Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou

Part 3

When he went outside, he saw a strange work was being carried out at one of the tents.

The ground inside the tent was dug out, the ground hardened with magic, and then the hole was filled with hot water using summoning magic――a bath was purposefully created there.

The knights of Britain and Germany were sending them shocked and exasperated gazes at this zeal of the Japanese for bathing, but it seemed Kazuha-senpai also participated in the work. If she participated then a work of this level was just a piece of cake.

Mio and the others were sleeping soundly with their consciousness receding. In contrast Kazuki could only feel as though he had received energy from everyone. He put his appearance in order using magic and went out for a walk to feel the wind, it was at that time that the bath was completed in good timing.

「Ou-sama, please take the bath first by any means.」

One of the knights encouraged Kazuki like that, it was just what he wanted and so he flipped the tent’s entrance and entered inside.

A third of the inside was left alone as floor and had a sheet spread on it, the rest of the space was taken as the bathtub. For some reason, there were previous guests already inside that bathtub, as though they were waiting in ambush for Kazuki.

「We, welcome welcome, ahaha」

「Ni, Nii-sama, we entered first-」

Kazuha-senpai and Kanae were already stark naked kneeling seiza inside the bathtub. They were obviously mistaking the arrangement of the plan. Even though they plotted for this themselves, but the two of them were fidgeting bashfully by themselves. That their faces were bright red surely wasn’t because of the hot water.

Kazuki lost his words for a moment, but throwing caution to the wind he took off his clothes right away and threw them away. His shame was paralyzed.

「Kyah」「Nii-sama, bold!?」

He thought that those weren’t words that these two who were already stark naked could say, but the gazes of the two were devouringly directed at Kazuki’s lower body. It would feel like defeat if he was agitated or hid it, so Kazuki maintained his calmness while he soaked into the bathtub right in front of the two face to face.

The water surface rippled, the body of the two through the hot water swayed.

「What’s the matter, Kazuha-senpai.」

For the time being he pinched Kanae’s cheeks and stre―tched them wide while asking Kazuha-senpai.

「That’s, that, errr……」

Kazuha-senpai looked down while fidgeting……however her gaze was firmly directed at Kazuki’s lower body through the water surface while she was at a loss for words. Kanae whose cheeks were stretched was making ‘funyaa funyaa’ sound.

Just from seeing her troubled figure and her mumbling, Kazuki understood what she wanted to do without even being told.

Kazuki released Kanae’s cheeks and then he embraced Kazuha-senpai into a kiss.

Kazuha-senpai’s body froze just for a moment in shock, but she immediately attacked back assertively.

Even when he took a kiss, each one of everyone was different.

「……Say it properly, what do you want me to do, if not」

Kazuki separated his lips from Kazuha-senpai who was cute with how she was still unable to be honest and said that. Senpai was chewing her words for a while before,

「I want you to do to me too, just like what you did with everyone of the Witch’s Mansion……」

She answered.

There was no way Kazuha-senpai could see through inside the tent like X-ray by any means.

But surely she sensed that such thing was taking place inside there.

Perhaps she imagined that they had possibly crossed the line.

This was Kazuha-senpai who would grew worse if she was neglected, like fishing for Kazuki’s underwear to be used to comfort herself. Kazuki also had no intention to neglect Kazuha-senpai and everyone else.

Kazuki kissed Kazuha-senpai one more time while his hand was crawling on her slender body that was trained as a swordsman, but it was still a soft and feminine body despite all that.

「Kazu-kun, I also like you……I love you that’s why……nn, chu……」

He thoroughly tasted the fruit of the one that had been setting this kind of place and then waiting stark naked for him.

「Nii-sama, me too, please don’t ignore me……」

Kanae pulled pleadingly at Kazuki’s shoulder from the side.

Kazuki turned to Kanae’s direction, then Kanae ardently brought her face closer wishing for a kiss――he had only kissed Kanae once.

Furthermore it was at the battlefield.

In addition due to a reason that was also different from Kazuha-senpai’s personality, the two of them couldn’t be completely honest to each other. He got the feeling that they were still unable to seek each other from their heart. Kanae would always be shy at the crucial moment and then varnished over the situation with her hyperness, while Kazuki too was always pulling back due to the taboo that came from them being step brother and sister.

However something that made Kanae anxious or lonely was something that he absolutely must not do.

Today, here, in this place he had to smash this taboo with Kanae.

Kazuki moved his focus from Kazuha-senpai for a moment and stole Kanae’s small lips.

And then he gently caressed her delicate and smooth shoulder and breast, just like when he caressed her head.

「The person who I had become conscious of as the opposite gender for the first time since I was born, is you.」

Kazuki separated their lips and said that to persuade her.

「Nii-sama……」

「You always kept tempting me who just reached puberty until just barely……」

Since the period when Kazuki’s skill in sword was conspicuously rising, Kanae called Kazuki as her big brother and idolized him, but the expression of her love was something fierce.

She hugged him, rubbed her body against him, she casually showed her underwear and skin to him……

Kanae was the daughter of his great benefactor that took care of him, she was also his step sister, so even when she did those kind of things he could do nothing but avert his eyes.

There was no doubt that Kanae had the thought that Kazuki’s reaction was interesting, and so what she did were also done with a provocative mentality.

Right now, it was Kanae’s turn to be on the side that was feeling miserable for sure but……

Kanae casually used the placement of her hands to hide her body even inside the bathtub but, Kazuki caught both of Kanae’s arms and he faced her right from the front, he then stared fixedly at her body. The pink bud that had been flaunted to him since when they were children, and the lower body that had made him ponder endlessly just what was behind that underwear, now those were right in front of his eyes.

「I wanted to do this all this time, that’s why prepare yourself.」

Kazuki said that with a mad look rather than with mere fondness, he kissed Kanae’s small breast, sucked it, and then licked to taste it. Kanae’s body shuddered in shivers. She was trembling as though the emotion that she had been saving in these few years were overflowing out.

「Ni, Nii-sama, this is embarrassing……」

He had resolved to make everyone happy. Of course that included Kanae.

He mustn’t become an existence that was just being indebted to the Hayashizaki family anymore. In practice he was still a student, but he swore that he would take responsibility of Kanae too and make her happy.

