'Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for waiting so long! The first general martial arts tournament to remember, finally, the time for the finals has come!

The MC's voice echoes.

"A strong warrior coming to a flourishing final, the first of which is - the Ramprog family name wasn't Dada! How many drawers does this boy have yet to show the bottom!? Seika Lamplog, Joon-young from Imperial School of Magic!!

In the burgeoning cheer, I rise to the stage.

I broke all that flashy in the morning, but it was a beautiful thing on stage.

I'm sure no further delay would have been tolerated in an entertaining way. It would only be first aid than the foundation was smashed, but at least it doesn't seem to interfere now.

"Then the second is - this swordsman who emits the most colors in different colors, heterogeneity, heresy! What the hell is he!? Where did you get this from? Legloke Chamber of Commerce concealed ball, evil-eyed killer Kyle!!

A grey-haired boy appeared on stage up the stairs.

On his right hand is the sword of the stripper raised sloppily. Left and right colored eyes half-opened. The ghostly atmosphere remains the same.

I wasn't sure you might be admitting who I am.

"Hey."

I speak to Kyle.

"I'm sorry, I'm not your sister. Mabel is in the semifinals, because she lost to me."

"Mabel......?

Outside, in a high voice, the boy muttered.

"Mabel, Mabel...... oh,"

Just a few eyes open...... and say.

"You're in trouble...... it's not what I planned. Is she alive?

"Oh."

"Right. Good."

Kyle says in a dreamy voice.

"Then we can kill him properly."

I exhale one thing. [M]

It's your sister.

"Oh, the last of us left, a dear family"

Kyle tells her in a voice that has no emotions whatsoever.

"I'm told to kill my loved ones."

"... I know what's going on with you, but I still don't understand"

I ask.

"What do you live for? Isn't that to make you happy? Does killing your precious sister contribute to the achievement of that aim? I don't think he's even taking logical thought from surgery to use it as a soldier."

"What does it mean to live for happiness?

……

"Happiness means living, right? Connecting lives to tomorrow. For me, no, for everyone in the nursery, it was. To be strong, and to follow the stronger, all because of it. I had surgery because I was the strongest. But the Chamber of Commerce is stronger than I am, so I still follow them. To live. Is something wrong?

"... do you sacrifice your precious family to live"

"That's right. Happiness means living. It's family, it's someone else."

"You should not have been once. Have you forgotten about that already?

"Of course, I remember. But right now, I think this is more right."

"I'm sorry to hear that. Mabel grieves."

"... I don't know"

Kyle asks me in a weightless voice.

"Neither me nor Mabel should have anything to do with you. Why are you talking about our situation?

"Why...? You know, it's decided."

I tell her with a smile.

"Because I (...) don't like this (...). Take care of just about one sister. We obey the strong, don't we? Then why don't we ask Mabel to apologize for losing this game?"

"... after all, I don't know"

Kyle rang the sword of his right hand slightly.

- How did you know I was gonna lose?

'Come on, it's time to settle! Final match of the First Imperial General Martial Arts Games - the game is on!!

The whistle echoed.

Kyle opens both eyes.

But before the evil eye takes effect.

I had already opened the door.

Summon - Your Night's Curtain (Ombonoyas)

The thick fog drawn from the phase instantly covers the arena.

Is this the magic of a Seika player? I don't see the stage at all!

"This is..."

"No use trying to rely on those eyes."

Seeing Kyle blurry from the front, I laugh and show him.

The Night Curtain (Ombonoyas) is a foggy demon caught in the back of a mountain of shrimp.

This demon, who misleads and shipwrecks those who enter the mountain, inhibits (debuffs) the very ability to recognize those who take it inside. The effect is to the extent that we no longer know the way home or can no longer discern the faces of those nearby, but it would be the worst compatible for the evil use of exercising spells in sight.

Well, I let this guy out to hide out of the audience's eyes.

It seems like you can normally resist with that kind of distraction.

The sound of mistletoe.

Kyle took a step, seemed to have taken a step.

The footprints that are engraved every step, every step again, are unnaturally deep.

"Yeah."

"The Fire Earth Phase - The Art of Fire"

A blue and white fireball hits Kyle, but the boy doesn't seem to pass by willingly. Phosphorous flames that can be played around don't even burn into clothes.

After all, it sounds like gravity magic weighs a lot.

"So what's this?

The Golden Phase of Wood - The Art of Mercury Spreading

A blackened crawl erupts from under Kyle's feet.

Heavy spreads containing mercury wind up in and restrain a perfectly irresistible boy.

For a moment, I thought this was it.

But then.

Kyle's shadow, which was fading with fog, suddenly increased in blackness and moved out with gnats.

A shadow crawls up to the boy's body.

And at the next moment, I mutilated the containment spreads from the inside out.

The shadow that rises back to the ground then branches, and crawls through the ground and kills me.

The tip brought the sickle. They try to pierce me. [M]

but that was it. The shadows that strike do not cross the line, but disappear without interruption -.

and.

Such an attack, etc., as if.

Kyle remained silent and took another step, walking forward.

There is no color of emotion there.

I sigh.

I miss you if you don't have any reaction so far.

I guess Kyle doesn't have any more exaltations, tensions, or fears left of the battle.

I don't have a choice, do I go according to my original plan?

Remove a single human rattle and open the door to the phase.

Summon - Bull Ghost

It was - it was a ghost with a cow's head - that emerged from the distortion of space.

Dark-skinned, musculoskeletal body. At a height high enough to look up, the bullhead grows sharp horns and is affixed with a felony phase as if resenting everything in the world.

