The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

"I was supposed to be a brave ......!"

The first thing that came to mind when the man in armor said that was the image of Senpai and Kazuki.

But I immediately reject that idea.

Their inhuman physique, body, and magic clearly do not belong to the humans of the original world. In fact, the hardness of his skin and his strength are not something that can be acquired overnight.

In fact, I would be surprised if such a superhuman was from the same world as mine.

"By brave, do you mean that he was supposed to be chosen in this country?"

"......Yes, that's right."

Brave in this world means two things.

Those with the qualities of a hero summoned from another world, like Senpai and Kazuki.

And a person who is given the title of "hero" by the state and becomes a hero.

In this case, the man with the long hair --- Mr. Karon --- is the latter.

"Even so, that power of his ...... Mr. Karon is beyond the scope of man ......."

"I'm sure they don't want to be told only by you. ......"

You're noisy.

But the question is, what do we do now?

"I'd like to pull out of this, but ...... won't let me. ......!"

I take a half step forward and look at Mr. Caron, who is carrying an axe and staring at me.

Even if I turn my back to him now, the icicle from earlier will fly at me. On the other hand, if I stay here, he will attack me.

In the meantime, Mr. Karon puts his hands on the icy ground like an animal.

"Come on, ......!"

"You say 'Usato'!　Put me down!　I don't want to get in your way!

The guy in the armor, I think it's Leo ......?　His voice is a little high and husky, but his name is male.

His injuries were completely healed, so I put him down.

I don't know you very well. I'm also curious about the conversation you're having with the strange creature on your shoulder, but I'm ...... sure you're not a bad guy."

"What do you mean, 'curious'?　I'm an owl!

No, you're a vampire.

I look at the man in armor who has moved a little behind me.

I'll tell you what happened with him and Mearaak later. First, I need your help to get out of this situation.

Still in his cracked armor, Leo turns his palm toward Mr. Karon.

With no weapons, is he going to fight with magic?

...... who was fighting him alone just now, I'm counting on you to fight with me.

"......Thank you. I'm honestly very grateful.

"!!!?　I'm ...... being depended on...... and I'm ......?"

"Hmm?　......!"

For a moment, I felt a sense of disappointment and a strange sense of motivation coming from him behind me, but when I saw Mr. Karon putting strength into his legs, I changed my mind and jumped forward as well.

My first move is much faster than his!

I shoot a healing bullet under Mr. Karon's foot and close the distance by stepping forward as hard as I can. Mr. Karon, perhaps trying to intercept me as I come toward him, tries to leap at me, but then my healing bullet hits his right leg, which he is not paying attention to, and he is thrown off his stance.

"I'm used to dealing with hard opponents!

Basically, hard guys don't defend themselves!

I've already learned that in the fight against the evil dragon!

"Neah!　I'm going to knock you unconscious!

---!

He plays with speed and keeps on killing the attackers.

He continuously strikes with his healing restraining fists, blocking their movement..,

"Ah!"

However, he senses a tremendous cold air from Mr. Karon's axe and retracts his outstretched arm.

The next moment, an axe swung with force passed by the place where his arm had been.

"Oh my God, he's taking it with him!

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"

I don't feel the weight of the axe---I evade the onslaught of Mr. Karon, who wields it as if he were swinging a wooden stick.

If I am hit, I will be seriously injured or even killed instantly.

In addition to the slash, there is another problem, the cold. I can manage with healing magic for now, but if I continue to be exposed to the cold air, I won't be able to move properly.

Every time the axe is swung, a strong cold air is emitted, taking away my body heat.

"Nea ...... resistant spell. ......!"

"To the cold!　Or is it a slash...?"

An axe snatches in front of my face. I turned my head quickly, so it didn't hit me, but ...... that was chilling.

Probably, Nair, who was at the same height as my face, was hit by the axe as well. She looked pale regardless of the cold.

"Slash, slash!"

"Oh, ...... it's a slash!"

The slash is no longer effective on me now that the resistance spell has been activated, but to be honest, I don't want to take the axe myself, so I'll just take advantage of the opportunity and attack.

As he clenches his fist and tries to check his opponent, an ice flake comes out from behind him and hits Mr. Karon's hand holding the axe.

The ice shards, despite their appearance, spread wide and sewn Mr. Karon's hand and the ground with ice.

"......?

Usato, now!

Looking behind him, Leo's hand is raised in the air.

Did he just aim at the handle of the swinging axe and shoot accurately?

He compresses his hands with ice magic and sends out two ice magic bullets in quick succession, hitting Mr. Karon's legs, further restraining him.

"Thank you!　Nair!　We'll be solidified by the numbers!

"Oh, how many times have I had to go along with your recklessness!

A fist covered with a binding spell.

Each blow has only a little binding power, but if you hit them in succession, the binding power will be great!

I step forward and swing my fist at Mr. Karon, who is about to make a move while shattering the ice.

"OHHH!"

I hit him eighteen times with my fists in a single attack.

I couldn't go any further because of the danger of breaking Mr. Karon's body.

However, the binding spell seemed to have worked even with just that, and the layers of binding spells had been activated in Mr. Karon's limbs when he was hit by me.

