"Lady Durandal, leave these filthy little brats to me. There is no need for you to act personally."
Glancing at the goblins slowly closing in and completely surrounding them, Rita stepped forward and turned to speak softly to Durandal.
Creatures like these did not require the strongest Valkyrie, Durandal, to take action.
As her maid, it should have been Rita's duty to clean up this place, which hardly even qualified as a battlefield...
"Then I'll leave them to you, Rita."
Durandal took a step back at her words, cooperating without hesitation. After all, this was what she wanted... There was naturally no concern over whether it was inappropriate to let Rita fight alone.
Besides, these goblins truly could not be considered opponents...
"Leave it to me! It'll be over soon."
Rita stepped forward, raised the ornate scythe in her hand, and approached the goblins gathered before her.
Seeing the human girl approach without the slightest hint of fear, the goblins froze... In the past, whenever they surrounded human girls like this, those women would tremble all over in terror.
It was not as though they had never encountered human women who were unafraid, such as mercenaries and adventurers, but the girl before them did not look like one of those.
Still... they did not think much of it. Snapping back to their senses, the child-sized goblins lunged at the human girl.
For goblins, when facing creatures larger than themselves, only fighting as a group could produce extraordinary results.
Facing the green little dwarves pouncing at her, Rita coldly swung her scythe. A starlike slash of light appeared, and the goblins before her were all cut in two.
Seeing their companions die, some goblins hesitated, but even more of them showed vicious expressions. They split up and lunged at the girl