Chapter 98 – Target

000

The place where the party arrived after passing through the underground portal was the resting room of the old school, which they were using as a temporary base.

Furniture turned upside down here and there, or drawers showing signs of being rummaged through.

It was because Layla had visited the place and searched it once.

However, she sensed a wave of powerful magic power rising from the basement of the old school and hurriedly headed there.

It had sensed the column of blue flames launched by Beatrix and entered the catacombs.

The reason why Cleon laughed at Monad’s coffin when he heard the story of the elders.

The dark under the lamp must be a story about this.

Catacombs – The entrance to the underground tomb where the cursed room exists, or its structure.

It was because it was very close to the basement of the old school.

Still couldn’t find each other.

It really couldn’t have been a skit.

Because it was opened in a hurry, the coordinates of the unsteady portal swayed in the air, tearing through space like the mouth of a giant snake.

One by one, spit out the group.

When Beatrix falls on top of Cleon, and Sasha falls on top of him.

Lila next spins through her air and lands effortlessly on the ground, spinning her body around.

“Layla…”

“The runaway is over, Sasha. Let’s go back to the mansion.”

Lila held out her hand towards Sasha, who looked at her with her guilty eyes, and Sasha only hesitantly clenched her fist.

“Not yet. Until everything is back to normal…”

“…Then explain it properly. Quon was worried about you and lay down like he was sick.”

At Lila’s other name, Sasha cautiously nods her head.

“Hey, hey. It’s okay to explain, but…”

“First, get out of my way…”

The voices of Beatrix and Cleon under Sasha.

Layla stood in front of Cleon’s face and grabbed her wand her. She does and she takes it down.

Then, the chains of magical power flowing through the ground fixed Cleon’s arms and legs to the ground.

“Until the end of the story. I will keep your body restrained. Chief of the Enforcement Division.”

“Hey, wait! Mr. Cleon isn’t the Chief of the Enforcement Division!”

“What are you talking about? I fought this guy myself in the city.”

At Sasha’s words her, Laila waved her hand as if telling her not to say anything stupid, but Sasha quietly descended from Beatrix’s top.

“Let me explain. As far as I know everything…”

Lila nodded at Sasha’s words and waited for Sasha’s next story while holding back her wand her.

In the meantime, Beatrix moved out of the top of Cleon and went near his head her.

“Senior, are you okay?”

“Yeah… It’s a bit of a drag on her body her, but I’m glad she did n’t throw fireballs like last time… And, she does n’t seem to recognize you either.”

At Cleon’s words, Beatrix smiled wryly and nodded.

“It must be the effect of memory manipulation. They must have forgotten the existence of the person I am.”

“…Are you okay?”

Beatrix closes her eyes for a moment, then opens them, looking at Lyla, who is listening to Sasha’s story her.

Then, with a slightly sympathetic expression, he clenches his fists and places them on his chest her.

“It’s okay. It means we can return everything to the way it was and be happy to meet again.”

001

After hearing an explanation from Sasha, Layla looks down at Cleon with a confused look on her face.

Still on the ground, Cleon feels the gaze on him and raises her head when her gaze her meets Layla’s her.

Laila turned her head away as her face her turned red.

That’s probably the case, too, according to the explanation I heard from Sasha, I’m into this man…

Lila presses her mouth shut, giving a hint of her distress, then snaps her fingers to break the magic that binds her Cleon.

When the phantom chain disappears, Cleon gets up and talks to Lyla.

“Do you trust me now?”

“Don’t get me wrong, I believe in Sasha, not you. That kid has a personality that can’t lie.”

“Can I get up now?”

Iona, who was quietly watching her situation in her in the form of a sword, seemed to have finished the story well, and she escaped from Cleon’s hands and returned to her human form.

“Iona… You too?”

“Because I’m a mixed blood of a holy sword and a human. Demiurge’s abilities are specialized for humans.”

At that, Lila shut her mouth for a moment, then sat down on the couch next to her.

She seemed to be thinking about something with a drawn tired expression.

“Did you say… Cleon?”

“Okay.”

Cleon feels a bit deja vu at Layla’s seemingly sharp question of her.

A year ago, when Layla, who had just come from the academy to the city of Elesia, said goodbye to Albein, she turned her gaze to herself.

As for Cleon, Layla spoke with a cold gaze, as if she had no interest in it.

The first thing Lila said to her was what she had just said.

Only then did Cleon think that she had such an attitude because she was a member of the dark horse clan.

