This is the story of a magician and an elf girl.

"...Um...when will you...?"

"Ms. Linna! Are you okay?"

"What are you doing!? Hurry up and use the power of the dryad to buy some time!"

"!"

Linnay, who threw the plant seeds at Doris, quickly took action based on Jack's judgment.

"Swoosh, boom, boom!" In the blink of an eye, the seeds transformed into several thorny plants and began to chase Doris as if they had self-aware life.

"Little tricks..."

"Swoosh, boom!" Doris released several wind blades with just a wave of her hand. She didn't take the thorny plants chasing her seriously at all. As long as she cut off its roots, she could stop the movement of all the thorns. It did work in terms of the ability to delay time, but it was completely useless as a means of attack.

"Hey, elf...what's going on? Who is that? Why are you fighting her?"

"...It's so noisy...This is my personal problem...Don't interfere!"

"Mr. Jack! In front!"

"A stubborn and relentless guy..."

"Pah, pah!" Jack, who was wearing invulnerable armor and blocked the arrows, made Doris slightly surprised. After all, she didn't know the origin of Jack's leather armor.

"What is that... a chain lock? Or leather armor... or something above that... Interesting... A mere human can withstand my attack, it's been a long time since I last felt this way... Let me show off my skills a little bit..."

"!"

The arrow wrapped with magic entered the arrow rest of the longbow again, but Jack, who expected that her next attack would be more aggressive, naturally did not intend to sit still and wait for death: "Elf...listen carefully...I will only say this once."

"What...just let me go..."

"Is this the time to mess around? Stop being so willful! If you need anything, just tell me! If you want to fight, let's go together! Aren't we all companions?"

"..."

"...Don't underestimate us without permission...We are not just living off each other for the next month, Wendy. Are you ready?"

"Yes!"

Wendy, who was suspending the two people, did not feel any tiredness while flying. She flew much more smoothly than before, and she was used to the state of suspending the two people.

Thanks to the goddess' suggestion, Wendy, who secretly carried a sandbag in the air for a month to practice flying, wanted to give up many times because of the pain during the process, but now she is very glad that she insisted on endurance training and now she has been completely reborn.

"O wind spirit that lives here... the air is your stage, the melody of the wind is in harmony with your song, and anyone who hinders your song and dance will be punished by heaven - Mist and Wind."

"Anti-magic barrier!"

"!"

Wendy, who lost her flying stability due to the power of the wind spirit, was immediately targeted by Doris's arrow.

"Swoosh!" Jack released his skill to cover the three people in the anti-magic barrier, and waited for the moment when Doris released the arrow to step forward.

"Bang!" The skill that condensed the anti-magic power and the armor that was invulnerable to swords and guns let out a tragic cry. He couldn't imagine how much effort the arrow had put into reaching such power, so he could only barely deflect it in another direction.

“You are…”

"So dangerous... What a powerful force... Without the ability to resist magic, I'm afraid I'll be dead..."

"Mr. Jack, are you okay?!"

"Ah... On the other hand, elf, it's time to fight back, right? I don't want to be the one getting beaten all the time."

"..."

Linnai seemed to have not made up her mind yet. As she looked at Doris walking in the air, she had already prepared the next wave of attacks: "... the birdmen of the white wings... the invulnerable humans... I see... it's you... the descendants of heroes... all the targets are right in front of us - it's really easy, all of you will die here today."

"Excuse me for refusing, bastard. I don't know what grudge you have against this guy, but you were the first to attack. I don't intend to just sit there and let you do whatever you want."

"You are the one. Don't get too proud of yourself. You are just a lowly human. Your armor has no function or effect of resisting magic, right? That's why you used the anti-magic skill."

"It's common sense to make up for your own shortcomings, right? Thanks to your attack, my countermeasures have been put into practice. Thank you very much."

"There, I will make your countermeasures completely ineffective. As long as you use more powerful skills, that inferior barrier will not be able to block my full-strength attack."

"Ah, so I can take any attack except a full-strength one, right? Dark spirit?"

"A lowly and arrogant inferior race...why not try to take it on if you can?"

"Oh, then I'll just wait and see?"

Jack had no intention of looking down on Doris, and only wanted to use his arrogant words to make her reveal a few flaws - but if she got angry and released a more powerful skill...

"...Really... we can't talk anymore... Teacher Doris..."

"..."

"Have you forgotten... what you once told me... People... don't fail to trust each other, but fail to understand each other first... that's when conflicts arise... The teacher Doris I know... should be a senior with reason and judgment, right? Why are you hostile to us... Have you already..."

"Is that all you have to say... You are such a speechless child - you are the one, have you forgotten what I did in front of you..."

"..."

Linna knew what she would never forget - Doris was not a good person with reason and judgment. She chose to believe the magician of unknown origin in front of her and shot through the hand that the man extended to her with an arrow.

She aimed the longbow at the magician's head, ruthlessly trampling on his innocent kindness.

If Doris had not intervened, the magician might not have lost his original power, and might still be alive now... becoming a respected person in the Adventurer's Guild - instead of heading towards the inevitable end and leaving like a fading light.

Unforgivable. Unforgivable. Unforgivable.

But that person taught me how to forgive others.

There should still be things I can do with my life.

"...I understand...If you really want to fight us...we will fight back with all our might...Please be prepared to die."

"…Ms. Linna…"

"Elves..."

"… Sorry… I dragged you into this… Let's put the previous things aside… Now focus on the battle… If you don't pay attention, you will definitely die. Have you made up your mind?"

"I've been waiting for you to say this for a long time."

"Let's fight together! Miss Linna!"

"... The awareness of my mortality... Huh... A mere little girl who is still wet behind the ears... You want me to have the awareness of my mortality? Haha - come on if you can, I won't let you down."

It was obvious that the three were serious. Doris pulled out the arrow from the scabbard, Wendy, whose wings bloomed like flower buds, was ready to dodge, and Jack also put on an arrow-proof cloak that was enough to block a large number of arrows.

The moment Linna pulled the string of the short bow, an inevitable fierce fight began.