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Maou Gakuen Vol 1 Chapter 6
🕑 Added 2019-12-13 09:06:21 +0000 UTC
Chapter 6 – First Time Deathly Situation
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Part 1
「……This place」
When Himekami Lizel opened her eyes, she was inside a mansion that she had never seen before.
She was lying down on a red velvet sofa. There was a large chandelier above her. The faint light of the candles wavered inside the dark room. The classical interior design created an atmosphere as though this was a residence of a French noble.
「You woke up.」
The grey hair and white uniform stood out inside the dark room. There was depression around the figure’s eyes as though he didn’t have enough sleep. There was also the smile that was looking down on the whole world.
「Aspite……so this is your doing?」
Lizel tried to sit up, but her head was still hazy. When she moved her hand to her head, there was a rattling sound of chain. Her wrists were shackled by a metal handcuff that was connected to a chain.
「……You really have a bad taste in accessory. Is this the custom of Line House?」
「A savage stray dog need to be chained and disciplined. It’s only natural.」
「I don’t remember ever agreeing to accept this treatment or even visiting your house though.」
「Only my will matters here. The opinion of others is inconsequential.」
「You’re as arrogant as usual.」
「But it shall be permitted.」
Aspite put his foot on the armrest of the sofa where Lizel was sitting.
「You are mine. Become my card.」
「You already saw at the unveiling right? I’m already the Lovers’ card. I belong to Yuuto.」
Lizel looked up at Aspite challengingly──and swiftly thrust her hand.
「Hah!!」
An attack magic should be activated, but nothing happened.
「……This is」
A chill ran through her whole body.
Aspite looked down at Lizel with a triumphant smile.
「World Revision──this is my, the World’s unique magic.」
A sphere with a diameter of 5 meter appeared around Aspite. It looked like a sphere, but it was made from geometrical graphs and magical letters──it was a three dimensional magic circle.
Lizel looked around the three dimensional magic circle that was formed around her.
「I see……I can’t even use magic inside this sphere.」
「It’s not just you, no one can use magic here. This is my world, the world that I rule. A world where I am the absolute one.」
Lizel scoffed.
「What a small world. It’s just the right size for you to be a shut-in by yourself.」
Aspite’s eyes twisted in rage.
He put strength into the foot he put on the armrest and kicked it with all his strength.
「Ah!?」
The sofa was toppled and Lizel fell on the floor. And then Aspite pointed his palm toward Lizel. Even though Lizel’s magic didn’t activate, a magic circle was formed this time for some reason.
「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!」
Aspite’s lightning magic assaulted Lizel’s body.
An incredible impact and pain made Lizel’s body convulsed. And then a few second later, the lightning stopped and Lizel became unmoving.
Her clothes were scorched and smoking. Some places on it were torn.
「Aa……uu……aa」
Aspite looked down at Lizel who couldn’t even talk and smiled sadistically.
「The World arcana is the strongest. I’m already the devil king. You are mine regardless of what you think. The like of Lovers can’t even be my opponent.」
Aspite lightly kicked Lizel’s body with his toes. Lizel’s body floated up as though she was weightless from the kick.
「Uu……i-indeed……your power is amazing……but, I……will never, become, yours.」
「I see. But if the devil king candidate of Lovers is gone, you can only obey me then. If you decide to submit to me……do a dogeza and beg that you want to become my card. If you do that, I shall promise the continuation of Himekami House when I become the devil king.」
Lizel’s body fell on the floor the instant the magic circle vanished. Aspite then mercilessly stepped on her body.
「Gah!? Guu……uh!!」
「I’m going to plan a party for your sake. I shall welcome that human with all the members of the World. I’ll show you his unsightly figure when he is begging for his life.」
「!? St-stop……it」
「Think carefully about who will become the next devil king, and whose card you should become.」
Aspite turned his back on Lizel and exited the room. Lizel was watching that back blurrily with her fading consciousness.
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Part 2
「Just where has Lizel-senpai gone to……」
I became suspicious because Lizel-senpai wouldn’t come back no matter how much time passed and called back Miyabi and Reina. We then searched the mall and the surrounding area. Himekami House also used their subordinate devils to search, but not a clue about Lizel-senpai’s whereabouts was found.
We took a nap in the palace when dawn was approaching and welcomed the morning of Monday while clinging on a single ray of hope.
「As expected……Lizel-senpai, she doesn’t come.」
Miyabi muttered listlessly.
