The Strategist Knows Everything

The battle in front of the king closed with the surrender of the enemy.

Even though they were inferior in numbers, they were even smaller. Naturally.

I entrusted the treatment of such surrendered men to the commanders of each unit, one foot ahead of the king.

Even before the king, there is a long main road between the kings. As I ran down the road, I saw the bodies everywhere and decided that it was Master Kaguya who did it. Most of them have been slashed in the neck.

Maybe it was an ambush. The main road is also used to make it easier to pinch people or to prevent them from escaping.

"Was it a failure to come alone?

"Right. It's a failure."

I stopped to hear voices coming from before. Because it was a familiar voice. But he must be dead.

"…… Stratos………!? How did you survive?

What appeared in front of me was Yuri Stratos hiding her face in a black hood.

"I don't have to die about it. Well, he's immortal."

I peek at Stratos' status like that and narrow my eyes. The magic power is high, but the other numbers aren't changing there, but the numbers are all subtly different. More importantly, where it was written as induction, it is written as misidentification. Looks similar, this guy is a different person.

But the voice is Stratos. You can't do more magic to me than have a fan.

"Are you really Stratos? Try and get some hood."

"I see. You can barely. Do you have a good guess?

Stratos, who said so and took the hood, was beheaded earlier by Master Kaguya, and the man who exploded looked different. First of all, the gender is different. It's a woman. More importantly, she's definitely younger than me. Apparent commonalities are all close to nothing.

"You are…… who are you?

"Stratos. Same voice, right?

"... Are you taking over consciousness with magic?

"That's close. Well, it fits pretty well."

The woman who said so and spoke Stratos's voice laughs. It's that warring laugh. Definitely, this guy is Stratos.

But there's so much in anything about taking over consciousness.

"So? You came to kill me?

"That's funny, but now I'm here to thank you. Thanks. Thanks to you, I can get what I've wanted for years. Thanks to you."

"I remember only getting in your way, though?

Stratos shrugs his face at my words. It's a hard look to tell if you're laughing or suffering. But I could see the look of a woman mixed with the look of Stratos.

"Yes. You took my Kaguya. [M] In that Divine Fan Klars! It's an abominable fan! Mage's natural enemies! I don't know why ancient fixtures are in your hands!

"I'm sorry. The goddess likes me. And try calling Master Kaguya such a joke again? I'm gonna punch you in the head."

"Hehe, well fine. It's a shame you couldn't get Kaguya, but that's fine. Anyway, I just dolled it because it's convenient to kill the king of this country... Yeah, but I'm reflecting that I should have let you do more."

"The scumbag. Remember, I'm gonna punch you."

"If you can do it, you can try it. One day you will curse your existence. I look forward to that time. Well, don't go help Kaguya now. That king will take you."

Saying so, Stratos draws a square with his fingers in the hollow.

It emits a red color and reflects a completely different space.

'That magician who said Stratos did a really good job. One word at a time, Kaguya will be able to move completely. "

"Kuh......!

A tall blonde red-eyed man, a man like Dio who says when he grows up, will be like this, laughing high with one hand at a big book. And Kaguya is kneeling on one knee in front of him and his face is distracted with regret.

"Between the present king. I have given the King a magic book that can reproduce my manipulative witchcraft. The truth is, I was only going to obey me, and then I was going to give Kaguya to the king to assassinate him where I was caught off guard, and because of you, he became the trump card that sealed Kaguya perfectly."

"...... how can you in an instant even you took six months? Is it such a powerful magic book?

"No, I'm not. Magic books are my degraded version. The problem is Kaguya. I'm used to being manipulated. The magic of manipulation and guidance takes deeper when you get used to it. That's why I need time. Even though I said I solved it, the basement is still in Kaguya's mind. That's right. That's not gonna go away."

Will Stratos' magic also take the time to manipulate the opponent as he pleases, little by little, so that the hypnosis gradually sinks deeper? It was a mistake not to give you the fan.

"Dio! I don't care. Help Kaguya!

"Mother..."

"Dio! Never move!

"Sister..."

The screen made by Stratos was a slightly far-sighted perspective and also reflected the chair-bound blonde woman and Dear Dio. The woman must be Dio's mother.

