Chapter 437 – Swords and Covenant

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The morning after the disturbance of Cleon’s mystic eyes.

In the morning sun coming in from outside the window, Cleon quietly wakes up.

It’s already been two days since I’ve spent the night in this room.

He got used to the new bed, and his body his felt light.

It must be that the accumulated wounds and accumulated fatigue due to the incidents in the capital are gradually being healed.

But, again, the bed felt cramped. Hearing the sound of breathing coming from his back, Cleon involuntarily tensed his body.

‘Could it be… Again…?’

Yesterday morning, her heart her almost fell in many ways because Herti was sleeping in her bed her.

He was confident that, once he had been through it, he wouldn’t be so shaken up.

So, if you harden her heart her and raise her up and raise her her upper body her to prepare her for Calia to come in anytime-

“Eh… Cleon…?”

Sleeping right next to him, with long emerald-colored hair and tanned skin, was a characteristic-

It was the figure of a small girl, wrapped in a black dress.

Is her age similar to Sasha’s or slightly younger?

As the blanket covering herself with Cleon disappeared, she curled up on her back as if it was a little cold.

It was like a cat’s behavior.

“…?”

Cleon rubbed his eyes for a moment, wondering if his own demonic eye his might be showing something strange.

Otherwise, ‘she’ couldn’t be this young.

However, rubbing her eyes didn’t change anything, and Cleon carefully stretched out his hand to see if it was real or an illusion.

Back.

And Cleon’s index finger pokes the sleeping girl’s cheek.

When Cleon’s fingers touched her soft cheeks her, she accepted them without rejection, but the touch she felt at the tips of her fingers her was nothing like illusion.

“Cleon… It tickles…”

Then she reached for her finger of her, and the girl, who wanted to push it away, caught her Cleon’s index finger of her with her thin finger of her.

Then, opening her sleepy eyes, she slowly raised her body and looked at Cleon with her dazed face.

“Ugh… Good morning…”

Then, with her hand that did n’t hold Cleon’s index finger of her, I greeted her while covering her yawning mouth of her.

Cleon could not stand it any longer and spoke.

“Galatea…? What happened? That figure…”

“Yes…?”

She, too, blinks her eyes two or three times as if to ask what Cleon said, and then, for some reason, she realizes that she and Cleon are not on eye level.

Then, slowly, she lowered her head toward her own hands and—

She clenched her little fist, opened and then-

“Swimming?”

It’s going to make a stupid sound.

“Wait!?”

Then, she straightened her body, ran toward her mirror in Cleon’s room her, and touched her own face with both hands as if examining it.

“That’s a lie!? Why did I become such a kid!?”

And then, Whoops! After lifting her dress from the bottom and checking the small body beneath it-

She clenched both her hands into fists. Concentrate her energy as she trembles with her eyes tightly closed.

“Uuuuu~!”

When a cute voice resounded in the room, Cleon looked at it blankly and quietly—

“Haha!”

As she stretched her hands up, making sure she radiated a little of her magic.

-After that, if you are in a situation where surprisingly nothing happens.

With a hard expression that could be heard shouting, the girl- Galatea looked back at Cleon.

“Mo, the appearance doesn’t change…”

“…”

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“It looks like the core has been damaged. You and Cleon have suffered in many ways.”

Lyla said so to Galatea, who was sitting on Quon’s lap her as her hair was being trimmed.

Galatea had a somewhat dazed expression, her mind her was somewhere else, and she was infringing on the prosecution quite a bit.

“It will recover over time. It’s a demonic sword, so as long as the owner is fine.”

“It’s all good. Mr. Galatea!”

At Layla’s words her, Sasha also nods and comforts her, but her Galatea mumbles.

“…This is a crisis.”

“… Certainly. Galatea not being able to use her natural powers her is a bit difficult, but …”

Cleon agrees with Galatea, but she speaks as if there is no need to be so downhearted.

