CH 168

“Gruaaaaaaaaaa!”

“ !”

Normally, this stream of water would be powerful enough to rip him to shreds, but this time I used it to push against him a tree. After striking him, I follow up with a fireball to burn off his legs and check its regeneration. 

Gadar’s body already had more than doubled in size, his armor was broken, and his upper body was almost naked.

“Guga!?”

“Yaaaaaaah!”

The fireball hit him and burned his legs, and Makina approached him and slashed with the backhand grip, aiming for his left arm. Gadar swings down with his right hand, but Makina punches him in the face with her Kaiser Knuckle.

Gadar lets out a short grunt and moves away from Makina. As I line up beside Makina, she glares at Gadar and opens her mouth.

“I can’t cut his arm ……! But the blows do work.”

“Looks like it. But along with the regeneration of the legs, perhaps the bones of the fist that Makina shattered have also recovered.”

“Guffuuuuu ……”

Gadar squeezes his right hand twice, checks his condition and smiles. The fact that he doesn’t speak suggests that his intelligence has diminished.

As I was pondering what to do, I heard Tigre-sensei’s angry voice echoing behind.

“I told you I wouldn’t let you go there! !”

“Gaaaaaah!?”

“Get away from me! [Superhuman Strength]!”

“Gugya ……”

The man who had been turned into an indistinguishable troll by Tigre-sensei’s blow was slashed diagonally and cut in half. When Kudelica pushed out the upper body with all her strength, which was about to fall down, it hit a big rock and stopped moving, screaming like a frog.

Nearby, the headmaster also dodges the stiff arm, his brow furrowed. 

“! …… They’re still coming at me …… Aren’t these guys afraid of death ……? He’s not the same person as before …… then !”

Good, that will definitely restrain him! I tried to do the same with Gadar, but I soon stopped thinking about it. 

“Ugugugugu …… Gaaaaaaaaahhh!”

“He ripped it off ……? They’re not trolls, maybe they’re ogres ……!? If that’s the case, it’s not going to be easy. I’ll have to kill him like Tigre did, huh  ……? !”

In order to find a way not to kill him, the headmaster traps him with a flaming whip and rolls him over.

“Kill ……”

“Am I going to kill something that was human …… I’m ……”

An unpleasant sweat breaks out, and I think back to the time when I defeated Retzel. At that time, Luciel and the others were taken hostage and I released the Dragonic Blaze in anger, but if possible, I would like to do something without killing them.

“Here it comes ……!”

“Yeah, I’ll cut off his legs, give me your sword!”

“Lars-kun, we have to go at him with the intent to kill! Oh, wait!”

Makina gave me back my sword and I ran off at once.

Anyway, let’s block his movements! The only way to do that is to cut off one of his legs ……!

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“Oh, as expected of Tigre-sensei. He killed him easily.”

“The war demon is so relentless, nevertheless, it’s Lars-kun. He’s got a lot of magic power since then, but he’s still naive if he’s struggling against an ogre.”

“Or rather, I think he’s hesitant to kill him? Even though they’re about to be attacked, ah, but that black-haired girl knows what she’s doing.”

The hooded figures discussed as Lars’s magic blocked the Gadar Ogre’s movement, and he relentlessly targeted his legs. Makina unleashes Kaiser Knuckles on the heart’s position, or breaks the arm from the elbow to ensure that the damage is done.

“…… Hmm, Lars-kun’s so lukewarm. I was going to kidnap Luciel to make an example, but I guess she’s okay for this?”

“Yeah, he seemed to be concerned about Makina, which is good. Then, let’s do it that way–“

The small hooded man takes out a flute and puts it in his mouth to make a sound, which goes into the ears of the Gadar Ogre below.

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“Damn it …… he doesn’t seem to be weakening at all ……!”

“How about I aim for the leg and cut it where it broke?”

“No, that’s too dangerous for Makina, then–“

I wiped the sweat from my face and began to think about blowing it up with the Dragonic Blaze, and decided that there was no way around it. I feel like I’m going to throw up, but I have to be patient!

～♪♪

“What ……?”

“The sound of a flute? Where the hell did it come from”

“U-Uh, Uhhhhhhhhhh ……”

At the sudden sound of the flute, Makina and I muttered, and Gadar in front of us held his head and started to shake, and the next moment he turned his eyes to Makina and Gadar approached her. And at a ridiculous speed, too.

“[Kaize–] Kyaaaaaah!?”

“Makina!?”

Makina is taken by surprise and is hit by Gadar’s fist. He grabbed her outstretched hand in an attempt to intercept, and pulled her to his side.

“Uhhhh ……”

“Gufufufu ……”

“Let go of the Makina! …… You!”

When I held up my hand to shoot magic, Gadar used Makina as a shield and smiled wickedly. And then —

“Guhahahaha!”

“Kya ……!? Ugh ……!?”

He hoists Makina up and begins to strike her back with his fist! Is there any intelligence left in him? No. When the flute started to sound ……?

“Gaha!?”

“Makina! Damn it, this is no time to be thinking! !”

I shake my head and disappear from Gadar’s presence with Invisible, blending into the darkness. Gadar, who was obsessed with Makina, didn’t notice that I had disappeared. Until the moment I walked up behind him and put my hand on his back.

“! !”

“Gugyaaaaa!?”

The fireball made a wound, and the flame burned through it. And even if it regenerates, the pain will still be there!

“Makina! Makina!”

“Uh …… So-, Sorry to slow you down ……”

“Don’t talk, !”

The armor on her back was crushed, and her clothes were torn, exposing her painful skin.

“Sorry, it’s my fault! It’s because I hesitated ……!”

“That’s not, true …… B-Be careful.”

“Have you recovered yet ……!?”

When I looked up at Makina’s gaze, I saw Gadar shaking his fist in the air. When I saw the smirk on his face, my head boiled, just like that time. My anger is with myself.

“For the second time …… I was wrong again ……! This is not Japan! You’ve got to understand that! He’s turned into a monster! He kidnapped Luciel! So–“

I thrust out my right hand and put all my strength into it. I clenched my teeth and caught Gadar’s fist in the palm of my hand. Immediately afterwards, I felt a jolt as if I had been hit by a heavy mass, and my vision blurred. But the damage Makina received was nothing like this.

“You, disappear ……! !!”

I used my right hand that caught it to cast a spell as it is. 

“!?”

The dragonic blaze that I unleashed with all my might literally took the shape of a white dragon’s head and swallowed Gadar. W-What the hell!? I’ve never seen anything like this before!?

“Gugya ……Gyaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh ……”

The dragon of light wrapped around Gadar and blew him into the sky, and like Retzel, he disappeared without a trace. That’s good …… That’s what I think for now.

“Y-You did it ……! As expected of Lars, -kun.”

“……”

I responded to Makina’s wink with a wry smile. I immediately resumed healing, but I looked at Ryuuze and the others.

“That’s right, the others!”

The scene I saw there was–

It ended quickly, but I’m curious to know what the three hooded men are up to ……?

Thank you for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

“The little guy is ……”

Ahhhhhh, you can’t tell that yet!