We were waiting in front of Lizel-senpai’s classroom, but the corridor was turning empty and the chime that signaled the start of the class rang out heartlessly.
We had no more prospects of where to search her.
「After this……what should we do?」
Miyabi and Reina looked up at me with an imploring gaze.
But, I was also asking myself the same question. But I didn’t have the answer.
「Re-Reina, Reina is worried……a-about senpai desu……desu」
I put my hand on Reina’s small head and gently caressed to console Reina who was becoming tearful.
「It’ll be fine. This is Lizel-senpai we’re talking about. Surely she will return soon as though nothing has happened.」
「──That’s just a wishful thinking yeah.」
A male student was walking in the empty corridor.
「Geld……」
Geld appeared in front of us still wrapped in bandages and band-aids.
「Himekami Lizel isn’t gonna come back if you do nothing like this.」
I reflexively grabbed Geld’s collar and slammed him on the wall.
「What are you saying!?」
Geld made a pained expression and replied with a hoarse voice.
「I-it’s Aspite……he kidnapped, Himekami Lizel.」
「……Tsu!?」
I let Geld go.
「Aspite……that guy」
Geld coughed and rubbed his neck with his hand.
「Cough……sheesh……listen well. Aspite wants to make Himekami Lizel to be his card. He gonna do that by killing you.」
「So, his aim is me……」
「Yeah. Right now he’s preparing to lead you guys into a trap.」
──What?
Geld paid no mind at our doubtful look and continued talking.
「Tomorrow you should receive an invitation. The gist of it will be a call for you guys to show up at the academy’s stadium where he will kill you right in front of Himekami Lizel. He wants to break Himekami Lizel’s heart and make her submit with that.」
「……Is it okay for you to tell us that?」
Geld made a self-depreciating smile.
「That’s not all I’m telling you, take this location of Aspite’s hideout too.」
Geld said that while taking out a memo from his pocket and held it out toward me.
「Himekami Lizel is confined here.」
「……Geld, is this okay? If you do this, you will──」
「Can’t be helped. Because……you know」
He averted his face looking a bit embarrassed at what he was about to say.
「We’re……friends right?」
「Geld……you」
Miyabi raised her voice in surprise.
「A, a tsundere!?」
Reina was also looking alternately between me and Geld with sparkling eyes.
「Amazing, amazing! Is this what they called men’s friendship!?」
Geld’s face turned bright red and he yelled.
「Sh-shaddup! Aah, shit! Just take the damn thing already!」
Geld pushed the memo on me. U took it and,
「I’m in your debt, Geld.」
「Forget about it, just think about a way to sneak in. The place will be at its emptiest at midnight until before dawn. Watch yourself there.」
Geld was unexpectedly considerate even with the small details. It felt funny for some reason.
「This ain’t the time to grin like a fool. Do you understand? Aspite is a monster.」
「……a monster huh.」
「Yeah. His mana is also not a joke, the precision of his magic formula is absurdly high too. Just those things already made him a monster, and yet that unique magic of hi……the World Revision is just insane.」
──World Revision?
「That magic, what kind of magic is it?」
「It’s a type of barrier magic……or so it seems.」
「……That’s vague. Speaking of barrier, is it something like Haida’s Keep Out?」
「It ain’t anything like that! Though, I myself isn’t really clear just what is Aspite doing……but, Aspite is invincible inside that barrier. In there he is a devil king, or perhaps even god.」
A devil king, or even a god?
「……This is all I can do. Well, I wish you luck. If not……it’s gonna be who get killed next after you.」
Geld left those remark as his parting words. I watched his back and,
「Yeah. We’ll rescue Lizel-senpai without fail. I also won’t let you get killed.」
Threw those words toward him. In respond, Geld raised his fist and made a thumb up without turning back.
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Part 3
The date changed and it was finally time for us to head out for the rescue mission.
Aspite’s mansion was located three kilometer away from the academy. We asked a car of Yuugaoze House to take us until nearby and right now we were walking toward our destination.
「We’ll arrive soon……」
Geld’s memo was filled with a simple layout of the mansion and the position of the rooms that weren’t usually used. Thanks to this, I didn’t think there would be any problem with the infiltration itself.
「It’ll be best if we can rescue Lizel-senpai without fighting.」
「Desu desu. But if Aspite find us……」
「Uuun, if that happen, we can only run away ‘swish’ or ‘push push’ to breakthrough.」
「Yeah……but」
Although I said all those things to Geld, our opponent was a noble. Furthermore it was the man who possessed the World arcana. He could even be said as the top contender.
