Maou no Hajimekata

"Mm-hmm...?

Learning how hard it is to sleep, Tena still wakes up in the middle of the night today.

"What?

Through the sleeping floor, you pass through the brick-walled aisle and reach the waiting room of Oulu, even as you wonder that you can't see the future.

And he shows me the mirror and realizes his rejuvenation.

It's an exchange that's been repeated every night.

"Mm...!

But not from there.

In the bloodbath, Oul puts on his face.

Tena, who flipped her nightly clothes and set up a short knife, swung the blood from the blade as it cleaved from Oulu's elbow to his palm.

"I see. Is this how it happened..."

The information Tena sent from her future self in the form of a wound was short and simple.

But it is obvious that something is going on in the meantime because it comes after the wound that wasn't on before I went to bed.

She received the advice that she should prepare her weapon, and hid a short knife in her nightwear and lay it on the floor. And that choice was apparently the right one.

"Are you going to beat me with a knife like that?

"Hmm. You've lost your temper to rejuvenate Noon."

Tena pushes the tip of the knife against her thumb.

Applying a puffy floating blood bead red over her lid, she exclaimed.

"Come!"

Silver hair twitches deliberately, from the side head grows triangular ears covered in beastly hair, and from the hem of the nightwear stretches a blocky tail.

"Hmm. Lycanslope... is it different again?"

As impressed, Oul shrugged.

Unlike the beast he knew (Lycanslope), even when ears and tails grew, the original body did not change, nor did it seem to lose the light of intelligence that dwelt in his eyes.

It's called tatsuki, apparently there are quite a few things on this continent that change only part of the body.

A flame lit the tip of Tena's four tails, floating flutteringly and flying towards Oulu.

Running through the universe faster than an arrow. That, however, is all prevented by the cube.

"Don't think you can beat me in the dungeon."

"I don't know what that is"

With words, Tena's appearance scratched out of Oulu's sight.

"Illusion."

But the only thing that disappeared was apparently his appearance.

From the slightest footsteps and the movement of the air in the dungeon, Oul senses that Tena is still there. Turning his gaze after it, the cube moved around and scattered a spark behind him.

"Chi......"

Tena pounds her tongue. I was going to fly through the air and surprise you, but apparently Oulu's defense prevents the attack independently of his will. I don't care if you see it or not.

"That way?"

When Oul casts a spell, the illusion is lifted and the figure of Tena is exposed.

At the same time a number of floor stones protruded and stretched out like tentacles to capture her.

It moves in complicated motions, and the tenor easily turns it around.

The tentacles that struck one after the other were avoided with a single piece of paper, wrapped around each other and turned into chunks.

Not only is her physical abilities enhanced, but she can predict.

I could avoid them before they moved.

"Well, how about this?"

Sooner than Oulu moves that action into action, Tena sees it.

The floor is approaching like a cage and we're going to lock up the tenor.

The range is too wide to slip through quickly to make it.

"If...!

Her body stretched thin and long, as if she were a snake and slipped through the gap in the cage.

"Do clever arts and crafts"

"I'm not good at more clever imitations."

Flames were thrown again with words. Protection of cubes deployed automatically.

But Tena's flame slipped through it this time and landed on the Oul.

"Ku......!

In a hurry, Oul starts his sorcery and undoes the flames that have burned into his robe. The robe with its magical properties was harder on the back than it was on the back with poorer armor and other fire than its soft feel, but still had the calories that Oul's body would not have had if he had been shot many times.

"I see, a labyrinth"

Tena laughs in the girl's face. I figured out how Oulu's defense works early.

The cube appears to be automatically deployed and defensive against the attack, but it isn't.

Detect and prevent attacks. That required very advanced sorcery.

We must determine what is an attack and what is not an attack against what is approaching, and we must be able to cope with its speed. The more you pay attention to those parts, the more you consume massive amounts of magic in parts that have nothing to do with your defensive abilities, and you can't handle attacks at speeds beyond that.

Oul's defense was something simpler. It's just invisible, and there's always a defensive wall around him. To avoid enlightening it, only the part that prevented the attack materializes to illusion as if the wall had stretched. This is what the cube really looks like. It's a small labyrinth that surrounds the oul all the time.

If you surround everything, you'll choke, and you won't be able to use magic against the outside. It is a verbal discourse that only solves defenses when attacking.

Resolving that was the invisible labyrinth. No matter how crooked you are, Oulu can bewitch you externally through its path.

But it's almost impossible to dive through a labyrinth where you can't see anything other than an oul. It's not something even a bow celebrity like Ellen can do, such as invisible and precisely passing a winding path.

"Oh, my God!

But.

Tena can do that.

That the arrows that produce are shapeless chunks of flame.

And most importantly, the nature of being able to repeat enforcement indefinitely until we predict the future and follow the right route has defeated absolute defense.

"Let it!

Oul laid his hands on the wall and manipulated the labyrinth itself. If it can't be prevented by the walls of the cube, it's until it's prevented by the walls of the dungeon.

But that was what Tena was after.

Chances are once. But you will never fail.

Because if you fail, you can see it in prediction, too.

And Tena had only a vision of success.

"Turn!

Kuck, responding to Tena's trick of pointing his finger to the side, the flame exploded not by Oulu's rolling wall, but by piercing at its very roots. The walls of the robust dungeons have only a few, small holes. But that's enough for Tena. It turns into a small bird and flies, turning further into a worm and out of the hole.

Oul's labyrinth magic does not produce stones. Just move it.

So if you manipulate the floor, the floor, if you manipulate the wall, the wall thins for that matter.

Pushing through that gap, it was possible enough to destroy it with a flame of tena.

"Utsu!"

"Grandmother!

Before leaving the labyrinth, Tena called her name in recognition of her granddaughter's appearance.

At the same time, Tena visions the future. A stone spear unleashed by Oulu pierces Yuz's chest.

Turning around, she shakes her tail.

The tail turned into a four-wielding knife cuts off a thin, long stretched stone spear.

The stone spear fell to the ground dancing through the universe.

"Grandmother!

From Yutsu's head, the ears of a slightly round beast pop out.

Like Tena, it should be possible for her and I to win if we can unload the demon charm.

Speaking only of combat, Utsu is stronger than Tena.

"Don't help me!

Slowly opening the wall, Tena screams as she stares at the oul that comes out.

On either side of it, Utsu's arm slipped in.

"hey...... do what!?

Both arms of Utsu tighten Tena's arms disappointingly.

It's called a feathery strangle.

"Nan, your grandmother, Tena!

"Yes. I know, Grandmother"

If you don't know because you're young, Utsu replied with a smile as usual.

"What do you mean..."

The second half of the word, they squeal without power.

Because Tena knew everything by prediction, without having to question her.

"This is what my grandmother told me to do when she protected me."

Utsu speaks the words as he sees them in the prediction.

The villagers showed up after hearing the noise, but they didn't even intend to ask for their help.

Not because I saw a prediction that wouldn't help.

Because all the women who showed up were uniform and youthful like girls, even though it was a village that should have had only Utsu, such as a young daughter.

Because I finally realized that the village itself had already fallen into the hands of Oulu.