Kuro no Maou

The next time I woke up, I was between the abominable black thrones.

I've been waiting for you.

"Mia......"

I guess that's the one who called it in. It's as if I came of my own free will... but I'm already ready to give up the protection of the Demon King. Never mind if I don't see you again.

But Mia didn't seem to think so.

Just like the last time he had it, he looked down on me from the throne with a puppeted, faceless look that couldn't see the color of his emotions.

"Congratulations, you made it through your last trial."

"I didn't mean it like that. You must have taken Lily's heart."

"That's both of them, by agreement."

"You and Lily?

No, me and Iris.

I talked to Lily back at a young age until I fell asleep again in the example pod. He's right, it's a pile of stories.

In it, I heard that Lily was also coming to the trial given by Fairy Queen Iris, just as I was challenging the Demon King's trial. If he could have caught me, Lily said he had been granted further protection and half of it from a man had gained so great power that he could be a god.

A fairy girl will become a fairy princess and have her own world to call a shrine. If I were defeated, Distinyland would be the next perpetual robbery, the closed world that Lily and I would spend alone, and eventually become the only divine realm of her isolated from this otherworldly world. That completes the 'paradise' Lily wanted.

So for Lily, this battle was not only a watershed between whether or not to get someone you love, but whether or not you could be a god.

To be honest, the eternal world of God is too absurd to be realistic. Fairy ecology would be seriously too fantastic to develop into such a grand story as whether to live with a man you like or not.

"Me and Lily, both survived. That's the end I wanted and won. You guys are God's thoughts, it doesn't matter."

"... if you had just finished killing her, do you think your last trial would have been fulfilled"

"Come on, you could have even lied about the condition of dedicating Lily's heart. You couldn't even protect your loved ones, so you didn't deserve protection.

"No, really, if you had killed her, that would have fulfilled your last trial. So, you're right, going beyond the trials and trying to save her life was purely an achievement you won."

"It would have been easier if you hadn't taken my heart. I didn't want to complete the trial, but I did something extra."

One of the evils will follow. If we were both dead in that, we must have cursed you for real. If I become a curse weapon, I'm sure it'll be a pretty nasty thing. I mean, I'll definitely be.

"No matter how much I resent you, I will absolutely need the seventh protection and... the true power of my Demon King"

"Well, if I let Lily die, I could've even frustrated my willingness to protect Pandora."

"No, you won't break. Never run away, always keep fighting as long as you have enemies"

"Now you call me a Mad Warrior."

"That's the kind of man I chose you for."

I wonder. If I lose Lily, I feel like I'm going to cry with grief and lose my sword. I lose the fear of losing my loved ones, and this time I will choose to escape the fight against the Crusaders.

"Lily came back safe and sound. Now we can get back to normal and focus on fighting the Crusaders. Don't worry there. I have no reason to escape the battle."

"That was good. You don't have time to worry, you don't have time to get lost - Kurono Mahogany, do you know what day of the month this is?

"What, suddenly? If the night hadn't dawned, it would still be the 13th of the first month of fire."

"Yes, just a year ago today, I first met you"

Yeah, speaking of which, maybe so. I was wandering in despair at the end of the Battle of Alsace, and I met in the alley of Sparda's slum.

"Well, it's just been a year"

"In just one year, you let me cross seven trials. None of them could have taken as long as a harsh trial, ten or twenty years if it were true - but we don't have time."

To Russia, Mia rises from the throne and points to her little finger.

"Look outside."

Speaking of which, there is a window between these thrones. From what I've seen, Chilla, I've never cared before now because the dark is just spreading like midnight and I couldn't see any scenery...

"What, the light is shining. Dawn, is it?

By the window you can see the magnificent and robust buildings and walls that will probably be this Royal Castle of Avalon. No sign of people, like deserted.

And outside the giant royal castle, only the wilderness spreads. A truly lonely sight in a vast wasteland with nothing, like only this castle is built with potpounds.

The view is illuminated by the bright, thin, white light of the sunrise across the far horizon.

"No, I'm the light of a white god."

"What?

