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Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo Dorei Majutsu (Light Novel) - Volume 9, Chapter 1 - The Demon King Army, Invasion – Part 10
Volume 9, Chapter 1: The Demon King Army, Invasion – Part 10
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The vicinity of the place where the west gate had once stood had completely changed.
The plaza that was on the gate’s inner side was greatly cracked.
It was there that the Knight Order was distributed.
The Local Knights were people that were sufficiently trained as people of the Races, but if they were to fight against a named Demonic Being or a large-sized Demonic Beast, they couldn’t be counted as fighting power.
In front of them, there was Lamnites who had her Magi Gun at the ready.
She had established her aim on the enemy.
Emil and his companion Adventurers were standing at the place where the gate originally was at.
There was nothing but rubble at their feet.
While they protected Lamnites who was right behind them, they opened up the Magi Gun’s line of fire.
And then, there was the area in front of the west gate.
Due to the Great Demon King Cannon, a huge hole was opened up. The rubble that once was the west gate had crumbled down into that hole, and there was not a trace of the once beautifully maintained city gate and highway.
That place that was like the center of the destruction had become Galford’s battlefield.
Placing a hand on the sword on his waist, he had yet to draw it.
「…………」
The distance was about ten steps.
The one he was confronting, Ryoka, narrowed her eyes.
「Hnn, it looks like I can enjoy this for a bit♪」
「……I cannot sympathize with you……A time where I have felt joy for a battle, has never happened.」
「Isn’t that because they were weak? Don’t disappoint me, got it!?」
After cheerfully declaring that, Ryoka kicked the ground.
A charge.
However, it wasn’t faster than what he imagined.
Emil had a thought.
──Could it be that, I trained too much?
To think that he would feel that the Demonic Being that Galford asserted that he could not win against in a one-on-one fight wasn’t all that fast.
Ryoka swung her Seiryuutou.
「Oryah!」
She should have still been distant.
However, the blade shot out a light.
From a distance that was about one step off, her slash reached. An unexpected attack!?
Galford made a loud scream of fighting spirit.
「ZEH!!」
He drew his sword.
Emil opened his eyes wide.
When compared to the attack used when he was training with him before, this was a speed on a completely different level.
──I thought that he was probably going easy on me, but to think that it was this fast!
Galford’s sword negated Ryoka’s hurled slash.
*Don!* The air shook.
Right away, there was another attack.
Galford’s two-part attack was fast to the point that even Emil was just barely able to chase after it with his eyes.
Fresh blood fluttered about from the back of Ryoka’s right hand.
Her eyes became round.
「I, was cut!?」
「Mu……」
Galford dropped his gaze onto his sword.
The tip of his blade was chipped.
Ryoka’s injury, smoothly vanished.
「Ufufufu……You’re pretty good. I’ll go a bit faster!」
She came attacking once again.
It was a slash that was clearly faster than her first one.
Having taken a step in, this time it was a distance where the blade of her Seiryuutou would reach him.
Galford warded it off with his sword.
「ッ…………Seei!!」
From his movement of receiving it, as if drawing a circle, he slashed at her without any hesitation.
He slashed Ryoka’s upper arm.
He had given her a fairly deep wound, but it didn’t reach the point of cutting it off. Her left arm languidly dropped.
「Why!? Even though I was the faster one!?」
It was a difference in technique. In physical ability, the Demonic Being called Ryoka had the upper hand, but there was an overwhelming difference in their sword techniques.
Galford’s sword technique was like having offence and defence as one, where there was no pause when he went from defending to attacking. When one thought that he had defended against an attack, he would finish his counterattack as naturally as water finding its leveling point. It was beautiful kenjutsu that did not match his stern face.
However, Ryoka’s left arm which should have been completely cut to the bone, returned to normal in no time at all.
──Is she immortal?
Ryoka made a broad smile.
「It looks like you aren’t a small fry! Now this, is a fight!」
She slashed at him again.
Did she think that the earlier counterattack was something done by coincidence?
It was an attack similar to before.
Warding her off yet again, the counterattack this time cut Ryoka’s left shoulder.
The Demonic Being sped up even more.
As if matching with her, the swinging of Galford’s sword also became faster.
A sword fight was something where the sound of metal colliding with metal would happen over and over.
However, the fight between these two, was on a whole other level.
Each and every attack was heavy.
There weren’t light sounds like *Kin, kin……*, but heavy sounds like *Gah, goh……* were made, and Galford’s sword would chip every time.
Maybe because the Seiryuutou that Ryoka wielded was endowed with magic, there wasn’t even a single smudge on it.
He won in sword technique, but it seemed like he would lose in the difference of their weapons. Did he not have some sort of hand to play?
Suddenly, Ryoka took some distance.
「Tsk……」
「Mu?」
While cautiously putting himself on guard, Galford did not chase after her.
Ryoka languidly lowered her Seiryuutou.
「I quit.」
「Hou……If you are going to leave, then as a person of the Races, I have no reason to detain you.」
「You, you aren’t fighting seriously, are you?」
「And why, would you think that?」
「You are matching with me, and are going at the bare minimum speed to do that. And even when I show openings, you don’t cut at me.」
「……I am the cautious type, you see. I believe clear openings to be traps.」
「Ah, really……Then, I’ll make you go seriously.」
Ryoka turned her gaze to behind Galford.
She glared at Emil’s group.
──Wh, what in the world!?
Naturally, he did not lose focus.
He had put himself on guard. That should have been the case.
Ryoka’s eyes suspiciously shined.
Lamnites shouted.
「Dodge itー!!」
「Gah!?」
Elastov the Enchanter vomited blood.
A hole opened up in his left breast.
Deep red blood was gushing out even from there. He collapsed face up.
Emil got down to his knees next to him.
「Elastov!」
He shouted his name with all of his strength.
*Gobah* What came out from his mouth was not words but blood.
「……ッ」
「E, Elastov……!!」
Churon the Healer waved his staff.
He offered a prayer to God.
A faint light enveloped Elastov.
「…………」
「O God! Show mercy……!!」
「……」
「Heal his wounds, O God! O God!」
It was an earnest Healing Technique.
However, Elastov did not move. Not even his breathing had returned.
*Gakkuri* Churon crumbled down.
「Uuu……kuh……」
「H, he died……!?」
Emil heard his own voice as if they were words spoken by some other person.
A companion of his had died.
Ryoka curved her lips.
「How about it? If you don’t get serious, then they will decrease one by one. People of the Races hate it when their companions die, right?」
Galford groaned.
「Doing something so foolish……」
Emil broke into a run.
