Chapter 135: There’s no way I can abandon my companions and run

In ordinary work, unlike urban defense battles, adventurers were not imposed the duty to fight to the end.

The current Kazui and Tint, even if they ran by themselves, were not in a situation of being complained about by anyone.

But immediately Kazui noticed. That a possibility and method that might break this despairing situation remained.

But that method was a method Kazui had thought he absolutely wanted to avoid.

(If it’s just me and Tint we might indeed be able to run, but Yuri’s... and everyone’s lives here are on the line! Here... I have no choice but to do it!)

To say his true feelings he hated it and hated it unbearably, but that thing he hated and hated unbearably, Kazui resolved to carry out.

Yuri’s face entered his eyes, and Kazui remembered the conversation with Yuri.

"Unable to endure levels being hard to raise, I might use it sometimes. And if I fall into a pinch and Kazu can’t save me unless he uses Leonization, you’ll use it and save me, right?"

"...No, I’ll abandon you without using it."

To Kazui who answered immediately, Yuri returned words unhappily.

"Isn’t that awful? Use it and save me! Then next time I’ll take Kazu’s virginity and properly return you to a man!"

"No way! I absolutely won’t use it! Becoming a woman and being done by a man to save a handsome guy with a girlfriend like you, I absolutely hate it!"

"Even if you talk spitefully like that, Kazu is the type who saves in the end, right?"

"Except handsome guys."

When distancing from Black Maiden, Kazui and Yuri exchanged that kind of conversation.

(True, just as you say, I seem to be the type who saves in the end.)

While looking down at Yuri’s face as if sleeping, Kazui continued in his heart.

(Well, whether I can save you I don’t know. Even if I use Leonization, me at level 4 might not be able to defeat a griffin.)

The breakthrough Kazui thought of was using Leonization.

If he himself used Leonization which possessed flight ability and raised level by about 30, he thought he might be able to defeat the griffin.

But even if level 4 Kazui raised his level by about 30, in level alone he would not even reach an intermediate adventurer.

In that sense, "whether I can save you I don’t know."

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In level it was harsh, but even so it was not that Kazui had no possibility of defeating the griffin.

Why was because Leonization had powerful dedicated skills, so it was said to display combat ability above level.

Thinking he might use it sometimes, Kazui had heard various talks about Leonization from Lumia and Yuri.

At that time he had also heard about the possibility of displaying combat ability above level.

Because he knew there was this possibility, Yuri had done the reckless thing of challenging Vice.

As a result it was a complete loss, but even just surviving receiving Vice’s attacks, Yuri at that time could be said to have displayed ability far exceeding level.

(But the possibility of defeating it... should exist!)

Telling himself that, Kazui roused himself.

Then moving his gaze from Yuri to Tint, Kazui returned an answer.

"There’s no way I can abandon my companions and run."

"Yeah."

Tint also agreed with Kazui’s answer.

For form’s sake he confirmed Kazui’s will, but actually Tint too had no intention from the start of running and leaving Nora.

"Well, there’s no chance of winning... but I’ll struggle badly to the end."

Saying that, while bracing Tint made his whole body shine.

To use skills he generated Aura.

"Tint, stay here and protect Yuri and Nora."

In a strong tone that allowed no argument, Kazui declared to Tint.

"The griffin... I’ll kill it!"

"You’ll do it? That’s obviously impossible!"

To Tint who reacted as could be called natural, Kazui returned words.

"I have a hidden hand... me!"

After releasing Aura Mail, Kazui touched the Orb on the back of his left hand with his right hand.

Then while thinking to activate the skill, Kazui powerfully said the words necessary for activation.

"Leona!"

Then from Kazui’s Orb blue light was released, and blue smoke started spewing from the Orb.

Wrapped in blue smoke, Kazui’s body became unable to be seen from the surroundings.

In just a few seconds the smoke vanished as if melting into the surrounding air, and Kazui appeared.

But unlike before vanishing wrapped in smoke, Kazui’s form had changed like a different person.

Facial features and height and the like were almost unchanged from the original Kazui.

But the hair had subtly changed, and the figure and clothes had changed like a different person.

The short black hair had grown a little, become a length around midway between short and medium, and the color had changed to blue.

But the cat-ear-like cowlick remained, so the Kazui-ness had not vanished.

As for the figure, overall it had become a feminine line.

It was a trained, tightened body, but the chest had swollen to a moderate feel.

The clothes were a blue bustier and short pants, feminine things that exposed skin.

On both hands he wore blue gloves, and wore high-cut blue shoes.

Kazui originally had an appearance that was sometimes mistaken for a girl.

But now it had become an appearance that could only be seen as a girl.

Leonization activated, and Kazui entered the state called Leona.

Regarding hair and eye color, unlike when Yuri changed to ruby-like red, Kazui had changed to sapphire-like blue.

But regarding hair and eye color, there being no mirror, Kazui did not notice the change.

(My chest is swollen. Leonization activation succeeded!)

Touching the swell of his own chest with both hands, Kazui confirmed whether he had feminized.

(The color is blue, unlike Yuri.)

The glove color and the clothes wrapping the swell of the chest entered his eyes, and Kazui understood the color was different from Yuri.

"...Eh? No way... Kazu?"

With a dumbfounded face, Tint asked Kazui.

The face was the same, so barely that it was Kazui, Tint understood.

"That’s right."

While returning an answer in a voice a little higher than usual, Kazui immediately performed a status check and confirmed his level as Leona.

(Level is 28? It didn’t even rise 30!)

Without confirming the skill list, Kazui ended the status check.

Regarding the basic skills of Leona dedicated skills the current Kazui could use, Kazui already knew.

Regarding standard skills and special skills beyond basic, unless level rose to intermediate or above they could not be used.

Among them skills that required training also existed.

But the basic skills among Leona dedicated skills, if one became Leona, even without training were in a state of being usable for form’s sake from the start.

Of course only usable, and to master them talent and training were necessary.

That was why Yuri who became Leona could use Leona dedicated skills and fight from the start.

By becoming Leona, Kazui was already in a state of being able to use basic skills.

And at the point of becoming Leona, Kazui’s body was already filled with an enormous amount of Aura.

So that even if attacked right after transformation he could deal immediately, at the point right after transformation he was in a state of having generated considerable Aura.

Kazui looked up at the night sky and searched for the griffin’s form.

The dirt smoke had already settled considerably, and Kazui was able to confirm the form of the griffin flying around the night sky.