Kuro no Maou

"Me and Anastasia's serious...... I'll show you!

When Ursula raises her hands, she also shakes up Anastasia's white four arms in conjunction with the motion. Then, in its hand, the embodied white wax of absorption (drain) capacity began to converge so that it was sucked in.

This move was previously attempted on Chloe, but was interrupted by a noon bell. After all, I never had a chance to use it. I mean, this is the first time this time I've actually released it right now. It's a bump production, but I'm not anxious about Ursula.

The principle of moves is simply the object. Gather your power and unleash it. That's just it.

Near the limit, Ursula's eyes change to draw her own strength (Drain). Quite accustomed to the exercise of magic, it doesn't change that way, but when you use your powers greatly, the bright red eye congested like a demon causes a change in the glowing eyes of a creepy purple.

Are you or are you not noticing Ursula, who literally changed the color of her eyes, the great octopus was finally about to let her shake her head big enough to spit out her body fluids of strong acid in one go.

But Ursula is only a little quicker to shoot.

"Erase it -" White Stream Gun (White Brace) "!

From a point where the four palms of Anastasia gather like petals, a bright white tornado is unleashed. The Sole, named "White Stream Cannon (White Brace)," is Ursula's biggest move, dedicated to annihilation destruction, erasing all things with magic by pounding intensely swirling drain abilities with a single focus.

The tornado, which houses more intense absorption than the four arms of Anastasia bound, hits the great octopus on the verge of launching the Acid Brace with the momentum of climbing to heaven. A white runoff slammed into his open mouth pierced a huge head through the wind hole in a flash.

"Ugh!

Ursula falls ill if she doesn't feel comfortable releasing too much power. In tandem with that, the 'White Stream Cannon (White Brace)', which radiates off, pops out to scrape the head of an even bigger octopus from the inside out.

The giant octopus, whose head had been cut off so quickly, slowly dropped its giant onto the ground as it sank to the bottom of the water, waving the four tentacles on its feet wide.

"Ha, ha... ha... hey, hey, I'm tired, this is..."

As the great octopus sinks into the earth, so does the White Stream Cannon (White Brace), which wears the void. How much Ursula's wear and tear was eloquently told of her sweating on her forehead and roughing her breath.

"Hey, Miss Ursula, are you okay!

"Well, it's okay... but now it's a little too much to make a connection, is it..."

"It was brilliant grand magic! We'll protect you, now rest!

Ursula concentrated on maintaining a junction that cleared her sight, feeling somewhere far away the great cheer that gushed over destroying the big man. Anastasia still retains its shape, but somewhere the shadows diminish and only shake quietly like hot air. Neither is an attack by arms likely to be possible right now.

Ursula's attack support will take the form of a temporary interruption, but the morale crusaders will continue their struggle.

"Huh, enemy offense weakened - now! Initiate retreat!

"Retreat! Retreat! Hurry up and get out of the church!!

Cliff's decision finally dares him to escape from the village. Zorozolo and more than a hundred villagers began to come out of the church in rows, and the soldiers consolidated their surroundings. Many villagers hold the pine lights that were stockpiled in the church, and the colors of the flames shine brilliantly as they illuminate the white darkness that blocks the destination.

"Miss Ursula, let's take the lead. Clear the way out."

"Mmm... Roger that."

Fatigue makes my head slightly blurred, but still not to the point of misjudgment, nor to the point of inability to move. Apparently Cliff divides the heavy knight unit into two back and forth, one dedicated to securing the exit, and the other to the role of lord. Given the speed of escape, we should concentrate our forces forward, but as knights protecting our people, I guess we can't form a formation of sacrificial assumptions.

With that in mind, Ursula headed to the beginning of the line, following Cliff, who ran out making chattering and softening noises.

"Shit, there are enemies in front and behind..."

Just a few dozen meters through the square, mozo mozo and lumpy green chunks begin to appear on the road.

