Chapter 419 – Cutting Karma

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“I never thought there would be such a big commotion…”

Riomes stands next to his father his, the Princess of Light, and looks down at the royal capital, which is burning and in chaos.

They didn’t go to the castle because they didn’t participate in the march, but even so, they were busy avoiding the stems of the rising black crystal.

“Instructor Cleon… You haven’t come out even though it’s been several minutes since you entered the small area.”

“It must be that they are doing everything they can to stop Princess Amelia from running amok.”

The Beauty Painter was also stroking his beard, looking at the black barrier containing Cleon.

“I hope you came out safely…”

At the worried voice of Riomes, the Beauty Painter silently watched the situation for a while before turning around.

“Before the entrance to the capital is sealed, move the wagons outside the walls.”

“Is the entrance blocked…?”

Riomes questioned his father’s words as if he was a bit suspicious, but the beauty flamer nodded his head.

“When everything is over, Cleon will try to escape with Princess Amelia. In that case, the kingdom’s army will first block the castle gate.”

“… After all, the nobles of the kingdom can’t understand.”

At Riomes’s words, the Beauty Painter spoke as if he couldn’t help it.

“It would be correct to say that there is a difference in the methods to bring peace to the country.

“Then, they will have to change their methods too.

“I wonder… The rulers don’t change their ways easily. They hate to admit they’re wrong.”

‘Because of this incident, the royal capital is no different from being greatly disgraced. …How will the situation on the continent change…’

The next moment, when the beauty dyer strokes his beard once more.

A figure appeared on the roof of the inn where the two were standing without leaving any sound.

The existence wrapped in black cloth was like a living shadow.

“Shade.”

When Miyeom-dono said what was believed to be the name of that existence, the person lowered his head and spoke.

“Miyeom-gong. Herti-nim delivered the results of the ‘Sake of Jishimtam’. As you expected, it seems that the ‘Grand Master’s Orb’ is dormant in this land. .”

At those words, Riomes widened his eyes, and the Beauty Painter nodded his head knowingly.

“Really, here…”

“It seems that bringing Miss Hertie was the answer… The kingdom has so many secrets that it hides from neighboring countries.”

The ambassador’s orb is a national treasure that was owned by the East country in the past.

One day, the sudden disappearance of the orb that had been sleeping in the deepest part of the treasure chest was the biggest disgrace in the history of the East country, and they had been looking for the orb of the ambassador for three generations.

No way, neither the father of the beautiful flamer nor his father would have thought that it was hidden somewhere in the kingdom, an old ally.

“However, it is impossible to determine the exact location right now. Tell Sir Hertie to prepare for departure.”

“Honor, I will serve you.”

The next moment, just like when it appeared, the shadow disappears as if it melted into the landscape, or it didn’t even leave an afterimage, as if it hadn’t existed in the first place.

“Riomes, it might be a while before you return to the academy.”

“…It can’t be helped. It’s a little disappointing that the reunion with the instructor is delayed.”

Riomes follows the girl who is about to go down from the roof of the building, but the girl looks back at Riomes while talking.

“It’s not necessarily like that. …Perhaps, fate might lean against us.”

“…?”

Then, when his father his, who leaves an unknown word, descends to the ground, Riomes looks towards the black barrier once again.

Now, what’s going on in there.

She shook her head slowly, and she too descended to her ground.

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A flash of white magic cut through the black space.

It wasn’t a slash, it wasn’t magic.

He was just a human wearing white armor.

However, the black crystal trying to escape from there seems to think that he can’t win in the confrontation of speed, so he stops escaping and surrounds himself with a wall of black crystal.

No matter how powerful the holy sword was, it would be impossible to break this shell that seemed to have overlapped several walls of a tolerable building.

Amelia judged that, but the next moment.

Kagagak! If you think you heard a sharp sound.

As the pure white slashes were engraved several times between the black crystals that surrounded her body.

It is easily cut like a piece of wood.

“Kuh…! Why! I just switched from her demonic sword to a holy sword…!”

Amelia manages to dodge the flashing flash in her field of vision that spreads in disbelief.

Suddenly, goose bumps run down her spine when a little bit of her hair is cut off.

[I told you? I’m Cleon’s trump card.]

Caliburn’s voice passed her ear, and Amelia could hear it too.

“-Sweetie… Don’t do it!!”

As the provoked Amelia shouts her furious voice, her huge, black fists come to mind.

Like a giant’s hand, it was made of dark magic and was four to five times bigger than Cleon’s.

If it fits properly, she will be crushed no matter how much she wears armor made of divine magic.

