Arcadia’s Labyrinth

Lesson 23

"Muh!?

Oriole reacted quickly to me when I was slashed with a growl.

Each other's swords clash with a roar reminiscent of cannons. The aftermath became a shock wave, running some cracks on the wall.

A moment of equilibrium.

"Nu!? Whoa, whoa, whoa!?

One night late, Oriole's body was bounced like a ball. Oriole disappears after hitting through the thick walls for many rooms.

As the earth smoke rose, I turned to His Highness Chris.

"- Ki, Mi..."

His Highness Chris, who can't keep up with the sudden change of circumstances, looks at this one with dismay.

She is usually transformed into a man by the power of a demonic prop, but now it represented her original gender whether that demonic prop was destroyed.

The length of the hair remains the same, but its appearance and physical appearance are feminine and rounded.

I knelt at the sight of poison in her eyes and gently put my feather-woven coat on her.

- Princess, I'll take care of this.

"Ah..."

It was almost simultaneous with me getting up and Oriole appearing through the hole in the wall.

The red-haired demon stood up in anger and stared at me sharply.

"- Don't think the bugs will die easy...!

A dense slaughter that rocked the air was released from him, and His Highness Chris turned himself over at the edge of his sight.

On the other hand, I am utterly natural in its killing. [M] There are no shards, such as the reason to fear the person who killed him once.

Seeing that I didn't give him back any slaughter, Oriole came to me with a blueprint on his forehead.

"... Huh!

When I took it lightly, Oriole opened her eyes slightly. I guess I finally realized that my skills were comparable to mine. Daimyo, you must have thought the earlier one was just hit by surprise.

He ran his gaze all over me as he explored, and he noticed my sword and hoisted the end of his mouth.

"I see... heir. Funny! I'll play a little."

The sword flashes. Flushing away the sword that had struck him, Oriole cut it back without killing the momentum.

If you play that, you'll get a sideburn. Yokogi changed into a poke, and the Oriole connected to the body from the rear - the Iron Mountain. All operations are preliminary to the next operation. A series of strikes without gaps...... I guess it's a kind of serial strike as well as my demon sword moves/evening stands.

I went one move at a time in no hurry. It is difficult to fight back during a series of hits, but there must always be a gap when connecting a series of hits to a series of hits.

Having identified Oriole's slaughter with the eye of the spectacle, I did not miss the momentary gap that had arisen in his fat muscle.

- Here!

"Mmmm...!

As soon as Oriole shook her sword over her head, I quickly packed my distance and slammed the Devil's Sword Soul Eater into its belly.

- - Feels like punching a wooden knife in a thick rubber.

"Shit!!

I realized from that feeling that the attack didn't go through with him, and I used shrinkage to distance myself.

... Again, if you're not awake, won't even the Demon Sword Soul Eater make it through the attack?

Meanwhile, Oriole was silently stroking my attacked stomach without ever following me at a distance.

"Hmm... it doesn't look like the Devil's Sword is awake. But that fat muscle definitely belongs to the Devil's Sword Soul Eater Bidwelling Devil's Sword moves..."

Oriol seeped the color of vigilance in his golden eyes and looked at me.

"You... who are you? It's called its high ability, it's called its fat muscle... and it doesn't match its appearance with its contents. It's like cod."

"... Come on. I'd like to hear more about this one than that. You... when did you unseal it?

I actually exchanged swords and realized right away. Oriole's physical abilities were not unsealed yesterday today. Perhaps the closer we are to completeness, the more power we have regained.

But I just checked his seal the other day. You had the Demon Altena transfer your powers? Is such a thing possible if we are also demons to each other?

To my question, Oriole frowned suspiciously.

"- I have no idea what you're trying to say. No matter when they unseal me... I've never been sealed (...)?

――――――――――――……………………

"…………………………………………………… what, because?

At that time, the shock that struck me was hard on my tongue.

This guy... what the hell are you talking about?

"Knowing my name, I didn't know you knew the alias" Last Demon "... that's getting weirder. This Oriole is the only demon to have been spared a seal as his allies were shot or sealed one after the other.... Thought that was something even kids knew?

I listened to Oriole with dismay. [M]

Gragra and the world are shaking. There was no power in my sword gripping hand either, and I was likely to take my sword off now.

He... the last demon? What do kids know about common sense?