I guess you clearly recognize this one as a prey. It springs up one after the other, blocking the way to go, as roof telling in alleys and houses, and jumping out of windows at the end. The seemingly abominable herd of octopuses, thanks to the fog-paying junction still being tensioned by Ursula, saw its emergence well. Fortunately, they don't ambush you from beyond the thick fog, but it's hard to say that the situation is good.

From the rear, too, I hear soldiers crying out to show that the pursuit of the enemy is coming sooner rather than later.

"Yeah, nothing more than a forcible breakthrough! Let's go, keep going with me!

Cliff shakes up Halbad, who is drooling with green returning blood, and dares to assault him resolutely to open a breakthrough. Ursula won't move Anastasia's arm, though I think she has to cover.

"Come on, we're almost there..."

If you untie it, I think I can move about one of my arms. It is also dangerous, however, for sight to be closed again. It is the main road of a wide street to the gate, but if you still can't see it, the speed at which it goes will surely decrease.

Although it is understandable that he can only try to maintain the status quo, Ursula can only admire the heavy knights who play a fierce battle with octopus in a teething mood.

If you loosen up, you'll likely recover enough to attack again. But even in the meantime, one ally falls and another falls. Inside Ursula's little chest, all haste recruited.

"- Why don't you! Get down! - Whoa!

As Cliff screams, the rattling and house breaks down in Russia. Fragments and debris poured down like rain, the villagers and soldiers screamed, and the situation one step ahead of the confusion.

"Hey, what's that..."

If Ursula, who lay on her feet in awe, raised her fearful face, she could see her tentacles as great as the tail of a dragon whispering in the air. I immediately suspect that the giant claws at its tip have swept away the roofs and walls of the standing houses.

And that's indisputable, the same big tentacles you just knocked down. It was the emergence of the second tenth metre class.

"Ah."

Slowly a big head peeks over the two-story shop. The great octopus opened his four legs and blocked just across the street. A mossy big rocky head comes directly over the villagers. I heard a mix of crying screams and prayers to God there in the sense of oppression that they would be crushed as they were.

If you look up, that horrible big mouth is open as dark as the bottom of Naruto. And the big octopus was in the firing position of the brace, sounding the intake sound I heard earlier.

Ursula's silver hair and monastic clothing stir violently into the rising airflow so intense that it is likely to be inhaled from body to body as it is. This time we can't fight back in time.

The only thing that comes to mind is that, I can't think of anything else anymore.

Reaching out reflexively, it was only one Anastasia right arm that moved. It never reached the enemy, just grabbing the sky in vain - it was supposed to be.

Vision is russian, dyed in a bleak colour of black and red. To such a glare, I meditated my eyes reflexively. At the same time, she blocks her ears.

An explosion like the heavens and the earth have turned upside down, blowing through the hot air that burns your skin.

I don't know what happened. But if I opened my eyes, she could understand right away.

"- Dear Chloe!

Beyond the great octopus slowly crashing to the ground, surrounded by a blazing black flame. There was a black knight figure, magnificently nestled on a three-story roof.

"Oh, hey, it was critical"

Unexpectedly, alone in the helm.

That big octopus, it was just before I let go of my braces completely. If they had been shot as they were, the Ursula countries, the villagers, would have been wiped out as well.

With a breath of relief, I jump straight off the roof onto the street. Dozn, and I remember the weight and impact of my body sinking with the landing, but this sturdy body doesn't even freak out.

"Good luck with the retreat, Ursula."

Honestly, I thought it was sophisticated enough to stick in the square, but I didn't expect you to be starting so far back into shape and neatly until you pulled out. Well carried, as it may be, but I'm pretty sure Ursula's power helped.

Look, she looks slightly tired. You must have drawn quite a bit of Anastasia's power. The ability to absorb (drain) can certainly take the opponent's magic and make it his own, but the subtraction does not necessarily add to the amount of magic. Of course, just exercising your abilities will also require a lot of concentration and mental strength, so fatigue will accumulate just as much as you fought.

The labor goes hand in hand, makes me want to stroke my head and do it, but now I'm blocked with a halvard on my right hand and a tower shield on my left, so I'm somewhat absent-minded.

