With just a punch, he took almost 20% of my health.
I will definitely die if I take a proper hit.
“But I have no other choice ”
Our current skill and strength.
If we don’t use all of it, we can’t win against this.
I took stance and glared at the high orc.
First, we need to make sure of something.
“Let’s goo!”
I ran while shouting.
The high orc felt my determination and grinned.
An atrocious grin with ecstacy.
“OO!”
Without any hesitation, we advanced forward.
High orc’s cleaver closed in in front of my eyes.
‘Danger detection’ and ‘hostility detection’ were giving out warnings like crazy.
Scary, scary!
But don’t avert your eyes!
‘Observe’ it! It’s movements! The blade’s course!
Use ‘swordsmanship’ and ‘defensive instinct’ freely and ‘turn away’ the blade.
And with a loud noise, the high orc’s cleaver cut through the air and pierced into the ground.
I did it. I was somehow able to avert the attack.
“?!”
The high orc’s eyes opened wide.
Surprise, fright.
And the slight gap in the high orc’s attention obstructed its movements.
This is where it starts.
I brought out a ‘thing’ from the item box and threw it at him.
A throw from close range.
Now then, what will you do?
“Gooaahh!”
The high orc screamed and then ‘dodged’.
He twisted his body forcibly and pulled out the cleaver from the ground.
And within that time, I took some distance away from it.
“As I thought I see ”
Observing his movements, I confirmed that my prediction was correct.
The ‘weird feeling’ took shape.
It was worth confirming even with the risk.
I glanced at the high orc from the distance.
“I thought of it as strange to begin with.”
I don’t know if my words are getting through to him.
However, the high orc was listening to me.
“Why, at that time, you let us go ”
I muttered.
As if I were explaining it to Momo and Aka.
As if I were confirming it with myself.
“You were actively hunting humans. You killed everyone here, from the ones barricading themselves to the self-defense squad. If so, then isn’t it strange? Why were they killed but we were let go? Why were we able to survive?”
As I spoke of it myself, I clearly understood how unnatural it was.
I didn’t think much of it since I was saved but it was weird when I thought about it properly.
“And it’s not just us. Even Nishino-kun and the others.”
They also encountered the high orc’s attack but survived.
At first, I thought it was just this guy’s whim.
I thought that we weren’t good enough of an opponent to face seriously.
“But, I was wrong. It wasn’t a whim of yours.”
There was a reason behind it.
The reason why he let us go-no, why he had to let us go.
I threw that towards the high orc’s head. Not just one, several, and more. As high as I could, as wide as I could, to the limits of the item box.
He would evade it otherwise.
“This is-”
I pointed my index finger towards the sky.
Being drawn in, the high orc also looked up.
At that moment-his expression changed.
He immediately tried to run but he wouldn’t make it.
“The answer.”
And within milliseconds, ‘that’ rained down on the high orc and me.
Cold water made me wet.
The ‘thing’ I threw up in the air was water.
Dozens of plastic bottles I had stored up.
When I throw them up in the sky with the lids open, they instantly become ‘rain’.
“Guuoo Ooohh!”
Being drenched in water, the high orc started suffering, with smoke coming out from its body.
And along with the water, a huge number of plastic bottles also fell to the ground.
This is the reason why the high orc let Nishino-kun and me go.
Just like how slimes are weak against fire but strong against physical attacks.
Just like how shadow wolves have weak physical defense but are very agile.
Even orcs have weak points.
“Who would have thought that for orcs, it is water.”
I realized from the little skirmish we had before.
The time when I was throwing stuff at random at it from the item box.
He easily destroyed vehicles and even boulders but was ‘dodging’ the plastic bottles for some reason.
Why would he dodge something he had no reason to dodge?
That was the ‘weird feeling’ I got.
The moment I had that feeling, the doubt within was cleared.
Why were we let go?
How did Nishino-kun run away?
It isn’t because we are weak or because he couldn’t smell us because of the rain.
He just simply didn’t want to get wet in the rain.
To confirm that, the moment I dodged his blade, I threw a plastic bottle at him.
To dodge something like that, which doesn’t even act as a weapon, he went as far as to lose his balance.
I was sure of it by then.
His weak point is water.
And the result of that, is this.
But I didn’t think it would affect him this much.
Due to the impromptu ‘rain’, the high orc’s skin inflamed, as if sulfuric acid was poured on to it.
In contrast to having immense strength and tough muscles, it takes damage just by touching water–an extreme species.
That is the monster called orc.
“Momo, now!”
“Woof!’
An opportunity. Don’t let this go!
Momo used ‘shadow’ and I kept using the mass attack of the item box on the high orc.
“Guuoo?!”
Momo’s ‘shadow spear’ stabbed into his body this time, making him shriek in pain.
Looks like his defensive abilities also decrease when it’s wet.
I made the ‘rain’ once again with the plastic bottles.
The high orc screamed in pain.
Steam was coming out from his entire body and he was even bleeding from parts.
But, even still-
“ .! are you serious this bastard !”
The high orc laughed.
As if it was having the most fun.
As if this was the kind of situation he was asking for.
“-AAaaoohh!”
High orc screamed once again.
And in the next moment, his body transformed.
Its brown skin turned dark red. The dark portions of its eyes turned red and the white portions turned dark.
“This is don’t tell me?!”
I have seen a similar state.
The high school girl with Nishino-kun-it is the same as the form she had when she was fighting.
“You have ‘maddening’ .?!”
I don’t know the details but it is probably a skill which strengthens one’s body.
What an absurd monster.
Even though he’s as strong as already he is, he has even more strength.
After using ‘maddening’, the high orc came running at me straight.
Fast-?!
“Gaa !?”
I couldn’t see it at all.
Before I realized, I was blown away.
If Aka didn’t absorb the impact, I would have probably died from that.
“OoOOooOOHH!”
Oi, wait.
How are you able to catch up to me even though I was blown away?!
I barely saw the high orc’s fist thrusting out.
“ .!”
Aka expanded once again and wrapped up his fist.
But it seems like he was unable to absorb all the impact.
And poof, Aka’s mimic wore off and his real body floated on the sky.
And I received the portion of the attack Aka couldn’t take.
“Guuaahh!”
Intense pain, as if my internal organs were being stirred up.
This is bad, my consciousness is fading.
Persist, persist!
I was barely able to hold my consciousness and made a wall with the item box immediately.
Even though my body was more or less numb due to the impact, I tried to retreat at once.