Chapter 191 – Proof of Existence

000

In the gorge where the barrier was regenerated, restoration of the village was in full swing.

Because the green crystal could be restored by using healing techniques on structures that were cracked or destroyed in the aftermath of the battle, Quon was busy running around the town.

During the previous fight, Sasha wondered if a monster had sneaked into the barrier through another place. She patrolled the canyon several times.

Amelia was cursed with something like a curse that prevented her fingers from moving properly thanks to her being once wrapped in her dark magic and holding Lilim’s body her with her bare hands, so she needed to recuperate until it healed.

“Hmm. Just as you said. It looks like there’s a pollutant in the water-attribute vein a little higher. Let’s send the automata to clean it up.”

“…A automata of the ancients. I’m worried about it, but which one is it?”

Layla and Mercury return to the underground lab and continue their investigation to clean up the tainted spirit vein near the gorge.

As a result, since the location of the contamination source was discovered, work was being prepared to purify it.

And, the same room in the laboratory ruins.

After being sealed in a blue crystal, Cleon was transported to the laboratory through the pylon and quietly gazed at the sealed Lilim.

Not own. After seeing the memories of her past life, she felt as if something like a big stumbling block had been removed from within herself.

She said she was fine, but after a semi-forced examination of her body Her, Mercury spoke.

‘Inside you, the previous life factor has disappeared.’

I knew the cause.

A state created as a result of maximizing Galatea’s power her in the battle with him.

Its sword energy completely blew away not only the factor, but also the space inside Cleon’s soul where he had been dwelling.

“Cleon.”

When she turned to the voice of her calling her name her, Aruru was looking at Cleon with a slightly worried expression.

Cleon knew what she was worried about.

Demon Sword Emperor, Cain. The great sword she used, Pandora.

For Aruru- the object of fear.

If Cleon’s previous life was the enemy of the continent that burned the kingdom and pushed countless people into pain, of course it would be difficult to treat him the way he is now.

“…A little bit. Shall we go for a walk?”

When Cleon said that, Aruru quietly nodded her head.

“Galatea. Watch Lilim.”

When Cleon says that, Galatea, who was hanging from her waist, glows and takes on a human form.

She had beautiful turquoise hair and a high-exposure outfit as always, but where did her usual composure her go? She also looked worried about Cleon.

“Okay… But Cleon. You shouldn’t overdo it either.”

Galatea’s reason for saying that was clear.

At Mercury’s physical examination, I was told that Cleon’s inside her was a complete mess.

In other words, it was the same situation as Rubera before.

The reincarnation factor was one of the ‘physical’, ‘mental’, and ‘spiritual’ elements that constitute Cleon’s interior her.

In a way, it’s a natural story, because the original purpose of the reincarnation factor was to improve defects over and over again.

However, over a long period of time, the factor tried to create reincarnations that valued efficiency more than that as a tool to stop Adam’s rampage.

In a way, Cain, the emperor of the demonic sword, may have been a form that he reached after pursuing its efficiency.

Currently, Cleon is in a state where it is impossible to use black magic, let alone draw power through imprinting.

My physical ability recovered to some extent, but after I opened my eyes, my whole body creaked so much that it was difficult to get myself up.

It’s been less than a day since Mercury put him in a treatment capsule and forcibly restored him to some extent.

However, it seems that the magic organs inside the body still take more time to recover, and of course it is related to the factor of the reincarnation factor, but it is also said that the reason is that recent injuries have been repeated so severe that the entire body has been replaced several times in a row. Heard.

Guess what… There were several. It was like a jinx to be mummified and lie on the bed after a major incident.

When Cleon and Aruru turn around and leave the room, Mercury turns to Cleon.

“Hmm? Cleon. Are you going out of town?”

“No. Because we’re going for a walk… Maybe we can go out of town.”

When Cleon said that, Mercury took out a small sphere-shaped magic tool from the drawer and threw it to Cleon as if everything went well.

Chin! When Cleon picked it up with one hand, it felt quite heavy for its small form.

“This?”

“I have a favor to ask of you. When you leave the village, there will be ores of a different color from ordinary emeralds all over the canyon. Please collect some of them.”

When Mercury said so, Layla stood beside her, raising her voice her.

“Wait, Cleon’s injured.”

“What. What you need to do is simple. The magic tool is a small automata for resource extraction. Is there a button in the middle? If you press it, it will collect the ore on its own.”

“Still…”

When Layla tries to say more, Cleon nods her head.

“Okay. Being the only one doing nothing doesn’t suit my personality. Let’s go, Aruru.”

“Ah, yes…”

Looking at the back of Cleon as he slowly walks away, Aruru follows him somewhere, with a slightly relieved expression on his face her.

“Well, then. Galatea finally separated from Cleon? I want to test you a little…”

“Dream. Wake up!”