"Already the Crusaders completely occupied Daedalus and turned him into a crusader dominion. That means being in the White God's sphere of power"

It would mean that in Daedalus the influence of the protection of the white god has now become stronger, as in the divine extinction realms Avalon and the Asbel Mountains.

Expanding the area of power of the Crucifixion makes more sense than just the change in reality of building a church and converting people, the expansion of a region where the power of white God extends. As both Saliel and Fiona were saying, the Sinclair Republic expands the Zihuahiwa and the Crusadist sphere of power, as well as moving on to the nations further ahead with the power of the White God from which it derives.

I will not suddenly send the Apostle to the centre of an enemy country to ravage him because if he is not within the area of the Crusadist forces, he will weaken his power and his opponent will strengthen his power. It's too risky to fight off the force zone.

Whatever, that's the opposite again. If I suddenly move to Elysion, the holy capital of Ark continent, too, I may be sealed without activating the protection of the Demon King.

"Do you mean Daedalus' reign is the cornerstone, even if he loses a great deal in the Galahad war"

"No, that's not the only reason why that abominable light shines so far"

The colour of the emotions floats to Mia's expression, which was slightly, truly slightly, unchanged. Is it like anger, rush, or anxiety?

Because of that, only for a moment, I made Mia look like a young child just the way she looked.

"To this Pandora, Elision the Holy Land is about to be resurrected again"

"... what do you mean"

I have heard from Fiona the speculation that in the far ancient era of Mia's life, the Pandora continent would also have had a popular crucifixion and a city called Elysion. Anything, because there was an Elysion Cathedral on the Pandora continent in the realm of the Black Witch Endymion.

In other words, the Pandora continent was ruled by the Crucifixion in ancient times, and the Holy Land Elision was somewhere, prospering greatly. He said that the Imperial Army of Ellord, led by Demon King Mia, had crushed it by the time it was completely skinless and chased the crucifixion itself from Pandora.

This ancient religious war is the legendary stage that spawns numerous black gods, including Mia.

"Exactly, the Holy Land Elision was destroyed by me - but it wasn't the White God who died."

"So I guess the Crucifixion is back on the Ark continent"

"Man and God live in a different world. When I was human, the only thing I could fight and kill was the apostle who existed in the same world."

If a boulder tells me to kill a white god, too, I have no idea what to do. In the first place, I don't even know what a white god looks like, and it's obvious that he's definitely standing and caged in dedicated god space-time.

"So, what is Elision's resurrection?

"Although I banished the Crucifixion... it wasn't a completely erased wax. Too long, this land of Pandora was too stained with the reign of the White God. So whether you defeat all the Apostles or crush the Holy Land, the abominable power of God remains like a curse, stained everywhere"

"The Crusaders used him for the curse of God - no way, the" Aria Monastery "is for that matter!

"Yes, the Crusaders' hands have already begun to grow besides Sparda"

"Is it preaching for that?"

"If we truly increase the number of followers of the Crucifixion, we can be so influential...... but in other ways, there is something more decisively restoring the power of the White God"

"What's that?

"I don't know either. Even though, God's point of view is hard to see in detail the world of men. Well, if we were to explore the steps of the Crucifixion, their movements would no longer look like they had a crucifix."

Including that, should I be perceived as being protected by a white god?

Don't get annoyed that you don't help the poor living in Pioneering Village, but it only works around places like this that get in the way of others.

"Well, then, exploring what they're up to besides preaching is what we're supposed to do ourselves."

"It is up to you, the people who live now, to decide what to make. Whether you want to explore enemies, prepare for battle, or hone your powers, choose for yourself."

Um, when they say that, I feel like I have to do it all.

Oh man, I've been wanting to relax for a while when this battle is over... apparently, it doesn't even go that wacky.

"Don't get busy."

"Yeah, good luck with that"

That's other personnel. You can't start to see the white god light from this god space-time and suck.

"I believe you."

Things are good to say.

"You survived your last trial, and you let your beloved try to save you."

"... Could it be that you were expecting it?

"Rather than wishing. God, I don't know who to wish for."

"For the trials I imposed on myself."

"All seven trials are based on my experience."

