Magika No Kenshi To Shoukan Maou:Volume 3 Chapter 5

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Chapter 5 – The Faceless God

Part 1

“Eei, can one really stay in house arrest like this!? What’s with this riot!? What the hell is the current president of the Sword Division’s student council doing!!”

Kanae who leaped outside from the student dormitory was yelling her lung out while making her small statured body hop around.

The surrounding students who were running about to escape stared in amazement looking at Kanae’s figure.

“Ka, kaichou…!”

“Not kaichou! Right now I’m just a Storm Cat. Call me Kana-nyan.”

“Ka, Kana-nyan…”

“Nya―☆ What is happening with this? Explain the situation.”

The female student that Kanae inquired explained as best as she could even while in a state of confusion.

“That, illegal magicians are come invading inside the ground, here and there are destroyed by magic…their chanting speed are staggering, their chanting are not stopping even when they are cut by sword, it's uncontrollable….”

“Illegal magicians? Not the Magic Division? Unknown enemy…? Do they have some connection with the person who tried to trap Nii-sama? Oi, where are their location?”

The moment Kanae asked, “DON!” the sound of explosions and buildings crumbling down deafened their ears.

“…I don’t even need to ask, huh. Thank you, if I’m not mistaken…first year class two Iijima!”

“Y, you know my name!?”

“Be careful and escape okay! Nya―☆”

Leaving behind a strangely cute voice, Kanae dashed away.

“…Can I say that Kana-nyan-senpai is reliable? But she really does bring quiet a relief though.”

The student that was left behind mysteriously recovered her calm and whispered.

Kanae’s beloved Sword Division was destroyed into a mere shadow of its former self.

The school building that was made from wood was burned down by magic, becoming a pitch black fire-devastated area. It seems the fire was not spreading most likely because of Kohaku and her comrade using the Battou Kaikon of the Sacred Treasures that possessed power over water like [Murasame] and [Sukehiro] to work in extinguishing the fire.

Moreover the mist was enshrouding the height of the people just right, concealing the figures of the escaping students. There was no mistake that this unnatural mist was the smoke screen magic of mist that was the specialty of Liz Liza-sensei.

But was she approaching the limit of her magic power, the mist was starting to thin out.

Kanae first thought whether she ought to rescue the students who were collapsing in magic intoxication, but someone had already performed the rescue inside the mist. Inside the mist that was already in the process of clearing up, she couldn’t find a figure of casualty anywhere.

The worst situation was avoided due to the correct judgment.

And then Kanae discovered the figures of the enemies.

Ten silver-haired magicians covered in masks were forming a column of a line to the side, they were advancing while pouring magic on any noticeable humans.

Regarding that there was a group that was pouring attack using Sacred Treasures. It was Kohaku’s crew.

“But…that is not really a fight.”

Kanae whispered in bitter voice.

―Kohaku and the others' forte was really not effective against the enemy.

The strong point of Kohaku’s party that equipped the Sacred Treasures was fast rotation of long-range attack. Its might was decidedly inferior compared to Summoning Magic but, Battou Kaikon was able to invoke magic without chanting spell.

Therefore Kohaku and her group would obstruct the opponent’s spell chanting with swift attacks and overcame the resistance one-sidedly, that’s how their tactic should be happening. But that kind of tactic was not applying to the enemies in front of their eyes.

There were two miscalculations.

First, the cycle of the masked magicians' spell chanting were abnormally fast.

No, the speed of their spell chanting might not be actually that fast. But from what Kanae saw, she had a hunch that those guys were chanting four kinds of magic all at once. That was not a joke.

And then one more miscalculation, even when the masked magicians got hit by Kohaku and the others’ attacks, their concentration toward spell chanting were not cut off at all. Rather than saying their concentration were uninterrupted, it looked like they didn’t think of anything at all, an eerie sight.

As a result, Kohaku and her group were soaking the masked magicians’ magic one after another. They couldn’t prevent the opponents’ chanting at all, that’s why if they were not a [swordsman that could evade Summoning Magic] then they would not be able to fight at all. That was the limit of relying on just the strength of the Sacred Treasure.

If it was not a fighter around the level of Kohaku, Kanae, or Iori, then they wouldn’t be able to make a dent to this formidable enemy.

