Honestly, I thought I won.

More than that, because the operation fitted in perfectly.

In fact, it was about to work.

The Holy Sword of Phoenix burns and slashes Mr. Astrea - it should have.

Shortly before that, Mr. Astrea's body moves tingly.

Two.

There are probably two reasons why she could have moved out of this situation.

For one thing, this is only a prediction anymore, but she was - resistant to magic.

It's not strange that she has that aptitude, as [the Holy Knight] and [the White Knight] have magical endurance. No, [the brave] is largely equipped, too, but I guess she's particularly apt.

It is possible that you are in possession of such magic equipment, but this is why you are returning unusually quickly anyway.

Though I broke quite a bit of magic into my own 'Invisible Pressure' offset, I didn't expect to get out of this sooner.

And that's why I was able to respond immediately to the Holy Sword of Phoenix.

This is simpler and amazing.

Reflection (,),.

The moment my consciousness breaks and I return, there is a sword in front of me that tries to kill me for some reason.

In such circumstances, she set up her sword before surprise.

But my 'blank' is never meaningless.

She is in such a state that she has managed to pinch her body and Phoenix's holy sword, in between.

Yes, it wasn't even interception or defense, it was just the body reacting and putting up a sword.

So the holy sword of Phoenix pushes in her holy sword, and her holy sword sinks into her right shoulder.

"You said you got lemme black magic..."

"... the hour felt like it had flown"

From there she mitigates the gravity that hangs on her, and further up.

"Something to get away with."

"I bet you are."

My body keeps falling.

That's not all.

The tower she created was also "blank" earlier to unravel the gravitational manipulation - it had fallen.

"Uh, Mr. Bella, come on, do you have the magic left to freeze and shoot?

"You will first say from your side to deceive your enemies. Earlier interactions were meant to mislead my role."

........

"It's a joke."

"Haha, you make jokes and stuff. All right, shall we go? Fran catches Mr. Lemme."

"Mmm."

The three of them will be fine. I think Fran's going to take care of me.

Phoenix sprays flames and follows Mr. Astrea, but is poorly positioned.

No, you're right to aim for the shortest distance. I don't want to give her time in this situation.

That's why she ran up.

It attracted a bird of flame to the evil path of the sky.

I would not hesitate to let 'Invisible Pressure' bathe in Phoenix at height over Phoenix, and still intend to intercept it with my remaining right arm and holy sword if it were imminent.

"Crash, [Flaming Brave]"

"If you want to do that, hold your wings with your own hands"

"If there's no other way than that, let's do it"

She should be hanging a gravitational increase on her holy sword.

What happens if the holy swords collide with each other?

The heat wrapped by the Holy Sword of Phoenix is already being lost.

The earlier offense and the minutes used to approach her are critical.

It's not a matter of Phoenix's magic performance. He's good there, too.

But there was too much magic needed to offset it. He and Rayce have been fighting Mr. Astrea for the longest time, and I can't help it.

Mr. Astrea waves up the Holy Sword.

Phoenix fleshes on her.

And it happened.

――――

On the right hand of the [righteous balance], an arrow stabs (,,,,).

"How about this, lemme"

It's Lily.

The four of them, Lark, Lily, Yosu-kun and Mr. Melania, did rendezvous.

Later, Lark shields Lily from Mr. Astrea's sight.

Using the moment when the earthly smoke strikes, Lily hides behind Mr. Melania.

For Mr. Astrea, Lily's latest position remains behind Lark.

And in anticipation of the timing, Mr. Melania, reinforced with Yosu-kun's white magic, threw Lily - toward the sky.

Later, only fire an arrow at Mr. Astrea, who multiplies' invisible pressure 'against Phoenix.

Lily and I have eyes.

"It's great."

She laughed all the time.

"Oh, brilliant, Lily."

Phoenix squeaks, too.

A holy sword spills out of Mr. Astrea's hand, passing directly next to Phoenix.

Phoenix flies directly over Mr. Astrea, reverses his position until earlier, and then waves the Holy Sword down.

"You're the one who's going down."

"... it seems so"

As the burning holy sword squeezed its last force, for a moment, it let the flame erupt.

――――

Mr. Astrea, who took it to his chest, fell rapidly from the sky high to the ground.

She clashes to the ground, and the soil is soared up.

And my eardrum, as I recall, is shaken by reality.

