"When my plan was exposed, I was also shocked. At that moment, I was even prepared, and I was shocked."
Even though she wasn't sweating, Huili still made the gesture of wiping it off. That process might have been quite complicated, but she didn't mention it at all.
"Thanks to her help, I was able to skip all the cumbersome procedures and proceed with my plan ahead of time. Even the heavens are helping me and blessing me! Hehehe, everyone, it's okay! I won't let your deaths be in vain! I'll recycle you and let the demons use you wisely!"
Huili was seen dancing between the dead person she was toying with and the classmates who were supposed to be her companions on the ground.
She seemed to truly believe that she was blessed by God. She opened her arms, laughed heartily, and danced in circles.
At this moment, Guanghui realized that Huili was serious and shouted anxiously:
“Ugh, turn back, Eri! If you do something like that, I…!”
"You won't forgive me? Ahaha, I knew you'd say that. Kouki-san is so gentle, and since garbage keeps coming out no matter how hard you sweep it, I'll also use Soul Binding on you and turn you into Kouki-san, who belongs only to me. Only me in your eyes, and you'll say what I want to hear! Kouki-san, who belongs only to me! Ah, ah! I can't bear it just thinking about it!"
Huili had a dazed expression on her face, her hands folded across her chest, and she looked very happy. She didn't look like the kind, gentle and virtuous female library committee member at all.
Everyone was convinced she was crazy.
Soul Binding merely renders the dead more useful than necromancy; in that it creates a puppet or doll of the practitioner, there's no difference. Knowing this, she still wants to become a puppet of Guanghui, which is truly unnatural.
“You’re lying… You’re lying! Huihui-chan… Eri wouldn’t do such a thing…! Ugh, it must be… Yes, you must be being manipulated!… Wake up, Eri!”
As Huili's friend, Ling's face was twisted with pain, and despite the pain of her wound, she continued to cry out loudly. Her hands kept scratching the ground, trying to move to Huili.
Ling's eyes were sincere, and Eri heard that she still believed in herself, so she smiled sweetly at her and slowly walked towards Kondo, who was closest to her.
Perhaps sensing a foreboding premonition, Kondo screamed, trying to get as far away from Eri as possible. Because he was pinned to the ground and his magic power was sealed, he only moved slightly.
When Eri reached him, Kondo seemed to sense what she was about to do and trembled with fear. Eri smiled again. "Stop!" "No!" Kouki and the others shouted to stop her.
“S-Stop!? Ugh, ahhh…”
Kondo groaned as a sword pierced his heart from behind.
The blow was not intended to incapacitate him, but to be a fatal one.
"Reiichi! Ugh!"
"Damn it, Nakamura! You, cough!"
Nakano and Saito roared, but they were immediately suppressed by the knight again, wailing in pain, and no one could do anything.
Because Kondou possessed strong physical abilities, he struggled for a while at first, but his movements eventually weakened... and he became motionless.
Eri pointed her palm at Kondo and whispered a spell no one had ever heard before. When she finished, and just as she uttered the name of the spell, "Soul Binding," a translucent Kondo suddenly appeared and merged into the body.
Then, the knight who had been suppressing Kondou stood up and took a step back.
As Guanghui and the others watched with bated breath, Kondou, whose heart had been damaged and who should have been dead, slowly climbed to his feet, revealing the same gloomy expression as the surrounding soldiers and knights.
"Alright, that completes the doll~"
The classmates stared at Kondo, who stood there expressionless, their mouths agape. Eri's tone was clear, and it didn't sound like someone who had just killed someone and desecrated the dead.
“Eri, Eri… why…”
Ling asked in shock, seemingly devastated. Huili, seemingly adding insult to injury, uttered the cruelest words.
"Thank you, Suzu. Whether in Japan or here, you've been incredibly helpful in allowing me to stay with Kouki-san."
“…Huh?”
"Everyone's really annoying. Everyone thinks only Shizuku and Kaori are worthy of standing next to Kouki-san. If you get too close to him, you'll be targeted by other women... I had no power in Japan, so it would take a lot of time to frame them and let them destroy themselves. In that sense, Suzu's existence is invaluable. Because you're a complete idiot, no matter what you do, others just laugh it off. Even if you join Kouki-san's circle, no one will blame you. The position of "Taniguchi Suzu's friend" is really useful. Thanks to it, I can stay by Kouki-san's side naturally in Japan, and I can join the same team in the other world. Well, Suzu is really useful! So thank you!"
