Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Chapter 365 - Defense Link

Chapter 365: Defense Link

Burn the Witch God Arc

“Queen lty, hurry and evacuate!”

“I am the Queen here! I cannot flee from the battlefield.”

The enemy’s forces had pushed all the way to lty, who was giving orders in the rear.

Including Itsuki, and the other Heroes, even Firo is being hard pressed by the advancing armies.

In a situation like that, lty rushed to the field herself, and started offering support fire.

“Guhah!”

One of the soldiers protecting her was cut down.

They’re at a complete nurical disadvantage.

If you think about it normally, they’ve been pushed to a state where their defeat is all but assured.

The reincarnators attacks are reaching back far enough to damage lty, the commander.

“Ah…”

A weapon wraps around lty, and drags her off. She lets out a small voice at the event.

But even the Reincarnator holding it hesitates when it cos to killing a small girl like her. He opens his mouth.

“Is this the enemy commander? She’s just a child, isn’t she?”

“Hey take her in, I’ll let her into my Harem.”

Firo: “l-chan!”

“Queen lty!”

Firo starts her assault to save her friend from the n who were saying things she didn’t understand.

Her Vassal, the Claw, lets off a soft light.

Yes, while Firo is like that, she’s the Hero of the Claw, and lty’s best friend.

There’s no way she’ll lose against any normal enemy.

“Don’t get in the way, bird!”

Firo: “Move! l-chan!”

But the Reincarnator halts her advance.

While Firo’s gotten stronger as the Hero of the claw, her enemy also holds a vassal, and has received a strange power from the Goddess.

「Spiral Claw Ten」!

Ever since the Goddess Descended, the Reincarnators have been imbued with powerful support magic.

Because of that, they can be considered stronger than the Heroes.

Or else there’s no way Firo and the others would be driven to a corner so easily.

“Whoa.”

The powerful attack Firo unleashed was dodged by the man.

“That was dangerous, bird.”

“Ku… move!”

Female Knight presses Musou Kassei to the limit, and starts slashing at him.

But with his unnaturally high support effects, it’s hard to contest with the reincarnated soul.

“It seems this she’s pretty important, this girl.”

“I an, we were told it was alright if all we did was capture her, right?”

“She’s a bishojo, so I’ll have her fall for my charms.”

lty: “W-who would fall for soone like you!?”

“This is the last ti you’ll be able to say that. You’ll soon realize my true appeal.”

Trash: “lty! Get your hands off of my daughter!”

Trash yells out.

But if he were to fire a skill, lty would be hit too.

lty: “Father!”

“What a Foolish King…. My planning was so many levels over yours, was it not?”

lty: “What the hell are you saying!? You rely used your nurical advantage! And whenever anything bad happened, you relied on that woman!”

Displeased with lty’s response, the Reincarnator began to glare at her.

At the sa ti, lty chanted magic.

「Dreifach Aqua Slash」!’

A blade of water slices him point blank.

It inflicted a light cut on his face, before coming to a stop.

“So you’ll lash out at ? Never mind, it doesn’t seem you’re worthy of my charms. Die! For world peace!”

The Reincarnator’s scythe swings down towards lty…

lty clenches her eyes closed.

And…

“For to appear at a ti like this, there must be sothing wrong with .”

With perfect timing, I protect lty in a heroic fashion.

I stop the Scythe with one hand, and hide lty under my mantle with the other.

Just like that day… It was the sa scene as when I protected her from the Three Hero Church Knights trying to kill her.

“So you were aiming for that timing?”

As he guessed the situation, Ren lifted his sword, and pointed it at the other Reincarnator.

Well, it’s not strange for him to think that by looking at that display.

Naofumi: “No, I really did arrive at the nick of ti.”

lty: “N-Naofumi!?”

Naofumi: “Yeah.”

It’s an emotional reunion.

In Manga and Gas, this would be where she would cry tears of Joy and cling to , but…

『I who has understood the origin of power command…』

Naofumi: “Why are you firing magic at without giving a chance to speak!?”

