I Was Reborn, but I Was Told That the Popular Standard Skills Were No Good, so I Chose the Skill of Collecting [Title] - CH 246

“Okay!”

I don’t have time now, so I removed Insomnia, Lightning Rod, and One thousand to one without checking their effects because they wouldn’t be bad titles for now, and set the new titles before I started running. Since I was devilfied, my status was higher than before. So running is better than using lightning shrink, which basically only allows me to move in a straight line.

“Ha!”

The speed at which I slash is faster than Sophie’s magic preparation. It would have been easier if Sophie was slashed by this, but it didn’t happen.

“Devilification.”

Sophie was devilfied. She grew two beautiful wings. But that didn’t make up for the difference in speed between us. Sophie had her hands full trying to avoid any of my attacks that would be fatal. She was doing nothing except preparing to unleash that magic as it was. Since I was also devilfiied, the situation was no different than it had been earlier since Sophie was devilfied. So is she using only one of her demons?

Then Sophie put her stretched her hands towards me, as if she had finished preparing her magic.

“Full magic burst.”

She released it with more than five times the amount of magic power than before. It’s just a mass of magic power, so it’s invisible to the eye. But I had already seen the same thing earlier. It’s too much of underestimation to release magic against me just because I’m at close range.

I cut the magic that Sophie released. If I know the location of the magic by high-speed magic sensing, it’s not difficult to cut it with my divine speed reflex.

“Lost …….”

Sophie’s recovery magic was sealed. The slash wounds given by me are not fatal wounds when you look at each one. However, there are some deep wounds in some places. If there were numerous such wounds all over her body, they alone could be fatal. Sophie fell down and shifted as it was.

“The match is over! Winner! Zeros Adolfo!”

I was able to defeat Sophie, although I felt a little stunned at the end. I disarmed my spiritualization, beastification, devilfication, enchantment, and Raiden armor, got off the stage, and headed back to Sophie.

“…It was completely unexpected that you had signed a contract with the Devil King. Thanks to that, Dia was completely useless. I’m sorry…… Please consider this just a loser’s excuse and listen up.”

“Ah.”

Certainly, Sophie hadn’t used Dia’s ability of reflection even once.  Had Dia atrophied because of the devil king?

”The awards ceremony will begin in 15 minutes from now!”

“Well then, Zero-niisama, see you later.”

”Yeah, see you later.”

The announcement was made that there would be an awards ceremony in 15 minutes, so Sophie and I returned to our respective anterooms for the time being.

“Fuu…”

“Zero, good job.”

“Good work, Zero-kun.”

“Good job.”

“That was a good fight.”

“Thank you for your hard work everyone.”

I entered the waiting room and sat down on a chair with a sigh, and received words of encouragement from Zeal, Yug, Darki, and Bros. I responded with a few words of encouragement, and then went back to sleep for a few minutes to rest.

“The awards ceremony is about to begin! The winners of this year’s competition! Go ahead!”

With that announcement, I, Bequa, and Sophie went up on stage. From there on, the proceedings were much the same as last year. I received a black plaque from the king himself.

“With this, the Garden battle is over!”

The king said, and the battle was over.

“Hey, Zeros. Can I ask you something?”

“……”

After exiting, I tried to head straight for home. At that time, Bequa grabbed me by the shoulder from behind. Bequa didn’t put his hand on my shoulder, he grabbed it. He was holding me firmly so that I wouldn’t run away.

“Zeros, What happened to Suiyami and Suikou? Have they gone back to normal?”

“Ah.”

And this time, Gladden grabbed my other shoulder from the front. I forgot to tell Gladden and the other dwarves that the sword was now fine.

“For now, Suiyami and Suikou are fine. Thanks for the good swords. I’ll tell you more about why they were temporarily out of order tomorrow.”

“I understand.”

“Bequa is also tired from the match today and the others are not here, so I will tell them tomorrow when they are all here.”

After I said that, Bequa and Gladden took their hands off me and left.

“Then Sophie, shall we go home.”

“Yes.”

Then I went home with Sophie.