「I will take responsibility of you too. As a man, from here on I will regard you as a girl.」

「Ni, Nii-sama……」

Kanae stared at Kazuki with blank eyes in a daze as though she was seeing a dream. Kazuki kissed Kanae once more.

She was awaiting for a man stark naked like this. He wouldn’t let her say any complaint no matter what happened to her after this.

Kazuki lifted up her light body and laid her down on the rim between the bathtub and the floor. Kanae tried to shrink herself but Kazuki caught both her legs, and then he mercilessly pushed them open to left and right.

He smashed the wall that had made him worry endlessly since he was a child. Kazuki took an unbroken view of Kanae’s everything.

「All this time I had endured the desire to assault Kanae like a beast.」

He spitted out his real feelings that he had been suppressing as an adopted child.

「Nii-sama, Kanae……Kanae has been such a sinful little devil towards Nii-sama……」

Kanae fidgeted with a face that looked happy and embarrassed.

She used her own hands to pinned down her opened legs.

「I’m sorry, Nii-sama……Nii-sama, please taste Kanae……?」

Kazuki softly kissed at the faintly colored sprout of a girl. He tasted the inside as though pushing it open with his tongue. Syrupy honey was flowing until inside his mouth……

Kanae’s breathing jumped. However she was conscious of Kazuha-senpai’s existence and pressed on her mouth with her palm to suppress her voice from coming out. Kazuki also sensed the subtle change of positivity level from Kanae as heart marks, and searched the way and the spot to pleasure her. That place of Kanae immediately came untied heatedly, drops were trickling down, soaking wet the place. Kazuki used not just his tongue but also his fingers and started touching there intensely.

「Kazu-kun……me too, don’t ignore me……」

Kazuha-senpai feverishly……no, her breathing became rough as though she was lit on fire from seeing the two of them, she moved by herself to lie down beside Kanae. She opened both her legs and then opened that place using her fingers to display it to him.

Kazuki was caressing Kanae with his finger while he lifted his head and moved his gaze to there, just with her place there getting seen caused Kazuha-senpai to react, the redness of her skin deepened even more and heat tinged her body.

The two girls were displaying themselves with really similar immodest posture.

Kazuki’s left hand was on Kanae, his right hand was on Kazuha-senpai, he used them to caress the two of them. He gave an undivided attention to the change of their positivity level and concentrated wholeheartedly to pull out pleasure from the two.

「Ka, Kazu-kun-, it feels good-!」Her voice spasmed, and it started to be tinged with reverberation like a flute.

「Does it feels better compared to when senpai did it yourself?」

「It feels good! Kazu-kun you bully……-?」

He got the feeling that Kazuha-senpai was even more M than Koyuki in the genuine meaning.

「Funyaaaaah! Ni, Nii-sama! I too……all this time I thought of Nii-sama doing this while I did it myself!」

Kanae too, she saw Kazuha-senpai’s state and snapped, she raised her voice and coming out of the closet with a loud voice.

Kazuha-senpai became the first one that convulsed greatly. She excelled in using general magic to magnify the sensation she felt. But Kanae also followed right behind her after that. The two of them gradually kept raising their voices and kept convulsing, they intensely spurted out various things at the floor of the simple bath.

Sometimes Kazuki brought his face closer and kissed them while continuously manipulating their heartstring with both his hands. In order to do well what they would do after this without pain, he had to loosen up the two of them enough.

Today Kazuki wouldn’t stop with just exhaustion.

When Kazuha-senpai showed the height of her climax of who knew how many times, Kazuki stopped his caress at the two of them and leaned on top of Kazuha-senpai first.

Kazuha-senpai was breathing roughly while her eyes that were clouded with pleasure took some time to understand the situation. However she had no hesitation.

「……Kazu-kun, Kazu-kun, come……」She nodded.

……

――The two of them were lying down like a princess at the country of dream, their body limp from exhaustion.

「Ehehe……it feels like Kazu-kun is still inside me……ehehe. From here on we will be together forever right……」

Kazuha-senpai smiled widely and happily.

「……I became Nii-sama’s woman……this is like a dream……」

Kanae whispered as though she had been finally liberated from the anxiety that had ruled over a part of her heart all this time.

However different with everyone inside the tent outside, they couldn’t relax like this indefinitely.

「Anyway let’s clean this bath so other people can also use it.」

This was a bath that had been completed with hard work. Various liquids were mixed in it now, but they could manage somehow using general magic. Various liquids……

「There is also Kazuha-senpai’s pee that leaked out after all.」

「I’ll finish the cleaning in thirty seconds-」

The general magic prodigy raised her body in panic.

Part 4

Beatrix looked around at the commanding officers of the Einherjar that gathered inside the tent.

……The vacant positions weren’t few. There were also a lot of people that had fallen into magic intoxication and were in a state that was unfit for combat. Even the people that gathered had a look that made her wonder just how much they could recover. Italia’s 『Keraunos』 and also Russia’s concentrated fire from their jet black mode struck lethal blows to the whole of the Einherjar. That they were able to hold their ground without getting annihilated was merely the accomplishment of their guts.

And then, they also lost their King, Hrostvit……

「However, you the Einherjar, we cannot lose our fighting spirit.」

When Beatrix addressed them like that, they all nodded without hesitation.

「Our chances of victory are already endlessly faint. But Hrotsvit-sama had predicted that Japan will win and advance until the very last stage in this battle royal. Therefore we will solidify our alliance with Japan even more and aim to survive by fighting together with them.」

Japan and Germany would win and advance, and in the end they would triumph over Japan.

They had nothing but that thin thread that connected to victory.

In this place the opinion of everyone here was conformed into one.

「Everyone, I want you all to fight with your life on the line」

While saying that, a shadow of doubt and hesitation darkened Beatrix’s expression. While saying that she wanted everyone to risk their lives……even she herself became unable to believe whether those words really came from an emotion that was worthy as a King or not.

「……By any chance, I might lose the feeling that purely enjoys the battle even while being an Einherjar.」

She couldn’t hide it. Beatrix frankly spoke to her subordinates――the people who until just before were her equal comrades under the same King.

「I love Japan’s Kazuki.」

It was something that even if she hid it then it would only be natural. There were also Damian and Eleonora here. She once clamored things like ‘I’ll bring him back, I’ll bring him back home’ in front of the two.

