I saw Gissy's face, she's looking at yute with her cheeks flushed as she hides her mouth behind her hand.
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"You two rats are gonna see what happens when you challenge us" The bandit's boss showcased a cocky attitude as he ignored the blushing look of his partner.
"I'd advise you to give up before you regret it" fighting together with Fran gives me a massive advantage over them.
"I'm rellying on you Alen"
What?
"I was actually planning on trusting you to be powerful enough and me supporting you" an awkward left my mouth as a single sweat drop formed on my forehead.
"I can't believe you... You'd take advantage of your friend like that?" She pouted an looked to the side "I guess there's no helping it..." she said in a really low tone.
"Ah! But it'll cost you extra"
"But I-"
"No buts! You're no escaping it" she pressed her finger on my chest
"It's not fair..." the warrior woman blushed as she looked at us with embarrassement and a tinge of jelousy in her eyes.
"You think you can just ignore us! C'mon Gissy, let's show them to not underestimate us.
Gissy snapped out of her thoughts and began accompanying the boss on his run towards us.
We both dodge backwards and prepare a counterattack.
I manage to parry Yute's axe and I try to go for an attack. But Fran's spear gets in between Yute and I.
"Oh! S-sorry" she retreated with a jump.
"I-it doesn't ma-" Gissy's kick on my left arm stopped what I was about to say.
Followed by a punch on my guts by Yute that immovilized me.
"Alen!" Thankfully for me, Fran managed to block Gissy's downward swing on me.
*Thump*
Fran's face was hit by the boss, sending her flying a bit back.
He grabbed me by the head and threw me at her.
She managed to catch me, but I saw Gissy's sword being swing at us on my right.
I managed to parry the swing while Fran supported me. But a sliding kick by the boss caused Fran to lose her balance, which made both of us fall down.
"!!" Without giving us time to rest, i see Gissy's swinging down her sword on us.
I thankfully managed to block it last second, but her strength was pushing on my defence, lowering her sword on me at a slow pace.
"Nngh" Fran groaned under me, the pressure of me being pushed into her thanks to the warrior woman's attack was hurting her.
"It seems none of you two know how to work as a team" he rested his hand on Gissy's hair, who started nuzzling her head into his hand "Unlike me and her" he started playing with her hair while he smiled as if he'd already won.
But he is right. All my fights have been me by myself, only worrying about my own safety.
And Fran is definitely the same as me. In the game she never had friends, she only formed a group of followers.
But now she has me, and I won't let neither her nor me die this early into the game.
While they're both still distracted. I feel the strength of the sword on me lessen a bit.
I put all my strength into pushing the sword away, with a single, explosive movement.
"Grah!" Fran let out a low groan as all the force probably damaged her.
But I did it, the sword was pushed far enough that I can stand up and slice forward with my dagger.
As soon as I stood up, Fran jumped away and positioned herself on a ready-to-counterattack stance with her spear.
"I'm sorry Fran" I called behing me as I miss my slicing attack on the boss.
"Don't worry Alen" deep down, she felt a weird feeling. She felt like she was being a nuisance in this fight, her past of always training alone on her homeland clearly marking her current fighting style.
This fight is harder than I expected, normally you get to fight them on a turn based way, but fighting both at the same time is annoying.
Even though I've come to love the sandstorm spell, the strong version I have reserved wouldn't be useful right now.
"Alen!"
*Ching*
I parried Yute's axe at the last moment thanks to Fran snapping out of my thoughts.
But I immideately saw a sword swinging diagonally down on my position.
*Ching*
Fran defended me from that one.
"Are you okay!?" I can feel a certain dispair on her voice, she clearly isn't used to fighting alongside someone and that is clearly puttig her off.
"Don't worry about me! Just fight as if I'm not there" this isn't a good advice in the long term. But it's the only way to deal with these guys right now.
"Bu-"
"No buts!" it felt weird to be the one making the calls "Just do as i told you"
"F-fine" she's clearly unsure of this, but she knows that this is how we'll win.
Yute kicked Fran back a few steps away from us "That's no way of talking to your girlfriend rat" after he said that, Gissy attacked with her sword.
While I stepped back, my shirt now has an open vertical cut on it thanks to her attack.
The cut was superficial so I won't die by bleeding out.
The villainess blushed at being called my girlfriend, but that didn't stop her from running next to me.
"Fran, don't get close! I told you t-" a slap on the face interrupted me.
"I'm not ignoring you! You'll fight with me whether you like it or not!" She poked my wound with her finger, which caused me to jump a bit and let out a low yelp "Look what happened because I didn't care about you"
"I-I'm sorry?"
"You better be! Geez you're truly useless without me, eh?" She started to blush harder as she her finger stopped poking and now rested on the side of the wound. "Mh!?" She blushed harder as she turned around.
"Ahem... I'm sorry... i got distracted" her voice is really low, it felt more like a whisper.
"I-it's okay" I also felt my face get redder as her soft but cold finger left a weir sensation on my chest.
"Mmh"
"What's wrong Gissy?" Did he not notice his girlfriend blushing and having that jealous look on her eyes?
"N-nothing Yute" she let out a soft sigh as she composed herself.
"Then do your job right!" He ordered in a rough tone as he pointed at us.
"Y-yes" she said a bit embarrassed before she started an explosive run at us.
We both got on a position to block her and maybe counterattack.
*Ching*
Even though we barely stopped her attack, she kept pushing her sword onto us.
We're both feeling our arms starting to give up at her powerfull push.
*Ching*
She was pushed back. Thanks to... A second weapon? From whom? It's blade is really slender...
"I-I'm sorry for being late guys" the one who helped us is no other than the shy pink haired girl.
She was looking at my bleeding wound with a small blush on her face.
"A-Alen! Your clothes!" She was trembling while her gaze is set on my chest.
Fran yanked the main character away from me with an angry movement.
"Get away from him! I thought about being respectful and saying nothing because you helped us. But this is too much!" She stomped the ground with her feet as Kaida was stuttering on Fran's grip.
"T-two at the same..." Gissy took both her hands to her open mouth as she looked at me with a worried expression.
"You rat... not even I betray my girl..." Yute said in a low surprised tone, ending his sentence with a sigh.
"Wh-What do you mean?" I pointed my finger at both of them while I blushed.
"...Nothing..." Yute's tone now seemed as if he was... dissapointed? "Anyways, a single rat more won't save you"
"Wh-what's the plan?" Kaida sked as Fran let her go, trying with all her might not to look at me.
"I... don't know..."
If we had Yani here, she could prepare attacks from far away while we distract them. But she isn't here...
"Just... leave the boss for last? Maybe... two of us distract the woman while one fights the boss"
"I'm not fighting with her" as if knowing what I was about to propose, Fran already rejected my plan.
"Then I'll fight with her against the one woth the sword"
"No" why are you so surprised that I proposed that?
"Fran... pick your poison. Either i fight woth Kaida or you fight with her"
There was a second of silence between us.
"Why are they not attacking us?" Kaida asked in a whisper as she watched the two enemies that seemed to enjoy the show.
"I don't want to be close to her... but I want her close to you even less" she grabbed Kaida by the collar of her shirt and started yankimg her away from me.
Now they'll fight warrior woman, while I deal with the boss.
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