Monster no Goshujin-sama

Thirty-eight.

"... Huh?

Whose would the small raised voice have been fulfilled?

The shock was so heartbreaking that I didn't even know it was aggressive.

There was a blank space for thought.

Maybe that's nothingness born because consciousness rejected reality.

I noticed a burning sensation on my flank.

After the physiological reaction distorted my face, I finally realized that was a sign of severe pain.

"... ah, gu"

A sharp blade was breaking into the flank.

The pain clogged my breath and in an instant a cold sweat erupted from all over my body.

But on the other hand, consciousness felt the reality that was happening to me, like some distant event.

Too much, because this situation was out of my imagination.

What's happening in real life is so incredible.

"Fuck, Hiko...?

Trembling lips spun the name of my best friend in front of me.

I'm looking down because Kanahiko is leaning forward.

Unnaturally close proximity was stuffed by accident.

Five fingers were strong and I could see him squeezing the knife pattern.

Recognizing that much, Brain Miso finally chewed the unacceptable reality in front of him.

That is, Kanahiko, who turned from smiling greeting to murder, is sticking a combat knife on his side.

The forward leaning posture was meant to protrude the knife.

I tried to peek in from the bottom and a slight grin was pointed at me.

"No, Takahiro. If you're alarmed, come on."

The cheerful tone that embarrassed me in half was definitely that of a boy who was my best friend.

It was just different by the time only the act was cruel.

"Kanahiko, why..."

A calling voice swept away in pain.

Kanahiko's hand holding the knife was somehow contained shortly after he was stabbed.

An unconscious defensive reaction stained my body was working for me.

But after things happened, there was also a limit to the response.

With the heartbeat, the hot, soaking blood wetted my hands.

"Yikes...... no ahhhh!?

Kato, who saw the bloodshed, screamed.

At the same time, the situation moved.

"Dora! Seniors!

"What are you doing, you!

Kudo screamed in a werewolf appearance, and Dora, who had moved before it, ran shaking her shadow sword.

But he assumed this situation.

Kanahiko responded calmly.

"Whoa, it's dangerous"

Just before Dora slashes me, she shields me.

During this time, the body was masterful, backed by training, the same day we recognized each other's efforts.

"Here. Whoa."

"Gu."

He kicked me in the stomach and Dora took me in.

The knife fell out of his flank on the clap and blood erupted with increasing momentum.

I lost my blood. My strength rapidly falls out of my body.

I held my flank and bled out, but my vision was already darkening.

"Dora, secure seniors!

"I understand!

It would have been a reasonable decision for Kudo and Dora to have moved in the direction of ensuring my safety.

However, Kanahiko's aim was different from the beginning.

"Hih!?

When I heard the girl scream, I grew furious.

"Shit......!?

By the time I realized it was too late, and in the first place, my body didn't move properly.

Still, I managed to look up in pain.

There, there was the worst sight.

"Mr. Kato......"

A girl who had lost her mind had been strapped up on Kanahiko's shoulder.

"I'm alone here, and I don't know if this is the situation. We're not going to do this properly."

"Kanahiko..."

On Kato's neck, Kanahiko was pressing a knife blade.

The sight was much stronger for me than getting my flank stabbed with a knife, poking at the cruelty of this situation.

"I'm sorry, but I'm gonna let you get away with this."

"... do you think I'll let you get away"

Kudo quietly returned the words.

The inquiry even had the sound of intimidation, but Kanahiko was tenacious.

"Oh. I think so. Sure, maybe you don't think anything of this kid. But Takahiro isn't. If Takahiro isn't, you can't move, can you?

"Be clever..."

Kudo struck his tongue, but never moved.

I was relieved that there was no way to mount an attack on Mr. Kato because of his involvement, but it was also true that now we no longer had the means to change the situation.

"Kanahiko..."

I was forced to open my mouth, connecting my consciousness, which was about to break.

Let Kato go.

"No, no. 'Cause I can't. If you do that, I'm gonna kill you even though you're not there."

Showing Dora with her eyes, Kanahiko let her tremble deliberately.

"That means die, right? Well, there's something you shouldn't have said."

"... that's not what we're talking about. In the first place, why are you hostile? What happened?"

"Especially nothing. He just became an enemy. So I can't even give it to Kato."

Lazy, these words are overdone.

"Gu..."

There were a number of things to ask.

Yet I couldn't help but have not had enough blood in my brain.

Thoughts don't work well, then, while connecting consciousness that seems to be interrupted.

All I could do was listen to Kanahiko.

"That's not so strange, is it? Takahiro has no way out of this place. I can't do it. You're done. Still don't think it's foolish to be on your side?

"Kanahiko..."

"Oh, I mean, what are you trying to say, it's a priority. Is this a collaborator you've recently been able to... collaborate with? words, though. If I were you, I wouldn't mind eating about him, but I think that's the right word."

"... Priority?

"Yeah. Priority. That's why I can't help it."

Say things like you gave up.

I don't know what happened, but in a "I can't help it," you stabbed me - and normally I would have thought.

Although.

But before I think about it...

"Kanahiko. Are you..."

- I wanted to ask you something.

But I was not allowed to do so.

Before that, there was an anomaly.

"Is this...!?

Suddenly, the floor of the aisle went up and down greatly.

The passageway, which appears to be quite rugged, swings wide and vertical.

"At this time, is it an earthquake...? No, this is..."