He wasn’t an opponent that a human and furthermore a beginner like me could match.
In the end, could we win with just the three of us……?
I walked through the path with few lighting while under the heavy pressure of such anxiety. Before long the wall of Aspite’s mansion came into view.
There was the silhouette of someone crossing their arms in front of the wall.
──No way, an ambush!?
That silhouette slowly started walking toward us. The figure that finally appeared under the street lamp was,
「Are you three having a night stroll together?」
──Hoshigaoka Stella!?
「Stella yourself……why are you here?」
Then the devil king candidate of Star, Stella smiled as though she had seen through us.
「You come to take back Lizel from Aspite aren’t you?」
「Tsu!? How do you know that!?」
Stella shrugged in exasperation.
「It’ll be annoying if you underestimate me. I am also a devil king candidate you know? I can learn at least this much. And, do you have any prospect of victory?」
Stella frowned when I was at a loss of how to answer.
「The World arcana is powerful. After all it can even be called as the top contender to be the next devil king.」
It was……that powerful?
My back became damp from cold sweat.
「I’ll ask you again. Do you have any chance of victory?」
Honestly speaking, I had no chance at all. But──,
「I have to go no matter what.」
Stella let out a chuckle at my answer.
「I seeee, so you’re prepared to die.」
She came to my side with light footsteps as though she was dancing. Then she intimately placed her hand on my shoulder..
「You see, about Aspite……」
Her green eyes shined mysteriously.
「──Should I, beat him to death for you?」
「Eh!?」
Beating Aspite? Stella will?
In other words, she would cooperate with us.
When I looked at Miyabi and Reina, the two of them were making joyful expressions as though we had just obtained a hundred thousand allies.
「A-are you, serious!?」
「Desu desu!?」
I stared at Stella’s confident smile one more time.
I didn’t really understand but, Stella had a way to win against Aspite. I recalled when Lizel-senpai called Stella a monster before this.
My voice was naturally getting excited too.
「Thank you! That’s a big help. Surely we’ll be able to rescue Lizel-senpai if Stella lends us your strength.」
Stella cracked a smile and raised her index finger.
「However, I have a condition.」
「What? If it’s something that I can do then──」
「Give me Lizel.」
「──!?」
Give Lizel-senpai……wait, eh?]
「Wa-wait a second! What do you mean by that!?」
「I’m telling you, in exchange of defeating Aspite for you, I’ll have Lizel become my card, that’s my condition.」
「Such thing! I want to save Lizel-senpai……!!」
「That’s why I’ll save her for you.」
「No, that’s not what I──」
「You know how is Aspite’s personality right? He won’t forgive anyone who goes against him. Besides he is really fixated to Lizel. Surely he will discipline Lizel and treat her like a sex salve. Are you alright with that?」
「……Tsu!?」
「If it’s me then I’ll treat Lizel well. I promise.」
──What should I do?
Certainly asking for Stella’s help would be the best in order to rescue Lizel-senpai from Aspite.
But, if I did that……I would lose Lizel-senpai.
But if I was unable to rescue Lizel-senpai because I was fixated with that……it wouldn’t end with just her, if even Miyabi and Reina fell into Aspite’s hand……!!
「Fufu, looks like you understand. Then, let’s seal the deal with a handshake.」
Stella gave me a business smile and held out her right hand.
「You even get a handshake from a celebrity like me, isn’t this a great bargain?」
That’s right. Lizel-senpai’s safety was the most important thing.
I raised my right hand──,
「……No.」
I clenched my fist to grab empty air.
「Thank you for your offer but……I’ll do something about this by myself.」
「Heee……」
Stella half-closed her eyes unamused. I stared back straight toward her eyes.
「Lizel-senpai told me. That I can become the devil king. She also said that she is betting her everything on me, a mere human, when this is Lizel-senpai we’re talking about, a noble devil and also someone with the capability that can even become a devil king candidate herself. To rely on other people in order to save her and handing her over as the price……such thing will be a betrayal toward Lizel-senpai! I can’t do that!!」
Stella sighed and placed her hand on her waist.
「Then let’s see what you got.」
I turned my back toward Stella and held out my hand toward Miyabi and Reina.
「I’m sorry. I selfishly decided that.」
「Nope. It’s good that you’re decisively ‘smack’!」
「Desu desu! Reina think Lizel-senpai will be angry if we rely on Stella-san.」
I smiled to the two of them. And then the two of them grabbed my hand──,
I formed a magic circle under my feet just as planned.
