Elves of malintention

In another part of town, goblins ran rampant, flying atop their goblin shark birds, shooting arrows at anything and anyone.

Those out and about were thrown into panic as arrows indiscriminately killed man, woman, and child alike. And that was as merciful as the goblins would be. Others were subject to being eaten alive by the goblin shark birds, while others were surrounded and beaten to death by mobs of goblins on the ground, or worse, desecrated and eaten by the goblins themselves.

The police on the scene were frantically firing off their guns, but they were quickly outnumbered.

"They're all dead. We're all gonna die," a trembling officer cowered as he tried desperately to scoot his wounded body away from the horde of grinning goblins slowly approaching him.

Suddenly, a slashing sound rang out, as thin white beams of light began to glow on each of the goblins' necks. The grins turned to scowls as the goblins stopped and turned to look at each other before all their heads toppled to the ground with their bodies following soon after.

The officer gasped in shock, slowly centering his eyes on a figure in the distance. All he could make out was a feminine frame and long wild flowing white hair. The figure then stepped forward, the moonlight revealing her to be a young woman with long pointy ears clad in a school cardigan, skirt, tights, and loafers.

"Who-"

But the words or thoughts never completed as the officers head fell to the ground as well.

The mysterious figure narrowed her gaze, slowly darting her eyes around. No other trace of life was present outside, but she could sense the presence of life inside.

"Ðæ 𐌚𐌇øþ. Ƿœ 𐌒ψ [Die foe, woe to thee]," she spat as she began to raise her blade.

"𐌌𐌌𐌐𐌇 [MMPH]!" a voice suddenly echoed in the woman's mind.

Panic overtook the woman's face as she frantically darted her head around.

"𐌌𐌌𐌐𐌇, 𐌌𐌌𐌐𐌇 [MMPH, MMPH]!" a cheery looking girl with log white hair clad in a denim dress, navy blue slip-on platform sneakers, and sporting a piece of tape over her mouth giggled as she appeared behind the other woman, startling her to the point where she nearly let out a scream.

"𐌔Œ𐌓 [SISTER]!"

The other woman giggled as she slowly peeled the tape off her mouth. "𐌔𐌏𐌓𐌓𐌖 [SORRY]! Just decided to poke around and got some of this stuff stuck on my mouth. It's like honey, sticks n' sicks. I couldn't get a sound out of my mouth. It's compact and less bulky than a normal gag too"

"dʒ𐌄𐌓! I thought you had been kidnapped, Ikebukuro."

"You think a lady like me is stupid enough to fall into damselhood? True damselhood, so don't cite all the instances I've let myself get caught in order to win wars."

The woman stared silently at Ikebukuro before sheathing her blade. "I hate how you goad me every time to speaking this human language when we have our own superior one."

"Well aside from our ears and long lifespans, we do pass for humans," Ikebukuro smiled as she brushed aside her hair, revealing a long pointy ear.

"We are elves though."

"And? We have so many similarities to humans, so why should we refuse to learn more about them? These humans in particular have caught my interest. Just look around you! Have you ever seen a human settlement like this? Moving automatons that carry people, glasses that light up without magic or wick, lest we forget the very ground beneath us. What a spectacular find. We just claim it, claim it all!"

"Then let me finish killing. There's still life present-"

"No, Bisento. We need to take advantage of them."

"Then lets and kill them all now."

Ikebukuro frowned and gazed up at the nearby apartment. "Perhaps. But do it as an orc."

Bisento nodded and cast an illusionary spell on herself, making her appearance greener and more muscular.

"As they say, no witnesses," Iebukuro thought as the other woman began her slaughter.

...

In his apartment, Maruki furiously typed away at his computer. "I'll show you all the appeal of chess! "A4, the hobgoblin moved his pawn. B6, the orc countered. GRUNT! The hobgoblin checked with bishop captures e4!" How is that not exciting!? And I've eve got an elf maiden as the main protagonist. That'll sell! We got isekais where a guy becomes a fucking ASMR mic dummy head, or was that just a reincarnation flick? What's the difference anyway? Point is, you can do pretty much anything for an isekai, so why's the boss so against a chess one? I don't even like chess, but the resistance affect is making me like that. Bet my pen pal, Mario, will strangle me if he hears that."

And in focus mode, Maruki was oblivious to the carnage springing forth around him. Goblins were attacking everyone, but they were quickly being slayed by a peppy elf girl with long white hair tied up in a ponytail and red markings on her pretty face. She was scantily clad, wearing nothing but a red tank top, black shorts, and white platform sneakers along with a belt to hold her tanto and knife.

"Orders from Ike say I can kill n' slice everything in sight! Or was it just living things? Who cares about buildings anyway? Tent's all ya need anyway," she thought.

This was Kirikatta, Bisento's polar opposite, but equally skilled as her in the ways of blade magic.

"Cut, slice, slit, SPLAT! There goes all the blood! Wonder if I could make a foot fly off like an arrow if I sliced down hard n' fast enough," she mused as she hopped atop Maruki's open window.

Noticing the man preoccupied, she decided to wait, and wait, and wait.

"The hell is this guy doing? Turn around so I can get your reaction before I slice you in half," Kirikatta angrily thought.

She finally got her wish as the rising sun and a gust of wind roused Maruki from his work. Turning, his jaw hung in awe at the sight of Kirikatta.

"She's perfect! But would probably look better against the full moon, rather than the sun."

The reaction surprised Kirikatta, so much so, that she decided not to kill him on the spot. "Well of course I'm perfect. I'm Kirikatta."

"That's... THE EXACT NAME I WAS THINKING! Oh joy, I'm living a reverse isekai with my elf waifu! Never wake me up from this dream!"

Now Kirikatta was even more bewildered. "What the actual fuck... Nah, killing a guy like this would just piss of Ike. Yeah, I already killed a bunch anyway, what's wrong with letting one live?" she thought as she decided to play with her food for a bit.

...

Touring around, Ikebukuro and Bisento eventually arrived at a high school. Bisento made short work of the goblins roaming about it before using sonar magic to scan for any other lifeforms.

"Already ahead of you. That girl down there. She's the only one still alive," Ikebukuro smirked as she pointed towards a bloody person amongst a sea of dead goblins.

"Nearly dead. Perhaps this can be considered mercy," Bisento growled as she readied her blade.

"Nope, she lives."

"You want her to die out naturally?"

"No, I mean she lives."

"Why?"

Ikebukuro ushered Bisento over, pulling out a smartphone.

"And that is?"

"A racryma maybe? Don't know. I've just begun to examine it."

"Where did you even get it?"

"A few yards back from a human corpse. All of them actually had this, but this one was the first I could unlock without a password."

"A password needed to unlock a crystal? What nonsense."

"Runecraft can get advanced. But this one here only needed the human's fingerprint to unlock."

"And that's it?"

"No, the thing re-locks, so I just severed a finger from the corpse and fastened it on as a necklace," Ikebukuro smiled as she procured the severed finger necklace in question from her cleavage. "But back to the point, I checked this thing out and found out that girl's a big deal. Mayor's daughter, beloved idol, we keep her around, we control things with ease."

"How?"

"Brainpower, that's how," Ikebukuro smirked as magic emitted from her hand.