Yomigaeri no Maou

- Well, what is it now?

Staring at the threesome that would be a pathetically constricting junior adventurer in front of him, Illis was thinking about that.

I'm sure it's horrible that he showed up intact despite witnessing a direct strike while tapping into all sorcery against Illis, but from the subjectivity of Illis, it's not a big deal in the first place.

It's just a story of putting up a barrier and defending it just before the magic collided, and that's about all the magicians there can do.

Because that's what I think.

But this idea of Illis never happened in modern times, even if it was common if it was in the time when wars were once waged between demons and people (human beings).

Sure, there are a lot of people who say magicians who can put up magic barriers.

The magicians who are still just chicks in front of you, yes, put up a magic barrier, and if you're ever told to be a master, you can definitely put up a barrier normally by saying you understand.

But it has something called a procedure, which is so long that the process of that procedure is not comparable to that of Iris.

Everyone in this era thought that it was the essence of something called witchcraft that adjusts the amount of magic while chanting and builds it with careful attention to its composition, and that it was said to be a monster that existed somehow, in a survey, and instantly assembling witchcraft without chanting or anything else.

In other words, from the subjectivity of the trio of magicians, who lag behind in fear of Illis, the existence of Illis intact and smiling even though he is under direct attack of tri-articular sorcery with his biological flesh, which is certainly enough to fear, was an unmistakable story for anyone to ask.

Besides, that wasn't the only reason they were afraid of Iris.

Iris shrugs like a final announcement to the sorcerers, frightened, and exhausted by the disabling of all sorcery.

"... Aren't you coming? Then I'll come over here.

To that word, three people who can't stop trembling.

And then Iris slowly began to run towards them, as the word put it, pulling out the short knife that was lowering to his hips and increasing his speed.

There is no waste anywhere in the sequence of motions, so smooth that the audience watching on either side of the road, outside the junction, and the girls who are supposed to be the counterparts of Illis, have also been spotted for a moment.

Unlike the audience, however, the boys and girls who instantly returned to me that their lives were even in danger as they were, rushed to think about what they would do after this.

And the answer came instantly.

This is the first qualifying round of the Martial Arts Games.

Collect the required number of badges and keep it that way is the winning condition.

Participants are fighting for it, and that's why there's only one thing to do to escape the fight, he said.

In other words, it is to offer your opponent a shining badge on his chest.

So concluded the three of them, hurrying to remove the badge from their chest, reached out.

However,

…… What are you doing?

By the time I realized it, Illis was already turning behind them, staring at them with that beautiful, thin neck tilted and strange face.

And over its head, a shaking knife glows.

"... Ya, stop...!

Of the three boys and girls mages, we don't know who said that.

But I couldn't say enough words until the end.

Because the three consciousnesses were instantly pruned by a silver-haired girl and sunk into the dark.

Staring at those boys and girls who fell without any resistance, Iris says.

"What was it...?

From the point of view of Illis, this is just a tournament.

Surrender, etc. is not like doing unless something unforeseen occurs, and therefore I never thought that the three people who are falling in front of me were going to do it.

That is why we took away that consciousness by adding an attack without any help.

From the three of them, it goes without saying that the very existence of the Illis was nothing but a contingency, but not knowing that, the Illis takes the badge off the three bodies and nods back and opens a skin bag lowered to his hips.

Amazingly enough, I would say that there are already about ten badges in there and the required number is no longer fully met.

Iris seemed to know about it too, counting the number of badges and sighing.

"... thirteen in all, is it? You must be collecting too much..."

This is the only number that allows at least two of us to break through the first round, and I'm pretty sure we're collecting too much as Illis put it.

It's just, of course, not that it's against the rules.

Preliminary Game One, if I may say so, has a role as a foot cut for a contestant with too little strength, something that has the implication of not letting a weak adventurer go ahead and reducing the likelihood of an accident.

If you don't have some strength or more, you even risk dying if you move on to the main election.

For this reason, hunting the badges of many adventurers is more recommended in the first round of qualifying.