I activated Transite. In the next moment──we teleported inside Aspite’s mansion.
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Part 4
We teleported into what seemed to be an empty room. There wasn’t any human presence or even any furniture. The room was completely empty. Its size was around ten tatami mats.
「Kuh……」
As expected it was tough to teleport three people together. I staggered in spite of myself and fell on my knee.
「A-are you alright Yuuto-san? Do you feel pain anywhere? Do you want to drink water?」
Reina rubbed my body in a panic. She placed her hand on my forehead to check if I had fever. Her usual overprotective gesture softened my tension in a nice way.
「I just used up my mana. I’m sorry but, can I ask you for resupply?」
「O-of course of course, desu.」
Although, Reina was a middle schooler with childish figure. Was I asking something unreasonable from her? I got a bit worried.
Reina sat in seiza posture and pulled my head.
「Please, please lie down.」
「This……this is」
Lap pillow!?
So there was also a method like this!
Reina’s legs were slender. But, the softness and frailness that were characteristic of a child brought me an indescribable serenity. A gentle mana was filling me at the inside.
Furthermore her small hand was softly caressing my head. Concern and affection toward me were transmitted from that palm.
No good……it felt like I was going to fall asleep even in this situation from how serene this was.
「Geez, really Yuuto, you’re making a slovenly face.」
Miyabi kneeled beside me and guided my hand to her breast. The cleavage of her breasts that she had exposed sandwiched my hand. Her smooth bare skin was stuck on my hand. It felt abnormally good.
「O-oi, Miyabi……」
「Nh♡ The recovery is faster with the two of us attacking simultaneously right?」
「Oi, did you say attacking just now?」
「Hehe, we have no time so……I’ll speed out ‘gyaru’ now.」
Miyabi pressed on her breasts with her hands from left and right. It pressured my hand softly. This high pressure despite the softness. I didn’t know how to define this sensation, but it was just amazing.
I was healed by thighs and breasts while my mana was recovering in the blink of eye.
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Part 5
The inside of the mansion was dark. There was no sign of people.
Had everyone gone to sleep?
I headed toward the biggest hall while stifling the sound of my steps. According to Geld, Lizel-senpai was imprisoned there.
I opened the door soundlessly and peeked inside.
「──!!」
There was Lizel-senpai at the back of the hall with both her hands lifted up. Her arms were restrained by a chain that stretched from the ceiling. The clothes she were wearing were the same with yesterday when were shopping, but they had turned tattered and her underwear was showing through.
──Damn it!
I endured my rage toward Aspite while entering the hall. Miyabi and Reina also watched the surrounding vigilantly while following behind.
When we arrived until the middle of the hall, Lizel-senpai lifted up her face. Life instantly returned into her hollow eyes.
「Yuuto?」
I couldn’t hold back anymore and started running.
「Lizel-senpai!」
「Don’t come-!!」
My feet stopped from her urgent yell.
Something passed in front of my nose. It gouged a deep trench on the floor.
「!?」
It was like there was an unseen guillotine that fell from above. I almost got bisected.
「Too bad. You could die painlessly just now.」
A hole was opened at the ceiling. A grey haired man was slowly descending from there.
「Aspite!」
「Who permit you to call my name?」
It was like gravity had suddenly returned and Aspite quickly landed on the floor.
「Yuuto! Run!!」
I replied to Lizel-senpai with a smile.
「Please don’t worry! We’ll go home together.」
I wasn’t alone. Miyabi was raising her fists at my right, while Reina pulled out her katana that was stored in the dimensional space at my left.
「Hmph. Those cards are too good for a mere human like you.」
Aspite snapped his fingers. Then the doors opened and ten men and women entered inside. All of them were wearing the devil king academy’s uniform.
「These guys, Aspite’s cards huh……there are many of them but, can I leave them to you two?」
Miyabi answered my question brightly.
「Just this much will be suuuper easy. Just leave it to us ‘baam’ without worry!」
「But but, will Yuuto-san really be fine alone?」
I replied strongly at the worried Reina.
「Yeah. I’ll save Lizel-senpai no matter what!」
Miyabi and Reina ran toward Aspite’s cards at the same time with my reply.
One of the World’s cards seemed to let his guard down and ate Miyabi’s punch fully. His upper body bent backward. Reina’s sword slashed at his unprotected torso.
「Guaa……!!」
His uniform was torn and his eyes rolled up until the white of his eyes showed. He fainted. The uniform had defensive magic folded into it, so he didn’t get bisected by Reina’s attack, but his bone was broken at least.
