Chapter 99 – Bowl

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It was the day before that the black warships, which had reached the limit of their patience, ordered their apprentice, Reil, to move in order to seize the vessel of the gods.

When a battle between automata occurred in the city and the surveillance video was checked, a girl who was one of the magic swordsman’s party escaped from Demiurge’s mental control.

She must have thought that it was a good opportunity to leave the mansion of Layla Flamewatch, and the number of people living in the mansion was reduced.

From Rail’s point of view, taking their orders, it was impossible to even ‘think’ of any doubts, complaints or complaints about them when standing in the middle of the stone slabs.

It was because the moment that came to mind, Rail was given corporal punishment for correction.

‘God’s Vessel’.

As one of the doctrines of the Order of Protection of Saints that has not penetrated into the academy, it talks about selected humans with high compatibility with divine magic, such as warriors and saints.

However, in reality, it is one of the curses and blessings released by the ancients toward humans, humans who have the ability to adapt to a specific factor engraved into a specific lineage.

It was just that the Order of the Protection of the Saint interpreted it arbitrarily and called it that way.

Rail’s teacher, Black Battle, has a sarcasm towards such modern people, and calls them ‘God’s vessel’ as the name they use.

A hero who holds the power of the holy sword, and a saint who holds the divine magic power to assist the hero.

It was a mockery of the foolishness of modern people who interpreted the legacy left by the ancients as they wished and elevated it to an object of faith.

Does the Church know that the holy sword is a weapon of mass destruction and destruction created for individuals to fight more effectively in the war against humans?

No, even if they knew, they would hide it.

I will not do anything to tarnish the image of the holy sword that has already been rooted among followers for a long time.

Even more so, when it is known that the god’s vessel is the descendant of battle slaves created through human experimentation to control the weapon.

There is nothing good about the church that honors them as the guardians of the Trinity.

Even more so, the purpose of the black battle is the worst blasphemy for a church that makes its god vessel contain the elements of the ancient demon Demiurge and runs out of control.

It was the worst irony that an existence revered as a savior among humans would turn into a trigger that would lead the world to destruction.

And if it was his precious person, Rail couldn’t help but move.

After all the preparations were completed, the first choice of the vessel to contain the factor of Demiurge was `Hero Aruru Tromeia’.

A strong body that has been trained, and a high aptitude as a hero that matches it.

Noble spirit, the taste of black warrings. The original goal of Black Engagement was to destroy it and drop her from the pinnacle of her evil deeds to her fallen hero.

However, your sword warlords did not have a body, and they needed limbs for a lot of dark medicine to accomplish their purpose.

What I paid attention to there was another vessel by Aruru’s side.

Although, compared to her, her quality as a vessel was too low, and she was a human with a weak mentality that could easily be broken.

That’s why, even more, it was good to use their hands and feet.

If you send visions and auditory hallucinations into his head beyond the walls of your weak mind, it will take days for Rail to succumb to them.

In the vision Rail saw, the sight of Aruru, possessed by demons, leading the world to destruction, was played over and over again.

However, Rail also had his own will his.

Aruru was her most protected human being her to Rail, and in order for her to stop living with her her self-sacrifice her, defining herself as her warrior her from her childhood and severing her own desires her. .

If, using her her Demiurge powers her, she could alter everything about her by altering her human mind, it would be possible to free her her as her her duty her.

That’s why it was the first priority for Rail to find a vessel that could replace Aruru and bring it to the Black War.

There, the first thing that caught my eye was ‘Albein’, a young hero who had just made a name for himself, who had appeared in a city on the border of the continent called ‘Elesia’.

When information about him was leaked to the 12 members of the elders who were full of academic knowledge about the hero, they immediately took action like a fish caught in a bait.

So Layla Flamewatch took their orders and temporarily left the academy to capture Alvein and bring him to the academy.

However, trouble occurred in the middle of the mission.

The magician who exiled the party disintegrated her party from within her, causing Layla to give up her own mission in the process.

Rail felt the stress on his stomach at the time, but soon decided to try his new hand his.

She sent Beatrix’s older sister, second-in-command of the Enforcement Department, a foolish magician drunk with power, to Ellesia to force her to bring Alvein.

However, Alvein is a warrior even if he is rotten, and a warrior of the holy sword even if he is stupid.

