Saikyou Mahoushi no Inton Keikaku

To Colonel Bordeaux's hurried voice, Ars glanced lightly over his shoulder before getting to the point.

Even if the colonel was in urgent need of such problems, it would take several steps before a decision could be made if he could not share a pressing situation. I mean, it takes time.

As it stands, Lehigh, the new single magician, probably wields that spicy arm in the outside world.

The air on the field was starting to tingle at Ars' report we were about to talk about. At the end of the day, there are even those inside who light cigars.

They have information that the Ars and the others do not know and imagine based on it. Assume a situation that is not optimistic.

Ars glanced at the skinny man wearing the cigar with chills. I guess I even have legs under my desk. When I noticed my gaze in an unsettling manner, I put out the fire by including only one bite and then trying to crush the tip of the cigar.

As the lingering purple smoke spreads thinly into the conference room, everyone's consciousness concentrates on Ars.

"This assignment. Unfortunately, I couldn't see it right away."

Ars cuts out as he sees how it goes. They are not discouraged, they are in a state where even a ning-ho relief is likely to float.

Regardless, only Colonel Bordeaux across the street has a wrinkle between his eyebrows and looks straight back at him. If you don't expect it. That's what he said at the beginning of the mission, but naturally the single magician didn't seem to move and think of it as a handful.

"Lord Ars, continue," Bordeaux urges.

I just had a feeling that I was going to have a good relationship with him, and Ars had his eyes narrowed a little too unfortunately.

"It's this fault, is one good idea?

"Whatever. I don't have to be a magician in my own country to get an opinion... or about going deeper."

Bordeaux doesn't seem to be in a bad mood for Ars' offer, but turns to Ning Ro's harsh expression. Because it's not about the mandate, it's about intervening in the military.

But......

"This is an opinion from a neutral standpoint called the Association Mage."

"Hmm, let's allow it"

"There are my faults, but there's nothing more out here than an anomaly. Colonel, if it's just the difficulty of the mission, it's equivalent to mobilizing a double-digit class. Just the demon rate this one encountered has a few A-rate ratings. It's not the rate you usually encounter frequently. You knew."

"Isn't that because you accompanied them as field training?"

"I didn't expect that," Bordeaux said, deepening the wrinkles and overflowing them small.

In the end, the destination is waterboarding. Nothing will move forward where we look back in time, Ars decides.

"I want you to understand that the demons here are very different from that in other countries first. Before entering the investigation of the night club, we followed the encounter with [Night Walker] and the emergence and engagement of [No Name Exists (No Face)] …"

The twist on Ars' report soon turns to admiration and praise.

[Nameless Nonexistent (No Face)] In itself, its crusade is good news for the Hydrange Army, as it is classified as S rate as a demon.

"I succeeded in the crusade, but it was no longer about the investigation of the night club. but... the crew distracted me and turned to the investigation instead"

To Ars, who digs back a little sarcastically, Loki lets his bumpy face slip away just for a moment.

A finger pokes a back stretched like that one core went through from behind.

Ignoring that weak claim, Ars proceeded with the conversation.

"What she saw where [the night club] was held. It's a monster when it comes to direct access."

"And who is that?!?

"It's an unconfirmed demon. As far as just listening, that rate is SS"

Everyone rattled the chair loud enough to the shock that the heart stopped.

"So the demon report, about the deficiencies, do you know a B-rate demon called [Kuchinawa]?

"Is that it? As in other countries, examples of sightings would of course even be demons with reports of crusades"

A high-ranking official with round glasses slowly opened his mouth. Deep wrinkles are engraved on hard, tanned skin that are impossible to remove.

This old man's voice emanates from Bordeaux. More than that, it made me nervous around. So much so that I now know in my response that I have the highest rank in this.

Ars nods in retrospect of the objectified eyes behind the old man's glasses.

Loki, giving a gentle instruction, she explains on Ars's behalf.

"[The Snake of Kuchinawa] is not a rare demon, but there are no reports going back on Hydrange's crusade record... even though there are sightings. At the same time, reports of [Night Walker] have been skyrocketing for about a month now."

Loki, who explains pale clerically, closed his mouth pointing to the fallout to include.

I guess the Colonel has a say on that, too, but he took it over without putting aside for nothing at all to do with what Ars was trying to say.

"It's unnatural for high rates to come out so far. Oh, that would be good. The problem is that the demons she saw were very similar to [Kuchinawa]."

Bordeaux opens his eyes wide and asks back.

"Lord Ars didn't see it right away, isn't that the story of anticipation? [Snake of Kuchinawa] What is the SS rate for anything?"

"Ma'am, you're talking about predictions. It's just that, Loki... from what I've heard about her, it's better not to judge her as an S-rate, but it's better for you and us to see what we can do about it."

"... right"

Some of them were just up and running virtual keyboards like they were possessed and creating something like crazy.

"Unfortunately, Colonel, this is not the end of the conversation. Ningro, this is the real deal."

"What?"

"The movement of [Night Walker], no, that's not all."

"Get the guidelines. I intend to have a certain credibility in the words of Lord Ars, whether it be personal or not. Not only do you think I'm a single magician, but you don't know what I've accomplished as a researcher? And whoever is here will not take the words of a single magician lightly."

"Then you should probably think that [night clubs] are like a ritual of co-eating. I've seen traces of the night club taking place, but I'll back up my guess."

"The evidence..."