Bringing Kazuki home――it was something that could be thought of as impossible in their current situation.

「Acting together with Japan……it’s undoubtedly the best hand for the current us. But perhaps somewhere in my heart there is the feeling that wants to support Japan. Perhaps that feeling made me propose to act together with Japan……perhaps what I’m saying here is that I’m telling everyone to risk your life for Japan’s sake. Surely such emotion……exists somewhere inside me.」

Beatrix forced out her heartache.

「I don’t really mind that yeah!!」

But, a reply was yelled right away. It was Damian who already knew Beatrix’s feeling. Thereupon the other female knights also spoke「Who cares?」「Yeah, I don’t really care」「Don’t ask me」「This girl, how troublesome」「Japan’s curry was delicious wasn’t it」「Yeah, it make me want to go back there for meal」, nodding to each other.

Every last one of them was a clear-cut and straightforward warrior.

Among them Eleonora who was the one most rational opened her mouth.

「From some time ago Hrotsvit-sama spoke that our faith is despair. While despair is waiting ahead of us, in order to push aside the sin of haughtiness that is civilization and prolong the life of the world, and in spite of that to be able to still deeply taste the real feeling of being alive, in what way could we pass the time enjoyably in delight……the way to do that is war, ecology battle by means of swords and magic.」

Beatrix once again thought, really what a terrible faith huh. She became like this surely because of Kazuki’s influence. Beatrix thought a bit.

「But if by any chance we discovered hope, in the first place we had nothing to lose anyway, so giving it a try because of that and fight is also not running counter with our faith, that is what I think.」

「Is that your opinion, Eli……」

「Captain Beatrix……no, right now you are the King huh. I don’t mind it one bit even if the King fights for the sake of romance! We are just fighting with our lives on the line for the sake of taking revenge for Hrotsvit-sama and Odin, and then to enjoy ourselves!!」

Damian yelled loudly. The female warriors around also went 「Hear hear, it’s for revenge」「What Eli said was tiresome, I ain’t get it」「Beatrix do your best―」「If you got a man you love then push him down right away」「That curry was delicious wasn’t it」「It made me want to go back for more」in agreement.

「I understand well everyone’s feeling……」

Beatrix felt like the load on her chest came off.

「We the Einherjar will never submit! We are going to fight to the bitter end brazenly!!」

All the female warriors at that place raised their spirits with their hearts as one.

Part 5

When he got out of the bath, Arthur was there.

It looked like she was waiting, but it also looked like she was standing still because she had nothing to do.

「Arthur wants to take a bath too?」

Kazuki called out to her. Kazuha-senpai and Kanae hurriedly distanced themselves and returned to their respective tents.

「Forgive me for exposing my awful figure before this. Somehow or the other……」

The current Arthur was holding a dignified appearance.

It seemed that what she said about general magic could purify alcohol wasn’t just random talk.

If there wouldn’t be any obstacle in the next battle then he guessed it wasn’t that big of a problem.

「I think it’s really no good forcefully trying to make other people drink.」

It was only this that he couldn’t overlook just because she had shown a different aspect to him from usual that was cute.

「However, I think that Japan is also too serious……shouldn’t we act free and easy before the battle……」

Arthur said despondently.

They were knights……or rather the knights that followed the style of Celt Mythology. They were acting heartily that didn’t lose to the Viking act of Beatrix and the others, to speak frankly, perhaps they also had a coarse aspect.

「Putting that aside, I want to talk with you a little. ……Because whether win or lose, the end of the battle has come into sight.」

Saying that Arthur pulled Kazuki’s hand from the tents area toward the rainbow eucalyptus forest. It was a gentlemanly manner like a prince that was escorting a girl.

「You met with Basileus Basileon right?」

Arthur spoke with a low voice even now when they had some distance from the tents. 𝒇𝙧𝚎𝐞𝙬𝒆𝑏𝑛𝑜v𝚎𝒍.c𝑜m

Kazuki recalled about the matter that time. That existence which looked young but also mature, looking like a man but also like a woman, an existence that transcended human existence, looking like a religious picture just by standing.

And yet he was a mysterious person that was worldly-minded, giving fervent speech about culture argument like olden good fashion or music or interior design and so on――no, he wasn’t a person. A being……

He explained the regulation of RagnarokMythology War, he told him about what the victor would obtain――making Kazuki to recognize anew the worthlessness of this battle.

And then he taught him how this Ragnarok was the second time. He was the sole survivor from the previous Ragnarok, he absorbed the ruins of the three great mythologies that couldn’t reach the ultimate illusion as power and organized this Ragnarok once more.

The possessor of 『Supervisor Authority』 that shined rainbow colored magic power. His true identity was most likely……

「You say that you believe the current mankind, a conservative and passive thinking. I guess it’s fine for me to say that rather than wanting to change the world by yourself, your objective is to prevent us from changing the world.」

Kazuki nodded. Before he met Basileon, Kazuki had that kind of talk with Arthur.

「If you win through this and obtained the 『ultimate illusion』, what will you do?」

Ultimate illusion――a power that can wield influence towards all intelligence, towards the whole mental world.

「I won’t use it for anything big.」

After answering shoddily like that, Kazuki searched for the answer inside himself once more.

It wasn’t like Kazuki held religious faith to Lemegeton.

Lemegeton was just a strange Diva that merely loved humans.

Leme was longing to become human. If he had no intent to change the world, then using this ultimate illusion something for the sake of Leme and the others――he guessed that was something extremely natural. ｆ𝘳e𝒆w𝗲𝐛𝘯𝐨νe𝚕.cｏ𝓶

「I’ll use the ultimate illusion’s power to turn Diva to not be objects of faith.」

Arthur’s eyes turned round as though she had heard an unexpected answer.

「I’ll turn the Divas into merely our friends……into mere humans.」

「That can be taken as denying the illusion. Perhaps magic will vanish and disappear from this world if you do that.」

With the decline of the three great mythologies’ power, humans freely thought and denied mystery, due to that magic was temporarily forgotten. Basileon also told him that.

That was why perhaps if he did as he said then it would become like that. The mystery would lose power.

Magic would disappear, including the alchemy civilization that reached the height of prosperity in these few years.

