'First, we started moving west from this town with four units, including dummies. This is the road that connects the main towns, and we moved with General Mattow on the mountainous road south of this road. And we were attacked in this area.

　Right now, Yuto is being briefed by Mizuho and Marion on a map spread out on the table with details of the most recent attack he received. With a serious face, Yuto is looking at the map while listening to the explanation.

''Hmm........''

''The summoned demons first blocked this path and stopped our movement before attacking us from the mountain sides on the north and south sides of this path, respectively.

How many are we talking about?

　Yuto turns to Marion.

''Yes. I don't know exactly, but first of all, there are about fifty quick ones in the front, including gargoyles, and from the north and south, there are about thirty of each, mainly demonic beast types.''

　Yuto's eyes widen at Marion's explanation.

''That many........ Even though they're low-grade demons, that's a huge number. He's quite a summoner to manipulate them without letting them stagnate. If that story is true........it's just a guess, but we have to consider the possibility that he's still hiding his abilities.

'No way!　That's what you're saying that leaves you with?　That's true, isn't it?　What the hell is the meaning of that, Du Du Yuto!

Sure, I could sense that there was a halfway house... but there was no way I was going to cut corners...

　Both Marion and Mizuho are surprised by Yuto's speculation. It seems that both of them have a target for assassination and they don't know why they're skipping out.
　At this time, Yuto looked at their reactions and realized that there was something he had to tell them about the summoner, although it was a bit off topic. That's because he realized that the two of them could be in danger depending on how the fight goes from now on.
　What Yuto meant by that did not mean that this summoner was slacking off. It was true that there were many suspicious points in the way he fought, and there were some doubts about his seriousness, but that was because what he just said was about summoners, people with the ability to summon, and he was pointing out something that they needed to be careful about.

　Mizuho and Marion are excellent without being multiplied. If it were simply a matter of ability alone, they would be able to dethrone most outsiders and rank high among all ability holders.
　However, in battle, Yuto knows that the results are not always as good as his abilities. There are many factors that determine the outcome of a battle for one's life, and a little bit of lack of knowledge can affect the fate of a fighter.
　And that knowledge is mainly based on one's own experience and the sharing of experience with one's comrades in arms. Yuto doesn't want to see Mizuho and Marion get injured. So, Yuto will try to pass on any amount of knowledge he knows to the two of them.

''Oh, I'm still guessing, okay?　But you know that most of the summoners use their spiritual and magical power as a catalyst to summon an outsider who has contracted with them, right?　Naturally, as the number of extrapersonalities it summons and the rating of those extrapersonalities increases, the amount of its catalyst is required in proportion. And yet, the summoning time isn't infinite, and it must continue to give spiritual and magical power throughout the summoning process.

　Mizuho and Marion also nodded. That is the basis of the summoner's ability when activating the summoner's ability. That's why summoners are required to maintain extreme concentration while summoning non-humans.

''So, as Marion-san said earlier, the summoner's greatest power is to control the summoned non-human in a place where he or she can concentrate without being detected by the opponent. That's why I'm saying that summoners are skilled in covert skills to avoid being detected by their opponents, but...

　At this time, Masato remembered a female summoner he had fought with in the past.
　He met her in the Demon World.
　She was a well-known summoner in the demon world, an eccentric person who had received repeated requests from the kingdom of humans living in the demon world to serve them with unbeatable treatment, but she showed no interest in the requests.
　However, that female summoner fought alongside Masato when the demon gods attacked the kingdom, and she showed her power greatly in the defeat of those demon gods.

(Amanda, how are you doing?　As usual, are you still researching how to summon them?　(But that guy was the exception to the rule, he was a summoner and didn't run or hide, even though he was a summoner...)

　Yuto tells Mizuho and Marion, remembering what the female summoner said to him sometime ago.

'What if the summoner finds you?　Or what happens when you have to fight in a place where you can't even hide from the beginning?　That kind of situation can always happen when you're in a fight. That's why summoners are always thinking about it. What will I do then?

