─ ─ McCard Empire Capital-

"Looks like you came to me, too. Emperor."

To the Imperial Family, the wild voice of Doyle Federal President Rudolph echoes.

"... do you need reinforcements?

"I don't need it. It's not enough to take thousands of crowds. The number of places is different between us who are always fighting them and you who are soaking in warm water."

When Rudolph said so, Emperor McCard clouded his face.

"I'm sorry. Always let me stand on the arrow."

"What. Isn't it weak with the usual increase? What will the Lord of the Great Powers do with such likeness? Show me the gap and we'll eat. Just because you're an ex-brother-in-law doesn't condone it."

When Rudolph truncated so, he stirred the barley on the tabletop all at once. Seeing that, Emperor McCard sighs lightly.

"How long have you been drinking that cheap wine... for example, this wine?"

"Hmm. Your taste has always been incompatible with yours. No, more than that. You must be the one standing on the arrow right now. I hear you have tens of thousands of skeletons."

Rudolph sits deeply down as he puts the jock on the table unconstructively, stirring the couch.

"And I didn't expect to be attacked from the inside. Sympathize with the boulder. You can send one of our brave men. Class A protective body affinity. My place is on the front line. Two soldiers and two brave men are enough."

"Thank you. But there are already five brave men in the empire. The other one doesn't call because the protection hasn't awakened yet, but now the three brave men of Rising Sun are on defense. Let's tell Kate to make it another country's replenishment."

"That's it"

Rudolph points to Emperor McCard as he tries to stare.

"I understand leaving the battlefield to that 'limit breaking' brave man. Anyway, politics teases me about the war, but I also know that I'm leaving the war to that little girl Prime Minister."

"... I'm stronger than you in chess."

"That's a play story. When it comes to reality, you are so sweet. Even the roundtable of the Brave Army before this, if it weren't for me, would be added... no, don't get off the record."

Rudolph asks Emperor McCard as he pours beer on an emptied jock.

"How do you feel about letting that kid take care of this commotion?

"Though each head of the Brave Army agreed?

"Then if you object there, you will have the choice of showing treason or not receiving assistance. You know what a round table is."

Emperor McCard did not answer, turning the wine in the glass of wine in his hand in a kurli.

"If I'm the only one who disagrees, that's treason. So you rethink. No matter how powerful the protection, the brave men were originally Japanese. It's not warm water, it's like they were always in the finest baths."

Emperor McCard emptied the wine glass, but Rudolf doesn't show how to pour it. Emperor McCard knew that too, held the bottle himself and poured it.

"It's less than the kid with the sword for the first time. Leaving him with a strategy for this phase? Coverage and tactics are separate. I doubt your sanity, Emperor."

Emperor McCard, who was enjoying the aroma of wine, sighed and asked Rudolph.

"What do you doubt about him? Brains? Intelligence?

"I've said it many times. Ready, or spiritual."

Rudolph makes the sound of his throat and drinks barley.

"I've seen the kid from" Breaking the Limits "before, but that was good. He had good eyes. It looks like hell. Still, my eyes try to stand up and move on. That's gonna get stronger."

"You don't talk about people with your eyes often, Rudolph. Well, the soldiers at your place do have weird, horrible eyes that live sharply, and then they can die. But Rudolph, you're not looking into Kate's eyes, are you?

"You don't have to look. They mostly have the same eyes. The brave man at my place treated me scattered and used me on the front line, and the guy in the same squad died and finally got a good eye. But it's about you, you didn't do that anyway, did you?

That's it, Rudolph took another sip.

"... as surprising as it may seem, he had very different eyes at the time of the summons."

"Heh, did people change about warm water? That's how you know Oori."

"Warm water, that's a good metaphor, Rudolf. But you're wrong about something."

The emperor closed his eyes to remember the past.

"At the time of the summons, Kate and Sola looked at us as if we were people immersed in warm water. He had more creepy eyes than a soldier at your place. Even during the training of the sword, he showed some movement like he had already dealt with the sword. I was a little confused because my body feels different."

