I'm Shenji, what are you doing?

Heine heard it right, someone was indeed calling his name.

His body that was knocked away by the roar did not fall to the ground, but was caught by a petite figure wearing a cloak.

It's Gray!

Gray has been following Heine since he left the room.

Because of his thin sense of existence, the isolation of Shinji's talisman, and possibly the interference of various spells from different sources and with different effects in the castle, Gray's tracking was not discovered.

The girl just watched the young knight walk into the vestibule, into the forest, and down the tunnel.

The too obvious echo in the tunnel made her a little worried about whether she would be discovered. When she was hesitating whether to follow in, the sound of fighting came from inside.

Thinking of the mission requirements, Gray no longer hesitated and rushed into the tunnel as fast as possible, catching Heine just in time as he was knocked away.

A new intruder was discovered, and the monster's eyes lit up red.

Then Gray heard a voice.

It's different from a roar, but a hoarse sound, and it even sounds like the sound made by the friction of wind.

"——Let me ask, the name of an angel."

"Yes, are you asking a question?" Gray's eyes widened involuntarily. She felt as if she had discovered some important secret.

"Idiot, don't be in a daze." There was a stinging pain in his right wrist, which was Yade's reminder.

"What should I do, Ad."

"Just say something, it's better than not answering at all."

"——Let me ask, the name of the angel." The question rang out again.

"M——Mihael!" Instinctively, Gray announced her angel name on the invitation, which was also the door number of the room where she lived.

"——If you can't answer the question, you will be stripped."

The darkness was stirring, like boiling slime.

"Sure enough, is the answer wrong?" Gray looked a little disappointed.

"It's weird if you get the answer right." Yad mocked, "If you don't want to be hung on the angel statue, run away, it's coming."

"Ah, oh."

As he spoke, the beast opened his mouth again.

As if awakened by the roar, the air surrounding Gray changed drastically.

It's hot.

The girl felt as if she was in a furnace, and her whole body seemed to be melting.

Whether it was magic or supernatural power, she didn't know. She only knew that she had to escape as quickly as possible.

Huge magic power gathered at the feet at a speed several times faster than that of an ordinary magician, pushing the girl's body towards the ground.

That was the control technique for the release of magic power that she had been practicing recently. In the past, Gray would only use magic power to instinctively strengthen her body. This was an extremely inefficient and wasteful behavior. After receiving guidance from Shenji, Gray gradually mastered targeted release methods, such as simply increasing arm strength, or accelerating like now.

The air changes violently again from sheer speed!

It is not only the beast that has the speed to break the limit of human dynamic vision, but also this petite and fragile-looking girl.

A few seconds, just a few seconds.

Gray had already rushed out of the tunnel with the knight-turned-Heine in his arms, and returned to the forest in the vestibule.

Because the speed of movement is faster than the speed of heat transmission, Gray no longer feels hot at this time. She carefully retreated to a relatively open place, her eyes fixed on the deep passage.

The terrifying and powerful "beast" also followed her to the ground. Its red eyes were also locked on Gray, and it regarded her as its prey.

"Yade..."

"Run, run to a crowded place. Now is not the time to fight, unless you ignore this iron skin."

"Um."

Gray released his secretly clenched right hand, mobilized all the magic power in his body to focus on his feet, and increased his speed to the limit.

While accelerating, she didn't forget to crush the amulet hanging around her neck to send a signal to Shen Er.

As Yard said, she may have stronger fighting power than the beast, but now she has to protect the unconscious Heine and can't let go.

Gray, who was running at full speed, was very fast. In the blink of an eye, he ran through the forest and crashed into the atrium.

The beast was even faster than Gray, who was carrying a heavy load. The safe distance left earlier had been offset in the chase. It almost rushed into the castle with Gray on both sides, as if it would never give up until the prey was completely killed.

"Go to the second floor! Jump!"

Because Gray spent all her energy on escaping, Yade took on the job of navigation.

Gray seemed to be very accustomed to this method. The moment Yade's voice sounded, she jumped up and jumped directly to the observation deck on the second floor.

"Enter the attack right here!"

The girl who landed clenched her right hand and called out.

"Yade!"

"learn!"

The "sill" fixed to the arm is unfolded in a special way.

The hazy light, like a will-o'-the-wisp, changes into a new shape in the blink of an eye.

That is the shape of harvest that everyone knows.

The gesture of harvesting souls.

Grim Reaper.

When the phosphorescence dissipated, Gray's magic power was also concentrated on her arms. She put down Heine and swung the huge scythe with all her strength towards the oncoming beast.

The sickle blade cut deeply into the beast's body, and the huge force that did not belong to humans subverted the mass difference between them, interrupted the beast's progress, and knocked it back to the ground.

The girl lowered her center of gravity, as if preparing to pursue.

Unexpectedly, Yade, who turned into a sickle blade, stopped her.

"Run now, I'm not 'ready' yet."

"Ah good."

Gray quickly changed the flow of magic power, carrying the scythe in one hand and holding Heine in the other, and rushed into the deeper corridor, where the guest room area where the summoned magicians lived.

Although the magicians keep their "angel names" very secret, and we don't know which room they live in, but as long as the movement is loud enough -

The sickle cut the air, and the wind pressure ravaged the decorations in the corridor. The chandelier on the top of the corridor made a series of harsh sounds.

"Please, anyone can come and take Mr. Heine away."

"Ahhh, what the hell is that bastard guy doing? Why hasn't he shown up yet? Didn't he say he would come as fast as he could? With that guy's speed, he should have arrived even on the other side. Forget it, leave him alone. If a corner doesn’t appear, we will—”

"What do you think?" A lazy voice sounded in Gray's ears.

"You guy, now that you're here, come out and help!"

"Don't worry, just keep running and go around the corner. I'll give him a hard blow there."

"Okay, I trust you once, Gray, speed up!"

At Ad's urging, Gray bent her knees and walked around the corner at an almost ninety-degree angle.

The monster, which used the wall ejection method for three-dimensional maneuvers, stepped on the ceiling, and its claws, which were harder than diamonds, penetrated into Gray's back.

At this moment, a shoe suddenly appeared in front of its eyes.