"First name stands for being"
Merliah, who held me with so much power that she couldn't move, whines about it unexpectedly.
"It's just a symbol of discernment for an elephant, but not for us. By allowing us to acknowledge and call that name, we are bound for the first time."
"... ugh!"
"And we have no power to increase our power. But from the day we were born into this world, naturally, with no purpose, we just lived -- we're going to get the Lord to serve."
"I don't have such a contract with Fili...!"
"It's not a contract. It's heavier than anything else in the world, and it should take precedence."
I tied the edge by calling Fili's name. [M]
Merliah wants it from me now. [M]
"I don't hate to call you by your name."
"! Well..."
"But I can't stay here forever. I need to do something."
Supporting her as Reefa's squire.
Rescuing the body of the hakuro from Nea.
I've made up my mind in this world, and I can't throw it out on the way.
"No. This is for you, too."
"Oh, why!"
'Cause I've decided that even if you were on the ground, you'd only fit the unfortunate eye.'
Melia smiled and tilted her neck.
"The god beast outside has already moved on to various sources of thought. Besides that demon king... it's also dirty to put it into words--even if there are such people on earth, it's only to the detriment"
True, you're right.
Given the incidents we have been involved in, this place, which has no involvement with the Demon King's Army, can be described as safer than this.
"And that brave man - a mixture of ever-darkening beasts"
"... of everlasting darkness? You mean Reefa?"
"I am an ominous being. A beast born in the darkness where everything without light freezes --something you don't deserve, something to spit on."
What the hell are you referring to? What does Reefa have to do with that beast of everlasting darkness?
... Maybe she won't let me go no matter how much I say I want to go back outside.
Do you have a chance to get out of here after you snort? I hear Merliah herself can't go outside sealed in ruins.
"... ok"
"Yes, it's the right choice. Don't worry about living. Food and water can be sourced, and if you wish, I can prepare the place and the food."
"Oh yeah..."
Can you do anything like a god beast?
I wonder what it is.
I had a feeling the escape was getting narrower.
Shaking off a bad imagination, I go on and talk to her.
"And let Yulan and Lime go."
If you can, I want you to let me go, too, because I can't even move with a hug.
I know it's a lot out in the circumstances, but at a time when the arms I'm embracing are far beyond my arm strength, it's the current situation where I don't even think about color.
Merliah nods with a smile at my suggestion.
"Yes, I did. Slime and Array will be released after this."
……
——— uncomfortable.
I learned to catch on to the grin she showed, and I speak to her to ask her as I turn my eyes to Yulan, who doesn't move.
"--- Are you really willing to free Yulan?"
Yes, of course.
"... why are you lying?"
I didn't feel lied to in previous stories.
But I felt fierce malice for her words here.
I don't even understand why I thought that myself, but I did.
"That child... turned against me"
"... you created Yulan, didn't you?"
"I have an incomplete will, so I have to dispose of it"
and Meliá's gaze turns toward Yulan.
The voice doesn't have the same discouragement as when you talked to me earlier. [M]
... Yulan is a demon created by Merliah.
It wasn't amnesia in the first place, and that kid was literally just born.
"After all, I can't listen to you"
"In your power, untie my arm - whoa!"
I use physical strengthening without hesitation. [M]
Eat up your teeth, even though you are frustrated by the feeling of the force overflowing from the bottom of your body.
"Please don't! I still can't enhance that stage!!"
"Sometimes it's up to you to get out of the tightening move, sometimes it's up to you to get out of the tightening move, sometimes it's up to you to get out of the tightening move -"
"Kee, I haven't heard...!? Ah!"
Words are power.
I manage to create a gap between my arms and my body and get out of the restraint while I mouth it to tell myself.
"Ugh."
Moving to Yulan, who doesn't move while rolling down the ground, I bite my teeth with my eyes still on the water bottle beside her.
Lyme will definitely help!
But I need to wake Yulan first!!
"Yulan, get up! We're getting out of here!!"
———
No reaction.
Black armor, as if it were dead, sits up and is as silent as the remains of armor around it.
"What do you mean?"
Meliá, standing up, staring at me with a strange tilt in her neck.
If she keeps catching me like this, I don't even know how much I'd be trapped here.
You'll never win - with such a hunch, you put up your fists to help Lime out.
"Maybe you're trying to fight me?"
"Huh!"
"He shouldn't be so reckless that he doesn't understand my differences in strength. Then you're trying to stand up to me knowing you can't win to get this back...?"
Meliá stares at me with her fist in a bewildered way.
Silence continues as it stares at each other.
I might have pissed her off, I thought so, and I was horrified inside, and accidentally she grinned in love and tangled her hands in front of her own chest.
"Excellent......"
"Huh?"
"Wonderful! That rebellion is something that that woman didn't have!!"
Meliá, who approached me indefensibly to float, offered me a water bottle in which Lime was being held hostage.
As I lower my set fist, I receive a water bottle - I finally understand when I see Merliah's innocent smile.
- She doesn't even see me as a threat in the first place.
The words she speaks to me are not lies in the affections of the dear ones she turns to.
Before that, there existed such a difference in power between me, the human being, and Merriam, the divine beast, that it was untold.
So she doesn't have to be alert to my every move, and I can get this close to being alert.
"Phew."
At this point in time, even if I hit Merliah with all my might, she would laugh at it and forgive me.
Anyway, I guess it's the same feeling for her that kittens and puppies are getting twisted.
"Cu, cu!"
"Lime! Great...!"
Immediately open the lid of the water bottle and release the lime.
When I open the lid, she pops into my chest. I take the lime, and I see Merliah in a good mood.
"Oh... I was hoping you'd come to me with nothing like this... if you were shown such readiness, you'd have to respond"
Wait, something very inconvenient is going to happen to me.
I tried to speak to her, who was still in the critical phase of getting through, and that's when her figure scratches off without a foretaste.
"Yeah, yeah, fine. If you want a trial, let me have something for you."
!?
Soon they'll go around behind my back and grab my shoulders.
With her face straight out of her shoulder, she emits a voice that doesn't sound out of its mouth.
"Hey, what did you...?"
"I will kill you. So we have a replacement."
Moment after moment, something pulls the floor. You hear it coming from the darkness ahead of your sight.
Hearing that sound, me and Lyme tremble at the chills and signs they remember.
"No way, this is... this place where I'm..."
Until this time, I had no idea where I was right now, but I finally understand by feeling the presence of a giant warcraft trying to appear in front of me now.
This is - this is the ruin of me being flown into this world, the home of Lyme and Schiff.
"" "Jaaaaaa!!" "
Passage leading to the back.
From behind that darkness, a serpent with three heads --Orochi appears.
Orochi, who exposed his wounded body to the light, sees Merliah with her face out of my shoulder, drooling her head in fear.
"I'll give you a big, prosperous role in uselessness. Fight this one for real. Never kill me, if I kill you, I'll kill you after all the pain I've inflicted on you"
"" "Shah...!" "
Keeping an eye on me, Orochi moves his big body and wraps it around.
"If you want to pass your will, defeat me. I don't care if you kill me, just give me your full help."
She speaks that way only innocently in her ear, slowly leaving me.
Sitting right where I was caught until earlier - the Orochi in front of me makes a big ambition.
Is that desperate for you and me?
"Lime! Let's do it!"
"... cu!"
Set the lime in the shape of a stick.
There is no Schiff who will always be at the time of battle.
In this situation - we must fight against a dangerous warcraft called Orochi, with only a limited number of hand tags.