Hyaku Ma No Aruji

We're going back, Servis.

"Huh? Are you leaving already? Aren't you just getting kind of excited? I like this vibe a lot."

"That's because you're being 'hit' by a surgical ceremony"

"White God" Merea-Mere was already on the spot the day the "Iaus Revolutionary Government" resolution rally was first executed.

"Ceremony?

"Wait. I'll solve it now."

Hair dyed in gold.

Unlike usual hairstyles, rather long hair is unconstructively tied at the back of the head.

The red eyes, however, remained the same, emitting a clear glow.

"Don't move."

Such a melea sits next to one boy who was about to join this enthusiasm - a hand on the forehead of [King of Fine Arts] Servis.

And when Merea touched Servis' forehead, the surgical formation unfolded out of his hand.

"Inversion technique."

As Merea crumbles small, the surgical ceremony unfolds on Servis' forehead cracks.

Shortly after, Servis stopped for a moment.

"... that?

"Have you gone insane?

Servis looks around as he flutters his cream-colored curly hair.

With a decent look on his face, he turned around and finally saw Merea's face.

"Was something wrong with me?

"Oh. He was brilliant."

"Uh-oh..., Lara pisses me off again..."

"Never mind. I wasn't expecting this either, but this is a pretty powerful technique."

Merea puts her arms together to observe the sight in front of her.

A man named Oscar standing on that pedestal fanning the students.

The students are enthusiastic about his words.

"Um, but why didn't Master Melea - Killier be like me?

'Cause I saw you.

"You see that?

Merea was not caught up in a vortex of fanaticism, just like Servis and other students, because she was realizing that this fanaticism was caused by a surgical ritual.

- I wonder if my experience in Virginia has lived.

The same strange 'membrane of red light' that once saw the watery light in Juliana's movements in Virginia.

That completely covered the bodies of the students who were on this occasion, shaking them loosely.

The membrane of red light was initially unrecognizable to Melea as a surgical technique.

- Is this also due to a recent devil's eye anomaly?

Merea had 'knitted' the inversion formula against the membrane of light that covered her body.

- I kind of think the inversion formula has become easier to knit with more recently than ever before.

Before you think with your head, the 'surgical sensation' in you generates an inverting surgical formula on its own.

I even felt that the experience I had accumulated for nearly twenty years was about to be molded into a new form now.

"Well anyway, let's get out of here now. I just found the one who cares."

Merea was concerned only a few minutes ago about the two young men who left this hall before themselves.

They likewise did not seem to be caught up in this enthusiasm.

"I don't know what that means"

With her doubts in mind, Merea decided to leave Anastasia Cathedral with Servis.

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It was just four days before Merea and the others arrived in the academic city of Aios.

The legs of Noel, the black scale dragon, traveled at an unusually fast pace.

- But it's not just your legs.

On this journey, Melea notices the strange evolution of Noel.

Indeed, the ground dragon's disease and leap showed enormous velocity in leaving even the stunning horse behind, but while driving through a certain meadow, Merea confirmed to Noel the activation of the surgical ceremony.

- The dragon uses the technique.

Not impossible at all.

It is said that the great star tree of Lemuse produces in some way a grain of light that shines in that blue, green or gold.

If natural events are also stuck, the procedure will be repeated.

This is something that has always been said in this world as an adage, but it is not particularly strange to think of it that non-human organisms deal with surgical ceremonies.

- However, Noel's manoeuvres are slightly at stake.

I got the impression that Noel himself was still out of control.

The procedure Noel activated when he was running the meadow is probably an acceleration procedure.

Much like the acceleration ceremony used by the enemy cavalry in that battle against Museg in the Zainas wilderness.

Maybe Noel mimicked that one on his own.

- The high level of learning ability is not unusual.

On the other hand, it is suspicious whether a firm will was acting on the exercise of the procedure at the beginning.

Noel most likely activated the surgical ceremony somehow.

- If it's potent poorly, our bodies on it don't have it.

Merea scolded Noel at the same time as she found herself in the exercise of Noel's technique.

Don't use it now.

Noel sounded dissatisfied, but Merea did not resolutely give way.

After all that happened, Melea and the others reached Aios.

Melea dyes her hair using a pre-prepared dye and changes her hair slightly before entering the city.

I also prepared a fake name to be named in the city.

"Speaking of which, Master Killier. Did you prepare that pseudonym from the beginning?

"Oh."

As she walked down the road to the Blue Rose compartment inn, Merea answered Servis' question.

