Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

Thirty years ago, the strongest opponent I fought was Orteguia.

immense magic, overwhelming aggression, and defense to the point of despair.

Stronger than anyone I've ever fought for.

But the answer would change if asked who was the most troublesome.

- "Thousand Weirds” Hilda.

This woman was the most troublesome.

We have fought Hilda many times since we fought on the road to the Patriarchate.

Sharpen this battle force in a junction or trap.

Let your men attack and cut our strength.

The person then appears and ravages the battlefield.

If I am at a disadvantage, I run away from the spot without regard.

This was Hilda's usual means.

It was when Hilda and I had our fourth engagement.

Set the line on the battlefield and spread our power.

Dionis had become isolated.

There, Hilda showed up.

"- Ataxi thinks there's one in here!! There's a kid I don't need!!"

Hilda deforms her own body, becomes like a giant and storms around.

Dionis, whose abilities were shredded by the junction, was blown away by Hilda's blow.

"Damn, dude... duh"

With evil, Dionis rolls down the ground with a gobble.

There, Hilda approaches with a hella laugh.

"You weak bastard! Why are you doing this, you brave fellow?

"-"

Hilda won't allow it, even if an exasperated Dionis tries to get up.

Momentarily returning to human size, he slapped his knee into Dionis' face.

Groaning, Dionis falls to the ground again.

"But you hard-working fool in a tiny vessel like you, you don't hate it, do you?

I'm kidding, Hilda deforms my body.

My lower body swelled up more than that, giving birth to a huge oral cavity in my abdomen.

He opened his mouth enough to swallow a few humans in one bite, and Hilda hit Dionis.

"Make a fool of me!! I am the strongest“ water ghost ”of the Ghost Clan..."

"Aha! That foolishness is adorable, sss. Cute, cute, cute, cute, how dare you eat it!!"

A giant mouth approaches Dionys.

"Death to one!!"

"You look too sweet at me, you...!

Take the sword out of your nostrils and Dionis wields it.

And while in an incomplete position, he waved his sword down from the upper stages.

"First Ghost Sword/Break the Realm No, no, no!!"

The sword is brilliant.

For a moment, Hilda had a huge mouth, cut in two.

"Ugh!!"

Halfway through, Hilda opens her eyes.

"Surprised, can you use that move?!? Yet its trivial!! Kuh, it paralyzes you the other way around!! You better keep it alive, it looks like you'll enjoy it later!!"

"You're making a fool of yourself!

Dionis furious and trying to slash Hilda.

But Hilda's interest had already shifted to another.

"-But you can't, Lucifina Emilior."

With those words, the junction that had covered Lucifina was extinguished.

Hilda deforms her legs like a spring and leaps to Lucifina's source in one breath.

Lucifina intercepting with a celestial sword, but gradually cornered by Hilda's onslaught.

"You are Tsumaranai. Tumalanai is dead. Do you understand?"

"... eh"

That said, Hilda tries to stab Lucifina with a todome.

- I won't let you.

At that time, I interrupted.

We broke through the line with all our strength, and we've come this far.

"" Demonic Reflection (Impact Mirror) ""

An inverted Hilda attack becomes twice as powerful and rips Hilda apart herself.

Where the movement stopped for a moment, I tapped into the ice magic.

"Cold S!?"

Keep it up, Hilda to freeze.

Attack the ice cubes and shatter them.

"Are you okay, Lucifina"

"Yes. Helpful. Thank you."

It was almost at the same time as taking my hand and getting Lucifina up.

"Hilda, Returns!! Fuhi, for a moment, I saw your grandmother in the underworld."

Hilda stood up, melting the ice without incident and joining his torn body together.

"Well, instead of my grandmother, Ataxi doesn't have any parents!! Heavenly Lonely Perfect Beauty!! That was Hilda!!"

"Can't I freeze it..."

I have tried various means so far to kill Hilda.

Crush your head, crush your heart, shatter it, burn it, freeze it, seal it - and you haven't even killed it.

This is due to its incredible regenerative ability and its magical arm to unseal ice and seal.

