Chapter 118 – Sacrifice

“Together… That it disappears… ?”

Rumia nodded her head at my question.

There was also a hint of regret on his face.

Aside from feeling sorry for being lied to all this time, she seemed to feel the sadness that she had to disappear in this place.

“I intend to personally drag you with the sacred power of the holy sword and die together. I’m holding onto you trying to run away as much as possible.”

Then, being eroded by demonic energy…

“What… That’s how it is.”

As if realizing what I was thinking, Rumia said that and nodded her head.

Being eroded by Magi was what she did for the sake of sacrificing herself.

“Ah… “

Rumia is… Are you okay?

Although she was clearly sacrificing herself, Rumia showed no reaction other than that she was sad.

If it were me, I might have despaired of the fact that I had to step in.

“Don’t worry too much. No matter what happens, you guys will make sure to annihilate the demon lord so that I can live.”

Saying that, Rumia came over to me and smiled.

Her days with her were not very long.

Even though I hadn’t known her for a while, she felt closer to her than anyone else, and she personally came forward and helped me whenever I was having a hard time.

When something happened to me and I was having a hard time mentally, I released it from the nearest place.

That’s why I felt for her more than the person living in her body.

So I couldn’t help but like it.

“But… “

“Even if I don’t have you, you can do well. Clearly.”

“Rumia… !”

“It’s about time.”

As soon as Rumia said that, the space slowly began to break apart.

What, why is the space broken?

I looked around with a puzzled look on my face, and Rumia made a face that couldn’t be helped.

“I have to go slowly now. It is a space that I have maintained, so if I disappear, it will inevitably be broken.”

“You must go… ?”

“If I don’t step in, I can’t annihilate the Demon King. I have to present a peaceful world to my future four children.”

“… “

She seemed to have made up her mind already.

If so, there was no room for me to intervene anymore.

I took a step back.

Seeing that, Rumia smiled.

“It was fun so far. Thanks to you, I, who was not free from the curse, was able to be free for a while. And… “

Rumia came to me.

She was crying

She had tears in her eyes and a look of sincere joy.

Why are you making that face… ?

I couldn’t understand her rejoicing as she went to die.

“You should be fine. Understand?”

Ah…

Wait for a sec…

My words didn’t follow.

After Rumia said those words, her figure completely disappeared, and eventually the space was completely shattered.

And,

“Ah… ?”

Warrior… ?

The holy sword stuck in my heart came out, and my legs gave out, and I collapsed in place.

Came back

Instinctively, I knew that I would never be able to talk to Rumia again, that I would never be able to go back to her image world where she was.

Ruril, who saw me fall on his knees, hurriedly approached me.

“Are you okay?!”

“Yes… Fine… Uh?”

What… ?

Why are you talking?

I hung my neck with a puzzled expression.

“Uh… Rumia… ? How are you talking… ?”

What… ?

How am I talking

Surely it must have been blocked by magic?

“It’s hard to explain right now, but it’s thanks to cutting the source. Maybe… I think the other Lumia inside the Rumia would have helped. Maybe even if I take off my hearing aids, I can still hear.”

To be precise, I was able to hear from the beginning, but of course I could also speak…

Is it really no longer necessary to hide?

Before, I should have pretended not to be able to speak, but now that I can speak, I feel strange.

“Cecilia. Bless me.”

“Yes!”

I looked at what I was saying with a surprised expression for a while, then hurriedly nodded at the hero’s words and bestowed a blessing.

“You bastard!!!!”

The demon king, who had lost most of his powers because the source of evil had been destroyed, shouted.

But that was also the end.

If we knew in advance that we would come, we should have prepared in advance, but we didn’t. Perhaps, from the position of the demon king, since we arrived, it would be easy to use the source of this evil planted in my body, so I thought that it would be easy to stay still.

At that point, it was already lost.

It was completely caught off guard.

Since he was a demon king who lost his strength and couldn’t even respond properly, the fight ended in an instant.

The blessed hero kicked off the floor and jumped out quickly, cutting off the head of the demon king in an instant. He would have maintained his strength as well as his life by drawing power from me, so as Rumia said, the demon king was as good as ruined at the point he cut off the source from me.

The Demon King could not even scream and perished.

Because the saintess’s blessing dwelled in the completely liberated holy sword, it was close to impossible to survive at the point of being decapitated.

“It’s over, it’s over… ?”

“I guess so… ?”

I answered without realizing it to Ruril’s question.

“Uh… No matter how I look at it, I can’t get used to it… Rumia is speaking directly… “

“Me too… “

I was also wondering what I was saying.

“The Demon King… Is it dead… ?”

“Huh. Feel it It’s definitely gone.”

It wasn’t like he ran away or went somewhere else.

It has completely disappeared.

It’s not even sealed.

I am alive too.

“It’s really over… ?”

How could the demon king fall so easily?

Since I couldn’t see the demon king dying in the game, I always wondered what the hell was going on and how the demon king was subdued, and how Rumia survived without dying and married the hero.

I didn’t even think about it.

To think that she was holding Rumia and me hostage throughout her journey and extracting her powers…

And above all…

Koo Goo Goo!

The ground cries.

Everyone looked around with a puzzled look on their faces.

“What, what?!”

“The castle is collapsing… “

Since the demon king died, the power to maintain the castle also completely disappeared.

“I-I didn’t expect this… !”

Even the hero didn’t seem to have thought that the situation would turn out this way.

If it collapsed like this, it was no different from subjugating the Demon Lord and then subjugating us as well.

Magic… Magic…

“Rumia! Teleport, please!”

“Te, teleport… ?!”

Rumia, who originally did it for me, has disappeared, so can I do it?

I know that most of the difficult and complicated magic so far has been done by Rumia.

I don’t know if it’s possible to teleport outside the demon castle now.

While thinking about what to do, I cast a spell to activate the teleport that moves outside as usual.

No matter what, I had to do it in the end.

Because if we fail here, everyone will die.

Of course, I was just trying to the end, and I thought it wouldn’t work anyway.

However,

“Uh?”

Vision is distorted

I wondered if the surroundings were shaking, but before I knew it, I looked around the surroundings full of plants and trees that were all rotten and expressed my doubts.

Why is this so successful?

I slipped outside before I knew it and put on a question-filled expression.

“I don’t know what it is, but it came out… Thank god… “

How did it come out… ?

I heard the sound of something collapsing, and when I turned my head, I saw a large demon castle collapsing in real time.

Probably most of the demons in that castle are dead or at least seriously injured.

I let out a sigh of relief.

“Ah… “

Wait for a sec.

The people in the basement… ?

I looked towards the castle with trembling eyes.

Maybe I should go rescue the people down there, so I got up and tried to walk towards the castle, but my legs were still weak and I couldn’t move.

Oh no, I said I was going to get it earlier… I said it with my own mouth…

“I’m going to go get it… “

“Rumia… It’s already too late.”

Suddenly, a warrior approached me and hugged me.

“Ah… “

…

Okay.

Know.

That there was no way an ordinary person could survive in a castle collapsing like that. The reason I thought I had to go to the rescue was because the things I saw at that time were so shocking that I couldn’t bear to forget them.

“… “

I bowed my head.

It was so fleeting.

The fact that Rumia sacrificed herself, and the fact that the Demon King died as it is… And the castle collapsed and came out.

It passes so quickly that I don’t know what’s what.

Only one thing was known.

“Rumia… ?”

Cecilia approached with a puzzled expression.

The warrior was also surprised and approached me.

But, for now, that was fine.

“Black… Hehe… Ugh… “

I lost a friend today