"Tina!　They're going your way!
I'll take care of it.

　One day, a month after my reincarnation, Tina and I came to the forest by the mansion.

　This is where I am hunting for the first time.

　My target is a demon. In this world, by defeating the demons, one's level rises and one becomes stronger.

　Children of ordinary families rarely level up by defeating demons at the age of five. However, for generations in the Silverlei family, children began training in combat when they were five years old, and once they had gained a certain amount of strength, they moved on to training to defeat demons.

　Whenever there was a large number of demons in the Silveray family's territory, the head of the family--that is, my father, the Earl--would personally lead a private army to defeat the demons. This is what successive lords have done. A weak man cannot serve as the head of the Silverlei family.

　Even though I was the third son, I was born into the Silverlei family, so I needed to be strong. Of course, it was customary for a high-level knight to watch over the child during training to prevent him or her from being injured, and for a mage who could use high-level healing magic to accompany him or her in case of an emergency.

　However, the only person accompanying me in my demon-slaying training was Tina. This is because my father decided that one Tina, who has the combat ability of a high-level knight or higher and can use high-level healing magic, is sufficient.

　After training with Tina in magic and swordsmanship for a month until today, I was fully aware of her greatness, and I obediently followed my father's decision.

'Icewall!'

　Tina's magic causes a wall of ice to appear, eliminating the escape route for the demons that were running away from me.

'Tina, thanks.'

　He joined Tina.

'Yes, sir. 'Be more careful than that. Even though this thing is weak, it's a demon.

Yeah, okay.

　I point my hand at the rabbit-shaped demon with a single horn on its forehead - Horn Rabbit.

　It looks like the Horn Rabbit was trying to destroy the ice wall with its horns to escape, but Tina's magic was solid. When he realized that he couldn't destroy the wall, he turned his body and ran towards the only remaining escape route behind him──that is, towards me.

''Master Halt!''

　Tina raises her voice in concern for me.

　But it's okay.
　My magic was already ready to go.

'Firelance!'

　The spear of fire, made as thin as possible, pierced the torso of the Horn Rabbit as it flew towards me.

　The hornrabbit was killed by that blow.

''A single blow........ ''Excellent, Halt-sama.''

"Because thanks to Tina's magic, this one had to come straight at me.

''Still, it's not easy to be jumped by a demon all of a sudden and deal with it calmly──Ha, Hurt-sama, are you okay!

　The next thing I knew, my body was trembling.

　This is because I saw the blood spurting out of the motionless hornrabbit flowing to my feet. Even though it was a demon, I felt that I had killed a living thing for the first time. Even in the seventeen years I had lived in my former world, I had never directly killed an animal before.

"Tina..... Oh, I killed a creature........
Mr. Hurt.

　He hugged me tightly as I trembled.

''Hornrabbit is a weak demon. It doesn't directly harm humans, but its flesh is so delicious that many carnivorous demons gather for it. If we don't defeat it regularly, it will cause it to attract stronger demons.

　Tina is trying to justify my actions. I understand what she's saying. I thought I understood. But in reality, I realized that I didn't understand anything.

'This is the kind of world you live in, Master Hurt.

　Tina, away from me, pulls out a demolition knife and approaches the Hornrabbit. Many of the demons in this world are edible. I've eaten Horn Rabbit's meat a few times before.

''That too........ Ya, I'll do it.

　I didn't want to run away.

So tell me how to take it apart.

I'm impressed. Master Hurt is very strong.

　I take the demolition knife from Tina.


　I've held it a few times as part of my training, and it felt very heavy today.