Something people-shaped that emerged to float from Keira's foot to behind her.
To lean like a stirrup, he had sharp nails warped like a sickle, and no face existed on his head.
A monster created by Keira's dark magic.
As he tries to shake his fingernails down to Keira, I'm going to help her with every possible acceleration using elasticity and an outburst of magic.
"Huh!"
Hold the keyra and kick it off with your feet caged with the magic of elasticity granting at the same time as you miss it from your nails.
Healing elastic legs, I'd say, but you can't call it healing near the Keira.
No, more than that...!
"Keira, are you okay?!?"
"... ooh"
If you look at the Keira you're holding, she's bluishing her face and meditating her eyes.
Are you unconscious?
Ask Nair, who is on my shoulder, to see her.
"You seem to be losing your powers and fainting."
"... is that what caused it"
At the end of his gaze, he is struck by a tree and there is a black mannequin trying to get up.
I feel an irresistible disgust at the mould of people trying to get up with their lukewarm behavior.
'Sorry, Usat. If I'm not mistaken... this is what's going to happen...'
Seeing the black people-shaped, Ferm groans as he regrets it.
"If you say that, I'm worse. If only I had thought a little more about how this kid feels..."
"Reflect later!! Coming!!"
"...... Huh!!"
Hold the Keira with your left arm, protect it to cover it with dark magic, and set your right arm free.
As I set out to stretch my right arm, I stare at the person who has moved on to flying this way.
Usato, that's for Keira! That is the dark magic monster created by Keira's “You better die!!" emotion!! '
"Oh! Nair, the spell of restraint!"
"Okay!"
As far as the foot goes, Keira and that human form are connected by magic.
If her magic is being sucked away right now, we have to do something soon.
A black human form pops up with a creepy roar.
"Jah!"
"Restraint and healing bounce!"
Restraint at the same time as playing a man-shaped arm that spreads open both arms and flies up.
Moving my legs to slip and instantly moving to the side of the human form, I attach a fist to its defenseless torso, slamming my full healing flying fist from a tight state.
"Healing Fist"
A blow because the opponent is not human - it was an intended move for a small hand check, but the human-shaped body was instantly shattered.
Seeing the remnants of the black magic disappearing in the air, I'm also taken aback by surprise.
"Unsurprisingly brittle...?"
'Cause it just reflected a temporary emotion...? If so, Keira's magic could still be undone!'
There is no appearance of magic emanating from Keira wrapped in dark magic clothes.
It's okay...... I don't know.
It can be said that things have gotten even worse.
"Usato, let's move this child to a safe place first"
"... oh"
Nodding at Nair's words, he heads in the direction of the settlement with Keira in his arms.
I can't be irrelevant anymore.
If you've gotten involved so far, you should hear from Mr. Greff about Keira's past.
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When I took Keira back to the settlement, after I put her to bed, I decided to call Mr. Greff to talk to her.
When I also told him about the conversation I had with her in the woods to go with it, he held his head with a struck look.
"I can't believe Keira was cornered that far..."
in a room with Keira's sleeping bed.
Sit in the chair beside her and say a word of apology to him who is nagging.
"Excuse me. While I'm on..."
"No, it's not your fault. It was my fault that I couldn't understand the pain she was going through..."
Keira's words in tears.
I don't want to hurt anyone.
It makes my loved ones unhappy.
The reason she tried to follow us was because she didn't want to hurt anyone.
I couldn't take her with me, even though I asked her about her tearful complaint.
Our mission is to "crusade the Demon King," so it puts Keira, a child who knows nothing of any circumstances, in danger.
Above all, because our aim is something that could make Keira and the others, the Demons, unhappy.
"Mr. Greff, let me ask you something about Keira's past"
"If you're the Dark Wizard, do you have a guess?"
It's Fermu who told me, but he speaks of the feeling in me.
"Ambiguous child sent, is it?"
"... just ask for its name and you'll have an irresistible rage. I can't believe I let a demon kill my own child, more so alive... a tough act that doesn't even make me feel guilty."
Taking a deep breath to quench his anger, he goes on to utter words.
"Keira is a child in the Abomination Send, abandoned by her real parents"
Honestly, a terrible story about a parent trying to blow a lie into a child and let a demon kill him, I didn't want him to hit it.
I listen to Mr. Greff as I hold back my emotions myself.
"... it was in the demon's nest that I found that child on the journey"
"Did Mr. Greff get rid of the demon?"
"No, the demon was already dead."
So you're saying someone helped Keira?
When I asked him that, he shook his head to the side.
"Keira was just shuddering and nodding to the ground, but beside her a black monster, like a four-legged wolf, was stopping the demon's breath root, the Lord of the nest"
"Like a wolf...?"
You don't have the same form as I did.
Does the emotion change shape?
"After the black monster disappeared, I took Keira back to the village. At that time, I was mistaken for Keira's accidental wandering into the demon's nest.... Now that I think about it, it was a mistake to take this kid back to the village where his parents are."
"... what happened"
"I was scolded. Keira's parents said," Why are you back? "Or," Don't do anything extra. "
Parents trying to feed their children to demons alive.
I didn't expect a decent response back, but this... you can't.
"It was so ugly to spit out atrocious words that could also be made into words to less than ten children that I didn't think they were the same person...... Instead of blaming the villagers for what they did, they turned a blind eye to me and Keira."
"Does Keira have a reason to be such a terrible...? This is too irrational"
If I was there, I wouldn't be sure I could keep my anger down.
Grip your fists as hard as you can as if you can indulge in anger.
"Well, I broke my butt, so I took Keira."
"... thanks for talking to me"
I bow my head to Mr. Greff, who's finished talking.
When he laughs powerlessly, he stands up with a cane.
