Hyaku Ma No Aruji

After Mir-Mule disappeared from before the Demon Kings, they erected another grave at the top of Lindholm Spiritual Mountain.

It's not like anyone talks about anything.

Just as they once did when they made the tombs of hundreds of English spirits, they carved her living testimony there.

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After a while, the demon kings leave again for the journey to Aios, even as their hair is pulled back.

In order not to betray her words and thoughts, they could not have stopped.

"Let's go"

Melea was the first person to turn back his heel more than anyone else.

"Dear Merea..."

Before turning her heel back, Marisa had noticed that Merea had closed her eye lid hard and had a sad look on her face.

But once turned around, Merea's face doesn't have that look anymore.

Instead, there was a face full of determination stronger than when it came.

"Meal's encouragement was gentle. But that's why you can't be sweet about that tenderness"

"... Yes"

I have already saved the demon kings who are in this world with their words and their actions.

That's what she said.

But to Melea, I don't think that's a good idea.

Melea is followed by Marisa, who also turns back on her heels.

Still more demon kings followed, with Lilium remaining in front of Meal's grave at the end.

"... I won't waste it, your thoughts"

Lilium was speaking to Meal's grave with a serious face.

Lilium then hangs his hands on the emerald pendant he was basically wearing around his neck.

It was a gift from Melea.

"... something I miss just the grave. I don't know if this will comfort you."

Lilium removed the pendant and gently tried to put it on the headstone.

(Wait, sister)

It was then that I heard too faint a sound to call it a voice.

"Huh?"

faint, but it was her voice without deception.

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"Meal......?

(Yes. I just got some time for those guys. I forgot to tell you something)

Lilium circled her eyes in surprise at the voice as if it were coming directly into her head.

"Wait! Melea now."

(No. I told him everything. It is against thee that I have forgotten to preach. descendants of the Fire Emperor, to you)

Lilium stopped her hand, which had a pendant, and looked up at the sky.

"What do you mean?

(You may not know, but maybe we're like cousins. There have always been many ancestors among us, but the ancestors on the issue, Flame Emperor and Water Emperor, seem to have been sisters and brothers)

It was my first ear.

(I didn't know much about it either, but 'now' would tell. - Because I've been asking)

……

(When that happens, I'm your sister, and you're your sister. So I will call you my sister. Isn't that nice?

Though surprised by the sudden words, Lilium nodded.

"Fine, but..."

(Then call me Meal if your sister would be nice too. That's what I always wanted you to call me when I had a sister. Nothing, it's light, meal. Instead, it's more intimate)

A delightful laugh mixes faintly.

(And no, sister. That pendant was given to me by your sister from that guy. A reward for your sister's hard work for that guy. So that's what your sister has to have)

"Eh."

I had a pendant. My hands tremble.

"But..."

(You're sweet. But I just need that feeling)

……

(Sister, from now on I entrust you with the power of my life. Actually, my 'vitamin' still remains in the water snake that brought my life)

"You..."

(Things I've only been spending on chatting like that. I told him what I wanted to tell him. If that guy finds out about this, he's going to say, 'Live where you can live with it,' so I dare you to shut up.)

Lilium felt signs on the back of the tombstone and circled backwards at once.

Behind the tombstone sat a rugged snake, which should have disappeared with the meal, wrapped around a tunnel.

("Crimson Life Flame" and "Glass Life Water". We use the same secret technique. - Secrets to life. What is fundamental to each other is the intrinsic arctic element, 'vitality', made with special methods. So my power can be used against your sister. It might be hard to use if you told me this, but, you know what? I want to be good for that man. Instead of using this life force to sit beside him, I want to help him with this force. I can't do it anymore without a decent body, so instead, sister, use my power for that guy)

――

Lilium was speechless.

This girl's love is real.

So much for her, Merea was salvation.

- Truth is, I would have liked to use it myself.

"... ok"

(thanks)

A water snake sitting behind the headstone stood his neck and approached the foot of Lilium.

Lilium gently saves the water snake with both hands and holds it in her chest.

The water snake became a bead of light and was sucked into Lilium's chest.

(One more thing)

"Huh?"

(Don't lose to another woman. I can put up with your sister taking her, but I don't like other women taking her. Good luck, then - Lilium sister)

Lilium looks up into the sky again, feeling the warmth in her body.

"... you present a challenge at the end, you. I can say that because I don't know any other women around Merea. Take a look. So, dictate for yourself. I'm sure you'll have a hard time... so..."

My voice trembles.

Lilium could not see the sky.

Turning his back from his companions so that no one could see him, he covered his face with one, two hands.

Tears flowing down the gap between her fingers pounded on her tombstone and gently glanced through its walls.

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The demon kings rode Noel's back again and went down Lindholm Spiritual Mountain all at once.

Step into the pavement streets that traverse the center of the world, and further off from it, take a steep path that people are unlikely to pass through.

On the road, the Demon Kings had a small mouth count.

Through the forest zone at the foot, in a steep valley zone.

