244. Elves in Movement

Kumoko felt strange after seeing Izumi who disappeared like using teleport without using any magic but similar.

"Why does he look like he can do anything?" Kumoko asked in her mind.

Even though Kumoko had asked how he did that, Izumi always answered vaguely.

Kumoko looked at Guliedistodiez who didn't seem to care about Izumi's departure.

Kumoko had heard the voice of the system saying she could evolve after she got too much exp. But there was Guliedistodiez in front of her. She couldn't just evolve when someone was in front of her.

Then, she heard Guliedistodiez say.

"So he decided to help you knowing you were one of the rencarnators huh?"

"You...know him?" Even though Kumoko spoke fluent Japanese, she was still not very fluent in the language in her new world so her words stuttered.

Kumoko was quite surprised when Guliedistodiez said that he had met Izumi before. He answered.

"He said he was thrown into this world by D. I don't feel any lies from what he said either."

"What? D? That administrator?"

Kumoko shuddered thinking about D. Her sinister laugh still buzzed in Kumoko's head to this day because she felt like she was being toyed with by her.

Guliedistodiez said inwardly.

"Besides, that young man has abilities other than magic that are different from the system in this world. I don't know where he got that power from, but it's definitely not from D. If he got the power from D which has difference in the system from this world, why does he have 3 skills that are similar to the system in this world?"

He could guess that the three skills that had similarities with the system were skills given by D.

Then, he looked at Kumoko.

"I'm sure you've reached a level sufficient to evolve. It might not be much, but as an apology for teleporting the demon lord in front of you, I'll give you dragon carcasses."

Kumoko heard something quite crazy, so she asked to be sure.

"Wait…a minute!! What did you…just say?"

"Dragon carcasses?"

"No no! Before that!"

Guliedistodiez was silent for a moment. And instead, he said goodbye to Kumoko without repeating what he had previously said.

"...Well, I won't be meddling in your business anymore after this. Farewell."

"Oi, wait...!"

Kumoko could only watch as Guliedistodiez disappeared without being able to stop him. However, when Kumoko's gaze shifted to something Guliedistodiez had given her, Kumoko had forgotten about him.

— — — —

Meanwhile, Izumi who teleported by using Hiraishin no Jutsu appeared when Sophia's parents were covering Sophia from elves and asked the coachman or the butler of their family, Merazophis to bring Sophia away.

"Heh, these disgusting elves finally show their true nature."

Izumi's sudden and mysterious arrival surprises the elves, Sophia, and her family. Sophia didn't expect that Izumi would actually come after she pressed the button on a device Izumi had given her.

"You are?"

Seeing Izumi's appearance, Sophia's father recognized his face instantly. While those elves are wary of him instead.

"Who are..."

*slash*

Before one of the elves could finish his words, Izumi beheaded them with his bare hand sharpened with his Devil Fruit power.

Why did they even ask when it was their job to eliminate the reincarnator and her family? Izumi also didn't want to talk to them, so he finished them off at once.

"Sir, Madam, I think it would be better for you to go somewhere with your daughter. This county is in the most dangerous state right now. Look!"

Izumi pointed at the window. He could see that the elves were killing the residents of Keren County.

Mr. Keren who felt responsible for his bad governance shook his head. He would feel bad if he just left after seeing what was happening in his territory. So, he told his wife to go with his daughter and Merazophis. His wife was crying because she didn't want to be separated from her husband, but Izumi said to see her daughter's face, and what if they both left her?

Of course, Izumi didn't get in the way of Sophia's parents because he also knew that they had the responsibility to rule the territory. However, if the two of them leave, how will Sophia feel?

"You saved our lives twice, so I can rest assured if I left them to you."

"Heh, you really trust me, huh? You didn't even ask where I was taking them to."

"As long as my wife and daughter are taken to a safe place, I don't mind. You also seem like someone I can trust."

"Is that so?"

"Well then, I'm going."

For the last time, Mr. Keren hugged his wife and daughter. Then he took a sword and went out alone. Izumi felt Mr. Keren's aura as he fought inside the mansion.

