Funeral, what should I do if I reincarnate as a demon?

When Philen noticed something was wrong, she was shocked and wanted to turn around and attack, but...

The moment she turned around, the hand that had been stretched out to her was wrapped in purple lightning.

Just a light touch, and there was a crisp sound of "bang!", which directly crushed the translucent magic shield that appeared beside her.

The next moment, the light dissipated automatically, and the big hand was placed on her collarbone, just pinching her neck lightly, making Philen's movements stiff, with a look of disbelief:

"Why is my..."

"That kind of defense against magic can't defend against my magic. You should pay more attention to keeping a distance when dealing with opponents like me, Fulilian, Philen... Now you are a general."

One hand for each person, making Ash's face unconsciously smile.

"--No! I'm still here!"

After a brief surprise, Rabinie suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed down, and the ground was instantly frozen, and quickly spread to Ash's feet.

However... the spreading ice seemed to automatically bypass him, not even freezing his heels, but directly freezing the innocent trees behind him.

"Damn... the magic power gap is too big, it can't be frozen at all...!" Seeing this scene, although Rabinie was prepared, he couldn't help but smack his lips.

However, countless transparent blades flew towards him like raindrops, but...

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The light blue shield composed of several defensive magics allowed the transparent blades to cut on the shield, splashing countless sparks, but it easily blocked all the attacks.

However, the aftermath of the flying waves directly cut the previously frozen trees into several pieces... and they turned into a pile of wood miserably.

"....Give up, Yubel, your imagination limits your magic power, and your specialty can't cut through defensive magic." Ash looked helpless as he looked at the girl who rushed over at high speed and waved her wand.

"Indeed, but--what about this!!"

Yubel's mouth curled up, but his body used flying magic while running, suddenly jumped into the air, and then dived towards the ground.

There was a cold light in his hand, like a wand or a trident, piercing straight at his head.

"....Mass attack is indeed a shortcoming of defensive magic, but I don't think this level of mass can break through defensive magic."

He didn't even want to see the destined ending, and turned his head to get rid of Rabinie who was still shooting ice arrows at him and making a final attempt.

However... just as he moved his eyes away, the sound of stepping on the shield came from above.

The moment he looked away, Yubel, who had obviously changed his attack form halfway, grabbed the edge of the defensive magic shield like a flexible gymnast, and turned his body in mid-air, bypassing the defense directly.

And in the flash before landing, the trident flashing with cold light pierced straight into his back.

But at the moment when it was about to touch, the abnormal gravity bound her whole body without any warning.

The trajectory of landing suddenly changed. The girl widened her eyes but staggered for a short time, and then she fell to the ground with her limbs.

"Ah... Have you been discovered?" Yubel looked innocent and tilted his head in confusion.

".... I think it's better for you to give up your plan of revenge as soon as possible. Aren't melee mages like you specially restrained by me? In addition..."

He glanced at the girl who was still lying on the side, and looked at the two people not far away with a sense of helplessness.

Connie, who is good at controlling water, has a poor fighting ability in a water-deficient environment. He cannot break the defense magic with ordinary attack magic, so he simply gives up resistance; the ice magician Rabinie lacks Connie's help, and the ice attack effect directly generated is not satisfactory, and he cannot even break the defense magic.

After just a little attempt, Rabinie was forced to give up despite his unwillingness.

The girls' massive counterattack ended with the capture of the main force Fulilian and Philen as a turning point.

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Until the end, Philen couldn't figure out why she lost... This also made her somewhat unconvinced.

This made Fulilian, who was caught by the neck, unwilling but willing to admit defeat and stop resisting, laugh:

"If you lose, you lose. Although Ash is not coming head-on, it is indeed a bit unmannerly, but... if it is a real battle, you can't ask the enemy to fight you head-on, right?"

"Indeed... I'm sorry, Master Ash, I actually thought about preaching to you when I go back." Ferren was embarrassed by what he said, and couldn't help but bow his head to apologize to him guiltily.

Just now, I was thinking, did you go back and blame me? —— Ash complained a little in his heart, but on the surface, for the sake of adult demeanor, he could only smile and reach out to touch her head:

"It doesn't matter, after all, you are a child, and it's more adorable to be willful occasionally~"

"... I'm not a child!"

Although he just apologized, his words made Fren's cheeks become round again like a pufferfish.

Flillian walked away on her own, and smiled as she passed him by: "Next time... we won't fall for your tricks."

"... Is there a next time?"

"Of course, look forward to it~"

"I don't really want to look forward to it..."

Using this tricky method is also a helpless way for Ash.

After all, if they really compete with them, it would be bad to hurt anyone by accident, but as orthodox magicians, their physical strength is really not good.

In order to bear the load brought by high-speed moving magic, Laorfen will also exercise like a warrior, but their bodies are all complete magicians.

In this situation, it was easy for him to break through the defense magic, but how to avoid being too heavy-handed and causing irreversible situations was really annoying... However, he also understood that Fulilian had some hidden tricks that were useless, but it was obviously not a life-and-death battle, so there was really no need to do this.

After this anticlimactic battle, Connie and Rabinie soon followed Fern and Fulilian to leave, but a familiar, slightly depressed voice came from his side.

".... Don't any of you care about me?"

"Rather than caring about you, I'm more curious about why you're still lying on the ground and not getting up?" Ash looked down, and the girl with a ponytail on the side - Yubel was still lying on the ground and looking at him with an inexplicable smile.

He couldn't help but say helplessly: "What are you still thinking of?"

"I just want you to help me up, and if possible... can I punch you~?"

