Oratorio. The young man who claims to be a holy beast says so without much emotion. During the action of the young man throwing a church-marked sword from his waist and lightly stroking his blade, Cecil, crucified on a tree by a spear, spits blood with a gurgling sound. Power is lost from the body.
âNo, I came up with a good thingâ
Oratorio smiled strangely with a refreshing smile, pointing his sword at me casually.
â10-man captain Andy Smithson. Cecil may still be saved. Hurry up and helpâ
â!?â
âOr do you run away? Well, thatâs not a wrong reaction for a mortal person. You can choose. You can run away for fear of the holy beast or you can run away because you donât want to be involved in the reality of human death. For my part, itâs good for you to expose that kind of intangibleâ
ââŚâŚYouâ
âOh, good eyes. Even though you donât seem to have the ability, you have good eyes that donât get lost. Thatâs goodâ
Oratorio smiles as he slaps his palm with the belly of his sword. He is a man who behaves suspiciously. However, if he is involved in this, Cecil will have no possibility. Perhaps in this sanctuaryâŚâŚCecil could be saved from this state, which is the highest peak of Trot´s magic research. I couldnât run away when I heard that.
âCecilâŚâŚ!â
Itâs only a day since we first met, but I know how hard this girl is, how cute she is and how much sheâs valued by everyone. Can you say? I jump into the tree, pull out the spear stuck in her chest and barely catch the falling Cecil. More blood gushes out of the wound, staining my chest.
âCecil, hold onâ
ââŚâŚGohuuâŚâŚâ
Cecil coughed a little and vomited blood. At the very most important time, I look up to question Oratorio who said so how Cecil can be saved. Oratorio was slowly approaching us.
âCome on, Cecil. Stand up. Iâm going to judge the traveler who disturbed meâ
âNaaâ
He spreads his hands in a playful motion, but twists his body slightly and pulls his sword. The next moment itâs a hitting move.
âIf you donât stand and stop me, the poor and helpless young man who tried to help you will die without knowing anything?â
âHe, Hey, you, Cecil is savedâŚâŚâ
âCome on Cecilâ
Oratorio who ignores my voice and finally comes in between. And to my surprise, Cecil stood up.
âCecil!?â
âGo down, pleaeâŚâŚgehuuâ
âGood performance Cecil. But can you protect someone just by standing up? Iâm thinking of reaping him. You donât think I have the heart, do you?â
âOratorio-senseiâŚâŚ!â
Cecil made a mysterious noise from her body, wiped the blood from her mouth with her sleeves and picked it up to steal the spear that pierced her.
âYes. Letâs continue. Either you protect him and defeat me, or he abandons you and runs away. Either is the decisionâ
Oratorio stuck his sword out at me without hesitation. Cecil blocks it with the bloody spear.
âThere is no break in the movement. Do you think that kind of recovery speed will be useful for fighting?â
âI, I wonât let youâŚâŚ!â
Even if I move, Oratorio doesnât hesitate and shoots a powerful sword attack. Before I dodge it, Cecil manipulates the spear with her quivering arm to prevent Oratorio from stepping on. What are you letting a girl with a hole in her chest doâŚâŚ!
âWhat are you going to doâŚâŚâ
âYou donât need to know. Well, if you die, grudge yourselfâ
Oratorio easily recovers while being cut off by Cecilâs spear. Cecil protects me with the feeling that only the fighting spirit supports her body and her breath is constant. What kind of situation is it? Whatâs happening? What is this guy thinking? I donât understand the meaning at all. But.
âOratorioâŚâŚyou mean killing me?â
âThatâs rightâ
Oratorio simply affirms the unreasonableness.
âMy hobby is to protect the sanctuary. Itâs a disadvantage to the sanctuary. For us, the authority to eliminate disturbing moleculesâŚâŚno, itâs ridiculous that a holy beast has authority. Yes, with the intention to eliminate it. You got in my way. That makes me stand outâ
âŚâŚHe said I got in the way. Isnât it like inducing?
