Kuro no Maou

A fainted chrono falls into depression.

……

Saliel just slightly disturbed her head as she stared down at Chrono.

The first concern is what happened to Chrono, who passed out, and the second is that he made his right hand a Buddha early in the resurrection.

The second problem is that it takes time to recover something, so if you leave it alone, it will solve the problem, but there was no immediate answer to the treatment of Chrono.

In the first place, I didn't intend to kill Sariel, no matter how much Krono resisted with intent to kill him.

Sariel would have loved it if Chrono had lived happily somewhere far away.

If you find out that only Chrono is free, some experiments may resent it.

But Sariel remembered somewhere similar to salvation in the presence of Chrono, who had grasped the freedom that no one in the experiment, including himself, could have become.

It is the desire of the many experimental bodies that have died so far, to live to their minute.

That's why I missed him when I first met him at the Third Laboratory, and that would have been nice if he'd run away again this time.

A ‘normal’ life unrelated to the battle whenever possible.

That hope must have been fulfilled in the middle, but

"You have something to protect, too."

The girl who let Chrono get away with it before he attacked, presumably a fairy, he met in this world and became a loved one, so much so that that that's what he could risk his life to protect.

Sariel has seen many times before on the battlefield humans who challenge battles with their lives to protect their loved ones, nor did he bring them home alive as one.

The figure of Chrono coincides perfectly with those who trace the fate of the brave but tragic death that has hitherto been upon their hands.

Still, I don't want you to die.

If you say so, you start to figure out how to miss the chrono from this place in order to push the ego through.

……

Given the position of the head of the Crusades, it is a matter of deliberately missing out on the hostiles.

As for Chrono's identity, he is a modified 'Gentile', neither a Daedalus general nor a nobleman, he is only an anonymous ordinary person and of low importance, so even if he escapes, he will not have to chase him to the end of the earth.

However, if the Crusaders were to be lightly captured, they would be summarily executed as assassins with blades to the Commander-in-Chief, and there would never be a sentence other than the death penalty, even if the trial was held fairly.

Therefore, calling the soldiers immediately is dismissed.

That's why it's awkward to leave it like this.

When I wake up after this, if he thinks he's no match and runs away, that's fine, but there's plenty to attack again, most likely to be spotted by guards patrolling before I wake up in the first place.

Falling on either side will not be a very desirable result.

Then let someone carry Chrono to a distant town?

But Sariel doesn't know anyone who can ask for such a personal token, and as Commander-in-Chief, he can't issue such suspicious orders.

"... what shall we do"

Having lived only to defeat the enemy in front of her since becoming an apostle, Saliel haunted her head like a human for the first time in a long time.

Fortunately, I have time to think about it on this occasion because I have told my men to go outside for a while, and I have paid for them.

Originally, I came here realizing that the junction had been broken, but that junction is not the type to sense otherwise intruders, nor has anything detected this anomaly other than Sariel.

Sariel stood up staring at the fallen chrono, also forgetting to erase the spear on his left hand.

Sariel, who was loosening his mind, accidentally turned his gaze toward the forest.

(Something... Coming)

At first, I merely perceived what an unspeakable atmosphere was, but it soon emerged as a clear ‘anomaly’.

Behind the dark woods, I saw a green light point.

Is that light approaching this way, gradually stronger and bigger?

And at the same time as recognizing the light, Sariel noticed that the trees that make up the forest were losing color one by one.

As the light approaches, the visible trees wither more and more fresh green leaves, and the thick trunks, which are as much as the torso of man, creep white and thin, and such sights spread one after another.

"This is... Life Absorption (Lifedrain)"

Sariel is convinced that the green light is taking root life from the trees of the forest.

Vitality is magic, including up to the minutes necessary to live.

Mages never get their hands on vitality unless they use even suicide bombing magic (apoptosis), and it's a dangerous substitute for forbidden arts such as the technique of forcibly depriving an opponent of their vitality.

Sariel was fortunate that the average soldier was not here.

If a drain of this magnitude and absorption is activated, ordinary people without magical qualities and with low magic resistance may be so magical that a life-threatening crisis becomes imperilled.

Towards the green light, Saliel felt with her skin that an unseen but intense life suction was developing like a storm.

All the trees in the woods will finally turn into dead trees as far as they can see, like the Forest of Death that doesn't make you feel the breath of life.

Thus the light of Emerald, the Lord who generated this anomaly, leapt before Saliel from its white and withered forest of death.

"Get away from Chrono"

It was a beautiful girl with an atmosphere somewhere similar to that of Sariel.

Long hair and white skin with literally glowing platinum blonde.

Eyes that emit the same color as the emerald green light that surrounds itself in a spherical shape.

Two pairs of feathers wrapped around a cute black piece with frills and glowing rainbow on its back.

