The Maou Gakuin No Futekigousha Shijou Saikyou
chapter 51's

We decided to wait in the hospital room and before long the sound of an open door could be heard.

Ray came in and walked straight to his mother and silently watched her face.

"…….Mum….."

There was no answer as Sheila continued to sleep.

“I won the tournament ……. Tomorrow is final.”

He reported to the silent Sheila.

“....... Can you wait until tomorrow? I'll help you in any way ... "

Ray's face did not show his usual smile as he stared sadly at his mother's face.

"What happens tomorrow?"

Ray turned towards the voice and a slightly drifting section of fog to indicate Mass.

It seemed like he understood something Ray had said to Misa.

“I think strange how suddenly it rains. I didn't expect you to come here. ”

"I came because I didn't believe Ray-san would join the nobility of his own will."

Ray smiled that was hard to read.

"I'm a liar."

"... .Wild not admitting they're liars ... .."

The expression of the rays did not change as he continued to talk to Misa.

"You alone?"

"I."

Of course, it's a lie. I am currently hidden by the Rain Spirit Mist . If I don't move I have to stay hidden.

"I'm sorry but I can't talk to Arnos."

“....... That's a strange comment. Have you ever been told not to talk to Arnos-sama? Are you being threatened? "

"You think so?"

"I think Arnos-sama can help you."

"Neither me nor my mother would have survived if she had known."

Not that there was much doubt but now we know he is being threatened.

"What do you mean?"

“As you can see, my mother is sick. Since he was half spirit, ordinary doctors could not help. ”

Misa looked towards Sheila.

"...... What disease is it?"

"His magic power is weakened and its origin becomes thin and will disappear after a while."

"What cure?"

Ray shook his head.

"If they tell me I won't join the royal faction."

"........ Can this hospital really cure him?"

“After he developed the spirit disease my mother's magic power weakened by the day, but when she came to this clinic, it became a remission. It seems they can cure him. Even if it was a lie, I had no choice but to believe it. ”

If they have a way to put it into remission, then have they identified the cause? If they know it then they can cure it.

“To heal my mother there are some things I have to do for them. One of them was against Arnos in the tournament. The contracted demon sword has been buried in my body. If I make a mistake, I will be killed. If I die, they have no reason to keep my mother alive. ”

The contracted Demon Sword huh? This is a magical tool with more attractive powers than Contracts .

If you break the contract then certain death awaits you when it erases your origin.

"Even if you tell Arnos this the contract will still be broken."

"...... Wouldn't it be better if you didn't tell me ...?"

"I'm sure you won't tell anyone."

"Eh …….?"

"That's a lie."

Ray approached Mass in an instant. Misa melts into the mist and is about to disappear before Ray slashes his magic with Initeio.

cut off and lose its effect. The fog disappeared and the rain outside stopped.

Ray looked around the room.

"... It seems you are really alone ..."

It seems that Ray is convinced that someone else is hiding behind the fog. Most likely he thought it was me.

When it was cut off, I activated Illusion Mimicry to become transparent and hide my magic with Hiding Magic .

My magic is hidden and so am I. As long as I control my breath, he won't find me.

The reason I made Misa use when I could do this was so that when it was removed, no one would think anything else would be hidden behind the second layer.

"All right then."

Ray grabbed both of Misa's arms and clamped them down while pulling a dagger from her breast pocket. Ray hesitated for a moment before swinging his dagger towards Misa.

Misa closed her eyes involuntarily but no dagger entered her body, instead, Ray had pierced her shadow with his dagger.

"Sorry, but I'll let you stay here until after the final tomorrow."

Misa tries to use and melts into the mist but it seems like her shadow is sewn onto the floor and she is unable to manipulate magic.

“...... What is this dagger .........?”

"This is called a dagger sewing a shadow. You sew someone's shadow in place and they can only move in the range of their shadow. Magic is also considered to be unusable. ”

So just put it this way. It should be part of his contract to silence those who know about his plight.

It seemed like it was not a contract where he had to kill them.

This is what happens when you don't think about your contract. You just need to silence them but that doesn't mean you have to kill them.

“This room has an anti-magic field that interferes with magic communication. Even Mind Transmission is useless. You can't ask for help. "

"If I disappear then the unification faction will come looking for me."