âCome on, pray, Andy Smithson. May the dying girl perform a miracleâ
Oratorio holds the sword again and tries to step into me. Cecil moves like a flutter and protects me. There was no technique or anything. She is going to stop the sword with her body. If you put another sword strike in such a body, she would really die.
âSt, Stopââââââ!!!â
I scream, and.
Oratorio blows off beside it with a catastrophic sound.
âLetâs take it as a declaration of war. Youâll regret having reached out to my subordinatesâ
Dianne was crouching barefoot in her underwear in front of me. She blew Oratorio tens of meters away with a flying kick. How far did he fly exactly?
âHo. Youâve taken the initiative. âŚâŚBut, a monster cat isnât going to get on with itâ
Laila jumps out of nowhere and shakes pyro from her arms.
âEhâŚâŚâ
Cecil blinks her eyes as she stands by clinging to her spear.
âItâs all right nowâ
âŚâŚThere was some calculation. Laila will notice this flashy exchange, she said. Dianne was faster, but itâs okay because these two came.
âMore than that, Cecil, the woundâŚâŚâ
At worst, it might be a war with the sanctuary, but I was more concerned about the wounds of the girl in front of me. I unfold her blood-stained clothes and try to identify her wounds.
âYa, iyaaa!?â
I was slapped. âŚâŚI, Itâs powerful. Iâm sure Iâm dying.
âBut Cecil!â
âPl, Please leave me alone, Iâm already healed!â
Cecil twists and shouts.
âHaâŚâŚ?â
The blown-out Oratorio is back there. His half body is in a strange shape due to Dianneâs kick, but while healing it with a rattling noise, he raises both hands and makes a surrender pose.
âVery disrespectful. âŚâŚI forgot to say that Cecil wouldnât die by that muchâ
âEhâŚâŚwh, what do you mean?â
âThere is such magicâ
Dianne examines Cecilâs body. There was a thing and the torn of the back side was shown to me. âŚâŚThere was nothing left in the place where it should have been pierced by the spear.
- -
Cave. There may be any number of Mt. Leica, which was originally a volcano, but there is only one holy beast on the mountainside. I, Laila, Dianne and Cecil, who boarded Shoegazer and Serenade, soon met the Lord there.
ââŚâŚWhat kind of business, my friend and my beloved child?â
The holy beast to be enshrined is a sky tiger. However, its body is so large that it can be mistaken for a different species from Shoegazer and Serenade. Roughly double. Itâs a size that makes me a little worried if it can get out of this cave.
âItâs a tourist guide. Canât you ask me to introduce yourself, Dab?â
The moment Shoegazer says that, the sky tiger stares at us.
âA black dragon appears on a sky tiger. Itâs like a fairy tale, a fairy tale that is absurdâ
âSheâs a guest, a guestâ
âItâs a better understanding, my friend, or is it already overwhelmed?â
âShut up!â
After making a crushed laugh, the giant sky tiger got up. Itâs even bigger when it stands up. Perhaps because itâs a small space, itâs a feeling of intimidation comparable to a dragon.
âMy name is Dabwise, the holy beast of this land. As you can see, the remnant of a sky tiger. Are you satisfied with this?â
âTh, Thatâ
Cecil looks up at him and begs with a slightly tense face.
âIf possible, explain that I have the ability to regenerate Dab-san!â
âŚâŚYou call it frank instead of being nervous.
âYou may explain such a story, friendâ
âYou know that I donât know how to do it at allâ
âI think it would be easier to draw it to you than to persuade the dragon with a half-possible explanationâ
Shoegazer and Serenade each say they have no body or lid. Dabwise sighed from its huge mouth and punched a claw at Cecil.
âAguu!?â
âIt hurts!â
Cecil reacts quickly and bends back, but Shoegazer she was riding on is cut by the claw.
