Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

Dionis Harberg.

A water ghost with the highest strength of the ghost clan, good at hydromagic.

On behalf of the Ghost Clan, a former companion who entered a brave man's party.

That's right.

You betrayed me, a former companion.

I'm one of the ones who wants revenge most.

- I don't want to see my people get hurt any more. So Amazu, I will fight with you.

When I first met him, Dionis told me that he would fight to protect his people.

I was just being flushed, and I admired Dionys for such a firm will.

Dionis also endorsed the ideal of wanting to make the world peaceful.

I would do anything to create such a wonderful world.

That's what you told me.

Valued associates fighting together for the same goal.

That's what I thought.

Such trust was shattered without concern,

Battle at Demon King Castle.

Waiting for me was betrayal from my people.

Dionis accidentally pierced my chest.

And laughing at Niyaniya, he said:

- Your role is over by the time you weaken the Demon King and bring us here.

- Even without the power of the brave, you can kill the Demon King if you transfer magic to Luisas later.

- Now, your role is over. You know what I mean?

I still dream about that time.

Until then, a fellow who had fought on his back made a mockery of me while stripping him of his malice.

Dionis said to my words that you've fought with the same goal.

- Shouldn't you sleep and have a dream?

This is what Dionis meant.

Until then, I agreed and said many times that I wanted to help you, all to trick you into using it.

It's good that you denied your ideals.

Because now I know how sweet I was back then.

But I won't allow you to stick it in there, use it, and throw it away with a mockery that it's been used.

It would be a demon king's army spy, but it would be subhuman, but it doesn't matter.

Killed in mockery, this debt is hard to repay.

For me to move on.

◆

"Step back for a second."

When Dionis said so, the demons around him stopped moving.

I guess the only thing that can manipulate demons in this way is that I asked Elfi before, that he is recognized by the Demon King.

"... ugh."

Little has changed since thirty years ago, my head turns white with anger when I see that look pretending to be a good man.

He chops himself with his sword, clenches his teeth, clenches his fists, and pushes his anger to death.

That's right.

Acting in anger doesn't reach him.

――――

And I'm not the only one who's pushing anger to death.

Elfi has his men killed by Dionis.

You can't be feeling no anger.

"... long time no see, water ghost. A man who was a brave man's party makes me laugh with a sailor general."

"Hey, Elphiszark. I have a lot going on, too. More than that, I'm surprised. You made it out of Lucifina's seal. Congratulations."

Dionis slaps his hand with a pussy as he looks down at this one in the air.

The sound of a friendly expression, but it conveys ridicule.

"Hmm. You thought you could keep me sealed to that extent? That's a lot of licked stuff."

"Oh, I'm sorry? I thought that a certain amount of sealing would be enough for a loser who took the Demon King's throne, took the lives of his precious men, and tore his body apart by that quote."

Looking down at this one from the universe, Dionis provokes Elfi.

But Elfi only narrowed his eyes slightly and flushed the provocation.

In contrast, Dionis gave a slightly offensive look and took his gaze off Elfi.

A disgusting smile on my crop can be directed at me.

"Neither do you. It's been a long time."

"... what?"

"You don't have to blur. I know everything that happened in the basement."

With a smile like that directed at an old friend, Dionis said.

"- Long time no see, Amatsu"

... is that what you mean?

Underground would mean Olivia's mansion.

That water eyeball was Dionys' unleashed magic.

"I was watching that woman (Olivia) for once because she was showing strange movements. I'm surprised you guys showed up there."

Olivia was manipulating demons and trying to crusade the labyrinth.

Is that why we were watching Dionis' magic when he knew it?

"I don't see any wounds I put on you completely, and your appearance isn't what it used to be, is it? Yeah, well, it looks like Orteguia's plan is behind it."

"... an Ortegian measure?"

"Oops. It's okay, don't worry about it."

Keeping his mouth down in the wind of silence, Dionis smiles.

Because of that trick and attitude, I don't really feel surprised that I was alive.

Reunited with an unexpected person.

To my surprise, Dionis said with his hands wide open.

"It's good to see you again, Amatsu."

"... ah"

In contrast, there is only consent.

"Me too, Dionis. I missed you too."

