Chapter 59: Unity of Rider and Mount (01)

  "The ride is better than I thought?"

  Eileen's lower body was extremely soft, covered in short fur.

  Each time she kicked off the ground and ran, the solid rear of the horse shook, aail fluttered like a fg in a strong wind, her rge breasts swaying whenever she jumped slightly higher to avoid obstacles or tree roots.

  "Even bound with a leather guard like this... If I release it, a truly enormous mass would appear."

  Since I couldn't keep grabbing her hair, I ged my grip to her waist and hugged her tightly; Eileen shivered but could not shake me off and tio run.

  "Such solid abs."

  I knew horses were muscur, but despite a woman's lower abdomen usually being soft to retain body heat, Eileen's abs were as hard as steel, firmer than any of my rades' bellies.

  "If she runs across this pin every day, no wohere’s ra fat..."

  Eileen's frame was rge but had no unnecessary fat, except perhaps her ample chest.

  She might be faster over long distances with the lower body of a horse, but I had the upper hand in short bursts of speed.

  inally, a horse's lower body is fast for straight runs on a pin but not for quick dire ges or obstacles, which means it's not much help against a human-sized oppo like me.

  She might have taken off her exoskeleton armor to lighten the load, but even carrying a strong man, she eeding across the pin somewhere.

  "Any accurate information about the hostages?"

  "Why should I tell an outsider?"

  "If you won’t tell, I'll have to find some other eai."

  I slid my hand under Eileen's clothes to touch her solid abs.

  Her lower body was covered in short fur, but the upper human body was smooth, skin with abs so firm that it wasn't easy for fio dig in.

  As my fingers slid over her sweaty abdomen, Eileen suddenly staggered and nearly fell.

  "Stop it...! I've heard humans are always i, but even in this situation...!"

  "Information."

  "Argh..."

  She was at my merow, so she had to talk.

  "There are more than a hundred in the bandit gang. Fortunately, more than half of the bandits have headed he kingdom’s borders to plunder horses. Only a few remain ihe fence holding the sves."

  "That’s good to know. Where?"

  "Not far, there’s a rocky mountain, and they've set up barriers o path ing down to prevent our warriors from esg... Why do your hands keep moving up?"

  My hands had drifted up not on purpose but because I was riding on Eileen’s back, and the movement made them bounce.

  So I withdrew my hand from her clothes and ed it around her waist again; Eileen, looking very angry with a flushed face, rinting at full speed.

  'Sweat is slippery?'

  The sweat flowing from Eileen’s body was a white, slippery liquid, remi of soap water.

  Tudududududu-!

  I heard that war horses are specially traio minimize shaking for the riders they carry, and whether by instinct or training, Eileen too was running in a way that kept my body from shaking too much.

  'It would be a fine horse, but it’s a pity it’s already carrying one.'

  What use is it to have two human upper bodies?

  Even if there are two halves of a horse's lower body, it would still be useless.

  "This way. We ’t run from here; we o move carefully."

  Eileen slowed her steps, croug down to move quietly, and I leaned forward on her back, holding my breath.

  'Is that the rocky mountain?'

  Horse's lower bodies were seen scattered around the rocky mountain, all looking precarious on the ridges.

  The area that was ft enough for horses to climb up and down had a wooden fence, but it wasn't very high or firmly fixed.

  Could I undo it with my hands?

  'Just that won’t keep them from esg.'

  If it were just horses, their low intelligence might mean such a simple barrier could tain them, but for a taur with a human head, it seemed ridiculous to think they couldn’t escape.

  Holy, purebred horses with just horse heads might jump over such barriers to escape, and acrobatic horses carrying riders could easily leap over such flimsy wooden barriers.

  "It seems like you're looking down on us a lot?"

  "No, I wasn’t thinking that taurs are dumber than horses or anything."

  "…You don’t seem to know much. taurs weigh about the same as horses, but their ter of gravity is further forward. So when going downhill, even carefully stepping one foot at a time is dangerous, let alone jumping over an obstacle. taurs without pns to walk on fs, huh?"

  That made sense.

  Regur horses just have a horse's head on top of the horse's lower body, but a taur has a human upper body attached, so even if the weight is simir to a horse's head, the height and the addition of the human body shifts the ter of gravity forward.

  "In that sense, now that I am sitting behind her, does Eileen have a stable ter of gravity?"

  I roughly measured the length of her torso with my hand, which was lohan a human's but a bit shorter than a real horse's, front to back.