“Move back! The only one who can become their opponent is only this one!!”

Finally Kohaku ordered her comrades to retreat with expression of grief. She made a tragic judgment that her fighting alone was a better way.

“Geez…what kind of pitiful face are you making, student council president!”

“Ka…Kanae-kaichou!?”

Kaane overtook Kohaku who was exercising long-range attack, approaching the masked magicians like a gale.

“The president is you! I am Kana-nyan!! Nya―a!!”

Kanae evaded all the magic that came flying with paper-thin distance, then she started hacking to pieces with her two katana like she was dancing.

“Kaichou…no, Kana-nyan-senpai!”

Kohaku helplessly accepted the weird given name and yelled.

“Please be careful! Those guys magic power are unusually massive, no matter how many times Kana-nyan-senpai keep cutting with those small katana it won’t make any damage…!”

“I know!” Kanae yelled back.

“The thing that we should do is to buy time! Until Nii-sama and Otonashi Kaguya comes…we have to hold back the damage to the Sword Division as low as possible!”

Part 2

Kazuki and the others finally escaped from the underground facility.

When they leaped out of the underground hurriedly, the grounds of the Magic Division was enveloped in a strange silence. As though all students were finished taking refuge….

From the other side in the Sword Division, sounds of buildings being destroyed and the stir the escaping people made could be heard.

“Don’t tell me…the Magic Division left the Sword Division alone and is taking refuge!? Even though those Quad-core Magica are not an opponent that could be defeated without the whole students of the Magic Division grouping up!!”

Mio raised her voice as if she couldn’t believe it.

“…This is the work of Naiara-whatchallit-pu. That guy probably returned to the appearance of Headmaster Otonashi and put out an instruction for the students of the Magic Division to take refuge.”

Using the appearance of Headmaster Otonashi to control the nucleus of the Magic Division, what a Diva that likes to maneuver secretly.

There was no doubt that the one who tricked him into all those false crimes was that guy.

That jet black Naiara-whatchallit-pu…!

“Kazuki…it’s Naiaratoteph.”

Koyuki gave a tsukkomi toward Kazuki calmly.

“Anyway let’s hurry!”

Kazuki and the others ran to the direction of the sounds. Vast magic power was blowing violently like a storm.

When they leaped over the pitch-black burned down area of the carbonized wooden school building and finally arrived at the battlefield, over there was Kanae and Kohaku who were fighting as the opponents of the ten Quad-core Magica.

Especially Kohaku who was markedly damaged from the magic that she couldn’t dodge.

The moment Kazuki and the others finally came, the shrouding mist cleared up completely.

“Kanae! Kohaku! Are you guys okay!?”

“Kazuki! So you return from the underground safely!”

“Nii-sama!?”

Kohaku and Kanae were both turning around to his direction.

Kanae’s cheeks flushed in the blink of eye, her eyes started to glitter like a shining star.

“Ni – i – sa – ma~~!! ♥♥♥!! Meeting Nii-sama after so long, Kanae with the force of a cat at full speed is nya nya nya nya~~~~~n!!”

While screaming, Kanae dashed fiercely to Kazuki with a force that left behind afterimages.

“Fast!? Even compared to that time…!” Kohaku shuddered after seeing that speed.

“Nii-sama Nii-sama Nii-sama~!! Pleaseee give me a kiss of reunion!!”

Kanae came hugging him with the force of a tackle.

“Idiot, what are you doing in the middle of battle!”

Kazuki stretched apart Kanae’s mochi-like cheeks with a ‘GUII~’.

“Funyaaaaaaa!” Kanae raised a shriek happily.

At that time a huge ball of fire came flying.

“…Look out!”

Kazuki held Kanae in a princess-carry and leaped to the side.

“The long awaited Nii-sama’s princess carry! Kanae…has no regret already even if I die nyan…”

“Cut it out!”

As expected Kazuki raised his voice and scolded Kanae. This was completely not the situation to joke around.

“Everyone, let’s form the Heaven and Earth Formation! Me, Kanae, and Kohaku will cut into them! I will become the shield as best as possible, everyone else will attack with magic from behind!”

“Understood!” “Okay desu!” “I understand.”

