Author: SS Samurai	Original Source: Syosetu
Translator: rm31439	English Source: Re:Library

“Now… guess I‘ll start by destroying this country. Or rather, let’s start with that fool.”

In spite of the Sages being present, Surtr calmly let his gaze wander through the throne room, until it came to rest on the impaled king.

“Although he did die the moment, I possessed him… healing magic is a scary thing, so just for the sake of caution.”

He snapped his fingers, and a moment later the king’s body was engulfed in flames. Normally, magic fired off by the sages would’ve been ineffective against Loukis, but due to him already being dead, it went off without any issues.

The fire enveloped his whole body instantly, giving Kanata and Sakura no chance to extinguish it, and the king, including the black spear, vanished, leaving not even ash behind. All that remained were a couple of accessories.

“This should do it. I should probably also destroy that Mephi-… Mephi-… that family whom that strumpet¹, Samaeyl, failed to eradicate. Once that’s done, I‘ll destroy everything that’s left!”

Surtr kept on monologuing. Meanwhile, Kanata and Sakura discussed things via messages.

[What… what do we do… Shuu… and Rir are…!]　
[Mr. Loukis, too… If he’s in this state, you can’t bring him back to life, right?]　
[Y-Yeah.]　

Kanata kept thinking. With Loukis resurrection impossible, there was a high chance they’d never get to go home. But more importantly, they had to do something about the current situation first, or they might not even make it out alive themselves.

[It looks like… we can use magic again. If we seal the Black God, Shuu’s body should be left behind, so we’ll need to bring him back to life, then…]　
[Can’t you send him into space…?]　
[I don’t think so. Can we do anything about Rir?]　

At that question, Sakura shook her head.

[Impossible, it won’t work…]　
[…I see.]　

Kanata shot a glance at Surtr.

“-but once I‘ve destroyed this country, the next, and whatever comes after that, what’ll I do then-”

He was still happily continuing his monologue. Kanata started exchanging messages with Sakura again.

[Sakura… unfortunately, we’ll have to leave Rir for later. If we don’t, we might die here, too.]　
[…! Y-Yeah…]　

Sakura rubbed the tears from her eyes.

[First, let’s study our foe… The powers of the Black God are possession and strengthening of his host’s original abilities. Finally, he mentioned something about Fire Magic.]　
[…Right.]　
[All the spears I had were melted down… so I’ll need to attack with a spear summoned by magic. Even that national treasure grade spear was destroyed, so in the worst case, I’m afraid even Gungnir might not make it… I’ll create a skill here and now.]　

Kanata stealthily took out some magic cores from his bag and hurriedly got to work, synthesizing a spear summon skill. While observing what Surtr was doing, he created an appropriate darkness elemental spear summoning (SS-Rank) skill.

[This should do for now…]　

As he sent that message, Surtr glared at the boy. Kanata noticed the gaze and turned his attention to the Black God.

“…Hey, are you guys done talking tactics? It’s surprisingly hard to just keep on monologuing, you know²?”
“N-No, we still need some time…”
“Get a move on!”

Kanata, who now understood that Surtr hadn’t continued his monologue not out of excitement, but to intentionally give the kids time to plan their strategy, hurriedly got to work.

[Not good… If you ask me what we should do… bringing us to an uninhabited island, fighting the Black God there until he’s weakened, and then sealing him… that’s all I’m coming up with.]　
[You’re… you’re right…!]　

It was far from what you could call a perfect plan, merely the rather obvious “fight in a safe place”. With more time, they might’ve come up with a better idea. However, right now, nothing else came to them.

[Then… could you buff us with as much support magic as possible?]　
[Alright.]　

Just as he had asked her to, Sakura cast the full gamut of support magic and restoration magic that healed over time on Kanata and herself.

“…We’re done now, Black God Surtr,” Kanata declared, after Sakura had signaled that she was done casting.

Surtr grinned at them, pulling the corners of his mouth up as far as was humanly possible.

“Okay, okay~, then let’s have our fight to the death! Here and-”
“Unfortunately, it won’t be here.”

Kanata took a step forward while holding Sakura’s hand.

“Oh-ho…? You’re gonna teleport us to a place without any humans? I don’t mind that at all, you know?”
“You got it… then, let’s go.”

Kanata gripped Sakura’s hand more tightly and invoked his teleportation…
…skillfully moving just Surtr and himself, leaving the girl behind³.

“…Wha-?”

Sakura, who had always assumed they would go together, was stunned. In that state, she received a message from her boyfriend.

[…I’ll see you later. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to put you in any danger. Please tell the people in the castle about the current situation, will you? I’ll make sure to bring back Shuu, so once I do… let’s go eat sweets… alright?]　
[Wha-… hang on… Kanata-]　

Before she managed to finish her reply, the connection was cut off.

TL notes:
And we’re finally caught up to the information from Alim’s chapters at the end of volume 12. I’m not sure how Kanata expects to defeat a heavily buffed Shuu by himself, but I’m sure he has some plan. He is supposed to be very smart, after all.

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Footnotes:

Another instance of カマ野郎 (“ga̲y/tranny ba̲stard”), like in chapter 340.
For all the assholish things Surtr does, I do like his “I want the best fight possible” approach, so he’ll even give his opponents a leg up if it means the battle will be more exciting.
Seriously? Going to fight the final boss without your dedicated healer/supporter? That’s even more stupid than Cecil leaving Rosa and Rydia behind during the Fabul defense in FF4.