Merea was just sitting on Noel's neck, talking to Noel in dragon language about the gorge breaking route.

The other demon kings are each checking the fitting of their luggage in preparation for Noel's leap.

Lilium also had one person pulling over to the rear leg to retighten the luggage strings.

Then there,

"Lilium."

"Mira......"

One witch approaches.

As always, he was Mira, dressed in a costume with a large chest.

"You don't float, do you?

"That's right. You tell me to laugh later."

"I wouldn't say that. But I'll tell you what."

Mira approached Lilium with a flickering kimono sleeve.

Reach as you go and add your finger to Lilium's jaw.

"Don't get upset."

Knock it off. Mira had Lilium's jaw raised.

Lilium was muddled at the stage of being hand attached to Mira, so she was intentionally stretching her body, but Mira's fingers were powerful enough to force it to move.

Surprised by the strength of his power, Lilium shifts her gaze to Mira's face.

The look on her face, more serious than I've ever seen, was there.

"Lilium, I know you're so sad, but I still won't allow you to get nagging. You know why?

"Wow, I don't know."

Would she have ever been compelled by such a strong tone of speech by her usually championing?

Lilium answered the half-throat, unable to contain the inner surprise.

"Then you know now."

Mira pointed around Noel's neck with her other hand.

I can't see him from here, but I'm sure he pointed to Melea.

"What's with Melea?"

"Lilium. Now, Merea is more sad than you are. It may be foolish to measure people's grief on someone's scale, but only this time"

Why.

"Because Lillium herself understands that Merea is more painful"

"Eh."

"Don't be sad, I didn't say anything. But don't get upset first while Melea's looking forward. Merea is our pillar. It is our role to support it. So I will not allow us to nag first, which is supposed to support us. If Merea forgives you, I will not forgive you."

This woman always seems to be kidding, but she understands the most important thing better than anyone else.

"It's always the hardest part, Melea. You know that, don't you? Because we, the First Twenty-One, have been demon kings together since that man's determination."

"... that's unusual, I can't believe you made it so clear"

Lilium said, regaining some calm.

"Um, well, only this time"

Mira let go of her hand from Lilium's jaw and let her swing her flickering long sleeves to the left and right.

"Golden Deceased And Because There's No Sal"

……

Somehow, I felt like I knew what it meant.

"Because those two are Merea's 'boyfriends'. The deceased is a bit arrogant, but I still know what's inside Melea and how to treat her as a man at times like this. Put aside whether or not you will actually do that, and it feels like you understand it once and for all."

"I think so."

Lilium nodded.

"So, the big one is Sal. Sal knows exactly how to support Melea as a man. Sal looks around a lot, and he looks closely at Melea. And then I feel like I know a lot about people who carry huge responsibilities. - Oh, is that the same for the deceased? I don't know, maybe those two were in the same position as Merea before. This is my own prediction."

If you ask me, Lilium was strangely convinced inside.

I have no doubt that those two are one arm of Merea, both practical and spiritual.

They see exactly what's inside of Melea, and they support it precisely.

That's probably because they have an understanding of Merea's standing position as the Lord of the Demon King and the troubles that arise because of her standing there.

There's no way I can do that to a human being who's never stood up there.

"Anyway, don't let us get upset right now. If you are thinking of Melea, forget your grief on this occasion now. Hide your emotions. So, just think about supporting Melea. When a thinker is hurting, supporting it 'without understanding that you are imposing it' is the condition of a good woman."

"... that's a hard thing to say"

"Is Marisa doing it?

Mira turned right.

Lilium turned her gaze at it as well, and she saw a maid clothed woman standing at a cliff in the valley and noting the terrain on parchment.

"I'm not as competent and retarded as Lilium, but my experience as a woman is probably up there. Because Dada hasn't lived longer than you."

Mira looks back at Lilium and says.

"So I know just a little better than you how to support a man, as a woman"

But that's the big difference.

Mira adds to tear herself up.

"So you're gonna give me some advice?

"Maybe it's weird"

Again, Mira gives a rare look.

I lowered my brow butt, a troubled grin.

"... that's not true. Because as knowledge, it may be necessary to know that"

"Lilium-chan's answer."

"Haha," Mira laughed happily this time.

"I mean, that's fine with you."

"What do you mean?

"Yes, no, the -"

Lilium blurred the following words as mundane, saying it herself.

"Ahaha, I'm being mean"

Mira laughs joyfully when she sees how it goes.

Then I gave him a slightly more serious look, I said.

"It's okay, I... It's okay now. Since I was going to Aios, I have been able to think of other things. It's polite to do all you can to make the man of your heart an O, but I hate him now. I can't afford that much."

"What does that mean?"

"Lilium! Mira! It's time to go!

Lilium was just about to ask me excitedly, and I heard Merea.

"Yes! I'm going now. Wow! - So we'll talk about it again."

"Oh, hey."

Lilium glances at Mira, who enjoys herself and then rushes to Merea somewhere glossy.

The last distressing look she had on her face burned into Lilium's eyes and couldn't leave.