The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic

A two-day boat trip to Mearaq.

Until then, we are to guard and watch over the Demon King, but not all the time, and of course we are to take turns.

We don't expect the Demon Lord to go on a rampage, but we have to do what we have to do for the sake of the sailors and knights on the ship.

"......So, why are you here?"

"Hmm?"

I had just switched watch with Leona and was about to go to my room to rest, when Koga came to me for some reason.

I was sitting on the bed, reading a book while spinning the magic, when Koga sat down on a chair and turned to me.

"I'm free. I've come to play."

Get out."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We've been fighting each other for years, haven't we?

Isn't that why you're here?

If we were in the same camp, we'd have fought together, but we've been in a lot of fights.

To tell you the truth, people get scared of me when I wander around the ship.

"Oh, I see."

"And I was bored in the room they gave me, and Amira came on board, so I ran away."

Get a real job.

This guy ran away from Mr. Amira, didn't he?

Coga, who seems to be taking it easy, looks at me as if he's interested in the magic I'm doing.

"So, what are you doing?"

"...... huh?"

With a sigh, he shows his left hand performing the magic spinning.

Coga nods his head in admiration as he sees the magic moving quickly and smoothly from finger to finger.

"Are you training to manipulate magic????You are always looking at the weirdest things.

I'm sorry. It's just weird."

"No, it's a compliment.???I'm not very good at finding them, to tell you the truth."

With these words, Koga gathers magic power in his right hand.

However, due to the nature of dark magic, he creates something more like a knob than a magic bullet and moves it from finger to finger.

"Oh, this is surprisingly difficult. This."

I'm not going to let you succeed so easily. Well, ...... the trick is not to force it, but to ...... imagine it as if it were moving with the flow of water."

"I see."

...... No, why am I teaching this guy how to spin magic?

I'm making him stronger again.

How good are you now?

"I can spin around unconsciously while reading a book. ......

When I performed a high-speed magic spinning with one arm raised, Koga's face looked as if it had been pulled back.

"Oh, what's that? ......"

"Healing Acceleration Finger Bullet."

"Watch out!"

Koga tilts his head to avoid a healing finger bullet, which is accelerated by turning his magic power.

d*mn, it didn't hit me!

Koga, who was in a cold sweat when he saw the accelerated healing finger shot that hit the wall and dissipated, looks back at us with his cheeks twitching.

"Oh, man, that's not safe! We're inside the ship. ......"

"It's healing magic. Besides, you're ...... sturdy, aren't you?"

"Smile????I've never had someone trust me like that before!

Coga is shocked to see me with a big smile on my face.

"I probably know more than you do how tough you are."

"Of course. You've been using me as a cudgel for a long time now."

Having mastered my resilience grant, it is safe to say that he is far more durable than he used to be.

He was a tough guy to begin with, but now he has become more troublesome because of my technique.

......It's kind of disgusting to think about it.

"Come on, try dodging. Evasive maneuvers."

"Oh!"

With his hands in the shape of finger guns, he fires a series of healing finger bullets by spinning magic power.

Although these magic bullets are not that powerful, and are only fast, Koga dodges them with great effort.

"By the way, I heard that you used to teach training to soldiers in the Demon King's army.

"What? How do you know?"

"I heard it from a soldier who seems to work for you."

Soldiers who fought after the battle with Ms. Amira at the Demon King's castle.

They were clearly different from the other soldiers in terms of skill level, and they worked better together.

"Oh, those guys, I trained them while I was training them."

"How did you train him?"

What????Well, mock battles. It's good for my training.

Mock battle.

Does that mean that KOGA's training is in the form of actual combat?

"Well, it was tough against you. They were pretty depressed, you know?

"No, I was tough on them too, if they were well coordinated. It's as if I could have neutralized them one by one before they could do so.

They could have forced their way through, but that would have certainly worn them down considerably.

In that sense, they were strong.

Coga, looking somewhat satisfied, now spoke to me from his side.

What kind of training do you usually do?

"What????"Running mostly."

"...... short of words, but in your case, I guess it's not what's inside."

Different inside, huh?

No, there are too many differences between humans and demons besides training.

