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Act 3-21.2: Attack of The Giant
（I guess I have no choice but to clean up this mess and then return as soon as possible.）
After pondering for a while, Kuroki directed his gaze towards the ogres.
「Well, since you refuse to leave, I guess I have to use… slightly forceful means.」
Kuroki unleashed his black flame as he spoke.
「B-Black flame?!」
The ogres were visibly surprised upon seeing Kuroki’s black flame. They weren’t the only ones as even the humans in the venue were shocked beyond belief. The man who had looked like a mundane human being, one you could find anywhere, turned out to be someone completely different and exceptional, someone who shouldn’t be here.
Kuroki ignored all the surprised voices around him and walked towards the ogre.
「D-DAMMIT! THEN I’LL START BY KILLING YOU!!」
Kujig started reciting a spell; a thunder snake appeared on her arm along with a crackling sound.
「O THUNDER SNAKE, STRANGLE MINE ENEMY!!」
The thunder snake took off from Kujig’s arm and flew towards Kuroki. However, Kuroki was not phased as this kind of magic was not enough to affect him. The power of the Thunder Dragon now resided in him, so any thunder attacks could not affect him in the slightest.
Kuroki had learnt his lesson after receiving numerous paralyzing thunder strikes from Thunderbird during his fight with Reiji and the others. Thus, when he recovered, he devised a strategy against such attacks for the future.
Southeast of Nargol, there was an island always surrounded by an eternal thundercloud. On that particular cloud above the island resided the Thunder Dragon. Kuroki and Kuna rode on Glorious and decided to go visit that island and face the dragon.
At first, Kuroki thought that he had to fight the Thunder Dragon in order to gain his powers, but much to his surprise, the Thunder Dragon readily agreed to submit to him and reside within him. Thus, Kuroki, who gained the power of the Thunder Dragon was now impervious to any kind of thunder element attacks.
The thunder snake that took off from Kujig’s hand was coiling around Kuroki’s body.
「This isn’t even enough to tickle me you know.」
Kuroki unleashed his black flame again and erased the thunder snake.
「TCH! HOW ABOUT THIS!!」
A fiery red ball appeared from Kujig’s hand. Kuroki instantly noticed what kind of magic Kujig was trying to use.
（Seriously, explosion magic in this kind of place?!）
A lot of people would die if this kind of magic was unleashed in this closed space. Kuroki quickly invoked a counter-spell to avoid such destruction.
「EXPLOSION!!」
「MAGIC ERASER!!」
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Kuroki’s magic erased Kujig’s spell.
「Kuh, even my strongest spell… SONS! DON’T JUST STARE IN SILENCE! GRAB THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AS HOSTAGES!!」
Kujig screamed to her sons. Hearing her command, the ogres in the venue finally started moving to capture some hostages.
(Oh no!)
Kuroki’s magic was highly destructive, it was not the kind that could be used with precision on specific targets. Even if it could, his magic might end up pulverizing the hostages along with the ogres due to its extremely high firepower. Using his sword to beat them all in less than a second was also practically impossible.
Kuroki was in a dilemma about what to do, suddenly though, something shiny flew around the venue.
「GUAAAH?!」
「GAAAAAAAAAA!!」
The ogres suddenly raised painful wails. Something had cut their limbs. The cuts weren’t fatal wounds, but their sinew and tendons were cut, making them unable to do anything as they writhed in pain.
「Ogres, how dare you make a mess of this long awaited ball.」
An emotionless voice resounded next to Kuroki. When Kuroki looked to his side, he saw that Kuna was already standing right next to him with her scythe.
Kuna had used the power of her scythe to attack all the ogres at the same time. The scythe enabled her to fire many magic blades all at once to cut many enemies at a certain range. Kuna had controlled all of the magic blades and directed them to cut the ogres’ limbs.
「Don’t think that you’ll get an easy, painless death.」
Kuna unleashed a powerful wave of magical power as she spoke. The people in the venue who felt that powerful wave of magical power shrieked right away.
「KUNA, STOP! YOU’RE GOING TO KILL THE PEOPLE IN THIS VENUE TOO!!」
Kuna’s powerful wave of magic vanished as soon as Kuroki warned her.
「Who the hell… are you?」
The female ogre fell on her rear.
