CH 4.11

The salaryman, who had grabbed Onimatsuri by the neck, lifted her up, and hid behind her as if she were a shield.

「Loki! Stop!」

「Fuhn, you’re a coward, Skirnir.」

The salaryman called Loki snickered at the courier guy’s words.

Loki….I think he’s a god in Norse mythology who is said to bring about the end of the world.

I heard that he also has the ability to transform.

I’ve never heard of Skirnir but from how the name sounds, it should be from Norse mythology too.

Near him, Yui has activated her divine object and is holding up the desert eagle but Loki used Onigawara as his shield.

The bullets from the gun shouldn’t work but he is probably wary that it might be a divine object.

「Let me show your faces first.」

Loki’s golden ring on the middle finger of his right hand glowed, and the spell I casted on my and Yui’s face to block recognition was broken.

In the other world, I’m not very good at it because I leave something like this to my other party members.

Even so, my spell is not something that can be easily removed by a mage there….as expected of a god.

That ring is bad news.

「Nanba, Shiratori…..? Hiiik….please! I apologize for what happened at the toilet! I beg y—」

「Shut up」

As Loki tightened his grip on Onimatsuri’s neck, Onimatsuri’s toad-like scream stopped.

Her arms and legs were shaking and her tears and runny nose were messing up her thick makeup.

Liquid is also dripping from under her skirt.

「What’s with the toilet?」

「Something insidious.」

Yui’s short answer is all I need to know to get a grasp of the situation.

I’m not sure if I should help this girl or not but it doesn’t change the fact that we have to exterminate these variants.

「Let’s help if we can.」

Perhaps sensing what I’m thinking, she quietly said that.

「Understood.」

If Yui, who was the victim of the attack, says so, I have no objection.

It’s not nice to abandon someone you know.

I don’t have the fate of the world on my shoulders.

It’s okay to take the “easy” way out by saving the lives you can within your ability.

I know very well that it is more painful to discard life than to save it.

「Good grief, I’m doing a good job mimicking humans.」

Loki’s flesh repeatedly bulged from the inside, changing his appearance.

He was originally a small, dull-looking salaryman but now, he transformed into a crisp, macho ikemen who’s taller than 180cm.

「Fuh….it’s been a while but I still feel more at home with this body of mine. Yo!」

Loki, who had been turning his shoulders in circles, checking the condition of his body, thrust out his fist.

—blam!

Wind blew through the side of my face and a big hole, enough for someone to pass through, was punched into the concrete wall behind me.

「J-just from the pressure of the punch?」

Yui shuddered when she saw that.

「I don’t really care but, if I stand out too much, it will be difficult to eat.」

Loki’s ring glowed and the inside of the building was covered with a wall made of magic power.

「Barrier」

「Heh….you can actually see magic power?」

「I guess it’s a barrier to protect the building, soundproofing, and to not let us escape.」

「Yaaa!」

—-whoosh!

Yui kicked the wall after activating her divine object but there were only ripples of light on the surface of the concrete.

「I kicked it with enough power to punch through this concrete wall…..」

「That lady over there is also quite good」

Loki smiled happily for some reason.

This guy is pretty strong.

Especially the ring on the middle finger of his right hand. It’s bad news as expected.

It’s not a replica but a real artifact.

「I’d like to have fun and win. How about we play first?」

There is a hostage and it’s too dangerous to let Yui face him.

「Yui, take care of Onimatsuri.」

As I said that, I took out the sword I used to Thor in my hand and attacked Loki.