How, I'll make you suffer.

How do you make me regret betraying you from the bottom of my heart?

How do you make me apologize that I was wrong?

And

"I've been thinking about how I'm going to kill you"

The object of revenge came to me with a scarecrow.

There is no such thing as a thankful story.

"I don't know what you meant to be out there, but you saved me a lot of trouble. Let me take my men's revenge here."

With that said, Elfi also took a step forward.

Roll the magic out of your whole body, you're already in a combat position.

"Vengeance and hatred? I'm sorry, but you're not into that. I'm just here to correct a mistake."

A childlike tone with no hearing.

"They say," Amazu is the mightiest brave man, "in human terms. Absolutely, it's not a funny mistake, is it? You're the strongest. So I've always wanted to correct that mistake. Knock you down and tell me I'm the strongest!"

From there, he changed, erased the cropped grin, and gave a distorted grin that conveyed malice, and Dionis shouted so.

And Dionis also stayed afloat, entering a combat posture.

By his signal, the demons around him begin to move again.

It's a little nasty to fight Dionis at the same time while dealing with demons, but you can fight depending on how you do it.

That guy and his fighting skills are 30 years old, but I know what they are.

It's time to face each other and start fighting now.

"Dad... Dad..."

"- Huh"

At that time, the voice of the girl who was behind her father's skeleton came into her ear.

The presence of the girl who lost her father scatters the exhilaration until then.

I was completely oblivious to Dionys' appearance.

"- Do you care?"

At the same time, I could see Dionis' face distorted in disgust.

"Ha ha!!"

In a floating state, Dionis shakes it up.

With just that itinerary, countless spheres of water were constituted around it.

And shortly afterwards, with a grin on his face, Dionis shook his arm down vigorously.

"- Huh"

Countless water bullets pour down like rain.

The aim of all the water bullets was not for us, but for the girl who remained on her knees and crying.

I don't even have time to judge.

Hold the girl up and run out of the spot.

"... chip"

What are you doing, me?

Dionis is not the kind of person who can fight while sheltering someone.

"Uh-oh..."

In my arms, a girl is crying.

It will remain a battle.

We should abandon it.

- This girl who's crying?

"... ugh."

Before that, why did I help this girl?

Will it also help you to avenge it?

You think it's gonna be a force to kill Dionis?

No, that's not it. It can't be.

Then you should throw it away now.

"... why"

I let my teeth snap.

The unconscious self, I don't know.

There was no reason to protect the girl.

No matter how miserable the way you die, you should have cut it off.

And yet, I...

"You're still sweet. But can you afford it?"

"Huh."

A mockery mixed Dionis voice that interrupts my consciousness.

An explosion occurs directly behind you.

"Ha-boo."

I get slapped in the back by the shock and my consciousness is about to fly.

I bit my lips off and managed to stay conscious.

"Look! If you don't work hard, he'll die?"

Slip through the side of a blocking demon and even take a distance.

The destruction that follows me swallows the demons relentlessly.

The explosion continued and the demon's body exploded.

Without the wind that cared about it, I can hear Dionis' deafening laughter from behind.

"Oh...!"

Girl screams.

Destruction falls even where there were male remains.

Without having to see it, the man's body would not have fastened the prototype anymore.

"Oops...... yeah, dad, ahhhhhh!!"

The girl saw the sight as I held it.

In my arms, a girl is crying and rumbling around.

As it is, we will not be able to deal with water bullets.

"......"

I let magic flow through the girl's head and flew consciousness.

Lost strength, the girl fell asleep in her arms.

... you should abandon them instead of making them unconscious.

"You're getting really weak, Amatsu. I can't believe I'm just protecting a girl from this kind of attack."

Yes, when Dionis tried to release more water bullets,

"-" Devil's Eye/Ashes Explosion ""

Elfi's demonic eye burst as he similarly overran the water bullet.

We were moving in a different direction. Elfi's attack swallows Dionis, who was laughing.

This is the biggest blow with a disguised Magic Grant (Magic Item).

The flash of red lotus overshadows vision.

The blast blows and the earth shakes.

"What do you think...!?"

At the same time Elfi squeaks like that.

