“What an impertinent demon king you are!” Armor chided me, gritting his teeth and letting out another roar. “Take the judgment of justice!”

“What is this justice?! You’ve got to be kidding me!” My own retort was lost amid my own screams of rage. I finally broke free of the chains, reached out to stop the guillotine blade with my hands . . . and in that moment, two brilliant shining balls of light appeared in front of my eyes.

Chapter Eleven: The Mirror Vassal Weapon

Chapter Eleven: The Mirror Vassal Weapon

“What’s this? What’s happening?!” Surprised by this unexpected turn of events, Miyaji looked over at the moron woman. She was still wrestling with S’yne but stopped and shook her head to show she didn’t know what was going on either. The two balls of light whirled around in the space between Itsuki and me, slowing down the progress of the guillotine blades. For a moment, I thought it was support magic from someone . . . but that wasn’t it. There were faint shapes within the light—a mirror and a book.

The mirror was the one who had sent us on this lovely vacation in the first place. The book though . . . What was it playing at?

The balls of light containing the mirror and book rammed into me, as though they were competing with each other, and then one of them flew away. Light dazzled my eyes, but when I blinked, the light was gone.

However, there was also a strange feeling in my shield hand. Very similar to how it had been acting until now, but also slightly different. Text appeared in my field of vision.

Confirming connection of mirror vassal weapon to the shield holy weapon—performing conversion.

Then a familiar-looking but also slightly different status item popped up.

Unlocked compatible weapon!

Weapon book items slid in at high speed and formed into a single shape.

I entrust my intent to protect this world to you.

You liberated me, and I have come to repay that debt.

Please save the trapped holy weapons, brave Shield Hero.

The item locked in place along with this message.

Amid exclamations from those around me, I looked at my hand. There was a mirror-like shield there. I immediately stopped the guillotine blade and then blew it away. In my field of vision, I saw a mirror that was shaped like a shield, called the Spirit Tortoise Carapace Mirror. This looked like an exception weapon that might work much like the staff had. I opened the weapon book to check. Countless mirrors—which looked basically like shields—all hovered in my field of vision. I could only use them in this world, from the look of it. I’d only been able to use the Fenrir Rod when I had the staff equipped, so this didn’t look like an exception weapon after all. It was more like the vassal weapon had chosen me.