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Beast Tamer Who Got Kicked Out From the Hero’s Party Chapter 150

CHAPTER 150: VS THE ULTIMATE EVIL *7*

That voice belonged to Tanya.

She unfolded her dragon wings and unleashed a deadly wave of her Dragon Breath.

But her target was not Iris herself.

It was the spells that Iris had cast.

The magic spells that were aimed at us were instantly swallowed up in the rush of bright light and heat, and then Tanya’s Dragon Breath managed to devour them whole.

So in the end, even Iris’s spells proved no match to the might of the Dragon Breath and ended up disappearing for good.

「Fuuh!」’

Thank God, we’re saved.

That was a real close call.

That was some great support coming from Tanya right there.

But from the look of it, wasn’t Tanya surprisingly far away from us? So how……?

Wondering about that, I cast a quick glance towards Tanya……

「Nnnhh.」

Nina was right there with her.

She was holding the kettle with Tina inside of it under her arm, while holding hands with Tanya.

They must have put some distance and then get closer to Iris with the Teleportation ability that Nina could use.

Nina had also received Suzu-san’s special training, and she wasn’t taking the training lightly, she has become quite adept at coordinating her Teleportation.

So then, where could Kanade possibly be right now?

「Unyaah!」

Kanade screamed while falling down from the sky.

Before I knew it, she seemed to have decided to make an oversized jump and approached Iris as she was falling down.

「Oh my, oh my! If you do something like that…… Fufufu, you only make yourself a great target. Come forth. Otherworldly Flames.」

A wave of flames flooded forth from Iris’s hand.

They turned into a disastrous jet-black color and raced forward like a wild carnivorous beast.

Kanade, who was still in the sky at the time, had no way to actually avoid it.

She could only fall prey to Iris’ flames as she was.

…… At least that’s what Iris surely must have thought.

「Nyan!」

「What?」

But just before the black flames were able to touch Kanade……

Kanade kicked the air while still being in mid-fall.

The recoil caused her body to slide sideways and avoid the flames with ease.

It’s a move that Suzu-san showed her how to make.

It’s an absurd technique of kicking the air like some sort of foothold, but…..

Kanade had managed to grasp the initial concept behind the technique in no time at all.

However, the success rate of her actually doing it didn’t seem to be that high, oscillating around thirty percent or so, according to Kanade herself.

「Unyannya!」

Kanade then started to spin around.

It fell like she was turning into a genuine meteorite……

The way she was right now, she was going to crash right into Iris!

「Kuh!」

Falling speed plus the natural power of the Cat Spirit Tribe.

As expected, this was something truly irresistible, and Iris’s face was twisted in an expression of both shock and momentary pain.

However, even so, she didn’t seem to have received any major damage.

Rather, would it be more accurate to say that she was surprised by the unexpected behavior of her opponent than anything else here?

Iris quickly regained her composure and used her usual cool face to work her magic once more.

「Come forth. Otherworldly Flames. Come forth. Ice Bullet of Sorrow. Come forth. Thunderbolt of Annihilation.」

「Unyah!?」

Three spells were unleashed one after another and flew towards her, which caused Kanade to panic.

A storm of violence loomed over Kanade with no place left for her to escape to.

「Fuuuuuuhhhhhh……」

Kanade took a deep breath and calmed her disturbed concentration.

She then put all of her strength into her body.

「Nyah!」

And she intercepted the oncoming spells with her fists!

She started punching, and the pressure of the air created from her punches alone out the roaring flames.

Continuing on, she cleaved the ice bullet with her foot.

Released like a spear, Kanade’s kick pierced the ice bullet and shattered it to pieces.

But that was her limit.

Using both her hands and feet, there was no way for her to prevent the third spell from hitting her.

But there was no expression of impatience or fear on Kanade’s face.

Was she hiding some sort of a trick up her sleeve?

No, that was not it.

It was just that……

「“Dragoon Howling!”」

Tanya’s magic exploded just in time, almost grazing Kanade in the process.

A shockwave that mimicked a Dragon’s roar collided with Iris’ magic, offsetting it in the process.

Kanade has friends that she can rely on.

So she was sure that her companions would support her and take care of that imminent threat.

It’s because she thought that, she didn’t have to do anything rash and stupid.

「Oh dear, oh dear me.」

Although her attack was unsuccessful, Iris’s expression remained the same.

She still had that charming smile on her face.

