130. It Is Starting

Arnold was bewildered because he didn't know how to deal with this kind of situation. Izumi saw that the situation was quite exciting when both lolitas met each other and both had an interest in Hiiro. Izumi grinned and appeared behind Liliyn with a whisper.

"Liliyn, if you're not aggressive enough, your husband will be snatched away, you know!"

"W-w-what the hell are you saying? W-w-who wants to be his..."

Her face reddened, she even stuttered after hearing Izumi say that Hiiro was her husband.

"Look at this Silvan, your Young lady didn't lose to the girl called Muir. She's just a tsundere."

Silvan's body which lay on the ground twitched for a bit. He raised his head and looked at bashful Liliyn. Suddenly, he stood up from the ground excitedly.

"Nyohohoho, this is why Young Lady is the best loli in the world. Nyohohoho."

"Shut up old pervert!"

With the reunion, they introduced themselves to each other. Including a little girl named Nikki who was Hiiro's only disciple. Regarding Mikazuki, they were slightly surprised. Mikazuki had met Arnold and Muir when she still had a Raidpic body. But because they didn't recognize her, Mikazuki became irritated. Silvan also explained to them about Mikazuki when she was a Raidpic and was turned into a humanoid appearance by Hiiro.

"Oh right, old man, I heard that you happily disclosed everything about me to that Gabranth King."

Arnold stiffened. Meanwhile, the corners of Hiiro's mouth raised, but his eyes were definitely the opposite. From his back, something like an illusion of a black aura was emitted. Hiiro wrote a certain word and shot it at Arnold.

"Noooooooo! Stop! I don't have such interests! T-that's my important... Ah, ah, ah, stooooooop!"

Arnold's face turned pale as he writhed in agony. Hiiro used the word 'Maboroshi' which means vision or illusion to torment Arnold alone with a certain vision. The contents included a stampede of oiled-up muscular men.

After a minute passed, Arnold collapsed on the ground completely exhausted. Something beyond imagination had been done to him. Tears flowed from his eyes without ceasing. As it was Arnold's form of paying for his mistakes, Muir remained silent, but on her face floated a wry smile.

At that moment, as his consciousness had finally recovered, Arnold looked at Hiiro while gritting his teeth.

"I-I'm going to kill you someday!"

"If you think you can, then try it!"

"It was Uncle's fault this time!"

"Muir~"

Arnold called out her name as if he had been relying on her, but Muir shrugged her shoulders.

Then Hiiro said that the two of them were in the enemy's position, so they shouldn't linger with Hiiro for long. Arnold also told Muir to return to Gabranth's side.

Muir didn't seem to know what to do. Perhaps she wanted to be by Hiiro's side longer after finally having reunited with him. But as he said, right now they were mutual enemies, and being together wasn't something that was supposed to be permitted.

Hiiro approached Muir and patted her head as he said.

"Shorty, make sure you show me the result of your half year of growth!"

Muir replied with a radiant smile.

Izumi who saw them immediately commented.

"What a Critical Hit!"

— — — —

After the reunion with Arnold and Muir. They returned to their respective sides.

The first match was a one-on-one duel. Eveam was the first to come forward according to Izumi's suggestion. And she won easily.

In the second match, Marione and Teckil were against Leowald and Yuhito. Yuhito released all of his upgraded zombies. Those zombies were weaker than Marione and Teckil. But, zombies know nothing of tiredness and pain. Also, Leowald was there. Furthermore, Marione underestimated his opponent even from the start and ended up losing as if he had received a heavy slap in the face afterward.

The third match was a fight between Ornoth, Shublars, and Grayald against the Three Warriors of the Gabranth, Barid, Putis, and Crouch.

The match was dominated by the trio from Gabranth. With Crouch using the shadow ability, Ornoth didn't know what to do with it. Putis used her ice ability to stop Shublars and Grayald's movements. Then attack the two of them at the same time with Barid. The cooperation of the three of them seemed like there was no gap, if Ornoth, Shublars, and Grayald were unable to overcome Crouch, they would have definitely lost. Then, Crouch used his shadow to catch the three participants from Evila, their helplessness made the defeat of Evila increase by one more.

Ornoth, Shublars, and Grayald were disappointed with their own appearance. If they lose their next match, Evila is finished.

The next match was a match between Liliyn, Silvan, and Nikki, against Rarashik, Arnold, and Muir. A match that brings together legal lolis, illegal lolis, and lolicons.

When the match was about to start, Izumi sensed a bunch of presence with evil intentions in Passion, in the castle to be exact.