The trials and credentials given by the black gods are many things that capture the legend of that god. The theory is that by pursuing experiences from when God was human, though pseudo, we can bring our own existence closer to God.

We're going to imitate God's legend, so if we're going to do that, naturally, we're going to need strong strength and spiritual strength. As it turns out, success requires strength.

Otherwise, no system can be established for trials.

And the ancient demon king Mia Ellord said she couldn't escape the constraints of this trial system either. I also said this one day, I guess it's a kind of God's rule.

"But I... Mia, I can't trust you"

For the trial, I had to kill Lily. If we do not cross the trials, we will not gain true protection. And without that power, you can't beat the Apostle against you.

Reasonable reason.

But I'm not convinced. It can't be done.

Whatever the reason, I can't kill Lily. I couldn't, I pierced through. If you lose your heart, you die. Because I couldn't push and pull that obvious logic in, and I survived my last trial.

I can't grow up enough to laugh instantly and forgive someone who forced me to do that because everything went well.

Mia had reason to impose a test on me, and I'm sure she was ready.

Still, I resent Mia. You tried to get me to kill Lily, and you're complaining about the Demon King.

"Fine, don't believe me. You just have to believe in my power."

Oh, I know, the protection of the Demon King is strong.

I'm sure that no matter how much I train ahead, or gain protection from other gods... it will never rival the power of the Demon King given to me by Mia.

"Mia, even if you are a ruthless demon king who only thinks of me as a pawn to defeat the Crusaders - but still, if you gain the power to defeat the Apostle, I will believe you"

"Thank you, Mahogany Kurono"

Remaining emotionally unreadable, Mia gently offered her right hand, along with words of thanks.

I silently walked under the little demon king standing before the throne and took his hand.

"I entrusted all my strength. It depends on how far you can use it."

"At best, we'll improve."

Something, I didn't feel any special power or major change.

Mia's hand, which she gripped, was a child's palm, just small, soft and warm, as it seemed. Very, I don't think it's the hands of the legendary Demon King... but I find it strange and convincing that this is Mia.

"Oh, and I'll give you one last piece of advice."

"What?"

"You should stop putting the Devil's Eye in your own eye -"

By the time that voice arrived, Mia's little right hand had already pierced my left eye - so my consciousness was smashed apart.

When Lily woke up, it was in the middle of a beautiful and vast flower garden full of brightly colored flowers.

No need to be surprised. This is already the third time I've been here.

Yes, I realize three times that I was invited to the Divine Domain by Fairy Queen Iris.

And Lily had already decided what to say to the fairy god.

"... I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I was unable to fulfill my trial."

Without lying or opening any claims, Lily just bows her head and apologizes for her own defeat.

"It's okay, that's okay. Now, give me your head, Lily."

To Lily, who raised her face, the fairy queen, with her shining three pairs of feathers, laughed with a deep color of mercy everywhere.

I don't need many words. Her eyes are the same as those of a mother who sees her child crying without fulfilling her wishes, even after all her best efforts.

"Indeed, you could not cross the test of love I imposed"

Lily failed to create 'Paradise'. Because I couldn't keep my beloved from coming under me forever.

If we don't have ourselves (the eagle) and our opponents (you), then paradise will not be established. If it is not paradise, there is not enough divine space and the conditions for Lily to climb to the throne of God as a fairy princess will not be fulfilled.

"But you were loved"

"Yes, Chrono loved me"

I tried to revive Lily until I decided my own heart out. What do you call this without saying love?

No, even without Sole, Chrono has always loved me about Lily. From the time we met, life in the village of Iles, in the Battle of Alsace, in school life in Sparda, in the trials of the Demon King, in the Galahad War - and even now.

The truth is, I should have known.

"Congratulations, Lily. You're finally married to someone you love."

"Thank you"

Lily was finally able to live up to Chrono's love through her ugly and fierce jealousy.

"You have found your own way of love. Though that's a different direction from what I've prepared... if that's what you chose, I'll bless you"

"On top of that, I'd like to thank you. We were also prepared to lose the fairy's inherent magic (extra) beyond failing to fulfill the test."

"Lily, my pretty daughter. Where the hell is the mother who picks on the talent of my dear child? The power already belongs to you. Always and always will be, do your love with strength."