"Yes, Dear Chloe... I did my best"

She looks just a little embarrassed and is adorable with a ragged Ursula. But it's not a situation I can afford to stare and love.

"Let's leave the village at once like this. Just a little bit more, come on."

"Yes!"

Okay, let's leave backup to Ursula, and I'll cut through the front lines.

"Mmm, you sure are the black knight who was with Ryan!

It was Cliff, the heavy knight captain, who spoke to me as I walked over. Apparently, thanks to his presence, the remnants of the Crusaders have come together and the chain of command is kept critical.

It's a cliff of seventy-three glasses more like a nervous official than a knight, but is it quite capable of looking like this?

"It's Chloe, please"

I am not clever enough to behave in battle. Whether this place seems a somewhat disrespectful adventurer flair anymore, let me be tacky.

Until then, the Crusaders are all here, and there is no such thing as courtesy.

"The explosion now is your magic. Even in the battle before the barrier, I saw it."

"Oh, this opens a breakthrough. Let's get out of this village."

"Thank you, a comforting ally. You and the good Miss Ursula, the 202nd Pioneering Village is full of delicacies. I wonder, when this battle is over, why don't you volunteer for the Crusades?

"Sorry, but I hate God - Demon Sword (Sword Arts)/Rift Blade (Blast Blade)"

I call a single sword as I kick Cliff's outrageously inviting complaint. That's not what I put on my hip, let alone grabbing it with my tentacles.

It was my shadow that called. Yes, it's been a long time since I've been revived, it's spatial magic (Dimension) 'Shadow Space (Shadowgate)'.

It took a ton of swords to kick through a large group of Gratney Octs. For me now, without Dual Eagle or The Grid, the most reliable ranged attack is the Rift Blade. Anything for now, because as long as you have a weapon, you get a lot of explosive power.

Because I know that, Ursula taught me the existence of an arsenal first.

As far as I'm concerned, I tried to take as many weapons as I could with my tentacles, as I did when I exterminated the Crusaders who had raided the pioneering villages, but if I tried not to, slightly, "Shadow Space (Shadowgate)" opened.

Sariel said it would take about three months to recover naturally, so now, for sure, close to that time has passed.

It's still going to take some time to expand completely to its original size, but now even with as much capacity as it was in the early days, it's enough to pack just the sword for now. At least, we'll have the number of bullets we need to get out of this village.

"- Blast"

So we started to move forward by blowing out an endless stream of zorry-gushing octopuses on the street.

Octopus arrives from all sides, but I feel even easier as far as I'm concerned than when I'm fighting on a stone wall because I can let go of the remnants without paying much attention to them, even though my vision is clear.

We know that Ursula's ability to avoid fog is the only thing around us. When I came back, I made sure that the thin drain's jaws unfolded in a dome.

I'm sure you saw the wind junction and imitated it. Ursula is also using the power of Princess White Night Fork (Anastasia) quite a bit as the idea alone can actually reproduce it. I'll have to compliment him later with my eyes full.

With that in mind, he smashes the octopus jumping from the right, blows up the octopus sneaking from the left, and crushes the herd together trying to fly off the roof. In addition to that, Ursula seemed to have re-held it a little, and began to drain the octopuses who were leaning over.

There are no enemies who can reach them scratching through one bombing attack after another from the shadows and Anastasia's one-strike special arm. The lead in pushing down the street is almost just the two of us kicking it off. Evacuation proceeds slowly, but steadily.

"You guys really are the owners of a hell of a lot of martial arts..."

I almost lost my job. Cliff says something, but I forbid to be alarmed. Kick as many little or medium octopuses as you want, but if that big octopus shows up again, they could reverse the situation all at once.

In the village, we first witnessed a few still big ones walking, and they may be descending anew out of sight.

That's what I found out when I went fishing for the arsenal, but the majority of these octopuses seemed to gather in the food bank. Gratney Octo is the ultimate omnivore that eats everything up as the dossier suggests. But it seems to be a legitimate food for my taste, and I witnessed a biscuit stick to a warehouse packed with wheat.

