I Refuse to Be a Valkyrie! Chapter 851

The giant blade was about to come down! Run! But... it was so scary! My legs had gone weak... I couldn't run... sob...

I couldn't cry. Mother had said so... good children weren't allowed to cry.

"But not crying is totally impossible~ Sob, sob, sob~~~"

Waaah!! I was so scared...

Someone, please save me!

The frightened little girl hugged Tsukumo tightly in her arms and shut her eyes in terror.

But after about a minute, the pain she had imagined never came. The little girl was a little confused. Why didn't it hurt? Had I already died?

With that thought, the little girl hesitantly opened one eye.

Then she saw... the evil oni that had wanted to kill her had its head fall straight to the ground, while the body holding the giant blade collapsed to the side as well.

What happened?

The little girl was confused, but... in the next moment, she seemed to understand something.

A beautiful human was sheathing the katana in her hand five meters away. That terrifying oni had been killed by the human before her.

What a terrifying human. She was clearly so beautiful, yet she could kill such a terrifying oni.

Suddenly, the little girl remembered what Mother had told her: humans were all bad people, and she mustn't interact with them.

But... was this human a bad person too? She seemed to have saved me? Had she heard my plea for help and come to help me?

Oh no! The human was coming closer.

Watching the human walk toward her, the little girl hurriedly let go of Tsukumo and covered her eyes with both hands, avoiding reality like an ostrich.

"Are you okay?"

The human girl looked at the little girl behaving like an ostrich and asked.

But... the little girl seemed