At the end of the M-12 meeting, Lili was taking Rocco to visit Central Hospital. Bell, who collapsed in Valentis, was transported to Central Hospital. Lili was worried that Bell had fallen, but in addition, she came with a member of the M-12 who was running the hospital. Lili didn't mind.

"Oh. I wonder what happened early this morning, Mr. Paradise. Could it be that you're getting too big again and in trouble?

"No, I'm not. I came to see you today."

As Lili and Rocco stepped into the hospital, just there stood one Ashley Norbember of the M-12. Seeing the same red vest as Knight, Lili soon realized she was a member of the M-12.

Lili, who suddenly faces the enemy, accidentally finds herself.

Behind Lili's worries, however, the M-12 still knows nothing about the “new revolt”.

Ashley Norbember was an attractive adult woman. Beautifully wavy long gray hair with a glamorous body line. Ashley was so beautiful that Lili could be seen forgetting that she was an enemy. Not only that, but it smells indescribably good from her body.

"Really? Speaking of patients who came in recently... belle queer faust, your sympathy?

"Yes, I heard you suddenly collapsed in Valentis, so I was worried"

"Who is that adorable young lady?

Naturally Ashley didn't miss Lili's presence next to Loco. Ashley naturally knows the name Lili Wallace.

But this was the first time she looked at Lili.

"I... Lili Wallace. I'm a friend of Bell's."

"Ugh... you're adorable. Belle, you're sleeping in a hospital room reserved for the Knights on the fifth floor."

Lili glanced sharply at Ashley's face. Ashley, against whom he opposes, has a beautiful grin, without any cowardice. Ashley gently relayed the hostility directed at her. Lili's hateful feelings do not seem to have been conveyed to her.

"... thank you"

"Come on in. You may not wake up today, but you'll see him when you wake up."

Desperately restraining her emotions from going ahead, Lili thanked Ashley reluctantly. In contrast to Lili like that, Ashley has a cool face all the time.

Lili immediately left the scene and went to Bell. She didn't come here to talk to Ashley. To see Belle's face.

"I was so well until yesterday..."

"Mr. Bell... you must have had a rough time in Valentis"

Belle sleeps in one of the rooms on the fifth floor of Elixis Central Hospital. It's a special hospital room reserved for the Knights. This hospital room is completely private and only has one bed.

The bell lying on the hospital room bed is covered with bandages. The new awakening "incarnation of fire” shown by Bell was a dangerous substitute for an unimaginable load. Now that there is no Shizukuishi in the starry sky, any action that does not care about danger is life saving. Most of all, I don't know if Shizuku in the starry sky is effective in the recoil of the incarnation of fire.

Lili couldn't hide her surprise after Bell's transformation. When I was in Valentis yesterday, Bell was behaving as usual. Was Bell unable to do so then, or was fatigue suddenly pushing over? You can't even know that unless Bell wakes up.

"Belle... wake up"

……………

"Wake up! I need you on my journey to find flowers in the moon..."

Lili gradually increases her emotions as Rocco watches. Lili, who was supposed to have regained her calm at dawn overnight, couldn't stay calm when she had to put a fallen bell in front of her.

Lili rocked the bell, sleeping like she was dead. She had never seen Belle lose her mind for so long. No matter how shaken you are, Bell will never wake up.

"Wake up... make fun of me as usual..."

"Mr. Lili......"

Eventually, a glimmer of tears spilled from Lili's big eyes. It was also evidence that Lili felt strongly that Bell was an important being.

After meeting at Adford, Lili came half forcefully about Bell's journey. In it, Bell was somehow always protecting Lili. Behind Lili's brain now floated the way Bell had fought for her so far.

"Must have been because you protected me... if you hadn't helped me then, Bell wouldn't have done this"

Lili clinging to the body of the lying bell. A large tear overflowing from her eyes wets a blanket sprinkled on the bell. Since Bell and I acted together, Lili has been involved in a lot of dangerous things. Still, Lili never regretted her previous experience.

"Mr. Lili... if Mr. Bell hadn't helped Mr. Lili, you might have died, wouldn't you? If you were dead, you wouldn't even be able to break the curse placed on Lili's mother. Mr. Bell isn't dead, so you won't be so pessimistic!

"But... but this is the hospital that people run, right? Where is the guarantee that you won't die? ⁉"

"Mr. Lilli... I know Dean Norbember. That person is not the kind of person who would kill a patient. Even if they are our enemies, they are not going to let Mr. Bell die as a doctor!

