The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

The night I had declared to the blue grizzly kid that I was going to kill the snake, I was up in the tree, shaving a simple spear out of a handy branch with a knife.

I don't know if this improvised weapon will work.

But I have no knowledge of making traps, and the only weapons I have are my knife and my fists.

So I need something that can be used as a weapon.

"Well, it's done."

It's just a simple spear with a pointed end, but it's pretty sharp.

I place it close at hand and lean my back against the tree to prevent it from falling under the tree.

I am used to this hard bed, but I still miss the soft bed.

"I wonder how Kazuki and Inukami-senpai are doing. ......"

"Kyu?"

"Haha, you've been following me all along after all. ......"

I pet the rabbit that looks into my face.

It's a strange rabbit. Biologically, existentially. Come to think of it, I owe my survival to this rabbit.

"Tomorrow, I may put you in danger. ......

The rabbit nodded his head.

Satisfied with his answer, I slowly lean back against the tree and close my eyelids.

I need to rest my body before the battle.

I have to get some rest before the battle.

The next day, I was looking for the snake, using the rabbit as a radar.

All I carried was a makeshift spear and a knife, and I left all other burdens behind.

Of course, I had washed my body and removed the smell, so there was no need to worry about being recognized by the smell.

Everything is ready, all we have to do is find the snake.

"Kyu!"

What's wrong?"

The rabbit shudders.

You're facing straight ahead, your hand sweating as you hold your spear. With the utmost caution, you make your way through the bushes, trying not to make a sound.

"Is that the sound of something fighting?"　

I hear a sound. It is very loud.

A violent noise, as if a tree is being felled.

I slowly parted the bushes, paying attention to the sound, and peeked ahead to see a huge snake that looked like an aardvark, which I had been looking for.

I gasp, but then I spot another creature near the snake. It was the blue grizzly bear cub I had seen yesterday.

"He ......!"

"Squish!"

He was covered in wounds, but he was still not dead, probably due to his small size, but he was already in a state of extreme fatigue and in no condition to move.

What should we do?　Should we leave? Or should I just bite my finger and wait until the snake makes an opening?

Your best bet is the latter, but that's .......

"It's not cool, is it?"

"?"

"You get off."

He lowers the rabbit to the ground and re-grips the spear with both hands.

I'm ready, of course I'm not ready to die. I'm ready to kill the snake that's out there, bullying the weaker ones.

Let's go!

Compared to this intimidation... it's nothing compared to Rose's.

I know how scary that evil, cold-blooded woman is.

I'm not afraid of anything!

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Both of them are startled by my loud voice.

The snake seems to be hesitating whether to go for me or the bear. This is my chance. But a spear will never penetrate those big armor-like scales.

What then?　There's only one thing to do...

"Come on!"

With one full-throated step, you approach the snake as if you were closing in on it. The closer I get, the bigger the snake is, and the teeth that can be seen from its mouth are so big that one bite would kill me.

Hmm?　My eyes go dark. .......

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"Whoa!"

A huge mouth closes in front of you with a snap.

If you hadn't backed out, you'd be dead. ......!

But I've been waiting for this moment. He spins around on the spot and thrusts out a spear held upside down in his right arm with a voice.

"Eat this!　You stupid snake!"

With a coarse and uncharacteristic remark, the spear was thrust out and pierced deep into the snake's right eye.

I'm going to stab it all the way to the root and pierce it from the inside!　With this thought, I pushed out with all my strength into my arm...,

"Kishaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!"

"What?　Gah!"

The next moment, my body is blown away with a tremendous impact.

I almost lose consciousness, but I manage to stay conscious by reflexively putting on healing magic and starting to heal my wounds.

I look at the snake as I am slammed into a tree and slide down to the ground. I see the snake with its tail swishing at me, its eyes pierced by spears and its eyes turned one-eyed.

"Gosh,......, a tail,......!"

"fshrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ......"

I'm an idiot. That weird snake would have been the first to come up with the idea to at least use its tail.

But the wounds healed quickly with healing magic.

That snake would have lost half its vision if it didn't have a pit organ or something. Compared to that, this kind of attack is nothing to me.

After all the wounds are healed, I quickly stand up and pull the knife from my waist.

"Is that all you got? It doesn't work at all!

I aim at his blind spot on the right side.

Just as I run to the snake's blind spot, the snake is rushing toward me at the same time.

It's easy to avoid him if he's coming at you with momentum. As you had expected, you reach the blind spot on the left side, that is, the blind spot of his right eye that has been crushed.

However, he stops suddenly and turns his head toward me.

"---?

