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Maou Gakuen Vol 3 Chapter 5
🕑 Added 2020-06-12 05:07:53 +0000 UTC
Chapter 5 – Death God
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Part 1
It was a building’s construction site.
The devil king candidates who were in an alliance were standing on the steel frame structure.
「Ooi!! What the hell is wrong with you bastardssss!?」
Marios yelled out all the boiling anger in his guts.
「Strength! I lost three of my Suit Cards because of your fault! Three damn Cards all gone in an instant!! What the hell is wrong with you screw up!!」
However the Strength Sannou Rikimaru was picking into her ear while replying in annoyance.
「Man you’re noisy, it’s not a big deal anyway. You just need to replenish them.」
「……Tsu! You think it’s so easy!! I need someone who has special talent in creating model!」
The Sun Sansa Summers interrupted to mediate between the two.
「Now now, Marios too calm down~, let’s get along with each other okay?」
「Who can do that!!」
Marios also couldn’t believe Sansa’s attitude.
Wasn’t this woman originally a team with the Moon Kitakami Lunatic?
「Are you alright with this huh? Even Lunatic was done in you know? Wasn’t he your boyfriend?」
「Hmm, but he is dead already, so there is nothing that can be done about iit~」
Shit! This woman cannot be talk with.
Were they seriously not lover? Even though she at least looked like she was in love with the Moon, but what was with this attitude?
She was acting really easy-going.
「Well, I guess I also need to prepare a new boyfriend quickly~」
Her speaking tone was so casual as though she was talking about changing accessory.
The remaining female here, the Wheel of Fortune Shimokadzuma Rinne was only smiling cheerfully like an idiot just like usual.
「Aaah! Dammit all!!」
Marios kicked a nearby steel beam flying because he had no other place to vent his anger.
「Hahaha, calm down. I understand why you are so irritated.」
Joudogahama Lost was leaning on a nearby steel beam. He spoke with his expression looking really awkward.
「This might not be enough to compensate you, but for your loss we are going to protect you from now on.」
「……What did you say?」
Lost pushed his body off from the steel beam and spread his arms wide open as though to give a warm welcome.
「That’s why, you can just continue making your models without worrying about anything. A model that can defeat even a powerful enemy with one attack. For example……」
Lost made a refreshing smile.
「A model that can even defeat the Triumph or the current devil king.」
──!?
「You assholee……」
「I learned something from what happened this time. You aren’t suited to come out to the frontline.」
「I know that already from the start you bastard!! Y-you were the one dragging me outtt!!」
「But, to use Babel Tower, you need to face your opponent and fix the target right?」
「So what! I’m completely aware of that already! That’s why, I need to prepare meticulously for that! That’s──」
「But, there is a limit of doing that by yourself. Sooner or later you will need comrades to protect you.」
「That’s why, my Cards were doing that for me!!」
There were also the models that were created by his Cards. Those should become his army.
But now he had lost all his belongings.
──Don’t tell me,
This guy, was taking away my fighting strength?
Lost’s friendly smile looked like a different face to him now.
「What about this? I’m not going to force you to listen. This is only a suggestion from me.」
「……What is it?」
「That’s why, I want you to allow us to protect you.」
The current him had lost almost all of his possession. He could only do as Lost told him. If he refused──,
「If you can’t contain your anger no matter what, I also won’t mind if you leave this alliance right now though……」
The four devil king candidates stared at him.
It didn’t matter what kind of mask they were wearing at the outside. Their eyes were only filled with chilling calculation and scheming inside.
He was,
Entrapped.
「……Got it. I’ll do like you say.」
Lost nodded in satisfaction.
「Yep. That’s good. Then, let’s meet again next week.」
Lost left those words behind and left. The other devil king candidates also followed him and vanished.
Marios who was the last one remaining here stood still on the spot.
The situation was beyond absurd for him, and yet he was smiling instead.
How did it turn out like this?
That’s right.
The cause was Lovers.
Putting it another way,
If only he could take care of Lovers, his anxiety would disappear.
After that he would hide himself and waited until there was only a single candidate other than him in the Devil King War.
He would wait while making the strongest and best model.
He had understood Lovers’s hand through the attack before.
He could kill him.
Besides he was also interested.
What could possibly be more important than one’s own life?
「I wonder, what is his possession that will break……fu, fuhihihihihyahahahahahahahaha!!」
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Part 2
「Yuu-kuuun. We’re going to depart soon.」
「Yeees」
I checked my hairstyle at the washbasin on the second floor. My clothes too, well, they are normal.
Today was Sunday. The whole family would go out shopping. It was rare for us to do this.
This was because Reina was still lacking a lot of daily necessities and furniture. And so we were going shopping for those things with the whole family today.
The room that was used as storage was also finally tidied up, so it became possible now to bring in furniture to fill the room. Even so, the room was still empty with only the minimal change of clothes inside.
We were going to need a bed or perhaps a futon, we would also need a closet, and it would be better if there was a table for studying. Reina also didn’t have enough clothes for pajama or casual use, then buying additional tableware for Reina, etc, etc……we were going to buy a lot.
I got down to the first floor where everyone was waiting at the entrance.
Reina smiled from the bottom of my heart when she saw me.
「Going out, we are going out desu, Onii-chan!」
「Yeah, I’m looking forward to it.」
「Yes! Reina is very happy to be able to go out with everyone desu desu!」
She answered with sparkling eyes.
Kaa-san and Tou-san were also watching that smilingly.
「Then, let’s goo!! Both of you, quickly wear your shoes!」
We sat down at the entrance and put our feet into our shoes.
I saw Reina’s worn out shoes beside me and thought, aa, we got to buy shoes to replace her old one too……while I was thinking that,
「Reina?」
Reina was leaning on my shoulder.
Oi oi, you shouldn’t act spoiled like this in front of Tou-san and Kaa-san……I was about to say that, but the weight that I felt on my shoulder seemed strange.
Rather than feeling like someone was leaning on me, it felt like a puppet was falling on me──,
「Reina!?」
Her body slipped down and fell on my lap.
「Reina-chan!?」
「What’s wrong!?」
Kaa-san and Tou-san shouted.
Shit!! Why!
I held up Reina’s body, climbed the stair, and laid her down on my bed in my room.
Reina! Get a hold of yourself!!]