Master Dio was wondering which one to help. Perhaps if you move, they'll kill my mother. And Master Kaguya tells me not to move. Whether you help one of them or the other, one of them is in the king's hands after all. This is a tough situation.

"That's what the king does. If I were you, I'd manipulate everyone."

"It's like saying you're not your kind, huh? You and the king are scum."

"That's terrible. That man lives by instinct. My operation didn't work either. [M] Well, if you're serious, you can manipulate him, but it's not funny where you manipulated him."

Stratos put his hood back on and walked very naturally next to me, heading in the opposite direction from me.

"Come on, why don't you go quick? Master."

I stared at Stratos' back when I uttered the word and ran away with my back turned. Perhaps now Stratos has that warring grin.

I feel like I'm being danced in the palm of my hand, but I can't help thinking about it here. Now I'm just thinking about saving Dio and Kaguya.

■ ■ ■

The door between the kings was open. So I know exactly what's going on inside.

King, I can see Braig Hulberto. At the same time, the status screen opened and I sighed inside, even though I expected it to be over a hundred fights.

Even if it rots, there are only things to do with Kaguya and Dio's father. Other figures are high.

If you are running towards the king, you will be torn in footsteps. Where I knocked on the door, I was stared at by Braig's red eyes.

Shall I say a frog stared at by a snake? I didn't feel this much pressure even when I was in battle with Master Kaguya. Grab the fan, and I'll have the urge to run away.

"Who are you?

Similar to Dear Dio. But that's what Blaig asks me with a smile of unfathomable malice.

The only similarities are their appearance. This man is awkward.

With that in mind, I see Master Kaguya falling at Blaig's feet. The clothes are torn everywhere and white skin is visible, but there are no visible traumas.

But if you look at the status, the magic power is down to a single digit. I guess that's why you're so quiet. Did you use too much magic, or another factor? Whatever it is, there is no doubt that our strongest force is being rendered powerless.

"… My name is Yukito Clay. His Majesty the King."

"Yukito Clay............? Oh, I see you're the military teacher who was under Dio……………."

Braig, smiling like he was pointing at his son's friend, shook his right hand gently to the left, not having a magic book.

Moment after moment, I made sure I was caught by it and blew it to my right.

Something I can't see pulled me off.

"Huh!? Come on!"

"Normally, I'd kill you right away... but you got in my way too much"

Saying so, Braig gently swings his right arm back. The motion caught me again, blew me away, and I crawled unnecessarily at Blaig's feet.

I don't understand what the hell happened. I can't even afford to see the status.

"The thing about Kaguya... well. I enjoyed it in a different way. It's still great to subjugate a rebellious woman... but... there should have been another one here..."

The anger enters the eye, and Blaig becomes in a fundamentally horrible shape.

I don't even have to think about who you're talking about with the other guy. There are two people that Braig targeted. With Master Kaguya.

It's Sophia.

"… Shouldn't we study how to invite women………?

"Reduce your mouth!

Blaig kicked me in the face with his mouth up when he provoked me to do so, looking at my body that hurt because I was pulled.

Ouch. I think so, and now I feel pain again in the impact of being hit by the ground. And I was pulled by something I couldn't see again.

No, I'm not invisible. It's just thin. If you get pulled twice or three times, you know as much as what you're entangled in.

The thread. A few thin threads are wrapped around my arms and feet, and Braig is manipulating them with his hands. Although I don't know why I can pull people with thin threads and manipulate them freely.

"Gu............! I see…… yarn………………."

"Just notice. Yes. It's a thread that hardens by flushing magic. And freely manipulated. How easy it is to fly your neck... but let me ask you to hang out with some more of my worries."

Turning to the king who talks to me, I tell him with a smile.

"…… I refuse, an idiot!

We already know where the yarn is tangled. And there's no thread tangled in my right hand. I move my right hand and break the thread with a fan. If you touch it with this fan, which loses its magical effect the moment you touch it, this yarn is just a thin yarn.

It's not hard to cut it off.

I pull out the dagger on my hips with my left hand and slash Braig.

