Chapter 556 – Contracts and Conditions

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Contract? Promise? Last chance for her to come back?

In front of his eyes her, Cleon could n’t understand what the owner of the throne, who borrowed the form of Amelia, was talking about.

No, it’s not that I can’t understand the meaning of the word.

It’s not that you can’t hear the voice and translate it into language.

What’s the last one?

It was close to cognitive dissonance that occurred because he could not avoid and accept the knife of the words directed at him.

Looking at Cleon’s confused face her, Amelia-no, Nemea’s face changed to a slightly bitter face and sighed.

“You know how much you value her for her. That means she has things only you can do for her.”

There was no lie in her words.

The god-Nemea in front of her eyes she really cared for Lesia, and that was something Cleon and she had in common.

If anything else –

If Cleon thinks of her Lesia as her benefactor her, and that she has been living until now to get her back her-

Nemea intends to make Lesia succeed her as her throne her.

“…Talk about it.”

Therefore, Cleon urges Nemea to speak with the intention of obtaining as much information as possible from her.

I don’t know what Cleon’s words meant, but Nemea nodded her head and then crossed her arms.

“Listen, Cleon. I will definitely make Lesia the next owner of the throne. But in order to do that- there is a problem that needs to be resolved first.”

When she says “Problem”, What the hell does she mean in this world full of problems?

Since there were many guesses, when Cleon didn’t answer anything, Nemea let out her sigh once more.

“Cleon. I’m the god of this world. If I say a problem, it’s a really big problem… Really, it’s a problem related to the continuation of the world.”

Like you know her Seeing her as if she was trying to teach, Schrödinger, who was in Cleon’s breast pocket, muttered, “Damn it…” While kicking his tongue of her.

“I see. So, the problem… Is it about ‘Adam’?”

“What is it? You know it well.”

At Cleon’s answer, Nemea nods her head.

“Adam- A mad AI. Ah, I think the word ‘artificial spirit’ would be easier to understand to you. He lived behind the scenes of history. In the meantime, he made countless humans into his limbs his –now, the royal family of the kingdom is his base his.”

Cleon wants to tell Nemea who she says that that Amelia, whom you are currently borrowing, is also a member of the royal family.

Of course, Amelia was different from the others—she, too, knew that she harbored animosity toward Adam, though she was simply impossible to classify.

“It’s an ironic story, but that personality-broken guy who seems to have learned only the bad parts of humans… He’s the closest to the throne. And- he’s definitely aiming for the throne and getting rid of everything that gets in the way.”

“I know it well because I am included in it.”

When Cleon answered that, Nemea shrugged her shoulders.

“That’s right. The imprints you have and can engrave were originally created to protect your will from humanity, which is ruled by ‘Adam’-“

Cleon lowered his gaze at her words and looked in the direction of his heart her.

Underneath the place covered by the clothes, half of Nemea’s inscription was still left.

“Come to think of it- why did you carve this mark on us? And also on the soldiers… What on earth did you want to do by doing that? What is the identity of the magic circle engraved on the floor?”

“Wait… I’ll explain one by one. The story about Adam isn’t over yet.”

Nemea will answer all of Cleon’s questions her, so she waved her hand as if to wait.

“But—the imprint of control. I almost accidentally called it by that name.

“…What?”

Cleon asked what she meant when she said that.

Nemea then shrugs her shoulders once and speaks.

“The name of that imprint is not something like the imprint of control. That name was created by Adam to instill a negative impression on you, the dark horse clan, and it was a name he changed while altering records for a very long time.”

In her plans of her own her, the dark demons would be the ones most in the way.

Especially, when it comes to reincarnated people who can bear the stamp of dominance, making that perception the worst reduces the chance for that power to grow.

“Then- the real name of this imprint is…”

“Well. There’s no exact name for it. But- you know very well that what it creates isn’t unilateral domination, right? The imprinted object will someday be able to control the imprint on its own body. With that, the body’s It is possible to restore or change the state. If you go further, it will be possible to strengthen your own abilities or heal your body.”

At Nemea’s words, Cleon nodded her head.

It was a phenomenon similar to that seen by Sasha and Rubera.

If the purpose of the imprint was simple domination, it was a strange story that such power was dwelling.

“So, if you come up with a good name, I suggest calling it that. ‘ To prevent you from getting your hands on it.”

“… Why did n’t you call Lecia to deal with Adam? You… You know Lesia’s power her better than anyone else. If it’s her strength her, at least Adam and the Church of Exile are-“

At Cleon’s words, Nemea shut her mouth.

She put on a slightly hesitant expression, met her eyes with Cleon, and let out a sigh as if she couldn’t help it.

“Yeah… That’s right. It’s just as you said. If Lecia—as my archenemy, descends to eliminate Adam, she’s sure to be. There’s a good chance she’ll win. ‘

“Then-“

“But it’s impossible. As she is, she can’t take down Adam.”

