Chapter 634 – Deception and Repetition

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After shouting so loudly, Quon crouched down and buried his face in his lap.

Cleon and Layla looked at Tokoyo, who was still in the middle of making a strange pose in front of her with a slightly embarrassed expression.

“What the hell is this…”

“Oh oh. Cleon and Lyla. You’re here. I have news that will make you happy.”

Saying so, Tokoyo brought her raised arms together and raised the knee of one of her legs even higher.

But even in the meantime, Layla focused on sniffing and sniffing and scanning her surroundings.

“…What’s wrong? Lila?”

When Cleon says that he is a little concerned about Layla’s behavior, she thinks about something for a while before talking.

“…No, the alien magic I feel in this place… Because of the magic of the rift in another dimension.”

With that said, Cleon must have nodded her head at Lila’s words and remembered her.

In the video I saw then, the Church of Exile had opened a door leading to a gap in another dimension in this space and engulfed the space.

“…Even after hundreds of years have passed, do the effects of that time still remain?”

“Couldn’t you guys be doing this because you’re drunk with another dimension’s magic?”

When Lila said that, Tokoyo tilted her head and shook her head, moving her arms as if stretching them.

“I heard that this is part of traditional martial arts.”

Lyla nodded at that odd posture, and as if her concentration was distracted, she had no choice but to put her finger between her brows and squint her eyes.

“Why don’t you stop her posture for now?”

“Oh sorry. It can’t be, because she’s been told she should be doing this.”

The look on Tokoyo’s expression when he said that was serious, so Cleon and Lyla would look at each other and form hypotheses in their heads.

The first is that they put their heart into acting to make fun of themselves.

Second, I ate something wrong and went crazy.

“Let’s just listen. Who did you hear that from? That too, in a place like this.”

“Who are you, yes-“

The moment Tokoyo tried to explain while saying that.

If you think that the ground rumbled, the particles of magical power slowly began to glow and form shapes in the empty air.

“This, this…”

As Cleon watched the scene with a nervous voice, the final form created by the coalescing magic power was a gigantic dragon.

“It’s Gaios. He said that he needed our shrine maiden’s prayers to regain his strength and memory, and taught him how to dance. Me and Quon were copying that.”

Huge outstretched horns, and wings wide enough to cover the entire ceiling.

Every part of its body, which was close to ocher, shimmered with golden light, and huge, sharp molars protruded upwards.

Its body seems to embody the majesty of the great earth as it is, a guardian blessed by the earth.

It was a body that was not lacking enough to be called the ruler of the elements of the earth, which was also closest to the magic of the stars.

Cleon and Layla knew that the dragon was Gaius, the dragon they had seen in Kanon’s video.

However, the body created by magical power is translucent without substance, so the ceiling behind it can be seen as it is.

“Gaios…!”

When Cleon raised his voice involuntarily and called his name, Gaius, who possessed a magical body, opened his eyes slowly and looked down at Quon and Tokoyo.

[It’s noisy, humans. Didn’t you say you came to find my body?]

And, at the solemn voice that came from Gaios as he opened his mouth, the party could feel tension in every part of their bodies without realizing it.

It was the first time since the first time I saw Rhethios that I felt this kind of sensation.

Indeed, among the remaining elemental dragons, should I say that he is the oldest dragon?

However, the illusion of Gaius, who didn’t care whether or not he felt that sentiment, was to turn his head and look in the direction of Cleon and Layla.

[Hmm…? Also, the number of humans has increased—- Geek, wizard…!?]

“…Ok?”

The moment Gaios’ phantasmagoric gaze met Lyla’s, a completely different, somewhat embarrassed and thin voice came out of her mouth.

When Layla reacts strangely, Gaius says, “Hmm,” Clears his throat, then brings her face made of magic close to him and tells Layla.

[Lower your head, look away. Wizard I am Gaios, the great dragon who governs the elements of the earth.]

At the sound of her voice that seems to scare her, Lila frowns a little, but as she speaks she pokes her head in order to express her intention that we are not here to fight her. Will bow down

“…”

However, Cleon observed Gaius’ behavior closely for a while, then saw that she turned her head to Toko’s side without paying a single glance to him.

[Daemuja. You kept dancing in my honor. Ok, you’re doing great But why is this guy sitting around?]

“Are you ashamed to show your colleagues the dance in honor of Gaios?”

When Tokoyo answers, Layla and Cleon think in their heads at the same time.

‘What is the dance in honor of Gaios…’

[Are you ashamed of dancing in my honor? In the world, such a fun dance—Kuhmm, no, where is the beautiful dance!]

“I don’t know if it’s beautiful, but it sounds like it’s an athletic posture…”

When Tokoyo, deep down, said as if he had doubts about that pose, Gaios glared at Tokoyo excitedly.

Seeing Gaios lose the dignity he had when he first appeared, Cleon and Lyla quietly met eyes.

[Cleon. This guy…]

[Ah. Apparently, there must be someone fearless and worthy of punishment.]

