“Eh…!?”
They declared it so boldly, that everyone had baffled expressions on their faces.
Even their enemy, Narul, was surprised by this response she was not expecting, and Hao, the first one to recover from this shock, yelled at them.
“W-what are you talking about!? If you attack that trent with fire, Shiroi is going to burn along with it!!”
“I know, but if we hesitate because of it, we’ll lose, right? If that woman keeps powering up, she might cause an even bigger incident.”
“It’s too bad, but we have to abandon that kid! It’s a small sacrifice to save a lot of people!!”
Shian and Egos argued back with reasons that seemed legitimate, but… Of course, they were only trying to justify their actions.
They were not trying to sacrifice Shiroi for heroic reasons, or felt any guilt about it whatsoever.
They simply… Wanted to defeat Narul because she tricked them and stole their virginity.
She stole their dream of having sex for the first time with a game character, so they could not forgive her no matter what.
They merrily shared their beds with not beautiful girls, but rather an old woman that was like a monster, which was nothing short of a dark chapter for them.
They had to punish Narul for putting them through this. They were fated to give the villain who tricked the main characters her comeuppance. It was the law of those who reincarnated into another world.
And if one child was sacrificed so that could happen, it was a small price to pay.
After all, Shiroi was nothing more than a background character the main character would speak to a little here… He had little value as a game character, so it would mean little if he died.
As for the bad reputation, they just had to take the hit. Their main character charisma would get them through it.
What mattered was not a background character’s life, it was the will of the main characters… Shian and Egos’s self-centeredness went beyond even Narul’s evil, and Phi desperately pleaded to them.
“Stop! Don’t kill Shiroi! My big brother will save him when he gets here! Just wait until then!!”
“Step back, kid!”
“This is a deadly battle! It’s no place for you!!”
“Uwaah!?”
“Phi!!”
Phi clung to Shian and Egos and pleaded to them, but was pushed away.
Precia caught him, with an incredulous expression on her face, as Shian and Egos focused their magic energy to unleash the strongest fire magic they knew.
“Let’s end this!”
“Burn! Bitch!!”
If both fired their strongest fire magic with their high stats, Narul would be in trouble.
They imagined this horrible woman who got carried away burning, and grinned a little, as their magic energy swelled as much as it could and they took aim at the big trent. And then…!
‘But there is not enough MP!!’
“…Ah?”
“Eh…?”
Just as their magic hit its peak and they were about to fire it, that foolish sounding message crossed the back of their minds.
At the same time, the magic they were trying to fire was canceled, leaving them baffled, and leading to them being sent flying after another hit by a branch that was like a thick log.
“Gyaaaaah!?”
“Uwaaaaah!?”
“Ha ha ha ha ha! Idiots! I sucked your magic energy on that hot night! You were so excited to have me that you didn’t even notice it! You really are stupid!”
“Gu, ha…! D-dammit! How…!?”
It was not as though they did not notice something was off about their bodies, but they assumed it was a natural sense of exhaustion that came with having sex, and did not think too much about it. It was here that they finally realized they were wrong.
But it was all too late. They were careless, or rather, completely blindsided, and suffered an intense attack in that distracted state. Shian fainted, and Egos was also in trouble.
“H-hey you! Save me! Protect me!!”
He ordered the members of the cooking club to fight Narul in his place, but most of them were background characters with little fighting power, so they were taken down one after the other.
This was bad… Thought Egos as he felt the very real danger of them being wiped out. But then he saw Precia, and stumbled his way towards her, feeling relieved.
“Precia, you… Can use fire magic, right…!?”
“Eh…?”
Egos remembered Precia could use fire magic in Luminous History, so he grabbed her shoulders, and yelled like he was ordering her.
“Fire, fire it! You can take her down! Burn that monster armor beast, Precia!!”
“What are you talking about!? You’re telling the president to kill Shiroi!! You know that, right!?”
“Shut up! Listen Precia…! At this rate, we’re all going down. Your dear cooking club will be defeated by that monster armor beast, and their magic energy will become its nutrients. All we can do to stop that is defeat it…! And you’re the only one who can do it!”
“B-but… But…!!”
He had no strength left to fight, so he had to make someone else do it.
Precia was the one Egos chose, and he used her dear cooking club as a shield to talk her down, so surely, Precia would not refuse, even if it meant taking the life of a child.
Egos thought about how he should have high favorability with the cooking club, and felt irritated about a game character going against him… And so, even though he was trying to appeal to her mercifulness, he threw it all away and yelled at her.
“Just do it already! You people need to just do what I…”
“…Hey.”
“Ah? Wha… Bugeah!?”
Egos was pressing closer to Precia, when he felt a tap on his shoulder. And when he turned to the side… His face was punched.
He was blown away by this punch to the nose, and lost his consciousness like his buddy, as Yuugo, who punched him, spoke with a grave expression.
“Enough already. People who are not only willing to abandon a child, but are also telling someone else to do it, don’t deserve to call themselves heroes.”
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