Kuro no Maou

It was a place I missed so much that I could cry.

A small, dim, but thirty years old, room where I've lived alone. And it's just about three months, but above all, it's also a room where the two of us lived a peaceful life, burning vividly into our brains.

Yes, this was my house.

"- Shut up! Don't talk like you know how people feel on your own, you puppet bitch!

Chrono was screaming as blurry and lamp unreliable lights lit the thin indoors.

Angry. If you're a normal person, I just think so.

But I can tell. That Chrono is now being attacked by so much sadness and pain that his chest is about to rip open at this moment.

"Don't lick me, Sariel. Look, it was Mr. Shirazaki. I'm not gonna kill you. And I won't even let you kill me. I'll let you live, I'll live too. Neither will ever, ever give in -"

How could I not be beside him when I was in so much pain? I can't forgive myself.

But what's more unforgivable is...

- That's why I'm taking you from God.

"Really?"

Seventh Apostle Saliel.

I don't care how much you torment Chrono. How can you not know that your very existence is so hunting Chrono down that it's going to freak him out?

Oh, why, why... I don't know. Unbelievable to me.

That this woman is sleeping in my bed. Being able to stay plainly faceless in front of Chrono, who is in so much pain.

This is impossible. That's my place. That bed, next to Chrono, is my only place. I'm there, leaning softly against him, taking my hand, hugging him - saying, "It's okay," "Don't cry," "I'm on it," and I have to comfort you, though.

"I entrust everything to you."

Don't, don't, don't touch Chrono.

Stop, stop, don't touch me, Chrono.

This woman is an enemy. Enemies that must definitely be killed. I have to drop my neck, choke out my heart, hold my limbs, burn all my flesh to ashes, and kill it.

Kill the Apostle. That was supposed to be my wish. That's what's supposed to happen now.

But how could Chrono be so gentle and touch her?

I'm supposed to be hardly able to help you anymore, but I'm going to stretch my bloody arm and hold Sariel. Trembling fingertips make me take off my sweater covering my little body.

What showed up was a broken doll's body. Ugly, dirty flesh with no hands and feet, painted on bettori and blood.

I held that thing gently, as if Chrono were a loved one.

"-" The Demon King of Love (Overecstasy) ""

"- No, don't!!

So, my vision broke.

At the end of the gaze you look up is not a dim cabin anymore, but a wooden ceiling with a lamp that emits brilliant light.

It's a dorm lounge.

"Li, Lili......"

There's Chrono. He has a terrific, surprising, yeah, hopeless look that he has done something irrevocable.

Look at me like that, what's wrong? Chrono hasn't done anything. I didn't do anything wrong.

I'm sorry, Chrono. Suddenly I try to read my memories.

If you do that, it won't be weird for you to stick around. Nobody likes to see their memories.

So Chrono's rejection of me is also something you can't help, right?

"... Chrono"

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

For some reason, words don't come out.

It's painful. Hey, it's painful, Chrono. It hurts like I can't breathe.

Oh, well, yeah... no matter how painful it is, Chrono won't help me.

Because Chrono rejected me. He chose Sariel, not me.

"Chrono... lying... ugh, ahhh..."

In my head, it turns white.

I can't recognize the situation. I can't accept the facts. I can't accept it. I don't want to admit it.

But no matter how much I refuse, the only sight that comes up behind my brain drives me insane.

There's a chrono holding a bloody sariel and kissing himself.

"Ahhhhhhhhh!

I just had to run away.

Unfortunately, cry, scream. I don't even know where I am, I just, run.

Naturally. Because I was dumped by Chrono. I was thrust. Most of all, I touched the part I shouldn't have touched.

Unacceptable. You won't forgive me. It can't be forgiven.

I'm sure Chrono will never touch me again. Gu, hold my hand, stroke my head, hug me. We can't even sleep together in the same bed.

Oh, well. I let go of that place myself.

"Ugh, ahhhhh!!

Run, run. Keep running. Everywhere in the darkness like it goes on indefinitely.

There's no escape. Even though you can't live in a place without chrono. I want to go home now.

You don't have to go home.

I heard voices.

An unfamiliar, but unheard, strange voice.

Who? What, my chest, it's hot.

"You don't have to run away."

A mysterious voice I did hear. Something fell zero off my chest as it reached my ear.

"Ah."

