The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

I, who used to be a demon tribe, am running the battlefield as a member of a rescue team and saving people who were fighting as enemies.

It's a strange story.

I would never have imagined it a few years ago.　

"Bring the wounded!"

"Guah!"

My mission as a black-ops officer is to bring the wounded from the battlefield back to the base.

I have to be careful not to let them see my true face, but thanks to the hood of my magically created uniform, I don't have to worry about being discovered.

The knight, whose wound has been stopped from bleeding by the belt on Bulrin's back, is held firmly in place while he speaks to the knights nearby.

"...... what happened here?"

"There is a wounded man who will not accept any healing or restorative magic. Help is needed.

As I returned to the base with Bulrin, carrying the injured, I and the other black-clad men received such news.

Boku and Bulrin, who could carry a large number of people, Tong and Alec were to go to the site.

Still wary of the flying dragons in the sky, one of the knights of the Lingle Kingdom answered my question.

"An incredibly powerful enemy has appeared. ....... When attacked by it, even Usato-sama's healing magic was no longer accepted. ......

"No way. ......"

When I was in the demon king's army, I heard that there was an incredibly powerful demon tribe with a demon sword that could cut off the flow of magic power.

I don't know what kind of a guy he is, but from the sword he's carrying, he's a very dangerous guy.

No, it's more like .......

"Usato came here?"

Yes. He gave us instructions right here ...... and then went alone ....... to the enemy. Now, I'm asking the brave men to support him..."

It is not surprising that that unusually good-natured guy would go to suppress the enemy so as not to cause further injuries.

However, the other party is clearly not normal.

The knight looks in the direction Usato would have gone.

"......"

Usato was heading for the front line of the battlefield.

Above them, flying dragons are flying, and the knights on our side and the soldiers of the Demon King's army are engaged in a fierce battle.

"Hey!　Don't just stand there, Ferrum!　Let's get these guys out of here!

ah!　I know!

I have a role to play.

Not as a black knight of the Demon Lord's army, but as a black-suited member of the Rescue Mission to save people.

To tell the truth, I'd like to go to Usato's aid, but I know he'd be furious if I did.

I returned Tong's angry shout, which had just returned, and rushed to Bulrin's side...but at that moment, as I turned my back to the battlefield, a tremendous gust of wind blew in behind me.

"Whoa!

"Grua!"

What the hell?

I managed to turn my eyes toward the battlefield while almost losing my position.

Ahead of my eyes, there was a huge tornado.

I was stunned to see it generating a storm that knocked down even flying dragons in the sky and blew away friend and foe alike.

"What the hell was that?"

I have never seen magic on that scale.

It is more like a natural phenomenon, but it is not normal when it can be artificially equated to a natural phenomenon.

The place where the tornado is happening must be the place where Usato was headed.

"Hey, Bulrin!　Follow the tongs!

Gua?

Huh?　Where are you going?

He can't stand still and runs in the direction of the tornado.

There are many people injured by the tornado.

Some of them are fainted.

Some are calling for help.

But most of all, I was worried about that guy who went into battle all alone.

I was worried about him.

If you ask me who I would least like to meet, this is the first person that comes to mind.

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Koga closes the distance in one breath, and I quickly catch his claws with my ready basket hand.

Gary!　Koga brings his masked face close to mine, as if looking into mine.

"I flew in here to tell you that I'm fighting old man Nero, but you look pretty good!

"...... look at my face, do I look healthy?"

"No!　You look like shit!

If you knew that, you wouldn't be here.

Gut-wrenching, I guess that's what I'm saying now.

The joy in his voice, which I can hear even through his mask, makes me feel as if my veins are bursting with irritation.

I don't have time to worry about this brainy demon tribe right now.

I don't have time for you, b*tc*!

Oh?

He repels the claws and strikes with a healing blow fist imbued with a binding spell.

I take one look at Koga, who is blown backward by the impact of my fist, and then I turn on my heel and start running.