By signaling Aquinas who was hiding behind his hood, he told Eveam, and she informed Leowald afterward. Izumi temporarily stopped the tournament. The higher-ups from both sides approached Izumi and asked. Izumi answered.

"There were a lot of people who had malicious intentions coming to the castle. Another person is also heading toward a gigantic tree over there." Izumi pointed at the biggest tree in Passion which was the symbol of the Gabranth race.

"What? The castle and the Tree of Origin?"

The Tree of Origin, also known as Aragon, is the sacred tree of the Gabranth. The tree was once inhabited by a tree spirit, Dryad, whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Even so, the Gabranths still thought that the tree was a symbol of pride for their country.

"Hiiro, you take them to the castle, I will stop the person heading for that tree called the Tree of Origin."

Hiiro was actually reluctant to help, but since Izumi told him that this crisis was the last before Izumi went back, he reluctantly agreed. This was also for the sake of his promise to Liliyn as he would help Liliyn to fulfill her wish to create a country where all races live together.

Leowald immediately ordered all of his soldiers to stand guard outside the palace. They did not understand what was happening, but they still obeyed the orders of the King.

Hiiro scribbled a word, then he and all the higher-ups from both sides disappeared from where they were standing.

Izumi then focused on an aura heading toward the Tree of Origin, then teleported using his magic since his magic could cover that distance.

There were two guards around the Tree of Origin. When they saw someone approaching, one of the guards stopped the person. That person was wearing a black robe that covered his entire face and body. What is visible is a height of approximately 180 cm.

"Stop, who are you? This place is not a place to be casually visited!"

"I'm very sorry."

His mumble was not heard by them, then the robed person that covered his entire face and body immediately sprang into action. He attacked with his sword, even though he had no intention of killing.

Suddenly, fingers stopped the sword cleanly, which made the robed person dumbfounded when he saw Izumi's appearance. The robed person jumped back and Izumi also let go of the sword. The strength of cloaked person in front of him might be much stronger than the Gabranth guards, but it wasn't enough to deal with Izumi.

Izumi turned his head and said to the two guards.

"You should help your king in the castle! A lot of enemies came attacking that place."

"W-w-who are you?" One of the guards asked shakily. He could feel Izumi's killing intent.

"I'm one of the Cruel Brigade members. Don't you know?"

"There's no way a Humas could be a Cruel Brigade member."

*Boom*

A loud explosion could be heard from the palace. Those two guards look at each other in confusion.

"Why have you dazed around? Go for it!"

However, those two guards prepared their swords against Izumi.

And then, a powerful pressure like a shockwave assaulted them and made them faint. However, the person in front of Izumi still held it. It was just, that person's condition wasn't much better. Even though Izumi released the pressure just for a moment, the person in front of Izumi still kneeled while gasping for breath.

The robed person in front of Izumi was one of the people Rudolph had summoned to Edea. His name is Aoyama Taishi.

"Y-you…" Taishi didn't expect to meet another Japanese, but not a hero.

"A so-called hero turned into this pathetic state. How funny." Izumi chuckled while looking at Taishi's state.

Taishi was so shocked that his identity was exposed just like that, his body trembled. He didn't want this mission to fail and something bad would happen to the other hero, Chika. Avoros blackmailed Taishi with Chika's life at stake. And Taishi couldn't do anything in front of Avoros, so he could only follow Avoros' order.

"H-how did you know?"

"Oh, it seems I'm not wrong, you are indeed one of those heroes, I had doubts because you were silent earlier."

Taishi's brows rose.

"He wasn't sure before? That means I'm the one who uncovered my secret because he was just guessing." Taishi couldn't believe he was deceived by Izumi's words earlier.

"Since you are real, there's a reason I will eventually trash you!" Izumi's voice was a bit cold.

"Why? I have never met you before!" Seeing Izumi's serious look, Taishi crawled backward in fear since he felt a glimpse of Izumi's strength which was much stronger than him.

With a sharp gaze like someone wanted to kill, Izumi replied.

"Of course, you never met me. And I heard you even went so far as to coax her to come with you. Bastard, do you want to obtain my girlfriend to become your harem? Fuck!! Thinking about that, I really want to kill you! It's pissing me off!!"

"Wait, wait, wait…! Did you get it wrong? I never met your girlfriend!"

Izumi jumped forward and stomped Taishi in the face twice. Couldn't put up a fight, Taishi was sprawled on the ground, but he was still conscious and looked at Izumi who said,

"Kyouko is my girlfriend! You know her, right? Don't tell me you're not or I'll skin you alive! I can't believe it, without my knowledge, someone wants to take her away from me by exploiting Kyouko's weakness. She's not as strong as the others, but luckily she's smarter than you."