「Oh no! They’re going west!」
What lay west was the territory of Charalia.
「Kgh, now of all time! This isn’t time for midland people to be fighting each other!」
「Lady Eris! We should get that man to help us!」
「But how?! No words will reach him, you know?!」
Raphael pointed the bow of the flygear upward, and the aircraft flew out of the shadows of the boulders and into the sky.
Before Eris could finish her words…
「FOOUNND YAAA!!! A knight mustn’t show their back, you know!!」
Rochefort immediately spotted the flygear and closed in.
「Yes, that will do! To get him to help us! We’ll drive straight into the magic stone beasts!」
By fleeing into the midst of the magic stone beasts, they would be hidden from view, and their obnoxious tail would crush and scatter everything in his path behind them. By doing so, the magic stone beasts would be destroyed by the hordes.
「I see! It’s a risky gamble, but—!」
「This is the only way to deal with both of them!」
Eris attempted to blind him with her twin swords for the second time.
「What a party trick! I won’t fall to it twice!!」
「He’s already catching up?!」
「Lady Eris! The helm! Please take over!」
Raphael jumped overboard, leaving the helm to Eris. He got to the back of the flygear, and then…
He pushed the airframe directly by hand. The full speed of the wings the Dragon Fang granted him was added to the thrust of the flygear.
The flygear accelerated quickly, but they still couldn’t pull away from Rochefort. That said, he was no longer closing the gap as quickly. They were getting closer and closer to the Prisma and the dense cloud of magic stone beasts, but…
「Kgh?! We can’t reach?!」
「We need just one more leg up!」
Even so… even if they were just one step away, Rochefort had already caught up with them.
「HAHAHA!! Let the game of tag end!!」
Suddenly, a bullet of black light passed by Raphael, landing right on Rochefort’s leg, and…
Rochefort’s posture tilted for a moment. That slowed him down, and a short gap opened again.
「Eris! Raphael! I’m here to help!」
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That light bullet was shot by Ripple who rushed to the scene. It didn’t directly strike Rochefort down, but it had the effect of slowing him down with its powerful gravitational central point. To top it off…
「Forgive me! Lend me your help!!」
Those words were directed to the flygear she was on. She kicked herself away from the aircraft, leaving the bow to charge at full speed toward the incoming Rochefort. It was a flygear kamikaze attack.