CH 86

"What happened to all your vigor just a few minutes ago?"

A one-on-one battle between the Iron Mask and Deanna began.

The Iron Mask covers its body with a special full-body armor, and the armor is strong enough to block even Asuna's sword blows and, on the contrary, break her sword.

In contrast, Diana is bare-handed.

If you think about it, there seems to be no way that Deanna can beat the Iron Mask.

The Iron Mask must have realized this.

It is as if he is playing with her, wielding a large sword at her and enjoying watching her evade his attacks.

Whenever Deanna ducks an Iron Mask attack, she touches his armor to check and make sure of something.

The Iron Mask, perhaps noticing this, grew more and more suspicious, and spat at Deanna.

"What the hell are you ...... trying to do?'

"Come on, why don't you think with your uncultivated mind?"

Deanna said with a wry smile as she spun her words to agitate the iron mask.

It was a cheap provocation, but the Iron Mask was expressing anger that could be felt around him.

The words he had said earlier.

She is a strong woman, which may have been a traumatic experience for him, judging from his statement, "There is no woman who can beat a man, absolutely no one.'

"Don't mess around with me, you maid!"

"..... !!"

Deanna's clothes were torn off by the attack of the iron mask.

The iron mask was a decent swordsman despite his appearance.

He gradually matched his blows with Deanna's movements.

As a result, he was cutting through her clothes bit by bit.

When the Iron Mask had reduced the area of Diana's clothes, he said in a lowly voice.

'Stripping maids is fun, but it's not you I want to defeat in the fight '.

The Iron Mask launched a sharp slash at the same time as he said the words.

But Deanna avoided the slash with a single stroke of the paper.

At that moment, the hair clip she had tied behind her back fell off and her hair fell down.

Deanna took some distance from the iron mask and looked at him.

'...... I see. It's physiologically exhausting to deal with a man who wears bad taste, so let's end this."

"Don't ......mess with me !"

Offended by her words, the Iron Mask rushed toward her with a large sword in the upper stance.

In contrast, Deanna entered the bosom of the rushing man, smiled and launched a fire-attribute magic.

Immediately the iron mask was enveloped in fire, but he laughed and said.

"Hu ha ha ha , you idiot, I told you this armor was special !"

While engulfed in fire, he attacked Deanna again.

However, she avoided the iron mask's attack and again activated her fire spell.

When this interaction was repeated several times, something unusual happened to the movements of the Iron Mask.

His movements lost their sharpness, and it was clear that his physical strength was drastically reduced.

The Iron Mask glared at Deanna with eyes that seemed to hold a grudge.

"Hey, you, don't tell me you were aiming for this from the very beginning. ......⁉"

"You're so uncultured to realize it after all this time, aren't you? ......"

"Damn ...... !"

The Iron Mask no longer had the leeway that he had at first.

He realized that he had fallen for Deanna's plan, and in order to find a way to win, he raised his great sword and rushed toward her.

But it was a bad idea.

Deanna, unfazed by the Iron Mask's movements, launched her fire spell again.

When the Iron Mask was enveloped in flames, he let out his first shrill cry.

"Ugh ..... !!!!!! it's hot !"

At that moment, I realized what Deanna's plan was.

Perhaps, after launching the first fire spell, she realized that "even if fire spells don't work directly on his armors, the heat will still be there.

While avoiding the Iron Mask's attack, she checked to see if her hypothesis was correct and put it into action.

Now the Iron Mask's entire body armor has turned into a hot, burnt iron plate, and inside it must be a living hell.

Deanna had already stopped the flame .

However, the heat in the armor would not go down so easily.

The iron mask was slumped over, screaming in grief.

Deanna let out a sigh and said to him.

'You are an idiot. If it's so hot, why don't you just take off your armor ......?"

'...... !!, yes, that's right.'"

The Iron Mask was swept away by Deanna's words and hurriedly took off his full body armor.

His bare skin is brown, and he may be a dark elf.

However, the heat from the armor has blistered his body in various places, and it is clear to see that he has suffered severe burns.

Deanna showed no mercy to him.

She smiles wickedly at the iron mask who has taken off his armor, then instantly reaches into his bosom and slams her fist into his solar plexus.

.".....⁉ "Gebaaaah !"

The Iron Mask's skin is now sore from severe burns, and his nerves are probably exposed.

The skin of the Tekkamen is now badly burned and the nerves are probably exposed.

If a fist were to cut into his gut, the pain would be unimaginable.

I was about to say, "Deanna, that's too much ......," remembering that I had recently seen a similar scene, but it was already too late, and she let loose with her words and invoked her magic.

"Blow up !"

As she uttered the word, a huge explosion erupted from the fist that was driven into the iron mask's gizzard.

The iron mask blew up with a shrill cry, covered with the roar and smoke generated by the explosion.

The explosion sent the Iron Mask flying through the air.

The impact of the explosion sent him flying through the air, passing by Marein and crashing into the wall on the second floor.

He then slid off the wall and was no longer consciousness.

Deanna, who had blown off the iron mask, muttered to herself as she looked up from the first floor.

'...... you deserve that hideous appearance."

She was no match for the Iron Mask.

Marein was holding his head in his hands, realizing now that the group that came to his mansion was unorthodox and strong.

His agitation was felt by the ragamuffins, who no longer came at us bravely, but were more reluctant to go.

It's time to move on, and s i gave a signal to Asuna with my eyes.

I also fired a "fire spear" toward the outside of the mansion as a signal to Chris, who was waiting outside.

Not understanding the intention of what I had done, Marein and the ragamuffins looked suspicious.

Asuna noticed the signal and shook her head at me, then approached Fara and said in a high voice so that it echoed throughout the mansion.

"The men stand back, for who do you think this man is?"

Asuna's words caught the attention of Marein and the entire mansion.

At that moment, Fara and Asuna began to lift their hoods.

Instead of Asuna, I and Diana stood in front of Fara and said the words in a high voice.

"The first princess of the kingdom of Renalute, Fara Renalute, ".

"What do you mean?"

The face of Marein turned pale and bloodshot when he saw the faces of Fara and Asuna, who had removed their hoods in response to words we had said.

Fara looked at him as if she wanted to stop him and said,

'If you are a member of this country's "noble family," don't tell me that you don't know my and Asuna's face. As the princess of this country, I cannot allow you to do what you are doing. You will be dealt with in due course. ......"

"This is ridiculous."

The blood boiled, he turned blue, and his head was in a state of shock.

The door behind us opened and soldiers of the Renalute rushed in.

The strongest of them all said in a high voice,

"We are the army of the Kingdom of Renalute, and we ask you to give us a rope in a dignified manner.

"..⁉ Why is the Royal Army coming so soon?"

Malayne was confused and didn't know what was going on.

On the other hand, as soon as the soldier's words were uttered, the soldiers began to rope in the rag-tags.

As we watched, a voice called out to us from behind.

"Ri ....... Tia-sama, are you safe?"

"Chris. Thank you for bringing the soldiers as we planned to do."

"No, I'm glad I could help you. ......'

Chris looked at me with worried eyes, but seemed relieved to see that I was unhurt.

Now, if I stay here, they will know that I am wearing a maid's uniform.

As we had discussed beforehand, I, Deanna, Ellen, and the two monsters quietly left Marein Kondroy's mansion in the hush.