"Beautiful sapphire, there was nothing left"

Several men, sitting on both sides toward Ars waving their heads, rang their chairs and stood up.

"So you still don't leave the realm of speculation?" A similar pursuit began to concentrate the arse one after the other.

but the alus of the day darkens his invincible grin without changing one expression. It's as if I found it joyful to reason rationally for an inexplicable phenomenon.

"There's nothing left, why think of it as zero. Nothing left is a fine answer. On the night of the night club, the number of demons assembled there must have reached a thousand. If you do consider demon travel speeds, etc., the time I went to see it is too late. But that's all the numbers coming together in one place for an ops conference? What if it's not?

Asking Ars tried to lift a quick corner of his mouth without waiting for a response.

"When it comes to what demons do, it hasn't changed for a long time. Eating. Who? If there weren't humans there... they'd be one of us left."

If we consider the phenomenon of [night clubs], it seems that the demon of [nameless absence (no-face)] also inherits the traits of [night walkers] somewhere. If you can build on this far, you're probably sure.

Yes, the demons that the Hydrange army has missed have evolved more forcefully and independently. Evolution as a clean species, not abnormality by individuals, unlike [bad eating]. The demon found a way to do it.

No, there have always been signs of it, and it's something I've always been so afraid of that someone would sound alarmed. In other words, the variant is the sign. Mandatory mutations due to cognate eating and co-eating, not by magical information bodies that prey on and incorporate humans.

Assuming that, the demon that looked like a serpent, which Loki supposedly saw, also makes sense. The process leading up to co-eating is synonymous with preying on animals, insects, etc. As such, it can also be assumed that primitive factors have influenced the final change in shape.

If there is one of these stories, and the muscles are going through, then the rationale is….

"Loki......"

"... Yes"

Loki stood next to Ars' hanging voice and then stuck one arm out of the gap in the robe.

The pattern painted in black and inky is firmly anchored to the skin. It is also a geometric, if not artificial, design. If the viewer sees it, it may be that this pattern is art.

If you stare, it's closer to the engraving, rather than the ink, and it also looks like a mark made of pressed.

――

"It!?

…………

I take amazement in my mouth. Although it was about Colonel Bordeaux who immediately came up with what the strangest mark engraved on her arm was.

"That's good enough," he softly pressed his hand against his back, leading Ars to the conclusion as it was.

"The colonel seems to have noticed that this was given by the snake's SS rate that she witnessed, isn't it? From what I've seen, it's probably something close to marking. It's not harmful, but first of all, the demon will definitely be able to figure out where Loki is."

"Lord Ars… that is, the mark is very similar to one of the properties of the [Snake of Kuchinawa]"

"Yeah, fortunately this is similar to an array of magical formulas. I'm sure it's a prototype of what we call" lost characters. "

So to speak, a [lost character (Lost Spelling)] is a deciphered symbol like this hieroglyph, and the problem lies in the absence of material describing the process.

It will certainly be classified as the oldest of the knowledge known to Ars.

"It's called [Kuchinawa] because the marks that can be attached by direct contact with the skin are shaped like shapes. Most of all, the [Snake of the Snake (Kuchinawa)] is a mark of the scale of the snake."

Regardless, there are other demons that mark magicians. There are two main purposes, one used for tracking, and the other for disabling or limiting opponents in battle situations.

Ars watched that the pattern attached to Loki was close to the mark, so to speak, to not miss the prey.

"We'll deal with Loki's mark here. That's all for starters."

"and received"

Then, before Ars and Loki, the colonel immediately skipped the instructions to everyone and let them work on the preparation of the petition. And then he flies out to solicit endorsers by telling them a few names.

It is an important part of the country, and the senior officials who leave the colonel in a hurry to leave the room. At the rear of the line, Ars and Loki salute the only elderly man who is seen as an officer class as he crosses.

Ars didn't leave the room with him, not simply because he wasn't allowed to.

To have information revealed that they know and that the Ars and the others don't. The colonel himself has given me that pledge.

"So let me tell you something. That's what we were talking about."

Colonel Bordeaux rubbed his jaw a few times with a difficult face in Ars's voice and this was the first time he had taken a seat.

"This is a circular that ran all over the country, to the military. As Lord Ars knows, each country has already begun to investigate and vigorously hunt demons towards the goals set by each country."

"Especially Iberis, Hulkapudia, and Luther Luca. We need to hurry up with that military."

"Naturally, so is Alpha... so a heavy earthquake ran into the military last night. Not even the magicians know it yet. It's a stage where we manage to organize information at the top."

"So much?"

"Oh, I have to say, it sucks. A demon was discovered in Iberis that was seen as SS rate"

"That's a disaster going on, isn't it? But there must have been a second-biggest vaget oragolam over there."

"... that's the problem"

The colonel who activated the virtual LCD divides that screen into two parts and inverts it so that it can also be seen by Ars.

One was encrypted and could not be deciphered immediately.

And on the other hand, the decrypted content fills the screen in detail.

Before trying to read it, the colonel explained himself.

"It seems Iberis was marching in an elite unit headed by second place. And on the third day, it looks like a detective magician confirmed his magic reaction to the old city he discovered. The figure is unknown, still close to 1 km, the vadget did not allow any combat and withdrew. Troops were planning to march to the limits of the territorial expansion line at once."

…………

The decision was difficult, Ars thought. Generally speaking, you decided it was a lack of combat power, a battle without winning. At least that's what countries should judge.

"This is going to get busy"