Later, I can only think of enough to make it disappear without a trace.

"No. Ataxi, it's like a“ shapeshifter ”mutation, and you don't have any flesh parents, do you? Still, you see, from such a delightful personality ssssss, there are a lot of people who admire me... Oh, in the past, it's all because Ataxi killed you with a play!!"

"Hey... Hilda"

"A few sucks, asshole"

"I don't have a family either. I don't have company either. So you... why are you fighting?

This guy enjoys turning his people into pawns and dumps.

Not very much, but I didn't think we were fighting for the Demons or the Demon King's Army.

"Well, near Orteguia Sama, I'd like to see something interesting."

"... what?

"You see, Atakshi enjoys seeing from the battlefield Enjoy Momentum what a revolutionary child like that does in a special seat. Yah, amah, I'm excited to see what happens when Orteguia Sama fights."

Disgusting, I thought.

This woman is hiding her true self by making fun of herself - not that.

Now this guy is telling the truth.

That was unhelpfully disgusting.

"Don't be ridiculous"

So Lucifina raised her voice of anger.

"Are you sacrificing a lot of people for such a joke!?"

"... Ah, you're a chilling squirrel. Something - white or smelly? To put it bluntly, Ataxi, I don't like you."

"... I don't like you, either"

"Wow, we get it! You did it!

After I said such a joke,

"Well, it's time for an archery of swords, so today at this"

Hilda turned her back on us and ran out.

chase, but is inhibited by junctions and other demonic attacks.

This time, too, Hilda got away with it.

After that, after many engagements, we were run off by Hilda.

That's how time flies, and it was quite a while later that I got settled with this woman.

The land of the showdown is the Empire.

We attacked the Dead Swamp Labyrinth, it was right after.

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- Heppe, and it was Idler who appeared floating with his tongue out.

"... you, how did you get here?

"Block the signs, you're sneaky."

Block the signs, huh?

Seems a little loose right now, but if this guy gets serious, it might be hard for me to even notice.

As much as scratching the watches of the man-dog breeds, you'll be able to do it without a problem.

"Io came to this forest thinking that you would come to crush the void labyrinth."

"You've been following me?

"Yeah. I'm worried you guys are safe. You see, if you don't kill Orteguia, I'm going to be chasing demons for the rest of my life."

You said before that Idler was cursed by Orteguia by demons.

Did you want to kill Orteguia in order to de-curse it?

"Fair enough. Speaking of which, he fell upside down then, but was he okay?

"I thought you were okay, but you failed to land and you're dying a little. I've been fainting for a while. It's a miracle I didn't get attacked while I was passing out."

"... say it"

Talking to this guy makes me tired.

Sounds like you've made Elfi a couple times more troublesome.

"We've been on Beldia, but how did you get here?

"Use the summons squad to choke. When I came to this forest before, I was sneaking up on you. I broke it this time."

"Can you create a summons...?

"If you have a lot of demonic stones and auxiliary magic grants (magic items) you can manage. Well, I'm gonna hang it on a monthly basis."

To create a summoning party, dozens of good magicians must gather on a scale and take nearly a year.

I can make that on my own, and in a few months...?

Again, this guy's witchcraft talent is unusual.

Even I, with the "Testimony of the Brave," can't use a ton of magic like this one.

"Where the hell did you learn all this magic?

"I wonder where... You fished for old records like telling and inheriting and tried from one end if you couldn't use them yourself. As a result, I'm now a genius."

"That's amazing. Did you also reproduce the magic of" divergence of the underworld "from your inheritance?

It's the magic that Lewsas taught us from Reaper.

Sure, the lost magic of cheating on existence in the underworld and dodging the opponent's attacks.

"Yes, I am."

"Even me, can you use it?

That was a pretty handy sorcery.

We can avoid any attack.

But Idler looked harsh and shook his head.

"You should stop. I taught and realized to Luisas that that was a forbidden technique to erode the human body I had mastered. I don't care if he's as talented at witchcraft as he is."

Speaking of which, because of Reaper, you said things like magic was no longer decent...