"Hu---......"

"Well, uh, do you feel like you should admire this guy for being able to eat this monster's fist and keep his figure?"

Nair's puzzled words make me worry that I've gone a little overboard.

The feeling in my fist is still the same as if I had punched the scales of an evil dragon---although the damage itself doesn't seem to have done much damage. .......

"Let's get into Mia Lark. If left unchecked, this man will soon go berserk, and frankly, we can only restrain him now."

"...... Unusually, you are looking at the situation calmly. You're not all about the rush. ......"

Rush is superfluous.

Wary of Mr. Kallon's immobility, I back up and urge the man in armor to enter Mearaq.

But..,

"......ooo......"

"!　Can you move?

"Usato, I'll cover you again!　I'll cover you again..."

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo ......!"

The roar was so strong that it shook the air.

I sense something unusual in his voice.

With that, something like horns grow out of the man's head.

"What ......?　Horns?

A tail is growing out of his head too!

Two white horns grow from the side of his head and a blue dragon-like tail grows from his waist.

As if in response to his own transformation, Mr. Karon cries out, his eyes bloodshot.

This is a dragon!　How did a human become a dragon?

"Oh no, it's too soon ......!　There's still time!

What do you mean?

I ask Mr. Leo, but he doesn't answer me, probably because he is upset by the sudden situation.

In the meantime, Mr. Karon, who has finished his transformation, raises his axe with a stronger cold air than before.

The rush of the tremendous magic power is so strong that he can feel it on his skin, and he quickly shoves Nair on his shoulder into the bosom of his troupe uniform. I heard a "Pugyafu" sound as he did so, but now was not the time to be worrying about her, so I stood in front of the shaken Leo-san and protected his face and abdomen with both arms.

The next moment, a blast of wind and cold air, which could have been mistaken for a snowstorm, blew us away from the axe that had been swung down.

"Gghhhhhhhh!"

"Hyaaa~~~!"

I was blown away and, fortunately or unfortunately, was knocked backwards onto the icy ground near the gates of Mearaq's castle.

Nea is safe because she has a little scream in her inside pocket, ...... mine not so much.

"d*mn, what the hell is he ......!　It's not normal for him to blow off the cold air alone. ......!"

My body is too cold to move properly.

I don't think I'm frozen, but I'm so cold that my arms and legs don't work properly.

"......Leo is ......"

He was blown away with me, and he is lying on his face a little behind me.

I want to get him out of there right away, but first I have to heal my body..,

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"

Oh, they're still coming after me!

My cheeks twitch as Mr. Karon raises his axe and falls toward me.

It would be fatal if I were to be attacked in this situation... but no amount of healing magic can keep me out of the cold.

Even if I ask Nair to build up her resistance to cold, she won't make it in time.

If we don't do something, certain death awaits us.

"I can't die here. ......!!!"

He forces himself to use healing magic on his cold leg, and tries to stand up.

If this cold is enough to completely disable me, I would have died a long time ago. ......!

I thought, and scolded my shivering body as I stood up. When I looked up, Mr. Karon had already started to swing his axe.

I'm ready to ...... take him on!

I clench my fist, which is filled with the spell of resistance, as hard as I can and swing it.

---Boom!

"---!!!?"

"...... to?"

But before my fist and Mr. Karon's fist could make contact, something blocked the axe that Mr. Karon swung down, and it was bounced away.

Mr. Karon landed on the ground and continued to swing his axes, but all of them were blocked by something like a transparent wall, and no attack could get through.

"Is this a boundary?"

Looking closely, I saw that there was a translucent light-blue boundary between me and Mr. Karon, and that it was not only in front of me, but also covering Mearaak.

Even the wards that had trapped Eva in Samaria were not as big as this.

Who in the world .......

"Usato-dono!

Mr. Aruk!

Aruk-san comes down from the wall near the gate.

Did he leave Amako and Bulrin in ...... Mialak?

"Are you all right?　I'll warm you with my fire now!

"No, I'm fine. No, I'm fine. I'm more concerned about the guy who's passed out in there. ......

Mr. Karon can't touch us anymore.

The wards are more solid than they look, and his power is unimpressive. The problem is Leo, who got blown up along with me. Still paralyzed from the cold, but able to move a lot, I pick up the unconscious Leo and cast a healing spell on him.

As I am pouring magic power into him, frowning at the coldness of his armor, Alc moves next to me and creates a flame in his palm.

"Mr. Aruk ......"

"It is your bad habit to be patient, Usato-dono. Please rely on me a little more."

"...... thank you."

The heat from the flames warms my cold body.

I look at Mr. Arc and smile, and move to the gate of Mialark, where I think Mr. Arc came from.

In the middle of this movement, a black owl flies out of my uniform, gasping for breath.

"Pfft, Usato!　You're choking me to death!

"Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot."

"Not bad, huh?"

I was just trying to help you.

If you had been hit by that blizzard, you might have been blown far away from here instead of frozen.

What is going on in Mearaq, anyway?

The man with horns and a tail, Mr. Karon.

Mr. Leo in full body armor.

And the strange quietness of Mialak, where not a single person is seen in the midst of such a disaster.

