Turning down Phili's rescue and leaving only one person in the ruins, I was trying to have a dialogue with Meliá.
There is no fear.
She opens her mouth to me, looking straight at Merliah, like she's in a panic.
"Wow, aren't you thinking about forcing me to lock you up? Now you can't get in the way of Ferrihelt or anyone else?"
"That's when it happened."
"... ugh"
I know I will never be physically hostile.
Turn around and be strong.
Talk after a deep breath to get to the point.
"When I saw your memory, I did sympathize"
……
"I don't know what happened to that guy who sealed you up and went somewhere... but I thought he was terrible"
I have no idea what the blonde woman in my memory was trying to do or thinking about.
But Meliá's emotions were strong in my mind at that time.
"You were sad..."
"Huh?"
"I really wanted you to stay. So I reached out."
Melia was like a child then.
Fear left alone.
Sadness that I had realized I would never return.
That kind of emotion can't be changed by being half-baked.
"The lies you lied about are against Reefa's words."
That I mocked the blonde woman who was in my memory.
I don't think her tears were a lie then.
Of course, it would be true that you invited sympathy and tried to hold me back, but I was really sad, and driven by the thought of my chest being torn apart.
To my words, Merliah shakes her neck sideways weakly.
"... no"
"All this time, I kept waiting. I was trying to hate you."
"No!"
Denied to scream, she waves off the hand she was shaking.
For a moment, I look at the hand that has taken me away from me, and I utter words to her, flashing but immediately appealing to me.
"What I hate is true! He didn't come back! He was possessed by crappy delusions, and if he was with us, that would have been all! More so, choose a human being... unnecessarily, die..."
Meliá, speaking in tears and emotions, embraced me as she jumped to momentum.
Meliá shook up her voice when she managed to take it in a mood with her consciousness flying in her embrace, which made her feel powerful.
"Dear Kate, don't go... don't leave me... I don't want to anymore..."
"Is that what you really are..."
"The truth is, it was hard to miss you... how could I stay...!"
Meditate your eyes on Meliá, who pleads.
What I was trying to do earlier is the same as the woman in my memory.
Turning your back on her trying to hold back.
Perhaps she had some thoughts too and was going to miss me, but the hard stuff is still hard to decide.
... My spine is starting to twitch earlier, so I slowly put my hand on her shoulder and try to pull it away - but it won't let me go.
"I can't stay here"
"I don't like it."
A torso that is further tightened.
Oh, I'm gonna die for a suck......!?
Tough... but patient!
Speak the words that follow, letting your fluttering body desperately avoid breaking your expression.
"I'll see you again"
"Oh, it's a lie."
"I'm not lying."
"I won't be fooled!"
I can't help thinking that because you've been looking at me trying to escape.
But this time it's not all a lie.
I give up on being forced to pull it off and talk about it firmly.
"Then I'll be here again in about three days"
"Huh?"
"Once you've broken your promise, cook and bake and like. I won't resist."
Merliah, who had lost her word to me when she had spoken clearly, said a disturbing but questionable word.
"Why?"
"... to you, I can't stay forever"
Reefa's mission as a squire.
Helping Hakuro imprisoned by Nea.
From now on, as a valiant squire, I have something to do.
You can't neglect that.
"If you stay here, you'll be safe?"
"I guess so. Still... it's something no one but me can do."
To put it that far, she wipes her eyes with her sleeves away from me.
After a few seconds of silence, she inadvertently turns her gaze behind me.
"---Feelyheld.Please take Master Kite outside"
"Huh?"
If you look behind her words, there's Fili with only her face in the fountain.
Apparently you came worried, but Phili looks at me and her alternately as she rounds her eyes to Melia's words.
Apparently, you're surprised how Merriam has changed.
"... Merliah?"
"There's only one opponent I've ever admitted defeat. I remember being beaten down from the front and crawling on the ground pitifully..."
She smiles and shows happily with her crying eyes.
The smile was a smile that made you feel a heartfelt affection, unlike anything you'd ever mocked your opponent for.
"You're the second."
"I can't believe I meant to defeat you..."
"No, it's a complete defeat. This is the first time you've defeated a god beast without fighting?"
Now Meliá holds my hand and pulls me to the fountain where Fili is.
But that's where the power comes out of your body.
When I didn't know if I was standing and my vision wobbled, Merliah supported my body.
"It would be the limit.... this time, I'm so sorry you let me hang out with you as I am"
……
"But I'm glad to see you."
My body, which was close to its limit, is about to faint here because I was forced to pull out physical strengthening.
She calls out, peeking into my face, when even consciousness is becoming void.
"- You are not a vessel that should be allowed to remain in this lonely ruin. That stupid picture...... I understood it at the time Orochi flipped the anti-flag on me. That's why I tried to choose another option —— you've slightly exceeded my assumptions."
Meliá gives it to Philippi.
Phylli's body, which received me on my back, gradually swept into the light.
Before that, I managed to remain conscious and turn my gaze to Meliá, at least speaking out.
"See you again..."
"……! Yes. I look forward to seeing you on the next day"
Vision is enveloped in light with the feeling of sinking into the water.
So I finally closed my eyes and left myself to a pleasant sense of water.
●
Peek into the fountain where Ferrihelt disappeared with Master Kite on his back.
I make sure his remnants disappear completely, I break my cheeks.
——— The truth is, I had decided to let Master Kite get away with it at the time Ferrihelt came out.
But Master Kite stayed.
Going further ahead of my thoughts, I took the victory from this me.
"After all, I'm glad I kept that half-baker alive"
I can use that half elf.
I thought she was just a half-wit involved, a woman in an interesting position.
That's why I did it by just playing it lightly...... now the presence of the arr has become much appreciated.
"But... I'm sad"
Master Kite will keep his word.
Three days from today, you will definitely take us to this ruin.
But no matter how much I miss him, I can't go see him.
What we're about to do must be kept a secret from Master Kite.
"Kuh."
"Oh, you're here."
Ferrihelt appears on this occasion who returned Master Kite.
As usual, I can't seem to humanize it, but I guess it's not that much of a concern for this asshole dragon either.
It's still the same weather and angry face.
"Kuh!"
"Doesn't sound like a good way to talk? Thanks for that, but I'm going to keep it that way."
Because the usual abusive language makes you hate it.
Until just now, I thought it would be nice to hate you, but now I definitely don't like you.
This sentiment is something I never even had with him.
"I thought it could stay sealed, but I changed my mind. Your plans have changed, so to destroy this annoying seal - let's play with you for the first time in a long time."
"... Quar?"
"As always, only a diminutive mouth is a dozen years ago.... I don't mind if you help me."
The feud between the gods and beasts never took place since his death.
Divine beasts chipped all over the continent.
Some are already awake, others in eternal sleep.
The only thing that is certain is that the divine beast reigns at the top of the ecosystem as it was back then.
If we fight like that, it will naturally have a huge impact, but we intend to keep this battlefield only inside the ruins.
"Quo?"
"It's okay. There's no such thing as untrained ruins anymore."
The foundation of the seal is this ruin itself.
It is a place of our former memories - a place of curse that we have long hesitated to break.
But I don't care about a place like this right now.
Such a shady, stinking place doesn't suit Master Kite.
I need to get you a place you deserve more.
"You and me, we'll smash it up."
Ferrihelt leaping out of the fountain rises into the air, while at the same time enlarging its body.
In keeping with it, I also change my body and turn it into something close to what it is.
At the same time as we finish making changes to each other, I crawl through the earth and Ferrihert raises his ambition while letting him summon tons of water.
Deep...... it is at the bottom of the deep ground - the battle of the beast that leads to God begins.