D-damn! It can also use its scales along with tail!"
"Marientail! Evade them!"
The scales on the greater demon's body transform, attacking the boy knight's abdomen.
The blond man cut in there.
"Kigori-sama!"
"I can block this much with Vajra Body. Don't stop your hand, stop him no matter what it takes!"
The scales gouge the good looking man's armor and body, he's coughing blood from his mouth.
"Yes!"
The boy knight's effort at swinging holy swords while enduring his tears, and the desperate backing from the castle turn fruitless before long.
『Now, succumb to despair. I recommend.』
Various grotesque demons appeared from below the greater demon.
Countless lesser demons and insect rider mid demons riding insect monsters are arising from the magic circle that has expanded in the open space.
Lesser demons with wings fly in the sky and play around by crashing down on houses.
"It's like the gate to hell's opened."
While spilling blood from his lips, the good looking man's dark eyes are looking at the surroundings.
As a top level person in the territorial army, he understands that there is no force in Seryuu Earldom that can oppose this large of an army.
"W-we can't give up yet! Even if it's for a blink or an instant. We have to buy a bit of time!"
The boy knight encourages the good looking man.
The demons are looking at the scene while smirking and laughing as if it's an interesting show.
"--After that what then. Reinforcement from the royal family won't come. Even if they did, everything woulda been destroyed already."
"Wake up Kigori!"
A hot unyielding fist shakes the resigning good looking man up.
"It's not the kingdom's--Kuro-dono will come. Ane-sama will definitely make him move."
A small bit of hope burns inside the good-looking man's heart with those words.
"Kuro--the hero's follower eh."
And then, the round two of the despairing act between demons and knights began.
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"Martha-san, I wonder if the children at the orphanage are safe."
"It's alright, that place is as sturdy as a castle, knight Son-sama told me."
In a corner of the shelter under the inn, the maid little girl, Yuni and the daughter of the innlady, Martha are diverting their anxiety with little voices.
The neighboring people including the inn's guests are taking shelter here.
An especially loud thunderous sound resounds auspiciously.
After that, the outside becomes quiet.
"Maybe they've repelled the monsters?"
"Let's see for a bit."
"Oy! Stop!"
"I'm just gonna take a peek."
One of the evacuated men shakes off the people who try to stop him, he opens the basement door and peeks outside.
"Oy, how is it outside?"
The man who tried to stop him seemed to be worried about outside too, he asked the man who stopped talking.
However, the man kept silent and then something fell down from above.
"Ouch. What's this? It's sticky--UWAAAAAAAA"
When the man realized that the thing he held in hands was the head of the man who peeked outside, he screamed and threw it away.
The corpse of the man who lost his head fell down while spraying blood.
An even more menace comes to the basement that was dominated by scream and bellow.
With crunching sounds, the ceiling--the inn's floor is torn off, sunlight pour in.
Inside that light, somethings peek in, two black rods--no, they're the feelers of a huge insect.
The instant the feeler touched one of the men, the eye of a huge camel cricket appears in the torn ceiling and perceives everyone.
The feeler coils around Yuni and Martha who were in the corner of the room.
"GYAAAAAAA, help me father, mother, help help help help."
"H-help--Satou-san."
Martha and Yuni screamed, but only the inn couple dared to challenge the feeler.
Their desperate resistances end with them falling victims to another feeler.
"Let go of Yuni, nanodesu!"
A ball of light shining blue flying from afar pierces through the two feelers.
And then a white shadow that comes after the light ball catches the four people who were released from the feelers in the air.
"Lyuryu! Take care of Yuni and the others nodesu."
--LYURYURYUUU.
A small knight clad in golden armor jumped off the white dragon.
"Sure Kill Magic Edge (Vorpala)--"
In the middle of speaking the technique's name, the golden knight attacks the camel cricket's black body.
The camel cricket's defensive wall that was shining dark red was broken in an instant, the body that was harder than steel was pierced through like it was made of paper.
"Punishment, nanodesu!"
The golden knight's sword that burst out in the sky is emitting blue light.
"H-hero-sama?"
"It's a little hero-sama."
The people who came out of the inn spoke that unanimously when they saw the golden knight.