Kuro no Maou

I woke up feeling signs of people moving nearby.

"Morning, brother"

I thought you were an angel.

No, you're not. She's cute as an angel, but if she hasn't grown wings, she hasn't even floated on her head. Elongated characteristic ears are nothing more than those of an elf.

"... Simon, huh? Why?"

"Why, that big injury. Then you need someone to take care of you, right?

In an attempt to get up reflexively, he reminded himself of the state of his body to the sensation of his right arm and right foot, which emits only dull pain.

Yeah, I'm still gonna need someone to take care of me.

Today is the thirtieth day when the moon of Xinyang will also be the last.

Yesterday evening, I finally made my return to Sparda. The ambulance was scheduled for the Grand Temple of Sparda, but I don't need to be hospitalized, just waiting for a natural recovery after that. With that kind of wacko, I headed straight back to my cursed mansion, my home.

So it was Simon who welcomed me.

I just smiled and said "Welcome Back" and didn't ask me anything.

The battle against Chaossic Lim and the resulting major injuries have been reported by sending letters to Simon and Will, respectively, during their hospitalization lives. I'm late to go home until my injuries heal, but I don't want you to worry.

It was only then that I sent out my letter... but the day after Ain, Lily's use, came, Fiona seemed to have secretly sent Simon a letter with some circumstances.

Sometimes you don't ask me what's going on because I've already figured out the approximate in Fiona's letter.

"But you don't have to bother Simon to do it"

I woke up in my own bed in the morning. So, it looks like Simon was in the middle of getting my toiletries ready.

Yesterday I had just a few unusual stories and I fell asleep so I thought Simon would have stayed put... you mean he'd been staying in on the assumption of taking care of me from the start.

"Fiona wrote to me in her letter, saying hello to your brother. I'm worried about Mr. Sheep."

Did it even say that?

But what about letting Simon, who is not a Pandora Temple cleric or a healer (Priest), take care of the injured? It's great in terms of trust, but even Simon will be busy, and there's no one else more qualified for this te job... I don't know anybody who's good at that kind of thing.

Could I be too narrow? You're a Spartan hero, aren't you, me? Were you over-conscious, like a hero after all? I thought so.

"Well... well, I guess I'll ask you"

"Yeah, I'm not very good at this stuff, but I'll do my best."

Look at Simon making me laugh like that, my chest can be tightened.

The truth is, I don't need care anymore. This injury can be healed right now.

I've already been granted a sixth protection.

Use this to get my hands and feet back on track. Apparently, it's not enough to withstand an instant and full battle, but it would still be enough to run around freely.

Be able to move on your own feet. That means I'll be able to head under Lily.

However, I have not yet used the new protections that I was given in my dreams. I don't feel like using it. Still trying to stay injured.

Why, why, is it okay to be spoiled by such a pitiful state... it's decided because I can't decide that.

What am I supposed to do?

Lily took three hostages, Fiona, Saliel and Nell.

So kill her and save the three of them, Mia said. Kill one, three help. I can also complete my last trial to Omake.

But there is no way that you can judge a person's life, let alone their own loved ones, by a simple number of small and large.

Kill Lily? I'm not kidding. If that's the last test, I'm not going to pass that test forever. Did you find out about the protection of the Demon King? I don't mind losing six shields. Nothing untrained. If you want to be strong, you just have to work out again in another way.

So you're going to help Lily?

Help, I wonder how I could have helped her.

Already, Lily took the three hostages, of her own free will.

Fiona and the others must have tried Lily to kill her. On top of that, she returned the three of them and let them try to catch them alive. What should be feared is its combat capability? No, even if you deal with those three at the same time, still, your judgment in choosing to live.

Perhaps Lily knows the value of the hostages. Yes, I do. That Fiona took Sariel hostage and made a successful confession to me.

I'm sure the aim is the same as this. Instead of guaranteeing the lives of the three of them, they will urge you to love yourself, just yourself.

And I accepted that, but at the end of the day, I married Lily, and I was happy with her in 'Paradise' forever - okay, so.

