This is not the date I wanted.

Slowly suppressing the anger rising in his heart, Shidao took a deep breath, and his mind suddenly became much clearer.

Looking around calmly, Shidou could see that there were no signs of fierce fighting here.

After all, the Confession Book is not a weapon designed specifically for combat. Even if it is reversed into a demon king with a certain degree of aggressiveness, it is impossible to eliminate Tohka and the others in such a short time.

Shidou turned sideways secretly, protecting Nia behind him, staring at Westcott and asked with a vigilant look on his face.

"You are lying, right? You went to so much trouble to make the elves turn around, but now you are saying that you want to kill them all. Can you bear it?"

"Hmph... Well, it's only natural that a lie I made up on the spur of the moment would be exposed."

Seeing Shidou regain his composure so quickly, Westcott didn't feel annoyed. Rather, it would have been less fun if he hadn't done that.

Shrugging his shoulders, Westcott smiled happily.

"Well, just like you said, my purpose this time is not you, I just want to catch up with old friends. But it's troublesome to be blocked by them, so I locked them up."

"Locked up?"

Hearing Westcott's words, Shidou showed a puzzled expression.

"Yes, lock him up."

Westcott nodded with a smile and pointed his finger forward.

"like this."

Suddenly, a spiritual light appeared around Shidou, and the space on the floor quietly twisted, turning into a book as big as a door, appearing under the feet of Shidou and Nia.

"Beelzebul (Divine Eclipse Volume) - Illusionary Library."

"Partial deployment - Raphael (Hurricane Knight)!"

While talking to Westcott, Shidou was also watching the other party's every move without slacking off. After noticing the other party's movements, Shidou immediately summoned the angels of the Yamai sisters and quickly retreated with Nia in his arms.

However, just as Shidou was about to escape from the book's coverage, slender arms emerged from the pages and grabbed their feet.

"Ah—what is this!"

Frightened by the horrifying scene before him, Erya screamed with a dark face.

"Damn, this kind of thing."

Shidou increased the power of "Hurricane Knight" and tried to break free of the arm that was holding him. However, as if sensing Shidou's intention, the arm increased its strength and used unimaginable brute force to pull Shidou and Nia down from the air little by little to the ground.

Then, the two ends of the book slowly moved closer to the middle, as if to crush the "foreign objects" Shidou and Nia into bookmarks, and closed the book tightly.

"Varied--?!"

Just before the light disappeared, Shidou looked above him and saw the true face of the owner of the "arm", his eyes widened in disbelief.

(Ju… Nai?)

His vision turned dark, and Shidao felt as if he had entered a strange space, his body falling uncontrollably.

—————————————————————————I am the dividing line for shifting perspectives————————————————

"I'll just suffer in the fairy tale world for a while. Well~ It feels good to fight for the first time."

After closing the pages of "Divine Eclipse", Westcott couldn't help but sigh. This was the first time he was not on the front line as a commander, and he used the Demon King to fight. This experience was quite new to him.

"That's perfect. It can be used as a warm-up before meeting Elliot. I have to thank Gokawa Shido and the others."

It seemed that he had no interest in the Fraxinus EX parked in the cabin. Westcott stretched lazily, turned around and walked out of the hangar.

"Ah, ah, I was really treated badly."

Along the way, looking at his magicians and drones that were frozen into ice sculptures, Westcott could not help but shake his head helplessly. Now he could understand a little bit how Alan felt when he was spurring his subordinates in the company's training room.

Of course, he also knew that the strength of these magicians was among the best among magicians.

"He was able to suppress all the elites of our company. We should not underestimate Gokawa Shidao."

Westcott knew that in fact, in terms of strength alone, it would not be difficult for Gokawa Shido, who had sealed nine spirits, to defeat Westcott, who only possessed the power of a demon king.

But unfortunately, Gokawa Shido doesn't kill people.

For this reason, when Shidou used an angel, he always unconsciously limited his own spiritual power output, which is why he was so easily subdued by Westcott.

Just like his subordinates who were frozen in ice, although they lost the ability to move because they were frozen in the random field, their lives were not in danger.

"Well, for me, this is something I've been wanting to do."

Putting these unimportant things behind him, Westcott quickly adjusted his mood and prepared to look for Woodman with a brisk pace.

Suddenly, without any warning, an orange light quietly lit up behind Westcott.

"—!"

The violent wind pressure exploded, and the super-electromagnetic cannon, which exceeded three times the speed of sound, swept through the air before the sound and locked onto the back of Westcott's head.

If the attack had unfolded normally, Vescott's head and upper body would have been destroyed. However, the "Divine Eclipse" was summoned at the critical moment, blocking Vescott like a shield. The blow that should have killed him failed because of the Demon King's obstruction.

"That was a close call! I almost died."

Westcott patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief with lingering fear.

"Well, I felt something was wrong when I didn't see you at first. Although the 'Divine Eclipse Volume' cannot search for your information, it is still easy to detect the spiritual power reaction within a certain range, Liang Yi Meng Yue."

As he spoke, Westcott slowly turned around and looked in the direction of the electromagnetic cannon's trajectory. But to his regret, he did not see the girl. Apparently, after the sneak attack failed, the opponent immediately moved to another location.

"Oh, this is such a headache."

Unlike Gokawa Shido, even though his spiritual power was sealed, Westcott did not dare to underestimate the elf Ryougi Mengyue. She was like a python lurking in the jungle, and as long as her prey showed the slightest flaw, she would show her fangs without mercy.