Their priority is supposedly to have the best groceries that can be easily preyed upon, which in turn will be animals such as humans and livestock. Well, the dangers are no different than normal monsters because they know about the food in the village and, most importantly, the ones who didn't put it in the pantry will be the most affordable prey for people fleeing all over it.

"I see it, it's the gate!

Fortunately, we reached the gate without any victims.

The gate has the appearance of a foreigner. Villagers and fast fleeing crusader soldiers who have fled straight here trying to get out of the village as it were, not the church. They were all friendly and corpsed there as octopus bait.

"We'll sweep it, Ursula"

"Yes, Lord Chloe"

Me and Ursula, we're gonna get ahead of ourselves, and we're gonna get rid of the clutterfish. Until this one gets pretty close, they seem obsessed with cadaver fishing, and Kata on the other hand.

I blow it up, Ursula erases it, Cliff and the others don't have any leaks left to clean, and the safety in front of the gate is complete.

"Keep the gate closed."

Shortly after I dropped off Saliel and Leki, the gate here is closed. Against Gratney Octo, who can fly in the sky, this large wooden and iron gate did nothing to help defend him at all. Instead, they're shutting us down tight as if we're gonna get out of the village now.

In fact, it would not have been possible to open this big gate for a long time before the octopuses fled after a situation overflowed the village. The ones who escaped first were not cornered here but fed the octopus.

Whatever it is, we're not going to follow the same path. Let's just open it and try to escape.

"- Dear Chloe! Big ones are coming!

"There are two, no, there are three..."

Turning to Ursula's voice, a shadow like a tree appears across the blurred mist as we follow the path we came from. The whole thing proceeded to walk straight down the street, and the other two were approaching over the roof of a house lined up from left to right.

No matter how much I am, it's tough to pin this big one down at the same time.

"Dear Chloe, what the hell am I gonna do?"

"Isn't magic near its limit?"

"Maybe if I shoot one, I won't be able to sustain Anastasia"

"Then..."

"But if they shoot a melting brace, it's all gone."

Yes, the trouble with the big octopus is this acid brace. It's impossible to cover this number of people with my own defensive magic, Black Earth Wall (Shield Deer Earth). If you take one shot, you'll be lucky enough to survive half of it.

So it's best to knock it down before you shoot the braces. And to make it happen, there's nothing better than destroying it fast.

But it also hurts to lose the boundaries that pay off Ursula's fog here. Even if we leave the gate, we won't be able to take it off their territory yet. With almost zero vision to fulfill, whether you can escape successfully.

"Okay, I'll leave the whole thing to you. I'll take care of the two by myself. Cliff, hurry up and open the gate!

Aware of the risk, I choose to destroy the Trinity simultaneously. Instead, if you front the imminent giant of the great octopus, you have no choice but to defeat it.

"Seems like you're the only ones who can take down the big one for sure... sorry, I'll take care of it"

"Dear Chloe, I aim for the octopus on the right"

Get the two of you to understand and start acting immediately. The great octopus, approaching from the rear and from left to right, has already set foot within the fog-free junction.

"Demon Hand (Bind Arts)"

Ursula will be in charge of the whole right-hand side, so I'll be dealing with the guy on my left and the guy on the rear coming down the street. Start with the left.

The tentacles of the stretched black chain stretch in a straight line to a two-story roof, and when hooked to the edge, they wind up all at once and carry my body up. I arrive on the triangle roof with little starch, but without the sheep, I would still devote a lot of attention to manipulating the demon hand (bind arts). Doing "Vertical Limits" on my own seems a little tricky.

But now you don't have to fight on a vertical wall. It's just that if you open enough rays to aim at the head of the big octopus stepping over the roof, that's fine.

"Demon Sword (Sword Arts)/Rift Blade Matrix (Blade Storm) -"

Arrange on the ceiling of the red brick triangle roof and call the red-hot blackened swords one after the other from 'Shadow Space (Shadowge-to)'. If I merge with Lily, I can operate more than a hundred copies at the same time, but if I'm alone, thirty copies are exquisite, and so on.

