"So, who am I?"

 

Huh? Who knows?

I reflexively wanted to reply that way, but someone who was still taking over Sia's mind in front of me was looking up at me with a somewhat relaxed expression.

Behind them, Koga and Mr./Ms. Nagi are ready for battle, but now I'm waiting.

This is because if this continues, it may damage Shea, who is probably possessed.

 

"You mean you're not going to say your name?"

"We're just getting started, and I don't want you to interrupt me here."

"The plan? …… Didn't you think I was going to seize you right now?"

 

It's within reach with a light stretch of the hand.

There are many ways to do it, such as the magic of Nea's restraint or the restraint with a cloak.

Shea giggles at my words.

 

"Usato, you know what I mean? This body is a hostage. If you try to catch me, I will end this life by any means necessary."

"Whew."

 

This guy .......

 

"Can your healing magic save people who have no intention of living?"

 

I didn't think it was that kind of soul...... It's awkward.

True to her words, I can't get around to Shea.

 

「…… Do you mind if Shea dies?"

"It doesn't matter at all, it's just that we can expect the best results at the right time, and if it doesn't, we can just wait a few hundred more years and do it again after the hindrance dies."

「……」

"That's what it is, for meThis body・・・・Worth it"

 

The best outcome, at the perfect time?

When I think about it, I see it as the end of the battle with ...... Demon Lord.

 

"Well, you can give it a try, I'm going to bite off my tongue in front of you."

 

Shea sticks out her tongue as if to provoke me.

She's right, she has no intention of living...... There is no point in casting healing magic on a person who is about to take his own life.

It hurts the heart of Sia, who is supposed to be alive in her.

 

"But, Teme......"

"Ah, Kayla, I completely forgot about you."

 

Shea looks down at Kayla, whose body is almost extinguished without being able to regenerate.

Kayla can't help anymore, she scoffs, wondering if she knows it.

 

"The devil is an irredeemable creature, and I appreciate that because he was so helpful to me until the very end...... It's time to disappear, okay?"

"Heh, kidding...... Temeje too--"

 

Just as she was about to shout something, Kayla vanished.

I feel indescribably unfulfilled at the end of my life.

 

"Usato, calm down."

"Oh, I know."

 

I try to calm down for a moment with Nea's words.

As Nea spoke, Shea's gaze turned to the owl on my shoulder.

 

"Nea, a vampire-necromancer hybrid"

"Oh? Do you know me?"

"Of course, you're the perfect creature who doesn't even have the weaknesses of either of the monsters. Wouldn't it be weird not to pay attention to it?"

"It's a perfect creature! Hey, hey, did you hear Usato!?"

 

Nea happily slaps my cheek.

I told you to calm down, but what are you going to do when you're excited?

 

"Not only does he have the potential, but he also has the highest level of magical power and magic, and above all, his ability to manipulate the living and the dead is astounding. If you put in the time, you can even become the next Demon Lord."

「……」

 

I don't know if he's a demon lord or not, but it's true that Nea's abilities are powerful.

In fact, in Hinomoto, he was helped by Nea's powers as a vampire.

 

"Hmmm."

 

At Sia's words, Nair doesn't soar like before, but instead sharpens her eyes.

 

"They appreciate it a lot."

"How's that? Don't you want to turn over here? If there is a sorcerer like you, it will help you—"

"No, I don't."

 

Nea, who immediately declined Shea's invitation, shrugged her shoulders and raised her wings and sighed in dismay.

 

"You don't know anything about me and this guy, do you? Then I don't even deserve to accept such a proposal."

"Nea ......"

"Usato is an idiot, a muscle idiot, a training idiot, and an insensitive idiot...... Mylord・・・It's not. I'll never be under anyone but this guy from now on."

 

I'm very happy that you trusted me, but I've been told that I'm stupid about four times.

Isn't it a little too ridiculous?

