Help! My Overprotective S-Rank Master Who Loves Me Too Much Won't Let Me Go on Quests! - Chapter 30: Let\'s Fight Aria-san!

Chapter 30: Let’s Fight Aria-san!

The colliding water magic burst upon impact—revealing that, even in a serious battle, I was probably the only one taking it seriously.

If Aria-san was truly serious, there was no way my water magic would burst upon collision with hers, even if I used both hands to use magic, she used only one. There was no way she wouldn’t pierce through my water magic and deal a fatal blow to me… which meant that Aria-san didn’t want to harm me.

Though there might not be any chance for me to win if we were truly fighting seriously, if Aria-san didn’t want to harm me, then maybe… just maybe, I could win.

I readied myself and cast more magic toward Aria-san.

“Aria-san, if you don’t want to get hurt, please dodge!”

Saying so, I once again cast water magic toward Aria-san… Aria-san should easily be able to handle just one water magic, but instead of avoiding it or deflecting it, she took it head-on.

“…”

“Huh…?”

Aria-san showed no sign of being particularly hurt. She stopped preparing and said, “Adin-kun, I won’t resist. I’ll head straight toward you, and I’ll defeat only that succubus from the Demon King’s Army. If you don’t like that, you can attack me.”

“Attack… an unarmed Aria-san?”

“Yeah.”

As Aria-san declared, she slowly descended toward me and Etenela-san… It was a very big opening for me. Even though Aria-san could easily withstand any number of my attacks without resistance, if I were to fire several, dozens of attacks at her without her resisting, it might be able to become a fatal blow.

…I aimed my hands toward Aria-san.

“Hah… hah…”

If Aria-san had resisted, it wouldn’t have been this mentally taxing but attacking an unarmed Aria-san…

“That’s enough, Adin.”

“…Huh?”

Etenela-san, who should have been behind me, was suddenly in front of me, saying that… Enough?

“I was truly happy that you tried to protect me, Adin, but if it means you’ll suffer… it would be much better for me to be defeated instead. Really, in the end, I received so much from you…”

“W-Wait, Etenela-san, ‘in the end’…?”

“You’ve finally stepped forward huh, Adin-kun move.”

Just as I heard Aria-san’s voice, she unleashed a very heavy lightning magic attack at Etenela-san… Etenela-san had almost no magic power left, so if she took Aria-san’s lightning magic in this state…

“Etenela-san! Dodge!”

Right before the lightning struck Etenela-san, she smiled and said, “Adin… if I were to be reborn again, I hope to be by your side as your ally and not your enemy…”

The next moment, Aria-san’s powerful lightning magic struck where Etenela-san was.

“Etenela-san!?”

There was nothing left of Etenela-san but a hole in the stone floor where she once stood…

“T-This can’t be…”

Certainly, Etenela-san may have done many terrible things as an officer of the Demon King’s Army, but all of that was just to survive… At least, the Etenela-san I know now wasn’t someone who should be targeted for subjugation as a Demon King’s Army officer.

“…Aria-san! Why won’t you listen to me—”

“What are your intentions, Shuteridone?”

“Huh? Shuteridone…?”

Wondering why Shuteridone’s name came up now, I looked in the direction Aria-san was facing… On top of a certain building’s roof was Shuteridone-san—and next to her was Etenela-san, sitting on the roof.

“Etenela-san…!”

Shuteridone-san had saved Etenela-san…!

Feeling strong relief that Etenela-san was alive, I collapsed to my knees without thinking.

Then, Shuteridone-san drew her sword and sternly addressed Aria-san.

“Aria Feruste, it seems you’ve truly become a precarious existence depending on Adin Almarx-kun… If you really have no intention of settling down, let’s have a serious match.”