Chapter 312: Attack and Defense

“Are you guys ready?”

“We’re good, Halt-sama.”

“Haru-Nii, I’m going to protect you!”

“Evil God-sama sure is in for a surprise when the four of you march in.”

Today’s the day we’re going to Evil God’s place.

Tina, Akari and Sitri are going with me as my support when I punch that guy.

By the way, the Divine Realm — particularly the area where the Four Great Deities stay — is being protected by a powerful barrier, and hero-class people must get the permission of the deities in order to enter, apparently.

Thanks to Evil God’s curse on me, I can invalidate that barrier.

Akari and Sitri’s existence was too powerful for this world, and there’s no way they’re gonna be expelled by that barrier.

I casted a temporary protection to Tina, and she was also further strengthened by all sorts of magical tools and spells, so she’s almost at our level now.

Actually, I wanted Tina to stay in the mansion, but…

‘Halt-sama becomes stronger if there’s people he has to protect.’

— was what she said, so it’s decided that she’ll come with us.

I also strengthened the rest of the family that will be staying behind, of course.

There’s the possibility that demons and Evil God might attack.

The ones who stayed to watch over the mansion are —

Leaffa, Luna, Merdie, Mai, Mei, Youko, Ryuka, Hakua, Seira, Elmia, Kikyou, Sylph, Luke, Lielle, Ryuushin, Hinata, Shiro and Tet.

And also the Slime Girls and Evil God’s shikigami.

The shikigami betrayed Evil God and had become part of the Ernol Family.

Evil God had slumbered after forcing me to transmigrate.

While he was fast asleep, the girl who didn’t have anything to do decided to travel around the Human Realm, and while she was at it, we had been slaying demons nonstop and even Tamed Sitri. Because of that, the Evil God flipped out.

That’s why she escaped to our mansion.

I asked her a lot of things while she was taking refuge with us, and that’s when I learned that it was actually the shikigami’s idea to transmigrate me as a way to hinder Creator God-sama.

This shikigami was the root cause of my death, so I flicked her forehead for now. Of course, I didn’t don my magic suit and did it the normal, Level 1 way.

I learned a lot about the Evil God, so I decided to let it go with just that.

The perpetrator is the Evil God, after all.

He’s the number one at fault here.

Yup. Let’s leave it at that.

By the way, there’s no way this shikigami will betray me.

Creator God-sama guaranteed that.

Apparently, Creator God-sama was the one who created all shikigamis, and he assigned them to the deities they serve.

The shikigami who came to us was also one of them.

And since Creator God-sama allowed me to punch Evil God, the shikigami wouldn’t stop me.

There’s no need for the shikigami to betray me.

That’s why I decided to trust the information I got from her.

In that case, I also have the obligation to protect this shikigami.

Well, I don’t know whether it’s necessary to protect Mai and Mei, who are both in the class of Spirit Kings, or Kikyou, who had become another Divine Beast…

At any rate, I needed to solidify my protection as much as I could.

“I will protect Mai and Mei. Halt, be at ease and go to Evil God-sama’s place.”

I summoned the Celestial King.

Moreover —

“Sylph is included in the people we have to protect? Ahm, I also want to be one of them…”

“Fuhahaha. You’re so meek and sweet in front of Halt, huh.”

“Exactly. This tomboy morphs into a woman.”

“S-Shut up!”

I also summoned Water Spirit King Undine, Fire Spirit King Ifrit, and Earth Spirit King Gnome.

And the ultimate Person was no other than him.

“Well, Evil God absolutely won’t attack this place as long as I’m here.”

— Yep.

It’s no other than Poseidon, one of the Four Great Deities.

My rival and best buddy of yore.

He came all the way to my mansion when I told him I wanted to introduce my family.

Anything can happen, so I decided it’ll be better to introduce my family while I still can.

Then for some reason, he just told me that he would protect my family for me.

The deities couldn’t attack each other in this world, apparently, so the Sea God’s presence here was more than enough reason for Evil God not to attack my mansion.

In short, Sea God is my ultimate, strongest protection card against the Evil God.

It’s also possible that the Evil God’s underlings would attack, but based on the shikigami’s intel, only fifteen strong demons were left.

Well, that’s not a problem, then.

Setting aside Akari, Sitri and I, the strongest force of this world are all gathered here, after all.

“Halt, take care.” (Leaffa)

“Sitri. I’m leaving Master to you.” (Youko)

“Halt-sama, fighting!” (Mai and Mei)

“Akari, be careful, too.” (Luna)

“Good luck, you four-meow!” (Merdie)

“Good luck~!!” (Hakua)

The rest of the family saw us off.

“We’ll be off now, everyone!” (Tina)

“Bye, we’re going!” (Akari)

“Danna-sama, shall we?” (Sitri)

“Yup, let’s go.”

We teleported to the Evil God’s shrine.

──＊＊＊──

Just a while ago prior, in the Shrine of the Evil God —

“Kukuku. I don’t know who you are, but go ahead, come at me!!”

The Evil God had to cast the curse himself because of the shikigami’s departure, but he prepared himself to his heart’s content.

He casted countless curses around the magic circle that was stuck on the floor.

Not only that, he also casted countless various spells around the throne where he sat.

It didn’t end there.

He casted a curse that would probe and trace the place they would come from if the magic circle was a teleportation type of spell.

Even if a hero came, he wouldn’t easily defeat the Evil God. The reason he believed so was because he was confident in his power as one of the deities of this world.

While he dealt with the hero’s attack, his plan was to have the demons under his command kidnap the hero’s friends, family and other people to the hero.

No matter how strong the hero was, that person would definitely fear for the hostages he had abducted. He could do whatever he wanted after that.

If he sent all the fifteen demons at once, abducting the hero’s comrades from the teleportation origin was a piece of cake.

That’s what the Evil God thought.

He had no idea that he would be sending those fifteen demons to the most terrible place in the entire Human Realm.