Category: banish

Having finished breakfast, we arrived at the dim, cave-type labyrinth, [The Corpse’s Nest].
 
Almost immediately after entering the labyrinth, the air beside Linfa glowed brightly.
 
“Whoa, is this…”
 
The source of the sudden light was, of course, Linfa’s contract spirit, Yuno. Lately, Yuno had been coming out on a whim like this quite often.
 
Retina watched Yuno with a look of intense curiosity.
 
“Come to think of it, I haven’t introduced you yet.… Read more

“Fuaa… Huh, where is this…?”
 

Retina woke up. Well, with all this noise, of course she’d wake up…
 
Homura froze with a dumbfounded expression.
 
I looked up at the heavens. Ah, Mr. Ceiling, we meet again…
 
Ignoring my escape from reality, Homura recovered from her freeze faster than expected.
 
“W-W-Wha!? What is this, who are you!?”
 
“Ue…? …Oh, Adem-sama? Kyaa.”
 
Retina, noticing me beside her, looked at my upper body and let out a short scream.… Read more

“That fool lost a drinking contest against Retina and was crushed.”
 
“Ha?”
 
“Look, he is rolling over there.”
 
In the direction Elanza pointed, there was the figure of a man collapsed dead drunk in the corner of the cafeteria. Or rather, it wasn’t just one or two people; quite a number were rolling around. You’re kidding, right? Did Retina do all this……?
 
I thought there were strangely few people considering the late hour, but it seems something terrible had happened.… Read more

“Nah, well, it’s not a big deal……”
 
“You must not! Please let me see it!”
 
No sooner had she spoken than Retina aggressively lifted up my clothes.
 
“Whoa, hey—”
 
“[Heal]“
 
Ignoring me, who was slightly flustered by the suddenness of it all, Retina cast healing magic. A faint light lit up in the hand she placed over the wound.
 
“I figured you were a priest.”
 
“Eh? ……Umm, yes, something like that, I suppose……”
 
“……?”… Read more

“[Chain Spell: Rapid Fire]!”
 

Countless flame bullets spread across my field of vision, continuously hammered into the enemy without pause. The power of each individual shot is no different from the lower-tier Spirit Art [Fire Bullet], but with this quantity—and rapid-fired at that—even a Danger Level C monster stands no chance. Although it requires a slight amount of time to chant, its effect is devastating.
 

On rare occasions, a missed individual will dive in to strike a blow, so I simply intercept those.… Read more

Chapter 2

It has already been several weeks since I encountered the Respawn of the Labyrinth Guardian. Following the news of the Demon Lord’s emergence, the Adventurer’s Guild was bustling with even more activity than usual.
 
While the existence of a Demon Lord is a threat to the general populace, for adventurers, it is actually something to be welcomed. First and foremost, the work simply increases. As the Labyrinths become active, the number of monsters overflowing into the outskirts rises.… Read more

Things were good when she first became an adventurer. Being a rare Spirit Arts User, and possessing powerful Low-Rank Spirit Arts due to her original magical aptitude and the influence of the Soul Contract… for those reasons, she was relied upon by her peer party members.
 
The shadow over that life appeared a while after all the party members rose to D-Rank. They decided to challenge a Danger Level C Labyrinth.
 
There, Linfa’s Spirit Arts visibly stopped being effective.… Read more

“I didn’t care if I failed and died. If that happened, at least Yuno wouldn’t have to go alone.”
 
Was the result good fortune or bad? The transformation into a spirit via the Soul Contract succeeded, and his sister remained in this world as a spirit.
 
“But Father went mad with rage when he found out. That I, whom he had raised with such care as his heir, could no longer contract with a High-Rank Spirit.… Read more

“I have already sent a messenger to Litonia. The Hero will return soon.”
 
That a Demon Lord cannot be destroyed by anyone other than a Hero.
 
A Hero is a class that only a select few, a mere handful among humanity, can receive through a divine oracle.
 
Only those with the divine protection of that class can inflict fatal damage on a Demon Lord and end its life.
 
There is one Hero based in Tandem, currently dispatched to support the subjugation of a Demon Lord that appeared in the allied nation of Litonia.… Read more

“Come to think of it, who is that child?”
 
“Ah, I was wondering about that too,.”
 
“Ah—… well, this is Linfa. The partner I’m currently partying with.”
 
“Eh… Adem-san’s new party member… is it…?”
 
Homura tried to look at me with a slightly sorrowful expression, but turned her face away due to the brightness.
 
“…Who are you all?”
 
“We are Adem-san’s… former party members. I am Homura.”
 
“I’m Geld,. Nice to meet you!”
 
“I’m Elsha.”
 
“Adem’s former party members…”
 
Hearing the three of them introduce themselves, Linfa seemed to fall into thought.… Read more