- The world is changing.

Clearly different from the history I know.

What, this is... Where am I standing now? Where am I?

- Where is this world?

"……… you are not the only one at last. The secret, let me throw up at any cost."

The moment Oriole laid out her sword sharply, I turned back to me. [M]

Calm down... now we have to do something about him.

The fact that Koitz continued to exist from ancient times also convinces me of the reason why this labyrinth flood occurred despite the fact that the demon Altena was sealed in a distant exotic land.

Then defeat this guy and everything will be solved. The seal of the castle is preserved, and I sing this world with two loved ones.

Exactly, a happy ending.

And me and Oriole started crossing swords again.

As the sound of the spear echoed in the blink of an eye, I began to think about how I could defeat the Oriole in a corner of my mind.

The first candidate is the awakening of the Demon Sword Soul Eater. Initially I was the one who hoped hatred would reignite when I saw enemies, and Soul Eater would awaken, but that didn't happen. It would be due to not being as pure as it once was because I knew I hadn't lost Elise.

If this happens, I don't want the Soul Eater awakening.

If so, there is one way to stay. And the pieces are all here. And then if His Highness notices that......

I was stunned to see His Highness Chris while I thought so.

Is that it? Is that it? Oh, wait a minute?... Your Highness, are you there?

While judging Oriole's sword trident, he subtly looks all over the place, but still no sign of His Highness Chris.

Oh, that Ama...... he ran away!

I told you to back off! Do you usually disappear from the spot!? You don't have to do anything to stay on the spot! Who the hell do you think you're here to help!

I hit the enemy in front of me with that anger I can't speak of.

When he slaughtered the man with all his strength, Oriole burst into the wall with momentum, but it was clear that he was intact.

"It's no use. As long as you're human and I'm a demon, there's no victory for you. Give it up, this is the law of the world."

"Shit!"

Cheat abilities make me invincible. I'm worried about you.

At the moment I whispered my tongue loudly,

"Alcaine kun!!

The voice of His Highness Chris, who should have disappeared, wooded during the sight.

"- Take this!

Ha, I looked over there, and she almost threw something small over here. Your Highness Chris... you didn't run away!

If I took it passively, it was a small knife about five centimeters across the blade.... No, this short, it should be called an accessory rather than a knife.

"Hmm... what use is a toy like that?

Oriole laughs with her nose when she sees it.

Sure, he was right, with his gorgeous decorations and mysterious golden obsession. That, although at a glance it could be seen as a first-class ornament, did not seem like something that could break this situation at all.

But I understand with tactical knowledge. This was what I wanted most right now - the "heirloom's knife” on the key item.

"That's a rebuttal of the shard of the Holy Sword that was once in the possession of the brave Marctia! Even though it is a shard, it houses God's blessing! I mean, that can break down the demon kingdom!!

――――

The air in the field changed.

I sneer back at Oriole, who opens his eyes.

All pieces are in order. The hand I was expecting against the devil, that was this "heirloom's sword”.

This "Heritage Knife” is the key item at the end of the game that the protagonist who lost the Demon Sword Soul Eater gets as a means to defeat the Demon Man… its core.

The role was to host God's blessings in the sword, otherwise worthless as an item, but once in the game, it could be equipped.

However, its attack power is 1, which is the weakest performance in the game.

But even if the attack power is 1, it is a shard of the Holy Sword. An attack through this can hurt the demon.

I guess I didn't see her for a while because I was picking up this "heirloom's treasure knife”.

I believed you, Your Highness! Your Highness said there's no way you could have left me and run away!

I will instill magic and struggle into the "heirloom's sword” I hold. Hero's Class Skill - Hero Blade. That's right. I'm tough to beat with a weapon like this. Hero blades will make up for the drawback of reach.

Aura's sword, which could be done in that way, was, unlike the usual one, entangled with rainbow light.

This was a clean aura that I can be sure would work for Oriole as well.

"Come on...... this is where it comes from"

I put a demon sword in my right hand, a shard of the holy sword in my left hand, and placed it on Oriole.

"Don't get on with it......!

In an instant, we made a tall metal noise and crossed.

"... Gu!

Oriole moans small as she bleeds out of her shoulder.

When I saw it, I hoisted the end of my mouth to the point that the blow with the Holy Sword had passed firmly.

