CH 68.2

Chapter 68.2. Masatoshi Sees Various Conspiracies

-Masatoshi’s POV-

“Who did that recovery magic?”

“It must be Sena-sama. I’m sure of it!”

“Right! She must have come in a hurry to help us!”

People can be heard discussing the recovery magician from earlier. The battlefield was just a hunt for the remnants of the still surviving scissors mantis after the warriors and adventurers exterminated the horde. And people had stopped evacuating, relieved by the fact that they were still alive. It would only be a matter of exterminating the few remaining scissors mantis swarming the tanks. There, I see the tanks of support charging in.

“Um, Sena. Everyone is going to get the wrong idea, right?”

“Shhh. I’m incognito. Let’s keep quiet here. Anyway, we’ll find out who they are later.”

“Well, well, you’re right.”

Sena smiles and tightens her grip on his hand, and Masatoshi nods in agreement. He’s been so flamboyantly active. Indeed, she doesn’t have to deny it now. On the contrary, it would be worse if Sena revealed her true identity for the sake of denial.

Masatoshi’s getting better and better as Sena holds his hand and tilts her head. The man with zero experience with women smiled with joy, but he got a little carried away quickly.

“Dangerous!”

“Hee-?”

“Kyaa!”

Shin’s sharp voice made Masatoshi turn his head to see a scissors mantis in front of him. It looked bigger and stronger than the scissors mantis from earlier.

With a dazed look, Masatoshi looked up at the scissors mantis, and Sena screamed and clung to him. The scissors mantis raised its scythe at Sena. Its arm was about to gather mana and activate its martial arts. It seems it intends to kill her for sure.

Ah, there was a scene like this in the illustration. Masatoshi, who could not escape because he was almost out of mana and Sena was clinging to him, vaguely remembered the original story.

“Stop it!”

Shin’s desperate voice echoed in the face of the impasse. Then, a transparent vibration wave was released from Shin’s hand onto the arm of scissors mantis, who was about to launch his martial arts at any moment. The effect of the magic was extraordinary, though one had to look closely to see it.

When the light popped, the mana scissors mantis’ hand, which was about to use a martial art, popped and disappeared. The scissors mantis backed away, unable to release the martial art.

Masatoshi knew this scene.

It’s [Magic Distraction]. It’s magic that destroys any magic that can only be used by those with the [Void] attribute. This magic is Shin’s specialty and his lifeline.

The scissors mantis staggers, but quickly recovers and changes to an attacking position. Masatoshi’s running out of mana, and Sena’s a recovery magician. Shin, who has just awakened, cannot resist. However, he doesn’t remember his impatience.

Shin is conveniently coming to the rescue just before the attack. He appears conveniently as if he had been timing it.

[Flash!]

A heavy voice rings out, and with a snap, trails rush through scissors mantis’ body. The scissors mantis split apart as its body slips away from the spot where it gets slashed.

“Hmm, there’s a brown rat in the mix.”

“Heh? What, why?”

He turned around at the sound of a gravely male voice and saw Teijo Ouga standing there. He’s dressed in kimono but has a sword in his hand. Behind him were nearly a hundred warriors equipped with magic armor, and beside Ouga stood Yamiyo in a jet-black dress.

“Oy! In this case, it’s all-out war!”

Nearly ten men jumped out from the crowd and raised their staffs, readying them. A few of them threw magic stones. As the magic stone they throw blows out smoke, it transforms into a scissors mantis.

He realizes that they’re a monster user. It wasn’t a game job or anything, but they called him a monster user because he used monsters. Unlike summoners, monster users could create and control monsters by incarnating them in monster stones. Once incarnated, they’re difficult to use because they no longer return to the monster stone, but they’re useful magicians if they’re considered disposable and cost-neutral. In the original story, they often appeared in front of the main character.

He also understood why the scissors mantis appeared out of nowhere. These men had summoned them. Earlier, they had been operating under cover so that their flow of mana would not be exposed, so they couldn’t manipulate it in detail. So, they couldn’t control it well, scissors mantis must have been like a tin doll, taking unnatural movements to drive away the people around it.

“Hmm, looks like they target someone.”

Ouga glared at Seena. Sena’s shoulders contracted, and she looked uncomfortable. Masatoshi knew the truth about why Sena gets attacked in the original story.

She had been targeted from the beginning. In the original, scissors mantis were everywhere, and many people died, so they didn’t know.