Everything happened too fast. My senses were disoriented because of the momentary, strange exhaustion that came over me after I had used almost everything I had, but I could see, I could run... yet, even then, I couldn't do anything.
I watched the creature approach Lucia and Sue with its left paw spread wide. I wished for a moment of speed, to appear in front of the creature... to be faster than it.
But the creature reached the duo before me. And the one it had its eye on... was Sue.
Lucia had realized what was happening. Her eyes were looking somewhere between the creature and Sue, her blood-red eyes glowing with mana as she swung the sword in her left hand toward it.
But she was slow. The creature in front of him, though wounded, was probably a B grade. How could she react to it? The fact that she had noticed its purpose, that she had acted, was good... but it was not enough.