Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

- Get out of here.

solidify into Elphi's words.

Now the only hand we have left is the retreat.

I understand that.

But.

To the person who said so, I knew I wasn't going to run away.

"... what are you gonna do, Elfi"

"If you run, he'll come after you. So one of us needs to stay and buy some time"

"... so you're staying?"

Whip into your powerless body and reach for Elfi to protest.

Faster than it arrived, Elfi inverted his body in momentum.

……!

Immediately after, countless swords flew in here.

In front of you, the gravity of the demonic eye knocks you down to the ground.

"Ha! Talk to me this time of year!? It's a long time!"

Dionis had lost quite a bit of calm by eating Elfi's deception.

Staring at this one, he is beginning to develop countless swords around him.

"Io. Run quickly. It won't last very long."

"... what are you going to do. You know what happens if you stay, right?"

"Oh, above my knowledge."

Without hesitation, Elfi nodded naturally.

"But have you forgotten? I am a former demon king. Even if they kill you, they can come back over time. So don't worry. I'm fine."

A demon clan enclosed with immense magic can be resurrected even if it is killed.

That's why Elfi was sealed in the junction.

But......

"How long does it take to come back to life?"

"Right. If it were in its present state, it would be resurrected in six hundred years. If you want to break the seal, a thousand years or something."

No way, Elfi said that in the usual tone.

"What, the Demons originally lived long lives. Nothing for hundreds of years or so. But Io, you're not like me. If you die, it's over."

When you die, it's over.

Sure, yeah.

But isn't sealing it harder for you than dying?

When I went outside the labyrinth, Elfi said.

- The seal is isolated from the world, so it's dark. There was no light, no sound, nothing.

In an unenthusiastic tone, in a wind that I don't even care much about.

But it wasn't.

At Karen's mansion, Elfi said.

- I don't like it... I don't like it. It's dark... already.

- Alone, don't.

This must have been what Elfi meant.

For a long time, I was just trapped by myself in a world without light or sound.

I can't imagine how painful that is.

――――

Hide it, Elfi tells me to run.

You can't be scared.

I noticed Elfi's voice trembling.

"... don't be ridiculous. Can you leave me alone? Come with me!"

"Do something stupid...! I'm telling you it won't last long! Hurry up!"

"- Amaatsu, don't let Elphis Zark get to you."

To the exchange, Dionis has interrupted in a sticky tone.

"You're not running away. Elphis, Zark can't escape."

Laughing with Nitanita, he takes one of the swords produced by Dionis.

And with gestures like slashing something,

"I swung it up, so come on, he doesn't even have the strength to run anymore!!"

"... ugh."

Turn your gaze, Elfi's legs were trembling.

From just now on, it's barely moving.

Damn...... ugh!

If you think about it, you'll see!

minutes Though the body, there is pain.

He also said that whenever he repaired the wound, he would consume magic.

During that time, Dionis blamed me.

Even if you just stand there, you'll finally...!

"Elphiszark, who betrayed my temper, will shake it like a borough cloth and then kill you."

"... Iwo! Please, get out of here...!"

Dionis rings his finger.

Moment after moment, a water junction occurred at the entrance.

"Yes, I'm sorry!"

"... ugh!"

Elphi shoots the devil in the eye.

A slight crack had entered the junction, and in the next moment it had been completely repaired.

"Surprisingly convenient, isn't it, this stone? Human beings don't have any body."

"Need stones...!"

Dionis holds a stone in his hand.

Magic Grant (Magic Item) that strengthens and maintains the effectiveness of the junction.

The exit route was completely cut off.

"Fool...! That's why I told you to run!"

"From the start, I'm not going to run away...!"

"Heh, that's sweet! But come on, I'm not gonna let you get away with it from the start!!"

Thanks to the sustained potion, the foot wound healed.

I can do as much as stand up.

Use the Demon Stone to fight back somehow...

"Huh."

Dionis' demon sword is swept away.

The numbers cross fifty graciously, and all of them emit a disastrous light.

It broke through Elphi's demonic eye and exploded simultaneously in the front.

"" Devil's Destruction Seizure (Il Atalaxia) "…!"

The staggered shield is also crushed, and the sight stains the light.

The sound disappeared.

My body floats in the universe.

"Ku...... ah"

Momentum pounds to the ground and stops breathing.

Still, trying to get up, it was simultaneous when I got to the ground.

Zuch, the shock ran on my body.

"but...... ahhh!?"

Both hands and feet.

Four swords were pierced on his limbs.

The blade is piercing the ground, and I'm stuck on the ground.

"... ah,"

I don't have a voice.

The cold sensation of iron running through the body and the heat emitted by the wound strike at the same time.

Cold. Hot.

I can't breathe.

"It's a specially made sword with plenty of magic. It won't be gone any time soon."

I see a fallen elphi on the edge of my sight.

