Dazzling and radiant - the flames of the white industry.
It brightened all the darkness that was approaching the evening gate.
"Heehee... that's a shame." If you receive it properly, don't die. "
An ash that leaks such a weak sound without thinking of too much high-concentration flame.
He was strangely raising only the corner of his mouth to see if something was interesting about him. When I snip my fingers like a habit, I put the fluid sword in my arm into my body.
A spooky smile flashes.
[Profound Cocoon].
Drooling, the shadows at the feet of the ashes turned into black water.
It covers the area around the ashes like a sphere. It gradually moved to the upper body like a slime of magnetism.
”Now I'm dying...?”
"-- [Slaying Ghost]"
For just a moment, a flame was emitted from the demon scavenger's sword that dyed his vision pure white.
It was a simple movement method that increased the instantaneous firepower and used its recoil.
When he realized it, Tenji was shaking his sword with his ash eyes and tip of his nose.
Without even being able to speak, the ashes are opening their mouths.
I didn't even blink.
I wasn't supposed to, but I was there the next minute.
And then ─ ─ the demon scavenger's sword was swung down.
The tip reached the shoulder before the ash's absolute defense was complete.
The liquid splashed out.
The color was not red, but black liquid.
"I see, I finally understand."
Tenji, who did not feel any difficulty at all, muttered calmly, and landed on the spot beautifully, and immediately looked back. Slashed beaten by the demon scout's sword, shaking the creepy, stupid, black water sharply.
And then -- not far away, I saw the ashes with a creepy smile.
He was also using some kind of ability similar to instantaneous movement.
Troublesome ability.
But...
(Finally. There's a way to deal with it.)
Perhaps we could not defeat the ashes of Tenji a year ago.
That kind of ability was extremely troublesome.
Even so, it was not so difficult for Tenji now.
"Heehee! It's only natural to have two- or three-hand insurance." Besides, I'm good at flirting. Did you think I'd rely on such a dull defense for a while? "
"The way I use my power is much better than it used to be. The old ashes were even more clumsy."
"So who is it?"
"Mr. Ash is just like me."
"...... oh, that's right. Is that what this is about?"
A slight silence continues between the two of them.
I was faintly aware of it.
The ashes were supposed to have been transformed into meat chunks five years ago, when they died using the "price".
But I knew Tenji.
The one who has completely overcome the price and waits first.
Because I was. I know it well.
Perhaps the ashes were swallowed up by the darkness once and assimilated with the darkness even more.
The same goes for Tenji.
I have experienced and overcome the price not once, but twice.
As a result, Tenji's body was closer to a "demon" than a "human."
The horns were not completely gone, the appetite was starting to get worse, and the handling of the flames was getting better - all because Tenji's very existence was beginning to assimilate into a demon.
Yes, I was beginning to acclimatize my body to a more hellish world.
"I won't hold you back from here." Because even if you do it normally, you can't break that ability. "
I, I, I...
Tenji unleashed a white flame from the blade of the ghostly sword into the area.
The circular flames and their heat waves turned everything into a scourge of carbonization.
Burn all unprotected.
Destroy all hidden cameras and drones, not to mention trees. Everything that monitored Tenji disappeared from this place. Feel free to fight.
Yes, as usual.
"Heehee... if I hadn't worn [this], I wouldn't have been able to do this." Your skin will burn down and bloom, your throat will burn and you won't be able to speak out. It's fun, it's scary, it's painful
The ashes laugh at the amazing heat that even the dark clothes feel.
Even now, I want to slit Tenji's throat, chop his neck, touch his heart with my raw hands, and suffer death. The urge to kill doesn't stop.
And yet, this hot flame won't let me.
I could see that just one step forward from here would do a lot of damage.
Even now, I couldn't get any closer to being scorched in an instant.
Just stay still.
I could only sit back and watch this heat wave come to a halt. No, the ashes were looking at Tenji with their eyes sparkling.
It was no wonder that the boy was in the hottest place here.
It was Tenji himself who was most burned by the lawless flame.
The white flame that constantly overflowed from the demon guard's sword scorched the skin of Tenji and partially exposed the bundle of muscles. One cheek had already burned down and white teeth were clearly visible. The heat will make it hard to even burn your throat.
Yet Tenji stood up flat.
I am there naturally as if nothing had happened.
Do you feel no pain?
It was in such a state that I wanted to hear it.
I knew it, you quit as a human after all.
Is it because my throat is burning?
Tenji said with a much hesitant word than his usual gentle voice.
"[Demon] - Activated"
The Book of the Devil, the Prison Summoning, and the third inherent ability of the vocation -- [Demonic Man].
It is the power of hell to cast away men.
The ability to turn a demon into a demon by completely depositing a half-body into hell.
A triggering curse that forces you to become a demon.
"Guuuu..."
Tenji holds back his forehead as if he were in a bit of pain.
It was not long after that.
The demon's horn grew slowly from its head. It does not stretch straight, but curves slightly in a spiral.
In response, the hair gradually stretches and superiorly exceeds the shoulders. The claws grow sharply, turning into sharp objects unbeatable to birds.
Tenji, who was holding down one eye painfully, slowly raised his face, and his pupil on one side turned into a pupil with a color similar to that of the monster.
There was no doubt that he was not a person.
Tenji waved his sword to cut through the sky, somehow suppressing the emotion of raging rage and the urge to torture inside. The calm surrounded me as if the heat I had just felt was a lie.