Maou No Utsuwa

Lots of books and suspicious materials arranged in the room. On the desk, there are several near-made magic items.

Department of the Magic Research Society located in the College. It is Marie, the chairman, who sits at a large desk. He puts a cheek wand on his desk and stares at the male student standing in front of him with his sliced, pitch-black eyes.

Did you check it out?

Marie asks the boys students in a rubbed tone that she doesn't think is a lady of the Imperial Mage Commander.

"Yes. Even so, it's not complete"

"Report."

"Kamui Kreutz's mother is Sophia Honfleet. His father is unknown."

"Sophia Honfleet...... I've heard of it somewhere."

To a familiar name, Marie explored her memory, but before it was over, a boy student began explaining.

"Because I'm a celebrity. They seemed to say she was the most beautiful woman in the empire. For the time being, I have even been named a candidate for the fiancé of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The fact that my parents are Honfleet means that we are finished without going into specifics, but the Crown Prince himself strongly wanted the friendship or not."

"... is that what I remember?

Men's stories are mostly gossip. Marie is not interested in that kind of talk.

"No, another street name is more famous, so I think that's it"

"Then talk to me first. I'm not into gossip stories."

"Excuse me. The return of the Virgin of Light. As a user of divine magic, he was regarded as the supreme of the Empire."

"Oh, yeah. Sure, they bought you that strength and you went into a brave party, didn't you?

Apart from magic, Marie, who has little interest, knows about Kamui's mother. Marie also admits to being an excellent user of light attribute magic.

"Yes, but he went missing with the brave men, and then, unknown, he said, he was back at his parents' house. By then, he was already wearing Kamui Kreutz."

"So my father was unknown."

"There seemed to be times when it was rumored that he was a brave man."

"Hey, hey. If that's true, it's a hell of a lot of blood."

A child between the brave and Sophia. Marie doesn't know that this expectation is causing Kamui to suffer.

"It is not clear whether the father is a brave man. Looks like you were somehow denied saying that you couldn't use magic in person. And just to be sure, the Honfleets..."

"All dead. The cause of death was poisoning, suicide, right?

"Yes, there just seems to be something a little strange."

"Hmm? What's that?

"They poisoned the wine and drank it."

"As for the suicide of nobles, that's a good story."

A sinful nobleman is often sent poisoned wine in the name of the Emperor instead of death. It means, by your own hand, before you give me a disgraceful death sentence.

"But it's an aperitif."

"... what do you mean?

"They said the meal was beautifully arranged on the table. To commit suicide, prepare a meal. Don't you think that's strange?

"Hasn't the official looked into that?

"It seems to have been handled by our Lord because of his compulsion. The deciding factor is that kids our age were drinking that wine, too. If you are an aristocrat, you will sometimes prefer wine from among your children, but it cannot be said to be absolute. It's normal to think at the behest of our Lord."

"Yes... well, that's good. That's gossip, too. What happened to the person after that?

A black shadowy thought came to mind for a moment, but before it took shape, Marie stopped thinking, feeling an intuitive fear.

"No sign of using magic at all"

"What's going on in class?

"The magic class is a tour. Even in swordsmanship classes, you do it without magic."

"Sword class without magic. That's amazing, though."

"The strength is commensurate with that. That's the lowest rating in class."

"... what are the possibilities of false detection?

"That's unspeakable from me. It was Marie's father who made the Magic Detection Prop. At least, I'm sure I detected magic then. And that it is sacred magic. We have confirmed it in more than one way, so there is no mistake in that."

Marie's interest in Kamui was triggered by this. Attempted assassination, rather than such an event, surprised Marie by the fact that the magic props her father had received had detected the activation of the sacred magic.

In order to draw the magically talented into his own club, he caught signs of a big man on the net he was setting up.

"Is it possible it's not Kamui Kreutz?

"At that time, nearby were Alto, Serene and Lutz in the same class as Kamui Kreutz. In time Serene seems to have used water attribute magic, so it's an exclusion. Except for multiple attributes and simultaneous chanting."

There is no such person, with that meaning extraordinarily, the boy student added.

"If anyone can do that, I'll pull myself out of the chairman's seat. Serene is an exclusion for women. Later?"

"A student named Lutz was a little further away. If you had used it from that distance, you would have had a greater reaction. Before that, it's normal to be able to visually confirm."

