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Small Throes

"What are you saying!" This was what Ellis shouted when she heard the news from Claire.

"I said the sealed spirit had been released because we were trying to conquer it. Now, he might be acting wildly in the forest and destroying everything. Well, since there's no one there, I'm sure there won't be any problems. We just need to go there to attack him together, don't we?" kino said casually without any burden.

The thought of "no problem because there are no people" is not wrong, anyway. After all, this did not harm others, at least not for a long time. Still the Sylphid Knight Line will still be harmed because they have to take care of this matter. But on the other hand, it will also be a good training ground to deal with spirits in real combat. This is one way that they can show their strength.

Kino has no problem fighting. Even with an attack that cannot hurt an opponent, he can still be a diversion or provide support when other attacking members are in trouble. Only lacking strong attack abilities, then Kino would be on par with ninja, at least at low jonin or high genin levels.

"Not that, huh…. I mean, it's not that I didn't hear what you said, it's just that I couldn't believe that you were actually going to go to that place and release the sealed spirit." Ellis said in a furious tone.

His anger was very ordinary for a chief of the Sylphid Knights. Once on this quiet day, he and his knights landed extra jobs with no extra pay. What's worse than this? Working overtime without pay is a form of cruelty to employees and it signifies that the company is a black company with coercion on its members.

But please note, knights and ordinary companies have a big difference. Within the company, employees work to earn money, while within the ranks of their knights they work to seek pride and pride. The members of the Sylphid Knights would not hesitate to spend more money on their pride, after all they were extremely wealthy.

"Unfortunately it's true. The spirit had already escaped and was now on a rampage," Kino replied casually without any guilt. "Well you say anything, he's gone loose and gone berserk. It's a good thing that you survived even with Rikka exhausted, the rest of you didn't have any significant injuries."

"Ugh.." - UH…." At his subordinate, Ellis commanded, "Alright, all the members of the Sylphid Knights, we go to the forest to appease that spirit!" He also added, "You're coming with us, Kino!"

"Good, good." Kino has no arguments to retaliate and can only accept.

Among all the people who had come with Claire before, Kino was the most powerful with her battle experience. The wisest choice was to take him along as a guide and let the others stay here rather than just be a burden.

"Wait, I'll come!" scream Claire. "I'm the one who started this, let me take responsibility for what I've done."

"All right." Ellis agrees. "I don't really expect you to be able to help a lot, but it's better with more people."

Greyworth is not with them in this extermination. The problem is not that big to make it have to be seen directly in the incident. Only after these knights lost would he come as an additional aid. His position was on the last line of defense.

•••••

On the other hand Keith had finished fighting against Terminus Est. He lay on the floor with his transparent body in observer mode. His body was exhausted with him currently using the ki control within his body to slowly recover his energy. Using healing magic (/= Kaifuku Maho) is not an option because she is exhausted in energy, not injured in the physical.

"Ah. I should have chosen not to fight him alone, yes. It seems like my theory is correct, and I might be able to make a contract with the spirits of this world. But somehow, I failed to make a contract with him and he instead blew up the energy until I jolted a few meters."

"Luckily, I managed to recover myself using Kaifuku Maho so that there were no fatal wounds on my body. But I'm too limp now…. Is this the upper limit of Keith's magic power? I didn't expect that he would run out of mana with a capacity that was never shown the limit. He shouldn't be exhausted just because of some magic I did."

"Could Terminus Est absorb some of my mana when I try to make a contract with her? But I don't think that's possible. Terminus Est was able to break all curses, however, instead of removing them, it had instead absorbed all the curses itself, which would soon be passed on to its master. This made him more like a demon sword than a holy sword that would immediately kill his master in exchange for using his overwhelming strength. Didn't anyone say if he had the ability to absorb magic energy or mana."

"The most logical possibility that happened was, I condensed my magic energy in one dense field that I used to increase the defense of my palm while trying to make a contract. However since I am not used to using magic yet, I do not set the quantity of mana and instead spend it. If you ask what this might be, then it's quite possible because this is a fantasy world."

"Then why could I fail in making a contract with him, the reason was because he rejected me…. Surely many wanted to make a contract with a legendary sealed spirit like him, but since he was still here, then it could be an explanation that the person trying to make a contract with him failed."

"I thought, I could force him to form a contract by giving a lot of magic energy in my act of making a contract, but not this factor to make a contract with him. Whereas the affinity or element Terminus Est is steel (/= steel) which is close to the ground. But still, it was still not enough to make a contract with him."

"By the way I watched Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance I realized something. Usually someone will say a few sentences that chuunibyou sounds when going to summon their spirit or make a contract. Maybe because I missed this detail when I made the contract, the making of this contract became void."

"Also, Kazehaya Kamito gave her blood to Terminus Est's sword blade when she made the contract. These details may be a factor in my failure."

Keith folded his hands and continued, "That's it. I'll relax here for a moment. I'm sure Kazehaya Kamito is walking in the forest and even if that doesn't happen, I'm sure there are people who will overcome that troublesome sword spirit. Next, I will make a contract with Glasya-Labolas or Leviathan."