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After the tornado made up of fire subsided, the robed people who weren't caught in the attack immediately rushed away from the magic knights and soon black portals appeared below them allowing most of the robed magicians to escape.

Meanwhile, the dark lord who was drooling while fondling 'something' soft was being glared at by Secre, while Anna was looking at him with a slight blush on her cheeks.

'...If only I was in my original body...' thought a certain anti-bird as she looked at her partner who was sleeping in someone's lap.

'Sekke-kun is looking so happy. Ah~ it's making me happy as well. His hands are so big and rough...yet his touch is oddly satisfying.' thought Anna as she looked at Sekke.

The other magic knights looked at the black-haired girl who used the huge fire spell suddenly we're still a bit shocked except for the captains who were now busy capturing the robed magicians who were left behind.

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Later that day Sekke who was unconscious for quite a while finally started to wake up.

".... it's fine just leave him to me. You must be tired right?"

"I am absolutely fine so you need not worry about me."

Sekke who was starting to regain his senses heard two people near him who were most likely bickering.

'What's the hell is going on?' thought Sekke as he slightly opened his eyes and tried to lift his body.

"Sekke!!" "Sekke-san!" "Sekke-kun"

Seeing Sekke finally gaining his consciousness hid friends around him started making a ruckus.

They were both happy and worried about him, but Sekke just ignored his surroundings as he still felt a bit groggy after waking up.

"...Secre?"

Immediately asking about his familiar whom he was not able to find anywhere Sekke started looking around only to see that a lot of people were around him and for some reason Anna was directly in front of him with their faces just a bit away from each other.

Secre who heard her partner call for her as soon as he woke up made her a bit happy as she flew off Asta's head and landed on Sekke's shoulder.

Feeling the familiar weight on his shoulder Sekke looked in its direction and smiled at seeing the familiar expressionless anti-bird.

"So there you were....wait a minute..."

After finally realizing what he was doing before he fell asleep Sekke jolted up and looked around carefully as he saw the magic knights from the decoration ceremony all around him.

"Judging by my surroundings I guess that the situation is stable for now," said Sekke as Klaus gave a nod.

"Umm, Sekke are you okay? You aren't injury" asked, Klaus.

"Sekke-san! Are you alright? Are you injured somewhere? Does it hurt somewhere?" asked Mimosa who dashed past Klaus who just fell to his side by the sudden impact.

"Hm. I am totally fine. No pain at all." said Sekke with a smirk.

"Then why did you fell unconscious?" asked Klaus.

"Well, let's just say the pain of having your hand cut off and then making it grow slowly is not something you would like to experience....unless you are into that stuff," said Sekke with lifeless eyes as he looked at his arm which suffered from the extreme amount of pain

Hearing his words the ones who didn't witness the situation got pale and glanced at Sekke's arm while the others who did witness the scene of Sekke healing Fuegoleon were still shocked after hearing what Sekke experienced because of his spell.

Sekke's gaze then fell on Anna who was still sitting on the ground and asked, "What happened Anna? Are you injured or hurt somewhere?"

"No my legs are just a bit numb," said Anna as she, Asta, and Noelle explained how she took care of him once he fell asleep.

Hearing that the dark lord immediately crouched down to match Anna's eye level and said, "Thank you for taking care and saving me. And I apologize-"

But before he could finish Anna raised her hand and placed it on Sekke's mouth.

"There is no need to apologize. I did that because I wanted to. So don't apologize to me. Your gratitude is enough for me." said Anna with a small smile on her face.

Sekke looked at her for a while before he nodded and stood up and extended his hand for her to get up as well.

Anna took his hand and blushed as she remembered the hand which groped her butt earlier.

Secre and Mimosa looked at the two of them with slight envy as Secre just slapped his head with her wing.

"Ow! What was that for!"

Sekke who got the sudden wing slap looked at the culprit only to see the bird look back at him before she extended her wing and caressed Sekke's cheek.

Sekke sighed seeing the familiar action and realized that the bird on his shoulder was worried for him as well. He smiled at Secre and thanked her before he looked back at Anna who stumbled a boy because her legs were still numb.

Immediately catching her body Sekke looked at her face which got buried in his chest and was about to ask something when he felt the girl taking a deep breath.

He was about to ask about what the hell was she doing, but before he was able to Julius and Marx came which gathered everyone's attention. Even Anna stood straight but was still leaning against Sekke as her legs were still not responding.

Julius then explained the situation about Fuegoleon who just as Sekke expected was still in a comatose state. He also explained about the duty of the magic knights and what the people expected from them.

Soon Noelle's siblings left the group as Nozel led them with a slightly pissed-off expression on his face.

Leopold then came out of the building by supporting his body against the walls and declared something about getting stronger and all.

"Asta! Sekke! As fellow rivals who faced the life and death situation, I promise you two that I will get stronger! Stronger than you two as well so make sure to not slack off!!" declared Leopold as he looked at the two black bull rookies.

"...Well, there is no harm in trying, best of luck," said Sekke.

"But just keep in mind if you want to get anywhere close to the level of the dark lord you need to throw away your humanity," said Sekke with a grin as he pointed his finger at himself.

Hearing that Leopold grinned back at him with a look filled with confidence as Asta looked at Sekke and asked, "Seeke gave up his humanity? So Sekke is not a human!"

As if solving the biggest mystery Asta pointed his finger at Sekke with a shocked look on his face.

Hearing his answer the rest of the people near him looked at him with a deadpan look as they sighed.

"Really bruh?" said Sekke.

"Sekke what are you?!" asked Asta.

"Obviously, better than you," replied Sekke in a calm tone.

"Hah! What the hell did you say, you bastard!! How the hell are you better than me?"

"Well, for starters I am bigger than you."

"Ugh! H-How does that matter!? That doesn't count! Oh! Yeah, I have a bigger sword than yours!" declared Asta as he took out his huge anti-magic sword.

"My 'sword' is bigger than your toothpick down there," said Sekke with a smirk.

Asta who took a few moments to realize what Sekke meant soon gritted his teeth and looked down knowing that what Sekke said was true, but there was no way he was going to accept that. He glared at Sekke who just smiled back at him.