“So she’s finally revived Naofumi to tornt us! Damn you Goddess!”

Ah… yeah, it seems quite a bit has happened.

So much that the Four Holy Weapons’ Manual wasn’t able to contain it all.

But why are they firing magic the second they see my face?

Firo: “l-chan! Fake Master, release l-chan!”

Even Firo is glaring at .

She even released a skill.

「Screw Claw Ten」!

I hold my hand out front, and stop Firo’s kick.

Why do I have to take both of these girls on at the sa ti?

Even Female Knight’s giving the evil eye.

My risen tension’s been crashed all at once.

Wel, I also feel that I was getting a bit ahead of myself having gained a new power, so maybe this is for the best.

Naofumi: “Well, I know you won’t believe , but the Spirits allowed the Four Heroes to escape to their original worlds. And like this, I’ve now returned.”

lty: “That’s a lie! The Naofumi I know can’t stop Firo-chan’s kick!”

Naofumi: “I wasn’t that weak!”

If it was a Firo-Class attack, I think the past could have stopped it.

… Right? I could have stopped it, right?

Naofumi: “Now then… For now, I was able to get in easier than I thought.”

I ignore lty’s magic, and turn to the Reincarnator.

This is… I don’t think I’ll have to show any of my trumpcards here.

From what I can see, it looks like Trash has mastered Revelation Class magic.

I can tell from the supports cast on Firo.

Itsuki is… fighting on the front lines, it seems.

Fohl is quite close by.

He’s evenly fighting back right now.

“Fumu.”

I activate the Shield, and look for a skill I can use.

As long as the world allows it, all skills that the Shield can use in the world have been unlocked!

… No, I can’t really say that. Just how long is this list?

Well, if it’s just to the extent of the skills a normal Hero can learn, I can use them. That’s a bit of the power I have.

「Defense Link EX」!

I hold out the Shield, and call out a Skill Na.

This is the first ti I’m using this one.

It’s the first ti I’m learning a skill directly from the Shield, but there’s no way I can’t use it.

The Skill Defense Link was just as it sounds.

Its effect was… all attacks those I consider allies take are treated as attacks directed at . I can shoulder all the damage.

EX is… a Hero’s limit.

There are so levels above, but so the Goddess won’t notice, I’ll stop at this.

A barrier-like mbrane is deployed around a large area, as I activate the skill to protect my comrades.

With half-hearted defense, the skill is suicide.

Of course, the current can take this with ease.

Protect everyone. That’s my role.

Never again will attacks reach my comrades behind .

The radius is about 20 ters. If I raise the output further, I feel the bitch will notice it.

I don’t really have a reason to hold back, but I don’t know what will happen, so I’ll do it in moderation.

Now’s not the ti for to get serious yet.

If they run after realizing they can’t beat , that would be terrible.

I’ll wait for Raphtalia and the others to get here before I really start exerting myself.

Naofumi: “Ren.”

Ren: “What?”

Naofumi: “Don’t dodge, just cut at them.”

Ren: “Wha—Are you telling to die!?”

Naofumi: “I used a power to make it alright. Just go do it!”

The sound of tal hitting tal echoes all over my body.

I an, I’m taking the damage of all those around at once, so it’s to be expected.

“A-ah.”

The surrounding solders find themselves dumbfound after feeling no damage while being cut.

Seeing that, Ren timidly drops his defense as he struck his sword at the reincarnators.

“You’re not dodging? Are you an idiot?”

“Take this! 「Variable ssiah」!”

“What!?”

I’ll bet the Reincarnator intended to cleave Ren in half in that single swing.

He was smiling, but as he saw Ren standing intact, his expression warped.

And Ren’s sword starts glittering brilliantly. It becos giant, and he starts swinging it downward on the enemy.

Oh, that’s quite a flashy skill.

Ren definitely didn’t know that one before.

Oh right. Ren did say he went to another world once.

It’s probably a Sword Skill he acquired at that ti.

Does he hold anything else you can only find in another world?

No, I don’t really need them, but I’ll bet the others do.