Considering that she was all there to take her Alban back to her academy, she was able to cast her friendly gaze at the man who, no matter how she looked, seemed to be her hindrance to her. He was not a sociable person.

Of course, Lila’s attitude to her was quite different from that time.

She, who twisted her body halfway and sent only the ends of her eyes to herself, was different from then.

She was looking at Cleon with her face right as she sat looking at herself.

In her eyes her, there was her hesitation, her fears, her doubts, and a little shame.

“…I understand that you were living together in my mansion. If that’s the case, it’s clear that a lot of contradictions will disappear from the current situation.”

“I’m glad.”

“It’s not fortunate! That, that’s it. Me, me and you…”

At Cleon’s words her, Layla yells at her, then she hesitates again as the index fingers of her hands her face each other in a diminishing voice.

She rolled her eyes here and there, carefully choosing the words she should bring out next.

Her face flushed her, and cold sweat ran down her back her.

I could feel her heart beating fast with a strange tension.

After seeing that, Beatrix, Sasha, and Iona, who were ashamed of themselves for some reason, swallowed her saliva and paid attention to Layla’s next words and actions of her.

Her partner her, Lyla Flame Watch, took a deep breath.

It was to speak carefully to Cleon.

“Me and you, yeo, lovers… Were, are you?”

“No.”

At Cleon’s prompt reply, all the women present there staggered as if exhausted.

“Sa, Sasha!! You! You lied to me!?”

Layla immediately gets up and yells at Sasha, but Sasha quickly shakes her head.

“Wait, Sasha didn’t lie.”

Cleon protects Sasha, who is sitting next to him, and rebukes Layla, as if to stop bullying her.

“It’s more of a problem not to lie!

“Now, now. Calm down, Lila. You don’t have to be a lover to mix up, right?”

Looking at Iona talking next to her as if pouring her oil on Laila, Laila says that she is dumbfounded.

“Because you’re not the party!”

Lila’s cry makes Sasha, Bea, and Iona quiet.

“…Eh? No wait. Really? All the women here to this one guy?”

“It’s the fewest among the people here, but it’s still not a small number.”

Iona nodded her head and smiled.

“I’m going to… Twice a week. When we stay together in the mansion, it’s on duty… “

Sasha hesitantly spreads two of her fingers her.

“I-I’m once every day these days.”

Beatrix speaks as if she is ashamed of her promiscuous sex life in her.

“Die. A woman’s enemy.”

And Layla’s selling towards Cleon as if to finish.

Cleon could not refute anything, so she had no choice but to quietly accept the sell-off.

Cleon thought quietly that the day would surely come when he would be stabbed by a woman someday.

“…The one who helped me make Innis was also you. Then.”

“It’s amazing reasoning power.”

Lila crosses her arms, turns her head away, and speaks coldly.

“Stop praising it. It’s a simple method of elimination… The semen of a human male is needed to create a homunculus, but I don’t remember buying anything like that. To be offered male semen. There’s no way I’ d ask someone else for that.”

“That’s right. A few months ago, I was a weakling in sexual knowledge who thought that a man must have intercourse in order to produce semen.”

At Cleon’s words, Layla flinched loudly, widened her eyes, and looked at Cleon with her stunned face.

“Eh. Layla, that’s…”

Sasha, too, seemed as if she couldn’t hide her surprise at the words, but she covered her mouth and looked at Lila, who almost blushed with shame until her tears came out.

“Wrong! Because it’s wrong! No, it’s not wrong…! Because I know it too! Like fellatio! Pizilla! Masturbation!”

“Isn’t it emotional for a grown lady to say those words out loud to her? Lila.”

At Iona’s words of her, Layla seemed to have finally reached the limit of her shame of her, and she slumped back on her couch, puffing out her cheeks.

“She’s an ego ego. Layla is a pure child. She was so focused on research that she had no interest in romance or anything like that. She had no one around to tell her about it.”

“Yes! That’s it. You know it well. Have you met before?”

Her Lyla her listens to her words of Beatrix defending herself and affirms her words her by pointing her finger at her her.

But at that, Beatrix said, ‘How about it?’ She quietly closed her eyes and smiled forlornly somewhere.

“…It’s about me now…! The important thing is what you’re going to do now.”

Laila changes her topic as if she is trying to avoid being the target of teasing.

Others who heard the story also nodded their heads with serious expressions.

“First of all, the clearest goal is to unlock the mental alteration of Demiurge, who is creating the current academy.”

