Maou No Utsuwa

Run at full speed down the road leading to the foot as you sew between the trees.

The white pebble laid on the road looks thinly blurred and glowing in the light of the full moon floating in the sky. It helped me a lot with this.

Once it was a big off road Kamui, but I decided I had bought enough time and decided to go back to the original path.

Running around in the unmarked mountains relying solely on a sense of direction, when I finally found this white path, it was just a relief. Actually, I'm still a little early to relieve myself.

Occasionally, the marks of strife you see must be caused by other students who are ahead of you. So far, I haven't seen a person's body.

I hope they all manage to escape. Even as he moved forward, Kamui was thinking about this.

A slice of the trees that you will eventually see. Beyond that, a bridge stretches over the deep valley, which also crosses the road.

That's where Kamui aspires.

The trees on both sides are interrupted and the bridge looms in front of you. Shit, I was just about to cross that bridge..., the bridge burned up all at once.

"Whew!?

I was rushed to sudden braking and managed to stop in front of the bridge.

"... Well, you're in trouble"

The momentum of the fire in front of us shows no signs of decay. If we keep this up, the bridge is going to burn down eventually.

"Geez, you got here pretty slow, didn't you?

A voice hung from his back on Kamui as he contemplated in front of the bridge. I don't even have to turn around and check. There is only one person on my mind.

"... Oh, Marie, is this Marie?

"Come on, what do you think?

"Another student should have come, too?

"Your people are already gone."

"Right. Was that good? Well, then you understand what you've done?

I couldn't help but find out that I had done nothing to the other students. Turning back, Kamui looked straight at Marie and inquired.

What are you talking about?

"First of all, this bridge. If we can't cross the bridge, we can't escape."

"If you can't get away with it, why don't you fight? You can fight, can't you?

At least Marie understood that Kamui was running away from something.

"Maybe you want me to fight and imitate you like this?

"I don't know. But in this situation, I'm sure you'll have to be serious, too."

"... I knew you didn't know what you did"

Marie's spare attitude convinced Kamui. If you knew the situation, you couldn't be in this attitude at the moment.

"What do you want?

"Shall I ask you one by one and go? I took the demonic child and put him in the camp. To attack the camp against a host of demons. The only wonder is, why weren't you at the camp? Thought you two weren't enough?

I can't answer that.

"I see, I knew you meant that... It must have been a coincidence that a demon was found in the camp. Or did your buddy make a mistake? I was going to collect more numbers, but they found me first. Well, that's good."

…………

A mocking grin disappeared from Marie's face. I thought I had pushed Kamui, but instead of rushing, Kamui looks at Marie with a heartbroken face.

That attitude made Marie anxious.

"Why are you still here? You know the other students left, right?

"... oh, you split up twice and went down to the foot"

"You didn't listen to me?

"What are you trying to say?

"I didn't ask. You, what do you think the demon you took is?

"... what do you mean?

Marie's anxiety swells even more. Kamui's question points to his mistakes. The question is what kind of error that is.

"I don't know if you caught him or let him, but that's because he's not a goblin kid."

"... If it's not goblins, what do you say it is?

"Auga. That's Auga's kid"

"What, and?

Marie's face blues in an instant. It's proof that Marie knows what kind of demon Auga is. Look at that look. Kamui has a relief look the opposite of Marie's. It saves me the trouble of explaining. Because of these thoughts.

"Your plan has been a great success. Whatever you say, it's a superior species of orga child. Even just two, even goblins and high goblins, gathered a thousand demons. Of course, there's Auga himself."

"So I ran away in a hurry..."

"Half of it. We're leaving. What kind of stone is that?

"Dropping stones?"

"Even a thousand herds are troublesome, but you can't tell me you'll ever win with an august opponent, can you? It's an operation to sacrifice half and let the other half escape. In fact, half of the Knights are probably already wiped out."

"Lies!?

Kamui does not believe that the hundreds of Dan men were helped. If you could move, you'd be running away. And there's no reason in Goblin to keep those who can't move alive.

"So, were there any knights in the group you were supposed to have been through a while ago? Why do you think you're traveling around the mountains at night with only your students?

…………

Marie silences Kamui without being able to deny his explanation. The look on Kamui's face when he sees it puts mockery emotions on the table as much as he wants.

"I thought, you, you're pretty stupid"

"What!?

"If I were to drop the bridge, I wish I was on the other side. The goal is to make me fight, so I guess I thought I'd see it nearby. Ask again. How do you get away with dropping bridges? Or do we fight? to the august opponent."

"You're trying to trick me..., aren't you? You don't have an orga."

You'll soon find out if you're lying or not.

"What do you mean?