"... ahhh"

The smoke exploded and an intact Dionis appeared.

I can see the water barrier covering that body.

So, did you completely offset Elphi's demonic eye?

"Hey, Elphiszark. Elphis, Zark Gildegardo. You think you can do me any damage with that bombing? Then you've been making fun of me for a long time. Isn't that evil eye rotten?"

"... lack of firepower"

With a bitter look on his face, Elfi takes a distance from Dionis.

And it was when I tried to take off the 'disguised bracelet'.

Slightly irritated, Dionis snapped his fingers.

"Huh...!?"

"Elfi...?"

Shortly afterwards, Elfi accidentally gave a distressed look and fell to her knees.

If you look, you can see a deep, single sword piercing her right thigh.

There was enough distance, and Dionis shouldn't have had any weapons in his hands in the first place.

I don't understand what Dionis did.

"Look, Amatsu. Your people are pinching, but don't you have to help? Or do you abandon them because they are demons?"

Dionis attempts to release a water bullet towards Elfi, who has knelt down and stopped moving.

"... ugh."

Hold the girl, fly one hand to the porch, and grip the demon stone in.

It was when he tried to stop Dionis from attacking him using "The Demon of Destruction (Blake Magic)".

"No! You're the one who's after me, Io!"

Elphi screams.

At the same time, Dionis rang his fingers.

The water bullet that was floating through the universe fires behind my back, even though I say I keep my back on this one.

――――

Throw the Demon Stone as you jump back to fall in.

As soon as the imminent water bullet and demon stone came into contact, it activated the Demon of Destruction.

The leap alone couldn't take him off the blast range, and he was hit hard by a scorching wind.

"Ka, ha..."

He gets slapped to the ground and stops breathing.

My burnt skin hurts tingly.

The shelter of the girl prevented her from successfully accepting it.

With a blurry vision, I manage to capture Dionis' appearance.

"I'm sorry, but you don't have time to sleep?"

In his painfully blurred vision, he saw Dionis exercise his magic.

At this time, I can't even tell you.

...... Do we have to outdo it with a degraded demonic blockade (Il Atalaxia)?

With that power, it won't be possible to offset it.

It's when I'm ready to take the damage.

"- Ahhh!"

Elfi, who pulled his sword out of his thigh, jumped on Dionis.

- "Demon Arm/Broken" -

Five magic claws strike Dionys.

The target of the water bullet changed from Dionis to Elfi.

Claws and water bullets clash, causing a severe explosion.

"Chi......"

"Ku, uhh...!"

Fly each other by blast.

Elfi came down to us as he rebuilt himself in space.

"... are you all right, Elfi"

"I don't know."

The foot wound is already blocked.

Because of my body, except my arm and face, I said before that I could reconstitute it if I could use magic.

"That water ghost, you're not the same character as the previous Demon General. Even if it rots, it's a party of ex-brainers."

"... if you don't fight as hard as you can, you're not the one to win"

If Elfi removes the 'disguised bracelet' and doesn't do something about this girl she's holding, there's no winning chance.

But......

Did you read that, my deaf voice sounds.

"Hey, Amatsu. I wonder if I should abandon the child. You can't fight with shelter, can you?"

"... you don't have to. You can fight enough in this state."

Strength.

I'm not the one you can beat in a situation where you can't give it all.

"You know."

Dionis exhales as she circles her own brown hair with her fingers.

I frowned and said frightened.

"I wonder how stupid you are."

"... what?"

"I've been betrayed so badly, can you still help me? It's been thirty years, and you haven't grown."

"... no"

No, it's not.

Definitely not.

I'm not helping people.

I already threw away that sweet idea.

If it was for revenge, I decided to use anything.

"Then why didn't you abandon the child?"

"... that, ha"

That's right.

How come I haven't abandoned this girl for so long?

He said he understands that it's just going to be a foot clump.

Why...

"Iori, don't listen to me"

Thoughts are interrupted.

Elfi's hand was tapping my shoulder.

"It's not worth listening to, like, traitor bullshit. What are you taking seriously, fool?"

"... oh.

"Don't lose your cool. Look at the enemy. Turn around."

Shake your head and throw away any extra thoughts.