"... you can't believe it in Russia. Didn't I summon you, by mistake, even the military of your neighbor?

"They called themselves Japanese. Above all, Zenta, who was summoned at the same time, did not seem to consider it unnatural. Definitely as Japanese."

Still seeing Rudolph unconvinced, the emperor says.

"Do you remember the Japanese Second World Theory?

"Oh, about ten years ago, you went up on the subject. I was listening because it doesn't matter, but I stopped listening at some point"

"It wasn't even about what we'd get. They stopped turning around the cost of research."

Japanese second-world theory. It is a hypothesis put forward by one researcher in the McCard Empire. Said, the investigation found that the Japanese information left by the historical braves was slightly misfed. That information can be divided into two main categories, the theory being that there are two Japan where brave men are summoned, each present in a separate space. It is a theory buried without being tested because it came to the topic because of the bizarre nature of the theory, but because it has no merit whatsoever if it turns out to be, and because it is likely only a mistake of the brave.

"What if that's a fact? Only Kate and Sola have been transferred from Japan in another space."

"... are you serious? No, pull a hundred steps. As that was the fact, the two spaces should have followed a fairly similar history. How can a human being be summoned with a completely different mental structure?

"That's right. But from the summons of the previous braves to this summons, what if something had happened to Kate or Sola's Japan that would have definitively changed the two Japan?

Rudolph, who remained silent for a while, sighed one and then drank the barley at once.

"... it's leaping too far. So you can snort."

"Right. Of course I'm not serious either. It's just a thought. Well, if you can't believe Kate..."

"No, let's believe it"

Rudolph sighs one thing and says:

"I'm sure of the eyes I see your people. Is that why you're so good at politics? I was an orphan. That's why I was forced to tailor me to my brother-in-law. I can't believe Kate, but that's all you have to say. Let's believe in your extraction."

The emperor leaned his wine glass and drank a little before exhaling.

"Thank you"

─ ─ McCard Empire, Fort Lilib, Conference Room-

"Master Lewt, how can we get ahead of this?"

"Right..."

To the deputy's question, Ryudo turns his mind around.

Invasion of demons into other countries. That news arrived and Keido and the sky had to leave Fort Lilib to equalize their forces of war. It is the magic of space in the sky that tours the places where nations travel and moves the brave. Keido accompanies him as his conductor and as a trump card to make him respond to accidents and emergencies.

As a result, Ryudo, Zhuhi and Aoi, former brave men of the rising kingdom, were to remain in Fort Lilib. Compared to other invasion locations, the number of demons invading the McCard Empire is different digits. However, because of a powerful combination of three, one Class A, one Class B, and one non-standard, it was judged sufficient as a force of war.

It also meant maintaining morale, and the command was to be given to Ryudo. With the expansion of the battlefield from Fort Lilib to the entire human state, it was too inefficient for Prime Minister Indela to remain in Fort Lilib, where only limited contact could be made.

It will take the form of Indera as the overall liaison, Keido as the field commander in equalizing the warfare power of the brave, and Ryudo as the field commander of Fort Lilib.

But unlike Indela and Keido, Ryudo has neither the experience nor the knowledge to direct. For this reason, Major Neuron of the Water Battalion is to serve as deputy secretary and support the command of Ryudo.

"You don't have to do that anymore."

"Yes, Fort Edgeburg soldiers have already completed their retreat"

"Any reinforcements from the Imperial City?

"It was originally a march that put Lord Sola's space magic into the calculations, so there's a huge delay ahead of schedule."

"I see. It's just a minor drain on soldiers. Do we continue to fight late until reinforcements?"

"Conversely, I was wondering if we could fast-track the demons who would be at Fort Bond"

Ryudo gazes and thinks.

"Mr. Neuron."

"No honor required, Master Lewt."

"... neuron, which would you choose?