I ask Kyle.

"Are you the perfect soldier now that you've lost your emotions?

A cow ghost stepped over to Kyle as he dragged a thick gold bar.

So, the boy's leg stops.

"Minotaur......?

For the first time in Kyle's voice, a slight but bewildering color seeped through.

When the shadow beneath his feet groans with a gnaw, he is attacked by a cow ghost.

The cow ghost did nothing.

But nevertheless, the shadow does not penetrate the cow ghost. I'm inhibited by something invisible, I just crawl through the surface of my black body.

……

"I don't think it's a bad thing to feel afraid."

The cow ghost takes another step, approaching the boy.

That's when Kyle stepped in as big as he was in a hurry.

He wields a one-handed sword of stripping and is slashed into a cow ghost.

Perhaps the sword, too, was of considerable weight with the magic of gravity.

But.

Cow ghosts, just a swing of arms.

I tapped the sword and broke it.

Beyond the fog, there were signs of Kyle breathing.

A cow ghost shakes up a golden bar unconstitutionally.

"Did you see him and feel nothing?

And the golden rod was shaken by a horizontal giraffe - blowing Kyle away.

The boy rolls outside the stage and stops moving.

There was no offense or anything, it was an overwhelming difference in force.

"He's not what you are. [M] Gravity magic, shadow magic, they're not the kind of people that small craftsmen get through."

I look down and squeal at Kyle.

"If fear remained, I wouldn't have challenged such a reckless battle"

****

He turns to the cow ghost who came back, I say.

"Hey, you must have handled it right"

The cowhead nodded in silence.

The same unfathomable one.

Although not as powerful as Mizuchi, the cow ghost is a powerful demon in his possession now.

It was easy to handle for that and I used it frequently in my previous life, but he did well this time. My face is scary, by the way, but I'm not angry about anything else.

When I returned the cow ghost to phase, I ran over to Kyle, who fell on my back.

He seems to be fainting, but he has breath. Apparently, he's not hurt much either.

"... you really keep it alive"

To Yuki's voice, I nod.

"Sort of. Sweet?"

"It's sweet. But... Yuki is starting to think it's okay."

Well, what are we gonna do from here?

As sneaking him out for now...... then it actually depends on the will of the person. If you really want to go back to the Chamber of Commerce, I can't stop you.

However, if you have a desire to be free...... that will surely come true. With as much strength as Kyle, it's not as hard as diving into an adventurer or some merchant squad (caravan) as a escort and living in hidden identities.

Even emotions have the potential to return.

The human body tries to make up for lost function so that those who were blind are sharp about sound. Sometimes if you live a normal life where emotions are required, different parts of your brain will make up for it.

Well, more than before.

I'm going to let Mabel see you first. -,

"- Seika!!

I was annoyed by Yuki's sharp voice.

Kyle's head.

Radially from there, black lines erode into the face and body.

Is this... a curse!?

"Huh...!

Immediately attract human rattles to tie the line.

The tattoo erosion stops and eventually fades away.

While I was relieved - Kyle's body trembled violently.

I open my eyes. The junction should be working. So... at the time the erosion began, was the damage done to the flesh already?

However... I don't know the details of the damage. We don't have enough time to prepare a human rattle for you now.

I can't make it.

"... May, to Belle..."

Kyle had her eyes open thinly.

Tell in a plundered voice.

"... tell him to apologize, say, yes, I do... tell him, I want..."

And I heard the boy's last words.

―――― ――――

Power falls out of Kyle's entire body.

I have no breath. Light has already been lost from those eyes of different colours, left and right.

The Evil Eyed Swordsman was out of business.

"Seika, you. This..."

Yuki growls stunned.

The identity of the curse had an idea.

Perhaps this was applied by the Luglok Chamber of Commerce during the surgery.

Be a prisoner, lest you throw up information. Or don't let them know more about the surgery.

A mouth sealing curse that activates when defeated.

"... a curse."

Alone, a curse seeped into my voice.

Attract the usual human rattle that was flying around.

"Curse (seriously) So, do you want to get out of me...? It imitates licked......"

Kyle's body. Around it, human gutters are placed in 3D.

Each is bound by a line of curse, and eventually the magic formation of secret surgery is complete.

"ओ अ थ आ इ इ -"

Speak truthfully, mark with both hands, and assemble the technique.

Two holes if you curse people.

The surgeon who applied this will not just let him die.

Be prepared for the lives of people who were around a few lengths when you cursed them, as well as all of your immediate lineage.

But this way first.

It's okay. We'll make it.

This guy just died.

If you refer to the structure of your soul from the most recent timestamp, loading it is enough.

The vessel is not so damaged. I can repair that too if I use my background.

That's right.

I was the strongest in my life. [M]

I don't even have this kind of work.

Enough to bring the dead back to life -,

"- Huh!! No, no, no, no, no, no! That's too much!!

To Yuki's chopped voice.

I stopped being a curse.

Yuki still calls for it.

"You shouldn't have done it yourself! That's dangerous! Have you forgotten why you decided to reincarnate!?

"Huh..."

"Please reconsider now! The person is so grateful and in-laws that Seika has to do so much!?

I - I put my hand down, which was stamped.

Human rattles scatter all around.

The line of curse is broken, and the magic formation collapses.

I stand before the boy's body without a voice. [M]

".................. I know how you feel"

Only Yuki's carefree voice sounds.

"Because Yuki knows. That Saika is more gentle than anybody else."