"They will but it won't be on time for tomorrow's final and that's all I need."

"What are you gonna do?"

"I'm sorry, but I can't say it."

The demon contract sword would probably be active if he did.

"Who did this to you, Ray-san?"

"As far as I know, it was the demon emperor Elio."

Elio is a puppet. My guess is the unknown mazoku running this clinic. Judging from this situation, I was pretty sure that he was involved with Avos Dillheavia.

Ray walks to the chair and takes it back to Mass.

Looking at Misa's suspicious face he just smiled faintly and showed her to sit down.

The Mass calmly took a seat.

"Then you're involved."

Misa laughed at Ray's words.

"You're wrong."

Ray looked at Misa as if asking what she meant.

"It's you, Ray-san. You are dragged into a battle between nobles and the unification faction. I'm the one who's sorry. "

Is that an unexpected line? Ray's eyes widened.

"I don't think I'm gonna be the one to apologize."

"That's because you're soft Ray-san."

“I'm not that kind of thing. I'm a liar."

Making a little joke, he smiled as usual.

"If the two factions hadn't fought, my mother would have long since died."

Maybe so.

Thanks to the mazoku that took over the clinic, Sheila's condition has turned into remission.

Had it not been for the quarrel between the two factions, Avos Dillheavia would have been of no use to Ray's mother.

"…..Can I ask you something?"

"Unfortunately I can't tell you what you want to know."

"No, it's about your mother."

"My mother?"

It seems he wasn't expecting that.

"I don't think anything you hear will help you."

"In that case, why not tell me?"

Misa laughed and smiled at Ray who was smiling wryly as if she was defeated.

"You're weird enough to ask such a thing at a time like this."

"……… She's not your real mother?"

"really. I was originally born into the Iesta family. ”

"Isn't that a prestigious family of magic users?"

"Rubber. In the Iesta family, they give secret magic from generation to generation. Children born in the Iesta family can use magic immediately but for some reason, I cannot inherit their magic. ”

It's some kind of original magic to pass the magic on to your kids. It works by parents who share part of their origin with their child, but there are some rare occasions. The usual reason is that the child's origin is influenced by the more powerful magic that already exists in its origin.

An example is someone under the influence of Reincarnation .

"I who corrupts magic passed down from generation to generation is branded as failing and being cast out."

"When were you expelled?"

“My life is about 5 years. Honestly, I don't know what to do. In my hometown, the Iesta family holds total power so no one wants to help me. The family was expecting me to die. I wondered at the city without food and after a few days, I fainted and could not move. At that moment one person extended their hand. "

"Ray-san's mother?"

Ray nodded.

“She took me home and prepared a warm meal and a bed and let me stay there. But with that, my mother bought the Iesta family's anger on herself. They threatened to fire him if he fed me again. My mother never kicked me out and eventually, we moved to a town where the Iesta family could not contact us. ”

"Your mother is a friendly person, Ray-san."

When Misa said that Ray was smiling happily.

"When I got older, I asked him why he was helping me."

"What did he say?"

“My mother was also abandoned by her father. She was part of the royal faction and my mother was half spirit. I think you can guess why he was left behind. ”

Misa nodded with a sad face.

If it was known that someone from the royal faction had a mixed-blood child they would be finished. That's why they leave their own children to save their own necks.

"He said that's why he'll never let go of someone who was left behind."

Misa nodded gently.

“My mother raised me as if I were her own blood and flesh, but naturally her body was weak. Without knowing the cause, her magical power continued to decline and her origin became thin. He had finally caught a spirit illness and had not woken up for more than a year now. ”

If magic power continues to decline then there are usually abnormalities in origin that make magic unstable but in Sheila's case, the origin is normal.

"I visited a number of clinics and finally arrived here."

He must have thought if they could maintain this condition of remission then he could reach an agreement.

When Misha and I met her at the time I wondered if that was when the deal was made?

"... Unforgivable ......" Misa mutters. His hatred is clearly visible.

“…… .Taking your mother as a hostage, threatening you, to force others against their will ……. I really will never forgive them ........!”

Ray smiled and said

"Thank you for being angry with me."

Ray turned around and walked out the door.

"Sorry," he said over his shoulder and left the room.