Hyaku Ma No Aruji

Salmarn-Zeus-von Luther.

'The Last Prince' of Luther the Expatriate.

Salman remembers well the sight when he was informed that he was a prince.

"You are the son of a cursed bloodline"

That's what my mother told me at a borough shack on a certain side of the border.

"As long as there is the blood of the Fist Emperor in you, you will be resented by the people of Luther"

Salman in his childhood didn't know what that meant.

It's only a little later that I know what it means.

Salman was only ten years old at the time.

Salman, who has spent time in a borough hut in an unnamed village since he was tempted, is attacked one day by a thug.

they said.

"Luther is doomed because of you."

I don't know what that means.

I just remember their eyes were terribly rough.

"Disappeared from the world with its cursed blood, The Demon King"

Ten musculoskeletal men beat me up.

Salman, who was still young, shrieks in fear and shouts' Help 'in his heart.

As a result, Salman...

- Should I have died then?

Survived "intact".

The Demon Fist, not even finished yet, saved Salman.

- In the form of screwing off every human head I had in front of me.

I didn't know what happened to Salman, who had his eyes closed.

What was spreading when I opened my eyes again were both fists that sparkled the sea of blood and the purple photons.

Intuitively convinced that this fist must have done something.

"The Devil's Fist takes away the owner's thought and embodies it as an event"

"There is no clear cap on its feasibility, and the owner of the Demon Fist theoretically has the power to bury [God] as well"

Later I studied the history of my ancestor, the Royal Luther, to find out who "Demon Fist" was.

When I was a young child, I was often heard about the Luther family where my generational lord was still alive earlier, but my mother barely told that story.

"Demon Fist" is a weapon that appeared in the world during the Dark War era as well as the "Seven Imperial Instruments" of Kaka.

However, even though the Fist of Demons is sometimes called the Seven Imperial Devices, they will never be named there.

The "Demon Fist", created by the Royal Luther with a total mobilization of artists belonging to the state, followed the same production process as the Seven Imperial Instruments until halfway through, but underwent a different mutation along the way.

- It would have begun in the first place with the engraving of a surgical ceremony directly on the human body.

Unlike the existing Seven Imperials, which engrave a surgical formula on inorganic minerals, the Royal family of Luther engraved a surgical formula on the ever-shaking thing of man.

As a result, the Devil's Fist became severely dense in its connection with the holder.

The first generation (Fist Emperor) Weiss-Ray von Luther, who carved the Devil's Fist into his body, dies three years after it was processed in a surgical manner.

It was Weiss, who won a streak of wars in the Dark War era and was even told that he was an individual and comparable to the force of a small country, but ended up in a frenzied death.

This is what his notebook says.

'I hear voices. The voices of the invisible demons. "

Initially, Luther's people moaned that the madness of the war had destroyed him.

The first Fist Emperor was still a 'hero'.

The second incident happened a long time after that.

The eighth generation (Fist Emperor), Selen-Aunas-von Luther, was born with a gift.

The inheritance of the Devil Fist was made from generation to generation, but the situation was somewhat special in his case.

In the middle of the inheritance ritual, the "Demon Fist" came to his arms on its own, at a stage where the surgical processing was still under way.

It's like being entwined by Luther's child with a will from Mizumi.

Among the short-lived Royal Luther children from generation to generation, Selene was particularly short-lived.

"I can hear the devil. Zestis whispers to me every night.

The night he said that to his escort, the lady.

The Kingdom of Luther lost half of its territory due to mysterious shockwaves emanating from near the royal castle.

- "Demon Fist (Zestis)".

That's what Salman calls his demon fist.

- This fist has the will.

Fist that responds to the owner's emotions.

Salman was convinced of it during the second runoff of the Demon Fist (Zestis).

- I left nothing behind.

A statement was made that the shockwave, which blew up half of the territory with purple photons, was caused by the initially hostile state.

But there are too many suspicions about the situation.

What was decisive was that his samurai was witnessing the moment Selene's demon fist went wild.

Weird burn marks on half her body, she said as she died.

"The devil came out of Selene's arms."

I also make a statement that the hostile states have not done just that much.

Ignore the logic of the war and not kill until innocent people, he said.

In the Dark War Era, it was still forbidden to reach innocent people in the logic of war at the time.

Even if the occasion is good, afterwards every nation is blamed for not doing so.

It goes without saying that war is tragic, but there were barely any rules in the world at the time after the Dark War era.

Even then, the Kingdom of Luther tried to excuse itself as "a natural mutation," etc., but in the end it would all be in vain.

Even if that was officially mentioned, the people of Luther, who lived in the broken earth, were not silent.

Then after many tragic events, the Kingdom of Luther perishes.

Selen-Aunas von Luther became known to his native people as the "Demon King".

He said he was the worst prince in the world who destroyed his native land.

- The masses are always on their own.

There is no other way.

I can see that, too.

Salman might have done that if he was in the same position.

But Salman was raw on the side known as the Demon King.