Having said that, in reality only a considerable number of powerful people are able to do that, and those who are gathered this many badges despite being in their first appearance are undoubtedly rare, and I would say that Illis is already quite conspicuous.

But Illis wasn't happy to collect this many badges.

Not so, it was caused by other contestants who felt the ease of adding to the British luxurious girl who didn't know how to fight and so on, who attacked in a party of prisoners.

None of them doubted that they could take the badge from Illis, but it was not exaggeration or anything, and Illis defeated all of them in the way he said a touch of armor sleeve.

The three mages earlier watched the scene from a little further away, which is why they fled to stay as far away from Illis as possible.

If you see how you have defeated the tenacious warriors in an instant, it is humanity that you think is horrible to anyone.

That sucks, and in an instant, those threesomes decided to run away.

But Iris had a hunting instinctive temperament to say that anything that ran away from him for a long time would somehow want to chase him.

The three people who got caught up in it unluckily became the feathers that could be driven at a rate that seemed to chase them to the bottom of hell.

Really, it was just the three of us who said we were unlucky.

Nor did Illis think that he might have done something a little unadulterated, but it was a tournament to say so.

I want you to give up, around immediately self-justified, similar in nature to Lulu.

Then, cheered by the audience, Illis walks out slowly for his next prey as it were.

Apparently she already has fans, so much so that there are a few spectators walking down the road outside the conjuncture to match her steps.

The male/female ratio is surprisingly more female, and the men seem to have felt a little scared about the way the three magicians were driven away as much as they did earlier.

But Iris, who doesn't even know dew about such things, goes to the next battle without worrying about anything.

"We have to do our best to make sure it doesn't stand out any more..."

There was not a single person on this scene who would penetrate that he was already more conspicuous than the Demon King.

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While Lulu and Illis were providing such an interesting spectacle to the inhabitants of the King's Capital, someone was doing exactly the opposite.

Puppies are walking around the city.

He is a puppy with a very clever looking atmosphere, with bags lowered around his neck, crouching and making noises.

I don't know what's in it, but it probably has something made of metal in it.

Moreover, the puppy walks inside separated by a junction.

This means that the participants in the fight competitions, naturally, are not allowed to participate by animals.

No, technically, I don't envisage animal participation, you should say.

Because no explicit provision prohibiting it is specified anywhere in the rules governing the holding of competitions.

That said, it did not mean that animals would never participate in the tournament, and there were exceptions.

That is participation as a demon of use.

Whether you are an adventurer, a knight or soldier serving your country, or a mercenary or flush freedom fighter, it is a thousand different ways of fighting, and a few of them fight with animals and demons in their service.

People who use such animals and demons and call them demons, and who have the skills to use what they have said, often say that they cannot fight with their own flesh because they have injected much of their abilities into the demon's service itself, and therefore no longer have the time to spend on their own combat skills.

In such cases, if the skilled personnel who use animals or the like are not allowed to participate in the demon, they may be extremely disadvantaged, and consequently may not be able to achieve the goal of deciding on a strong one for the martial arts competition.

Regardless of the martial arts competitions that take place in other countries and regions, the martial arts competitions that take place in this Leonard take place before the building, deciding the strongest of all.

Until last year, as an implicit understanding, participation was only allowed to those skilled in advanced adventurers, but only because they had to do so for safety, and it was a basic understanding that they would not decide not to admit participation due to the difference in skill they said whether they were swordsmen or magicians or servants of the user demons.

That is why the participation of the user demons is permitted.

And I guess this puppy walking in the city right now is going to mean more than walking inside a grand union, that this is someone's user demon.

And I can easily imagine that what would be in that bag that is down from the neck would probably be a badge where it is a collection object in the qualifying round.

If you take the bag for that puppy, you can easily collect the number of badges you need to break through the qualifying round.

It was such a situation that those who thought so had no choice but to target the puppy.

Strangely, however, none of the participants attempted to target that puppy.

On the contrary, even if the puppy passes slowly by the side, he slips away without even making a strange face.

