An explosive sound roared along with the feeling of heat passing right beside her right cheek, and something white splattered.
That something was the remains of the white crow which was previously stood on the demon race woman's shoulder. Although things had not been going the way he expected, Hajime countered by firing Donner aiming at Absod while Schlag was aimed at the white crow.
Even if Absod tried to evade only to endure the bullet so even with its tremendous velocity, it would only leave a small sound, but it could not even sense the bullet which ended up piercing through its opened mouth and its consciousness fell into darkness for eternity.
Even the white crow had its body burst open and had died in an instant, scattering white feathers along with its flesh and blood. Receiving the after effect of the railgun, the demon race woman lost her balance, fell on her butt, and absentmindedly patted her own cheek. What stuck there were the white crow's flesh and blood, and at the same time she felt the heat from the severe burn.
If it shifted just by a few centimeters... The demon race woman was trembling when she thought of what might have happened. In other words, Hajime whose matchless strength allowed him to playfully kill the army of demonic beasts as though he was killing bugs before her eyes, and could have also killed her at any time. Even now, her life was in the palm of his hands.
The demon race woman had a strong pride as a warrior, but she could not stop her trembling body before the monster-like existence. What was that? Why did such a thing exist? How can I survive from that monster!? Such thoughts filled the demon race woman's mind, and it continued to circle round and round inside her.
Kouki and the others felt the same as her. They could not immediately see through the white haired, eyepatched boy as Hajime. They could not understand who was the unknown person who easily annihilated the demonic beasts that had put them into such predicament.
"What was that...? Just who in this world is he!?"
Kouki muttered while his unmoving body was laid on the ground. Everyone around him also had the same questions forming in their minds. The one who answered was the person they asked to retreat only to return here by his own will, Endou.
"Haha, I know it is unbelievable... but he is Nagumo."
""""""Hah?""""""
Endou's words made Kouki and the others leaked those words at the same time. Seeing Endou, they though, "Is this guy's head okay?," and made some gesture with their hands. Thinking, it can't be helped, huh~, Endou could only shrugged his shoulders because he was only stating the truth.
"Like I said, he is Nagumo, Nagumo Hajime. The Nagumo who fell from the bridge at that day. He survived in the depth of the dungeon and climbed up with his own power. When coming here, he treated the demonic beasts as if they are just small fries. It's seriously unbelievable!, I thought so, too... but it is the truth."
"Nagumo, eh? You mean Nagumo is alive!?"
Kouki said with a surprised voice. Thus, the others also simultaneously tried to look at the boy with monstrous strength who was advancing the annihilation progress... but as expected they tried to deny it while thinking, "Just how is he Nagumo?" Endou understood their feelings and with a gesture he said, "Well, it's true. Although he has completely changed, I've seen his status plate," Endou told them again that the boy was Nagumo Hajime while sporting a dry smile.
Everyone felt it was unbelievable as they vacantly looked at Hajime's peerlessness, and a person who was awfully flustered said,
"L-Lies. Nagumo is dead. Wasn't that the case? Everyone also saw it. There's no way he is alive! We have already agreed on that!"
"Uwah, what's with you! I have seen his status plate so there's no mistake it is him."
"Lies! There's must be some trick! He must be in disguise and trying to trick us!"
"No, just what are you saying? There's no reason for him to do that."
The one who was saying unreasonable things and grabbed Endou's collar was Hiyama. He was denying Hajime's survival with an abnormally paled complexion. Kondou and the others around him were somewhat taken aback by Hiyama's appearance.