"O king! Closer! There will be signs of magic!

Too well timed an event, Kudo and Dora quickly assumed that it was not an ordinary event.

The reaction was natural - Kanahiko and I were different because we knew.

Kanahiko turned back his heel immediately, and I opened my mouth and squeezed out the words.

"Chi... no! This is not an attack......!

"What?"

When Dora raised her suspicious voice, Kanahiko was trying to reach the aisle wall.

A place of nothing.

And what I saw was also, in the meantime, making a deafening noise, and the walls began to split in two.

"What the...!?

It would also be natural for Dora to be taken aback.

The structure of the passage, which seemed stubborn, is changing.

Not long ago, there was a new path there.

Without hesitation, Kanahiko leaped herself into the aisle.

Keep Mr. Kato in charge of losing his mind.

"Wait, Kanahiko...!

"Oh, hey!

Moved by a stifling impatience, I tried to chase Kanahiko away from Dora's hand.

However, the foot, which took a step forward, collapsed uncomfortably, unable to support his weight.

Severe pain runs up the spinal cord, dimensioning the action of the nerves that give instructions to the whole body.

"You! You know how your injury is!?

Dora grabs my shoulder with her knee poked.

Of course, I knew that.

"We need to go after him...!

I can't believe you're saying you can't.

Still, I couldn't stay or stand.

"Now, now, I can still reach you...!

"Oh, you..."

To get lost, Dora rocked her eyes.

Shortly afterwards, the white blade shone brilliantly at her.

"Ugh!?

It was a sharp spike blow.

Dora of the Battle was poked into the void because that was the attack from where no one was supposed to be.

"This!"

At stake, Dora reacted.

Turn one hand into a sword and bounce back, gazing.

"Hey, what is this...?

Before Dora stared, there was a spear.

Earlier, it pierced Travis' head and stabbed him in the stomach.

The spear was floating in the universe, as if someone transparent was covering it.

I've seen sights similar to that before.

"'Aerial Night'! Kanahiko's unique abilities!

I can handle my weapon without touching my hand, a force similar to the mindfulness power.

Successive spikes are rolled out.

"Depressing......!

Dora bounced back exactly that blow.

It was an unsafe attack.

However, I was not transcended by Kanahiko's thoughts on this occasion.

"... have you eaten your footing"

Kudo snapped and sparkled his back feathers.

"Step aside, Dora. I'll crush it."

Speaking in a frozen voice, he unleashes magic that he could not use until now because he had been taken hostage by Mr. Kato.

Shortly after Dora flew away, the floating spear snapped with a wind hammer.

If you destroy the weapon, they just won't last their abilities.

The broken spear fell to the ground.

But by then, chances were long gone.

"Damn......"

I clenched my fist wet in blood as I gazed down Kanahiko's disappeared passage.

If we were to chase him, it had to be soon.

From now on, it will take time to chase them down.

With this injury, even where Dora held me, I can't afford a long pursuit.

I couldn't reach it.

As soon as I recognized that, I was impatient.

"Ugh, gu..."

I couldn't even stand on my knees and poked my hand at the floor of the aisle.

Under my palms, the floor was shaking.

"Oh, man. Are you okay?"

The vibration continues even as Dora calls out.

I heard a low noise from afar.

I could have guessed that the aisle was changing just like earlier.

"Dora. Seniors, first aid immediately. I can't use one arm..."

Kudo walked over, giving instructions.

In the sharpened eye, the color of vigilance against the vibrations that still persisted appeared strongly.

"Nevertheless, what the hell happened to this...?

"... a magic tool"

I answered immediately.

I could have done that.

"Magic tool, is it?

You didn't think there was a response, Kudo was confused.

"That is certainly natural to think so, in view of the earlier activation of magic… but does that mean that this place is some kind of facility that is planting a large amount of magic tools? Hidden passageways, that kind of thing?

"No."

This, I denied.

"This place is not equipped with magic tools."

"... seniors?

Kudo's call was marked by confusion.

A little bit, maybe he thought I was confused.

I was turned to a carefree gaze.

It was not a strange situation to think so.

But I shook my head to the side.

"I'm fine. I'm not losing my mind. I don't... I know who this place is, Salvia poked me out."

"Of this place, who...?

It was some kind of coincidence.

Salvia was only looking to see if she could not let my magic, the contractor, unfold.

And the attempt was successful.

Although it took a long time, she succeeded in poking around the cause.

The result was a badly puzzling feather.

Because the reason the magic didn't work - was because of 'mutual interference'.

Magic was interfering with each other with the activation of the same kind of magic in one place.

Knowing that, by slightly changing the nature of the magic she had given me in her contract, she was able to avoid interference and activate the magic - in itself, it was a "fog makeshift" technique that softened a long time ago - which, at the same time, revealed one fact.

It was, 'What side of the magic' Misty Inn 'was interfering with this place'?

In other words, 'what magic continues to unfold in this place'.

At first, Salvia seemed to wonder if that was some mistake.

Impossible, he said.

Because I was interfering because it was part of what could be called her 'essence'.

But no matter how I checked, the answer didn't change.

Always in this place, "Misty Temporary Inn" Salvia, the very existence of magic, and the same kind of magic unfolds….

That's why I denied Kudo's words.

In other words, there are no magic tools planted in this place.

"- This place itself was created by magic tools. This is a kind of different world."