She moaned, and began to run with stumbling steps. Ripples formed under her feet in the water still on the floor of the temple as she rushed defenselessly towards the bone soldiers.

“Mother!”

“Ugh— Trimmau!”

My mentor shot out a magic bullet and called for the mercury maid’s help. Her limbs immediately dissolved and then turned into sharp blades. She slashed through the bone soldiers who were trying to guard the Husk King’s corpse and cleared out a path for my mother.

“What a pain in the ass!” The knight complained, sticking his tongue out and pulling out his sword.

Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: The Atlas Contract (Upper); Chapter 4, Part 2