I feel sorry for myself for the sheep, Lily, and my battle style, which depends on someone else, but let's leave it now.

"All Bullets Fired (Full Blast)"

Leaving a trajectory to eject a black aura like a jet injection, the thirty 'Blast Blades' have killed to the head as big as a big octopus balloon. By my exact AM, I hit it without removing a single bottle, and shortly afterwards, it causes a huge explosion. The great octopus slowly silences itself as it is engulfed in a blackening flame like a flaming airship.

I immediately move on to the next target without observing such a death.

"Damn, I knew it was a brace!

From a large, round mouth, a wooden spirit sounds like a buzzing gust.

While I destroy the whole thing, the big octopus walking down the street is further distant, and I think I'll reach the rear of the evacuation line in two or three more steps. If they let the braces go at such close range, they would all be friendly and meat swamps.

From intake motion to brace firing, less than ten seconds. I could see a poisonous purple claw leaking out of my mouth.

"Whoa, whoa, we can make it!!

Run out on the roof chattering heavy full body armor. Fortunately, the brick was enough to crack a bit to my weight and stepping strength in my armor, and the roof never fell out.

Straight ahead as you step and crush bricks every step of the way. Towards the three-story roof that stands in front of me, I get over it with a two-bullet jump that kicks the soaring wall once. Now I could just get out over the head of the big octopus.

Beneath his eyes, he has a creepy green head that looks unstable and fluttering. Finally, one scream after another ripped silk from the villagers before the imminent giant monster in front of them.

But it's okay. I managed to make it.

"- Black."

Shake up Halvard high, jump off the roof on the third floor, and I'll shower a machete in the head of a big octopus. Swinging down as each body fell, he sliced away an even less solid emerald green body surface, causing a green blood splash to erupt like a waterfall.

I slashed his head vertically for more than two meters, but this won't bring him down.

When I pushed Harvard hard enough to pierce him deep, he dropped another meter or so, sounding the sound of cracking butyributile and meat, and then somehow stopped.

Now I'm just in the state of stabbing Halvard in the head and hanging on it with one right hand. It's a good place to rest all the time from the side, but it's in enough shape to devour a blow of todome.

"Whoa, whoa!

On a one-handed suspension procedure, lift your body with one right arm, no, fly up more than that.

Towards the deep wound where the green blood erupted, I punched the big shield (tower shield) on my left hand intact.

If it's not a blade, it's a rectangular steel shield that's not even sharply shaped, but I screw Zubuzub into a forcefully open wound with my arm.

With more than half my shield buried in my flesh, I let go, and now it's time to start falling free. Don't forget to retrieve the last Halvard you have left pierced, and then my body arrives on the ground in less than a second.

"Blast"

So we blew up the tower shield, which had been red-hot blackened.

Naturally, that shield is bigger than a sword and is a protective gear made up of tons of steel. The greater the amount simply as a substance, the greater the amount of magic that can be added (enchanted) by blackening. In other words, the explosive power you have there also increases just as you increased the amount of gunpowder.

A shield with a big explosion comparable to dozens of 'Rift Blades (Blast Blades)' would have been a toddle to the big octopus exactly.

Against the backdrop of my head slowly falling apart as a giant fireball, it was then that I looked back towards the gate.

"Ursula!?

At the end of his gaze, there is the figure of Ursula, who stands flat. On her back already, the shadow of Anastasia has completely disappeared and now she has become a helpless girl as she looks.

In front of such a Ursula, a large octopus with a giant spear man.

Soytz stands as he covers himself in a building facing the street. The heavenly edge of my head has been slightly shredded, and I'm moving slowly and still so flimsy that I'm likely to fall - yet, I'm not dead.

Shit, did you take it off? Ursula couldn't finish off her enemies with one shot.

"Demon Sword (Sword Arts)!

The shaken tentacles will easily crush Ursula by their weight alone, even without sharp nails or anything else.