Her fists her rushed towards Cleon.

However, Cleon does not avoid it.

Just by swinging the Caliburn in her hand into the air-

This time, the space itself is cut off, opening a ‘gap’ leading somewhere.

“Wow!?”

And, the fists that Amelia summoned disappeared beyond it and could not reach Cleon.

And, after the gap closed, Cleon stood in the air, looking at Amelia with a calm expression.

From his body her, particles containing divine magic continue to scatter toward the surroundings, erasing the effects of Amelia’s dark magic.

To be precise, that was the effect of Cleon’s body being affected by divine magic, and due to the repulsive action against the black magic, his body was being gradually turned into particles.

Literally, Cleon was fighting Amelia while burning his body her right now.

“Why… Why won’t you acknowledge me, Cleon…? You- you too, wielding a sword to avenge those who betrayed you!”

Amelia cries at Cleon.

Hearing that, Cleon remained silent for a while before answering.

“I want Amelia to seek revenge. I have no intention of stopping it.”

“Well, then- why…!”

“As I said before. You are not Amelia. You twist Amelia’s will her, misunderstand her feelings her and imitate her.”

“–“

At Cleon’s words, Amelia shuts her mouth.

“What… What is that… How many times do I have to say I’m Amelia!! Cleon is just trying to fit me into the character he wants, Amelia Chaldearis!”

As if not recognizing Cleon’s words, Amelia shouted.

She is denied her self, and her will her is denied.

“This anger must be Amelia’s! This despair, this sense of betrayal, this sadness…! And the affection, trust, and love for you!! Where the hell is the lie! There is a difference!”

In the next moment, three types of hammers floated around her.

A hammer with black wings, a hammer shaped like a vicious wolf, and a hammer shaped like a dragon imbued with thunderbolt.

All of that was her armor in her in Amelia’s memory her.

At the same time, they flew towards Cleon.

Each of them, this time, so that they could not be avoided just by opening the gap.

First of all, when the hammer shaped like a wolf’s face is swung, black cold air flies and binds Cleon’s limbs.

At the same time, the dragon-shaped hammer opens its mouth and black lightning strikes his body her.

“Kuk…!!”

After a powerful blow to his body her, Cleon lets out a moan of pain, but the real attack comes next.

A hammer decorated with black wings was swung towards Cleon.

Since your hands and feet are tied, you won’t be able to open the gap now.

Amelia thought so, but the next moment.

Cleon’s sword moves by itself, and Amelia’s hammer bangs! It was to hit it from the front and bounce it off.

“Wow!?”

[It’s just light.]

When he hears Caliburn’s relaxed voice, Cleon’s body moves.

Cleon, all the wounds he suffered today were having a little bit of an effect.

Inside the armor, the wound on his stomach healed a little, then opened again, repeating.

A terrible pain was forcibly moving what weighed down his whole body.

However, I had to.

To save Amelia.

Now, for the poor girl who, having been taken over by that parasitic plant, may experience a greater hell when she wakes up.

Cleon can’t stop fighting.

So he moved his body his, swung his arm and raised his sword.

And. ‘She’was the biggest reason why ‘she’was n’t Amelia, that ‘she’ didn’t notice.

“… As you said, ‘the heart’ may not be any different from Amelia.”

She must have been sad. She would have suffered And she would be desperate.

No matter how hard you try, you are not recognized.

The people and the nobles who look at them with contempt.

And, thanks to such a befitting oneself, colleagues and friends who are persecuted together.

It was too heavy for a single girl to go through, and it was a series of great tragedies.

So Cleon told her it was okay to cry, she said she could run away if she wanted to run away, or be angry if she wanted to be angry.

They are all methods of divergence for humans to maintain their own minds.

He didn’t want Amelia to turn into a mechanical person who couldn’t do anything.

Because if she wanted to save her people her, she had to remain human.

However, only one. She promised not to break.

Fate laughed at herself and at the world, conversely, she was sleeping with the momentum to laugh at her.

“But a pity – Amelia is n’t like the common villains like you and me. She really loves the world and accepts her mission her innocently.”

Upon hearing Cleon’s words, Amelia flinched and trembled.

Cleon’s words her, larger than the shock of her own attack her being blocked, turn into a thorn, like the edge of her spear her, and lodge in her her.

“That’s why that child doesn’t sing revenge and doesn’t smile at the death of a person. No matter how much she wants to run away, she eventually stands where she should be. That’s the road full of thorns. “Even if it’s a road made of glass and pebbles. Walk barefoot, to rescue the fallen man on the other side.”