Instantly, his mouth, which looks like it's cut all the way down to his cheek, twists as if he's sneering at me.

Seeing that smile, I realize that I've fallen right into the snake's trap.

I was naive.

I thought he was just a snake running wild. But this one was clearly different. This one thinks and acts, this one thinks and is tyrannical. He thinks and kills.

He enjoys ......... tormenting.

He opens his big mouth, and this time his teeth catch me in the left arm and shoulder.

"Gghhhhhhhhhh!"

I screamed as the teeth bit into my left shoulder.

I managed to escape with only my left arm because I quickly stuck out my left hand. And, strangely enough, it didn't bite off my arm. He is rolling his serpent-like eyes, too.

"～～～～!"

"Heh heh!"

Of course, in my outstretched left hand is a knife. It's stuck in the maxillary part of his mouth, which is not protected by his solid scales.

"Hah ...... hah ...... hah ...... hah ...... f*ck ......."

My shoulder hurts...... but I'm used to the pain.

I force my right arm into the teeth of my mandible, which are digging into my shoulder, and exert myself.

"Geez, I'm not going to let you beat me ......!"

"Shhhh, shhhh, shhhh, shhhh..."

He puts his jaws on me as if he won't let me go.

I've been training in hell since I came to this world, and I'm confident in my abilities.

I've been training in hell ever since I came to this world, and I'm confident in my strength. ......　I can't do it with one arm, not with both arms, my left arm will really be separated from me forever!

I'm losing feeling in my left hand. I keep trying to heal it with healing magic, but I can't bring back the blood that has flowed out.

"Hmm?　...... and ......?　I see... ......!!!"

I twist the knife I had stuck inside the snake's mouth as hard as I can to gouge out the wound.

Sure enough, the snake loosens its teeth to bite me in pain.

"There you go!"

I take that moment, pry open my mouth, and pull out my left arm.

I back up, holding my arm covered in blood and the snake's saliva. The snake is squirming in agony from the intense pain in its mouth.

I have a chance to follow up, but unfortunately I left my knife in the snake's mouth. Now my weapon is gone.

But there is still hope.

"...... is the only place you want to go."

Aimed at the part of the head that's high up in the air.

We won't give him time to recover.

With that in mind, he tries to run, but his legs are too weak.

"d*mn, I can't ...... see!"

The vision is wavering, and with it, the limbs are losing strength.

There was an emergency healing. My left hand is not elevated, but it will heal soon.

Then there's only one possible explanation.

Poison.

Poison is too cowardly for such a big guy.

But maybe this is our last chance. We can't let him go just because he's poisoned.

I'll cover my entire body with as much magical power as I can muster to ease the poison that's ravaging my body.

If the poison is hurting you from the inside, you just have to fix it from the inside. Feeling intense pain all over my body, I kick the ground with my legs and run toward the snake.

"Gghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The snake notices my screaming and trying to come at it and tries to wag its tail at me. I can't avoid it, but it doesn't matter. I can't avoid it, but it doesn't matter.

Just as the tail strikes me, a blue mass breaks in front of me.

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"You ......"

The blue grizzly's eyes look at me for a moment as it catches my tail, making a pained sound.

Did you save me?

I look into the blue grizzly's eyes as it looks straight at me, then silently turns back to the snake.

Its head is out of my reach. If it is out of my reach, I climb up through the body.

The snake's rampaging movements threaten to shake me off, but I cling to it.

When I reach the top of his head, I grab the spear that is stuck in his right eye with my right hand.

"This is the end!"

He puts all his strength into his right arm and pushes the spear into the head.

The snake shakes its head and tries to shake me off, but when I thrust it with more force, it stops moving and falls to the ground with a thud.

I am thrown to the ground, lying on my back, looking at the snake with sideways eyes.

"Ha,ha,ha,ha,...... I did it. ......"

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A scarred blue grizzly bear cub comes near me.

I'm afraid he's going to eat me, but he doesn't seem hostile, so I guess I'll be okay.

The blue grizzly cub sits down beside me, looks into my face, and makes one more sound.

"Aren't you glad you got ...... an enemy too?"

I wonder what this little bear is going to do now, if he can survive in these woods.

No, don't worry about that. He even stood up to that snake. With that much guts, he should be qualified to be the boss of this forest.

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But, to my relieved ears, I hear the sound I least want to hear.

"What?　...... lie, right?"

The snake slithers up.

It was a painful sight, but its eyes were filled with hatred, and its gaze was fixed on me.

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"Run, run, run!"

A little bear bites my clothes with its teeth and pulls me out.

You should have left me and run away. ......!　I cry because my immobile body is too weak to move. Is this where it's going to end? ......!