「We’ll be your opponent!」
「T-turn, turn into the rust of Reina’s katana!」
Miyabi and Reina leaped out from the window to the garden. Then Aspite’s cards also followed behind them right away. There was only me, senpai, and Aspite remaining in the hall.
「To challenge this me alone……it seems you’re especially foolish even among your group.」
Aspite muttered in exasperation and walked toward me.
Should I try settling the battle instantly with a powerful attack magic?
Aspite looked completely defenseless. However──,
『Warning, danger is approaching. Please be careful.』
The arcana’s voice resounded in my ears.
Danger? However Aspite still hadn’t prepared any attack.
Was his existence itself a danger?
……However, I wouldn’t be able to win just by being on guard like this. This guy was stronger than me in capability. Anyway I needed to do something from my end and made a breakthrough.
I thrust my right hand forward and deployed a magic circle.
「Fizard!!」
A hellish flame attacked Aspite. However──,
「What-!?」
Fizard had definitely swallowed Aspite. However, the area with three meter diameter around Aspite was untouched by the flame. It was like there was a sphere within the flame.
「I see……so that’s World Revision.」
I saw it just for an instant when Aspite purged Kilga──that thing.
「Hou. So even an ignorant human know at least that much.」
Aspite’s eyes shined. The unique magic showed its appearance as though to show it off to me.
That was a sphere that was made from magic formula.
It was similar with Haida’s Keep Out, but this one was far more advanced than that they couldn’t even be compared to each other.
──However, I didn’t know what kind of effect World Revision had.
Looking at how it blocked my attack, was it something like Barricade?
「Tell me Lovers. Will I get repelled if I tackle that barrier?」
『Conjecture, it appears that the barrier is ineffective against physical contact.』
──Yosh. Then!
I activated Maximize, Armored, and Stride in parallel and launched myself toward Aspite. The floor that I kicked exploded and I flew in front of Aspite instantly.
So it couldn’t block physical attack as expected! Then!
「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!」
I let out a punch that had been elevated until superhuman level.
「──Gah!?」
An impact that made me felt that my arm was broken ran through me.
And then my body was thrown straight back until I crashed on the entrance’s door.
「Yuuto!!」
Lizel-senpai’s yell made me barely aware enough to hold on my consciousness.
──Just now, what happened?
It was as though the force of my punch was reflected back to me exactly as it was.
「What’s wrong? You came punching as you please and got sent flying as you please too. Just what in the world are you trying to do?」
Aspite smiled condescendingly and walked toward me.
I stood up and talked to the arcana.
「Oi! Isn’t that barrier ineffective against physical attack!?」
『Analysis……it’s not ineffective toward physical attack.』
What does that mean?
「Oi human. You’re going to accept defeat just from this even after speaking big like that?」
「Obviously not. Here I come!」
If physical attack was no good then I would use magic attack. If attacking from outside was ineffective, I would rush into that barrier and launched magic from point blank range. Originally it would be more advantageous to take distance when using magic, but I could take him by surprise by doing the reverse!
I rushed to inside the World Revision even while feeling wary. As I thought, the barrier didn’t really function as a physical wall.
「Detonation!!」
A large explosion occurred right on Aspite’s body──or that should be the case, but,
「……Wha-」
「What’s wrong, human?」
Nothing happened.
That’s impossible. I still had enough mana. I had trained repeatedly until magic circuit was carved clearly inside my body. And yet, why!?
「Let go. You’re insolent.」
Aspite lightly lifted up his foot and pushed it on my stomach.
「Guhah!?」
My body was accelerated hard.
I felt a fierce impact on my back and my consciousness grew distant. Aspite was far away from me when I came to myself.
No.
It was me who was sent flying. My body was stuck into the wall.
「Da……dammit……」
Just now, what was that? Maximize and Armored?
No, I only felt one magic formula. If it was just Maximizem Aspite’s knees should be broken too.
However he was standing there nonchalantly.
「Here, the next one is the payback for just now. You’re going to burn to death if you keep staying there you know?」
Fizard’s magic circle was formed in front of Aspite.
「Run away quickly! Yuuto!!」
Lizel-senpai’s voice was panicked. I tried pulling my body out of the wall, but I felt numb and couldn’t move well.
『Danger level 7. Recommending defense or evasion urgently.』
Dammit!!
I deployed magic circle on my own back. And then,
「Detonate!!」
The wall exploded and my body collapsed backward. Aspite’s Fizard ran passed a few centimeter from my nose.
