"The Voltex of the Spirit King!

A blue bolt of lightning sounded throughout Brahms' body.
The blue light that erupted from his entire body gradually began to stabilize and converge.

Ichijo gasped at the sight of it.
It looked as if the lightning was taking the form of a man, walking.

'Lord Ichijo, you will have to cover me next time.

At that moment, Brahms disappeared.

Even Ichijo lost sight of him.

The demons focused on the wave of magical power and looked for Brahms, who had disappeared.
Scurrying around the area, the demon tribe behaved suspiciously.

''There he is!

And the place that one of the demon tribe pointed to.
It was in the sky.

But I noticed it too late.

''A torrential downpour of lightning (Lightning Rain)!

At that time, a huge magic circle appeared in the sky.

--a discharging blue magic circle.

Countless blue lightning bolts rained down on the demons on the ground from there.

The demons who were hit by the lightning instantly stopped their hearts from beating.
Then, they repeated the spasms and the surface turned black.



　''Great........''

Ichijou couldn't help but mutter.

The demons' convulsions did not stop, and when they did, they ignited from within.
But by that time, they had already died out.

The demon tribe, who saw their compatriots dying in large numbers, stopped laughing at the stone, and when they did, their expressions were filled with anger.

I don't know what the standard of the demon race is.
They showed some leeway against Ichijo's magic, and changed their hue at Brahms' lightning bolt.
What in the world was the difference?
But that's how much Ichijou is still inexperienced.
Maybe that's what the demon tribe decided to do.

The Brahms' lightning bolt had caught Ichijo's attention, and as if to take notice, he attacked the demons again.

But that was when it happened.
A shadow took off from the crowd.
And it was biting straight at Brahms.

''Nah!''

Ichijo paused and looked up at the sky.
Then he saw Brahms' arm and the blue demon's foot clashing with each other.




　"You're........not just any guy, are you?

Brahms floats with the help of Voluto, the spirit king of lightning.
Brahms caught the blue demon's kick with his arm.
''I'm Kaiser Chastain. How do you do?　--Human.

Shastaine? ...I see...so, royalty.

Kaiser Chastain.
He's the demon tribe that Masamune escaped from before.

''Hmph!''

Brahms kicked Kaiser away.
Then once he made his distance.

'Enslave a spirit, and in the meantime, use all the power you want?　That's what I'm talking about, Master Human!

"He's kind of bugging me, isn't he?

'Temper your anger, Mr. Volt, it was only a provocation.

Hmm....

The Spirit King sulked as if he had been scolded.

Then Kaizel didn't miss the opportunity and chanted a magic.

''The punishment of burning at the stake [Burning Flegimento]!

Then a magic circle appeared in front of the demon tribe, and four fires in succession attacked Brahms.

''d*mn!''

It adhered to both of Brahms' limbs and lit up.

'What's this?　I can't feel the heat, but...

At that moment, Kaiser put his spirit into his voice and increased his firepower.

''Kaaah!''

Then the flames in both of Brahms' limbs suddenly spread over his body, taking away his arms and legs' freedom and spreading his hands as if he were being crucified.
And he tried to resist...

Execution!

The moment Kaiser said that, a tremendous fire suddenly erupted from Brahms' feet.

''Hahahahaha!''

Kaiser smiles high.

Brahms, engulfed in flames, is no longer in sight.
There is only a column of flames burning vigorously.
But at that moment, a momentary discharge from the gap in the pillar caused the flames that had been burning to scatter to the surroundings as if they were being ripped off.

"Tsk!

Kaiser clicks his tongue in frustration.

There was the figure of Brahms wrapped in a discharging sphere.

'Oh no, I was caught off guard, thinking it was the same as the rest of the demon race.

'It's a bad habit of yours. You haven't been able to recover from that since you were a child~'

I'll do my best, sir.

'No, I'm too old for this. More than that, Brahms?　You have a proper distribution of magic power, don't you?　You know how you lose sight of things when things get hot, right?　You can't even use my power if my magic runs out, so think about it properly, okay?''