Unexpectedly, I reached out to take it, but cut the sky in vain. Katsung and a tall sound sounded.

The sole that fell to the ground was making bright red blood. As if my heart had fallen.

But sinking into blood it was not a pulsating organ, but a brightly glowing crimson crystal - the 'red crystal sphere (Queen Beryl)'.

"... it's cracked"

"Red Crystal Ball (Queen Beryl)" can't be shattered. It is the Great Magic Fixture (artifact) with the protection of Fairy Queen Iris. It will not be destroyed unless it is attacked or placed in a highly refined formation dedicated to decomposition.

But now, rolling at my feet, it was broken as if it were just a glass worker. From the middle, two beautiful truths.

It's supposed to be a pure crystal, why not? From the crack, there was dodgy and unstoppable blood gushing out.

"Lily, you can go anywhere. Because..."

From the springs of blood that keep flowing and spreading everywhere, light shines on Russia. Blinkingly bright, poisonous bright red light.

"-There, if Chrono will be there, that's fine."

Okay. This voice, it's mine.

When the bright red flash passed, in front of me, I stood. Cute cute, innocent, good boy's, little and young, who I am. It is formed by an aura of bright red brilliance.

It's a form like the Guardian Spirit (Guardian) possessed by Chrono in the Fairy Combination (Excellion).

"You are... me."

"Yeah, it's Lily. So you know all about Lily, Lily."

I knew immediately that it was a lie.

I am me. I'm the same person on the front and back, both as a child and as an adult. Like a dual personality, you never break up.

So this spiritual body that looks a lot like me, magical life like a ghost (ghost), is just a thing of niceness. I fool myself, I'm a bad guy.

"I envy Sariel"

The moment I inclined myself to kill at the presence in front of me, in one word my movements were stopped.

"... no"

The squeezed word of denial is weak.

"I can't help but be jealous of Sariel, who was chosen by Chrono."

"Different."

"For the first time in Chrono, it was Lily's."

"No, no!

No, no, I, no.

"Jealousy, jealousy, ugly jealousy"

"Wow, I... just to Chrono..."

"Don't you want Chrono to suffer?

Yes, I think of Chrono.

"Don't you want Chrono to be sad?

Always, always, first and foremost, I act thinking of Chrono.

"For Chrono's sake, can you do anything?

I can do anything.

For Chrono's sake, for Chrono's sake, for Chrono's sake - for his sake, I can do any outrageous or outward path without any hesitation.

"If it's for Chrono, I'll do anything, I can do anything! Because I love Chrono!!

"Haha, lying, lying. 'Cause Lily just wants Chrono, right? You just want your own chrono to be."

It's an exclusive desire to deny the beauty of love. Filthy of pure thoughts, fiercely poisonous emotions.

I love Chrono. To me that feeling is the whole meaning of life, Sole is such an insult that there is no more.

"Don't I love Chrono?

I just want to make Chrono my own. It is, after all, for himself, not for him.

Ugly, distorted, dos black chunks of ego everywhere.

"Yeah, Lily, you don't love me, do you?

"I love you."

"I don't love you."

"I love Chrono! I love Chrono more than anyone else in the world!!

"But you didn't forgive Chrono, did you?"

"Huh!?

Did I not forgive Chrono?

"You didn't accept Chrono."

Are you saying it wasn't Chrono who refused, it was me?

"Hey, why not? Couldn't you forgive Chrono for holding Sariel?

……

That's not true. That can't be right. I think for Chrono. So I wish Sariel had died. I'll kill you.

The bad news is Sariel. That woman's presence is the culprit of everything.

Chrono is not bad. Chrono is not dirty. Chrono still thinks of me...

"Ugh, don't cry, Lily"

Are you crying? I, am I crying?

Oh, it's true. Tears abound, I can't stop.

Why not? Pity. I'm looking like a girl right now, crying so hard like a child. I can't believe how comforting it is for me to look like a child.

"Lily's not bad."

"Yeah, no... I'm sorry"

"It's not bad. 'Cause it's only natural to be jealous."

"Lie... no... because it's so, so painful..."

My chest hurts. When I'm jealous, my chest hurts like it burns me.

The first time I learned to be jealous - yes, sure, it was when Simon and Chrono met. Chrono looked very happy, pleasant, and talked to Simon, who could understand knowledge of different worlds.

It was a different way to make your face shine than when you chatted with me.

