The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

It is noon on the third day of Amako's captivity.

< now imminent, we were waiting in the vicinity of Hinomoto for the mission to be carried out.

For the operation, we were divided into three teams. The first team was a diversionary team with excellent mobility, the second team was a team that would try to stall the guards, and the last team was the team that would go to Jinya-san and Amako, the main target of the mission.

I'm in the third team commanded by Hayate, and Aruk and Bulrin are in the second team.

I'm a little worried about Bulrin, but I'm sure he'll be fine if he's with Arc. ...... right?　Well, I think I can make sure that he won't be seriously injured.

However, it was difficult to get in without being seen, because of the heavy security around the entrance of Hinomoto, even though we were in position.

"Are you nervous?"

Mr. Daitetsu speaks to me as I stare at the gate from a distance.

I nodded my head at him, who was wearing simple armor and a large sword sheathed on his back.

"Yes, I've never done anything like this before."

"I'm sure you're right. As a matter of fact, it's my first time, too.

Daittetsu-san said so matter-of-factly, and I almost fell for it.

Hayate told me that Mr. Daietetsu had been a soldier of Hinomoto before coming to the Hidden Village, and that he was an excellent person with ample experience.

"I hope this is the last time I have to do something like this."

"...... yeah."

He was one of the soldiers protecting Hinomoto.

He is helping us to stop the war, but he really does not want to fight with his own kind.

If possible, I wish we could capture Jinya in the shortest time possible. .......

"Captain, the diversionary team is ready."

While I was talking with Mr. Daittetsu, I guessed that the diversionary unit waiting in front of the other gate had received the message from him, and his subordinate told Hayate who was a little far away.

Hayate-san nodded his head and looked around at the thirty or so members of the group, including me and Daietetsu-san, and then opened his mouth.

"We will enter Hinomoto when the signal is given from the other side. There will probably be heavily guarded soldiers inside, but we will take advantage of the chaos to get to at once. In that case, I've asked the guards to take care of the debris.

Everyone nodded at Hayate's words, including me.

He instructed us to wait for his signal, sat us down, and approached me.

Hayate spoke to me anxiously.

"Usato, if you have to fight Jinya, be careful not to be surrounded.

"Yes, I know."

"...... Jinya is a warrior who prefers to fight without magic. He doesn't need magic because he is a bear beastman of good physique and his physical abilities are very high. Besides, the swordsmanship he specializes in is from a school based on Kannagi-sama's techniques,...... and even you would find it difficult to avoid an attack based on predictions made by precognition magic."

Kannagi-sama.

As I recall, she was a beast woman who worked with the previous heroes.

How can we underestimate someone who can handle the swordsmanship of such a woman? I recognize her as a terrible woman as much as Rose when she was working together with the heroes.

"......I'm glad I left Linka behind. I can't let her take part in this kind of conflict."

"You said you wanted to come. ......"

Before leaving the hidden village, Rinka, bow and arrow in hand, said, "I want to go, too!　I'm going to save Amako!" "I want to go with you! It was funny from a distance, but I guess it was not so good for Hayate.

We are not going to play now. We have to go to a place where there is a danger that they will come at us with the intention of killing us. Mr. Hayate could not take Linka to such a place.

So Linka was tied up by Mr. Cagalli and taken back to the house. ...... crying and shouting loudly about Hayate and me for some reason.

>

Really, I almost cried because of the scathing remarks.

But that's all.

"......Usato, did I smell that old already? ......I've been told I stink twice."

"What's the difference between a monster and a monster? ......"

Let's not mention the fact that they are both non-human. Is that it?　Do I look like a Spider or a Sphinx?

Hayate and I are depressed, remembering her words.

Remembering Linka's abuse, something occurred to me, so I decided to ask her about it.

"Hayate-san, how is your wife?"

"My wife is away here on business. It turned out to be a good thing, but I'm afraid of what will happen when she comes back. ...... huh, I'm really afraid of ......."

