「Seiji-sama!」


  Elena shouted worriedly.

  Without an opening being created for her to splash the【Curse dispelling potion】over to Yurie-san, Elena was in dire stress too.

  I have to do my best to create an opening to Yurie-san here……


  I have to, but….……

  It’s no good.

  I have to greatly avoid the tentacle attack more than necessary at any cost.

  This is the courage to take another step!!

  I resolutely took a step forward toward the incoming bunch of tentacles.

  『Here it goes!!』


  『I’m gonna treat you with L.O.V.E!』


  The moment the katana and the tentacles collided,

  I put the katana back into the inventory and slipped under the bunch of tentacles.

  And then, I hold the bunch of tentacles with both hands.

  It’s totally like……


  like a『konbu maki1』tied up in a bundle with『kanpyo2』.……

  『Kyaa! What are you doing with a young maiden's important part~?!!』


  Yurie-san screams.

  As I’ve said so, what important part!?

  「Elena! Now!!」


  「Yes! Seiji-sama!!」


  Elena controlled the【curse dispelling potion】with 【water magic】using this chance―


  and splashed it over to Yurie-san’s face!

  『Kyaa! What this!!?』


  Yurie-san was surprised at the facial-cumshot3 and pulled the tentacles back in her skirt.

  「I did it, Seiji-sama.」


  「You did well, Elena.」


  I was going to hug Elena, but….……

  I was dodged by Elena.

  「Why did you dodge, Elena?」


  「Because….……Seiji-sama….……」


  When I look carefully at my body―


  it had become sticky with the liquid that smells like a rotten cheese.

  I see, it was during the konbu maki strategy a while ago……


  It can’t be helped, let’s put off hugging Elena for later.

  『Guwaaa——!!』


  When such a thing happened, Yurie-san began to suffer.

  When I looked carefully, a black smoke shrouded from her face together with the sound of something melting and sizzling.

  After Yurie-san writhe for a while, she collapsed and stopped moving.

  「Is she alright?」


  「She’s certainly fine since the curse has just removed.」


  While we were watching attentively,

  Yurie-san’s mask came off and fell down on the floor.

  When I used【Appraisal】, Yurie-san’s『curse』had disappeared.

  「Yes! The curse is dispelled.」


  Elena who heard my words quickly rushed up to Yurie-san.

  「It’s alright, Seiji-sama.

  Yurie-san doesn’t have any injury.」


  「Is that so! That’s good.」


  Yurie-san seems to have expended magic power, and just asleep.

  「Seiji-sama, let’s carry Yurie-san to my room.」


  「Ou, leave it to me.」


  I wiped the sticky juice smeared on my body,

  wrapped Yurie-san in a bath towel,

  and took her to Elena’s room in a princess carry——

  There was a new bed placed in Elena’s room.

  The King probably prepared a new bed for Elena when she comes back.

  「Oi, Seiji!」


  When I was thinking who it was, the King willfully barged into Elena’s room.

  「What it is, King?」


  「What ‘what is it’?

  Other than such a thing, what are you going to do with that woman!?」


  「I’m not going to do anything, just nurse her.」


  「That woman is the enemy who attacked me, you know?!!」


  「Otou-sama, you’re wrong!」


  Since Elena objected suddenly, the King was surprised.

  「This Yurie-san is an important friend of mine!

  She was manipulated by the devil-kin!

  She’s not an enemy!!」


  「I-, Is that so….……」


  The King flinches at the so angry look of Elena.

  Oops, I forgot the other woman.

  「Elena, I’ll leave Yurie-san to you.」


  「Yes, leave her to me.」


  「King too, don’t bother Elena.」


  「Don’t order me.」


  Sigh, the king wasn’t helping~——

  When I came back to the audience room, the woman with a shield was still unconscious.

  I endured the sticky bad smell and performed a physical check-up on the woman.

  When I took off the woman’s hood, she has two horns as expected.

  She’s a devil-kin after all.

  And then……


  She had【Magic stone of confusion inducement】,【Magic stone of confusion erasure】, and【Magic stone of suicide】in her person.

  ┌─＜Appraisal＞────

  │【Magic stone of confusion inducement】


  │One can induce confusion to a person.

  │It’s necessary to draw near during the inducement.

  │Rarity: ★★★★

  └─────────

  ┌─＜Appraisal＞────

  │【Magic stone of confusion erasure】


  │One can erase the confusion of a person by pouring magic power

  │while having bodily contact.

  │Rarity: ★★★★

  └─────────

  ┌─＜Appraisal＞────

  │【Magic stone of suicide】


  │One can commit suicide by pouring magic power,

  │completely obliterating the body, and one’s belongings.

  │Rarity: ★★★★

  └─────────

  These are nothing but dangerous magic stones.

  The story I can see from these three was……


  1. Act together, and manipulate Yurie-san.

  2. If the strategy fails, kill Yurie-san.

  3. Then she will commit suicide, destroying the evidence.

  Such a flow was my hypothesis.

  Incidentally, the black shield was―


  ┌─＜Appraisal＞────

  │【Shield of everlasting darkness】


  │A shield which cancels magic invocation,

  │but can’t block physical attacks.

  │Rarity: ★★★★

  └─────────

  It was as such.

  I put the shield and the three magic stones away into the inventory,

  and tied the hands of the devil-kin woman behind her back.

  Then, Lyle Gewalt entered while gasping for breath.

  「King-sama! Are you safe!!?」


  「If it isn’t Lyle Gewalt.

  Did you only shamelessly appear now?」


  「S-, Seiji!!

  What of King-sama!?」


  「He’s safe.

  And, as you can see, I caught this devil-kin as well.

  Or rather, where have you been until now?」


  「I seemed to have been put asleep somehow or other,

  and woke up just now….……

  I’m ashamed.」


  Well, I figured.

  「Lela was worried, you know.

  Contact her quickly.」


  「I-, Is that so….……」


  I was able to save the Royal Capital somehow.

  And, got back Yurie-san as well.

  The rest, I’ll finish the battle in the other towns and return to Japan.

  I whipped my tired body and stood up.

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  1Konbu maki is a seaweed roll. Konbu is the large, thick seaweed that is sold dry, and also a play on words with “yorokobu” meaning “be happy” so people eat konbu maki over the new year’s for good luck.

  2long dried strips of a gourd that's soaked to soften and used to tie the konbu maki.

  3Seriously, I don’t know how to translate 顔射 any better than this.