Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou

Volume 4 Chapter 5 - Love Simulation Part 3

The figures of the main character and the heroine exchanging vows that they would reunite again while looking up at the full starry sky on the hill, it was a scene from the movie that left a deep impression. That is why to bring a finish to the date, Kazuki and Hikaru-senpai went to a public park with a low-rise hill where they could see the night sky clearly.

[The power of the night was reinstated in the age of magic] ―The light of the town became small and the pollution of the atmosphere was reduced drastically. The current era’s night sky was thoroughly deep and dark, enhancing the radiance of the stars brightly. As if jewels were scattered everywhere on top of dark velvet.

“How beautiful it is!”

“Senpai is more beautiful though.”

“Jeez! Even if you say some borrowed words from the movie, I can\'t believe it already!”

Had senpai finally gotten used to it? Her composure finally recovered and she laughed.

“Bu, but in the movie, this scene was where the main character kissed the heroine once more, right…?”

Saying it extremely, that was the love scene of the movie. Hikaru-senpai broached the topic once more.

When Kazuki stayed silent, Hikaru-senpai revoked her words once again in fluster.

“Sorry! I suddenly said some weird things just now! …But it’s strange, from some time ago, since you hugged me so tightly, I\'d been, until now…”

Even now, their posture was still where Kazuki was lightly holding Hikaru-senpai’s hips while they were looking up at the night sky.

While she was completely settled inside Kazuki’s arm, senpai murmured as if she was overcome with emotion.

“Since some time ago, I\'ve been continuously…thinking to kiss you just like this, in this position…”

Inside Kazuki’s chest too, his heart was beating wildly (dokun).

Senpai has thoroughly become like a girl. She was so cute, he couldn’t stand it.

However, Hikaru-senpai separated their body with a hop.

“That’s not good, isn’t it? If we kissed with our lips, an important power that could only be used just once would be manifested and get used up!”

“Senpai, you know that much about my ability!?”

“Yes. Liz Liza-sensei said \'you all, as his seniors, have to become Kazuki’s strength…\'”

Become his strength, they were simple words. However, he had the feeling that it was filled with a not so simple meaning.

“Please wait, senpai. I don’t particularly want to get along well with senpai just because I\'m aiming for streng…”

“I know, if your feelings were impure, then you wouldn’t be this kind to a companion that is really troublesome like me. But, ahaha…it’s a little lonely that we couldn’t kiss like in the movie.”

Senpai said that and smiled wryly.

“If I am really a cute girl then…I want to try to do a kiss like in the movie…”

When Kazuki kisses someone, then just once, he could use the strongest level 10 magic of the Diva that is contracted with the person that he kissed and summons the Diva into a material body in this world.

“Something like a one-time use power is a trivial thing.”

Kazuki gripped both of senpai’s arms right from the front; he brought his face near.

“Are you…really going to kiss…?”

“These feelings for senpai are far more important than power, after all.”

Both of their long breaths approached. His heart beat wildly (dokun dokun dokun).

However―even so, Kazuki noticed. Even when his feelings for Hikaru-senpai were overflowing, his subconscious was sharpened to the limit.

Preferably, he didn’t want to notice, but Kazuki noticed it completely.

“Senpai…we\'re surrounded by something with a potent magic power.”

Kazuki didn’t whisper loving words, instead he had to whisper that fact.

“Eh!?” Hikaru-senpai immediately sharpened her senses too.

The low-rise hill in the park where Kazuki and Hikaru-senpai was located.

Multiple magic powers were whirling in a circular shape in the surroundings.

They were surrounded by a fair number of Magica Stigma…!

That circle of magic power was steadily narrowing and approaching Kazuki and Hikaru-senpai. Were they no longer planning to stay hidden? From the darkness of the night, from the gap between the park’s trees, one person, two people, their figures started to appear.

It was a distance where they couldn’t simply come assaulting with a sword immediately―with a radius of roughly 50 meters similar to a duel’s distance, female students clad in their magic dresses encircled and besieged them.

“…Students of the Magic Division? That’s, Miyamoto Reina-senpai?”

The moment he saw the opponent’s face, a shock ran through him. It was a face he remembered seeing. Miyamoto-senpai and Nagasaka-senpai had fought Kazuki in a match. Even the other people in the group were students that were participating in the battle election.

From the teams that had been defeated, except Kaguya-senpai and Hikaru-senpai’s teams, it was not all of members. But around ten Magica Stigma were spreading out around Kazuki and Hikaru-senpai…!

