“Papa, we need to catch the irregular who broke into the scenario quickly…!”
“Ma, the servant of the Demon King…! Where did you go? Get out now!”
“…heh heh.”
I hugged Kania tightly while listening to the voices of the princess and the saints from afar, and soon I started to vomit blood from my mouth.
“…Me, over there!”
Then Kania began to twitch with a surprised expression on her face, and I hugged her even tighter and used her information search skills.
[Name: Kania]
[Ability: Strength 3 / Magic Power ??? / Intellect 7 / Spirit 4]
[Speciality: Weakness / Weakness / Mana Instability / Curse of Self-Destruction]
[Talent: Servants]
‘…The delivery of vitality would have been enough.’
When I saw that the ‘critically ill’ written on her special note was changed to ‘weak’, I immediately tried to pull out the knife that was next to her, but…
“die…”
“…Ugh!”
At that time, Isolette twisted the knife that was in my back, and the wind made me scream and brush my teeth in vain.
‘This is… I’m going to die…’
The caffeinated drink and the blessings of the stars are synergizing, so they are full of vitality right now, but even if a knife is stabbed in their back, they cannot stay healthy forever.
So, you have to somehow get out of this situation before the duration of the synergy expires.
With that in mind, I turned my head painfully and looked at Isolet’s unfocused eyes and used my information search skill.
[Name: Isolet Arham Bywalk]
[Ability: 8.5 Strength / 5 Magical Power / 7 Intellect / 7 Spirit]
[Speciality: Injured right arm, Mind control (weakening)]
[Orientation: Knight]
‘…It wasn’t released immediately, but it was released over time.’
It is also the ability given by the demon king who favored Eucarius.
The ‘Slave Seal’ ability given to him by the Demon King, who had the highest level of mind control ability, is a morale ability that can unconditionally dominate people with lower mental power regardless of their abilities.
Of course, since Eucarius, who was transferred from the demon king, died, the demon king would not be able to use that ability again, but that was not even a blow to the demon king.
“…Ugh!!”
“………”
With that thought in mind, Isolet twisted the sword once more. Thanks to this, I vomited another handful of blood, then grabbed the handle of the sword with trembling hands.
“…awesome.”
However, for some reason, the power does not enter the hand. Apparently, giving Kania too much vitality at once has put a strain on her body.
That moment when I was hugging Kania and closing my eyes…
“…I’ll help you too.”
Kania took my hand that was holding the handle of the sword and slowly pulled the sword out of its sheath.
“…Haab!”
“…..!”
Then, when Kania drew her suckling power and slammed the sword at Isolet, she quickly pulled the sword from my back and backed away to avoid the attack.
“…awesome!”
As Isoleth’s sword was pulled out of my back, blood began to wet my clothes and robes, and pools of blood began to form on the floor.
“It’s okay, it’s okay…”
“…Give me the sword.”
After hearing my words, Kania carefully handed me the sword and suddenly stopped acting.
“…why do you do that?”
“………”
She kept her expression firm for a moment while keeping her mouth shut despite my question, then handed me a sword and asked.
“…who are you?”
“I? I, dragon…”
I tried to answer her question as a hero, but I changed my words halfway to rule out the possibility.
“…a brave citizen.”
Having said that, I clenched my teeth and got up from my seat and pointed my sword at Isolet, who was still staring blankly at us.
‘…just a few minutes.’
I stopped her until Isolette came to her senses, and as soon as she regained consciousness, I decided to get out of the auction house and held the knife even tighter.
“Huh!”
– Kang!!
And the next moment, me and Isolet’s sword collided.
“…empty.”
“…ね.”
After clashing swords with her and fighting for a while, I felt a bitter pain in my back, and when I lost my strength, Isolet took advantage of the gap and stabbed her with the sword.
I twisted my body to avoid the sword, but I lost my balance in the wind and started to stumble.
‘…If it was normal, I would have subdued it soon.’
In the last training, I was hiding my true skills by consuming a deceptive black magic badge that was made to respond to my stamina.
In other words, Isolet, who is usually injured on her right arm, can be sufficiently suppressed by using the ‘hero’s power’ for a short time.
However, now, even if the doping drink supports the star’s protection to the maximum, the recovery is slow to the extent that the body is in a state of strain, and even the back has been seriously injured.
In other words, it is dangerous to go on like this. So, here’s a one-shot…
– Shaah!!
The moment she straightened her sword and prepared to strike, a dark energy around her suddenly began to surround Isolette.
“…heh!!”
However, as Isolet blew out her sword, the dark energy retreated for a moment and began to circle around her, looking for an opportunity, and at the same time, a moan erupted from her side.
“…Ugh.”
When I saw Kania, who had reached out from far away to control the dark energy, started to stumble, I urgently called out to her.
“You don’t use magic! I’ll take care of this!”
“……..”
“…Ha, I’ll turn.”
But despite those words, she lost consciousness again and collapsed from the crowd.
When I used the information search skill on Kania with a nervous mind, fortunately, it turned out to be a simple stun state rather than a mana runaway.
‘…Then that’s good. I can get the power.’
