Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 59

Around a couple of meters away, one of them shouted at me to stop, but I ignored that and continued running.

Boras sent 5 of them to catch me, which I find odd. Why didn't he send everyone, since I counted around 15 of my family's black knights when they revealed themselves?

He's playing with me, isn't he? After seeing his true side, it's most likely.

Boras was my family's knight captain before I was born. My father told me that Boras was one of his servants he brought back from a slum, but that is, in all likelihood, a lie.

I would guess, if it was a story or something in my past life, that Boras was from an evil organization or different family, and he was sent to assassinate my father, but my father tempted Boras into working with him with his psychopathic tendencies.

My father is a power-hungry person but is also cold and calculating; someone of Boras's talents and capability cannot be thrown away.

"My lady, I must ask you to lay down your weapon and surrender. We do not want to harm you."

Hearing one of them say to surrender again, I remained silent and bided my time to think about my next course of action because I am never going back to my family.

They didn't seem too keen on harming me, which I could use to my advantage.

Seeing me not stopping, they hardened their faces, looking like they were getting serious. They increased their running speed into a sprint, and one of them swung his sword at me.

It looks like he is trying to knock my sword out of my hand with that swing. Seeing the sword being swung at me, I immediately stopped running and spun my body around to counter.

However, that leaves me open to the next black knight running up to us. I knew this was going to happen, which is why I pulled my sword back from the first guy, using a feint to go after the second black knight coming toward me.

The first of my family's Black Knights took a step back from my faint while another ran up to try to pin me down to the ground.

I thrust my sword at him, but he knocked it away with his own sword. We proceeded to exchange some swings, but our difference in stature forced me back.

I am certainly more skilled than them, but that is not enough because of the fact that they are adults and I am a child, which made up for their skills that are marginally below my own.

On our last exchange, he thrust his sword at me, but I moved in front of his sword to force him to awkwardly adjust his thrust to not kill me, which I then swung at his legs.

Feeling a searing pain in my right arm as I moved back, I saw that I slashed his right thigh in our exchange, but I had a shallow cut on my right arm.

This is not advantageous at all; I need to start running again because I thought that I could take on more than one at once, but I was proven wrong.

Before the rest of them caught up, I made myself look like I was attacking the first guy, which caused the second guy to try to stop me. However, I took out my last three spikes and threw them at the rest who were catching up to me.

Then I made a run for it because there was no way for me to get back to Clare by fighting them directly.

Running again, I need to make a plan to lose them. I looked up at the sky at the fake sun that never moved and how long I was running to gauge where I was on the 18th floor.

I am about to reach the edge of the floor and close to a particular place I would like to hide in.

Since the 2nd stratum is forest-themed, there are a couple of small caves scattered about through the stratum. If I remember correctly, from the book, the small caves used to be secret loot spots.