“O king of eagle and beastgryphon that crossed over the ocean, burst out the wind of the north pole and overturning raging waves with those wings …Northern Waves”

Miyamoto-senpai invoked Focalor’s magic.

“O loyal passionate worker, release the flame in that eye. Lion’s Fire.”

“Thy is the crystal spiritualist that discover the lost truth…gouged out the darkness of the absolutely sinful heart, pierce and tear with the gold in that hand. Golden Dowsing Arrow.”

Divas’ avatars were floating one after another inside the darkness of the night. Summoning Magics were flying here altogether!

However, the problem was not himself, but senpai whose magic power still hadn’t recovered yet!

“Watch out, senpai!”

Kazuki held Hikaru-senpai in a princess carry and dodged with his body from the barrage of offensive magic. A fierce impact ran through the place. Where they were looking up at the starry sky, a cloud of dust was rising.

“Lamentation of the fetus that could never grow, O Uruvaking of the grudge seed. That hand that scoops out the surge of resentment deeper than even Hades, throw it to that person. Slowing Curse.”

Even though it was all just simple level 1 magic, when several were coming in, even Kazuki couldn’t evade them easily.

With Hikaru-senpai in his embrace, Kazuki attempted to break through the encirclement. But with their movements in perfect order, the magicians changed their formation while continuing to surround Kazuki.

This bunch, what the…what’s with their atmosphere that felt like machines? Everyone…moved robotically with eerily expressionless faces…just like when he faced the Quad Core Magica!

In the first place, why were these students attacking altogether? Don’t tell me that all these students were spies!? Their condition was different from when they were fighting at the battle election!

“O my soldier with lion\'s face, thy fist is my fist. Light that fist with flame, become the agent of my rage. Spill the blood and sweat and tears…Lion King Hot Blood FistLion Heart.”

Toward Kazuki who was trying to break through the encirclement, one of the students stood in his way right from the front and invoked a magic exclusive for close quarters. In front of Kazuki’s eyes, hell’s soldier with a lion\'s face, Allocer appeared.

“FUN!” The soldier with a lion\'s face, Allocer swung the fist that was enveloped in flame at Kazuki.

“FUN!FUN!FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN! FUN!”

Along with breathing filled with fighting spirit, he unleashed a barrage of fists. Kazuki abandoned trying to break through and was pushed back to the center of the encirclement. This Allocer was not summoned into a materialized real body, but more like a shadow clone. But it was not an opponent he could resist while carrying Hikaru-senpai.

“Kazuki, I’ll run by myself!”

“No way, senpai still hasn’t gotten her magic power back!”

Kazuki denied Hikaru-senpai’s proposal. He divided his attention toward the magic power in all directions and continued to persist in evasion.

Hikaru-senpai took out a cell phone from somewhere and began to operate it.

In regard to Kazuki, who was running from place to place, some numbers from the ten students began to switch from chanting low level magic to high level magic. From the scale of the whirling magic powers, Kazuki sensed that unfolding action.

This was bad…he became unable to defend!

“…Kazuki, I have reported this!”

Hikaru-senpai had sent a notification to the Knight Order. However the allocation of Knight Order’s personnel in the area around the Knight Academy had become thin. Even if they reported this, they weren’t supposed to be able to come help them immediately.

No, wait…

{Right now, we\'re just cooperating with Japan’s Knight Order in patrolling . For some reason, the Knight Order is lacking in personnel, it seems they don’t have enough hands for the area around this Knight Academy huh.}

Someone who patrolled around this area, existed… By some chance, those guys were…!

“…Northern Wave.”

Kazuki continued to evade the attack magic that came pouring down on him.

“O soul that have been deserted, scream the curse from present to the future. Change that loneliness that you keep embracing into corruption, cover the sleepless night completely…The Night of the Forgotten SoulSilent Night.”

Bifrons‘ scream resounded. Kazuki’s surroundings were covered completely with chills like in a graveyard. The chills froze the people as if trying to steal all the warmth from the living person!

“Freeze Barrier!”

Against the large scale offensive magic that was finally activated, Kazuki protected Hikaru-senpai using defensive magic. However Kazuki himself was unprotected. It was fine if it just one shot, but it’d be bad if the situation kept continuing like this!

However, while he was doing this, from afar, [gigantic magic power] was dashing to their position.

“HA―HAHHAHHA! The war is calling us! You are slow Erii, Damian!”

“Captain Beatrix―, your legs are just a little too fast!”

The one who came dashing here with a voice of joy at the prospect of a fight was…!

“Beatrix!”