No matter how contradictory and meaningless the things she must protect are. In the end, she wants to protect her, she thinks in the end.

That was her mother’s heart her, Aurelia’s thoughts her, that made her who she is now.

Because she has no doubt that she is the way to the ‘peaceful world where no one gets hurt’ that she really longs for.

“It’s the same as I said I’d help avenge him if he wants revenge. If he wants to defend the world, I’ll help him that way too. It’s definitely different from you, ‘a mimic who interprets things as he pleases ‘. A third-rate actor!”

The tip of Cleon’s sword cut Amelia-

No no no

Heading towards the demon of the black lotus that runs amok with Amelia’s shell on top of it.

“Fa, rain…”

The next moment, a voice came from the ground.

The black lotus demon’s eyes widened, and Cleon quietly looked back there.

I don’t know how to say it, but Lilim slowly raised her head and looked at the two of them.

After seeing Lilim’s gaze and the devil’s reaction, Cleon knew what that word meant in an instant.

“Is it true…!”

The absolute weakness that demons have.

When a devil’s true name is known, he reveals his true nature.

Even if it is the true name that I forgot myself.

“Ah, ah…! Aaaaa!!!”

The next moment, the demon inside Amelia screamed.

Cleon looked back at her with a strained expression on her face, and she lowered her stance as she slowly braced her sword with both of her hands.

That is the attitude of swordsmanship that has been shown even in the Battle Maid gymnasium.

It was not the usual unchecked swordsmanship, but a swordsmanship that he remembered clearly after receiving a little instruction from the hero Lesia over his shoulder her.

Then, a voice flowed from the mouth of the demon who was struggling in pain.

“Close, Leon…”

“-Amelia!”

Cleon did not lose sight of the fact that it belonged to Amelia, who was different from the demons up until now.

The devil’s ego, whose true name she had been called, began to separate from Amelia’s ego her.

“No…! This child deserves the fate of vengeance! Why does she have to die as a protector of the ungrateful, surrounded by foolish humans, suspected by ungodly nobles!”

As if blocking Amelia’s voice her, the demon raising her voice her-Fabiya.

“Cleon…! You care so much about this child, why are you just watching him suffer!”

“…Don’t stand by the sidelines. Stay by my side.”

“To a subject that I know is not enough!!!”

The next moment, the black lotus flower that tied her hair emits the strongest light of the day, and a torrent of black magic occurs.

No matter how strong it was, even the barriers of the small realm that Cleon had spread were cracked.

“Kuh…”

To avoid getting caught up in it, Cleon maximizes Caliburn’s power.

While waves of black mist attack Cleon, Caliburn, the only light, splits the waves.

“Your bond is hypocrisy! Your relationship is a lie! Your promise is a deceit!”

In the black mist, Amelia’s appearance seemed to change once more.

Is it an illusion or is it the truth.

Somewhere, the silhouette of Amelia, who seems to have grown into an adult woman with the same demonic appearance as she has now, is visible through her black mist.

Cleon calmly took a deep breath, relying on the light of Caliburn, step by step. Walk forward

“I’ll erase all that wrong and tell Amelia Chaldearis the truth about her! That’s me!”

Fortunately, the direction was easy to find.

Even in this darkness, Fabiya’s voice continued to resonate.

“My name is Fabiya! Another name is ‘Mara’! A person who whispers the truth to those who have false enlightenment!”

And finally, the moment when Cleon and her distance left only one footprint.

Their eyes meet.

She-Pabiya had a huge hammer in her hand.

Somewhere, it resembled Amelia’s, but it was a devil’s hammer that glowed fiercely with dark red energy.

“Acknowledge my existence!! Cleo Ooh Oon!!!”

Red eyes flashed, and the hammer was swung.

And to cut it off, Cleon jumped over the gold and strongly gripped the white shining holy sword.

“Caliburn…!”

[—Then. Let this body become a sword that cuts off karma, leading to all good reincarnations.]

At the same time as Caliburn’s words, a strong will dwells in the blade.

Cleon’s remaining magical power and almost all the magical power that Caliburn had stored so far resonated at once.

One day, as Caliburn’s former master was seen in a duel with Cleon.

A pure white blade extending long enough to split all these black waves in half—

Black waves, Fabilla’s hammer, and her body her.

[“X-!”]

The next moment, a huge explosion rang out, drowning out the Holy Sword and Cleon’s voice her.

However, that will goes on forever and unites all the darkness that blocks them.

It was to slash with unison and cut off that karma.