Scary.
My heart is filled with fear.
The fingertips gently attached to your throat are cold as cold-blooded animals and just touched, but you can't move like you're being poked at a blade.
Kate had gray hairs---No, the girl with silver-lighted hair when seen up close was called Meliá.
Are you telling me that the girl who's holding me and Reefa's life is the god beast who grabbed Kite?
"Dear Kite,"
"... what?"
"Again, call me by first name"
"... Merliah"
Slowly up, Kite calls the girl's name.
Her cheeks are broken when her name is called.
"Dear Kite. Have you done anything wrong?"
"... eh"
"Yeah, yeah, I know. But I'm not angry. On the contrary… I am impressed"
Meliá, the girl called laughs furiously at Kate.
"If you were in my hand, I would have used any brutal hand. It was supposed to create a weapon that would kill the creature with its imagination."
……
"Those who are here are alive because you were desperate, and that was already desperate to resist."
... regrettably, you may be right.
Indeed, Kate had made dangerous moves during the battle, but there were occasions when she could have carried out more attacks if she wanted to.
Perhaps it was because of his resistance that he didn't try to crush her with that strength, at least when he tried to knock Reefa to the ground.
"But it was a miscalculation that this beast would take in Master Kite's blood."
"... you, kite...!"
"I will suffer to understand what is better of such a beast"
"Ugh."
A force cages in Reefa's throat-throated finger.
As Little Reefa screams, Kite stares hard at Meliá.
"What the hell...?"
Finally, she turns her attention to the confused voice of Schiff, besides Kite.
Yulan, who was in the immediate vicinity of Schiff, shrinks his body to fear, but he doesn't seem to be in Meliá's eyes in the first place.
"You've worked well. Even if it had been born with the full meaning (...) and the shell out, its merit would be laudable."
"Hey, what..."
"If you want to continue to help Kate, will you allow me to serve beside you?"
I can't talk at all.
No, in the first place, isn't she even willing to have a decent word with anyone but Kite?
Schiff, bewildered by Meliá's words, utters words of doubt.
"Born meaning? What do you want from me..."
"Do you really think you were born here?"
At first Schiff escaped this ruin with Kate.
I hear that Schiff was born and raised in this ruin at that time.
"Did your benefactor tell you what to say? Did they teach you magic? You're not good at transforming because you're an incomplete shapeshifter?"
"Why, let it be..."
"Let's ask the other way -"
- Is that really your memory?
Schiff's little body trembles.
Reefa and Kate are also looking at Meliá with the eyes that she can't believe it.
Still can't believe it, the sif lifts his voice in a temperamental manner.
"That can't be! I did take her, her body..."
"Do you remember your face? Do you remember her name too?"
"Oh, of course! She's blonde... blonde..."
A sif with so much mouth stares at the ground.
"Hey, why... I should know... you can't forget! I can't remember...!"
"Those are the dumb human remains lost in the ruins."
Meliá answers with a grin only to Schiff raising her face with a fine voice.
"I can't handle magic, let alone even a woman. Just humans."
"Wow, I... the hell..."
"Again, I ask. Your memories are really..."
"Stop."
Kite hugging Shivering Schiff with both arms stops Meliá.
He squeezes his voice as he holds a shiv at her, only slightly upset by Kate with a strong anger.
"Schiff is Schiff. At least for me, he's an important fellow I've been spending all my time with since I met him here. Only that fact will make no one - not even you - deny it."
"But Dear Kite -"
Kate's eyes narrow.
He seems tired and even weak, but somewhere different.
At least before he was caught... something seemed decidedly different.
"Merliah, I won't tolerate any more words."
"Huh... I did"
With Kate's wrath in his eyes, Merliah shook her fingers slightly.
Afraid? No, are you happy about this?
The side of Meliá, visible on the side, is just smiling thinly.
"You've missed the point."
Zero exhaling to hide her exaltation, she turns her gaze back to kite again.
"It would be quicker to finish these two and follow them with your strength. You know why I don't do that?"
"... oh, I know exactly what you mean"
Kate's gaze is directed at Reefa and me.
Reefa is shaking her neck sideways weakly.
"If I stay, will you two miss it?"
"Oh, kite! No! Ugh."
"Yeah, you're right."
I cage my strength in Reefa's neck trying to move, and I can shut her up.
I'm in the same situation as Reefa, I just don't feel alive doing this.
It seems strongly illusioned and dominated that his life is not his anymore.
"Okay. I'll come to you.... let them go."
"Yes"
My hand let go of me and Reefa's neck when Melia nodded in a good mood.
Where the fingers on my neck are finally away, I lay my hands on the ground on the spot and breathe desperately.
I didn't feel alive...!
But Kate, who was supposed to be here to help, has become a feather to be imprisoned again...!
What a pity...!
Meliá, who freed me and Reefa, stands up and looks down at us with cold eyes.
"Go wherever you go. But the next time you step in here, Kite will kill you before he stops, so be careful."
That's what she said and scoffed at, she quickly reached out to Kite, who was sitting back with that expression turned into a soft grin.
"Come, my only lord, my, my only king. Return to where we are..."
A kite stretches out her hand, meditating on her eyes and zeroing her exhale as she gave up.
Neither Reefa nor I can move.
At the time Meliá and Kate's hands tried to touch--crumbled with a roar from Meliá's feet without a foretaste.
"... chip"
"" "Guh!!" "
What emerged from her feet that made her uncomfortably ill was a giant snake head with three heads.
When one of those heads bites Meliá, he crawls out of the hole, slamming it straight against the wall.
"Become!?"
"Orochi!? Why did he take her, the Lord!?"
Orochi, the three-necked serpent called.
Then the second head bites into Merliah, and the other head turns this way while he stops moving.
At the end of that line of sight is Kite.
"You, why..."
"Guh!!"
"Stop! They'll kill you!!"
Orochi barks at the stunned kite.
I don't know what the devil said, but it also seemed to me like it was saying "run!" to Kite.
"Oh, I can't believe you're turning your teeth on me to repay me."
"Gi, guh!"
"Oh, the king's vessel, after all. Heh heh, I don't want to let go anymore."
Meliá, holding Orochi's bite in with only one hand, puts her hand on her cheek and laughs joyfully.
The King's vessel?
As I was saying, is that exactly what Kite is?
No, I did clean the park, though at some point people got together and eventually led them.
"Maybe what I really meant when I came here..."
A charm that attracts divine beasts.
The power of man.
King's, vessel.
Everything connects in my head, I understand it, my hands tremble.
That's when the absurd, even foolish idea comes to my mind.
"Lord Illis! We're getting away!!"
"Oh!"
Shake off your thoughts immediately and return them to me.
We quickly created the golem and let Kite and Lime hold it. We ran away from the scene with our rambling Orochi on our backs.
A kite held by the golem reaches out to those with Orochi and Merriam.
"Wait! Orochi!"
"I don't know what happened between you and Orochi, but you are more important!! Now bear with me!"
"Ku...... uhh"
I succeeded in taking out Kite due to unexpected help.
But where we are now is in a ruin that doesn't even know the exit.
At the earliest opportunity, in this place, which can be called the Labyrinth, we had to flee against the Divine Beast.