The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

I knew that Nero Agence was a very powerful man, but he was so out of place in this time.

He is as powerful or more powerful than anyone in my time.

He was born in the wrong era.

He leaps from tree to tree, dodging incoming slashes with somersaults.

Then a series of blades of wind.

I see them as I fall, and I swing my right hand, which is clutching a black sword, with my arm outstretched wide.

"Kannagi-ryu!　Ootori-suru!"

This is the same type of defense as the "Mihakuri-gatame".

He uses his spinning motion to repel all the wind blades to the rear, and uses his inuguriri to intercept Nero.

The black sword and the sword collide, sending sparks flying.

The black sword and the sword collide and sparks fly.

"Ren-chi-no hi-tsuki!"

A thrust is released, leaving a residue of flame.

He fires them in rapid succession, but they roll to the side and are evaded.

---His judgment is also extraordinary. ......!

They clash with each other, swords clashing as they are wielded with the wind in the air.

"I didn't know anyone other than Rose had this much power ......!"

"That's our line, you know. ......!"

He leaps into the air, pushing the sword into the air with force, then turns around and hits a kick.

"Noon-jyaku-leg!"

Using the momentum of the kick, he hits Nero with a spinning kick with the opposite leg, forcing him backward.

"Not only do you like swordplay, but you also like bodybuilding ......!"

"For me, precognition magic and this is the only way to fight!"

If I don't stop him here, Usato and the others won't be able to reach the Demon Lord.

Nero has such extraordinary strength, but Usato's master, Rose, is of the same ilk.

I have seen it all from his cage hand, and Rose herself is a monster born in the wrong time. A healing wizard who is even stranger than Nero, who is a pure fighter to begin with.

"Hmph!"

He slashes at Nero with his sword at the ready to pursue, but before he can do so, he shoots four whirlwinds at the ground, making them turn toward him.

He cleaves them with his sword and scabbard---sheathing them with his ox-cleave and unleashing the mystical snake cut.

A swinging slash!

They will respond!

Just before the direct hit, my sword is blocked by the wind-armor, but my sword slices through the wind-armor, slightly slashing Nero's arm.

The wind armor protects me from all attacks.

But that is no problem if I break through it with brute force.

ohoh?

Ohohoh!

He senses the gust of wind with his precognition magic and avoids it by rolling on the ground.

He evades the blade of wind that is approaching, and attacks Nero again, leaning his body to the side to avoid it.

"---"

"---"

Sword fights so fierce that they cannot even breathe.

As they repeatedly fight in close quarters, the slashes and blades of the wind cut through the trees around them, knocking them down.

"Wei-Tora!"

I've seen that move!

I've seen it!

The sword with the wind flowing through it.

I immediately tried to take evasive action, but before I could, Nero released a blast of wind from his palm that sent me flying backward.

As I regain my stance in the air and immediately ready my sword... an image of a premonition of what would happen in a few seconds flashed through my mind.

"Oh!　Oh no!"

I'm going to die!

I see the future vision of a few seconds after my torso is cut in two, and I immediately run toward Nero, moving from the spot.

Nero's sword is filled to overflowing with blades of wind, and each time he swings it at you, multiple layers of blades of wind are released at once.

"Ha, interesting!　I'm going to dodge them all!"

He slides on the ground as if slipping through a mesh to avoid the first blade, and with his hands on the ground, he pushes himself up using only his arm strength to fly up into the air to avoid the next slash coming his way.

He slides on the ground, flying through the air, leaning his body as he runs through, and at the end of his run, he sees Nero, who is covered in even more intense magical power than before...?

"---Strengthening of the lineage..."

Here!

The approaching blade of wind forced me to use my precognition magic, and I was one move too late!

Lineage enhancement is the backdoor, so to speak.

A well-crafted magic is unleashed before my very eyes.

This is bad! I can't get away from it at this distance!

I swing my blade sideways, and it is released toward me.

I hold my sword up, trying to dampen its power with my sword to avoid a fatal blow, when..,

With a voice coming from within, without warning, my magical power is reduced to nothing.

With it, a swirl of white light appears at my side.

"What?

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"Whoa, whoa!"

The vortex leads to another view.

I immediately jump into it, and I am instantly transported to a place a short distance away from Nero.

Was that a transfer spell?

If it was me who used it..,

--- Wow, is that me in there?

I look up at the sound of a disgusted, yet mocking voice.

Nero is looking at me with a surprised expression on his face, and has not yet attacked me.

"I know, I know. ......"

He grunts when he gets the point across.

The part of me sighs in boredom.

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"That's none of your business right now!"

This guy .......

That's what he's after, isn't it?

"If you switch, I don't know what I'll do!"

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"Oh ......!"

I can't take any more of this ugliness.

He stands up and grips his black sword with both hands.

"From here on out, I'm going to get real serious."

"....... Come."

Nero begins to gather magic power in his sword, as if he is trying to activate a lineage enhancement.

I can't use the lineage enhancement.

No, even if I could, it would require a tremendous amount of magical power and could cause me to go blind, and above all, it would be dangerous as it would interfere with parallel worlds.

And since it has no offensive power in the first place, it is usually useless.

"But I have made up for it with my skills ......!"

In a time when battles were all over the place, I have defeated many a lineage-enhancer.

It was because of the techniques I thought up and developed.

This time is no different.

But I must also play my trump card against Nero Agence, who is one of the best in the world, including in the past.

"Soo ......"

Inhaling deeply, he lowers his posture with both hands clutching his sword.

"Inu-ran-derivative, Okugi---The fourth form, Gyokuto-Usagi" is released.

This technique is based on a story that HISAGO once told me about a rabbit living in the moon.

Inugurashi is a technique of running on the ground with one's head down, but this is a technique of bouncing off the ground.

He even holds his breath, stamps on the ground, and uses everything as a foothold.

"---"

"What?

With his first step, he leaps right in front of Nero, leaving behind a sound so loud that the ground explodes.

As Nero's face contorts in astonishment, he swings his sword at him in passing and slashes him shallowly in the side with his wind armor.

Nero turns and swings his sword in an amazing reaction, but I am already behind him, using the tree as a foothold --- moving in the same way with enough force to snap the trunk.

"You can't keep up with him, ......!　Gah!"

I kick Nero's body from the side, and he recoils and leaps in the other direction.

He destroys everything in his path, only gaining speed at a rate that is difficult even for me to perceive visually.

If I didn't have precognition magic, I might destroy myself with my own speed.

"---!"

He surpasses even Suzune's speed, using Nero as a foothold from all directions and slamming him with kicks.

But my opponent was one of the superhuman, out of the norm.

He immediately defends himself and responds to my kick, but this technique is only a link between the two.

Tama-usagi, kick!

Kick!　That's all ......!"

With a kick from the side, he jumps up vertically.

I leap high into the sky, the moon in the sky at my back, both hands gripping my black sword with maximum force.

"Shin ---"

Kicking the sky and accelerating, he lunges toward the ground.

From a series of attacks in all directions, he pours everything he has into his attack and cuts them down with a single sword.

---Hunt the beast!

Strengthen the lineage!

Nero's sword from the ground and mine from the sky collide at the same time.

In the next instant, a powerful shockwave and winds blow around us, blowing Nero and myself out of the sky.