"Ohhhhhhhhhhh!?"

The late Bashbarza, who originally had only an upper body.

There was a hole in the middle of that chest.

abruptly.

It's a big hole in the fist.

The arrow that Gacita shot in pierced him and looked like he blasted around that part.

I'm pretty sure Gacita did something.

"The aura bursts into the ground."

"Yeah?"

"It's made of Mithril. Sakai invented it. Mithril has properties that absorb aura. He said that after a certain amount of shock, he created a mechanism that freed him up at once."

So the moment you stabbed the target, you said the explosion was complete?

That's vicious.

He got even more vicious if I let Gacita hold it.

Thanks to him, Bashbarza's guy made a big hole in his chest, and now it's time he became inactive.

Though I lost my lower body from the beginning and was in a perfectly puzzling state of how I was operating with that.

Now I guess it's time for him to end his paranoia.

"But you're surprised. I didn't know you thought that way."

"Huh? Something?

Was Gacita the same as Bashbar?

There were some verses that seemed to be true.

Gacita, who had just met me, had no taste for my enemies.

Perhaps he will finally go through with Bashbarza, who has dismissed me at all as an assistant to the Four Kings.

"Ohhhhhhh!? Ohhhhhhh!?"

Bashbarza, for a while, was bored by the pain of a chest burst, but lost momentum one by one and finally stopped moving.

A deceased who just leans back and puffs his mouth.

Me and Gacita look down.

"... did I lose?

"That's what you know best."

Bashbarza is no longer alive.

He died once a long time ago and was resurrected without dying or living under the power of the Demon King.

Reconstituted to suffer blame in hell, this body doesn't know how sturdy it is, but it doesn't move anymore because Bashburza himself admits to losing before then.

It just decays with lost energy.

In the first place, Bashbarza outburst the curse taught by Inferno, cutting his soul too much.

I guess he was close to self-destruction before Gacita stabbed him in the stomach.

"I couldn't beat Darriel in the end.... No, on the contrary, it never reached Darriel, and I couldn't defeat that front seat.... Hey, you."

"What the fuck?

Bashbarza sees Gacita.

It was impossible for this man, who would not try to find any value in anyone other than himself, to shift his interest to a human adventurer, etc.

"You said it.... that I'm the one who failed."

"Oh."

"So you're saying you're a successful me? You follow Darriel, and if you'd listened to him, you'd have been like you?

In the tone of Bashbarza, there was much regret.

Has he answered the decisive defeat of the fallen, even to him who was an arrogant mass?

"I don't know."

Gacita answers.

"Don't get me wrong. I really switched sexual roots thanks to Aniki. But that's not the only way you could be me now. Then I worked hard, I worked so hard, I could be what I am now with my dying eyes over and over again.... the world isn't as easy as you think."

…………

The surface of the bashbarza becomes white and discolored.

to burnt-out ash-like whiteness.

"Humans aren't cheap enough to change easily with just one trigger."

"... you want to disparage me to the point? Then how could I be like you!? Like you guys!? Even I wanted to be strong! I wanted to be a strong man recognized by everyone!... Darriel!?"

Bashbarza summons.

Put him on the end of the line.

"Should I have even followed Darriel!? When I was ten, you showed up before me for the first time. My father, who doesn't see me face to face many times a year, came back and picked me up because of it, but he had you with him!

"Oh, you did"

I remember it well, too.

On that day, Lady Grandbazah set up a face-to-face meeting with me and Bashbazah.

Bashbarza refrained from joining the Demon King's Army and asked me to take care of him.

"Father said. 'Ask this Darriel to be like his brother, and think of me and obey'. Don't be ridiculous! Does Father ask for such a child of a mischievous soldier than my real son Bok!? To a mischievous soldier who can't even use magic!?"

Later, Bashbarza stopped joining the planned Demon King Army and proceeded to the School of Magic.

I hear that was the intention of the mother who was reluctant to send her son out to the rough military...

The next time I was reunited with Bashbarza was after he was promoted to the Four Heavens King after earning his PhD at the college.

"Was that then? Have I ever been wrong since then?!? If I had accepted Darriel then...!? If I had gone along with Darriel...!?"

Lady Gran Burza is the greatest benefactor of my life.

If I wanted to do what Grandbazah wanted, I'd do it in exchange for this life.

Even when he asked me to protect and raise his real child on his behalf.

I tried to protect you even in lieu of your life.

Serve your whole life, offer your loyalty, and share your misery as Lord and Subordinate.

I see from my feet that one day he will succeed his father in a more connected manner and perform his duties splendidly to become a recognized successor from all of us.

I dreamed of it for a time.

It was my dream.

But the dream has already woken up.

"... don't be sweet"

I told Bashburza.

"Even if you changed a point in the past and followed the possibility of extending from it, it's delusional. Nothing but delusions. It can't be me or something. You're the only one here."

It's just vain, such as the glorious self I portrayed in paranoia.

Even if that is who I have been on the path I may have chosen in the past.

"You just have to admit that you're unusual and miserable here. Otherwise, we can't even move on. You're the one who's been miserable more and more without it."

I can't speak a kind word or anything.

Considering what he has done in the past, he must not have some salvation either.

Otherwise, I'm sorry about the people he's been hurting.

"Bashburza. Accept you now. And disappear. You are the one who has already left this world. No one will be happy if you stay here any longer, it's just hard."

And it's gone everywhere.

Where we can't go after no matter how hard we try.

"... right, right. Can't you get what I wanted anymore? My own stupidity has led me to a place I will never reach."

"Exactly"

I finally realized that. You are a real fool.

"Darriel, you're right. You were really right about everything. You are always right. I really hated that about you..."

Was Bashbarza's last expression restful?

"... because you're like your father."

I had no idea.

Because my vision was completely blurred with tears.

Bashbarza, who accepted his disappearing self, disappeared without leaving any dust.

In my arms.

All I could do to make him disappear was give him a hug and cry.

"... where did he go?

Gacita said.

I still can't stop crying while you put your hand on my shoulder.

"Did you go back to hell and do it? Or did you run out of souls and disappear?

"I just passed away first. We don't know. And someday we'll be gone too."

And we'll never meet again.

At least as far as we are now.

I try desperately to stop crying, but I can't stop.

The battle is not over yet. Even though the real enemy is still holding back.

"... Gacita. You didn't have to be me."

"Huh?"

"You don't have to tell me. One day I'll always notice my own problems and I can get back on my feet. You're the one who can do it. He's a fine guy."

"Don't say such lonely things, Aniki. No!

Something's gotten rash.

"That's what" what if "means! It doesn't change that Aniki is my great benefactor! Wouldn't it!?"

They're trying to inspire me.

He's uzzled, but he's saved.

"Right......!

You can never change your connection to people, either, so that you can't go back and change yourself.

Not to change.

Now it's time to defeat the real enemy that invades our homeland.