—this is our ‘Master’.”

“————!!!!!!”

…No, I have absolutely no idea what that means. Yuna-san, please don’t make a face like you’ve realized the truth of the world, either.

“Yuna-san, please discard your common sense. And please face Master as a single Succubus.”

“U-Umu. —Although I am a High Dark Elf, I draw the blood of a Succubus. I shall try.”

“You two? I don’t really get it, but I think discarding common sense is a bad idea, you know?”

“Master, who is a mass of absurdity, please stay out of this.”

My disciple dissed me naturally. I’m sad.

“Now, Yuna-san. Having witnessed Master’s great feat once again, how do you feel?”

“Let’s see… I do not know how to express this unprecedented sense of elation… It feels as though a warm light has been lit in the depths of my heart, places that have never been illuminated once in my life…”

“Fufu. It seems Yuna-san has finally realized it too—the truth of the world.”

“…No, aren’t you two exaggerating a little too much…?”

“Master, please be quiet. —Listen well, Yuna-san. If you stay with Master, things that cannot be conceived by common sense will absolutely happen in the future.”

“Gulp.”

“In those moments, discard common sense and judge with your Succubus instincts—this is my advice as your Senior Disciple.”

“I see…! It will be difficult to switch gears like my Senior Disciple at first, but I shall make the effort.”

“That is best. With this, the case is closed!”

“…You two, don’t just ignore me, your Master, and wrap things up…?”

And so. I was left being accepted arbitrarily by my two disciples. Well, I guess it’s fine.