The power of the golden holy sword he possesses is to protect his master her from the enchantment of her demonic eyes her even if he is not awakened.

Therefore, she is also a bit troublesome, but she tried to bring Alvein to the academy in exchange for killing the magic swordsman who seduced him and put them in trouble.

She too was a fool, never dreaming that she would lose her life if she could not restrain her lust for power and knowledge.

At this rate, as originally planned, Aruru Tromeia may have to be dedicated to the Black War as a vessel for the gods.

In such despair, Rail felt the limit of taking time for the black battle that was slowly putting pressure on him.

She heard that Layla Flame Watch, accompanied by the magic swordsman who fucked her and interfered, was returning to her academy.

And she finds out that there is a ‘saint’ among them.

It was a sword fight that was interested in Lyla and Cleon, but Rail secretly used ‘Quon’ as a vessel for the gods to replace Aruru or Alvein.

The first step for her to him, is her party her to guard her her.

It was to keep Cleon, Layla, and Sasha away from her.

And when that opportunity came, the black engagement ordered Rail to move without delay.

Rail could easily have predicted that even those who called themselves disciples would turn the blade on themselves mercilessly when the worst situation came.

I stood in front of Lyla Flamewatch’s mansion.

001

In each room in Layla’s mansion, the atmosphere inside was also reflected in each person’s personality by the people who used the room.

In the case of Lila, the room was not organized well, so things were scattered here and there, and it was a splendid red-toned room.

Sasha’s room stands out with cute decorations that show off her girlish sensibility.

In the case of Quon, it was a calm, quiet room with a sense of piety, like a small chapel.

There was no such thing as a dressing table, befitting her her, who was a little less interested in decorating her appearance her.

A closet with minimal clothes, and a bed that was a bit big for one person to lie down on. And a simple desk was all the furniture in her room.

And on the bed her, Quon, the owner of the room, was sitting with his back her against her back her, looking a little drawn.

The cause of her is none other than the deviance of cute Sasha, who recently felt like her own sister her …

To say the least, it was because she felt something about herself.

Unlike Lila, who basically did n’t pay much attention to the balance of daily necessities or her life in general.

Quon had a hand in all of her household chores her, so she was more sensitive to her living conditions than Lila, the owner of the mansion.

Therefore, she vaguely noticed that humans other than herself had lived in this mansion until recently.

Most likely, the person is an adult male. She is also in close proximity to the other residents of the mansion.

Perhaps, she was a very close relationship with them, and they were close enough to spend time for each other.

Quon, noticing that, she tried to come up with something about the person.

However, the situation continued as if the accident had fogged her up, and her frustration and stress her only increased.

She somehow held on, not showing up to Laila and Sasha, but she heard that Sasha left the mansion like that and followed a man.

Quon finally ruined her physical condition due to the tiredness that seemed to come from her piled up stress all at once.

There she was, of course, her worries about Sasha, but she realized that the man Sasha was after was the ‘someone’ she had forgotten about.

And her quon her, her own existence her, which she could not remember at all about him, aroused her guilt.

“Are you feeling well?”

To the question of Innis, who came into her room to take care of her kuon her, quon nodded her head a little heavily.

Although her physical condition improved a little as the day passed, she was still heavy and languid.

If this is due to her stress her, what feels a little different is that the organs related to ‘magic’within her are showing abnormal reactions, albeit little by little.

It was the first time she had ever felt anything like this.

A strange feeling as if she was notifying herself, the owner of her body her, of a danger approaching her.

But what kind of danger is looming within the academy, and even to the mansion of Lila, the head of the magic department?

Not even sure about that, Quon said that when she felt better, she and Lila would visit Sasha, and she was thinking of meeting the man she followed.

Suddenly, Quon’s gaze turned to Innis.

She is an artificial creature created by Lyla, that is, a being different from humans.

Of course, just because she was different from a human did n’t mean I did n’t respect her as a person with her own self her.

She looked like a human, but strictly speaking, her body structure was different from that of a human.

So, Quon opens her mouth to her heart her and asks her what she might be doing.

“Innis. I told you before that there might have been a man going to the grocery store with me… Are you referring to the man Sasha followed?”

“…”

In response to Quon’s question, Innis didn’t show any change in expression and just kept his mouth shut. Perhaps, she seemed a little surprised.

