Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai

「Don't worry… I'll protect this place to bitter end.」

She promised so even if she was the only surviving member, knowing very well that Kotaro had also done his best to drill the shell.

That's why she couldn't afford to back down.

Different from when she was in her uncontrollable berserk state, the current Meiko felt as if she was brimming with omnipotent power―― But even as she completely focused on defense, there was another battlefield.

Since the entire surrounding had turned into a battlefield, it was only a matter of time before their defence breached.

GUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

At that moment, the war cry of Yamata no Orochi came from the cracked ceiling.

Not to mention that it wasn't just the roar of a single giant serpent's head, there were three heads roaring at the same time.

And then, three kinds of lights shone brightly from outside of the wall along with a roar―― Right at Meiko's place.

Meiko immediately guessed the direction of that light, which couldn't be missed no matter what.

The breath headed toward the western battlefield.

In short, the three sealed heads had fired their breaths to the sky―― Meaning that the seal had been broken.

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Countless cracks ran along the sealing lance of steel and ice before it got smashed to pieces.

But, the three heads were still sewed on the ground, unable to move an inch.

「KOTORI! HOW'S THE SITUATION ON MOMOKAWA-KUN'S SIDE!」

「MOMOKAWA HAS ALREADY BEEN DRILLING THE SHELL! BUT IT SEEMS IT'LL TAKE SOME TIME!」

Ryouko felt dizzy upon hearing the report from Kotori who replied with a smartphone in her hand.

「It'll be all right… Keep going, all is well.」

Though they had to keep their job to maintain the seal, it was almost impossible for the plan to go smoothly.

Kotaro had finally started drilling the shell. Meaning that their victory was guaranteed as long as he managed to break the shell.

「MINAMI! NAKAJIMA-KUN! THE DRILLING OF THE SHELL HAS BEGUN! DO YOUR BEST, JUST A BIT MORE!」

「Roge~r, Ryouko-chan!」

「Roger that, Class Rep!」

Minami and Haruma replied with a lively voice while swinging their weapons.

「It seems both of you still have some stamina left. The problem is my magical power…」

The consumption of Ryouko's magical power『Ice Fortis Sagita』had been really intense since the start of the battle.

Though she had been drinking MP potion during the downtime to recover some of her magical power, the consumption of magical power was too intense.

All they needed was to buy as much time as possible. Even Ryouko's cloudy mind couldn't come up with a solution due to the mental fatigue after overusing magic.

「I beg you Momokawa-kun. Please succeed before my magical power exhausts――」

「――RYOUKO-CHAN!」

Ryouko was suddenly taken aback and raised her face upon hearing Minami's exhausted voice.

「What's the matter, Minami?」

「The head feels funny for some reason!」

Despite what she said, there seemed to be nothing wrong with her physical condition.

Though there were cracks in the sealing lance, it wasn't enough to break in one struggle.

Even the head of the giant serpent could barely move.

「I don't know which part of me feels funny though.」

「In short―― DEYAAAH!」

Minami stabbed the 『Death Stinger』 in her right hand till the base of its blade. And sure enough, the blade that was coated in poison sunk easily into the flesh under the tough scale.

「As I thought, it lacks the fleshy response!」

「What do you mean by lacks the fleshy response?」

「Class Rep, I agree with Natsukawa-san. I also felt the lack of response when I slashed at it with my sword.」

With both vanguards reporting the same thing, Ryouko ended up pondering about this matter while invoking the next 『Ice Fortis Sagita』.

「Lack of response, does that mean its flesh became softer? Or we simply lack the damage.」

But, even when she looked at the three heads, they looked the same as before.

「What in the world is actually happening here――『Ice Fortis Sagita』.」

She used her magic to reinforce the most tattered sealing lance in the 1st head for the Xth time while pondering about such a thing.

The cracks on the sealing lance closed up for the time being and the lance firmly held Orochi's head again.

「――What the, is this really lack of response!?」

The moment Ryouko used her magic, she also felt the out-of-feel sensation described by her comrades.

Though she didn't use weapons like Minami and Co, she also felt something like a response whenever her spell hit her enemy.

When her ice spear struck a fatal wound on the goma, or when her spell got repelled by the tough skin of the boss, the response she felt just now was different from those two.

Ryouko thought that such a phenomenon might happen because the spell still maintained some sort of connection with its caster but―― The response she felt just now felt as if it hit a mere corpse.

「I'm sure that I stabbed the head and yet… Could it be!?」

Just when she came with a possibility, something strange happened.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ――

The 3rd head suddenly vibrated.

「WOAAAAAAAAAAAH!?」

Minami who stabbed the top of the neck got startled and jumped down immediately when she felt the flesh beneath her vibrating. Haruma on the other hand was vigilantly watching the head that was making a different move from before and retreated immediately.

「The heck, they are already perfectly recovered…」

The question is why do we feel something off when attacking them?

The reason was simply that they were literally just hitting a corpse.

That was the reason why Minami's poisonous sword and Haruma's magic sword weren't really effective.

The reason Ryouko's magic didn't work was simply because the sealing lance didn't pierce Yamata no Orochi.

Naturally, appearance-wise, the three heads were the same as before.

The reason: the change happened inside of the head.

CRACKLECRACKLECRACKLECRACKLECRACKLE!

A huge crack spreads from the back of the three heads along with a loud crackling sound.

Then, a slippery, huge white frame broke out―― From inside the scale and carapace.

「You gotta be kidding me… It’s shedding its skin.」

「To think that it used such a method to break free from the sealing spear.」

Haruma and Minami were raising their heads, looking at the new Orochi's head that was just shedding its skin with a shocked face.

Maybe because it was just shedding its skin, the color of the new head was paler, softer, and covered in mucus.

The part that got thrown out wasn't just the scale and skin, some flesh was also sacrificed, thus the new pale head was one size smaller than the old head.

The skull part was entirely abandoned. The new head had a sharper angle, and was made under the old head that couldn't move due to the sealing lance, thus it was smaller.

The white head that just shed its skin was visibly smaller, thinner, softer, and weaker.

But, the three heads had regained their freedom, and opened their jaws, each compressed a bright red, blue, and yellow glowing light.

「MINAMI! HARUMA-KUN! RUUUUN!」

The next moment, a torrent of light exploded. The three heads unleashed their breaths as if it were their first cry.

The three breaths gouged the ground in their wake and rose up to the sky.

The three pillars of light allowed the other classmates who were fighting on other battlefields to know that the seal on the three heads had been broken.

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