"If it's to help me up, then it's not a big problem." He ignored the second half of the sentence, bent his knees slightly, and stretched out his hand towards the ground.

Yubel grabbed his hand and stood up, but he leaned forward and almost bumped into him. He stood on tiptoe and raised his face, staring at him with his dead fish eyes, showing a meaningful smile and whispering: "--You, stingy guy."

"....Whatever you say, don't you go back and reunite with your team?"

"Anyway, it's almost over, why not go out with you, after all~ I hate boredom the most~"

The girl who was staring at him at close range just now ruthlessly shook off his hand while talking, like a wild cat with uncertain mood, stretching lazily on the side.

And when Ash didn't want to pay attention to her, she just walked in front of him with her hands behind her back, without turning her head back and said:

"After careful observation, I found that... you really have something hidden that you haven't told me, right?"

"It would be strange if I told you everything to a guy who wants to kill me."

"How could it be~ I just want to return the humiliation to you, or do you not trust me?"

"It would be strange if I could trust you." He replied bluntly, causing Yubel to turn around and walk backwards in front of him, smiling and leaning over to look up at him from below: "It's really too much~ Aren't we already companions? How can you not trust me so much?"

"... You, a liar, are not qualified to say such things."

"But you are not much better, are you?"

"So, you are not qualified to say such things."

.........

At the end of the exam, the two people who originally had a lot of conflicts unexpectedly walked and chatted until the end of the exam.

During this process, Rabbin froze the lake, and Furlin and Connie did not know what to do.

Of course, the two of them did not care whether the three of them got the meteorite bird in the end.

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In the evening, at the edge of the barrier.

Zanze had disappeared, leaving only the chief examiner, who simply announced that those who got the meteorite bird were qualified for the second round of the exam, and that the second round of the exam would be held three days later.

He did not point out anything about Ash entering the safe zone, and even left the scene after saying it.

It was only after the examiner finished that everyone at the scene breathed a sigh of relief, and even heard cheers and high-fives.

Among the more than ten people who passed the scene, Ash saw many familiar faces.

Among them, the two teams that were obviously consumed by him and had basically no magic power still succeeded in the election.

But for some reason, Duncan, the old man, looked bruised and swollen.

This made him unable to help but walk forward and tease: "You are obviously a magician, and you are so old, but you still go to fight?"

"... This is all thanks to you." Duncan, who successfully took the meteorite bird after fighting a magician who had also exhausted his physical strength in a hand-to-hand fight, now felt a headache just by seeing Ash, but still shook his head suspiciously:

"But it's the result of our own suffering. I don't intend to complain, but I still can't figure out... who are you?"

"My business?... For many things, it's better to not know~ Little Duncan, see you next time for the exam."

Ash smiled and patted the head of the dwarfed old man, then left him and walked quickly in front.

"....Little Duncan..." The overly strange statement made Duncan's expression very subtle.

You know, he is now a 78-year-old man, and such words have not been said to him for at least 50 years. But now he is still treated like a child?

Anyone would be confused, but unfortunately, he didn't even have the chance to protest. Ash left him alone and left, leaving him depressed.

Flyllian, who was fighting with Ash just now, walked to his side very naturally, and Philen followed closely behind, staring at him expressionlessly, and asked in an emotionless tone:

"Master Ash, I'm not angry, please tell me honestly...what happened between you and Connie?"

"Although you said that, you must have been angry when you said that, right?"

"Then tell me the truth." Philen stared at him intently, pouting unhappily: "And even if I'm really angry, it must be Master Ash's fault for always not explaining things properly."

"...I want to say it, but..." How can I say such a thing! ——He looked at Fulilian in distress, but she turned away silently and said without turning back: "Don't look at me, I don't care about your business, and don't try to drag me into it again."

"Lord Ash."

"... Well, actually Connie was attacked by a bird in the sky, and I happened to pass by and saved her, that's what happened."

"What's wrong with that? Isn't this a good thing?"

"... Actually, I don't like to show off my achievements. After all, don't look at me like this, in fact, my face is still relatively thin, and I'm not used to being praised."

He selectively told part of the facts and embellished them to rationalize his behavior.

Hearing this, Philen narrowed her beautiful eyes: ".... Are you hiding something?"

"Why do you think so?"

"Look at Lord Fulilian's expression."

"Flilian... uh... Hey! What's your expression?" Ash looked subconsciously, and then found that Fulilian's expression looked so weird.

"Sorry, what you said is really too much, I really can't help it..." Fulilian turned her face away stiffly, but covered her mouth with her hands, afraid that she couldn't help laughing.

"Alas, you are really..." The betrayal in her expression made him sigh.

"It's okay, even if Fulilian didn't make a strange expression, no one would believe your nonsense." Yubel, who came out of nowhere, still had his hands on his back, walked to his side and comforted him with a smile.

However, is this really comfort? Ash always felt that she was taking the opportunity to deliberately attack him.

And Connie, one of the parties involved, noticed the topic here, but didn't approach here at all, and even fought with Rabinie who was also asking her what happened.

After glancing at Fellen and then at the girls who were wrestling, he really couldn't imitate Connie and wrestle with Fellen on the ground to change the topic. He could only look up at the night sky and sigh: "What youth..."

"Master Ash, please don't look away."

"Today's weather..."

"——Don't try to change the subject."

"Is this topic not over yet?"

"Because you haven't made it clear yet."

.......

Beside him was a girl who stared at him closely and was even too familiar with him to interrupt him directly with the universal topic change method. Next to him were two guys who watched the fun and didn't mind making trouble.

This made him feel bitter, so he just walked with his head down in silence, saying nothing, and resisted everything with silence.

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