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Volume 11 Chapter 315

Offense and Defense

　

「You three, are you ready？」

「I’m ready, Haruto-sama」

「Haru-nii, I’ll protect you！」

「I bet Jashin-sama will be quite surprised to find the four of us all in on this」

　Today is the day we go to the evil god’s base.

　Tine, Akari, and Shitori are there to support me punching that guy.

　Incidentally, there are strong barriers activated in the divine realm──especially in the areas with the Four Great Gods, and not just any normal hero class can get through without a god’s permission, or so I hear.

　Thanks to the evil god’s curse effects, I can nullify those barriers.

　Akari and Shitori were too overpowered for this world, and the barrier would not be repelling them.

　As for Tina, I have my protection on her temporarily, and I also had her strengthened with various magic tools and spells, bringing her essentially up to Akari and Shitori’s level.

　Several others said they wanted to tag along, but any more people would be cutting it close, I think, so I had them stay posted at home.

　Honestly, I also want Tina to stay at the mansion with them, but……。

『Having someone you need to protect by your side will make you stronger, Haruto-sama』

　──When she said that, I decided to have her along.

　Of course, I also provided equipment for the family members staying at home.

　After all, a demon might come and attack, or maybe one of the evil god’s attacks might fly over.

　The members who were staying behind were──

　Lifa, Luna, Merdi, Mai, Mei, Yoko, Ryuka, Hakua, Seira, Ermia, Kikyo, Sylph, Luke, Riel, Ryushin, Hinata, Shiro, Tet.

　And then the slime girls and the evil god’s shikigami.

　The shikigami had betrayed the evil god, becoming an official member of the Elnor household.

　After reincarnating me, the evil god had gone to sleep.

　Having become idle, she traveled the world, and as she did so, the shikigami observed us beating up demons all over the place, and upon learning I had tamed Shitori, the evil god had really gone into a rage.

　That’s why she fled to our place.

　I had heard a lot of things about her, but apparently the idea of reincarnating me and getting in the way of the creation god was this shikigami’s idea.

　Since she was the cause of my death, I went ahead and gave her a finger flick to the forehead. This was of course without any magic coating, and with just a normal level 1 status.

　Since she had told me all sorts of things about the evil god, I gave her amnesty and let her off the hook.

　After all, the real culprit in all this was the evil god.

　He holds the most blame.

　Yep. Let’s leeeave it at thaaat..

　Also, there’s no concern for the shikigami betraying us.

　The creation god guaranteed that.

　In the first place, the creation god was the one who made the shikigamis to serve the gods, distributing them appropriately.

　So the shikigami who came here was just another one of those.

　And the creation god was kind enough to allow me to punch the evil god, so the shikigami wouldn’t be able to stop me.

　There was no need for the shikigami to betray us.

　So I decided to believe what she told me.

　So now the shikigami was someone to be protected.

　For Mai or Mei, who are fairy king level, or for Kikyo, who became a divine beast, I’m not as certain……

　I decided to just protect everyone as best as I can.

「I shall protect Mai and Mei. Haruto, you should rest easy as you go to Jashin-sama’s lair」

　I summoned the elemental kings.

　In addition──

「Is Sylph under Haruto’s protection？　Umm, I would also like to be under・his・protection・y’know……」

「Fuhahaha. Undine, you are so meek in front of Haruto.」

「Indeed. That tomboy has the face of a lady at last」

「S-Shut up!!」

　I summoned the elemental king of water, Undine, the elemental king of fire, Ifrit, and the elemental king of earth, Gnome.

　These four personnages were more than certified for the job.

「Well. As long as I’m here, the evil god’s attacks won’t even reach us, though.」

　──Indeed.

　One of the four great gods, Poseidon, the god of the sea.

　My rival from long ago in battle.

　When I said I wanted to introduce my family, he had come all the way to the mansion.

　I never know what might happen, so I try to introduce my family to as many of my friends as I can.

　And it just kind of turned out that Poseidon wanted to protect my family from now on.

　Apparently gods can’t attack each other in this world, so simply by having the sea god here, no one would be attacking my estate.

　In other words, the sea god was the perfect shield for any attacks from the evil god.

　At most, the evil god might send over underlings, but according to what the shikigami told me, there are only fifteen competent demons left.

　Well, that shouldn’t be a problem then.

　Excluding myself, Akari, and Shitori, we have this world’s strongest battle entourage lined up right here.

「Haruto-san. Take care」

「Shitori. Protect our master.」

「「Haruto-sama, fight！」」

「You take care too, Akari-san」

「All four of you, go for it nya！」

「Do your bestーnano!!」

　Everyone staying at home sent us off.

「We’ll be back soon, everyone！」

「Seee youuuー」

「Danna-sama, see you later──」

「Yeah. Kay, let’s go！」

　We teleported in the direction of the evil god’s temple.

　──＊＊＊──

　A bit earlier in the temple──

「Kukuku. I do not know who you are, but if you are approaching me, then by all means do so！」

　Thanks to the shikigami running away, the evil god had to cast the curses himself, and he was now quite satisfied with the preparations.

　He had set up numerous curses around the perimeter of the magic circle.

　He also had all kinds of curses surrounding his chair.

　That wasn’t all.

　In the case of the magic circle being one of teleportation, he had ensured that he could trace the source of the teleportation and send out fifteen demon subordinates.

　Even if the hero were to come, he wouldn’t be defeated so quickly. As a god of this world, the evil god had confidence in his strength.

　As he was fending off attacks from the hero, the subordinate demons were in charge of using the same teleportation circle in order to abduct his friends and relatives.

　No matter how strong the hero was, hostages would diminish any threat he might have held. Things would be easily doable after that.

　If there were as many as 15 demons sent over at once, no matter who the hero had as his allies, capturing them would be no problem whatsoever.

　That was the evil god’s line of thinking.

　He couldn’t have possibly known that he was sending these 15 demons to the absolute・worst・location in the human world.