“Breia, go give him a hit for me,” Gorbagion instructed.

“Got it!” The man with stonelike skin, Breia, stepped forward. He looked like the kind of person to be overly reliant on brute force, and sure enough he charged at Yogiri without a second thought. Winding up his huge fist for a punch, he immediately collapsed to the ground.

“I see,” Gorbagion said. “Go ahead and give it a try, Haruka.”

“Hey...” Haruka murmured, her face still hidden behind her hair. “What happened to the dog?”

“The dog? Oh, Dai? We split up.” Even remembering it caused a twinge of pain in Yogiri’s heart.

“Why?! I said I wanted him!” The sudden angry shout caught Yogiri off guard. He hadn’t expected a reaction like that.

Haruka vanished. Tomochika turned around, and Yogiri shortly after, to see her lying on the ground behind them. Apparently she was the speed type.

“It would be a lot faster if you all just attacked me at once,” Yogiri said. Even in this situation, he didn’t plan on using his power proactively. Restricting his power to be used for self-defense ended up with the same result over and over, so even if it drew the fight out longer, he wanted to keep to that principle.

“All right. Graze, Shirou, take him together.”

The six-eyed man and the Sage stepped forward, both collapsing immediately.

“Jeez, this is so boring!” Gorbagion snapped. “Can’t you at least do something?! Say a creepy chant, or strike a pose, anything!”

“I don’t really have the chance to do anything like that, though.”

The Four Heavenly Kings had been slain, but Yogiri hadn’t done much of anything. They had all been killed by his power automatically activating in response to danger.

-Volume 14 Chapter 19