Chapter 864 – Battle of Vajra -17-

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As the hallway was instantly engulfed in fire, water was pouring out from the sprinklers one after another, drenching the hallway.

The group running down the one-way street felt their hair, body, and socks inside their shoes getting wet, but they were in a strange high tension and did not stop.

＂Kyaaah! Kyaaa! Okay!”

I don’t know if he felt fear from the group, but the chimera introduced as Vuvre was trying to run away from the group by running and barking, running and barking repeatedly.

＂Ahaha! Run away, run away! Just run away to the data room like this!”

The sight of Lila spreading the embers in her hands and turning her passage into a sea of ​​fire would have looked very scary even if the opponent wasn’t a beast.

＂Is it okay for this to be like this!? I’m worried that it might collapse from the inside…!”

Selena came to her senses to some extent, perhaps because Buvre got away from him, but Lyla did not stop.

“Well, isn’t it okay because it’s fun?”

“Ah, I do this pyromaniac thing just for fun…”

Riomes had a happy attitude similar to Lila, and Selena was embarrassed by Riomes’ answer.

Meanwhile, Diora saw Mea resting on Riomes’ shoulder, her head trembling, her body shaking.

She seemed to be in great fear as Lila spread her fire and her surroundings turned red.

It can’t be said that it has nothing to do with the burn marks on her face.

In the end, she was a member of the Exiled Church, so I didn’t feel sorry for her, but I couldn’t help but feel concerned.

“Lila! How long is it until the data room?”

So, Diora raises her voice and asks Laila a question.

In Lila’s mind, she has a blueprint of the interior of this fortress, so she can tell just by looking at the number of passages she has passed so far.

＂Not much left!＂

When Lila raises her voice and spreads flames again in response to Diora’s question, Demis speaks.

“But you can’t use this method in the data room, right? The only things that shouldn’t get wet are the books inside, I guess.”

“Ah, is that so? Maybe! But you can’t stop now! Let’s think about what to do in the end after we arrive!”

Lila spoke as if she had no choice, and she spread her flames despite Demise’s concerns.

In fact, for the first time in a long time, she may be feeling some kind of pleasure from using magic to her heart’s content.

Flame is an element that symbolizes destruction and creation, so destruction could be said to be the essence of her magic.

Anyway, Lila’s steps continue without stopping, and she finally stops.

The reason is that Vivre, who had been running away, saw a door spinning around on the spot and whimpering, unable to go inside.

Until now, there were only doors that opened by recognizing the movement of Vuvre, who was moving ahead of the group, but if not, that would mean that it was a special door.

＂Is the data room beyond that door? If the door doesn’t open, it means that no matter how much you are, you can’t enter this place… So, does that mean it’s a dead end for you?”

Fortunately for Buvre, the sprinklers at the end of the passage did not work because Lila had not spread the fire yet.

＂Grrrr…!＂

Buvre, who was cornered, was pulling a pair of tentacles growing from his back tightly, as if he was going to cut him in half with his whip if he came any closer.

It may have been threatening enough when I first saw it, but Buvre’s actions now did not feel that threatening.

After all, once you have experienced humiliation, you no longer have the dignity you had before.

Rather, when Lila took a step forward and showed the light in her hand, the bubbly boy arched her body and turned her butt side up.

Then, Lila glanced behind her.

Water was pouring down from the ceiling on all the paths they had run through so far, and the only way for Vuvre to run was to run towards the path they had come through.

Of course, if that happens, water will get into the ruby ​​eyeballs and the eyes will lose their power.

“That’s it. If you surrender quietly, we will not set fire to this place, so obey us!”

Lila seems to be completely confident that she has secured her victory, as she points her finger at the guy in an arrogant manner.

Then, Buvre made a grim face as if she understood that it was an insult to her, but when Lila caught a glimpse of the flame she was holding in her hand, she had no choice but to lower her face and lower her tail.

＂Ugh, since you’re close, my heart starts pounding again…!＂

In a way, her appearance is cute, and when Selena talks while holding her breasts, Diora shakes her head while looking at Selena.

“Lila. What are you going to do?”

“We can do it somehow. Seriously, if you just drop the water from the ceiling right here, you can neutralize this guy, right?”

As Layla says this, she crosses her arms and lifts and lowers the front of her foot, tapping it on the ground.

It was an attitude that clearly showed the animals that he was not the kind of person who could endure for a long time.

“Choose. Is it pride or the jewel in your eyes? What. No one knows what we will do to you, who cannot see when the power of the eye jewel disappears.”

It is also a demonic beast, and if it harms a human, the most reliable way to deal with it is to save it.

Lila was not unaware of this, and she was not opposed to the system, so she was thinking about taking her life here if she continued to try to interfere with them.

＂So you say so? “Are you not going to say anything?”

Diora was talking to her Mea, and Mea was still turning her head away from her fire and answering in a trembling voice.

“Well, what does that mean? For me, the mere thought of such a monster being in our church made me tremble…! On the contrary, if you disappear, that is exactly what I wanted! You killed the old man of the returner who was the owner of that guy!”

As Mea raises her voice and screams, Lila glances at Mea.

“Under? Considering what that scumbag did, I think it was Cleon being merciful that it ended with him taking his life?”

Laplace, a master of the craft of magical beasts, considered not only animals, but also magical beasts, and even human life as his test subjects.

When I think of the confrontation in that underground ancient research lab, how strong the chimera he created was, and how many demons were dissected to create it, even Lila, who, as a wizard, has a slightly different sense of ethics than others, automatically feels good. It got worse.

When he heard that the guy who had run away from them had been killed by Cleon, he felt as if 10 years of trouble had been swept away.

“You, that guy died because of you, so there’s no one left who can control that chimera!”