"It's a late fight, right? If you are relative to humans and other races, you will wonder about the current battle of demons that is too stupidity. Perhaps we have something for an ambush. If the supply line is cut off by an ambush, we will be driven into distress at once. But the opponent is an unintelligent demon. You hardly have to worry about an ambush. I thought it would be good to wait for reinforcements so that we can crusade the Demons for sure."

……

Ryudo is silent. As a matter of fact, I was not convinced by his story. Even though wary of the strength of the demonic tribe, the humans of this world, the Keido and the sky, and strangely even the pearls and sunflowers, seemed to Ryudo not to be paying any wariness to their brains.

History proves it, and I certainly don't feel like nodding when I see this fight. But I guess I can't think too honestly. Isn't there something wrong with taking it for granted up to Keito, the sky, Pearl Hill, and Sunflower that shouldn't be caught in this world's common sense? Ryudo can't help but think so.

(Or am I the one who's crazy)

Fear flickers in the back of the brain every time something happens. Intelligence that mocked Dragon Dou at the time, creepy enough acting skills, means that it was just bizarre, too special and incomprehensible an attack, clothing like oxidized blood, black eyes as if it were also an abyss ahead of it, mouth with a glimpse of the ruthless but inner madness, black hair, black eyes, black shirt, black trousers, black, black, black.

Every time he went to bed, every time he breathed, every time he meditated on his eyes, Sole, laughing this way from behind his lid, had left too deep a wound on Ryudo.

For Ryudo, the image of the Demon Clan is that of Takafuji Prayer Ri. Whatever he does, it's not funny. If he's relative, then thinking about it, Ryudo couldn't help but be alert to the ambush.

But this concern is not conveyed where I said it to the warring soldier in front of me.

(I'm not even sure in the first place. Then we have to compromise......)

"We will form a small group of troops in order to facilitate the pursuit of enemy forces and the offensive since reinforcements arrived, in the unlikely event of an ambush"

"... not bad. I just thought I'd depend on the troops I'd leave to them. Which unit leader should I call?"

"I'll go."

To Ryudo, who casually told him, the neurons bore the words slightly.

"... are you serious?

"Pearl and Sunflower guard the main formation. If you had two brave men, you wouldn't have lost your morale."

But you are the commander in chief in this war.

"It's an ornament. The decorations look good on the beginning. The Commander can give you authority."

"If you die, this war will fall apart."

(Don't talk too tight)

Human beings in this world have a hard time seeing brave men too much. But this man standing in front of Ryudo seemed to see Ryudo only as a reciprocal soldier.

"I won't die. You didn't see my previous battles?

"Even if it seems like an analogy. I only saw with this eye the strength of the brave. But the Demons..."

"You don't think I'm serious?"

"Is...?

What did you think, Ryudo suddenly counted something with a finger fold.

"... eight, nine... yeah. Five times stronger than I am."

"O, V......!?

"Physical ability alone doesn't improve technology, though. But seriously, when you fight, you think the soldiers can't chase you with their eyes. Saved."

To neurons who don't move with their eyes open, Ryudo says.

"Organize your troops with the ones who are ready to die. Whatever your strength. It would be desirable to have one that can cook if you can."

The neurons finally got me back.

"Wow, I get it. But may I ask you one thing, brave man?"

"What?

"I was just wondering if it would be better if we were a conquest party, not a reconnaissance unit,"

(Image strategic array……)

It is true that the Lord Commander is not a reconnaissance force. Ryudo nodded honestly because he himself had used morale improvement as one of his excuses.

─ ─ Fort Ayatak, Doyle Federation (Boundary with Demonic Territory) ─

Before Keido, the giant Han stood in royalty.

"Are you Keido Kanejo...? We listen more than our chief..."

……

Keido, by contrast, stood silently and bewildered.

"Did you really do this to the Japanese?

…… Though he is a born Japanese. What's wrong with that?

"Ooh."

A fearful sky whispers in the ears of Keido, half a step down.

