They're coming. They're coming!

　The unrest spread to the soldiers who had been monitoring the movement of Apristos' army from the top of the protective wall of the royal capital.

　The Apristos army had begun to move.
　The soldiers all had desperate expressions on their faces.

　Alheim's strongest forces had attacked the enemy's main force, and that had ended in failure. And it was because they were informed that about 110,000 enemies were heading here.

　The soldiers on top of the defensive wall had seen several of those supposedly strongest forces charging into the enemy's army the moment before. Then they saw a huge thunderbolt strike the enemy lines, blowing away many of them.

　An overwhelming force.
　This could be a victory.

　Many of the soldiers thought so.

　However, after the second thunderbolt struck, the enemies that should have been defeated revived.

　Their numbers were increased by about ten times...

　The soldiers were dismayed, not knowing what it meant, when they were informed by their superiors that the attack by our best forces had failed.

　Then he told them.

　The enemy's full-scale attack is coming.
　Be prepared...


　On the prairie in front of us, 10,000 flaming knights, believed to be the enemy's magic, and behind them a company of 3,000 men and a battalion of 100,000 men were forming a line and coming towards us.

　A truce was negotiated last night, and the messenger's head was delivered as an answer on the part of Apristos.

　The enemy has no intention of stopping.
　They intend to lay waste to this country.
　The limbs of the soldiers were trembling.

　But they could not escape. For the people were still evacuating from the gates of the royal city on the opposite side of the prairie.

　They needed to buy a little time. It was easy to imagine that the women and children who were captured by the enemy forces would suffer terrible consequences.

　I had to buy time for my wife and children to escape at all costs. Many of the soldiers resisted the urge to run away and braced themselves for the enemy's attack.


　The enemy army has reached the middle of the prairie.
　Here an anomaly occurs.

　The flaming knight, who was walking without stagnation, stopped.


　─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─

　Shortly before the flame knight stopped, the prince and his SS were walking behind the flame knight.

　On either side of the prince, the left general and the former general were on either side of the prince.
　A little behind the former general, Hurt was walking behind the former general.

　The prince was intoxicated by the flame knight's overwhelming strength, and the prince was feeling overwhelmed. Normally, he should have stayed in the rear of the private army or the national army, but he had come out to the front of the line because he wanted to see Alheimers being overrun by the Flaming Knights up close and personal.

　The left general was also accompanied by it.

''Hey, you're going to capture the female elves properly, not kill them. I don't care what happens to the men.

　The prince speaks to the former general.

'Yes, sir. I will kill any man who resists, is that alright with you?

I don't mind.

...you've shown no mercy to your country.

　The left general was a little surprised at the former general's easy acceptance of the outrageous prince's order.

''As for me, as long as that country is covered in fear and despair, that's all that matters. Ah, only Tina-Haribel I want to kill with my own hands. Will you forgive me for this as well?

You know that hero?　Well, I don't mind. Why?

It's more of a personal... or, well, parental avenger.

　The former general's body has been taken over by Amon.
　The words now belong to Amon.

　Tina once defeated a demon king raised by an evil god, along with a brave man. The Evil God's mind, which was irritated by that, affected his subordinate, Amon.

　Although he hadn't done anything to Tina directly, Amon hated her with all his heart.

'But I hear that fellow is quite skilled. No matter how strong this knight is, it will be tough to capture him. Or are you saying that you are capable of defeating Tina on your own?''

　The Left General was well aware of the strength of the flame knight in front of him. However, he was not comfortable dealing with a hero who had an anecdote about bludgeoning a dragon to death with his bare hands.

''Ah, even I probably wouldn't be able to win. But I have this guy.''

　Then Amon looked at Hurt.
　Then he ordered.

'Halt, take Tina-Haribel and bring her here. Don't kill her? I'll be the one to choke the life out of him.



No.

　Harte refused to obey Amon's orders.

'What?'

　Amon can't believe his ears.

　There is no way Hurt, who is supposed to be brainwashed by the braces of servitude, would disobey his Lord's orders.

　Amon orders again.

'Order. Bring Tina-Haribel to me.

No, he says no. I hate it.

"...?

　It was definitely Hurt.

What the hell is going on?　Why are you disobeying my orders!　Oh, you must have been totally brainwashed!

　I look at Halt's arm.
　The braces of servitude were firmly attached to that arm.

"I wasn't brainwashed.

What...?
What do you mean?
You're not gonna... are you an enemy of ours?

Oh, I'm Hurt. I'm the second princess of Alheim.
　He is the husband of the hero Tina, your enemy.

　The moment Hurt finished saying that, a spear of fire was thrust at the throats of the prince, the former general and the left general.

　Before they knew it, the flaming knights who had surrounded them had pointed their spears at the prince and the others.

''Wha, why?　Why aren't the servant's armbands working?　No, you were attacking your people. The brainwashing should have worked!

''Something about me, I can't take the effects of my equipment. In other words, even if I equip a legendary weapon, I can't become strong at all. But that means, on the contrary, if I wear a cursed equipment, I won't be cursed.

　Saying that, Hurt removes the slave's bracelet.

　The master who originally put it on - in this case, it would have been impossible to remove it if it were not for the former general that Amon had taken over his body - Hurt removed the bracelet without any difficulty.

''That's absurd...''

　Amon rolls his eyes.

'And was that why I attacked your people?　That's just to convince you guys that I'm one of them. Especially since I didn't want you to get away with it.

　Hurt walks up to Amon.

'What?'

You're one of the evil ones, aren't you?

''──!''

　Harut had sensed the presence of the evil god since he came to Alheim. And when he was approached by the former general and asked to shake his hand, he also noticed that the former general had come in contact with someone related to the evil god.

　Of course, if we meet like this, we can clearly recognize that someone with an aura similar to the Evil God is in the former general's body.

　As a matter of fact, Hurt didn't have that much of a grudge against the Evil God.

　It was because he was quite enjoying his life in this world.

　But as for being killed, he always wanted to get a little bit of payback.

''Because what I'm going to do to you from now on is just to take it out on you.

''Wha...?

　With a fist strengthened by magic power, Hurt struck Amon with his fist.

　The former general's body was wonderfully trained.

　And since Amon, a higher level demon, had taken over his body, ordinary attacks should not have been effective.

　But in spite of that, Amon was blown up in a grand manner.

　The several flame knights who were at the end of the blowing up received Amon.

　The flame knights then threw Amon, who had already lost consciousness, back towards Hurt.

　Towards Amon's face, which is flying at high speed, Hurt's fist with several times the magic power of the first time he struck it...


　He slammed into it with all his might.

　There was a sound that didn't sound like a person hitting something humanoid, and Amon was blown away to a distant mountain.


'Phew, that feels a bit better, doesn't it?'

　The prince, the left general, and the soldiers around him were surprised by what had happened and froze.

　In contrast, Hurt had a clean look on his face.