I touched her cheek with a trembling hand and talked to her eyes that were like glass that didn’t see anything.
Light returned to her eyes in that moment.
「E-eh……Onii-chan……why is, Reina in the room……」
I let out a long sigh. It felt like even my soul was going to slip out along with my breath.
She was still, alright.
Reina didn’t die.
「A-aa……it looks like your condition isn’t really good. Let’s go after you rest for a bit.」
When I said that, Reina seemed to guess something from my expression and made a sad face.
「Sorry……because of Reina」
Her breathing was slightly in pain. Her forehead was also sweaty.
Kaa-san and Tou-san also entered my room and peered to Reina in worry.
「What are you saying, Reina-chan’s body is the most important thing.」
「Yeah, you should just focus on getting better right now.」
「……Yes.」
Reina smiled even while she was drenched in sweat.
After that I helped her changing clothes, preparing wet towel, I did everything I could think of.
「Are you alright Reina-chan? Is there anything you want?」
「No……mama, sorry. Reina is being a bother.」
「Don’t say that. You aren’t a bother at all. Let’s go out together when you get better.」
「Yes……Reina is……looking forward to it desu, desu.」
Reina frowned in pain, even so she desperately tried to smile.
It pained me to see this.
「Then, call my phone if anything happen.」
I placed Reina’s smartphone beside her pillow, then Kaa-san and I got out of Reina’s room.
We went to the first floor and entered the kitchen. There Kaa-san turned toward me. She looked like she was going to break out crying even now.
「Yuu-kun. Is there no way to save Reina-chan?」
「That’s……」
Since then Lizel-senpai and Miyabi had been looking for a way. What I could do wasn’t much, but senpai and Miyabi were calling on their acquaintances like doctors or magicians.
「Reina-chan……she never complained how painful or hard it is for her, not even once. Even though she is in that state, she is trying to not make us worry……」
Kaa-san sat down on a chair in the kitchen and put her hand on her forehead in sorrow.
「Even though I want her to at least be selfish in this kind of time……I talked big that I’m her mama……but in the end I can’t do anything.」
That Kaa-san who was always cheerful and bright was feeling down. Tear spilled down from the corner of her eye.
Dammit.
It was me who couldn’t do anything.
Even though I was a devil king candidate, and Reina’s master.
Even though I was a big brother.
Dammit! Morioka Yuuto!!
Just how powerless and useless guy are you!!
Even if I tried to rely on someone, I was different from senpai and Miyabi. I had no connection at all.
If there was someone──,
『You are scared that doll is going to break down right? Then you can redo it no matter how many times you like with this girl’s ability.』
Marios’s words revived in my mind.
That Wheel of Fortune’s characteristic magic Revival. Was there nothing I could do except relying on that ability?
But even though that Tower was telling me to become their ally, he tried to kill me──no, he tried to kill Reina too.
His action didn’t match his words.
Was he acting because of his whim, or was he forced by a situation and so he was reluctant to invite me……or perhaps, the alliance wasn’t united in one purpose?
Could I entrust Reina’s life to someone that couldn’t be trusted like that?
Then, what should I do?
Think, Morioka Yuuto.
In the end you were just a human.
You were accidentally chosen by an arcana, and by luck you were helped out by amazing people like Lizel-senpai and others. You were just a mediocre man.
I wasn’t reliable at all.
However I didn’t have many devil acquaintances.
The headmaster told me before that he couldn’t back up any particular devil king candidate.
I already tried asking Geld if he might know something.
The rest of my acquaintances were only other devil king candidates, but I would show my weakness if I relied on them. Lizel-senpai had tried asking Neith, but I couldn’t just carelessly try relying on Stella.
After all, when I was going to save Lizel-senpai from Aspite, she asked me to give her Lizel-senpai as reward. There was no way I could──,
「──?」
Wait.
Something got caught in my mind.
What could it be?
「Yuu-kun? What’s wrong?」
「Ah……no.」
It was something that I almost completely forgot.
Just now, did I recall someone’s name?
Come to think of it, that Geld once said──,
……!!
「Aah!?」
「Wha-! What’s wrong!? Yuu-kun!!」
I suddenly yelled loudly. Kaa-san was looking at me with worry.
……That was right.
There was one.
Even I had one.
Someone I could rely on.
A guy with the perfect power for this kind of time.
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Part 3
The neighbors seemed to think of that house as a deserted house.
Once it was a splendid mansion, but it became a deserted building in one night. The second floor vanished and the first floor’s walls also became full with holes. The windows were also smashed up.
I didn’t pay any attention to it at that time, but now that I saw it like this, I understood after this late that we were really running wild.
I pushed the iron bar gate.
The gate didn’t swing open. Instead it collapsed to the other side.
The building ahead of me was truly a deserted building.
Was he really in this kind of place?
I walked through the front yard that got glasses scattered everywhere on the ground. Then I put my hand on the front door.
……It wouldn’t open.
I went around the garden and entered inside from a spot where the wall was blown away.
Trace of fire was remaining inside the room. It was painful to look at. I got through the room and went out to the corridor. There the floor was covered with wall fragments and glass fragments.
I walked through that corridor deeper into the building.
「That’s……」
There was a door that was damaged relatively lightly at the end of the corridor.
I grabbed the door handle and twisted it.
It wouldn’t open.
It seemed this was the place.
I backed away for two or three meters and kicked on the door with the momentum that I gathered.
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「ASPITEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!」
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There was the sound of the lock getting busted, then the door opened hard.
The inside of the room was dim. There was a sour smell.
At the corner of the room, a man was sitting while hugging his knees. A blanket was covering him from his head.
This was the man who was locking himself in this room.
The shut-in showed a shocked expression at the sudden intrusion.
「It has been some time isn’t it, the World Aspite.」
「Yo……you bastard……Morioka, Yuuto.」
He was just barely saying that with shaking lips.
I cut across the room and headed straight to the window.
「Hih!?」
I paid no mind to the frightened Aspite and opened the window’s curtain all at once.
「……U!」
Aspite covered his eyes from the dazzling light. Surely he hadn’t seen the sunlight for a while here. He was trying to crawl deeper into his blanket.
「Oi, get out from there already.」
I grabbed on the blanket and forcefully peeled it off from him.
Aspite appeared from below it hugging himself while shrinking his body as small as possible.
