I Favor the Villainess

"Stand up! Nothing's finished yet!

As people were beaten to despair, the voice of refusal to surrender echoed.

"It's just a stupid extreme to sit and wait for death! If you fall, you should fight and scatter!

It was Claire.

While everyone was poking at her knees, she was the only one who held her chest and shouted softly and royally.

Oh, here it is.

This is Claire.

"What's Ray looking so dark about! What's wrong with your usual rough attitude?

Claire punched me hard on the back.

It hurts.

Yes - it's a reward in our industry.

"I'm sorry, Claire. It's okay now."

Okay.

Claire laughs satisfactorily.

She always arouses my mind, which is about to break.

"Heh, well done on making it strong. I won't compliment you."

Even Plato, who stops by the Devil's side, doesn't hide his praise.

To bark at that demon king is such a thing.

"Thank you, Claire. I'll fight to the end."

"Onee-sama!

"I have to do my best."

"Yu-sama, we're here for you."

Manaria-sama, Yu-sama, and Misha also join in.

Everyone was escorting them along the line, but they knew the first anomalies and ran away.

"You came all the way here. Okay, first of all, I'll..."

"Plato"

Heh?

It was the only Demon King who blocked Plato's words that tried to expose him.

"You don't have to do it. Let me do it."

"No, but, Devil King. You're Claire François."

"Ultimately, I can count on your help. But until they give up, let me handle it."

That said, the demon king walked out in front of us at a slow pace.

"Come on, if you're coming, go ahead."

Obviously it's an outsider's voice, but in a strangely human tone, the Demon King invites him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's go! If you defeat even the Demon King, you can put an end to the battle between humans and demons!

"We're here to help, Claire! Please!

I can't lose either.

"Misha, let's go!

Yes!

The curtain of the battle against despair has now been cut and dropped.

"Onee-sama, Yu-sama, I'll leave you to the avant-garde!

"Ohhhh!

"I'm in charge."

Manaria-sama, Yu-sama are in the front, Claire is in the back, Misha and I are in the back.

On Claire's instructions, Manaria-sama and Yu-sama filled the time with the Demon King.

Yu-sama's body skills using the ice princess are amazing, but Manaria surpasses them.

"First of all, how about this?

Manaria produced a cold, shining ice sword and slashed it against the Demon King.

The Demon King did not make it a fine move.

The ice sword of Manaria broke apart before touching the demon king's body.

The magical barrier surrounding him has become a thick wall that prevents them from attacking.

Let me use that.

Yu-sama said so, a fragment of Manaria-sama's broken ice sword fell down on the Demon King with his will.

"Not yet."

While the Demon King is still exposed to the ice blade rain, Manaria activates more magic.

A clay fang like a dragon's jaw bites the demon king's body.

"... I didn't think it would be easy..."

"If it doesn't work so far, it's dented in a boulder."

The Demon King is not even working to prevent an attack.

He just stood there and looked at us.

"Misha, what do you say?

"I can't. The magic of my sounds doesn't seem to work."

I thought Misha's special wind magic would work or cross that barrier, but it doesn't seem like the Inquisitor is wholesaling.

"Onee-sama, Yu-sama, please step aside!

They reacted instantly to Claire's voice and left the way.

"Light!

The Demon King must have stepped on his opponent's flame arrows and spears.

Claire threw the magic ray of the trump card from the beginning.

The bright red light reaches Shijo, the demon king.

"This one, too!

To match Claire, I activate Absolute Zero, which boasts the best firepower I have.

The absolute zero magic that instantly froze and crushed the object hit the Demon King.

But...

……

The Demon King was alive.

On the contrary,

"Kh... I can't believe I didn't get one scratch..."

Using the best of these hands hasn't even been able to tame the Demon King.

The demon king is just looking at us quietly.

"... have you... finished?

Another old voice like a baby.

Instead of laughing at us, the Demon King asked if he would surrender anymore in a pitiful tone.

"Not yet!... onee-sama, can't you handle that barrier with the Spellbreaker?

Reflecting on his courtesy, Claire sneaked up on Manaria.

"I can't. I've been trying to analyze it for a while now, but I can't discern the magical configuration. I've never had such a complicated configuration."

Manaria's Eighteenth, Spellbreaker and Dominator are hard to trigger instead of being extremely powerful.

Once activated, it is a special power, but as a prerequisite, the opponent's magic needs to be analyzed and nude.

"Ray, let's try the chorus. That's all I have left."

"I understand."

I nodded at Claire's suggestion.

I approached Claire, who took the position in the inner guard, and tried to take his hand.

"Ray!"

With Claire's warning, she quickly twisted her body.

There was a sharp pain in my right upper arm.

"Ouch...!

"Ray!"

I saw the Demon King with my hands controlling Claire as she approached.

When I saw it, I was pointing my finger at us.

I couldn't perceive it, but it was probably attacked.

... but why?

I didn't even pretend to move until now.

"Are you afraid of our chorus, even with Sama, the Demon King of Stream?

……

The Demon King does not answer.

Instead, he increased the number of fingers pointing at me to five.

"Pitfall!!

I bent my knees and crouched down, causing my feet to sink in haste.

In an instant, the line of darkness passes through where my body was.

"What's the matter, demon king? Isn't it a lot more aggressive against me?"

The Demon King remained silent.

But I wonder if it is because of my mind that I feel something irritating somehow.

"Ray, don't be provocative!

"It's okay, Claire. Claire, please look through the gap."

Nothing was okay, but I said strong.

"If you're going to fight, it's convenient for you. Let's get it over with!

Before I finish, I activate Judecka.

The entire space around the Demon King was frozen and the movement was sealed.

Earth Pike!

Continuous Magic Cocuitos.

Although it does not reach zero absorption in stand-alone thermal power, it is more effective and difficult to avoid.

Well, the result is...

"Ray!"

I heard Claire screaming.

When I thought the voice was strangely close, my body was being pushed away.

Like slow motion, I see the sight.

Claire, who throws me away, and dozens of dark flashes that do not penetrate her body.

"Claire!!

I reached out quickly.

But it doesn't arrive.

Is it no good?

Will I lose Claire this time?

That's when I thought about it.

"... up lift"

Claire's body was pushed up into the sky for her quick spell and sake.

The dark light, which landed late, shattered the light of the earth to pieces.

I caught Claire in a hurry as she lost her scaffold and fell.

"Are you all right, Claire!?

"Yeah, it was close. More than that, the magic of today..."

Yes, that's it.

The magic of building the scaffolding and pushing it up - it's something very familiar.

Nothing else, because it's a magic I often use to evade emergencies.

As I told you before, this magic has my own arrangement.

And the uplift used by the Demon King reflected the arrangement as it was.

"... yes... that's what I'm talking about..."

When she got off the ground, Claire looked sharply at the Demon King and pointed her finger at him.

"Why were the three great demons after me? I've been wondering. But that's because you can't kill me, Demon King?

The Demon King does not answer Claire's question.

But the silence was the answer.

"I don't know why (...) or (...) is naming the Demon King. I don't want to know. But just answer me this. Why are you trying to destroy humanity?

The Demon King remained silent.

Claire said as if she had cut out her numbness.

"I'm listening! Answer-Ray-Taylor!!

For the first time he was called by that name, the Demon King showed signs of upset for the first time.

The Demon King slowly takes Vale.

There appeared a familiar face - a pleasant, crying face - the face of Ray-Taylor, who had such a complicated expression.