Magic had already existed since Kazuki was born, for him who lived in such an era, he couldn’t imagine an era without magic.

However, in the end wasn’t that era the correct one?

Even if the people at that time felt uneasiness and despair, and searched for a place to escape.

「I too will change the world.」

Kazuki answered so with the awareness that a trigger had been passed to his hand.

「Perhaps it will be a fight against Basileon too.」

That guy also said so. If he denied the illusion, then at the very end he would surely stand in his way.

That guy was also an unforgivable enemy, that was what Kazuki felt when he faced that guy.

「I, see……so that is what you say, about believing in mankind. As for me……with the power of ultimate illusion I believe I will plant the spirit of chivalry into mankind’s mind.」

Spirit of chivalry――he couldn’t think that it would be something that bad. It was far more acceptable compared to Regina’s noble doctrine.

Even so Kazuki didn’t want to approve binding the heart of all people without their saying so.

Kazuki suddenly put his hand on the two swords dangling on his waist.

One was Ame no Murakumo. The other one was Joyeux that was entrusted to him from Lancelot.

Lancelot yelled that as long as Excalibur and Avalon were all present in Arthur’s hand, the perfect Arthur wouldn’t be able to reflect on herself, and then she broke Arthur’s Avalon.

And then she fell while advocating human love to Arthur.

Even after she had been advocated of human love by Lancelot――Arthur declared to Kazuki right now that she would carry out her chivalry.

In that case Kazuki had to defeat Arthur. That was also the promise that was entrusted to him by him accepting Joyeux.

「Just as I thought both of us will ultimately run counter to each other. However……our fight will be after defeating the others.」

Kazuki said that, and Arthur nodded.

Surely she wanted to reaffirm that.

Resolve――when Arthur Basileon was defeated by another King, her life would end.

Surely Arthur didn’t know that Kazuki knew that.

「Yeah, that’s a promise.」

Arthur offered her hand to Kazuki with a refreshing smile.

Kazuki grasped back that hand strongly. He felt like he had repeatedly shook hands with her many times. Each time it made him conscious that her hand was feminine.

Speaking of it, if Loki got his hands on the ultimate illusion, what was he intending to do with it, he wondered.

Although he repeatedly said that he would dye the world in chaos, did that guy have a definite picture of the world he wanted in that head of his?

The first time he met that guy, he was obsessed with the role of causing Ragnarok itself.

Role……

Part 6

「Ou, it’s pitiful for my cute subordinates to be exposed to the weather. So let them enter the tent.」

Loki shamelessly said.

「Also give us a meal too. Even the possessed magicians and the materialized Divas are hungry.」

「There is a limit even in being shameless……」

Regina sighed. That sigh was already not filled with anger or irritation. She was exasperated from the bottom of her heart, thinking that it wasn’t worth thinking about.

「Our side came here bringing extra tents and food, so there is no problem in sharing.」

Ilyailiya responded obediently.

――Loki Allied Army also made camp.

They couldn’t discover a suitable plain where they could set the tents, but they burned down the forest with magic and created a vast plain with strength. There Italia’s Knight Order and Russia’s Knight Order set up their tents. It went without saying that they also prepared arrangements in case of a protracted battle.

This side also used a conspicuously big tent for 『General Staff Headquarters』 where Loki, Regina, and Ilyailiya met face to face.

「Even though the magic power cloud is thick, there is necessity to prepare in case of a surprise attack from the other side. Hayashizaki Kazuki had telepathy ability. Perhaps he would be able to fight more advantageously than us even inside this magic power cloud.」

Regina said that at the beginning with a clever look.

That highly proud girl was honestly recognizing Kazuki’s ability.

「I guess, in addition the other side also has Robin Hood. If it’s about ability as an intelligence operative inside the forest than that one stands out above the rest. I ain’t really clear about what kind of ability she has though……」

Loki also continued like so. And then the two of them stared at Ilyailiya at the same time.

You do something about it――both of them demanded like that with their gaze.

Speaking about the strongest intelligence operative in their camp, then it was none other than Ilyailiya.

She wouldn’t allow even a single ambush from the enemy, she would overturn the table on the enemy’s intelligence operative, conversely she would search for the opponent’s location――Ilyailiya possessed the speed and battle strength that enabled her to do that by herself.

A proposal that made a King of a country to stand guard and perform intelligence operation the whole night was an extremely rude proposal but……,

「Understood.」 Ilyailiya agreed expressionlessly.

Because that was the most rational way. That was everything for her sense of value and judgment standard.

Ilyailiya wasted no time to stand up. Perhaps even now in this moment, the enemy was moving in search of their side’s location.

But Loki stopped her 「Wait」.

「In case that an emergency situation occurs while you are not here, I’ll substitute your command. Go tell your subordinates that. It’s necessary.」

「You as my substitute?」

Ilyailiya still looked expressionless, but she clearly spoke. 「Impossible.」

Of course that was so. There was no way she would trust Loki that far.

「But it’s necessary yeah. Perhaps you will allow the enemy’s raid to reach here, or you will get held back and be unable to return here……this is for preparation in case of that miniscule chance, that’s why don’t be that worried. Nevertheless it’s necessary to decide this in advance for a time when that miniscule chance happens. If we don’t move in concert when it’s time all of us will all fall together.」

Loki stared fixedly at Ilyailiya with a serious look.

……Even if she put a top brass from Russia’s Knight Order as her representative, but there was no one there with setup that could be treated as equal to Loki and Regina.

「……No, intelligence operation and command, I’ll do both.」

「No matter how fast you are, no way that’s……hm?」

Ilyailiya’s figure blurred into two layers in front of Loki’s eyes.

「O pale shadow that lives in memory, leave to moonlight and illuminate the figure of day……Instrumental DuetDouble Face.」

Just when it seemed Ilyailiya’s figure blurred into two, powerful magic power light flashed. Inside the bright blue light……Ilyailiya split into two people.

There was no other way to say it other than she split into two. There were two Ilyailiya in front of Loki.

One was clad in a silver magic dress, while the other one was clad in a jet black magic dress.

「「Something like a reason to entrust my soldiers to you doesn’t exist logically.」」

Both Ilyailiya talked simultaneously, Loki spontaneously screamed to this.

