"Skill Activated (Boot), Dear Friend (Swindler)"

Using the skills I took quickly, I transform Ortio's appearance into a pre-predatory state.

They didn't suspect I killed the crane. [M]

Then he left the crusaded demon on the spot and immediately returned to the king's capital.

In front of the south gate, Ivy was waiting for us to return.

Looks like a few students have already shown her the demons they hunted and won a bounty.

When I release Anima and return to the human figure, I push them away and report them to Ivy.

while creating as much haste as possible.

Skills can't help you until you look at me.

"Oh, there's a crane... there's a crane... eh!

"What's up, White Stuff"

"I was hit by a wolf-like demon, worn out and taken somewhere!

A real act while I am.

The students around him, including Ivy, seemed to believe completely and listened to me with a serious face.

I can't believe you listened to me properly, thanks also to the death of the crane.

"What I did was a detour to the fact that demons of such strength still remained in the Silva Forest...! Shirotsume, can you show me around?

"I remember the place"

"Okay, then we're on our way. Now we might still be able to help!

It's useless, though.

I didn't say I wouldn't go, and I immediately went to the woods with Ivy, wrapped around Anima.

On the road to the woods, I've been laughing in my anima pushing my voice to death.

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Going to the woods, of course, the remains of the cranes were not found, but the example wolf-type demon represented itself right near the point of engagement.

Apparently, this area is his territory.

It looks like he's drowning in the power of Anima and indiscriminately eliminating the foreign enemies that come in.

"You watch here, I'll take care of it!

Ivy's driven Respectio set up a shield and ran into the demon in a straight line as he protruded Lance.

The werewolf demon tried to avoid it at the right time.

But before that, Respectio moves.

"Forga!"

Bashwoo!

The tip of the lance is ejected as the fire blows out.

Gah, gah, gah, gah!

It was fired like a missile. It hit the demon and scraped the barrier as it rotated as the drill.

"Gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg"

The demon groans in agony.

But it doesn't extend to 0 HP.

Bearable demons relate to Respectio without losing their will yet.

Shh! Gashan!

Lance, who ejected the tip, appeared a thin stick from the inside, which opened like an umbrella, loading the next bullet and returning to its original shape.

"I see, that's definitely stiff compared to the demons around here. I can't help but lose if I stay alert."

Ivy seems concerned that he couldn't sharpen it with an earlier blow.

And immediately start a second run.

The demon jumped toward such a wrestlectio and waved his nails.

BOWN...... Kickin '!

But the shield plays it easy.

Are you saying Dada doesn't have a Knights Commander?

I'm used to fighting, and most importantly, I don't see any gaps.

On the contrary, a strong thrust by Lance is struck into the belly of the demon, which has shown a great gap due to the fact that it was done with a shield.

"I got it, Cosgrach!

The moment Lance's tip touches the demon, the tip blows the fire again, this time acting as a boost rather than an ejection.

Guiiiiiii!

Further, the tip begins to rotate to determine the belly of the demon.

The damage of the blow was rotated, the damage of the acceleration was increased, and the demon's HP was instantly shredded until it was 0.

"GOOOOOOOOOOO......!

The end demon of the wolf-type demon sounds.

The Lance tip broke through the barrier and pierced the demon's torso.

Respectio shakes off to throw away the body of the skewered demon.

"Wow......"

Even if there is a difference in the performance of the Anima, it is not the same as Luzol's movement.

That's the knight captain, is that the difference in experience?

"There's got to be a nest around here, we're gonna find Luzor."

"I get it!

I'm desperate to find Luzol (pretended).

Laughing inside, looking for an unlikely wreck.

It's because I'm in an elevated mood, and I get fever for acting.

"Folding Crane, where are you? Answer me if you're here, Ozuru!

I never let it out in my life before, and I call out the name of the dead.

My classmate would have suspected me first of all of that unnaturalness, but Ivy seemed to have rather reviewed me.

I can't believe I'm that desperate for someone who was bullying me.

In the end, searching for a werewolf's nest never found Luzor, and the search was so lost that it was terminated.

There are many possibilities.

You think you went back to being a human being to escape the demons and have been eaten in that state?

You think I've been buried on the ground to hide the bait?

Either way, Ivy had to admit the death of the crane.

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Back to the South Gate with Ivy, everyone was already back.

So, from her mouth, we can all be told the death of a crane.

Shock ran with me.

"You're lying, there's a crane... dead?

Dr. Isokan and Mizuki, who were particularly close, were shocked and dismayed.