"They'll be here soon. I was so desperate to run because that org chased me."

"Become, what?!

"If you have time to watch me fight, that's what you fight so desperately for. Well, even if you fight desperately, you can see the consequences."

"Knock."

Marie's gaze deviates from Kamui's. I checked what was at the end of that gaze and a grin appeared on Kamui's face.

"I see. For once, I had secured a way to escape. But..."

When Kamui took the black dagger out of his nostalgia, he released it towards the ground at the end of Marie's gaze. As soon as the knife protrudes, a dazzling light runs on the ground that should be nothing.

"Been, what did you do!?

"You're not impressed with abandoning your people and running away. You're the only one who can send that metamagic team, right?

Transfer magic formation. This is the trump card Marie prepared. Not that I can travel a lot of distance, but if it's about across the bridge, I can afford to reach it.

"... you!

"Come on, let me see? The magical power of the daughter of the Imperial Mage Commander. Take that one."

At the tip of Kamui's finger, there was a demon of a red and black body that appeared from the woods. This is the orga that's been after Kamui.

"GOOOOOOOO!!

At the end of his gaze, Auga, who finds himself looking at the Kamuis, gives a roar.

"... Auga"

"You weren't lying, were you? Don't get bogged down, why don't you just give me directions? Your people are hardening up."

Marie's students have been completely solidified by the sudden emergence of an orga.

"Come on, attack! There's no harm done! With the greatest magic, we're gonna do it all at once!

With Marie's voice, the students who managed to get back on their feet enter one chant after another.

"Oh, that's the worst instruction ever."

"What?

"I don't know what kind of magic their max is, but the enemy can't wait for the long chant to end, can they?

The moment I thought I sank my body lightly, the auga jumped between the students in a flying stride. He shakes off his long arm and knocks down the students.

Students who are blown away a few takes and slapped to the ground. Student who falls as he sprays blood from his neck, mutilated by an auga fingertip nail.

I can't afford to chant or anything.

In a hurry, Orga's long hand waves relentlessly at the students who have turned their backs to escape the Orga as well.

"Wow!

"Hih, oh!

"Help me, Ngu!

In just a few moments, the standing student disappeared. But that doesn't end. Auga crushes the heads of the students who are falling and groaning, stomping their bellies, stabbing their todomes at each and every one of them. Eventually the ravaged Auga turned to Kamui and Marie, who were slowly, a little further away.

"Look, it's your turn."

Kamui stands beside him and pushes Marie, who was blindly watching it, toward Auga.

"Ah, come on."

Momentum pushed by Kamui caused Marie, who left a few steps ago, to fall with her legs pulled intact.

"Look, come on. If you don't start chanting, you're gonna die before you do anything, okay?

Kamui chills out at Marie like that.

"Ah, ugh."

"Hurry up. 'Cause I don't have time to moan."

"... Yes, help me"

With a trembling voice, Marie asks Kamui for help.

"Huh? You, you haven't done anything yet, have you? Fight a little."

Kamui's attitude remains the same. Kamui is not as popular as reaching out to his enemies for salvation.

"I can't. Please, help me, I don't want to die."

"Hmm? Is that good if my life helps?

"Mm-hmm."

In response to Kamui's inquiry, Marie replied by shaking her head vertically with all her might.

"Right...... Well, let me ask you something."

"Kee, listen?

"I need to talk to you about something!

Kamui speaking toward Auga. In response, Auga's red eyes were pointed at Guillaume and Kamui.

"You're a man, aren't you?

…………

"What about your wife?

"... dead,"

"Become!?

It's a tough word, but I did hear Auga speak, and Marie gave a surprise.

"What, are you surprised? If you're a superior species, it's not weird that you understand as much as words, is it?

"But..."

"I'm talking to Auga now. Don't interrupt."

"Ah, oh."

Marie regained some calm when she found out she was intelligent enough to speak the language. I can solve it with a talking meeting. Because that's what I thought Kamui started talking about.

"Are you going to save this woman's life?

…………

"I'm sorry about your kid. But just killing him doesn't bring anything back. Don't you think?

"... what,... you want to say?

"How about you get a new kid?

"Child...?

"It was this woman who made me grab your kid. So the blame for the lost child lies with this woman"

"Responsibility…, Death"

Vengeance. This is what the orga is all about.

"If you kill him, that's it, right? I'm talking about children. Let this woman have your baby. Still a child, but it doesn't change being a woman. I don't think there's anything you can't have."

"A female..."

Negotiations are negotiations, but Kamui's terms are to offer Marie.

"Become, what are you talking about! I'm not supposed to have an orga child!

Naturally, Marie can't possibly accept it.