「Wha, what the hell is that!? Just how much surprises you keep in your person!?」

「「Possessing two attributes of order and chaos, this is something easy if I thinned my ego until nothingness.」」

The two Ilyailiya spoke with their voices overlapping.

「This me will patrol outside.」The silver Ilyailiya said.

「This me will remain here to take command.」The black Ilyailiya said.

「Depending on the situation」「Switching with each other is also possible」The two Ilyailiya showed how they converted their figure with their body flickering as though flashing on and off.

As expected Loki lost any words to reply back to this. This girl was just too abnormal……

However, surely this ability was a trump card of hers that if possible she would want to hide from Loki and Regina. There was no doubt that she exposed this hidden card to them reluctantly.

……The split is approximately 7:3 huh.

Loki also sharply noticed how the magic power amount of the two Ilyailiya wasn’t uniform.

The silver Ilyailiya was fast――but with the reduction of thirty percent――she flew out from the tent. The seventy percent would patrol, while leaving behind thirty percent power for command……it was a reasonable dividing.

「Well, for the time being we will watch the situation of how the enemy will move I guess.」Loki murmured.

「……Just now, I encountered Robin Hood.」

From beside Loki, the remaining jet black Ilyailiya said that.

「Seriously!?」

……If it was asked if this was natural then it was natural, the two Ilyailiya seemed to share their senses.

「I finished her off, but that is clone body. Robin Hood ability as an intelligence operative……seems to be something that releases a large amount of clones into the forest.」

‘I see’, Loki nodded. It was a terrifying ability. For her to encounter Robin Hood this quickly, the large amount that she said must be a really large amount.

「Her speed is far slower than me. She also has almost no battle power. If I just move around, it will be impossible for the clones to break through me and reach until here.」

Ilyailiya who moved around with super high speed was like she existed everywhere at the same time……

Even with countless clones as her opponents, she was still getting the superior position in the 『intelligence operative engagement』 just as expected from her.

「……That’s right! Be careful so that your movement won’t be following a pattern.」

Loki hit upon something and said so.

「The countless Robin Hoods might mark Ilyailiya’s range of appearance and use that to guess our side’s location. Mix random movements in your travel and distract them. That will be perfect.」

Even if Robin Hood’s clones wouldn’t reach until their headquarters, but if Ilyailiya patrolled systematically then that movement might become a hint that showed their side’s general position.

If the contractor could manage the senses of all Robin Hood, then surely she would also be able to picture such thing inside her head.

「……I see, I’ll do that.」

「If there is a chance……finish off Robin Hood’s contractor somehow. If that person is gone then our side will be able to meddle as much as we want on that side.」

「The contractor of Robin Hood should be secluding herself inside their headquarters while controlling the clones. It’s hard to slip through the countless clones and do that but……because there is something that I can attempt, I’ll give it a try.」

「How?」

「I cannot promise success in the current stage.」

Is that so huh. ……I too got to think of methods for other things.

If it’s Kazuki how will he move……?

The entrance of the tent was flipped and an Italian knight showed her face.

「Regina-sama, we finished the preparation for balaneion.」

Regina said 「I’ve been waiting for that」 and stood up. It was as though she was going to depart for the front.

「Balaneion?」Loki titled his head for a moment, and then he fell down. 「……Wait, you mean bath! We are in the middle of a strategy meeting here! It’s not the time to take a bath or anything!」

「First you think up the general framework for now. I’ll listen to it after I finish my bath.」

The proud King was determined to enter the bath, she declared her intent powerfully.

For Italia’s Knight Order that put their faith on ancient Greek culture, bath was something important that they must not miss to do. Even the King Regina also loved that above all else.

「……Well, it’s fine though……」

Loki felt like he was bent at the waist which made his voice sound helpless.

Nevertheless, certainly the framework of the strategy ought to be thought up by him, Loki thought.

「Let me enter too.」The jet black Ilyailiya also stood up.

「You too Ilyailiya!? ……Then I will enter too.」

Somehow it was peeving him to be left alone, so Loki also stood up trying to follow them.

However 「It’s a women’s bath. You idiot.」 Regina mercilessly kicked him down.

A giant tent for the use of the bath with the size like a gymnasium was set up at the center of the vast plain.

Even though it was called a tent, but it wasn’t something rustic for military use. Its elegance that was composed from golden frame and beautiful alchemic thread was worthy for the King’s relaxation time.

The bath itself was something square that was dug into the ground and hardened using magic, the hot water was filled using magic――oddly it was something primeval that was similar with the tent bath that Japan’s Knight Order created temporarily.

……Regina thought that it was unexpected for Ilyailiya to come along.

When Regina dissolved her magic dress she was wearing a gown, she took it off and discarded it, but when Ilyailiya dissolved her magic dress she became stark naked.

「Do you have this thing called ordinary clothes?」

「None. Magic dress is sufficient. Because there is no clothes more logical than this.」

「Then……you are completely naked when you sleep?」

Ilyailiya wordlessly nodded.

Both of them soaked into the spacious bath side to side.

Although they were side to side, but the distance between them was so close they could touch. Regina soaked inside first, and it was Ilyailiya who came from behind and lowered herself right beside her.

Regina was suspicious inside her heart. ……Why was she purposefully sitting this close?

The ceiling was lit with sacred Olympus’s torch, illuminating the two’s white skin dazzlingly.

The jet black Ilyailiya――though she thought that, but what was black was only her magic dress, even though the body of Ilyailiya herself was split into two people but they both looked exactly the same.

When she became naked like this, there was no difference between the silver and the jet black one.

And then the whiteness of Ilyailiya’s skin was like the very snow of Russia.

Regina’s skin also boasted a perfect smoothness as a Caucasian, but Ilyailiya gave an impression somewhere that she was unlike a human.

「Hmm」 Regina sighed in fascination. Regina loved beautiful things. It was unrelated whether it was the opposite gender or the same gender. To love a beautiful female was one of Zeus’s appreciated teachings.

「Is there something?」 Ilyailiya who felt her gaze asked.

Regina didn’t respond, all of a sudden she tightly held Ilyailiya’s breast.

It was quite the size, like mochi without stickiness, it had unique softness where her fingers could sink into it without end.

It seemed that Ilyailiya’s skin on her whole body possessed a springy texture like that.

Like that Regina kept fondling for a while.

She continued to fondle for quite a long time.

