In another place from where the three were speechless from the former class of the Ossan whose body didn’t match it, I surveyed the vicinity from a slightly raised building.
As for why I’m looking around, it’s because since Umbra’s movements were incomprehensible, I couldn’t help but have an unpleasant feeling.
Three years ago, we, the so-called Hero troupe, had visited a certain town in the middle of our journey. Maybe because of the welcoming mood, once we had a peace of mind, in actuality, that place was a town of the deceased that was controlled by that guy.
Other than how we were invited into a trap before, the case this time and the above-mentioned last time, had complied with each other.
The existence of the Dragon Tusk Warriors and the large scale advance due to the Zombie-type monsters. ……These two points were in compliance with each other.
And then, it seems that last time, a monster called a Ghost Knight was thrown in at the end.
A Ghost Knight was a knight that lived several hundred years before, and it was said that when it was alive, it was a hero that had guided its native country to victory in war many times.
It was a monster whose physical strength was able to suppress that Leonhart and Sylvia, and had outdone a delinquent priest that we had traveled with in terms of resourcefulness……so it would seem.
………If you’re wonder why I’ve been saying “seems” and talking in a vague way, ……Well, it’s because I didn’t fight at all.
It’s because I had eaten too much food at the welcome party and after that, I was having my sleeping soundly time in the bed!
I think it was about four months until now? I’ve said this before but, I have confidence that I’d be able to be sound asleep no matter the location (though that illusion was destroyed at the Guild’s quasi-rented house).
I can pleasantly sleep no matter the place. In other words, no matter what the circumstances are, I can be sound asleep.
Even if that place is in the middle of a battlefield, I have confidence that I would be able to continue to sleep (though, as expected, when I’m about to be killed is a different story).
Waking up after everything was finished, and getting beat up by Sylvia was a good memory.
Now then, getting back on topic, the chain of events of last time and this time strangely coincide with each other.
It probably goes without saying that Umbra’s forte strategy is a material war by means of Ghost-type monsters. He is a magician that became a scoundrel after all.
Ah, by the way, we’ve said a couple of things like “majutsushi”, “mahou tsukai”, and “madoushi”[1] but, there isn’t much of a difference between these names.
Magic is pretty typical and doesn’t have a framework like being able to reproduce miracles if time is spent on it.
Even though “mahou tsukai” is translated into “magician” in English, it has a feeling of being read as “tejinashi”.[2]
And so, since things are consistent at the present, I’m being vigilant of what that Umbra guy is going to do next.
What happens once can happen twice, and what happens twice will happen thrice.
Just like there are guys that say “I won’t fall for that same trick!” on the second time, there are surprisingly guys that will play the same hand over and over again.
By the way, what about me?
No matter how many times I receive it, it won’t work! I guess? I am technically immortal after all.
Just when I was thinking that, a voice resounded in the communication stone that was on my ear.
(Yuu!)
It’s Alicia’s voice.
From that impatient voice, I immediately sharpened all of my nerves and,
「Choiya~!!」
「……Ha?」
right there, all of my nerves relaxed. They all completely went slack. The atmosphere was gone just like a ball that went flat.
In this battlefield that had gone full throttle serious just a little while ago, a couple of foolish shouts resounded.
This voice and this tension, it’s obviously Bernadette.
Jeez, just what is she……
「The head!?」
When I was about to turn around, in the next moment where I thought that an impact had run through the back of my head, I was flying in the sky.
……Yeah. I didn’t see what had happened behind me but, I pretty much understand how I was blown away.
「Guh……This, damned defected Sister.」
Falling headlong down from the building, without doing an ukemi, I hit my head.
「!」
And then, when I tried to do a forward somersault in accordance with the unpleasant premonition that functioned after an awfully long time, the spot I was going to land at burst open.
「My name is Bernadette. For the sake of my duty as an 『Agent』, I will subjugate you!」
Looking down on me from atop a building, Bernadette readied her pair of guns and pointed them at me.
Those eyes were the same as the ones shown when we first met, they were serious eyes.
……Oi oi, subjugation isn’t all that gentle. Actually, since she was awfully insistent on coming along with me, I should have halfheartedly told her that a Duke class Mazoku was coming to attack and made Mana and the others a scapegoat, or rather, people to protect from that……That was it, right? Since I thought that Eri and Henrietta would be near Mana, didn’t I teach her the characteristics of Mana who was the easiest to recognize and make some random speech? I’m sure that I remember saying something like she was being targeted by Mazoku or something.
「Keeping quiet, is it. That doesn’t matter. Since all I have to do is subjugate you Mazoku.」
No sooner had she said that than Bernadette came shooting out Maryoku bullets without hesitation.
……Eh, Mazoku? Wait, that’s dangerous!
Although I promptly defended against them with my sword, Bernadette continually fired without hesitation.
「Wait! He is……!」
Alicia’s restrained voice resounded but, Bernadette came falling while spinning with the dual guns in her hands.
「Eighth Duke Class……Prepare yourself!!」
By Eighth Duke Class………So it was that rumor!!
It would seem that in this defective Sister’s head,
things have become, wire puller this time = me.
……J, just because I was in a hurry, doesn’t mean that I should have said anything that works!