「Uowah!?」
I rolled on the corridor while getting covered all over with wall fragments. But I couldn’t relax here. I immediately jumped on my feet and ran through the corridor.
「Hahahahahahaha! Running away already? Look at him Lizel! That’s the appearance of the devil king candidate that you look up to!」
Shit! Don’t run your mouth as you please!
I reflexively stopped my legs, but then the arcana’s voice resounded.
『Alert, danger is approaching. Please don’t let your guard down.』
「I know!!」
Aspite appeared in the corridor and deployed a magic circle once more.
「The next one was Detonation wasn’t it?」
Flame and shockwave filled my sight and approached like living things from the other side of the corridor.
As expected from the candidate of the World. His Detonation was in different level from mine.
I searched for a place to escape and quickly ran up the stairs beside me.
「Uwaaaah!?」
The coming shockwave lifted up my body. I slammed on the stair’s landing and coughed violently. Even so I somehow crawled up to the second floor.
Let’s hide somewhere for the moment!
I ran through the corridor, opened a random door, and rolled inside.
It was a small room that seemed to be a storage room.
Aspite’s voice came from afar.
「Where’re you hiding?」
「Shit……he’s seriously a monster. Do I have any chance to win?」
『Analysis, in the current condition, chance of victory is 0,0──』
「Enough, I don’t want to hear it!」
I lowered my voice to say that and tensed my body.
「Hmm……it’s troublesome to search like this.」
The next moment after that voce came, a violent sound of destruction roared and the roof was torn off.
「……What」
The roof was lifted up and soared high in the sky.
「There you are.」
Aspite was floating in the night sky with a faintly shining sphere enveloping him. He was looking down on me like a king lording over a slave.
「Floating magic……」
『Suggestion, that is not floating magic.』
What? But he was floating like that.
It was strange things one after another since just now. Could an arcana also make a mistake? But, right now I should think of how to overcome this pinch rather than thinking about that.
「Surrender, human. If you surrender now then I’ll at least spare your life.」
Aspite slowly landed on the floor and sat down on a fallen pillar.
「Kneel before the next devil king.」
「Gah!?」
My body suddenly turned heavy. My knees bent and I collapsed forward.
Wha……what’s going on? What was this guy’s ability?
Was this the power of World Revision too?
It erased Fizard, repelled physical attack, and neutralized Detonation.
And then his unbreakable body that was alright even after dealing a physical attack with terrifying destructive power.
He blew up the rooftop to the sky. He was floating in the sky even though he wasn’t using floating magic.
──?
This guy……could it be──,
I exerted all my strength and stood up.
「Guh……I get it now. Your World Revision’s power is……」
「A lowly human dare to act so disrespectfully……I’ll flatten you right where you’re standing.」
「Just try it.」
Aspite raised an eyebrow.
「What did you say?」
「You shouldn’t be able to. After all you will be crushed too if you apply that much pressure.」
「You cur……」
「You intentionally sit down is for enduring the increased gravity too.」
「Do you think that my World Revision’s ability is gravity manipulation, human?」
「──No.」
I thrust the truth before Aspite.
「Your World Revision is the ability to rewrite the world’s rule, its fundamental principle.」
Surprise ran through Aspite’s face. I was convinced after seeing that.
「It’s hard to believe that a single magic can have that many varied abilities. In that case, there is only one condition that can possibly realize the powers that you have shown. A world that extinguish flame, a world that reflect a blow back to the opponent, a world where no explosion can occur, a world without gravity──」
「……You cur」
Aspite’s eyes were filled with color of anger. But I didn’t falter and continue on.
「Certainly you’re unbeatable within this world. It’s like you’re the devil king or even god. However……」
I looked around at the three dimensional magic circle that surrounded me and Aspite.
「That only apply within this small world.」
「YOU CURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!」
The gravity that applied on my body suddenly increased. A hole was made on the floor along with the sound of wood snapping.
「Uoh!?」
I fell to the first floor together with the snapping woods. Smoke wafted up like a smokescreen.
「Yu……Yuuto!? Are you alright!?」
I heard Lizel-senpai’s voice──that meant, I fell into the great hall huh.
「I-I’m fine!」
Shit, that bastard Aspite. That was damn reckless. He himself should get affected by that.
I stood up and searched for Aspite.
「!?」
「Yu-Yuuto……」
When I noticed, Aspite was already standing beside Lizel-senpai. She grabbed Lizel-senpai’s neck with one hand as though to strangle her.
