Maou no Hajimekata

"Stupid!

He did check the bedroom where he was supposed to have captured Hosseri, and Oul raised his voice.

The tweezers that tied her up, they're completely intact. No sign of being cut or removed a thousand times. If you can't move as easily as Eunice can, you can't escape like this.

"Sophia! Is there any Hosseri in the dungeon? And what happened to the limbs you dropped yesterday?

"Nowhere, I don't think... but I still have my hands and feet."

"What...?

So you ran off somewhere, looking like that potato worm who lost his hands and legs?

Oulu abandoned the thought of how and for what. The question is' where to '.

I don't think I can go far in that state on a boulder. Or if you can, you'll be flying directly to Oulu. But if Sophia affirms that she's not in the dungeon, that's for sure.

... then.

"Marie! Can we get Gaius?

"Yeah. Mr. Gaius, he's a good guy, so I guess it's okay."

When Oul called Marie, he ordered that.

"I won't come. Holy spear handles, what foresees the truth, 'Ignorance' Gaius!

Marie's blue right eye glows red and her golden hair dyes dead grass. It was a soldier man who once speared the saint and became a hero with his blood in his eyes. Gaius of 'Ignorance', the English spirit who looks over a thousand miles at the same time as being blind.

Its power is not far from the full knowledge of Yeldave, but it was enough to foresee the whole kingdom of Yamato.

"There he is, Master Oulu. I'm standing at the forest entrance."

"Closer than I thought...... wait. Standing, you say?

Oul notices and opens his eyes to the discomfort that he will inadvertently miss hearing.

"My hands and feet, are they on?

"Yeah. It's tight... no scars left."

Gaius' thousand-eyed eye can also foresee one of its muscle movements at this distance, up to the number of heartbeats. If Marie manipulates that power, it's not easy to say healing, regeneration, etc. Even if Oulu did all he could to deal with his nerves, the wound would remain useless for a few days. That's not even true.

"I'm coming in!

A screaming Sofia voice. At the same time, the sight is reflected in front of Oul by her power.

The figure of Hosseri running down the path of the forest was certainly plentiful, and there were no scratches even on its entangled garments, on the contrary, the flesh.

"What do you mean...?

"It will be quick to ask the person. What, it's no different than yesterday's appointment"

Next to a baffling oul, Hodeli pulls out the blade.

"Let's be read with the same hands. Dear Sophia, please drop me in another direction."

"Ugh... yeah"

Now Hodeli walks across the path that opens directly beside him.

"Hodeli"

On that back, Oul called out.

"I understand. I won't let you kill me."

"No.... be careful. I have a bad feeling."

For Oulu, advice lacking vague specificity.

"... Your will"

Hodeli blinked wonderfully for a moment, but immediately tightened her expression.

Words telling me to be careful against the proclamation not to kill.

This is how Hodeli interpreted it.

Destroy them thoroughly and without alarm.

If you ask me, it's Hodeli's fault that I got alarmed to the point where I shredded my limbs. I have a body, I have teeth, I have eyes. I don't know what kind of reasoning you used to grow your hands and feet like a frog, but it would be convenient to say that you have the means to heal them that way.

To Hosseri, who emerged from the shadows of the woods, Hodeli set up a sword. Same phase, dull move. There are no shards of my former sister's agility, and I don't feel old enough to lurk in hiding and be surprised.

When Hodeli took a step, he poked at his eyes without hesitation. If you poke it too far, you'll destroy and kill your brain as it is, but the only thing you have to do is pull it where you poke it half an inch long. It's as easy a task for Hodeli as breathing.

I can't even flinch, and Hosseli gets her eyes pierced lightly. But at that time, I felt something strange.

"Mm...?

It's shallower than I thought. I was going to slightly alter the poke and cut both eyes off at the same time with a cut, but I could only choose one eye. As he bleeds out of his orbit, Hosseri wields his long sword to the hodeli without looking like he was in a scratch.

No skill, no skill, a simple swing. Hodeli moves the center of gravity without moving his legs. At the same time, discomfort became decisive with the cutting up of the counter aimed at Hosseri's arm.

"What...!?

Raising the voice of the wolf, Hodeli flies away. The feeling of striking hard steel, not human meat, remains in the palm of Hodeli's hand.

No, his knife can even be double-broken by a steel column. But Hodeli's blow only cut off the hand covering Hosseli's arm, and he didn't even have as many scratches on his skin as a hair.

"What do you mean...!?

While wolfing, Hodeli's sword waves like two, three and a flash of light. But it cleaved the protective gear and broke the clothes, but it didn't scratch the hoseli in any way.

The only thing that worked was the first left eye I aimed at. And now that I think about it, it was unusually hard compared to the usual eyes, and I stayed to cleave one.

