(Ah, I’m dead… I can’t use magic… I only learned a little body technique… I thought about having Dan teach me swordsmanship but… I couldn’t be honest about it so it was impossible…)
(Well, it’s my fault so it can’t be helped…)
(But I can’t die. I don’t want to die. Because I haven’t even confessed yet, we haven’t even gone on dates… we’ve only held hands briefly. We haven’t even kissed…)
In her head, in her heart, Hero Dan was always there. Even as she sensed her approaching death, she wanted to live because she wanted to live together with Dan, with him.
Moving her exhausted body somehow, with willpower, forcing it to move because she couldn’t afford to die—her physical strength was already at its limit. The taste of blood in her mouth, she had run until she was worn raw. But she couldn’t see any hope.
Dark clouds in the sky.
Before her eyes was a rock monster, and a Four Heavenly King at that. Unable to use magic, she could no longer survive. She couldn’t even pick up her life miserably.
Her stamina gave out and she fell to her knees. She could hear the footsteps of the giant rock monster. In her heart she thought she had to run, but her body wouldn’t move anymore.
Her soul was trembling. She wanted to meet him, wanted to live, wanted to be together with him. The feeling of regret shook her soul strongly, strongly. But her body had already been pushed beyond what willpower could handle.
The rock monster raised its fist to the sky. If that came down, she would──.
(I don’t want to die… Dan)
“──Eh? What kind of situation is this?”
Suddenly, an absent-minded voice reached everyone present. As if time that had stopped began to move again, a strong wind began to blow, simply and persistently strong.
Even the dark clouds in the sky began to move little by little in the strong wind.
“Are you alright? Rin-san.”
“Ban…”
A spiky-haired, somewhat dopey young man. An ordinary guy you could find anywhere was standing there in a tuxedo.
He was only looking at Rin.
“Who the hell are you? Subordinates, get him.”
When Pumpkin said that, hundreds of demons leaped at him. But he showed no surprise and simply passed through. Just that caused the horde of demons to turn to dust and disappear.
“Annoying.”
“””!!??”””
To be precise, he hadn’t just passed through—he had punched several times, and the impact had reduced everything to nothing. But no one could see it. To her, it really looked like hundreds of demons had simply disappeared as he passed through.
“…Impossible. I couldn’t see it at all.”
Rin opened her eyes wide in surprise. But while she was surprised, it wasn’t quite astonishment. As if, deep in her heart, she had known this would happen.
“──Rin-san, your clothes are terribly dirty, but are you alright? We have the adventurers’ social gathering after this.”
Saying that, he punched the rock monster. As if nothing had happened, a blast of wind blew and the impact spread across the entire area, turning rock into sand.
“A-ah, yeah… I can clean the dirt off later… but more than that, um…”
“This outfit? Actually, I heard it was the fifteenth anniversary adventurers’ social gathering, so I put some effort into it and went with black clothes. Since there are many beautiful people among the fairy folk, I thought I should pay attention to my appearance.”
“A-ah, no, that’s not what I meant…”
“You’re right… so? What are you guys?”
It was a casual remark, but truly the words of a strong person. He hadn’t intended to intimidate with fighting spirit. But the nature of one who dwells in heaven inevitably seeped through.
Four Heavenly King Pumpkin had a vision of his own death. His life was already in the grasp of the man before him.
“Those guys are the Four Heavenly Kings, subordinates of the True Curse King, apparently.”
“…Come to think of it, there were things like these.”
“Eh?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
The demon who sensed death became self-destructive, knowing it was meaningless, and pointed his sword at Ban.
He had done nothing to them. He had just listened. Just listened to the voice filled with anger at Rin being hurt. Just that, and he lost himself.
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!”
He swung down the cursed sword. But once again, Ban mercilessly swung his fist. The monster’s body and the cursed sword were blown away by the blast.
The threat and fear disappeared in an instant. Rin stared at Ban in amazement and had a vision of a certain existence.
“Um, has the Curse King been revived?”
“No, some Demon King called Balkan has invaded.”
“I see.”
