Kuro no Maou

"Emilia!

I finally found it, and only Emilia, the client I was supposed to protect, was left alone on the stage.

Running right over. Nobody else is here anyway, and I'm going up to the stage from the grand front.

"... Ash"

"Hey, are you okay, Emilia? What the hell happened?"

Emilia, who was sitting back, looks at me with a face that was bent over.

My consciousness seems clear, and I can't see how I've been injured. Safe appearance, though, doesn't seem like a situation that would make me honestly happy.

"Idiot, you're late."

"Sman, you're weird, but you're tangled up, and you're late"

"Hey, I was worried about you."

"I'll be fine."

More than that, Emilia obviously has a less than okay vibe.

Or it's odd that she's the only one left in this anomaly in the first place.

"Hey, tell me. What happened to this, what happened to the concert?"

"Oh, this... Guys, he's gone"

If you look at that, you'll see.

"How come you're gone? No way, it just suddenly metastasized."

"It's not that wacky."

"Well, why not?"

I would have been in a live venue, where tens of thousands of people disappear without leaving one. Not only the guests, but the staff, even the immediate escort of Emilia. Besides, people are disappearing from all over Anglo-South town.

"He left."

"Did you leave? Everybody? Where?

- Lily.

I didn't know what that meant.

Apparently, however, neither the inhabitants of the town nor the live guests had undergone a mysterious disappearance, but everyone went there of their own free will.

"Lily, who..."

"Idol. She was a fairy child... she came out of nowhere a few days ago."

A girl named Lily in Fairy.

Then you're fooling my old buddy, is that it?

I only showed Oren the images, so I know his face and his name. She was an uninterruptedly cute fairy toddler if only she looked...... The Adventurer Party "Element Master" is a secret task force of the Crusaders. It's no surprise that you're such a nari, under Saliel's command, with some special power.

So you're saying that Saliel finally made a move?

"What's wrong with that lily, or what can I do to make this happen"

"I sang. Idol, of course."

"Huh? Did you sing, that's all?

"... Yes, it is. That kid just sang, and they all went under her. He's playing live in front of Chaos Legion's mansion right now."

"Oh no... are you saying that nobody is because everyone, is going to Lily's concert!?

Hard to believe, but Emilia nods that she's right.

I don't know what that means.

Just because another idol is live nearby doesn't mean we're gonna go until we get out of the concert we're here to see right now? It's not a band of amateurs or frigid underground idols, it's a top idol Emilia live at the top of Carla Mara.

Instead of the guests, the staff and the escorts went to Lily without anyone left?

Isn't that early, unattractive, and brainwashing?

"That's crazy... what the hell is going on? Isn't that bad mental magic or something?"

"Yeah, maybe. But all those popular idols are the same. More or less, it has the power of 'charm'"

"Emilia, too, is she?

"I don't know for sure, but it's something that comes naturally, you know."

I have heard that the magic of 'Charm' resides in the beautiful appearance... but there will be limits to it.

That's why I lost.

"Have you ever lost?"

"I lost in charm. I lost as an idol. That's why they took all the fans - Lily, he was singing the same song as me."

Initially, he said the concert was a big one.

Instead of being filled up as expected, the guide, a large audience grabbed it all the way outside the square, gathered to hear Emilia's raw singing at all.

However, about thirty minutes after the start, just about the same time the uplift of the live venue accelerated, the singing sounded different from that of Emilia.

Lily was right outside the venue.

And sing. The exact same song that Emilia is singing live. Like a duet, sing to her.

Lily's singing had reached everyone there wondering what magic she was using. So Emilia herself was clearly heard.

Fairy Princess Lily, sing that demonic song.

"Change soon appeared. I've been idling for a long time, so I can see how everyone's doing."

The gaze that was toward Emilia, the cheer, the heart, away.

No one or he, opposite the stage, begins to face the outside of the venue.

"From the outside at first"

Finally, a man appeared who would take his seat.

The ultra-popular Idol Emilia with a competitive multiplier of tickets un a hundred times, the crime of getting out in the middle of that concert.

"The movement spread right across the venue"

Zorro Zorro and almost simultaneously, then, without even the guidance of the guards, a large audience smoothly leaves the venue.

Attracted by Lily's singing voice.

"I knew right away that nothing was going to happen. If they hear you sing like that, no one's going that way."

The power of fascination until the unusual seems to dwell in its singing. Otherwise, we can't move tens of thousands of people together.

Then why is Emilia safe and unappealed?

"Only to me, I think, because it wasn't directed at me"

You mean you deliberately excluded it from the scope of the effect? I wonder if I can imitate that with a mental state anomaly called 'Charm' (Bad Status), but it actually feels that way and it's not a mistake that Emilia keeps her sane.

"Why only Emilia"

"Because I'm the enemy, right? As an idol, they sold me a fight. It used to be..."

There's Emilia now, fighting through those idol warring times.

"- For the first time, I lost. I lost, I couldn't help it at all. I couldn't do anything."

Laughing at herself, Emilia.

But from the edge of its eyes, the grain of tears seeps.

"I sang, best of luck, don't lose... but..."

"Emilia......"

Once the weir is cut and overflowing tears will not stop.

At last Emilia cries out.

It's not like the first time we met, I cried out in front of a zombie. I wager everything I can to fight, and still, it's as if I lost my grief without reaching it. Crushed humiliation of all his pride as an idol. Despair that didn't leave a single fan.

Like this, I'm set to cry.

"Ash... sorry... sorry"

"Why apologize?"

I can't make my dreams come true.

"What are you talking about, it's still coming"

"I can't... I can't beat Lily. She'll soon take away Karamara's popularity by herself."

I don't know, but Emilia, who was an immovable top idol, looks like this.