“Fuhahahaha! Don’t tell me the one that called for help is you, Kazuki!? What a funny blunder, for my hope of a joint struggle situation to come true so suddenly!! …I will have a good fight, welcome a good death and further hope to participate in the fight in the heavens! The divine protection of red blood in my eyes! Berserk!!”

Beatrix who came running immediately chanted her spell and invoked it while charging.

The large western sword became a flash. One of the students was blown away like a ragged cloth.

“…h! Strong!” Hikaru-senpai gulped her breath.

Even though Thor of the Norse Mythology was a powerful Diva, to be able to exhibit such destructive power with just a level 1 reinforcement magic was originally because of the height of Beatrix’s ability as a knight.

“Erii, you go protect Kazuki and the girl! Seems like that princess-sama can\'t use magic! Damian, you follow me, we are going to kick them around!!”

Beatrix accurately grasped the battle situation. Her situational judgment as a knight with long military service was heartening.

“…We act in accordance of Hodur’s wish, I entrust my body to the exaltation of battle! The war fire of violent emotion running in the fat and blood on my sword…Stories Flame!”

Damian too enveloped her sword in flame and scattered the opponents.

“We are ?gir‘s, lend me the fear of the unknown bottom of the ocean! The raging waves toying the small people, to me…Himingl?va!”

Eleonora who dashed to Kazuki’s side summoned a tsunami, the lump of water fixated on that place. He had experienced how hard it was to break through this thick wall of sea.

“O divine protection of military men, double the Megin whirling in my body! Dashing to endless fights as the will of the gods, in this body! …Megingjord!”

Beatrix chanted a reinforcement magic even more and amplified her destructive power and turned unrivaled.

“What a bunch who aren’t even any challenge…what’s with you guys? Why are you all not looking at me?”

Beatrix murmured in wonderment. …Kazuki too noticed the abnormality.

Despite how Beatrix and her team barged in and rampaged around, the students didn’t look at anyone except Kazuki and Hikaru-senpai. Even when the situation had developed like this they still let their magic fly at Kazuki, though all of it was rebounded by the wall of sea.

“Target change!!” Someone’s voice was flying from between the trees.

There was someone who was concealing himself while cutting off his magic power and used the vast magic power the students produced to camouflage his own. Kazuki used magic to reinforce his sight and saw through that figure.

“Katsura Karin and Hayashi Shizuka!” …The assassin that aimed at his life and also her partner!!

“That girl is, Hayashi ShizukaLin Zhijing!?” At Kazuki’s side, Eleonora too raised her voice. …Lin Zhijing?

With the words [Target change] as the signal, the students finally directed their sight at Beatrix.

“I don’t really get it, but too slow! This is the end! O god Thor in the heavens! Applaud my blade dance and resound thy roar! The thunder of the sky resides in this sword, already not even fight is allowed, consign them to oblivion!! Fjorgyn Megin!!”

Thunder god’s power resided inside Beatrix’s sword―it pulverized one of the students defensive magic power.

“ORAAAAAAAAAAAA! Rot in hell!!”

Damian too stabbed her sword into one of the students, it destroyed all of the student’s magic power.

But―the two students who should have used up their magic power stood up while swaying like ghosts.

Their magic powers have completely recovered!

“What!? …These girls, what’s with them!?”

Beatrix too noticed the strangeness and raised her voice.

“SheetScheisse! I’ll kill you one more time! I don’t get it anyway, so I’ll kill you no matter how many times!!”

While exchanging magic, without even caring about herself being bombed, Damian swung her flame sword. She was trying to defeat the students no matter how many times. However, no matter how many times she defeated the opponent, she kept reviving and standing up.

Her expression was empty like a robot.

“Damian, don’t keep getting hit! These girls are strange, this is gonna be a long battle!”

Even Beatrix was not perfectly unhurt, she had gotten hit with a few of the oncoming shots.

“I’m poor at something like that you knooooww! Scheisseeee!”

The small statured Einherjar, Damian tried to evade the magic coming at her and moved around restlessly while raising a strange voice.

“Captain! The one hiding at the shadow of the trees is Lin Zhijing!”

“Who the hell is that!? Someone famous!?”

Hearing Beatrix’s reply, Eleonora was taken aback and almost fell down.

“You have read the report from the intelligent operatives a few times already right!? She is a person from Chūkadou that requires special attention, the Magica Stigma who is contracted with the Chinese Mythology’s third emperor <Joka>!”

Joka!? The great god that was concerned with the creation of the world in the Chinese Mythology!

“Eei, in short, what is that girl!? For this bunch to keep reviving so many times, is it that girl’s power!?”