I don't think this will be enough to defeat him.

But if I can get out of here while he's scared, that's all that matters!

"Whoa, I'm not gonna let you get away!"

......!

But I turn around at the sound of his voice coming from behind me, and avoid the black belt that is reaching out to pierce me.

I clicked my tongue and glared at Koga. He removed only the mask covering his face and waved his hand in my direction.

"You're stubborn. I hope you fell down after what you just saw. ......"

"Wow, that's a remark that I wouldn't expect from a healing magician. Well, I didn't expect that attack earlier either. But still..."

Coga confidently pointed to the dark magic he wore.

"I guess it doesn't work on me now, huh?"

"......"

From the looks of it, the binding spell has been broken.

Did you break it by force right after the attack?

No, but if you look closely, you can see that Koga's appearance is also slightly different.　Unlike before, his claws are more compact, and the black band runs down his back like a mane.

The almost bestial form seems to have become more human-like.

"It looks like ......"

"After the battle, I rebuilt it a bit for close quarters. Faster and stronger."

From the way he talks, I can see that he is also prepared for a continuous fist.

You don't mean to say that Koga's dark magic has been altered by our fight, do you?

...... don't want that to be the case.

I never wanted to see you again. ......

"Don't be a pussy. I was worried when I heard you were fighting with old man Nero.

"Worried?　You're worried about me?

"Yeah."

After a few seconds of silence, Nair, who had turned pale, smacked me on the cheek with his wing.

"Usato, this guy is weird. ......"

"Yeah. I feel the same way.

"Isn't that just plain awful?　Even I cry when I cry.

Nair is right, a man in black tights and a mask would only make me feel a little uncomfortable.

And it's too bad that he's not worried that I'm going to die, but that I won't be able to fight him.

"Well, let's stop wasting time and get on with it."

"......"

Can't we somehow disperse this guy .......

Koga gave me a wicked smile as I was trying to figure out a way to get out of this situation.

"Okay!　If you escape, I'll snap the necks of the soldiers who are unconscious here. Every last one of them, of course.

"What?"

I'd like to go into the stronghold alone and take out the non-combatants one by one.

"......"

The cheerful tone of his voice makes it difficult to tell whether he is serious or not.

Having fought him once, I know that Koga is not a one-sided killer of those who cannot fight.

But it is the same as in the fight at Hinomoto.

"Maybe this guy will do it."

Koga wants to fight me from the bottom of his heart.

He will stop at nothing to achieve it.

Once I had the thought that he might take such an action, running away was no longer an option for me.

"How's it going?　You're ready to do it?"

"......, you're still the worst."

You're still the same. That's why I like your honesty.

Koga covers his head with his mask and I ready my fists with binding spells on my arms.

I blind him with a healing flying fist and then a healing blink fist. Then, from the close contact position, I continuously healed him with a series of healing strikes, taking his consciousness away at once.

He does not spare any of his power, and he uses his maximum firepower to take away the consciousness.

I was about to release a healing flying fist without any preliminary movement toward Koga's face when...,

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With that voice, a black belt extending from the side wrapped around Koga's body and restrained his movements.

The black belt resembles Koga's, but it is not his.

"Hey, hey, this guy can't be ......."

"This voice is ......!"

We looked in the direction from which the black belt had come, and there was Ferrum, a girl of the demon tribe wearing a black troupe uniform, gasping for breath and grasping the black belt that had extended from her cuff.

The moment I saw Ferme, I shouted angrily before I could think.

"FERUM!　Why did you come here!

Ferm's role was to carry the wounded and take them to the base, and yet here she comes to me.

I guess she knew I would be angry at her for abandoning her job as a black-ops officer and coming here, so she yells back at me, clutching the black belt that holds Koga.

"I heard you were fighting a bad guy and I came here to help you!"

"Don't worry about me!　I'm here to help you!

"That's not good!　Are you nuts!　You!"

I was startled by the anger in Ferme's voice.