「Y-you bastard……how far, you are…..you are going to ridicule this me until you are……」
Aspite’s eyes were teary.
「Don’t bother me any further than this! Morioka Yuuto!!」
Seeing him like this even made me felt somewhat sympathetic.
He was simply reaping what he sow, but when I saw him falling this low, there was guilt welling up inside me.
「Aa……sorry. I apologize that I suddenly come here like this. But, I have business with you that──」
「Shut up! This is a space only for me, a world for only me.」
Aspite looked up at me with a gaze of resentment.
「That’s right. This cramped space is my whole world. What’s so wrong about it!? I don’t want anyone stepping into it, I don’t want to talk to anyone here! Get out! Get out from my world!!」
I actually wanted to respect his feeling. Even if I had to talk to him, I wanted to take my time more without being forceful.
But, right now I didn’t have any leeway for that.
I kneeled in front of the teary Aspite and grabbed his shoulders.
「I’m begging you Aspite! I need your power!!」
「……Aa?」
Aspite blinked repeatedly. The dark circles around his eyes from lack of sleep had darkened even more than before. I stared into those eyes that were like dead fish and talked.
I talked while hoping that my feeling would be conveyed to him.
「We are being put in a difficult situation right now.」
「……」
Aspite’s expression was frozen in surprise, but a cynical smile surfaced on his face before long.
「What? Should I say ‘serve you right’ here? It doesn’t really make me that happy if it’s not me who is making you suffer though……」
「Yeah, feel free to insult me as much as you like. After all I’m coming here to lower my head to you and begging for help.」
「He……?」
Aspite frowned.
「You bastard……what are you saying?」
Light returned for a moment in Aspite’s eyes when he showed expression of anger. However, even that light immediately vanished.
「Wha……what kind of incomprehensible thing you are talking about. It’s over already for me. I lost against you……and lost everything. There isn’t any point anymore……」
Aspite’s hand reached out to his blanket.
「I thought that I’m number one in the world……there is nobody but me who can become the next devil king. That’s only natural. The World is the strongest……other people are all servant……and yet this is how I end up……」
Aspite made a self-depreciating smile and put his blanket over himself once more.
「I’m……already, finished……」
I felt strangely irritated seeing his figure.
I grabbed his blanket one more time and tore it away even more roughly than before.
「Don’t screw with me!!」
「Wha……!?」
Aspite was bewildered by my menacing look.
「I’m just a human, while you are a devil and a noble at that! You are a damn blessed guy, so what the hell are you doing sulking just because of a single setback!!」
I grasped the hand of Aspite whose willpower had declined.
「Are you listening? Aspite!」
I gazed straight at Aspite who was looking at me with fear somewhere inside himself.
「Your World Revision is amazing!」
「Ye……yeah?」
Strength naturally filled my hand on his shoulder.
I stared at Aspite with a serious gaze. I focused to make my heart got through to him through my eyes.
「The me right now need your power no matter what!」
「You……need」
Aspite’s face distorted in hatred.
「Yo-! You bastard-, don’t talk──with your own convenience」
Within his dead eyes, there was light flickering even though it was weak.
「I’m already finished! You were the one who finished me off! Because of you──」
「You are still not finished!!」
I shook Aspite’s body back and forth and brought my eyes closer.
「Eh……」
「You are still right here! You aren’t being sent back to the devil world. You still have the qualification to continue fighting in the Devil King War!」
Aspite gritted his teeth. I could faintly hear the sound of his teeth grinding.
「B-but……I’m the same as finished. I lost against the like of human……I can’t, show my face, to anyone, anywhere, anymore……」
「I defeated the Devil Mitsuishi Ibiza. Are you still ashamed even then?」
「Tsu!?」
Aspite’s pupils shrank into a dot. He was staring at me openmouthed.
「Yo……you bastard, defeated Ibiza?」
「That’s right. Ibiza got sent back to devil world. He has literally exited the stage. But Aspite, you are still here.」
「I’m……still」
「Don’t give up!!」
Vitality was coming back to Aspite’s face little by little.
「Someone with your capability can still make a comeback.」
Aspite’s wavering gaze was firming up. His dumfounded expression was changing into a ruminating face.
「Why do I have to be pepped up by you bastard……」
Then, he muttered in a small voice.
「It’s rude, and impertinent on top of that.」
──Just one more push.
I filled my fingertips with strength once more.
「That’s because you want to get back on your feet. If you are annoyed from getting pepped up, then stand up one more time! Aspite!」
Aspite slapped away my hands and yelled angrily.
「AAAAAAAAAH! SHUT UP!! Don’t talk as you please! Who are you telling to get back on his feet!! You aren’t coming here to help me, you are here just for your own convenience!!」
I shut my mouth for a moment before continuing.
「Certainly it’s a fact that I came to borrow your strength.」
「Look. Fort the sake of someone like you, why do I have to──」
「But! It’s also a fact that I don’t like it that you are turning into a shut-in like this!!」
「……」
Aspite glared at me.
However I didn’t really feel hatred and contempt from those eyes.
「Listen to me, Aspite. I won against you. But, I can’t honestly feel happy that I won if you get depressed like this! I want to have a battle where both sides don’t have regret!」
「A battle, without regret, you say?」
Aspite grinded his teeth.
「There isn’t any battle that won’t leave regret!! If it’s for the sake of winning, no matter what kind of method you have to use──」
「Did you take Lizel-senpai hostage because of that?」
「……Ku, that’s……what’s so bad about it」
「Because that’s the cause of your defeat.」
Aspite stared at me dumbfounded.
「Wh……at?」
「You let guard down after taking Lizel-senpai prisoner. Besides, you underestimated me because I’m a human. If, you steadily cornered us and used your ability fully, perhaps we would be the one losing.」
「……Certainly. Because I captured Lizel, I played the role of drawing out your strength……that’s right, because of that woman……shit!!」
「You already have an amazing power even without using petty method like taking Lizel-senpai hostage! Isn’t that right!? Aspite!!」
ASpite clenched his fist.
「……It’s humiliating.」
He whispered with a voice that couldn’t be heard.
「To be treated like this by the one who defeat me……this is only heaping humiliation on top of humiliation.」
Aspite was emitting mana that felt like a deep-seated grudge.