As if the Ma’an Peak population over her eyes her was n’t used to it yet, she rewrote it with her fingers.

“For now, you can’t change into the ‘adult figure’ you usually show, can you take the form of a sword?”

“Even if you’re drunk!”

Galatea crushes! He shook Quon’s hand and stood up.

Then, once the body was enveloped in light-

Although it changes to the form of a ‘sword’ that can be said to be its original form.

“…”

There, there was a sharp dagger.

Of course, except for the shortened sword body, the original form remained to some extent.

Even so, the form of the usual Galatea—that is, the long sword—was not left at all.

“Ah… That reliable-looking Galatea…”

When Amelia let out a sad voice while watching Galatea like that, Galatea floating in the air trembled.

Pop! Along with the sound effects that seemed to reverberate, she returned to her previous girlish appearance while coughing on the spot.

“Heheh… Heheh… Look, I saw…”

“Okay…”

Galatea, who was talking to Cleon, wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and let out a tired voice.

Somehow, it seemed like it would be difficult for her now to take the shape of her sword.

“What are you going to do!? Without me, who will protect Cleon!”

When she screams as she raises her voice to see if she is upset by her own situation her, her her Lila her looks at her like that and speaks with a smile on her face.

“Now, now. Calm down. Would you like some juice?”

“Wow~ It’s juice! It’s not!”

Galatea, who took the cup of her juice that Laila had handed to her and tried to drink it clear, she regained her senses in an instant, and she raised her voice once more.

“I think the hypothesis that it is also affected by appearance is correct.”

“Lyla. Please don’t make fun of Galatea…”

Leila looked at Galatea, who had turned into a child, and made a funny face, but Cleon said that as she looked at Galatea, who puffed out her cheeks and looked like she was going to cry.

“Quon! Layla is harassing me!”

“Uh, it’s true that I became a child… More than that, I haven’t finished my hair yet…”

Quon moves Galatea’s hand her with the comb in her hand her, as if she wants to sort her hair her somehow, and Galatea grabs Cuon’s shoulder and talks.

“Have some sense of crisis!”

Galatea said so in a serious voice.

At Galatea’s cry her, both Lail and Sasha erased her smile from her face her.

—Certainly, Cleon is a magic swordsman. He must be able to properly demonstrate the power of the demonic sword, and that too can be said to be his power.

In a situation where you don’t know what kind of enemies you will meet in the future, if Galatea becomes like this and can’t borrow that power, for Cleon, it might be the same as losing a huge amount of power.

“…Yeah, sorry…”

So, when Cuondo put down the comb in his hand to apologize to Galatea, and bowed his head-

“If I become like this, Cleon’s transformation into a lolicon will accelerate!”

That’s what Galatea is talking about.

“…”

Everyone was silent.

“In a situation where there are already a lot of young girls like Amelia, Sasha, and Perdia, if I end up like this… Cleon could someday not be able to stand himself and the castle walls could warp…!”

“Hey.”

At Galatea’s self-indulgent words in her, Quon quietly bets on her, and Sasha raises her voice a little excitedly.

“Joe, isn’t that nice!? I don’t care!”

“Because Cleon doesn’t look at me that way…!”

Amelia, too, tries her best to defend Cleon, but Galatea looks back at Amelia and talks.

“The age barrier is over at the point of touching Perdia!”

The words flew like daggers and pierced Cleon’s chest.

“…Lyla. Say something.”

“Huh? Ah, uh…”

As Laila said, ‘Am I being treated as someone who doesn’t belong to the smaller side…? Is this something to be happy about?’ I was quiet while thinking the same thing, but at Cleon’s words, I quickly return to reality.

“Calm down, Galatea. Didn’t I tell you that your strength will naturally recover? This situation won’t last that long. Besides, if it’s a talking sword, it’s not just Galatea. For the time being, Cleon should be with you, right?”

“…”

Galatea turned to Layla, her mouth shut, and she was still frowning at her indignation of her.