Lily proves that she has more power than popularity to take people's hearts away like she brainwashes them. When that happens, I can't be truly fat with idols anymore. A magician specializing in spiritual magic would still have a better chance of winning.

"So it's over. If you take a song from me, there's nothing left...... just a little girl. Instead of helping underprivileged children, I don't even know if I can live on my own."

"That's not true, Emilia has done a fine job so far. The people in this city never thought of saving their children alone, but only Emilia..."

"Yes, that's why I was attracted to you. Sometimes I thought it might be weird for me... but for the first time, I met someone who was as serious as I was. Black Masked Ashes, Real Heroes Helping Kids Pinch"

"No, I..."

I just did what I could. It's not like I have a fine mind to be a hero.

By chance, he had as much power as he could help. I thought I wouldn't sleep well if I didn't help.

That's all there is to it.

But when I heard Emilia's dream, I thought I might be a real hero, too, doing half the things. I'm sure I'm the one who got the hope to affirm myself.

"But I can't do it anymore... I can't do it anymore... as an idol. You'll never beat Lily... you don't deserve to be next to your hero Ash."

Emilia must be mistaken.

I'm not that big a guy. I'm not a noble person.

But there's nothing I can do about saying that right now.

Yes, Emilia's too shocked right now, she's not calm. Naturally, it's the worst development you can even imagine to be deprived of all your guests at a concert in progress. This makes it weirder to be flat.

So what Emilia needs right now is a straightforward word of comfort.

I don't care about justice or dauntlessness. It's just that if she feels safe, that's fine.

"Emilia, don't worry, I'm on it. It doesn't matter what your qualifications are."

"Stop, I'm not an idol. What a load of baggage I am. Doesn't do any good..."

"Helpful or not, it wouldn't make a big difference to a slave trader to choose people like that. Look, Emilia, I want to help you if you're in trouble, and I want to support you if it's going to break."

I've already met Emilia, and she's been in quite a relationship, albeit brief.

Just as Emilia thought of me as a comrade, for me too, only Emilia was a comrade who seriously wanted to save the children in this city and took action.

"Besides, I'm not as good a hero as you think I am. If I had to, I would prioritize my inner body to help, and I would actually."

"Then it doesn't matter! I stop working as an idol and then I just fall as-is... nobody helps those who fall. This is the kind of city we live in."

"Then I'll help. Let's get out of this city, let's get out of Carla Mara together"

"... Huh?

Are you surprised or frightened? Emilia looks at me with such an open face.

"I was trying to escape from a city like this."

"Hey, what's up, Sole! Then who will help the children?

"Let's give up our dreams"

Dreams are, you've given up.

Or it doesn't usually come true. Nowadays, how many children in elementary school seriously believe that their future dreams will come true?

"Oh no... why do you say that..."

"Disillusioned? But I can't be the hero of a story. I'm just a human being with a little bit of strength."

There are limits, naturally, because you are only one human being. That's not even a very high limit. There's no way you can be like a Savior who saves everything.

"So help from whoever wants to help. If it's hard to be in Carla Mara, I'll take you and get out of here."

My boys left it at the orphanage. Gold is on the verge of reaching its target amount. I can assure you that I will take care of those kids.

The least I can do is keep my brother-in-law, so worst of all, it would be good if I left Carla Mara.

Even if not, it's just dangerous if Saliel's Crusaders were to make a real move in Carla Mara. Wearing the majesty of the Polar Wolf Club on a casa may also be a limitation. I want to think that it would be safer for the kids to be left without me... If I have to, I'll take them all away again.

"Besides, if it wasn't for Lily, Emilia would be able to do it again anywhere as an idol. Any country can take the top right away."

There will be no other environment more equipped to distribute video than Carla Mara, but still, there is a demand everywhere for entertainment called Idol where you can sing and dance. If Emilia had reigned in the Idol Culture's most advanced Carla Mara, she should be on a different level from the rest of the country.

Maybe you can go by surprise, this plan.

"... idiot"

"Bad. Pity, just say something backwards. But if you don't think there's this much escape, it's tight."

People can be cornered because they have no escape.

That's what that hell laboratory is for me, and for Emilia now, Carla Mara with Lily turns into hell.

So if we don't secure a proper escape, we'll be cornered to the point where we can't even make a calm decision.

"Idiot... Idiot... if you say that, you really want to rely on me..."

"Rely on me, I will definitely help Emilia. So don't worry, don't worry."

Emilia is a strong girl. I haven't come idle to Dada.

I'm breaking my heart in shock right now, but if I stand here, I can always get back on my feet. There really wasn't any help from me, and Emilia would have stood up for herself.

I don't know, I can't leave you alone. If a girl cries in front of you, you have to do everything in your power to comfort her.

"Besides, I like Emilia's song. So sing."

What's with Lily? Didn't you just force yourself to take away your fans because of the brainwashing effect?

Maybe that brainwashing ring evolved further to make it work. Then he's not even an idol, he's just a terrorist. Worst out-of-the-way ever.

"... yeah"

With my big, not even good consolation words, did you feel a little bit better? Emilia looked at me and smiled, still in tears at the edge of her eyes.

Ugh, don't be so thrilled when you can stare straight at me at this close range. Is this the power of charm?

"Okay, me, I'll sing. Ash, for you alone."

Picking up the microphone that was rolling at her feet, Emilia gets up.

"The concert isn't over yet. Really, listen to me till the end, right? My fans, what is it?

"Oh, let me hear it."

That's how it starts, live for the audience alone.

There's no buzz or anything. From the side, there would be no more vain stages.

Being on a huge special stage that foresees accommodating tens of thousands of people is one idol and one fan - but Emilia singing here looked brighter to me than any other she has ever seen in the Vision.