Chapter 410 – Shying

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Everyone present was shaken by the voice that came out of Lilim’s mouth.

Lilim’s empty eyes, a voice that seemed to be manipulated by something.

And, the atmosphere felt cold that was not like a child.

Sasha calls her name her.

Could it be that her ego sealed by Mercury has returned?

However, in that case, she still couldn’t feel the powerful aura of her dark magic that should have been detected from her.

In the end, Quon carefully questions her.

“Are you Lilim who fought with us? She tried to make Cleon the Demonic Sword Emperor…”

To Quon’s question, Lilim turned to her and nodded her head in reply.

“…Since when? Could it be, while we are together, forever?”

To Sasha’s question that followed, Lilim did not appear to be shaken and answered quietly.

“Just before. When the shaking occurred that greatly shook the entire capital.”

Then, Lilim’s recovery of her self was really on the verge.

It must be after she took her training dagger from Sasha and ran up her stairs.

“How could you come out? Are your memories so easily awakened?”

Naturally, Beatrix’s question continued.

Lilim paused for a moment in response to her question her, as if organizing information in her head her, then slowly opened her mouth to tell her truth.

“Mercury’s seal is kept strong so that it doesn’t usually come out from the inside… Because I was deeply involved in this situation. I was able to negotiate with Mercury’s sealing technique and come out.”

“Bo, the sealing ceremony and negotiations?”

Sasha tilts her head, as if not quite sure what she meant, but Beatrix speaks.

“… It must have been that the sealing ceremony, which has the ability to judge the situation on its own, was carved into her. It would be possible to seal it mechanically, without discernment, but depending on the situation, her knowledge and memories she could help. If she were an Astarothe executive, she would surely have information that would be useful to us as well.”

At Beatrix’s explanation, Lilim nodded her head.

“That’s what your sorceress – Beatrix said. For Mercury’s spell, I built a sealing spell to efficiently control my ego. Even if my ego comes out, I will not turn back into a demon unless I release the dark magic sealed within this pendant. Now, although I have memories of the past, please think of me as a third being, different from the Lilim of Astarote and the Lilim of the people who lived together.”

As she explains in her machine-like tone, her group silently watches her.

Florows looked at Lilim from behind, cleared his throat, and then focused his gaze on her.

“Well, if you know what that guy is like now, let’s calm down a bit. Let go of doubt More than that, Lilim. Do you know what is going on up there?”

“I don’t know everything. As for the partial situation, based on the information I know.”

After Lilim replied, she took a deep breath and talked to her group her.

“The demon plant Black Crystal Lotus. Earlier, when she first met Princess Amelia, she planted that seed in her. It has grown and blossomed.”

“Black Crystal Lotus… ?”

When even Beatrix repeated the name of a plant he had never heard of, feeling doubtful, Lilim spoke.

“A very rare plant among the few that grows in hell… In fact, it is a substance more like an ore than a plant. With an animal as a host, the negative emotions of the host grow as nourishment and bloom.”

Creatures other than demons living in hell also evolved to adapt to the environment of hell, making them different from ordinary creatures.

Plants, in particular, have generally evolved into forms suitable for obtaining nutrients from other creatures around them, as Hell’s land is more than barren and is an environment close to barren land.

Among them, the Black Crystal Lotus was a parasitic plant that used living animals as its host.

“…When flowers bloom, what happens?”

“As it fuses with its host, it craves more nutrients. On top of that, it imbues the host with a great amount of dark magic. It is to protect the host and at the same time collect mana and vitality more efficiently. A human who fuses with the Black Crystal Lotus is at first dominated by black magic… Eventually, you will sublimate into a higher-dimensional being.”

“I’m dizzy with too many jargon… “

As Sasha put her finger on her spinning head her, Caliburn, who had been silent until then, opened her mouth.

[To put it simply… You will stop being human.]

“—That’s right!”

Quon could not stand it and raised his voice of hers.

“In other words… The seed planted in Princess Amelia grew and blossomed… That’s why she’s in a state of runaway… Are you?”

When Beatrix carefully sorted out the situation, Flarous nodded.

“It is as you say. Right now, Arondite’s hero and a maid named Ruba are blocking her. Cleon is… I mean, I was hurt a little bit. I am trying to heal her wounds her and try to stop Amelia again.”

“What about Layla?”

“She is for a slightly different reason. She got involved with the ‘Exile Church’ who tried to interfere with the work… Well, because this case is so complicated in many ways.”

When the faces of the party all darkened, Sasha’s ears pricked up, and she let out a deep sigh.

“Humans’ desires are intertwined, and in the end Satan is formed.”

“… Lord Ruben.”

Thinking that Sasha’s tone her had changed, Quon opened her eyes a little wider, and soon she noticed that the subject speaking those words were not Sasha, but Ruben, the god of Marang inside her.

“Unlike you living humans, I can still strongly feel Cleon-sama’s presence in this body that is close to a pure elemental body. It’s weakened a bit, but it’s slowly coming back.”