"Ki, Ki, I've made up my mind...!!! We have all united and dropped the Knights Commander [Justice Balance] Astrea to the ground now......!!!

'........................... Yes, I forgot to breathe -...! Oh, and -! The game is over! It's time -!

"Who the hell could have guessed it would have been a battle so far! There are ten survivors!.................. hmm?

"Uh... ten, is it...? What, really?

Reyce and Behra take the tower, which became only a large piece of dirt, not a holy sword, with an oversized ice cube.

I have Fran catch me.

Melania is moving to accept Lily as she falls.

Yosu-kun, who saw it, shouted to calm him down, and Lark was overflowing with sighs as he laughed.

Phoenix will manage to come down on his own.

- Isn't there nine of us?

I asked Fran to drop me off as soon as I landed and run over there.

Mr. Astrea's fallen, soot smoke by the unusual...... no, to where the sand smoke (,) dances.

Phoenix and Reyce, too, would have come if they noticed.

And we close our eyes.

Every armor was burned and slashed in the chest, his left arm broken, a laceration on his right shoulder and an arrow wound on his right hand.

Even so, she stood, [the righteous balance] Astrea.

She stands on the sand. It was supposed to be a hard dirt ground there.

Yes, we used earthly magic in that situation to change the state of the ground in order to mitigate the impact of the fall.

Besides, she was still conscious.

"... mine, looks like a loss"

She says in a voice that can be plundered.

None of us will admit it.

"That's not true. I said I was stronger, but I'm not ashamed to say I won like this."

"... brilliant, Lord Astrea. You embodied your imaginary knight. Never fall, as the righteous."

'Ah, Astraire, you're not exiting!

"Er!?

"I had to win... in this case, people..."

"Mr. Astrea, look around you"

I say to her, nestled like a ghost.

She blurred, glaring over.

"Clear your ears"

"Whoa whoa!? Wow, you're immortal!" "It's not human business to deal with the Phoenix party and all the Reis parties and endure it until the end of the game...!" "No way, Cavaliers!" "The one who lives in your protected city is safe!" "Proceed to the main battle! Watch your fight again!

.... .................. "

Mr. Astrea distorts his expression.

"No one is anxious."

"Guys...... I'm laughing. Feel excited, look fun. Well, this is what adventurers do.. it's still a complete defeat."

But she goes on with the words.

"If we get another chance to cross swords, we win next"

We laugh at the same time.

"It's this line over here. Now it's time for us to win perfectly"

"We didn't expose all the bills, including you. If you have the next one, it will be a different fight."

That's right.

Neither Phoenix, nor Rayce, nor Mr. Bella, this time - they do not borrow the magic of the Spirit.

Two of the four great spiritual contractors fought through the qualifiers without using some spiritual techniques, including deep down.

And so is Mr. Astrea.

The three groups of adventurers looked ahead to the battle and refrained from using it in the qualifying round.

I suppose Mr. Astrea has a situation, too.

"I want to fight the Astreas again, too."

At that time, a voice from the audience shouted Mr. Astrea's name.

She looks like she's in trouble.

"Why don't you wave?"

"But..."

"You'll be delighted, I'm sure"

"... then"

The cheer exploded when she was clumsy and a little forced to raise her right hand smaller.

"Excuse me... you're hurt"

"... Huh. No, fine. 'Cause you're right, you seemed happy."

Mr. Astrea, who said so, also looked like he was smiling.

◇

The final rankings in this qualifying round were first place for the Reis party, second place for the Phoenix party, and third place for the Astrea party.

With regard to the number of points, it is not possible to determine whether the overall results are high or low.

If it's over a thousand people, it's a calculation that's knocking down a hundred people, so it seems to be the case given that there are five hundred people per qualifying round...

Well, let's wait for the whole tally.

Well, after qualifying.

We all rejoiced in the result that we were first, but after all, we exchanged opinions such as wanting to beat Mr. Astrea completely or even fight with the Phoenix party, but first place is first place, so we talked about having fun launching it.

So, when I went outside the venue.

"Lord Leme, could you give me a moment?"

[Justice Balance] It's Mr. Astrea.

"Hey Leme. I need to ask you something, why don't you lend me some slack?"

[Dragon King] There's also Mr. Volak.

"... I'm sorry, but I'll have it later"

"Ah? I've been waiting for you this way."

... hey, why are you doing this?