I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated

ranslated by Tods

Edited by Phantom0408

「Master, let’s go!」

『Ou!』

「Haa!」

Taking advantage of Urushi’s movement force, Fran threw me at the great magic beast.

『Hyaaah!』

With my telekinesis at full power, I charged forward in a straight line toward the great magic beast.

But tentacles as thin as a string were stretched out to intercept me. However, its strength was not as great as it looked.

With my momentum, I pierced through the encircling net of more than a hundred tentacles and plunged into the grotesque magic beast.

『Uwooo!』

「Ghyuoooooh!」

It roared at the moment I pierced it. But didn’t it sound more annoyed than in pain? It seemed that it was only annoyed by my attack…

The crater is about the same size as my previous Kanna Kamui, and it doesn’t seem to be taking much damage.

『So my Evil Crusher can only inflict this much damage huh?』

The piece of the Evil God in it was probably too small compared to its size, moreover, it was a high-ranking being too.

『Tsk! This is…!?』

The gouged flesh began to regenerate at once. At this rate, I would get swallowed by the great magic beast’s body. It was clearly aiming for me.

In other words, it possessed the intelligence and rationality to think of a strategy of this level.

『Kuh… I need to get out of here!』

Moreover, my durability value had been significantly reduced. It seemed that its body fluids had a corrosive or acidic effect.

When I escaped with my teleport, the hole I had made was already closing.

『Considering how big this thing is, a hole like this was probably just like a scratch, huh?』

Once again, I flew around the great magic beast to see what it looked like.

It was still growing. Tentacles still intertwined here and there, and from up here, it just looked like a lump of flesh. It had no head, hands, legs, tail, or wings.

Well, let’s just call it a massive grotesque purple, dark red, and grey tentacled monster…

「Ghu… Ghughooh…!」

『Hmm?』

There was some kind of strange noise coming from the great magic beast.

Was that this thing’s howl?

I don’t even know where the mouth is, but it sure sounds like a howl.

「Ghughaa… Ghughyagoooh!」

『Uwaah! Gross!』

I was at the top of the lump of flesh when something strange appeared. As I watched from the sky, I could see tentacles wriggling violently beneath me, and then something sprang out from it.

『A mouth?』

「Ghugyoghoooh!」

A mouth appeared as it moved through the tentacles. Could it be the mouth of the great magic beast?

『It sounded just like a person though…』

It didn’t seem to have beast-like fangs, and although it was huge, it was not deformed. It had reddish-black gums and white square teeth that lined the gums. In fact, the shape of its mouth was very similar to that of a human’s.

It was strangely deformed in contrast to its body.

「Ghogooaaah… Ooobeey meee!」

『Huh?』

「Oobeey mee!」

It talked!

Its voice was loud and deafening as if it was speaking through a broken loudspeaker, but it was definitely talking.

「Obeeey meeee!」

I wonder if I could call it a spirit of voices. There seemed to be an Evil Spirit in its voice. I see now, those who heard it will surely get controlled by it.

(TLN: Spirit of Voices (言霊 kotodama) refers to the Japanese belief that mystical powers dwell in words)

But it didn’t work on me.

Perhaps it would normally take a great deal of effort for anyone to repel or reject the control.

But honestly, I didn’t feel like I had done anything. After all, I didn’t feel like I was about to be controlled at all. It was just a loud voice for me.

「Obey, me!」

『Well, sorry!』

「Obey, me!」

『Just sit there and scream that for the rest of your life!』

「Obey, me!」

Is that all you could say!?

『Just shut up already! But I was grateful that you’ve shown me a big, visible weakness!』

「Obey, me!」

It really only seemed to be able to speak in high-pitched tones. Was that what they called it in place of a squeal?

「Obey,――」

『Eat this!』

I unleashed my Kanna Kamui at the mouth of the great magic beast, which had repeated the same words over and over like a broken speaker.

A white thunderbolt was then swallowed by its open mouth.

「Obeehygyaaaah!」

『Oh, it works better than before…?』

The magic power of the great magic beast seemed to have decreased since my first Kanna Kamui, but…

The great magic beast seemed to be still making some movements. I decided to go back to Fran for the time being.

『Fran, its voice doesn’t affect you, right?』

「Nn. It’s just so noisy」

「Woof!」

Alright, it seemed both Fran and Urushi were perfectly unaffected by the Evil God’s control, they both just had their ears flattened and were frowning from hearing it.