Chapter 19- Box! Box! Box!

How can I describe the monster in front of me?

First of all, he is skinny, and his upper body is naked.

The upper half of his body is covered in tattoos.

The monster, stern in a different way from my father, broke out of his “Munch’s Scream”-like pose and pointed straight at my father.

“It’s good manners to knock when entering a room! What if I was the middle of changing my clothes? 』

The monster banged on the wall and yelled hysterically.

What do you mean, the fact that the upper half of your body is naked, doesn’t mean you’re changing your clothes.

I blinked at him in confusion.

“Manners? You talk about manners when you nest in a school without permission.”

“The school is paid for by the taxpayers, it doesn’t belong to anyone. 』

“Monsters probably don’t pay taxes.”

My father spun his words in an indifferent manner and stepped into the moonlit science preparation room.

The monster’s cheek twitched as he watched.

It was like a teenager discovering his parents in his room without permission, a frustration he couldn’t hide.

I followed my father into the preparation room.

Sato-sensei told me that the room hadn’t been opened in decades, but there was no strange smell or accumulation of dust.

The room was filled with beakers, broken models of the human body, and steel storage cabinets that could be found anywhere in a school.

One oddity, however, is that all the doors to the storage cabinets have been stripped open, and two Rubik’s cubes are displayed side by side at the top of the shelves.

“I don’t mean to question you. Two teachers should have been here. What happened to them?”

“Yes, they were here. They came to my room. They were ugly, miserable, poor human beings, so I made them wonderful.”

Just as the monster said this, the moonlight silently intensified.

“Wonderful…?”

“Yes, I did a great job. Too much for a human body.”

The light coolly illuminated the steel shelves and the cube on the shelf. I thought it was a rubik’s cube up until now.

“The big one, the exorcist. I wonder if you know it. The most beautiful form in the world.”

“…………”

“It’s a rubik cube.”

The first thing I saw was hair.

I saw black hair floating on the surface of the box.

A red color, I don’t know if it was muscle or blood, made up the box.

I could see sparse patches of thick yellow fat on the surface of the box.

Above all, there were lips that remained almost intact on the surface of the box. There was one large eyeball.

Two such boxes were displayed on a steel shelf.

“The cubic cube, five centimeters across, was the most beautiful and complete form of a body on earth!　It was so ugly and pitiful that it was too wonderful to be held by a human being.”

That was all the words the monster spun.

Suddenly, my father standing before me disappeared.

He disappeared from the sight before my eyes.

The next moment, the monster’s body blew backward and slammed into the wall.

BAGO!!!

The sound of the monster’s delayed impact with the windowpane shook my eardrums.

With a sound that made the pit of my stomach tremble, the glass of the door and all the window panes shattered into tiny pieces of wood. The scattered glass reflected the moonlight and danced like snow.

And then, unable to kill the impact, it created a large circular impact crater behind it. At the center of the crater, the monster bent over.

“I see, I understand. Then…”

Stepping on the shattered windowpane, my father moves further forward.

There is no anger in his voice, no impatience, just the determination that he has come to exorcise what needs to be exorcised.

“I can exorcise without hesitation, I suppose.”

My father’s left leg and right arm were wrapped with guide thread silvate.

The earlier move was so fast that my eyes, which are not using “body enhancement,” couldn’t catch it completely.

But I know what he did.

What he had just done was the “Body bullet”-he had dived into his opponent’s chest and struck the monster in the chest with a blow that carried all of his weight.

As evidence, the monster’s chest, which was half of its body lodged in the wall, was greatly indented. It’s clear that this was no ordinary blow.

However, the monster hadn’t turned into a black mist. So It’s not yet dead.

The moment my father extends the thread silvate to exorcise the monster before it can do anything else,

“Pain, Love Tsu! 』

The monster screamed.

A moment later, the monster released the silvate on the wall and slashed it into a rectangle, escaping!　It fell toward the ground!

“Love is pain! It hurts, it hurts!’

Saying this, I aimed my magic straight at the falling monster.

“Itsuki?”

“I’ll do it.”

Long distance is my specialty.

“White Flame bee.”

Flames flared up.

I created a spear of flame. It shot toward the monster at the speed of sound.

The moment I thought so, my magic was entangled in the air by the guide thread silvate.

And as it spins around, it is compressed into a cube of flame in no time at all.

Again. It’s that guy’s weird magic again.

The weird magic that turns magic, the guide thread silvate and humans into cubes.

“Uh-uh! This is beauty. The ultimate is in simplicity! Do you understand? If you don’t, that’s fine! I’ll make you understand! 』

The silvate extends from the monster’s hand.

In response, my rapid-fire quick shot flies out.

Just before the monster’s silvate and my silvate collide, my father jumps down from the “Science Preparation Room” to the ground, grabbing my body.

As a result, the monster’s silvate cut through the air and touched the incandescent lamp on the ceiling. Instantly, the incandescent lamp is compressed into a cube.

……I see.

I understood the monster’s magic when I saw what had just happened.

What this monster is doing is transformation of an object.

There are two main types of magic in Japan. The monster’s magic is of two types: “attribute change” and “trait transformation”.

This monster uses the later.

However, it is not just a trait transformation.

It is a trait transformation that changes the shape of an object!

Does that sound like an alien magic?

But it’s not. It is not different.

I have used this magic, and It has been used by monsters I have fought in the woods.

The monster I fought in the forest used an acorn bomb. That was it.

It erodes and rewrites the traits of objects with enormous magic power.

It’s a technique that is possible because of its violent magic power, but once the species is known, there is nothing surprising about it.

My silvate has already been unleashed.

“Oh no! Don’t look at me like that! You’re going to make me want to know! 』

Towards the screaming monster.

Fly with purple lightning. The explosion is a thunderclap.

The monster turned its attention to the lightning that was shot straight at it.

A moment later, the guide thread silvate flew into the lightning, my magic changed into a cube.

That’s alright. It doesn’t matter what shape it is.

All that is necessary is that it is there.

“One side must be 5 cm, not even 1 mm longer or shorter than that. Exactly 5 cm is the most beautiful shape! A small exorcist!”

Since he said such a thing, I told him quietly.

“Hmmm. Then isn’t that lightning beautiful?”

–Bazzzzzzzz !!!!!!

The moment I spoke like that, the lightning ball–or should I call it a lightning box because it is a cube—which flew toward the monster and struck it.

My installation-type magic – “mines” – which is installed in advance and automatically penetrates the enemy, has the advantage of being installed from the beginning.

Another advantage is that there is a time lag before the magic is released, so that I can strike when the enemy is caught off guard. Renji-san avoided it, though.

The monster, which was emitting black smoke from its entire body, didn’t seem surprised by my magic and raised one hand toward me and said.

“You’ve been through a lot, little exorcist. You – you’re full of love. 』

“What are you talking about?”

And he was crushed by my father and turned into a black mist.

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