Yomigaeri no Maou

He clings down the hallway leading to the arena stage, making noises and walking.

At the end of an elongated space surrounded by stone cold walls, you can see a white, radiant exit cut into rectangles.

Step by step, as we approach there, the vibrations of the distant cheering and grunting audience grow, little by little.

And Lulu finally gets to the exit.

On the other side, many spectators sitting in spectators' seats set up in circular arenas, waiting to see Lulu's battle could be understood with the cheer and enthusiasm conveyed.

No, the battle of Lulu, not.

What they are waiting for is Schuy-Relieve, a mage who is a superior adventurer, of his family (Klan) "The Clown's Library (Fossol Bibliotheca)".

They do not exist in the King's capital, such as those who do not know his name, the chief of a large clan (clan), who continues to achieve much credit both as a clan (clan) and as an individual, and in the cheer of the audience, almost all the names heard shouted the name Shui-Relieve.

Before taking the exit, Lulu decided to confirm it and just laugh a little and show up in front of the audience.

There is no tension that is common in those who make their first appearance in Preliminary Game II, they are very natural, and they are not seen swallowed up by the pressure of cheer that rings like an anger.

When they saw him, the audience felt something bottomless in Lulu for a moment.

Will this young man maybe do something for me?

The more I let the audience hold such thoughts, the more Lulu looked like something heterogeneous.

But only for a moment, the audience quickly reverts to the venue's atmosphere by concluding that their account is probably wrong.

It's a venue that meets the cheer of expectations for Shui-Relieve.

Most of them came to this end today, knowing that the Premier Adventurers would qualify in this state-run arena.

Extraordinary adventurers, those who bought expensive tickets and carried themselves to the scene, hoping to burn the beauty of magic into their eyes, the skill of their existence, which climbed to the reachable limits of those who said:

That is why what is said about the elementary adventurer, which is neither the one of the sea nor the one of the mountains, such as Lulu, was pushed away without the power of the antelope in front of the name and power of the special adventurer known as Shui-Relieve.

Lulu is descending advanced adventurer Anku in the first round of qualifying.

If they had known about it, the atmosphere in the venue might have changed a little.

The audience, however, knowing that fact, did sit in the audience of the state-run arena, but without particularly touching that fact, it just sends a cheer for Lulu.

It was a consideration for those who did not know the strength of Lulu, now on this occasion.

At the end of the first round of qualifying, the first phase of the bet is over.

The second stage takes place after the main contestants get out, but the multiplier is higher if you bet during the qualifying phase.

And since the strengths of the contestants will be exposed to daylight under many after Preliminary Game II, it is better to bet immediately after Preliminary Game I than just before the main race, and it is also interesting to say that many bet there.

So, on this occasion, even if the audience watching the battle against Ankwu said that Lulu is strong enough to cross over with the Premium enough, their advantage in betting remains unchanged.

But they are also those who have watched martial arts competitions for years and decades.

I understand that surprise is the most interesting thing that is brought about in the rewards in the game, and I am not as interested in being told about the activities of the contestants that I did not see.

That's why they're still here, silent.

They speak out, perhaps, only then, after the game, when Lulu's strength was revealed to such an extent that no one would allow any objection.

If Lulu loses, they will throw away their betting bills without telling them anything.

That's how several promising stocks disappeared between the waves of the martial arts tournament, because everyone knows the truth.

Lulu noticed that some of the audiences who had little interest in Lulu looked at themselves funny.

Seeing, it was those who watched games with Nero and Anku all over the city and Rusty.

Besides, I also felt the gaze from some special spectator seats that were built high up in the arena audience.

What was strange was the latter's gaze, and somehow I don't feel like I'm insulting Lulu.

It was more of a gaze to observe firmly and calmly.

I wonder why, staring into my eyes, I find myself convinced by the person visible on the other side of the glass in one of the special viewing seats.

Gran and Yumis are there, waving as if they realized Lulu had seen them.

There are also a few behind it, but in the long run we can see that they are the powerful ones inside.

I put around what would be the same premium adventurer as the Grans, plus a special seat reserved for those I knew, waved at them, and waited for the appearance of Shui-Relieve.

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When he came out, the cheer, which was full of venues, soon afterwards turned to sound like a giant anger.

That was, without a doubt, nothing short of a direct expression of expectations towards him - Shui-Relieve.

That cheer made Lulu wonder if this was something of a premium adventurer.

When Lulu was once the Demon King, he feels his chest soaked like the reply he returned when he inspired them in front of tens of thousands of soldiers.

I guess the emotions that can be directed upright are the manifestation of honest feelings with nothing mixed up there, which makes people feel so much better.

It wasn't directed at me, but their hopes were caged in the audience's voice against Shui-Relieve.

Show us that power in front of ourselves, our moves, our witchcraft, break them down comfortably, and impress ourselves, and you'll be able to do it.

I insisted so eloquently.

That's why I think Lulu.

I wonder if trampling that feeling must be an evil place to work.

To their unmistakable, pure minds believing in just one end, I wonder if rewarding them with the right flow is the path that makes everyone in this room happy.

But Lulu was a demon king.

It was once the righteousness of evil, which broke down, defeated, and desired the glory of the devil tribe, what man (human) believed.

Man's desire is catharsis when it is crushed, and it was once his job to create in front of him what was wanted and the opposite, to despair.

So...

There is nothing wrong with Lulu winning on this occasion, concludes.

Stand and destroy as evil as men once were.

Just like back then, it smashes the hopes of those who stand opposite to themselves who believe straight through.

