" Should I help too?"  I asked this question to the boy who came running a moment ago.

I don't know who he is, but he seems to be their close friends. He had short red hair and a long brown coat with red elements. Under the coat he wore a white uniform, the same as the knights of higher ranks. I also noticed that he had star-shaped pins on his shoulder.

Sydia grabbed her bow in her hand. After her gesture, I also made the decision to help in the fight.

We left the house. Before leaving, we put on a warm sheepskin coat. He said that the weather had changed drastically and it was now necessary. Before leaving the building, I didn't know what he meant, but now I managed to understand.

" What a downpour!"  I shouted while running.

Just a moment ago, Sydia and I were walking along this road and it was sunny. How come it's windy and rainy now?

We ran in the rain for the next few minutes until we reached a side street near the market.

There was a heavy snowstorm near the market. A moment ago we were running and it was raining, and now it's snowing. The closer we are to the scene, the worse the weather is.

We stopped behind one of the buildings.

Sydia hugged her coat tightly and shivered with cold. She slowly crouched down in the snow to hug her warm coat with her whole body.

" W-what's going on with the weather, it was raining a moment ago."  She stated, shivering with cold.

" This is the Beast's power." 

The Beast's power?

" So beasts can use magic too? "  I asked.

The boy peeked around the corner of the building and answered.

" Of course, but only the stronger ones can." 

So how strong can the Beasts be if they can use such power, and humans can't?

The boy stopped peeking around the corner of the building and approached Sydia.

He asked her something, and I used this moment to see what the situation with the Beast looked like. He himself said that we were here to help, and for now we're doing nothing but waiting. I didn't notice anything through the fog.

I turned back to them.

" What's the point of hiding in this place? You said that we were here to help." 

" I know. I specifically came back home to ask Ethen for support. In the end, he didn't even come with us." He announced.

" But he never comes, what did you expect."  Sydia choked out.

After hearing this, the boy thought for a moment.

" There are two royal knights in the capital, so he's unnecessary"  She added.

How strong is Ethen that they are so sure of his abilities?

I peeked from behind the wall of the building. I wanted to see what the situation looked like.

" This is the beast."  I informed them.

She resembled a human girl who could not control her power. It makes me sad to look at her. Probably no one understands her. 

This girl had long silver hair and was short. Around 140 cm. She was sitting on the ground and holding her head tightly.

I should help her escape. 

When I wanted to take a step forward to move towards the Beast, the boy grabbed my hand, stopping me.

" We can't go there." He stopped me.

I yanked myself out of his handshake and got angry.

" Then what is the purpose of our presence here! Do you just want to watch her suffer?!" I shouted at him, irritated.

" We came to help, but not in a fight. Weapons are only for self-defense." 

I heard a sound from behind me. I turned around and saw the Beast and the man fighting it. In the fog it was hard to see the appearance of both of them. I noticed that this was not an easy fight for this person, after each blow he felt the effects of cold.

" W-where did such a monster come from? " Sydia spoke up, still freezing.

" This morning something unusual happened with the possessed, unfortunately I don't know the details." The red-haired man said.

At the word possessed I stood upright. I remembered the situation from today. Could it be because of me? When I think about it, one of the possessed looked similar to this one.

It is possible that they are one and the same person!

In that case, I have to deal with this. I bit my lip hard, grabbed my sword in my hand and moved towards the Beast.

" What are you doing?!" He shouted at me.

I ignored him.

I started to march forward. Slowly in the snow, taking one step after another. The wind and snowstorm were so strong that I couldn't see anything. It was as if the weather was getting worse with every passing moment.

I squinted hard and started to stare at the Beast. The Beast turned towards me and I made eye contact with me for a moment. I almost had a heart attack, but at the same moment, a large icicle was falling from the sky at me. It wanted to attack me. I wouldn't have been able to protect myself from the attack, but the boy reacted quickly and cut the large icicle with his sword.

I could have just died.

I focused my eyes back on the Beast, who reacted unusually the moment he noticed me. He started to panic even more, which worsened the weather.

Large icicles started falling from the sky everywhere. This time I reacted in time, and I eliminated the icicles above my head myself, with a slash of the blade. The boy also managed to do it.

A single icicle like that could easily kill a man! A single one is the size of us!