“—Come to think of it, what about Caliburn? If Galatea woke up, wouldn’t Caliburn have to wake up too?”

When Quon says that, Cleon also nods his head.

However, while Cleon and Galatea were flustered about this, Caliburn was quietly sitting on the table in the room.

So, has she not woken up yet?

“Why don’t you call me? Caliburn is the type to fall asleep when she’s asleep, so I think when Mr. Cleon calls, she’ll wake up and come, sleepy as always.”

“…Is that too?”

After all, except for Cleon, Sasha has been with Caliburn the longest.

At her words her, Cleon nodded her head, closed her eyes, and focused her mind, calling out Caliburn in her mind her.

Then, after a while, as if responding to Cleon’s magical power her, a voice came through Cleon’s ears her.

[Huh…Cleon…?]

[I’m glad you seem to have come to your senses. …It’s the first time I’ve seen it, so I’m embarrassed, but can you come over here?]

[Wow~ Oriental furniture is amazing… The bed looks comfortable~]

[…Let me lie down in bed later.]

After a while, the sound of the door to Cleon’s room opening and closing was heard.

And, as the characteristic ‘squeak’ sound coming from the wooden floor approached, I could tell that the holy sword Caliburn was approaching the living room where the party was gathered.

“…Coming to think of it, Caliburn is also a kid!”

Galatea covers her head as if it’s the end and says ‘It’s ruined’.

And, from the hallway to the living room, when a human figure finally appears-

Bouncing…

The first thing to appear was a huge peak surrounded by a white cloth.

And then, as soon as the footsteps moved, Caliburn, wrapped in the same white dress as always, appeared.

No, the only thing like ‘always’ was the clothes.

He was about 10 cm taller than Galatea before, and was about the same as Cleon, and his golden hair that shone in the light came down long enough to drag on the ground.

The glittering wings behind her back were about twice as large as before, giving the illusion that she might really be able to fly.

A sharpened jawline, a sharp nose, and half-open eyes as if sleepy, but with thick lips and strangely colored eyes.

Since she wasn’t wearing any underwear, what shook every time she moved was her chest, which was not quite as large as Quon’s, but boasted a considerable size.

Because of the white dress that reveals all the lines of the body, the narrow waist, strong hips, and thigh line stand out.

“…Who!?”

Embarrassed, Lila was the first to speak up.

“I’m sorry~ I’m Caliburn~”

Her voice was a bit lower than before, but the tone of her tone was still that ‘her her’ that Cleon and her party her knew well.

As for Amelia, it was the first time she was meeting her, so everyone tilted their heads at her party’s reaction to her.

“Do… Do…”

And, as Galatea’s most shocked eyes are spinning, she falls into a state of confusion.

“…Galatea? Wait, wake up…!”

Cleon looks at Galatea and tries to stop her, but-

“Thief!! Give it back!!”

As it was, it was to run toward Caliburn, who had become a wonderful older sister.

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“Yeah… On the contrary, the divine magic has become too strong.”

“Why… ? Didn’t she pass out because she used too much power?”

When Layla finishes diagnosing Caliburn this time, Cleon raises legitimate questions.

Then Layla scratches her head and answers as if she were trying to answer Cleon’s question of her.

“It’s a reactionary action. Do you remember? What happened with Io and Chevalier. At that time, she almost died from the core of the regressor’s sword.”

“Ah… That happened.”

It was only a few months ago, but why does it feel like it happened a year ago?

Due to the resonance of her sword’s core her, Iona, who was her half-human, half-sacred sword her, risked losing her life as her function her as a holy sword ceased.

What she did to prevent it was to accept the dark magic into her body her, activate her own defense mechanism, and increase her ability to produce divine magic.

Even after that, did he do it one more time to free himself from Tal Chek’s rule?

“Even after she used too much strength, she must have still had dark magic in her body. In order to protect herself from it, she must have created enough magic power to the extent that her defense mechanism her was overloaded. Aren’t you stronger than usual?”

