Chapter 104 – Will

(There is a long explanation in the middle to speed up the development a little…!)

000

Taking Aruru’s hand her as she nearly collapsed, her dark-haired young man grabbed her by the shoulder to help her stand upright again.

“Oh, thank you.”

As for Aruru, she felt a sense of incongruity in the man’s hand her, who was not familiar with her, but when she saw him, she suddenly remembered a person.

“…Miss Leona?”

Calling out that name because of her her black hair and black eyes could have been disrespectful to both her and the man in front of her, but the atmosphere from that and Aruru’s intuition made her see Leona’s figure over the young man.

But eventually, when the young man Cleon put on a mysterious expression, Aruru suddenly came to her senses her, bowed her head and apologized to him.

“I’m sorry! I resemble someone I know…”

“No, you’re not bad, Aruru Tromeia. Come in, there’s a guy waiting for you.”

When Cleon tries to help Aruru enter Layla’s mansion, Aruru looks puzzled.

“Uh…But if you go in as you please…”

She, of course, came here to find something that calls her, but is it okay to enter her without permission from Layla, the owner of her mansion her?

“It’s okay. Lyla is inside her, so you just have to ask her for her permission for her.”

In the end, Aruru enters her mansion while being held in his hands her trying to bring her inside her.

She meets her eyes with Lyla Flamewatch, who stands on the porch and looks up at her with her hands on her sides of her.

“Hey, nice to meet you. Miss Lyla, I-“

“Ah-yes. Aruru Tromeia. I don’t remember, but they say we’ve already met, the guy over there.”

Lila shakes her hand and lets out a sigh.

As Aruru makes a puzzled expression on her face her, seemingly not understanding her words her, Layla crosses her arms and looks a little displeased.

“Are you sure this guy is a hero?”

“Yes. Much better than Alvein.”

At Cleon’s answer, Layla put on an angry expression as if she remembered something from the past, but she answered quickly.

“There’s no hero more stupid than him… Ha ha. Okay.”

“The thing you’re looking for has been moved to the workshop. It seems to regenerate faster in places with a lot of magic. Follow me.”

When Lila turned her back as the hem of her skirt she fluttered, Aruru and Cleon followed her as she walked with unstoppable steps.

Layla’s mansion’s basement workshop was still full of junk, but on top of the magic circle where her magic power was concentrated.

A beautiful sword with a blade made of transparent and bluish glass floated in the air against gravity.

However, the sword had no bottom from the middle, so it had an incomplete shape at a glance.

“…Arondite.”

Aruru didn’t know why she knew the name of the holy sword, whether she knew that the sword was a `sacred sword’.

However, he could only know that this holy sword was calling him anxiously.

She was earnestly crying out for the fact that she was the owner of this holy sword.

When Cleon removed her hand her that was supporting her, Aruru looked straight ahead at her and took a step toward her, freed from the headache and hallucinations that had been beating him for a while.

And the moment he slowly grabbed the handle of the sword that was waiting for his hand, an intense light spread throughout the workshop.

The sword slowly changes form in Aruru’s hand his.

It was a phenomenon Cleon was familiar with.

Appearing in the midst of her fading group of lights was a woman like a noblewoman, with her beautiful light blue hair growing to her back her and wearing a pure white dress.

It was not difficult for everyone here to understand that it was another aspect of Arondite.

When she slowly opens her eyes, her eyes are met with Aruru holding her hand her.

“Aruru… Finally meeting you again. It was a short time in the physical world, but it was an eternity to me.”

A calm and clear voice came out of her mouth.

However, Aruru looked at the incarnation of the holy sword in front of her eyes with an expression that seemed to have awkwardness and bewilderment at the gap with her memories of her that had not yet returned to her.

“Thank you, Magic Swordsman Cleon. Thanks to you, I was able to meet Aruru again.”

“No. Thanks to you, I was able to find out the location of the Black Encounter.”

After Cleon adequately responds to Aaron Dytt’s thanks, the story comes in as Layla cuts in to her side of her.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have much time to relax. Before Enkidu moves in earnest, we also have to prepare.”

“It’s as she said. Is it possible to get her memories back with your own power?”

As the two talked, Aruru also looked at Arondaite.

If she is her own holy sword, she does not remember Aruru herself, but she is also her hero her.

Suddenly, I remembered that the teachers I had seen on the way to this place were encouraging students to evacuate.

The fact that teachers who do not interfere with students are moving to that extent speaks of the seriousness of the situation.

And, she thought, if something big was going to happen to the academy, she’d have to do what she could.

“It’s possible. But, Aruru, it will be accompanied by great pain because it is no different from forcibly removing the Demiurge’s factor that controls your mind.”

