Kuro no Maou

One room in "The Cat's Tail Pavilion," on that simple bed, Lily slept with a vain eye.

The way she lays down for hours without even being picky at a young age would make her feel somewhere out of the ordinary with her worries.

"Chrono......"

Occasionally, Lily mouths the name, as I recall.

Her precipitated green eyes like she lost her light and Chrono's black eyes cross her gaze at each other.

There is no one in the bed but Lily.

But only Chrono's eyes, Chrono's eyes, were there.

At the end of Lily's gaze, which lies on her back and only on her face, is one vial that rolls onto the pillow.

Originally containing potions for physical recovery, that bottle is still full of clear liquid, but there was one eye in it.

An eyeball with pitch-black eyes, that is the left eye that Chrono has lost.

After waking up from the battle with the Apostle, Lily was secretly retrieving Chrono's left eye, which was rolling when she saw the gap.

The eyeballs shot out by the arrows are regenerating thanks to the potion with healing effect.

But to get this back to Chrono's left eye again, we have to reconnect the optic nerve successfully, so which way Lily needs more advanced healing magic than she can exercise.

Therefore, now it is only the best toy (collection) convenient for her to keep staring silently at Lily.

"Sorry... sorry, do..."

I don't know how many times I've spoken to you already. Words of apology, but I certainly don't get a word to Chrono himself who isn't here.

Still wrapped in Chrono's eyes and the smell of him remaining in bed, Lily, who has practiced apologizing over and over again, calms down only slightly.

Or maybe the tears have just dried up already.

"I'm sorry...... Lily's Cotto...... don't be kidding me"

The adult consciousness has let go for a long time and escapes to the child's consciousness.

But as I explained to Chrono before, the girls Lili and the young girl Lili are not different personalities, they just change their thinking abilities and mental age, and they are truly one personality.

Just because you switch to a child's consciousness doesn't mean you lose your memories of being turned down by Chrono, and your hot, burning love heart doesn't change.

Instead, when I first liked Chrono, it was a child's condition, and I didn't intend to like it in adult thoughts in value of appearance, personality, ability, etc.

Young Lily's heart, which brings pure favor only to Chrono wholeheartedly, is unbearably anxious to shake if she were a normal child.

No, I would have been luckier to be a normal child here, because I don't have that much to worry about because how much I've been rejected just a little by someone I like.

But Lily, who is already not ‘normal', is still so irritated by vague anxiety and fear that her little breasts are just ripped open.

Thus, when a few more painful hours passed without ever being freed, the sound of a knock on the door of a concon and a tree reached his ear, and Lily turned her consciousness only slightly towards the real world.

"Mr. Lily."

Apparently, the visitor is Fiona, who decides so in a voice he could already hear.

But I don't have the energy to respond to Lily right now, and I wasn't willing to.

"Mr. Lily, Mr. Chrono is back."

My consciousness was about to sink in me again, but when I heard the words, Lily stiffened.

"K, Chrono......"

Thinking begins to turn as soon as possible.

The undisputed fact that he wanted to meet Chrono, whose desire filled his mind in an instant, but at the same time was rejected, controlled Lily's movement to jump out of bed.

"Let's have dinner together"

Lily, who is bitter, but has not been able to respond to Fiona in the end, so only a pale word of invitation flies in unilaterally from across the door.

"Mr. Krono is not angry about Mr. Lily, so don't worry."

To that word, a glimmer of light plunges into Lily's heart.

But I suspect that the previously scattered imagination denies this sweet word, a lie.

"Mr. Lily? We're coming in, right?

Fiona opens the door to see if she cut the paralysis against Lily, who is too unresponsive.

For Fiona, I was fortunate that Lily didn't even care to lock up.

"Are you asleep?

To Fiona, who had stepped into the room not long before stopping, Lily could only rush enough to hide Chrono's eyeball-eyed potion under her pillow.

"Ugh!

He presses himself against his pillow and suddenly raises a protest against Fiona, who enters the room.

"You're awake.

Look, Mr. Chrono's waiting, let's go. "

"Ugh, yah!

Lily rebels by bumping her little legs and wings.

Even Fiona, who has a reputation for not being able to read the air, had an understandable reaction when she still seemed afraid to meet Chrono over this period.

"Mr. Chrono isn't really mad about Mr. Lily, rather, I'm worried, Mr. Chrono will be saddened if Mr. Lily doesn't show his face."

"Ugh... really?

Raise the face that was nodding at the pillow and turn to Chilari and Fiona.

The eyes became red because of a scattered cry.

"It's true, so let's welcome Mr. Chrono with a smile"

It was a hundred-point full dialogue if you could smile, but Fiona is still a sleepy face.

