I don’t have much time, so I’ll do the comments and stuff next time ……!

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“[Kaiser Knuckle]!”

“Ha~, that’s really powerful! That’s also [Unstable], though ……!”

“My arms heavy!? But what about my legs?”

“Guh!?”

That’s good! If the arms don’t work, Makina can kick her up with her legs. The [Unstable] of Aiatsubus requires her to use her left hand. If you attack with a series of shots, she won’t be that much of a threat unless she gets grabbed like I did.

And there’s another secret to [Unstable] that’s almost a weakness.

“Makina! Watch out for the left hand, if that grabs you, your mind will become unstable like mine! And her skill must have something to do with distance.”

“Thanks Lars! ‘Thunder Fang’!”

“So you already saw through it from that attack and defense. That Lars is a frightening boy ……!”

“Of course he is, Lars is awesome!”

In close range, she flicks her dagger and thrusts her fist out while keeping alert of her left hand. Makina moves a few steps better than me when it comes to fighting due to her training with Fath-san. I think I could probably overpower a normal opponent, perhaps even the Retzel I fought when I was ten.

“It won’t hit ……!”

“No, no, you’re grazing me. You’re good, too good to kill.”

“Fuh!”

“Guga ……!? There!”

The dagger in her right hand is about to pierce Makina’s belly, but she uses Sarge’s gauntlet to repel the attack. But, defeated, Aiatsubus reaches out her left hand to touch Makina.

“This is nothing! …… Ttsu ……”

“You’re being too cautious with my left hand? Ohhhh [Unstable] [Unstable] …….”

“Makina ……! Damn it, get out of the way!”

“It’s okay, it’s just a scratch. This one’s left arm isn’t moving well enough after my blow, so we’re even.”

I called out to her as I knocked down the Qliphoth, and she replied with a black dagger that sliced through her arm, and she kept her stance.

In fact, she attacked at such close range that she was only grazed by Aiatsubus, so I think it was a good match.

“What the hell is your purpose of having so many Qliphoth out here?”

“I’ll tell you if you beat me?”

“That’s what villains say, you know”

“Of course ‘I’m aware of that’, you know? Now, do you think this dagger is just black ……?”

“What? A-Ahhhhh ……!?”

Aiatsubus grinningly bends the edge of her mouth and laughs, and when she says that, a faint black haze appears at Makina’s wounds, and her face is distorted in pain.

“The dagger is a sort of conduit for using [Unstable]. If you get scratched by it even a little, it works even if you’re a little far away.”

The black haze connects with Aiatsubus’ left hand, and Makina starts to shake. Oh no, that thing should be equal or more than what I got!?

“Makina, get away from her!”

“U-Uhhhhhhh ……! L-Lars ……”

“It’s too late! You’ll be crushed by your [Unstable] mind and become a cripple! Ahahahaha! I guess you’ll be the first.”

I want to go help her, but the Qliphoth is blocking my way! “At this rate”, I said, clicking my tongue. I ran to Makina’s side. But right after that, Makina’s trembling stopped and she stood there.

“Hmm ……? You’re done already, that was quite fas–“

At the moment when Aaitsubus muttered uninterestingly, Makina, who had a short time, grabbed the chest of the robe and started screaming.

“Because of people like you, Lars has to fight for nothing!! Oh, I’m so angry ……! It’s enough for me to be an adventurer with Lars, going to dungeons, getting rare items, being happy and sad, but every time we have to go somewhere, we bump into people like you! I can’t even shop calmly, we haven’t done any sightseeing and we haven’t had many dates.”

“O-Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

“M-Makina ……?”

I paused, startled.

“Hmmm …… The girl said that her mind was [Unstable], but it seems that Makina’s mind has gone beyond [Unstable] and exploded with dissatisfaction. “

“Uwah, you startled me!?”

Basleigh-sensei, still riding on Radia’s back, came up beside me and said something like that. Dissatisfaction …… Dissatisfaction, huh …… It’s true that there are definitely words like that in every word Makina said. I need to take more care of her, I think as I watch her raging.

“This girl is the type of person who has complaints but no worries!? It’s not very effective for this kind of people ……!”

“Go awaaaaaaaaaay! [Lightning Kaiser Knuckle]!”

“Agyaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!?”