– Shoo…
The moment I thought about it while looking at the fainted Kania, the dark energy that lingered around Isolet disappeared, and she, who swung her sword wildly in all directions, began to stare at me again and approach me.
“…Isn’t it time to come to your senses? Sister?”
“Ugh…”
I planted the mana of a star so that only her could hear my voice, but Isolet was still unconscious.
Realizing that the time had come for a final decision, I grabbed the handle of the sword and began to deliver her voice over and over again.
“Sister, do you remember the first time you practiced swordsmanship with me back in the day?”
“Dumb… Rice…”
“That’s what my older sister, who easily subdued me at the time, said to me when I was disassembling.”
“…?”
Isolet, who had gathered her swordsmanship to the limit, tilted her head with a blank expression on her face.
Looking at her like that, I quietly returned her advice that I had remembered to this day.
“…not to cut black people, but to protect them.”
And as soon as those words were finished, we collided with each other at the same time, no matter who came first.
– Phage hey hey…!
only one blow.
At that moment, the legendary blood battle between the previous warriors and the first swordsman was recreated, albeit briefly.
It shines less than the bright and dazzling sun, and has a shorter duration than the soft and soft moonlight, but the mana of a star that shines more beautifully than any other light,
Among many swordsmanship families, it has maintained its title for the longest period of time, and in the decisive battle that took place 1,000 years ago, the swordsmanship of the Byworks family belonging to the first swordsman who stole the demon king’s left eye,
They collided in a trajectory, blended in, and covered the surroundings with light.
“………”
“………”
And, as the light faded, Isolette and I stood in silence while crossing each other.
– Loud.
And in the silence that lasted for a while, Isolette quietly collapsed.
After hearing the sound, I turned around and muttered quietly as I looked at her completely unconscious and collapsed.
“…Honestly, I thought you were making fun of me back then, but now that the same thing has happened, I understand.”
And my beloved sword, which I held tight until then,
Imitated her who always ended the game with a reverse blade, in case I would get hurt, and I was illuminating her with the reverse blade upright.
“…Okay, after all, the correct answer is to stun under any circumstances.”
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Eventually, after using her information search skills, I turned around with a smile when I saw that her mental control had completely disappeared.
“…you.”
“…..!”
And when I turned around, Kania suddenly approached me and was staring at me.
“…who are you, you.”
“……..”
Hesitating for a moment at that question, I gave strength to my legs and…
“…Ah, over there.”
“……?”
After pointing to Kania’s back, she started sprinting to the exit the moment she turned around.
“…Gee, wait!”
Kania tried to chase after me, but she too was overworked, so I couldn’t speed up properly.
“…what’s wrong with that?”
“Isn’t that black magic?”
“…maybe. No matter how backstreet it is, is it possible to openly use black magic with such a large range?”
‘…Okay, luckily there are a lot of people.’
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Eventually I went out in an instant, and found the crowd buzzing around the auction house, and I quickly jumped into it.
“Yeah, maybe the damned thing in the auction house was triggered by an accident. You idiots, I knew something like that would happen someday… Bah! What, what!?”
“…this is, excuse me.”
“Yamma! Are you trying to hit someone and pound them with an apple now!?”
Having successfully entered the crowd, I tried to hide myself quickly, but a sloppy man who ran into the crowd and bumped into me grabbed my collar and started screaming.
“…I’m a little busy.”
“Oh, yes.”
I had no choice but to gently pull out the sword in my arms, and then the man hesitated, then slowly put my neck down and bowed his head.
Having become so free, I thought as I leisurely headed towards the back alley exit, leaving Kania behind, who quietly began to stare at the place I had run into in the dark.
‘…if this is enough, no one would have noticed.’
His voice was modulated with stellar mana, and his body was clearly obscured by a mask and black robes.
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Exposing the sword is a bit fatal, but if I hadn’t just used that sword, one of the few weapons that could withstand the mana of the stars, I would have been dead. So, there was no choice.
And since I never showed that sword to the main heroines in the first place, I probably wouldn’t be able to infer my identity from it.
However, there seems to be a need to change weapons.
So, I came out to the middle of the market through a hole in my mind, waiting for the system to announce that the main quest had been cleared.
However, for some reason, the clear window did not open for a long time, and as I tilted my head because of that, I quickly tapped my forehead and muttered.
“…that’s right, the main quest hasn’t even started yet, has it?”
Why the hell did Seonjo play such a crazy game?
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As Frey was walking down the market street with a sad expression on her face and holding onto her aching back,
“……..”
Kania quietly stared at the place where he had disappeared, then hurriedly turned around at the pretending of popularity behind her.
“…After all, it was you.”
“…everything, you!?”
Princess Clana and Saint Ferroche began to show different but similar reactions to Kania.
“…you’re here, you’re a regressor too.”
“Standing, standing, I guess… Kania-san also returned!?”
Kania, who looked at the two quietly, answered briefly.
“…yes.”
Then, Clana asked her a question with a sharp gaze.
“Just one question, are you… an enemy of Frey or an ally?”
“The enemy.”
“That’s an immediate answer. I like it.”
