An outcast dropout, surviving on the frontier and rising to become an S-ranked counter-magician.

Since then, we had left Gil and Ellie, and we had come to the fourth ward city. Nothing has happened so far. Everything is fine. But that's why we mustn't let our guard down.

Well. Sherry, let's go.

Yeah.

Just as I walked into the city, I noticed someone standing to my right.

"...Eve, 11th in the pecking order. Nice to meet you.

It's Yulia.

It's Sherry....

We answered the abrupt greeting and followed her.

Eve is 11th in the pecking order. She is about the same height as me and her hair is long enough to cover her chest. Also, her color is lightly pigmented, but I can see the faintest hint of green in it. And I thought from the greeting earlier, he seems to be a taciturn person.

Then we put our bags in our quarters and head to the briefing room. This time it seems that we're going to twilight as soon as we arrive, so me and Shelly get ready right away.

'Hi, Julia-kun. It's nice to meet you," she says. I'm Leo. My name is Leo, and I'm 8th in the pecking order. Nice to meet you.

Mr. Leo. It's nice to meet you too.

When I entered the briefing room, a man was there. He had short black hair and a youthful face. Maybe he wasn't that much older than me. He was shorter than me in height, but his body had a definite thickness to it.

'Have you met Eve?'

Yes, sir.

'Eve's a quiet girl, but she's a good girl, so I hope they get along.

Yes. I hope we can have a good relationship here as well. Oh ... and I'm just wondering, by the way you're talking, are you young too, Eve?

Eve's 19. I'm 25. For someone so young, Eve is very strong. One of our most promising opponents.

I see.

''I have high hopes for you, Yulia-kun. All the subsequent special class anti-magicians are strong, so I'm not too worried about them, haha.

As I was talking to them, Shelly and Eve came over.

'You're all here. Okay, let's talk about this mission.

◇

Hey, don't we need to communicate properly?

Well let's see what happens with Sherry.

'Err, wouldn't it be better to go with Yulia, who is also a special-grade antagonist?

'No, it's the female Shelly here. She's the same s*x.

I don't blame you.

This time they were going to hunt in the twilight danger zone, level 2. I heard that some soldiers had died in the fourth ward city and there aren't enough of them to fill the void. It seems that Sherry and I will be filling in for them while they are replenished. But for now, it's just me, Sherry and Eve. It's true that if it's only level 2 or so, these three are more than enough to fight, but the question was how we should interact with Eve-san. By the way, Leo-san remained in the Boundary City just in case.

Of course, we've shared all the outlines of our strategy, and we've also decided that Sherry and I will be the vanguard and Eve-san will be the rear guard in our formation. She seems to be an anti-magician who specializes in magic, and Leo-san told me that she would definitely be useful to us. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea for the three of us to follow behind her silently the whole time we're advancing, so we try to communicate with her.

Then, when we're done talking, Shelly comes back to me.

'How did it go?'

He wants to talk to Julia.

Eh....

'It's not like you're going to be mad at me, you should go now. You gave me to you....

Shelly stares at me intently. She's a bit like Belle-san, but she's not so much a taciturn person as she's not good at talking. Eve-san, on the other hand, is completely taciturn. She doesn't seem to talk more than she needs to. That's why I don't know how to talk to her....

I step back a little to the back and talk to her.

'Well, Eve, I mean...'

''........Julia-kun, don't worry about it. I'll do fine.

'Oh, yes. Well ... nice to meet you.

When Eve said that, she held up her thumb gingerly with a blank expression and showed it to me.

''Well it's nice to meet you too.

She's a bit of a strange person, but she seems to be communicating with me in her own way.

''You two!　Enemy!

As soon as Shelly said that, we were in a battle position. In front of us was a pack of wolves, probably waiting to ambush us. They were probably waiting for us in ambush. Compared to the white wolf, this one's flesh is harder. For that reason, it is troublesome in its own way if it comes in a group........

''........Leave it to me.......''

The moment Sherry and I, the vanguard, and Sherry were about to jump out of the way, Eve-san stepped forward and she spread her hands out...............and cleaved it at once.

And then.........the pack of nearly a hundred Wolves in front of her exploded.

Blasting, blasting, blasting.

The scene was truly overwhelming. I've seen antimagicians specializing in magic, such as Eira-senpai, but I knew that Eve was also superior in a different direction than her seniors.

And I was a bit curious about that phenomenon, so I deployed Twilight Sight. Then I perceived an interesting phenomenon happening inside the body of the exploding individual.

''Wow........so much with fire attribute magic.......''

'No ... this is ...'

Me and Shelly didn't have time to get out, we just stared at the scene.

'....It's done.

Chest out, pimply face?　Eve, who is doing the Apparently, I've got everything taken care of. I decided to boldly ask her about her current magic.

'That magic right now, it's a fire attribute but it's a little different, right?'

You are well aware.

''You're vaporizing the liquid all at once and making it explode with that pressure... but you're mixing the fire attribute only at the last moment?

'Yeah well the creature has blood, so I'm vaporizing it. But that's not enough to be lethal on its own so I've added an explosion at the end. Actually, I'm good at all things magical. Eh-hem.

Well that's great.

From what you just said, I understood that this was a magic that mixed fire-attribute and non-attribute magic. It's not just a matter of time before you get to the point where you'll be able to get your hands on it.

◇

Good night.

No, Eve made it a lot easier for me.

We had been hunting for a while since then, though we had almost exterminated them with Eve's magic, but they had returned to the base. Eve-san and Shelly had gone to the big bathhouse together, and I was reporting back to them about this time.

'That's great, Eve-san,'

Oh, you saw it. Eve's two names are Almighty 《All Mighty》. It's limited to magic, but all her magic is special. Of course, she's not as good as Eira or any other antimagician who specializes in ice, but that versatility made Eve a special class antimagician at that young age.

'I knew it was information, but you use a wide variety of magic.

What have you seen?

It was liquid manipulation magic. We used it mixed with the fire attribute.

Oh, that one with the loud bursts, right?

'Yes. It was exploding with tremendous force. But that magic requires intervention in the Intrinsic Realm [Personal Field], right?

''Yeah. But Eve is able to make all of her magic work directly on the target, including interventions in her personal field. That's what makes her a genius.

'It's tremendous that such a thing is possible........'

The Personal Field, a unique area. It's like a defensive wall that organisms develop unconsciously. Of course, it can't be perceived. Even with my Twilight Sight, I can't see it, nor can I sense it. But the way magic works is different for inanimate objects and living things. To be specific, it's difficult for magic to work on living things because of their personal field. For this reason, the magic used by Eve is usually quite difficult to use. Or rather, it is unlikely that she can use it continuously due to its nature. This is because it is necessary to incorporate a magic formula to break through the Intrinsic Domain 《Personal Field》 for all creatures.

Even Eira-senpai doesn't break through the "Personal Field" intrinsic area. It's because he creates magic and physically hits the demons with it.

That's why I understand. That Eve-san is probably one of the best magic users among the anti-magicians. I once again understood the meaning of the phrase "seeing is believing".

''So.........''

Yes, sir.

After that, I continued to have discussions with Leo.