Translated: Sei, MTL-sensei-tachi
Edited: Sei, Grammarly no Danna
Source: Syosetu
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Chapter 334
This time, it begins from the devil-san's point of view.
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Rapdo and Reali failed.
It was the failure of our brethren who had gone to Mialak in order to make our existence known.
Their opponents were a Demon King who had weakened to a state far removed from his prime, and an aged Divine Dragon.
Despite being opponents they should have been wary of, the mission itself was not supposed to be difficult. Yet Rapdo was annihilated, and Reali returned alone after fleeing. We mocked her for it.
"Eh? Eh? You're saying you got beaten by a healing mage?"
"And on top of that, Rapdo died too. Isn't that just pathetic?"
"Do you think it'd feel good to be scolded by that person?"
"That was a blunder, Reali."
Though Reali was bombarded with accusations from all sides, she remained silent and offered no rebuttal.
When the devils, myself included, cast suspicious looks at her behavior, she finally opened her mouth.
"You'd be better off not underestimating that Healing Mage. Consider this a warning. I never want to have anything to do with him again."
Her face was as pale as her bluish-black hair.
A demon who feeds on human malice and fear had, of all things, been frightened by a healing mage.
That fact only made us mock her even more.
What was this nonsense about a Healing Mage?
Even if he had defeated the Demon King, that was only because he had the Heroes's assistance.
He's doing something bizarre like wielding dark magic, but in the end, he's just a human who's good at healing others.
For some reason, he had caused a flaw that gathered the fear that should have belonged to us, but once he was killed, that would be the end of it.
After finishing what needed to be done, I would go kill that healing mage myself.
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Just as I had gone to recover a fragment of the Demon King's power, I encountered the swordsman who had slain my brethren.
Just as I was about to finish off that detestable woman who used light magic ——— that healing mage appeared.
A black-haired man dressed in the strange manner of wearing both a white and a black cloak.
Even while standing upon this land polluted by poison, he looked completely unaffected, and, foolishly, he chose to fight me and the corpses I had turned into puppets.
He's also got that cumbersome light mage with him.
Furthermore, it was three against one.
Just like before, I would make a bloodbath of him upon this poisoned land.
"Hmph!!"
——— Or so it should have been.
But that prediction was completely overturned by how bizarrely this healing mage fought.
A reaction speed that overturned the advantage of three against one.
An incomprehensible acceleration.
Even though he was right in front of me, it didn't feel like my sword attacks would land on him at all.
"G-Guuh..."
The impact slammed into my abdomen and stopped my breathing.
An unidentified strike was delivered from his fist.
The impact was like being hammered in with a nail, sending a pain through me as if my internal organs had been turned inside out.
"Haa, haa..."
But then I was healed...!!
My breathing became ragged as I nearly dropped to one knee from the pain I felt despite being healed by healing magic.
I felt like I was going insane...!! The contradiction of feeling pain despite having no injuries or wounds disturbed my mind.
"Stand up"
"......!!"
The healing mage approached while emitting the light of healing magic from both hands.
The fact that those eyes held absolutely no fear toward a devil filled me with rage so intense my insides seemed to boil.
———That's right.
My opponent was a madman who healed me every time he attacked.
Every time he attacked me with healing magic, I wouldn't die.
"Guh"
This double-layered assault is infuriating...!!
The blows launched from his right gauntlet, even when I blocked them, sent shockwaves straight through my defenses, striking my core and hammering pain into my body.
But if I focus too much on the gauntlet———,
"Healing Elastic Fist!"
The viscous, magic-infused fist staggered me———and the right gauntlet struck directly.
If this continues, I'll just keep getting beaten up.
"Th-there’s... no end...? Th-that’s ridiculous..."
"What are you talking about in the middle of a fight?"
The healing mage kept punching only me while dodging the attacks coming from behind by the twins I controlled without even looking.
This guy, is he planning to attack only me...?
If that's how it is!!
"Take this!!"
"!"
I fired the magic bullets floating in both my hands at him.
The nature of a devil’s magic is specialized in confusing living beings.
It is magic that can make a target drown in pleasure, push them into a state of intoxication, and sometimes even break their mind—like poison that distorts both body and mind.
"...Magic bullets, huh?"
Without knowing that, he deflected the magic bullets with his gauntlet as if brushing away trash.
The magic power scattered through the air steadily confused his senses and robbed them of their function.
"Hahaa!! You're finished now!!"
"Haa?"
For good measure, I thrust forward my sword wrapped in magic power.