Suicide itself, such as patrolling the battlefield.

"You keep that child in your arms and do whatever you can to deal with it. I outmaneuver his attack. In that gap..."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Damn, I can't!"

Dionis waved down as he interrupted the story.

Tons of water bullets released again.

"- Huh"

Shoot him down with Elphi's demonic eye and defend him with a demonic blockade (Il Atalaxia).

But Dionis won't loosen his hand in the attack.

Knowing this one can't get away with it, he's focusing on me with the girl.

Forced, he was being pushed to the side of the war.

I don't even have time to drink potion, they just shred my magic and strength.

Nor has Elfi been able to remove the "disguised bracelet".

Eventually.

"- Oh, shit."

"Knock."

He broke his defense and a water bullet burst in front of him.

I get blown away by the impact and roll down the ground.

Elfi is also on her knees, exhaling roughly.

"Bullshit, right? Hey, hey, what the hell is the whole joke about ex-brainers and ex-demon kings being so weak? Trouble. I'm getting ready for everything. Come on."

Dionis lifts his arm.

"I'm not going to kill you yet. I'll kill him in front of you, and then I'll shake him off."

And the water bomb was released - -.

"- I made it...!"

As it surrounds us, a bond has arisen.

◆

I saw a woman shaking her red hair and shaking her shoulders in a rough breath.

Behind it are several armed soldiers refraining.

You saved our lives by bringing us together.

"... Karen,"

Reminds me of one day.

Once, there was a man who helped us in distress.

A red-haired, heart-warming man.

"It's late to come. Excuse me."

I was helped again by that woman in the shadow of Gash.

…………

Dionis, who frowned uncomfortably, unleashes a water bullet.

A streak of explosions hit the unfolding junction in front of us.

The junction swells, and eventually the crack spreads.

But.

――――

Faster than the destruction spread, Karen developed new boundaries.

Another layer of junction appears from above the junction with the crack and plays the water bullet.

In a rough breath, over and over again Karen rebounded her boundaries.

That reward lasted a few minutes and eventually Dionis stopped the offensive hand.

"... oh, I know you. The woman whose father was murdered by the lord next door, right? The demons are bold. I know your father well. That's good. If you want to break the line and disappear from your sight right now, I'll miss you?"

Dionys' killer spirit, which also passes over the junction.

Tremors run at the soldiers holding back behind Karen.

And Karen, who is directed directly at that killing, also shook his body up.

"... I say no"

But Karen replied with a trembling voice.

"... Huh?"

"I am the Rayford family owner - Karen Rayford. I will never allow my territory, my people, and my valued guests to be harmed."

On its back, Gash clearly looked overlapping.

"Isn't that it anyway? Protect what my parents left behind, because that's my mission - like. Oh, you're miserable, aren't you? I was stuck with what the dead left behind. I hate people like you who don't know the minute the most. So come on, get out of the way, human."

"I'm not going anywhere. Whatever you say, I will defend this territory."

…………

Meditate your eyes and Dionis shuts up.

Then I hit my hand, "Oh yeah," he said.

"You wanted to protect this territory and the people, didn't you?"

"... ugh."

Dionis' expression distorts ugly.

Karen breathes into the murderous minister.

"Then let's do this"

When I wondered if Dionis, who was floating, had landed on the roof of a private house, he made a huge jump.

It was the labyrinth side that jumped.

Ahead, a large pedestal was installed.

"... No way"

Orange stones as much as a person's head, placed on its pedestal.

Dionis destroyed the pedestal and took the stone on it.

"- This is called" stone. "Magic items needed to seal the labyrinth, right? I'll confiscate this. I could destroy that bond at any time, but it's out of the way."

pom pom and stone like a handball and whirling,

"I wonder if you know. The Dead Swamp Labyrinth contains tons of poisonous swamps. An organism dies, a plant dies, a marsh of poison that kills everything."

Scratching her hair with a playful trick and having terrible fun, Dionis declared, smiling gently.

"- I'll drain that poisonous swamp over this territory for you."

◆

"If you don't like it, you should come to the labyrinth to stop me. Just wondering if the two of them would be appropriate?"

Leaving that out unilaterally, Dionis disappeared laughing.

