The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated Chapter 111: “I Will Protect You.”

"Eh?"

In front of the campfire, Shien who was stuck in the awkward atmosphere suddenly raised his head. He also raise an eyebrow slightly.

At that mont, Shien's [Enemy Detection] skill reacted, telling him that soone in the vicinity had hostile intent, even killing intent, against him.

Shien look a glance in that direction and he seed to have understood sothing. His lips twisted into a sneer.

lika who had been peeking at Shien was sowhat startled by that. After a small amount of hesitation, she timidly spoke up.

"W-What is it?"

After half an hour, soone had finally broken that awkward atmosphere.

"Nothing." Shien shook his head and spoke half chuckling, "I'm just reminiscing on the fact that a certain young master really doesn't have nearly as much patience as I had thought. I was also reminiscing on just how strong his obsession was. As expected of a noble brat from the middles ages I guess."

"Young master? Noble brat from the middle ages?" lika didn't seem to quite understand.

However, lika did turn tense at the words "young master" and "noble brat."

"Could it be him again…?"

lika seed to have guessed sothing, and her expressions turned even more uneasy.

Seeing that, Shien couldn't hold back from rolling his eyes at him.

"Just why are you so afraid of him?" Shien spoke derisively, "He might be a noble, but you're an elf, a face known for being loved by the gods. You're level's also much higher than that noble brat's. However, even though you've be bullied by him to that extent, can't you just toss a spell his way and blow him away?"

Actually, Shien had wanted to say those words for quite so ti now.

No matter how one put it, lika was a level 42 elven mage. If they really did fight, even if that rich boy had a complete set of high quality equipnt, it's not like his level 38 ass could one sidedly push lika around, right?

However, every single ti, lika couldn't do a thing against him. That was really unbelievable.

As he thought it over, Shien could only think of one possible explanation for how this situation ca about.

That was that lika wasn't willing to actually act, or rather, that she was too scared to act.

"I-I can't!" lika shook her head strongly, "Magic is a very dangerous power. I also only use fire and ice magic, which are super high damage type magic. Even the weakest beginner class spells will do a ton of damage against a human body. I can't just randomly use that against soone!"

That seed to be her thoughts on that matter.

However, Shien didn't understand. Instead, he just got madder.

"They're the one who already tried to hurt you so, and yet you're still considering whether or not that will hurt them? Are you an idiot?" Shien spoke disappointingly, "Look at Diere. She cut off all four of his limbs without even a second word. Isn't that amount of damage far higher than what a single beginner class spell is capable of?"

The aning behind those words is that if lika had decisively tossed a beginner class spell out, then the person in question would have actually gotten off lighter.

"Sotis, a person's kindness may not actually result in a better ending you know?"

Shien was doing his best to convince her.

lika seed to be trying to say sothing in response to that, but in the end, she couldn't actually open her mouth.

It's not like lika didn't actually understand the reasoning.

It's just that…

(… I was actually just too nervous. Too scared. So I ended up completely forgetting the incantation for the spells. But if I actually told the truth through, it feels way too embarrassing.)

lika's entire face had turned indescribably red.

That was actually one of lika's weaknesses.

liks'a natural talent as a mage was quite high. When her foes were demonic beasts or even demons, then even when danger approaches her, she should still keep her focus, finish her incantations, and calmly blow her enemies away.

However, when her opponents were people, for so reason, lika would turn overly nervous. Her chanting and ditation would end up hesitant and broken up, and she wouldn't be able to successfully cast at all.

This kind of issue was actually relatively common among elves.

It was due to the natural kindness inherent to elves. When their opponents were people, they'd end up unconsciously holding back. Even when they were forced to fight seriously, the vast majority of elves will still end up unable to suppress that one instant of hesitation.

And lika was an especially serious case. Not only was it because she was inherently kind, she also got nervous easily, so the clumsiness she displayed when fighting human opponents went beyond even the timid and shy Lumia.

Lumia might be timid and shy, but she was very much capable of calling up her courage when she needed to fight. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to charge toward demonic beasts without hesitation and send all her enemies flying with her fists.

lika on the other hand wasn't quite timid when it ca to personality. Nor was she particularly shy. However, due to her own excessive caution against others, she ends up getting nervous more easily and thus having issues.

This issue was sothing that Vivian, Diere and Lumia all knew about. It was only Shien who was ignorant.

lika didn't want Shien to know either.

There was no deep reason for that. lika just simply didn't want Shien to look down on her for it.

Thus, lika could only keep her head down and hold her peace.

Shien didn't want to lecture her highhandedly like a life councilor either. As he saw that lika had fell silent, he didn't really want to say anymore. Instead, he just shrugged his shoulders and turned back toward the direction where the hostile intent ca from with a teasing glint in his eyes.

"[Co on! Do it harder!]"

"[Co on! Do it harder!]"

"[Co on! Do it harder!]"

"Why won't it activate!? Why!?"

Markray was almost in a maddened state. He constantly chanted the so called incantation at the "magic item" in his hands. However, because the "magic item" wouldn't activate no matter how much he tried, Markray was shaking with rage.

"Is this magic item really not possible to activate without that guy? I refuse to believe it!"

Markray didn't want to face that reality.

"My incantation was definitely correct. I'm a prodigy, so there's no way that I couldn't morize a single line of incantation after all this ti."

"Could it be because I wasn't loud enough? It did seem to require a certain volu to activate."

"But I'd get discovered if I was louder!"

Markray was terribly frustrated.

At that point, Markray unconsciously spared a glance over in Shien and lika's direction.

A second later, Markray saw sothing that made him nearly go berserk on the spot.

"M-Mr. Shien…!?"

In front of the campfire, lika's voice suddenly rang out with a slightly panicked tone.

It was because Shien had instead sat down by lika's side, and not only did he stop acting uneasy and awkward, he instead turned warm and enthusiastic.

"Sorry, I went a bit overboard just now. I didn't really an to criticize you or anything." Shien showed lika a smile with shining teeth, "It's fine even if you can't act you know?"

"R-Really?" lika was close enough to sll Shien's scent, making her face even redder. Her pair of pointy ears also turned scarlet, and even her eyes were slightly teary.

It couldn't be helped. lika already had the urge to get closer to Shien from the start, so now that Shien had taken the initiative in moving closer, her urges turned completely into satisfaction, which ended up causing her entire body to lose strength and her heart to pound madly.

And then Shien spoke a certain phrase.

"Of course." Shien stared at lika deeply and spoke, "Because I will protect you."

At that mont, lika's heart skipped a beat.

And then…

"Gasp…"

lika finally lost to the embarrassnt. Her eyes rolled up, she let out a gasp, and she fainted.

"Ah…"

Shien grabbed lika without thinking. He finally realized that he might have gone overboard.

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