episode_0239

In the end, I couldn’t take my feet off this beach.

I also lost a bet with Arsien that I didn’t think I would lose.

As Harnier said, if you don’t want to be suspected, you have to continue pretending to be a lover.

‘Rather than that, isn’t Harnier wearing a swimsuit?’

She crossed her arms and pushed me to the beach. Unlike the others, she was still wearing a dress.

While I was just following along blankly.

A cheer erupted from Harnier, who took off his shoes and dipped his feet in the sea.

“Wow. It’s cool.”

“Harnier, is this your first time to the sea?”

“Oh, no, right? I’ve been here quite often!”

Harnier is shocked and shows a very obvious reaction.

‘huh. I haven’t been here. Not once.’

Really. Because he is an easy person to understand.

It may seem surprising, but in some ways it seems natural.

I guess I’ve never been to a place like this before because I’m always thinking about leaving the house while hanging at the top.

…Actually, that would have been the same for me as well.

That is, if there were no memories before the possession.

anyway.

I wish I could just turn a blind eye to this, but…

Want to play a little prank?

“Of course, right? There is no way you have never been to the sea.”

“Hmph. of course! What do you think of me…”

“Cancer Cancer. That’s right. I’m not going to just dip my toes here and then go back like beginners do.”

“…!”

“People who really like the sea go inside and play. Hey, just like those people.”

Harnier hesitated for a moment, then blinked, and as if conscious, he uncrossed my arms and walked towards the deeper water.

“Who, who just dips their feet in it? joy. Because I like the sea too, right?”

Big. It’s so cute I’m dying

Still, I guess I’ll leave the teasing at this point.

“Let’s go back.”

“What?!”

I gently lifted the body of a woman entering the sea.

“Well, what are you doing? I’m going to go into the sea…”

“It looks like a little game is going on over there. I think it would be more fun there.”

“…Oh?”

Harnier turned his head after hearing those words.

“What did they say? Didn’t they say they would give you a prize if you came in first place? I want to participate together.”

“…Okay, so please take it down.”

Then Harnier turned his head calmly.

“You can’t. Since you said you wanted to participate in that game… I have no choice but to postpone the water play.”

“Hmm. Thank you.”

“Uh, let’s go quickly.”

He folds his arms again and invites me to walk that way. Actually, it was more of a urging than a recommendation…

-Well, then there’s nothing we can do! Let’s go into the water next time and go over there together!

I vaguely remember her again.

“Ten people left!”

“Oh, I guess it’s first come, first served! Karsein. Come on!”

“Yes. Let’s go quickly.”

Harnier was also like the author. It looks like he’s a little afraid of going into the water, so I guess I’ll just teach him how to swim later.

▶You can perform emergency missions.◀

▶Do you want to perform it?◀

‘Originally I wouldn’t have touched this either.’

But… I can’t go back now.

Why don’t you do something stupid?

▶Emergency mission is underway.◀

▶Try to score as many points as possible.◀

After all, it’s both a job and a job.

“Good. Quite a few people gathered. So, shall we play a game?”

…hmm? game?

-Poof!

Arsien threw the ball into the air.

“Everyone had fun. We sprinkle water on each other and throw balls. Above all, it seemed to me that you guys enjoyed dodgeball a lot. So I prepared it.”

From the grinning princess, a magic tool was activated.

-Flutter.

“…?”

-Phew!

“If you get hit with something like this, won’t you die?!”

“Melons fall from the sky!”

“Haha. Don’t worry. Because it’s all an illusion.”

“En? Illusion…?”

Arsien smiled and explained to the confused nobles.

“The rules are simple. Several objects will fly at you, and you just have to avoid them as much as possible. In fact, if your body suffers major damage or reaches a state where you cannot move, you will automatically come out of the web. How about it, is it easy?”

…Of course it’s easier said than done. This guy. uh?

-Quaang!

“It’s Mom!”

“Ugh!”

This isn’t something you can just dodge like dodgeball!

“The score you get will be calculated in proportion to the time you lasted. There will be several games in a row, so enjoy it. Oh, by the way, one tip is that you can push it away with your hand or kick it?”

-Cow!

“ How can you push this away with your hand and kick it with your foot!”

“Run when it’s time to say that! Ouch!”

▶Emergency Mission I. Obstacle avoidance has begun.◀

▶Hold on for as long as possible to earn points.◀

***

“Aaagh!”

“Wow!”

All kinds of objects begin to move around in the field that appears before your eyes.

Until recently, those who were full of expectations tended to focus on dodging by throwing their bodies away.

“Try harder to avoid it. Hahaha!”

Indeed. The bad news is really bad.

While other people are busy trying to avoid it, he is enjoying himself by waving his fan.

‘…Should I just get eliminated and leave?’

I had that thought though.

“Uh, oh oh! Don’t push!”

Here too.

“Ugh! Why only me, why me!”

Over there too.

“Aaaah!”

It was all like that.

I could feel that very faint mana was present in the nobles everywhere.

no. To be exact, it would be clothes.

The swimsuit has a waterproof magic. However, the imperial family said that an inspection process was necessary as an unpleasant incident had recently occurred.

For that reason, I also had to present an item called a swimsuit and have it inspected.

It was from then on that I felt a sense of heterogeneity.

The swimsuit only had a waterproof spell, but it strangely felt like something foreign had gotten into it.

It should probably be said that it was mixed in during the imperial family’s inspection process.