The fact that the wound was shallow and not as damaging as it was handy, but still scratched, was something that braved me.

And now that the attack is coming through, the balance of power is leaning toward me better than the status.

I received the Great Sword in the Soul Eater and repeated the pattern of dealing damage with shards of the Holy Sword.

Even if it's not as damaging as a single blow, the amount of effort will make up for it.

Oriole gradually chopped her whole body, and the balance of battle leaned toward me more and more.

"Dung bugs, dung bugs, dung bugs, dung bugs!! This bug flavor aaaah!!!

With the stripping away of the junction against humanity, which was the root of the margin, Oriole no longer seemed completely tranquil.

Is this the end of the samurai who scratched his horseshit on his invincible armor...

Oriole's sword muscle is something that clearly sees dodging and defensive moves. I mean, I guess this sword technique was worn by him as a result of his training before he became a demon.

Oriole by then would not have disturbed my mind as much as I had suffered some scratches.

Fighting in the “invincible” state for a long time...... no, the massacre must have taken away my taste as a samurai from him.

The souls of the inherited swordsmen told me it was a little pitiful.

"... I'll finish you off, Oriol"

I dived into his pocket, caged in a little pity, and whined small.

- Demon Sword Technique/Tsubaki.

The moment a stroking flash plundered Oriole's chest,

"Gah!?... this, ha-!?"

Blood erupted simultaneously from the wounds all over his body that he had ever suffered.

Tsubaki is the top compatible technique for Tiger Rain, and its effect is to "increase power according to previous damage”. As you can see when it comes to actual effects. No, all his wounds are one step deep.

"Not yet!

I am relentlessly pursuing Oriol. [M]

- Demon Sword Technique/Sunflower. Ten petals made of aura chop the flesh of the enemy.

- Demon Sword Technique/Shoreline. Blood flowing out of the wound forms a crystal when shoreline. I started sucking up that blood.

"Ku, shit............!!

Exactly. I don't mind Oriole trying to distance me, but I won't miss it.

Demon Sword Technique/Daffodil. The thin aura spread throughout the room from the sword protruding on the ground, converging its energy into a single point as soon as it touched the Oriole. It became a ray of light rising from the ground, burning his flesh.

"Haaaa!?

He raised his distressed voice, and at last Oriole took off his sword and laid one knee.

Still, with trembling hands, I try to take something out of my nostalgia.

I don't know what you're trying to do, but that's it.

- Demon Sword Technique Ok/Dead Season.

The thrust I unleashed on the Oriole burst into his torso to be sucked in.

――――――……………………………………

The next moment, there was a big wind hole in his flesh. The shock wave then also penetrates its linear wall, pushing it through the sky far beyond.

Dosari. Oriole's body fell and lay on the ground like a threaded marionette, and silence descended upon the field.

From the big hole in the empty wall about 5m in diameter, the evening light slipped into the night, causing me to have the illusion that both heaven and earth were burning in tandem with the city where the hand of fire rose.

"It's over...?

It was me who often looked at the sight, but when I looked back at the voice hung from behind, there was the figure of His Highness Chris, who hid himself naked in his jacket.

"... I didn't expect to defeat that demon Oriole"

That said, she turned her attention to the fallen Oriole.

The body of the guy whose abdomen disappeared slowly was barely just a state where his upper and lower body were connected, and he was out of breath with an awesome shape that cut open his eyes and shed tears of blood.

But his demon ball is still alive. The poke should have also involved the Demon Ball, but it seems that the Demon Ball, which is the nucleus, could not be destroyed with the "Heritage Knife”, a shard of the Holy Sword. I guess it means that even though God's power resides, the intrusion is only fragmentation. Leaving this demon ball alone will take some time, but Oriole will be resurrected..., it will need to be sealed later.

His Highness Chris watched the shape of Oriole's Terminator in silence for a little while, but eventually he peered into the streets from the wind pit as he lined up next to me.

There are still many demonic shadows in the city, and the roar of the beast and the anger of the fighting Saint Knights were heard from the castle gate.

It was no longer clear from anyone's eyes that this city had collapsed.

"... is just catastrophic. But should we consider the last line protected? The seal of" The Ideal Home of the Legendary Gods "was preserved, and the" Last Demon "who kept threatening mankind could be defeated."

With that said, His Highness Chris turned to me.

