"I..."
Fern opened her mouth, momentarily at a loss for words after Annie had chewed her out.
Fortunately, after giving it some serious thought, Fern managed to scrape together a little bit of flawed logic. She summoned up her courage and timidly protested in a quiet voice:
"But!"
"There were so many of them..."
"There were at least dozens of guards on that street!"
"And..."
"Oh, right!"
"There were also two or three demons there!"
"Besides, I couldn't just run wild in the middle of the street, fight them, and risk hurting innocent people, could I?"
"I didn't have any choice..."
Fern didn't know how strong those demonic envoys were, but she did know they outnumbered her. On top of that, Lady Frieren had been taken down by the guards in an instant, so Fern had no choice but to stay quiet.
"They outnumbered you?"
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"You didn't want to hurt innocent people?"
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Since Frieren had dared to prepare a spell right there in the street, Annie didn't believe for a second that she'd been afraid of hurting innocent people.
"Then why didn't you use Petrificus Totalus?"
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"Petrify all the guards first, then deal with those demons after you've rescued your teacher. What's wrong with that?"
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"You're just stupid!"
(ˉ▽￣~) Tsk~~
In Annie's eyes, among those living in this carriage, the slowest to react to things and the biggest idiot was probably that stubborn old elf Frieren. Next came the clueless Fern standing right in front of her, and last was her own Little Bear, Tibbers.
Her Little Bear just couldn't learn magic. But Frieren and Fern were the worst, because they were genuinely stupid. They'd learned so many spells, yet when it came to doing things, each was more unreliable than the other. Annie, Her