However, it seemed to have worked well enough to move Lily's mind.

"... yeah"

Lily never gets up.

Inside my chest, I mixed anxiety and expectations, and I couldn't move too much to see if I was in a state of tension.

"Then let's go, ah, you better wash your face before then"

Fiona, who made a rare and attentive decision that this reddened eye area could not be shown to Chrono, pulled Lily's little hand, leaving the room behind.

I am now reflecting so much on the exaggerated adjective that it is higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea in the corner of the first floor dining room of The Cat's Tail Pavilion.

"Chrono...... welcome back"

And Lily's eyes, which were greeted with a very unwell appearance, are slight but reddish.

Even if I didn't, I must have been crying.

And the cause will undoubtedly lie with me, who has been in a deeper and deeper state of mind in the last few days.

In my mouth I was going to care if it was ostensibly "Don't worry" or "It's okay" or "I'm sorry," but the sole in question was‘ meant ’and nothing had arrived at Lily.

Naturally, Lily has powerful psycholeptic (telepathic) abilities, she can't delude herself with only words on the upper side, etc.

Here's the result, it worried me so much that it made Lily cry.

I wouldn't have been crying, but I must have felt equally worried about Fiona, no, but I must have felt more distressed by Lily's board bulge, which sank me and cried.

"I've been worried about you two, I'm really sorry"

All I can do now is bow my head.

Still, I can apologize to you both this way because I was able to sort my mind out somewhat, and the happier it is compared to me half a day ago.

"No, it looks like Mr. Chrono is feeling better, above all."

I feel reassured by Fiona, who has the same faceless expression as usual, like I really don't care about her at all.

"Chrono-ooh!

Stick to my chest. I'm not leaving. While stroking Lily's head,

"I'm really sorry, Lily, but I'm okay now, so don't worry."

I conveyed my apologies to this heartfelt gentle fairy, and now it is time to express my feelings in words.

That's how Lily and I kept in heartwarming touch, and from Fiona, who would be the calmest person on the scene, Zubali cut out the real deal.

"So, what the hell happened to Mr. Chrono?

I don't think it's just the sort of mind you've got to sort out to look at your left eye. "

Already, my left eye is not fitted with an eyelid, and a real eyeball with a full return of vision fits in.

You naturally think there's some connection between the recovery of my mental state and the regeneration of my eyes.

And let's tell the two of you, the party members, that I didn't have to keep quiet about my experience some hours ago, that it happened to me without covering up.

Well, I don't know exactly what happened either.

"- I see. 'Protect’?"

Upon finishing explaining the circumstances of the large part, Fiona did not deny it without a headache, but rather returned a satisfactory reaction.

"So, what do you think? You really think a guy named Mia is a god?

I was talking and I thought, but in a spiritual state, it is all about the religious smell that makes me feel better with the thought of waking up to meet someone named God.

In Japanese sense, you would almost think you are soaked in weakness of heart and deceived.

"I have never heard the name of God, Mia Ellord.

I'm out of the Republic in the first place, so I don't know anything about Pandora's Black Gods. "

Me and Fiona both remember precisely about the name of God involved in the protection that the members of the Adventurers Alliance were actually exercising.

"So how's Lily?

I'll ask the fairy who still won't try to move hard from above my lap.

"Mia? Um, uh, um..."

Lily is delayed in her thoughts by the kind of roar she hears of a pseudonym called Pokupok.

But Lily must have the most knowledge of the serious story "The Black Gods".

Whatever you say, it's a real protective hold empowered by 'Fairy Queen Iris', at least I'm sure I know physically what the protective is.

"Ah!"

Lily, who raised her voice, at that moment I had a SE called Cheyne echoing through my brain.

"You remembered?

"Yeah, Mia Ellord is the name of an old demon king!

I think it's getting kind of frigid when I hear that answer, but if you think about it carefully, there was only one story that came to mind regarding the word 'demon king'.

"Maybe he said he unified the Pandora continent in ancient times?

"Yeah!"

It's still a legend called ‘The Ancient Demon King’, right, whose demon king's name is Mia Ellord?

I heard the story that the dragon king of Daedalus was also burning his ambitions for continental unity in admiration of his demon king Ellord, when he went to the house of the mayor of Cione to learn the common sense of different worlds in the village of Iles.

The Legend of the Demon King is a super famous story that no one knows if they live in Pandora.

In the first place, it can be said that all the monumental dungeons that exist everywhere are passed on so widely because the real dungeons and legends of the Demon King appear almost as a set, the things of an era classified as' ancient 'in which the Demon King was active.

"It is said that those who once accomplished some great deed in this world will take the seat of God, if they are legendary dwellers, it is not strange to be a real God who also gives one of his blessings"

That's a theory I've heard, too.