I was able to confirm the existence of Elphi because I was able to maintain a sense that seemed to shatter.

"... el, fi"

Strengthen your body in an attempt to pull through a pierced sword.

But the four swords didn't even move slightly.

The blood that has flowed is raw and warm.

"I'm surprised you can still worry about someone else. Are you so worried about that whore?"

"... ugh."

"Then pull that sword out quickly. If you can get up, Elphiszark can miss you, huh?"

"... ugh!...... ugh!!"

"Yes, time's up! Too bad, but if I were to wave elphiszark a lot hey!!"

To Elfi, who remained fallen, Dionis released water.

The released water knocks Elfi against the wall of the room.

The next moment,

"Yes, right hand je!!"

On Elfi's right hand, which was floating, he stabbed him.

Through the palms and walls, the sword sews the elphi.

"Look, I'm going more and more!? Right leg!"

"... eh"

"What's wrong, Amatu! My dear Elphiszark is in pain. We have to work hard!"

"Oh... hey yeah!!"

I don't mind a thousand cuts of meat, I can put all my strength into trying to pull out my sword.

Eat up your teeth, scream, and fortify your body with magic, but your sword will not move.

"Elphis Zark. Amazu doesn't want to help you, does he? He's a thin guy, isn't he? You risked your life for nothing. Come on! Then, left foot next!"

"Or... ugh."

"Look, left hand je!! hahahaha! Ex-Demon King's specimen is complete!"

Elfi is sewn on the wall with limbs.

There was a lot of blood coming from my arm, which is not my body.

"Stop... Ro"

"If you want to stop it, you can pull that sword out! Why didn't you pull it out?"

"... ugh."

"Yes, then proceed."

A sword is created, skewering Elphi's entire body.

Elfi doesn't scream, he just screams.

"There's no art but stabbing a sword."

Around Dionis, a small sword about a knife appeared.

It ejects and pierces Elfi's abdomen.

"Yes, dokan!"

"Or... ugh."

A pierced knife caused a small explosion.

Elfi's abdomen bounces and flies.

Your abdomen is split, but you have pain.

Elfi is flavoring the pain of being blown away.

"Ahhhhhh!!"

I can't get my sword out.

I don't have enough power.

"Hahahahahahaha!!"

I hear Dionis mocking.

"Look, it's gonna explode!? dokan!"

"............"

"You! What I say! I'm not asking! It's bad wow!!"

The sword explodes.

The blade rips through Elfi's cheek.

Not minutes body, hands on both arms over and over with a small sword, Dionis stubbornly pokes.

"In the end, Amazu. You can't do anything without the power of borrowing as a brave man."

I scratch the algae to deny it, but the sword still doesn't move.

"You didn't try, you didn't do anything special. I just happen to be summoned as a brave man to gain the power of the unruly class. It's not your power or anything. So, without it, you'll be just a miscellaneous fish."

The sword hurts Elfi.

"It's a masterpiece, isn't it? I dressed up with the power that someone else gave me. Without it, we would only be able to expose the unusual."

I can't pull out my sword.

"You said it before, right? He wants to change who he is in this world because he has lived his life long since he was flushed. Ha, ha, ha? You haven't changed a thing. I was just drunk and swayed by the power of the borrowing I got."

Elfi gets hurt again with a sword.

My body couldn't hold for a minute and the noise was running away.

Relentless, the sword decides Elfi.

I could only watch it while it was sewn to the ground.

"By and large, the dream of 'ending the war and making the world peaceful' was just influenced by what Lucifina said, right? You don't think that big of a deal."

I couldn't argue with that.

Already aware.

I just admired Lucifina's words.

"You were just intoxicated and putting up cheap hypocrisy because you were the chosen" brave man ". That's why they betray us. You didn't see anything. Hey! Save the world? Hey, say it again! It's your dream, right?"

Because I thought that was the right thing to do.

Because even I just got flushed, I wanted to make something happen.

Dionis' mockery echoes.

"... I can't tell you! Hahahahahahahahahaha!! for you to know your indifference, your dwarfiness! I can't say anything that doesn't deserve it!"

…………

"Ever! I hated your sweet, sweet, and repulsive thinking!! Even though it's not my power, it's not the ideal I got for myself!! I can't help but put it up on my face and save the world with it!"

………

"Did you say that? He wants to keep me from getting scratched, too. That's a annoying way of saying it. It's like I'm inferior to you. Come on...!"

So.

"I will step on everything you have. It would be nice to see Elphiszark being mauled as he crawls unnecessarily through the ground. I'll strip you, expose you naked, and offend you in front of you. My dear Elfi is in terrible sight, won't it be hard, will it? But I'm sorry! There was nothing you could do!!"

... right.

I have no power.

The power to help Elfi, too, already.

"Then I'll shake it scattered and then I'll kill you. This is the end of your life."

