Heine was not mistaken; someone was indeed calling his name.
His body, which was blown away by the roar, did not fall to the ground, but was caught by a petite figure in a cloak.
It's Grey!
Gray had been following Heine since he left the room.
Because of her weak presence and the isolation of Shinji's amulet, and perhaps also due to the interference of various spells with different effects from different sources in the castle, Gray's tracking was not discovered.
The girl just watched the young knight walk into the vestibule, into the forest, and down the tunnel.
The overly obvious echoes in the tunnel made her worry that she would be discovered. When she was hesitating whether to follow in, she heard the sound of fighting.
Gray, remembering the mission requirements, no longer hesitated and rushed into the tunnel as fast as she could, catching Heine just in time when he was knocked flying.
Upon discovering the new intruder, the monster's eyes lit up with a red light.
Then, Gray heard a voice.
It's different from a roar, but rather hoarse, and even sounds like the sound of wind friction.
"— Ask, the name of the angel."
"Yes, are you asking a question?" Gray couldn't help but widen her eyes. She felt as if she had discovered some important secret.
"Idiot, stop daydreaming." A sharp pain came from the right wrist, which was Yad's reminder.
"What should I do, Yad?"
"It's better to say something than no answer."
"—What is the name of the angel?" The question was asked again.
"M—Mihael!" Instinctively, Gray called out her own angel name on the invitation, which was also the room number of her room.
"—If you cannot answer the question, you will be stripped."
The darkness stirs, like boiling slime.
"Sure enough, the answer was wrong?" Gray seemed a little disappointed.
"It would be strange if you got it right." Yade laughed, "If you don't want to be hung on the angel statue, run away quickly, it's coming to attack."
"Oh, oh."
As he spoke, the beast opened its mouth again.
As if awakened by the roar, the air surrounding Gray changed drastically.
It's hot.
The girl felt as if she was in a furnace and her whole body seemed to be melting.
She didn't know whether it was magic or supernatural power, she only knew that she had to escape as quickly as possible.
A huge amount of magic power gathered at her feet at a speed several times faster than that of an ordinary magician, pushing the girl's body towards the ground.
That was the control technique of releasing magic that she had been practicing recently. Before, Gray could only use magic to strengthen her body instinctively, which was an extremely inefficient and wasteful behavior. After Shinji's teaching, Gray gradually mastered the targeted release method, such as simply increasing the strength of her arms, or accelerating like now.
The air changes dramatically again, because of pure speed!
It is not only the beast that has the speed that breaks the limit of human dynamic vision, but also this petite and fragile-looking girl.
A few seconds, just a few seconds.
Gray had already rushed out of the tunnel carrying the knighted Heine and returned to the forest in the front yard.
Because the speed of movement was faster than the speed of heat transmission, Gray no longer felt the heat. She carefully retreated to a relatively open place, staring at the deep entrance of the passage.
The terrifying and powerful "beast" also followed her to the ground, and its pair of red eyes were also locked on Gray, treating her as its prey.
"Yade..."
"Run, run to where there are many people. Now is not the time to fight, unless you leave this iron skin alone."
"Um."
Gray loosened her clenched right hand, gathered all the magic power in her body and gathered it under her feet, increasing her speed to the limit.
While accelerating, she did not forget to crush the amulet hanging around her neck to send a signal to Shinji.
As Yad said, she might have stronger fighting power than the beast, but she had to protect the unconscious Heine and couldn't move freely.
Gray was running at full speed. In the blink of an eye, she ran through the forest and crashed into the courtyard.
The beast was a little faster than the loaded Grey. The safe distance it had left earlier had been offset in the chase. It rushed into the castle almost at the same time as Grey, and it seemed that it would not stop until it had completely killed its prey.
"Go to the second floor! Jump!"
Because Gray put all her energy into escaping, Yad took on the task of navigation.
Gray seemed to be accustomed to this way of doing things. The moment Yade's voice sounded, she jumped up and jumped directly onto the observation deck on the second floor.
"Fight right here!"
The girl who landed on the ground clenched her right hand and called out.
"Yade!"
"learn!"
The "threshold" hidden and fixed on the arm in a special way unfolded.
The dim phosphorescent light, like a will-o'-the-wisp, changes into a new shape in the blink of an eye.
That is the shape of harvest that everyone knows.
The gesture of harvesting souls.
Grim Reaper.
As the phosphorescence dispersed, Gray's magic power was concentrated on her arms. She put Heine down and swung the huge sickle at the beast that was rushing towards her with all her strength.
The sickle blade cut deeply into the beast's body, and the huge power that was not human overturned the difference in mass between them, interrupting the beast's progress and knocking it back to the ground.
The girl lowered her center of gravity, as if preparing to give chase.
Unexpectedly, Yade, who turned into a sickle, stopped her.
"Run now, I'm not ready yet."
"Oh, okay."
Gray quickly changed the direction of the magic power, holding the sickle in one hand and holding Heine in the other, and rushed into the deeper corridor, where the guest rooms were where the summoned magicians lived.
Although the magicians kept their "angel names" very secret, no one knew which room they lived in, but as long as the noise was loud enough -
The sickle blade cut through the air, and the wind pressure created wantonly ravaged the decorations on the corridor and the chandelier on the ceiling, making a series of harsh noises.
"Please, anyone can come and take Mr. Heine away."
"Ahh, what the hell is that bastard doing? Why hasn't he shown up yet? Didn't he say he would come as fast as he could? With that guy's speed, he should be here even if he's on the other side. Never mind, if he doesn't show up around the next corner, we'll—"
"What about you?" A lazy voice sounded in Gray's ears.
"Now that you're here, come out and help!"
"Don't worry, just keep running. Once you get around the corner, I'll give him a hard beating."
"Okay, I'll trust you this time, Gray, speed up!"
At Yad's urging, Gray bent her knees and turned the corner at an almost ninety-degree angle.
The monster, which used the wall-catapulting method to perform three-dimensional maneuvers, stepped on the ceiling and pierced Gray's back with its claws, which were harder than diamonds.
At this moment, a shoe suddenly appeared in front of it.