"Try it and you'll see. If you can't try, that's fine. Kill them adults."

"Look, are you serious!?

"You're serious, aren't you? You didn't think I'd have to be punished for anything?

"But having a child..."

The target is a demon. So Marie doesn't know how to have a child.

"You don't know? To have a child, a man or a woman does an act, but the act..."

"That's how much I know! How did you get an Auga kid......, no way!?

You don't have to worry. The acts necessary to have children are the same whether they are men, demons or beasts.

"Nothing. I'm even with the august opponent. Just do that auga and that kind of act. As many times as I can until I have a child. Nothing. Not now, huh? It's a story since you took me to my address, I think..."

"Oh no..., I don't like it! I can't do that!

"I don't know your convenience. What I'm asking is to Auga. What do you say?"

"Children…. Can it grow?"

"Goblins can be kids with people, right?

Goblins are highly fertile. One of the reasons for this is that people of all races are irrelevant to mating. It is not uncommon for a woman of a human race to be caught by a goblin and given birth to a child, a tragic event from a human standpoint.

"I can."

"Well, isn't it possible that Auga, the superior species, too? If you can't, that's what you give to Goblin. The goblins were pretty damaged, too. Instead of that apology."

"The woman......, dies"

"You were going to kill him originally, weren't you?

"... it was"

Between Kamui and Auga, the story progresses steadily. Then it's Marie who's in trouble.

"I don't like it! Stop it! Help me!

"I didn't ask for your opinion."

"Please! I'll do anything! That's what if you want my body, do as you please! So..."

"I don't need a body. I don't have that kind of hobby."

No more, Marie's plea is lightly refused.

"... please. That's all, that's all!

"Shut up! Anyway, you're already from Auga"

"Holy shit!

"Ghosts are an org......, isn't that very funny? Anyway, the kid thing is, this is settled."

"Oh, over. You, mine."

Moving her gaze to Marie, Auga is further distorting her horrible face. You're probably laughing, but you don't look very good.

"Ahhhhhhhh!

You couldn't stand the fear anymore, and when you screamed like crazy, Marie fell and lay down like the thread had broken as it was.

Kamui, who sees it, takes a big, deep breath once and turns to Auga. Taking a deep breath, the colour of the tension has not disappeared at all from that expression.

"Well, the kid thing is settled. Apply for a duel on that."

"Hmm?"

"This woman still has a use. I don't need a body, but I need you to do something. So why don't you bet this woman on a duel?

"... you, you can't win"

"That's right. I don't feel like I can win very much. But, well, I want to try as much as I can. Can you take it?

"Duel, right?"

"Yes, a duel."

"Duel, don't run away. That, Auga."

"Code of the Strong"

"What? You, why, that, you know?

To Kamui's words, Auga expresses surprise. What Kamui said was something like an Auga common philosophy. Demons also have these things when they become as superior a species as an orga.

"I asked someone I knew. So, can you take it?

"... okay"

Away from Marie, who is falling, the two of them across the street. Kamui has pulled out the sword he had already carried. On top of that, from somewhere further, Kamui pulls out another sword.

Two swords were held in the hands of Kamui.

A sword that shines on silver and a sword that emits black and dull light. Hold two contrasting swords in your hand and take a stand.

"... you"

"If you don't use everything you have, there's no chance you'll win."

"That sword, normal, different"

"Do you understand? But I haven't used it yet. Not enough training yet."

"Interesting"

"... Let's go!

Lightly stepping into the ground, Kamui jumps into the nostalgia of an orga for a step. Towards that Kamui, both arms of the Auga are waved.

Kamui wielded his sword to match both his arms, but the moment he thought it would cross, the orbit of Auga's arm changes dramatically.

"Shit!"

Kick up the ground as much as you want and force your body to jump up. By Auga's left arm, Kamui's leg was paid in the air. Kamui rolls over and falls to the ground. When he managed to balance out in the air and fell off his feet, he jumped backwards even.

Right in front of him, the arm of the orga passes by again.

Furthermore, it was a huge jump in the back Kamui, but Auga's movement was faster than that. The legs of an orga swinging loudly from the left.

"Guh!"

Taking it aside, Kamui blew it straight aside. Kamui rolls big as he gets slapped to the ground shortly after he gets his attitude in order.

"Oh, yes."

The rolling momentum rises somewhat healed and sets the sword up again.

"Guuuuuu"

The face of the auger that saw it was distorted.

"... you're strong. That's why it's funny!

There's also a grin on Kamui's face. The interaction of life with the strong, the exhilaration that springs up in my heart cannot stop.

Amber eyes increased their radiance.

"You..."

