Escape (1)

Now, in an area that looked like a colosseum arena, I and the other four heroes were met with a bunch of curse words, insults, and all kinds of hatred.

Yamada took a step forward and stood in front of me, staring at the saintess who was standing on the higher wall. He sighed, and shouted in all seriousness.

"Huffh... What is the meaning of all this! What do you mean the five of us are demon heroes!?"

The saintess just gave Yamada the stink eye from a distance. One of the two people with Sakai answered Yamada with a crazy smile.

"Khe khe! You're a criminal! You still want to pretend in this situation!?"

He was a man who had short purple hair, and his face had a bunch of black piercings that looked pretty messed up. There was one surprising thing I could see from him, no— this thing I could also see from Sakai and one more person who was with him!

I saw a floating text showing the names and levels above the heads of the three of them. The text was a dark red.

[ Scarop (Level 80) ]

[ ??? (Level 103) ]

[ Bouse (Level 84) ]

"The situation huh? I'm not sure what's going on at the moment, but—" Yamada opened his comic book. "I will not hesitate to defend myself!"

The name information above Sakai's head only contains a question mark. So... he's really not Sakai?

The saintess introduced the three people to the five of us, and she did it in a way that made the three people seem really great.

"The three of them are the real heroes! the three of them will help you atone for you all sins! Be grateful!"

According to the name info floating above their heads, the purple-haired guy was named Scarop, and he was seen holding a chain with a knife tied to the end of it.

There was a big guy next to Scarop. It's like three times bigger than the average person! His name was Bouse. He just stood there, staring at the five of us, not saying a thing.

Lastly, there's a guy who looks a lot like Sakai. The saintess called him Kluts, whether it was her real name or just a nickname, and he's got a strange funnel in his hand that can make an iron thorn.

!

As the saintess was finishing her sentence, Klutz suddenly charged at me, holding a medium-sized iron thorn in his hand like he was ready to stab me!

I was about to get hit in the face by a sharp iron thorn, but I didn't expect Keichi to appear right in front of me and deflect it with his fishing rod. I realized that the rod was strong and durable.

CLANK!!

"Ugh! Yamada!"

Keichi's scream made Yamada close his eyes, Yamada looked like he was about to do something.

"Mmm-hmm..."

"Hurry up! Yamada!"

...

...

But nothing happened. Don't put on a serious face if you can't do it! You idiot!

"Arrghh! It's useless! take this!" Yamada opened his eyes and immediately threw his comic book at Klutz.

PUGH!!

Yamada hit Klutz's head with his comic book, which made Klutz stop and cancel his attack. Then, Keichi turned around and kicked Kluts's head as hard as he could, making him throw back.

BAMM!!

"You! I thought you were going to use some kind of magic?!" Keichi shouted, scolding Yamada.

"I'll definitely want to do that! But hehe... sorry, I don't really understand the contents of the letter, no matter how many times I read it!"

I guess it's not good to have high expectations for someone like Yamada...

Klutz and his two companions immediately approached us. We were forced to stay away from each other and ended up forming three teams.

Yamada and I faced Klutz, who looked very similar to Sakai. Meanwhile, Sato and Naoki faced Scarop, and Keichi faced Bouse alone.

Keichi just kept dodging as Bouse attacked with both of his hands that had high destructive power, It looks like Keichi has some fighting experience, could he have been a fighter in his home world?

At the same time, I saw Sato struggling to face Scalop alone, while Naoki trembled with fear.

"W-why did it turn out like this! We are the heroes, right!? So w—"

Before Naoki could finish, the saintess cut him off. I caught a glimpse of cold expression on her face.

"Look at the symbol carved on your waist. Do you know what it means?"

Naoki lifted his shirt slightly, and sure enough, there was a symbol carved on his waist. It depicted a purple goat's head.

"That's the devil's sigil. You can only obtain that seal by being the worst criminal," the saintess said, pointing her finger at the five of us. "Sob... you all has been incited by the devil's whispers. Oh, poor you all..." The saintess explained, tears pouring down her face.

Hearing what she said made me bit annoyed! This sigil must be just a trick of her! And when Naoki heard that, he looked trembling and started rubbing his head, looking shocked.

"H-haha... y-yeah I'm such a bad person! I-i guess that's true, no... it's not! I-i just..."

Naoki seemed to be lost in his own thoughts. He was muttering to himself, but it was hard to tell what he was saying or thinking. It looked like he was in a battle with himself.

When I lifted my clothes a bit, I saw the same symbol carved on my waist. The symbol was small and in a spot that was pretty hard for me to see.

Okay, there's no time to worry about this sigil. I need to focus on what's happening right now. Kluts is standing in front of me and Yamada, but he seems to be focusing only on me.

For real, those three aren't playing around; they really want to kill us! No matter how I think about it, I don't believe the five of us can defeat them!

"You're interesting! Do you know me? wait... i get it now hahaha! so that's how it is!" Klutz said, looking at me with a crazy smile.

It seemed like Klutz was getting more serious. He shot a lot of iron spikes at Yamada and me. I jumped to the side to avoid the spikes, but suddenly, he was already in front of me. I was a little surprised, but I tried to throw a punch at his face!

"Take this!"

SWOOSH!

Klutz dodged my attack by tilting his body slightly. He has great reflexes! He immediately counterattacked by turning his body and kicking my stomach with one of his legs.

"Hahaha! demon hero!! become my experience points now!"

BAM!!