Reddening my cheeks, my eyes staring at me are moist and shaking into small pieces...

And the plump cherry blossom lips gradually came to my face.

"Thanks...... the world has been saved thanks to you. And... me too."

Soft feel. A few seconds later, when she slowly let go of her face, a silver bridge hung between me and her.

I saw it. She shyly turns away.

... I lost the vibe and kissed him, was it good? Well... you can have as much or as much use as this, right? Kissing the princess for saving her life is a classic.

I don't know who it's aimed at, but when I made that excuse on the inside, His Highness Chris let go softly.

"Uh... I'll have to talk to my brother Chris later about your work on this one"

Hmm?... Oh well, does she still think she hasn't been noticed with His Highness Chris? Or is that the message to keep it that way?

Well... as far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to go deep into a royal family where the darkness seems deep, so that's fine.

Copy that, sir.

"Um, then I'm sorry after the death fight, but if you have some spare time, why don't you head towards joining the Saint Knights? After pushing the situation back, we take the refugees and get out of the city"

"immediately."

The moment I nodded at it and just tried to make my way.

"- Nah, what!? An earthquake!"

Suddenly a big shake struck us through the labyrinth city.

As the cracks entered the wall and the grudges poured down, I continued to jump the fallout sheltering His Highness Chris.

A few minutes went on. As the sway subsided, His Highness Chris looked around with an uneasy look.

"... what was that, what is that now? I've never heard of an earthquake around here."

... right. Unlike Japan, there are limited areas with earthquakes in this country. And there's been an earthquake around here, not once since I was born. Probably not even going back to Grandpa's grandpa days.

This means that this is not an earthquake......

As me and His Highness Chris were stretching their faces to the "unpleasant feeling," someone's voice accidentally wooded during the glance.

"That? It's not Kane! It's no surprise we're seeing each other here!

Bright voice by the time it's out of place. It was as if I had stumbled upon an acquaintance all over the city, and it resounded as nothing more creepy between these half-baked sights.

"Olive......"

The red-haired fortune teller walks into the hall waving at me with a full grin.

At that moment, the fragrance drifts around creepingly sensual.

It's like melting the cerebral cord...... sweet, fragrant......

"- Shit!"

I grabbed the “heirloom knife."

As the blood erupts from the bush's palm, the sun clears as it begins to hang on his head.

"Oh, it hurts. Are you okay? Your sister want me to lick you?

She grinned at me with her red gold - "the same color as the Oriole” eyes.

“The heirloom's sword" … Now that Olive's "charm” has been solved by the shards of the holy sword where the power of God resides, I can clearly see it.

Unlike the charade that was on the official HP, I can no longer doubt it.

He... this woman was the devil, Altena, who caused this labyrinth flood.

"Hey, what the... what is he? No way, are you a demon!?

"Oh..."

Altena, who noticed His Royal Highness Chris, hoisted her nibble and mouth end.

"That rainbow hair...... royalty. Ugh, it's going to be better than this body."

... Yi Dynasty? Right, Koitsu...... the type that possesses the flesh of others! Perhaps by doing so, we can block the signs of being a demon.

"You... what did you do? No way, what does that have to do with the earlier shake?

In questioning His Highness Chris, Olive had a niggling grin.

"Ugh, it can't have anything to do with this situation, can it? Of course, I let you destroy the basement seal."

Oh...... after all, was that what you said earlier?

With the seal imposed by the ancient valiant Marctia, "The Ideal Home of the Legendary Gods" does not attract other labyrinth demons, and spreads the temper inside the labyrinth to prevent labyrinth flooding, he said.

Now that its juncture has been broken, the demons, overflowing with this maze flood, will be headed to 'The Ideal Home of the Legendary Gods', where they will at best be offering themselves to the demon gods.

And waiting ahead is the labyrinth flood of "The Ideal Home of the Legendary Gods" - that is, the resurrection of the demon gods.

To stop this, seal it again, or kill the resurrected demon god.

The former does not have enough time to collect the sealed catalyst, and the latter does not have the means to defeat it in the first place.

- - It was totally packed.

"Well, then maybe it's time for me to spare you. Something's staring at me and I'm uncomfortable... aha"

"You think I'm gonna let you get away with this?

I poured the aura again into the “heirloom's sword” and laid out my sword.

