I Was Reincarnated As The Brother Of A Villainous Young Lady, But I Couldn't Use Magic, So I Used My Sword To Slash Down The Doom Flag - Chapter 20

I had always felt like someone was watching me. At first, I thought it was just my imagination and I ignored it because it did not feel unpleasant. But then, suddenly, that feeling disappeared, and I felt an unexplained anxiety.

Moreover, I was shocked when Tilti’s name slipped out of my mouth unexpectedly.

“Sold, what’s wrong?”

At that time, we had just finished the dungeon conquest and were getting ready to go home. Suddenly, I stared blankly in the direction of the day after tomorrow, and Lord Like gave me a suspicious look.

I wasn’t sure what to say. I felt no clear reason at all—only that the strange feeling that had been with me suddenly vanished, leaving me not relieved but filled with dread, like a bad premonition.

I knew that explaining it would not help, and I did not think I could describe it well. So after much thought, I decided to just say what I had to say.

“Sorry, but I’m leaving now. I’m worried about Tilti.”

“Huh…? You say you’re leaving, but how? There is only one carriage!”

“I’m going to run.”

“No, no, no! It isn’t that far a distance that you cannot reach by running, but it would be faster if you rode the carriage quickly. We only have a little time left until everything is finished. Please wait a bit…”

“Sorry, I don’t have time to explain—bye!!”

“Hey, Sold!?”

Ignoring Lord Like’s attempts to stop me, I ran down the mountain. Still, his words made sense. No matter how fast I run at full speed, I cannot run faster than a horse.

Then, what should I do?

“…Phew…”

I jumped off a cliff on the side of the mountain. As I fell, I took deep breaths and focused all my attention on my sword.

I remembered that in the game, there was one character who could use a teleportation spell. When things got dangerous, he would escape repeatedly and erase evidence or inconvenient information by making people vanish one by one. Many people were so scared of his overwhelming power that they had no choice but to obey him. Even the heroines, in the end, reigned as the fiercest villains until they discovered the flaw in his teleportation magic—Tilti was one of them.

Now, I would try to reproduce that power with my sword.

“…………”

Majin-ryu is a sword art that channels the power of magic beasts. It is a very unorthodox method that calls upon the image of a specific person, even a future version of them, but right now, I have no choice.

I told myself: Concentrate. Listen to the voice of your sword. And above all, clearly imagine the target of that power… imagine Tilti.

“It is for Tilti’s sake…”

I slowly drew my sword while my eyes widened in focus. With a firm resolve to deliver my strike all the way to the marquis house—where Tilti was supposed to be—I swung my sword in a world that seemed to move in slow motion.

“Show me that you can cut through even the wall of space-time!!!!”

My sword turned pitch black, and a crack appeared in the space before me, like a gate in a dungeon. In that moment, my body was sucked into the crack, and before I knew it, I found myself high up in the marquis house.

“Whoa!!!”

As I fell under the pull of gravity, I screamed. Damn it—I totally failed my first try! I could have failed even worse, and that thought made my heart race with fear.

“Ice Wolf Flash!!”

I released the technique in midair. The recoil slowed my fall. I then used the ice columns that formed in the air to slow me down further, and finally, I tumbled on the ground and landed without a scratch.

Breathing a deep sigh of relief as I looked up, I saw that a party or some event was taking place at the marquis house. I suddenly found myself exposed to the gaze of many nobles.

I felt embarrassed for drawing too much attention, and I also wondered what Lord Like was doing while he was out. Perhaps he had planned this timing? I did not know the full details.

“Who is this kid…?”

“He just fell from the sky!”

“What about the marquis’ security?”

This was bad. I thought I needed to leave quickly. As Lord Like’s retainer, my presence here was not a problem, but I could not spend time explaining that.

And then, as we arrived at the marquis house, I noticed something very strange.

There was no sign of Tilti’s presence anywhere in the mansion.

“Damn it, where is she… Where did Tilti go…!!”

We had survived the attack, and I had expected that nothing would happen for a while. But even though we had just overcome the assault, I realized there was every chance that the remaining thugs from the slave traders were waiting for another chance to strike!

“Hey, are you Sold? What are you doing?”

Some knights, who had rushed over when they heard the commotion, looked at me with disappointed faces. They remembered me from when Siluria had once introduced me at training.

Then, I suddenly noticed something. It wasn’t only Tilti—Siluria’s presence was also gone from the mansion.

“Tilti… I don’t see you or Miss Siluria anywhere. Did you hear that they went out somewhere?”

“Hmmm…? No, I haven’t heard anything. They should still be in their room…”

“Check immediately!!”

“O-okay, I understand.”

I finally understood the situation. I suspected that not only Tilti but also Siluria had been kidnapped.

This was like one of the events from the main game’s Like route. The retainers of the marquis, fearing the growing power of Like—who had built up his influence with the heroine’s help—had set up a scheme. They planned to abduct his sister… Siluria, and then “rescue” her with their own men.

In the game, if you fail to collect clues within a set number of moves, you end up with a bad ending. I never thought that such an event would happen at this moment!

…No, calm down, I. I played that very difficult game many times just to collect all the stills. I even remember details about the place where Siluria would be held in that event.

“I will definitely save you both… Wait for me, both of you!!”

So… please do not act rashly, Siluria. I will never let you be lost or let you become a burden on Lord Like. I will not let you lose your very first friend, Tilti, right in front of my eyes!!