Might be good.

I like Lily. I love it. I risk my life. But an important being that I want to protect. If I were compelled to take the life of a hundred strangers or the life of one lily, I would choose Lily in agony but without hesitation.

If that's who she's dealing with, she can forgive me, and I can accept it, trying to make me feel a little crippled.

"Break up with Fiona and get tied up with Lily, or... you suck, I am"

But if I'm just gonna be the worst man, and everyone's life is gonna be saved, it's gonna be cheap. With one heart of mine, Lily, Fiona, Saliel, and Nell can spoil and accept any humiliation if it's to be saved. I said I licked the back of my fucking shoes.

Is it best to cry because I accept Lily's engagement, only let the three hostages go? I will never see them again. I'll listen to whatever Lily has to say, and I swear I'll love Lily alone for the rest of my life.

Will that help Fiona and the others safely...... I mean smart Lily, if you ask so far, you will release the three hostages by judging them worthless already. Lily wants me. I'm not the wacko who wants to kill those three. The three lives were only taken hostage because they were only a means to get a man named me. If I killed three people just to my stomach, I'd stab Lily to death, or I'd keep fighting until Lily killed me, and either way, she wouldn't get me anymore.

So if you let me swear my love, it's Lily's win.

"... I should have chosen Fiona"

Whatever the history, I accepted Fiona's confession.

Lily that she loves me, Fiona that said she loves me. The balance they rode leaned towards Fiona, who said 'forgive me' because she loved me. So I chose Fiona. I'm going to marry her and accompany her for the rest of my life.

That was also, in other words, a decision not to accept Lily's love.

If I see Lily again, what will I say? I've been thinking about it. After all, I couldn't think of anything good to say, but I told her, "I love Fiona. We're dating on the assumption of marriage," only that there was no lie, no deception, and we decided to tell.

I don't know what kind of judgment Lily will make when she hears that. From there on, it's up to her to decide for herself.

Will you still be with me as a member of The Element Master, or will you separate the Or you may not be able to answer anything, or decide forever. So, you hit me upside down, that's fine. If I hadn't even died, I was ready to lose about one of my hands and feet.

"After all, my decision is to that extent..."

If I truly love Fiona, I should kill Lily without hesitation and rescue her.

But in reality, I don't think it's dew to do sole, I think it's best to betray Fiona at the end of the sentence and follow Lily.

"Damn, but... my life is at stake... is love supposed to penetrate that much?"

Kill other loved ones, for the best. Kill without any hesitation.

Is that really love? At least, my common sense doesn't have that logic.

But Lily and Fiona both did the sole.

Fiona went to kill Lily to protect me.

Sariel agreed with that, too. And even Nell let it go.

I'm sure Sariel simply decided Lily was the enemy that would harm me. Nell, I'm sure, is for a similar reason. From the side, Lily is indeed a lunatic who, after ignoring my free will, does not even spare any other sacrifice or damage and comes under attack to get the man he likes.

There is no reason for that to be allowed, even if we truly try to reconcile it with Spartan law. At the time the damage is done to someone, it becomes a sin and is punishable. If you go against it, you can't complain that a knight slaughtered you on the spot, just a criminal.

In other words, it is also a situation where people who may become great sinners are to be put to an end only within themselves. In fact, if Fiona and the others had killed Lily, that would have put all the keri on it. Which wins, because that's not included in Mia's thoughts.

If Fiona really kills Lily, can I forgive her? Can I forgive, accept, and marry Fiona for killing Lily, just as she wanted that night?

Now it's just an assumption, but still, I'm sure I'll forgive Fiona. I can't forgive you, but I should have tried to forgive you.

Fiona has enough reason to kill Lily. I understand that there. Some emotions are inseparable from reason alone. Normally I can't break it off. It can't be acceptable, such as Lily dying, and there's no reason to be able to forgive the person who kills her.

But because it's Fiona... because it's her, I want to forgive, I have to forgive, you'd think so.