“…At the time, she thought Innis was joking, but now that I think about it… Innis remembers that someone else lived in this mansion, so didn’t she bring up such a story?”

“That’s right, Mr. Quon. I am remembering the person you all have forgotten.”

At Innis’ answer, Quon became surprised and grabbed Innis’hand of her.

“Uh, why didn’t you tell me?”

“Even if I talk, it’s because there’s a high chance that I won’t be trusted. Especially, my creator with high pride. The Master is likely to think that I made a mistake. You weren’t the only one who changed, so I needed to be careful.”

“…Certainly, Lila wouldn’t easily accept the fact that there is a man among us…”

Quon lowered her head at Innis’ words and spoke.

“…No, I’m sorry. As expected. If it wasn’t for Sasha’s work, I wouldn’t have believed it easily either.”

At Quon’s words, Innis also answered by holding her Quon’s hand.

“For Sasha-sama to remember something about him, I think it’s almost a miracle. According to the explanation I heard, his explanation was that originally humans could n’t resist this manipulation of memories.”

“…Okay…”

At Innis’ words that seemed to comfort him, Quon nodded his head, feeling grateful for his kindness to her.

“Hey Innis, he’s-“

Quon said that, and for a moment he was about to ask Innis about something else.

An unusual alarm sounds throughout the mansion.

And, the feeling that the barrier surrounding the mansion was breaking was passed on to Quon and Innis.

“Intruder…!?”

As her kuon tries to get her up, Innis puts her back on her bed.

“Quon is here, I will go and check.”

“However-“

“Don’t worry. I’m a housekeeper homunculus created by Master.”

In the next instant, a Flamberge made of flame appeared in Innis’ hand her.

“It is my role to ensure the safety of everyone living in this mansion.”

002

Chii Ik-

You can hear the sound of evaporation that sounds like when cold water touches a hot iron plate.

Its origin was in Rail’s mechanical arm.

As a result of forcibly increasing the output to break through the barrier Layla had set up, the overheated arm came into contact with the air and emitted smoke.

The erosion of black magical power comes through her shoulder and up to her neck her, but Rail decides not to care too much.

The important thing is that with this, his intrusion must have been transmitted to the humans inside the mansion.

Before Quon could escape, she had to go inside and secure her recruits her.

Next moment. If she had n’t quickly pulled her body her back at the presence she felt in the sky.

Rail thinks that it must have been pierced from her head by a pillar of flame-red sword that fell from above.

What appeared in front of her was an expressionless woman with dark red hair dressed as an attendant.

What she held in her hand was a two-handed sword of flame made of magic.

“Homunculus… Is it Lyla’s tool?”

As soon as she landed, Innis pointed the tip of her sword at the rail and spoke with an expressionless face.

“Currently, there is a person in the mansion who is not feeling well. I’m sorry, sir. Please go back today.”

“You’re a fluent homunculus. Yes, if I were your Master, I wouldn’t have added the ability to speak to tools.”

In the next instant, Innis didn’t change his expression and swung his sword at his throat.

It was a quick, precise, sharp attack.

Since the flaming sword has no substance, even if you try to defend it using a physical sword as against a normal sword.

If the sword wasn’t surrounded by magic, it was an attack that could pass through the sword and cut the opponent.

In addition, although kendo was a sword, the threatening attack speed that came from the unique physical ability of a homunculus that transcended this human limit.

Rail, internally cursing Layla for making such a troublesome thing, once again wielded the mechanical arm given to her by her master her.

The arm of ‘Enkidu’, which was called the God’s golem, absorbs mana from Rail’s body at will and uses it to display various outputs.

It is also not impossible to hold a sword of hot flame by flowing magic power through the knuckles of the fingers.

Looking at the rail that caught the flame sword casually, Innis hurriedly let go of the sword and tried to step back.

There was nothing wrong with that judgment itself, but rather it could be said to be accurate.

A temporary object made with her magical power her, such as a sword of flame.

It was just a matter of stretching the distance and regenerating.

However, the black magic that flowed through the flame sword caught her hand her and did not let go of her sword her.

Even if he tried to annihilate the sword itself, the magic power was not controlled.

“Kuh…! This is…!”

The moment when the body does not move normally due to the penetration of magical power. Rail pulled out the sword from his waist her and pierced Innis ‘abdomen.