Surely someone whose sense of direction was already ruined would be unable to avoid it...
"What are you doing?"
"———Wha!?"
The next moment, the tip of the sword was grabbed by his gauntlet, and the sword was snapped in half by a left fist that struck from the side.
Stunned by the sword’s tip shattering with a crack—like a twig being snapped—I stood there dumbfounded as the healing mage’s fist closed in on my face.
"Gah, bah!?"
A double impact struck my head.
In the instant I left myself open, blows rained down repeatedly upon my abdomen, shoulder joints, solar plexus, and face.
After landing twenty blows, he finally stops punching and looks down at me as I’m blown away and collapse to the ground.
"Gah, baah..."
My magic isn't affecting him...!?
Anyone else would have lost all sense of direction long ago after being hit by it...
"I won't take your consciousness. I have things I want to ask you."
I couldn't even faint.
It's a cycle of being hit and then healed, only to be instantly pulled back to reality.
What is this guy...!!
At the very least, this wasn't how any mage I knew fought!! But he wasn't a swordsman either!!
My body is injury-free and still capable of fighting, but the sensation of my spirit being steadily whittled away is more unbearably unpleasant than anything I’ve ever experienced...!!
"Healing Flying Fist"
"Tch!!"
When I tried to create distance, something unlike a magic bullet flew toward me.
The instant I dodged and attempted to retreat again, he was already right in front of me with his fist drawn back!!
There wasn't even time to gain distance...!!
"You two, attack already!!"
"..."
"..."
The twin demons I had resurrected from corpses.
They were once the leaders of a group of "thieves" who constantly stole within the Demon King's territory, and powerful individuals possessing strong dark magic.
He dodges the twins' attacks, which leap at him using knives and claws, by shifting to the side without even looking at them.
"Keira, focus on protecting that girl. I'll be fine."
"Yes!"
His gaze never left me for even a moment.
Annoyed by those eyes that radiated quiet anger, I attacked simultaneously with the twins.
"Raaaah!!"
"..."
Every sword strike I unleashed was deflected by his silver gauntlet, no matter what posture he was in, he simultaneously evaded and defended.
This is bizarre...!! Humans don't fight like this!!
What on earth is this guy seeing?!
"Use magic!!"
"———"
The twins clapped their hands together, amplifying the power of their dark magic.
It unraveled in midair, enveloping the Healing Mage’s surroundings like threads.
"Shred him apart!!"
"So you turn the magic power connected between two people into threads. ...I see. That's what your bond manifests as in dark magic."
The threads of magic surged and contracted, aiming to slice the Healing Mage apart.
I had been wearing a mocking smile at the sight of him sinking into blood—however, in the next instant, the Healing Mage clapped his hands together, releasing a strange shockwave that blew away all the suspended threads.
"Wha!?"
"Aren't you going to do anything? Are you just going to rely on your comrades?"
The Healing Mage walked toward me with a blank expression.
Is he ignoring the twins...!?
They're right behind you!
"I have Healing Perception. I have no blind spots...!!"
Without even looking, he somehow managed to grab the thread approaching from behind with his gauntlet, then swung the twins around with all his might and hurled them toward me.
Only when they slammed into the ground without even screaming did I begin to panic.
"They were sneaking around in the shadows..."
Cracking his knuckles, the Healing Mage’s expression had changed as if he were a completely different person.
His appearance had transformed from the weak, fragile figure he had shown at the beginning, to something that evoked a terror that made me envision that Hero.
『Usato-san, what should we do about this devil?』
"I'm thinking of breaking his spirit and making him tell us how to release the corpses he's controlling."
『Understood...!!』
Then I'll use my sorcery... No, I can't reveal that trump card in this situation...!!
And above all, using it against such an irredeemable human would be humiliating...!!
There was no need to fight on that monster's terms.
Spreading my wings, I flew into the sky and looked down at the healing mage below.
"———He's gone!?"
"Did you think you were the only one who could fly?"
A voice from above.
Before I could even look up, a tremendous impact struck my back and smashed me into the ground.
As I desperately tried to breathe, my vision caught sight of him descending—his black cloak spread wide like wings, looking down at me with eyes that seemed almost pitiful.
"What's with that look in your eyes..."
"If you were freed from Hisago-san’s seal, you should’ve just lived quietly instead of doing evil things."
"......!!"
To live quietly, you say?
"Are you telling us devils to hide ourselves from humans and live in secret!? Don't get carried away, you creatures who are nothing more than food!!"
