“Hmm… the brain and heart are obviously ‘weak spots’… ah, I can see small fuzzy things in different parts of each one. It looks like light is converging toward them from somewhere.”
My eyes sense a special force field.
They’re quite small compared to their giant bodies, making them hard to detect, but as I concentrate more…
“—I can see them. The cyclops in the middle has a fuzz about five centimeters to the left of his navel, the right one has it dead center in his solar plexus, and the left one has it about thirty centimeters above his right knee.”
When I reported this, Doctor nodded with satisfaction, saying “I see!”
“So the positions really do vary completely by individual. Without Reite-kun, this research would have been impossible. Thank you, thank you.”
“—Then next is my turn, I suppose?”
Weiss-kun stepped forward.
His stance wasn’t the sword-drawing form, but an unarmed combat stance.
“I must kill the targets without destroying only the magic crystals, and extract them intact. This would be better for that.”
“Heh, so Weiss-kun can fight barehanded too. Did you learn that in those infamous twenty-hour daily training sessions?”
“No, I devoted all twenty hours to swordsmanship. Combat training was only about two hours a day.”
Special Training Fainting Clubbbbb!
So this guy was training twenty-two hours a day!? Seriously, get some rest!
[Gogaaaaaaah!]
The cyclops finally charge at the prince.
Three against one. Giants against human. Armed against unarmed.
In a situation that seemed overwhelmingly disadvantageous…
“Come then. I’ll make you nourishment for Reite-jou.”
I felt no anxiety at all. If anything, I was curious about [how he’d defeat them], so Weiss-kun really is amazing.
“Here I go.”
Weiss-kun said that and put his fist into his pocket somehow…
“‘Strain School Supernatural Fist Technique’—[Iai Fist – Striking Brilliant Flash]”
The next moment, he threw a punch that caused a massive explosion along with a brilliant light.
Wait, punches explode too?!?!?!?!
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After that.
Since it was discovered that Weiss-kun’s techniques cause massive explosions whether punches or anything else, we changed to a strategy of carefully carving around the magic crystals with his sword without using his Gift (should have done that from the start).
Under my supervision, we defeated monsters one after another, and within about an hour, nearly thirty magic crystals had gathered in our hands.
“Guffuffu! So many! I can do all kinds of research with these.”
“That’s great~”
“Great~!”
Doctor was in a good mood, which was nice. He held up the black gem-like magic crystals, observing them by holding them up to sunlight.
“I’ve learned various things from this. First, ‘monsters whose magic crystals have been extracted become sluggish even without dying.'”
Doctor spoke with his eyes gleaming behind his bangs.
“What’s interesting is that the degree of sluggishness increases based on the [distance] between the body and the stone. The farther apart they are, the less the body can move. Therefore, the hypothesis that [magic crystal = soul] might be quite valid.”
“I see. So these might be the monsters’ true bodies?”
I took one of the stones and tried talking to it.
Hello there~ I’m Reite-Hungaria~ I’m super wicked~ poke poke poke
“Whoa! It’s trembling and going bububu! Gross.”
“Kufufufu, discovery number two. Magic crystals appear inorganic, but show biological reactions like light writhing inside them. This is worth researching.”
Doctor packed the stones into a leather bag.
By the way, his leather bag was apparently made by tanning the tough stomach of an ogre.
He prepared it for collection.
“And discovery number three. When you finish off the body after removing the stone, the stone also gradually crumbles away. It seems removing the magic crystal from the body before killing doesn’t work. Like body and soul, both are indispensable to each other.”
However, Doctor carelessly smacked the bag stuffed full of stones.
“But what happens when you put magic crystals in a [bag made from monster organs]? The answer is [stabilization]! If you leave them in for a while, the collapse stops and they solidify! Ah, preparation prevents problems!”
Doctor let out a hearty laugh echoing through the area.
This person really is excellent. He lives up to being famous in the royal capital.
“Most fascinating indeed~~~ When you put magic crystals in the bag to solidify them, almost no collapse is seen even after removing them. I theorize that the souls called magic crystals adapted to the leather bag, which is a [corpse]. Because they were housed in a body with extremely faint life reactions that could only oxidize and eventually weather away, the souls gained corresponding permanence.”
“I-I see?”
“There are various other discoveries too. Stronger monsters have larger magic crystals, and the light inside shines more brightly. Since light means energy is contained there, if we could extract it, it would definitely become a new power source—!”
“Ahh yeah, you’re really energetic, Doctor…”
Still such a chatterbox.
Anyway, the research seems like it’ll go well.
Good work, Weiss-kun too~ I’ll say it again, get some sleep when we return, okay?
“Reite-jou.”
“Mm, what? Don’t tell me you don’t want to sleep? If you say something so bratty, I’ll sentence you to [lap pillow punishment] again~ Being treated like that by a younger girl like me would be so humiliating you’d never want it again, right?”
I said that with giggles, but somehow Weiss-kun had a serious atmosphere.
Wh-what’s wrong?
“Weiss-kun, are you angry…? I’m sorry for being too wicked.”
“No, it’s different in various ways.”
What do you mean “various ways”!?
“Suddenly, I have a very bad feeling.”
He muttered while narrowing his golden eye. “Just like right before the revolution happened.”
“Eh, what? Don’t say such ominous things…!”
“Sorry, it would be good if it’s just my imagination, but—”
That’s when Weiss-kun was about to say that.
Nearby bushes rustled, and butler Ashley came flying out!
“Whoa, Ashley, where were you all this time!?”
“I went to the bathroom, and when I came back, my lady had disappeared! But more importantly—”
Ashley stuck his hand (did he wash it properly?) into his jacket and pulled out a newspaper front page.
“Please look at this.”
“Wh-what? I read the newspaper this morning though? Today’s four-panel comic [Oho-chan] had the main character, the ohohoho ojou-sama Oho-chan, fall into a sensory deprivation pit trap and go ‘oho’…”
“I wasn’t reading that manga, but is that really the content!? …Well, that doesn’t matter.”
It does matter.
Seventy percent of a newspaper’s value lies in the four-panel comics, normally.
“So what is it?”
“Yes, this newspaper is an extra edition. Well, since this is the frontier, it’s already been distributed in the royal capital…”
Ashley spread out the paper to show us.
And there, the content written was—
“…What!? ‘Our Strain Kingdom military begins advance into allied nation [Ragtime Duchy]’!?”
What’s that supposed to mean!? What is our country thinking!?
“—That’s… a lie, right?”
A trembling voice from behind.
It was a whisper filled with the despair of the man who should have become king, Weiss-kun—
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