He didn’t even care that he had defeated a Four Heavenly King, and matter-of-factly asked Rin what had happened.
“It would be annoying if the adventurers’ social gathering got interrupted.”
“You really like that event.”
“Somewhat… so where is this Balkan fellow?”
“Sorry, I don’t know.”
“You don’t need to apologize. Still, if even the Great Sage-sama had this much trouble, he must be quite an opponent.”
“A-ah, yeah. Um, I was prevented from using magic, so I was running around and ended up like this…”
“I see. Anyway, you seem fatigued, so I’ll take you back to the castle. You had some strong big brothers and sisters there, right? I’ll leave you with them.”
“It’s fine, don’t worry about me.”
“I’d be more concerned leaving you here. Come on, I’ll give you a piggyback ride.”
He patted his own back. She unconsciously put her weight on Dan’s back and wrapped her arms around his neck.
The next moment, he began running at godspeed. Running so fast he left even the wind behind.
“…Ban… isn’t this fast?”
“No, this is normal speed.”
“No, I don’t think this is normal at all…”
“It’s normal. Also, please keep it secret that I defeated the Four Heavenly Kings.”
“Eh? Why?”
“Well, various reasons.”
“…I see, I understand.”
She knew this feeling on her back, and that overwhelming strength from somewhere. No, she had already realized.
“Thank you, Bandan.”
“Not at all.”
Ban took her all the way to the castle. Then he ran off again to search for True Curse King Balkan.
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Will’s high-speed roundhouse kick pierced through Four Heavenly King Zaliban Dophette and sent him flying out of the country.
Outside the country, the fairy folk’s elite were fighting the demons. Since he had kicked the Four Heavenly King beyond that battle, Will and the Four Heavenly King faced each other in a wasteland-like area.
“Guh, for me to… for me, who has strength second only to the Curse King… to be by an inferior race!”
“…Let’s end this.”
The back of Will’s hand glowed. Particles of light as fine as subatomic particles floated up, then converged, and something divine like runic letters appeared.
It wasn’t ordinary fairy magic, nor the otherworldly magic used by demons, nor spirit magic used through contracts with spirits… it was──.
──Ancient magic. The ancient people who lived three thousand years ago. Magic from the old days that existed before the existence called heroes was born. Now there were hardly any who could use it.
The only known users were Hero Dan and Great Sage Rinrin. Hero Dan had learned ancient magic through thorough one-on-one teaching from Rinrin, but Rinrin’s precision was superior.
“Descend from beyond the galaxy, sword adorned with the brilliance of stardust. Glittering blade, shine forth within my grasp.”
“Impossible… Hero Dan’s Lord of Light – Pillar of Babel…”
Light traveled through his fist to dwell in the sword, transforming it into a giant light sword that seemed capable of slicing even the heavens. The blade’s length and thickness swelled, and Will wielded the sword that had become a great sword.
The threat of that magic, which created a light sword said to slice through everything, was known by all. That’s why the demon Zaliban Dophette devoted himself entirely to the act of evasion.
Despite having physical strength incomparable to humans, despite having clear racial superiority, he understood. That sword was a mass of unreasonableness capable of killing him.
(One of the ancient magics that supposedly only Hero Dan could use… why can this man use it!? Even if it’s not at Hero Dan’s level… this can clearly reach… me…)
Moving in all directions, the demon could only avoid Will’s sword. In that offense and defense, he gradually began to feel something strange.
(I’m being read… gradually cornered… the opportunities for counterattack are gradually disappearing…)
He sensed that Will’s movements clearly assumed that he himself was moving. A reading of combat equivalent to future sight was gradually manipulating even himself, trying to position him for a finishing move.
Control—in a way, this might be called a kind of correct answer, a completed form of Will’s way of fighting as a hero.
It overwhelmed even a Four Heavenly King. Kicking hard enough to crater the ground, he leaped into the demon’s embrace. Lightly striking the abdomen, creating an opening, he swung his sword downward from the demon’s head with his left hand.
“──Heaven Cleaving Slash.”
The strike of future hope easily sliced through despair. Light fell like lightning from head to foot, and the demon was cut apart.
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