Upon confirming that Cleon had left the room, Mercury looked back at Galatea with twinkling eyes, and Galatea felt goosebumps running down her spine and expressed her will to resist.

001

When Cleon and Aruru came up to the surface through the crystal tower’s transmitter, the village was pretty much restored to its original state thanks to the group’s efforts.

In addition, unlike the original barrier, it seemed that it was affected by the barrier mixed with a high concentration of divine magical power, and the building of beryl and the beryl itself seemed to have grown larger than before.

“Looks like you’ve recovered a lot. Thankfully.”

As Cleon said that and moved slowly, Aruru followed suit.

“That’s right. It’s probably thanks to Miss Kuon’s hard work. I was a little surprised when I heard that recovery magic works on buildings. The beryl stones here don’t seem to be ordinary ores.”

As Aruru said that, she took out a beryl crystal from her pocket and held it.

Unlike other beryl stones grown in the village, it was more transparent, and it was processed in the form of a crystal pillar that could be used for ornaments right away.

“That?”

When Cleon asked a curious question, Aruru answered by holding it up to the sunlight.

“I think it’s a ‘magical tool for communication’ made with green crystals… It seems that such pure green crystals with high magic content have the ability to store magic on their own. Gabriel-sama asked to pass them on to my mother.”

“Dear Aurelia…”

“Yes. It seems that he wants to hear the voice directly, not the letter.”

Cleon nods her head at her words her.

Aurelia is to Gabrielle her daughter’s friend her.

Now most of them were reluctant to mention her name of her, or were one of the few who could tell her story about her of her, who had forgotten her memory of her.

For herself, Lesia must be something similar to Sophia and Esca.

“…Is it.”

“Yeah. My mother will be happy too.”

As we slowly walked to one side of the village while talking about that, we saw Jibril standing at the borderline separating the village and the gorge.

She seemed to be using her magical powers against the beryl stones that had grown near the roads in the village, inhibiting their growth so that they would not block the path.

When Jibril notices the two of them and turns her head away, she momentarily meets Cleon’s eyes her.

“Yes.”

Then, she hurriedly turned her eyes to look towards Aruru.

`…`

Seeing her reaction her, Cleon could n’t help but think that she could n’t help it.

The existence that caused great damage to her village was also Lilim, a clan of black demons, and it was also known to people that it was her ‘herself’ who had summoned her.

Even if she is hated, she can’t help it. She thought so, and she said nothing.

“Ah, Aruru-sama. Cleon-sama. Are you going for a walk?”

“Yes. Mr. Jibril. What is there if you go this way?”

Perhaps Aruru also accepted Jibril’s gaze with that intention, and she smiled and continued a normal conversation.

“If you go this way… You will find ‘Reverse Waterfall’. It is a different space even in the canyon.”

“Backwater… Waterfall?”

When Aruru tilted her head at the unfamiliar term, Jibril gave a small smile.

“It’s literally a space… But you’ll know when you go there. It’s okay, it’s not a dangerous place.”

Aruru does n’t ask any more questions about her words her and nods her head and walks with Cleon.

And, after Cleon passed by Jibril-

“Hey, Mr. Cleon.”

Jibril called his name his and stopped.

Aruru and Cleon also stopped her feet and looked at her because it was a little unexpected, but Jibril kept her head down and spoke while hesitating.

“Mo, your body… Is it okay?”

Jibril’s voice trembled a little as he asked such a question.

After receiving her question, Cleon thought for a while before answering.

“Yes. The magical part is still there, but it’s good enough to be able to walk around somehow.”

“That’s right… That’s all, thank God.”

When Cleon turns to Aruru at Jibril’s reaction, who still seems to be struggling to talk, Aruru shrugs her shoulders and puts on an expression of uncertainty.

“Then… ‘Moving’ the body… Is now possible…”

“…Right?”

“Okay… Then, I’ll see you later.”

Leaving her her unknown words behind her, she looked at her as she walked away, and her Cleon made her expression that she didn’t know.

Wasn’t she reluctant to herself… ?

“…I don’t know…”

After she said that, she turned around and went to Aruru’s side of her.

002

“Ohhh… Ohhhhh!”

If you walk to the end of the road, as Jibril said, ‘Backwater Falls’ appeared.

There was a huge stream of water. The sound of moving with a loud sound.

If it was a waterfall, it would be natural. They were the two people who thought that, but seeing them up close was beyond imagination.

The water of the waterfall was flowing upward from the bottom.

The sound was the sound of water hitting the rocks in the middle.

Cleon couldn’t help but exclaim as Aruru raised her voice, her eyes twinkling.

“How is this possible? Is it a magical influence?”

“Uh, um… I’m not an expert on that part, so I’m not sure. Most things in this world can be done because of magic… Isn’t that right?”

At Aruru’s appropriate answer, Cleon also let out a chuckle.