"Besides, even if I could use it, my soul would be shredded every time I used it. It may have seemed like handy sorcery, but it's risky."

"... I see"

"Underworld...... oh, you say underworld these days. Because the underworld rejects living people and tries to extinguish them. Just going that way for a moment is a big deal."

…………

More than that.

Idler looked serious and switched stories.

"... I think the distortion is dead."

……

Distortion.

Demon King Army, Four Heavens King.

Volk Granberia.

"... how did he die"

"Looks like Lucifina killed me."

――――

He said he was going to pay back his debts, and he was dealing with Lucifina.

No way, was he killed on that spot?

"Killed a little after you left the fort."

Idler said, as he denied my idea.

"Lucifina was letting her own men sneak into that village. So I killed all the villagers, and I killed the distortion that came back with me."

"To the village... my men"

I was so upset by that word.

Because I remembered what Idler said and did when I was in that village.

As he left the village, Idler was looking at the village jizzily.

And this is how he answered Beldia, who asked, "What's wrong?"

'Mm-hmm... No, it's nothing. There's nothing I can do about it. "

Look at Idler and listen in a low voice.

"Idler, you noticed Lucifina's men."

"Yeah."

Without incident, Idler nodded.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I told you, there was nothing I could do"

"If you had told me, those villagers might not have died"

Then Idler looked like he was out of his mind.

"No, I can't believe you broke up and Lucifina killed the“ distortion, "can I? Besides, they didn't show anything in particular. Is this something I have to blame?

"... right, no, you're right"

Chill your head with those words.

I was wrong about that one.

It's an argument.

In the first place, he has no reason to take sides with the Demon King's army.

Blaming Idler was a mistake.

"Ito-kun. That sweetness of yours... kindness is comforting to be with. However, in winning, we often get in the way. You should know that."

In a gentle tone, Idler tells me.

Exactly.

I'm sweet.

"... bad"

"Yeah, you don't have to worry about it. As I said now, Iori, your kindness is pleasant. I like it. That's why... my coolness is getting so prominent."

…………

"You know, Io. I've decided to use any hand to kill Orteguia."

Looking at me with peachy eyes, Idler said so in a clear tone.

"As you can see, I'm not strong. I can do a lot of small work, but that's all. I don't have a choice of means to kill Orteguia."

Indeed, it is impossible for Idler to kill Orteguia on his own.

On the contrary, it would be difficult to beat even the Four Heavens King.

"So I'll do anything. I don't care if you get a coward's sleigh, but you get scolded by a coward. I'm definitely gonna have to kill Orteguia and get revenge."

I'm always showing you, there's nowhere to be kidding.

Quietly, but certainly seeping through the inner hatred, Idler ran out of words.

"Is that... revenge for being cursed?

"I have that too. But that's not all."

Previously, Idler said:

I hated strife, and I only kept my books in the Demon King's Army.

But when Orteguia became Demon King, he said he was expelled from the Demon King's army and made into his present physical condition.

I haven't heard anything more.

"Ito-kun. Have you ever put someone you care about in your hands?

Unexpectedly, Idler has thrown such a question at me.

"It can be family, lover, or best friend. Have you ever killed a loved one with that hand?

"... you don't"

"I do."

Amazingly, it was a cold tone.

"... I had a best friend. No changeover, just one best friend."

"... best friend"

"I'm glad I could just stay with him. That was all I was happy about."

- But happiness didn't last.

"He's pure. Bad guy tricked me into being Colo, didn't he? He did a lot of wrong things without realizing he was wrong."

Idler tried to stop it.

persuaded his best friend, and also shouted to him who was abetting his best friend to stop.

But still, my best friend didn't stop.

Idler, who realized he couldn't stop his best friend by himself, relied on his people.

Together with his companions, he went to defeat the bad guys who scorned his best friend.

"But... but come on"

With tears in his eyes and trembling voice, Idler continues the conversation.

"My people betrayed me."

I don't mind bleeding, Idler bites his lips off hard.

I rubbed my face with gossip and wiped my tears.