“Heuk…!”

Homunculus are beings with greater life force than humans. It doesn’t die from being pierced through the abdomen.

But even so, this was a huge wound, and the flow of black magic that rode through her body slowly hardened her body her.

“Sissy, after all, a tool is a tool.”

The moment after Rail said that, Innis’ eyes changed.

The flame magic of the Lyla Flame Watch that flows through her body is concentrated into the hole in her stomach that has been pierced by her.

“…Then, I want to give that tool a shot…!”

At the same time, Layla’s proprietary omnidirectional attack magic was activated from Innis’ body to her.

“Flame Burst!!”

A mighty storm of fire erupts, an explosion that encompasses the entrance to her mansion and wraps around the rail holding her sword.

The huge shock sent the rails flying backwards, and Innis poured all her mana into it, causing her to fall forward on the spot.

Was Rail’s sword just shattered by that explosion or melted away?

It was no longer visible.

Rail hurriedly protected himself with Enkidu’s arm, but it was not without damage.

It must have hit his head when he flew and rolled on the ground, and blood was flowing.

The exposed areas of her body her on the front of her body her were rarely unburned.

“Kuh…! About the homunculus…!”

The moment Rail twists and raises her body, stretches out Enkidu’s arms her, and uses her magic spray to finish off Innis-

“Innis! Are you okay!?”

Hearing the explosion, Quon runs out of the mansion and looks at the fallen Innis.

And her rails her with her arms outstretched towards her.

The moment Quon and her rail’s eyes met at the same time, her rail’s aim was directed at her.

However, Kuon’s eyes saw the demon Demiurge in a deeper and darker place beyond the rail’s eyes.

The next moment, Rail realizes.

That she and her master had been misjudged.

From my observations so far, Quon has always been guarded by two powerful adventurers named Cleon and Lyla.

She is just a person supporting the two behind the scenes.

Of course, it was because of the nature of Quon that she didn’t like fighting very much.

It was because she was self-aware that her duty was a priest, and that her role was to heal those who had been wounded.

But the clergy had another job.

That is, ‘extermination of the devil’.

Demons take strong damage from divine magic, and only strong divine magic can purify their souls and annihilate them so that they do not return to hell.

In the original party where Albein was together, Quon’s role was of course to assist others, but to subdue the ‘devil’, he also saved divine magic even during normal times.

In addition to the magic erosion by her god’s golem her, Enkidu, Rail, whose whole body is no different from being pickled by the devil, instinctively sees her and at the same time confirms the explosive amplification of her divine magic her felt from her. I had no choice but to step back.

However, the amplification of that divine magic was heterogeneous.

Even compared to other clerics, Quon’s change was outside the ark of her common sense.

That is the possibility that Black Engagement and Rail had forgotten about.

Why, when the giant evil appeared, did she mistakenly believe that there was only one adversary descending?

When Demiurge descends, the golden comet is summoned as an adversary.

Although there were questions about the plan itself, Rail thought there were no contradictions.

However, before the evil Demiurge appeared.

The Black Warden and Rail existed in this world as an evil threatening the human world.

Rail thought that the opponents of the Black Battle would be ‘Cleon’ and ‘Beatrix’.

Then the adversary arranged for him who sold his soul his to the devil-

The next moment, a column of holy magic falling from the sky rained down on Quon.

A phenomenon like a miracle of God unfolds in front of your eyes, and a group of lights gathers on Quon’s head and transforms into a halo, the symbol of an angel.

While Rail was stunned for a moment, Quon reached out to Rail with an emotionless face, just like Innis.

Then, eight spears of light appeared from the back of her body like her wings.

At the same time, the rail flew and pierced her body.

“Keugh!?”

There were no physical injuries. The spear of divine magic pierced through Rail’s body her and burned the dark magic within him, purifying Rail’s body her from the inside.

In the process, a completely mechanical purification process that doesn’t care about the load on the body.

Quon, who had awakened as an adversary, saw Rail only as a ‘seed of the devil’.

Blood oozes from Rail’s mouth her.

Although he could have destroyed it if he touched the spear of divine magic with Enkidu’s arm.

The damage left on his body could not be erased.

The next moment, a portal opens and others arrive at Layla’s mansion.

“…Quon!?”

Her panicked voice calling her was Cleon’s.