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Chapter 92 - The Diversion Begins: Operation Flee-rathon

He had seated a radiant doll, modeled after his mother, upon the Hobgoblin's throne. The reincarnator, Yuto Saito.

"Mother. I'm going to cut down the bad monsters now, so please watch me from here."

His voice was like that of a small boy. The Black Moon Swordsman, Yuto Mikazuki, superimposed the image of his mother onto the doll and readied his sword.

"...Do your best, Yuto."

The doll moved, and it certainly smiled.

In that instant.

Yuto's form—vanished.

"—Gessen."

One step. With just a single step forward, space itself was torn asunder.

A slash of light, like black lightning, streaked forward like a gale. Its trajectory drew the sharp arc of the moon—

"Uooooh!?" A diagonal slash appeared across the body of the fire troll, Koni-chan.

Dosu, blood seeped from the wound.

"Koni-chan! That hurt!?" Defray the Orc immediately rushed over, patting his stomach as he chanted.

"Healing magic, Gooey Healing Broth!"

In the blink of an eye, Koni-chan's wound closed, and his flames burst back to life with a bon.

"Phew... that was scary... but now we're all set."

"Time to run, operation start," said Defray and Koni-chan as they beat a hasty retreat from the throne room.

Yuto gave chase from behind, sword at the ready, and said.

"...Are these guys just going to run without even trying to fight?"

But in the next moment—

"Take this! Fire Bound Vulcan Bomb!"

Koni-chan generated several palm-sized rocks of flame and hurled them at Yuto one after another like fastballs!

Dogoooon! The ground erupted, and flames exploded!

"That was close!!" Yuto's hair billowed in the blast as he barely dodged with a sideways leap.

They had distanced themselves from the throne room, and a hellish game of tag had begun.

"We're not done running yet, Koni-chan!"

"Roger, Piggy! Time to stir things up!"

The fire troll and the fat orc ran wild through the cave.

They rounded the pillars in the passageways, bounced off the stalactites on the ceiling, and repeated a cycle of healing and fleeing.

Yuto, despite possessing a one-hit-kill sword, would disappear and close in, only to be met with...

"Fire bullets! One after another!" "Seconds on the healing!"

Their combination of offense and recovery was so perfect that he couldn't quite finish them off.

"Let sleeping gods lie, as they say."

Defray, the Orc Lord, muttered, panting heavily.

"Just as Mamoru taught us. It's best not to get close to a Yuto who's full of killing intent...!"

In contrast, Koni-chan yelled as he ran.

"This guy disappears in a flash, and I can't read his movements!! But I'll burn him! I'll keep burning him till I hit him!"

Would he be cut down, or would he be burned? Inside the Hobgoblin's cave, the hellish chase that wore down both stamina and nerves continued.

Would the fleeing pig and the fiery demon manage to win a battle of attrition by making the Black Moon Swordsman run himself ragged!?

"Piggy! Seconds on the katsu-don!" Koni-chan shouted.

"Koni-chan, I'm at my limit just running right now, give me a break from makin' katsu-don," the two bantered like a comedy duo.