Seemingly concerned about her her own master her, Aaron Dytt talks.

Then, Aruru held her hand and spoke without a sign of distress.

“…It doesn’t matter. If it’s something you have to do, do it.”

“…Your personality doesn’t seem to have changed even if you lost your memory. Thankfully.”

Lyla, who was looking at it, grabbed Cleon’s sleeve and turned her body her away.

“Let’s go out. Wouldn’t it be nice to see others in pain?”

Cleon also silently nods her head and exits the underground workshop, and Leila turns around and spreads her soundproof magic barrier towards her basement her.

“Am I the only one left with this?”

Leila muttered after finishing the installation of the barrier quietly.

Cleon knew what she meant.

Bringing back memories. She was the only one who couldn’t remember him anymore around Cleon.

And then she turned to Cleon, and she gazed into his face for a moment, then-

Without hesitation, she lifted her heel and tried to take Cleon’s lips of hers.

It failed because Cleon hurriedly raised his hand her to cover his lips her.

“-What are you doing.”

When Cleon speaks, slightly embarrassed, Lila, who glares at her slightly, pulls her face away.

“I was wondering if my memory would come back if I ever come into contact with you.”

“If the memory could come back so easily, I would have retrieved it sooner or later… Although there is a way to pass on the Demiurge factor received from Beatrix by mixing the body.”

“I’m sorry…”

After hearing the story, Lila may have imagined herself being hugged by Cleon. She blushes for a moment, but she shakes her head and talks.

“Sasha and Quondo. Iona and Innis too. They say that you and I are special. Well, the face isn’t bad, and I think I have skills. I’m not sure.”

“But why did you try to kiss me or something…”

At Cleon’s words her, Lila turns her body to speak without showing her face her, her hands still behind her own waist her, her fingers twiddling.

“That…”

“That’s because whenever Master sees Papa, he feels an inexplicable thrill!”

In the next moment, Innis raised her face from Cleon’s back and raised a bright voice.

She quits acting when Quon’s memories return, revealing her true personality.

“The Master before he lost his memory was revealed to Papa, and after that, the souls who confirmed each other’s feelings were deeply connected. It’s a condition.”

“… Is that so?”

Cleon asks Lyla, but Lyla is stiff with her body her turned.

Even if she didn’t look back, she could see that her face was dyed as red as her hair.

“Well, since Master is an asshole from birth, he probably didn’t want to find out about that fact. Just like Papa and Master are connected by soul, I’m also connected by soul to Master. To be honest-“

“Quietly!”

When Innis tried to expose her, Lila, in her rapturous tone of her, Lila opened her mouth and gave her a coercive command.

Then, Innis’s mouth still moved, but it made no sound, only a gurgle like a goldfish.

“… Lila?”

“Ugh~~~~!! Yes, that’s right! Exactly as that idiot said! I hate to admit it, but since I saw you with Iona at that time, something felt strange! Doesn’t my heart beat strangely, doesn’ t my body get hot from the inside…! But that kind of thing. It’s like an animal in heat! I want to run up to a man I’m seeing for the first time and hug it…! That’s why I tried to ignore it!I’m sure you cast a strange spell on me, or I thought you were some kind of dream horse like an incubus!I asked Quon for purification magic!But it doesn’t get better at all! But you know what’s scarier!? I don’t hate that feeling more and more! When I’m blankly thinking about your face, thinking properly is rather uncomfortable. That’s good…!”

“…”

Cleon and Innis shut their mouths as they watched her spit out her what they were thinking like her rapid-fire cannon her.

“So when I met you again, I asked. Did you and I ever have a relationship? Even though you denied it right away! Co-workers, friends, and a family-like relationship, even though we mixed bodies, they said we weren’t lovers! Then what is it!? Sex? Phew!? The thing that pisses me off the most is…! Yes, that look in his eyes that says ‘I know everything about you!’ , I was going to do anything to stay with you forever. But when I came to my senses, everyone except me remembered something about you and clung to you. Why is it only me… Unlike the two of you, I can’ t remember it…”

“That’s… Sasha and Kuondo’s situation is special, but she doesn’t remember-“

“It’s not natural! It’s not natural to forget something about someone important to you under any circumstances…!”

The sound of water dripping on the floor echoed. It was like a storm of tears after spilling out all of Lila’s resentment and sadness and her uncontrollable feelings of her.

Barely wiping the tears with her sleeve, Layla turned her body towards Cleon.

Her eyes of her, slightly bloodshot and red, were still glaring at Cleon as if she were going to eat them.

Then she strides forward, and she stands right in front of Cleon, looking up at him.

“Listen up, Cleon. I’ll surpass myself before I lost my memory. I’ll make sure the words ‘I love you Laila!’ Come out of your mouth before you regain your memory, so I’m prepared…!”