For the first time in my life, I was jealous when I realized I couldn't do it.

"Yes, yes, Lily is jealous."

Once I sprouted it, even if I wasn't aware of it, sometimes it would make me annoying.

Fiona, for example. Make it my best friend, my biggest love rival. One day, we'll kill each other, woman.

"Fiona gave Chrono the ring. I envy you very much."

I know that silver ring with no weirdness whatsoever lit her love heart.

I've also received gifts from Chrono. Even this Enchantville Road piece is. Best protective equipment, as well as my greatest treasure.

"Yeah, you didn't have to have a ring, Chrono just laughed, just rejoiced, just be nice, you were jealous"

Yeah, especially, feelings a little different from those directed at me are particularly jealous.

To Fiona's natural mess, it's a frightened or panicked chrono, but in my mind, I think it's fun again. To me, I can't entertain Chrono that way.

"It's not just Fiona. Chrono just sees the other women, and Lily-"

Both Avalon's princess and Elf's receptionist are, for me, too much of a jealous opponent. That was so blatantly remarkable that it also made me grumpy at childhood.

Even I, that kind child, am fully alert to the presence of Nell.

"Lily is always jealous. To that woman, to this woman, to anyone."

"Yeah, right... I'm jealous"

"Yeah, but that's natural. If you're in love with a maiden, it's natural to be jealous, and you have no choice."

"But it's not supposed to be an ugly emotion."

"I can't help it, because Lily loves Chrono."

contradiction. The logic is contradictory.

"It's not love to be jealous. I resent not being my own, it's just an emotion for me. It's not what it feels like to think of someone."

It's not like love.

"Yeah, it's not. I'm jealous because I love you. Lily is the most jealous person in the world because she loves Chrono more than anyone else!

With an innocent smile, that's what she (Lily) says.

"I'm jealous because... I love you, because I'm here?

"Yes, I am."

No, that can't be right.

"Even if you're jealous, love, okay?

"Of course."

Impossible. There shouldn't be. I shouldn't admit it.

"Hey, I... about Chrono, Isitel?

"Yeah, Lily is about Chrono, Isitel!

But once you admit it, you can't go against it anymore.

Love and jealousy, like me the girl and me the kid, are all backwards. Together, both, my love. Lily's love.

"I love Chrono"

Is this what Meng can enlighten you about? Once you know it, the world looks like a gallery.

"Best in the world, more than anyone"

Suffering, sadness, swallowing everything, love. Love, love, oh, love can't stop.

"So..."

The world is full of light. The world is overflowing with love. In front of me, I can only see the way to a glorious future now.

At the end of this road, there must be. Where the memories of that day will last forever.

- Chrono is my thing.

"Congratulations, Lily. Finally, you know true love."

Thank you, me. I woke up. Finally, I came to true love.

"Blessed is Ellis, the Fairy Queen."

Yeah, right. Exactly... the power is gushing up. In your chest, from the depths of your soul, no matter how much, inexhaustible. To my love, to respond.

"Come on, let's go. The final trial awaits."

I raise my face, which was leaning down, as I set out towards a happy future filled with love.

There, there was a black stone slab.

"The Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)". An ancient stone tablet glorifying the Demon King paves the way for me to go.

Ancient letters, bright red as blood, dancing on a pitch-black plate surface. The indecipherable magic formations were, however, representative of their effects at a glance.

A stone slab that rocks quietly like a lake surface at night. On the other side of it, I saw a big, big gate. A giant gate in pitch-black that stands higher than the main entrance of the Fortress of Galahad. Decorated by its black steel portal was the crest of a black dragon, spreading its wings.

"... the gateway to the Realm of God's Extinction Avalon."

"Yeah."

I've never seen it before, but I knew it right away. The main entrance to the capital, Avalon, has been seen before. Arre is a white gate as beautiful as a work of art. If there were any gates other than the Black Dragon's crest, there would be none other than the lost capital of the True Demon King.

Apparently, the metastatic magic activated with the "Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle)" as the entrance is connected there.

"Hey, Lily, what's going on ahead of this Avalon?

Sole replied with a laugh as she reached out her little hand to invite me ahead.

"Paradise."

I laughed, too, and took her (Lily) hand.

"Just wait a minute, Chrono. I'll take you to paradise soon."

It must be a country of happiness, with no suffering or sadness. Me and Chrono. Just the two of us. It's paradise.