You have returned with Luca, who has become your wife, and Liushin, who has become your brother-in-law, after transferring to the Holy City, but something is wrong.

　But what's strange is that no one was in the Great Hall of God.

The first thing you need to know is that you're not going to be able to get your hands on any of them.

　Ryushin had lost his short term memory due to the shock of Luca's beating on him.

　He seems to have completely forgotten that I was at the place where Luca was bathing, etc., and all he remembers is that I pulled him out of the house where he was buried in the rubble of the broken house.

　By the way, I haven't told Ryushin that I married Luca yet. Since the story is likely to be complicated, Luca and I decided to talk about it after the commotion in the Holy City has settled down.

''Ryushin, this is the Holy City Sanctum. I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work. Please help me.

'Oh, you have a demon!　I haven't had a chance to fight with all my might since I was able to do full dragonization. You don't mind if I kill him?

　The current Liuxin was much stronger than when he was a freshman when he was defeated by a demon.

　Furthermore, he had mastered full dragonization, so even though he was a demon, he wouldn't fall behind Gu Xiong, who was about eleventh in the pecking order.

''Oh, if you find a demon, you can defeat it. But first, let's meet up with the others.

　It's kind of heartbreaking.

　The demon had done quite a bit of damage and the pace at which the demons were summoning demons shouldn't have been so fast.

　The demon said that there were ten demons under his control and that he would be leading a thousand demons.

　Then even if all ten demons were able to summon demons, each of them would still need to summon a hundred demons.

　According to Tina's magic detection, it took about five to ten seconds for the demons to summon a single demon. That's why I thought there was enough time to do it, but...


　There was a lot of noise outside the cathedral.
　Apparently, the inhabitants have begun to evacuate.

　We're running out of time.
　Let's get a move on.

Luca, come with me.

　I take Luca to the crystal that was destroyed by the demon.

''This is the crystal that was generating the wards protecting the Holy City, but it seems to have been destroyed by the demon... can you fix it?''

It should be fine. But it's just too big, and my magic power isn't enough to completely repair it...

Of course I'll give you your magic. Use it as much as you want.

I understand.

　Saying that, Luca grabbed my hand.

''When my magic power is reduced to about half, please send the right amount of magic power to me. If you can keep my amount of magic power constant, I can concentrate on activating magic.......but that kind of thing, Hurt-san can do it, right?

　Luca relies on me.
　She trusts you.
　I'm a little happy.

Of course I am. I'm going to do it!

What?　Why do you guys look so good at any given moment?

'Shut up for a second Liushin, it's interfering with my concentration.

I'm sorry...

　Woe to you, my brother-in-law!

Okay, here we go.
Yeah. Anytime.

　Luca's body glowed vaguely, and the dragon scales all over his body grew a little larger. At the same time, Luca's amount of magic power increased.

　Luca holds the hand that isn't connected to mine over the crystal.

''Resurrection!''

　It's still great magic.

　As if rewinding time, the crystal is being repaired.

　When about a tenth of the crystal was repaired, Luca's magic power was reduced to about half, so I sent in magic power from Luca's hand that was connected to mine.

　I tried to keep Luca's magic power amount constant.

　The crystal has cracks of various sizes, so the amount of Luca's magic power consumed will change depending on where it is repaired.

　In order to maintain Luca's concentration, he looked at the crystal's wounds and sent magic power to her while predicting the magic power to be consumed.

　In a few minutes, the crystal returned to its original form.

''Phew, it's done!''

Good job. Thanks, Luca.

Heh.

　I patted Luca's head for doing his best, and he smiled happily.

'It was because Hurt-san did as I asked. It was a very comfortable magic.''

Yeah, that's good.

Didn't you guys... get along that well?

　Oh, I forgot you were there.

Well Ryushin, I haven't told you you can speak yet.

What?

　With Luca glaring at him, Ryushin stiffened his body.

　Ryushin's strength and magic are stronger than mine, but after all, a younger brother is no match for his older sister, isn't he?

　Thinking about that, I touched the crystal. I filled it with holy attribute magic and activated the holy wards.

　How much should I send in?

　I didn't want to put too much in and destroy the crystals, so I decided to send them a little at a time.

'For now, it's about 100,000...'

　The moment he sent in a hundred thousand magical power, the crystal flashed intensely and a holy ward unfolded.

　─ Eh.

''This is a warding?　You're a great guy, Hurt.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

　I didn't think 100,000 would be enough.
　I'm glad I didn't send a million or something out of the blue.

　Anyway, with this, the Holy City should be protected from the demons. The only problems that remain are the demons and the demons.

　I decided to move with Luca and Ryushin to the protective wall on the west side where the demons called the demons.


　─ ─ ─ ─ I'm going to...

　When we got to the bottom of the west wall...

　In front of me was a believable scene.

"Oh, no...

　The corpses of the soldiers guarding the Holy City were lying there.

　There were about fifty of them.

　A nearby holy knight told me that they had been killed by the demons and devils who had attacked them as soon as the Holy Wards disappeared.

　The blood drains from my head surreptitiously.

　They will die in my(s) hands.

　It's because I let the demon escape.
　I thought it would take longer for them to attack us.

　You weren't paying attention.

　Why didn't you leave the Flame Knights to defend?

　Why didn't you defeat the demon first and then go call for Luca?

　How did that happen?


　This is all my fault.


Mr. Hurt, are you okay?

　Luca was worried about me.
　That torments me even more.

'My ... because of me, they died.
What?

It's my fault for letting the demon get away. I let the devil out of my sight.

Mr. Hurt!　It's all right. I'll revive them!　So keep your head up!

　I know.

　If Luca is there, all the dead soldiers will come back to life.

　But... but that's not the case.

　I'm afraid of dying.
　It hurts.

　I know if I'm going to die too.

　The soldiers who were lying there must have been scared. They must have been in great pain.

　They must have been much more scared than me, who was reincarnated right after I died.

　And that's all because of me.

　I've seen people die for the first time because of me.

　I know that if they're against me, I'm going to have to kill them.

　If you don't kill them, they'll kill you - that's the world we live in.

　And those soldiers who are now lying in front of me?

　They are not my enemies.
　They were just trying to protect the people in the Holy City from the demons I set free.

　From the demons I set free.


"Luca, I need you to bring them back.
Yes!

And then there's Rusin.
Oh, well... what?


I'll kill the devil myself.