Sighing loudly, Hayate looks melancholy.

......Well, it can't be helped that I've been abused at this point. I can't be in such a depressed mood when I'm about to go into battle.

I can't be in such a depressed mood when I'm about to go into battle. It flew above Hinomoto and burst into the sky with a loud noise.

"The signal is given. Let's go, guys."

At the signal, everyone stands up and quietly moves toward the door.

The guards are too preoccupied with the signal to look at us.

"Usato, can you help me?　I'll cover for you.

Hayate asked me after checking the soldiers on guard, just as I did.

There are six soldiers on guard: ...... now we can get close enough to neutralize them without them noticing.

I nodded, deployed my cage hand, and leaped out of the way with great force, creating a healing magic bullet. Hearing the sound of my leap, the soldiers turned around at once and immediately readied their weapons.

At that moment, I hit the soldier who was readying his bow and arrow with the healing magic bullet I had created while running and knocked him down.

"Whoa!

"Te, enemy!"

I lightly flicked the tip of the spear with my basket hand and dived into the pocket at once, grabbing the collar of the armor, apologizing inwardly, I swung the soldier around so as to engulf the four soldiers who tried to point their weapons at me.

Finally, I throw my bow and arrow at the soldier who flung it down.

"Ba-ba-bake... geez!"

I thought I fainted as I was about to say something, but I didn't care.

As far as I can see, no trauma ...... was done well. I guess healing throws are effective in group fights. As long as you have the right additions and subtractions, you can surely make them stunned.

As I cast a healing spell on the fallen person and gave a thumbs-up toward the back, my subordinates, who were just as shocked as Hayate was two days ago, and Daitetsu, who was smiling with a twitchy smile, opened their mouths.

"......Hey, hey. Didn't we even need backup?"

"Even though I asked for it, even the six soldiers were so easily ...... really tremendous."

Surprised, Hayate turned back to her men and indicated with her hands the soldiers I had knocked out.

"Did you see that?　This is his power. No one will doubt it now. Then our task is to take him to Amaco. ...... Let's go!"

At first I was puzzled, but Hayate's words reenergized me, and my men shouted in response, coming toward the door where I was standing.

I looked at them with a somewhat distant look, and then looked up at the door towering behind me.

"Wait for me. Amako, nea."

I'm gonna help you.

I've been called a monster and a monster, but this time, I'm going to go for the shortest route with my heart as my soul.

I don't care how bad my reputation will be at this point. I would rather lose the friends I have traveled with than lose my reputation.

Once again, I clenched my fists tightly with healing magic and started to move forward.

I was determined to go forward.

. It was supposed to be made for people with precognition magic.

By transferring the precognition magic into the magical tool itself, my mother poured her heart and soul into making this magical tool in order to allow precognition wizards, who are forced to live in an isolated space, to live a free life.

I am sure that she did not want me to lead an inconvenient life.

A life of freedom free from the magic of foreknowledge.

Free from a status that would have prohibited me from leaving my country.

She wished from the bottom of her heart for such a normal life for a normal person.

"Look, Amako. This is Twa."

But this man made her wish come true.

I was taken out of the room where I had been held captive and brought to a place, surrounded by Jinya and a group of soldiers who looked like Kingsguard.

I left Nair in the room, but I am sure he is still watching me somewhere.

I was brought to a large plaza, which is rare here.

Normally, it is a place where many people gather for festivals and events, but today, in the center of the square, there was a square black object about a size larger than a hut, and around it, several people who looked like technicians were looking at magical tools.

That is <>.

"Even though I'm going to sleep, I can be just like my mother. Isn't that what you want?"

"...... I have one last question. May I?"

"Yes."

Ignoring Jinya's words, I ask a question.

The question I am about to ask is just a confirmation. But I also have a few questions.

Until I hear them, I can't move the situation forward.

"Who was really supposed to be on the first?"

