Troll

I, Seyi Falt, had been wandering around the country.

I had come sightseeing to the Land of Ice and Snow, but along the way, I encountered a scrawny dwarf.

Apparently, the dwarf had been on his way to some town.

Sensing the presence of trouble, I intended to deliver him to town and then make a quick escape, but…

“! Onee-chan! Something is coming!”

Rabbit-eared Daphne-chan stretched her ears up to listen.

Toka-chan took her trident and observed the situation outside the window.

“Master-dono, something large is approaching, de gozaru.”

“Let’s see?”

Something was moving through the blizzard.

Slowly, slowly.

I thought it might be something like a giant elephant, but it was walking on two legs.

The blood drained from the dwarf’s face.

“Young ladies. Here is fine. Let me off.”

“Huh?”

“Thank you!”

The dwarf jumped down from the carriage and ran away at full speed.

“Ah, wait… Hm?”

The dwarf had dropped something.

It was…

“A hammer?”

It was a hammer that seemed quite old and well-used.

I could tell this was something very important.

“Cherge. Change course. Chase after that dwarf from earlier.”

Cherge, who was still in a cold war with me, silently changed the carriage’s course.

Chi-chan was faster than the fleeing dwarf.

“! Onee-chan! Something is flying toward us, it is!”

“What did you say…?”

With a roaring sound, a gigantic mass came flying toward us.

“Toka-chan.”

“Understood!”

What had been thrown was a gigantic lump of snow.

Toka-chan leapt out and brandished her spear.

Then the lump of snow shattered into pieces and scattered.

“! Master-dono! I saw the enemy’s true form, de gozaru!”

Toka-chan shouted.

“It is a troll! A giant troll attacked us, de gozaru!”