I don't know if that's fulfilling and loving or just escaping. Still, I forgive Fiona. Probably not forgivable if it's Sariel. Even Nell can't forgive me. Though vengeance is the only thing, if we don't see each other again, there's nothing better than avoiding them forever.

But Fiona would forgive me.

I'm sure this means you love her for me.

"If I love you, should I kill Lily? Do you give in to help Fiona because you love her"

I don't know which is right.

Fiona would be most happy if I killed Lily and rescued her. It would tell me that you chose me over Lily, that you are more important, that you are the best, than any word of love.

Conversely, if I tell Lily I'm breaking up with Fiona, she's sad. Sadness, what a word might be immeasurable despair. I don't know how much Fiona thinks of me... I'm sure you don't understand all of that, but still, in my time as a lover, I've touched one end of the magnitude of her love. I realized naturally that I was more loved than I thought.

I already know how comfortable, wonderful and fulfilling it is to be loved, to be able to love each other.

Breaking up with Fiona is outrageous. If anyone tries to tear us apart, I will stop them prepared not to kill them with one hand.

In reality, however, there is no such thing as a bad enemy as mere malice, let's get out of Fiona's way with me. It was Lily who stood in front of us.

But I can't kill Lily with my own hands.

But I also know Lily won't stop unless she kills him.

If I succeeded in disabling Lily without killing her, I could have rescued the three of them. When that happens, what happens then?

Like Fiona said, Lily will come after you as many times as she wants. stronger, more radical. To get me, I don't even hate any sacrifices, they attack me.

Or if I give in to Lily and Fiona is released safely, she'll probably come to take it back, no matter how long it takes.

Sariel and Nell don't care if they live. These days, adventurer activity has also followed the board, Sariel. You can do it as an adventurer, you can open a cafe that serves coffee, or you can do a maid of honor in some mansion. Even with me gone, Sariel will be able to live a new life by herself.

Nell doesn't need to worry more. Talk about just having to do it as a princess back to normal. She's not a good person to die in here, under such circumstances.

But Fiona... if I choose Lily and dump her, will Fiona really forget about me and live a new life?

No, I can't. Fiona always chooses revenge on Lily. Whether it takes a lifetime, a lifetime or not, you must keep running on the ruthless avenging path of getting me back.

Because what's the point of me saving Fiona's life? In case there is one hope, Fiona will forget about me and live happily ever after, how cheap it can be.

No, I want Fiona to be happy. Don't let them walk in a life of revenge full of anger, sorrow and despair, etc. It just wouldn't make sense to be alive.

But the only way to achieve Fiona's happiness... is to kill Lily.

A grand tour.

Lily can't be killed. I don't want Fiona to die. Now, Lily and Fiona both want you to be happy.

I can't find the answer. In the first place, maybe there's no answer.

"Think... no one's dead yet"

Not yet, I can take it back.

"There must be a way to save us all..."

Don't give up.

Lily, Fiona, whether you're crazy about love or not. Even if the Demon King tries to push me to a cruel trial.

I want to help everyone. I don't want anyone to die.

I don't want to lose one more.

"... Am I just scared? More than piercing love, you're just afraid of losing it."

Maybe so.

If so, is that a bad thing? Isn't it natural for anyone to wish that they don't want to lose their loved ones?

Then why is it so difficult to fulfill that natural wish?

How, in the name of love, can we kill each other fine?

"Love is what..."

I don't even know what I'm thinking anymore.

But today is already the 30th of the month of Xinyang.

There's only a week until the 6th of the month of the first fire that Lily heralded would pick me up.

I didn't even have much time left to think about it at the earliest.

The second day of the month of the first fire. Chrono's mansion had a quiet and serene time flowing.

"How's that, delicious?

"Oh, it's delicious."

After noon, Chrono and Simon are alone, sitting in a large dining room for lunch. Even if Chrono can't use his dominant arm, he cleverly goes on to eat smoothly with only his left arm. Simon was sitting in his seat with him because he didn't need meal assistance.

What Chrono needs today would be more of a mental peace of mind than physical care.

