What do you mean 'they'll die'? What's the point of saying that, Makoto........meteorite drop!

　Lucy with a dumbfounded voice slammed a huge rock into the demon's ice statue.
　With a loud clang, the ice and the demon shattered.
　We are now standing on the frozen sea.

"Ugh, it's so cold! Can I go home?
　Sa-san is still shivering in her fuzzy down jacket-like winter gear.
　Beside her, Furiae exhales into her hands, "Ha," she says.
　Even that casual gesture is s*xy.

''I think it's no good for you, Sa-san, you're a brave man. Princess, if you're cold, you can go back to your tent.
'What!　Takatsuki-kun's mean.
'Okay, I'm used to being cold. It's bad enough that I'm resting alone, so I'm here.
　As I was conversing with my companions, I heard the loud voice of Commander Orto.　

''Defeat all the demons before they wake up!　Don't waste the opportunity (chance) created by the brave Lord Makoto!
Ha!
　Under the command of the Commander, the Order of the Sun is attacking the demonic ice statue.


　And as for me........................


　--Eternal (Eternal) Blizzard of Death (Death Blizzard), I tried to be cool about it, but in reality, it's just a wide range of ice magic.
　Although I was able to disable the demons temporarily, I was unable to defeat them.
　The life force of the demons under the control of the demon king is strong, so they seem to start moving once the ice melts.

　Currently, all of us are working to break the ice before the demons wake up.
　More than 10,000 ice statues of demons.
　It's a lot of hard work.
　And I, who don't have any good means of attack, can only watch them.

"Genie-san, genie-san!
　I tried to call out to him, but he didn't listen to me, perhaps because he was satisfied with the magic he had just used, but he just said "sneeze, sneeze!
　It's a good idea to take some time to borrow the magic.

''It's not going to decrease at all!
　Lucy is complaining, but she continues to silently beat the magic for me.
　When I use my specialty, fire magic, the ice melts, so she uses earth magic/rock bullets.

'Sorry, Lucy.'
Well, no problem. Buy me a drink next time.
　I apologized for making Lucy work all the time, but she smiled back at me with a snicker.
　You're a manly man, Lucy.
　After a bit, he turned to me with a mischievous look on his face, as if he had an idea, 'Oh, yes.

'But it's not fair for me to shoot magic on my own, so 'synchronize' (synchronize) and shoot magic.
　Then he snuggled up to me and let Lucy grab his wand.
　I can feel the high body heat.
(.....Tuning in.)
　I grabbed Lucy's wand and hugged her shoulder, but her hand went numb, and I felt Lucy's magic and my magic repel each other.
　Hmmm, I guess it's no good.

'Sorry Lucy, I don't seem to be able to tune in well.
　I said, and Lucy sent me a sink-eye as she laughed, "Huh," she said.
'Not anymore, right?'
　Lucy puts her hands around my neck and stands on tiptoe to look up at me from below.

'When we're 'in sync', it's this way, right?'
　Her face is close to the distance where our noses are almost attached to each other as she looks into my eyes with her big, crackling eyes.
'Ruh, Lucy?'
Here, Makoto, huh?
　And then Lucy closed her eyes.
　The lips of a beautiful elfish girl with a neat face closed in on her eyes and nose.


　........You want me to kiss her here?


　But we're part of the party and we can't let Lucy alone do the heavy lifting.
　And I'm the leader of the party, for one thing.
　Yeah, it's inevitable.
　With that in mind, when I made up my mind and was about to kiss Lucy.

　....I heard, I thought, a strange sound, gurgling, gurgling.

"....
　Sa-san and Furiae were glaring at us with zit eyes.

'Ruh, Lucy, I knew this (kiss) would only be an emergency!
　I hurriedly pulled my body away from Lucy.

'Oh,'
　Lucy gave him a boring look and moved away.

'Mako's Hetaleigh,'
You're such a pussy.
　Aside from Lucy, for some reason, even Noah-sama told me to do it.

　From then on, Lucy and everyone in the Order of the Sun continued to defeat the demons, and in half a day, we finished defeating all of them.



　◇



"Today we engaged the First Division and the forces of the Sea Devil King (Forneus), did you say so?
　This was the first voice of President Ewain, who heard the report from Commander Ortt at the military meeting held that evening.
　His voice sounded calm, but he also sounded a little puzzled.

'What is this all about?　Commander Alt. That doesn't sound like a plan.
　General Talisker calmly asked to continue.

''Yes, we have engaged the Demon King's army. By the brave Mako-dono of the Water Kingdom over here...''
I knew it was the messenger of the evil one!
　Before Mr. Orth could finish his words, the Pope declared that I was the cause of the problem.
　........Well, that's true.

''This battle will decide the fate of the continent. After all, we must get rid of the uncertainty factor such as the Messenger of the Evil God!　Now, he must be court-martialed and dealt with severely!　Behead him!
　At the Pope's words, I can see the nobles of each country nodding their heads here and there.
　What in the world is strictness........