Nemea speaks the exact opposite of what she had just told herself.

Her attitude made her Cleon ask if she was joking, but Nemea shook her head with a serious expression and replied.

“It’s no joke. The fact that she was meekly exiled by the Exiled Church. It was because she understood that her power was to disrupt the balance of the world. And– Adam has been through everything from the primordial world destroyed by the ‘ Golden Comet’ to the present. It has spent countless years evolving itself to find a way to defeat the ‘Golden Comet’.”

After all, Lecia was like a kind of enemy to Adam.

It was because, recalling the idea of ​​the ‘black battle’ seen at the academy before, it was well felt that they, as ancient people, did not recognize the current world.

When you think of how to defeat your most hated enemy, the first thing that comes to mind is of course-

It is to destroy something precious to the enemy first. That too, right in front of your eyes.

“If it’s Adam, she can use the humans under her control in any way. If, in front of Lesia, some friend or colleague – no, not only them, but also an ordinary person who has nothing to do with appears and stands in her way. How could she do?”

“…”

What do you think she will do?

The answer to that was obvious.

Lesia will wield her sword. While forcibly killing her own heart her-

She will try not to resent the world – even through unbearable pain.

But – even if she says she doesn’t have to go that far, and that no one blames her.

What she blames most of her, she will be herself.

Just before parting with Cleon – right before disappearing into the rift of her other dimension, Lesia was in that state.

“Lesia… The day she became an adversary due to a contract with me and became a golden comet. She has already suffered a big wound in her heart. Perhaps, if something like that happens again, she will be completely ruined. I won’t. …I don’t want a broken human being to ascend the throne. If we do that, the next world will also be a broken world.”

“——So… You mean I have to do it?”

Cleon questioned Nemea again, and Nemea nodded her head obediently.

“Cleon, you… You, for Lesia. What is it?”

“──What?”

And, Nemea threw an unexpected question to Cleon.

Even though Cleon was unknowingly embarrassed and unable to answer for a moment, he managed to open her mouth and speak as if he were going to ask her one more time.

“You are asking Lesia what kind of existence she is.”

Again, silence fell between the two of them.

The reason is that Cleon himself had no way of answering that question.

To Cleon, Lecia is like a shining star in the night sky.

Life on her own – a star shining bright in that sky that was dark.

And, forever, she is a being who guides the light of that star and shows her the way to go.

And vice versa?

Can she liken me to her something her, just as I liken her her to her her star her?

Looking at the confused Cleon, Nemea opened her mouth again.

“… Judging by the look on his face of her, it seems like he never really thought about it. If that’s the case, it’s possible for me to answer, but-“

Nemea kept her mouth shut for a moment as if she was thinking about something, then she shook her head and continued her story.

“Yeah. As expected, it would be better to hear the details of her directly from her. What she was trying to say is that you are a very important person to her. As much as you like her. Her words her.”

When Nemea said that with a kind smile, Cleon knew that she wasn’t lying.

“For Lesia, you are the proof that she saved the world as a hero. Defeating the Demonic Sword Emperor and restoring peace to the world. Her heart could have been saved a little.”

I still remember vividly.

Lesia hugged the person Luti discovered and patted her on the back.

And in that state, she could n’t hold back the tears that seemed to burst out after a while, she hugged Cleon’s back her tightly, and shed tears as she suppressed her voice her.

If, she said, she was able to get here a little faster and stop the people, this wouldn’t have happened.

Looking at Lesia feeling such guilt, what did Cleon himself do?

“If you succeed in stopping Adam’s goal of ruling over humans—surely, nothing will be better for Lesia.”

Lesia is to ‘prove’ that she is not wrong, Cleon.

“If you add a reason, you can attach as many more as you want, but… That’s the ability to engrave a seal that I talked about earlier.”

Nemea said so, but Cleon just shook his head there.

“…No, I get it. Anyway, Adam is what I was trying to stop. …So- do it. Is that all, of the contract?”

At Cleon’s words, Nemea shakes her head.

“Ugh… I have one more contract. It’s something I have to do.”

“You have a lot of requirements.”

Cleon threw some sharp words at Nemea, but she laughed and cut off the sword of her horse with her hand as if she were cutting her knife.

“Another contract condition, rather, could be simpler than the previous one.”

“Simple?”

Hearing her words from her from her Nemea, Cleon looks at her straight, feeling somewhat uneasy about her.

“It’s… Blocking her body from her. Now that her soul and body from her are separated, to put her soul from her back in her body from her.”

“What is that-“

Cleon looked at Nemea with a strange expression, as if he did not understand the meaning of the words for a moment.

“Wait. Does that mean that we have to fight Lesia and win?”

When Cleon asks her back as her anxious expression her becomes, Nemea slowly nods her head.