“…Ah. That’s right. Let’s collect the ore before we forget.”

Saying that, Cleon looked around and, as Mercury had said, crystals of a different color from other beryl – a color close to light green with a little yellow mixed in.

“This is it.”

“It seems so. I feel a little divine magic.”

When Aruru came closer and held her hand, she felt a little warm energy from the crystal that reacted with her divine magic.

“It must have been affected by a new barrier. Did you want to investigate this…”

“Because the barrier can create a sanctuary and change the ecosystem.”

“Sanctuary… Ah.”

Cleon thought of a possibility, then shut his mouth for a moment, then shook his head.

It was that the cause of his body her ‘s slow recovery her might be because of’Sanctuary’.

Cleon himself is also a member of the dark horse family, and has a higher affinity for dark magic than ordinary humans, but on the contrary, his divine magic is a bit bad.

That’s why, I wondered if the surroundings were always full of divine magic and the similar environment was also affecting the injury in the body.

“…What’s wrong? Cleon.”

Compared to that, Aruruna as a hero, Quon as a priest, and Amelia should be slightly better off.

“…No, it’s nothing. Magic tools… You said you could just press the button, right?”

As Cleon spoke, he took the ball out of his pocket and pressed the button. It started transforming from Cleon’s stomach and changed into a ‘mouse’-like form.

“…Mouse?”

“Wow… That’s incredibly sophisticated… I’ve never seen anything like this made in the alchemy department of the academy. Of course, even in the magic tools department.”

As Aruru said, the shape of the mouse was completely mechanical, but it was made of hundreds of screws and springs like a work of art.

Receiving power from the mana stone embedded in the middle of his back his, he soon approached the beryl stone of a different color near Cleon.

Then, he set his sharp steel teeth to gnaw through the surface of the beryl.

“… I think it will take a while.”

Aruru looked at it curiously, then turned her body to look at Cleon.

Her gaze was more like that of Aruru, the ‘hungry for the strong’whom she faced with the sword when they first met at the academy, rather than the worried gaze her from earlier.

“Cleon. Are you the Demonic Sword Emperor?”

Aruru slowly, quietly, but clearly. She must have been questioning Cleon.

Cleon looked at such Aruru, and she closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them.

And, like her, Cleon also answered.

“No. I am Cleon, not the Demonic Sword Emperor.”

The voice, mixed with the wind passing through the gorge, reached Aruru as well.

The two looked at each other silently and were silent.

I didn’t feel any tension, just to convey each other’s feelings through eye to eye.

Cleon felt that it was a time of communication that was more precious than words or conversations.

“…”

“Ah. As expected. I’m glad…”

Aruru smiled while saying that.

Tears flowed from one of Aruru’s eyes as she said that and ran down her cheek.

“Ah, Aruru…?”

She expected to be asked this question, but Cleon, who hadn’t thought that Aruru would shed her tears, was taken aback.

Aruru shook her head and wiped the tears from her own cheeks.

“Cleon is Cleon. Even if the demonic sword emperor is a former life … Cleon is not the emperor of a ruthless empire. He knows how to worry about others and lends his strength when asked.”

“…”

“I’m glad… It really… Hasn’t changed… It’s the original Cleon… “

Saying that, Aruru raised both of her hands and covered her eyes.

As I watched her wipe her eyes her with her wrist her, it seemed that her utter tension her was relieved and her tear ducts her could not be controlled.

“… Aruru.”

Cleon pondered for a moment on what to do, then took a step towards her and gave her a pat on the back as if to comfort her little child.

As expected, he trained repeatedly, but compared to Cleon, his arms and body his were too thin.

To the extent that no one could imagine that he was an existence that had to fight carrying people’s hopes on his back.

“…Sorry, Cleon. I was actually scared… You know? In the academy’s labyrinth. The ‘Emperor of the Magical Sword’ popped out… It was an illusion created from my image of fear.”

As a warrior who protects the peace of her kingdom her, the greatest fear for her is the demonic sword emperor, an invader who drove her kingdom to the brink of destruction.

When such a threat appears again. Can the current kingdom, which has neither the hero Lecia nor the Sword Saint Talcheck, defeat him?

She regards all her duties her as her own her as her own pride her, but therefore, deep down in her heart her, she fears a great threat, a being that could threaten that pride.

He fears that he will not be able to protect the existence he is supposed to protect due to lack of strength.

It was in order to suppress her fear that she became stronger, and to repay the expectations and hopeful gazes around her.

Cleon was one of the few people who understood and understood Aruru’s troubles with her.

They got to know each other through swords, understood each other through conversation, and engraved each other’s existence through their bodies.

By the way, such a Cleon.

Perhaps he is the same as the existence he feared the most, the `Emperor of the Magic Sword`.

The fact that the person she gave her heart to was actually such a fearful person deeply pressed Aruru’s heart her.