Even I don't understand the full extent of it.

Then...

Hmm?

"You're not busy on the ship, so is there anything I can do to get you moving????You're good at that, aren't you?"

I'd like you to be quiet on the ship, but...

Suddenly, I look up and see something shining on the ceiling.

"Oh ......"

It is a metal fixture for hooking up a magical tool that turns on the light.

I saw two of them lined up just the right distance from each other, and I was inspired by a new training.

"...... There's a fitting on the ceiling, isn't there?"

"Hmm????Oh, that thing for hanging magical tools?"

When I look up at the ceiling, I see two metal fittings that hook onto the ceiling.

They are for hooking up the magical objects and illuminating them, but they were either refurbished or something, and the lighting-type magical objects are attached to the ceiling, so the fittings are meaningless.

I explain to Koga, pointing at them.

"Let's try to grab it and hang it by the power of just your fingers.

"Oh."

"I'll make sure it can withstand my weight with room to spare."

"...... oh."

"Then you can do a reverse push-up."

"Wait a minute, that's crazy. ......!"

Koga quips at me as I tilt my head back.

What's a reverse push-up????The opposite of push-ups?

"You're right, I can't help it. I'll give it a try.

"Why do they look at me like I'm crazy ......?"

He jumps lightly, grabs the ceiling bracket with just the strength of his fingers, and hangs from it.

When he realizes that the bracket can support his weight properly, he raises his body parallel to the ceiling using only his arm strength, and begins to push up, pulling his body toward the ceiling.

After about ten light push-ups, he lands on the floor.

"...... once again I understand how crazy your idea is."

"......I could really ......!"

"What do you mean he's the most surprised....... Well, I'm sure you'll come up with something interesting."

I seem to have invented another crazy training method.

Again, I talk to Koga, who is sitting on his bed, looking up at the ceiling.

"What are you going to do now?

What do you mean?

"The Demon King's Army is going to be dismantled, right????If that's the case, doesn't that mean you won't be the leader of the army?

At my question, Koga nodded his head, looking a little worried.

"Well, you'll be working for the Demon Lord for a while. I'll be fighting off demons and, well, dealing with the humans coming from the outside, won't I?

"So it's not so different from when the Demon Lord's army was here..."

"Yeah. We had the option of going on a trip, but..."

Coga points his finger at me.

He continues with a hateful smile on his face.

"I want to see what you're going to do."

"Don't talk to me as if I'm going to cause a scene."

"In fact, it's going to happen. You've got some interesting demon on your trail, don't you?

The Demon Lord told you?

I sigh, thinking, "Well, of course he told them.

"Even after the war is over, you're still a pain in the ass ......."

"I've been like that from the beginning. I can't change it now."

Don't say it yourself.

When I first fought ...... with this guy, he was a pain in the ass.

I've been in a rotten relationship with this guy ever since.

"I'm getting hungry. Let's go to the diner for something to eat.

"You're too free!"

I stand up, aghast at Koga's sudden remark.

It is dinner time.

Coga alone would scare the other sailors, but with me, I think he'll be fine.

"Don't make a scene, okay?"

I know.

"If you wake me, I'll take care of you."

"Oh my God, ......!"

I sigh as I open the door with Koga following behind me, and my eyes meet those of my senpai, who is about to knock on the room ahead of me.

"""Ah."""

I wonder if he was trying to invite me to dinner, but he looks at me with a surprised expression on his face and turns his attention to Koga, who is behind me.

He turns his head in confusion.

"...... boys' club?"

"Please don't say it like it's a girls' night out."

It's amazing when that word comes out of your first voice.

Then, what did he think?

"I want to join too."

"You're a girl, right? ......"

"Hm, that's sweet. I'm the girl who even gets dumped by the girls' club, remember?"

"Don't make it so hard for me to respond."

What kind of girls' night out is that?

I laugh at my senpai, who is still the same as usual, and ask her what she wants.

"Well, why are you here?"

"Oh, that's right. I was thinking of asking her out for dinner.

"We were going to the cafeteria too. Then, would you like to go with us?"

I'll go with you.