After saying that, she walked up the stairs to her room her, and Innis hurriedly followed.

Cleon, slightly weighed down by the force, looked at Layla’s back her and sighed at her.

“…Is it over?”

As Lila’s door closed with a ‘bang!’, Beatrix, who had been watching the two of them holding her breath from behind Cleon, peeked out her face.

“I’m sorry for showing you this way.”

“No, because I can understand Layla’s feelings her too… Maybe she is feeling the ‘loneliness’and ‘alienation’that her predecessor she must have suffered.”

For her, she puts her reality on the line that what she was accustomed to is false.

Although her circumstances were reversed, her psychology and her may be similar to Cleon’s.

“Lyla-“

“Strong? I know. Layla is a strong kid. But she’s also a very weak girl, especially when it comes to you. She’s not usually honest.”

Beatrix looked up at her watch with a wry smile.

“It’s about time… As Iona-san said, if the black warfare moves again…”

“…Okay.”

Cleon’s gaze went to Galatea’s room, where a strong barrier was placed.

The barrier was the type of barrier that Galatea had to open from the inside, but there was no response even when she called from the outside.

“…Galatea.”

Her own oldest friend and family member, and first woman.

A precious existence that cannot be exchanged with anyone.

Just waiting for her to be safe, she puts her master’s sword around her waist in her.

001

Yesterday, Layla and Iona, who had received a call from the guards at Vytos’ warehouse, looked for traces of a black battle.

If you look around through the Magic City, you can clearly see the traces of forcibly tearing through the space and passing through it.

However, the problem was that the destination of that mana was not somewhere within the same dimension, but a gap in another dimension.

“That big golem whole…”

The head of the Department of Sacred Science muttered a little in disbelief and looked around the place where Enkidu was displayed.

There were really no physical traces left.

“You can’t track it like this.”

When Lila bites her thumb and wounds herself, she attaches it to the red magic stone on the head of her own wand.

The magic stone, imbued with rich magic, constantly finds the reverberation of magic and tells the owner where to find the target, but the direction is invariably beyond the torn space.

“… Enkidu has the ability to pass through dimensional rifts as a function of his own.”

“Why do you know that? Enkidu’s true identity, even at the academy, can’t figure it out. As expected, Aruru, did you hear something from someone?”

Seeing Lila’s suspicious look at her, Iona shut her mouth for a moment and thought about something about her. In the end, she started with the sentence, ‘I don’t think there’s any need to hide this anymore’, and she started talking.

“Before I left for the academy, there was someone who tipped me off about this and that. This is Sophia, the great sage.”

Lila’s eyes widened at her words.

Sophia, the great sage of the idiot.

She is called a heretic in the magical world, but she is the strongest mage and the best scholar who is said to have been unable to finish the fight to defeat the empire without her skill and knowledge of her.

However, unlike Talchek, who became a naturalized member of the kingdom, and the priest of the warrior party who went to the Holy Order, she does not belong anywhere and wanders around like a stranger.

When she appeared, it was always a big topic for her, and her many wizards asked her to make themselves her apprentice her.

“… Come to think of it, Iona, she was the daughter of that gorilla-talchek. There’s nothing strange about her being related.”

“It was the first time I had met her in person. She said that she had come to see me after confirming that her father she had died, but she didn’t seem like the kind of person to be.”

Iona was telling Lyla the story of her conversation her with Sophia, with her index finger on her chin, as if recalling her meeting her with her.

“She knew I was heading to the academy, and also about Cleon. He said he would need as much power and knowledge as possible in the near future. The story she told me then was about ‘Demiurge’ and ‘Enkidu’. Was. “

“Are those two related?”

It was quite shocking to hear Iona nod her head at Lila’s question.

“‘Enkidu’ is originally an armor for exploration that was created by ancient humans when they first discovered a 2D rift, to check what was inside and use that power. It was made using all the technology of the time. The investigation seemed to be going well, because artifacts beyond the rift in another dimension, which were rare at the time, were discovered.”

“However, indulgence in power accompanied by risks has always threatened mankind. Enkidu went deeper into the rift of another dimension and eventually reached another dimension. Through Enkidu as a medium, that dimension and the world in which we live The world is connected.”

“Another dimension…?”

“Yes. The land of demons, the world of brimstone, fire, and black magic. From a theological point of view, it is a dimension called ‘Hell’.”

The head of the Department of Divinity is shocked by Iona’s words to her.

He must have never dreamed that in a place like this, they would learn how the hometown of their main enemy, the devil, was connected to the world they live in.

