78. final exam (2)

“Let the game begin!”

The match started with Ryan’s shout.

“I will do it as planned.”

“Okay!”

“yes!”

Arlott immediately started muttering and chanting,

I sat behind her, holding the handle of the wheelchair.

In front of him, Koyono and Evan raised their spirits with their swords.

‘Aka defensive dust proofing.’

No tricks have been found yet.

There was no guarantee that I wouldn’t use cowardly moves like the last midterm exam.

It was to maintain a defensive posture and observe the situation.

“Ha ha ha ha! You’re scared like a slug If you don’t come, I’ll go personally!”

“What, Sherald!”

“Let’s do it as planned… ”

Sherald, whose eyes were severely bloodshot, laughed and grabbed the greatsword.

Sherald lowered his stance and came running almost on all fours.

The other 3 party members expressed disapproval and chased after him.

‘As expected, I’m not crazy.’

Looking at the faces of the other guys, Sherald’s rush is an obvious sudden action.

Could it be that he lost his intelligence due to constant exposure to the unknown powder?

Then maybe you can relax a bit…

In a moment of relief, Sherald’s greatsword struck Koyono.

“Ugh… ! What kind of blow is so heavy!”

“Ha ha ha ha. Take it!”

Sherald wields a heavy greatsword with one hand even with both hands.

Wouldn’t it be better if he used standard swordsmanship?

As she swung her sword like a beast in an extraordinary posture, it was the image of Koyono being swung by Sherald.

As if it was the effect of the unknown powder, the strength and speed were twice as strong as usual.

“… !”

But Koyono wasn’t the only one in our party.

Evan, holding a sword like Koyono, joined her.

Exactly, I was trying to join.

“Hey, deal with us!”

“Chiggle.”

“!”

A monk who is both a tanker and healer, and a swordsman who uses dual swords.

The guys rushed at Evan, pushing him to the outside of the arena.

It was Evan who escaped from the square guarding Arlot.

With Evan’s skill, it would be easy to defeat one person, but it would be difficult for two people.

“Princess, excuse me.”

It doesn’t matter if Evan is dealing with two normal lower class students.

However, it is dangerous for Koyono to deal with Sherald, who rushes to the death.

Thinking so, I approached Koyono.

“I will join you.”

“Ugh… Be careful. It seems that the author is out of his mind.”

“I will finish it once and for all.”

He lit a fire all over his body and refined his mind.

After giving Arlott a slight glance, he looked at Sherald.

The figure of him twisting his joints around while holding the greatsword… More like a monster than a human.

Behind Sherald was a shaman who exuded shady energy.

“I’ll give you a buff, Sherald. good!”

“If it wasn’t for you, you bastard… If it wasn’t for you who kept interfering with my plans!”

“… coming.”

A surge of great swords that became more intense.

Koyono parried and blocked possible attacks,

I bought time by dodging all of his attacks.

Time for the magic of Arlot to be completed.

“Koyono, Schmitz. Now!”

Arlott’s magic unfolded.

A huge ice field that spread in an instant sealed Sherald’s movement,

Ice stretched out from the field and completely wrapped around Sherald’s leg.

“Kreak… You bitch!”

“I will finish now.”

The biggest variable in this match was Sherald’s existence.

It’s best to end it in one shot without giving it any more room.

… To do so, I wrapped fire around my right arm.

The best blow I can do at this point.

– One point erased.

The outstretched right fist touched the center of Cherald’s chest,

Immediately after, an explosive burst of fire engulfed his chest.

“Quaaagh!”

The pillar of fire that extended from his hand even reached the Colosseum’s protective magic.

It’s still not enough compared to what Ryan showed, but…

Looking at Cherald’s ugly upper body, which has turned black, I think that it was definitely eaten.

The change began at that moment.

“go… roo… Whoops… !”

Sherald takes a strange powder out of his pocket and rubs it on his face.

It was to the point of feeling a kind of madness in the way the powder was smeared on the nose and mouth.

I can’t imagine moving even after being hit by this attack.

“There is a spell to nullify pain. Cherald! good!”

“Turn it off!!”

Sherald, his clothes in tatters, broke through the ice and ran out.

Immediately after using the skill of erasing one point, I felt tired, but I moved my body in a hurry.

The figure of him rushing forward while drooling… Because something ‘accident’ wasn’t strange to me either.

‘Could it be that Sherald threw away the hand?’

It was only then that I realized the plans of the elves.

They weren’t planning to ruin our test scores in the first place.

By consuming the good hand called ‘Sherald’… Certainly to end me or Arlot.

