As the light slowly fades away and the vision opens up.

Where am I?

　Straight away, Lara scurries over and looks around.
　Cynthia is also next to her. It seems that the transference magic has succeeded successfully.

　I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to make it work.

''It looks like an abandoned village.''

　The first thing I saw was a row of tattered huts and a broken fountain.
　A desolate air drifted through the village, and the wind that blew through was cold.

I wonder if anyone is out there?
Lara, be careful.
What?

　Lara rolls her eyes.
　Indeed, just like she said, I don't see a single human being in sight.

'Yeah ... there's ...'

　

''Hey, why don't you get the hell out of here. I don't know who you are from, though.

　I hissed, turning back to the seemingly empty, battered hut.

　It didn't try to come out at first, but eventually gave up.

　But he eventually gave up.


Yaaaahhhh!


　I shouted and jumped out of the shadows, swinging my sword and attacking me.

'Hmph.'
I...!　Ugh, you can't move...!

　The moment the sword was about to hit me, I used a restraining spell to block it from moving.

I'm not going to be able to tell you what to do. I would like to have a word with you.

　I speak to him while looking at his face.

　The restraining spell has blocked it from moving, and its hostility is evident.

The story is...?　You've been rampaging around a lot until now, is that it? The cowardly Royal City Army doesn't even have a mouth to talk properly anyway.

　He moved his limbs around unsteadily.

"Ho, that's pretty good.

　I can't help but blurt out a few words when I see it.

　I haven't been able to escape from the restraints completely. You shouldn't even be able to wield a sword properly.
　But even though you are under a restraining spell, you are moving, albeit only slightly. I'm surprised by that.

''You mean you have resistance to magic?

　I say and break the restraining spell.

'My name is Kurt. What's your name?
"....!　I don't have a name to call you by!

　It tightened its grip on the sword even more.

　But it does not seem to be attacking again.
　Probably because it believes that attacking again would be a repeat of the last attack.
　I've also been able to analyze the strength of the battlefield.

''Then I'll let you search your memory.
What the hell are you...

　I ran my hand over the man's forehead, reading the memories beneath the surface.
　A piece of information about him pops into my head, albeit in a vague way.

'Hmmm ... looks like his name is Riley.

　When I pointed out that, that guy........Riley's eyes widened in surprise.

　The person in front of him was like the hero Riley, who would later defeat the foolish king Aurelian.

　.........hmm?　And this guy ... well, he's funny. I don't know if that's possible.
　Once I realized that, I slowly let go of Riley's hand.

　At that moment.

"Riley-sama!
Go!　Master Riley's life will be protected, even if we're dead!
"Oh, oh, oh!

　One by one, people came out of the shadows.

'Wow, Kurt!'
Everyone....has a weapon...!

　They will be surrounded by them.
　They are swinging their swords and spears from all sides.

Don't worry about it.

　I quickly activated my wardrobe magic to block their attacks.

The only way to get rid of them is to use them.　Warding magic?
Impossible!　I didn't know you could quickly set up enough boundaries to hold up in front of this many people!

　Apparently, they know about the existence of ward magic.
　They knew that no matter how much they attacked, they couldn't break the warding magic, and eventually distanced themselves from us.

''Hmm, we've got a pretty good idea.

　Apparently, this is Aurelian's memory of 500 years ago.
　On the side of Riley, the younger brother of the Foolish King, that is to say, where the Revolutionary Guard hid out in an abandoned village.

"Then I'll tell you what. Then I must inform you that I have no intention of fighting you. In other words, I am with you in a quest to avenge Aurelian.

　He spreads his hands out and tells everyone.

''That's not.......how can you believe that!

　That's what I voiced to Riley, who was kneeling next to me.
　If I showed the slightest opening, he would swing the sword in his hand again.

''Mm ... how can I make them believe me?

　I can make the Fool King give up Aurelian.

　It could be that I take on Aurelian myself.
　But Riley here in front of me is also important to Aurelian.
　In order to annihilate the core of Aurelian's magic, we need this Riley to help us.

　As I pondered what to do.


Oh, my God!　The demon controlled by the Royal Army is coming toward us!　In another fifteen minutes, they'll be on their way here!


　Suddenly, a man who was out of breath came running in and shouted that with a swordsmanlike atmosphere.
''Wha, what!　You mean they know about this place!　So you're still a spy.

　Riley gives me a penetrating look.

'Relax. Even if you did, there was no way to contact him. There was no time for that either. It's impossible to prepare a marching demon army in such a short amount of time.

　When I explained this, Riley's face contorted, "d*mn....

Kurt, what do we do now?
If we don't we're going to get these people killed too...

　Lara and Cynthia move their faces closer.

'You two know what I'm going to do, don't you?
Ehehe. I just wanted to ask you.

　Lara scratched her cheek.

　The demons of the Royal City Army are coming towards us.
　Then what I will do.....

"We can only intercept them.

　The same as in the past.

Sounds like quite a few.

　The hordes of demons were writhing and moving towards the village.
　There must be more than three hundred of them.

''Well, let's do it,''

　I raised my hand and went to form a magic formula at the same time.
　Apparently, there are no demons with decent intelligence.
　That's also true. They are low grade demons that are only controlled by the Royal City Army.
　He remembered how Maynard of the 《Four Great Sages》 used to control demons using magic tools in the past. He must have been manipulating them on the same principle.

''Efreet Meteor.

　A horde of demons rushed in foolishly.
　A huge explosion was created in the center of it.
　The demons' decapitation echoed around them.


　And.........by the time the smoke cleared, the demons that were there so much had been eradicated in the blink of an eye.


　And that's every last one of them.

　At the same time, there was a thunderous roar and cheers from behind.

All in all, you've killed that many demons in one fell swoop?
"Isn't this guy a rebel for the King's Army? So why would he...?
She's a monster. Destroying over 300 demons in an instant.
Is this guy our savior?

　Half of it was joy at the demon being taken care of.
　And the other half seems to be upset with my power.

　I turn around and say to them, "It's no big deal.

"It's nothing more than this. If you wish, even if there are hordes ten times larger than this, shall I destroy them?