The Hero Banished Me Saying, “I Don’t Want Incompetents,” but All My Other Friends Followed Me.

Kagura vs. the Former Hero (Part 1)

Translated by NotBlueYet
Edited by Kingavent

To prevent my father from being swallowed by the demon king, I left behind the ceremonial bladeless copper sword that I had used for years as a temporary altar.

Therefore, I have to take the challenge with my bare hands against Renya who has a holy sword that is black and releasing black mist.

No, that’s not all.

I am pretty tired right now.

The Maijin Miko does not get tired if he or she moves for three days and three nights. There is no such soft training. However, I prayed for the first time, and the transfer that came true was depriving me of my physical strength more than I had imagined.

The situation remains unfavorable.

But I can’t lose, I can’t lose.

Because there are things and people that I want to protect as a man and as a child of the god Maijin.

Please, God, lend me the power to kill my former comrades who have turned into that demon.

“Martial arts kagura “sword dance”!

“Sword Dance?” What’s a sword dance without a sword?

I have a sword.

My nerves and senses are sharpened, and I can clearly feel that God is inhabiting my right and left arms and lending me strength.

The steel sword of karma that the church of Luna gives to the holy knights – a god that disintegrates steel in the blink of an eye if you try to lodge it in it – fits well in my arm.

“Swordless Swordsmanship: ‘Holy Cross Saint Cross Saber'”

Shunpo, a divine speed movement technique that could move a single mountain in just one step, crisscrossed Renya’s torso with his hand blade.

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He couldn’t see it.

Severe pain deeply carved into the abdomen in a cross. The sign of Kagura who moved to the back. By the time he noticed, Renya had already been slashed.

He was definitely stronger now that he had the demon’s power, but he couldn’t see it.

Even though it was bare handed, the Holy Cross Cutting now was clearly stronger than Teal with a sword – or any Holy Knight.

“Kagura, you ………but hey, this ain’t gonna kill me!”

He unraveled the appearance of the devil and cut off the sign of the god being eroded. Renya who healed the wound barks. However, Kagra’s Holy Cross-cutting has not even begun.

Suddenly, Renya felt a mysterious gravitational pull and felt like he was being crucified on an invisible cross.

He falls into a yukata.

Geez, bang.

I heard such a sound, and when I thought of it, my vision turned dark.

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The Holy Cross Cutting – When you use it after becoming a divine child, the side effects become unfathomable.

“You did?”

“That’s what I’m talking about, Kagura.”

I can hear the voices of Lelia and Teal.

But – bogoli.

A hand crawls out of the dirt.

The black haze that I thought had disappeared for a moment was an illusion and had returned, but now it had what looked like a bat membrane growing out of his back and horns sprouting from his head.

Completely, I could see Renya who had turned into the form of a demon.

“…… Renya, you’re ugly.”

“What the hell, Kaguraaaaaa！！！！, you’ve been hiding your power all this time, and even in the brave party, you were actually laughing at me on the inside！！！！.”

Renya was angry, starting with words, as if to let out his growing resentment.

“Seraphy, Teal, and Lelia, they all followed you when I kicked you out… so you’re really having an affair with one of them, huh? Is that right?

And yet, you deliberately accepted your banishment and laughed at me all by yourself, didn’t you”

“No, no.”

“What’s the difference ！！！！?”

“It’s true, I was hiding my powers – not really, but I think I did something that could be considered as such under the current circumstances.

And I’m sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable, and I apologize for that.”

I bow my head.

It’s just that at that time, as a holy knight of the Luna religion, I wanted to get away from Kagura for once and enjoy the swordplay of the Luna religion and the prayers of the Luna religion.

That’s all I wanted to do.

But that’s just an excuse.

“But to be honest, I didn’t expect Seraphy, Lelia and Teal to follow me, I just thought my expulsion from the hero party was a good opportunity to take over my family’s business.

But as it turns out, Renya, I did make you uncomfortable, and I’m sorry about that.”

I apologized sincerely.

The reason why Renya became a demon is probably because of me, so if I apologize, the reason why he became a demon will disappear and maybe he will change his mind.

Maybe Renya would be able to break even the temptation of the demon now and return to humanity.

Renya was once one of us, and that’s why, if I’m being honest, I want him to be a human again.

Renya can switch between his demon form and his human form, a feat that no other human-turned-demon can do.

So, or ……, if my bowing is enough to settle Renya’s rage, it’s a small price to pay.

“… That’s the place. That’s the place, Kagraaaaaaa !!!!”

However, my sincerity didn’t reach Renya.

“You, you, you, you’re always doing that, that’s how you’re haunting me down !!!!!! That’s all you need to make a fool of yourself. How much do you look down on me?”

Renya was crying; he was crying so hard he was crying blood tears.

“I’m sorry I made you feel uncomfortable, I really am.”

I don’t know what Renya is upset about, but I apologize to him to appease him.

But it doesn’t reach Renya.

“‘You’ve always been like that, and when you apologise it pisses me off so much I can’t help it. ooohhhh ！！！！！

Die, caglaaaaaa ！！！！！！！”

Renya swung his black holy sword at me with all his might.

There was no intent to provoke; but an attack in anger is simple.

I started avoiding Renya’s sword, as if dancing even with bare hands.

“The Dance of the Sword… or the Dance of the Fist.”

A fist pierces Renya’s side.

“Ggh, phew!”

It’s a teal technique.

“Stealing internal organs-” 

Appropriately, I gouge out Renya’s guts from the pierced flank.

Negotiations have broken down, and Renya, who is this angry, has no intention of ever becoming human again.

“No, that’s not how it works!”

I thought I heard Teal’s tsukomi.

“Kagraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”

“Kagura-sama!”

Renya injects the sacred spirit of the weight of the taken out internal organs, cancels the sign of eroding Renya as a devil while returning to humans, and returns to the devil to heal the wound.

But his anger turned to dismay, and his gaze was now fixed on finnell held by Seraphy, who had come from the raven’s landing to pass through the torii of the Maijin Taisha.

“Hey, you, Finnell, why the hell are you here?”

“Why did you kidnap her to the Demon King’s castle? Renya, did you humiliate my cute little sister?”

“What’s up with Reem, then?”

“Who’s Reem?”

“It’s the demon your sister exorcised.”

“Oh, that’s it, she makes that weird fluid.”

Renya forgot about his anger at me and smiled a puffy, freaky smile.

“Did you exorcise the Reem, Seraphy– did you kill her?”

No, you’re not laughing, you’re angry.

“Yes, well, demons should be returned to the earth as a whole, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“Seraphy, tmeeeee ！！！！！！！”

Renya cries, spreading his wings and trying to attack Seraphy.

But there’s no way I’ll allow that to happen in my presence.

“Agh!”

I gave Renya a powerful kick to the side of his body that I had just gouged out.

Renya shot down on the spot, writhing in pain as he tried not to blow up.

“Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

The former hero sheds tears, but he is already a demon, there is no mercy.

“Renya, I’m going to exorcise you now–“