âItâs like thisâ
The next moment, a green light wraps around Dabwise. The same kind of light gathered at the wound on Cecilâs body and began to heal.
âMy original spell ăContract of Lifeă. To be precise, itâs more about sharing injuries than ability to regenerate. I take on the wounds of the subject and their regeneration. I have given a few of the Temple Blaze, including Cecil and Mustang. To avoid accidental death and to strengthen the training efficiency of newcomersâ
But the problem was that the wound had passed through Cecilâs boobs again. The torn clothes and the healing wounds are lustrous. I involuntarily gaze at it. And Cecil glares at me and hits Dabwise with unfocused anger.
âWhy do you do it suddenly! It hurts!! Donât bother to cut it off!â
ââŚâŚBy the way, there was something called shame. Female knights are troublesomeâ
âSomething terrible!!â
Cecil turns bright red and gets angry. Laila, behind Cecil, smiles and hangs her clothes on her, turning her gaze at Dabwise.
âIt seems to be a convenient technique. If you like, can you tell me the principle. âŚâŚMy master is a short-lived personâ
âI donât mind teaching you, but this is something we can do because we are immortal. Even though itâs a dragon, itâs dangerous to directly replace the dying wounds of others. Besides, it has no effect of prolonging the life of short-lived species. I would have said, this is a shared injuryâ
âMuuâ
âŚâŚI thought ăOooă the moment I heard Lailaâs idea, but isnât it so convenient?
âAnd I think itâs right in the end to live the lifespan of something that has a lifespan. There is no limit to what you want for a long time, but infinity is too emptyâ
Dabwise says the same thing as White Soulâs anguish. I donât think itâs a proposition that denies living from the point of life that I canât live for 100 yearsâŚâŚafter all, is it a problem that only the parties involved know?
âAnd there are drawbacks to this techniqueâ
Dabwise makes a self-mocking expression in the way of a tiger.
âCan you tell us about the drawbacks?â
Dianne makes a new point. However, Dabwise muttered in his mouth, ăWell knownâŚâŚă.
âIf I move here, the blessing will be cut off. This cave is a transmitter that has been carefully prepared to assist magic. Besides, the effect disappears even if the subject is too far away from Leicaâs attentionâ
âItâs a versatile techniqueâŚâŚâ
âHere, thatâs enough and dragons know that magic isnât that usefulâ
âHo, thatâs exactly right. âŚâŚBut it could be used for something. I want to ask for teachingâ
âGoodâ
Apparently, Laila seems to be taught by Dabwise as it is.
âWhat should we do, Andy? âŚâŚI think weâll be staying for another nightâ
âIt canât be helpedâ
Serenade, who carries me and Dianne, turns around before telling the decision.
âH, Hey, Serenadeâ
âShoegazer, you are at your discretionâ
âTsk. Dry guyâ
Serenade is polite on the outside, but it seems to be a type that is not sticky among friends, for better or for worse.
âAh, thatâs right. Serenade, if you like, I´m not sureâ
âOkayâ
When I got here, I tried to see all the holy beasts.
The last one. Shoegazer, Serenade, Slash, Oratorio, Dabwise, White Soul. Now that Iâve seen these six, I want to see the last one before leaving.
âWell, Euphonica isnât the kind of person you have to keep as secret, so I donât mindâŚâŚI hope you get caughtâ
âIs it a wild kid?â
âBecause the original is a flying dragon, who likes the sky, its whereabouts are not stableâ
Mt. Leica is pretty big with this. Although the holy beast can only move around, it seems that it can still move within a range of nearly 10 kilometers in diameter. âŚâŚDonât feel sorry for Breakcore, which has a diameter of several hundred meters at most, where she can live properly.