“…Ah, wow, ah…”
Eri's shocking confession caused Suzu's heart to begin to break down. She realized that everything she had built with her best friend, the friendship she had believed in until now, was ultimately an illusion. Suzu's eyes lost their luster, as if she were escaping reality.
“Eri! You…!”
Seeing that what she did to Suzu was too much, Shizuku roared in anger. Shizuku struggled desperately, but Nia, transformed into a puppet, grabbed her hair and slammed her to the ground.
However, Shizuku showed no fear, and her eyes burned with rage.
"Haha, you're mad, aren't you? Shizuku's angry expressions are amazing. I hate you the most. Whether it's the way you take Kouki-san's side for granted or your condescending attitude of 'I'm working so hard for you', I hate it all. So I'm going to give you a really great mission."
"!……Task?"
"Hehe, I wonder how it would feel to be killed by a long-lost friend?"
Shizuku's eyes widened in surprise, and upon hearing those words she realized what Eri was planning to do.
"Are you going to... Kaori?!"
Eri raised the corners of her mouth and clapped her hands, as if praising Shizuku for answering correctly.
She attempts to use Shizuku, who has become a puppet, to kill Kaori.
"Since Nagumo took her away, I could have let her go, but... there's someone who wants to make her into a doll and play with her. Because that person has helped me a lot, I'm going to give Kaori to him as a reward. I'm a trustworthy person! I'm a good woman, right?"
“Are you kidding me?! Ugh… Ugh!?”
Shizuku was furious and moved despite the gaping wound, but Nia stabbed the sword deeper.
"Ahaha, is it painful? Is it hurting? I'm a very gentle person, so I'll let you go now..."
This sentence seemed to say that it was Shizuku's turn this time, and Eri walked over with a smile.
As if seeing the scene of Shizuku and Kondo being killed and turned into puppets, Kouki and the others fought desperately.
"Stop it! Stop it, Eri!"
Kouki's resistance was particularly fierce. He desperately shouted at Eri to stop him, and the five magic-binding shackles on his body began to crack. It was as if he had used the ultimate derivative skill of "Limit Break", "Overpowered Smash", and an immense pressure overflowed from his body.
However, due to the release of the brain's safety mechanism, the knights exerted strength that was incomparable to that in life. In addition, they used joint techniques to perfectly fix Guanghui, making it impossible for him to break free quickly no matter what.
A look of despair appeared on Guanghui's face.
Shizuku desperately tried to maintain her hazy consciousness caused by the bleeding, and glared at Eri with eyes filled with intense anger. At least until the end, she would not look away.
Eri was still looking at Shizuku with a smile, perhaps wanting to personally send Shizuku off, so she took the long sword from a nearby knight and raised it high.
"Goodbye, Shizuku. Playing friends with you is really making me sick."
Shizuku glared at Eri, but inwardly she was thinking about her best friend.
Although she knew that her best friend couldn't possibly hear her, but thinking of the tragedy that might happen next, Shizuku couldn't help but pray for her best friend who was probably traveling somewhere in the world.
(I'm sorry, Kaori. Next time we meet, please don't trust me... You have to live... and be happy...)
The knight's sword, held in his backhand, gleamed in the moonlight.
Then, as if hammering a mahogany nail into a vampire, he aimed the sharp tip of the sword straight at Shizuku's heart and swung it down.
Watching the murder weapon falling towards her, Shizuku continued to pray.
Hope my dear friend survives.
I hope she can be happy.
I'm leaving first. I might hurt you when I die, but you'll be fine with him by your side.
Please live happily and strongly with your loved ones...
please...
In a world where the scenery faded and everything slowed down, everything that had happened so far flashed through Shizuku's mind. At the end of her life, Shizuku thought, "Ah, this is the revolving lantern..." The weapon that stabbed down at full speed did not take her life.
"what?"
"what?"
Shizuku and Eri's voices overlapped.
Eri's swung knight's sword was blocked by a palm-sized shining barrier.