Knowing the approximate circumstances, Simon thinks it's his job to be beside Chrono, ostensibly in the name of long-term care.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm a little burned around here."

"No, because this much is better"

"It's not something you get used to."

"If this is all we can do, it will be good. I think you can cook better than me."

"Because living alone is a long time. But it's the least I can do."

As an alchemist, it was a research-centered life. Whatever you want if you're bloated. Simon reconsiders that it is only natural that the upliftment of polishing the cooking arm doesn't sprout...... and doesn't matter about himself or anything.

(Um, shit. Matomo is answering me, but it feels like crap)

It is deductive that the spirit of Chrono is critical to the limit. Simon is by no means the meticulously savvy way of others' minds, but nevertheless, if you know Chrono's character and the more drooling romantic circumstances that you can't help but now, you don't have much to see the darkness in that heart. Instead, I didn't want to know more. It's like a hole in your stomach just listening.

I think this kind of suffering should be shared with the allies of the soul, but Will is somehow called back to the Royal Castle of Sparda. Now for Simon, who is not bright in Sparda's politics or behind the scenes, I can't think of any reason why Prince Wilhardt would recall him until after he suspended his seminary.

While in the royal castle, it is difficult to contact the prince directly. I haven't been informed when I might be back. I'll be away for a while, he just came all the way out here to say hi, and it's a superior treatment.

Anyway. I don't have Will, a friend I can count on. If so, Simon is already alone, and there is nothing else than supporting Chrono.

"Welcome"

Chrono's face, who said so politely and quietly, looks calm. I don't have a face, I don't have a particular look, etc. You don't look very deeply distressed, the usual look.

If it's strong enough to make a difference, its left eye is rubbed in thick black fabric, so much so that it has an eye band on it. I already know that it's not just fashion.

Had Lily seen the scenery of Chrono and me eating soothingly, would she have been the object of jealousy herself? I don't even remember the fear. In the first place, Simon was scared and bad about Lily because he didn't have one right now. As a work partner, I'm even too good and respectful, but I'm still scared of scary things.

"Let's go outside, shall we? It feels good because it's sunny today."

"Oh, please"

Then, behind Chrono without a sound, stands a creepy armored helmet that looks like a reaper fully armed. Simon, once mentally intolerant, feels his hair still terrorizing just to see, but this cursed ancient armor, the Tyrant's Armor (Maximilian), and the will of the maid to name him Sheep Moving Sole, will now only mean a work companion to take care of Chrono.

Too weak in Simon to carry Chrono's giant body. When traveling, as it looks, no, I leave it to her to dwell on more power than that.

Originally, I would argue that your husband (Chrono) 's best maid and head maid, takes care of everything, but anything, she seems sick of forcibly returning to Sparda against Chrono's will.

"Ugh, sheep... sheep can't face your husband anymore -!

It was a wack that reluctantly left the care of Chrono to Simon, expressing his firm resolve to work hard and back.

Simon was surprised that there was really no liquid like tears from parts that mimicked the eyes of a wretched monster.

What the hell structure is this ancient armor in? I couldn't help but want to rose and find out, but if I did, they were going to kill me, so I set aside my intellectual curiosity for a moment.

"Coffee's gonna burn, go ahead."

"Sorry."

"Fine, this is my job now."

Leave the trip to the sunny upstairs balcony to sheep and Simon to the kitchen. Since Sariel taught me how to brew coffee once, I've had beans myself and drank them. I never dreamed I could interact like that with someone I shot with the intention of killing... but as for Simon, Sariel, speaking with no emotion and rationalization, was easy to stick with instead.

In other words, it makes no difference that the biggest gateway for Simon is Lily.

"... what shall we do"

When I'm alone in the kitchen, I hold my head as soon as I can.

Even Simon knows it's not like he's swallowing like this. Chrono is now stuck in a predicament of life or death. That too, up to the sixth day of the first fire, with a time limit.

"Ask, talk, we have to hurry"

Simon hasn't heard Chrono's answer yet. What to do. What do you want to do?

