A Virgin Civil Servant Is Reincarnated as a Trashy Character in a Otome Game, but Because He Doesn’t Make a Move Despite Being in an Otome Game, the Girls Treat Him Like a High-Class Catch and Aggressively Pursue Him
“Elliott, if you just charge in, you’ll probably get killed.”
Just as I was about to challenge Dranble, Aile stopped me. This never happened before.
This time is different. This battle is not me against Dranble. It’s us against Dranble.
“I’ll attack with fire magic. You finish him off when Dranble is weakened.”
“Okay.”
“Ellis, chain my magic.”
Aile asks Ellis to do that. Chaining is when one magician activates magic and another person controls it to attack.
Simply put, it means that the person who activates the magic and the person who attacks are different. It takes twice as much effort, but for people who are not good at controlling magic, it is better to have someone who is good at it do it for them.
For some reason, Aile probably isn’t good at manipulating magic.
Elis, who was asked to do this, is naturally flustered. It’s understandable why she looks that way. After all, chaining isn’t something that can be done easily. It requires advanced technique and corresponding magical resistance.
“But I…”
“So, are you going to run away? If you’re not going to fight, then run away.”
Aile hurls harsh words at Elis. Weakness in this tense situation could be fatal. Realizing this, Elis changes her expression.
“I understand, I’ll do it!”
At that signal, Aile begins her incantation. I wait for her magic to activate while creating distance between myself and Elis to divert Dranble’s attention away from Aile and toward me.
“Whispering wind, guide my gaze. Light gather to me, and bind my heart here—Focus Charm.”
She cast the spell toward me. I didn’t know the spell itself, but I understood its effect. Why? Because Dranble’s eyes were fixed on me.
“It’s a decoy spell. I’ll do it.”
I said that, but I wasn’t going to fight. I would use my legs to escape. I knew from the previous battle that I had little chance of winning if I fought head-on.
Still, it was difficult to use my legs effectively in the forest, where my movements were restricted. If he read my movements even slightly, I would fall within his range. Once that happened, I would be knocked down like a bug being swatted.
Just as I thought that, Dranble lost his patience and leaped toward me.
I couldn’t react to the sudden change in speed. I was caught within the range of his attack. I was going to be hit. I thought so. I tried to match the swing of his staff with my sword, but it was a meaningless action. Because.
“Elis, do it!”
At the same time, a fireball came flying at me like a fastball. It hit Dranble’s back perfectly.
Its trajectory was like that in real life.
“Gwoooooo!”
Dranble rolled around on the ground trying to extinguish the flames on his back. Elis smiled with joy at the success of her magic.
“Well done, Ellis! You have a talent for magic!”
“Thank you!”
Ellis has a talent for magic. I knew that. Because she is the one who will defeat the Demon King. Only her light magic can defeat him. Her aptitude for magic is greater than anyone else in the world.
Taking advantage of the moment when Dranble was lying on the ground, I changed my fleeing feet into feet that leaped toward Dranble.
Using the momentum from kicking the ground, I severed Dranble’s left arm.
Immediately afterward, Dranble stood up, letting out a scream so loud it felt like my eardrums were about to burst. There was no trace of the confident smile from before.
However, it was too late for him to get serious now. At this point, with Dranble missing his left arm and us almost unscathed, we had the upper hand.
“Come on, this way!”
I kept my distance from Dranble by running around as I had done before. I was careless. I had dealt a fatal blow to Dranble, who had not been able to land a single blow in the previous battle. That gave me a sense of ease.
However, Dranble wasn’t looking at me. All he could see was the face of the person who had burned his back.
“Elliott! Hurry up and protect us! The decoy spell is wearing off!”
“Hurry up! Aile! Cast a spell!”
Ellis demanded that Aile cast a spell. However, it didn’t seem like the spell would be ready in time.
“Damn it!”
I used my legs, which I had been using to escape, to jump in front of Dranble and block his path. Fortunately, my legs won.
I jumped in from a blind spot, and my sword managed to hit Dranble, but I didn’t have the strength to cut him in half.
It felt like I was pushing a mat that couldn’t be cut with my sword. I slashed at Dranble from behind multiple times, but he didn’t stop.
Dranbul was bleeding from his back. The amount of blood should have been enough to finish him off. Yet, it didn’t stop.
“…Blood.”
The last meaningful words I heard from someone were Aile’s heart-wrenching mention of the red liquid.
“Dad! Don’t die! I’ll use magic! Dad!!! Pa, Papa!”
Aile screamed like she had lost her mind and collapsed to the ground. It seemed that her trauma trigger was “blood.”
“Aile-sama!”
Elis tried to carry the immobilized Aile and escape, but it was too late. Dranble, unconcerned with being cut by me, headed toward where the two were gathered.
“Run! Leave Aile and run! Elis, at least you!”
I said that. I gave up on the repeated attacks from behind and stepped between them and Dranble.
Dranble, whose body was even more covered in blood than before, swayed as he approached them. I readjusted my sword toward Dranble.
Then Dranble swung the wooden stick toward me. I couldn’t parry it with my sword. I was overwhelmed.
Immediately after that, my sword pierced my own shoulder. Since it wasn’t meant to cut, the sword pierced my body like a gash, violently shaking my sense of pain.
My brain tried to shut off my consciousness to avoid feeling the pain. In that brief moment, Dranble delivered a powerful blow to my side.
Immediately after that, I flew through the air. I was struck by intense pain and a feeling as if my internal organs had been shaken. I felt the texture of wood on my back. My body must have stopped when it hit the tree.
Still in pain, I shifted my gaze to Dranble, but he was no longer looking at me.
The only one looking at me was Ellis.
“Elliott sama… help me…”
With those last words, she was struck. Immediately after that, I lost consciousness. Then, a voice echoed directly in my brain.
game ( ✗_✗ ) over