“In the disputed area in the surroundings of Chūkadou, Lin Zhijing’s figure has frequently appeared as the suppression army and shown a part of that power. She manipulated the enemies and added them into her allies’ own ranks, reinforcing that army’s power. Even further, she granted the Divine Protection of immortality…that kind of report was given to us.”

“Immortality!? That’s freaking impossible!”

Damian raised a scream hearing the shocking details.

“We don’t understand the particulars completely. But in Joka’s legend, there was this legend where they would be revived 70 times even if they were killed 70 times. It’s not a perfect immortality, it is thought to be such a thing!”

If it was a famous Diva, he could imagine such an ability from that legend.

“So in short, we need to defeat each of these girls 70 times!? Interesting!”

Beatrix exploded in laughter while swinging her sword.

“It’s not interesting at all captain! It’s totally impossible to do this 70 times, right!!?”

“Both of you, they are going to be revived 70 times so we have to defeat them 71 times! …It’s not realistic at all, don’t you agree? I want to defeat the caster Lin Zhijing, but it looks impossible to break through the encirclement of ten people. If we have nothing like a powerful purging magic, we won’t be able to break the deadlock of this situation.”

Besides Eleonora, a small misgiving was created inside Kazuki’s heart.

“…Is Germany sending spies to each country around the world and collecting information?”

Eleonora took a glance at Kazuki and replied coldly.

“I’ll leave it to your imagination. Well, Chūkadou have a lot of disputes in their surrounding area that surpassed the rest of the world, so there is no mistake that they are a country that is easy to collect information from though.”

In short, leaving aside Beatrix, this intellectual female―Eleonora while staying in Japan she was also gathering the information on Japan and Solomon\'s 72 Pillars. She was also working as a spy.

No, right now, what’s important is the enemy in front of him!

“Err, about purging magic…it’s going to be ok if I use [Mistilteinn II] huh!”

“Stop it Damian! That sword couldn’t go easy on the target, you know that!”

[Mistilteinn II]. That was a cursed sure-kill weapon that consigned the son of god Baldur into oblivion with one shot, even though he was blessed with a divine protection of absolute indestructibility in the Norse Mythology.

If it followed the legend, its strength would destroy all defensive effects and inflicted lethal damage on the opponent.

“Kazuki, these girls are mind-controlled by a Diva and made to rampage around, am I wrong!?”

“…These girls are students of the Knight Academy!”

Beatrix made a rare exhausted face.

“In short, if we kill these girls and they fall into severe magic intoxication, it would become an international problem!”

“How, how troublesomeeeeeee! What the hell\'s with that, aren’t we screwed!”

Even while they were talking like this, offensive magic kept flying toward Beatrix and Damian.

{O King. If it’s a method to do something about this, it exists.}

At Kazuki’s side―Hikaru-senpai’s contracted Diva, Baal’s avatar was floating.

“Kazuki!” Hikaru-senpai who was being held in princess carry shook and untangled herself before landing on the ground.

“Kazuki…, absorb my power!”

The next moment, without even giving Kazuki time to hesitate, Hikaru-senpai pressed her lips on his.

And then a terrific magic power was flowing into Kazuki. It was a sensation he had experienced personally a number of times. Their magic power circuits were connected by the kissing, the true power of his partner’s contracted Diva was flowing into him!

“This phenomenon…is this the special characteristic of Japan’s BasileusKing!?”

Eleonora was looking at them. However, this was not a situation where he had to worry about her.

“Violent but benevolent personification of mother nature, O the great god of harvests…however thy honor has been disgraced…”

Kazuki chanted that spell. Certainly if it was with this power, he knew that he could settle this situation.

At Kazuki’s side, the great god of the Ugaritic Mythology was summoned into material body with imposing air!

“O King…You’re going to release all of my curse! Become a figure that should be loathed!!”

“All evils were born in the Middle Ages. Faith of self-interest, false loyalty, those forsaken people demanded a demon. Corrupting the sublime Baal. From the falsehood the army of demons increased and increased, thy stood at such summit…”

Because of Kazuki’s spell, the golden king where the light of the stars resided, Baal’s form transformed into pitch black and vanished in tatters. Then a completely different figure was floating. Divas were…from the faith and imagination of humans, their form was changed from how they originally were.

“I know thy disgraced nameShem ha Mephorash. Thy dishonored name is…Beelzebub!!”

The completely different appearance of Baal―he changed into the appearance of <the Demon King of hell, Beelzebub>.

His brilliant figure was dyed with an ominous pitch black color. That black majestic appearance was dispersed without a sound. Those countless black fragments of the materialized body transformed into countless giant flies.