"Without Lutz. There's only one left."

"Yes. A student named Alto cannot be denied. It's just that he's an orphan. So is Lutz for this. But unlike Lutz, it's clear that Alto's parents are civilians."

A civilian orphan can't possibly use magic. Boy students are caught in such prejudice. It seems that many magicians are equipped with a sense of special consideration for themselves.

"There is no such thing as the appearance of a man of magical talent among the civilian population."

Exactly, Marie is not captured by a one-sided idea.

"I know that. Even so, where did he learn sacred magic? If you have a chance to learn divine magic, it's from Kamui Kreutz, who has Sophia Honfleet for her mother."

"If Alto can be used, Kamui should also be able to be used. Is that what you're thinking?

"Exactly."

"Yeah. That's logical. It would be good. Keep exploring Kamui Kreutz. If Kamui Kreutz finds out he can use his magic, we'll pull him in here at any rate. Even if it's not sacred magic, it's just that he can use magic, and he's worth it."

"As a research material, right?

"That's right. Human beings who should not have had magic had magic. If we knew how to do that, magic would develop even further. I don't mind a little impotence. Whatever you do, find it."

"Understood."

Marie is a magical supremacist who inherited her father's thoughts as they were. The magical development is the same as the development of this world, this is what I think.

To do this, a little inanimity is allowed. Not as good as his father, but Marie thinks so, too.

Marie doesn't know. That Kamui is also a man who has no choice but to protect himself and his companions.

◇ ◇ ◇

Put your sword on the upper stage, put a piece of paper hanging from the front, and wave it down at once. A piece of cut paper fell to the ground in a flickering shake.

"Not at all, no!

Kamui's harsh voice flew to Serene, smiling satisfactorily.

"Where is it!? You cut it right!

Serene is unhappy with Kamui's waste.

"Too many wasted moves. That's not even balanced."

"Can you explain this a little more clearly?

Kamui has a lot of unspoken places from time to time. Not suitable for teaching people things. Except for someone with a certain skill, the conditions apply.

"Oh, is that the human attitude that begs people to teach? I'm Sele's master now."

"Can you tell me? Master."

"It would be good"

"Sounds great..."

Leave me alone, Serene is complaining. Kamui and it is always incumbent on Serene as well.

"Did I say something?

"Nothing."

"That's a bad attitude. Just look at this."

Kamui picks up the paper that fell to the ground and offers it to Serene.

"What do you say about this?

Even when they showed me the paper, Serene didn't know what it meant.

"It's all the way out. You tore it rather than cut it."

As Kamui puts it, the cuts are giddy from the middle of nowhere.

"... right"

Selene cannot deny her immaturity if she is shown clear evidence.

"The blade is shattered. And it's not fast enough."

"Can Kamui do it?

"As long as I hang up."

"Well, let me see it. He just said it. Then I don't know."

"Absolutely. That attitude, if it's the master opponent, Sere would be bummed by now. Well, look at that."

While complaining, Kamui moved to show Serene a sample. Kamui stood unconstructively in front of the paper. I felt nothing in particular, and when I laid down my sword, I swung it down.

"What?"

Behavior that never sees fast as a whole. But the orbit of the sword didn't look like Serene at all.

"Yes. Like this"

While Serene was surprised, Kamui was picking up the fallen paper. The paper cuts offered to Serene are straightforward, with no shavings whatsoever.

"... How did you do it now?

"How did you just wave your sword?

"I didn't see..."

Unfortunately, Serene did not have a sample of Kamui.

"That's because I'm trying to save as much waste of a move as I can. You know what a preliminary motion is?

"What's that?

"You wouldn't know it by mouth, so let's actually have it done. Try jumping up. But don't bend your knees. You don't have to lean your torso forward."

"Don't bend your knees, there's no leaning forward. Okay."

Serene trying to jump up, keeping what Kamui told me. It stopped working at all from there.

"Yes. Jump."

…………

Even if Kamui urges me, Serene's posture remains unchanged.

"Jump."

"You can't do this!

With your knees extended and no recoil on your torso, you can't jump.

"That's the thing. Before you jump, you need to sink your body in reverse. The same thing is necessary to wave a sword. Is that good enough for you?

