18 – entanglement

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It wasn’t long before her figure came into my field of vision. The look of her looking at the sky while touching her engagement ring endlessly. Are you thinking of a fiancé you can’t meet right now?

– fast

The sight of it made my teeth clench without realizing it. The first reason was that I didn’t know who the opponent was.

And the second reason was that the fact that the woman I was in love with was remembering another man in front of my eyes was extremely bitter.

‘it’s okay… still okay… ‘

He took a deep breath and calmed down his slightly disturbed breathing. It was my own breathing method that I learned while assassinating nobles.

It seems that the swordsman’s talent wasn’t a bluff, and his ability to learn in a moderate battle situation was boosted several times, so even I was able to master my own breathing in no time.

‘The problem is that this is the only breathing method I can use’

I don’t know what the heck is causing it. One thing is for sure though, I haven’t been able to utilize more than half of Finn’s abilities yet.

To be precise, in addition to the basic swordsmanship that is the basis of all swordsmanship… In other words, Finn’s unique swordsmanship was in a state where he could not use it.

Or is it that the way of the sword is as different as the number of people? Even though I have definitely learned his experience, I often practice a completely different sword path from him.

‘If not even that… It might have had a big impact on me starting my career as an assassin.”

A three-year-old habit lasts until eighty. The first murder was also an assassination, and after that, my sword was just like the Assassins who hide and spread their bodies in the dark.

“Whoa…”

With the sound of my sigh, the Mine I had been waiting for so long appeared.

… none other than in the sky. flapping its wings

‘No, Siipal, I can’t jump that high with magic yet?’

Mine then reached out to fire magic at her. At the same time, she felt a strange change in magical power and looked up at the sky.

Mine grinned, as if asking what a young girl would do if she noticed now.

without uttering a single sound.

… A truly vicious method.

When demons appear in other works, hahahaha! Or you are going to die now!! While it starts by shouting “I’m terrorizing” from all over the country,

In this ＜Academy Demon God Subjugation＞, the demons launch a surprise attack very quietly without any development. There is not even a development in which the main characters wait for the time to prepare magic.

Not to mention, there was a demon who hid the main character’s sword in advance so that he couldn’t even pull out the sword and attacked him.

Look at him now, even though he’s making eye contact with her.

‘die!’ or something

‘These hateful human beings!’ Or

They don’t even say obvious lines like ‘it’s your fault for being alone’.

“…?”

But something is strange. That Mine is like that, but Lily also doesn’t open her mouth and just silently directs her cold gaze at Mine.

… Why don’t you run away or scream?

Without time to answer my own questions,

– Chijijijik… support position…

The magic power gathered in Majin’s hand announced that magic would be launched soon. The dark sphere and the sparks of red light, which no one can see, are murky. The sphere was clearly revealing that it was the devil’s magic.

In response, I placed my right hand on the hilt of the sword, intending to cut the orb before it reached her.

“Whoa…”

Deep in my lungs, I exhaled all the air that filled my pleura. I feel my heart sink slowly.

Soon after, Mine smiled with a strange face. At the same time, the sphere rapidly flew towards her.

The moment I was about to draw my sword, stepping my right foot in sync with my infinitely slow heartbeat toward the sphere.

“How dare Mine… look down on the princess of the Empire?”

As she said that, she waved her hands from top to bottom, from the sky to the ground, with her eyes as cold as ice in the middle of winter.

At that, the demon and the sphere began to plummet toward the ground at the same time.

-Kwaaang!!!

There was a loud sound like something exploded, but it was not the sound of a mine being driven into the ground. It was an explosion caused by the sphere sent by the demon hitting the floor.

However, even so, it is clear that anyone can see the difference in skill.

It was because Mine gathered her mana and fired it, and Lily suppressed it with just a light wave of her hand.

“Kuheugh…”

A Mine who managed to deploy a magic barrier under her feet and succeeded in keeping her distance from the ground.

Soon after, Mine started looking up at Lily.

Lily was looking up and Mine was looking down, a totally different composition from before. At this, Lily still groaned in that stinging tone.

“The way you crawl on the ground really suits a demon… Especially for you, who are like bugs.”

Lily began to twist her grip toward Mine and grab it.

Then, as if the space in which he was confined was shrinking, Mine slowly twisted and crumpled his joints.