"Ko, is this man really a brave man? Not the knights of this world or anything...?

"As it is, well, the carving is shallow, and I don't even look Japanese... do it..."

Sun-dyed, brown-stained skin, dark hair that is slightly pale because of earthsmoke, traces of training, rough and hardened skin, gritty muscles, scars dotted all over the body where you can see the shadow of a death fight. Tones like The Samurai.

It is the shallow face of sculpture that is not found in this world with many western-style faces, but the atmosphere is entirely a warrior in the history of the military Power.

Kengo Matsui, Doyle Federation brave man. He is a former Japanese, with A-rank protection "physical affinity".

Keido takes the material out of his pocket and looks at Kengo Matsui's item. There were sketches and detailed features.

"Matsui to Homma? It says something about a skinny young man..."

"I worked out."

"Don't you want to change your face?

"I worked out."

"Odd personality......"

"I worked out."

(Ooh, brain muscle...)

He is a brain miso muscle like he wrote in the picture.

(I also love mushrooms in Sora Japan! Love the fight! I had a brain muscle like that, but it was never this blatant...)

With his hands on his forehead, Keido confirms Matsui's protection, the explanatory section of "Body Affinity".

(Explosive increase in physical ability and regeneration at no risk...... like it's generally recognized as the top compatibility of 'limit breaking')

However, Dragon Dou's "Limit Breach" is not the same as the conventional one, and it is a non-standard protection that can be overlaid.

(If you think about it, you can do about five fifths. work as quite a force)

"Anyway, I'm going to have you fight away from here, somewhere else, but so yeah?

"That's what the chief says. Plus, from what I can see, we don't need any more force here."

"Okay, strong protection and strong power, I guess. Rely on me."

When Keido slapped Matsui on his shoulder like that, Matsui looked a little bitter.

"... don't expect too much. No matter how powerful I am, I only have two arms."

(... heh)

Keido roaring in his heart. With this kind of protection, it seems likely to grow, but Matsui seemed to know his own limitations.

(a remnant of the original odd character, or…)

"Even my people are dead."

……

Matsui answers in silence. But Keido did not miss the slight opening of his eyes.

(Still, being on the front line is a real battle level of immediacy. For not being refracted, in a way it becomes more powerful than Ryudo)

The next moment when Keido zeroed his grin in his heart, an alarm rang in his room, Jirilli.

"This is..."

"Communication magic gear. Looks like we have a follow-up."

"I'll go get the details"

Tattered, the sky heads to the room where the person in charge of the intercommunication magic tool is located.

After a while, the sky seemed to come back and say, that we had received reports that the Grants Republic had been attacked by demons.

"Grants... I didn't expect to seek help from my country or the Brave Army as soon as I was in crisis..."

"When you say foolishness or something, go early. I don't know if that's the way people die."

"Magic path creation and hacking to the Grants Republic is on its way to the capital now that Mr. Zuhi has finished it"

Coordinate information specific to spatial magic is required for point transfer. Its legality is not even known in the sky, only about as precisely as the coordinates at which it is located. As a result, the current situation is a substitute that can only be transferred to places visited once.

The capital of the Republic of Grants is a city the sky has never been to. It's impossible to move to the capital because we don't know the coordinates.

But then Pearl noticed something. Why is it possible to communicate with each other even though there is no physical connection at a distance? Is there some kind of magical connection to each other?

From there onwards is Pearl Hill's single-altar with the protection of "Magic Affinity". The formation and hacking of the Magic Path of Pearl Hill Advantage found that the Magic Moves of Mutual Communication continuously recorded their respective spatial coordinates to themselves. The point is that the magic tools of mutual communication used spatial magic to transfer information.

The sky today is capable of transferring points to all points where the magic tools of mutual communication are present.

"Okay, I'll go"

Along with an empty hanging voice, the three figures disappeared from the Doyle Federation.

─ ─ The streets to the Doyle Federation ─

I haven't stopped by the village in a while. And from now on, we will hardly ever make it to Doyle Federation destinations.