「W-wait a second! I──」
「Fuck!!」
Aspite roared and stood up──and then,
「A……Aspite?」
He wasn’t using any attack magic. He was simply looking down at me.
「You’re going to regret this. Morioka Yuuto.」
A gaze that was lording over other people. It was like the Aspite in the past.
However, I could see flame that didn’t exist there in the past being lit up.
「After all you are setting fire within this me one more time.」
There was a faint smile on his lips. Even that smile felt somewhat different in atmosphere from before.
My cheeks also unconsciously loosened.
I immediately stood up and stared straight into Aspite’s eyes.
「This is how the World Aspite should be.」
Aspite snorted haughtily.
「Speak. You have something you want to ask from me right? I might just listen depending on what it is.」
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Part 4
I asked Lizel-senpai to investigate the best place to carry out the operation for exchanging Reina’s core. The flow of mana in the ground and space would differ depending on the time. If there were places where sorcery could easily succeed, there were also places that had opposite effect.
The place that was selected as the result──was Miyabi’s mansion.
It wasn’t the run-down shabby house where I visited previously, but the magnificent building beside it that had vast plot of land.
A magic circle was drawn at the front yard there with an altar at the center. Reina was laid down there.
She was unconscious because she was made to sleep with sleep magic. The white cloth that was covering her chest area was silently rising and sinking.
And then standing beside the altar was Lizel-senpai and me. At the other side were Miyabi and her mother Miyako-san.
Miyabi turned her gaze to her mother with a twitching face.
「Say……Okaa-sama? I’m happy that you are helping us but, that attire is……」
Certainly it also bothered me.
See-through lingerie, and then negligee that was also see through. It was difficult to decide where to look.
「No, when I heard that Yuuto-san is coming……I thought that I’ll do my best.」
「The reason is completely nonsense! Okaa-sama is too enthusiastic! Or rather, don’t make a move to your daughter’s boyfriend!」
「But I can perform magic better when I dressed in a stimulating way……」
Lizel-senpai let out a tired sigh at that conversation.
「Miyabi, Miyako-sama is helping us here, so let’s respect her opinion in this occasion.」
Miyabi accepted reluctantly after being told that.
Next senpai turned a cold gaze that was like a blade toward me.
「──Also Yuuto, don’t ogle too much.」
「Heh!?」
The brunt of the argument was pointed at me.
「N-no, I’m not──」
When I started to make excuse incoherently,
「Oi!」
The man who was standing near Reina’s head yelled in irritation.
「How long you guys are going to waste time. Also……why do I have to wear blindfold like this?」
Aspite had black eye mask on his face while complaining to me. He was sending his gaze to a subtly wrong direction.
「That’s because you’ll be able to concentrate better like that.」
Lizel-senpai answered in my place. Then Aspite clicked his tongue.
「I’m not asking you.」
Lizel-senpai shrugged and turned her gaze at me as though to pass the baton.
「Aspite, actually in order to exchange the core……Reina is naked right now.」
「……」
Aspite’s lips twisted in annoyance and intentionally made a loud tsk. Perhaps it was just my imagination, but his ears looked a bit red.
「And!? I just need to use World Revision to change the world’s rule so that the homunculus’s magic formula organization ceased moving right!?」
「Yeah please. During that time I’ll use World Fall to destroy just Reina’s core. And then Lizel-senpai──」
「I will insert the new core. After that Yuuto will use Cutting Connect to connect Reina with Okaa-sama once more.」
「Yes!」
「I’ll also do my best to give support! This place is Yuugaoze House’s territory after all, so our bloodline magic Cutting Connect can work well here! Surely!!」
By the way, I had called Kaa-san too, but she wasn’t here.
It would be easier to use Cutting Connect if she was at a nearby place. Besides it was like Miyabi said, it felt like the land of Yuugaoze House was lending me its power.
Even so, I felt a bit awkward to show Kaa-san the ritual directly, so I asked her to wait inside the mansion.
「Is everyone ready?」
Everyone nodded at Lizel-senpai’s voice. Seeing that, senpai urged the blindfolded Aspite.
「Then, Aspite.」
However, Aspite kept his hand on his waist without moving. Before long──,
「Oi, Morioka Yuuto.」
「Hm……w-what?」
Don’t tell me, he wouldn’t back out after this far right?
「It seems your Queen is prattling something just now.」
Lizel-senpai looked at me with a very annoyed face and nodded.
「Aa……Aspite, please. The only one who can do this is this world is just you alone.」
The eye mask was covering his face so we couldn’t see but, Aspite was making a smug expression──I think.
「Fufu, naturally. I’m the only one in this world who is able to do this!」
Aspite raised his hand and swept it to the side as though to cut the space.
「Feast your eyes! To the full powered World Revision of the World Aspite!!」
A magic circle floated up around us with Aspite as the center. The inside of this sphere was moving with different principle from the outside world.
That was Aspite’s World Revision──another world with diameter of three meters.
「It’s done Morioka Yuuto. I can’t keep this for long, so do it quickly.」
「Roger! Here we go, Lovers!!」
The Lovers arcana that was dangling from my neck shined bright.
「Infinite Lovers!!」
Mana swelled up from the depth of my body. The mana circulated through my whole body and increased the processing capability of my mind drastically.
It enabled me to form magic formula that I normally wouldn’t be able to construct.
「World Fall!!」
I rolled up the sleeve of my left arm. The arm was tightly packed with countless magic formulas.
Lizel-senpai and Miyabi removed the white cloth that was placed on Reina.
Reina’s naked figure appeared underneath it.
I placed my fingertip on Reina’s chest. And then, with the greatest focus, I slowly moved my fingertip. Then, a gaping rift was created on Reina’s skin.
However, mysteriously there was no blood flowing.
Lizel-senpai reached out with her hand and widened that rift on Reina’s skin. I unconsciously raised my voice seeing the sight that entered my eye from there.
「This is……-!?」
Inside was densely packed with magic letters and magic diagrams in exchange of flesh and bones.
Lizel-senpai stared fixedly at those letters and diagrams.
「Miyabi, Miyako-san. Can I ask both of you to keep the cut opened.」
「A-alrighty. We just need it open ‘kupah’ right!?」
「Like……this?」
The two gingerly widened the slit that was created on Reina’s chest.
Inside, there was a cloudy stone that shined slightly red.
