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◈ Reincarnated as the Villain's Heir
Chapter 49: Maniacs Sometimes Become a Public Nuisance
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On the next day off, Luchel and I were walking through a forest with Brother Vaid.
After that incident, Leticia and Lilisha had somehow escaped Brother Vaid's clutches.
It seemed he had not intended to do something so tactless as interfere with a student's day off any more than that.
The two of them had been full of motivation, though.
But if they had actually gone along with him, it would not have ended at the level of that thug in the restaurant.
I had once been on the receiving end myself.
What worried me in connection to that was the mission from here on.
Luchel and I had been dragged into Brother Vaid's mission.
"Now then, let's eat. If there is a snake around there, catch it."
"Got it."
I pushed through the trees, found a snake, and stabbed it with my magic sword.
Food would be procured locally.
When you skinned a snake, roasted it, and ate it, it was surprisingly tasty.
Luchel from a little while ago would have caused a huge fuss, but she had gotten used to it now.
In front of the snake crackling as it roasted, I finally heard the details of the mission from Brother Vaid.
Recently, the number of summon-possessed people in the country had been increasing.
Summon-possessed referred to people possessed by demons or magic beasts summoned through Netherworld summoning.
The formal name was Summon Master, but throughout its long history, it had caused various incidents.
There were those who could not control the demons they summoned and ended up dominated, and those whose minds and bodies were eaten away, bringing plagues with them.
The term summon-possessed had been born from such cases.
Its history was so deep that even I had not fully researched it.
After all, even the game did not discuss it in depth.
Some people had become summon-possessed unintentionally, or because they had no other choice, so the term was treated almost like a discriminatory word.
The summoning methods should have been lost over many long years, but Brother Vaid said they had recently started increasing inside the country.
Subjugating the root cause was this mission.
I wanted to ask why the royal family could not handle a problem like this, but they had not even noticed the incident in the first place.
And yet House Balfont had already identified the culprit's hideout. That was impressive.
Apparently, Leorg wanted to make the royal family submit thoroughly.
To put it simply, he probably wanted them to say, "Our country had such a problem? As expected of House Balfont!"
"Brother Vaid, do you know the enemy's identity?"
"Roughly. But now is not the time."
"Why did you bring Luchel and me?"
"Does an older brother need a reason to invite his younger brother on a walk?"
A walk. Yes, to Brother Vaid, most missions were nothing more than walks.
Brother Vaid looked somehow violent as he bit into the roasted snake.
"Then Gillium would have worked too."
"I walked with him in the past."
"Even though you used to barely look at me."
"I remember well when you completed a mission at only seven years old."
Was he still burning with rivalry over the fact that I had completed a mission at the youngest age in House Balfont history?
Brother Vaid was a battle maniac, but that did not mean he wanted to lose.
If you flipped battle maniac around, it meant he wanted to know every technique and then surpass it.
That was probably the purpose of this walk too.
In that case, I simply would not show much of my hand.
Of course, it depended on the opponent.
"How about you, Luchel? Have you been skipping training?"
"Hah!? W-well, I guess I'm doing all right."
"Shall I train you again for the first time in a while? Shooting practice, for example."
"Aaaah, more importantly, I've been into survival lately!"
What a lie. Even when you secluded yourself in the mountains with me, you complained the whole time.
That was when it happened.
"Someone is there."
Brother Vaid smoothly stood up.
Then, without hesitation, he drew his greatsword from its sheath and swept it horizontally, making trees crack and fall one after another.
"Brother Vaid, you are impatient. I would watch a little longer."
"It cannot be helped if I am curious."
The distance was far, so I had intended to wait, but Brother Vaid seemed unable to hold back from meeting the enemy.
That enemy was a magician-like figure wearing a robe and mask.
"You have better instincts than I expected. I should have erased my mana and presence completely, though."
The man smiled fearlessly, showing no fear at all even in front of Brother Vaid.
He seemed like a fairly tough opponent, but Brother Vaid was the one who had flushed him out.
I did not want to steal his prey. But I did want to fight.
"Brother Vaid, let me handle him."
"I will do it."
"Thought so."
There was no way Brother Vaid would yield.
His eyes were sparkling like a child's, and he had already returned his drawn greatsword to its sheath.
Which meant this time too...
"I came because I thought rats were approaching, but there are only three of you."
"None of that matters. If you are going to attack, hurry up."
"Good grief, there is no need to rush... I'll do it!"
Several magic circles appeared around the man, and beams of light fired from them one after another.
They moved left and right, so we had to dodge them like one of those electric wire maze games.
It was magic that resembled a spread laser.
"Hmm!"
"Oh, you dodged this? But you cannot approach, can you?"
"This is..."
"Your mistake was not attacking the moment you detected me. I have crushed plenty of strong-person pretenders like you with room to spare."
I kept dodging on my own, but I could not interfere.
Brother Vaid was already fully fired up.
"Compound magic! By focusing light and lightning into a single point, you have increased both speed and power! Normally, the trajectory would become sloppy, but the reason you can achieve it without wavering is surely because of those magic circles! The magic circles act as pillars, and light and lightning are wrapped around them! In other words, it is fair to say this is a state where you are swinging magic swords of light and lightning! Magic enchantment already requires delicate technique, yet you can use several at once, and even move them despite their linear motion. I am impressed! No... this is not ordinary magic enchantment! Normally, magic enchantment is applied to weapons and the like! In this case, the enchantment is being applied to the pillars of the magic circles! I see! This is interesting!"
"...Huh?"
Making the enemy react like that was what Brother Vaid did.
Of course it would turn out this way.
But for Brother Vaid, this was normal operation.
Despite not letting even a graze touch him, he praised the technique at length.
The frightening part came after this.
Brother Vaid leapt into the man's range with no difficulty.
His speed surpassed the man's magic.
"Tch!"
"But that is not the way!"
"Guh! L-let go! My arm..."
"This time, try erasing the magic circles! Then you can launch a surprise attack without letting your opening move be read!"
Brother Vaid had completely caught the man.
The sight looked like prey pinned down by a giant beast.
With overwhelming physical strength, the man's arms were forced down, and he was made to take a pose against his will.
"Listen. You probably construct the magic formula for the magic circles as preparation before releasing the spell. But that is too slow. First, try imagining it without the magic circles."
"What is this guy...? Even with maximum mana reinforcement, he won't budge...!"
Poor man.
That was what happened when you showed off some half-baked amazing magic you thought up.
Once Brother Vaid got like this, he would not stop.
I thought I might eat some snake since I was bored, but it had already been ruined by that magician's rampage.
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