I wondered, he immediately went back to sanity, approached me in a straight line and grabbed my chest.

"You killed him, hey, don't you!?

The spit is flying and dirty.

Ivy brokered me in when I said or tried to pull it off and I was about to get beat up...

"Even if I betrayed you, there's no way I could kill you in an incapacitated white pack"

That's true, but around I can say that here, Ivy probably doesn't have enough delicacies either.

Words that don't apply to me (...) right now.

But Dr. Mizuki, who wasn't convinced to hear Ivy's words,

"Why him, why didn't you die!

Then he beat me up.

How unreasonable, die.

I'm used to getting beat up, but what hurts hurts.

- I'm going to do that from the start, but only this guy will one day, I'll kill him in the most unusual way.

When I saw that I had been beaten, the students around me rushed into a stop, and things finally subsided.

But Mizuki's anger didn't subside, and I stayed stunned. [M]

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Within that day, the funeral of the 'Gratian' ceremony, the most faithful religion in the Legnatrics country, was to take place.

The venue is a church for Gratians, an institution called 'Precase'.

The pre-case in the Wang capital, Caputo, boasts one of the largest in the country, with huge and precise paintings on the walls and ceilings, and I looked around like a tourist coming from the countryside to the city.

On the front, moreover, the statue of a large woman is venerated.

That's Gratia, the god.

The double-circled necklace that the statue of Gratia is wearing around his neck shows the symbol of Gratianism?

When all were seated, a man in green priestly clothing rose on the stage.

And when I look at the statue of Gratia, I start to say something like a spell.

It's like Sutra...... I wonder.

The ceremony was indicatively boring, and I was desperate and tearful to push and kill the yawn while there were men and tearful women holding their fists at the remorse of losing their friends.

At the end of the funeral, the priest is urged to offer prayers to the dead on the stage.

They say Gratia delivers the word to the dead.

I held my hands together to pray and remember strongly. [M]

"Please, may the crane go to hell".

Furthermore, 'May the pains that are harder than death last forever'.

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After the crane died, everyone's morale gutted off at once.

Until now, the number of ill people who just leave sporadically has increased at once, and the atmosphere in the dining room at meals sucks.

Too bad to forget about my "meal preparation”.

He's silent, except for some, and he can't even hear me talking.

Much better than noisy, I guess the meal is something to calm down and take.

As I enjoyed my first normal (...) meal in a long time, the conversation between Hirose and others, the exception, came to my ear.

Maybe they're trying to revitalize their surroundings by behaving brightly, because they're conceited class leaders.

"Team Shiro, are you peeling shellfish again?

"I'm not good at it."

"Come on, heal up, it's not cool to hate eating at all this year."

He said, "You don't have to be so cool."

"Well, then I'll eat it."

"Whoa, eat, eat, get fat"

"I don't even get fat because I'm exercising."

Hirose sat at the same table as the laurels and red feathers he had always been close to.

Red feathers in particular are familiar with Hirose and childhood and always act together.

These three were called winners in the class.

They also remind me that Anima's performance is quite high with all three of them, and that the winners are the winners wherever they go.

"Team Shiro hasn't been good at shellfish for a long time, it's so delicious"

"Taste varies from person to person."

I finished my meal listening to their friendly conversation.

And then we'll have the shithole and the dining room.

Only now can we have a good conversation like that, chuckling.

◇ ◇ ◇

Back in my room, I stood in front of him.

Anima is what dwells in the soul.

In other words, Anima is who she is, and whoever expresses Anima is influenced by it even as a person is - in training a few days ago, Ivy said so.

Even I, with an Ortio cursed by a woman as a miscellaneous fish, was experiencing an improvement in my physical abilities, and now that I've eaten a crane, my body feels even lighter.

Assuming this is because Anima's power resided in her body - Ivy said Anima use has other powers, doesn't that mean she can also use her skills for life?

It's just a hunch, but worth a try.

I stood in front of him for that, and now I'm trying to put it into practice.

"Skill Activated (Boot), Dear Friend (Swindler)"

Declaration of skill activation.

Then, as I look at him, he turns into someone else.

Activate it again and it will look different again.

Aside from Akaba, Hirose, and Katsura, I was free to change my appearance as long as the MP lasted, not only for Colorful Flowers, but also for Dr. Mizuki and Ivy.

Exactly. I'm not going to use predation, but if I want to use it, I should be able to use it.

It was as I imagined, but I can't believe I could really use my skills.

