Raidorl Seiken Senki

Chapter 223: Her Now

Translated by SoundDestiny

Edited by SoundDestiny

Dense, overgrown trees.

Deep in the forest, a feast was about to begin.

“Guhe, Guhe …”

“Ghehehehehehehehe”

A low, ugly voice comes from the trees.

The owner of the voice is a huge, deformed body. It was a monster with a silhouette that was far from human.

It is a giant, nearly three metres tall.

It stands on two legs, but even at a distance, no one would mistake it for a man or a monkey.

It has a stocky, round body with unusually short limbs. It has a large amount of flab on its torso, which taps and sways up and down whenever its huge body moves.

It wears no clothes and has no hair on its head. It had the same number of eyes and noses as a person, but only one eyeball was bigger than the other and the nose was sticky and squashed.

It was a creature called a 『troll』.

Like humans, it walked on two legs and was wise enough to handle tools with both hands. Even so, they do not have language or writing, and are demons that hunt in groups.

Some biologists claim that they may be a subhuman race because of their minimal wisdom. At least, the subhuman confederacy in the southern part of the continent does not recognise them.

For elves and dwarves, being equated with trolls was as humiliating as calling people apes.

“Stop! Stop it!!!!!!!!!!”

“Guhe, Guhe, Guhehehehe”

Such were the trolls. They were currently in the middle of cooking in a small settlement deep in the forest.

The ingredients are human. The ingredients are fresh and live, having been caught yesterday on a hunt.

“No, no, no! Get off me! Let go of me!!!!!!”

“Guhehe, Guhehe, Guhehe”

One of the trolls hummed a good-humoured tune and grabbed a human male from his wooden cage. He dragged him out of the cage, took him to the square and slammed him against a rock that served as a chopping block.

“Gyaa!?”

A short scream escapes the man’s mouth. There was a cracking sound of bones breaking and he was unable to move.

A troll swung an axe made of stone at the man, who was unable to escape.

“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

The man’s decimation echoes. A blow from a stone axe shreds half his torso.

The entrails protrude and a thick black liquid, a mixture of blood and some kind of bodily fluid, flows down.

“Ghehehehehehe ~ ?”

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”

The troll swings the stone axe down again and again without care. The man, who had resisted at first, eventually stops moving and his screams, movements and voices disappear.

The troll stabbed a tree branch through the man’s mutilated body, put it on the fire and cooked a spit-roast using human flesh.

“Guhe! Guhe!”

“Guhyahya!! Guhyah!”

“Uuuuuuu…………”

“No…..someone help me…..”

Laughter is heard from other trolls at the sight of the man’s bits of meat being grilled to a golden brown.

In contrast, there are screams from those who are being held captive.

There were about 20 trolls living in the settlement. It is a fairly large settlement for trolls, who have a low capacity to reproduce despite being gluttonous eaters.

And there were about five people being held captive.

At first there were twice this number of people but the others had already been cooked and placed in the trolls’ stomachs.

They lived in a village near the forest, but last night, a group of trolls attacked them and they were driven to destruction. The majority of the villagers have been killed and those who are left are in the process of being eaten as appetisers.

The villagers lived with the forest as their livelihood, but were rarely attacked by demons.

If a single goblin appeared, the whole village would be in an uproar. It was the first time since the village was established that they had been attacked by a large demon such as a troll and it would be their last experience.

“Guhe!!!”

The trolls finished devouring the skewers of human flesh, but they were not satisfied being gluttonous as they appeared on the outside.

They looked at the human cage with their big eyeballs and decided on their next prey.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

“Guhe! Guhe!”

“Guhyahya!! Guhyah!”

A young woman was chosen for the next supper.

The troll licks his tongue and drools as he attempts to take the woman to the kitchen.

The other trolls cheered. They knew from experience. They find young women’s meat more tender and tastier.

“Iyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”

“Guhehehehehehe!!!”

The woman lets out a high-pitched scream.

The troll amuses himself with such poor resistance by swinging the woman’s body up and trying to slam her into the bedrock that serves as a chopping block.

“Guhe?”

Its torso was cut at an angle and fell to the ground.

“Kya!”

The woman also fell to the ground as well but luckily she avoided the bedrock and fell without any major impact.

“Wha,what just happened….?!!”

The woman mumbles in dismay.

She is freed from the troll’s grasp and looks up to see the troll’s huge body, severed in half, with only the lower half of its body standing empty.

“Fuuh….just in time.”

Then there was a girl in a blue-toned military uniform.

The girl had golden hair that was blowing in the wind and she held a sword in each hand.

From the shining sword, blue-white lightning flashes are scattered, giving off a fantastic atmosphere, as if the lightning had been solidified into the shape of a sword.

“No…..I was not just in time. Most of them have been killed like this. If only I’d gotten here earlier……!”

The girl looked around and saw the human remains scattered across the troll settlement.

She contorts her shapely willow eyebrows in anger and glares at the trolls, who are beginning to get upset at the sight of their slain comrades.

“But I won’t let you kill anyone else! Assist me….. Claíomh Solas!”

In response to the girl’s voice, a large number of lightning bolts were released from the shining sword.

Celia Von Arslanian.

The third imperial princess and the Holy Sword holder Excalibur holder, chosen by Claíomh Solas, the Holy Sword that governs 『Thunder』.

Shaking her shining hair like lightning, Celia swung the holy sword at the demons, the enemies of mankind.