Lily feels deeply about God's mercy.

He betrayed the expectations of Illis, who even spoke to his own successor, and failed to fulfill the test. Really, I was convinced I couldn't help losing all of my powers as a fairy anymore.

But instead of blaming Lily for her defeat, she blessed me to start walking down a new path of love. As a matter of course, there are no shards of disappointment, like a mother who drops off my traveling child.

This would also be one of the great forms of love.

"But again, if you want 'paradise' - whenever you want, you should take my test."

And because I say such a thing with a smile at the end, it was truly unbottomed that God's love.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!?

And the appearance of Chrono, who suppresses his left eye and screams, disappears as if it were an illusion. From the throne of Mia the Demon King, he returned to the real world.

"Ha-ha-hoo"

After dropping off Chrono groaning in pain, Mia took what a carefree breath from her little mouth and slumbered down to the throne behind her. On its face, there is no creepy demon king's faceless expression, but a young worried face with a thin frown.

"I knew you hated me."

"That's not true, Master"

From the shadow beside the throne, which appeared without sound, was "Dark Knight Freesia," which made Mia Ellord's first knight, the Commander of the Kingsguard Knights, and became the goddess of the Knights.

"But I'm absolutely mad at you."

"Even if they still resent me now, I'm sure you'll understand - when it comes to fighting, it's close."

Um, and Mia held her head with a troubled face, but tighten her expression with Freesia's words.

"Yeah, you're right"

Everything I said to Chrono is true.

I had to impose a trial using someone who loved him, even though I knew it was cruel. If we are not able to cross the last test...... Krono will one day be defeated before the Apostle without strength. And then Pandora will perish, and the black gods will disappear again.

"The race was thrown, didn't you say?

"Well, maybe Kurono's already out of my hands."

There's nothing more to give him. After that, how far can you increase your own power? Because building strength is not a miracle of God, but is only accomplished by the will and effort of the person.

"... will it arrive"

If it doesn't arrive, they and we will both perish.

But Mia already knows that the path is too rugged and harsh.

"White God's 'brave man', his strength is already complete"

Only once, Mia confronts the Second Apostle Abel with her own 'White Brave'. That one time was enough to understand his power.

"The Third Apostle Mikael, the Fourth Apostle Judah, and the Fifth Apostle Johannes. They seem to have reached the same range."

"The difference in experience is too great… If they reconstitute the legendary Brave Party right now and come to Pandora, the chances are zero"

Chrono has not yet reached his power, nor that of his companions, and, above all, all that is in Pandora.

How could Mia Ellord have achieved the only Pandora unification for the first time in her history - because she couldn't have won if she hadn't?

In the name of the 'White God', the twelve reigning apostles and countless crusades. To prevail over the Holy White Army, we could not fight it without bringing together the forces of all those from east, west, north, south, and end to end of the Pandora continent.

I have no ambition or ambition there.

Only in terms of the impending necessity did Mia become Emperor of the Ellord Empire and Demon King.

"Until they move, how much respite will there be"

"Come on, that's all I have to pray for anymore."

"To whom?

"White God."

"- That's not funny at all. After all, you have no taste."

With that voice, the light fills Russia or between the black thrones.

A divine white light similar to the brilliance of the rival 'White God', but there is also a mixture of heterogeneous rainbow brilliance. Even its beauty, Mia can only think of one person, such as the bearer of light dazzling enough to burn her eyes.

"Hey, long time no see, Iris"

"Yeah, it's been a while, Julius."

It is the fairy queen, Iris, who wraps around the rainbow fairy kingdom (Oracle Field), as if spreading the glowing six pairs of feathers and decorating their beautiful appearance.

Though the same black gods Tamia and Iris, both have a dear smile at each other, the disturbing signs drifting between them are very invisible.

"Sometimes it's unusual, I can't believe you're out there"

"From that day on, though I thought I would never see your face again... Ugh, one of my thanks as a mother would have to say because my daughter took care of me"

"I am aware that my last trial is my own sin. But I resent you for using it in the worst possible way."