"Does it make any sense?

"Clumsy, I'm the only fake name that can react to nature."

Melea is aware that she is not as clever as Shaw or Lilium.

They won't do anything to show their unnaturalness in the guise of a pseudonym, but they don't.

That's why Melea used a certain name.

That's my - I couldn't have named it in this world - another name.

"Hmm."

"It's like my other last name. Likewise, there is another name besides the name Melea, but I don't use it because that one sounds a little sarcastic. I never hated it, because I never carved a raw piece that matched that name."

- In that world over there.

Merea snapped small.

"Well, I guess Lillium and the others are back at the inn."

"Lara's one, I hope Master Lillium hasn't bothered you"

"You'll be fine. Because Lara is smart, similar to Lilium. There's something a little tiny about it."

Merea laughed with pleasure and quickened her legs to the inn in the corner of the Blue Rose compartment.

◆ ◆ ◆

"Dear Lilium, even now, don't we have to use a pseudonym?

"It's okay. Unlike Melea, we don't sell names."

"The Flaming Emperor" Lilium-Ausbart-Kreil-Müh-Les-Laruza walked flat-faced through the Black Rose School as she pioneered behind her chest to her overly long name.

"I'd be safer with the name Lilium."

Lilium previously belonged to the Blue Rose School using the pseudonym 'Ausbalt'.

I honestly use my first name now.

There were several reasons, but this first name was the only reason I was certain that this demonic king's impression would be diminished more than other names.

"'Crail' and 'Les Laruza' are easier to connect to the line of the Flaming Emperor."

"Heh."

"Lara's the same, isn't she? The surname Soleil is easier to connect to the family line of the Yang Gods."

"Right. Indeed."

Lara lets her cedar hair play very similar to Lilium and nods yeah nagging.

"Well, I was around here before, so I have to wear a disguise."

"Dark hair suits you, too."

"You can only paint it decently about black..."

Lilium strokes her black-dyed hair and spills a sigh.

My red hair is too strong in its original color to be dyed properly unless it is as strong as black.

"It makes me feel so heavy"

Even long and large amounts of my hair emit unusual visual weights as soon as I dye it black.

So much so that it feels like the hair on my shoulders has gotten heavy.

"Melea's good, right? I dye any color because it's white."

"But Lady Merea, the normal dye didn't dye your hair, did it?"

"Oh, you did. Leilas-Riff-Remusee's white hair seems to be a strong habit in many ways"

At first I tried to dye Merea's hair using a dye made from a plant, but the color dropped in a few hours of the thing.

It's as if you refuse to let your white hair dye another color.

So I eventually dyed my hair quite forcibly by layering a special gold dye from the Alchemy King.

"Mr. Shaw at that time, he was on the verge of frenzy..."

"'It's a luxury to apply gold to your hair, even though I've never...!' Right."

Still, Merea's snow-white hair will soon return to its original color if she doesn't lay it on top of it for a few days.

It's an odd body at all.

Lilium thought again.

"And this city is still the same."

Second, Lilium looks around and says.

"Even when Master Lilium was there, were you overflowing with young people after all?

"Right. But there may be more of them now than before."

Blue rose. Red rose. Black rose, white rose.

The city has been full of flowers before.

That is an implication of escape in this day and age.

It is also proof that the young people who lost their place in wartime - or who do not want to return to the hard reality - are only coming to this city for the last peace.

"The battle often picks young buds. Young people who would surely have grown up in another field if they hadn't died here would have dried up in the winding of adult desires"

Children who have no choice but to be subordinated to adults, even if they are not Demon Kings, are equally abused.

"... I'm trying to overshadow that position, not what we could have said."

I can't even ask why the battle took place and what a big deal it was.

We are so full of defending this fragile life, and that's why we can't afford to think about eradicating a big war.

"Except for the glitch of the Demon King, this is no time for shit."

People repeat history.

If there is a God, let us condemn him for making man such a greedy creature.

I'm sure God is looking forward to seeing himself in contention between the same creatures.

"Dear Lilium...?

"... you said something weird. Forget about that. Well, it's time for the black rose school library. We need to find the Palladion Madness Book and bring it up, Dad."

"I hope so, the book"

"Yeah, and if that lunatic could be a hero to us, it'd be better."

Hopefully the anomaly of Merea's demonic eye will be clarified at all by that madman's book.

Lilium once again focused her consciousness on her current purpose and stepped into the library of the Black Rose School, which creates an exotic atmosphere.