Volume One: Chapter Forty-Nine: Three Emperor's Blades
The masked swordsman stood before the girls.
A figure straight out of Ursus horror stories had truly appeared.
"The Duke's daughter is actually keeping company with Infected."
A hoarse, deep voice sounded by their ears.
The dragon girl gripped the greatsword formed from Originium Arts in her hand.
"Shut up, lackey of Ursus!"
Talulah glared fixedly at the figure.
"Hiss... Koschei should have taught you manners."
The figure looked at the dragon girl.
"The Duke's daughter?"
Yelena froze.
Talulah was the daughter of some Grand Duke?
Koschei... which Duke was he?
Having lived on the tundra since childhood, she had never encountered such information.
The dragon girl had not told them before—
No, the relevant information had already been revealed when Talulah spoke with her father before.
She simply had not known that Koschei was a Duke.
Yet Talulah and her father had both called Koschei that snake.
So he was an Ursus of the Feline race?
Countless thoughts flashed through the Cautus girl's mind.
Once they returned, she would ask that old stubborn fool—
If they could return at all.
There were not many brothers and sisters gathered around her at the moment.
Most of the Yetis had returned to the main Guerrilla force.
Only a small number of Yetis remained gathered around her.
"Hiss... Keeping company with Infected, was that also Koschei's plan?"
The swordsman looked at the Infected standing with Talulah.
The weak ones gathered around the Cautus girl.
A young female warrior carrying a greatsword.
And a civilian holding a young child.
They were probably Infected rescued from this mine...
No, that civilian's clothes were very clean, without the slightest trace of labor.
And their race could not be identified.
But it did not matter. They were merely a