"The guys I thought were buddies were connected to the guys who had their best friends. I didn't know anything. I was so easily fooled, I almost got killed."

Idler managed to escape the scene.

Before that escape, my best friend was waiting for me.

My best friend says he's been attacked by idlers.

"You saw my back before, right? That little scratch was slashed by my best friend."

From there, Idler also says his memory is vague.

"But there's only one thing I remember clearly. With this hand, the feeling of killing him."

Insensitive, Idler resisted.

As a result, Idler said he had killed him.

"... I made up my mind. He said he would never forgive the people who cheated on him... and betrayed me."

Then, it seems, Idler has been secretly leaping and taking revenge.

"I joined the Demon King's Army because it was more convenient to avenge it. For once, you can go into asylum, and it's easier to act."

Idler continued his revenge as he joined the Demon King's Army.

"And now I'm stepping forward with my vengeance."

"... I mean, your last vengeful opponent"

"Yes, Ortegia. Well... instead of revenge, I'm being framed for getting kicked out of the Demon King's Army and being chased by demons."

As I mock myself, Idler laughs.

"... laugh at me for being an idiot? You betrayed me, you killed my best friend... and I can't believe you're trying to avenge me for being weak."

"You're not laughing."

There's no way it's funny.

"... you're sweet"

That's what I said, Idler laying his own hands on mine.

"... yeah. I knew I'd be comfortable with you."

…………

"My, like this. I'm sorry we talked boring, huh?

"... I'm the one who asked"

"Hehe. Yes, you did."

For the first time, I felt like I heard Idler's heart.

Usually, I'm kidding. Maybe it was to keep them alert.

… just like elphi, there is also the possibility of vegetables.

"So I expect a lot from anti-Ortegian elphiszark. I'm with her, and so are you."

"I see."

"... but I thought you'd kill Orteguia with Elphiszark too?

"Why are you asking me that?

"Mmm. You seem to hate Lucifina so much... I wonder what Ortegia looks like. It feels like Itsuki doesn't hate Orteguia. I wondered if you were really willing to kill Orteguia."

Sure...... I don't hate Orteguia.

Because he was an enemy, but he wasn't betrayed like the Lucifinas.

"Sure, I don't have a grudge against Orteguia. Even if you're an enemy, you're not the target of revenge.... Still, I'm going with Elfi to kill Orteguia"

That's the kind of contract.

I'll help him get revenge.

Until the end of my revenge, I decided to stay with you.

"Huh, well"

With a subtle look, Idler nodded.

I understand, but the wind is that I'm not convinced.

I was curious about that part, but I remembered more than anything else I had to ask Idler.

"Hey, Idler."

"Yeah?"

"You, you know, a thousand different things?

“Thousand Weirds” Hilda.

Thirty years ago, the Demon King Army Four Heavenly Kings.

"Uh yeah, I know for once. You're the Four Kings who died in the Empire."

"Oh, yeah"

"What's wrong with that?

"No. Bye, Idler"

"Yeah?"

I...

You know "■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ It could be something close."

That's what I asked.

――――――

Idler opens his eyes.

"... why are you asking me that?

"I'll win."

After thinking about it for a while, Idler replied.

I know, he said.

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Then we talked for a while.

I know him well.

That's why he knows my weaknesses well, too.

In a conversation with Idler, I was convinced.

Lucifina is waiting for me in the void labyrinth.

"... can you ask?

"It's okay. It's a little dangerous, but I think if there's someone who can help, it's okay"

"Sorry."

After the conversation, I decided to go back to my room.

To the boulder, any longer stories would be unsavory.

It's getting deeper at night, and I think I should get some sleep now in case it's after tomorrow.

"Hey."

Look at me getting up, Idler listening.

"Hit it or come off. Which (...) would you prefer, Io?

"... Either way, it doesn't change what I do"

"Mm-hmm."

Trying to leave as it was, Idler picked the hem of his clothes.

"... be careful"

"Oh."

Nod.

To the fullest, you'll have to be careful.

Although I don't want to think too much about which (...) is better.

If it was a hit,

- Because I can't beat him.