「Yuuto, next we’re going to finally remove the old core. Don’t destroy anything other than that as much as possible.」
My throat gulped.
「……I’ll do it.」
My fingertip quietly entered the cut.
I felt magic letters touching my skin. It was a strange sensation touching magic formula physically like this.
There was a hard sensation at the tip of my middle finger.
This was, the core.
I focused all my nerves to gather World Fall into the tip of my middle finger.
Destroy just the core without destroying other formulas!
*Cling* My fingertip felt the sensation of something bursting. At the same time the texture that my fingertip was touching also vanished.
Success!
Relieve and then next happiness welled up in my chest.
「I did it! The core’s removal is a success──」
However my face lost color when I pulled out my fingertip.
The core had vanished, but the magic formulas around it were also missing.
「No way……」
Lizel-senpai kindly wrapped my trembling fingertip.
「It’s fine. I have memorized the surrounding formulas before this. I can rewrite them if it’s just this much.」
「Lizel-senpai……」
Senpai’s hand was holding a beautiful and radiant pink gem. It was the stone that would become Reina’s new core.
That stone gently sunk into Reina’s chest.
「The position here……this will do.」
When senpai let go, the new core looked like it was floating in Reina’s chest. Lizel-senpai let out a large sigh, then she inserted her fingertip into the cut once more and touched a part of the damaged magic formula.
「Next is, connecting it with the surrounding formulas……」
Lizel-senpai’s eyes shined blue. Her hair was slightly fluttering as though a wind was blowing from below.
Magic formula’s letters were stretching from between the cut and wrapped around the core.
Miyabi let out a sigh of admiration seeing that.
「Amazing……」
Miyako-san also couldn’t hide her surprise.
「I’m amazed you can do something like this……as expected from Lizel-sama.」
I didn’t understand the degree of difficulty of what senpai was doing. However, from the two’s reaction, it seemed to be something really difficult.
Senpai was doing that without a single change in her complexion……I thought once more that this person was amazing.
「It’s alright with this. The finishing will depend on Yuuto……I leave it to you.」
「Y-yes!」
I was going to activate Yuugaose House’s bloodline magic Cutting Connect that I inherited from Miyabi, but Aspite raised his voice with a flustered voice.
「Oi! Are you still not finished yet!? I’ll be at my limit soon!」
「Eh!?」
I hurriedly activated Cutting Connect and formed an image of tying a red string on the core.
「Just a bit more! Hang on!」
「Don’t talk like it’s so easy! This is hard!! Aah, shit……it’s already」
Aspite’s voice sounded really pained.
However right now I was concentrating into my hand──tsu!?
Suddenly a sharp headache assaulted me.
My head, my body felt hot.
Shit! It was because I continuously activated Infinite Lovers!
「Kuh……I tied it to the core!!」
Next was to connect it to Kaa-san!
However, my field of vision distorted. An intense dizziness also attacked me.
The world was rotating. Lizel-senpai’s sharp voice resounded within it.
「Miyabi, Miyako-san! Stitch the wound!」
「Y-yes!?」
「If it’s just that!」
I saw from the corner of my eye the two of them putting their hands on Reina’s cut. Golden light shined from their palm and Reina’s wound was closing.
However my sight was still rotating around like before.
Just a bit more! If I could just connect this until Kaa-san……tsu!!
The effect of Infinite Lovers was cut off at that moment.
My body tilted and fell──just when I thought that,
Someone held me from behind.
「It’s fine, Yuuto. I’m with you.」
「Lizel……senpai.」
The gentle and voluptuous sensation of Lizel-senpai’s breasts were spreading on my back.
And then mana flowed in from there to take the place of Infinite Lovers.
My consciousness was clearing up once more.
My sight was still rotating, but I understood the direction because my body was being supported.
I held my right hand toward the window of a room in the mansion where Kaa-san was at.
「GOOOOOO!!」
The red string that stretched out from Reina’s chest ran toward that window.
I didn’t move from that spot, but it felt like there was an eye residing in the tip of the string.
It went through the window and flew into the chest of Kaa-san who was standing with worry.
「Aspite!! It’s fine now!!」
「Guoh!!」
I yelled, at the same time World Revision’s magic circle scattered and Aspite fell back.
「Reina-!!」
I stared at Reina who was still lying down with a bated breath.
She didn’t wake up.
She didn’t move.
……Was it no good?
The moment I thought that,
Reina’s eyes blinked open.
「HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?」
She jumped up with a strange voice.
「R-Reina……?」
「A-awawa……R-Reina is surprised desu desu.」
Her hands covered her chest while she was heaving.
「What’s wrong!? Are you alright!?」
「Y-yes. For some reason Reina’s eyes suddenly open, and……it’s like something energetic suddenly rushed into Reina’s body……it feels like mama is calling loudly.」
「I see……」
Most likely that was the proof that her connection with Kaa-san was done well. As usual, Kaa-san’s excessive affection was flowing into Reina.
「Reina, how do you feel?」
「Yes……for some reason Reina is feeling extremely good desu!」
From her sunny expression, it was obvious that she wasn’t just acting strong.
「Err……could it be, Reina……is healed desu?」
「Yeah! You are alright now with this. Reina’s core has become new! There is no need to worry anymore!!」
「T-that means, that means……Reina is, really……」
Tears overflowed from Reina’s eyes.
And then──,
「ONII-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANN!」
She leaped at my neck from the altar.
「Reina……I’m glad. I’m really……」
I hugged Reina’s body. Her skin was warm and her body was soft. I really couldn’t believe that this body was made of magic formulas. Pulse that was overflowing with vitality was transmitted to my hand.
「Onii-chan, Onii-chan! UAAAAAAAAAHNN」
The silky skin that felt pleasant to touch because of her immaturity……body with high temperature……slender limbs that looked like they could easily break……umu, this is bad.
「B-by the way……Reina? Your clothes, you should quickly……」
「Fue?」
Reina looked down on her body.
White and spotless skin. Slightly bulging chest, pink nipples. Thin waist, then the smooth hill below it──Reina’s face quickly turned bright red and her lips were trembling.
「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAuh!!」
She hugged herself to hide her body and crouched on the spot.
Then Lizel-senpai put the cloth that was put on Reina before the ceremony on her shoulders.
