Yomigaeri no Maou

"Due to this..."

While the arena is wrapped in enthusiasm, a young man in a thin, dirty robe hood sits in the arena audience.

There was a seat where contestants to the martial arts tournament were allowed to sit.

Nevertheless, a swordsman-style man sitting next to a youth seat speaks, who understood that the majority of those who sit there now are those who have already lost the fighting competitions and that the youth must be as well.

"Ooh, brother. Enjoying yourself?

I didn't have anyone to talk to today, so I was thinking about seeing the right people to watch the game with.

It's not that it's not funny to look at this alone, but it's more fun to look at this stuff while talking to someone.

Besides, the man was an arm there, but he wasn't strong enough to be sure that he would arrive one day at advanced or superior levels, and if he could, he wanted someone to watch and analyze the game he said so with him.

Because I thought that the battle of isolated powerful people, which I would miss on my own, would be quite a sight to see even if there were two people of equal strength, not to say everything.

In fact, the young man the man spoke to had a very casual personality for the monstrosity of his style, whatever his shadowed and invisible eyes in the hood, he laughed and showed them at his mouth and got on with the story.

"Whoa, sounds like your old man's having fun, too, huh? I thought you were the mouth that lost around the qualifying round, too?

From that tone, the man empathizes that the youth also seem to be defeated as well as he is.

So I guess, I learned a strong sense of intimacy and somehow enjoyed it.

"That's right... I've been to a few fight competitions too, but I haven't been exceeded yet. It's not that easy to win. Wouldn't you?"

The young man nodded at the tone of such a man,

"Sure... Especially since we're talking about a lot of monsters this year"

And I sighed and snapped.

The young man's story was understandable to the man, and although he wasn't actually relative, he remembered witnessing the sight from afar in the first round of the qualifying round.

"Even though it's spicy just for the extra prize, there's a few strange ones coming out of the rookie... I saw them in the qualifying round, but I saw exactly the guy who's not ashamed of the monster's name, huh?

The young man looked funny to the man's story and asked.

"Heh, what kind of guy, is that?

"We'll find out soon enough... oh, look, he showed up"

That's what the man said and pointed to, on stage in the arena.

One girl was just walking towards the starting position looking calm.

Seeing it, the young man nods.

"... oh... that's the girl"

"What, you knew?

"Oops...... the fight against Agnos was spectacular. Because you're so luxurious, you were showing incredible physical abilities... I just haven't heard of you in the qualifying round yet. Did you see anything?

That being said, the man nodded deeply and replied.

"Whoa... That girl, Illis, collected a dozen badges in the qualifying round. Besides, I don't know how the adventurer was driven by the devil at that time... including the fight against Agnos, so much so that he's now called" Black Princess "because of his appearance"

"Because you always have that nickname..." Demon King "with you?

"Surprisingly knowledgeable, you... yes. We're both terrible users... and I just wanted to thank you for losing the qualifying round."

You don't have to fight those two anyway.

To the man who said so, the young man thinks a little and then tilts his neck and asks.

"With that said... there would have been another one with the" Demon King "?

"Oh... is that the guy who beat Himeros?

I was told, and the man thought of it and said:

In that tone, there was a feeling of insecurity, rather than dwelling on the likeness of speaking of the "demon king" and "black princess", but rather the daughter of a relative.

"Yeah, that's him. Don't they have aliases like the other two?

"No, there is?" Eater, "" Match Seller, "" Billboard Daughter, "that sort of thing."

To the man's reply, the young man said, blowing out.

"Buha, what the hell is that? That's a big difference from the other two..."

"Hey..." The Demon King "and" Black Princess "didn't know that name until the fight began. Eater... Kyou's daughter knew everyone who was going to the Explorer of the Times (Elam Kupiddle) tavern. I was famous for having so much arm... I couldn't get away from that image."

"Tavern?"

"What, I don't know. Kyou works part-time at the Explorer of the Times tavern, right? And I went to this tournament for a table of communion for the fifth prize. Ten thousand years of hunger deprivation is about him."

To the appreciation of such a man, the youth also laughed again, but then tilted his neck and asked.

"But that being said, you're in the main battle, right? I'm even lowering it to the superior Himeros, so here's the thing... can I do it with a little more respect?

Then the man waved loudly,

"No, no, there isn't. That's not how he feels. I don't know... you feel like you're looking at my daughter..."

"What, are you married, old man?

"Oh? Is that bad? This is still the winner who dropped the Adventurers Union (Alliance) receptionist! Some pretty daughters..."

From there the man began to talk about his own family pride.

That went on for a while, but the good thing about it was that the youth listened to it a lot, and we talked about it with pleasure.

Then on the stage of the arena, when a humis followed by an iris came in, I said blush.

"... my sister over there also has a monster stained amount of magic, well... do we have to fight one of them when we get to the finals..."

The man could not hear the voice,

"Ah? Did I say something?

I heard, the young man shook his head and pointed to the arena stage and said.

"No? The game starts more than that. It sounds like an interesting game, so we have to make sure we don't miss it."

The man leaned his neck slightly, but decided to focus on the game without even worrying if it was just a mishearing.

