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　I wonder if anyone would really talk to Kyle in a place like this.

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　I wondered as I continued walking through the woods.

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　I was walking in a difficult terrain, so it was taking me a long time, but I might not have gained much distance.

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　But I keep moving forward, concentrating and looking for signs of my surroundings.

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　I had not planned to walk through the forest like this, but I feel that what I have been wearing is helping me.

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　The demon armor that covers my body protects my entire body.

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　Moreover, since it is made to fit my body, it does not interfere with my body movements even when I move.

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　It also helped that I usually carry a weapon on my waist.

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　It is hard to use bare hands in the depths of the forest, even with attack magic.

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　Incidentally, I am holding the iron sword Granvalka in my hand now.

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　The other weapon I was carrying, the Nine-Tailed Sword, was given to Kyle.

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　I thought that the nine-tailed sword would be useful in such a situation.

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　Even Kyle, who has no experience in combat, can use it as a weapon that emits flames if he pours magic power into it, so he can defend himself for the time being.

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　However, there is still the problem of what to do in case of a fire caused by such a weapon.

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　Also, there is Thanatos at the end of the line.

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　This is very reassuring.

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　Thanatos usually wears demon armor, and I have given him a hardened brick stick that I have already made as a weapon.

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　If it were true, the fastest way would be for Thanatos to turn into a giant and charge through the forest, but I have decided against that.

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　I did not want to do that because I did not know what was in this forest.

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　For example, there might be creatures stronger than the giant Thanatos.

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　And Thanatos cannot maintain his giant form forever.

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　Therefore, I decided to save it as a trump card in case of an emergency.

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　I continue to lead the group, my spirit draining.

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　It's quite hard to keep walking while concentrating all the time, while nothing is happening at all.

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　I'd like to take a rest and conclude that Kyle must have been imagining things when he said he heard voices.

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　That's when I thought that.

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"What?　What the hell?"

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　Thanatos, who was walking at the end of the line, shouts out.

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　I looked down as soon as I heard that, but I was too late to make a quick decision.

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　There is something moving down there.

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　But I couldn't understand why it was moving.

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"d*mn!"

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　The next moment, I was hanging upside down.

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　My legs were wrapped around and pulled upward, so that I was hanging with my head directly below me.

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　But this was definitely not a trap.

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　It was not a trap, like those traps in the jungle that use ivy to hang people, but it was nothing like that.

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　Because I had seen the whole thing with my own eyes, and I had seen the plant itself moving like an animal.

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　I quickly called out to it and swung my iron sword at the thing entangled in my leg.

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　It seemed that the sharpness of the sword was not enough to cut through it.

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　I cut off the thing that was entangled in me, and I landed on the ground, spinning in the air.

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What the hell is this?　The roots of the tree moved and attacked you?"

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　What the iron sword cut off.

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　It was a tree root.

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　It looked like an ordinary root of a tree growing in the middle of nowhere, extending into the ground.

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　Or, just a thick root of a tree that sometimes comes up to the surface and hinders our progress.

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　But they had been there since the first time we crash-landed in this forest, and they didn't seem to be the only roots that were special.

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　But maybe the roots of all the trees around here can move and hang their prey in the air...

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　If so, we have wandered into a terrible place.

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　There may be no place of rest for us now.

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"Seriously. What the hell is this? ....... Not only the roots of the trees, they're attacking the branches too?"

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　I had a bad feeling about this.

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　The trees attacked us one after another, as if they considered us a threat after we had responded to their first hanging in midair.

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　Tree roots moved from below, gouging up the ground, and tree branches swung down from above and to the sides.

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　Breathing deeply, we knead our magic power.

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　They distribute the kneaded magic power all over their bodies.

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　He sends magic power to his limbs as well, but half of it is concentrated in his head.

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　He gathers the magic power he has refined in his sensory organs, such as his eyes and ears, to sharpen his senses.

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　Then, he continued to cut down the roots and branches of the trees that came at him from all around him with his iron sword.

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"What kind of training is this? Is this some kind of Mokujin-ken or something?"

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　Keep cutting off anything that grows and moves from all around you.

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　Of course, not all of them can be cut off, and some of them can be avoided.

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　With the senses heightened by magic power, I am able to cope with them.

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　However, there was a problem of how long I could continue this.

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　If this continues forever, I will eventually get stuck.

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　And I wasn't the only one in trouble.

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　Thanatos was also under attack from the surrounding trees.

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　But Thanatos seemed to have a little more at stake than I did.

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　He was with Kyle to protect him, so it was harder for him to turn into a giant.

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　The moment he became a giant, he might trample Kyle, whom he was supposed to protect.

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　But if he stays small, he will be too late to deal with the tree.

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　Thanatos had a stick that I had prepared for him that was long enough to be used by a normal human-sized person.

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　Since it is not a sharp blade like the Zanteiken, there is no end to the attacks by the trees, no matter how many times I hit the roots of the trees that attack me.

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　However, the one who was placed in the strangest situation was Kyle, who was protected by Thanatos.

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　I don't know why, but unlike me and Thanatos, Kyle was not being attacked by trees.

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　It would have helped if I was being honest.

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　But I was wrong to think so.

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　While the tree was protecting me and Thanatos, it was leading us little by little to pull us away from Kyle.

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　It was only for a short time.

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　But somehow Kyle realized that he had not been attacked.

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　Kyle shouts out.

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"Brother Ars, Mr. Thanatos. Wait for me. I'll stop this attack.

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"Hey, hey, wait. Where are you going, Kyle?

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　He turns his eyes toward Kyle, knocking down tree roots.

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　But Kyle is not there.

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　Kyle was running.

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　In the direction where Kyle had said he heard voices.

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　He was going deeper into the forest than here.

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　Strangely enough, Kyle's movement was not disturbed by the trees in the forest, and the trees were even moving as if they were guiding him.

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　But it's too late.

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　Thanatos had turned into a giant, but many of the trees around him were taller than 5 meters.

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　In other words, the trees taller than Thanatos were not intimidated by the giant Thanatos at all, and continued to attack him just as before.

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　I was beaten.

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　I managed to go on a rampage with the giant Thanatos, blocking the tree's attacks and trying to go after Kyle, but it was no use.

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　I wonder if someone might have stopped me and Thanatos in order to isolate Kyle.

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　By the time the trees had quieted down, I had completely lost Kyle.

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