　Mizuho and Marion huffed at what Yuto said, but they immediately understood what he meant. An ability user with biased traits will always have a blind spot in their abilities.
　Especially for Mizuho, since she herself is a spirit user, her strongest range is mid-range to long-range fighting. Therefore, it is said that spirit users are, on the other hand, not good at melee combat. That is certainly true, but even spirit users know that. For this reason, the Shitenji family, a prestigious family of spirit wielders, has systematized their own body techniques to compensate for this weakness.
　If that is the case, it would be naive to think that the summoners are keeping their own weaknesses intact. Mizuho and Marion accepted Yuto's story. The two of them were quick-witted in this area.
　Yuto looked at Mizuho and Marion, who had a serious expression on their faces, and continued talking quietly.

''So........Summoners who have passed a certain level will never fight with all their might.......''

..........

'You can't hide, and if you have to fight your opponent, you always have some extra power left over. And when that happens, you always have a hidden gem. It's almost always the strongest summons you have........ An outsider who only keeps his focus in front of the enemy, only to defend himself, or miss himself, and crush the enemy.

　Mizuho and Marion braced themselves for what Yuto had to say. They didn't mean to be caught off guard. At the beginning of his arrival, he may have been a little bit like that, but after encountering the enemy and engaging in a single battle, he had no intention of doing so.
　But even if you're not caught off guard, if you don't constantly think about the enemy, you may not be able to get back. Right now, even though he was a rank D of this lower rank, he had firmly seared the story of this synchronization in his mind. And with this synchronization, Mizuho further raised the rating of a rank D boy.
　But at the same time, Ruiho and Marion began to have doubts about the depth of this boy's knowledge. That is, how could this boy, who was supposed to be the same age, know so much about summoners?　That is.

　And another thing.....
　Rather, the question here is more of a question.
　Why do this boy's words enter me so easily and with such ease?
　This made me feel as if I had trusted this boy before.
　Mizuho and Marion would stare at Yuto's face.

　........separately, they don't feel anything.
　No, when they keep looking at him, they get a little bit annoyed, just like when they first met earlier.
　It's like I'm not getting something important communicated to me, like I'm not getting something important communicated to me, like I'm watery, like I should be more intimate with myself, or the part where I'm taking the distance between us is annoying.
　But maybe, surprisingly, contrary to appearances, maybe it's a bit of a quirk, but maybe I can rely on this boy ... more.
　And I want you to rely on me too.........

'Sorry, I'm getting off track, but the other psychic ability of the.....................Huh?　Hey, what's going on?　We're both ... a little red in the face, but ...

(Ha!)

It's nothing! It was nothing!

Oh, yeah?　Then, about the other supposedly psychic ability...

　Suddenly, Mizuho and Marion shouted out loudly to him, and Yuto couldn't help but feel tazzy, but he continued to talk.

''Of course, but that psychic ability holder is giving out spiritual power for some reason, right?　What was it like?　Did you feel anything, like a skill activation or something?

　Having managed to calm down, Mizuho and Marion looked at each other at Yuto's question.

''That's right. Actually, Marion and I were also on alert, but we didn't feel anything about the activation of the skill. And what do you call that spiritual power, too?　It was like drifting so thinly that you had to sharpen your senses to notice it. It was like being in a thin fog of spiritual power...

'Yes, I only noticed it about three times after it started attacking me. So I immediately thought it was a new one and I had to deal with it, and I took care of it, but it didn't trigger any skills and here we are.

Anyway, they're a bunch of creeps!　There's no doubt that he's quite capable, but he's not trying to hunt us down, and even though there should be more than one of them, they're not attacking us all at once. I don't know what in the world they're after........ That spiritual power is also just drifting over a wide area, it's not a breeze that's going to wake us up, and we don't know where it's flowing and drifting from.

　Yuto nodded his head at what they were saying.

''Hmm, that attitude of not fighting to the end is definitely strange........ But I think there's some kind of aim behind that drifting spiritual power.......

