Kuro no Maou

Episode 598: The Fifth Swordsman

Take a thick black eyelid that covers your left eye. My face in the mirror is the same vicious side. If you stare again, I see, it's not strange to be called The Black Nightmare Mad Warrior (Nightmare Berserker), etc.

Damn, I can't believe Lily and Fiona like a guy with a face like this, they don't have a good taste.

"Watch, Lily"

Turn to the mirror and talk like that.

My left eye just stays red stained and there's no change like this. But Lily would definitely be the first, watching and listening.

"It's the 6th of the month of the first fire, that's the day of your appointment. But I don't want to pick you up."

To marry me, Lily said she was coming to pick me up, fixing it to be this day when she suffered the worst defeat in Alsace.

"I'm going to go under you. No running, no hiding."

Already, my heart has decided. At the earliest, there is no stray or hesitant. I'll laugh and stomp at you, like a whisper of conscience.

"I made up my mind. I'll get everything back. And what I want, I get everything. You can use any hand you want - get ready, Lily."

For a moment, half of my vision is dark.

"- Ugh, I'll be waiting, Chrono. I love you."

The beauty of a beautiful fairy girl, rising in the dark.

Lily also answered to the mirror and responded to me.

Vision, I'll be back soon.

"Oh, me too, I love you"

Wear eye bands again. This would be enough for a declaration of war (greeting).

Then let's go. There's nothing I can do about this, to end this crazy talk fight (Ragnarok).

The 6th of the month of the first fire, just before dawn of night. As planned, I, no, we got together in front of the main gate to leave Sparda.

"Good morning, everyone"

Already, the three members recruited in the quest are in full swing. For the record, I'm sorry it's the last time. I checked to see if I'd forgotten anything, and the sheep started playing...

"Oh, here we are, Chrono"

"Morning, Chrono-kun. It's a good morning, just the right time to travel."

It's still bleak though. But there are no clouds in the sky, and it's going to be a beautiful day.

Kai waved, Falcius with a graceful smile, and Rudra met in silence and small.

All three, a light traveling outfit. They also look less baggage, but they would be bags and pouches with space magic (dimension), so there would be no shortage of preparation.

"Hey, are you sure that little one's with you, okay?

What Kai says is not about sheep. As punishment for delaying departure, she is cautious in the shadows.

"Oh, I really need a member"

"Nice to meet you"

It is Simon who bows his head slightly nervously.

Simon, who has no strength or magic, challenges Rank 5's God's extermination realm is nothing more than a true act of suicide. Still, I decided to take him. With his brains and his strong hopes.

"Avalon, the realm of divine extinction, is still quite alive with its ancient apparatus. To some extent, if it's not available, there's no winning eye."

"So I guess this elf is your turn. I know, you're the one who manipulated the enchanted golem in Galahad."

Falcius is right. Of all the people I know, only Simon seems to be able to use the ancient system.

Though I was surprised that Sariel could have used the metastasis, the hidden feature of The Beginning of History (Zero Chronicle). As an apostle, I guess it was more than that in Sinclair that I came into contact with the secrets of the ancient sites, and the degree of understanding of the differences made with Mr. Shirazaki's contemporary knowledge and with those archaeologists there.

"For once, let me ask you, are there any of these guys familiar with ancient magic and technology?

"Because I can't be difficult."

"I'm a little out of boulder, too."

"I can read a little ancient language."

Seriously, it's Rudra's unexpected stunt discovery.

"Perhaps now Lily is more familiar with ancient magic than anyone else on the Pandora continent. Without any means of confrontation, it would suck, it wouldn't even be a battle."

"Hey, Chrono, are you that fucked?

"I have a combat record, I'll show it to you later"

If you look at Vivian's information, everyone will be wary of its mightiness. If you look at this and say you're still going to resign, I'm not going to stop you.

Including the ancient heritage, the power of Lily is now comparable to that of an apostle. So much easier still to feel ahead of the great army of the Crusades in the Galahad War.

"But at the very least, if you don't protect yourself, I'm in trouble. We don't know how far we can go."

"For once, I have an idea. But if... sorry, please."

"Hmm, is this elf so important to you?

With a mean looking grin, Falcius sees Simon as a giddy.

"Simon's been dating since I was in Daedalus, because he's my best friend."

"Well, Chrono-kun liked these cute boys."

"That's not how it works."

You're my best friend. Don't push me. I'm just going to declare Harlem, but it's going to get even deeper, so stop. I really don't think so.

"It's dawn. The main entrance will open."

The dim sky adds clarity. The Great Main Gate is liberated with the sunrise. Finally, it's time to leave.