The two were stunned, not knowing what was happening. At this moment, a voice from someone who couldn't possibly be there rang out, filled with anxiety and urgency.
It was the person Shizuku hoped would bring her happiness—her best friend.
"Shizuku-chan!"
As that voice echoed, ten shining barriers suddenly formed around Shizuku to protect her. Then, several of them moved in front of Nia and Eri, emitting a powerful light.
This move is similar to a shield burst, deliberately causing the magic power contained in the barrier to explode, spewing out light and barrier debris to attack.
「!?」
Huili hurriedly used her hands to protect her face, but the flash startled her and she lost her balance. She was hit by the shattered and scattered debris of the barrier and was blown backwards.
Nia, who was suppressing Shizuku, also fell backwards. Although she immediately got up and tried to catch Shizuku again, however——
"——『Brilliant Binding Chain』!"
Then, chains of light stretched out from the ground and instantly bound Nia.
The rapid change of events left Shizuku speechless, and she turned back to look at the voice calling her.
Through the gaps between the soldiers and knights surrounding her, she saw her best friend, who couldn't possibly be here.
Not a dream.
She was indeed there.
Her best friend, Kaori, looked at Shizuku with tears in her eyes. She must have seen the plight of Shizuku and the others, and felt relieved that she had finally made it, so she couldn't help but cry.
"Kaori..."
"Shizuku-chan! Just wait! I'll come save you right away!"
At the entrance of the training ground, Kaori desperately shouted to Shizuku and the others who were surrounded by soldiers.
She hurriedly began chanting the universal recovery spell—the highest-level light-attribute recovery spell, the "Holy Scripture."
Seeing the state of her classmates and the surrounding situation, Kaori decided that it was necessary to heal everyone at once.
"!? Why? Why are you here?! You guys really love to get in my way!"
Eri gave orders to the surrounding knights with a frantic expression, and the knights rushed forward to stop Kaori from chanting.
However, the knight swords they swung were blocked by the barrier of light and could not harm Kaori.
“Everyone! What’s wrong with you? Wake up! Eri! What the hell is going on!?”
Liliana, who was behind Kaori, blocked the attack for Kaori who was chanting the highest level recovery magic. The spherical barrier enveloped her and Kaori, protecting them both.
Seeing the knights trying to kill Kouki and the others, and Eri acting like their master, Liliana was confused. She opened the barrier and asked Eri to explain, but Eri ignored her.
Liliana was also a highly skilled sorcerer. The barrier she created was even capable of completely obscuring the Mordo caravan and resisting an attack by over forty bandits. Therefore, even if the knights, having activated their safety mechanisms, launched a fierce attack, the barrier would be sufficient to hold out until Kaori finished her chant.
Huili seemed to understand this and showed an anxious look.
"Gu! Is there nothing else to do?"
Perhaps out of anxiety, Huili glanced at her classmates.
She seems to have decided to give up on turning them into puppets, intending to kill everyone before they can be cured.
At this moment, the knight who was swinging his sword at the barrier in front of Liliana suddenly had his head severed and fell to the ground.
After the knight fell, the person who appeared behind him was—Hiyama Daisuke.
"Shirasaki! Princess Liliana! Are you all right!?"
"Hiyama-san? I'm asking you this!? How did you get so seriously injured!?"
Liliana paled upon seeing Hiyama's condition. Kaori, though she didn't stop chanting, also opened her eyes wide in surprise.
This is not surprising, after all, there is a large stain of blood on Hiyama's chest, and no matter how you look at it, it seems that he struggled hard to break free from the restraints.
Seeing Hiyama's body staggering, holding on to the barrier, and gasping for breath, Liliana hurriedly untied part of the barrier to let him in.
Hiyama swayed and fell into the barrier.
But at that moment, Shizuku shouted in an anxious tone:
"No! Leave him!"
Shizuku spat out blood and desperately issued a warning.
Because she discovered the truth. Why was it that Hiyama was the only one who could escape the bondage that even Kouki couldn't break free of? And who was the person that Eri mentioned wanting Kaori...
Liliana's barrier was clearly strong enough to hold out until Kaori finished chanting, but Hiyama still deliberately pretended to rescue her for one reason only.
“Aaaaaaa!?”
"ah--"
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