 

"I'm sorry, but I knew I couldn't do it, so that's fine."

"Are you done with the poor solicitation? So what are you? What do you want to do with Xia Garmio?"

"I'm not going to talk about that."

 

She didn't want to say anything more, so she moved away from me and stepped back to where the dark wizard twin ——— Esta was.

 

"Esta girls."

"Are you still using it?" Well, that's fine."

 

When Esta moves her fingers, a number of threads stretch.

The destination of the thread so thick that it is doubtful whether it can be seen is ......!

 

"Owl Mr./Ms.......!?"

 

The dark magic thread entangles the owl Mr./Ms. near the wall and brings it to us.

Suspended in mid-air, she still looks at me helplessly, unable to move.

 

"Excuse me, Usato, you."

"Hey, I'm still conscious, I'm the one holding it back, but it's a bit of mental strength."

"Well, you can use it reasonably well, and magic is rare, so it's just right, isn't it?"

 

...... it's just right!?

When he tries to step forward, Esta stretches a thread of dark magic all at once and holds him back.

Not to be outdone, I glared at Esta and Shea as I tried to create a healing explosive bullet in my palm as if to threaten them.

 

"What are you going to do with the Mr./Ms. ......?!"

"This is the only one I have a business with, and I'll give you back the rest of the body...... After a little tweaking."

 

Shea points her palms at everyone except Mr./Ms., who has been caught in the air with a thread.

White magic patterns emerge from her palms, and they are sucking something out of the corpses of the six.

I don't know what ——— is doing, but I know it's not a bad thing.

 

"I'm going to stop it!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

 

- Let me do whatever I want anymore!

As I put Rune down to the ground and tried to stop her from casting her magic, Shea pulled out the cutlas from her waist.

He flicks the dark magic threads that are approaching him all at once with a healing explosive wave, and heads straight for Shea.

 

"Master Sama, my magic is not compatible with him."

「…… Don't save me a lot of trouble. Okay, Esta will stop Kannagi and the other one in their tracks."

"I can't do it, I can do it for 10 seconds."

"That's all there is to it."

 

If caught poorly, there is a risk of suicide.

If that's the case, you have no choice but to stun it in an instant or restrain it in a goose so that you can't do it!

In a not-so-fast motion, he flicks the cutlass wielded by Shea with a gauntlet.

 

"Haha! It's so fast!"

 

After all, the body itself is just a human being.

Is it a sign that I can't harm Shea that I can still afford it?

…… With this level of movement, it is easy to neutralize it.

 

「……」

 

He opens his clenched fist and thrusts out the bottom of his palm encased in healing magic.

Shea grinned and smiled in response——— and she took the bottom of my palm on her shoulder.

Her face contorted in pain and she looked at me in disbelief.

 

"Why, Usato......!?"

"Stop acting badly."

"Huh?"

 

I know that's going to happen......!!

- I can see the soul courage that is pretending to be Shea and trying to induce my sympathy and create a gap!

He grabs her shoulders with the bottom of his palm out and restrains her.

 

"Keira!! Nea!!"

 

Keira's cloak transforms and wraps around Shea's body.

On top of that, the spell of Nea's restraint flowed in, forcing her body to be completely immobilized.

 

"Okay, that's all ———."

"The Spell of Liberation"

 

A voice can be heard from inside the cloak that should have restrained him.

 

"Oh, it's a liberation spell!?"

 

In an instant, Nea's magic burst into pieces, and the cloak that wrapped around her body was torn to pieces.

As with magic, ...... cut through Kira's cloak!

In Shea's hand, a cutlass with a blade of white light—is this the same light magic as Kazuki's?

 

"Is it okay to be distracted by the sword? This one is alreadyCaught・・・・Yo?"

"What?"

 

In the hand of Sia attached to the gauntlet, the magic power of light magic was concentrated.

It overflowed, and the lacerations were etched into her white skin, but despite this, she kept her magic alive with a smile on her face.

