The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

Suddenly, Kannagi changed and attacked Keira and the others.

She was holding a sword, which was probably her own, and I was once again ashamed of my inadequacy.

I had misjudged her.

Kannagi is not a bad person.

In fact, her childlike innocence and her clinging words had no hidden meaning.

But her mind was very unstable.

I don't know what it is, but her hatred for the demon tribe and the demon king is making her lose her mind.

"Koga, I'll tell you now. I'm sorry."

"What?　What?　Why did you put your hand in my...

I turned my palm toward Koga and released magic power in the manner of a healing flying fist.

A mass of healing magic shot out from my palm and hit Koga, blowing his body away.

"Oh, you!　What are you doing out of the blue!

Koga shouts angrily at me as he gets up, rolling around on the ground.

Thanks to the healing magic, I was able to take care of him for the time being.

"At least your wounds are healed!　You protect Keira and Ciel!　You two, get back to Koga's place!

"I have mixed feelings about this, but if you'll protect us, please!"

"U, Usato-san ......"

Keira is looking at me as if she wants to say something, but I honestly don't have time to pay attention to her.

I turn around and leap in front of Kannagi, who is about to stab at Keira, and intercept him.

I knew you were going to attack them first rather than me. ......!

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

I don't want to fight you either!

He sees off the tip of the sword and lightly flicks it with his fist, deflecting it at an angle.

He tries to swing his fist to knock her out, but...,

"I can see you!"

It is as if the attacker knows what he is doing.

I knew it, this guy has precognition magic too. ......!

I can roughly guess from what Amako told me and his current movements, but I have experience in battles with wizards of precognition!

"All you have to do is to see through their premonitions and attack them!"

"Don't let me be compared to that self-aggrandizing freak!"

He clenches his fists, keeping his eyes on Kannagi's movements.

She swings her sword, stops it, pulls it back, and shifts to a thrust, stopping the blade again.

"Haaah!"

"Ha ha!　"Wow!　I can see the future changing!"

From the outside, neither fists nor blades touch each other in this mysterious attack.

But from my point of view, I am at the mercy of Kannagi's ever-changing movements whenever I respond.

This is not the case with Jinya.

Her precognition magic is more accurate than the one he had, and she sees further into the future than ......!

"There!"

There!

The moment she is momentarily jolted by the sudden and sudden movement, the sword she raises from below snatches her shoulder.

I see Kannagi's distorted smile, which could be either joy or anguish, and I stomp the ground with my foot, raising it with all my strength.

"Lt's!"

"Whoa, whoa!

Kannagi jumps down before the ground gets cracked.

He slowly exhales, holding his right fist at the ready.

"Oh, watch out!　If you hadn't backed off now, you would have been hit in the stomach!

What are you talking about?

If he reacted before I had my fists up, there is a good chance he was looking at least five seconds ahead.

It's annoying, but it felt strange when I fought him just now.

"Perhaps ...... you just fought for the first time?"

Kannagi is strong.

But her movements are somewhat awkward and out of proportion to her physical strength.

She giggled shyly at my words.

"Oh, you know what I mean?　I've fought a lot in my memory, but this is the first time for me.

"Heh, huh."

So, is that it?

Her cheeks twitch as she heals the wound in her shoulder.

"But still, with the body and memories I have now, I can kill demons, isn't that great?"

"......"

The words she speaks are innocent and cruel.

She does not question her words at all.

First of all, she must be stopped before we can do anything about her.

"Don't let a simple attack get in the way of a response. ......"

In the face of a precognition magic more accurate than Jinya's, any half-hearted attack would be countered.

On the other hand, if we remain on the defensive, Keira and the others behind us will become targets.

In fact, even in the middle of the battle, Kannagi was trying to launch some kind of attack on my back.

I know all your tricks.

"......?"

"I've been following your journey from your cage hand all along, and I know. I know what you're trying to do, and all the tricks you've developed and thought up."

Kannagi's words usually make me feel like a donkey.

But if they know my past skills, it would be troublesome.

"You can't beat me. This body has the strength and precognition magic of Kannagi, a warrior who has survived the fierce battles against the demon king's army.

"So?"

Kannagi's eyes flicker when I ask him this.

"...... That's exactly why he's as powerful as the Roses and Neroes you know. All I want is to kill demons. I haven't done anything wrong, so what does it matter?"

No, what you are doing is wrong.

I'm not wrong!

She screams at my words.

In the face of her fierceness, I do not change my expression and do not look away.

"I am!　I've been killing demons all my life!　He swung at me, slashing, slashing, slashing, slashing,...... you say I'm wrong about the meaning of life,......?"

"Yes, but you're still wrong."

Once again, Kannagi presses his right eye when he says it clearly.

She makes a strained sound as if in agony of pain, and turns her blue flashing eyes toward me.

"Please, ...... I don't want to kill you."

"You know that, don't you?　You know that when I decide to do something, I never back down.

"Yes, yes, yes, but!　Now I'm ......!　Oof!

Kannagi's body trembled and she lowered her hand that was holding her right eye.

She raised her left arm and muttered something, and a black scabbard was held in her left hand.