"......"

Perhaps it was an unexpected question, but Jinya's eyes widened and she fell silent.

After a few seconds of silence, he motioned for his men to step back.

When he saw that his men were gone, he gave a wry smile.

"All right. I'll tell you one last thing. As you can imagine, you were supposed to be on the ."

"...... I would have only lost my precognition magic if I had been placed on the completed <. What did you do to my mother's ?"

"...... You're a smart guy. You can get there with just a little information.

He looks surprised, but his wan smile does not disappear.

Jinya looks at out of the corner of his eye and speaks nostalgically.

"Kanoko's research was definitely a success. But in the process of that research I happened to learn something. < is able to transfer and give magic itself from other people.

...... that's how it works.

If you can transfer precognition magic to a magical tool, you can transfer magic from person to person via the tool.

"But you couldn't have been unaware of that, could you?"

"Of course, that's what Kanoko was trying to hide. But to no avail. When I found out, I bribed a researcher and told him to secretly rebuild the inside of the ."

"What?"

I knew.

I knew in my head that he was the kind of person who would do such a thing, but I stared at Jinya, unable to control my anger.

He let out a derisive laugh, not caring about the way I looked at him.

"But you know what? That woman. Kanoko, who had noticed it with her precognition magic, immediately tried to restore to its original function, but ...... it was already too late, had been fully completed."

"......"

"At that time, I put a watchful eye on Kanoko to prevent her from doing anything that might cause her to do something she shouldn't. ......

After a pause there, Jinya shook his head in exasperation.

"Normally, she would have given up right there, but she did something unexpected, she tried to destroy by forcing it to run amok through the watchful eyes of the guards. It's a d*mn shame."

You can only stay under the radar for so long.

You, of all people, knew perfectly well that you could not destroy it in such a short time.

But you still tried to destroy it for ...... my sake.

"It was an unexpected situation for me too, that he would try to destroy <> by running out of control. That's why I was so upset at that time. But at that time, an unexpected miscalculation occurred for Kanoko.

Jinya then pointed to his own eyes.

"Even though it was out of control, was still activated. I happened to be the one closest to the runaway , and Kanoko's precognition magic was in me. I didn't get your precognition magic, which was my original goal, but I got what I wanted. And Kanoko, the only one who knew what I was planning, is now bedridden. In other words... ...... what your mother did..."

My heart trembles.

I don't know what I'm feeling.

But I can tell you for sure, for sure--

"It's all for nothing."

I am a being that must never be forgiven.

Looking down at me and saying this with a sneer, Jinya had the Kingsguard bring me back to just in front of .

"Now you. With you, who possesses the greatest precognition magic of all time, we will be more powerful than ever. You'd like that, wouldn't you?　After all, you'll end up the same way as Kanoko."

With that, Jinya poked me in the back to get me inside the .

I silently step inside.

The space was as pitch black as the outside, and there was a chair-like object that stood out among the blocky interior.

On the chair was a kind of restraint and a ring-like thing that was placed on my head.

"Sit down."

He was prodded in the back again and sat down hesitantly in the chair.

Then, one of the researchers put restraints on my limbs. I look down as I silently go through the process.

I am still scared.

No matter how hard I try to keep my mind strong, fear comes up from deep inside me.

I know they will come for me. I know that Nair is out there somewhere, watching and with me. But ...... still, the fear of death will not go away no matter what I do.

But I don't cry because I believe that he will come to save me.

As I fell silent and looked down, Jinya spoke to me as if he was trying to catch up with me.

"You can't cling to a vain hope. Your friends escaped. They left you behind."

No, that's not possible.

"That's how it is with people. They're a fragile tribe that runs away as soon as they're in danger."

I know.

I know the backs of people who are willing to help others without risking their own lives.

Yeah, that's right.

He's always pushed forward no matter who stopped him or what he's been up against. There is no way that he would say <> and not come.

"......"

