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The Hero’s Defeat

"Uh…"

"Suzu-chan!"

"Suzu!"

With Suzu raising a groan and slowly opening her eyes, Kaori and Eri ere always beside her, called Suzu’s name with anxious voices azearound, and finally opened her ~"

"Suzu, I know you like acting, but wouldn’t it be better if you didn’t say so like that at time like this?"

She should be thirsty However, Suzu desperately said so with hoarse voice, whichtone when she heard her Afterwards, Suzuthe water froulping, Suzu, who sated her thirst, said, "I’m revived! Literally!," words that couldn’t be taken as a joke, and she tried her best to stand up with Kaori and Eri supporting her The class’s ained her consciousness from a critical condition, radiated a cheerful atmosphere which made the classmates who had been depressed until no sht atmosphere was very contrary to Suzu’s complexion She was exhausted and suffered blood loss With a pale face and thin lines below her eyes just like a bear’s, her smile looked miserable Some parts of her body were pierced, but it was unot up Shizuku and Kaori watched her with respect

"Suzu-chan It’s okay for you to rest some more After all, your blood shouldn’t have been replenished yet, even if your wounds have recovered…"

"U~n, so that’s why I feel dizzy~ That bastard~, to pierce the beautiful Suzu… even though, "Can I penetrate you now?," is better to be said in bed!"

"Suzu! That’s vulgar! Beat empty space, and Eri scolded Suzu with flushed cheeks Some of the azes due to Shizuku’s glare

"Suzu, thank God you woke up We orried, you know?"

"Yo, are you really okay? Isn’t your face completely pale?"

Because Suzu suddenly caused a commotion after she woke up, Kouki and Ryuutarou approached her While being weakened for a period of ti "Limit Break," Kouki became depressed because they were severely beaten However, he seemed to have recovered somehow since a moderate amount of time had passed after they had retreated and hid where they currently were

"Morning~, Kouki-kun, Ryuutarou-kun! Looks like we soot away, huh? U…"

"Yeah, it’s Endou He retreated ahead alone We think he should be able to break through the floors alone by hiding hi Kouki and Ryuutarou with a s classmates Suzu had lost her consciousness in the midst of battle, so Kouki and the others answered her doubt while they explained the current situation

Incidentally, Kondou and Saitou had been de-petrified, woke up earlier than Suzu, and had already been debriefed of the situation

"I see, looks like a lot of tiht Kaorin, thanks! Kaorin has become Suzu’s life benefactor!"

"Suzu-chan, it’sfor et married?"

"Suzu… it’s eerie if you say that with pale face For now, shouldn’t you rest so to Kaori If she over did it, Shizuku would physically stop her It was the usual way of things Even the classmates ondered whether they’d be able to survive and return to surface again, gradually regained their coirls’ conversation that didn’t mind their defeat

However, the atht was douse ater by a person who always ruin the a about? We aled even now! Think of hoe can get out of here if you have ti at Suzu was Kondou Reiichi And though he didn’t express it, Saitou Yoshiki by his side also watched her with criticizing gaze

"Oi, Kondou Can you not say such a thing? Suzu only did this to change theto me! After all, you lost! I alh Kouki tried to admonish Kondou due to his reot poured with oil and began to criticize Kouki

"Bastard… Thanks to whom do you think we could retreat, huh? We could do that because Kouki opened a path for us!"

"To begin with, there’s no need for us to retreat if he wins! More importantly, we obviously had our chance It would have been all right for us to receive the invitation from Demon Race and defeat the is your fault! This is your responsibility!"

This tian to admonish such a Kondou Kondou stood up and confronted Ryuurarou Sy with Kondou, Saitou and Nakano also stood up and faced Ryuutarou

"Ryuutarou, I am okay… I’ll accept my responsibility, Kondou We won’t lose this time! We already understood the characteristics of the deain So, ill absolutely win this tiesture where he clasped his clenched fist, Saitou muttered with darkened eyes

"… But, you could not win even with "Limit Break"

"Th-That’s… i-it’ll be okay now!"

"Why?"

"I’ll use "Divine Might" and attack the De That’s why, if everyone could coverwith such a long chant? Even our eneht? Besides, we don’t know if those were all of the demonic beasts she has"

Even if Kouki said it’d be okay, Kondou and gang co to doubt Kouki’s ability, and were looking at hih Kouki could not help but take responsibility to make sure they win They would not calm down because of the fact that they had alth and number

The main cause for thery point while Kondou and gang were being belligerent by objecting constantly Gradually, Ayako, Yoshino, and Noan to drift around

As such, Ryuutarou began to ready his fists while Kondou readied his spear Tension immediately filled their location Kouki shouted, Ryuutarou!, and grip his shoulder to stop him However, Ryuutarou could not be stopped and veins popped on his head while glaring at Kondou Even Kondou and gang were partly obstinate about it

"Everyone, please calm down! No matter what you say, we can only bet on Kouki to survive! We must defeat the Demon Race woman even if Kouki was at the time limit of his "Limit Break" We can only do that since she won’t let us escape You understand that, right?"

Shizuku entered between them and frantically tried to persuade the while standing, Suzu seeized Finally, Kaori thought she needed to restrain everyone and began to prepare her restraining

"Grrrrr…"

"""" !?""""

A growl A growl so familiar, so low that came from the bottom of abdomen The appearances of Chimeras and the four-red-eyed wolves crossed their erous mood immediately dissipated and everyone stiffened Even the s becaed as a wall before the and rough nasal breathing could be heard fro Even trace of their smells should’ve been erased by Endou, so the demonic beasts shouldn’t be able to perceive that Kouki’s party were inside no ht so, they were tensed and unpleasant sweats flowed

Some time was still needed before they coht, Kaori and Ayako had used too ic to heal the others and had hardly recovered The vanguard group were alroup only had recovered half of theirpotions they had also been exhausted, so they still need to wait for sometimes to recover at the earliest

They could not overlook the holes in terms of roles created by Kaori and Ayako as the healers and the barrier user, Suzu That’s why Kouki’s party were hoping they would not be found out now as they watched the wall separating the outside and the hidden room

The demonic beasts wandered outside for a while, but their presences gradually began to fade before long Thus, silence returned once again Even so, everyone was standing still for a while, and breathed great sighs of relief when they knew the demonic beasts had completely disappeared; some of them crumpled on the spot The extreme tension made their sweats overflow like a flood

"…We’ll be found out if we keepa commotion That’s why, please just calht…"

Shizuku wiped the sweat off her cheek which fell and created weird dripping sound Kondou and the others replied while staot doused by cold water