I immediately understand what it does and try to shake my arm off, but before I can do that, the gauntlet disappears from my right arm.

 

"Strengthening the lineage" "sealing""

「!」

 

…… Have you been robbed of your gauntlet?

Seeing the gauntlet that had turned into a sphere of light, he tried to stun him without saying a word, but Shea fired a number of light magic magic bullets at him from his uninjured right hand.

 

"Usato, light magic! You don't have a gauntlet———

"Healing Sink"

 

A technique taught by Mr./Ms. Owl.

With the magic in his hands, he parries the light magic backwards.

 

"Huh? Did you play light magic with your bare hands......?"

「…… Shh

 

Once I stepped back and adjusted my breathing, Mr./Ms. Nagi jumped out from behind me with a furious force.

Cutting through the threads of dark magic magic, she approached Shea, and the sword she held as it was was to her neck---!

 

"Oh, you can drop your head now, right? Kannagi"

「…… Whew."

 

Mr./Ms. Nagi's sword stopped just short of Shea's neck.

Mr./Ms. Nagi was relieved to be relieved, but more than that, Nagi's expression remained grim as she stared at Shea at close range.

 

"Haha, that's right, Kannagi, you can't slash it. That's the kind of guy you are."

"What do you know about me?"

"I know."

 

Shea looks at the black sword that has been stopped just short of her neck.

Unlike with me, Shea, who had a clear hostility and mockery towards Mr./Ms. Nagi, shifted her gaze to the black sword around her neck.

 

"I don't need this filthy sword...... If you don't want to kill me, go away."

"Whew!"

 

Shea, who has taken the cutlass with the light and left Mr./Ms. Nagi, crushes the sphere that must have contained the gauntlet that she took from me earlier and takes out the contents.

What came out was a bracelet before it became a gauntlet.

 

「…… Surprised. Even this body, which is the original user, cannot be restored to its original shape. Haha, does that mean that you are recognized by the Shenlong Farga?"

「…… Did you try to put it back on the sword?"

 

Did you need Mr./Ms.'s sword to control light magic?

Unfortunately, it didn't seem to take the form of a sword because it had become my own armor.

 

"I'm sorry, but it's mine, I've been looking for it. I'm sorry for you who need this———

"Do you think I'm going to be weak just because I took the gauntlet?"

 

Robbed of a gauntlet? That's what's going on.

He was no longer able to use his lineage explosive fist or his healing magic outbursts, but that was a trivial matter.

I thought that one day I would return the gauntlet to Falga-sama, and I had trained not to rely on the gauntlet.

…… But it's true that I was unaware.

I feel really sorry for Farga.

 

"......, the response is a little unexpected. Eh, that's a lie. Aren't you obsessed with this in the slightest? This is a legendary-level weapon, isn't it?"

"In the end, the only thing you can trust is your own body......

 

I was looked at as if I were looking at a creature I didn't understand.

And I can't understand why his gaze is directed at Nea on his shoulder and Koga next to him.

Nair aside, Koga is closer to me...... Whew!

When she is about to be alone and resentful, Esta comes to Shea's side and whispers to her.

 

"Master Sama, let me tell you, this guy is an idiot. I can tell just because I was carried on my back today, so it's better to speak poorly. If you do it poorly, it will be contagious to your husband."

"What's too scary......

 

I can hear it as much as I can! I hope you don't call people like viruses!

Then, Sia stows away the bracelet in the same way as the Demon King's power fragment, and this time stares at her own hand, which has been scarred by the unreasonable strengthening of the lineage.

 

"Oh, my hands hurt too...... The strengthening of the system is also incomplete. With this body, I still can't beat a talented person. Is it okay just to know that? …… Well, is it about time?"

 

! The magic pattern attached to the six people except Mr./Ms. Owl disappears, and six spheres wrapped in light appear.