"Come on, let's go! Be the first not to!"

Kai gets in on his horseback riding, the binoculars (bicorns), and he just rushes out. Speaking of which, Vulcan was on a bicorn, too. The fur color is different, but when I see the characteristic appearance of two fine horns growing like goats from the head of a horse, I then remember that.

"You look like a child."

"That much better be fine"

Falcius crosses the perfect white horse for the image. If it's not a plain travel outfit, but a decent outfit, don't be the perfect white horse prince.

Rudra, on the other hand, rides into a slender chestnut-haired horse... but is it possible that she is demonizing (savant) the use of vampire power? This horse has no life in his eyes. Instead, it hosts a giraffe and a creepy red light.

"All right, let's go, Simon"

"Yeah."

And I get in on my horse, Immortal Horse (Nightmare) Merry, and I get Simon on board.

Each different four horse dives through the main entrance with a light hoof sound on the dawn sparda.

For one thing, we're headed to Avalon, the city state.

Will we make it back to Sparta safely?

I have anxiety. Or only anxiety. But push it to kill me, and I'll just move on to fulfill my desires.

- Are you here?

The 8th of the month of the first fire. The sun had fallen for a long time, and it was night, but a message dove (servant) came to my room. Open the window and check the letter attached to your leg.

"That, Senior Sellis, is it possible that you're going out now?

"Oh, I may not be able to go back for a while"

A diligent lute who had opened and previewed a magic book at his desk asks me as he hastily begins to move.

"Is something wrong?

"Just a little. I've got a problem at home."

"Oh, really... sorry"

Did you think that I would go to an unscrupulous battle, like another chaossic limb crusade? Lute had some pretty serious eyes... sorry, but all this time, I can't let you get involved.

In the meantime, if I say it's a matter of the Archrites, he's a junior aristocrat and my fiancée, and I can't help but make him look good.

Would Lute cry and grieve if he stuck his neck strangely, bought your father's unhappiness and broke his engagement? Well, he has a lot of lovely girls to think about, so not marrying me or anything could make him happier as a person.

"For a while, I may not be able to go back. I'm worried... Lute, I left the student council to you."

"Okay. I'll be waiting for you about Senior Celis."

Dropped off by a junior who says strangely maiden things, I popped out of the dorm.

Waiting, huh? If I don't go back, I want you to give up as much as you do.

"Even in lieu of life, we must save Princess Nell"

That's my mission, at that time, even though I had a bad feeling, I couldn't stop it.

The witch Fiona, who came to visit Chrono and came out instead. I need to talk, after she took me... the princess didn't tell me the details. Only if you take a certain personal contract quest with that witch and fulfill it.

I can't imagine what that content looks like. However, it is in the princess's atmosphere that a dangerous battle will come to be challenged with her life, so there is room to observe.

We should stop it. I thought so, too. But in the end... Princess Nell disappeared the day after that.

When will you be back? Or have you been in a situation where you can't go home anymore? A few days of vague anxiety. I received a letter from Princess Nell.

By that I finally found out all the circumstances.

Lily the Fairy, a party member of Chrono. The jealously mad woman moved to take away everything in Chrono and finish off all the loved ones who put their thoughts on him. Hard to believe in Russia. But Princess Nell, too, and Fiona the Witch, Crono's official lover, seemed convinced that this was the truth.

I don't know what kind of person I am because I don't know a woman named Lily the Fairy. But the princess and the witch were more afraid of her than anyone else. From the original, he is a member of the Rank 5 Adventurer Party "Element Master". That combat ability is definitely superb... but from the text of the impatient princess's letter, you might call it more of a great fear, awe, to a woman named Lily. I felt such signs.

Knowing all the circumstances, well, what do we do?

Normally, you should tell the royal palace immediately as a crisis for the princess of Avalon. Princess Nell and Prince Nero, as students, are still allowed to operate as adventurers, but if they find themselves in a clear crisis in the boulder, the rescue will have the total strength of the Avalonian army.

But over this period, I hesitated to report.

Nothing else, secretly because my father, Heine Ann Arklite, revealed her love for the Avalonian royalty. That day when I was introduced to a dubious man named Priest of the "Aria Monastery," my father asked me about the secrets of the Arklite family, and then I was given a monastic scripture called the Bible.

Nothing more. My father doesn't say anything in particular either. As if all that story was a bad joke or just a dream.

Absolutely, I don't understand the wax. It seems that my father is plotting a rebellion, that the Archrites were ordained from antiquity because they are descendants of apostles or something. You know, I just bothered to call and talk, and you didn't give me any instructions about what to do or anything.

To me, who is obviously perplexed, that suspicious priest and father just said, "In the meantime, you will soon be able to understand the truth".