“Princess! … Kut.”

“Hee hee, you can’t go!”

I tried to follow Sherald, who was going straight to Arlot.

A shaman blocked my way while casting a strange debuff on me.

It was hard to move as if I had doubled my weight.

“Lord Schmitz… hot!”

“Grrruk… Arlot… Arlot! If you get rid of four years… ”

Sherald’s onslaught continued again.

Perhaps because of the magic of nullifying pain, Koyono doesn’t budge at all even when he counterattacks.

“go away!”

“Ugh… ”

I managed to defeat the sorcerer with my heavily weighted body.

Thanks to this, the debuff was lifted and the body regained its weight.

She went straight after Sherald.

The moment I started running, Koyono’s sword broke.

“… what?”

“Kihehehehe, it’s over!”

“Miss Koyono!”

Cherald’s arm was lifted high, leaving only Koyono’s black handle.

Arlott hurriedly uses defensive magic, but… It probably won’t be finished in time.

A thick flesh emanated from Sherald’s body, making his hair stand on end.

“Stop! stop the match! Sherald!”

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Ryan rushed straight into the arena, but

His arm dropped much faster.

… Koyono didn’t back down at all, even holding onto the broken sword handle.

“… stepping on the shadows.”

In an instant, my new model disappeared into the shadows.

* * *

‘Looks like it’s over.’

It was slow to see the vicious man’s sword slashing in front of his eyes.

Is it the last kaleidoscope of life?

I stared at the broken sword handle in vain.

‘This time… Can’t you keep it?’

I did my best to protect Arlot in the rear from Cherald.

But again, it’s an emoji.

himself… Even though he raised his sword, he couldn’t protect the one he wanted to protect.

But this time I won’t be dishonored.

Koyono braced her legs and faced Sherald’s sword.

A ghastly blade approaching before my eyes.

Koyono thought about ‘death’ to come soon.

‘If you can protect it like this… ‘

I hate the life of abandoning the person I want to protect and surviving alone in an ugly way.

Even if he sacrifices his life, he will protect ‘Arlot’ until the last moment.

… Arlott, which Schmitz wanted to protect.

[If you can’t protect the person you love… What are you going to do?]

[I should protect what that person wanted to protect.]

It reminds me of a conversation with ‘guy’ that I never forgot for a moment.

And it reminds me of ‘Schmitz’ I met at the academy.

‘Schmitz’, who has become a precious person from some day, and ‘Guy’ whom I want to meet again because it’s good just once.

He has no regrets about dying for Schmitz and for the Arlott he wanted to protect.

If there’s one thing I regret…

‘I wanted to see him at least once…’ ‘

A wish he had never uttered.

That was the primordial wish Koyono had right before she died.

At that moment, a human doll rose from the shadows.

‘… Lord Schmitz?’

Nice suit, dagger, blonde hair, golden eyes.

Anyone could see that he was Schmitz.

Appearing with his back to Cherald, he exchanged glances with Koyono.

Koyono, who had been staring blankly at that face, only then realized its meaning.

‘no… !’

I had to move him immediately.

At this rate, it would be Schmitz who gets the sword, not himself.

I can’t make the person I want to save sacrifice for me…

‘… uh?’

Something rose from Schmitz’s chest.

Warm-colored flames spread throughout the body as if dancing.

The flame that spread all over Schmitz’s body in an instant.

Koyono couldn’t take her eyes off Schmidt’s stomach, the starting point of the flame.

‘… fox, shape… ‘

Animal ears, tail, body, grim look.

It was clearly the appearance of a ‘fox’.

Why is this, in Schmitz’s chest?

Schmitz looked at Koyono and smiled brightly.

An ornament that looks like a glass sphere and scatters white powder like snow.

As he took it out carefully, the flow of the battlefield began to change.

The crystal ball quickly increased in size and wrapped around Sherald and Schmitz…

Not long after, it went back to normal.

That guy had swallowed Schmitz and Sherald.

“… uh?”

A glass marble the size of a fist dropped on the ground.

Koyono didn’t understand the situation in front of her at all.

The appearance of Schmitz, the ‘imprint’ on his chest, the meaning of laughter, and…

Sherald and his figure absorbed into a small glass sphere.

“No, no, no, no… ”

The sword, with only the handle left, was pulled out of her hand powerlessly.

Koyono collapsed to the ground as her legs gave out.

She cherished the glass orb with empty eyes.

“I just found it… why… !”

Koyono holds the glass ball to her chest with trembling hands.

“why!!!!”

Only her sobbing resounded throughout the Colosseum.