The poke aimed at the other eye was inhibited by Hosseli's palm just before. A soft palm not even covered in protective equipment, but it takes a thrust of Hodeli's body and doesn't even plunder and scratch.

"My lord... pardon me!

Hodeli pushed the knife and pulled it off of Hosseri's breath trying to grab that cut reflexively. And then, aiming for the moment when that fingertip grabs the void, it unleashes another divine speedpoke.

It slips between Hosseli's lips without aiming at it differently and penetrates the back of her throat. Unlike the surface of my skin, I didn't have enough stiffness to play the blade in my mouth to the boulder.

A silver blade protrudes from the section of Hosseri, and your blood blows out. When Hodeli pulled out the knife as it drifted, Hosseli fell and rolled to the ground.... Immediate death.

"I'm sorry, my lord. Some immature arm can't stop it without killing it."

"No... I don't have a choice... wait!

Over Sophia's projected sight, Oul opened his eyes. Because the remains of Hosseri, who fell to the ground, disappeared. There are traces of blood and pieces of clothing that have been cut off a thousand times, but the carcasses are nowhere.

"Sophia!"

"Duh, you're nowhere!

"... or at least he doesn't seem to be in Yamato"

That's how Sophia answers Oul's words, and Marie, who leaves Gaius unloaded on him, looks around and says:

"What do you mean...!?

Hosseri must have been desperate.

Hodeli and the others clearly killed him. You can't be wrong.

Even from Oulu's eyes, Hosseri was definitely dead.

Disappeared, or maybe it's fake like Lil's split. Oulu immediately shakes off the idea. The blood that pounded Hosseri's throat and blew out was undoubtedly real.

If that's a split, there can't be blood or anything. Whatever the material is, it should be destroyed back to its original material, like the shape of an oul. If you have blood and meat as well as real human beings, there's no reason to disappear this time.

Then it's not extinction, it's metastasis.

But after he died, there was no way he could use the metastasis technique.

"Sophia, Marie, are there any other suspicious shadows!?

"Yeah, nothing. Someone else didn't let them transfer... and I think"

Slightly less confident, Sophia frowns.

"You won't find anything suspicious even with the power of 'Ignorance'. I don't know if you let him move out of the reach of an unknown force."

"I'm not sure I can do that. Only about six hundred miles (about a thousand kilometers) can see the ability of 'Unknown'. It's an ultra-long distance that no bow or arrow can reach. There is no such thing as delivering power from such a distance..."

Noticing the possibility that it was there, Oulu's words broke off.

"... Tena. What's your prediction?

"Everything changes in a way, everything's the same in a way."

Tena answers Oulu's question with a difficult look.

"Hosseri three times with the sunrise...... no. Rise again and again, and the LORD will soon be slain. Whatever..."

I guess I'm repeating my predictions over and over, not once. Her expression is dark and her voice is full of despair. For the first time and for the second time, Hodeli made Hosseli easy to bring down. At that rate, I would let you kill me a hundred times or a thousand times.

However, the second phospheric was stronger than the first. At least Hodeli couldn't catch him alive. If he were to live again every time he died, and become stronger every time, it was also logical that the prediction of Tena could not be wavered.

"Burned by the Fire, even my soul disappears... Was it"

Tena looks up at Oulu, who accidentally says something like that.

"That's the first thing you said. At that time, I cared more about the words that I couldn't escape no matter what. What's that supposed to mean?

Hosseri can't handle sorcery. Something that should also be called the divine art used by Zana and Yeldave, as well as the witchcraft manipulated by Tena and her grandson Utsu. He's been manipulated by someone. Even now, he's just waving his sword and not putting out flames or anything. What, then, is the cause of death?

"... I don't know. If you ask me, yes... that was the first foresight that Non saw. We may be moved by your appearance, tormented by the heat and flames that cannot be extinguished... but since then, you have not died in flames. Stabbed, slapped in the neck, crushed with a kick, crushed with a fist."

"... that's a much more varied way to get killed"

Oul glanced at his face and slapped him lightly. I don't feel very good about being told that I'm going to be killed, even though I'm talking about possibilities.

But.

"Approximately, okay"

Why? How is it? What should I do? I have no idea about that.

But...

"What is Hosseri manipulated by? And why would I die?"

Oul looks up to heaven and narrows his eyes. In a way, Marie's idea had hit me.

Interference from out of range that even the power of ignorance cannot extend far...... no. I can see it, I'm here. Not unknown, even the naked eye of Oulu.

"The enemy is immortal. No matter what you do, you don't perish, you don't fear death, you come back again and again... and you become stronger each time. Something like the Undying Brave."

Staring at the rising sun, Oul snapped.