This is not looking good.

　A magical power that could make the air tremble was spreading throughout the Holy City.
　One could read anger in that magic power.

''Yohko-san, could this be...''

Hmm. It's the Lord's magic.

Do you mean to say that this magic power that is shaking the air is your own personal property, Mr. Hurt?

Perhaps. I don't know why our Lord is so angry, but at least we won't have to evacuate anymore.

　Yoko, along with Luna, was trying to evacuate the residents of the Holy City as Seira's bodyguard.

　In the middle of the process, the holy ward had been restored, and he wondered if he should stop the evacuation.

　They were trying to escape from the eastern gate, opposite the western protective wall where a large army of demons was attacking, but...

　If the Holy Wards had been put up again, then it was safer to stay in the Holy City than to flee outside the Holy City.

　In the first place, the reason why they wanted to evacuate the residents was because the demons and demons began their invasion of the Holy City before Harut returned.

　If Hurt had returned, there was no need to flee the Holy City.

　It's safest to stay close to him.


''I can't believe that the Holy Wards have been re-erected, but the magic power to this point, all by yourself...''

It's the least you could do for a master.
Yeah. It's Mr. Hurt.

I know it's strange to ask you two, but Master Hurt is the guardian hero who saved this world a long time ago, right?

I don't know much about it, but I'm afraid so.

'Mr. Hurt-san was once transferred to this world by the Creation God and came to this world. You met that Mr. Hurt in the past, didn't you, Seira?

　Hurt had told the entire family everything from the time he transitioned and acted as a hero, to the time he was reincarnated into the body of a five-year-old and now.

　But Yoko wasn't familiar with the story of reincarnation or transition, and she fell asleep in the middle of Hurt's story, so she couldn't answer Seira's question.

　Instead of Yoko, Luna explained to Seira.

Luna explained to Seira on behalf of Yohko: "At any rate, the Lord is back, so it's safe to stay here.

Yeah, that's true. It's just that...

I don't understand why the Lord is so angry. It is inconceivable that Tina and Meldi, who went to stop the demon's advance, would fall behind a demon like that and the demons under their command.

　Yoko gently touched Hurt's magical power that drifted around her. As a nine-tailed fox, she is skilled at reading the emotions of others from the magic power she touched, in addition to the ability to suck out their magic power.

　Halt's magic power is...

　He was filled with regret and anger.

'What in the world has happened...'


　***

　In the skies above the western protective wall, Mai and May continued to shoot down the flying demons until the holy wards were reestablished.

　As spirits, it was easy for them to fly around in the sky, and the incoming demons were not the enemies of the two of them, who had become spirit-king grade beings.

　A few minutes after the sacred boundary was reestablished──.

What?
Did you feel it, May?

Yeah. Master Harte is angry.

　Hurt's magic was transmitted to the two of them as they flew outside the Holy Wards.

''Where's Tina-sensei?''
Safe.
Where's Mr. Merdi?
Safe.

　On the ground, Tina and Meldy were rampaging against a thousand demons.

'Then why?'
I don't know. It's just that I don't like it.

Yeah. What could have upset Master Hurt?
Hmm.

The devil?

Maybe you're right.
Will Master Hurt's mood improve after we defeat the demon?

Beat him?
Yeah, let's take him down.

　All the flying demons have been hunted down.

　The two of them tried to move to the magic power that seemed to belong to the demons behind the large army of demons──though their numbers had already been halved by Tina and Meldi──that were behind the demons.


"You people, how dare you use the demons under my command...

　A demon appeared in front of Mai and May.

　A demon with a flight-type demon under his command came, angry that all of his subordinates had been defeated.


''You're in my way,''

''Ugh!''

　The ice blade slashed the demon's right hand and the flames turned the demon's left hand into ash.

''It's been a while since we did that thing?''
Yeah. Yeah.

　The two spirit bodies join hands.

''Unison ray!''

　A fusion of conflicting attribute magic.

　Magic that would not normally be validated, but was activated as magic in this world when it was forcibly exercised by the spirit itself that controlled the magic.

　The burning ice formed a dragon and attacked the demon.

　The moment that dragon touches the demon...

　There was a huge explosion that engulfed the ground.

　The magic of the two of them, who were at the medium spirit level, was able to defeat the Mahonome, which was highly resistant to magic.

　Mai and Mei were now at the Spirit King level.

　Furthermore, because of the disturbance in the minds of the two contractors, Halt, the limits of the power they usually unconsciously put on themselves were removed.

　The complete fusion of their powers caused destruction that far exceeded their expectations.

　The demon who was hit by the magic disappeared in an instant.
　The Holy Warding managed to endure.

　And the demons on the ground all disappeared as well.


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What the hell is this?　Merdi-san, come here!

　Feeling an improbable increase in magical power above her head, Tina hurriedly called Merdi over.

''Oh no!

　Meldi jumped into Tina's bosom.
　At the same time, Tina deployed multiple layers of magical barriers.

　Immediately after that──.

　The blast laid waste to the area.

　Demons and the surrounding terrain were blown away.
　What was once a demon became indistinguishable from sand and pebbles as it broke apart.

　Tina and Merdi watched the scene from inside the translucent magic barrier.

　It was just in the nick of time.
　-No, Tina's magic barrier alone could not prevent this explosion.

　A flaming knight appeared from the bracelets that Tina and Meldy wore and covered the top of Tina's magic barrier to protect them.

　The bracelet was the one that Hurt had given to the entire family.


''These are........Mai-san and May-san, right?''

Are you trying to kill us?

Just before, I felt Hurt-sama's magic. It is very cold, as if she was angry about something. Perhaps that's what affected the girls who have a summoning contract with Master Halt.


　A few tens of seconds later, the blast stopped.

　All of the thousand demons that were there disappeared without a trace.