I look at the cage behind me and go out of the room.

"You're really related to him, aren't you?"

"I'm aware of that, but this guy keeps coming up to me on his own."

"You're too good to be true. No, it's true, but..."

Coga's smile tightens as he points a finger at me.

It helps that he himself is not afraid of the demons like I am, so we can talk normally.

"We haven't talked since those ruins, Mr. Kohga.

"Oh, oh."

"I've heard a lot about you being wielded as a weapon by Mr. Usato."

Coga looks at me with a very troubled face, but I ignore him.

If I'm not careful, he'll fire me too. ......!

"Well, that reminds me, about the ruins..."

"You're blatantly changing the subject. ......"

I wonder if he is too reluctant to talk about the fact that he was used as a weapon.

Coga turns to me, his smile twitching as he desperately tries to bring up the subject.???

"There was a kid with you, wasn't there?"

"You mean Keira?"

"Oh, her name was Keira. She came to visit me a while ago.

"What?

Keira?

Coga tells us what happened to him.

"I was also surprised to see a child of a dark wizard. I hadn't seen her since Ferrum.

Was Keira the only one?

"No????No, she had some kind of guardian. For a dark wizard nowadays, she was unusually well off."

Mr. Gref or .......

I'm glad to see that your leg injury is healing well and that you are in good health.

But why did he visit Koga?

He asked me to teach him how to use dark magic.

For you?

I guess it's not like the dark magic is out of control ...... again.

We had worked hard to make it our own, but now we wanted to learn from Koga how to handle it so that we could live with it.

"But from my point of view, he's pretty good at it for his age, so I thought there was no need to teach him. ...... But he still insisted on teaching me, so..."

"So?"

"So I've been using this escort assignment as an excuse to get out of here."

.......

I keep smiling and grab Koga by the shoulders---all the strength I can muster.

Next, I talk to my senpai.

"Senpai, why don't we throw this guy overboard now?"

"Can we use an alibi that me and Usato-kun had dinner together?

Yes, that's good.

Wait, wait, wait, wait!

Coga is in a panic.

I sigh and listen to his excuses.

"Think about it, how am I supposed to teach someone something????Or even if I could, to fight?

"But that doesn't mean you can't leave them alone."

She's my sister.

Senpai, please don't make Keira your sister.

Kohga waves his hand to the side as he passes over the older man's comment.

"Well, well, just hear me out! To be honest, I can't really teach you dark magic because I use it by feel, so I thought I'd leave it to someone who knows more about dark magic than I do.

"What, who are you?"

"Hmm."

Coga points at me.

He points behind me, but there's no one there.

"Me?"

"Oh, there's no one who's more compatible with a dark wizard than you.

No hint of what's going on?

It's all in your head.

Just my imagination ...... Just my imagination?

I can't help but feel that there was a bit of malice in his words.

As I tilted my head, Coga continued to speak.

"If you ask me, it was you and Ferrum who taught Keira how to use dark magic, wasn't it????If that's the case, it would be much better to leave it to you guys.

...... It is true, but she is still a child of the demon tribe.

It's too hard for her to come here.

"Keira can't come here. The war is not over yet. It's not safe to bring her inside the Kingdom of Lingle under these unstable circumstances."

I am worried about Keira, but I am more afraid of what might happen to her.

"Then why don't you come over here?"

"It's that simple... wait a minute..."

I'm going to the Demon Lord's territory: ......?

It's a reversal, but maybe not such a bad idea.

"I'm going to go to the lifeguard ....... No, it's not an easy idea to think about."

I take back my thoughts that came into my head.

Whatever I do, my priority is the life of the Kingdom of Lingle.

I cannot cause trouble for Master Lloyd by acting selfishly.

Anyway, you'll see to Keira's dark magic when we get back.

"Uh, okay. Well, I'll let you know how it goes.

"We will also send a letter to Keira."

Can I send you mine?

"Ha-ha, of course."

Nodding to my senpai, I think back to Keira, who is doing her best in the demon king's territory.

She is facing her own magic and trying to improve it.

I would like to help them, but right now I have to concentrate on the Allied nations' meeting in front of me.