「Great job. As expected of the Ultimate Species like myself.」

「Fufun! See? We are pretty strong ourselves!」

「That being said, you are pretty good yourself. I have never seen or heard of someone capable of using four different types of magic at once.」

「Fufufu…… I guess that you can say that there is a certain trick behind that mechanic, but let’s keep that one a secret for the time being, hm?」

「What kind of a trick is that? Now I’m actually curious.」

「Do you want me to tell you?」

「Yes. For future reference.」

「Oh well, then I am going to tell you. Since you are asking nicely.」

「Huh?　You’re going to tell me? Just like that」

Tanya got a strange look on her face at Iris’ honest words.

Kanade, who was now right next to her, also made a rather quizzical expression.

「Nyaaah…… It’s suspicious that you’re going to teach us that so honestly. Are you up to something?」

「No, I don’t think so.」

「No way! This has to be a lie! No one reveals their hand to their enemies so willingly!」

「Normally, yes, that would be correct, but……」

After a brief pause, Iris continued her story.

「What if I were to tell you that the difference in our strength levels was so great that there is literally no need for me to be cautious of you? Then, there’s nothing wrong with exposing my hand to you, right?　Rather, it’s an appropriate handicap, wouldn’t you agree?」
　
「It’s in an extremely bad taste.」

「…… Fufufu. Unfortunately, that’s the kind of personality that I have. So I’m afraid that you will have to live with it.

Iris laughed while accepting my words of scorn as if they were supposed to be the highest form of a compliment.

「You see, my own Magic Power is on the level that makes me on par with the Spirit Tribe…… But there is no way for me to surpass them. At least, not by all that much. Actually, maybe my overall Magic Power capacity is even slightly lower than that of Spirit Tribe? That is why I cannot use more than one spell at any given time.」

「But you actually used more than one spell at once!」

Iris then responded to Kanade’s plausible argument with a chuckle.」

「Oh, that? Well, that wasn’t magic.」

「Huh?」

「What are you talking about?　If that wasn’t magic, then what was it?」

Tanya said while glaring at Iris.

「Excuse me, then. It was a really bad way for me to say that. It is true that what I am using is technically magic, but it’s a different kind of “magic”. The one I use is “Summoning Magic”.」

「That is……」

Does this mean anything to you?

Tanya’s face stiffened in a single moment.

「I don’t create flames, I summon flames…… That’s the Summoning Magic I use. Any kind of thing can be summoned to this place by my magic power. And the characteristic of this Summoning Magic is that…… That it can be used endlessly.」

「Wha……?」

「The Summoning Magic I use is a very useful thing, you know?　There’s no limit to how many things I can summon at once. Also, there’s no limit to what I can summon. Just like I summoned myself, I summoned a large number of monsters, and there is no limit to what I can summon that way.」

Iris then laughed.

I finally understood what that charming smile was.

If what she just said was true, Iris could literally exercise the same power as Magic without any limitations.

All kinds of powers.

With no limit put onto her at any given moment.

Does Iris really have that kind of power……?

Because if that is the case here……

「Now then…… Let me ask you one more time. Do you really wish to continue?」

「……………」

「We have clashed a few times now, but we cannot give you a decisive blow. I’m not the only one who hasn’t given it his all, and it seems to be the same for you, but… Fufufu.」

Iris laughed innocently, like a little child.

…… It was a terrible smile that seemed to underline her cruel nature more than anything else.

「Supposing that our two groups were to give this fight everything that we have to give…… Which one of us would be left standing right there in the end? Rein-sama, are you confident enough in your abilities? Do you really think that you would be able to take me down?」

「If I am being perfectly honest…… No, I don’t think that we can do that.」

I’m confident that we have become stronger after being trained by Suzu-san.

I can say that the way we are now, we could easily handle a threat of the level of that Demon that appeared in Horizon on that day.

However, Iris was something entirely different.

She was even more of a monster than I imagined.

If I hadn’t had Suzu-san train me, I might not have been able to last a second against an opponent like her.

To be honest, I don’t want to deal with her head on like that, but……

「But we can’t simply leave now. There are innocent people behind me. People that need to be protected. I’m not going to let them die simply because I didn’t want to fight you. That is why I cannot allow you to do whatever it is that you want to do.」

At that moment, Iris’s smile disappeared from her lips.

「Innocent, you say……? Truly, you say the most unusual things, Rein-sama.」

「Iris?」

「Oh, but there are. There are sins alright. There are sins that cannot be wiped away, sins that cannot be forgotten, sins that cannot be atoned for. That’s what makes you human. Humans are sinful creatures down at their very core.」

When she was saying that, Iris’s face was filled with a bottomless hatred.