「So what if you have realized what is World Revision’s power! It doesn’t change the fact that you have no chance to win!」
I couldn’t find any word to say.
That was a fact. The power of World Revision was only applied to the area within its range. However, this guy was invincible inside it. Aspite was literally a devil king, even a god within that small world.
Aspite strengthened his fingers that were holding Lizel-senpai.
「Lizel! You too! Become my card obediently! If you do that then I won’t kill that human!」
However Lizel-senpai was simply staring at Aspite with pity.
「You……don’t look at me with those EYESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!」
A magic formula emerged from Aspite’s arm and electricity ran through Lizel-senpai’s body.
「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!」
Senpai’s body kept convulsing fiercely.
「Lizel! Why won’t you listen to me!? I have obtained everything until now!! And yet why won’t you become mine!?」
「Stop!! Aspite-!!」
I ran toward Lizel-senpai. However Aspite formed a magic circle to meet my charge.
「Fizard!!」
I immediately formed Barricade to block the flame. However my body was still blown away even then.
「Kuh……damn it!!」
Three dimensional magic circle──World Revision appeared around Aspite once more.
『Warning, danger level 9. Recommending evasion urgently.』
The danger level was increasing.
But, I mustn’t lose here!!
「Fiza-……uu!?」
I was suddenly assaulted by dizziness and my body tilted.
『Warning, 5% remaining mana. Recommending a swift retreat.』
Don’t tell me……I ran out of mana at this time!?
『Chance of victory in the current situation……0%』
Shit! Is there no more way for me to defeat Aspite!?
「Kuh……Aspite! I don’t mind if you defeat me in the Devil King War! But, stop doing something like kidnapping Lizel-senpai and forcing her to submit to you!!」
「How dare you give me an order, human!! I have obtained everything until now as the next head of Line House! I’m the world’s number one! In everything! It’s only natural for the strong to bleed the weak dry!」
「Wrong! Even the weak have life! They have their own will! There’s no way it’s alright for those with power to trample the weak’s everything!」
Vein bulged on Aspite’s forehead.
「Damn you……a mere human, what’s more the holder of the weakest arcana Lovers dare to-! A trash like you are nothing more than a stepping stool for me!! I am the ruler of the world! Everything in this world should exist for my sake! That’s my mission! That’s my dignity as the one who is destined to be the next head of Line House and the next devil king!!」
「……So that’s your world.」
「It’s not only my world! That’s how the world should be for everyone!!」
「People each have their own world! Surely there are those who can accept your world. But, that doesn’t apply to everyone!!」
「I have no need to listen to the preaching of a mere stepping stool!」
Aspite roughly grabbed Lizel-senpai’s arm.
「KUUAAAAAAAAAAH!!」
Senpai’s body broke into cold sweat and bent backward.
「Lizel! Say that you will become mine!!」
「Stop! Aspite!!」
「Right now your sense of pain is increased by dozens of times. Do you want to test if you can keep your sanity even if your arm is broken?」
A shriek burst out from Lizel-senpai’s lips.
「NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!」
Lizel-senpai!!
「STOP ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!」
Something snapped inside me.
Even if the opponent was the top contender the World while I was the weakest the Lovers,
Whether the opponent was a noble devil while I was just a mere human,
Those things didn’t matter.
Aspite,
I’m going to,
Send you flying even if it’s the last thing I do!!
The few remaining mana inside me burned.
I didn’t care what happened to me.
Even if I died, I would still protect Lizel-senpai!!
──The Lovers arcana on my chest started shining.
Mana was swelling up inside me.
My whole body was circulating with mana that filled me to the brim.
The magic mechanism carved in my body was fired up and the processing speed of my brain jumped up drastically.
──What is, this?
Strange.
My remaining mana should be so small I couldn’t even fire a single Fizard.
What was this sensation, as though a single drop of mana was proliferating to become hundreds, thousands of times greater!!
Even Aspite was staring at me with a shocked gaze.
「Wha……what, that power……that’s, the weakest arcana’s……power?」
「Fu……fufufu」
Lizel-senpai whose face was hanging down limply let out a chuckle. Aspite’s eyes widened hearing that chuckle.
「What’s so funny!?」
Lizel-senpai smiled beautifully even with her battered figure.