All that remained was an ugly scarred earth as if it had been devoured by a beast, and people who stood flaunted.

"... you know what?"

The junction, which was spreading in sight, was suddenly extinguished.

At the same time, Karen collapses off her knees, trembling and not pulling a single step.

Soldiers rush over, but Karen controls it with her hands.

But his face is pale and beady sweaty.

"… let's rescue and evacuate the residents"

Standing up nicely and with a pale look on his face, Karen let him give instructions.

Follow that and the soldiers will move out.

Soon afterwards, we were treated by healing magic.

In doing so, I hand the girl I had explaining the circumstances to the soldier.

Soldiers leaving early enough.

Looking at that back, I thought.

In just a few hours, the girl who lost her family.

He witnessed his father's death and was shown where his remains would be ravaged.

What happens to a girl's mental state?

- Hey, Io.

So he hit me in the head gently and went home to me.

Turn around, a rugged look elfi stands.

"I couldn't do all I could, either, but you're too floating."

"... oh, bad"

"You've had your revenge opponent before............, you mean that kid?"

…………

Conjectured, speechless.

"If there is a battle, there will be a sacrifice tomorrow. You must know that very well."

"... it's not. I was then..."

How could you not abandon that child?

"... no, it's nothing. Then we'll go to Mr. Cullen."

…………

Elfi didn't pursue it, he snorted "OK" and followed me.

I look around, but I don't see Karen.

I searched for a while and found myself standing alone behind a half-destructed private house.

On its back, call out.

"Thanks to Karen, thank you for your help"

Looking back, "I'm glad you're okay," Karen nods.

But his face is pale.

I have vain eyes.

"... are you okay? You look pale."

"... Huh? Oh."

It was a wind called the sky above, looking up at the sky.

"... Karen?"

"My house is"

With a fine voice, Karen spoke out loud,

"Until now, we have continued to seal the labyrinth. Your father is proud of it and your mother supports it...... I wanted to be like that, too."

…………

"So... your father and mother were gone... and I had to seal the labyrinth properly."

Karen keeps her head down.

"Yet they unleashed the life of the labyrinth seal and took away the stones...! Wow, I did! I had to do it right!"

gullible and Karen scratches her head u.

"Karen,..."

I must defend the territory that I have been left with.

To that burden, Karen was about to be crushed.

"I have to defend my territory..."

He killed his parents, unlocked the life of a labyrinth seal, and became a lord.

Besides, the sailor general attacked me.

There's no way I can stay in a normal mental state.

"If I don't seal the labyrinth, I have to...!"

Has what you were suppressing overflowed?

From Karen's eyes, there are pours and tears overflowing.

――――

- A lot of crying faces.

The way she scratches her head and cries as she leaks a whimper.

I thought you were here to say, "Get paid for solving your problem with Olivia."

I noticed, I was holding Karen's hand scratching her head.

"... Iwo,"

Put your other hand on Karen's shoulder.

I looked at Karen in surprise from the front, I said.

- You don't have to seal the labyrinth anymore.

"Uh...?"

Words came out on their own, even though they weren't thinking of anything.

"Dionis... we will defeat the sailor general."

――――

"So... it's okay now"

In a reassuring tone, I ran out of words.

"So, but... that's too dangerous"

"We are adventurers. An adventurer I knew said it before. Don't 'adventure' me here. I don't know what to do."

"Mr. Io..."

"Leave the labyrinth to us, Mr. Cullen, and do what you can."

"Why..."

In a trembling voice, Karen asked.

"Why would you do that?"

There is no answer.

I just wanted to say one word to you about putting you in the labyrinth for the reward of solving the problem.

But why did I say such an extra thing?

"... because I'm with Gash... and Mr. Karen helped me too. I want to return the favor..."

That's what I said, I turned my back on Karen.

Do not turn around and proceed towards your destination.

Heading there is the Dead Swamp Labyrinth.

"... you've been sticking around a long time?"

Elphi walking next door has told me to tear it up.

"Naturally. Somehow, revenge is just ahead of us."

I even said something I didn't have to tell you, but it doesn't change my purpose.

Revenge.

Wait, Dionis.

I'm going to kill him right away.