She yells at me with all her emotion, and continues to shout at me while pulling on the black belt she is clutching.

"Just beat up that idiot leader of the army!　Finish him off!"

"Stupid corps leader!　You can't do this to your former boss!

"Usato!　Ferrum's right, now's our chance!

......

Nair rushes to the rescue, and he has no choice but to try to hit Koga with his healing fist.

However, just before the fist hit, Koga's own black band of clothing unfolded from his body like a blade, tearing off Ferrum's restraints.

"What?

"I'm sorry, but my magic is stronger than Ferrum's!"

He shouts, and is hit by a direct hit from Koga's kick, knocking him to the ground.

--I've been caught off guard!　Oh no, I have to avoid the follow-up attack. ......!

"Watch out!

With the sound of Ferrum's voice, the black band around my arm pulled me back.

The next moment, a claw from Koga pierced the spot where I was.

I rolled over immediately upon seeing this, and I moved away from Kohga and turned my attention to Ferrum, who had saved me.

"That would have been a close call if it weren't for Ferrum. ......"

"Oh, you can't be mad at her for this. ...... hmm?"

What the hell?　There was a black belt wrapped around my arm, and it didn't feel right. .......

I looked at my arm, and there is still a black belt wrapped around it.

It quickly returns to Ferrum, but only the magic of the part of my arm that is wrapped around my arm sticks to my arm and reacts as if it is resisting me, and moves away.

"......?"

"Do you have time to look elsewhere?"

"......I don't want to fight you. ......"

"And that's none of my business. Besides, I've been looking forward to fighting you again. I've done a lot of preparation and I'm ready to give it my all.

Coga lowers himself to the ground with his hands on the ground.

He stares at us as if he were a four-legged beast, and a dozen black strips unfold from his back.

This time I'm more trouble than before.

The black strips on Koga's back are bound together to form a black sickle.

There are four of them.

Coga, with scythes sprouting from his back - spread out like a spider - comes at me with them.

"What's that, creepy?

"That's not cool!"

"Hn!　One of the scythes tied to the belt swings widely around my neck.

I crouch down to avoid it while protecting Nair, and next, Koga himself comes at me with a scythe on his back.

"There you go!

"Sora-sora!"

He dodges the attacks he can avoid, and plays the others with his basket hand.

With his eyes darting about, he deals with Koga's attacks one by one, but he is unable to make up for the difference in the number of attacks.

"I feel like I'm fighting an octopus. ......!"

I feel like I'm fighting a fast-moving iron pot!

It's not even a living thing!

Despite his lighthearted words, Koga's attacks are precise in targeting my joints and vital points.

I wonder if Neah is one of the targets, as the sickle on Koga's back is often aimed at her.

"Gee!　Usato!　Did it just hit me?

"Néa, in my world, there is a saying that fire is cooler when you are out of your mind!"

What does that mean?

Giving up is the key!

What does that mean?　That's not encouraging at all!

I'm sorry, I just said that in a very random way.

But, in spite of his confusion, he is thankful to Nair for the resistance and binding spells, and slams his elbow into Koga's torso.

As he does so, he is head-butted by Nair, but manages to survive.

He cuts his forehead, and blood drips down his brow.

"Ouch ......!

"Ogg!

In return, he head-butts Koga with great force, his forehead still covered in blood.

I take a few steps away from the startled and sprawled Coga, and brush my hair back with my hand that has healed the wound on my forehead.

"Hahaha, ah, it's fun after all."

"That's why I hate fighting you ......."

"You may not like it, but I'm not going to let it end. As the commander of the Second Legion, I have a duty to defeat the healing wizards who run the battlefield. ......

Since he has specialized in close combat, Koga's movements are faster than the last time they fought, making it very difficult for him to fight.

My concentration and Nair's exhaustion are also getting worse, so I should keep my distance from Koga, even if it's a little too much.

I decide to do so, and I unleash my right fist wrapped in a cage into Koga's abdomen as he tries to pursue me with a technique that I have not used so far - the healing flying fist.