âBut isnât it easy to find a flying dragon? If you fly, youâll know and itâs a big creature in its own rightâ
âItâs certainly big, but the forest here is tallâŚâŚand, depending on its high flight ability, it will fly to the top of the mountain and the other side of the mountain without any problemsâ
âWell, if you canât meet, you should give upâŚâŚâ
âYes, Iâm sorryâ
Serenade runs over the forest without sound. Itâs a little cold, but itâs not enough to catch a cold because of the body temperature of Dianne and Serenade. âŚâŚAnd after a while, a huge shadow that breaks through the clouds and plunges can be seen in front.
âThat!â
âYes, thatâs Euphonica. I wonder if I can catch upâ
âIsnât it possible with the speed of a sky tiger?â
âI can grab it anywhere in the air, so if itâs a small turn, Iâm second to none, but when it comes to straight speedâŚâŚIâll do my best. Youâll bite your tongue, so donât talkâ
Serenadeâs muscles are uplifted and her speed goes up. The wind pressure becomes quite unfashionable.
âAndy, lower yourself. Youâll be blown awayâ
âYesâ
Follow Dianne and bend down to stick to Serenadeâs fur. Even the slightest reply let me bit my tongue. After all, tigers are not vehicles. Even so, the distance didnât shrink easily, but Euphonica´s side started to slow down with its wings, so we managed to succeed in running side by side.
âWhat? ShoegazerâŚâŚno, itâs Serenadeâ
âFinally caught upâ
It is a very fresh sight that a flying dragon speaks. And some figures can be seen on the back of the flying dragon.
âSister, I say, I think these two would have been brothers if they had a previous lifeâ
And the landing point seems to be a gathering place for holy beasts and although there is nothing in particular, there was Slash lying down in a small open space and the students were enthusiastic about it. Such a stupid bear, if youâre not good at it, people are likely to die just by sitting around, but the boys and girls innocently bury themselves in their fur or ride on their backs and they donât seem to be afraid.
âItâs popular, SlashâŚâŚâ
âShoegazer is the same, but I like childrenâ
âIs that so!?â
ââŚâŚThatâs why itâs rational if you donât fight. Heâ
Itâs surprising.
âYaaâ
Oratorio also appears there. After doing that much, it was carefree. No, it wouldnât be too scary for a holy beast to get revenge.
âDonât be so wary. Did you go to Dabwise? That technique can only be used by consciously practicing to actively connect the power of regeneration. Please understand that it was such trainingâ
âWhy did you use me as a pretext?â
âI think Cecil will be disillusioned if youâre just sitting back. Hey, heroism isnât popular right nowâ
ââŚâŚI donât mean thatâ
I canât defeat it. I mean, only this guy is unlikely to get along.
âOriginally, Iâd like to break up the five bodies. Just getting tired will cause a loss and my subordinates will feel uncomfortable, so Iâll refrain from doing soâ
Dianne doesnât break her sword-swallowing eyes. Serenade sighs.
âOratorio. Please come for a moment. I donât think you are suitable for peopleâ
âEh. Wait a minute, SerenadeâŚâŚwaa, donât bite me, my arms are good, but these clothes are expensive!?â
âIf you donât come, Iâll bite you hereâ
âDonât get angry! Itâs good, isnât it!â
Serenade and Oratorio leave the woods. And Lantz and Goto, who got off the back of Euphonica, approached me with a grin.
â10-man captain Smithsonâ
âI did itâ
âWhats upâ
âHuhuhu. I checked it with himâŚâŚthereâs a gap in the womenâs bathâ
âIf you use eyeglasses, you can see from a nearby rocky mountainâŚâŚâ
âWell doneâŚâŚâ
When I was caught by them and tried to make a bad face, I remembered that Dianne was there.
âAndy. And Lantz, GotoâŚâŚI donât like being seen without permission, aside from showing itâ
ââŚâŚEh, th, thatâ
âInspection of belongings. Lantz, Goto. Guide me to the roomâ
âWhaâ
â100-man commander Dianne!?â
It seems that Dianne confiscated Goto and Lantzâs two spectacles, which they seem to have bought when they went to the royal capital. âŚâŚI hope there is something good, both of you.
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