“Raph!” Raph-chan tried some illusion magic, but it was scattered by a tornado skill from Armor. Miyaji’s women sensed the threat and fell back, so they didn’t take any further damage. They sought to interfere from the back, with performances, magic, arrows, and ofuda.

“This is the end! Jason Murder IV!” In the moment he was about to unleash that skill at us—

“Air Strike Throw X! Second Throw X! Torrid Throw X! Tornado Throw X!” Three projectiles suddenly hit Armor, and a tornado formed around him. He gave a roar of pain. I recognized the skills at once and turned in the direction of the voice that shouted them to see Rishia smashing in through the wall.

“I’ve finally found you!” she said.

“Rishia!” I exclaimed. I should have expected this from her. Her “main character” quality was still in full effect. She appeared at just the right moment to save her allies. She hadn’t waited and picked this moment, had she? That seemed unlikely, based on her personality.

“The book vassal weapon just appeared and led me here. It seems I made it in time,” she explained. So the book had guided Rishia in! That was something to be grateful for.

Good! It looked like the moron woman had been right and seven star weapons could still be used. The holy weapons had been sealed. So the seven star weapons could still be used.

“Rishia,” said Itsuki.

“Itsuki! Are you okay?” she asked.

“Yes, I am fine. Thanks to you, Rishia,” he responded. After Rishia had confirmed Itsuki’s safety, she looked around the room and then glared at Armor.

“Well, well. If it isn’t Rishia, the woman who ran off to join the shield demon king,” Armor snarled. He was completely dismissive of Rishia. Does a piece of trash like you really think you can defeat our own shining main character, Rishia? But no, giving it a little more thought, this guy had no idea about the new, awakened Rishia. He probably thought of her as little more than that girl who’d pulled off that move with the barrel of rucolu fruit at the Cal Mira islands.

“Mald?! What are you doing here?” she said. Then Rishia looked over at Witch, and her expression hardened.

“What do you think? We are fighting the good fight. We shall defeat the shield demon king here in this other world, bring peace to our own world, and display the light of justice to the people,” Armor replied to Rishia.

“Naofumi hasn’t done anything wrong. Even Itsuki acknowledges that,” Rishia replied. Itsuki said nothing. He just stared at Rishia. That was super suspicious. One interpretation was that he was only going along with me because of the curse.