　Then, as for the acquaintances, there was Olga, the brave Olga of the Fire Nation, Prince Leonard, and Sakurai-kun, who had an "ah, I knew it" look on his face.
　Esther, the priestess of the Goddess of Destiny, who I thought would definitely complain about something, was unexpectedly quiet.
　Although she had an abhorrent look on her face.

'Well, wait, Pope Roma. We are not done talking about Ort. Besides, I have ordered that the brave men of the Water Kingdom be allowed to fight the Demon King's army.
...a great sage will be here....
'Your Holiness, Your Holiness, the Grand Sage has a thought for you. Ort, report the results of the engagement and the damage to the army.
　Chancellor Ewain brought the conversation back to the main topic of the war.
　He postured Commander Ortt.

'Ha!　I will say this. The Demon King's Army's demons are '10029'. The first division's damage count is 'zero'!
"..........
　After Commander Ort's words, no one spoke up.
　.........Commander, you were counting the number of demons.

''Also, there were no named demons among the enemy forces in this engagement. As Esther-sama said, it seems that the enemy's objective was not to fight us, but only to create a diversion.
　With that, the Ort Commander finished his report.
　But all the faces on the screen of communication magic are looking gloomy or suspicious.
　The first person to open his mouth was President Ewain.

''Ort, you said that you engaged the Demon King's army of over ten thousand?
'Ha!　That's right, Mr. President.
Why is it that the enemy is wiped out and we're doing zero damage?
　The people on the screen nodded their heads in agreement.
　They all seemed to want to know.

''Due to the spirit magic of Lord Makoto here, the entire demon king's army of over ten thousand was frozen. We then destroyed the incapacitated demons.
How is that possible...?
''Well, with that magic that saved the Fire Nation's King's Capital, I suppose it can be done...''
　President Ewain and General Talisker with a tone of disbelief.
　But it's just a different way of doing things than the one in the Fire Nation's royal capital, but oh well.

'Hahahahahaha!　Oh yeah, right!
　The Great Sage Master is slapping his knees and laughing.
　On the contrary, Pope-sama is glaring at us with a bitter face.
　By the way, Jera-san also has a bitter face.
　

So, Mr. President. What do you think the punishment for this guy is going to be?　So there's zero damage.
　Grinning, the Great Sage-sama questioned my treatment.

''Although it's against the operation, the reason behind the operation is to preserve our forces. Since there was no damage, let's not question it.''
　He broke off the conversation with that.

'Now, let's hear about the other areas.
"Ha, now, the Second Division...
　From here on out, it was a long and boring report.
　Basically, it's all about a story that wasn't fought.

　When I glanced at Princess Sophia on the screen, I was like, "f*ck it! He puffed out his cheeks with an expression of "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to wave to you.
　As expected, he didn't wave his hand this time, but only returned a bitter smile.

　



　◇Sagaki Aya's point of view◇.



　I woke up in the middle of the night.

'Coo....'
　I can hear Roo's sleep from next to me.
　Her breath is warm.
　Come to think of it, it's cold in the tent, so I've been sleeping with Ru-chan.

"Oh, my God, I'm wearing my clothes again.
　I sighed and did a little digging under Roo-chan's collar.
　Lu-chan is not a good sleeper.
　For some reason, her clothes keep coming off as she sleeps.
　But I've been told by Takatsuki that I'm not very good at it either.
　Compared to that, Fu-chan always looks beautiful when she sleeps like a princess.....

Fu-chan?
　There's no one in the bedding.
　Is it the bathroom?
　When I gently put my hand on the futon, it was cool and it looked like he had been gone for some time, not like he had left a while ago.

''Hmm........''
　Something bothered me, so I went to the back of the tent, where there was a simple partition in Takatsuki's living space.
　The tent is shared by four people, but Takatsuki said, "Men and women can't be together! And he's so stubborn that he's putting a partition in between.

I knew he was gone.　
　Well, this is always the case.
　Takatsuki-kun spends most of his waking hours in training.
　But I was a little curious.　
　Takatsuki-kun and Fu-chan disappeared at the same time in the middle of the night.
　So, what should we do?

Oh, it's cold!
　I stepped out of the tent.
　The night breeze stole the heat from my body.

''This is definitely because of Takatsuki-kun's spirit magic........''
　Mumbling and complaining, I put on layers of my jacket and walk through the encampment lined with the tents of the Order of the Sun.
　The only light source is the moon and stars, but to me, who grew up in a dungeon, it's no different than daytime.　
　On the way, I passed some knights who looked like nighttime guards.
　I asked them if they had seen Takatsuki, but they all shook their heads.

　Hmm, Takatsuki is not here.
　It's not very efficient to look for him in the dark.
　At times like this.........
　I closed my eyes and used my ears, nose and sixth sense to the fullest.


　--Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun, Takatsuki-kun...................where? .........


I think it's this way.
　He trusted the intuition he had developed in the labyrinth.
　Gradually, I noticed that Takatsuki-kun's scent was mixed in the air.
　Over here, that's for sure!

　It was a sort of open space a short distance from the encampment.
　There was a small spring nearby.
　Near the fountain, there were two shadows.


　--It's a good idea to have a good time with them.