The Hero Who Returned Remains the Strongest in the Modern World - Chapter 75

Side: Lela Sakaguchi.

“Because the hero possess cheat break skills. Basically, I invalidate your reflection skills.”

He received those words—-

Bleeding from the right side of his nose.

While having mucus from the left side of his nose he spoke with a surprised expression.

“….Haa?”

They were thirty meters away from us.

10 large snakes were jumping in the air and then they were attacking Morishita Daiki.

But, Morishita Daiki with a refreshing face was knocking down the Pharaoh’s snakes.

“Guu!”

After being knocked down the snakes light disappears, and then immediately new snakes emerge from Linford’s back.

“Snakes!”

And then, the snakes attack Morishita Daiki again and just like the previous ones they’re knocked down.

Morishita Daiki smiled.

“Ehm… These certainly are the Pharaoh’s snakes. The S-rank adventurers who find things bothersome use these as automatic interceptor to hunt small fish. But in the end it’s a skill with special feature being interception. You’ve indulged in the so called reflection skill and it’s bothersome to dirty yourself? Well, it might be fun for you to just stand and the opponents are dying. But, these things are like the spring breeze for me!”

“Damn it…”

Linford while looking with a confused expression made snakes appear again.

And then Morishita Daiki again struck down the snakes mid-air at a speed that could be called lightning speed.

“Amazing… Is that a hero? He’s in a totally different dimension from us…”

“No… The difference between the Morishita-kun at the time of the Nine-Tails and the current Morishita-kun is like an adult and child. Besides… It’s problematic.”

“What is problematic?”

Morishita Daiki glanced to Abeno Kaguya.

And then Abeno Kaguya while shaking her head left and right made a Fuck sign. (TN: Flipping the bird, yo.”)

“Why did you make the Fuck sign?”

“He conveyed me for us to try to escape… He has intentions to die here and be the only victim.”

“What do you mean to escape? Right now, no matter how you see it, isn’t he on the offensive?”

Linford smiled.

“By the way, Hero-kun? Why haven’t you used all of your skills? It almost looks like you’re buying time.”

Morishita Daiki’s calm smile from the start broke.

“For someone like you just physical strengthening is enough.”

“Haha, bluffing is okay. That’s the only skill that you can use, isn’t it?”

「……」

“Even if you say you’ve invalidated the reflection skill, it seems you can invalidate it only with cheat skill. Basically I haven’t lost the bizarre firmness belonging to a holy knight.”

「……」

“You don’t have enough, right? MP that is.”

“That’s correct. If I release additional skills or spells here then my MP will dry up. In that case the ultimate condition will become to instantly kill you however… In that moment it wouldn’t be possible. And then, even with physical strengthening I’m certain that it will take a lot of time to defeat you.”

Morishita Daiki turned to us and yelled.

“Abeno-senpai, Sakaguchi-san! I’m buying time! Even though it’s little MP, I can hold just physical strengthening for a while… During this time then I can hold this guy! Please run away!”

Abeno Kaguya replied like she was spitting out the words.

“I’ve zero interest to listen to your intentions.”

“Seriously, what’s with you! It’s a request so listen to it!”

Morishita Daiki rushed at Linford while being teary.

He slipped through the snakes and hit Linford in the stomach with the metal bat.

Linford while making a painful expression was blown away… It cannot be a decisive blow and it can be said it’s at a level similar to a minor illness.

And then, snakes appeared again.

It may look like he handled the snakes calmly but in fact if you look at Morishita Daiki barely did them.

In fact there’s impatience in his movements…MP… If you say it in this world, then you’ll understand well after hearing the words magical black-out.

“They’re completely rivaling each other, aren’t they?”

“But, Morishita Daiki is definitely pushing him. The 5th attack has already been decided.”

“However, none of them are decisive blows. They’re far from making him incapable to move. If there was infinite time then we could be optimistic, but.”

“And, how much magical power does Morishita Daiki have?”

“I don’t know the precise MP but, since he’s telling us to run away… Probably very little?”

The same moment as her words, Morishita Daiki’s aura became weaker by one step.

“Physical Strengthening: Shift gear from Level 10 to Level 6.”

At the same time of Morishita Daiki’s words Linford smiled.

And then 10 snakes attacked Morishita Daiki all of them at once.

1, 2 were getting knocked, 3, 4… When he knocked down the 7th he finally got hit.

“Ga…ha…”

Morishita Daiki received attacks of the heads of three snakes and took distance from the spot with a step back.

And then after charging for a bit the three snakes attacked again and then they were knocked down by the metal bat.