The man didn't notice.

The fact that even once a young man said that he had lost a fight, etc.

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Looking at the ancient tribe of beauty (elves) walking slowly from the gate opposite him, I see, Illis realized that until yesterday he seemed a little too alarmed.

That opponent, who fought again and again in the village of Cadiz, is probably in a position to say that he is a closer friend than anyone else in this era.

Yumis, a premier adventurer of the ancient tribe (elves), appeared calm as he let his golden hair play in the wind.

From that body there is a slight blow of dense, well-crafted magic that makes you feel like you can't be alarmed by doing Iris, an ancient demon tribe, and you can understand deeply from its quiet appearance that it is already in a combat position.

Would Yumis have once wrapped up so much pressure in his usual arrangements in the village?

No, that didn't happen.

Usually in a more soothing atmosphere, and even when I said I would fight, I was fighting for the purpose of finding gaps in my opponents, pointing them out there, and improving them.

But there's nothing like that today.

Exactly. Illis is now in the mood that he has become the hateful enemy of Yumis or something.

So much so that the killer she comes to Illis is sharply sharpened, and, oh, so much so that it even comes to my admiration that this is her face as an adventurer for Yumis.

Illis does that and tells Hummis to come up to the arena stage and stare at this one.

"Yumis... again today, you're in a lot of mood, aren't you?

Then Yumis laughed.

Yumis is an ancient (elf) looking, orthodox beauty, but when such a woman smiles with a strong temper, it seems that there is something compelling in front of her like a fierce beast.

Then she says without distracting herself from Illis.

"Well, yes. You know what the hell I've been working for the last seven years?

When asked, Iris tilted his neck.

Because I don't remember hearing from her that she had any purpose for the past seven years.

Yumis nodded and said, Did he understand the mood of such an Illis?

"You don't get it... I am, Illis. You and I have been trying to avenge Lulu?

To the words, Iris opened his eyes and stared at Yumis, wondering what the hell he was going to say.

I wonder if our relationship was not good.

Yumis continues.

"Seven years ago...... I experienced a great setback. Two boys and girls, much younger than myself, were easily broken by the bond I stretched out with all my strength. Moreover, the method is in an outrageous way that it has not only been destroyed, but even taken away from its dominion. It was... as an ancient people, as a magician, a humiliation."

That could have been true.

But I thought you were convinced that there was a clear reason for that.

That's what Iris tried to say.

Yet Yumis continued without letting it speak.

"Of course, there were quite a few compelling reasons. But... I've been an adventurer for a long time. That's also the main subject of ancient demonic studies. And more than that, there's no amount of contingencies... and I believed that my own magic could handle as much of those things as I wanted. Yet reality..."

Easily torn, so.

I was studying the Ancient Demons, so I needed enough strength to fight against it, but in fact, at the time, even Britain broke the line, which had only the strength to be close to one soldier.

That means nothing more than that the lack of preparation for Yumis has been exposed.

If at the time she had, for any reason, been in contact with an ancient demon tribe other than Lulu or Illis, she would probably have been plucked in an instant.

To the extent that it can be said so, Yumis lacked magical skills against the Demons back then.

"... but isn't that something you can't help? Everyone has their failures…"

There will be no one else to say so.

There couldn't have been any better way for her to acquire magical skills over the Demonic than if ancient Demonic technology had not existed in its complete form in modern times.

Instead, I can tell you that she is the one who has gone as far as she can to become stronger.

Her title as a premier adventurer proves it.

But Yumis doesn't seem convinced by that.

"I don't think so. I still think that was something that should never have happened... so I've been learning from Iris, you and Lulu to make sure that never happens again..."

"Are you talking about me and your brother-in-law (who is here) trying to mow your neck?

Yes. When Iris asked calmly, Yumis smiled.

"That too... might be nice"

At that moment, however, Yumis realized that his skin developed goosebumps rapidly.

She understood at that moment, when she looked in front of her, that there stood a being beyond her imagination.

Iris seems to be unusual but angry, with more than humid amounts of magic blowing out of his body.

It was a black magic of adhesive qualities, different in nature from those of Yumis.

Lulu would think this looking at Illis right now.

Oh, he said he misses you.

It was the nature of the ancient demonic tribe's unique, elevated concentrations of magic to the extreme.

As the ancient demons compressed their magic everywhere and everywhere, they gradually became more viscous, and at the end of the day, they became more like undulating mucus.

It was a sight that overwhelmed the beholder, although it was not directly related to the power of magic itself.

Moreover, the fact that magic is strongly compressed also leads directly to its destructive power when it is converted into witchcraft.

Even if we don't know why the magic emitted by Illis is a sticky one, how intense the magic is, it was understandable at a glance to the humid familiarity with witchcraft.

Iris says, staring at Yumis.

"... I don't care about me, but I don't agree with you about your brother-in-law. If you're serious, I'm Yumis. Even you have to get rid of it...... Are you ready?

Much cooler than usual, scratching a sloppy sweat at that voice with no emotion, Yumis said without breaking his smile.

"Where I want it!

And the signal to start the game sounds.

"... Begin!