Chapter Chapter 41: 6. Hell is just beginning. (2) (2/2)

Along with the screams of students piled under the silver devil.

“Lady Aris! We need to break through! Help us!”

One of my student council seniors charged forward with a black lion

-Gyaaaaaaaaa!

“Take this, Lion Claws!”

That senior was the youngest in the student council, but he was one of the top five among the second years.

Unlike your average knight family, he was the oldest son of a knight family started as a baron that had retained that rank even today. Said to have developed Lion-style swordsmanship after observing the form of a lion; in conjunction with his summon, a black lion, he obtained the title of Lion Sword at last year’s empire festival, and was one of Yugrasia’s most promising prospects!

“Beat it, Rosen!”

“You can do it!”

And the timing was perfect for an sneak ambush.

He aimed perfectly at the back of the silver devil who was grabbing a female student by the lapels with her small hands and beating her up.

And the result!

-Gyagyagyagyagyagyagyagyagyagyagyagyagya?!

“Guooohhht?!”

My senior and his summoned beast who inflicted a perfect attack, screamed with their eyes rolling back in their sockets.

“Heehee, attacking the back of a frail girl like me! Dat’s divine punishment!”

While my upperclassman was desperately trying not to collapse, she simply kicked his ankles with her short legs and immediately proceeded into a mount position.

Making shiik, shiik noises with her mouth she immediately started to punch my senior’s face just like that.

“Kuuht? Uk? Uwuuhh? Ha, how?”

Shock and horror.

To my upperclassman’s question, who had a face that said he couldn’t belive what was happening, the silver devil smiled and said.

“Wiin? Innit obvious? Me’s a being designed to give you kids pain! And hitting things hurts ‘cuz of the impact between two different things. But think about it. If oppa punches a wall, that hurts, don’t it? So oppa was going to punch someone, but they dodged and you punched a wall instead? So who’s gonna be the one that hurts then?”

“M, me?”

“Wiin, correct, oppa! And so oppa will hurt if you hit and hurt if you get hit, masochist confirmed!”

“Wh, what the hell is thgueeeeek?”

“And as for me, even if I hit people they’re the one that hurts, and even if I get hit they’re the one that hurts anyway! Sadist incarnate, call me Your Queen!”

As the silver demon shouted while posing with her index finger confidently outstretched, the rest of us were at loss for words.

“How quiet. Might as well keep hitting.”

“Kwuuuughh!”

-Let’s run.

And looking at the sight, the goddess Athena that I was contracted with whispered to me with a voice completely dyed in fear.

-That is not something that can be defeated. Hurts if you attack, hurts if you get attacked. That kind of existence isn’t something that can exist, no, shouldn’t exist in this world! Fighting something like that is a foolish decision!

-B, but…

-Hurry, run!

In that moment, the goddess and I conversed between each other alone.

But as if she had overheard our conversation between souls, when the goddess shouted, the silver devil’s eyes curved into elegant half-moons as she looked my way.

“Iz’ the unni who made a contract with that goddess with a great texture?”

And at that moment, as if to prove that we were summoner and summon linked by our souls, we shouted at the same time.

-Run!

-Run away!

My body moved before my thoughts and I immediately leapt back.

At the same time, the silver devil’s fist fell just where I had been standing.

“You dodged?”

But as if that riled her up more, the half-moons waned to crescents and she smiled even more brightly.

“I think unni… will make it pretty fun for me.”

“C, come! Almighty goddess’s spear, the absolute shield that stops all!”

The moment I saw that smile, cold sweat started pouring down my back.

Even my father’s sincere battle-hungry spirit in the past couldn’t make me feel like this, to think I would feel this much fear from a single smile!

“Dieee!”

Close combat is impossible.

If I got hit while approaching then I would just pathetically collapse like the others behind me, and if I closed the distance and attacked then I would just end up collapsing pathetically like the student council upperclassman in front of me.

‘No matter what I do the only end is with me collapsing pathetically!’

In that case my only options are long-range attacks. But, the goddess Athena’s attacks are a spear and shield!

My only option left was spear throwing!

-I’m sorry I only have a spear! If I’d known this would happen I’d have borrowed a bow from Artemis!

-It’s already too late, please hurry the next spear!

With a bang! the first spear was thrown at the silver devil, but the devil had easily dodged it!

“Uwee, dis is a good spear?”

Grabbing the spear embedded in the wall, she started retreating.

Perhaps as you’d expect from a summon, her appearance barely looks like a ten-year old, but the spear in her hand was beginning to bend as if it would break at any moment.

-The follow up!

-Dodge, dodge! It’s dangerous!

At the same time as the goddess’s shout, a booming noise was made.

At the same time, the silver devil used the counterforce from the spear to send herself flying towards me!

“The reason I stepped back, was to gain momentum!(3)”

“Aegis!”

Evasion is impossible. Then defence is my only option!

I used the goddess Athena’s greatest weapon that could even defend against a god’s lightning bolts, a shield that could both attack and defend.

If it is this then it can surely defend against the silver devil’s attack!

Bang!

“Uwiit?”

“Wha, what?”

I swallowed back the scream that had threatened to burst out. To think not even the goddess’s shield could fully absorb the impact of that attack, just what kind of attack was that?

-No, that wasn’t an attack that can be absorbed! It just broke straight through Aegis and attacked the true body! The shock just spread through the shield and carried down into you!

-Wha, what the heck is that! Then is this pain caused by some sort of curse?

-Aegis is a shield made by the god of blacksmithing Hephaestus. Because of that, all sorts of divine power is embedded into it so it can protect against all sorts of curses too.

-Then that doesn’t make any…

-Unless, it was a curse with greater power than the shield.

A curse that could even pierce the divine power of the shield crafted by the god of blacksmithing?

What kind of lifeform has that kind of power?

Devil? Was it actually a devil all along?

“Wiin? You blocked it?”

As I looked at the silver devil who gazed at me with an amused expression, I thought.

‘Will I survive this?’