“That’s right~ Should I say that I’m not afraid of anything right now~ I’d say it would be quite pleasant to fight while unilaterally trampling enemies in this state~”

Carly Burn said that in her easygoing tone her, but the bloody words she spat out didn’t seem normal either.

“Hey Caliburn…”

It was then.

When a low voice resounds like a scrape from hell, everyone’s eyes turn to Galatea, who has a grim face as she sits on Quon’s lap with her arms crossed and her legs crossed.

“What are you talking about so confidently…? Huh? Senpai- No, I’m like the mother who gave birth to you with a stomachache.

“Wow.”

Sasha looked like she was genuinely fed up with Galatea, but Caliburn only smiled bitterly at her.

“I’m sorry, mother… I’ve become sexier than you…♡”

“Hah!? Sexy enough to have bigger breasts and height! This one is sexier!? Because Cleon will become a lolicon!”

“It’s the opposite of what I said earlier…”

Amelia let out a sigh and shook her head.

“That’s right. Caliburn. Transform into a sword. Just now, Galatea changed from her longsword to a dagger, so isn’t Caliburn a greatsword?”

At Layla’s words beside her, as if it were going to be fun, Caliburn nodded.

Soon, surrounded by bright light, as usual, taking the form of a sword-

There, a golden and pure white longsword of the same size as usual appeared.

However, it was enough to tell that the handle had become a bit flashy, and that mana was flowing from the entire blade with a soft glow.

Moments later, when Caliburn took human form again, her enlarged breasts her trembled with the slight shock as she descended from the air to her ground.

“It doesn’t change much? Is it different for each sword?”

“That’s right… The method of expressing power is different between a holy sword and a demonic sword, and each sword will be different. Just because you have a lot of magical power doesn’t necessarily mean that your sword body has to grow .I can’t help it, but~♡”

When Caliburn said that and sat down in her seat her, she snapped Galatea’s forehead, who was sitting on Quon’s lap her, and her sinews her sprouted.

Then, she got up from her seat and walked right up to Caliburn and-

She just raises her hand and slams her caliburn in the chest.

“Give it back! It’s mine! It’s mine!”

“Wow~ It doesn’t hurt at all~♡”

“Euggieeeeeik!”

Looking at Galatea suffering so one-sidedly, Cleon took off her glasses as if he was suddenly tired, and pinched her eyes between her eyes her with his fingers her.

“Can I do it properly…”

After hearing Cleon’s words, Layla watched Galatea as if trying to rip off Caliburn’s chest for a while.

“Well. It will work somehow!”

She was smiling as she looked at Cleon.

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“Somehow, you look very tired. Cleon-sama, are you okay?”

“Yes? Ah… Yes. It’s okay. Sorry, I interrupted the conversation.”

Cleon, remembering what had happened until a while ago, suddenly came to his senses at the sound of Calia’s voice her calling him, fixing her glasses with her fingertips.

And, they were looking at the large map of the East in front of them.

“Is that so. If so, let’s continue talking. We’ve received a message from Beauty Painter to accept Cleon-sama and his companions as part of the relics investigation team so that we can retrieve the relics before the regressors do. We, too, are now The immediate shortage of workers was the most urgent, so if you can help, I would really appreciate it.”

Calia said that and politely bowed toward Cleon Layla and Amelia.

As the party’s representatives, these three participated in the meeting with the Dark Dragon Company.

Quon went to the temple to practice the shrine maiden, and remained at the inn because of his important role as his mediator between Galatea and Caliburn.

Hertie, who was sitting across from Cleon, was smiling quietly with Bahamut on his lap.

“It’s okay. We too, for our own purposes… And to repay the favor we received even a little bit.”

When Cleon says so, Calia nods her head as well.

“Repaying the favor received… It is one of the most important virtues in human relationships.”

Herti smiled as he said that.