「…………………I demand an explanation for this act’s rational meaning.」

Ilyailiya said coldly, but Regina wordlessly took away her hand and this time she began to fondle her own breast.

Hers was plenty big without being too big, it had springiness, it didn’t sag down even for a bit, drawing a round line while pointing to the front. The coloring of the tip that was like the bud of a flower was also not too dark and not too faint. It was exactly the breast of a majestic queen.

After Regina fondled each other’s breasts and compared it, she laughed 「Fufun」.

「Just what are you doing?」

「In the whiteness of skin, yours is whiter, but in breast mine is larger and prettier. That’s how it is. Seeing from the total aspect let’s say that I’m the one with the beauty that is worthy to rule over the world.」

Ilyailiya was staring fixedly with a face that seemed to say 『Just what is this girl talking about out of nowhere?』. However,

「Irrational. We should verify the particular of how to score the factors other than skin and breast.」

She spoke with a flat tone.

「In hair mine is brilliant and sparkling as you can see. It truly can be called queenly.」

「……There is also a way of thinking that golden color with falling color saturation looks nobly refined.」

Both of them were blonde, but Regina’s blonde hair was exactly like a gold that emitted splendid shine.

In contrast to that, Ilyailiya had champagne gold hair that looked as though divine mystery was hidden within.

To decide which was the beautiful one, in practice it depended on each person’s taste.

「The most important part that influences a person’s appearance are the eyes. Mine are big and beautiful, its gallant gaze makes anyone who sees it to feel a queen’s willpower. In contrast to that, yours always looks sleepy, like the eyes of a dead fish without any force of emotion.」

When Regina said that, Ilyailiya suddenly opened both her eyes wide in a flash.

「Uwah!?」Regina was thrown aback.

Ilyailiya’s eyes became perfectly circle, they were opened so wide that it looked like the eyeballs could fall off anytime. There was a saying that eyes were like a plate, but hers looked like there were really plates being stuck on her face.

「It’s obvious that my eyes are definitely bigger. If you want you can measure its diameter using a ruler.」

「Are you an idiot! That doesn’t look like a human but a fish or a lizard!! That’s a horror comic!!」

Regina who couldn’t tolerate something beautiful to be spoiled reached out her hand to Ilyailiya’s face and forcefully closed her eyelids. Ilyailiya returned to her usual vague gaze.

「I don’t understand.」

Ilyailiya looked somewhat down.

「……But, something like beauty fundamentally is trivial.」

「Fuh, it’s not trivial. I was chosen by Zeus as King from my rarely seen magic talent with proud force of will, and also because of my flawless beauty. If in the unlikely event there exist a human more beautiful than me, that will affect Zeus’s honor.」

「If it’s Zeus who is well known of rape then I guess there is no mistake in that.」

Ilyailiya whispered vacantly.

「Just now, did you whisper with a low voice something that insulted my god?」

「No. ……Certainly I am not chosen because of my appearance or anything else. In that aspect surely you are the one more beautiful. I am not bothered with that.」

「Hmph, then what kind of standard your god chose you? I’m not really interested, but we are bathing together rarely like this. I’ll ask as side entertainment for this bathing.」

Regina smiled broadly while accosting Ilyailiya. Even the haughty and arrogant Regina would relax when she was in a bath like this and would direct more or less her interest to other people.

「I……」

Ilyailiya cut off her words slightly. Shadow colored her eyes as though she was hesitating. But was there something that could make this machine-like woman to hesitate?

「I killed my grandfather. On that day I killed my grandfather, I was chosen as the King by the tale that I loved since I was a child.」

「Killed? And by killing, you were chosen?」

「By killing I was liberated from the internment camp, but then my soul that knew nothing but obedience was bound by sin at that time. Therefore I sought for god. God answered me but……in exchange it was demanded from me to become transparent.」

「……Talk in a way I can understand.」

「In other words」

Ilyailiya cut off too here, she then continued somehow falteringly.

「An emptiness that is worthy to be accepted by god with two faces, existed inside my soul, that’s what it means.」

「……I don’t understand what you mean. You are someone that is sheetty in saying your life story huh. Enough already.」

Regina became a kill-joy and cut off the talk one-sidedly.

She didn’t say 『Talk in a way I can understand』 for the second time. Even if she said it, it would only be once.

She didn’t think that Ilyailiya would be this sheetty in telling her life story.

When she talked on occasions like a strategy meeting or the other, she would talk logically without faltering. She was by no means a human that was a poor talker. That meant perhaps this topic was something that she really didn’t want to touch.

Didn’t want to touch? ……Was this woman someone who would harbor that kind of emotion?

「……Why did you follow me to the bath? It’s not like you particularly love to bath don’t you?」

「……I thought that perhaps it would be better to talk a bit with you.」

「Hou? So you even mean to say about naked association. You, with me?」

Then how about you bring up something more interesting to talk about?

「Rationality is born from people who fight together joining their emotion……」

Ilyailiya whispered with voice so low that it couldn’t be heard, after that she immediately denied that by herself.

「No, it’s just my trick of imagination. Because that is something that I have cast away already.」

「……In the end just what’s with you.」

It wasn’t bad when they trifled about appearance, but she wasn’t an interesting person at all even when they were talking, Regina thought with condescending attitude.

「I’ve been a bother. Excuse me.」

Ilyailiya stood up from the bath.

Regina directed her eyes to the buttocks getting farther away while jiggling. The look in Regina’s eyes at this kind of time was befitting as a believer of Zeus, it was a look of a perverted old man.

Ilyailiya erased the water on her body instantly using magic and created the jet black magic dress on her body, she then exited the tent without delay.

Ilyailiya was gone like a melting snow.

「Incomprehensible person……」

Regina took a long bath. She who was a master of magic wouldn’t feel dizzy no matter how long she soaked.

When she became alone, she didn’t think deeply about just what Ilyailiya was thinking about and she began to enjoy herself alone by humming a song that extolled Zeus.

……Would it be Loki who got an ingenius idea earlier, or would it be the other Ilyailiya who finished off Robin Hood faster……

During the time until either happened she would enjoy this long bath……

Usually she would make Vera accompany her inside the bath, but now she was already gone……

Part 7

The report of the location of Loki and his group being found reached Kazuki by the time the date of the day changed.