Moreover, Allen, Artemisia and Ai Wulian were not with him now. Even Westcott did not want to suffer from Liang Yi Meng Yue's conspiracy while searching for Woodman.

"Yeah...yes."

After thinking for a while, Westcott came up with an idea.

"Beelzebul."

Following Westcott's call, the dark spiritual power turned into black mist and spread in all directions, wrapping around the ice that froze the magician and the drone, dissipating the spiritual power contained in it.

Soon, the frozen magicians broke out of the ice and gathered in front of Westcott.

"I'm so sorry, Master Westcott!"

"It's okay. It's a good opportunity for me to experiment with the 'Divine Eclipse'."

Westcott waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

"By the way, I have an important task for you guys next, is that ok?"

"Yes! Please give the order!"

Realizing that this was a good opportunity to redeem themselves from their crimes, the magicians straightened their backs and answered with great enthusiasm.

"Very good. Then please go to the hangar and occupy the airship parked inside. After all, if it flies into space, it will cause great trouble to Eren and the others."

Pointing to the warehouse in the distance where he had just walked out, Westcott smiled slightly, took a deep breath, and shouted in a voice that everyone in the room could hear,

"If the people inside try to resist, don't be polite, just kill them!"

14 Battle in the Airship

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"How's the situation outside?"

"Report. The aerial bombardment has stopped, but the gunfight inside the base is still going on. It has been confirmed that the attack is from DEM."

"The magical reaction that had been inactive has now started moving again. A total of 78 Bandersnatch combat drones and 35 magicians are approaching this side!"

"Where are the Commander and the others?"

"I've been trying to call since just now, but still no response."

“W-Why did this happen? Aaaaah! Goddess Misty!”

At this time, in the bridge command room of the aerial ship Fraxinus EX, facing the sudden attack of DEM, the crew has been in chaos. By the way, Nakatsugawa is placing the beautiful girl figurine that Maria is forbidden to bring on the console and praying to it as if it were a god.

Their panic was understandable. They were patiently adjusting their equipment in a secret base that was thought to be absolutely safe, but they were caught off guard by the DEM intrusion alert. It was like a boxer who was warming up and was hit by his opponent without warning before he even stepped onto the ring.

Although they had experienced many dangers before, this was the first time for them to experience such a situation. In addition, the commander was now missing, and this leaderless situation amplified their anxiety and fear.

"Everyone calm down!"

At this moment, the loud voice of Kanbutsuki made the scene quiet for a moment.

“…Kannazuki?”

Everyone couldn't help but look at this somewhat unfamiliar deputy commander with some surprise.

"The enemy hasn't even attacked yet, but you've already panicked. What kind of nonsense is that? What would the commander think if he saw you? He would scold you so badly that you can't even face anyone. That's my privilege, okay!?"

Although there were some contemptible contents in the lines, one had to admit that thanks to Kannazuki's words, everyone calmed down somewhat.

"That's true. If we lose our composure like this, it will only bring shame to the commander."

"Before the commander returns, we must complete the preparations and defend Fraxinus."

"In fact, I don't want to be considered worse than a pervert like Kannazuki!"

"That's absolutely true!"

The crew members agreed with Gan Ben's words in unison.

"Ah! You're all so over the top! Ah——But this feeling of being fundamentally denied by others...is pretty good."

His body shook involuntarily, and Kanbutsuki muttered to himself with a little excitement.

[Mr. Kannozuki, you are so disgusting. ]

Ju Ya complained indifferently on the screen.

At this moment, the loudest explosion so far rang out, and the hull of the airship began to shake violently. It was clear without even looking that the enemy had already blown up the door of the hangar and was preparing to surround the airship.

"This is not good. We need to come up with a solution quickly."

"But if we open the barrage in the hangar, we will be affected instead."

Seeing the enemies on the screen constantly attacking Fraxinus's body, Kannazuki frowned slightly and spoke in a slightly serious tone.

"Juya, open the free field. Range 50, attribute is magic power generation obstruction."

【learn. 】

As Maria's calm voice sounded, the entire airship began to emit a low hum like the fluttering wings of a bee. At the same time, dozens of Bandersnatch that were originally surrounding it knelt on the ground like puppets with their strings cut.

"The drone stopped operating?!"

"Well, I just used the random field here to neutralize the enemy's random field. This is fatal to robots that need magic power."

"I see. You are indeed worthy of being the deputy commander."

Kanbutsuki did not show any complacency towards his colleagues' praise and still maintained a serious expression.

"But."

Just as Kannozuki said this, an explosion was heard from the bottom of the aerial ship, causing the entire bridge to shake.

"——After all, it's not a hacker attack like Miss Mengyue's that targets the manifestation device. It can only hinder the random area, and has no effect on magicians and live ammunition weapons——"

"ha……!?"

"Isn't this meaningless?!"

Just as the crew members were wailing, they heard the automatic door being blown open with a loud bang, and then five magicians in striped suits walked in, holding pistols and rifles.

"Everyone! Put your hands up!"

"I'll shoot if you move!"

Facing the enemy's cold gun muzzle, everyone raised their hands and stood still.

"It looks like this should be the command room of this airship!"

"Great! Looks like the credit should go to our team!"

"You guys, don't let your guard down. Instead of talking nonsense, why don't you tie them all up and stop the AI?"

After instructing his subordinates, the magician walked forward with his rifle at the ready and pinned Shiizaki, who was closest to him, to the ground.

"ah……!!"