Thirteenth generation (Fist Emperor) Salmarn-Zeus-von Luther.

Salman, like Selene again, was the Demon King who woke up to the Demon Fist on his own.

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"Are you on your own..."

"That's right. In my case, it was worse than Selene's. My mother stopped the inheritance ritual early on. Still around writing one or two lines. But... the next day, a demon fist was rising in my arms. Now I think that was only one trigger. My magic fist was already on the loose before the inheritance ritual."

"I guess your mother didn't want you to follow the same end path as Selen-Aunas-von Luther"

"Maybe so."

"Still, other Luther family humans didn't want to erase their ancestral heritage. The Devil's Fist, which has the power to bury God."

"Oh.... well, I know how both feel. Demon Fist is also a symbol of glory and a symbol of nightmares."

"By the way, what about your predecessors? Regarding the fact that the demon fist tattoo floated on its own."

"After Selene, they didn't do that until my generation. I guess that's why some parts of me were a little relieved."

"But in your generation the Devil (Zestis) moved again"

Maybe it's compatible.

Shaw listened to Salman and then turned small.

"Don't you know how it works?

"I wouldn't be having such a hard time if I knew. It extends to the inside of the body, and I can't decipher it. Besides, it transforms every generation. Inheritance rituals don't just engrave the same technique. It's kind of close to 'transplanting' from my predecessors. It's a lot different with the blood of my predecessors."

"I see."

Shaw disappears again, then changes the subject.

"Can I ask you something?

"Hmm?"

"Are you doing well with that -" Zestis "?

……

Salman looked at his arm after being questioned by Shaw.

A familiar surgical pattern is still there today.

"I don't know. I don't hear voices. I just knew it was a long time ago."

Salman grinned mocking himself.

"Simply, I'm trying not to lose my reason. You might laugh, but reading is consistent. When you're reading a book, you feel strange and calm."

Salman is aware that he was born short tempered.

So after some demon fist runoff, he tried to stabilize his spirit in different ways.

"To be honest, I still can. When you have company around... especially"

……

I guess, and the usual Shaw might have pinched a light mouth.

But now the word didn't come out.

"What about that story, to Melea?

"I did. When he told me about the head of the Sword. I was going to decline this role because of this."

Salman put his arms together and sighed.

"Still, he didn't say anything.... No, you said it"

"What?"

"Good luck."

"Phew."

Shaw erupts unexpectedly.

"Sounds like Merea or something. It's pretty tough on you, isn't it, Melea?"

"Well, 'tell me when it really sucks. I'll take responsibility for that,' he said. - He's appropriate sometimes!

Even so, Salman knows that Merea's words are never thrown or irresponsible.

"You believe you can use it."

"His trust is heavy on words."

"Oh, you might have that. Sarah, I'm going to say something terrible."

"I'm telling you I can't use the Luther family for 12 generations."

"By the way, do you think you can?

Shaw asked as he returned the plagiarism to his face.

"... you have to do it. Before I went on the Sisalis expedition, I desperately overlaid my experiments."

"Well, that's your first ear."

"When I say it, you guys are coming. With a partially inferior grin. Let some eyes shine. Sometimes I wonder if you guys have fear."

There are many outside paths that come to laugh at people's failures even at the risk of their lives, Salman went on to be stupid.

"Hahaha, isn't that nice? I don't know anything scary about it. There's a lot of it. Because you can't be a part of this group without that."

Shaw laughed and said with pleasure.

"Well, that's a lot of stepping stone. Even in Zainas, I couldn't let him go."

"Oh, maybe there was a deep hole in the courtyard of Startree Castle."

"That's not me. It's Lyna and Mina."

"That."

"Exactly. You don't experiment in Remusee. What will you do if you become Luther's two dancers?"

"That's true.... Well, did the twins dig that hole on their own..."

Shaw remembers it was a bit unsprickly deep.

"Those guys are out of common sense about the extent of their pranks. There's no addition or subtraction. By the way, that sounds like a pit."

"Aren't you the one who dies if you get caught..."

"Don't get caught up."

"It's my first feeling that I have an instant death trap in my formation."

Shaw said with a blue face, and once the story was over.

The view from the carriage window finally begins to change.

Past the valley to the spacious meadows.

"It's time for dinner"

Second, Salman said as he took the old pocket watch out of his pocket.

"Right."

Shaw similarly takes out the golden pocket watch and nods.

"I can't tell you yet, but I'll talk to you soon."

"Hmm?"

Second, Shaw, who looked out the window to call (King of Thieves) Kleilut, who was in your car, said in a small voice.

"It's about my 'old story'"

"Oh. - Well, when you feel like it, fine."

Salman says so and closes his eyes.

Then Salman, with his arms around him, never mentioned Shaw's past any more until he ended up at Sisalis.

But at a later date Salman will be heard by Shaw.

Old stories about the past and the Alchemy King that are still involved.

The Sisalis nation is close.

Salman quietly took his lunch of the day, remembering Caesar the "Clown" he once met in the art city of Virgilia.