Aya held a wooden, magician-like staff in her hands and Souichi held a beautiful transparent bluish blade.
It’s the sword that’s referred to as the Goddess’ Holy Blade by everyone. Even though it was actually given to him by the Spirit God by contracting his whole body to a spirit……..The Goddess was totally irrelevant here.
At most, the Goddess had acted like a middleman and talked to the Spirit God or so I’ve heard, but that’s all there was to it. It should be called the Spirit God’s Holy Blade in fact. But even then, everyone else made up stories thinking that since we were summoned by the Goddess and were provided Divine Protection by her, so the Holy Sword should also be given by her.
I really don’t want to know anymore of an adult’s foul mind. In fact I find it admirable that the spirits didn’t come to say anything even after knowing this.. Well, they can’t really talk though.
“It’s simple. We strike down that Demon first. Then, we kill the black Ogre.”
This black ogre and the previous Black Orc, there are lot of things I want to ask that Demon about.
Why could I feel the Demon God from these two? And above all, why can a normal Demon summon a underling of the Demon God.
How should I say this, no matter how I look at it, this Ogre is much stronger than the Demon himself. The hierarchical order should be reverse. Intelligence wasn’t important here. The [Demon God] was that special to the demons. Well it’s obvious considering he’s their God.
And that is why it was too weird that this Demon could control an underling of the Demon God.
“Okay. Let’s fight as usual eh?”(souichi)
I really don’t think a 18yr old guy should be saying that while smiling. To kill and whatnot.
Well, it’s considered normal in this world though…..But as someone who knows children of that world, I can’t get used to it. In fact are Souichi and others normal considering they got used to this world?……..
While I was thinking that, Souichi ran once again to pull the Demon’s attention to himself. He looked like a single shadow. He moved with such a speed that could only make one recognise him as a black shadow.
That speed was so fast that I could only follow him barely even with 5 of the covenants fulfilled. If one was to tell me to cross swords with him now, it’d be impossible for me.
Souichi, who closed into the Ogre in an instant, slashed at its thighs. But it only resulted in sparks flying and there was no blood loss. Just how tough is that skin? The jade Divine Sword was still stuck in its flank.
Against anything related to the [Demon God], it seems the God Slaying weapon Ermenhilde was more effective than any holy sword with divine protection of spirits or gods. That had been only proved an year back.
Different from the one I threw, I held another sword in my right hand again.
“…..Renji-san?”(aya)
“Hm?”
While I was aiming at the Ogre who was fixated at Souichi, a voice called me from behind.
That voice was very weak-sounding different from the Aya I knew. As I answered without turning back, a sigh came from my pocket.
We’re in the middle of a fight after all, I don’t want to loosen my guard. I want to quickly end this.
Souichi will take attention and I’ll deal the finishing blow. It was the same strategy we used against both the Demon God and its descendants. Well, it wasn’t really something complicated to be called a strategy though.
“How many of your covenants have been cleared till now?”
“4.”
“……….”
Was that too easy to see through?
The number of covenants cleared. They were very simple things. I who didn’t possess magical energy would receive magical energy from Ermenhilde with every clearance. I create weapons with that. Basically, the more of the seals have been released, the more stronger the weapon I create.
For Aya who is knowledgeable in magecraft, she should be able to figure out the number of clearances from my magical energy. And also, which of the covenants have been cleared as well.
The 12 comrades that were with me are well aware of the conditions in which my power is released. The conditions to clear the 7 covenants, that is. What I have to do, and what I need to sacrifice.
[My will to fight], [To protect someone], [Against the Demon God], [Protecting a Promise]. These 4 should be the ones that Aya should be aware that have been cleared. But my magical power was clearly at the level of 5 cleared. The remaining one——she should be able to guess that considering the situation. Even though she’s 10 yrs younger than me, she has a good head on her shoulders. She must have ascertained the situation already. That’s why, I simply shrugged my shoulders.
[Let’s finish this already, Renji.]
“Yeah.”
I took Ermenhilde’s help and answered. I don’t intend to start talking here. We both know that there’s no room for talk while in a battle.. Even if the opponent is mere fodder——if you loosen your guard, your friends will die. We were too well aware of that.