　Yuto once again looked at the map described by Mizuho and Marion to check the terrain. It's a typical mountain road with poor visibility, with mountains of all sizes scattered about, and the road wanders from side to side.

(I figured that the enemy summoner was in motion, making elaborate dummies while making some kind of coordination with the other abilities to prevent them from finding out where I was, but that doesn't explain it...)

If we're too far away.......and the outsider I summoned can't detect it either....

　A summoner cannot be that far away from the person he summons.
　The reason for this is that, except for simple commands and when the summoner gives the appropriate catalyst (spiritual or magical power), the catalyst must be given at all times to move the creature as needed. Of course, in that case, you must also know the location of the outsider you have summoned.
　The catalyst in this case is magic power, but the summoner always thinks about which extrapersonal to distribute the magic power to, because the summoner always thinks about moving it while thinking carefully.

''That's right. The summoner is limited in distance to leave in order to grasp the position of the outsider, and even if he switches on the outsider who serves as his eyes, with such a large number of summons, he would have to be close enough to sense the outsider to some extent to grasp the outsider...''

　If the summoned outsider was nearby, the summoner would be able to figure out where he or she was, even if he or she didn't see it with his or her eyes. This is because the summoner can sense the spiritual and magical power emitted by the summoned outsider.
　Therefore, the higher the summoner's ability to sense this spiritual and magical power, the better he or she can be said to be, and the more sensitive this sensing ability is, the more able he or she is to manipulate extrahumans from a distance.

'While sensing this many people........' The amount of magic power is also considerable, but.......hmm?　Sensory powers!　Maybe!　This is what the fog of spiritual power does!

　Yuto takes his eyes off the map and raises his head.

'What have you found out, Yuto-san?'

'No, I'm still guessing...'

'Okay, talk to me. Du Du Yuto.

'Yeah. You both know that spiritual and magical powers repel each other, right?　I'm wondering if maybe you're drifting with spiritual power, maybe you're applying it to increase the summoner's ability to sense.

"What?

　Mizuho and Marion look dumbfounded, not understanding what Yuto is saying.
　Marion thinks about what Yuto said about increasing the sensing ability with the drifting spiritual power.
　A summoner who is mainly a magic-powered summoner, raising his sensing ability in a thinly drifting fog of spiritual power.......

''Is that...?　Oh I see!　Maybe!

What?　Marion, what's going on?　What did you find out?

''Ah, yes, maybe that's what you're thinking about, Yuto-san...''

　When Mizuho turned her head to ask for an explanation from Yuto, Yuto grinned and explained to Mizuho.

''If you drop a drop of ink on a blank piece of white paper, even the slightest drop will stand out.

What?

　So what?　Mizuho's face said.

''But, Yuto-san. Then where are the abilities that are drifting with spiritual power?

'And that too ... after I assumed this assumption was correct, I looked at the map and somehow figured out where we were. Well, it's a process of elimination.

What?

'Really?　Yuto!

　Marion is amazing!　He looked respectfully at Yuto and put his hands together in front of his chest.

'Hey!　Like that one, but that one before... what?

'Such a Marion-san there's nothing to praise that much...'

　Yuto answers Marion's gaze, shying away from Marion's eyes, who is so moved that she even turns to come up to him.
　Mizuho is momentarily miffed by Marion's movement, but she still doesn't understand what Yuto is talking about.

''So, Du Du Yuto. Let me explain to you from the beginning...''

But now we can plan for next time!

'Yes!　Yuto.

So....

　Yuto turns to face Mizuho with a confident and innocent face, probably because of Marion's praise.

''Shitenji-san!　Now we can give the enemy a big shot at it!

That's why.....

　Mizuho turned over, her shoulders trembling slightly as shadows formed on her face.

''Yes?　What is it?　Shitenji-san.

　Elatedly, Yuto asks Mizuho

You're going to start...

What?

Explain!

'Ha!　Hahaha!

　In this way, Yu and the others meticulously prepared for the next enemy attack and worked out their strategy.
　Then they waited for the time of General Mathew's departure.