The large swarm of giant flies around the size of a human’s face were (bubububububu!) roaring out with their wings and blocked the night sky completely! They were the black boisterous clouds that summoned human’s disgust instinctively without fail!

“Liberate thy rage right here…BeelzebubKing of Flies!”

The swarm of giant flies assaulted the ten students―Kazuki looked back at Hikaru-senpai.

“Senpai, I didn’t wish for senpai’s pow…”

“I know, I believe in you. But you need power, you are our, everyone’s hero after all. That’s why…never lose your way.”

Hikaru-senpai smiled and embraced Kazuki.

“Something unbelievable is coming here!? That’s seriously gross!?”

‘Uwaa, I’m looking at something dreadful’, such tension overtook Damian. The giant swarm of the flies clung on the students one after another. The flies emitted red light. They sucked all of the magic power from the opponents. <Greed>. One of the seven sins that Beelzebub represented as it was, the swarm of flies stole everything from every enemy without leaving anything behind.

Yes, the dubious Divine Protection that Joka affixed was plundered completely by the flies. On top of that, the magic power of the students was also eaten untidily, the students collapsed one after another. However the flies that received Kazuki’s will wouldn’t suck their magic power more than necessary.

“Karin, this is bad! Your effect is also erased! We are escaping!!”

Hayashi Shizuka and Katsura Karin, who were lying hidden in the shadows of the trees, were also overwhelmed by the large swarm of the flies.

“Kyaaa!” Karin, who was crowded by the flies, raised a scream.

“O earth of Pangu , reveal all the possibilities of the abyss following my wish. …Gush up from the ground, dance in ecstasy! Earth Violent FormationChiretsujin!!”

Besides Hayashi Shizuka, an unknown Diva’s avatar was floating vaguely.

Thereupon the surrounding earth shook violently. Countless cracks ran through the ground, bedrock rose gradually, the terrain undulated as if going crazy. The rising bedrock hit the flies, the raining down falling rocks knocked down the flies, layers of soil slide left and right and crushed the flies between them.

The earth crushed all the flies that clung to Karin.

“O five colors worthy to be Joka’s light, repaint the world! My desired sky is not here! Carry us to the destination of that compass…Sky Formation TransferKūjinhen’i!”

The vague avatar of the Diva on Hayashi Shizuka’s side put up the thing that it carried on both hands to the sky. From its right hand were red, blue, yellow, white, black, five colors of lights shined intensely.

When they thought the light had disappeared, Hayashi Shizuka and Katsura Karin had vanished from this place.

They got away, though rather than that, he felt as if just driving them away had been the best he could hope for anyway. But, as expected, those two were…

“Is it over? …In the end, you two are the ones that settled it. All of us look like idiots huh.”

Beatrix laughed while she went near the collapsed Magica Stigma students―she approached Miyamoto Reina, then “Oi, wake up Japanese” she slapped her cheek. But there was no reaction from Miyamoto-senpai.

“It should be about time for Japan’s Knight Order to arrive. After these girls get collected, we too will withdraw. Well, our role as freeloaders has been fulfilled! I want to get praised. Hahhahha!”

Looking at Beatrix, who laughed like an idiot, Kazuki once again thought about something unbelievable.

“I never thought I would really be helped by you.”

“Fufufu, it’s the responsibility of someone that is called a knight. There is no difference in just this much, whether in the east or west.”

Knight. ―Suddenly Kazuki felt a life-sized feeling of empathy toward the female in front of him, his interest was pulled onto her as a knight.

This girl who fought, he felt inclined against her circumstances.

“Beatrix and the Einherjar, for what kind of purpose are you all fighting?”

His question became something abstract.

Without even taking any time at all to think, Beatrix reflexively answered like this.

As if the [creed] inside her head came out from her mouth without anything unnecessary added, it was such a reply.

“War is something performed for the sake of proving the righteousness of the god’s selection.”

It was an answer that was very far from Kazuki’s beliefs.

Kazuki realized the confusion Beatrix’s unhesitating answer brought about to him. He made a face as if he was chewing a bitter bug.

“I’m happy that you showed an interest. But leave this behind with the answer that this is a knight’s duty. Against humans who have faith in a different mythology, don’t ask any question that pierces so deeply. …It’s nothing more than a confirmation that we couldn’t understand each other. You know, I like you, whether when it was fighting against you or when we talk about something stupid.”

He felt the presence of the Knight Order who were dashing here from afar.

“We\'re going home, Damian, Erii.”

Beatrix said that and turned her back to Kazuki.