「Miyabi, lead Reina to inside the mansion.」
「’Kay! It’ll be a reunion of parent and child!」
Miyabi and Miyako-san led Reina away. Lizel-senpai saw them off before she stared at me.
「Thanks for your hard work, Yuuto.」
Lizel-senpai brought her lips toward my face.
「Eh?」
The lips’ soft texture touched my cheek.
「S-senpai……」
There was a *chuu* sound before her lips moved away.
「A perfect score. This is a special reward♥」
I touched the place where senpai’s lips touched half in a daze.
「Tha……thank you, very much.」
A cold voice theatrically spoke to me while I was immersed in happiness.
「Oi.」
……Ah!
「Aspite! Are you alright!?」
「……You’re saying that too late.」
Aspite abruptly got on his feet and tossed away the eye mask.
「I just couldn’t move from using World Revision too much. There isn’t any problem now.」
「I see……that’s good.」
Aspite stood up and snorted.
「I wonder if you can still say that later. You might have committed an outrageous mistake just now.」
「What?」
「World Revision has become even stronger than before. This me has become even stronger by overcoming my setback. I can’t be compared with my past self anymore.」
That might be a great threat.
But, even so──,
「Reina was saved thanks to that. I will never regret it.」
Aspite snorted one more time and he started walking toward the gate. Lizel-senpai called out to his back.
「My thanks, Aspite.」
Aspite stopped walking at that voice and replied without looking back.
「……You bastards, are you in the middle of fighting the Tower?」
Tower?
「Yeah……if you mean Takakuzure Marios, we were attacked by him once before this. He said something about making alliance and invited me but, I was attacked in the end……I didn’t get that guy.」
「I gathered the recent information but……it looks like Marios has lost almost all his Cards. He only has two remaining from what I heard but……it wasn’t you who did that?」
What?
「That wasn’t me. Just what in the world happened to Marios?」
「Even I don’t know. But, it seems he is obsessed with you. I’ll give you a word of warning.」
Aspite looked back across his shoulder and stared into my eyes.
「──Kill before you are killed.」
Aspite left those words behind and left.
Lizel-senpai and I automatically looked at each other.
「Senpai……did something happen to Marios?」
「I don’t know. But, it seems almost certain that he is fixated to Yuuto.」
「It’ll be better if we prepare to confront him……」
「You’re right……furthermore, we better hurry.」
Lizel-senpai’s eyes shined strongly.
「We can’t underestimate Marios’s characteristic magic. We have finally saved Reina……no, this isn’t just limited Reina. I can’t allow anything important to us to be destroyed. We better strike at Marios before he can finish creating his model.」
「Lizel-senpai……thank you very much.」
「I’m not doing anything that you need to thank me for.」
「Even so, I’m happy that senpai is treasuring all of us.」
Lizel-senpai slightly smiled and shook her hand to left and right.
「Geez……don’t speak about it.」
「As I thought, senpai is different from the other devils.」
「Eh?」
She stared at me with an astonished face.
「Somehow, it feels like senpai is thinking more of us instead of yourselves……senpai said that Reina is different from other devils but, senpai yourself also feel special.」
「──……」
Senpai made a troubled smile.
「That’s not true. Even I is putting myself above all else.」
「That means, senpai’s caliber is just that great. You still have the leeway to think about others even while prioritizing yourself.」
「Geez……I won’t you give another reward even if you say all that ♥」
Lizel-senpai made a slightly embarrassed expression and walked toward the mansion.
「We should hurry rather than doing this. We’re going to return to our palace first for preparing.」
「Eh? For……what?」
Lizel-senpai winked cutely.
「For a raid.」
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Part 5
Marios almost never used his palace inside the academy. He was using his own mansion outside the academy as a fortress──Lizel-senpai had obtained that information beforehand.
It was a 50 storey tower mansion. Marios’s workshop was at the penthouse at the highest floor.
Lizel-senpai, Miyabi, Reina, and I entered into the exclusive lift.
I stared at the floor number display that was gradually climbing up while Lizel-senpai did the final check regarding the enemy’s information.
「According to the information, the lift will temporarily at some floors where there is a guard waiting. Their ability is to materialize model.」
I saw that ability when I was attacked at the academy’s rooftop. They were tough, on top of that each model had their own characteristic.
「Aspite said that he only has two remaining Cards.」
「Yes. But our target is Marios. We’ll crush him in one go without giving him time for counterattack.」
That’s right. That guy wasn’t only capable of materializing figurine, he also had the ability to destroy the opponent’s most important thing by destroying his own figurine.
「However, there is no devil king candidate that has been defeated by Marios’s characteristic magic until now. In other words, there is limitation to that ability. Most likely he has to confront the opponent, or talk with him. The requirement should be included among his actions when he attacked Yuuto the other day.」
「So he need to do something to lock on at the target for his ability?」
「Yes. That’s why the method that we’re taking is──swift attack. Don’t give Marios any time to destroy his model.」
At the academy, each of his Cards could only materialize one model, but what if he didn’t have number limitation? Even if it was impossible for the Cards, it was possible that Marios could do it.
If he had a lot of models with him……it would be very difficult to swiftly defeat him.
The elevator stopped at the fortieth floor.
「Yossha! Leave this place to me and go ahead!!」
Miyabi got out from the elevator in high spirits.
「Ehehe, I wanted to say that line at least once.」
Lizel-senpai easily replied to Miyabi who said that.
「That’s our plan from the start. It’s so that we don’t give Marios any opening to escape.」
「Ee!? At this kind of time, you should be a bit more, y’know……something.」
Miyabi looked discontent. I spoke to her encouragingly.
「Miyabi, don’t let your guard down!」
「M-may the fortune of war be with you desu desu!」
Miyabi grinned cheerfully and made a double peace sign. Then she vanished behind the door. The elevator started moving again and stopped at the 45th floor next.
「This is most likely the Ace’s floor. I’m going.」
Lizel-senpai got down from the elevator.
「Senpai, as I though, rather than separating like this──」
Before I finished talking, senpai cut me off with her usual smile.
「You don’t need to worry about me. Rather than that……Reina, it will depend on you whether we can defeat Marios or not.」
Reina jerked and straightened her back.
「Marios is most likely lying in ambush. That’s why do it just as we talked beforehand……do your best.」
「Ye, y-y-yes! This life that is saved by everyone, Reina will use it to accomplish Reina’s job at all cost desu!!」
Senpai’s expression loosened into a smile and and she vanished behind the door.
