「Kukaka. ……You’ve really become able to look after your surroundings, haven’t you, Yuu.」
Eyes that were red like blood were staring towards me.
Raising the corners of his mouth and smiling with a smirk, Zephyr had an intensity that would make you feel a shudder like something just crawled up your back.
If he normally kept silent, he would’ve been a pretty good looking pretty boy, but if a girl were to see his laughing appearance like this, I bet even a century long love would cool down. Rather, they should feel a sense of danger for their body.
This is what you’d probably call a disappointing pretty boy.
「Ah? ……Hey, what do you mean by that?」
Stopping right at the moment I was about to hit him, I instead strengthened the power I was putting into my forehead.
「Do I need to say it for you to understand?」
「Keh, even if I get praised by you, it doesn’t make me the least bit happy.」
As for why I didn’t use the Sacred Sword and unfolded this striking exchange at point-blank distance, it was because if I were to use the Sacred Sword, Zephyr would probably also let his magic loose.
In a narrow place like this, moreover, there existed a huge number of large wooden boxes around us that probably had the kidnapped people locked within them.
If he were to use wide scope magic in a place like this, the kidnapped people would get dragged in and eaten up.
However, in exchange for sealing my attack, his magic was also sealed. Right now, this was a spectacular move.
With how I knew what this guy wanted to say just like how this guy knew what I wanted to do, you can probably understand how deep my connection with Zephyr was.
Regrettably, the length of time that I was acquainted with him match the length of time I had with Sylvia and the others.
He was a companion as well as an adversary.
We had a thorough understanding of each other.
「……I, won’t forgive you……I’ll have you appear before the authorities and make you pay for your crimes, Zephyr.」
To begin with, I had no intention of killing this guy using the Sacred Sword.
As Baba-chan would probably say, 「A Hero is the idea of the people. It’s not like they are born for the sake of wounding people.」
Though, I have also had times where these hands were laid on people.
But, even then, I didn’t try to kill them intentionally, they were by chance and……No, I should stop talking about that here.
In any case, by design, I can’t kill people. That’s why I can’t do anything but beat him up right to the limit and then have him judged by the hands of the people.
「Oi oi, don’t say something so cold, Yuu.」
Saying that, Zephyr smugly smiled.
「Let’s kill each other.」
At the same time he struck a fist at my stomach, without being afraid of wounding his own arm, he fired explosion magic at point-blank range.
「Oh cra,……!!」
Even more than the pain I felt of my body being twisted, I panicked over the fact that distance was placed between us.
A distance where I couldn’t stop his magic’s invocation in an instant. That meant that the ban on his magic was lifted.
It meant that his magic would be indiscriminately released.
At that moment, the vicinity was enveloped in a burst of flames.