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After a slight silence, Elitra shook her head small as if she had returned it to me.

"What I did, it upset me. Forget about that now."

The tone was back to normal. Eritra's sudden monologue seemed unexpected, and Kiel had often opened her eyes.

"... I didn't think you were the type to burn your fighting spirit in revenge, but I see. Is the origin of your strength its vengeance? What the hell happened to your past?

"Come on? You're not going to talk that far."

"... well. Then the face hidden beneath that mask became more and more obvious."

"Ho ho ho. If you can do something, do it!

When Elitra takes eight knives out of her nostrils and holds them four at a time in her left and right hand, she spreads them fan-shaped in front of her chest with them standing, running out toward Kiel. It was a new style of combat that Elitra had previously used only the knife as a throw.

"Mm...!

Whereas Elitra rolls out the knife as if it were an extension of both hands, Kiel keeps dodging with only her moving vision. But there is a limit to all evasion, and the tip of the knife slightly plunders Kiel's cheek, and blood erupts.

Still, Elitra's attacks continue relentlessly. And in anticipation of a slight gap in Kiel's movements, Elitra throws four knives on her left hand, aiming at Kiel's leg. As long as I sealed my legs, the battle was decided. But Kiel's reaction speed exceeded on a single piece of paper, and Kiel jumped diagonally backwards to dodge. Four knives pierce the ground vainly.

But it was also what Elitra was after. While Kiel is in the air, Elitra instantly predicts Kiel's falling point and aims there to throw four knives on his right hand. Elitra's predictions are centered in different dimensions, and after a few seconds of comma, Kiel will be skewered by four knives. Kiel, the boulder, can't avoid it in the air either.

Regardless, that's a story if you don't rely on the spell.

"Spell [stratigraphic engraving]!!"

Here Kiel activates a spell for the first time in this fight. It was a spell that one child used when he used to work part-time with Ute and balloon distributors when he got his hands off the balloon.

Its efficacy shall be to make the flow of all things present within a certain range one in ten thousand. Provided that an organism above level 500, and an object touching that organism, is not affected by this spell. This caused the knife thrown by Elitra to rest perfectly in the air and Kiel successfully landed.

However, the same is true of Elitra, who is not affected by [stratigraphic engraving]. Without moving at all into a sudden stagnation of time, Souma Eritra again hands and drives with four knives stationary in the air. There should be a slight time lag before Kiel, who has just landed, moves on to his next move. It wasn't an elitra to miss that.

"Spell [soil area]!!"

But Kiel, who was reading it, had already cast a second spell. [Soil area] is a spell that was also used in the last battle with Elitra, and Kiel had previously tried to turn floors and ceilings into "dirt" with this spell. The memory of that time also passes behind Elitra's brain.

But even if this whole rubble turns into dirt, Elitra's disease will not stop. There is no way that we can form a fence with that dirt in time - that overconfidence was the enemy.

"Gu!?"

Suddenly the body was out of balance and Elitra's rate of disease dropped sharply.

It was only a fraction of the manhole lid that Kiel turned into soil in [soil area]. Kiel planted it on a straight line where Elitra walked, and one foot of Elitra stepped into it.

If only one foot steps on soft soil on the way through the disease, it is imperative to lose balance. The fact that Elitra was seeing [soil area] for the first time, and that she assumed it was a spell that would have an effect on the entire field, was fatal.

Kiel drives through this gap. Reflectively, Elitra throws a knife in her right hand, but that was a lapse. The effect of [stratigraphic engraving] is still ongoing, and the four knives become stationary at the moment away from Elitra's right hand.

We can no longer afford to avoid it. Elitra, who foresaw Kiel's fist bursting, staggeringly crossed his arms in front of his chest, with some damage going into defensive posture ready.

"Huh!?"

But Kiel's aim was not to damage Elitra. Kiel's fist will not burst, instead the left hand's armor strikes down Elitra's mask. From the beginning, Kiel's aim was to expose Elitra's face.

The face of Elitra, which has never been shown to the King or any other Four Extinct Demon, is exposed here for the first time.

"Become...!?"

But what struck me was more of Kiel's. Because it was not the first time Kiel had seen its face.

Kiel eyes open and stiff. It was an irresistible chance for Elitra to fight back, but Elitra pulled out of her shoulder and just sighed deeply.

"... have you been seen"

I can no longer feel the fighting spirit from Elitra. Soon the [stratigraphic engraving] will expire, and Elitra's mask, which was stationary in the air, will regain its original course of time and fall to the ground.

"You were seven years ago... boy in the village of Meres...!

"... did you still remember? That's why I didn't want you to see me."

Elitra turns her back on Kiel and walks out quietly to her mask.

Seven years ago, a human village was destroyed by the Seven Star Angels under the command of the former Second Seat Remier...... that is the village of Meres. It is a bitter memory that can never be forgotten for Kiel. And Elitra was the only survivor of that village of Meres.

Yes, the survival of a human village - which meant that Elitra was not a demon, but a human being.

"... why are you, the human being, under the reigning king?

"Well, why not?"

Elitra picks up the mask and flaunts her shoulders like she fell in love. On the other hand, behind Kiel's brain, Elitra's monologue had resurrected earlier.

Sure, Elitra said. Angels, and we have to forgive humans. It can be taken for granted that Elitra, who was destroyed in her hometown village by the Seven Star Angels, resents angels. But why hold grudges against men of the same race?

"I know you resent angels. But why are you turning hatred on humans?

Elitra stares at the mask with pitiful eyes, then opens her mouth.

"My master... because Genesis was conspired and murdered by man"

"Your master...?"

"Oops. You've had a little chat."

Elitra put on the mask again and turned to Kiel.