“Whoa! So she completed an upgraded version of the Lightning Fang!”

As Fath-san kicked the Qliphoth and shouted in delight, the blown away Aiatsubus slammed into a Qliphoth.

“Kuh …… I think it would have been easier to take her on normally. I’m more powerful than her, so let kill you for …… real!?”

“!!!”

“Ah!?”

A branch, not a glowing sword …… stuck out from the chest of Aiatsubus, who had her back to the smashed Qliphoth. When the Qliphoth split in half, what’s in there was–

“Sephiro!”

There was Sephiro standing on Schneider’s back. Sephiro, whose body was glowing for some reason, pulled the branch out of Aiatsubus’ chest and knelt down on the spot.

“Gaha …… T-This is …… d-don’ tell me ……”

“What’s that, a black haze is coming out of her chest ……?”

Not blood, but a haze. It leaks out with a sizzling sound, and I feel like it’s not something I should touch. I grabbed Makina, who was raging nearby, and retreated from there, and Fath-san approached to put an end to her.

“I’ll help you, Fath!”

“Thank you! …… Mu?”

Dibit-san unleashed his inferno, and Fath-san stepped in to meet it. However, the moment the inferno touched the black haze, it disappeared, and Fath-san stopped and looked at it.

“!”

“Woof!”

“No, Sephiro, Schneider! Something’s wrong!”

When Sephiro and Schneider, who were trying to chase after her, stopped by calling out to them, Aiatsubus, who was gradually covered with haze, holds her face, and her eye color changed from green to red, her mouth opened with a smile on her face.

“This was unexpected …… it’s a shame that we couldn’t kill any of them this time, but it’s enough to stop them.”

“Stop us ……? What the hell is your purpose by doing this?”

“Kuku …… I’m sure that the castle of Sandiola is in a lot of trouble right now. Well, it’s not really related to you guys, though.”

“The castle? Don’t tell me, Darva have started?”

“I’ll leave that to your imagination. I’ll leave you to it then.”

“You think I’m going to let you get away after hearing that? !”

Dibit-san fires a spell, but it is blocked by the haze and fizzles out. The situation is similar to when I was hit with [Unstable] when I fired my spell, and something comes to mind, but I can’t put it together due to the feeling I haven’t recovered from yet.

“Oops, it’s a secret that I came here, okay? Now, you guys, let’s go.”

“……”

“……”

“We’re done over here!”

The villagers and Ornob-san, who had cooperated with King Afmand along with Dibit-san, had been knocked out, so there was no one to reply. Ornob-san is standing with a sword, but he looks the part. 

“Ahahaha! Well, I guess it can’t be helped. Now then, it looks like we have our trump card for escape, so here we go.”

“Trump card?”

Just as I asked her back, a Qliphoth came running from across the street. Ash was chasing behind him.

“Kuoon. Kuoon!”

And on the branch of that Qliphoth, Dasha-chan was unconscious, wrapped in a cocoon. She jumped on that Qliphoth and said.

“When that dog tried to take her earlier, I had planted a seed on her, just in case. Now, I don’t know what will happen to her if you come after us, so please think about it, okay? If you don’t come after me, I promise not to kill her.”

“There’s no wayl I can trust you ……!”

“Shall I kill her here, then?”

“No, Lars. She was better than us.”

“But if we don’t, Dasha-chan will ……”

When I called out to Dibit-san, he gave me a look and told me to let her go for now. When she realized that we couldn’t resist, she drove the Qliphoth out of the village entrance.

“…… I’m sure we’ll be meeting soon, though, won’t we? Lars, Makina. I’ll definitely kill you next time, I promise. And–“

“!”

Unlike in the before, her mouth is smiling, but her eyes are not smiling, instead, she’s glaring at Sephiro and then disappeared.

“Dasha-chan is ……”

While Ornob-san was groaning in agony, I approached Dibit-san, holding Makina, who had fainted before I knew it. 

“Dibit-san.”

“Fuh …… Well, The only way to do this is to let it happen. If she’s teaming up with Darva, she’s probably going to the castle anyway …… Let’s go.”

“Yeah ……!”

The Gospel’s Descent, the executive class, has the same name as one of the fruits of the “evil tree”, Aiatsubus. I decided to go back to the village chief’s house, hoping to defeat her next time.