Kgh! His kick was strong enough that I nearly flew backwards! To make matters worse, he was about to launch a follow-up attack with his iron spikes aimed right at me!

But before Klutz could get any closer, a loud noise suddenly came from the iron gate. For a few moments, the area around the gate exploded loudly.

BOOOM!!

There was smoke coming from the iron gate. Out of the smoke, someone appeared. It was Allion! He was the one who had destroyed the iron gate.

I didn't expect Allion to be the one who destroyed the iron gate. I haven't seen him in a while. Now he looks messy, with chains all over his body and blood still coming out of his wounds. He doesn't seem to care, though. Allion looked at the saintess with hostility.

"Ha! Surprised I got away with it ya? Hey, you five! Hurry and get out of here through that gate!" 

It all happened so fast, but I understood that Allion was on our side! I tried to run with Yamada, towards the iron gate that had been destroyed to get out in here.

Of course, Klutz didn't let me pass. He immediately made a pretty big iron thorn and want to shot it at me.

Allion immediately ran towards Klutz quickly, Klutz' seemed distracted because his large iron thorn attack was aimed at Allion now.

"DIE!"

Allion paused, and it looked like he was getting ready to attack. He had a green aura around him, and a strong gust of wind started swirling around him.

When I looked closely, I saw that his hand was holding a necklace with a cross pendant, and he started to put the necklace into his fist.

Then, the green aura that came out of his body gathered in his fist right away, and he threw a punch at the big iron thorn that was coming at him.

"Huaaaargh!"

When the large iron thorn was in front of him, Allion immediately swung his fist towards the thorn.

"First Magin : Cross Fist!!"

BAAM!!

I could see Allion clearly punching the iron thorn with his reinforced fist. When the blows collided, there was a loud explosion, and the big iron thorn shattered easily by him!

All the viewers started running away in a panic. At that moment, Sato, who had been facing the Scarop, looked tired from avoiding so many of his attacks.

"Y-you! Always dodging like a rat! Fight me properly!" Scarop shouted, looking annoyed.

The Scarop attacked Sato with the chain he was holding. The end of the chain, which had a knife attached to it, immediately shot toward Sato. Sato jumped to avoid then attack.

"Khe khe! Got you!"

!

Suddenly, the direction of Scarop's chain changed to where Sato would land. I was very surprised to see that at the moment, That must be one of Scarop's abilities!

"Sato! watch out!" Yamada shouted, he had also seen it.

Just when I thought Sato would be hit by Scarop's attack, a ball suddenly shot out and hit the iron chain.

Clank!!

"H-hufth... s-sorry! I was just a burden before. I... I won't be stuck in the past anymore!"

It turned out that the ball was Naoki's basketball. Naoki shot it at Scarop's chain. Strangely, Naoki's basketball looked harder than usual. Sato, who witnessed this, was shocked.

"Naoki, it was—"

"Um, yesterday, Yamada asked me to watch him practice Magin. I didn't expect to be able to use it successfully..."

Scarop was getting annoyed because Naoki kept interrupting his attack. He ran over and swung his chain at Naoki.

"Don't play with me!! Just die already!"

Naoki didn't say a word. He was totally focused on his basketball. Then, out of nowhere, the ball just floated right back into his hand. He threw it right at Scarop.

SWOOSH!!!

The basketball turned into a steel ball, shot towards Scarop, and hit him right in the face.

PUGHHH!! 

There was a loud noise when the ball hit Scarop's face. Scarop was thrown back and fell to the ground. Naoki looked sweaty and was breathing heavily.

"Naoki, how'd you do that?! That's amazing!" Yamada shouted.

At the same time, Keichi just suddenly beat Bouse. I have no idea how that happened because I was too focused on Naoki and Sato. It seems like he also already understands how to use Magin.

Klutz was shocked to see Allion destroying his big iron thorn. Allion looked at Klutz with a threatening stare.

"It's really disappointing to see people like you acting like you're on the side of justice."

Hearing Allion's words, Klutz just kept quiet. Before the guard arrived, it was time to go! Staying here any longer would only be more dangerous!

Just as Yamada and I were about to reach the gate, a mysterious purple layer started to cover the area, blocking the exit.

This purple layer made it impossible for Yamada and me to pass through. It was also so hard that it was impossible to destroy!

...

W-wha—

When I turned to see what was going on, I was surprised by Sato, who was thrown past me and hit the wall hard.

BTURR!!

I saw what was right in front of me, and my eyes locked on a horrific scene. Naoki's body was clearly visible, impaled and lifted up by Scarop's chains.

At the same time, Keichi passed out right away after being hit by Bouse. W-what the hell is going on?! Weren't those two already out earlier?!

"Sato! Naoki! You bastard!!!" Yamada immediately ran towards Scarop.

It turns out that all this time, there were several people wearing white hoods sitting in the audience seats. I think they are the ones who created a strong purple layer that enclosed this place!

"Sir Allion, you know? I won't repeat the same mistake, there's no way I'll just let them go." Said the saintess with a flat but tense expression.

"G-guh... an attack like this will never be able to stop me!" continued Allion, who stared hatefully at the Saintess.

Allion seemed to struggle when facing Klutz. Right now, Klutz had stabbed Allion with an iron extending directly from the funnel on his palm.

A red light that formed like a rope was seen connected to the three of them—Scarop, Bouse, and Klutz.

Another tip of the red light string was pointing at the saintess's fingers, so she was doing something to the three of them! ck! what should I do now, is my life going to end here?!

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