I Already Know My Magic Power Is Ridiculously High! Now I Just Need a Cute Wife... - Episode 35

In a situation where they were surrounded by poison knives from all directions, Aquila continued to speak with an air of complete composure.

“You heard earlier, didn’t you, why I don’t assert that I was born? It’s because the prophecy of the Astrological Cauldron Kaname ended up being a dud. That’s why the Federation launched an investigation.”

“Prophecy… Was it a certain, definitive future?”

If Barbato’s story is true, it is a prophecy that Naia was widely spreading.

Looking back now, because of the rumors, the number of commoners fleeing the territory never ceased, and the Ortenos economy was gradually suffering.

I don’t know if it’s a backlash or what, but now the exact opposite phenomenon is happening.

“That’s right, according to the prophecy, Ortenos was supposed to be destroyed by a massive beast disaster six years ago. But when the time came, not even a trace of the beast could be found. Don’t you think that’s strange?”

Indeed, if the appearance of the demon beasts hasn’t been confirmed, then the existence of demon slayers would be impossible. My existence must seem perplexing.

“Indeed, that’s an interesting story.”

“Hey, do you realize that among the people involved, you are the most suspicious one?”

I respond tersely, but it seems Aquila can’t accept that.

No matter what Aquila thinks, it can’t be helped if there’s nothing to recall.

“Well, the demon beast must have been defeated by someone. And it happened in such a short time that no one even noticed its appearance.”

“Hehehe, ahahahaha! That’s way too terrible to be a joke. The prophesied beast is a true monster that can’t be defeated even if a whole bunch of Star Stella-class beings attacked it. Even with a single Demon Slayer, the situation wouldn’t change.”

“……Is that how it is?”

No way, so the demon beasts are that monstrous?

The existence of magical beasts itself is still largely unexplained.

The most prominent of these is the question, “Where do the magical beasts come from?”

If there is a theory that they come from the north, there is also a theory that they come from the south, and there is even a theory that they suddenly appear from nowhere, making it all quite ambiguous.

And as Aquila said, the magical beasts are extremely powerful monsters, so there are very few cases of them being defeated.

“So, today we finally found a clue about the new demon hunter, and it turns out to be you… So, what exactly are you?”

“No matter what… they say, I’m just an ordinary noble.”

However, it comes with a caveat that the magical power is unreasonably high…

“No, that can’t be. The light when you killed Barbato was precisely the ‘Radiance of the Star Veins.’ That is proof that you are a Demon Slayer.”

“Well, I don’t know.”

I don’t intend to lie, but Aquila’s suspicion remains unshaken.

The radiance of the star veins? Another unfamiliar term has come up.

Come to think of it, I had arrhythmia in my previous life, but I want to have a normal heartbeat in this life.

“Are you going to keep playing dumb to the very end? …Then I’ll kill you and ask your corpse!”

Aquila used puppet magic to shoot dozens of poisoned knives at me.

(Well, how should I deal with this?)

To remotely control dozens of knives, they must be connected to each other and a considerable amount of magical resources must be allocated to operate them.

The rest depends on whether it’s moving autonomously or not… Well, either way, if I mess up that path, the puppet magic should stop working—

(Shall we test one out?)

I began to concentrate my magical power.

“Magic now, of all times? Useless, useless, useless! You can’t escape the poisoned knife anymore!”

As if the surrounding air had stopped the movement, the sound disappears.

In the next moment, it was as if the air had suddenly gone wild, and an eerie metallic sound echoed around.

“Huh?”

Aquila was confused, not knowing what had happened.

That’s right, the knives that were floating in the air fell to the ground with a clatter, as if the strings had been cut, before they could reach me.

“Could it be that my puppet magic has been undone…? Tch! What the hell did that damn noble do?!”

“As I thought, it seems your puppet magic doesn’t suit me.”

What I did was just roughly gather my magic power and let it leak into the surroundings.

Since it strongly affects the human mind, it is a technique used for persuasion, but this time, it forcibly removed his puppet magic through the resonance effect on objects.

“Lie, lie, lie! Just by channeling magic, it gets undone? My puppet magic should be able to withstand even intimidation! It’s impossible for it to be interfered with by someone else’s magic, you damn noble!”

Aquila is starting to get flustered, but it’s about time to take care of things and head to Bangwall Fort.

“Sorry to interrupt in the midst of the chaos, but we’re quite busy over here too. Let’s wrap this up, Hero Aquila.”
“Damn it, damn it, damn it, I won’t forgive you, you damn noble!”

I position the pipe under my right arm and kick the ground with all my might.

When I hear the sound of the ground being torn up behind me, I realize that I’ve already stopped being human with just my raw power.

In an instant, as I stepped up to Aquila, Aquila’s eyes widened in surprise.

Like a thrust of a long spear aimed at the heart, he thrust the pipe forward.

“Guh!”

Piercing through the thick, Stella-class body as if it were being crushed by the high pressure of the deep sea.

I charged straight ahead with that momentum and crashed into the rocky terrain behind me.