When Cleon opens his eyes and sees himself as an enemy and swings his sword mercilessly, what should she do herself?

She spent the night with Aron Dyt.

However. It seems that it was raining.

From Cleon’s attitude towards others, he couldn’t think of the Demonic Sword Emperor.

Whether in dealing with Mercury, in the eyes looking at Lilim, or in conversation with Jibril.

Everywhere, Cleon was in front of Aruru, unchanged.

“Cleon… I’m sorry. I doubted you even a little… I promised to never let go of Cleon’s hand…”

Aruru remembered the promise of the day they danced under the moonlit night, and she shed tears for Cleon.

“…”

For some reason, when she hears her apology from her, she remembers her before.

Of course, Aruru’s suspicions were reasonable.

She is different from Alban.

He threw Cleon without reason to satisfy his vanity her and monopolize the popularity of his surroundings her.

However, Aruru… As a hero, she was determined to hold her sword against Cleon, overcoming anxiety and fear in order to wield her sword her to protect the kingdom and, by extension, the world.

“… It’s okay, Aruru… It’s okay, so please don’t cry anymore.”

“…Cleon.”

As Cleon said, Aruru and her body separated.

“Obviously. My previous life was the ‘Demonic Sword Emperor’. However, in me now, the factor of my reincarnation and his existence his have almost disappeared. … Perhaps, I have become a human who cannot reincarnate after that.”

“…”

Cleon’s gaze turned to the flowing waterfall.

“It seems that I have a ‘mission’ to become an existence to stop Adam from running out of control… An efficient existence that can make any sacrifices for that purpose. Just like the ‘Emperor of the Demonic Sword’ did.”

The flow of water falls from top to bottom, riding the current, and riding on gravity.

“…But. I don’t intend to be that kind of person. If ‘Adam’ is a dangerous being, I will stop it… At no cost.”

However, the water in front of me went against that law and went up in reverse.

“Will you trust me? Aruru.”

When Cleon turned around and looked at Aruru, Aruru slowly approached Cleon and reached out his hand her to Cleon’s face her.

Lightly, softly, the two of them’s lips met and then separated.

“… Of course, Cleon. No more. I won’t let go of Cleon’s hand her.”

003

When the collected ore was delivered to Mercury, Mercury immediately started working by saying, ‘It is possible to have fun with this’.

After that, Mercury didn’t respond properly even when he spoke to him, so he shook his head as if he couldn’t help it and came up to the ground with everyone.

It was to decide when to leave the village and go to bed.

A quiet room where only breathing can be heard.

The sound of breathless footsteps entered Cleon’s bedroom.

“…I’m sorry. Cleon-sama… Please forgive me.”

Thinking that he heard those words, Cleon’s body was quietly lifted by something and left the inn.

After a while, Cleon opened his eyes to a ceiling he had never seen before – no, a ceiling he had seen before.

‘Here… Gabriel’s mansion… ?`

It was the building I entered when I first visited the village.

“Oh, you’ve opened your eyes. You’re a child of the dark horse.”

When he turned his head at the voice he heard, he saw himself lying on the bed, with Gabriel winking next to him.

…To the naked.

“What-“

“Now, wait a minute. Cleon-sama. Please wait… It may seem sudden, but please forgive me.”

When Cleon tried to get up, he saw Jibril lying naked beside him.

“… Jibril…?”

“Haa… Haa…♡”

Jibril was looking at Cleon with wet eyes as his face her was flushed and his breathing her was rough.

“Jibril is completely switched on…”

“Switch-… Can you explain it properly, Mr. Gabriel?”

“Of course. Otherwise, you’re just a rapist.”

“I think kidnapping alone is dangerous enough…”

When Cleon narrowed his eyes, Gabriel sighed and looked at Cleon.

“It’s simple. Estrus is heat. Our family wants to accept the seed when they see the dark horse family.”

“…Is that a story involving Eve or Adam?”

“What. Something like that.”

With a look of disbelief and doubt, Gabriel takes Cleon’s hand and holds it close to his vagina of her.

Even Gabriel, who seemed to have nothing wrong on the outside, could already feel that his lower legs were wet.

“Really. Every time I saw your face, I thought I was going to die of pain. Well, if you’re like me, you can adjust your body with magic and suppress it to some extent. But for a young child like Jibril , it’s impossible.”

“…No way, you kept avoiding my gaze.”

“…I’m sorry…”

Cleon sighed as he heard Jibril’s apology.

“What, what? Think of it as treatment and accept it. The magic organs inside your body aren’t normal yet?

Gabriel, who licked his lips with his tongue and rode aboard Cleon’s boat, seemed complacent at the thought of engaging in an act with him.

“…Me too, please. Cleon-sama…♡”

And, Jibril’s voice came from the side.

Cleon sighed and nodded helplessly.