When Kazuki rushed to the General Staff Headquarters, Arthur and Beatrix, and then Gino were already there.

「Ilyailiya moved randomly so that their location couldn’t be deduced from the pattern of her encounter range.」 Gino first said that.

So that meant that Ilyailiya was a step ahead.

Even while they were talking like this, he could feel the flow of magic power from the Robin Hood clones that got destroyed returning into magic power then flowing into Gino. Even now she was continuously skirmishing against Ilyailiya.

「Then how did you find their location?」

「That’s because of Robin Hood’s magic 『Memory of ForestGreen Day』, I use-, ue……」

「!?」

In the middle of talking, Gino’s lips were peeled off.

No, not just her lips but the skin of her whole face was peeling off, her eyeballs were muddled looking cloudy.

Kazuki, Arthur, and then Beatrix shouted involuntarily.

Gino collapsed on the spot.

「……O dazzlingly beautiful fire of reincarnation, burn the surface of life and bud the restoration of life inside……Anti Aging!」

Kazuki wasted no time to chant Phoenix’s recovery magic. But its effect was faint. Gino’s own defensive magic power was also beginning to activate and finally her skin was starting to recover just barely.

「What happened?」

「Su, suddenly my body was……」

Arthur asked, Gino answered in anguish.

――She was in a terrible state. Not just her face. Under her clothes too, the skin of her whole body was starting to break down. Her raw flesh and muscle were exposed, her blood and lymph fluid were overflowing out.

It was as though her whole body were suddenly severely burned. But there was no heat source or anything around, in the first place it was impossible for a magician whose body was protected by defensive magic power to suddenly get burned.

It was as though sickness was seeping out from inside her……

「Radiation damage……?」

Kazuki spoke out what he recalled in his mind as it was.

Perhaps such impression came first to mind because Kazuki was Japanese.

However Beatrix also opened her mouth in sudden realization.

「When she fought me, Ilyailiya changed color to pitch black……she used magic of 『nuclear power』. Perhaps she also has some other magic like that.」

「Black……!」

Gino raised her voice sharply as though something came to her mind.

「The, the Ilyailiya that defeated Robin Hood’s clone……no, now that you mentioned it in the middle her appearance changed from silver to black……」

She desperately said that, but her lips were in a state that if she moved her lips then they would dangle down and sway to and fro.

Beatrix added additional explanation.

「When she fought me, Ilyailiya alternately used two appearances of silver and jet black, it seemed that she was able to use respectively different ways of fighting.」

「In other words……」 Kazuki guessed the situation.

It would be more advantageous to use the silver mode to simply defeat a lot of Robin Hood clones. Yet she instead fought using the jet black mode.

That meant there was meaning in her defeating Robin Hood’s clone using the jet black mode.

Jet black mode that controlled the power of nuclear and atomic energy……

Gino said that the magic power of the defeated clones would return to herself.

「The clone bodies were nuked. The clone bodies that took in something like radiation energy inside themselves were recovered into Gino herself. Even though each explosion only had slight radiation, but by recovering the magic energy of many clones the radiation symptoms got brought to the surface all at once, isn’t it something like that?」

Tens, hundreds, and more of Gino’s clones were fighting Ilyailiya continuously in the span of several hours……

Defensive magic power could even be thought as an omnipotent barrier, but it couldn’t protect the body from damage that gnawed little by little while the afflicted person didn’t notice that. That Gino’s defensive magic power was starting to activate now was because the symptom came to the surface all at once.

「If it’s something like that then there is no risk of us getting infected.」

Arthur said with a complicated expression. If Kazuki and others knew the fact, when they sharpened their senses they would be able to detect the unusual wave that was emitted weakly from inside Gino. That should be able to be repelled by defensive magic power.

「Wh, when I try to knead my magic power, my body is……」

「Don’t force yourself too much! All of your magic power is being put to maintain your body!!」

Defensive magic power that was the fruit of the person’s defensive instinct barely slowed down the breaking down of the body.

However it was difficult to heal her using general magic from the outside. General magic was the power of imagery. Doing something like working on the DNA’s helix chain that was located inside the cell nucleus that was deep inside the cell using imagery was impossible, because in the first place it was a micro world that couldn’t be imagined.

What a nasty magic, it was a nasty assassination method.

But right now she shouldn’t force herself, perhaps she could be treated using some method after this magic war was over.

「But, Arthur……if I don’t tell you……」

Gino discovered the enemy’s headquarters, and right now she was trying to convey that to them.

「What kind of magic is 『Green Day』?」

Kazuki asked Arthur.

「……It’s a magic that temporarily makes the forest to remember all of the sense information of Robin Hood’s clone bodies. Most likely Gino continuously encountered Ilyailiya using more than hundreds of clone bodies, she preserved all of Ilyailiya’s movement range, and then by repeatedly analyzing that information, she steadily sorted out the truth and falsehood from the enemy’s random movement and spied out the truth.」

Gino nodded powerlessly. She had performed something skillful on top of her already good work.

However even though she understood the essential location, but she wasn’t in a state that could guide them there. Don’t talk about standing up, it looked like just by carrying her on someone else’s back that body would rot away.

If Robin Hood’s clone body disappeared, the far from their side attacking the enemy’s location, it would be them who got exposed to Ilyailiya’s threat in reverse.

「……Green Merry Men.」

However she kneaded her magic power and created countless Robin Hood once more. The materialized group of Robin Hood left the tent all at once like a gale.

「Gino!!」Arthur yelled in reprimand.

If Gino activated that magic, her body would lose defensive magic power and it would collapse in the blink of an eye once more.

Kazuki called Mio too with telepathy.

He attempted to suppress the breakdown by chanting recovery magic of Phoenix with the two of them. But in the first place this magic was a magic that amplified the regeneration power that the body had. Gino’s body was currently in a state that had its foundation of regenerative power severed. The magic’s effect was sparse.

It couldn’t be defended, and recovery was also impossible……

However radiation damage was originally something that made the cell unable to split, making regeneration to be lost from the body, and breaking down the body gradually.

It was something that made regeneration impossible, not 『sudden self-destruction』 like this.

He guessed that it was the illusion of the people that made their dread 『the image of radiation damage』 into a magic. Legend and myth were amplified by illusion rather than by the actual phenomenon.

