I Favor the Villainess Chapter 50Ruler

“Manaria-sama!”

“Lovely!”

“Rei, do your best!”

“Don’t lose!”

The next day, Manaria-sama and I were surrounded by spectators on the magic practice grounds.

I didn’t really want to stand out, but somehow the news of Manaria-sama’s and my magical confrontation spread.

Unlike Manaria-sama who’s used to spotlight, this development made me dispirited.

“Um… Do you really need to do this, Onee-sama?”

While the audience quickly cheered, only Claire-sama looked sullen.

Refereeing our confrontation was entrusted to Claire-sama.

Although there is magic dampening barrier, both Manaria-sama’s and my aptitudes are high.

It was judged that it would be dangerous for a person with a weak aptitude to be a referee.

“Oh, is there any problem with what I and Rei are doing?”

Manaria-sama asked as if questioning why Claire-sama would say that.

“Personal fights… are not good. Why would Onee-sama and Rei fight?”

“Well, we’re trying our ability”

We’ve decided to keep the true motive of this confrontation from Claire-sama.

“Well, there’s also a small personal grudge. Rei is not suitable for Claire. Claire too, you are troubled being followed by Rei?”

“Tha, that is…”

“Is it wrong?”

“… It is not”

Claire-sama said, squeezing her voice.

My chest tightened.

“Rei too doesn’t like me”

“Yeah”

“That’s why, we need to settle it here once and for all”

“… I understand”

Saying so, Claire-sama took some distance from us.

“Are you prepared, Rei?”

“Manaria too”

“Fufu, interesting. That spirit”

Manaria-sama laughed daringly.

“Well then, are both of you ready?”

“Yup”

“Yes”

Both of us answered Claire-sama to confirm.

“Then, ready… Start!”

At Claire-sama’s cue, the audience raised a cheer.

“So, how will you come?”

“First I’ll do this”

I swung the magical wand and Manaria-sama’s figure disappeared underground.

It’s the pit I used against Claire-sama during the Order of the Academy entrance exam.

“Ah, I was surprised. But, such a thing won’t defeat me?”

While speaking in a carefree voice, Manaria-sama rose from the hole.

I expected that.

Manaria-sama has high aptitudes in all four attributes.

She can raise the bottom of the pit with the earth attribute or dance in the air with the wind attribute.

“Yeah, there was a different purpose”

“… Oh”

Manaria-sama noticed the strange phenomenon overhead.

A large mass of muddy water floated there.

When I swung my magical wand downwards, it all poured down on Manaria-sama.

This combination magic of earth and water is “Water Meteor”.

It’s a magic that pours a mass of earth and rocks on the opponent, among magic present in Revolution it boasts considerable power.

It seemed like a direct hit, but――.

“Good grief. Aren’t my clothes drenched”

I heard a carefree voice behind me.

When I turned around, although her clothes were somewhat wet, Manaria-sama’s figure was undamaged.

I know what she did.

She crossed space.

It’s the wind attribute magic of the super aptitude “Teleport”.

“You went hard from the beginning, Rei”

“If I didn’t, I couldn’t win against Manaria-sama”

Unlike other major characters, the protagonist doesn’t have a fixed pattern of fighting.

For example, Rod-sama’s Army of Flame or Misha’s Siren, when refined to perfection are strong techniques.

They’re strong, but they’re poorly compatible with Manaria-sama.

Manaria-sama has Spell Breaker.

The perfectly refined techniques are helpless against being dispelled by Spell Breaker.

A prolonged fight is unfavorable.

No matter how effective the technique, once the fight draws out it will become the victim to Spell Breaker.

In short, to defeat Manaria-sama, there’s nothing but to challenge her to a brief fight with novel techniques.

Be that as it may, it’s not easy to defeat Manaria-sama with a brief fight.

She has nonsensical high earth, water, fire aptitudes and a super wind aptitude.

Even if I have two attributesDual Caster with super aptitudes, I’m no match for her in aptitudes.

The pit and Water Meteor at the start were meant to seal her movements and finish it in one go, but after all it won’t be so easy.

“No way, you won’t tell me this is all?”

