Hyaku Ma No Aruji

I'd like to ask you a few questions.

"Yes, what is it..."

The waiter Elma spoke to had a somewhat heavy look on his face.

"Actually, I'm meeting the guests in this room."

"With this customer?

The waiter gives a much blurrier look.

- Is it just too blatant?

What other demon kings would have used at times like this?

"True. You should check with the receptionist."

"Ha......, ok. Please wait."

- All right.

I was lucky this time.

This restaurant seems to be a luxury store, but compared to the art city of Virgilia, they haven't been able to handle the 'great' yet. Though frightened by his clumsiness, Elma exhales once she is relieved.

At this time, the waiter's mental fitness for the guests inside was actually good (...) and (...) ah (...) and (...) had a huge impact on his behavior, but Elma naturally didn't know.

- Are you prepared for rough things just in case?

While watching the waiter walk over the hall looking back at himself several times, Elma pinches the position of the Devil's Sword Chrysula pattern (s) with one hand.

Eventually, where the waiter was completely out of view, Elma quietly laid her hands on the private room door.

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Ki, make a small noise and the door opens to the back.

I got a fragrant smell from inside and snorted.

"... no one"

But there was no such thing as a person there when Elma made a slight face and peeked inside.

Right behind the door, but it's still a stuffed shell.

- Is that a technique?

Step inside the room with increased vigilance.

Meat on a plate cut halfway.

Silver dishes placed unmade.

- It doesn't feel like the food (...) ended (...).

Instead of disappearing with our own intentions, we were forcibly erased from the scene.

"This is..."

In the meantime, Elma found fine black soil scattered on the floor of a private room.

Tickle with your fingers to make sure you feel it.

……

I might not have thought of this prediction if I hadn't heard the word 'Merea' from Eyes and Siladis before I found this.

But when I remembered the face of that gray-haired young man, it seemed as though the black soil was the remnants of a certain ceremony when he used it.

- "Reaper" Necroa-Belzerut.

Here, the names of the creepy men we met in that city of art go through my brain every now and then.

Because of him, a lot of things seem like "Necrofantasm."

- Is it too much to think about?

For one second I cut my thoughts there and Elma decided to leave the room.

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Elma returned to the hall before the waiter returned and left the store well with the two as they were.

Neither is Eyes and Siladis surprised by Elma's sudden behavior, but he cuts up his meal along the way and obeys it with great care.

After going out into the crowded streets, Eyes finally asked Elma.

"How was it?

I put my head on it like Elma had trouble asking the question.

"It was a shell."

"I knew..."

"But it didn't feel like those who were in that private room realized the presence of Eyes or Siladis. There must have been two of them at the table, but it felt like they were both unintentionally flown somewhere during the meal."

"Ceremony?

Now Siladis asks, slightly concerned about the eyes of those around him.

"I guess. There was only one entrance to the room, and from what the waiter looked like, I don't think the guests inside went out in a visible way."

Otherwise I wouldn't have answered my own question that way.

"If that wasn't due to a surgical ceremony, on the contrary, I can't explain the situation"

Elma puts her hand on her chin and wonders what she thinks.

"Something I don't know, but there isn't. From what I understand, follow the tunnel, we have to go. Oh, but sharing information, maybe you should, huh?

Eyes pounded Elma's arm and said.

"Um, right.... or Eyes, I've been having a really hard time lately"

"What!?"

Elma takes Eyes seriously again and says:

The opposing Eyes circled their eyes as surprised.

"Marisa, Shaw, and Salman felt like they were going to turn their heads from the beginning, but lately it felt like Eyes was no better than them."

"But I can't protect myself by myself, like everyone else..."

"We just have to leave that stuff to the one who can only move his body. Instead, now I think it's important to have someone like Eyes who can show you how to behave without Melea."

Eyes are hardly the type to take the initiative and assert themselves.

But I'll give you a clear opinion if you want.

There are other flashy people out front. It's not very noticeable, but I can cut my head off somehow, and I'm always cool.

In one case in the art city of Virgilia, she was shown such ability even this.

"With guys like Eyes, don't do more things you can do right even when Melea isn't around"

"Yes, no, I, no..."

Ciradis nods forcefully next to the mundane Eyes.

Somehow those two look funny and Elma laughed.

"Oh, sorry."

And in that case.

Elma's shoulder making contact with the passers-by, who was looking at him approximately.

The sheath of the Devil's Sword under the robe also hit 'Something', where passers-by were peppered under the robe.

――

Kin, and.

I thought the Devil's Sword was in a strangely high voice.

"No, never mind"

Passengers turned to Elma's apology and politely returned the words.

A hood worn deep in the eye.

I don't see my face well because of the shadow.

But to the brunette who was glancing through the gap, Elma's heart was pulled hard.

――

After that dark hair, Elma's gaze followed, her eyes glistening for a moment.

I had the same color as myself.

"Anything?"

For some reason, Elma couldn't keep an eye on the passersby.

"Oh, yes, no"

(c) Notice and tease.

Passengers had their necks covered.

"Nothing. Anyway, I'm sorry."

That is what Elma says and returns her heel.

My heart beats loudly just now.

"Elma......?

As soon as I walked out, Eyes came next door and looked up at Elma worried.

"No, it's really nothing"

Doesn't look that way no matter how you look at it.

Eyes and Siladis looked at each other and followed after Elma a little closer than they had just done.

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"Oh, that's..."

After the Elmas left the scene, the passers-by also walked a few more steps - turning back again.

Remove the hood with one hand and stir its dark hair in the sisalis breeze.

Somewhere, that Rin expression resembled Elma.

"-" Elma Eluiza ""

He (...) woman (...) removes the front fastening of the robe and attaches his hand to the pattern of the sword that was peppered (is) on his hips.

It was Erma's "Devil's Sword Chrysula" and a (...) Doku (...) similar (...) and (...) I (...) Ru (...) sword.

"It's always been war."

The sky looked up with a twinkle.

Countless stars are glittering.

"- Pull yourself together, Elma. There's the same wind in this city as in 'those days'"

Shortly after, she vanished to the outside of every human consciousness that was in the street.

As if he wasn't there from the beginning, no sound.

On the cobblestone of the street she stepped on, the scars as if they had been swept away by something sharp were engraved as a vocal testimony of its existence -