Her mood has clearly changed. ......!

"If you side with the demon tribe, I will cut you down.

With a click, she sheathes her sword and lowers herself unnaturally.

Her head is lowered until it touches the ground, looking less like an iai and more like a predator that is about to attack,

"Kannagi Style."

A moment later, with a sound like a burst of air, Kannagi leaps forward.

She leaps forward in a zigzag trajectory and draws her sword from its sheath.

"---Ibashiri!"

"What?

Quickly, he flicked the sword with the basket hand held at his neck.

A fast sword swung back at his neck again, but he avoids it by bending down.

I'm going to hit you with my fist! ......!　I raise my fist, but before I can do so, Kannagi uses my shoulder as a springboard and leaps.

As soon as I land on the ground, Kannagi moves with such a quick and easy motion that I can hardly believe he is a human being, and I am forced to move away from him.

"A little bit of ......!"

Not as fast as Inukami-senpai, but his movements are hard to read!

Ibashiri...... is so called because he runs around like a dog!

......, the next one is coming!

Kannagi, with his sword poised to fling behind him.

Kannagi-style Enbu (Monkey Dance)

As if in a dance, they swing an inevitable barrage of blows aimed precisely at the target's vital points.

The sword is read accurately by foreknowledge magic, and although it takes a few blows, they are immediately healed by healing magic and repelled.

"Healing Bullet ......!"

"If you know the species, you won't be afraid of it!"

Kannagi, however, uses the rebound from being bounced by the elasticity grant and spins around on the spot.

"Kannagi Style......!"

As soon as he turns around, he slams the scabbard he is holding with his left hand along with his sword.

"Ushinagi!"

......!

The sword and scabbard, which resembled the horns of an ox, swung down.

When they are forced backward, the sword and scabbard are used to thrust.

"Ushi-uga!"

He catches them with his basket hand, but it is heavy ......!

This man's physical ability is extraordinary......!　He looks so slender, but how powerful is he?

"How dare he deceive me with his looks! ......!"

"You can't say that!"

"Sure ......!　You're right!

He pushes back the sword and the scabbard that were pushed into him by force.

If we don't let him get away with it, we'll be pushed aside.

"If you are passive, you will be attacked!　Then..."

You mean force!

That's what I mean!

If they know all my moves and will respond to them, all I have to do is to make more confusion than enough!

I create an elasticity grant in my right hand and a magic bullet in my left hand, and run to Kannagi, who jumps backward.

She smiles, and before I can perform my technique, she swings her sword and strikes it against Kagome.

A high-pitched metallic sound echoes through the ruins, and she and I stop moving.

"I will not push as hard as I have been pushing..."

"If you can handle it, try."

"......,haha!"

"I don't know what I'm going to do from here!　Healing elastic legs!

He stomps his foot and kicks it in reaction.

Kannagi avoids it with a smile on his face, and continues to hold both hands ready to unleash his technique.

"Double the power with both hands!　Healing Bursting Double Palm!

Kannagi simultaneously cuts through the oncoming shockwave with his sword.

Blood gushes from his left hand, which has no cage, but he ignores it and leaps toward Kannagi with his right arm outstretched in front of him.

"Kannagi ryu---no!　No!

"Reinforcement, healing, blindfold!"

He unleashes a burst of magical power using his entire arm, which covers his elbow.

This sends a shockwave of magic right in front of Kannagi's eyes.

Kannagi, foreseeing even this, closes his eyes and tries to protect them, but... that's as far as I expected.

"Healing chop!"

Whoa!

Don't duck!　Healing lariat!

What?

Kannagi screams and rolls to avoid the lariat as it emits a shockwave.

Kannagi claps his tongue at her and fills his fist with the healing magic bullet he created in his palm.

"Oraa!　Healing Diffusion Fist!

"Whoa!

"Hahaha!　Where's your energy?　Mini healing bombs!

"Whoaaaa?!"

Kannagi manages to avoid a small explosion caused by a healing bomb created with his fingertips after a healing magic bullet --- a healing spread fist --- is released with the force of a healing flying fist.

"I don't know what that is!"

If you can deal with it with your old techniques, you can come up with a new one.

Fortunately, I have a vague vision of the technique in my mind!　All I have to do now is just to shoot them at random, and they will take shape!

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For some reason I feel like the people behind me who are supposed to be protecting me are pulling me back, but for now I'm focusing on what's in front of me!

She loses her composure due to the confusion that has built up, and I throw a magic bullet with an elasticity charge at her without relaxing my hand.

"Healing bullet!

"Careful, careful, careful!　This is... ugh!

He narrowly avoids it, but the magic bullet bounces off the wall behind him and hits him in the back.

She glares at me with teary eyes and makes a gesture to move her sword.

In response, she raises her right leg, which is caged with elasticity, and slams it into the ground with all her might.

"OLA!　It's just a heel drop!

That's not even a technique!

The heel drop, which had been made more powerful by the elasticity, smashed the floor and caused a wide range of cracks.

He hooked Kannagi's arm with his index finger just in time to throw her body into the air with only the force of his finger.