Ursula, who has reached the limits of her power, has only been able to react one step backwards with her bloody face. Neither will surrounding cover, damn it, be prevented by this big octopus blow.

I fly the blackened sword at critical times to get out of orbit somehow. Just one bottle should be able to explode if it hits and barely hit Ursula.

"Become!?

But that blow is prevented by the whole octopus that jumped out of the alley. The octopus dies instantly as it detonates in the impact of a hit and rolls in the midst of a fire. However, the result was that he stood up and protected the big octopus.

And then they cut off one hand of backup, and I no longer have the means to help Ursula, nor anyone else.

Yet another shot, I'm in a motion to fly the Devil's Sword (Sword Arts), but oh no, this is no more, no more in time!

"Hay!

At that time, a glimmer of silver runs along with a prestigious ringtone.

The great tentacles swung down from Ursula's head upside down were torn to half by that blow, off track as they were well played. Zuzun, and make a noise and break the cobblestone of the street with the tentacles of a blood splash up.

He wandered around like a deep-handed serpent, but in the next moment, his tentacles were completely severed by a quick slapped chase.

"Rift Blade (Blast Blade)!

I beat that big octopus blow. Don't miss that gap and I'll punch my toddle in the shattered head. The great octopus, which would already be dying, was burned in the head by an explosion caused by several 'fissure blades (blast blades)', and it was only this time that he was completely out of breath.

"Ursula! Are you okay!

As I finish the third big octopus, I finally rush back to the gate, first holding Ursula, who has reached the limits of her magic, to make sure she's safe.

"Oh, Lord Chloe... sorry, sorry... I couldn't defeat you"

"That's fine. More than that, are you hurt?

"Mm, it's okay......"

The colour of fatigue is quite visible, but nevertheless the body does seem safe. For starters, you're relieved.

Then the next thing you need to worry about is who saved Ursula at your place.

"Why are you here... No, thank you first,"

If you turn around, there's a blonde red-eyed girl there who bravely took on Halvard.

"Thank you, Leki. Thanks to you, Urura saved me."

"Oh, thank God, Death, Lord Chloe! Leki deathed until he did what he deserved!

Escape the village for a long time, Leki, who is not supposed to be here, but she is not a dream or an illusion, and there is indeed sunshine in front of me. I smile and answer that.

"So, why are you back? No way, did the escape fail?

"Non non, everyone in the village must have escaped properly, Death, Maeby!

According to my awkward English skills, Maeby seemed to mean "maybe". Though I feel quite anxious about Leki's response, well, do you have time to ask for more information now?

"I'll talk to you later about coming back unscrupulous. For now, we're getting out of here."

"Yeesh! Sa!"

With a satisfying grin everywhere, Leki set up Halvard.

Really, you must have come back pretty unscrupulous. Her monastic clothes are worn out and her little body is engraved with lacerations that octopus spears would have blurred everywhere.

But as I did earlier when I helped Ursula, I still think I still have enough power to fight. Is it my fault that it looks like white hot air is rising from my body, as if I were to echo her hegemony?

"All right, the gate's open! Everybody, get out of here!!

Cliff seems to have succeeded in opening the door. A big gate opens its mouth, making a giggly and painful noise.

But the road that leads from there is closed to bright white mist, and even more so, it has tried to fill our surroundings with new mist. Yes, now that Ursula has released Anastasia, the fog-paying junction has disappeared at the same time.

"Cliff! Take Ursula first! She's already at her limit!

"Let it be left to you! Lord Chloe, what will happen to you?

"I am the lord. They're springing up again."

With the mist that can get in, from across the street, or from alleys and houses, many octopuses show up to keep us out of this feeding ground.

We're going to have defeated quite a few of them, but really don't let them gush out inexhaustibly. Totally, un-tasteful.

"Come on, let's go!

The villagers moved out through the gate, and they pushed the octopus from before me.

"Hey, Master Chloe. Now go ahead, you don't say, Death, do you?

Leki, lined up right next door, stares at me with her combat-burning, giddy, red-eyed upper eye.