“… Everything, I’m glad. That… “

At Ruben’s assurance that Cleon was recovering, Beatrix also wiped his heart from her.

“The girl who was a devil. You must also have some idea of ​​how to restore the princess to her original state of her, right?”

At Ruben’s words, Lilim nodded her head.

“There is only one way to cancel the fusion between the Black Crystal Lotus and the host. It is to forcibly separate them through the power to manipulate the body using the imprint of ‘his’ control.”

“…Cleon’s…”

Quon was silent for a moment at her words.

Because she knew the hidden meaning of using the seal of domination.

“Then one more thing. Why do we have to leave this city?”

Ruben then questions Florous, and Florous answers.

“Yeah, think about it. The man… Given Cleon’s personality, will he leave Amelia alone once the work is over?”

“… Absolutely not. I’ll try to run away with you no matter what…”

“That’s right. The Knights and the people will pursue Princess Amelia, but if Cleon protects her. Of course, you guys who are with him won’t be safe…”

“As long as you are within the royal capital, you will be targeted anywhere…”

Quon nodded as if he understood.

“Then. We’d better build a path so that senior and Princess Amelia can escape.”

“Yes… I’m glad Beatrix is ​​here.”

When Quon sighed and nodded, Beatrix also looked at Ariadne, who was holding it in her hand.

“Yes! Just leave it to me!”

“I’m glad you seem to understand. Well, it’s not just the two of you who run away, it’s because you guys have to be together.”

At Flarous’s words, the party met each other’s eyes and nodded.

However, after looking at the three of them for a while, Lilim turns around and approaches Florous.

“Flowus. Please take me to the plaza where Princess Amelia is.”

At her words her, Sasha, who pushed her ruben away and popped out of her guise her, approached her in surprise.

“Wait, Lilim!? You heard the story!?”

“Yes. But that’s a limited story for you. I have to stop the princess with ‘him’. It was I who planted the Black Crystal Lotus, the cause of her runaway her. I will take responsibility for that.”

“Hmm. It is a peculiar mindset. It must have been closer to her original heart than your heart her that she lost while transforming into a demon …”

When Floroux nods at Lilim’s answer, Sasha shakes her head.

“…I heard that you asked Mr. Cleon for a lilim.”

“That Lilim is the Lilim who calls him Father and follows him. It is different from what I am now.”

Sasha grabbed Lilim’s wrist as she said that.

“It is not! … No matter which Lilim, Cleon-san will definitely try to protect it.”

“…To him, I am the one who hurt the precious Princess Amelia, and made countless people in the kingdom suffer. He is a wicked man who has committed evil with Ishtal. Even if you are separated from your self as a demon and your memories are sealed, that fact will not disappear.”

“… In that case, I’ll go with you. Lilim cannot send it alone. To begin with, the present Lilim is not a demon, and she cannot use magic.”

Hearing Sasha’s words her, Lilim untied Sasha’s arm and placed her hand on the pendant hanging around her own neck her.

“… Pandora.”

As she muttered that, her black handle protruded from her pendant her, and soon a greatsword greater than her height her, composed of dark magic, was pulled out.

“The Demon Sword of the Demon Sword Emperor… !”

The emperor of a fantasy demonic sword created based on the fear of Aruru, which was previously seen in Ariadne’s Labyrinth.

Seeing the shape of a powerful demonic sword that could be said to be the ‘original’ of the sword the emperor had wielded, Beatrix shrank.

Lilim wielded the Pandora without any problems, and when he let go of the handle, the greatsword of black magic scattered into the air and disappeared.

“This sword, the alter ego of Pandora inside me. It’s inferior to its original strength, but it’s no problem to stop the princess with him. But Sasha, can you aim your bow at Princess Amelia?”

“… Uh…”

“That’s what it means to go with me and fight with him. You are the kind of person who can never completely let go of your resistance to fighting on the same side. If such a person goes, it will only get in the way.”

“… “

Lilim, who spat that out coldly, slowly turned her body to face Florous.

“I’ll attach my familiar. If you follow him, you will be able to go out into the streets where Princess Amelia is.”

“… Thank you, Florous. Well, bye. Sasha. And everyone. I hope you can get out of the capital safely.”

After saying something close to goodbye, Lilim disappeared across the aisle.

Quondo, Beatrix, and even Sasha, who had become quiet, stood there without being able to follow her—

“—Ha:”

Everyone’s eyes are focused on Sasha, who suddenly raised her voice in her.

Haha!? Bar, disturb!? I am a hindrance to Cleon-san!? Li, I don’t want to hear from Lilim! What are you bragging about!? He said he was going to take responsibility for what he had done!!”

“Yes, Sasha… ?!”

Sasha’s attitude her has become rough!? Is she a rebel!? Quon makes the same expression.

Beatrix also looked at Sasha’s anger with a slightly dazed expression.