Kazuki, Inukami-senpai, Ou, Celia-sama, Tong and the rest...... Rose.

Yes, it's all Rose's fault. She can be forgiven for being a little vindictive at the end.

"d*mn you, you bastard -----!　Older ----!　Violent woman-----!　Ogre!"

"Sha......aaaah!"

"When I die, I will definitely come out as a monster...!"

A snake with its mouth wide open approaches us.

I'm done. I feel refreshed. I'm over it. I'll curse you in hell, Rose. But I can't bring this little bear into it. I'm the only one who has to die.

"Enough, I'll let you--"

Just as you are about to tell the little bear to leave, a serpent with a big mouth opens right in front of you and is crushed by "something" that comes from the sky above.

What?

"What? You piece of ...... shit should have just stayed dead. ......"

A green-haired woman pulling her foot out of the head of a snake that had crushed it with her foot. And an all-too-familiar black rabbit on her shoulder.

I and the little bear were stunned on the spot.

But after a few seconds, I realized what was happening and my whole body shook.

Not from the joy of my rescue, but from the fear of the woman reigning in front of me.

"Hey, Usato. You did good."

"Lo, Rose-sama ......!"

I couldn't help but call her "like," but I guess it's only natural to call someone like when the empress reigns over you.

While I tremble in fear, Rose smiles at me as she strokes the black rabbit on her shoulder.

"No, no, I would have been in danger if he hadn't informed me."

"That rabbit ......"

"An, rabbit?　What are you talking about, he's not a rabbit, he's my pet Kukuru, the demon that used to watch over you."

"Yeah. ......"

That was the moment my healing turned demonic.

Rose speaks so that I can hear her as she kicks the snake at her feet in a condescending manner.

"No, I was on the edge of the forest in case something happened to you. I didn't think that the monster that Sigurth failed to kill during the last invasion had escaped into the woods. Well, I did my best to stay out of it."

"Invasion?　Of the Demon Lord's army?

Did he see me being chased by that snake? ......

I'm getting used to this devilry.

"Yes, but I didn't expect a grand grizzly to be killed. The grand grizzly is the boss of this forest.

"Huh?　So you wanted me to fight the forest boss in my first demon fight?

What an ogre!　You bastard!

No! You're wrong... you son of a b*tc*!

"You're a dead man!"

"I'm not gonna be able to kill him, because there's no way I'm gonna be able to kill him, so I'm gonna challenge him to a grand grizzly and get him back, and then I'm gonna put him in a real fight with a superior opponent, and then I'm gonna give him seven days to get out. ......"

"I thought?"

"You were turning out to be a lot more interesting than I thought you would be, and I was curious to see where this was going, so I let you continue."

What, ...... my actions to live were strangling me?

Rose approaches me dejectedly. Please do something about it.

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A blue grizzly bear cub comes between me and Rose.

"Hmm, is this a blue grizzly bear cub?　Does he like you?"

"Oh, yeah?"

I feel a little bit of a bond with this little bear.

"You're just like me. Hey, you."

A little bear shivers when Rose calls out to him.

I guess even animals are intimidated by Rose, who is absolutely strong.

"Carry this mortal."

"What?　What are you talking about?　You can't have monsters in the kingdom!

I'm allowed! You're allowed! And I was just about to bring Kukul back to me. I don't care if he's with us.

That's absurd, I still doubt that this little bear will even come with me. ...... Hmm? Why are you lifting my body up, little bear?

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"What~~ you're kind of getting into it too? Don't you want to be out in the woods with your parents?"

The little bear, perhaps sensing my words, responds with a shaking of his body. For some reason, he seems to feel indebted to me.

Letting out an involuntary sigh, I finally ask Rose a question that has been bothering me.

"That rabbit ......, why was it injured?"

"Oh? I'm just trying to keep you on your toes, and I've got this guy playing a trick on me."

Don't be so confident, Mr. Rabbit. My heart is being chipped away at by your confidence. And now I know why I can understand you. It was all at Rose's mercy. ...... I'm crying.

"Well..."

Rose lifts the little bear carrying me on her back.

Oh, God, this man scares me. I'm on the verge of tears, and Rose turns around with a smile on her face and a blue streak on her forehead...

"Oh, by the way, you said something to me, didn't you? What was it? Demon animal? Older? Violent woman? The Ogre? I'm 25, remember? You'll be ready when I get back, won't you?"

Now I know that my biggest enemy is not that snake, but .......

"Shhhh, rounding up to 30, right?"

"...... think you won't sleep today."

It was the leader of this scary group.