"... oh, sorry Leki, give me a hand"

I am aware of the danger, but given the current situation, there was nothing better than to answer that.

"Jesus! Aurai!

From the wrinkle of such a dazzling smile, I glanced away at the impending Octopus Corps.

"Demon Sword (Sword Arts)/Rift Blade Matrix (Blade Storm)"

"Fire!

Red and black blast flames that can be played sweep ahead. Before this blasting storm, the medium octopuses are only burned with no hands or feet at all. Unfortunately, however, this also stops the convenient 'Rift Blade (Blast Blade)'. In the still small Shadow Space capacity, the hundred copies we've used so far were the limit there.

Later, there is nothing more than a weapon in your hand and an interception with a 'grenade burst' unleashed unarmed.

"Leki, don't go into too much. Little by little, we fight backwards."

"I did that earlier, so it's a die job, Death!

Screaming confidently, Leki luxuriously cuts off three subsequent octopuses pushing closer than the other side of the blast.

As he said he was already accustomed to his opponents and others, Leki would not dangerously cut, poke, blow and lean one octopus after the other.

I guess she's growing accelerating in it, experiencing a battle with them in her current progression. Again, you're a genius.

"We're leaving the gate, follow me - howitzer shelling (grenade burst)"

"Ow!

Leki dives through the gate and goes out onto the street as he rolls with the blast on his back.

We will be the last to leave the village. I just want to see if there's a guy nearby who missed his escape. Look to the right and look to the left and check again, but that's also annoying because of the fog blocking his sight again.

I never kicked the door out of my mind and closed it.

Gong! And the door closes so that it can be knocked down, and the stone walls tremble. A tentacle stretched from across the gate just before was sandwiched by a closed door and cut off with a bustle, which blew up as he bounced around like a bitchy and fresh fish at my feet. Yeah, still, it's disgusting.

"Whoo, that's gonna buy you some time, Death."

Leki, he said, was cannuking the gate without a scratch.

"They can fly in the sky. If that's what you want, you'll be right over the wall."

Though I'll tell you, I can barely feel any more signs around me. In fact, there's no one octopus popping out of the other side of the fog, and the area suddenly seems quieter.

Are you less intelligent than you can immediately think of trying to cross the wall, or are you barely outside the village?

"Let's get out of here."

"Weight! Dear Chloe, you know, that death..."

I almost turned my heel back, and Leki called me to stop me. It's a slightly rushed, up-and-coming voice, but even if you turn around, there's nothing there about the enemy.

"What's up, Leki?"

"Um... are you mad at Mass? That Leki is here."

Leki says Mojimoji with a bad bump somewhere. Apparently, I have a good sense of impotence myself.

Still, I came all the way here, um, still, was Ursula worried? I was sure he was unfaithful about me, but I guess he still had nothing to worry about as he rushed to the pinch if he had to.

With that in mind, the anxiety here these days has also been dispelled and I feel rather relieved.

"I won't be angry, but I'll be careful. Well done for helping Ursula, but it's still too reckless to come back."

"Oh, I'm sorry...... but Leki, did you help Lord Chloe, Death?

"What are you talking about, you've been snuffing off the octopus with me just now. He's more reliable than a crusader soldier, Leki."

"Oh, hey, good for you, Death! Because Leki..."

I think Leki tried to laugh.

But her grin, dazzling as the sun, did not float; instead, her red eyes opened with astonishment.

The dull sound of piercing the meat. Bloody glow in the void.

"Ah... Chloe, dear..."

Leki was stabbed.

From her chest, Gratney Octo's sharp spearman peeks. The blood-coated tip is obviously perforated from behind.

The enemy is invisible. From across the fog that smokes bright white, just one elongated tentacle extending into the lech. Quiet enough not to enlighten the signs, then, faster than an arrow that flies in. A first-rate assassin is a Hyde Attack.

Leki's hand stretches out for help.

I reach out reflexively, but I can't reach it.

"Lekki -"

The stretched hand grabs the sky in vain. Leki's body was quickly drawn to his tentacles and disappeared beyond the white darkness.