I Was Reborn, but I Was Told That the Popular Standard Skills Were No Good, so I Chose the Skill of Collecting [Title] - CH 265

“Zeros-sama, will you accept my proposal?”

“………”

What should I do? How can I get out of this situation? All that is necessary is to rescue the three hostages. I mustn’t lose to the heroes here. If I lose, I won’t be able to save the spirits. I have to save the six people. Is there a way to stop them all from moving…..

“Lightning Palm.”

“If you do that, I’ll kill them. Let the spirits out.

I tried to do a lightning palm grip with Zeal I had put back inside me. But B stopped me before I could do it. I obediently took Zeal out of me. I was stopped by this guy almost instantaneously and I wondered if his ability was future vision or something.

“Nii-sama, the moment the situation changes, use lightning shrink.”

“Eh?”

Sophie said that in a whisper. What is Sophie going to do?

“Huh? Are you insane! Stop it! Don’t use magic! Kill…!”

“Too late!”

Sophie cuts off the legs of the three hostages with wind magic. The three hostages, who had lost their legs, fell to the ground. Thanks to that, they were separated from the heroes for a moment.

“Li, Lightning Shrink!”

I rushed to the three with lightning shrink. Then I threw the severed legs toward Sophie and returned to her, carrying the three of them with me.

“Heal.”

Then Sophie completely sealed the wounds on the three legs with her recovery magic. She also froze them so that their broken legs wouldn’t get worse.

“Now they won’t die anymore. Besides, even if the magic tools aren’t working, their legs were severed so cleanly that they will heal back to normal if we heal them while attaching them with an elixir.”

“Haa… Don’t be reckless…”

Thanks to Sophie’s reckless strategy, there were no more hostages. I guess even the saint didn’t think of cutting off the legs of the hostages. And again, B was saying something, but I couldn’t stop him.

“Do you think this is the end of the hostages?”

“What…”

“Claudia! Kill yourself!”

“What’s wrong with you, screaming by yourself? Nothing’s going to happen.”

“Why… haa!”

It seemed she could make her do what she said with her mouth. But Claudia didn’t move as the saint said. Rather, she couldn’t move. Because Sophie had used her spatial magic to immobilize all eight of them.

And what bothered me was that B immediately told something to the saint, and the saint shook her head in response.

“Rampage all of you!”

“……….”

Sophie’s face turned grim for a moment as the saint gave that instruction.

“With eight people in your custody, Sophia-sama, do you have enough magic left over to do anything else?”

“I told you to call me Adolfo.”

Sophie made such a light remark, but in reality, I don’t think there’s much left to do. Normally it would only restrain me, but now there are eight people at the same time. It’s hard to restrain them because they all try to run amok freely.

“Nii-sama, don’t be so worried. I have enough strength to defend myself. You can fight with all your might.”

“Thank you.”

Sophie is holding back Bequa and the others so that I can fight with all my might without worrying about anything… so that I can concentrate on helping the spirits.

“Hey, saint. This isn’t exactly what I had in mind.”

“Well…fair enough. If we play it safe and win two to one or something…”

“Come on, all four of you.”

“Eh?”

Even if Sophie says she has enough strength to defend herself, it’s only enough to protect her from stray bullets. She doesn’t have enough strength to fight against two heroes. The only way to do that is for me to fight all four of them at the same time. No one is going to get to Sophie.

“So even if we win with this difference in numbers…”

“How about this?”

I’ve got Yug, Bros, and Darki out of me. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen Bequa bring out a beast, is there a reason for that?

“Spirit, devil, beast…”

“That makes five for me.”

I glanced at Yug and the others beside me and saw that they were completely pissed off. Well, they must be, since they were watching all this from inside me. By the way, I’m pretty pissed off too.

“Phew…now that the difference in numbers is gone, the four of us should be fine to deal with you.”

The saint blew out a little foolishly and then said so. Does the saint think I can never win if it’s four against one?

“Come on out, garbage.”

“Come on out, scum.”

“Come on out, trash.”

When the heroes said that, spirits, devils, and beasts came out in turn. Don’t tell me that garbage, scum, and trash are their names….

“”……””

Seeing the figures that appeared, the Yug glared sharply at the heroes. The three of them were emaciated and had scars all over their bodies.

“Umm…. that magic power was…”

“I don’t know. Use yours.”

“Then your existence…”

“Then work for me and die. I can make as many scum #2 and #3 as I want.”

“……”

The spirit spoke to A, but that was the response; the three weren’t even aware that their king was in the immediate vicinity.

“Zero-kun, don’t ever let these scum get the better of you.”

“I know.”

“Leave the rescue of those three to us three. You just have to concentrate on how to beat up the scum. If you want, I can teach you how to hurt them better.”

“Thank you.”

“We’re inside the barrier, so it’s all good. Get rid of the trash.”

“I intend to.”

Each of the three kings gave me a shout-out, and the one thing they all had in common was a sense of outrage at the heroes. I could feel their anger, too.

I put Zeal back inside and started walking toward the heroes. I was going to beat them to a pulp.