“It’s brainwashing by an ancient demon… It’s a big story again.”

At Beatrix’s words, Lyla let out a sigh and put her hand her between her brows her.

As Cleon watched in silence, he thought that wrinkles would appear at a young age.

“What’s the solution?`

“Retrieve the factors that Rail has stolen from me, and use those factors.”

“If that’s the case, how can it not work with the factors you have now? You have more of them, right?”

At Lyla’s question, Beatrix silently shook her head.

“I can’t use arguments. I simply have them.”

“It’s a matter of capacity as a vessel. But then, what are you going to do when you get it back?”

“That’s… I’ve been thinking about it.”

Saying so, she turns her head towards Cleon.

“…Me?”

“Yes, that’s right. Senior seemed to have a high compatibility rate with Demiurge’s factor. Every time I mixed with him, I felt the factors inside me stabilize.”

Beatrix’s words gave Cleon a confused look, but first he nodded as if he understood.

“What about passing the argument to this man right now and forcibly canceling his brainwashing his?”

“That’s also difficult. Demiurge’s fundamental power to do ‘evil’ is even stronger. If I hand over all the remaining 80% to my senpai, there’s a chance that senpai will go berserk. Even so, it’s impossible to cancel this mental manipulation. If they do it again, the will of the rail side will be reflected more strongly in the end.”

“Well, something is difficult.”

Iona responds to Sasha’s words.

“You can think simply. The more bad power is used for bad things, the more efficient it is.

“Aha.”

“Well, you can think of it like that.”

As if Sasha and Cleon understood Iona’s explanation of her, she shook her head vertically, and the next thing that followed was a keyword that she came to mind during the conversation with the black warlord.

“The vessel of God, you know? Bea?”

At Cleon’s question, Beatrix shook her head a little heavily.

“No, I’m sorry, but I’ve never heard of it. It’s probably related to theology, but…”

“Neither have I heard of it.”

When Bea and Laila also said that, Iona quietly started talking about what she knew.

“God’s vessel is one of the concepts of the Church of the Protection of the Saints. There is an atmosphere in this academy that rejects the Church of the Protection of the Saints, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they didn’t have related knowledge.”

“Church of Protection of the Saints.”

When the story comes up, Layla thinks of Quon, who is recuperating at her house her by now.

I was a little worried about how Quon would react if I decided what happened today.

“It’s not a widely known doctrine, but it’s the guardian of the Holy Trinity, which the Order of Protection of the Saint regards as the center of divinity. ‘Saint,’ ‘Hero,’ and ‘Holy Sword.’ Because of this, it is said to be called the ‘god’s vessel’ by priests.”

“So. Are they aiming for a hero or a saint?”

Lila, who suddenly came to her senses at Cleon’s words her, spurred her seat her and stood up.

“Wait a minute. There are no heroes in the academy right now, and there is only one person recognized as a saint in the Saint’s Protection Order.”

“… No way.”

Cleon, too, realizes what Lila is talking about and stands up from her seat her.

As Iona said, the academy is not on good terms with the Order of the Protection of the Holy Spirit.

Like Aruru, warriors with holy swords passed down in their families regardless of sainthood are allowed to enter, but this is a very special case.

Therefore, neither the ‘saint’ nor the ‘hero’ basically stayed inside the academy.

Currently, except for one person.

“Quon…! Their purpose- God’s Vessel was talking about Quon!”

Layla also frowns as if she has been attacked by Cleon, and quickly prepares to return to her mansion with Sasha.

“I can understand why the Mian Magician, who was moving under the direction of the black battle, was aiming for Alvein… He was probably the first target he was aiming for.”

Cleon nodded his head as if he understood now.

“What are you trying to do with the vessel of the gods in your hands?”

“…I don’t know. Even if it’s a god’s vessel, it’s unknown if it can accept and use Demiurge’s power…”

Beatrix answered Cleon’s question with an apologetic expression.

“Open the dimensional gate, everyone prepare!”

After Lila finishes the chant quickly, a portal to her mansion appears in front of her group her.

And- the scenery you can see if you pass through it quickly.

“Kuhhhhh… Coolhhh…!”

The figure of Rail with blood pouring from her mouth while rolling on the ground.

Standing in front of such a rail, looking down at him was different than usual.

It was the appearance of Quon, who floated a holy ring, a symbol of miracles, above his head his, and looked down at the sinner with an expressionless face.