Ren: “Uuu… I feel like I shouldn’t be alive, Naofumi.”

Naofumi: “But you’re fine, right?”

If you move your body along with the blade, and dodge by a manner of milliters, you can eliminate all unnecessary movents, but that sort of style doesn’t suit .

If the enemies can’t do any damage in the first place, you can just ignore their attacks without dodging.

That ans, by nature, they can now attack faster than anybody else.

Well, it’s not really a strategy to be praised, though.

Ren: “Even so, it’s not sothing I’d like to use often. I’m scared for when the ti cos where it seems natural.”

“If you show such leisure before the enemy, you’ll die!”

The Reincarnator tries to act cool as he attacks Ren from behind.

Ren: “Leisure? I’d like to call it trust, you know.”

“Guwah!”

Holding his sword behind him, Ren lightly parries the reincarnator’s attacks before slashing him.

Naofumi: “Oh my… you’ve gotten better.”

His movents are sharper.

On the contrary, his basic abilities have risen a few levels.

It’s like a fight between an amateur and a novice, he’s showing a complete difference in power. Sothing like that.

It appears that his claims to be stronger were no lie.

Naofumi: “By the way… lty, Firo. I’d like it if you stopped already.”

For a while now, lty and Firo have been unleashing a stream of coordinated magic attacks and skills ayt .

‘You must be in pain, being controlled by the enemy. Don’t worry, I’ll give you peace.’

‘Master, Firo will get over your death. Firo will try harder, so you can sleep now.’ It’s like they’re saying those sorts of words of parting.

I thought I had made quite a dramatic entrance, but I’m being treated like a Zombie.

Naofumi: “I keep telling you I’m not Dead!”

lty: “I’ll reveal your true form!”

Firo: “Yeah, Master is…”

Naofumi: “Just quit it already!”

“… This is a tragedy brought about by the trust they placed in you, and the Goddess’s underhanded tactics.”

Ren starts muttering with an amazed expression.

Please stop. My body doesn’t hurt, but my heart can’t take it anymore.

And as if he just noticed her, Ren started waving his hand at Female Knight, and calling her na.

Ren: “Eclaire!”

Female Knight: “Who are you!?”

Ah, Ren looks really hurt.

He reunited with the person he liked after two years, but this is the outco.

Ren: “It’s ! Ren. Please believe !”

Female Knight: “the Ren I knew was a childish youth. He definitely wasn’t soone like you! If you plan on deceiving , try putting a little more effort into it!”

Should I just use so power to revert him after all?

But if I do that before their eyes, they’ll definitely recognize as an enemy.

Naofumi: “Trash! Just figure it out already!”

Trash: “Nu!?”

Since I had been standing still without showing any resistance for a while, it seems Trash figured sothing out.

Trash: “lty, that Iwatani-dono doesn’t show signs of being an enemy. I think it’s alright if we trust him a bit.”

lty: “Father… but…”

Trash: “I understand your sentint, but after he’s done this much for us, we have no option but to rely on him in this battle.”

It’s finally reached a stage where I can talk.

Naofumi: “Now then, Trash. I’ve a little bit of information about the situation up until I was able to get here. Fighting the Queen is definitely unpleasant, but will refraining from doing so make your wife happy?”

“Nu…”

My words turn Trash’s expression bitter.

He’s been through so pain, but I won’t let this reach a bad ending.

I’ll definitely save lty and Firo… Everyone.

Naofumi: “You don’t have to give an answer yet. But in this war, just how much of lromark will beco victims? Will that delight the Queen?”

Trash: “… Iwatani-dono’s words are correct. Everyone! Follow Iwatani-dono’s lead! lty, follow my orders, and take command.”

lty: “Y-yes father! … It’s not like I trust you or anything, Naofumi.”

She let loose so Tsundere-esque lines, that girl.

Similarly, Firo seems to have grieving over my death, so she’s still half in doubt about .

Naofumi: “I know.”

For the love of god, when I get back, I’m treated like a zombie.

That Goddess sure likes picking a fight.