“Yeah, I won’t”

I brandished my magical wand.

Fog enveloped us.

“Hmm, it’s a magic I haven’t seen. But, fog can at best serve as camouflage――”

“Freeze”

Ignoring Manaria-sama’s provocation, I invoked magic.

Except me and the audience, the space instantly froze.

It’s the water attribute magic “Judecca”.

It’s a magic that instantly freezes a wide space, originally it’s a magic that couldn’t be used before the game’s final stage.

I’m not stopping.

The created blocks of ice around me are pierced by rock cones coming from below and shatter.

It’s the earth attribute magic “Earth Spike”.

The technique of using these two magics in succession is called the serial magic “Cocytus”.

It’s a high-powered strike that follows a wide-area freeze.

To say nothing of ordinary opponents, even a considerably trained person shouldn’t be able to avoid it.

However――.

“Yup. Close, close”

I heard a voice right behind me.

I reflexively looked back and shot an ice arrow there.

“If your enemy wasn’t me, it’d invariably be decided by now”

As she destroyed the ice arrow with Spell Breaker, she stood there composed.

“… How did you avoid it?”

“Se・cret”

Manaria-sama playfully put her index finger against her lips.

“Even so, Rei. Didn’t you overdo it a little? Even with the magic dampening barrier, if I was hit just now, don’t you think I wouldn’t get away without an injury?”

“Yet, you could avoid it”

“Well, because I’m me”

Saying so, Manaria-sama loudly laughed.

And after laughing for a while, with a smile like Cheshire Cat’s on her face――.

“Then, it’s my turn. Because I was shown something interesting, I wonder if I should get a little serious”

―― Crap, it’s coming!

From my knowledge of the game, I had a premonition of what Manaria-sama’s next action would be.

Having nothing to lose I invoked Cocytus again.

However――.

“Dominator”

The instant Manaria-sama’s magical wand shined, the construction of Cocytus stopped.

“This is the end”

The next moment, I bled from all over my body, fell down, and immediately lost consciousness.

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“――! ――u!”

I heard something.

It’s a very pleasant sound.

Certainly it’s too high-pitched for ordinary people, it’s a shrill sound.

But I love this sound – no, this voice.

“――u! You!”

When I opened my eyes, I saw Claire-sama’s pale face.

“… Claire, sama…?”

“You regained consciousness!? I am glad…”

When I called out to her, Claire-sama had a rare look of relief on her face.

“I told you she’d be alright. I treated her”

“Even so Onee-sama overdid it! Causing her such an injury!”

Manaria-sama lightly said and Claire-sama rebuked her.

My consciousness is gradually returning.

Looking around, I seem to be in the Church clinic attached to the academy.

It’s the place where we came to ask Matt about the circumstances of the courtyard incident.

“I… was…”

“You fainted receiving Onee-sama’s magic. Is there any place that hurts?”

Claire-sama asked me in a worried voice.

I see, I――.

“Yup, you lost”

Manaria-sama told me in a voice that sounded like a judge handing down a verdict.

I see… I lost.

What Manaria-sama used at the end was the four-attribute combination magic “Dominator” – it dominates all magical power within range and makes it run out of control, it’s a peerless brutal offensive magic.

Because magical power is put under control, no magic can be used, moreover people with high magic aptitude receive high damage due to the out of control magical power.

It’s a magic that can be called the ultimate anti-magician weapon.

I knew Manaria-sama could use Dominator.

No, when it comes to what I know, with my knowledge of the game, I know almost everything about Manaria-sama.

Because I know, I understand what happened.

I lost my cool when my feelings for Claire-sama were looked down on, however I――.

“Well then, Claire is mine, okay?”

Against this person, I can’t win.

AN: As it has been pointed out, I will write about Spell Breaker in the postscript.

In the chapter 47 I wrote it’s necessary for the Spell Breaker user’s aptitude to exceed theirs targets’, but the target doesn’t refer to the opponent but to the magic itself used by the opponent.

That is to say, Manaria with her high water aptitude was able to break Rei’s ice arrow despite her super water aptitude because the magic level of ice arrow itself isn’t high, it’s like this.

I’m sorry that it was difficult to understand.