That’s the problem.

‘Why did you put in meaningless mana like this?’

Actually, of course, it doesn’t contain anything dangerous.

Nor does it contain the power to alter or interfere with magic.

It was an amount of mana that was almost impossible to influence while playing such a simple game.

It felt very meaningful why I did this useless action.

‘…Shall we expand our senses for a moment?’

▶Expand your senses with mana!◀

Right now hearing and smell have no meaning. The same goes for the sense of touch.

I thought that the most significant sense expansion here would be vision.

Close and open your eyes for a moment and delicately concentrate the mana into your eyes.

▶Your perspective expands.◀

The essence of magical objects suddenly falling from the sky can be seen clearly.

good. You can see it like this.

I began to look closely at the people around me with a different perspective.

and…

I felt like I knew why they did this.

“Ha.”

“Carcein? Why suddenly…?”

I looked at Harnier, just in case.

“I’m glad. You are the same color as me.”

“Yes?”

somehow. I thought I was going to start a game like this.

Each of these artificial mana was colored.

It’s so absurd that I can’t help but laugh.

‘Well… I guess that might be more correct, right?’

Because things like this are usually done by dividing teams.

It’s not about avoiding obstacles.

It’s not a game where you just have to wait for time.

The essence of this game is…

You have to focus on having a team.

“Aaaah!”

There was a sound of water hitting skin, and a woman sat down.

Soon after, the woman who was hit by the falling doll was eliminated and kicked out.

But… there’s something like that going around.

-Sigh.

“You’re next. Carcein? Hehe.”

I noticed it over there too.

I can’t.

“Harnier. Would you like to catch those objects with your magic and throw them?”

“Yes? What is that all of a sudden…?”

“This. It’s not about avoiding obstacles. It’s a magic dodgeball.”

“Magic… Dodgeball?”

“It’s difficult to explain. All men can do is block that. Conversely, women can pick it up and throw it. Would you like to give it a try?”

-wickedness.

“Uh… I think it works.”

“Yes. Throw that quickly and eliminate all of them.”

Only then can we win.

***

After both sides noticed, all kinds of objects started flying towards each other’s camp.

The line drawn in red limits the space to escape.

It was possible to hinder the opponent with hidden items in between.

Thanks to this, it became a real dodgeball battlefield.

Except that the eliminated party cannot attack while standing on the other side, it is exactly like being split in half and throwing things at each other.

However, the number here is small.

Compared to the opposing team, they noticed it later, and many of our women were eliminated, so the right to attack was limited.

‘…This is going to be difficult.’

There are limits to blocking objects.

It is possible to prevent elimination, but you have to spend mana to prevent it.

This also needs to be countered using quite tricky methods, so if the men use up all their mana, they will be eliminated from then on.

If the men who would serve as a barrier disappeared, the women who consumed mana for attack would also spend mana for defense, so having fewer men than them was a significant disadvantage.

…no.

In fact, the power difference may be a bit bigger than that.

“Yap!”

“Keck!”

oh. Fuck.

On the other side, a crazy girl with pink hair is slaughtering our team.

The second one, who is clearly losing balance, is Claire.

That crazy bitch is overflowing with mana and has no one to be her opponent.

however. That’s not the end.

“Inhale!”

“Ugh!”

There is one more person.

Another crazy bitch who spins the ball with her red ponytail flying.

Fuck. Even if there is just one person, the balance is on the verge of collapse, so what can we do if there are two Vagrand Dukes out there?

“Heng. It’s no big deal, right? Are there four people left now?”

“Oh my god. I wonder if this is the wrong team… How can those two people…”

After looking at the opponent in vain, he immediately decided to abstain and left the field.

“W, English? Wait a minute! If I go like that, how will I… Hehe!”

Meanwhile, a magic dodgeball is flying.

The young lady couldn’t even react to the ball flying through the strong wind and closed her eyes tightly.

Tsk. I can’t.

-phut!

A heavy mana grip was placed in my hand along with a strong sound.

Ugh, Mr. Claire, you crazy bitch. He throws it too hard.

After catching the ball, I glanced behind me and lifted my chin.

“I’m leaving now. Before being properly beaten and eliminated.”

“Thank you…”

The woman stared at me for a long time with confused eyes, then got up in a huff and left the field.

after. With this, all that’s left is me and Harnier.

Are there two like this? On the other hand, the opposing team is still short on personnel.

Honestly, this is hopeless. It’s better to just abstain.

But when I turned to Harnier to encourage him to abstain.

“…Hmm.”

Somehow, you seem angry.

As usual, I swallowed and asked.

“Why, why are you like that?”

“That lady, I feel really happy to have been saved by you. Outside the field, I’m only looking at you.”

“Uh… Is that so?”

…Isn’t that natural because it wasn’t right?

no. This is not the time to be talking about this.

If I procrastinate any longer, I’ll be carpet bombed by Claire and Arina.

“Harnier. Let’s just abstain. I can’t beat this.”

Then Harnier’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“I don’t like it.”

“…Yes?”

“For some reason, you want to try it until the end?”

no. Why?

Why do smart people do this when they clearly know they will lose?

Please block “all. You won’t let me get hit, right?”

After answering that, he counterattacks by throwing objects with mana.

…It’s obviously impossible to stop those two people by myself.

I am a little afraid that all kinds of objects will fly.

But… the scariest thing right now is.

Harnier was smiling again like that time.

…did I do something wrong again?