Mio, Lotte, and Koyuki began chanting spell at the same time.

While Kazuki sensed the torrent of magic power at his back, he plunged into the column of the Quad-core Magica.

He had to draw the magic at him as best as he could!

“O will of the god of the whirling sky! Assemble in my hand, lend me the authority of judgment! O radiance of the divine right of the King, become a dazzling brilliance bow drawn to its limit! Thunder God BowLightning Line!”

A dignified voice was audible from somewhere―several streak of lightning pierced the Quad-core Magica.

This magic is…!

“Hoshikaze-senpai!”

“Hayashizaki-kun! …Did you find it, the clue?”

Hoshikazi-senpai slipped through the rain of magic with lightning speed utilizing Ride Lightning, rushing over to Kazuki’s side. This person's battle power was first rank as expected.

“…Yes! Sorry to make you worry.”

Without asking for the particulars, Hoshikaze-senpai smiled and said “Is that so” with just that.

“This, I’m returning it.”

The item she handed over was Kazuki’s beloved katana, Doufuu. After handing over the katana, senpai carried a different katana that she used at the time of practicing with Kazuki.

“…What in the world are those enemies?” Senpai inquired.

“Those are, artificially strengthened magicians that had been experimented on. Their personality had been destroyed, there is no way to save them anymore than to defeat them.”

Hoshikaze-senpai’s expression darkened. Senpai was a kind person after all. But in this situation there was nothing more they could do.

“Understood. So there is no other way than to fight, right?”

When Kazuki nodded, Hoshikaze-senpai negated her pained expression and chanted the magic “Storm Fort!”. The Quad-core Magica launched their magic over here but all of it were sent flying by the storm. If they attacked based on compatible element, the wind would probably be pierced, but as the compensation of having their personality abolished, they didn’t have that much intelligence left.

Inside that wind…Hoshikaze-senpai kneaded up an enormous magic power!

“Know the rage of the god with this thunderous roar of the sacred flame! Every howl of the sky reside in this hand, bring down the hammer and break the world! One blow to destroy the world! Sky Drum Pressing Lightning HammerYagrush!!”

The wind ceased. In the hand of Hoshikaze-senpai, a large hammer was gripped tightly.

That was…Baal’s level 8! A distant height magic that Kazuki and others still couldn’t chant!

When Hoshikaze-senpai held that hammer aloft to the sky, it raised a boisterous noise and dark clouds covered the sky.

Hoshikaze-senpai ran, not to the whole group of the Quad-core Magica itself, but to the middle point between two Quad-core Magica. Over there, she raised the large hammer overhead.

“I will end this painlessly at the very least…!!”

Along with a yell of fighting spirit, she swung down the hammer at the point where there was nobody.

At that moment, countless flashes of lightning that blinded the eyes poured down from the dark clouds in the sky.

Raging sound of lightning reverberated, all of the world was shaking loosely with the thunderous roar and earthquake!

Nothing could be seen from the light and the cloud of dust―when all of those cleared up, a huge crater was formed at the point where Hoshikaze-senpai hammered the ground, the two Quad-core Magica that were located at the both side of the point exhausted all of their defensive magic power and collapsed. Those two elves both together with just one hit was…

“Nii-sama…that person, she tried to smash Torazou with that at the inter-division match, right?”

Kanae whispered while drawing back.

…Let’s absolutely not make Hoshikaze-senpai mad shall we.

“Let’s get going rapidly!”

Hoshikaze-senpai began to chant her next magic. Even while chanting she ran around with lightning speed, hitting ceaselessly with the Lighning Line, she couldn’t be targeted by the opponents' magic.

“…Kenki Tensei! Thy name is…Ooishi Susumu! Go!”

Even more phantom dashed into the battlefield holding a long katana in his hand.

“Thy name is…Otani Nobutomo! Go!”

One more phantom ran at full speed holding a wooden sword.

“Thy name is…Shimada Toranosuke! Go!”

The owner of the voice was Kazuha-senpai. The same when she was fighting Kazuki, it seems the limit of the phantoms this magic could summon were three bodies. Right now the three master swordsmen that were summoned to this place were master fencer in Bakumatsu era.

