Kuro no Maou

Episode 4: Black Magic

The first time it was at the end of the walking aisle was, naturally, the first place I came.

It's a circular hall, with prisons, passages and laboratories until now, all with only a narrow and painful impression, so it gives a slightly more spacious and open look.

Looking around, the mask that has led the way seems to have exited the room at some point.

Well, what the hell kind of pain awaits you today, I hope you can hold a dance party in this big hall.

Totally, even a tumannai joke is going to drive me crazy if I don't think about it.

No, can it be easier if you go crazy?

With that in mind, the entrance to a different hall opened from the one I came in, and I noticed someone coming this way from across the aisle making noise with chatter.

What showed up was a man wearing an already familiar white mask.

But he's not what he's always dressed like. Covering its entire body was not a white cape, but a dull, shining protector.

Is it more appropriate to say armor?

"Starting manoeuvre experiment number 49 now.

Number 49, destroy the doll that appears in front of you using black magic. "

This is the first time you've explained the experiment, and that's all that depends on my behavior.

The experiment means that this short dialogue alone shows that you can use magic on me.

I don't know what it means to even bother with a retrofit experiment and let me use magic, but at least I know they're not nice enough to give me time to worry about using magic slowly.

The man in the armor who showed up in front of me, I don't know what principle this place should be called a doll as explained, but I guess Yatsura is using incredible magic to move it like a human being.

And that strange moving doll is currently coming at me, making the same chattering and hustling noise as it did when I walked in.

This means that if you don't just smash it with magic, you're gonna get me tattooed with both arms fitted with that steel gauntlet!

"Whoa, jeopardize!?

The doll shook her fist up and hit her directly from the front.

In my junior year of elementary school, I had no knack for punching my classmates after the experience of teasing them to tear their faces apart during the summer vacation I had worked so hard on.

Of course, I'm just an amateur with a big body that doesn't have anything to do with the martial arts or the talent of a secret fight.

Still, I managed to avoid the punch that was released straight without a feint.

Naturally, the attack couldn't have ended in the position of avoiding a punch once, and the doll swung but punched out in a row.

"Fuck, fuck - -"

Keep running backwards with your hips down, but if we keep this up, we'll be cornered on the wall in a few seconds.

He said to use magic, but there's no way he could use it all of a sudden.

Sure, I can clearly recognize the presence of magic in my body, but how do I do that requires a little more concentration of consciousness -

"Guh, ouch!

A doll's iron fist hits his shoulder.

With the stiffness and shock of my fist, I thought I might break my bones in one shot, but if I had to take a blow or so, it wouldn't be as good as I thought.

Of course, what hurts hurts, but maybe the doll doesn't have more power than I think? Or has the mysterious modification made me as sturdy as a transformed hero myself?

Yeah, either way.

"Wow!!

All in return, I greet the doll with a right straight all over me.

I would avoid the doll. I didn't even show it, and my fist hit me so I could get sucked into that white mask.

The feel of impact transmitted to his fist, he gave a dull shock sound, and the doll blew straight behind him.

"What do you say..."

It felt pretty affordable, but I don't see how much damage the blow would do to me right now, with almost zero experience of hitting people.

Still, the more the doll flies, the more I fall on my back like this, if I don't get up...

"Goddamn it, it's so easy for you to fall"

The doll rises without bitterness.

but the mask is taking my punch and the big crack is in the spider form.

Even though it was powerful enough to crack into that hard-looking mask, the doll sees it flat, does that mean you still have to use magic to destroy it?

Even if you hit him in the front with the doll like this, you can be sure he won't reveal it.

Then we should try magic more seriously here.

He explained it under the assumption that I could use black magic, which means there's nothing I can't do.

I have no idea what black magic is, but the horn on the rabbit, the magic I feel in this body, moves at my will.

To do this, we need a lot of concentration…

"- Guuuuuuuu!"

There's no way you can calm down and concentrate or anything like that in front of a doll who's going to resume an attack and punch you in a row.

Even to make him grow up for a while, where I blew him off with a punch or a kick, he'll definitely be up again soon anyway.

At the moment, I've dealt a few blows already, but the armor on me just dents, and I can't see how it has always worked on the doll.

But you can't take a punch to concentrate, to create a state where you can stay unattended in a hall where there's no place to hide or run right now.

"Do I have to assemble it?"

If you stick to them, at least you won't be punched.

I don't even know if it will work with a complete amateur idea, but I have nothing better to do now than try a horn at a rabbit.

Luckily, this doll is only going to attack with a massive punch so far, which means it should be unlikely that he's wearing as many diverse moves as a martial arts experience.

Then, if I put it together from behind, I wouldn't use any moves that would turn that posture upside down magnificently, and at best I'd only be resistant enough to pull me off by force.

"So, hey, oh!

It's not that hard to go around behind a subtly dull response doll, and decide on a yakuza kick on its back before the doll looks back.

A doll falls on its front, and I jump on its back before I wake up.

After all, my prospect was a success.

I haven't been able to hold him in as beautifully as Judo's sleeping moves, but I'll even hold the doll from the top to keep him from getting up.

As expected, the doll just tries to get up vigorously.

Me and the doll's power is almost antagonistic, keep it up, even for ten more seconds, if we can keep this state...

"Gu, uh-oh..."

Magic circulates throughout the body, and the flow increases acceleratively, as does the amount.

In one day's experiment, I also feel objects embedded in my body reacting to the magical powers that flow.

I know, this magic is power itself, if you release it outside with this momentum, it will definitely bring you enough power to destroy this doll.

If you notice, something like black smoke is blowing up from all over my body at the change of sweat.

And I don't feel uncomfortable about it, because Sole is something I can't contain my magic powers from out of my body.

Gigigigigi, you hear the doll clattering, the power of resistance increases, it's time to hold it down is also the limit.

But that's it,

"Ahhhhh!!

The moment the doll finally tries to push me away, the compressed magic unleashes from my right arm.

The fist of the right hand strikes the back of the doll, while the running of black magic pierces its hard armor like a drill, also penetrating the body of the doll of unknown material.

Perhaps the floor on the belly side of the doll also had that feeling, the haz being decided by this blow.

……

I don't feel any more power from the doll, and I fall asleep straight to the floor without getting up.

"Yay, I did it..."

That's magic now, what is it?

I don't know, I just let go of every magic punch that flowed.

Well, no, the doll seems to be completely out of function, and now I'm relieved.

- Kashan.

"To?"

Hard metal armor plays, the doll's driving sound reaches your ear.

The doll I did take down with this hand, still lying on the ground and not even moving Pickle.

- Kashan, Kashan, Kashan.

But I do hear that sound.

Yeah, nothing strange.

Because that sound is heard from the other side of the door where this doll came in.

It's a simple story, the dolls aren't the only thing, that's all.

"... ha"

Finally, the door opens.

As such, a row of dolls descending into the hall, a dozen of them combined, lined up in a side-by-side row, turn to me.

Same figure as the doll I knocked down, but the only thing that made a difference.

All ten bodies, in that they carry double-edged swords in one hand.

"You gotta be kidding me."

Numerous experiments and their after-effects have prepared me to die many times before, but I have never felt this before.

Dolls with swords in loose motion.

So, they all danced at the same time, without going mad about the dimensions, pointing the murder blade at me.

"... damn"