And then the elevator began to climb up.
Next was the highest floor. It was where Marios was waiting.
「Reina.」
「Yes.」
Reina untied the string on her shoulder and put down the katana on her back. And then she drew out the katana from its sheath.
Reina lowered her waist and took a stance with the katana.
Her face was staring forward at the seam of the door in front of her.
「Reina, don’t rush. I’ll back you up no matter what happen.」
「Thank you very much, Onii-chan……but, Reina is……Reina is feeling like she can do anything right now.」
Reina’s expression was free from tension.
Her atmosphere was relaxed and her smile was calm. She really didn’t look like someone who would get into a life and death battle after this.
「Reina is, the happiest person in the world desu desu. All my senpais has saved Reina. Onii-chan and papa and also mama gave Reina a lot of love.」
The elevator moved from 48th floor to 49th floor.
「This time Reina want to be the one to make everyone happy. Reina will also be happy if everyone is happy. When Reina think that, strength is welling up endlessly inside desu.」
50th floor.
「Somehow, it feels like Reina has become the Knight of Lovers for real right now, desu.」
Her face that I watched from the side looked really happy.
「……Kaa-san is cooking a feast for our return. Let’s take care of this right away and go home together.」
「Yes desu!」
Reina’s forward-bent stance deepened further. I could sense her gathering strength into her feet.
She was like a bow that was drawn to the limit. Reina’s body was strained hard.
She was gathering her whole strength and waited for the moment she would shot off.
The door opened.
Countless monsters were visible from the crack.
Bipedal reptile, therianthrope monster, mollusk with tentacles, etc. Eerie monsters that couldn’t possibly exist in reality were clamoring outside.
Just from peeking slightly through the opening gap, it could be felt that the number of monsters was completely blanketing the room.
──What the hell is with this damn amount!!
Marios’s figure could be seen through the gaps between the monsters.
Ahead of the hallway, at the deepest part of the room, there was his figure lifting up both his arms.
There were two figurines in his hands.
「Moron! I know that you guys are coming!!」
Marios swung down both his arms.
「Two figurines for you two assholes! The devil king candidate will definitely die facing this many monsters! I don’t know who will break from the figurine for the devil king candidate thoughhhhhh!!」
The door opened,
An opening that one person could just barely pass through──was created.
「Reina-!!」
The elevator’s floor broke.
The monsters that were right in front of the elevator were all blown away.
「……Tsu!?」
They were cut down by Reina as she dashed out.
The long katana in Reina’s hands that was as tall as her own body.
It instantly slaughtered three monsters.
Reina ran like an arrow that was fired from its bow.
The next monster was scattered in pieces.
The slashed monster didn’t even have time to return to its former form before the next monster was defeated.
Reina dashed with all her speed.
The marble hallway was smashed and the fragments floated in the air.
The dolls that were let go from Marios’s hands were falling while rotating in the air.
The monster that was standing in front of them was mowed down by Reina’s sword.
Several monsters were sent flying with a flash of katana.
Reina was simply heading to a single point.
Only at Marios’s dolls.
Reina dashed like a gale in a straight line from the elevator.
Her long sword ran like wind or even light.
It was like a boisterous dance of light.
The sound of floor breaking.
The sound of enemies getting cut down.
All of them rang out almost at the same time and roared as a loud explosive sound.
The dolls that Marios threw approached the floor.
Reina threw away her katana.
She dived head first.
Her hands spread out.
Both her hands each reached out to a doll.
It was just a bit more until the dolls impacted on the floor.
Small hands slid in between them,
And caught the two dolls.
Reina immediately held them on her chest and her body was sliding.
「Wha-!?」
Marios was shocked by Reina who flew toward him with a terrific speed and jumped to the side.
However at the next moment when he saw that the dolls he threw were settled in Reina’s hands,
「YOU BASTARDDDDDD!!」
Marios pointed at Reina to instruct his figurines.
Reina charged straight at Marios after she got out of the elevator.
All the enemies on her way had been cut down.
Speaking another way, all the enemies that weren’t in her way were still alive.
The remaining figurine monsters rushed at Reina.
「OH NO YOU DON’TTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!」
I leaped into the room and pushed both my hands forward.
The magic circle that was deployed ahead of my hands fired a lump of flame.
「Fizard!!」
The upper body of the monster attacking Reina was blasted off.
──Not yet!!
I’m not!
Gonna!
「LET YOU TOUCH MY LITTLE SISTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!
──Infinite Lovers!!
Fizard’s magic circle brightened in that moment.
Normally the flame would weaken after it was fired and vanished.
However,
Infinite Lovers was forcefully sending mana to Fizard’s magic circle.
The hell flame further increased in strength.
The flame pierced even the mansion’s wall and gouged a large hole.
「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!」
I opened my hands to left and right as though to hold the magic circle with my hands.
Flame passed above Reina who fell on the floor and slashed through the inside of the room.
That flame mowed down the remaining monsters.
Conveniently, all the monsters were tall.
Fizard’s flame burned the upper bodies of the monsters and instantly turned them to ash.
The flame vanished after it made a round inside the room.
Only the lower bodies of various types of monsters remaining inside the room. It was an eerie sight.
However even those immediately returned to their original form.
They only became the half remains of figurines with melted surface.
The magnificent models that could astonish many people were now a mere shadow of their former self.
「Da……dammit.」
Marios had immediately thrown himself to the floor to dodge the flame.
「What’s wrong? You already run out of ammunition?」
I pointed a hand at Marios.
I didn’t let my guard down.
There was a risk that he was still hiding something. I was forming the magic circle of Fidezenon while glaring at Marios.
Marios stood up in panic and looked around at the situation inside his room with bloodshot eyes.
Broken wall that was scorched black. All the shelves on the walls were also destroyed and all the figurines and plastic models decorating them were also scattered on the floor in pieces.
「Shit, shit, shit……how, can something like this……-!?」
Night breeze blew in from the melted wall and it made Marios’s hair fluttered.
Marios was tearing at his hair and stamped on the floor with his feet.
「UGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!」
「The match is decided huh, Marios.」
At that time, Lizel-senpai and Miyabi’s voice came from the entrance.