"What?

He did not expect the attack to come without any preliminary movement, and the healing flying fist hit Koga directly in the abdomen, causing his body to move backward.

This bought him some distance.

"All right, let's take a step back..."

As I tried to move backward, two scythes extended from Koga's back pierced my feet.

I looked at Koga, who was thrown away with surprise, and saw him sprawling on his back, thrusting the scythes into the ground, forcing himself to endure being blown away.

On the contrary, he pulled himself up with the sickle that he had thrust at my feet and came at me with tremendous force.

"If you think you can easily keep your distance from me, you are mistaken!

"You're a lot nastier than I thought you'd be ......!"

Unlike Nero Agence, the scythe extending from his back can be used not only for attack, but also for movement and defense.

As he was about to intercept Koga with a cluck of his tongue, Ferrum wrapped a black band of dark magic around Koga.

This time it is bound in layers so that it can't be cut.

"Uggg ......"

While being restrained, Coga turned his attention to Ferrum, who was desperately holding on to the black belt.

"Oh, you're working for someone else. You've changed, haven't you?

"Shut up!"

"Also, I'm surprised that you and Usato are wearing the same clothes."

"Shut up about it, really!"

They're arguing about something, but I'm going to combine this with Ferrum's black belt, and use a restraining spell and a series of fist blows to block their movements!

"Even you can be effective if you hit him with this ten times!

"What?　Hey, you ......!

Seeing me, who had put a binding spell on my right arm and shifted into a healing fist, Koga, with a look of impatience on his face, severed the band of ferrum that bound him with the scythe on his back.

"What?

"Your change makes me happy, but ......!　That move hurts like hell, so don't even try it!"

"Whoa!

He grabbed FELM's outstretched belt and pulled him back with all his might.

FELM was pulled back like a rubber band, and the person at the end of the band was me, who was about to strike KOGA with my fist.

"Usatot!"

"Ferrum!"

If he slammed into the ground with such force, he could not avoid serious injury.

Judging that, I release my Rengage Fist and catch Ferme.

Are you all right?

ah... ah...

The impact is less than expected.

Just as she was thinking this, her body was enveloped in a black trouser suit made by her own dark magic.

It was something she had not intended.

Just before she was enveloped, she said, "What? Her expression was one of stunned confusion, as if she had no idea what it meant.

"""......"""

The suddenness of the situation made me, Nair, and Koger stiffen.

But the situation did not end there.

She turned into a black, indefinite mass like slime, and collapsed like liquefying liquid.

The slippery sensation on my arm and the unexplainable situation made me and Nair scream in a normal way.

"Oh, my God!　Fermuu?

"Usato is a parasite!

Is Ferrum going to be okay?

I didn't think he would be like that when he was engulfed by his own magic!

Coga, who looked puzzled at my confusion, spoke up.

"I don't mean to sound like an enemy, but I think you're ...... crazy to let your healing magic liquefy them.

"Of course not!　I'm gonna hit you!"

I yell at Koga, who is blatantly distancing himself from me, and try to remain calm.

No, wait. I know this feeling.

This is the same as when Ferrum used dark magic for the first time in a long time.

The same kind of change is happening now, in this situation, when a part of her magic is stuck to my hand and I can't get it off.

As I think about this, something strange starts to happen to my body.

"Oh, my arm is ......".

My left arm and both legs are covered with the same black magic as Ferrum's.

"Usato's body is covered with Ferm's magic ......"

It covered my left arm and both legs, and formed a shape similar to the arm and leg armor of the black knight I had fought.

Along with this, the hem of the band uniform I was wearing was shimmering with the same black magic as that of Ferrum, like a flame, and it looked as if a part of Ferrum's black band uniform had fused with my band uniform.

"What the hell is this? ......"

I don't understand.

The arms and legs have changed.

A white uniform with black in it.

I could not help but be stunned by the changes in my arms and body, forgetting the existence of the korga.