What was Miyaji doing? Storing up the energy to attack? I was also concerned by the presence of that accessory that looked like the one Takt had. Was that the reason why Armor even had the axe? It seemed worth a try.

“Raphtalia, can you destroy that accessory?” I asked.

“I’ll try,” she replied. At that, the moron woman looked over with surprise on her face.

“Well, well, well. Hidemasa, you had better be careful. If you don’t protect the accessory I gave you, the vassal weapon will be released and leave your control. The vassal weapon is being energized by the presence of someone more suited to be its owner than you,” she explained.

“What?!” Miyaji exclaimed.

“Hey! Why are you telling them that?!” Witch accused. As soon as I heard her mention his accessory, I looked at the suspicious purple thing on Miyaji’s musical instrument. That was the same as the one that had been on Rishia’s seven star weapon that we’d taken from Takt. I’d used the power of the four holies to forcibly strip it off, which had likely sent the seven star weapons flying into their hands.

“Well, well, well, even if I didn’t tell them, a random attack might hit it and knock it off. They were about to target it anyway,” she said, covering herself. But she couldn’t cover the fact that she’d made it totally clear what we were meant to do. Moron.

“So it was already pretty suspicious as to whether you were worthy, and now there’s someone here who’s definitely more worthy,” I said. I looked over at Itsuki, who was still resisting Miyaji with his leaf playing. In terms of strength, technique, and pretty much everything, Itsuki definitely seemed better suited. I was already using the mirror vassal weapon myself, so it wouldn’t come as a surprise if Itsuki ended up using the musical instrument vassal weapon. “So that accessory is what completes their hold over the weapon,” I announced. An excellent piece of information. “Rishia! You target Armor’s accessory!”

“Bah! Targeting my weak spot? Shield Demon King! Another cowardly strategy!” Armor exclaimed. I’d had more than enough of them lecturing me about being a coward!

“I’m not allowing that! This weapon is mine! I’m the one most suited to it! Everyone! Bathe in my incredible music!” Miyaji jabbered. Regardless of Itsuki sealing it or not, he was still planning on playing some more. What he should really be doing was closing in or using some skills, but I didn’t feel like telling him that. If the rules of magic were similar to those I knew, Itsuki wouldn’t be able to interfere with cooperative magic. But if they tried to pull off anything time-consuming, Raphtalia would surely finish off the women. They had to be aware that they didn’t have time for that.