And I thought I was going to make a laugh.

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"... here we go, Lulu. Your story comes from Gran."

Before the signal for the start of the game, it was from Shui who spoke so first.

To the words, Lulu is convinced.

I peek beyond Shui's glasses, and I wonder if that's how there was no insult in those purple eyes that dwell on intelligence.

Lulu was almost free to tell others that Lulu was strong or that he had said so because he had no great bondage in applying contract witchcraft to Gran or Yumis.

As for Lulu, it would have been enough if they hadn't even bragged about the fact that he was an ancient demon tribe, so I tied him to that extent, but I also thought it would be difficult to tie him to the part where he said that because it would be a little off if he lived as an adventurer any day on other points.

So I could speculate that Shui's saying, what he's hearing from Gran, from this way of being vigilant, is about being quite strong.

Lulu stares at this one with a strong and vigilant gaze in cold sweat, while in a positively opposite manner - that is, answering with a good deal of nature.

"Well... you're close to Gran, aren't you? I know you're asking a lot, but I'm not a big deal. You won't be so vigilant."

Shui cares and takes a deep breath at the sweat flowing from his forehead and his body, which has only become a little stiff, as if he had just noticed.

And I guess this is the usual him, settling into a position that emits a relaxed atmosphere that makes me wonder, and then Shui thanked Lulu.

"Take care, thank you.... It's been a long time since I've been nervous or anything. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed... I wouldn't have expected you to feel so nervous about your junior adventurer."

Around honestly admitting that, I guess Shui is a very calm type.

Lulu tells Shui like that.

"I think that's an overestimation...... I ask for your information, why are you so nervous?

That was just a little, strange.

Make it Nero, make it Anku, before we fought, we weren't as nervous or anything like him.

Because he's superior, did he spot Lulu's prowess by that trick alone?

To such a question of Lulu, Shui answers, rubbing his jaw.

"Hmm... Gran told me, because there is. Sometimes I say I saw Miss Illis' incredible power. But more than that, I guess, because I can see the magnitude of your magic. You seem to be so cleverly hiding it that you wouldn't know if you didn't try to stand in front of me like this, because I'm still the adventurer there. Besides, he's a magician. If I said I couldn't understand this, it would no longer be time to go out of business..."

Lulu is surprised by Shui's answer.

Indeed, Lulu always hid some of his magic, which was ingenious to such an extent that most people did not know it, and was an advanced way of hiding it.

That said, in the body of a human race (human) when it comes to total cover-up, we now need to refrain from using magic itself, so we can only hide it to a certain extent, which can't be seen if quite a few more magicians want to.

However, I was still going to hide it in such a way that most magicians didn't know, so I was surprised that Shui mentioned it.

By the way, it's also not easy for Yumis to sense its existence if Lulu is hiding magic, and Shui apparently outperforms Yumis in terms of such sensing abilities as well.

He was only capable of being said to be close to the highest peak as a sorcerer of the people (human) and as a sorcerer of the Wang capital.

Lulu tells Shui.

"I'm still trying my best to hide this... it's something I've seen through a lot"

"I work as an adventurer, because most of its contents are excavations and surveys of ancient sites. When I saw through the ruin tricks and traps I said that, I naturally got there because I really needed the ability to intuitively understand what magic moves were. But it's a really brilliant cover. The treatment of magic itself is less skillful for warriors than magicians to handle physical enhancement through magic circulation more frequently, but nevertheless yours is a cleverer way to hide it than anyone I've ever seen. The ability to turn to a magician can climb quite high."

Lulu tilts his neck at Shui's dialogue in reply to Lulu's words.

Apparently, Shui thinks of Lulu as a warrior, because I could understand that from there.

Indeed, Lulu's outfit is more regarded as a warrior than a sorcerer.

He has a one-handed sword and is wearing easy to move clothes.

Besides, I've fought not as a magician in qualifying, but as a swordsman.

Shui may have looked into how Lulu fought because he also seems to be highly capable of gathering information as a large clan (clan).

It is impossible to think of Lulu as a warrior if you sum up the information you said.

And I wasn't the type to believe that Lulu wasn't nice enough to correct such a mistake and had to fight squarely.

Lulu tells Shui.

"If you say so, Gran certainly handles the magic itself well. Sounds like magic is too poorly constructed to be used."

To that kind of lulu, Shui nods and answers.

"Yes, the ability a sorcerer needs is the constitutive power of sorcery. The ability to remember, understand and apply a vast amount of magical knowledge to assemble its composition. Those who cannot do so will not be cleared the way to the sorcerer."

What Shui was saying came from Lulu, and he was right, and he was wrong again.

Because Lulu knows that witchcraft is certainly a necessary ability, but at the same time there are numerous witchcraft that cannot be used without training itself in the handling of witchcraft.

Perhaps the magical knowledge that should have existed in the past has been lost because this Shui-like mindset lies at the foundation of the magicians of the modern human race (humans).

It's just still coincidence or something that gives rise to saying that the composition of magic and the handling of magic are skillful people, and that would give rise to saying that they are magicians of high strength like Shui.

Both Yumis and Shui are good at handling magic to the extent that they make you think they are medium, even from Lulu's point of view.

I just saw that, I know.

Because the gleam of magic in their bodies is smooth enough to prove it.

Lulu couldn't help but look forward to seeing what kind of magic such Shui was going to show us.

"... Begin!

The signal to start the game rings in the arena.

Shortly afterwards, Shui's chant, which began to bewitch at high speed, is completed.

Huge lights and explosions engulfed the arena.