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68 – The Black Knight and the Fanatic Warrior

He moved forward, suppressing the soldiers one by one.

Compared to the wartime just a year or so ago, the soldiers all had screws missing.

…Is it possible to retreat this much after just one year of peace?

“Ugh…”

“Ah…It hurts…”

Fortunately, the soldiers who survived survived let out a groan.

Among the soldiers who were charging, those in the rear were faltering, unable to think about this tragedy.

I raised my head and looked at the enemy camp in the distance.

What is there is Anies, one of Prince Freud’s hated enemies.

And standing next to him was a man with black hair and colorful armor.

Even at first glance, he has an Asian-like face that makes it clear that he is from the same world as me.

Is that guy Kenji the hero?

“Wooooo!!”

It filled with magical power and fired it at those watching from afar, shouting loudly.

To let people know that it is useless to present a ragtag group like this.

Quickly, get the warrior down here.

“Ugh…?!”

“Hey…Hey!! Come to your senses!!”

Among the soldiers who were shivering a little distance away, several were seen collapsing and fainting.

…I never thought I would faint from this much shouting.

Seeing that there are soldiers shaking but standing still, I can see that they are poorly trained.

And speaking of the really important crown prince…

Oh no, he fell backwards and rolled on the floor.

Even Anies, that ugly bastard, became a man-child even though he was still standing.

The crown prince seemed to be screaming something loudly, and after a while, everyone started moving at once.

“Withdraw!! Withdraw the entire army!!”

“Go behind the front lines!!”

After supporting the fainted comrades, the soldiers began to fall back.

I left the soldiers rolling on the floor after being attacked by me, but…Well, there’s nothing we can do about this.

As I advanced a few more steps and moved the battlefield a little, soldiers from the Demon King’s army came out and took care of the enemy’s wounded.

If you leave it like that, you might get caught up in a battle and really die, so it’s less burdensome to do it that way.

“…Now, let’s see how it turns out.”

I aimed the Reinforce at the enemy base and flicked my sword as if to provoke.

“I am against it.”

At Madosai Ola’s words, the crown prince rolled his eyes and shouted.

Where the crown prince was pointing with his finger, the black knight was taunting this direction with his sword.

“What are you talking about? Are you saying we should retreat after being treated like this?”

“That’s not what I meant. I’m not opposed to sending the hero out.”

Hearing Iola’s words, the crown prince looked at her, wondering what she meant.

Iola smiled.

“I’m letting the hero fight. But I’m telling you to be prepared.”

“What?”

“…In the hero’s party, how many people…And…Princess Anyes?”

When she went up and looked at herself, Princess Anes flinched and looked at her in surprise.

Anies’s eyes were trembling.

“Could you please lend me the dance of ‘Hero Princess’ here?”

“I…I…”

In response to Ola’s words, Aes stammered, averting her eyes downward.

Honestly, she didn’t want to go.

I don’t know what Iola means by ‘preparedness’, but isn’t it almost certain that we will run into that black knight?

Anies hated that.

I don’t know what it was, but Anies was feeling very uncomfortable with that black knight.

I have a half-confident feeling that if I run into that person, nothing good will happen.

“…Anyes?”

Prince Freud looked at her, perhaps noticing that her condition was strange.

When Prince Freud called her, Princess Anies also raised her head.

“…Princess Anies? Are there any circumstances that make it difficult for you to help?”

“Well…That means…”

“Is it possible that Princess Anies can’t help her empire? Just like Shiella?”

Like Ciella.

When Iola said those words, Anyes jumped.

She and she saw Prince Freud’s notice.

Siella Frost.

A colleague from the warrior party and a friend who shared the same secret.

Think about what happened to her after she was once hated by the crown prince.

After her escape, I didn’t know if she was dead or alive, and I didn’t want to suffer the same fate as her.

“Ah… I understand… I don’t know what your plan is, but I’ll help you too.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Iola smiled brightly.

Anies really hated that faint smile of hers.

“Oh, you’re here.”

「Hmm… So that means he is a new hero?」

I rushed to the battlefield at high speed and looked at the warrior Kenji standing in front of me.

I think he was around his late teens. It’s a face that still hasn’t lost its youthful appearance.

The face is quite handsome. It looks like he’s from that country, so maybe he has a face that could be a host or something?

「You have a good-looking face, but I don’t like it physiologically.」

“Ah…You didn’t like that type, right?”