Kania, who answered with a little nervousness, asked with a frown when the princess trusted her so easily.
“…Aren’t you in doubt?”
Then the princess burst into laughter and answered with a confident expression on her face.
“Because I’ve suffered so much… it’s hard to sort out lies.”
“…..Aha.”
On the other hand, Saint Ferroche, who was oblivious to their conversation, began to ask questions urgently.
“Well then, did the Princess and Kania-san really return like me!?”
“…Yes, I think so.”
“Come on, wait a minute… Then maybe Frey too…!”
When Perloche opened her eyes wide and spoke, the princess shook her head and said.
“No, I’ve been looking at it for a few days… it doesn’t look like that at all. It’s just, it’s just the trash at the academy itself.”
“…that’s right. Frey hasn’t really changed anything from the past.”
As soon as Kania agreed, Perloche sighed and opened her mouth.
“Huh… Well then, that’s good… If that evil person came back… It’s really terrible…”
“…now is not the time to talk like this.”
“…yes?”
Clana, who had cut off Perloche’s words, began to speak with a serious expression on her face.
“…we do regression and work, so it seems that variables are starting to arise.”
With those words, Clana started talking, pointing to the decapitated Eucarius, who had suddenly returned to the form of a hideous demon.
“…Initially, the ‘Stone of Domination’ traded today was sold at a bargain price and had to be robbed by the Demon King’s troops just before it got into the hands of the buyer. You know that, right?”
“Yes…?”
“But, suddenly, this demon and a mysterious man began to compete, and in the end, the Stone of Domination was sold for more than 50,000 gold.”
“Well, then… Maybe…?”
“Yeah, something changed.”
When Ferroche’s expression froze upon hearing those words, Clana crossed her arms and continued speaking.
“…we need to find out why that demon came to the auction house and who the mysterious irregular is. It would have been better if he had caught him and interrogated him earlier.”
“…Isn’t that swordsman also a subordinate of the Demon King?”
“…why?”
When Clana asked, Perloche answered with sweat.
“Uh huh… The only one who knows about the Stone of Domination is the Demon King… Anyway, isn’t he on the Demon King’s side?”
“…if it were, I wouldn’t have confronted the devil.”
“…ah.”
Clana looked at Ferroche, who was making a stupid expression, with a pathetic expression for a moment, then looked at Kania and asked a question.
“By the way, did you catch this demon, or did you catch the eldest daughter of the Bywalk over there?”
“……”
As Kania fell silent for a moment at those words, the princess who tilted her head for a moment at her attitude soon squatted down next to Eucarius, carefully observing the part where her neck was severed, and then opened her mouth.
“Well, it’s not your skill, given that the cut is clean. You must have been pretty embarrassed that you couldn’t catch a demon like this?”
“………”
“By the way… It’s amazing, Mr. Isolet. This time, I must help her become the next swordsman.”
The princess who had finished guessing on her own like that, got up from her seat, pointed outside, and threw an offer to Kania and Perloche.
“Anyway, it’s a relationship that we met here, so would you like to go to a restaurant with me for a while? There is a restaurant nearby that I used to frequent when I was having a hard time.”
“……?”
“Yes, yes?”
As Kania and Perloche tilted their heads at her words, Clana added with a cold smile.
“…would you like to have an in-depth conversation with me on how to control Frey there?”
“…Ah! Yep!”
Hearing this, the saint smiled brightly and nodded, and Clana, who was smiling quietly, immediately looked at Kania and opened her mouth.
“…you also come.”
“…yes?”
“You hate him too, right? And I don’t discriminate against even a warlock if he has good skills, right?”
“……..”
“…we’ll control our abilities to the fullest, so don’t worry.”
Hearing this, Kania quietly nodded her head, stopped, and began to stare at Isolette next to her.
“…when you see that his breathing is even and steady, he’ll wake up safely soon. So, don’t worry too much and follow me.”
“…yes.”
Hearing Kania’s answer, Clana smiled contentedly and started heading towards the exit with Perloche, who had her eyes twinkling next to her.
“…Look, what happened to the Empire after I died?”
“… it’s ruined.”
“I, the people of the Empire!?”
“…we’re alive now. We’re alive too. So, we just have to make sure that the future doesn’t repeat itself.”
“…yes.”
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Even though they were quite awkward until the previous episode, Kania, who quietly watched the two of them started talking like older sisters and younger brothers,
‘Looking at his body shape and strength, he was definitely not the leader…’
He muttered to himself with a serious expression on his face.
‘But, the sword that man just had… it looked exactly like the sword that the headmaster used to drive out the bullies that were harassing me and my brother from the streets the day I was hired by the Starlights…’
Kania, who finally arrived at the entrance, muttered inwardly as Clana gave her the enchantment to inhibit perception.
‘…Is there an illegitimate child in the Starlight family? I’ll have to dig into it too.’
Kania, who went out with such a reasonable guess, tried to quickly follow the princess and the saint, who had already begun to steer through the crowd…
“……!”
The princess and the saint found a familiar object on the floor of the space created by the crowd, and froze on the spot.
“…that one?”
The all-familiar brooch was glistening in the sunlight.