Yeah, I can see that.

"Conversely, if you look through this preliminary motion, you'll see how the opponent moves next"

"Can you do that?

"I do it naturally to some extent. People see the movement of their entire bodies and feel how they move next."

"Really?

"Yes, if we can stop that behavior to just a few things. They don't know how to move next. That's what I did earlier. So Sele told me that I was swinging my sword down, I didn't know what triggered it, and when I realized it, I was swinging."

"I can't believe I could do that. After all, Kamui was hiding his powers, right?

Kamui explains it briefly, but Serene also understands that if we were to actually do it, we would need a lot of training.

"Don't say it now. You know that, right? That's why I taught you the sword."

If you teach me the sword, this way, I know Kamui's strength. Because Serene already knew, Kamui did a good job of teaching.

"Well, that's right. But how are we going to be able to do that?

"You said it first, didn't you? The first thing to do is to avoid wasting your moves. People don't always make the necessary moves. Some of them are like jerks. If you scrape that waste off as much as you can, your sword won't break, and you'll shake it faster naturally."

"What's the preliminary motion?

"That's since it was done. It's not entirely possible to lose preliminary motion. Only, just minimize it. With a little movement, I feel it will increase the effectiveness. To do so, we must avoid the motion being passed on in vain. That's the balance. You don't have to do it to know which way you can jump higher, jumping in a tilted state or a straight one, do you?

"I know."

"So Celle is going to work out the wasteful removal and balance."

"How?

"I am prepared to train properly. Well, he's the guy I usually use. That pile, it's the workout for the moment that swings on top of it."

As Kamui said, a few piles have been struck to the ground.

"... Yes? On that?

But the pile was a thin pile that seemed difficult to stand on.

"Slowly at first. This slow is important, so keep up the guts."

Without worrying about Selene, Kamui continues to explain.

"... I get it. What do you call that slow?

"If you move your body slowly enough to stop now, you can see how your body is moving. Weirdly powerful, I guess. I'm going to erase them one by one."

"Uh, how long do I have to go on?

Hearing Kamui explain, Serene doesn't have the image of being strong at all.

"All the time if you want to be strong. I've been doing this forever, too."

"... try it"

"Huh? Again?

"It's not good. He said he showed me."

"Really, Sele, you're my wife. Dee's gonna hate me for saying all that."

"Why, there..., Dee?

Dee. I know it's about Deefleet, but Serene has never heard Kamui call it that.

"Call me that. I call Mr. Hildegand Hilda, but I'm Mr. Deefreet. Then they say it's unfair."

"I guess. Oh, my God, that Hildegand is Hilda."

Serene has not forgotten the shock when Kamui called Hildegand Hilda.

"Well, short and helpful"

"Is that the problem?

"Well. Well, I'll do it, so watch, okay? I don't think that's very helpful."

Tell me this. Kamui walked towards the pile.

Jumping in front a little bit, he immediately begins his bareback. There is no such thing as bareback. It's like a sword dance. Cross thin piles one after another and wave your sword. Its movements like up, down, diagonal, and flowing. The sound of the sword cutting the wind sounds like music.

To Kamui's movements, Serene totally fell in love.

"Oh, I'm doing it, I'm doing it. It's kind of been a while since I've seen it."

Lutz, who came late, is happily speaking to Alto when he sees it.

"Sort of. It's been a long time since we got together and worked out. But as always, you're brilliant. Well, honestly, I don't think we can get that far."

"I want to catch up, but it's still far away."

"Hey."

Serene, who returned to me, called out to both of them.

"What?"

It was Lutz who responded to that call.

"What kind of a master are you always talking about?

"Why are you asking me that?

"I was wondering what kind of teaching would help me get there."

Serene thinks that the power of Kamui is due to the masters who taught the Kamuis. It's not entirely wrong.

"... Mr. Serene is making a mistake"

"Mistake?"

"I'm sure our master is a great man, but he didn't teach me that, Kamui thought to himself."

"Yourself?

"Yes. I can't use magic. How can I fight on an equal footing? If you can't magically increase your speed, you can work out your original speed. So is power. If simple power is impossible, can't you keep up with it with technology? Troubled, troubled, troubled, and still, Kamui didn't give up, he worked hard."