“What is simpler than the previous one…! Something like that—!”

“I told you. It’s simple. But just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it’s easy.”

“Play with puns!”

To Cleon’s anger, she shrugs her shoulders, and then she looks up at him as he doesn’t back down from Cleon approaching her.

In a threatening atmosphere with a clear height difference, Schrödinger talks while climbing over Cleon’s head.

“Wait bro! If you accidentally lay her hand on her, then Amelia will get hurt!”

“…Ah, I know! I’m not laying my hands on this guy.”

Cleon looked at Nemea with his fist clenched as if he had just lost his temper in her.

Nemea then shrugs her shoulders as if she doesn’t need to provoke him anymore.

“This contract… Anyway, there won’t be a new owner of the throne different from Adam or Lesia now. Because you got rid of it at random. Guys like Black Battle, Astarothe. Perhaps, this era, this world’s It may be close to the singularity.”

And at the center of that singularity was Lesia—and Cleon, who was saved by Grecia.

“The reincarnated member of the Dark Demon Clan… What will you do? Are you going to let Lesia stay in that dangerous space forever? And—this world, will it melt?”

“…”

Her two conditions.

Adam’s denial and a duel with Lesia.

While pondering the meaning of the words, Cleon soon came to a conclusion.

“…Are you unable to summon Lesia to this world when you want it too?”

At Cleon’s words, Nemea shows embarrassment that she has never shown before.

“If not… I can’t put forward the second condition. In other words, for some reason, you… Complete interference with Lecia now is impossible…!”

“That, that’s…”

Nemea stuttered her words, not fitting the name of the throne lord, and stepped back from her as if being pushed by Cleon’s momentum her.

“—As expected, was there something to hide? Nemea…”

To Cleon’s expression of disappointment- the queen of thrones did not respond.

“…Then, I’m not making a contract with you either. Defeating Adam was something I had to do from the start, but the battle with Lecia. We’ll reach that place and find a way ourselves.”

And the next moment, Cleon clenched his fist and lifted it up.

The sudden action – when Nemea, who had been careless thinking that she would not hit Amelia, was started and tried to step back from her –

“…”

Cleon clenched his fist so tightly that it hurt, and thrust it forward.

“—We decide what we have to do. Nemea. If you try to stop Adam— it’s because you don’t like what he’s trying to do. And— if you follow him, you’ll naturally get involved with the Exiled Church. .. Lesia. We’ll find a way to get it back.”

As Cleon said that, he made a stern expression and shouted at Nemea.

“Don’t try to put your circumstances into it…! What you’re trying to do… Is no different from ‘Adam’ forcing someone else’s life form!”

“I’m sorry…!”

At Cleon’s words, Nemea trembled and took a step behind her.

And, if you think that silence has passed between each other for a while.

Nemea carefully put her hand on top of her fist of Cleon, who turned to her, and she speaks as it is.

“I… Am no different from Adam… Ra. Certainly, that’s true. ──No way, even in front of me, who can be called a god, he still maintains that attitude and even preaches.”

Nemea shook her head as if she hadn’t expected it at all.

“…—Not intervening more than necessary in the affairs of the world. It can make the world a better place… Huh?”

One day, I came to a conclusion I had come to on my own—and it reminded me of the meaning I had forgotten.

“Okay. That contract didn’t exist. As you are, defeat Adam- and use the information you got there to find Lesia.”

At Nemea’s words, Cleon tried to lower her clenched fist her.

However-

Her tightly gripped hands her and Nemea’s eyes were still looking straight at Cleon.

“…But- I’m sure that you are much more interested in me than when I first met you. The reincarnation of the Dark Demon. …No- Now, the center point of Adam’s opponents left on this earth. “

Nemea with her eyes shining with a mysterious expression.

“Perhaps you too have the qualifications to sit on the throne.”

After saying that, Nemea finally let go of Cleon’s hand and turned her body round and round.

“The things I was curious about earlier… I’ll answer all of them now. Until then, I’ll borrow this child’s body a little more.”

“…It won’t affect Amelia, right?”

“Didn’t I tell you? This child’s body is like a ‘vessel’. …That’s the first word.”

After saying that, Nemea turns her body around and talks to Cleon with her smile on her lips.

“Are you so concerned about this child’s body? As her mate and protector of her? Or-as a man?”

“…”

“No comment. Well, it’s okay, but-“

As Nemea speaks, she feels inside herself the personality of Amelia, who has already awakened to some extent.

‘I see… Is that so. This child…’

And, as if she understood Amelia’s feelings of her, she acts more kindly toward Cleon.

Nemea’s personality her seemed to be greatly influenced by the body she inhabited.

“I’ll teach you how to defeat ‘Adam’.”

And—it was putting the information Cleon wanted most in her mouth her.