I looked into those eyes and the look on Auga's face changed from a grin to a surprise.

"Again!

Kamui fills the distance from the orga in one flight. When you put your foot outside between the arms of an orga, you jump diagonally forward with momentum kicked to the ground, from there to even more opposite. As I tried to shake my body to the left and right, slowly packing the intermission, I identified the moment when Auga's gaze slipped away and jumped into my nostalgia at once.

Keep it up, cut the sword from the bottom up.

"Mmm!"

It was a lightly voiced orga, but I just stretched my knees and jumped backwards to avoid it.

"Let him go!

Step forward deeply to follow it, swinging the other sword horizontally.

The sensation of cleavage remained slightly in my hands, but Auga seemed completely unintentional, stepping forward from herself on the contrary.

Shake down the other sword this time. But before that, Auga's fist was punched into Kamui's chest.

"Gu!"

The shock stops Kamui from moving. There came down the heel of an orga from overhead.

Kamui falling forward from his head. I managed to withstand the shock of losing my mind and rolled at the foot of the auga in a way that was like a forward rotation, with that momentum.

Just off the mark of time, Kamui faces Auga with one knee on his back. The impact of a blow to the head prevents him from standing up immediately.

"... I thought he was dead"

Seeing that Auga was not attacking him immediately, he made his sword like a cane, and Kamui stood up.

"But heel drop... So you, you're not just an orga, are you?

Auga's movements are not left to power, they are obviously physical movements. It's just an orga, there's no way you're learning that.

"You're the one"

Me?

"You, normal people, no"

…………

Just to point out, Kamui couldn't utter a word.

"And I remember"

"... what?

"That sword, I've seen it, I do"

"What, really?

Furthermore, Auga surprised Kamui.

"You, who?

"I..."

Mouthwatering camouflage for auga inquiry. If you're an ogre, you look at Kamui like that intriguingly.

There was something leaping between them.

It's a black cat.

"Shall we get there?"

"Aur!"

"... oh!?

Augu is surprised and eye-opening when he hears Aur's name.

"At all, what is the Lord thinking?

Leaving the surprise aug alone, Aur spoke to Kamui in a shuddered tone.

"What..."

"There's no way the Lord is going to beat the Auga, is there? Besides, the other guy is Sten."

"Again!"

With Aur calling his name, Auga uttered a convincing word. Aur knew exactly who he was.

"Sten, it's been a long time. Looking good, above all."

"And Master Aur."

"Do you know him?"

Two people exchanging greetings. Kamui asks Aur what's going on.

"Yeah, we fought together before"

"Yes. Survival is a reason to be strong."

"As I said, you can't beat an unnamed orga in the Lord today, even if you're not a sten. How could you be so impotent?"

"There's a lot of things going on."

"Well, I'm just glad I had a life. I need to think about it for a second. It was a mistake not to accompany the Knights because they were here."

"You're not supposed to accompany me, are you? I don't know what kind of magician there is."

Even if you're not a magician, if you have a talking cat, you'll make a fuss. However, what the Kamuis are wary of is the presence of a sorcerer who can sense the magic of Aur.

"... then the conclusion is one"

"Oh, something, a bad feeling"

"As much as I don't have to be on my side, I just need the Lord to be strong"

"... that's the same as before"

Be strong. This is what Kamui has always wanted.

"Workouts have been a little neglected lately. Enjoying college life was also a big deal, mainly because I thought it was important, but let's reconsider."

"How?

"There's nothing to sharpen your workouts. If you have a workout first and want to do something else on it, be my guest."

"You mean sharpen it while you sleep. Fine, I got it."

"Oh, are you being honest?

"'Cause now the battle..., it didn't stand a blade at all"

Remember the battle with Sten and Kamui shows how depressed he is.

"No, I don't."

Sten comforts Kamui like that, but this is pointless to Kamui.

"I don't need consolation. It's true. If you'd just kept going, no doubt, I'd be dead. If you'll excuse me, I want you to stay in the mountain cage and work out."

"Oh!"

Sten expressing joy at Kamui's words. Kamui thinks he has no teeth at all, but Sten seems to have been somewhat satisfied with the fight against Kamui. I guess there is no such strong presence in this forest as is comparable to Sten.

But I can't do that.

"Why? Fight you, man. Me too, funny."

"Can I call you by name?

"Dear Aur, I called you, Lord. I know what that means."

"Thank you. Sten, you'd better move somewhere now"

"Why?"

"It turns out there's a sten in this mountain. There's no way the Empire would leave us like this. There must be a crusader. Now, get a good number of them. No matter how strong Sten says it is, it's tough if a regular army comes in a thousand numbers, isn't it?