At least so far, I haven't even been able to imagine what they call the 'truth' and what they are. I even read the Bible that was brought to me...... I just thought it was a creepy doctrine of crappy human supremacy.

Even though I am the daughter of the Duke's family, it is teething that there is nothing I can do at a time like this. I'm only a student yet, and I don't have any personal reliance on the royal palace or the military. Even with a lot of interaction in the social world, all that relationship is just something tied in the name of the Duke of Arklight family. Sellis, you can't even sue one little girl for suspicion of conspiracy. Or maybe he knew that and didn't even have a stopping word.

Whatever, because of this one incident, I had to have great doubts about my father, and hence about the Duke of Arklight family itself. This is not just an inner circle where parents fall for cult religion, a crisis of family breakdown, etc.

If the twelve aristocrats at the heart of Avalon's politics, our Duke of Arklight, also known as its head, were to be serious about plotting a rebellion, it would be a crisis of civil unrest that would bisect the country. Even if not, conspiracy and rebellion are just outrageous against loyalty. Even if it's a joke, it's not the kind of thing you can say.

As far as I am concerned, I want to believe in the figure of my father, who has devoted himself honestly to the country, while thus far securing the interests of the Duke family. Above all, my father and the present king, His Majesty Tamarialdo, are also best friends of childhood.

There should be no personal resentment toward the King without sufficient profit to betray the royal family to the Duke of Arklight.

But if my father is really planning a conspiracy to defeat the Royal Avalon... if Princess Nell's crisis is known here, it will be even more troublesome. There is no way to go out in the way of a rescue operation, or in the worst case, murder in the name of rescue.

Now, is it really the best thing to do to gauge the princess's personal safety that I report to Avalon Royal Palace in a foolish and honest manner?

After worrying, I decided to move as instructed in the princess's letter.

The princess seems to have partied with Fiona, Saliel, and both names to defeat Lillie, who is waiting in the rank 5 dungeon, Avalon of the Divine Desolation Realm. And if we don't get back by the designated date and time, or if we don't get the safe news... they want us to decide we're defeated.

But the princess, no, apparently it's Fiona's plan, but she was insured. Yes, it's her lover, Chrono. He said if he found out about the princesses' defeat, he would definitely come to the rescue.

And I wanted Chrono's help on the way to that help, the letter said.

For me right now, I can't seem to be more secure relying on Chrono than making a public report of a possible murder.

If it's true, I'd rather you help me. Chrono sees the 'Aria Monastery' as passing through the Crusaders who attacked Sparda, vigilant to a great extent and, above all, hostile to it. I don't care if my father is supposed to suck because of the convent, but I want to cry... calm down, not if I'm saying that now.

For one thing, the rescue of Princess Nell is our top priority, and we'll leave everything else behind once and for all. If I met Chrono too, I wouldn't be able to tell him about the situation so he wouldn't have to worry about it. If you want to reveal it, it's fine after it's all over.

Regardless, Krono's rescue could fail, and in the worst case scenario, it's already too late.

It will be the last time to tell the Royal Palace of Avalon about the death of Princess Nell. I, like the princess, leave a letter and decide to head to the rescue.

If anything really happens to the princess, the people of Avalon will be greatly saddened. Neither his father, His Majesty Mirialdo, nor his brother, Lord Nero, can measure that mourning - but I will not be present in such a worst situation. Because if the rescue fails, I would undoubtedly be dead too.

"No, let's believe it. Princess Nell is still alive. And we can rescue them safely."

The usual me wouldn't really believe such a hopeful observation. The dreamy maiden was going to graduate and become quite a grown-up who could face reality. Adults, it's already been two years.

But even then, I can believe in the best future...

"With Chrono, I'm sure"

As we have defeated that chaossic limb, we can, necessarily, shoot and shatter the evil Lily's ambitions and rescue the princess. Yes, I can believe it, I feel like trying to believe it.

"But I didn't mean to rely on a man... you mean, I'm a woman too"

I didn't mean to dump the woman, but as a knight, I thought I'd dumped her forever, such as sweetness in battle. But weakly, now I'm staring at Chrono, his big, successful back, more than I'm tempted to cut my destiny on my own.

But it wasn't a strange and unpleasant feeling.

"Phew, you're in an easy place to understand, thank goodness"

Horses flew from the school and came to the Adventurer Alliance headquarters in Avalon. Like Sparda, this guild, whose users are limited to Rank 4 and above, is also an unbooked or instantly available accommodation.

Chrono hastening the rescue, is it half natural to use this place?