“He’s starting to be pushed.”

“Just a bit… What do you mean, Abeno Kaguya!?”

“Shut up.”

“…Eh?”

“I’m thinking… I’m thinking but… There’s nothing to be done, right now. I calculated everything we could do, what he can do, what Linford can do, but… There’s nothing to be done in the current situation. There’s no pieces enough for something to be done.”

“At this rate… I’ll go assist! I don’t know if I can do something but…”

I stood up from kneeling down and then Abeno Kaguya held my hand.

“Endure it! Lela Sakaguchi!”

“Eeh!?”

“I agree with a final honourable death. But, even if the result is futile, let’s think about until the last moment while he’s fighting. Right now, I won’t forgive you if you waste your strength in futility.”

“Even if you say that, then what should we do… Aah!?”

Again 10 snakes appeared.

He knocked down 9 snakes and the remaining last snake blown away his metal bat.

And then, he was also blown away by eating the snake’s attack.

The worst case was that his Excalibur slipped outside of his hands and flew to the insides of the forest.

“Chi!”

While smacking his lips, Morishita Daiki without a weapon head-locked the snake.

And then he smashed the head-locked snake and the last light snake disappeared—

“This is problematic. I can’t keep it longer. Physical Strengthening: Shift gear from Level 6 to Level 3.”

Linford with an ugly smile looked to the direction where Excalibur had flown.

“Holy sword Excalibur, called as one of the strongest relics in the other world. Searching for in the forest will require too much effort, and later I’ll use it.”

“Damn…”

“It must be frustrating. If you only had full MP then I would be a weakling among weaklings for you. Or possible, if there was a party member here from the party you lead as a hero in the different world… The story would be completely different, however, there’s nothing but mere weaklings here!”

“Aah— Jeez! What should we be doing!”

And then in the surroundings noises of 1500 CC monster bikes came.

Rumbling engine sounds, and then along with the sound of breaking the 5 bikes stopped in front of us.

“Serafina?”

Serafina and the others who got off their bikes and Linford called out to them with happiness.

“You came at a good time! This man’s magical power will deplete very soon! Attack him together with my snakes! You’re different from Lela-san so you guys should still be obeying the Vatican! This is an order!”

Seraphina glared at Linford when she received those words.

“We refuse! We’ll avenge the princess!”

For just an instant Linford made a dumbfounded expression.

And then immediately made a huge smile.

“Well, doesn’t matter. Whether you listen or not in the end everyone will be killed… Nobody will be spared. Ahahaha! Fuhahaha!”

I asked Serafina while side-looking the cackling Linford.

“You girls… Why are you…”

While kneeling on the ground and looking me she asserted.

“Princess, your orders!”

“Orders?”

“The order to assist Morishita Daiki!”

“Eh…?”

“With your permission right in this instance we plan to revolt against Linford. Along the way to the western shrine we discussed about it and decided.”

“You girls… Do you understand what you’re saying?”

And Seraphina nodded with a determined expression.

“We know. Even if that might mean that we’ll make the Vatican hostile to us.”

“Do you girls really have that resolution?”

“Princess! We beseech you. Just a few words are enough— The orders to assist Morishita Daiki!”

Abeno Kaguya asked me.

“The holy knights are the personal guards of you who’s a dominion. No… Their main purpose is to replenish your magical power when it’s dried up for self-automatic recovery. Basically… they’re your MP batteries, right?”

“Yeah.”

“I see, then it’s like that.”

Abeno Kaguya received my words and began thinking.

“But… Serafina? Is it really fine? The Vatican becoming hostile to us the chance of that is high, you know?”

“That’s what the princess wishes, isn’t it? We’ll follow our princess’s orders regardless. That is our consensus.”

“The method of transferring magical power is energy touch… Basically, you need to touch the target which you transfer magical power to. Me giving that order now… It is basically equal to saying for you to die here. I was made unable to fight with just one attack… I’m talking about slipping through the light snakes and then finally reaching Morishita Daiki, you know?”

“If it’s about our lives then we already abandoned it to the princess 9 year ago when she saved us… No, at that day, that time, we dedicated it to Princess.”

I nodded to the smiling Seraphina and the others.

And then, again, my tears flowed down from my eyes.

“Haha. You girls… You’re literally the best Guardians.”

I cleared my tears swelling in the corner of my eyes with my little fingers, and after that I smiled.

“Thank you. Yup… I’m really grateful.”

I stand up.

Honestly speaking, my knees are also tottering.

But, even so I forcibly made an encouraging expression as a commander.