Immediately after repelling the attack, the Beast wanted to deal with me personally. It intended to cut me with its long claw. The boy stopped the attack with his sword, holding it.

He uses the blade very well but This time I could handle it myself.

After holding off the attack for a while, he managed to forcefully push the Beast away, which caused it to temporarily lose its bearings. He used those hundredths of a second and managed to cut off its hand. Immediately after cutting off the limb, the hand turned into ice and fell into pieces. It turned out that it was a fake made of ice.

I thought that he almost managed to kill it.

I noticed that the man who was fighting with it the whole time was the same person I was with in the dungeons with Fidelia. I couldn't remember his name, but it was something starting with C.

The fog gradually began to clear. I saw that another person had joined C's fight with the Beast. It was a tall woman with long hair.

This is Fidelia!

I just mentioned her, and she appeared.

A shield of magic appeared around the woman.

So this is what magic looks like... amazing.

C, turned to Fidelia and nodded. He began to continue fighting. The shield probably supports C in some way and at the same time protects the woman from losing concentration on the magic technique.

A sword twice as big as herself appeared in the Beast's hand. The finale of this duel was just now beginning.

When I look at them, I want to be able to fight like them! I envy them!

For a moment they fought evenly, but C managed to cut off the monster's head. At that moment the hail and snow stopped falling from the sky, and the sun appeared from behind the clouds.

Why did the Beast behave like that? When I cut its head, it smiled at me. It wasn't an equal fight, it accepted its defeat.

I also noticed that for a moment it stopped focusing on me and attacked someone from the side.

I have to go see who it was.

There is a possibility that he is wounded.

"What happened here?" Fidelia approached him, thanks to whom he managed to easily win the fight.

"The guards took one of the possessed to the gassed cell. The gas strangly effected on her." 

"Hm." She mumbled and approached the body of the victim.

She crouched over it and stared at it.

"The body is slowly fading away. It's dead." She assessed the situation.

She turned towards Clovis, who was still in a crouching position.

"We'll talk about it later. Now we have to take care of the injured residents. " She said, and then noticed that something was bothering him.

" What's the matter? "  She asked firmly.

" During the fight, I saw two people who were also attacked by the Beasts. She acted strangely when she saw them. If that hadn't happened, I would have had trouble winning." 

Damn, a lot happened, but in the end he won.

" Come here! Quickly! Sydia is unconscious!" Laen shouted.

I did as he told me and also took off my cloak. I wrapped Sydie in it.

Although the hail had stopped and the fog was slowly disappearing, the snow had not yet melted.

I saw two knights approach the red-haired man. Sydia and I were hidden behind the corner of the building, so they didn't notice us.

"One of the residents went out into the fighting, so I saved him." He explained himself.

"If that's what you say, then we can trust you. Thank you for your help."

"You always have to be prepared for any situation, hmph..." He replied uncertainly.

"That's it for the report, thank you, Mr. Laen." They left.

So this boy's name is Laen. He's great with a sword, so it's no wonder they knew him.

Laen approached us worried.

"Thanks for lying about me." I thanked him, then added." Now we have to take care of Sydia, the temperature has affected her badly."

"Hm? And aren't you cold?"

I was surprised myself. Why am I not cold?

Laen didn't do anything with my answer and took Sydie in his arms. We went towards Ethen's den, his so-called home. It should be warm enough there for Sydia to wake up and thaw out.

The entire city is in chaos after the fight and the sudden weather changes.

A special team analyzing the beast's body is standing by the disappearing body. Three people were standing and taking down data on the Beast.

Ethen started walking towards the scene. He was wearing a hood.

The fog hadn't completely cleared up. It was late evening, the sky was dark.

One of the people from the team taking down data noticed a man walking towards them.

"Excuse me, you have to leave this area. It is under the supervision of the knights" She shouted at him.

Ethen uncovered his blindfold and touched the person from behind.

The person who had just exclaimed suddenly fell to the ground.

The rest of the workers also fainted.

During this time, Ethen managed to take the Beast's body and disappeared without leaving any trace behind.

The team taking down data woke up after three minutes.

No one knew why the body disappeared. They couldn't explain themselves to the knights.

In the end, they wrote in a notebook that the bodies of strong Beasts disappear really quickly, so they couldn't gather enough data. None of them told the knights' squad about the mysterious person and the sudden fall to the ground.