"Lonely Wolf Wolfgand," Vulcan's protection, is a giant wolf monster, and "Shadow Way Hanzoma," Sue's protection, seems to have been a legendary assassin.

God said he was not created by God, but a being that was elevated after becoming a real person and a monster died.

Then if you are the only person in the history of Pandora who has achieved continental unity, you cannot be a god.

"Hmm, but no one has the protection of the Demon King, huh?

From what I hear of the tongueless Lily explanation, it seems that several figures in history to gain the protection of Ellord the Demon did not leak in the example nor did Garvinal the Dragon King try, but did not have any slight influence or effect and ended up in total failure.

Think the other way around. If there is someone with the protection of the Demon King, the story should instantly be big enough news to run all over Pandora and even pass on countryside like Iles.

By the way, it seems Lily has heard the news about three times since she was born, but Othi says it was all gussey.

"You're really starting to sound frightened."

"Then I'm the first Demon King of all time! ♪ And I can't cut you stupid enough to dance up ♪

It's so much more convincing to think that kid cheated on his name than to say that I could have had such an awesome thing, the name of the famous Demon King that anyone knows, but no one got protection.

"But even if you weren't a real demon king, it's true that Mr. Chrono got some kind of protection, right?"

"No, my left eye did heal beautifully -"

"Those red eyes aren't Mr. Chrono's thing, are they?

I feel uncomfortable with Fiona's allegations.

This eye is certainly not my thing, it was originally that kid's left eye.

No, that's good, the weird part is that it's ‘red’.

"Maybe my left eye is turning red?

"It is, it's already stained bright red"

Confirm? I am then given a hand mirror, which is a girl's preference, from a triangle hat.

Thank you very much, but if you take a peek into the dreaded little mirror,

"Hey, what's Cori ah!?

There I was, with crimson eyes.

It works as my left eye without discomfort, so naturally I thought it was as black as this right eye, but it really seems like Mia has replaced the red eye she had.

"Cool, Mr. Chrono."

"Chrono cool!

With a glimmer of cold sweat from my forehead, I glimmer for a while with my own face, which has become a black and red odd eye.

Is this serious, even those crazy masks didn't get their hands on me until my looks, but I didn't know they were going to come here and do some unexpected imecheng...

"Yeah, well, I can see your eyes, that's fine"

Yes, what matters is the result, that Mia doesn't have to be a god to have a bee, such as getting this far and complaining.

"That's right, I don't know if you're the Demon King, but you should thank that kid.

And from what I've heard, it feels like we know who the protection is. "

Fiona's right, this is not something we can get to the bottom of right now.

Lily told me that if you ask, rituals at the temple that festive Pandora's black gods will show you whether you have gained protection and which one it is by God, while at the same time providing an unparalleled and reliable proof.

However, without the protection of its commensurate strength, it is impossible to distinguish clearly, and it seems that it is sometimes only charged and ritual failure, does it do quite dirty business, is religious relations still like this everywhere?

Anyway, we both gained the protection of Ellord the Demon King, only after we gained the strength of strong protection to ensure the success of the temple ritual.

There's nothing you can do unless you know for sure what Mia's called a ‘trial' by hitting it, and if you get past the sole, you really get protection.

Let's rejoice in the two major benefits of being blind here and the possibility of granting protection.

"In the meantime, I have no idea what the trials that give me protection are, so I'm going to act as an adventurer on schedule rather than looking for them for no reason"

I'm the resurrection (?) So we finally have to discuss how we're going to live in Sparda in earnest.

"Yeah, we're all going on quest!

"Speaking of which, this is the first time the three of us have taken a quest, right?"

There was a lot going on.

I'm still not a totally blown out wack, I'm not a forgotten wack, I just regained enough energy to punch into my trick to do, that's all.

I may continue to have nightmares like this morning, but I will never imitate Lily to make her cry.

"I look forward to living my adventurous life as an 'Element Master' too, but..."

It's okay, I can still move on.

It's okay, I still have company to walk with.

"I want to be strong, so I'm going to take a tight quest, you know, hang out with me?

"Yeah, Lily's been with Chrono forever!

"Yes, I'll follow you with me."

Two people so comfortable that you don't even have to bother asking.

"I want to be strong enough to defeat the Apostle, I think so"

"It's okay, Lily's working with us!

"Well, I think this party will make you strong enough to defeat the Apostle"

Thanks for the comforting words.

This will set up a policy in the future adventurer's life without any feelings whatsoever.

"All right, then let's level up together, let's do our best"

Next time, the next time we meet, the tens of thousands of fanatics who can obey, will surely kill the Apostle with this hand.