And then, I firmly looked at Serafina.

“Please inform us of your final decision. Please inform of your decision that you only decide from the principles set by yourself.” (TN: A sort of word play here and kinda hard to translate back to English, without fucking it up too much.)

“Offer all of your support to Morishita Daiki! Morishita Daiki’s magical power is drying up! Slip through the snakes of Linford and transfer all the magical power you have to Morishita Daiki! However, I will definitely not allow a single vacancy after the mission ends! This the decision that’s decided by the principles set by myself!”

Serafina received my words and then screamed.

“All guardians are informed! There’s no mistake about who we serve! We have only one master! We will carry out our loyalty to our Princess Lela Sakaguchi! Don’t spare your life! However everyone don’t even die even if you do! Execute the princess’s orders faithfully! Don’t make the princess sad at any means!”

Yeees!

Along with battle crying they got on their bikes and put their hands on the accelerator.

Abeno Kaguya closed her eyelids.

“Hey, Abeno Kaguya?”

“Shut up! Right now my head is in full operation!”

And then she nodded.

“All of the pieces are assembled. With this we can win. However, that’s only when everything is connected successfully… If there’s one wrong move then everything will be over— Like dangerous baton relay sprinting on thin ice…”

Abeno Kaguya said that and made eye contact with me.

“Do you know the things you’ve to do, Lela Sakaguchi?”

Rather, why is that I’m really in perfect sync with this woman.

Just by looking in the eyes, she was able to understand what I was thinking to do.

“My job is to guide the Guardians until they reach Morishita Daiki. And then if you can’t move well…”

“Yeah, I’ll definitely deliver it to him.”

Abeno Kaguya satisfyingly nodded.

“I’ll accomplish my job properly. Leave it to me.”

Right after, Abeno Kaguya also sent an eye contact to Morishita Daiki.

Then he also understood Abeno Kaguya’s intention and nodded slightly.

And then, Abeno Kaguya sat behind Serafina on her bike.

“Abeno Kaguya… What’s this?”

“Just let me ride. Without me you people definitely won’t reach that place. Definitely.”

I clenched my fist.

“Now, it’s our turn for an counter-attack!”

Bike sounds coming from a full accelerator.

6 people will rush at Morishita Daiki who’s 50 meters away from us.

“Even he can’t deal against them with his raw status of a hero—- The small fish 10 light snakes how will we escape and slip through them in this distance?”

“Great Explosive Talismans: Megido. Explosive Talismans: Hellfire Prison… And then Lightning Talismans: Concealed Moles.”

She’s taking out all the talismans from her bosom, and threw them in front of her.

No, precisely speaking she had thrown them around her.

The sounds of huge explosions echo and one side was engulfed in smoke and flames.

And then Linford voice came.

“Smokescreen? Is that your grand plan? Unfortunately for you the Pharaoh’s snakes don’t react only on vision but also on sound response. Their accuracy rate will drop a bit but with such rumbling noise from the bicycle it’s like telling where you are.”

The 10 snakes rush into the smoke and then I heard 5 huge explosions in the smoke screen.

Parts from the motorcycles scatter and the smell of gasoline burning hangs in the surroundings.

“It’s certain my snakes landed on the motorcycles. This is the end.”

Linford’s laughter echoes and then a strong wind was clearing up the smoke.

And at the same time my cheeks relaxed.

When the smoke cleared up the bikes were certainly blown up.

But….

“Yeah, it is the end of the line— For you!”

Everyone was running on their feet.

Basically, everyone including Abeno Kaguya jumped from the bikes the moment the smokescreen appeared.

To think that everyone would use their bikes as a decoy and dash at full speed.

In the first place, Serafina and the others are at a level where they can usually run nearly at 100 km/h speed so there’s little point for them to use bikes in sprints.

Still though…

“Hahahaha! As expected the Ill-mannered Abeno Kaguya who constantly thinks about harassing others… I never could’ve come up with this strategy! Rather, despite her being cool-like because of how she looks by appearance… She’s harsh with her dirty jokes, her character is the worst and just moves around… Seriously what’s going on in her head!?”

And then they arrive at Morishita Daiki, Seraphina and the others are touching his palm one after another.

“At the previous shrine, you told us “Do you not have a say in it?” and such thing as much as you wanted. We’ll repay the humalitiation we received by 100 times! Accept it! Morishita Daiki! This is our will… the pride of Princess’s Guardiaaaaaaaans!”

And then Morishita Daiki is wrapped in a pale light and he yelled.

“MP filling completed! All battle skills activated!”

Stay safe, all of you.