āHahahaha. ā¦ā¦ā A shadow loomed from behind me.
He seemed to be out of breath, but he showed no signs of slowing down, so I canāt be too careless. I ran through the tree and kept just enough distance to avoid being caught. I was almost near the target area.
Luke, who was relaxing beside a tree, came into my view.
āHuh??ā
Luke noticed me running towards him, and Ms. Grace was coming up behind me and was hesitating on whether or not he should get away from the tree.
I glanced behind me and saw that Graceās gaze, sharp as a beast that had found its prey, despite the pained expression on her face, shot through Luke, who was beside the tree. The moment Graceās gaze left me, she turned 180 degrees and pulled away from her side in one fell swoop.
āAh! Wait! Iām sorry, Miss Grace, Iām sorry!ā
Grace reached out to me as much as she could, but she couldnāt reach me. Then she increased her speed from before and separated the distance in one fell swoop.
āWell, thereās no helping it. Letās start with Luke.ā
Miss Grace decided she couldnāt chase me so quickly shifted her target to her prey near the trees.
āSirius, you! You did it on purpose!ā
I can hear Lukeās resentful voice in the distance as Miss Grace caught up with him.
Iām sorry, Luke, your precious sacrifice will not be in vain! I succeeded in pushing Mr. Grace against Luke, and when I was far enough from him, I took a breath.
Yes, we were playing tag as part of our church education. And our grade plays it with the original rule that whoever survived to the end of the year can only order one thing to the person who was caught! Also, if everyone were caught in time, then they would be given the right to order the first demon.
Itās not that I wanted to give orders, but I donāt know what I was supposed to do when I was the one being ordered around, so I was doing my best to win.
So far, Logan had already been captured, and he was an ogre. It was only a matter of time before they get Luke too.
The rest were Chloe, Lara, and I. From the way she was probing her surroundings with her āmagic power detection,ā it seemed that Logan was chasing Lara.
Logan was a slow learner, but I expected Lara to fall down in the process and get caught. Then, the only problem was Chloe-san.
She hadnāt been seen once since the start of the game, and for some reason, her āmagic power sensingā canāt even tell where she was, so she must be very good at hiding her presence.
I had the option to continue hiding, but I was also curious about how Chloe had managed to stay hidden for so long.
Alright then, when we get to that point, we will find him.
First of all, in order to prevent the sound of footsteps from being detected, I was going to deploy the intermediate wind magic āSoundproof Wall Silent.ā
Then, to prevent them from detecting your presence, they will suppress the leakage of magic power.
āSkill āCovertā has been acquiredā.
Covert: You will be invisible, making you undetectable to others. It also makes it easier to detect whoever was using a covert.
Iāve been sneaking around a lot when Iāve been going to the backwoods, and Iāve gained some skills , so maybe Iām getting better at hiding.
I immediately activated āCovertā and ran behind the trees to avoid the demonās gaze. Since the magic power canāt be detected, he carefully probed the shade of the trees and the forest canopy with his eyes.
Then I felt something strange on the tree which was in the middle of the woods. Like a frosted glass blurring the view.
Obviously, it was a suspicious āanalysisā.
āConfirmation of light refraction by magic items with āCovertā and ā Invisibleā enchanted magic items.ā
āWaitā¦ whatā¦?āI climbed up the tree and reached the uncomfortable vicinity and felt something touch me. It was a cloak-like magic item, and inside, Chloe was sleeping peacefully.
I took Chloe in my arms and pulled her down from the tree, then laid the cloak down and her on top of it. It would only be a matter of time before someone finds me.
āIām sorry, Chloe, but Iāll never forget your sacrifice!ā
Now all I had to do is hide and work my way through the time limit.
āThere he is! We met here, and itās been a hundred years, Sirius!ā
āLuke! Why!ā
Oh, my God! I was so distracted by the magic item that I didnāt see the close call. But why was it so easy to find him when he was in the middle of activating āCovertā!
āHmmm ā¦ā¦ We have a secret weapon over here!!ā
āI thought I had a hint of Sirius-kun flirting with a girl, but it was Chloeā¦ā¦ā
What the fuck is going on?
Laraās ability to detect signs is so great that Iām afraid of her.
āChloe, wake up. I canāt believe youāre still asleep at this hourā¦ā¦.ā
āAll right, let us all get together and be demons.ā
Damn, theyāre all here!
Before the siege narrows, they aim at Logan, who was the slowest mover and aimed to break through and charge him from the front. Logan spread his thick arms wide and held himself upright so that he could react to either of my evasions.
Logan dived to my right and draped me over him, but he quickly stepped back and kicked the ground at full speed to my left.
With his center of gravity tilted so far to the other side, Logan couldnāt react to me, and his barely outstretched hand cut through the air.
āI win! As long as Iām not surrounded, I can get away with it!ā
I was caught off guard and tackled in the lower half of my body.As I began to speed up, both my feet were caught as hard as they could, and I hit the ground hard and fell face first.
I turned to look at her with tears in my eyes and saw Lara hugging both of my legs as hard as she could.
āSirius-kun, I got you!ā
In the end, the winner was Ms. Grace.
Miss Grace gave me orders to stay with her for a week of training. I was really disappointed that I was caught. So, I spent some time after school, training to avoid Graceās attacks.