I know, sir.

Then Brahms looked for Fiora on the ground, wary of the Kaiser.

'Fiora!'

A ridiculous voice rang out from the sky above.
Then Fiora, who was fighting with the demon tribe elsewhere, noticed.

''Cover Lord Ichijou for him.

I understand!

Fiora immediately heeded the order and joined Ichijo.
Brahms let out a sigh and calmed down.

I've heard that humans are weak, but there are some bad guys out there. The other day it was the red guy and you?

'Red? .....

For a moment, Brahms is reminded of the mask of Nito.

'Come on!　Let's keep going!　I've got some work to do!　We're going to kill you, and then we're going to kill the guys downstairs, and then we're going to find the Demon King's daughter!

The daughter of a demon king?

It is there that Brahms learns for the first time what the demons are up to.
But he has no idea.
Where is the daughter of the demon king?

Couldn't be the Demon King's daughter in that hall? .....

But I can't even think about it.

You're not careful again!

Then the two men began to fight again.



　Ichijou was watching them.

'Ichijou-dono!　Let's step back for a moment!

Yes!

At Fiora's suggestion, he distanced himself from the demon tribe once.

Brahms was supposed to summon the Spirit King and wipe out the demon tribe's crowd.
However, that plan broke down when Kaiser stopped him in his tracks.

''Looks like we're going to have to do this ourselves, right?

It's been my intention all along.

The quintessential fellow SSS-ranked adventurer.
He doesn't know how to be frightened.
But Ichijo isn't scared of anything.

But he doesn't know how long his magic power will last, and the more he fights, the worse the situation gets.
But there's no way to stop the attack.
Everyone is in a vicious circle.

''Don't look at me like that!

Just then, an arrow flew in there.
Ichijou's reaction was delayed and he was hit by an arrow to his left shoulder.

''Guh!''

Bleeding from his left shoulder, Ichijou stepped back.

The demons laughed stupidly at the situation.
Overwhelmingly, this one had no room to spare.
Violence in numbers could easily shatter the opponent's spirit.
As proof of this, the other mages gradually reduced their numbers.
The mages were engaged in an offensive and defensive magic, but neither their magic power nor their spirit could last for long.

Fiora entered in front of Ichijo, who was hit by an arrow in his shoulder.
Then Fiora lit a light in both hands and stretched it out as it stuck to the front.
Then the bow appears there.

Fiora quickly set the bow up and traced the bow with her right hand, producing an arrow of light.
Then Fiora's attack begins.

'Lord Ichijou!　Are you okay?!

Fiora checked on Ichijo's safety as she fired her arrows.

'No problem.'

Fiora was reassured by those words for the first time.
Then Fiora shot more arrows in rapid succession.

Among the swordsmanship that Masamune had received from Xiong before, there was an elven sword technique called 【Lint】.
The technique Fiora is performing now is one of the lint.

Lint is an ancient martial art mainly used by elves.
It's the most efficient way to stand and put strength into your body, in other words, the way you use your body, whether it's swordsmanship or archery.
It is the most efficient way to kill the enemy in battle.
The elves have studied this style for a long time.
The culmination of that is Lint.

At that moment, Ichijou pulled out the arrow on his left shoulder.
Ichijo stands up and summons Excalibur once more.

Then, along with Fiora, Ichijo returned to the battlefield again.



　Meanwhile, Oswald was running around the battlefield, protecting those mages.
He controlled the giant that he had secretly borrowed from Brahms earlier and sent it around to cover the mages.
But the giants had already lost their weapon pillars as well.

In a demon country where the surrounding forest is crawling with S-ranked monsters, SS-ranked monsters are not uncommon.
If it was a human opponent, but against the demon race, even summoning magic couldn't be that effective.
The only people who were surprised by this giant, after all, were his relatives.

''Oswald!''

It was then that Sabrina and Patrick joined the battlefield.