Suddenly, a little hand grabbed his sleeve. When he turned around, a cute baby girl, with reddened eyes filled with tears, looked at Izumi as if telling him to save her father.

They knew that Mr. Keren wouldn't be able to hold on either, so both Sophia and her mother couldn't help but beg without telling him as tears began to flow from their eyes.

"Tch, this really sucks."

Izumi murmured after looking at both of them. He didn't like this kind of situation when Sophia's father insisted on dying because of the responsibility for his territory. He couldn't stand to see the inhabitants of his territory massacred and he couldn't do anything about it.

In the end, Izumi decided to take action to save Mr. Keren.

This made the pair of mother and daughter glad.

After Sophia and her mother calmed down a bit, Izumi asked them out together. There was no way he would leave them alone to finish off the elves while Potimas was still around.

"Hmm? Kumo-chan, huh?"

Izumi could sense the presence of Kumoko who came using teleportation magic. Apart from that, he also felt Kumoko's power increase considerably from before.

"If she evolves once again into a complete humanoid body, perhaps her strength will be too broken." Izumi muttered.

— — — —

When Kumoko appeared at Sophia's mansion, she was quite surprised by the number of elves. The elves were also dumbfounded by the creature they had seen for the first time. Has the upper body of a human, but the lower body of a spider, an Arachne.

Sensing how dangerous Kumoko was, the elves did not hesitate to launch attacks simultaneously. It's a pity that their strengths were so vastly different. On the other hand, Kumoko was so delighted seeing so many elves attack her as she immediately labeled them as EXP for her. She posed as a chuunibyou as she launched a deadly curse from her eyes at those elves. In an instant, not a single one of them survived Kumoko's attack.

Kumoko saw Izumi who came down the stairs along with the other 4 people while saying with a smile on his face.

"Well done, Kumo-chan. I've been waiting for you...However...With your current look, to be honest, you're too creepy. You're scaring these people, you know."

Izumi commented on Kumoko's appearance. Her main body is that of a young girl with pale white skin, white hair, and red eyes. From the waist down, the body is connected to a large spider on the head.

Kumoko grumbled.

"Why should he wait for me? With his strength, he can definitely kill these elves. Couldn't he be plotting something?"

"Don't think about anything complicated. We might have a guest."

Izumi just patted her head so she didn't have to think about strange things. However, what Izumi said made her a little afraid that the demon lord would come again.

After a while, Kumoko felt a change in the wind, and she was really surprised to see Izumi's two fists missing when she looked at him, no, his fists transformed into the wind that blew in the surrounding area.

What Izumi did was detect the surroundings using wind waves. If this is a little similar to the storyline in canon, both from a novel and anime, Potimas will appear using his clone made of unknown technology.

Well, as he had expected. Izumi turned his head in a certain direction and said.

"Why don't you show yourself, sneaky coward?"

Slowly, a silhouette of a person from the darkness was seen approaching and walking leisurely. His appearance was no different than the usual elf with pointed ears and blonde hair. He looked at Izumi in the front. And behind Izumi were Kumoko and Sophia's family.

The elf started to speak.

"I didn't expect someone to get in the way of my plans. Young man, can't you meddle in other people's business?"

Meanwhile, Izumi just sneered.

"I like to meddle in other people's business."

"What an arrogant statement." The elf was called Potimas. Potimas averted his gaze and looked at Kumoko for seeing an individual that was different from the others. "And you, spider? This is the first time I've seen a species like you. Looks like Ariel was planning to get in my way as well. In that case..."

Potimas used an ability that turned the surroundings into an anti-magic field.

With a deep voice, he said to Izumi and Kumoko.

"All of you should die!"

All of sudden, Potimas dashed toward Izumi and attacked from the front. Izumi just smiled while moving his hands. When Potimas hit Izumi, there was a cracking sound that made Potimas sneer. However, in an instant, his sneer turned into one of astonishment.

Izumi's body turned into a block of brick which was crushed by Potimas' blow.

"Die, huh? Are you sure about that?"

Izumi responded with a sneer as he launched a sweeping kick with his foot.