Sariel remembered what a fairy princess looked like, appearing in a picture book she had read one day.

"Who are you?

But such a fantastic looking girl distorts her beauty with her angry form, releasing a visibly intense killing intent from her body.

"Get away from me."

To Saliel's dialogue asking who and what, the girl,

"I'm telling you!

I answered with a compressed ray of immense magic.

(Unchanted "Flashing White Arrow (Lux Fortis Sagitta)" - No, like "Inherent Magic (Extra)" or "Original Magic (Original)")

Sariel instantly moves into dodging behavior while thinking, but the speed of emission of light is the speed of light, as its name suggests.

Totally inevitable, the tip of the ray burned out the hem of the flipped coat.

Doddon!!

The rays that go straight through Sariel are slightly inhibited when they touch the junction that covers Daedalus, but they penetrate with little power, hitting the walls as they go.

Boom and crushed stone wall dust wind up in Russia and smoke can stand around the fallen chrono.

"Chrono!

Sariel, who jumped out loud, heard the girl's voice from the other side blocked by smoke.

Did you even manipulate it with the wind, the smoke instantly misted and Sariel saw the girl holding Chrono.

"Chrono-"

The face of the girl who called the name of Chrono was a pitiful and sad one with tears on the edge of her eyes, as if her expression toward Sariel had been a lie.

Chrono has his upper body up and is held by the girl as it is.

I guess she also understood that the girl whines about something, it didn't sound like Saliel's ear but Chrono is just passing out.

The girl gently lifted his body nearly two minutes bigger than her head, turning her arms behind Chrono's back and knee.

"Are you the girl Krono let go of earlier?

"Don't call that name familiar."

Once again, the gaze of intent to kill pierces Sariel.

Even Sariel, who is oblivious to the emotions of others, knew she was angry, and she had no idea why she was angry.

Just as Chrono protected her, she's also trying to protect Chrono, because if she's hurt someone so dear, she's only going to be sad or angry.

"If we're gonna take him, we're not going after him."

"Yes."

Not so much, the girl turns her back on Sariel with her chrono in her arms.

"Bye, you die there."

Two pairs of feathers grow from the girl's back dazzle brightly.

A dozen balls of light were shot out of rainbow glowing feathers shortly after Sariel sensibly perceived the magic surge.

It's not a light ray, so there's no speed of light, but it's more than twice as fast as a Chrono bullet. It flies at a certain high speed.

Sariel also saw that high speed, and the moment he turned himself over and tried to avoid it, he saw a slight change in the orbit of the flying light bullet.

(Automatic tracking capability)

Kick the ground and jump big from the spot to the side, but still the light bullet captures Sariel tightly and makes a bend orbital correction at an angle close to a right angle in the hollow.

(Pretty high performance, I just have to shoot it off)

Saliel, with his feet on the ground, grips the spear pattern with his right hand still wet by blood.

Even just recovered and far from the book, plus his right hand is pierced by a poison needle on Chrono and takes deadly damage.

I didn't want to use it because any more strain would be such that I would have to play the tip round from my wrist, but Saliel the boulder would also have to wave the spear with both hands to intercept this light bullet.

"Sick -"

He uttered a small voice and protruded his white tip at a rate that further exceeded the high speed of the light bullet already approaching to the present.

As the tip pierces the light bullet, the magic of the compressed light bursts into pure destructive force.

The dazzling flash of blindness and the impact of a thousand slices of limbs flying strikes Saliel, but without shaking that little body slightly, one spear after another shoots off the light bullet.

"Mmm..."

At the same time as I could prevent the last shot, the fine spear in my hand shattered and disappeared.

After the storm of flashes and blasts has passed, the ground on which the green lawn should have spread has become decisive and dirt pointed out.

The only thing left of the lawn is the back of Sariel's leg, which he continued to step on without moving a single step.

"... escaped"

Looking over, there was no sign of the girl anywhere already.

I was pointing my serious intent to kill Sariel, but I guess I still prioritized Chrono's safety and left the scene.

The next moment I thought about it that way, a chill ran on Saliel's spine since he was relative to the Dragon King.

"Huh!?

Over her head, a demonic cube suddenly emerged ten meters straight drawn with a white line of light.

Though the letters, presumably of divine or ancient origin, depict intricate shapes in the circle that I have never seen, I did not have time to calmly analyze the composition of that formation in Sariel today.

"- Light Winged S.H.I.E.L.D. (Aralux Aigis)"

Allow Saliel to deploy his white wings to cover his entire body, with the greatest defense he has.

At the same time, a huge mass of light with the same diameter as the Devil's Square descends from overhead.

A brilliant stream of light swallowed Saliel in seven colors, with comparable destructive power to Dragon King's braces.