It was a strange thing.

It's as if you haven't noticed the very existence of the puppy......

The audience thought so.

Yes, the participants are treating the puppy as if they hadn't noticed, but the audience outside the junction is aware of its existence.

Why, strangely, that's why the audience stared at the trend of that puppy.

Then, after walking for a while, the puppy stops in front of one barrel, checks around thoroughly, and then grabs the side of the barrel with a proper nail.

The audience stares wondering if even the nails are grinding.

But surprisingly, all of a sudden, the barrel moved barely, and the lid came off like a pound and a human popped out of it.

Whether the motor nerves are very good, the person who popped up spins in the air twirling, rinsing, and landing nicely on the ground.

That was enough for the audience to understand that he was a martial artist of considerable smell.

It was a strange outfit girl.

A simple garment made up of two colors: red and white.

A girl with a dark hair and a mysterious atmosphere.

The making of its face was also felt somewhere different from the humans around here, with a different kind of appeal.

So, perhaps, you're not human in this country.

The audience thought they'd come here to take part in this fight.

But then she'd have to collect five badges.

Yet it was hidden in a barrel.

That's why I wondered why I was there, and the audience stared at the person and the puppy without taking their eyes off it.

Then the girl crouched into the puppy and received a bag that hung down its neck to check what was in it.

And the audience is astonished.

Because a few golden badges came out of the mouth of an open bag squinting in the girl's hand.

The girl stares at it satisfactorily and says.

"Oh, you did it! Huka. Now let's promise here that we will raise one Huka rice grade next time!

That's the girl who strokes the puppy, Kyou.

The audience sighed when she realized that Kyou had let the puppy collect his badge and he was hiding somewhere safe.

I wanted to know if you were motivated.

This is a martial arts competition.

It's only by showing that strength that I even get emotions accusing me of being funny.

But the audience, who had watched martial arts competitions for years, also knew there was a way to fight like a girl.

He also knew that there were some contestants each year who used traps and ploys to challenge him.

The most fearful thing about those who use animals and demons is that they are ignored and the operator himself is attacked.

Given the danger, the ploy to hide is also a tactic of war that is never a mistake.

So those audiences rather fight wisely sending praise for how she

"I don't hate the way you do it!" "Keep your strength warm and work hard!" "Girls are better off that way!

Such a slightly deviant cheer was sent to Kyou, and she laughed and waved lightly, saying.

"Thank you! I'll do my best for fifth place!

That's what she says. She runs through.

What she left on the spot was such a refreshing smile and voice.

But the audience thinks again of her remaining words, and leans her neck.

Because that's why I thought I was going for fifth place, not victory.

There is no one left to compete in the Fighting Games to win, and that must be a strong emotion, no matter how weak the rush may be, that you definitely have deep down in your heart.

Yet she wins fifth prize.

Why.

And one of the audiences I kept thinking about on the spot for a while shrugged.

"... so to speak, the fifth place product was tabled in communion,"

and.

It is said that it cannot be created in modern times, it is an excavation, that is, a special tool that should also be said to be part of the Magic Conducting Machine.

But it's not extremely rare, it's quite something to be found, which is that there will be two or three of them in each country.

The effect, however, is very convenient: three meals a day can be summoned for two.

"... how troubled you are with food"

The audience, who began to misunderstand in the direction of the day after, began to whine such words verbally, hallucinating the appearance of a girl who lived brightly and energetically every day while struggling with a meal.

"Poor... in that year," "I'm sure there was a lot going on..." "Speaking of which, I saw that girl working in a liquor store. I'm sure you're sending me to my hometown or something..."

Many sympathetic voices are raised.

As a reality, Kyou has no particular difficulty eating, but rather is fed daily bribes by a hungry chiffon with all his subordinates, but such circumstances were not known to the city people.

Besides, it is also true that we are aiming for fifth place by losing food rather than desire for money than color.

I mean, the city folks aren't so big and wrong about each other, so...

That's how the city people who were there decided to support Kyou, the food hungry girl.