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Chapter 42 - Is That It?

Inside the new school building, the dedicated alternate dimension for the Rating Game, Riser Phenex lounged on a massive executive chair. Isabella rested on his left, Yubelluna on his right, his feet propped up on the desk. Triumph gleamed on his face, as if his great revenge was already secured.

"Riser, not that I'm one to lecture, but even if the family doesn't care how many wives or lovers you have, can't you at least restrain your playboy antics in front of your fiancée, Rias Gremory? Look at the trouble you've caused."

A middle-aged man with long golden hair, standing a few meters away, shook his head helplessly.

"What trouble? Uncle, you're exaggerating."

Riser, with a woman draped over each arm, ignored him entirely. His face showed no apology, no remorse.

"Just a human with a bit of strength. Even I could have handled him alone with prep. I had you and my brother's peerage help just in case. I can't know if that insidious human has other tricks."

"That's right. If he had ambushed us, I could have dealt with him without Riser-sama lifting a finger." Isabella, half-reclined in Riser's embrace, said coyly.

"..."

Yubelluna, trained in magic for years, understood the difference in strength between herself and Hiro. Unlike Isabella, she spoke without flowery words to please her king.

Sigh~~

The middle-aged man, observing Riser's unheeding demeanor, sighed again. He was only a half-blooded devil, lower in status than Riser. Were it not for being a half-brother of the Phenex family head, Riser would never have acknowledged him, let alone used "Uncle."

The temporary servants had already left the area, each preparing at their assigned positions according to Riser's deployment. These servants were members of Riser's older brother Ruval's peerage. In terms of internal status, they were perhaps closer than him-the so-called "uncle."

??!!

At that moment, an ultimate-class devil's battle intuition surged within the middle-aged man. A sharp unease gripped him, like an unarmed human facing a hungry lion.

He, along with Riser, Yubelluna, and Isabella, were naturally that unarmed human. His face twisted into extreme concern.

Scanning the area, he detected no other magic sources, yet the unease persisted. Unable to pinpoint the danger, he stood, facing the relaxed Riser Phenex.

"Riser, get out of here! I have a very bad feeling."

"A bad feeling? Uncle, you worry too much. None of our side have been eliminated yet, right? Even a surprise attack would be stopped by my brother's peerage." Riser's nonchalant attitude didn't falter.

Damn it! The sense of danger intensified.

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth. Without waiting to persuade the two women and Riser, he started forming a defensive magic circle. But before he completed even a tenth of it, a blinding white light appeared where a wall had been.

Three hundred thousand kilometers per second-it allowed no time for thought.

The four of them were engulfed instantly.

The light didn't stop. It pierced through walls, streaking across space, a chaotic array of colors.

Pop~

Leaving a hole several meters in diameter in the dimensional sky, the white pillar continued, vanishing into the boundless rift.

"Hmm?! The walls of space were breached?"

Outside, Ajuka Asmodeus, creator of the alternate dimension, sensed the situation immediately. His previously leisurely expression shifted.

Without explanation to the red-haired man beside him, he conjured a verdant magic circle between his fingers, unfolding his "Maou Equation" and adjusting the dimension in use.

"Ajuka?" the red-haired man asked, puzzled.

"Sirzechs, since he's your sister's helper... do you know the race of that human's servant? It actually breached my alternate dimension."

"Huh? Breached your alternate dimension??" Sirzechs's shock was evident.

"Why isn't there any sound? Did the shot miss? Am I that unlucky?"

Hiro, following the beam that blasted through the building, muttered to himself. No human figures were visible. Originally, even if the light cannon didn't kill Riser directly, it should have eliminated one or two of his peerage.

The rest would have been Koneko and Kiba Yuuto's practice, testing the results of the ten-day training camp. Afterwards, he would handle Riser himself.

"Hmm... came out for once, and no achievements to show for it."

Hiro patted the behemoth on his right and stored it back into the system's space.

"So next... watching Koneko and the others."

He stepped forward, about to return to the activity room-

"Riser Phenex has been eliminated. The winner of this Rating Game is Rias Gremory."

Is that it?

Hiro raised his head toward the new school building, a corner of his mouth twitching slightly.

In the activity room below:

Akeno: ...

Koneko: ...

Kiba Yuuto: ...

Asia: "As expected of Hiro-kun!"

"You guys wear this..."

Rias had just pulled out the communication device and hadn't even distributed it when Grayfia's voice reached her. She froze.

I haven't even left the door yet? How did it end so suddenly?

...

P.S.: Great Red was single-handedly eliminated in the dimensional gap by one of the leaders of an alien fleet (ExE system).

The Laser-class is a turret used in interstellar warfare.

The conflict between planetary and interstellar civilizations is based on the settings of this book.

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