Chapter 139: It’s thanks to Kazu. If you hadn’t used Leonization we might have been wiped out

[A/N: We are just a few more golden tickets away from reaching another weekly milestone :D]

Kazui’s body soared into the night sky.

Rising all at once to a height of about several dozen meters, Kazui looked around the surroundings and searched for the caravan campsite.

"There! Over there."

A fairly open grassland, so the campsite was found immediately.

The forms of people wriggling looked like small ants, and the trucks looked small like toys.

Bathing in moonlight and glittering, Kazui visually confirmed several defensive barriers.

Mages who recovered had put the defensive barriers back up to protect the campsite.

"Did Yuri wake up? If he doesn’t wake I’m in trouble, because I can’t return to a man..."

After muttering, the thought of returning taking on another man rose in Kazui’s head.

But even being held by a man, he thought a close partner was somewhat better, and drove that thought from his head.

To begin with, just thinking that from now he had to have sex with a man to return to a male body was heavy.

For now about that area Kazui decided not to think now.

Then while cutting the cold night air, Kazui flew toward the campsite.

At some point he had been over three hundred meters away, but at the current Kazui’s flight speed it was only a distance reached in just a few seconds.

In front of a defensive barrier like a huge glass dome guarding around the camp, Kazui slowed and stopped.

He could not break through the defensive barrier, so for now he stopped in the air like a helicopter.

Noticing Kazui’s existence, the ones inside the defensive barrier looked up at Kazui and started making a fuss.

"I defeated the griffin! I want to enter, so make an entrance!"

Hearing Kazui’s words, the caravan people inside the defensive barrier raised cheers.

The information that Kazui who used Leonization went to fight the griffin had been conveyed to everyone in the caravan by Tint.

Immediately a hole opened in the defensive barrier, so Kazui entered through the hole.

Having confirmed Tint’s form, Kazui descended near Tint like a bird alighting and landed.

"You really did the griffin?"

To Tint who asked putting on a surprised expression, Kazui showed the white magic stone he took from his pocket.

If he showed a magic stone of this size that could only be thought left by a Sergeant-class or above monster, it would be proof he defeated the griffin, Kazui thought.

"You really defeated it! You did it, Kazu!"

Not only Tint, the adventurers gathered around also, seeing the magic stone, were convinced the griffin was defeated.

The adventurers raised cheers all at once.

Hearing the adventurers’ voices and talk, the contractors and workers also knew their lives were saved and raised voices of joy.

The despairing atmosphere until a little while ago like a lie, the campsite changed to a bright atmosphere.

Hearing cheers and words of thanks from the people who gathered, Kazui unlike himself got embarrassed.

"Even though I have to have sex with a man, using Leonization was worth it!"

Hearing Tint’s words, Kazui put on a drained expression.

"Don’t say that now. Thinking about it... honestly it’s heavy."

"Ah, sorry."

From the relief of his life being saved, Tint ended up cracking a light joke.

"So, Yuri? And Nora?"

Not seeing the two of them’s forms, Kazui asked Tint.

"The ones without consciousness were moved into that tent over there."

After Kazui and the griffin moved far, by a mage who recovered consciousness a defensive barrier was deployed around here again.

Then immediately the collapsed tents were rebuilt, and the ones without consciousness such as Yuri were moved to a tent.

"Consciousness still hasn’t returned. I’ll go check."

Toward the tent Tint pointed at, Kazui started walking.

Seeing such Kazui, maybe because their lives were saved and tension left, the adventurers in a casual tone bloomed talk about feminized Kazui.

"That, is it really a man? Cute!"

"True... originally a girlish-faced guy, but he got cute."

"It’s an ultra-rare skill called Leonization or something."

"Leonization temporarily feminizes and you can get insanely strong, but if you don’t have sex with a man you can’t return to a man."

"Uwah, somehow... I bow my head at that. To save us he used Leonization, and from now he’ll... do it with a man, right?"

"That’s miserable."

(Really miserable.)

Hearing the adventurers’ talk, Kazui grumbled in his heart, then asked Tint walking beside him.

"The caravan damage, what kind of feel?"

"No dead came out. Injured came out to some degree, but no seriously injured."

"That’s good."

"It’s thanks to Kazu. If you hadn’t used Leonization we might have been wiped out."

While talking the two entered a large olive-colored tent.

Inside the tent about ten men and women were lying down.

Some were injured and receiving treatment from a female holy mage.

Among the adventurers only one holy mage was participating, and luckily safe, so she was treating the injured.

Among the ones laid side by side, Kazui found Yuri and Nora’s forms.

The two still had no consciousness and looked like they were sleeping side by side.

Kazui and Tint went to Yuri and Nora and sat down and confirmed the two of them’s state.

Chests rising and falling, so it was clear they were breathing, and no large injuries found on the bodies, so Kazui was relieved.

"Yuri seems all right."

After Kazui muttered looking down at Yuri, while looking down at Nora, Tint opened his mouth.

"Nora too."

The two finished confirming the state of each party’s partner.

"...By the way, why can Kazu use Leonization?"

A frank question, Tint threw at Kazui.

"Leonization is an ultra-rare skill, right? I knew Yuri had it from the urban defense battle talk the other day, but Kazu having it too..."

After lowering the tone of his voice, Tint asked Kazui.

"Maybe Replication... became usable?"

(Well, a sharp guy would notice.)

Leonization that rarely had an owner, Kazui who had Replication used it.

That there were humans who could arrive at the possibility Kazui became able to use Replication could be called obvious.

"Well, something like that, but don’t tell people."

Thinking hiding was only wasted, Kazui confided to Tint that Replication became usable.

"But even if it was useful this time, why did you copy something like Leonization?"

Even if one could become considerably strong temporarily, needing to have sex with a man after using it, the demerits were also large, Tint knew.

A skill he absolutely would not copy if it were himself, why Kazui copied it, Tint found strange.

"My Replication, the skill I copy I can’t choose."

"In other words it wasn’t that you wanted to copy and copied?"

"Obviously."

Kazui answered immediately.

"If I don’t use it I enter a state of levels being hard to raise, and if I use it a skill I can’t return to a man unless I have sex with a man, no way I’d choose it because I like it."

"That’s true."

Tint agreed with Kazui’s words.

"But thanks to that... this time we were saved, so having been able to copy Leonization, in result wasn’t it good?"

"It might have been good, but after this is hell."

With a drained face, after sighing, Kazui added.

"I hope heat doesn’t start before returning to Aquila."

"The rumor of going into heat, is it true?"

Tint asked Kazui.

After Yuri used Leonization, among Aquila’s adventurers Leonization became a topic.

At that time about Leonization, both fact and not fact, various information spread.

About heat was also included in that information.

"It seems true."

Kazui’s words not being definitive was because he only knew from hearing talks from Lumia and Yuri.

"After starting to use Leonization, the state of combat ability raised continues about six hours, but heat happens after that."

Kazui continued the explanation.

"How long until heat happens isn’t fixed, sometimes it happens immediately, but sometimes it doesn’t happen even after a day passes."

"If you go into heat, what happens?"

"You want to... do it with a man and can’t endure. So if heat starts before returning to Aquila..."

"You end up wanting to do it where the caravan people are."

Kazui nodded at Tint’s words.

"So I hope heat doesn’t start before returning to Aquila..."

Kazui put on an expression as if realizing.

"Are the trucks safe? If not safe arriving at Aquila gets insanely delayed, right?"

"The trucks are safe. The griffin aimed around the tents, so the trucks weren’t done in much."

Monsters often aimed at people, so they tended to aim at places with many people rather than places with few.