"Yes... right? I'm sorry, I wasn't a little chill... was I?

Rocco comforts Lili. Rocco's words became a good drug for Lili now, who thinks things all in the wrong direction.

And Rocco's view that the M-12 was a common enemy was also one of the ingredients that reassured Lili.

Lili, who regains a little calm, blushes her cheeks as soon as she is embarrassed.

And she immediately left Bell's body.

"Mr. Lili will never apologize! If your loved ones turn out like this, no one can stay calm. It's really beautiful..." Love. "

"Well, it's not like that. It's not like that. It's an important part of the journey."

"Heh. Huff, that's what I'm gonna do."

Lili's words and actions since her visit to the hospital room were agreed to express her affection without using the word "like”. Rocco was overwhelmed by that straightforward affection, but Lili does everything in her power to deny her words.

Lili still seems ashamed to admit the emotion.

"Now I'll help. Because I'll protect Bell."

Hugging Bell's body again, Lili said so forcefully in Bell's ear. She is no longer just protected. Previously, he was a powerless person who couldn't use black magic (Grimoire), but now he's different.

She must be asleep with the power of potential black magic (Grimoire).

"Lili now feels the power of black magic (Grimoire). I'm sure you'll be able to help Mr. Bell wake up!

"Er ⁉ Could you possibly have heard me?

"If you said it so loud, you'd hear it even if you didn't want to."

"Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah... uh, Rocco, did you just tell me that I can feel the power of black magic (Grimoire)?

"Yeah, I haven't felt a bit before, but now I feel like a hiccup."

"I have the power of black magic..."

Lili's determined words had reached Rocco's ears as well. Lili almost lit a fire on her face because of her embarrassment, but Rocco's phrase, "I can feel the power of black magic (grimoire) from Lili now” was a good starting point to get out of the way.

Until now, I could not feel the power of black magic (Grimoire) from Lili, but now I can feel it.

In other words, it showed that the power of Lili's black magic (Grimoire) was awakening. I guess the power that was asleep in Lili is about to be evoked because I realized I was a “devil's child”.

Dossa......

"Is that it? I just woke up, do you have a good night already?

During the conversation, Lili stopped moving while holding onto Bell. That too, with both legs thrown out of bed.

Rocco looks worried about Lili like that.

Are you fainting or sleeping? I don't know the difference from the side. Too abruptly, Lili closed her eyes and stopped moving.

It's natural to think you've passed out, but don't forget that this is a magical world. I can also think of the possibility that someone intentionally put her to sleep. What the hell is going on with her?

"... what's going on?

Lili's consciousness, which suddenly fell, was in a different place than in the hospital room where Rocco and Bell were. It is true that here we have the same view as the hospital room where Lili was just now. It's a private hospital room reserved for the Knights.

Lili was just lying on her upper body in a bed tucked away in the middle of the hospital room. In a state of kneeling, he is lying down in bed with only his upper body. It's supposed to be the same room as earlier, but there was no sign of Bell in that bed.

"Belle?... Mr. Rocco?

And Lili also immediately noticed that Loco was not there. Lili, with Rocco, visited Bell's sleeping hospital room. Even though that is an indisputable truth, there is only one figure of Lili in the hospital room where Bell slept. There is no one else.

"What is this..."

Lili, who realized something was going on, first glanced out the hospital room window. Having seen the view outside, Lili is convinced that something is wrong.

The black clouds that are standing in the air carry a creepy red light. If Lili remembers correctly, she was born this way, and I've never seen such a sky. Red glowing clouds dubiously illuminate the King's capital in the morning. Lili was suddenly feeling lost in a different world.

That wasn't the only anomaly that happened to the view outside. I don't see a single person in the city of Wang. Speaking of Elixirs, the city is also famous for its "sleepless king capital”. Regardless of time, there should be a constant overflow of people in the city, but no one.

Not to mention, this is the heart of Wang Capital, where Central Hospital is located. Even if you don't look, you should see a walking human in the city.

Will someone tell me that they've wiped out anyone but Lili?

"Maybe the work of the M-12...?

Lili immediately associates this variation with M-12. Perhaps someone who noticed as soon as possible the formation of the “new” rebels set up black magic (Grimoire) that affects the entire King's capital.

Lili left the hospital room behind to explore the causes of the anomaly that is happening now.