It's an afterimage, but what I used was an alter ego.
　This is an imitation of the skill used by the old lady in that prison city, and unlike the afterimage, it has substance, so it can also attack the enemy.

Bah, you idiot, what...?

　The lion beastman collapsed to the spot.

''Oh, hey, what did you just do?''
I don't know...I heard something about being an alter ego or something...
"Alter ego?　Isn't that an afterimage?
'I mean, how could you do any damage without a sword?'

　If you're a top-notch swordsman, you can cut with your bare hands as well.
　If it's something, it's possible to cut with just an image.

'....A monster, huh........'

　The demons are almost bug breath.

........along with my compatriots, we will be crushed to death by the horde, but okay.......

　That's the last thing he said, and then he died.

　Goggoggoggoggoggogg--.

　I could hear the earth shaking from somewhere.
　When I looked, I saw that there was a cloud of sand and smoke rising all over the city.
　Apparently there really is a large group of demons heading here.

　If it was just me, I could handle it, but as expected, it would be quite painful if I had to protect the swordsmen who were blocked from moving.

''Dad!''

　As I was feeling so depressed, before I knew it, Leila and Ark were running around the square to unbind the swordsmen. ''Great.

''Ko, child?''
'How did you get here?　We need to get out of here fast because it's dangerous!

　It's you guys who should run away quickly.

　No, I'm a swordsman in my own right, so why don't you let him protect himself?
　The problem is that I don't have a sword but can I make one?

　I used yellow magic to create a simple sword.
　I point to them as they pile up at my feet and tell them.

'Use this one.'
A sword?
'And so much of it... where the hell did you get it from?
Look, it's coming out of the middle of nowhere, isn't it?

　You're full of surprises.
　Take it faster than that.

　As if my silent thoughts were understood, they hurriedly picked up their swords.
　When I managed to make enough for all of them, a horde of demons was already approaching the entrance to the square.

　It's in times like these that the "alter ego" comes in handy.
　I created my alter ego again to fight off the swarm of demons.

　Lilia's father looks at me in amazement.

"That really isn't an afterimage, is it?
My alter ego.
'There's a lot of things that don't make sense to me, but well, it's you.
What about the kids?
....

　Ark and Leila followed my example and used their "alter egos".
　But for now, they can only produce two at a time.

"[Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!

　And finally, a horde of demons rushed into the square.







　........In conclusion, we were able to annihilate the demons without so much trouble.
　There was no longer a need to go all the way around the city to defeat the demons that were all over the city, so much so that they were rather helpful in collecting them.

　We also defeated the demons that attacked us with the demons, and it's safe to say that we've almost succeeded in taking back the city with this.

''That's as good as it gets, Arel-san!　I had no doubt that He would save this city again!
''So I haven't seen you for a while, but where have you been while we've been fighting the demons?''
Hey, I can't believe you asked a maiden that.

　He was probably hiding somewhere, just himself anyway.
　I'll have to make sure that my children are taught not to grow up like this.

　Then we went to pick up Laina and the others once we had left them outside the city.
　They seemed to be worried about the kids, and when they saw our faces, they rushed over to us in a hurry.

'Ark, Leila!　Are you okay?　Are you hurt?!
Yeah, don't worry about it, Mom!　It doesn't hurt anywhere!
Well, there must have been demons, right?
There were, but they weren't very strong, were they?　Hey, Ark?
Yes.

　I was rather expecting a more taut opponent.
　I should have let those two Demon King's army leaders and stuff like that fight as well.



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　The demon tribe was unable to believe the scene he had seen himself.

　Hiding on the roof of a house adjacent to the square, he was a beastman with the upper body of a bird.
　He was responsible for circling the sky and finding any surviving humans, but he had come down when he sensed something was wrong in the square.

　What shocked him even more was that not only the boss, Leold, but also the hordes of demons gathered from all over the city, and even the other beastmen, had been annihilated by at most a few dozen humans.

　Particularly different dimensions were the dark-haired young man and the two red-haired children he had brought with him.

''Those guys are dangerous.......I must tell the Demon Lord immediately.......''

　He immediately turned himself around and tried to jump up into the air.
　But just before he does.

You're not going to get away with this, are you?

　Suddenly, a voice whispered in my ear that made me shiver.
　Not just behind me, but almost too closely.

　If he tried to move in the slightest, he would die.
　That instinct made his entire body stiffen like a stone.

''What, who are you........''
'You don't need to know that. Because I'm going to die here and now.
.....

　Then his consciousness was cut off.