Gino informed them with a breaking voice. 「Il……ya, iliya……hasn’t……found out, our location……the chance……for us to take the initiative……」

Against the fastest King as the opponent, the one who won the intelligence operative battle was Gino.

Ilyailiya caused a fierce poison to accumulate inside Gino with more than a hundred battles.

However Gino gathered more than a hundred memories without leaving out even a single one, and derived the most valuable answer. The one who won, was Gino.

「I have to guide you……and if I don’t continue monitoring Ilyailiya, for a while longer……」

In order to not waste the proud victory, Gino was facing the vicious death right from the front.

「Stop acting stupid! I’m telling you to not force yourself!!」

Seeing Arthur who yelled with a face that looked even like she would shed a tear, Gino’s facial muscles slightly smiled.

「Did this man’s 『naivety』 infect you? ……Fufu, fu」

「Gino……」

「……If I cannot fight anymore…… If I don’t even make a contribution that should be possible……surviving until the end of Ragnarok doing nothing and waiting……, just what will I become……」

On one side Kazuki held a favorable impression toward Arthur’s chivalry, but he wasn’t holding a good impression towards Gino, who was going to do the exact opposite. However although her principle was different from Arthur, she dirtied her own hand for Britain’s sake, and then like this, she would even become a sacrifice without hesitation, just how sublime that resolve of hers is.

After talking that much all the skin on Gino’s face fell off and all her hair came out. The figure of a beautiful woman completely changed into a state like a specimen of muscle and flesh, even so she kept barely maintaining her magic.

「I got it! You don’t need to say anything more! ……I absolutely won’t let this go to waste!!」

Arthur raised an anguished voice.

「Our side will assault the other side while it’s still night. Let’s hurry.」

Arthur spoke rapidly while staring at Gino who was sustaining her magic with a sorrowful state.

They would find out the enemy’s location and grasp the initiative.

No one made any objection.

「But the magic power cloud is still thick. If we wait until it fades a bit more……」

Beatrix said that, but Kazuki interrupted her.

「I can communicate with some of my companions even inside this thick magic power cloud. That’s why if it’s us then we can make this surprise attack succeed even inside this magic power cloud.」

Kazuki exposed a fragment of his ability to the alliance partners that he ought to believe.

There was no method available to them that didn’t make use of this advantage that Loki and the others didn’t have.

However at the same time that also meant that in this surprise attack strategy Kazuki would command the whole army that also included Britain and Germany. There would be no meaning if everyone didn’t obey Kazuki’s instruction.

「There is no way I will doubt you after this far. We’ll follow.」

Arthur and Beatrix nodded at each other together.

It became that Kazuki was entrusted with the role of the 『supreme commander』 of the entire three countries.

Arthur directed an unsettled gaze at the suffering Gino.

And then she sighed out a long breath to calm herself.

Even now she wanted to stand up and move the army right away.

Arthur opened her mouth gravely.

「How will we attack?」

Ilyailiya was going strong. Even Robin Hood’s clones were only able to mark Ilyailiya’s movement, they weren’t able to go as far as stopping her.

「If a large army tries to penetrate Ilyailiya’s patrolling scope, Ilyailiya will surely detect it. Ilyailiya will retreat to her headquarters faster than our surprise attack and notify Loki the location from where the surprise attack is coming and how it will be done.」

Kazuki said. Everyone nodded.

「In other words someone that can keep Ilyailiya in one place will encounter her first, and during that time the surprise attack has to achieve success. It’s likely that Ilyailiya is contacting Loki regularly. If that contact got cut off then Loki will sense the surprise attack, so even if the distraction to Ilyailiya succeeds we cannot be slow.」

「Who can stop her in place?」

Arthur asked with a heavy tone.

There Kazuki’s thinking stopped.

The only one who could stop the fastest queen in place was only a warrior who could use foresight. But if Kazuki took on the stopping role then he would become unable to take command of the whole army using telepathy and the surprise attack would lose its meaning.

If Hrotsvit was here, then she would be the optimal choice. ……In the middle of silence where everyone was thinking that, Beatrix opened her mouth.

「I’ll do it. If it’s me……I can do it. I must do it.」

「Can you do it?」

Arthur asked.

Then familiar runes were floating up around Beatrix brightly. It wasn’t Thor’s power. This was……the power that Hrotsvit used when she was fighting.

The King’s authority was succeeded by the chief god……

『Fufufu……』 Behind Beatrix, Thor’s avatar also floated.

『A part of that Odinguy’s power resides in me. The wisdom of a sage and my herculean strength became one. In this case it will depend on how much you can use this skillfully……Beatrix.』

Beatrix who lost Hrotsvit, and Thor who lost Odin.

Both of them had strong ardor.

Kazuki and Arthur nodded to each other.

There would be no end to it if they listed every unsure factor. There was no other choice. They could only decide with courage.

At the very least Kazuki had faith in Beatrix’s mental strength.

If they could stop Ilyailiya in one place as much as possible, it would have an extremely important significance in the battle situation after that.

「We found a prospect to break through Ilyailiya. Next is the arrangement of the surprise attack itself……」

Kazuki pondered. When he thought what kind of state the enemy was in……it would be insufficient if they simply attacked with the whole army just like that. If it was Loki then possibly……

They were attacking, with Loki receiving the attack.

Thinking back this was a composition that had never happened until now.

Until now he was continuously at the receiving end of Loki’s schemes.

It could be said that right now he could exist because he had struggled through every single one of those but, the feeling that he had been continuously led around by the nose as Loki pleased was strong in him.

He wanted to win against Loki right here, right now.

He wanted to win through this magic war……by surpassing Loki in tactics.

「Those guys should put up guards other than Ilyailiya too. A pawn that can do that exists inside the enemy’s camp. To slip through that……」

They needed one more trick. No, there was still something that ought to be pondered about more. They needed two tricks.

Kazuki turned his gaze to Gino.

Arthur who followed along Kazuki’s gaze called out 「Gino」.

She was in a state that couldn’t be told apart from a corpse, but she was still holding her consciousness in check. Her jaw moved as though she was nodding.

「Yes, I still……, can manipulate the clones, for a while more……」

Even now there was a need to borrow the strength of hers who was steadily becoming worn out.