"...Are you planning to start another war like that?"
I was about to explode at the naïve words from the Healing Mage, but even more than that, I saw an immense anger welling up in his eyes, and my throat tightened.
"Gah, aaaaaah!!"
"Healing Break"
As I raised my sword in a fit of rage and was about to bring it down———an unidentified wave of magical power enveloped my entire body.
!? What!? What happened!?
Why is he using healing magic here...?
"Healing Acceleration Fist"
"Oh shi———?!"
Taking advantage of a split-second of my frozen stillness, he lands a blow on my unguarded torso.
His fist accelerates with such bizarre speed that I can’t even block it.
The palm strike from the hard gauntlet... slams into my abdomen... ah, not good, this is———
"Consecutive Punch Attacks"
"Gaah!?"
A second impact blasted me away.
Even after being slammed against the ground multiple times, the momentum doesn't stop, and I can't help but scream.
"Help mee!!"
""...""
While being blown away by impacts that felt as though they pierced through my torso, the twins' threads barely prevented me from smashing directly into the ground.
"I-if it comes to this, I'll use my sorcery..."
"So you really were holding back."
The Healing Mage, still completely unharmed, never once took his eyes off me as he pointed in my direction.
"Don’t you need to take that off?"
"What...? !?"
There was a magic bullet embedded in my abdomen where I'd been struck...!?
No, this is... what is this!? Something is overflowing from within...
"Explode. Healing Explosion Bullet."
The moment he spoke those words, a green flash filled my vision, and an overwhelming impact, like my entire body was being struck, engulfed me.
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In front of me, the devil and the twins of the demon race were engulfed by Healing Explosion Bullets.
There had been some things worth being cautious about, but their raw strength itself wasn’t that impressive.
"...They escaped, huh."
The devil and the twins of the demons had fled beyond the range of my healing perception.
I could pursue them now, but... no, there’s no need to push further when I’ve got injured people to take care of.
"Keira, are you hurt?"
『No. This person is okay too!』
"Good job. You protected her well."
『Ehehe』
Because this girl protected Shia, I was able to fight without holding back.
Switching my thoughts, I carried Shia while continuing to apply healing magic, and looked around for a safe place where I could treat her.
"Uhm, Usato"
"You shouldn’t talk yet. The poison has spread quite a bit... It’s okay, I’m here."
"...Mm...Mm..."
Fighting in a place like this would leave the body completely wrecked.
If I hadn’t rushed here, she likely would have died from the poison even without the devil finishing her off.
...That was really close.
"Uwh, uwhh... uwhh"
Shia clung to me, letting out sobbing breaths.
She had nearly died—there was no helping it if she felt like crying.
"...We really should get her somewhere safe so she can rest."
『Shouldn't we return to where Hanna-san and the others are...?』
"You're right. That would probably be best... Hmm?"
Following Keira’s suggestion, as I was about to return to Hanna-san and the others, I spotted something like a building through the poisonous mist ahead in my field of vision.
...Is that an ancient ruin?
"We might be able to rest there."
『Let's go!』
Holding Shia in my arms, I lightly flew through the air towards the ruins.
...Hm?
"The poisonous mist... is thinning out?"
As I get closer to the ruins, I get the feeling the concentration of the poison is decreasing.
Could it be that the poisonous mist doesn't exist around those ruins?
The ruins looked ancient, but the structure itself hadn't collapsed, and it seemed possible to enter.
"...There's no poison here. What is this place?"
For the time being, I set Shia down near the entrance of the ruins, had some cloth taken out from the cloak to use as a pillow, and gave her some water to drink.
I wanted to investigate the ruins as well, but first I needed to heal Shia with healing magic.
"System Strengthening"
I used System Strengthening, which further strengthens the effectiveness of healing magic.
As a dense green magical aura enveloped her entire body, Shia’s expression became calm, and before I knew it, she had fallen asleep, breathing softly.
"...Keira, let's rest here for now. You can come out of the cloak."
『Understood』
For now, I’ll wait until she wakes up.
I want to give Keira a rest too.
"... Why are you here, I wonder?"
Shia Garmio.
The girl with a mysterious air whom I met in Mialak.
Why was she in the territory of the demons, fighting a devil in a place overflowing with poison like this?
The mysteries just keep piling up...
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Author's Notes:
From the devil-san’s perspective, he thought he was getting beaten senseless one-sidedly, only to realize a bomb had been planted on him the whole time.
What the hell is this monster...?
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