Currently, the faces of the Community-Handicapped Brave Party are in charge of watching and defeating the enemy. Me and Aaliyah are waiting while they rock in the carriage.

That's when I got one report from Lily, who was on watch.

"Hot Springs......!?

"That's it. I saw some hot air coming out and I checked it out..."

The eyes of the community-handicapped brave shine. As for this guy, who loves hot springs and is temple Japanese, Lily is looking more excited than usual. This world is still immature in the development and legal development of the city, even as the magic tools are developed. There are large numbers of undiscovered hot springs and so on, and there is no ownership there.

And hot water is scarce. Baths are naturally the only luxury allowed to the upper classes, not if you're traveling. If you find a hot spring on the road like that, then you go in. There's no other option.

This world with magic, such as earthly magic and water magic, is easy to develop wild hot springs into the right shapes and temperatures for people to enter. Well, this spa is the right shape from the start.

"Inori......"

"Hmm?"

"The hot springs, Innoli set them up, right?

"Your Name Yu"

"Well, I thought so."

The sound alone didn't make sense. Your name and answer.

There's no way there's a hot spring at that convenience, is there? I got out a little late at night a while ago to build a hot spring.

We knew in Detection that the mountains around here were volcanoes, so for now, we searched Detection for places with magma nearby and high temperatures. We found a light magma hoarding place, so we're looking for groundwater next. Not to say light, I discovered a good looking groundwater source in the same mountain range. Perhaps terrain fanned volatile running water or something.

Later, "Weapon Smelting" uses soil and stones as materials. Build a large number of cannons and connect them well and they will become waterways. The water is then passed through the groundwater source and allowed to pass through near the magma accumulation while successfully adjusting to the temperature. Complete to allow enemies to spring within reach of this path.

"If it's a hot spring, you think you can be two with Seiji because men and women break up?

"It's good to guess."

"Isn't the assumption sweet on boulders? There's Sebastian."

"I hit the fabric stone, too, and let's do it well. Ask Areya to help, of course. I'm going to tell you about the operation."

With that said, I took out a gun so that I wouldn't look like the communist braves.

At that moment, Aaliyah's face turned blue at once, and she was drawn to it.

"Hey, what is it... Are you going to use that...?

"If you terrorize the community-handicapped brave, hypnosis will be more assured."

Well, I don't know about this while I'm at it, but it's dark at night and it'll be fine.

Then after a while when I turned that gun into a "shadow space," I didn't go back inside looking at Areya's monster against me.

─ ─ Capital of the Republic of Grants-

"Later, then."

"Mmm, please."

Keido waves and drops off the sky, which transfers with space magic, in a light condition.

Kengo Matsui sees such a seemingly light-eyed man with skepticism.

A man with a non-standard blessing and a great deal of trust from the heads of state, especially Emperor McCard.

(... but don't be danced to the previous information. The chief also told me to judge by the figure I saw with my own eyes. And from my eyes...)

"Do you want to spare some time until the sky gets to the fort and comes back, even with a sleigh?

"... let me say no"

In order to transfer to the fort, the sky faces alone using a visual transfer, arriving and then returning. Take Matsui and Keido to transfer points.

Therefore, I will certainly be free until the sky returns, but it is not a good occasion to be so distracted as to make a sleigh than it is before the battle.

(From my eyes, I'm just an ordinary Japanese. Sure seems sharp, but any ability doesn't mean anything unless you have a strong spirit on the battlefield)

Matsui was learning it with his own body. And against a man named Keido, I was dismayed not least. Because it was an eye that had never experienced a real battle.

At the same time, however, he was aware that Keido was important to the Brave Army. The existence of protection is, of course, a necessity for mankind, as is its unusual tactical sense. As far as Matsui listened, it seemed like a Doyle Confederate military teacher was saying that the sense of balance in the distribution of its brave forces was commendable.

He is now also at the forefront of this battle.

