Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo Dorei Majutsu Vol 1 Chapter 2.04

Part 4

The one that called him to a halt was a young Human man.

His stature was tall and slender, and even though his hair in the back was short, a portion of his forelocks was long and hung in front of his face. Wearing glittering gold armor on his whole body, he carried a long sword on his waist.

「……Emil」

Shera also grimaced and made a disgusted-looking face.

He took a long hard look at Diablo’s face, and laughed with a *Fu*.

Diablo asked a question to Rem.

「……This person is the Warrior said to the be strongest in the Adventurers Association. He should also be working as the examiner for the Warrior-type occupations.」

Emil combed his long forelocks up.

It was an unnatural, theatrical, smug-like way of introducing himself.

When he played the game, he often received challenges from opponents that introduced themselves like this, and he kicked them all about.

Abasing himself to someone inferior would harm his majesty in regards to Rem and Shera but there was also that matter with Galak. It would probably be better to not have any speech or conduct that would pointlessly incur another’s enmity.
He kept in mind his usual interactions so as not to provoke him.

「Whose permission did you acquire to name yourself in front of me, brat?」

Not only Rem and Shera, even the other adventurers were astonished and stiffened.

「Permission? Fu, same to you, whose permission did you obtain!? Listen up Demon, you might not know this, but I absolutely love women!」

「You who put chokers on Rem-chan and Shera-chan and paraded about with them, I won’t forgive you for that! To make those two your slaves, there’s no mistake that you’ve done a lot of evil things!」

There was a misunderstanding made.

And above all, this kind of “believing themselves to be justice and in the right and don’t doubt it” guy was his opponent.

Diablo opened his mouth.

「Don’t make a fuss over something as small as chokers being put on women, you small fry.」

Emil raised one eyebrow.

That’s totally wrong!

Could it be that it’s not suited for evading trouble?

And then, the guy that is self-confident in fighting would misunderstand and go 「You getting cold feet?」 and then start smirking.

Diablo avoided Emil and tried to go to the second floor. Because he was going to be a Magician, he had no business with the Warrior’s examiner.

「Hold it! You’re not getting away from here until you release the girls!」

Shera also looked like she was perplexed over something.

In order to request for Celes’ cooperation in searching for the release method, there was a need to talk about it.

If only Emil didn’t get involved!

Rem opened her mouth.

Diablo interrupted her words.

Failing in their magic and becoming slaves to a Demon of unknown origin——I don’t want that kind of failure story to be talked about in front of other adventurers, is what he thought.

「If you are going to obstruct me, no matter who you are, I just have to kick you out of the way.」

「The chokers that you forcibly placed on Rem-chan and Shera-chan! I’ll have you remove them! This Emil Byushelbeljel is the guardian of all women! Learn that the great me will not fall in front of women!」

Against the sword, Diablo unconsciously took some distance. When battling, confronting the opponent with a distance that was advantageous for yourself was something as natural as taking a breath.

If he’s level 50, he should be able to use some fairly good 《Martial Arts》.

It was the general term for fired attacks that consumed SP[2], or techniques of defense or movement.

Diablo did not possess Warrior-type abilities.

Looking at the preparation actions, he understood what kind of attack was coming.

It was a Martial Art that used a sword where, from a posture that lowered the waist, they would get close enough to where they were right in front of the enemy in an instant, and unleash a powerful horizontal slash.

However, putting aside if it were a monster battle, something like a planned “horizontal slash” wouldn’t hit on a player opponent.

If drawn into a move reading battle at close quarters like a hand-to-hand fighting game, it would be the Warrior-types’ pace.

——If I were to destroy the Adventurers Association’s building, that would be bad, wouldn’t it?

「Here I come, Demon! I’ll have you release the two of them!!」

And then——
Diablo was surprised.

——He didn’t cancel the horizontal slash!?

He received it with 《The Staff of Tenma》.

「Hou, so you stopped my attack! You Magician!」

「Don’t look down on me! For the sake of women, I always use all of my strength!」

The next Martial Art that was invoked was the “high in power but long in time until it strikes” 《Alpsfall》.

「How could this be……」

Using 《Alpsfall》 at point-blank range is just like saying “please go ahead and hit me”. He couldn’t see it as anything but a spontaneous discharge due to an operating miss.

Diablo used his staff like a cane and thrust Emil, who had brandished his sword and was full of openings, away.

「Sei!!」

Emil was blown away.

The adventurers that were watching in the surroundings returned to being quiet.

However, Emil stood up.

Unexpectedly, he was a man with guts.

It seems that with a Magician’s common attack, damage enough to make him incapable of action wasn’t given.

——Can’t he just fall back already?

「Kukuku……I can’t go easy on you next time, got it?」

「……Emil.」

「Be at ease, Rem-chan! I’ll release you from this heinous Demon right now!」

「Eh? ……Wh, what……what do you mean by that?」

Rem bit her lip.

——So she went and said it.

「……He has promised to cooperate in removing these slavery chokers.」

「……Though, right now, since we do not know the release method, we have gotten Celestine-san to investigate it.」

「Could it be, I……」

A cold, wintry atmosphere streamed in.

「Fu, fufufu……Thank goodness! So there weren’t any women that had slaver chokers forcibly placed on them!」

It was a refreshing smile.

「It’s Diablo.」

「Is that so.」

「Fu……」

——Well, he doesn’t seem like a bad guy.

Emil stepped aside from the front of the stairs.

The surroundings became noisy.

——Oi oi, are all of these guys lower than that? This isn’t the town at the starting point you know?

「I am a Magician.」

「Hmph, if I feel like it.」

Lined up beside him, Rem talked.

「But that person feels stupid, right!」

Rem didn’t object.

——Since it looks like they’ll celebrate if I finish my first mission, I’ll do my best.
Remembering when he first started Cross Reverie, he felt an excited elation.

Translator’s Notes:

[2] SP is read as 気力, or energy or vitality.

Chapter end