“Kuheuaaagh!!!”

No matter how demonic it was, the pain as if the whole body was crumpled was unbearable. The demon soon began to scream and struggle.

“It’s awesome…!”

It seems that the struggle had an effect, and I grabbed it towards the demon. No, to be precise, Lily’s grip on the demon using magic was slowly loosening, so she frowned.

“plaguy…!”

Lily flicks her left hand at Mine, who is struggling to escape the magic that is holding her back somehow.

-Paaang!!!

“Kwaaa!!”

At the same time, the demon’s body burned red and disappeared, and soon the nasty smell of burning pierced the tip of the nose.

‘… At least I’m sure you’re not human.”

In the work, it is expressed as a ‘man’, so I had the thought that it might be a bit like a human being, but it seems that it was simply my inclination.

When a human body burns, it doesn’t smell like this, and humans don’t get destroyed so quickly in flames.

“…If you dare to kill me, the princess of the empire, your efforts will be considered insignificant.”

Lily said as she looked at the place where the mine had been burned.

“…”

Yeah, more than that, that wasn’t the problem. It wasn’t just the magic that was the problem.

‘Just that, colorless magic… Right?’

I wasn’t talking about the fire that burned the devil.

The magic that tried to ram the demon and the sphere into the ground and crumple the demon like paper.

‘It must be the main heroine’s colorless magic… ‘

colorless magic. Unlike magic that generally contains certain colors and elements, it refers to magic that does not have any form or color.

But as far as I know… So, in the original work, it was the main heroine Selina who mainly used the colorless magic, and I was the one who knew why the characters who saw Selina’s colorless magic were astonished.

I also couldn’t shut my mouth in surprise when I noticed that Lily was using colorless magic.

‘This is the reason Lily couldn’t use magic properly in the original story… ‘

Colorless magic basically works on space and gravity… On the other hand, it was a kind of fraudulent magic that anyone could see, but there was a great disadvantage.

The amount of mana required to activate and maintain it is enough to use 3-4 magics.

That’s why even though she is a wizard who can use magic, the original Lily couldn’t use magic.

Because her innate magical power itself was so insignificant compared to the main heroine.

But now, with the elixir she received from me, since she was a child, she has the same amount of magical power as most wizards… .

‘The main heroine deserves to be unable to be the chief… ‘

The answer to why the user of colorless magic couldn’t be the chief was here.

If you are a user of the same colorless magic, it is only natural that Lily, who started after getting a cheat called Elixir, should have the upper hand.

“…[email protected]#! …[email protected]#!”

I heard the sound of someone who heard the explosion just now running towards this place, screaming.

In fact, you don’t even have to think about who you are. At least it must be Ian.

I wonder if Lily also heard that sound, and she glanced in my direction. And then, his eyes turned to the other side of me.

‘… I was just looking around’

First of all, it would be right for me to take Ian out of the way before more people’s attention is focused on it.

For her now, there was a strong possibility that my plan to rescue her from the ordeal I had originally planned would be blocked from the start.

If so, I couldn’t even properly anticipate what kind of trials would come upon her, who had become so powerful that she surpassed the main heroine.

And seeing her appearance just now, it was clear that my nonsense boasting of having zero dating history would not work for her now.

‘I’ll have to keep a little distance and watch the situation’

I thought so.

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But there’s no way.

Immediately, the development that overturned my expectations made me… To be precise, isn’t it attacking me and Lily?

“Liliciana Ekaterina, Berry. You two go to Area B-04.”

“Yes?!”

I was shocked by the instructor’s words.

The reason for this was that Lily and I were selected as partners in the joint practice training of the Knights Faculty and Magic Faculty that happened the very next day.

And because it was decided that I and Lily would go to that area called B-04.

and… .

‘That’s where Selina and Ian worked so hard to clear… It’s one of the joint events between the main heroine and the main character who get to know each other and rely on each other.”

It was originally because that place was the event location for the main character and main heroine.

But more than that… .

“Teacher, I don’t have a partner. Do you have a day off today?”

“Ah, let’s see… Ian Cedric from the Faculty of Knights? Your partner… is Selina, second-in-command from the Faculty of Magic. Let’s wait for now.”

“Yes! I see!”

Since the main heroine didn’t show up from the first day, Lily and I were headed there.