When Cleon thinks so, he carefully looks down at the ring on his hand. Although it shows a weak reaction, it doesn’t show the same reaction as when he brought it close to Hertina Bahamut earlier.

Seeing it, Cleon felt a little complicated, but he was convinced that the existence in front of him was not Gaius.

“Hey Gaios. Were you here from the beginning?”

[Okay. For a very long time… For hundreds of years, I’ve been waiting for humans to come and find me. Exactly, to protect this country.]

The voice that answered Cleon’s words was once again regaining her dignity, but Cleon looked at her and talked.

“Gaios disappeared after the Great War with the Empire, so how did you wait hundreds of years?”

[… Ah!? That, that!]

Immediately after hearing Cleon’s point, Gaios looked puzzled.

Then, after hearing Cleon’s point, Tokoyo also rhymed, ‘Come to think of it-‘.

“… Gaios-sama even erases all records for amusement. Isn’t it strange to wait for someone to come looking for you?”

[!!]

“Hey… Are you really Gaios-sama?”

Also, Tokoyodo would have a suspicious expression along with Cleon and Layla.

Layla also looked at it and nodded her head, and she lit the magic poetry in those eyes and peered through the existence in front of her eyes.

“Under…!”

As he snorted at her as if she was dumbfounded, he noticed the true nature of that magic power.

“Wake up, Quon. There is no need to be ashamed of this guy.”

And, if you talk straight away as if to comfort Quon, Quon raises her head while saying “Huh?”

Her face is still a little red, the corners of her eyes are watery, but she doesn’t know what Lila is talking about.

[Mu-moo-mu-mu! ‘This guy’! I am Gaios for the Earth!]

“Oh is that so? So, do you know who this guy is?”

While saying that, Layla puts her hand on Cleon’s shoulder and looks at the vision of Gaios, and Gaios looks at Cleon with her eyes and then speaks.

[Aren’t you a member of the dark horse clan? Shit, are you guys the dragon slayers who came to catch me?!]

Watching him say that in a flustered, now completely empty voice, Leila smiles at Cleon and she talks.

“That’s right.”

“Whoa… I hope I didn’t go in vain.”

When Cleon said that and raised her hand, there was already a dragon ring with Amber, part of Gaios, embedded in it.

[…

And, imitating Gaios, it stared blankly at the ring Cleon held up for a moment, then uttered a ‘hi-ik’ voice and was startled.

[That, that, yo, the dragon ring. Uh, why do you…!? That, then you Gaios-sama’s sensor!?]

“Gaios?”

No matter how you look at it, Gaius didn’t have the personality to call himself ‘nim’.

Then Quon would straighten his knees, raise his body, and look back in that direction.

[Ah, no… I, I’m actually-]

“I have already figured out your true identity. You must have been careless that no one could see through your true identity with magic poetry, right?”

When Lila snaps her fingers while saying that, a blue magic circle, which is rare for her, appears above her head.

And, what protruded from that magic circle was a large hand and a huge fan held in that hand.

[What, what!?]

“Dispel Cyclone!”

That magic is the magic of the great wizards to dispel weak magic that spreads over a wide range.

It was a unique magic that Layla created with a little tweaking, but the risk of being destroyed by others was low.

That was the reason why he, disguised as Gaios, tried to avoid Lyla’s dispelling magic, but failed.

Then, when the wind that nullifies magic comes in and touches the illusion of Gaios, it disintegrates each particle, revealing her true form.

[Oh, magic! I can’t believe this~”

And, with a voice that gradually diminished, what appeared in the fog of translucent magical power was a small existence the size of Cleon’s head.

It looked like a small miniature, as if it had been created by directly shortening Gaios’ body, flapping its tiny wings while looking in this direction.

“A baby dragon?”

When Cleon opens her mouth, as if a little surprised by her identity, Layla shakes her head.

“No. That’s not a dragon, it’s a ‘fairy’.”

“That, that…”

Mini Gaios gnashing his teeth as if resentful that his identity was discovered by Lyla.

Tokoyo put her hand on her forehead and asked Laila a question, as if it was absurd that she had been fooled by such a thing.

“Is it different from the spirit?”

“They are fundamentally the same. Both spirits and fairies form a ‘person’ by combining certain magical powers and creating an ego.”

When Lila says that far and gestures to come this way by snapping her finger, her fairy hesitates and approaches her.

“However, because of the nature of belonging to the natural world, unlike spirits that value ‘the whole’ rather than ‘individuals’, fairies have a clear and strong ego. As a result, they come into contact with humans and other beings with interest and curiosity. The story that fairies are naughty is a story that came about in the process of contacting humans to understand them.”

“Thanks for the impromptu lecture, Laila…”

Quon nodded her head as if she was a little weak while listening to such a story, and Lila also smiled bitterly and talked to her.

“Because shrine maidens don’t use magic, and they don’t even use magic. This guy probably didn’t think that the illusion magic he used would work. The reason I thought of playing with it was that fairies are fairies after all…”

“…Then you asked us to pose strangely…”

After hearing Laila’s explanation, Tokoyo squints her eyes and looks at her nymph, and Laila answers with a shrug of her shoulders.