Dionis was right.

Power and ideals are borrowed from others.

I didn't just get flushed, I got it myself.

"Ah...... ah"

Out of my body, I lose my strength.

Was there too much blood?

No, you're not.

Dionis had a broken heart.

"I ended up... just being flushed... ugh"

I could see Dionis smiling full face.

But I can't say anything back.

I can't do anything.

It was when I tried to pull out the power I was putting in to pull out my sword.

"- Really, yeah?"

I heard a small voice.

That's the same word I heard in Gash's library.

"Are you really... just being flushed?"

"... shut up"

A sword pierces the elphi with his mouth open.

Kafu...... and exhale small then.

Still, Elfi continued his words.

"Thirty years ago... were you only fighting because you were really flushed?"

"Shut up!"

The sword hurts Elfi.

But Elfi won't stop.

"Back then - you didn't abandon me in the Nara Labyrinth."

It must have been when I was fighting a dirt demon general.

For once, I abandoned Elfi and tried to escape.

"If I'd run away then, I'd have saved myself"

An angry Dionis attack strikes Elfi.

"You really... ugh! If you were just being flushed, you would have abandoned me... ugh!"

It's...

"I know you fought the Demon King's Army for years...!"

――――

"Flushed, just! There will be no reason to keep fighting!!"

――――

The blade blades Elfi's head.

Blood gushes out and drips down Elfi's face.

"You're telling me to shut up!?"

Ignoring the murmur, Elfi only asked me one last time.

"- Really, you were just flushed?"

I am.

I...

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"... I wanted to help."

If only "brave men" would survive, there is still hope.

That's what I said, someone died sheltering me.

Cover me, there was someone scratched.

Many times I saw a fellow I fought with scratch.

I thought.

Fight with me, mate.

Wounded, my suffering companion.

He wants to help Luisas, Dionys, and Lucifina.

That's all that triggered it.

Then I saw a lot of people.

Humans, subhumans, demons.

I've seen a lot of people get scratched in war.

Saving the world, making peace, ending the war?

Though I didn't really have such a big feeling about wanting to save everyone.

Though those ideals were all borrowed after.

- I saw a lot of crying faces.

Scratched, dying, losing loved ones, mourning, grieving, crying faces of those who suffer.

That's what I thought.

I wonder how good it would be if I could turn that crying face into a smile.

"I can't believe world peace... it was definitely attached later. But seeing someone grieving in front of me and wanting to help, it's true."

"Well, that's sweet of you to say? You really can't save me."

A scratchy companion in front of me.

People grieving in front of you.

Because I thought the only way to make it smile was to end the war.

Because I thought I had to be a hero.

"Come on, Amatsu. That faint hypocrisy is rubbish just to be relieved of love."

Already, the murmur went out of my ear.

Power is borrowing.

Ideally, follow.

Although I lose both now and laugh at the crap about heroes.

It's not borrowed, it's not followed.

Don't let anyone flush you.

I was then, for sure.

"- I made up my mind to be a hero."

There was a crushing sound of iron.

The sword that was sewing his limbs to the ground is shattered and scattered if he notices it.

Lift your free hands and feet.

"hey... my sword"

He tried to move toward Dionis, who was stunned, and he was about to fall.

My legs are shaking with chatter.

I can't help my whole body.

There was no more magic left.

"Ha... surprised me at the minute of the dead body. Fine. Then I'll kill her in front of you now!"

Countless swords are created by "Blade Trigger".

A storm of swords with genuine magic, unlike any other game you've ever played.

It is ejected into Elphi.

As I gave up, I could see Elfi meditating on my eyes.

I can't do anything about it right now.

Don't be ridiculous, I can put my strength into my body.

You can't kill Elfi.

I don't want him to die.

- I want to help.

――――

Noise ran into my sight.

The world is dyed grey and the movement of the things you see turns into something slower.

So much so that the sword unleashed on Elphi stops and sees.

At that moment, a man's back rose in his grey vision.

Look at that, I squeal by accident.

"Oh... well"

That back I've seen several times since I got my second summons.

Gray-haired young man looking just ahead.

It seems to be the closest, the most distant being.

I guess I've never figured it out because I was just driven by a caricaturous rage and avoiding facing myself.

But now.

I finally realized who the man was.

- Hero Amatsu.

That was me when I was alive back in the day.

Put up crappy ideals and wield the power of borrowing.

Still straight, it's my power to try to help someone.

- Reach for my back.

Power has been lost.

I also lost my ideals.

Still, I want to help Elfi.

"So..."

Reproduce.

Once upon a time, my power.

Dimensions are not different, without a millimeter of madness.

That way, my powers will reach him.

I can help Elfi.

A testament to the brave emits a burning light.

Hot impulses in the chest take shape.

As the magic guided me, I uttered the mind.

"- [Hero Reproduction (The Raise)]"