"Oh, why not? You've been so excited. It would have been a truly beautiful, noble, loving battle, worthy of the last test, wouldn't it?

To be honest, Chrono had absolutely no need to fight Lily.

Mia's imposed final trial, its essence, is to decide on the cruel readiness to give the life of a loved one, or to seek a miracle way to save life as well without giving up until the end.

So Chrono should have just bothered Lily forward. Do you dedicate her heart to adulthood, or do you find the means to resuscitate even if you dedicate your heart? That's all we're talking about.

But with the beginning of his final trial, Illis imposed a trial on Lily as the fairy queen. Get Chrono, the test of love.

"Dislike the will of a man, his evil taste will not change after thousands of years, Iris"

"Only if you have love. Besides, even without my trials, that kid must have done the same thing. I hope you don't take a sweet look at my daughter."

Indeed, Chrono and Lily, it is only as a result of their own actions that the relationship between them has become obstinate. There is no will of God there, just that he moved according to his own love.

Still, Mia thinks.

Rejected by Chrono, Lily jumped out of the dorm. At that time, if Envy Ray hadn't hatched from The Red Crystal Ball (Queen Beryl) - I'm sure Chrono would have found Lily soon enough to bring her back.

That should have completely changed the circumstances under which Chrono would be imposed his last trial.

Lily took Fiona and the others hostage and really secured the power and place to keep Chrono locked up forever, so Mia had to start her last trial at the worst possible time.

In anticipation of that, Illis hatched Envy Ray from his eggs.

"I will not admit what you do to make them unnecessarily suffer and hurt."

"If you don't, you won't be able to reach true love. Ugh, it's the same with you. I don't understand people's hearts, their bluntness, their inability to be gods doesn't change."

"I will not tolerate any further insults to the Master."

Bacilli, and the tip of a spear that can play violet electricity, are directed towards Illis.

To Freesia, who didn't even try to hide her will, Mia raised one hand and took control.

"That's okay, Shea. There's no reason to fight her anymore."

"Yes, you must be, Julius, your alliance is still preserved."

"I know. So I wouldn't have stopped if I didn't like the way you did."

And because it is the same for Iris, she imposes a test of love on Lily, nothing more.

Mia and Illis. The alliance based on the covenant between the two goes back even further than becoming God, to the time when the two were still people living in the world.

"... Hart, how are you?

"Yeah, he still loves me today."

I can play an Iris smile like a flower in full bloom. That's all I see, I see, the pity the fairy queen deserves.

"Yes, that's good"

But Mia cannot look directly at the smile of her beautiful goddess.

I can see it. On the other side of her smile, Mia sees.

Hurt. That's what they used to call me, a brunette, black-eyed boy. Like Mahogany Kurono, he was summoned to this world to look like a Gentile.

His appearance in Mia's eyes was chilling, as it was back then. A skinny, beautiful boy dressed in an Imperial School school run.

I guess he was in the middle of a fun tea party with Illis. We reach a white table prepared in the middle of the flower garden, with a hot teacup on hand and a classic tea treat from the Ellord Empire that we prefer to eat well.

The sights like the reproduction of the day of his existence, however, only make me feel guilty and regret in Mia's heart.

Hart's face sitting there is only a refreshing smile that attracts everyone... but his black eyes had no light by the time it was deadly. Like the undead, no, as if he were a sophisticated doll, a vain eye whose life had disappeared had revealed that his heart had died a long time ago.

"Then it's time for me to go home because Hart is waiting. Something that will cool the tea in the corner if you don't get back soon"

"Yeah, I'll take care of you, Hart. I will always, forever..."

I'm so glad Mahogany Kurono didn't make it.

Seeing his former rival, too crippled and empty, Mia thought so from the bottom of her heart.

Guilt and regret. But I never apologize.

Because this was the best way for Mia to beat Hurt.

"Julius, I'm not worried about anything. Because I believe in my daughter, Lily."

"I believe in Kurono, too."

"Well, anyway, all we can do to isolate ourselves from the world is trust them now."

It's horrible because you're crazy, and sometimes I tell you the truth.

"Well, I hope we never see each other again."

"Yeah, I hope I don't have to look at your face either."