The Laughing Swordsman

Chapter 335 – Return

Talon and Lena stood up and looked curiously, trying to get a better look at who Hex was referring to as friend. It was still relatively hard to tell, but the dot was swooping downwards and rising up comfortably, clearly very familiar with flying.

Lena let out a soft hum.

"Ah, what a free spirit."

Talon's eyebrow twitched.

"What the…"

It was a little girl with long purple hair and two tiny cat ears that stuck out of her head. Along with that, she had a long purple tail trailing behind her. There was a red fluffy jacket on her, but right now, she had the corners of the jacket in her hands, sticking it out far as though they were wings.

It revealed a cute purple shirt she had underneath.

It was Layla.

On her back, was a fairly large insect, raising both hands in the air, having a fun time.

Hex waved with both sleeves excitedly.

"Friend!"

Layla looked towards Hex with some curiosity, then smiled brightly.

"Ah, other friend!"

She began waving with her hand, letting go of the corner of the jacket. Then she began falling out of the sky.

"Eh?"

Layla's eyes widened.

"Wawawawawawa!"

The insect began chirping too. As for whether it was out of excitement or fear, that was unclear.

Hex gasped when he noticed that Layla began falling. He walked over to the edge of the Blackie and looked down.

"Friend?"

Lena looked concerned.

"Oh dear!"

As for Talon, he was a little too flabbergasted to react. At that moment, Hex pointed downwards.

"Blackie! Catch friend!"

Blackie did as told, diving downwards at full speed. Lena and Hex were fine, but Talon's eyes immediately widened all the way as he grasped onto the side of Blackie for his life.

Layla was fumbling around with the jacket, trying to catch the corner. After a few failed attempts, she grabbed onto it. She smiled brightly.

"Got it!"

Then, unaware of Blackie diving down above her, she raised both hands high in the air, then flapped downwards, shooting up into the air like a rocket.

Blackie was not prepared for this. And neither was anybody else.

Layla shot upwards like a bullet, directly piercing through Blackie. In the end, it was forced to retreat back into Hex's shadow, thus leaving the three in the middle of the air.

After shooting through Blackie, Layla looked around, but only saw an empty sky.

"Eh? Where did friends go?"

The insect chirped a little before pointing downwards. Layla looked down and they were indeed there.

"Ah, why are you there friends?"

Currently, the three of them were falling downwards at high speeds, down into the snowy forest. Two black hands came out from Hex's sides, flapping rapidly in order to slow down his descent.

As for Lena, she had a neutral expression on her face despite catapulting down through the air. It was as though this was no different from resting in bed to her.

On the other hand, Talon was essentially of the complete opposite mind. He flailed his limbs around in a panic while gritting his teeth.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!"

Talon wasn't sure if he could survive a fall from this high up, thus quickly began thinking of some sort of solution he could use. That was when he thought about the scissors that were attached to his back.

He quickly grabbed onto the scissors while he was falling, then looked below him. The trees were still quite far away. Talon tried to aim with his scissors, guiding himself towards the trees. Then, he opened up the scissors, holding onto the hilt tightly. His plan was to slam the scissors against the branches and slow his descent.

Before Talon knew it, he found himself above the tree falling at incredibly fast speeds.

One thing that didn't really come across his mind until now was that his arms probably wouldn't be strong enough to stop his fall at this speed.

Unfortunately, it was too late to change anything.

With a clear crack, both of Talon's shoulders dislocated, prompting him to grimace in pain. From there, he crashed through the various branches, getting scraped and cut all over. Until eventually, his back slammed against the floor, getting the wind knocked out of him. 

Not too far from him was Lena, who slammed against the ground like a cannonball, causing large amounts of snow to scatter into the air.

She sat up and coughed up a mouthful of blood. Her body was faintly trembling and obviously not in the best condition, but she stood up anyway. She looked down, examining herself.

Large amounts of blood began trickling down her legs.

She hummed.

"I should probably heal this."

With that, she stuck out a finger, after which a white ball formed on top. Then, she sent it towards herself, causing her injuries to heal quickly. As for Talon, he was still in a dazed state. However, he recovered soon enough.

Talon immediately used the black flesh to repair his more serious and life-threatening wounds. Afterwards, he pressed his shoulder against the ground, forcefully reversing its dislocation. He inevitably grimaced in pain and would be sweating if it wasn't so cold.

With a snap, one of his shoulders snapped back in place. Then, he promptly did so for the other one. Lena watched him do so and let out a soft sigh.

"You shouldn't be so reckless with your shoulders. You can get hurt really badly!"

Talon's face twitched. The reason why his shoulders were dislocated was to slow his fall so that he didn't die. While he was contemplating whether or not he should argue his case, Hex landed relatively gently next to them.

"Me is ok! Is you ok?"

Talon was about to nod, but a loud sound came from up above them.

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Layla was shooting down straight towards the ground at an incredibly fast speed.

As for why she was doing that…

She didn't know either.