I avoided hearing it from myself. I thought from the time I read the news from Fiona that I would not imitate the question.

Kill Lily, abandon Fiona, because Chrono would find the answer himself.

But reality wasn't such an easy thing.

When I looked up at the chrono I left, I couldn't say anything more than caring. Is it true that you can't find the words to call?

"But if you're this way to the boulder, you should tell him sooner..."

Fiona sent me two letters.

The first one is the thing she put out just before she left Avalon. It arrived right under Simon on a Feilong flight express.

What was written was that Lily was trying to imprison Chrono by calling him married. To challenge Fiona, Saliel and Nell to fight to stop it. That Lily's latent destination is the untouched realm of the divine extinction realm Avalon. And because Chrono absolutely disagrees with this behavior, he sent it back to Sparda, which means he'll take care of it until he gets back.

It was a letter of such desperate content that it became dark in front of me when I read it, but the trial of Simon imposed by Fiona did not end with that.

It was the day before Chrono arrived in Sparda. A second letter arrived at Simon.

"You are definitely Master Simon Friedrich Baldier. My name is Vivian. I am a Fiona Demon (Servant)"

The second letter was in the form of a fairy.

Or it was a real fairy.

The fairy was engraved with a collar-shaped magic fixture (magic item) and a technique that combined several types of engraving on her forehead, hands and feet and back. Simon, bright at a glance at the magic ceremony, observed that it was a slavery ceremony of a different lineage from Lily's "Thought Dominance Device (Fairy Ring)". I can't decipher about half of it, it was an unknown technique... but the magic of making people use demons (savants) alive is all about foreign magic, forbidden techniques.

However, Simon, who cooperated in the production of The Thought Dominant Device (Fairying), now has no intention of charging the Knights with exercising the prohibition of dominating people. Following Lily, all I get is "oh I knew" feelings about Fiona and about her mastering the magic of an unforgivable demon as this man.

Leaving aside the treatment of Vivian the Illegal Servant, what matters is the information she brings home.

Her telepathy enables her to receive Fiona's record of fighting Lily as visual information.

Simon decided ahead of Chrono that he had no right to see the end of Fiona's spectacular battle, and he hasn't viewed it all yet. But I understand what she meant when she sent this Vivian.

"Mr. Fiona wants help."

Ignoring Chrono's opposition, Fiona headed to kill Lily. But in case she fell powerless, she left Vivian behind.

I'm sure Chrono will come and help. Leave a clue to defeat Lily at all.

"After all, just about Vivian, I need to tell you"

Where Chrono found out about this, now I know it's nothing. Chrono already knows that Fiona and the others are in captivity, so I just saw the process of defeat, and it's not a hint to find an answer. All Fiona has left is a combat record (documentary) that helps kill Lily, not information to solve everything Krono wants.

If Chrono sees it, it is more obvious than seeing fire that it will only cause him to suffer even more than he does now.

But more than I have received, it is Simon's duty to make this look like Chrono, and I would also be obliged to see it as Chrono.

"All right, I'll tell you!

With that in mind, Simon headed for the balcony with a cup of coffee,

"- The wind is getting cold, shall we go back?"

"What, uh, yeah..."

In the end, I couldn't cut it out.

As I drank my coffee and watched Chrono dusk, I suddenly became anxious that if I broke Vivian's record, I would even decide to jump down against a sharp, pointed fence in front of him and commit suicide.

No, I know it's Chrono's body, and it won't be fatal enough to fall towards the blade, but the problem is not physical, it's mental.

"No, you can't! That's all I have to say, come on, if possible by the end of the day!

However, it is not good to postpone the release of Vivian's information any longer because of the impending deadline.

Simon was troubled. I'm going to get dinner ready, so I went back to the kitchen and was worried again.

Yeah, roaring and bothering my head, the brain of a genius alchemist finally flashes.

"All right, in times like this, let's use the help of alcohol!

By cheap means everywhere, Simon challenged Chrono to dinner.