With my attack, which totally surprises me, Braig receives a dagger around his right shoulder. However, the edge of the blade was swept away from the upper body because it was skewed backwards. It's far from fatal.

But I could make him pull back. And attention was also directed to this one. Master Dio would have earned enough time to help his mother. All you have to do is pull Master Kaguya away from the king.

I drew Master Kaguya to hold him with my right hand, and took the kick the king rolled out.

A powerful kick will blow me and Kaguya away, but this has succeeded in keeping Kaguya apart. There are no more hostages over there.

My whole body hurts there, but Kaguya shelters me from being slapped on the floor, and I get slapped on the floor again. Now I weigh in for two. It doesn't hurt. I seriously thought my gut might burst.

My vision swells with tears. I regret why I'm doing this and exhale rough breaths.

I noticed it and Kaguya immediately retreated from me and looked worried.

"Yukito......"

"Ha-ha-ha... Isn't there a chance of winning.........?

"I said you can't win alone............?

"Sorry about that......"

Saying so, I realize my left hand won't move. It is bent in an impossible direction if you look at it. That was Blaig's kick earlier.

The pain comes twitching because I saw it. Did you lose the thread of tension at the time you pulled away Master Kaguya, your whole body hurts and you are powerless.

"Yukito... I'll borrow your fan."

When he nodded solely at his neck, Master Kaguya grabbed the fan and turned to Blaig.

Braig, who is in the middle of the room, puts his hand on the wound on his right shoulder, sees a little blood on him, and starts laughing.

"Hehe, haha!! That's it! This is it! I enjoy frustrating the will of those who scratch! More resistance! Kaguya! Dio!

Master Dio, who helped his mother, and Master Kaguya, who disabled the magic book with a fan, move to pinch Blaig.

Master Kaguya's magic has hardly returned. Because of this, the fighting power has fallen to about eighty. Master Dio is up to ninety fights, but that number is not acceptable to the other guy.

Seeing the two moving men, Braig makes a slight grin and leaps for the throne a little further away. It's a move that's slightly beyond the limits of a person. About five meters if it's at a distance. I said two meters when it was high. Repeat it over and over again without help, holding with one hand the large sword that was beside the throne.

You decide you don't need a magic book, or throw it on the throne unmade.

Master Kaguya also picks up the knife that is falling in between and confronts the king.

"Come on, call me! Enjoy me!

"Sister, can you move?

"It's far from all we can do, but we just have to do it."

Saying so, Master Kaguya laughs. Master Dio smiles, too, caught by such a kaguya.

Seeing those two, I figured out a way to break this situation.

■ ■ ■

Treating a giant sword as if it were a limb, Braig flirts with Master Kaguya and Master Dio.

Master Kaguya, who is dull in motion, cannot avoid the sword, he receives it with a sword, and he receives the sword in a critical manner. Master Dio can't win by force, and he can't have a decent meeting.

We can't meet, and we can't take advantage of the two-on-one advantages because we can't, and we can't rely on our strength to lose our position.

"Knock..."

"You can't move."

I manage to get up and get stopped by Dear Dio's mother, who was approaching me at some point.

His name is Claire Arklight. I'm so young that I don't think I gave birth to Dear Dio.

That favorite king still sits beside him, and he's pretty beautiful. That Claire will support my body.

"…… our apologies………"

"Never mind. A benefactor who saved my daughter and son. So, I'm sorry about the mess."

There's no way to take that guy down?

That's what I've heard. Lady Claire's eyes are serious. I want you to stop joking. I wouldn't let those two fight if I had such a plan.

"I can't think of any...... This is not a situation that has already arisen with measures other than fighting directly…"

"Yes... if Kaguya doesn't even get sucked by magic..."

That's what Lady Claire says and she gets hit. It sure doesn't matter how you look at it, you two are at a disadvantage. But I think I just said something very meaningful.

"Suck the magic, sir?

"Yeah? Yeah. He can breathe magic from his opponent and help himself."

I hear it, I see Blaig's status again, but that information is nowhere. There are two things I can think of.

Is Master Claire lying, or what?

Isn't it true that I'm looking at all the information?

Should I do what I can?

With that in mind, I started looking at Blaig without blinking.