「That’s the true power of Lovers──Infinite Lovers.」
「What……did you say?」
「It’s a unique magic that is born when fighting for the sake of other people instead of themselves. The feeling of wanting to protect someone important to them become strength as it is……an infinite power that we demon can’t use.」
「Wha……」
「That’s why, Lovers’ devil king candidate has to be human.」
Aspite stared at Lizel-senpai with a gaze of astonishment. Sweat was trickling from his forehead.
「Don’t tell me……don’t tell me, don’t tell me-! You intentionally, let me──!?」
Lizel-senpai’s blue eyes shined coldly.
「The likes of you can become my master’s stepping stool at the very least.」
Aspite’s face turned demonic.
「Th-these……lowly slaves! There is no formula that can break my World Revision! Any kind of magic is powerless before it! There is no changing your death!!」
Aspite drew closer with the World Revision surrounding him.
That was the world itself.
A world with its fundamental principle rewritten.
Aspite was invincible within it. It was meaningless even if he was attacked from outside.
Destroying that was the same like destroying a world.
It was just as he said, there was no way to do that──normall that was.
──But, I knew.
A formula to destroy a world.
I constructed the magic formula that I saw before.
And then, I revised the parts that were incomplete.
I had never used it, and most likely it had also been never used by anybody until now. It was completely a rush job.
But, I would complete it without fail no matter what!
「Here I go!!」
Magic formula ran through my left arm. Many layers of magic circle emerged on my fist.
Aspite glared at me with a dubious expression.
「……What’s, that」
「It’s the spear to puncture a hole in your conceited world.」
The magic circles became three dimensional and created a complicated structure. What was left was to pour mana into it!
「I’ll throw all my mana here! How much it can destroy with that!?」
『Conjecture, a volume of two square meters. Success rate is 10%.』
Bring it on!
「TAKE THIS ASPITEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!」
I ran normally.
My mana and processing power were completely focused into the magic in my left hand. I couldn’t use any other magic at all.
However!
Aspite spread out his hands and waited for me.
「Come into my world! The instant you entered is the moment of your death! JUST TRY GUESSING HOW YOU WILL DIE HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!」
I thrust my left hand forward and leaped into World Revision.
「FUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! FOOLI──」
World Revision’s formula popped off.
The graphs, the letters, all of them crumbled and scattered away.
「What──」
I dug out the World Revision with my left hand.
The magic of world destruction deployed on my left hand destroyed it.
This was one of the unresolved magic formulas.
A magic formula for destroying a world that I saw in class──World Fall.
Although, using it to destroy the whole world was only a dream within a dream.
Even my mana that had swelled up immensely could only destroy two square meters.
But,
This much was enough for now.
To gouge open a hole in this world called World Revision!
My left hand destructed Aspite’s world.
I could only destroy a little of it,
However, it was fine if I could reach Aspite!!
And then──,
「Aspite! No matter how powerful your magic is, no matter how proud you are of your vast mana, that’s your limit! You have no qualification to become a king!!」
The right arm that I held up──,
「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!」
Punched Aspite’s face with all my strength.
「Gugo!?……-」
The impact shook Aspite’s head and reaped his consciousness.
Aspite fell with his eyes rolled up together with me.
In that moment,
The three dimensional magic formula of World Revision also vanished together with Aspite’s consciousness.
「Yuuto!!」
Lizel-senpai took off the chain binding her and ran toward me.
「Lizel-senpai……I’m sorry. I was late to rescue you……」
Senpai lifted up my body in her arms and her large and soft breasts were pressed on me. Her eyes that were looking at me glistened with tears.
「No……I’m the one, who should apologize. I made you……met danger like this.」
A hole was opened on the crumbling wall of the hall and two silhouettes rushed in.
「Ooooi! We finished up ‘snap’ at our side and came to help!!」
「Desu desu!! Wait……eh?」
Miyabi and Reina couldn’t hide their surprise seeing the great hall that had been reduced into a ruin. They were shocked further when they saw Aspite’s fallen form.
「Oooooh! You’re amazing Yuuto!! You seriously took down Aspite!」
「Desu desu! B-but, are you alright!? Are you injured? Is there anywhere that feels hurt!?」
I wanted to say that I was alright, but my consciousness was hazy. And so I asked Lizel-senpai something that really bothered me.
「……Senpai, the evaluation, what is my score this time?」
Senpai tilted her head in puzzlement.
「……I can’t give you a score.」
Geh!? As expected, was it because I couldn’t save senpai before she went through something like that?
Within my fading consciousness, a lovely smiling face that was beautiful like a blooming flower drew near.
「It was too amazing that I cannot put a score for it.」
Lizel-senpai’s sweet lips touched me.