"... um"

In fact, if you don't fight directly from the front, winning or losing is a subtle place in a thousand degrees, but you know what Kamui is talking about. Even if you leave a thousand, ten thousand will only come next.

"So you should hide yourself. Where are you going?

"... None"

"Aur, is there somewhere?

"It'll be a bit of a long journey, but it's best to go to Nort Ende"

"Oh!"

Sten reacting to Northende.

"It's too far, isn't it? Sten, then, too conspicuous."

"Why do you think Sten is here? It's as easy as moving around in public."

"... Could it be connected?

"Yeah, it's connected"

"Near such a royal capital... If you really fought, you would have won."

"The invasion was not what we wanted."

If Marie had noticed, she wouldn't know what the two conversations meant. It's a conversation that only some of us in the North End can understand.

"I see. For now, Sten said he seemed okay. I lost the duel, and I'm trying, but that woman..."

"I don't want it. Me, that, preference, no."

"Preference...... Right, Sten has a right to choose too."

If Marie was listening, it would be an angry conversation.

"Oh, me, more, plump, preference"

"Well, can I have it?

"Of course."

"What are you going to do with such a sexually vicious woman?

Sten was convinced, but Aur doesn't know why Kamui wants Marie.

"I want you to look into it. It's what you can do because you're the daughter of the chief Imperial Mage."

"You don't like the Lord either, do you?

"What, that? It doesn't matter what your preferences are. It's just his identity that counts."

"It would be good. But will you listen? If you think your life was saved, I'll give it back to you. That's the kind of woman she is."

"I use a little unmanned hands there. I wouldn't normally do it, but that woman doesn't need to be shy. Besides, I don't think it's a good idea to know the pain of being deprived of something important."

"Unmanned hands, just right for unmanned people"

You hardly know, but for some reason, Aur is tough on Marie.

"Well, I'm afraid I have something to do before that woman wakes up, but shall we open up around here?

"Right. See you at Northende, Sten."

"Oh!"

"Bye, Sten. I look forward to seeing you again."

"Oh,... name?

"Oh, you can call me Kamui"

"Oh, kamui......, oh!?

As soon as he called Kamui's name, Sten's body glowed white. Blinking light covers all of Sten's body so much that he can't face it.

"What?"

"Oh, did it happen"

Aur has an idea of this phenomenon.

"Yeah, what?

"If the light heals, we'll see."

Eventually, the light that was covering the sten gradually loses its brilliance. The light had completely healed, and then..., one great man stood.

My back length has shrunk considerably, but my disappointed body remains the same. The body tone, which was highly reddish, is more black, changes like a burnt brown, looks puffy, and has a dark, tanned Southerner-like color.

But what changed significantly more than that was the skeleton of the face. The pointed fangs in his mouth and the horns growing on his head were no different, but the protruding lower jaw pulled in, and the entire line of his face turned into something much smarter. Thick eyebrows, a neat eye area, that face with a nostril through it, very unlikely that it belongs to an orga, a face that is a little harsh but neither human nor, depending on what you look at it, male.

"What's this all about?

The words that came out of its mouth, unlike the previous ones, were also very smooth.

"What do you mean?

"This is what it was originally like. Originally, you have a story. Demons, by having a name, gain a change that goes well beyond their seeds. Sten got that change when he had the name Sten before."

"But not until just now"

"I was disconnected from my named parents. And so I was back where I was."

"That's..."

"Don't give them names too cheaply or exchange them. This time, originally, I had a name, so nothing happened, but if I went from name to name, they would take the magic away from me. We told you before why we wouldn't dare use our real names, right?

"... ok"

"Kamui, no, Master Kamui, are you still?

Sten knows who his namesake is. It also means that the disconnected connection was connected to Kamui.

"That story will be long, so listen to me when you get back to the realm. It's almost time to really wake up."

Marie, who had fallen still, is starting to wander. Waking up is only a matter of time.

"... ok. Okay, I'll be waiting for you at Nort Ende."

"Oh, again"

Sten leaving to the back of the woods. Until he couldn't see that, Kamui was dropping off that back.

I don't feel like I'm going to be left behind. I'm just thinking and fixing my gaze.

"What's wrong?

Feel that, Aur asks.

"... it's been a long time since I've known who I am"

"Sten......, isn't it"

"Oh. It's not about who they are, it's about the blood in the fight"

"You haven't trained enough yet. Not the body, but the mind."

"Right."

Blood flowing through my body. The desire for the instinctive battle it brings makes Kamui feel destined to bear.

But Kamui has no intention of being flushed by that fate. I decide who I am. Yes, Kamui had sworn to his heart.