The Principle of a Philosopher by Eternal Fool “Asley”

ht thousand! Got that?!”

 

“Since when was our quota doubled, sir?!”

 

Pochi freaked out real hard in response to my preaching, putting her paws on her cheek like that one famous painting with a screaming man.

 

“Oh? You two will be fighting together? I think acting separately will make things easier, though?”

 

“Oh, no, I think it’s easier that we just do it our way, really.”

 

“Hmm, sounds good… right?”

 

Giorno glanced at Lylia, prompting her to keep her mouth tightly shut and turn away.

 

“…Whatever.”

 

Is it just me, or did Lylia sound not anywhere nearly as hostile as she usually would be?

It’s as if she was saying she’ll be leaving the job to me.
I wonder if there had been some sort of change in her mindset.

 

“Hahaha, hear that? She said she’s leaving it to you!”

 

Aha, called it.

From my understanding, she’s a fierce warrior with normally suppressed emotions.
Quite a difficult character to get a read on.

 

“Enough chit-chat.
It’s time,” 

 

Lylia said as if she knew exactly what would happen next.

 

“””””GWOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”””””

 

…And then the monsters all asserted their sheer scale of their threat.

Pochi and I both had tears welling in our eyes… and probably thoughts of tonight’s dinner in our heads.

I would have liked to have more time to mentally prepare, but a part of me just resigned myself to the fact that our battles are always like this.

 

“I’ll take the middle.”

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“And I’ll take the left.”

 

“MOOOOOO!”

 

“All right, Ox, you take the ones in between us.
That leaves the right side to you two, Poer, Shiro.”

 

“Rise! All Up: Count 5 & Remote Control!”

 

I cast an ability enhancement spell on all members present.

Then I hopped onto Pochi’s back again.

 

“A good spell! I can never get enough of this!”

 

“KILL… KILL… KILL… KILL!”

 

“MOOOOOO!!”

 

“”I wanna go home I wanna go home I wanna go home…!””

 

All five of us said something to boost ourselves up.
Our three friends started positioning themselves to take the advancing monsters.

They took one step, and then another, eventually transitioning into a run… and then disappeared into a blast of air.

Pochi refused to move until the very end, with me patting her on the head while waiting for her to be ready.

 

“ONCE WE GET HOME…!”

 

“WE’LL HAVE DINNER!”

 

“ALWAYS ON OUR MINDS…!”

 

“FOOD!!”

 

“VEGETABLES ARE…!”

 

“ENEMIES!!”

 

“WE WANNA EAT THE BEST…!!”

 

“LIKE NO MYTHIC FRUIT EVER WAS!!”

 

“TO FIND IT IS OUR REAL TEST!!”

 

“TO EAT THEM IS OUR CAUSE!!”

 

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“POCHI’S MASTER IS…!!”

 

“A GODDAMNED FOOL!!”

 

“Yeah, fine! Let’s go!”

 

I patted Pochi’s ruffled-furred head one last time, after which she got up and howled to the sky,

 

“AAAWWWOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

 

“Crush them!! Combine our powers, and blow a hole right in the middle of the enemy ranks!!!! OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!”

 

“I am Pochi, the strongest Familiar in the era of antiquity! BLAST OFF- guh!!”

 

Ah, she accidentally bit her tongue.

Still, the strongest Familiar in the era of antiquity, huh? That’s what the public saw, true, but Pochi’s shout was more like her telling that to herself.

And that’s fair – without doing that, she wouldn’t be able to bear with this situation.

 

“Pochi Pad Breath!”

 

We’re taking the whole right side of the army, and I started it off by launching my most powerful spell at the far end of it.

It’d be too dangerous to use once we’re up close, but it works at this distance.

 

“Pochi Pad Bomb!”

 

And now, my second most powerful blast at the Undead monsters on the front row!

This is all to make sure that Pochi can keep going straight ahead.

Countless monsters got blown away, and the ones behind them got over the corpses of their own kind and picked up more speed.

And then the Pochi Pad Breath exploded.
So devastating and loud that, in fact, it muffled out all of the screams of the monsters that couldn’t escape the scalding water.

That blast also served as a signal for all five of us to begin fighting for real.

 

“So it has begun!!”

 

“KILL… KILL THEM ALL!!”

 

“MOOOOOO!!”

 

“You’ve roped me into something terrible again, Master!!”

 

“The worst has yet to come, stupid doggo!!”

 

Fifth Month of the Hundred and Twenty-First Year of the Sacred Calendar…

Today marks the day of our first battle against the Devil King’s army in the outskirts of Holy City Regalia.