「What on earth is happening?」
I followed the headband’s magic and found a variant and Yui fighting.
「Nanba-kun!?」
And even Usano appeared.
「Usano……is that you?」
I didn’t recognize her until she called out to me as she was dressed in a very revealing anthropomorphic rabbit bunny girl character.
And this magic power……isn’t this the headband’s magic power?
「Hiyaa!」
Usano, remembering how she looks right now, turned bright red and crouched down on the spot.
She’s like posing because she was crouching with her arms around her chest which emphasized them more.
Nearby, a little girl, who seems to have had her blood sucked from her neck, is lying on the ground.
Usano is wounded in a similar manner.
「W-what a coincidence……Nanba-kun…..」
Let’s put Usano’s mysterious line during this situation.
「Alright, so, we just need to take that variant over there, down, right?」
「Yeah, it’s fast so watch out……though I don’t think I have to tell this to Kazu.」
Yui said without taking her eyes off the variant.
Given that Yui wasn’t able to finish it up means it’s a reasonably fast opponent.
「Even with the “human dispersing effect”, a second human came in!?」
Sorry if this will upset you but, there’s actually a third one.
Futaba, who had been standing by in the back, deployed her divine domain.
Nice she can smoothly do it on her own.
After confirming that, I took out my black bladed sword and immediately went for the variant.
「Wha, fast!?」
The variant was surprised by my speed but avoided my blow—or so it thought.
The variant’s arm fell to the ground with a thud.
The variant stared at its arm in disbelief.
「How can you cut me, the fastest variant!?」
「Where in the world are you the fastest?」
As soon as the variant reacted to my voice and turned around, its head had already left its body.
If you’re talking about speed in close quarter combat, you’re no match with Susanoo.
「Since it has come to this, I have hostage—-noo!?」
That was the variant’s last line.
I shredded the variant’s head and body and burned them with a pillar of flame.
「Usano, you can come out now.」
When I said that, Usano appeared from behind a tree.
She was holding an unconscious little girl in her arms.
It seems like the headband, in addition to transformation, can also completely erase her appearance and her presence.
Since the little girl in her arms had also disappeared, the scope of effect seemed to extend beyond herself.
Though unlike the divine domain, she doesn’t seem to have separated from the world.
「You did a good job hiding that little girl.」
Judging from her reaction, it was probably the first time she had encountered a variant but she even protected a little girl.
Though I had no intention of giving the variant a chance to take the little girl a hostage, it can be said that I neglected her a little.
「Nanba-kun….what the heck just happened…..」
Hmm, I wonder how should I answer that question.