And now I see (...).

Is that all you have to say?

What?

"I've finished the toi. I've done enough ...... work. I'm already saved.

Jinya looks at me like I'm staring at something creepy as I talk to someone who is nobody here.

But it's too late to notice anything's wrong.

Your plan has already failed.

Have you lost your mind?　What the hell are you--"

Jinya-sama!

What?

Jinya frowned at my words, but then turned around and screamed when a soldier came running toward him with a bloodthirsty look on his face.

The soldier let out a frightened scream and began to report in a faltering voice.

"Oh, my God, it's that attack!　Hayate-sama is leading a large number of his men, and somehow our allies have suddenly betrayed us, plunging the whole country into chaos!

What?

"Yes, and the human we captured the other day is subduing the soldiers one after another with unbelievable movements!　Is that really a human being?　Maybe it's a new weapon of the human side..."

"Don't be silly!　Gather the soldiers and take them out in force!"

That's what I'm trying to do.

Jinya's expression changes, but I notice that the researcher has taken the liberty of removing my restraints.

"You, what are you doing taking off my restraints!

"I'm sorry. I have my orders.

The researcher replies to Jinya's angry words with vacant eyes.

Here, he looks even more confused, sweat beading on his forehead.

Whose order is it? Who gives you the orders?

"That's why I'm the only one who can do it."

"......!"

Jinya looked up to see a dark-haired, red-eyed girl with her legs crossed sitting on a .

When did she really sit down? Moreover, the way he appeared in the room was so elaborate that he probably did it on purpose.

"Who are you, you're not a beast, are you?　What did you do to my men?"

"Hmm, you still think you have the upper hand. Well then, yes."

Nair shook his finger lightly, and one of the Kingsguard soldiers, who had his hand on the hilt of his sword behind Jinya, suddenly swung the sheathed sword at his head.

Jinya, who had noticed this by foreknowledge, punched the soldier away, but his expression showed no sign of composure.

The soldier who attacked Jinya was subdued by another soldier, but he was no longer able to subdue him when the other soldier struck them with his vacant eyes.

"What the hell? What's going on?

Jinya is in a state of confusion as he sees his surroundings begin to fall apart.

In contrast to the girl, Nair, who is looking on in a good mood, I look at Jinya with pity.

"Yes. So that's all your precognition really is. It's just borrowed power. That's why you can't see now or the future at all.

"You, ......!"

"I believed in you, didn't I?　I believed this future would come.

I step on top of , using the shoulder of the researcher who has removed all restraints. I look at Nair for a moment, and she urges me onward with an unusually kind smile.

Jinya tries to stop her, but a Kingsguard soldier controlled by Nair holds him back.

Without looking at him, I jump down from the top of the as hard as I can. I jumped down so defenselessly that I did not think of the consequences, but there was no fear in me anymore.

Because I had already seen it.

I saw him coming.

"Amako!　Why are you jumping?

I look to where the voice is coming from and see Usato holding a white-eyed beastman soldier in each hand. Surrounding him were soldiers with their eyes also bleary, and the scene was truly what one would describe as a disaster.

Thinking it was a bit of a mess, I opened my arms and he dropped the soldiers and ran toward me at full speed - and made a big leap.

"---- Oh, ......"

I'm speechless.

I have so much to say.

But I can't. If I said it, I'd probably cry.

I'll embarrass Usato if I cry without being heard in such a situation.

But it's okay if I just say one word .......

I whisper to Usato, who accepts me in a strong embrace, the words I just thought from the bottom of my heart, my voice trembling.

"Usato."

"Hmm?"

"Thank you for being with me."

Words that don't fit the occasion.

But even so, Usato smiled at me like he always does.

He was not an ogre or a monster, and his bright smile, appropriate for his age, brought tears to my eyes again, but I held them back.

I was too shy to say what I wanted to say after that, but I would surely tell him in words someday.

"Please be with me from now on.