"...... either way."

I look at Mr. Karon, who is outside the boundary behind me.

There I see him glaring at me with a single-minded focus and snarling like an animal.

To tell the truth, I was the one who would have lost if I had continued. I was saved by chance by the warding, but I don't even want to imagine what would have happened if that hadn't been the case.

"I'm not good at fighting after all. ......"

I don't want to fight anymore if I can help it.

On the other hand, I had a feeling that I would have to fight against Mr. Karon, no matter what it took.

I had a feeling that I would have to fight with Mr. Karon no matter what.

After entering the water city of Mearaq and meeting up with Amaco and Bulrin, I was struck by how deserted the streets were.

No stores were open, and there were no people.

I had a bad feeling at the sight of so many people, and looked at Mr. Aruk next to me.

"Mr. Aruk, this is ......."

"Yes, for some reason, there's no one in sight."

Don't tell me that the people here were done in by Mr. Karon ......?　No, there would have to be blood or some other sign that they were ransacked.

"Amako, I don't smell blood or ......"

"No, not at all."

That means Mr. Karon didn't do it.

Then why? Under the circumstances, it is possible that there is no one in the castle beyond our line of sight.

"......Gruar."

"Usato, Burlin says there's no sign of anyone around here."

Okay.

Maybe this isn't about the letter. .......

I don't think it's worthwhile to give a letter to Mearaq if he's in such a situation.

"Mister Usato, why don't you look for the person who put up the wards?"

"Yes?"

Even if the warding was done by magic tools, it must have taken a human hand to make it work that well. If we can find that person, we may be able to understand this mysterious situation.

"Right. Aruk is right. Let's first look for the person who made the wards. Currently, the only person who seems to be related to Mearaq has been knocked out by the blow he received earlier.

Nair, who is dressed as a village girl, agrees with Aruk-san's words and glances at the armored man on my back.

It is true that what we need to do now is to assess the situation.

Well, with Nair, Amako, and Bulrin, who have better senses than humans, we'll find them soon enough.

"That won't be necessary."

"!"

A muffled voice echoes from behind me.

It seems that Mr. Leo has awakened from his stupor.

I put him down for the time being, and he nods dejectedly at the sight of his cracked and dented armor.

"I'm sorry. I've been rescued again.

"Are you all right?　Do you feel any pain?

"No, I feel strangely fine. No, I'm strangely unaffected. In fact, I'm surprised I'm not more tired than I already am. I am ashamed of myself for having underestimated the healing magic until now. I am so grateful to ...... for your help."

He bows his head and I feel a little embarrassed.

But when Leo lifts his head next, I freeze.

"But a skilled user of healing magic is truly amazing!　I never thought that you could not only catch his fist easily but also hit him with your fist!

"Heh, heh, well, it's no big deal ......."

Leo's words make my cheeks twitch.

I'm sorry, but ordinary healing wizards aren't very good at physical combat. It would be wrong to try to hit them.

Hey, that little fox and owl behind you! I know you're trying to hold back but I know you're laughing, okay?

"And yet you're ...... pathetic."

"Your emotions rise and fall so fast. ......"

Emotional instability.

Is she pretty young under that armor?　He's a little taller than me, so maybe we're closer in age than I thought.

So, Leo...

"...... yourself?"

"What?"

Did I get the name wrong?

No, but I thought you introduced yourself as Leo earlier. .......

"......F, if we've fought together, even though we've never met, we call each other by our nicknames. ......That's how it works, right?"

"No, I mean..."

"Don't tell everyone. I'll call you Usato. It's easier to call you this way than the other way around.

"Uh, yes, that's right."

Let's not even get into the name thing, because it's already a hassle.

He is wearing a helmet, so I can't see his expression, but he must be very happy to see me because he is nodding his head with his arms folded.

It was something we didn't intend.

"You want to know what kind of situation Mialak is in now, don't you?"

"Yes."

"...... We'll talk more about it at the castle. I've got some things I need to report."

"At the castle?　Are there still people here?"

Leo nodded at Aruk's words.

"Yes, though not many of them. ...... follow me and I will guide you to the castle.

"Can I take the blue grizzly with me to Burlin ......?"

"......Are those bears demons, after all?　And a blue grizzly? ...... If you don't want to attack people, that's fine, but you can't go inside ...... the castle, can you?"

"Guh."

Here's a bullring.

I somehow understood what he was saying, so I spoke for Mr. Leo.

"He says he's fine.

"Yeah, I see. ......"

Leo backed away awkwardly, turned around awkwardly, and started to walk toward the castle with a clattering sound.

We followed him, and Amako, who had moved to stand next to me, looked up at me.

"Usato, have you noticed?"

"Yes.　What's ......?"

"That man ......."

Amako's gaze turns to Leo.

He's aware of what?　Could it be something serious?

What about him?

"He's ...... ah, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I'm fine. It's nothing."

What's bothering you so much?

Amako smiled a little and turned around to walk next to me.

You never make it clear what you mean, so I don't know what you mean. ....... Well, if you say it's okay, I guess it's okay.

I followed Leo with my friends, feeling a little confused.