＂Is it a part-time job? How is this any different from you trying to kill us and not feeling any guilt?”

After Lila spoke so coldly, Mea kept her mouth shut, as if she had no intention of retorting.

As if she didn’t like her attitude, or perhaps she felt that she was criticizing her, Lila just shook her head and snorted.

It was that kind of time.

＂Hey, Lila?＂

Unlike Laila, who had turned her gaze to talk to Mea, Rio Mes, who had been watching Buvre all along, opened her mouth and called out to her.

So why Laila? As she answered, she turned her head towards her.

Riomes raised her finger and pointed towards Buvre.

＂Something is strange about Vuvre.＂

Then, Lila’s gaze turned towards Vivre once again, and there-

Instead of the gloomy atmosphere and tense body from before, there was Vivre, who was looking at us with his pupils open, perhaps quite surprised.

It was as if she didn’t know if what she saw and heard was a dream or if she was alive.

＂What is that guy? Did I pick something up wrong?”

Lila couldn’t help but be a little embarrassed by the guy’s reaction, which was no different from a cat opening its mouth and making a distraught expression when it smells something terrible.

＂Do you think I understand what this person is saying…?＂

＂It seems so…＂

When Diora and Selena whisper like that, Mea talks.

“Well, I’ve never seen him do that…”

＂… Well, you just have to hear what I think. ＂

As Lila says this, she carefully approaches Buvre’s side and places her hand close to her guy’s head.

“Now, wait a minute, are you out of your mind!? And then she gets whipped, and her face could be cut in half!”

Mea spoke to Layla with an expression of shock at Layla’s actions, but she was the one who answered.

“Then isn’t it beneficial for you?”

＂─＂

Now that I think about it, it was like that.

Anyway, leaving behind Mea, who had become mute after hearing Lila’s words, Lila placed her forehead on Vivre and muttered softly, which allows her to read the thoughts of the person she touches and send those thoughts to her. 〈 Br〉

It was a kind of simple, mind-blowing magic.

Keying─

When she felt the magic connect, a voice like that of a young girl came into Lila’s head.

[I really … Really that the dog’s dog is dead!? Yay, fuck!]

＂Wow, did you have a rag in your mouth…＂

Lila couldn’t help but frown her eyes as a curse suddenly entered her mind.

Profanity thrown out quite fluently.

It’s strange, apparently, when using this magic, it translates the other person’s thoughts into a language you can understand.

I couldn’t understand about half of his swear words.

That’s why Buvre is talking with Layla, who looks a little confused, in front of her.

[Is that important now!? They say Laplace is dead! It was great! It sucks! They played such a damn thing with us!]

In the end, the guy couldn’t hold back his joy and started running wild on the spot, causing a fuss.

＂Z, calm down!＂

When Layla says that as if trying to calm Buvre down, Buuuuus ass to no to.) Uuuuu.

[Hey Redhead, where is the awesome guy who killed that guy? I want to see your face.]

Although she felt quite self-deprecating, Lila barely managed to keep her brow from rising as she answered Buvre.

“Cleon is not here right now. Because he decided to join us after escaping from this fortress. If we get out of here safely, we’ll be able to meet.”

[Okay? Then I will follow you too. Ah, I should have told you that that damn Laplace guy was dead a long time ago~! Then we wouldn’t have to play tag like this!]

After saying that, he extended his front paw to Lila, who held her hand to him, as if to shake her hand.

Lila, who was looking at that scene, looked down at the hand with an absurd expression, and then heard that voice again.

[The simplest way for humans to show affection is to hold their front feet together and shake them up and down, right?]

“… I never thought he was really asking for a handshake. Well… That’s true, though.”

As Layla said that, she shook her head, then took Buvre’s hand and shook it up and down.

＂Uh, how…?＂

When Mea muttered in disbelief at the sight of Lyla’s appearance, Lyla lifted her body and at the same time lifted the bubbr that was lying on her ground and looked back at her.

＂Well.＂

When Lila said that as if she didn’t want to answer, Mea’s reaction was absurd.

＂You kid!?＂

“Well, even if you find out, there’s nothing you can do about it. You don’t have to worry about it.”

More than that, if Vivre’s problem was solved, it was now time to solve the door in front of us.

“You can open this with your permission, right?”

＂Well, that is…＂

Seeing Mea’s unwillingness to answer, Lila frowns her eyes and brings the vuvre in her hand closer to Mea.

Then, instead of screaming, Mea began to scream and thrash her body.

“Yes, that’s right! That’s right, drop that guy! Because I have a card in my pocket!”

[Heng, that’s the kid I saw before. At that time, she approached me with a condescending attitude, so I cut off her cane in one go.]

＂…＂

Leila thought that maybe that was why Mea was afraid of her buvre, so she went through the pockets of her clothes and pulled out a white card.

＂Is this it?＂

＂Yeah, right…＂

Mea looks almost on the verge of tears, but Lila turns around as if she doesn’t care and takes the card to the end near her door.

[Welcome. The world’s greatest magician.]

＂Pfft…! Wait, don’t be funny all of a sudden…!”

Perhaps because the target was recognized by the ID authenticated by the card key, when a word that seemed to refer to Mea flowed out, all the people around her, including Laila, other than Mea, turned their heads and covered their mouths as if they could not hold back their laughter. Br〉

＂Ugh… This guy…!”

Mea’s face turned red from her shame, but soon.

She, Lila, and her companions immediately wiped the smile from her face after confirming that someone was inside her archives.

There – a human figure was seen busily moving several mechanical arms protruding from his back and gathering data into something.

＂Huh?＂

When the door opened, he must have realized that someone was in front of him. When he turned his head, the eyes behind the monkey mask met Laila.

“Huh, how are you already here!? Buvre must have been buying time!”

He confidently believed that the problem had already been solved.