Chapter 616 (1/2)

With the disappearance of the magic stone weapon, the eerie magic that had been shrouding the temple disappeared.

But we couldn’t afford to be relieved yet.

(Master, are you okay?)

『…I’m fine, I’d say…』

I was actually not that good.

I managed to get out of the disorientation of absorbing a large amount of magic power, but because I pushed myself too hard, I was losing a lot of my capacity as a normal sword.

My durability had drastically reduced and it didn’t start to recover at all. It was also obvious that my self-repair ability was not working as a small chip remained on my blade.

It’s probably a backlash from overusing the Divine Attribute.

『Honestly, it’s pretty dangerous for me to engage him in combat right now』

(Okay)

Zelyse was still stunned, but we didn’t know when he would attack us.

That was what I thought, but what Zelyse said next was completely different from what I had imagined.

「Haha… Ahahahah! Amazing! You’re amazing, Fran-san! As expected of you!」

He started laughing, truly enjoying the scene. It wasn’t a pretense. He really meant it.

As I’d thought, I’d never understood the inside of this guy’s brain.

「Uwaah~. You see, that me from that timeline was really wary of you. And now I finally understand what he means. I’m sure, Fran-san had given him a pretty hard time」

What did he mean? The current Zelyse and that Zelyse are in cahoots, right? But based on what he just said, it sounded like he didn’t know the details of why Zelyse from that timeline was wary of Fran.

「That Zelyse?」

「Do you want to know what kind of relationship that me and I had, Fran-san?」

「Partner? I already hate Zelyse when there’s only one of it, but it’s even worse when there’s two of it」

「O-one of ‘it’…?」

「Cause you’re just like a pest 」

「A-ahaha! That’s harsh!」

(TLN: She’s using 匹 (hiki) which is a counter for an animal. It’s how Japanese playfully insult each other)

Fran was talking badly of him. She was in a very bad mood. She was probably feeling very angry at Zelyse for irresponsibly trying to break the seal of the great magic beast.

「W-well, regardless of what Fran-san think of me――」

「Shitty insect」

「Oh, come on! You might think that Zelyse from that timeline and I were, at best, or maybe comrades in research? But we have a surprisingly dry relationship, you know? We don’t even get along as well as what Fran-san might think of us」

「Why? You can avoid any mistakes if you listened to him, right?」

「Because that’s gonna be boring」