Normally, no matter what, even if Lilim is playing by pulling Sasha’s hair or stepping on her tail her, it’s like, ‘Ha, haha…”And she smiles while embarrassed.

It was the first time I’d seen her screaming so loudly and making her hair stand on end.

“I want to follow you too! Certainly, shooting Amelia-sama bothers me… Even if not, there must be something I can do! Yes? Caliburn?”

[Yes? Ah… Yes. Yes.]

It was an answer that didn’t put a lot of heart into it, but that part didn’t seem to be such a big problem for Sasha.

“Mr. Florous! Are you okay!?”

“Hmm… Ah. That’s right. One person might be fine.”

“Wait!?”

Beatrix is ​​also taken aback by such an irresponsible answer from Florous, but Sasha runs down the aisle following another familiar summoned by Florous.

“Go, gone… What should I do, Quon…?”

“Yes… I’m definitely worried though. … Sasha will be fine. Because he is the sweetest kid in our party.”

As Quon said that, looking back at her, she felt something coming towards them from beyond.

[Quon.]

“Yes… It seems that the pursuers have followed.”

Even Beatrix, looking back at Quon’s voice her, was certain.

Countless footsteps heard from beyond the underground aqueduct.

“… I feel like I have no choice but to fight… !”

When I unraveled the thread of the demonic sword Ariadne while strengthening my will to fight, I heard a man’s voice in the dark saying, “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” And burst into laughter as if carving a rhythm.

“It can be like this. Big hum. Maybe I can’t see the light. Big hum. I never thought I would get a chance.”

Wearing a black robe, the bony man with a grotesquely twisted figure that made it impossible to tell whether he was old or young, the man clapped his hands and stood in front of Quon and Beatrix.

And, what made the two of them frown.

The man – grotesquely shaped beings standing beside and behind the assassin.

From the rotating flesh and the discolored bones inside, I could tell that it was something with a corpse as a medium.

In addition, whenever he said whether his bronchial tubes were not good, he mixed with coughing sounds and, with a voice like a metal sound, naturally made the two of them frown.

“Are you a necromancer… !”

When Beatrix raises her voice, the man clears his throat again and nods his head.

“Yes, yes. Exactly. Big hum. It is called ‘Wilhelm’. The necromancer of the Wilhelmina faction was handed down to the reader, Kheum. He is one of the few necromancers left in this world. The assassination target this time is Kheum. He said he had a priest, so he was a little worried… Fu, fu, if the remaining ones are wizards and priests, there is no reason to lose to me either.”

As the man who introduced himself as Wilhelm said, the undead of the necromancers are vulnerable to holy magic, so they are very weak against the priests.

But, that is also the case when there is someone to protect the priest from the front while he sings the chant.

From Wilhelm’s point of view, neither Quondo nor Beatrix could be seen as avant-garde positions.

“By the way, the person behind you. Big hum. You don’t seem to be the target of an assassination? Murder without pay is, huh… Because it’s the rule not to… If you return like this… Big hum. We can pretend we didn’t see it.”

“Yes? Ah. Are you talking about me … That’s right. Certainly, I’m not Cleon’s colleague or a member of the party. I mean, it’s not completely unrelated. What. Even without you, the two of you could handle it.”

When Flarous laughed and joked, he wiped the smile from his lips and raised his right hand.

“That is, that is not a good story. Big hum. My undead army, at best. Being attacked by priests and wizards. Big hum. Coincidentally, I was in need of a corpse as a material for a new undead. Big hum. Connect the corpses of the two to create a new soldier—”

The next moment, intense flames pass by the man.

It wasn’t just the heat, it was the divine magic mixed with the flames.

The huge undead standing next to him, seemingly strong, was engulfed in the flames and turned to ashes and scattered.

“Mumumu mousse!?”

“Exactly. I guess you can relate to Sasha that she gets a little angry when her skills are underestimated.”

In the next moment, the one standing there was n’t the saintess Quon, who had covered her body in clerical robes until earlier—

It was Quon, the hero of the New Flame, wearing a sacred armor of white and red.

“That, what the hell is that!? Stand, holy sword!? Are you a warrior, not a priest!?”

Wilhelm looked at Quon in astonishment.

However, his astonishment continued immediately.

Another undead standing to the right of Wilhelm-

The grim-looking undead, with blades like a mantis’ scythe on its arm, was cut off on the spot as a piece of meat like a dice steak.

A silver thread that was so thin and hard that it could not be seen came back to Beatrix as it whirled unraveled.

“What!? What are you guys really like!?”

“I do not know… For now, I think we’d better get this sorted out before the other assassins hear the commotion and rush in. Yes? Quon.”

“Yes. That’s right. Please stay behind Mr. Florous.”

Quon and Beatrix took one step forward.

Every time the two of them walked, sacred flames and blue magic flames left their footprints.

“The holy fire will burn your sins.”

“And, Blue Flames, will execute the punishment.”

The girl who was a saint and a warrior and the girl who enforced the justice of the academy wielded their power against the undead army.