"I'm going to see how Rose and Ram are doing. I'm watching Keira, so you need to rest."
"... ok"
Nodding to Mr. Greff, he leaves the room with his cane on.
Then Amako walked into the room like he was different.
"Usato, how's Keira?"
"Now that you've used a lot of magic, you're just asleep."
Looking down at Keira sleeping with Amako, who moved to line me up against the wall.
I'm asleep quietly now but I'm worried when I wake up.
"What can I do for this child..."
I can if I just teach magic, but I can't do anything more.
She can't take us on our journey for herself, and I'm lying so much about Keira myself.
"I don't know, this kid. You look just like me."
And then Amako, peering into Keira's face, says something like that.
"... that---"
"I don't look, I'm not old, I'm not tall"
"Oh, wow."
Three consecutive outrages.
How much do you care if I don't even make you argue?
"That's not what I meant. When I was in Usat for the first time, I asked for help..."
"That time, huh?"
"Then there was all this stuff, but we worked hard to get over it."
After Amako asked me for help, I went around several kingdoms and finally managed to help Mr. Canoco.
We were also hit by a lot of noise on the road, but we were able to get it done to the end.
When I think about it, I even think this occlusive situation is familiar to me.
"You mean it's too soon to give up"
"That's what I wanted to say."
Is that true?
Bosoli and Fermu twitched at Amako, who stood up his index finger and said so with a doya face.
First, when Keira wakes up, let's talk about it properly and make a policy on what to do with her magic.
"You know, Usato."
"Hmm?"
"I'm talking about that ruin..."
Amako talks about the ruins as she consolidates her determination to face Keira again.
"I still don't think we should go to the ruins, but if there is one,“ Katana the Brave ”might be something we need..."
"... Honestly, I'm thinking the same thing as you"
If we get into that ruin, we might get what we need, but it's not too late after we get in and something happens.
But on the other hand, you might miss this opportunity and regret it.
"That ruin, I don't care what you think, is too dangerous. It doesn't seem like we're talking about simply taking the knife home and ending it."
"Yeah......"
Either way, it won't mean going to the ruins because decisions have already been made.
I have the remainder of my heart about the brave man's sword, but it's much better than poking a snake out of it.
... Time to get back to everyone.
"... hmm?"
Are you out of your mind? It's like Keira's hand just moved.
No, he still seems to be asleep, and he's not looking awake.
I take my gaze off of her, so I talk to Amako.
"Keira will be watching, so let's go back to everyone."
"Yeah, okay"
I'll check on Keira once now, and then I'll leave the room with Amako.
It's weird to tell Leona and the others about Keira, but we need to share information with them.
●
This time the dream was different than usual.
Same until my father and mother blew me into lies and headed for the demonic nest.
The next thing I saw was a memory of me being cursed by people who were your father and your mother, who were helped by Greff.
"How did you come back alive!!"
"I can finally live in peace!!"
"You shouldn't have been born!!"
"Give me something I wish I had been a fool of demons!!"
Cursing like it sounds on top of each other.
I don't want to hear that. I put my hand on my ear and I crouch.
Then gradually the voice ceases to be heard and the sight in front of me changes.
"Greff...... Lamb, Rose......"
What I saw was the laughing look of my precious family.
But I'm not the only one in it - the moment I thought so, the sight shifted again.
The next thing that came out was sinking into a sea of blood - the looks of the Greffs.
"... Oh no...! Lying..."
A dead figure of a loved one that can also be called an unbroken, chopped family.
I was the bloody one at the heart of the sight colored by red.
I can't even turn away from that sight, I raise my voice in anger.
"No! I hurt the Greffs!!"
- Are you sure?
One day I can hear my voice in my ear.
Shaking his neck sideways in desperate denial, the voice continues to emit.
- If we stay like this, our loved ones will die. Just because I couldn't manipulate the dark magic, it would chop me up and die in vain.
"I haven't decided yet!"
- There is only one path left, from the beginning. There's only one way to follow Usat.
"I can't, I was turned down by Usato...!"
- But that beast man's kid is with me.
"... it"
I thought it was unreasonable.
I don't want this kid, but I can't.
Isn't that the girl who said she was like me?
What's the difference between him and me? Because he's an animal? Because you're a demon?
But Mr. Usato is a demon, not for a reason.
Why do you keep turning me down?
- That's because I'm not strong enough.
"Strength, strength?"
- If I'm strong, if I prove strength, he shouldn't have any complaints either.
"I don't know how..."
Ask to cling to the precipitated voice.
Then, as the voice tells me, she speaks slowly.
- You really should know. Because I was listening to him.
"... of the brave, Katana"
I heard it in my fine sleep, Mr. Usato and the others.
That was the story of a brave sword that Mr. Usat and the others were looking for in the nearby ruins.
With that, can you really accept me as a companion?
- If you admit you're one of them, you're sure to take me. Then you don't have to be afraid of your powers anymore, or hide yourself as a dark wizard.
"If I take the brave Katana, I will tell Usato..."
I don't want to hurt anyone.
I don't want to be alone.
I don't want to be abandoned.
That thought was going around in my head, my choice---,
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Waking from the nightmare, the view outside from the room was surrounded by darkness.
When I saw the sky on the other side, still tinted, it was just nightfall, but I got up anyway.
There's something I need to do.
I lay my hands on the window of the room as I was about to be crushed by anxiety and impatience.
'- Yes, I am. Keira, I'm sure you'll take it as a companion. Yeah, I'm sure.... huhuhu'
Even when I woke up from a dream, the voice I could hear in my ear had turned into a clear, comfortable voice in my ear.
But to the point that I don't care about that, my thoughts were converging to one purpose: to "get the katana of the brave".