「Yuuto! Reina! Are you two alright?」
「Lovers’ Cards has arrived ‘dodododo’!!」
The two of them rushed into the room.
「Reina has secured the figurines that are his trump card. What’s left is just to defeat Marios himself.」
After I said that, Lizel-senpai and Miyabi stepped forward and faced Marios.
I finally looked down at Reina who was still on the floor.
Reina who was still lying down in her sliding posture met my eyes and returned a satisfied smile.
Two dolls were held carefully on her chest. One doll was a winged female devil. The other one was an armored male knight.
When I reached out to her, Reina handed me the dolls in her hands.
I accepted the two dolls and observed them carefully once more.
To be honest, they were very well done.
Marios yelled with his saliva flying seeing me watching the dolls.
「Kuh……y-you bastards!? What are you planning……with my masterpieces!?」
「We’ll keep custody of them.」
「……Wha-」
Marios’s complexion changed color. It went past bright red to pale white.
「D-don’t screw with meeeeeeee!! They are, they are! My……」
Suddenly Marios’s face became befuddled.
「……Marios?」
What happened to him?
Don’t tell me, he still had some kind of method to overturn this situation?
I raised my vigilance and focused myself at Marios once more. Reina also got on her feet and picked the sword that she threw to the floor just now and held it in a stance.
「W-what……this, humiliation, this frustration……」
Marios muttered something in a low voice deliriously.
「I see……compared to my treasure breaking……other people stealing them from me is many times more painful……crushing. My guts is seething. I see! So that’s how it is!!」
I didn’t really get it but, he seemed to be intoxicated by something.
What’s the deal with this guy?
「Kuhahahahaha! Awesome, it makes me I want to die!! It makes me want to destroy everything! Destruction! I’m rushing headlong to destructioon!!」
He was crying. However, I didn’t know whether he was sad or happy. Marios continued to talk like a river, and then──m
「NTR is the best!!」
His eyes that were directed toward me were shining glaringly.
Was he going to do something?
The moment I thought that and braced myself──,
「Ah!?」
Marios jumped out to the night sky from the hole in the wall that was created from my Fizard.
He jumped off for suicide!?
I hurriedly ran toward the hole.
「That’s!」
A winged reptile. I saw Marios riding on the back of a creature that looked like dragon.
That dragon spread open its wings and flapped it to fly away in the night sky.
That must be Marios’s model too.
「So he still has a way to escape……shit! Even though we have cornered him!」
「Yuuto.」
Lizel-senpai put her hand on my shoulder consolingly.
「It’s a great accomplishment that we have crushed Marios’s base. Besides his Cards are also annihilated. It will be easy to corner him from now. Besides, it looks like we have also obtained unexpected spoils of war.」
Her gaze dropped toward the dolls in my hands.
I handed Marios’s dolls to senpai and she closely observed them.
「This might looks good for the palace’s interior…..?」
「Niice! It’s gonna be cool to make the palace look subculturish somehow. Reina, you get a nice loot!」
「Ehehe……it’s thanks to everyone desu desu.」
And then Reina looked up to me.
Her eyes looked like a child who was waiting for her grading in excitement.
「You did great.」
When I patted her head, Reina squinted her eyes in pleasure.
「Reina is the little sister I’m proud of.」
「Onii-chan……」
Tear spilled out from Reina’s eye.
However, that was a tear of happiness.
Reina replied with a smile that was filled with happiness.
「Onii-chan……Reina is, the happiest little sister in the world desu……desu!」
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Part 6
The dragon that Marios was riding was gradually descending and landed at a forest.
「Dammit……fuck!」
Marios got down from the dragon’s back while cursing. Then the dragon returned to become a doll again.
This forest was within Ginsei Academy’s ground.
Normally he used his tower mansion as his base, but he also had a palace in the academy. Marios was thinking to recover there.
His two best masterpieces were stolen. Furthermore the culprit was a lowly human.
He ruminated that fact repeatedly inside his chest.
Each time, unbearable humiliation and pleasure would torment him.
「Fu, fufu……」
He didn’t know that having his important thing taken away by other people would bring him this much exaltation. It was a pleasure that he finally learned. He wanted to taste it over and over.
He hadn’t used the palace for long. However he had prepared the minimum equipment and materials there.
It would be difficult for him to become the next devil king but, his own pleasure was more important right now. For that, he had to create a model first. As he started walking with excitement in his chest──,
「Marios. I came to pick you up.」
「……Lost.」
Joudogahama Lost’s figure appeared from within the dark forest.
「You bastard……why are you here?」
However Lost only smiled. He didn’t answer the question.
「That tower mansion is dangerous you know? I understand that you want to live in a building that’s like a tower, but there is a batter place. I have prepared a new hideout for you.」
──He wouldn’t give in to this guy’s cajolery anymore.
Marios stared at Lost with a cold gaze.
「You aren’t a student of this academy right?」
「……Why are you suddenly asking that?」
Lost tilted his head in puzzlement.
「I too have investigated about you. You said about getting suspended before enrolling here but, that’s just bullshit. Isn’t that right?」
「……」
「But I still don’t know what’s your background. You ain’t a student of this academy, and you also ain’t a noble. Then, who the hell are you?」
「Good grief, how troublesome.」
Lost raised his hands in a surrendering pose.
「I didn’t expect that you are such a busybody.」
「Hah? You’re the one treating me like a damn pawn. I’m not going to act like you want──」
A chill ran through Marios’s spine.
What?
Lost’s atmosphere changed completely.
There was no friendly smile there.
His face was expressionless, and his eyes also looked like a corpse.
He muttered with a withered voice that contained no vitality.
「……DreamingDream and Hope Atrocity.」
Killing intent.
No, an aura that was even more sinister than that flowed out like a polluted air.
Lost’s figure turned hazy and it became impossible to perceive his shape.
What the hell this guy was?
Black mist──no, it was a black color that was even thicker.
That’s right, a mud.
It was something that stole the qualification to exist in this world and sent it back to hell to be sealed.
It was an existence that was like the visualization of despair and death.
This guy himself was like a bottomless black mud.
That overwhelming death was approaching.
「Uh! Ua, UAWAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?」
The voice that surged out from the throat was swallowed by darkness.
Marios heard a whisper from inside the overwhelming darkness.
.
──『Happy EndLife Severance』
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Marios’s existence vanished in that moment.