“The five lords of hell who discovered Enkidu invaded our world as they are. They called themselves ‘gods’ who came over from the dimensional rift and began to breed and dominate humans as their energy source. That’s-“

“Demiurge… The five great demons… Then, is Enkidu’s pilot the one who brought them in?”

Iona shook her head at Laila’s question.

“It is said that Enkidu started moving while ignoring human instructions… Sophia-san and I expect that, no matter how ancient people’s technology is, Enkidu may have been affected by spending too long in the gap in the other dimension. .”

“What about the gap in the other dimension… And, where did the great sage get that knowledge?”

“I asked that question too… But I didn’t get a proper answer.”

Lila shut her mouth when she heard that.

Of course, it was possible to find out the connection between Enkidu’s identity and Demiurge, but it was not shown how this was connected to the resolution of the situation.

“So, what happens now?”

“Enkidu is originally an ‘armor’. That’s why it can be said to be in an ‘incomplete’ state if no human is inside it. However, when a human is put inside it, it begins to recover its original function. No matter how the golem changes. A perfected Enkidu driven by evil will be nothing more than a disaster for this world.”

“How do you want it to be…”

As if answering a question from the Divinity Department, Iona speaks.

“It is said that when Enkidu returned to the human world with Demiurge before stopping his maneuver, the shape was like a devil. People called the shape ‘Humbaba’ with the meaning of fear.”

Laila also knew about the name ‘Humbaba’. It is the oldest monster that appears in various historical records, and its power is said to have been enough to destroy a country lightly. It was a huge monster.

The fact that the identity is Enkidu, and the fact that Enkidu is now trying to transform into Humbaba once again made Laila’s head ache.

“…I heard that according to Humbaba legend, the monster was slain by a swordsman with an unbreakable sword.”

“Sophia-san also gave an ambiguous answer to that part. However, as far as I know, there is only one sword that can never be broken. The holy sword owned by the Tromeia family, ‘Arondite’.”

A sword that never breaks. To be precise, it is a sword that continues to regenerate with added strength no matter how broken it is.

As a result, even if the handle remains, it will be revived, so even if the image is different from the general unbreakable sword, it meets the condition of ‘never’ breaking.

“But there are no warriors in the Tromeia family right now.”

The head of the Department of Divinity speaks.

It is said that the previous warrior of Tromeia had already retired from the position of a hero and was too old to use the power of the holy sword.

But Iona shakes her head.

She knew that the owner of the holy sword that could never be broken was alive and well.

It’s just that she and the people around her are forgetting.

“…Following them into the dimensional rift is suicidal. In that case, we must be ready before Enkidu reappears.”

At Iona’s words her, Laila nodded her head.

And according to her suggestion of her, Arondite was regenerated and the owner of the holy sword was summoned.

002

Thirty minutes had passed since Aruru entered the underground workshop, but she hadn’t shown up yet.

The time Iona predicted was getting closer little by little, and Cleon, who was holding his breath watching the academy from the roof of her mansion, heard the distant ringing of Aion’s tower bell.

The bell rings 13 times.

The moment that announces that exactly one hour has passed since noon.

The cloudless blue sky, which was considered ominous, turned black in an instant, and something like a window broke through the space and protruded from the gap.

It was a disaster that came without any warning.

Damn The sharp claws that protruded with a cracking sound forcibly grabbed and tore open the dimensional gap to create a space huge enough for him to pass his body through.

What appeared was the shape of a gigantic demon with the head of an ominous bird, wings like a bat, sharp claws and claws, and a snake’s tail.

A size that is incomparable to a human, even if not as much as the number of halves he faced before.

With another dimension’s mana wrapped around his body his, with a body in which high-density mana flowed like mud.

From the air, it fell to the ground like a baby passing through the birth canal and being born into the world.

The place where it landed was the downtown area of ​​the academy.

Fortunately, it was already an area where students had already been evacuated, and at the same time Humbaba landed, the personnel waiting nearby spread a thick barrier to block the demon even a little.

However, it won’t last very long.

As Cleon grabs the sword and stands up, Layla, who has been observing the situation from a little higher, comes down.

“After all, they’ve come, let’s go. We’ll have to wait until Aruru is ready.”

“Okay.”

Defeat Humbaba and retrieve the Demiurge’s factor from Rail.

With that, a series of situations will be resolved and truly peaceful daily life will return to the academy.

Even as Cleon, he glared at the enemy to be overthrown in order to put an end to the long fight.

The demon, the beast, the echo of the grudge left by the ancients in modern times. Humbaba, the crystal, emits a roar of hatred toward everything in this world.

That alone split the ground inside the barrier and caused the flames to soar.

It was indeed an ancient demon itself that appeared in legends.

The moment he took a step, he immediately moved his body her to his limbs her.