I moved because I grabbed solid information that Chrono had entered Avalon and taken an inn at Alliance headquarters. The letter that arrived in my room just now stated that.

It didn't make a bad mistake and it was really good. For one thing, I enter headquarters with reassurance that the main premise of the operation, Chrono and rendezvous, has been successful. I have used this place several times too, so I don't need guidance.

Palace-like entrance hall. Looking at the large demon king Mia statue lobby - there he is, it's Chrono!

Did you just come down to the dining room on the first floor for dinner? He is surrounded by companions. As the information suggests, I think you're a rescue member that you recruited urgently in Sparda.

Not surprisingly, there are some Kai Est Galblades who I heard were also personally close to Chrono. The rescue target also includes Princess Nell, so even as a member of The Wing Road, it would be natural to participate.

Standing in the shadow of a large Kai, in the face of a wretched man in a shady black coat, I don't recognize him. He still looks like a sick man who's about to fall... but there's no gap in his standing, and now, he's killing insignificant signs. I'm lowering it to my waist with a single knife. From the atmosphere, perhaps, not human, but undead, per vampire. I'm sure of my skill.

I was most surprised by the glowing white man's face, as opposed to the vampire-like man. Isn't that man, possibly Spartan gladiator, Falcius? I have no taste in watching gladiators, but still, I know his face, the great star Sparda is proud of. There are also many enthusiastic fans in the school.

No way, pulling someone like that into a party is a Chrono connection, don't be afraid.

Anyway, the three men Chrono hired were seen as the unbeatable users of the sword. There is not one man who can speak in vain that I will fight a duel, and I will surely defeat him. Awesome elite unit.

But only one of those horrible quartet was out of place.

What, that elf girl? Only that kid, overwhelmingly weak. At first glance, I know. There's nothing she can do, that she's an ordinary person.

Even so, the elf girl would be too stuck with Chrono, as if she were part of this Sparda's most elite adventurer unit as well.

Who the hell is that girl? No way, you're not the wrong woman who thinks you're catching up with Chrono just because of that pretty face. Only in Chrono, it's impossible to let such a dumb woman serve you. Well, when it comes to going to rescue Fiona, my lover, and Princess Nell, who could have been my lover, it's impure to have other women... no, but from ancient times, I say, "I prefer heroes, colors," and strong men have heard so much about lust, so much about... but maybe, Chrono, you look at me like that too! So you mean you could have kissed me flat!?

No, no, no, no, no, no. But...

"- Oh, is that Sellis?

Ha! And I went back to me.

Before I spoke, I guess I perceived the signs. Chrono looked back at this one. remains, well, if you stare so much, are you determined to realize?

Either way, you can save yourself the trouble.

I headed under Chrono early enough, suppressing my departing mind for some reason.

"Good evening, Chrono. Long time no see."

Nature and cheeks are broken. I'm good at making smiles, but I'm not good at laughing naturally, it should have been.

"Good, looks like your injury's healed."

"Now I'm completely cured. Also, you can beat each other up with chaossic limbs"

"I'm sorry to deal with such a monster anymore, I am."

"Ha, me too"

It's been a long time, but I and Chrono rejoice in an unexpectedly early resumption that would have stayed away longer.

"By the way, how could Celis be in the guild? Are you here to take any quests?

"Oh, I thought you came to take it."

"Heh, what do you get?

"So, Chrono, I need to talk to you about one thing..."

And I open the requisition that was in my pocket and give it to Chrono.

Quest Divine Realm Avalon's Unstepped Realm Attack

Reward - one person, 100 million clans. Additional Reward Ali.

Deadline/TBD. However, applications must be made by the 5th of the month of the first fire

Client/"Element Master" Chrono.

Request Details · Recruit members to attack untouched areas on the west side of the Divine Extinction Realm Avalon. Because it is a Rank 5 dungeon and because of the offense in an area where an unknown threat is lurking, eligibility is allowed to be Rank 4 or higher. In addition, we will also review our strengths. It was also noted that this offensive operation involved very personal circumstances. Detailed descriptions shall only be given to formal quest contractors.

"- This, the application deadline has passed, but I was wondering if I could manage to participate. So I came here to ask for it directly from my client (Chrono)."

When I put a requisition on his chest, Chrono was terribly surprised by the look on his face like a pigeon had eaten 'Stone Bullet (Terra Sagitta)'.

Heh heh, it was a cute reaction inside, but I guess I immediately guessed.

happily, nodding, and, forcefully, he said.

"Thank you, Celis - welcome to 'Blade Master'. Welcome."

"Hehe, is that the name of the party?

"Oh, now I've thought about it"

He thus became a member of the "Blade Master", formed of five swordsmen, no less.