I have a strong sense that I have become a Superman.

Revenge is easy as long as you can change who you are.

A little bit of this, I wouldn't say 2,3 people - more, maybe I could kill them.

Then I walked around the quarters disguised as someone else at night after training.

Nobody realizes I'm me.

Because he made sure he was in his room and used it, and no one wanted to know where I was.

I repeat it for a week or so and get used to it, I go into even bolder action.

He turned into Ivy and stepped into the castle.

It was more like a kind of gut test than a revenge.

Maybe he was floating around getting abilities.

The person at the time was drunk in the dormitory, and there was no room for suspicion.

It doesn't even change my voice, so it was hard to delude the soldier who greets me, but there he deludes me with a cough.

I've never seen the inside of a castle like this, but the faces of the soldiers are heartless or dark.

I guess the rumors that the Kingdom of Legnatrics is at a disadvantage in the fight against the Inheria Empire are true.

He said the war going on between the Legnatrics in the north and the Inheria in the south was initially a skirmish over the Mithril mine on the border.

They had also been discussed to distribute mined misrilled ore, but the negotiations broke down without giving way to each other.

As a result, the Legnatrics side developed into a war with their hands first.

In other words, the big name was on the inheria side.

Most importantly, Legnatrix doesn't seem to give way by saying that Inheria got her hands on it first, but it doesn't look like she's been dealt with by neighbouring countries either.

Ivy says that as long as there is a misrill, we can produce a large quantity of Animus, we can gain an advantage in the fight, and that was the pre-emptive attack with that in mind.

The area around the Finnish mine, one of the world's premier reserves of misrillic ore, also occasionally became the territory of Legnatrics.

The battle seemed to go in the favor of Legnatrics, who held the Finis mine.

But - the situation has changed since the kingdom of Orines, located east of the Inheria, began to side with the Inheria subject to the distribution of the Finnish mine.

Orines also deals with legnatrics.

The coalition of Inheria and Orines launches an attack on a wide area from south to east of Legnatrics.

The kingdom, which had to disperse its defensive forces, was pushed gradually, and finally the Finnish mine fell into the hands of the Inheria.

Since then, Legnatrics, which has also lost production of Animus, has been twitched and hunted down - and in a situation where we have to rely on people from different worlds.

I mean, the kingdom is being hunted down, so I infiltrated it thinking I might get some interesting information in the castle.

In the meantime, I heard a voice leaking from one of my rooms.

One is a woman...... is it Pranas?

The other one is a man, I don't even know who he is.

Probably a great guy.

"How are the messengers from the example empire, on their way?

"Yes, they say the carriage is definitely headed this way. It's got an escort, so I was wondering if it's okay with the demon opponent."

"When will we arrive"

"If things go well like this, the night after tomorrow,"

"At night, that's convenient. If we move through the darkness, it won't be very noticeable."

"Depending on the discussion with the messenger…"

"Oh, maybe we can end the battle against the Empire in a peaceful way. But in that case, they're going to drink our disadvantages."

"It's better than wasting your life like this"

"I agree, it would be more tragic if we hadn't brought it into the discussion before we were stripped of the land by force. Discussion is essential to survive the future of the kingdom."

Apparently, he's secretly inviting an Imperial messenger to go ahead and talk about a truce.

Unlike Ivy, is Planus a truce?

The two seemed close, but said they didn't think the same way.

Armistice... messenger... night after tomorrow... secret plan... isn't this available?

I have since stolen and listened to indoor conversations and obtained further details.

And by the end of the conversation between the two of them, I panicked and left the scene thinking it would be bad if Pranas saw my face.

As I worked out my plan, I left the castle and headed back to my quarters.

I immediately came up with the plan, it's the target that counts... but the guys who seem as prone to incite as they can are good.

What about the target is Redfeather Lily and a group of five men and women who admire her.

I don't have as much resentment for Red Wings, but the guys in the group were troublesome tangled up with the cranes and the Isoguan like goldfish manure.

Make it not a high priority, they were going to kill him anyway.

Hope to exit the perimeter, and - yes, drag the red feathers into the mud too.

Yeah, that's good.

My dear friend (Swindler) will never find out I'm the killer.

Besides, I don't think anyone has the strength and the courage to take revenge on me.

Unsuspected, I am free to move.

It's all on my palm.

Eat freely, eat freely.

As I have always been.

Walking down the starlit night lane, I imagined a lovely future, hoisted my mouth corner and laughed.