Holding it in her hand, which is different from light magic, Shea nods in satisfaction.

 

"Extraction complete. Esta, I don't have any other use, so I can give it back to him."

"Huh."

 

Six corpses other than Mr./Ms. Owl are thrown around.

I hurriedly caught them in my cloak and glared at Shea as I slowly lowered them to the ground.

 

"What did you do......

"You're a real nuisance, and you're in a different position than you are, so you're going to come anywhere. It's much easier for the brave to deal with this."

 

She puts her hand on Mr./Ms.'s cheek, who is still stuck, and smiles at him.

 

"Do you need a tool to harass them for that?"

「…… Usato-kun, it's okay for me."

 

I don't think it'...... good!

I can't let Owl Mr./Ms. go as it is.

However, the bottom line is that Shea is still taken over by someone, and the worst thing is that Shea is not that important to the person who took over.

There is a possibility that it will be a bluff, but even so, it is ...... that you can't get your hands on it at the point when there may be a chance!

 

"Esta"

"Hmm, there's another one hiding."

 

Also, the thread of dark magic pulls something.

Arriving with a scream was Reali, the demon who was the first to leave his friends behind and escape.

…… I mean, I've been hiding nearby.

 

"Lee-Early, I haven't forgotten about you-"

"Hey, I'll listen to anything! I even lick my shoes! That's why I don't want it to disappear!!"

"Well, it's noisy, shut up."

 

Leari is lightly tightened with a thread on her neck and is silent.

Shea looks at me again as she moves the limp and immobile Mr./Ms. behind her.

 

"I don't want you to get involved anymore if I can, I don't know what you're going to do, so I don't want to deal with you ......."

 

It's a really terrible thing to say even though it'...... enemy.

Sia, who looks really disgusted, is determined to get involved in this case again.

 

"Wouldn't it be happier if I abandoned the spirit of this body? For you and for Shea."

"I was told to help me."

"Huh?"

 

The first time I saw him, I didn't notice him, and the second time he asked me for help.

At that point, she must have been anxious and frightened.

I want you to change into someone you are not.

 

"I don't know what you're up to, I don't think it's a big deal anyway."

「…… You're going to tell me."

"As long as Shea asks for help, I'm not going to back down."

「……!」

 

She rolls her eyes and looks surprised, her eyes sharpening.

I stared back at the hostility directed at me for the first time since I came here, without saying anything.

 

"Then you can do it yourself, but either way, you can't do it to me now. I'm going to let you go home in peace."

 

A white pattern spreads at Shea's feet, enveloping Esta, Raeli, and Mr./Ms..

The magic of transference seen in Mialak.

When I saw it slowly unfolding, a small lion jumped out from behind me.

 

"Rune!?"

"Rune-chan!?"

 

Rune, a lion cub engulfed in blue-black flames, jumps inside and returns to her girlish form before the white pattern closes.

 

"Oh my gosh, what's wrong? Rune, do you really want to come over here?"

「…… Shea, I'm with you."

"......, then you're welcome."

 

Rune stands up in the light and looks at us.

Seeing her apologetic expression, Kira jumped out of her cloak and called out.

 

"Rune-chan! Why...... Whew!"

"Because, Sia...... Oh, I'm going to let you go now...... I'll be alone again! Just like me!"

"Oh, Rune, you're ......."

"That's why I have to follow her, someone has to be by Shea'...... side."

 

You know it's dangerous.

But Rune chose to follow Shea.

At Rune's determination, I looked at her silently and nodded.

Rune nodded enthusiastically, perhaps because of his intentions, and opened his mouth in the magic pattern that was filled with white light.

 

"Guys, I'm sorry."

 

The moment they heard such a voice, the magic circle of transference was activated, and their appearance completely disappeared from this place.

——— someone possessing Shia?

With many mysteries still remaining, one uproar has come to an end.

Deprived of a gauntlet and weakened (?) It was Usato.