Things will no longer get better where we defeated this guy, but if we leave him alone, things will also get worse by leaping and accelerating.

"Aha... if you say that, I would have promised to deal with you when I got rid of my errands.... but can you deal with me?

"What?"

When I frowned at Olive, who said he had an evil grin,

"Kane! Behind you!

"- Huh!"

I wave the "heirloom sword” aggressively at the signs coming from behind me. The identity of the raid was Oriole, who jumped just on his upper body.

He's biting my Aura's sword with his white eyes peeled off.

Koitsu...... even though he was indeed dead! Has he come back from the afterlife to his last scratch?

No...............................................................................

Dizzy up close, noticing.

Koitz, he's still dead! He's biting at me as a corpse.

And the manipulator of the corpse naturally...

"Haha, even if it doesn't help, it's going to help a little at the end - blow it up, Oriole"

When the Dark Woman Demon chanted so, the Oriole Demon Ball began to shed dark light.

"Become!?

The dark light is the rainbow light of the Holy Sword and at least it conveys a tremendous flow of energy to my body.

In spite of that, the moment I let go of the heirloom sword,

"Whoa, whoa!?

It emitted a light that dyed between the sights, and the two substances had completely disappeared from the world.

"... Oh, my God, this is it"

... the only way to defeat the Demon Man is gone.

"Ugh. Now we're stuffed,"

Olive with a nimanima and a grin. Oh, I'm dancing on the palm of this woman I'm gonna make, and I bit my teeth.

"Well, if you fight here, you won't lose me... if you don't hunt down too much and“ it ”is an awakening, and just in case you leave"

Olive turned back his heel when he glanced at my demon sword Soul Eater in a meaningful way.

I couldn't go after it, even though I felt it teething.

Because I don't have the means to defeat him when I stand upside down right now.

"Bye."

When Olive left, waving slowly, only silence remained on the spot.

His Royal Highness Chris is sitting on the floor flashly forgetting to even hide his body, and I felt so empty that I still wanted to.

This is the time...... I thought it worked.

Elise regained her memory, tied with Leriana, revenged to Hate Oriole, and defeated her perfectly.

It was the labyrinth flood that could not prevent the labyrinth city from collapsing, but the last line...... I thought I could protect my close loved ones.

If the demon god is resurrected, it will all be over... Both Elise and Leriana...... world by world.

- Should I reset it?

Unexpectedly such an idea crossed my mind.

Resetting it will allow time to unwind again in the morning of the beginning.

If we move in preparation for this labyrinth flood from the start, we should be able to figure it out.

But...... Elise and Leriana's smile comes back to the back of her brain.

... Scary.

Again, losing them... scares me.

Because of this, Elise and I could be reunited in a true way. Leriana and I could also fit our feelings together. Reset it and it will also fall zero out of this hand again.

Elise's memory is back this time, but I don't think such a miracle will happen again.

This should be considered a one-time gift from God.

The more I think about it, the more loving I find their existence.

If it's about time you broke up with them here, I want to be at peace with them until the end of the world. So much so that I even think of it......

And at the same time, I strongly don't want them to die.

... I still have concerns. It's a change of oriole.

In the previous circumference, the guy who was in a sealed state survived as the only demon in this circumference who spared the seal.

History is... the world is changing.

Isn't this, maybe, the price of starting over?

Think about it, even though I didn't unseal the original seal in the previous circumference, it seems like it would have been the price of the first Continuum if it were now.

I felt the existence of a "kind," and I was convinced it existed, but wasn't there really a "kind," or something like that, at the price of the Continuum?

“My kind” was my delusion that the monopoly of knowledge would collapse... it's more natural to think so.

Oh, what a sumo for one if so......

In the first redo, Oriole's seal is unsealed, and in the second redo, a foreclosure to the event of a labyrinth flood occurs, and the Oriole bastard was not even supposed to be sealed.

The situation surrounding the world is certainly getting worse.

I can't imagine what negative effects this will have if I do it again for the third time...

But as it is, the situation will surely worsen, and the demon god will surely be resurrected.

Move to stop the resurrection of the demon god by hanging on one hope without starting over...

Or start over and fight the unknown fears......

I 'm- - I'm sorry.

[I can't stand the fear of losing Elise and Leriana...]

[I want them to live, even if they can be forgotten again]