(On the battlefield, I must protect you. I only have the force of protection and the spiritual strength I trained in action)

"Keido!!

Suddenly, an empty voice sounded in the room.

Matsui takes a combat stance on unexpected events. In contrast, Keido answered naturally.

"Something wrong? It was fast."

"It's a separate unit nearby! I'm after this capital!!

"What!?

It was Matsui who raised his voice to the sky report. The assault on the capital by a separate task force. It was impossible for Matsui, who had combat experience with the Demons, to think that the Demons could develop such a strategy.

"Stupid... that the Demons are the strategy...?

"Is there something weird about not doing that? Demons are brutal and cowardly. At a level that's still very important."

Keido mocks. The atmosphere did not carry any lightness, and Matsui opened his eyes.

The sky sees Keito with worrying eyes.

"Keido..."

"There's no hurry than that. Just skies, transfer magic, surprise the other way from here?

The sky shook its head and activated the metastatic magic in Keito's remarks, which restored the usual light atmosphere.

Matsui stared at Keido, whose atmosphere had returned.

And besides the metastasis, Keido felt intense discomfort and headache.

(Why not... The Demons don't strategize with brain muscle. But why did I do that earlier... No, you didn't? Why did the Demon Clan think it was a brain muscle? Am I missing something...?

"Keido!!

The scream of the sky sounded.

To a separate task force for ambush, ambush the opposite with metastatic magic. The operation itself is not otherwise flawed.

But this time, there was miscalculation and bad luck.

First of all, as a miscalculation, that the few units that the sky perceived as separate teams were in fact captains of the demons attacking the Grants Republic and their direct escorts.

And the bad luck was that its captain was an individual with a rare and high intelligence in the demonic tribe, and Argo, a direct subordinate of Heliu.

At the same time that the sky recognized a separate task force, Argo detected her in reverse. And I spotted her high abilities in an instant.

Argo could not use metastatic magic, but he had knowledge.

Shortly after the sky shifted, Argo immediately headed to the point where she disappeared and shook up the great sword.

Three people, Sky, Keido and Matsui, moved to that point. At the end of the great sword of Argo was Keido.

Keido doesn't notice Argo due to an intense headache.

Matsui, putting Argo's figure in sight is also delayed because Keito was well placed to pay attention until just before.

Argo waves down the great sword.

"Keido!!

The sky notices and raises its voice. At the same time, Matsui pushes Keido's body.

Here Keido gradually grasped the current situation.

But it was too late.

"Gah!!

An arm with the holy sword of Keido flies into space.

It was the head that spared me, but the sword muscle was capturing Keido's underarm.

"Damn!

Matsui hits his tongue.

Argo set up his sword in an attempt to stab Keito early.

─ ─ The reason for the trust placed in Keito by the leaders of each country lies in the substandard protection of 'count', its versatility.

"'Count-1 (minus one)' arm only"

At the same time as the protective activation, the time of Keido's arm goes back, and the flying arm returns to the shoulder to regenerate.

"Stupid!?

Keido pokes with the holy sword as it is. Argo jumped away instantly and set up his sword. Can't hide the surprise, says Argo.

"Play...... you think that's immediate too? The power of protection...?

"Oh, that ugly face. I miss you."

Keido did not answer Argo's question and groaned as he opened his eyes thinly.

Non-standard protection, 'count' Keido calls his own protection 'count n'. You can optionally put an integer in n, and only Keido makes one second an n second. It then requires an interval of n squares seconds. In addition, the activation location can be limited to a portion of Keido's body.

"'Count..."

Again, an integer can be placed at will (...).

"─ ─ 100 (Hand Red)" "

100 seconds was too long for Keito with the Holy Sword (Rapier) that could pierce everything.

All that remained was the bodies of the convoys, including Argo.

"What..."

Matsui was also not taught the protection of Keito in detail. But more than that, more overwhelming than expected.

─ ─ The Emperor once credited his protection as "invincible".