I let Reinforce’s grumbling words pass through one ear, drew my sword, and took a stance.

The hero Kenji also drew his sword.

I didn’t recognize the scabbard because it was my first time seeing it, but my mouth dropped open when I saw the drawn sword.

That’s a fake reinforcement that I created and replaced.

“…Wasn’t that a hero summoned by the Cult of Fanaticism? Doesn’t the Cult of Cultism have a holy sword?”

「Do you think they have something like that?」

Of course, the Holy Sword Reinforce is not specifically the property of the Goddess Church.

However, the first hero, Ariel, was a believer of the Goddess Church, and since then, all the warriors who have been summoned and used Reinforce have been blessed by the goddess.

…Although it is a fake that I replaced, Reinforce is given to a hero summoned from a religious cult.

It was a very strange feeling.

Although it was said to be a fake, the warrior’s divine power was creeping up as it was an item made of mithril, which has a high magic conductivity.

On the other hand, the real Reinforce I was holding was emitting a black and ominous energy, perhaps due to the effect of this armor.

“…How come that really looks like a holy sword?”

「Are you paying attention? “Why don’t you tell me?!”

As soon as I took up a battle stance with the screaming Reinforce, Kenji immediately rushed at me.

Kenji runs at high speed and slashes vertically without changing his expression.

Chaang!!

Of course, it was fast, but since the movement was fully visible, it was not difficult to catch the sword.

I turned the blocked sword and swung it to take off Kenji.

“Umm…”

「What’s wrong?」

“That guy’s strength as a hero grows strangely fast.”

The output of Kenji’s hero’s power was almost equivalent to what I had trained by rolling around in another world for a year.

I heard that it hasn’t even been 3 months since he was summoned, does this mean it’s already like this?

The guy quickly approached again and swung his sword.

I calmly received the sword one by one and observed its movements.

「Then isn’t it dangerous?」

“…No, I don’t think it’s dangerous.”

「Yes?」

Reinforce’s reaction is understandable.

Your growth rate is twice as fast as mine, so I don’t think it’s dangerous.

But the reason is clear.

“That guy will destroy himself if he goes on like that.”

The reason is simple.

That guy’s power as a hero is growing very quickly.

However, the training and growth speed of the body cannot keep up with it.

「Ah…」

Reinforce seemed to have finally noticed.

Hero Kenji.

Although he hides it with armor, his body is being destroyed every time he moves quickly.

The untrained body is screaming at the explosive acceleration provided by the hero’s power.

Fortunately, the hero’s resilience was able to heal it, but it was further accelerating the problem.

This guy called Gwangshin seems to have quite bad taste.

My body was twisted and broken during the battle, and I was trying to fix it by forcibly tightening it.

Even now, that guy’s physical condition is not good.

Probably, at that level, every time I move, my whole body will scream and writhe in pain.

Nevertheless, he still has an expressionless face and continues to attack with a sword.

“Brainwashing as Zikrune said…? No, mental magic doesn’t work well on a hero unless he gives his permission… Then…”

「…It’s medicine. Unless it’s a poison that destroys the body, the hero’s body will most likely accept it.”

“I guess so.”

As Zikrune said, it is a state where there is no will of one’s own.

This is the only way he can’t get any information.

…If it were Rossweisse, it would have taken a long time to separate the medicinal ingredients from the body, and if it had been Gerhilde, it would have been cured with nanomachines.

The problem is that neither of them are here.

“I can’t help it.”

Then there is only one way.

I put Reinforce into the sheath.

Despite his lack of will, the hero Kenji stopped moving for a moment when he saw me sheathing my sword.

But he seemed to have decided that it was no big deal, and he drew his sword again and charged at me.

Chaang!!

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With a clanging sound, the hero’s sword bounced loudly and was pushed back.

The sword was deflected by the protruding part of the gauntlet on the arm, the armor pulsing with black energy.

Well, this armor is also made of mithril, so if you take a good defensive stance, you can block it.

Just looking at it, it looks like the armor emitting evil energy will be cut off by a fake holy sword containing holy power, but this black and evil energy is all just a show.

The hand holding the weapon was thrown back sharply, and the hero Kenji was momentarily defenseless.

He immediately stretched out his hand and grabbed the guy’s collar tightly.

“Close your mouth tightly so you don’t bite your tongue.”

After giving him a warning that I thought he understood, I clenched my fist with my other hand and struck the guy in the face.

The guy who was drunk on drugs said that everything was his medicine.