  "So, to rescue them, we just o remove the logs?"

  "If we clear the obstacles set on the downhill path, everyone return to their vilge on their own."

  "But I don't see any male warriors; have they been sold elsewhere?"

  I infused mana into my eyes to scrutihe taurs hesitating on the mountain, noting that most had long hair and rge chests, with no male taurs in sight.

  "What are you talking about? Typically, there's only oallion per group, and even in very rge groups, no more than five."

  This implies that most tribes sist of a few male taurs and a majority of female taurs...

  "Our tribe is made up of the mothers and fathers of our previous geion."

  That meant that the warriors captured in that vilge were mostly Eileen's sisters.

  "Now that we've located them, all that’s left is the rescue."

  Eileen had already started running before I could even strategize.

  "But even if the taur bandits are foolish, they wouldn't leave the sves unwatched."

  Sure enough, as Eileen made noise running towards the rocky mountain, a otioed from behind it, and several fierce-lookiaurs started running towards Eileen to intercept her.

  Tudududududu-!

  "I'm sure there was no ohere just now...!"

  "cealment and cover are basic to avoid enemy scouts."

  "If you knew, you should have mentio earlier!"

  Eileen tried to turn around in fear, but I grabbed her hair like a bridle.

  "No, keep running."

  "What are you doing...!"

  "There's no esg capture now."

  The taurs that had appeared were at least a head taller than Eileen, which meant a differen height.

  Typically, a height differerao a differen stride, so they were likely faster on average, and even if Eileen could escape with her quick running style, if the enemy reports that they have hostages at this rocky mountain, they would soon move the locatiohe hostages are kept or increase the guard.

  Currently, there are about ten; we could break through in a short assault, but it would bee problematic if reinforts arrived.

  If we were just scouting and could return unnoticed, it might be different, but since we've beeed, it’s better to make a decisive charge and stick to the inal pn of resg the hostages and esg.

  "I'm not afraid of dying, but..."

  Despite that, Eileen’s body between my thighs was trembling.

  "Well... horses are naturally skittish animals."

  Remembering the horseback riding teiques I learned in theory, I k was important to calm Eileen right away because horses are fearful, and you shouldn't approach from the rear, and if startled, they easily paniless soothed immediately.

  "Haah?!"

  So, I pulled down the hand holding her hair and drew my mana saber from my waist.

  Horses are extremely fearful of predators, uo sleep if they hear a predator's howl nearby, but horses carrying knights or people do not fear charging towards a predator.

  If a horse is assured that the person on its back is stronger and protect it, it no longer panid acts bravely as a warhorse!

  Vroom-!

  "Trust me. I won't let anyone hurt you."

  The mana saber shone brilliantly.

  I usually wouldn’t set my mana saber to such high output, but to alleviate Eileen's fear, I o make a strong impression.

  The being on her back was too powerful for mere taurs to challenge.

  "Let's go!"

  I lightly kicked Eileen’s sides, and she started running forward without trembling anymore.

  "The momentum is good, but without reins or a saddle, if we collide head-on with a taur, I could be thrown off and break my neck or something, and since a taur’s body is oh the horse, there’s no risk of being thrown off."

  However, this is what happens in jousting matches where both oppos aim for each other's shields with raised nces.

  For me, it's simple: not allowing a si and just overwhelming the enemy.

  "The female herself es to us! And she's quite pretty..."

  Ssh!!

  I split the face of a taur who was drooling over Eileen in half.

  "Now your face is truly half and half?"

  The high heat of the mana saber cooked it, so no blood or brain matter spttered, and as I gently pulled her hair with my left hand to ge Eileen’s dire, she turned right, following my will.

  "Capture her!!"

  We must be wary of arrows.

  Even if I could melt or deflect arrows ing at me with my mana saber, it was difficult to cover the entire body of the rge Eileen.

  Especially now, with my legs g her thighs tightly to not fall off, without reins, holding onto her hair.

  "Charge! Break through the formation without giving them a ce to shoot!"

  Rumbling!

  As Eileen accelerated with a gallop, fag the charging female taur and the knight ohe taurs were shocked and made way.

  "Two heads!"

  "A legendary two-headed taur?"

  I was curious about the legend, but ig and ran.

  The taurs blog the way screamed as their chests were sshed or arms severed, and as the front formation colpsed, the taurs became terrified and their formation disied.

  As I said before, horses are skittish.

  And that holds true for their oppos as well.

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