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Chapter 428 Surprise

With Kuromi taking command of the battlefield, the tide was soon turned as the attackers realised that they were being pushed back.

Kuromi had set it up so that only 4 people were needed to defend the carriage and the other 22 guards were free to kill the attackers.

Pairing up each of the guards so that their strengths complemented each other, they were able to finish the fight in less than 10 minutes, forcing them to retreat.

Watching the entire process happen, Shiro had to admit that the sight was quite scary in a way. From her perspective, Kuromi was like a conductor as everyone was under her control. Working together seamlessly, they overwhelmed the enemies despite their disadvantage in numbers.

Closing her notepad, Kuromi nodded with a satisfied smile.

"Everyone, stick with your pairs from now on since you’ll be working with them in the next battle." Kuromi called out before walking back into the carriage.

Following behind her, Shiro also went inside the carriage.

"What do you think? Brute force isn’t always the answer no?" Kuromi smiled towards Shiro.

"I’ll admit, it is helpful. But if I had access to Celestial Raiment, I’d be able to deal with them easily." Shiro replied.

"Yes, but the problem right now is that you don’t have that access do you? Well just relax for now and big sis will deal with everything. Once we need brute force, I’ll call for you ok?" Kuromi chuckled.

". . . Fine." Shiro nodded after a moment.

With a ratio of 3:1, he had 78 people surrounding the carriage.

"After the black haired woman exited out of the carriage, their formation seemed to have been reinforced as it was very hard to harm the guards. Each of them paired up with one another and overwhelmed us in the shortest time possible." The servant reported as his face was a little pale.

Furrowing his brows, the man thought for a moment before sighing.

"Seems like the white haired girl is one that’s focused on combat while the black haired one is focused on strategy. We’ll cut our losses here. Just observe them for now and don’t make a single move. I want to see what they’re planning to do in Teriu forest." The man ordered.

He understood that with a good strategist, brute force is a questionable approach so the best he could do right now is to just give up and think of another way.

"Understood."

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"Probably. Any sane person would do so after we won a fight that had us outnumbered." Kuromi replied while flipping through her book to make any small adjustments to the guard’s stat pages.

"Mn... Say, do you have any way for me to use Celestial Energy more efficiently? The current spell we have requires me to ’charge up’ for quite a long time." Shiro asked since she somewhat wanted to give fighting the dragon a go.

"Why would you need that? I’m still working on the spell so you can’t rush me." Kuromi replied.

"Oh you know, just so that we can lure the dragon and giant better." Shiro replied.

". . .That’s a lie. You just want to punch a dragon and have it chase you." Kuromi sighed and looked up from her notepad.

"Maybe~" Shiro grinned.

"Well I have something better for you to do but you NEED to get the f*ck out of there the moment you do that ok?"

"Oh? What do you mean?" Shiro tilted her head.

"What I mean is I’m allowing you to attack the dragon’s reverse scale or rather, the rear. You can piss it off as much as you want to as long as you direct its hatred to Teriu City."

". . . Say it again." Shiro said as she sat down seriously.