“Mikohime-sama!? …You can’t, senpai mustn’t use magic in the place where people are watching!!”

Kohaku raised a voice tinged with a shriek.

“Don’t say stupid things! Even though that shameless man over there is also fighting, there is no way I could just sit quietly in this emergency situation!!”

“GUWAHHAHHA! Kazuha, looks like this battle is not a place you can joke around, you mustn’t try to do close-quarter combat, you understand!!”

At Kazuha-senpai’s side, Futsunushi no Kami’s avatar who was in the role of overseer was floating.

“Uuu…I know! Don’t laugh! Tenkuu Battou Rengehou!!”

Rain of Sacred Treasures poured incessantly to the Quad-core Magica who just stood stock still like scarecrows because of their lack of war instinct.

At that interval, Mio and Lotte and Koyuki fired their magic too.

The trend was determined. The battlefield was blanketed with blue light of magic power, displaying the damage of the Quad-core Magica.

Even though they were Quad-core Magica, but they were defeated one after another.

Kanae and Kohaku were no longer needed to act as the vanguard, they watched over the situation attentively.

“That is Nii-sama’s Heaven and Earth Formation, Kohaku.”

“…”

At the side of the proudly looking Kanae, Kohaku kept silent with expression as if she was chewing a bitter bug.

Kazuki looked at those two with a sidelong glance, he once again thought curiously about what was going on between the two of them.

But that was for another time…with all these comrades, they could stop the Quad-core Magica!!

Part 3

“Please wait a little bit, Beatrix-sama, Damian-sama, Eleonora-sama.”

Headmaster Otonashi lowered his head respectfully to the three Einherjar that appeared at the staff room.

“…The battlefield is waiting for me you know?”

Beatrix floated a smile with broad grin. Those cheeks were blushing like a maiden in love.

“Beatrix~, do you really need all three of us heree~. For this kind of school you seee~”

The small statured girl called Damian talked while showing a ridicule on her face.

The magic power of females were higher compared to males, in the current era where many females were far better at battle prowess than male, the number of females that were named with male name were not few.

“Three people are still not really enough you know, Damian. After all our opponent is a BasileusKing. Actually we should bring not only three but come here with even more numbers but, since this is a sudden request.”

“For the captain to lose…maybe there is some mistake.”

Eleonora who was a lady with tall stature body that was long, slender, and well proportioned, whispered expressionlessly.

“This me without doubt had lost, Erii. If the one that beat me is just a normal student then my stock will fall sharply. I guarantee that boy is not just a normal opponent.”

“I’ll buy it~, that free-falling stock, I’m going to buy it for sure~. And then I will be promoted to captain.”

Damian raised a laughing voice ‘kekeke’. Her tone was vulgar but she had a high-pitched voice like a child.

A confused atmosphere flowed in the staff room because of the three visitors.

“Fathe…Headmaster.”

Kaguya who was in standby in that place cut into the conversation.

“The report that the attack had already been resolved should have come in already, shouldn’t it?”

The report that the situation had been resolved with the unknown enemies exterminated to the last had already come to the staff room. However Headmaster Otonashi shook his head.

“What are you saying? These girls came to capture the illegal magician and Charlotte.”

The illegal magician being talked here was referring to the matter of Hayashizaki Kazuki.

“Oi, how about making that Ojou-chan help too huh~. …Or rather that Ojou-chan is quite strong right? I can feel her presence is not normal ze~”

Damian poured her sight to Kaguya, Headmaster Otonashi nodded his head toward her question.

“Of course, Damian-sama. Kaguya…you understand.”

After being made sure by Headmaster Otonashi, Kaguya felt like her head was lolling.

Along with the haziness from the lolling in her head, her own emotion felt like it was going far away….

“…Yes.” Kaguya replied with her emotion very far apart from her.

“Yosh, me and <Damian of Sword>, <Eleonora of Shield> will stand as the vanguard. The daughter of Headmaster Otonashi will provide support from the rear guard. I’ve heard that you are not just an average student, I have expectation on you, okay. Rather I want to try to fight you or so, fufufu!”

Beatrix unintentionally leaked out a laugh like a kid waiting for her treasured holiday.

“…Lad, this is my Heaven and Earth Formation!”

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