“You didn’t mean to enjoy watching it?”

“I’m sorry! They’ve been visiting Gaios for the first time in a long time, so I’m excited…”

Watching the fairy apologize to the party with her hands clasped together and her eyes twinkling, Quon felt her heart weaken a little.

“Don’t be fooled, Quon. Fairies don’t mind lying. I’m sure this guy is trying to figure out how to get out of this situation.”

“Hot!”

“It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a guy who says it with his mouth…”

Listening to Cleon’s cold-hearted banter, the fairy turned to Cleon and glared at him.

“Boo, there are a lot of complaints! If you are a sensitive person, did you say that you are a sensitive person from the beginning!”

“…”

Conversely, the angry fairy, quietly. And Cleon looking at him with narrow eyes.

Then, as if the fairy felt the life in Cleon’s eyes, she flew and hid behind the women.

Of course, Cleon himself didn’t really think about what to do with the fairy.

Could it be that the eyes of the black demons contain the power to be misunderstood?

“So. Who exactly are you and why are you here? What’s your relationship with Gaios?”

If Cleon asked the fairy such a question as if he needed to know as a responder, the fairy would answer with a sullen bow.

“…I am Mumur. She’s just a fairy… She looks like this, but she doesn’t have dragon blood. Instead, Gaios-sama gave him magical energy, so even though he’s such a bastard, he can take on the form of a dragon.”

“Then you must have been acquainted with Gaios before he disappeared.”

Mumur, who nodded at Cleon’s words, answered him.

“Many spirits and fairies followed Gaios-nim. Every time I was lucky, I was able to receive various rice cakes.”

“…It’s rice cake dumplings.”

When Cleon nodded, saying it was something fairies would do, Meumur carefully opened his mouth and spoke to Cleon.

“And I… Even though all of my other people left this place, I couldn’t do that, so I stayed and played around to carry out Gaios-sama’s orders- Kuhhmm. That’s what I was trying to do.”

While saying that, Mumur pointed a finger at himself.

As Cleon finished his story, Cleon saw that he was holding what appeared to be ‘a piece of Gaius’ horn’ in his hand.

“…That. Wouldn’t you, too, say that if you want to have a piece of horn, you have to fight yourself?”

“That, such a thing…”

While saying that, when Meumur carefully slipped out from behind the women and tried to approach Cleon-

And, when Cleon’s nerves are on the piece of horn that Mew Mur is holding in his hand.

“Cleon! Be careful!”

Thinking that Layla’s voice rang like a scream, Cleon quickly pulled out the sword from his waist and blocked the flying ‘it’ with his sword.

“…!”

It may have been a surprise, but what caught Cleon’s eyes was that a figure dressed as a priest was staring at him with a bow in his hand.

“Wait, what the hell are you-!”

Tokoyo tries to approach him as if he can’t stand the priest’s sudden behavior, but Raila and Cleon have already “Seen it.”

“Tokoyo! Stand back! That guy is not a priest…! A human from the Exiled Church!”

And he spread out his hands and raised them towards the sky.

As if covering the surroundings, an unpleasant magical realm like a gap in another dimension spreads out.

“This…”

Seeing that, Cleon knew well how this space would change, so he drew out the holy sword Caliburn while turning his body.

“…This atmosphere, it’s been a while.”

Going through an incident related to the rift in another dimension was rare in this eastern country.

Lyla covers the bodies of Kuon and Tokoyo with her magic, while protecting her body with incarnation magic herself.

And—

The thing that catches the eyes of Cleon and the others is a zombie that seems to have taken on the form of the gigantic dragon that Mumur had been taking until now.

No, it was a tattered dragon that was already too tattered to even be called a zombie.

Then, they noticed that it was the opponent Gaius had fought, which they had seen in the video.

Next moment.

[KUaaaaa!!!]

At the intense roar that seemed to resonate both the body and the soul, Cleon and Layla almost collapsed on the spot.

‘This, this, the real dragon lore…’

A cry that cuts a person’s heart-soul.

And the moment I realized that the existence in front of my eyes was really a dragon.

Cleon put strength into the sword in his hand.

No, somehow, it seemed as if ‘that guy’, who had been sealed inside him, was raising his head.

“…Rachal.”

If it hadn’t been for this dragon’s zombie, Gaios would have been fine and she- Nayuta would not have been captured.

Then maybe it would end with Rakshaal dying alone without Gaios tearing her away from her side.

So, this guy is also the object of revenge for ‘him’.

“Lyla. Quon. It’s Toko. -I have no intention of dying.”

“Of course. Did you come all the way here?”

“…Huh!”

At Cleon’s words, when the two of them talked like that, Tokoyo turned to Quon and Layla, then answered while wearing a fox mask in his arms.

“The dead should not obstruct the way of the living… I will show you the true skills of the great priestess. Also, we can’t just ignore the fact that there is an Exiled Church disguised as a priest in the temple!”

Talking like that, Tokoyo’s eyes were shining like never before.