「These two… seem to be bad news…」
The other ogres crawled and gathered around Kujig.
「DAMMIT! SONS, LET’S LEAVE THIS PLACE AT ONCE!!」
At that, the ogres vanished.
Kuroki decided to overlook them since they were basically on the same side. After making sure that all the ogres had left, Kuna came to Kuroki’s side.
「Thanks for your help, Kuna.」
「Kuroki, our long awaited ball is…」
Kuna spoke with a sad look on her face.
「Well it really can’t be helped… we can only wait for another chance.」
Kuroki patted Kuna’s head as he spoke, fixing her mood.
「It’s time to go back, Kuna.」
Honestly speaking, Kuroki wanted to go back to Nargol as soon as possible. Even without the ogres’ raid, the fact that Shirone, Kyouka, and Kaya  were also in this very country was enough reason for him to return to Nargol.
「I understand, Kuroki.」
Kuna then started to activate the teleportation magic.
At that very moment.
「Please wait a minute!」
Kyouka suddenly called out to them.
「I remember it now. YOU’RE THE GUY WHO GROPED MY CH*ST BACK IN THE HOLY REPUBLIC OF LENARIA!!」
Kyouka spoke while pointing at Kuroki.
「Groped… this woman’s ch*st? Kuroki, what’s the meaning of this?」
Kuna stopped activating the teleportation magic to ask Kuroki. She started pouting upon hearing Kyouka’s remark.
Maybe pouting was an understatement.
「In addition, your name seems to be familiar. I DEFINITELY WON’T LET YOU GO!!」
Kyouka went towards Kuroki’s direction.
「WHO! ARE! YOU?! WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH KUROKI?!!」
But, Kuna stood in her way, ready to kill Kyouka with the scythe in her hands. Kuroki hugged Kuna to prevent her from going too far.
「Stop, Kuna… The ogres have left. We have to leave this place immediately.」
「MILADYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!」
The moment Kuroki uttered those words, someone landed in the venue while shouting.
「…Shirone!!」
Kuroki unintentionally spilled the name the moment he saw the person who descended into the venue.
（Dammit, I ended up wasting too much time! We have to escape from this place quickly!）
Yes, the one who arrived in the venue was none other than Kuroki’s childhood friend, Shirone. He had still ended up encountering her. And then, a woman in maid clothing fell from above right after Shirone. It seems that Shirone had pulled the maid along with her.
「MILADY!!」
The maid rushed over the moment she found her master.
「KAYA!!」
The two hugged each other.
「EVERYONE OKAY?!」
Shirone asked while looking around the venue.
It was then that her gaze caught Kuroki’s figure, her eyes opened wide in surprise.
「Eh, Kuroki? Why are you…?」
Shirone approached Kuroki while muttering his name. But, she suddenly stiffened at the sight of Kuroki hugging Kuna.
Shirone’s line of sight then moved to Kuna.
「Kuroki… Who IS tHaT GiRl?」
Though she was asking with a smile on her face, Shirone’s eyes were dead serious.
It was the look of an enraged yandere.
「AND WHO THE H*LL ARE YOU?! WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT “MY” KUROKI WITH THESE KIND OF EYES?!」
In return, Kuna asked back while pointing her scythe towards Shirone.
「My… kUROkI? WhO… ArE YoU To KUroKI? CoUld It Be ThaT It’S BeCaUSe of… YoU?」
Shirone readied her sword upon seeing Kuna pointing her scythe towards her.
「Kuna stop. We have to go back to Nargol.」
Kuroki hugged Kuna to stop her from charging at Shirone.
「Okay… as you wish, Kuroki」
Kuna readily agreed since she felt from his voice that Kuroki was somehow… at his wits end. She invoked the teleportation magic as fast as possible.
「WAIT, KUROKI!!」
Seeing that, Shirone ran in a hurry towards Kuroki and Kuna. However, Kuroki wasn;t going to allow her to get close to him.
「O Black Flame!!」
Kuroki fired his black flame towards the fast approaching Shirone.
「WAIT, KUROKIIIIIIIIII!!」
The teleportation magic started working right at that moment.
（…Sorry, Shirone.）
Kuroki apologized to Shirone in his mind right before teleporting back to Nargol.