“Well, they’re future threats, so to speak. Right now they’re nothing more than worthless pebbles.”
Tamika and Will might truly be future hope. But that’s not now. Now they’re just young upstarts, so they can’t win.
Dark clouds gathered in the sky… and they would never clear.
“Whether we’re pebbles or not, try us!”
“Let’s go!”
Tamika and Will charged forward. Tamika swung her flame sword down from above. Will supported from behind, swinging upward from below, and the two small lights headed toward the Four Heavenly King, but… they were caught between his fingertips like grasping flying insects.
The difference in class.
That’s what they were made to think. They knew of the existence. But there was no way they could do anything about the situation where it stood as a clear enemy.
“Let me sever this future hope here… I have things to do, so let’s make this quick.”
Impact, and then darkness… almost. The demon’s fists were already at their stomachs. All the air in their bodies disappeared, and it was hot as if magma had been poured into them.
The two flew several meters.
“W-Will…”
Men-men called Will’s name. Still sitting down hard, she worried about her childhood friend. She used her hands to move across the ground with her powerless lower body, crawling toward him.
Tamika had already lost consciousness. Will barely, just barely maintained his awareness. But his eyes could hardly see. The world appeared blurred and vacant.
“……Should I kill this woman too while we’re at it?”
Sharp claws move in a crawling manner toward Menmen. If those claws pierce through her slender body, she would die instantly.
Even with his hollow eyes and the barely visible scenery, he could tell that much.
──Why is it that I… can’t save anything?
Why can’t I reach out faster and stronger than him, like he can? Why can’t I protect even the people precious to me?
Anger, jealousy, hatred, remorse, and… a wish.
Someone, please save…. anyone.
That’s what he wished for. But he realized that was wrong. It wasn’t someone else—he had sworn to become the one that others would wish for.
He reached out his hand, knowing full well it would never reach that distance. Even so, with emotions rising higher than ever before, he stretched his hand toward the future.
──The claws swung down toward Menmen.
The area would be stained with blood, creating bloodstains on the castle town’s road──.
──But that future never came.
Will was holding Menmen in both arms. Everyone except Will was stunned by how he had captured her in his grasp in an instant.
“Eh!? U-Will!? Eh? Y-your hair, it’s completely white……”
“Calm down, Menmen. I’m fine.”
“The… the atmosphere’s different, isn’t it?”
His black hair had turned completely white—or rather, it had been dyed silver. His eyes were no longer black, but had changed to red.
While being held in a princess carry, Menmen couldn’t keep up with Will’s transformation. She could tell it was definitely Will. But his aura and demeanor were far too different from his usual self.
Will gently placed her near Tamika.
“I want you to heal Tamika-san’s wounds. Menmen can do it.”
“Eh!? I-I’ve never done healing magic or anything like that before.”
“It’s okay. If you wish for it, I’m sure Menmen’s magic will respond. Please take care of Tamika-san.”
“C-can I do it?”
“Yes, it’ll be fine. Please leave this side to me.”
(Is this person really Will? Even his hair color changed… it’s like he’s a completely different person!?)
“Who are you?”
“I am the one who inherits the hero.”
He answered with a thin smile, speaking matter-of-factly. He had composure. His pebble-like abilities from just moments ago had instantly been sublimated into an existence that could be called hope itself.
The dark clouds began to show the faintest rays of sunlight.
“……Well, it doesn’t matter who you are. I’ll just kill you anyway.”
“Come at me.”
A mysterious magical power enveloped Will.
“Can you win… Will?”
“I’ll win.”
The next moment, Will and the demon became the wind. And surprisingly, Will’s left hand had pierced through the cheek of Four Heavenly King Zaliban Dophette. With a crack, he fractured the face and sent him flying dozens of meters.
“We don’t have time here. I’ll finish this quickly.”
“Don’t get cocky! You inferior race!”
The Beginning Sword. Drawing it, he sliced through the hundreds of spells deployed by the Four Heavenly King. Like a falcon in flight, he headed toward the Four Heavenly King.
Will’s abilities were so drastically different from before that it was impossible to hide their astonishment.
(W-what is this?! His physical abilities have improved extremely, his technique too… magic!? No, there shouldn’t be any magic that can grant such abilities. Was he hiding his strength!?)
(That would be meaningless! Then how did he suddenly gain this growth, this leap—strength on a level where such words are lukewarm!)
Will’s sword was received with a fist—literally like cutting through tofu, Zaliban Dophette’s arm flew off. Will’s roundhouse kick pierced through immediately after, and the Four Heavenly King was blown away for hundreds—no, kilometers.
He flew past the battlefield to the distant place where the Demon King awaited.
“You brat!”
“I’m not young enough to be called a brat.”
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Great Sage Rinrin. She was the hope of the fairy folk. As a child of god, her birth had been prophesied through divine revelation. The great tree of the fairy kingdom was said to be planted by god, and it was also the reason their country could grow as a nature-rich nation.
She was born in a country where everyone worshipped the existence called god. From a young age, she had been expected to fulfill great things.
She was burdened with pressure that could be called overwhelming, with selfish hopes thrust upon her. Especially when she was small, Demon King Satan had been revived and everyone was on edge, so there were even more people clinging to her.
That’s why she fled the country when she was young.
Various things happened… but she no longer needed to bear even the slightest expectation. That was because Hero Dan was there.
But… he’s not here now. That’s what she thought. And she questioned whether it was right for her to keep relying on him forever.
(There’s no way that’s right… Dan…)
Chasing after the demon who created meteorites, she left the country slightly. Several dozen kilometers away, she spotted a demon wearing a pumpkin mask and a three-meter-tall giant demon whose entire body was made of rock.
Her long years of battle instincts told her. Those were Four Heavenly Kings. She also understood that while there were hundreds of demons around them, they were merely insignificant like a margin of error.
The problem was those two demons—that’s where she directed her attention.
“Me, kill that one, follow Demon King-sama’s orders.”
“Pufufufu, since the fairy princess really got hooked, let’s defeat her quickly.”
“I don’t care, but you guys are the Four Heavenly Kings, right? I’ll defeat you quickly and return to the country.”
“That is impossible. Because you will lose.”
“There’s no way I’d lose to the likes of you…”
“Pufufufu, is that so? You might have put up some resistance if you could use magic… but can you use magic now?”
A chill ran down her spine. Because a sense of wrongness was dominating her body. She only now realized that she couldn’t sense any of her own magical power.
As if answering her question, the pumpkin-wearing demon, Four Heavenly King Pumpkin, produced a single sword.
“This is the Curse Sealing Sword, created by Curse King Daedalus who spent his entire life making it. Within a certain range of this sword, magic cannot be used. By the way, the user can decide to turn it on or off, pufufufu.”
“You were lured. Cannot use magic, sage dies quickly.”
“Let’s kill her, the sage… hey, subordinates, you can do it. She’s a member of the hero’s party after all, so don’t let your guard down—first crush her brain and kill her thoroughly.”
Hundreds of demons approached. Rin gritted her teeth while fighting them off with her staff for hitting and using what little body techniques she could. But she was a mage, not a warrior, martial artist, or swordsman.
“Me too, kill sage… make Demon King-sama’s mission accomplished quickly…”
Four Heavenly King Block. Using his rocky body skillfully, he flew into the air and struck his fist into the ground. Rin desperately avoided it, but she knew that if that hit her flesh-and-blood body, she would definitely die.
And that she would surely be killed at this rate.
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