"I was thrown away ......!　But if I foresee what you're going to do, I can avoid it..."

Before he falls, he strikes him down with a healing flying fist.

When he shows a move to avoid it, launch him with a healing burst palm and heal flying fist.

If the healing flying fist misses, he must heal with the healing continuous strike fist.

If you have the means to move in the air, you can use the Healing Burst Wave to blow him away.

Worst case scenario, you can join him in mid-air and choke him off.

--- Never, never, never miss.

You think of every possible way to deal with Kannagi in your mind.

Then, as she is about to hold her sword in the air, her face turns pale.

"---...... hiccup!　Oh, no, no, no..."

"What's wrong?　Try foreknowledge. ---If you can... if you can."

She smiles, her cheeks twitching, and she unleashes her healing flying fist with all her might.

The fist-sized magic power released was approaching Kanna-gui.

"Yes, yes!　Stretch!"

What?

The healing fist seemed to hit her directly, but just before it did, the black magic covering her body covered her entire body, protecting her from the power of the healing fist.

Koga's dark magic armor.　

The exact same movement made me let out a startled cry.

"Oh, look out ......"

Kannagi landed on the ground, dispelling black magic.

Perhaps it was the dark magic that Kannagi had taken from Koga through the magic of the hero in his sword.

I thought he had just taken it from Koga since he didn't use it in the previous battle, but he can use it normally.

"...... That's nasty."

I was able to gain the upper hand in the current battle because Kannagi was not used to fighting.

I was able to push her that far because I had no idea how to fight with a sword, or how to use precognition magic.

"......I'm getting to know how to use my powers better. I'm getting used to the sensation of using only my right eye."

But now Kannagi is getting to grips with his power.

As proof, the black magic power that covers her miko outfit is changing its shape at her will, transforming into a sharp blade similar to the one she holds in her hand.

"I have found that it is no longer possible to make you stop fighting."

"......!"

"If you insist on defending those demons, I will force you to stay still and serve my purpose."

Kannagi grows several small swords from the dark magic robe he wears, and points the tips of his swords at me.

Kannagi's precognition magic, physical abilities beyond that of a beastman, and Koga's dark magic.

Even just one of them is troublesome, but three of them at the same time makes me short of hands.

"First, I'm going to make your legs pinned."

Come on!

Kannagi jumps out, transforming his robe of darkness.

Just as she is about to attack me, without warning, the ceiling of the corner of the floor where we are standing collapses.

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""!?"""

A familiar voice, the same voice as the person in front of us, causes Kannagi and I to stop moving in surprise.

At the same time, however, I notice something black crawling on the ground and something flying through the air approaching me.

Usato!

Aren't you guys too scary when you arrived?

Nair has transformed into an owl, and Ferrum has assimilated dark magic.

From the outside, it's a truly horrifying sight, but for me, it's the most encouraging support I've ever had.

"Shut up!　We've worked so hard to get here!"

"You don't know what we've been through! What have you done now, you monster!"

What a terrible thing to say at the beginning of a meeting!

Just as the girls are about to leave, they hear Amako's voice from above.

"Usato!　A pseudo-Kannagi is trying to stop us from merging!

"Ah!"

We believe her voice coming from the broken ceiling without hesitation, and fire a healing magic burst palm at the kanagi in front of us, blasting it away.

"......!　Amako is here!　Kuk, Kannagi, of all people ......!"

"Now the conditions are the same. ......!"

I assimilate with Ferrum, and with Nair on my shoulder, I face Kannagi again, who has a bitter expression on his face.

She sees me with black magic on my band uniform and raises her right arm as she stands up.

"It's not over...... yet, it's not over...... yet!"

Then the walls and floor of the ruins slide, and a large number of golems appear.

Some of them are the same as the ones we were fighting, and some are as big as human beings.

"I can't stop until I kill the demons. ......!"

I saw Kannagi with his hand on the hilt of his sword as he mumbled something, and Nair started flapping his wings at my cheeks with a dry, dry laugh.

"That's great Usato!　You've drawn the worst out of all possible scenarios!　That's what I'm talking about!　Yo, you pest!

Don't compliment me.

"I didn't compliment you, you idiot!"

The seniors have come down from the ceiling and are now surrounded by golems.

Leaving the Golem to the seniors, I continue to deal with Kannagi.

But if Kannagi heads for Keira and the others, even I may not be able to reach them in time.

.......

......I don't want to use this method, but I will have to do it.

Kannagi, I'm sorry.

"What?"

I apologize, and she looks up.

But then she turns pale and drops the sword from her hand, as if foreseeing what will happen in the next few seconds.

"Don't do it!　Please don't do that!　No!"

"FERM."

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If she has feelings of hatred toward the demons and is out of control, we can use that against her.

Ferrum, who has assimilated with me, still seems to be confused about the situation, but I don't have time to tell him what's going on, and there's no time to lose.

"---Demon mode!"

"Ah, ah!"

Instantly, my skin changes color and a horn made of black magic grows on my head.

Kannagi, seeing me transformed into the first demonic creature, screamed in grief, picked up the sword he had dropped, and attacked me without hesitation.