"... yes"

From the way I usually fall in love, I can't imagine Kamui's past. Therefore, Serene had a slight chest ache when she wondered with what thought and continued to do so.

"Just because the sword is strong, I didn't come with Kamui. I don't give up anything like that. I'm attracted to the strength of Kamui. I grew up as an orphan and gave up on the future, and for me, I admired the strength of Kamui."

"Strength I won't give up. Right."

With such a grunt, and with his gaze back, Kamui seems to have forgotten the purpose of showing Serene, waving his sword indifferently.

Its body that moves smoothly. If you don't look at your feet, on a very thin pile, you don't look like you're doing that. The silver hair of the sword and Kamui is shining in the light of the sun that shines through the gaps of the trees.

"Really, you look like you're dancing?

"Right. But the real deal is even better."

"Production?"

"Whenever Kamui waves his sword, the bloodshed dances the universe. What Kamui looks like running around in a bright red bloodshot..."

"Hey. Isn't that too irritating for Mr. Serene?

Alto stopped Lutz from talking about how Kamui was doing on the battlefield. In action, it's not as beautiful as dancing, it doesn't heal.

"... is that true too? Blood isn't the only way to dance."

"That it's not just blood?

Serene enquires about Rutz's words of concern.

"What, you ask that? My neck, my hands, my feet..."

"... that's it"

Serene shook off the sight that was about to come to her mind by shaking her head. Where the brutal sight disappeared, one question remained on Serene's head.

"Hey, that means we're going through a real fight, right?

"Yeah, well"

"Is that part of the workout too?

"Yes. Our master's motto doesn't feel like his life is in danger, because training isn't training."

"Something awesome?

"That's not awesome. I can't believe the first fight in action, because I really thought he was dead. I can use my sword for a second, right? When Warwolf's fangs came from the front, now I can tell, but I peed a little."

"Hey!"

"Oh, me too. Praise yourself for the great man."

Alto came aboard to talk about Lutz.

"We're both nasty now. That's how you tease me right away."

"I'm not kidding, really, because that's how much fear it is. That's not all. Because the feeling of cutting meat is really disgusting at first. That's right, you threw up after the first three of us, didn't you?

"Oh, well, not just the first one."

Face to face, Alto agrees. Serene told me that the attitude wasn't that they were joking.

"Are you that sick?

"I can't explain it with my mouth. We need to actually go through this."

"Yes. Are you okay now?

"In the middle of the battle. I knew it when it was over."

"You're not used to it easily, are you?

"Don't get used to it."

"What?"

"This is what the masters tell me, that's what makes my mouth sour. If it's a fight, you have to kill your opponent. But never get used to it. I'm told to keep having mercy on the person I killed and fear of taking my life. That's any opponent."

"Yes. Are you gentle masters?

Have a heart of pity for a person's life. This is a story that Serene understands well. However, Kamui's masters are not just such sweet ones.

"I think that's a little different"

"But"

"It's only after you've settled on it that you feel that way, or after you kill them. Do not tolerate the enemy at all. Even if we have to keep them alive, we have to beat them up until they can't feel like hostile to us again. This is what they say. The master's standard is that the enemy can be killed."

"... you're certainly not nice."

"Now, when Kamui comes along, it won't be over for a while. We're gonna work out."

"Really?

"Kamui forgets his time when he concentrates. Leave me alone, I'll keep going."

"Yes, Kamui is a man of hard work."

"No. Genius."

Lutz has immediately denied Serene's Kamui review.

"Genius of effort?

"There's that too. But I think Kamui has a gift."

"But I couldn't use magic."

This is why Serene calls Kamui a hard-working person. He thinks he's working hard to get past the handful that magic can't be used.

"That's so talented that it won't be handy. But Kamui doesn't want to admit it. The talent given is conscious that it is only a borrowing. So I'm trying twice as hard to convince myself."

"I don't know, Kamui seems like a hell of a person."

"... that's right. He is."

"Look, I didn't slap you in the mouth for nothing, and we're gonna start working out"

Lutz tried to keep talking about Kamui with his eyes staring away somewhere. Alto has been urging the start of the workout so as to block it. The attitude of Alto was a little dragging Serene, but with the Kamui, it's good.

Will the time come for Kamui, for them, to show themselves the truth? Serene thinks this the closer he gets to the Kamuis.