“Sadly, there are many people who can’t keep that virtue. I don’t want to end the relationship with Cleon-sama as simply repaying the favor. I want to have a more- equal, beneficial relationship.”

When Cleon made her strange expression at Hertie’s words of hers, Calia kept her mouth shut for a moment and waited for her master’s next words of hers.

“For a merchant, the number of such relationships is also a measure of the merchant’s skill.”

“I’d like to propose a temporary, but contract to employ Cleon and his party her as external advisors to the Chamber. This is that contract.”

Calia said so and handed her paper and pen in front of Cleon.

Various contents were written there, such as the terms and conditions of the contract for Cleon and his party, the scope of their activities, and the guarantee of their status.

“Check and if there are no problems, sign the contract.”

Cleon and Layla meet eyes and carefully check each item in the contract.

Even when he was an adventurer, there were cases where he received a request by writing a contract, but he needed to be careful about things related to these documents.

Especially if the opponent is a merchant. He would value contracts more than anyone else.

[…Conditions, to be honest, are good enough to be considered too advantageous for us. In addition to lodging, compensation is paid. In particular, since there is a guarantee from the Chamber of Commerce, it is also great that you can go anywhere in the East with confidence.]

After Lila takes a look at her contract with her, she speaks in a way that only Cleon can hear, and Cleon responds quietly.

[…Is it possible to stay at inns in various places run by the company? They’re trying to completely win us over to their side like this… After all, they’re trying to actively respond to the danger of the regressors, right?]

[Maybe…]

“There-“

At that time, Amelia, who had been quietly examining the contract from the side of her, raised her voice of her.

“What are you doing? Princess Amelia.”

“…It seems that my name is not written on the list of Cleon’s party in this contract…”

After she said that, Cleon and Lyla looked at the contract once more.

…Certainly, Cleon’s group is Lyla, Sasha, and Quon. It was set to three like this, and Lilim and Amelia were excluded.

In the case of Lilim, it is unavoidable because she is a non-combatant, but as for ‘Amelia’-

“…Princess Amelia is a state guest in our country. Besides, even though she was chased, she is a member of the royal family. The Princess of Beauty has also asked us to serve Princess Amelia with utmost care, so for us it is a fight against the regressors. I can’t let Amelia get caught up in the danger.”

When Calia answered that, Amelia shut her mouth for a moment.

She knows that her beauties her have no ill will toward her, or rather, he is worried and protective of her.

But- but that does n’t mean that now, Cleon and his friends are aiming to resolve the situation with all their might.

That he was hiding in this Eastern country while being safely protected.

Amelia bows her head, her fists clenched.

“…Amelia.”

Then, Cleon handed her the pen she was holding in her hand.

“…”

Receiving Cleon’s fan, Amelia looked at it for a moment, then she met her eyes with her with Cleon’s.

Soon, she understood, rose from her seat her, and reached out for her contract her.

And. Where Cleon’s party list was written, she made sure to write down her own name her one letter at a time.

“Thank you for the consideration of Miyeomgong and everyone. …But I also want you to give me a chance to repay the ‘graciousness’. As Mr. Herti said. I don’t want to remain as a person who doesn’ don’t think of repaying the favor.”

Herti smiled a little at Amelia’s words her.

“Okay, Amelia-sama. In that case, let’s write a contract with Amelia-sama. Cleon-sama, are you okay with that?”

“…Okay.”

Cleon nods, takes the pen from Amelia, and signs his signature on the signature line.

When the contract passed to Hertie in Calia’s hand, Hertie would also fumble with his hand her to figure out where to write her name her, and then move the pen.

The contract with the names of both parties is effective from that moment on.

“Contract established. Here comes.”

Saying so, Herti hands over the contract to Calia.

“Then. Shall we talk about business now?”

Underneath Herti’s smile Her as she smiles and caresses Bahamut, what the hell is she thinking?

A bit of Cleon, but I feel like she can understand her character of her.