Our demon king is coming. (formerly Mayday A Series)

Mosaic mural gods are looking down at us from the domed ceiling.

……

Those eyes just open and don't even blink.

I wonder what. I thought I heard someone earlier.

A stained glass of light plunges across the body in an overly quiet, dim space.

"This place..."

"Say, what the hell?"

The three of us were in that harbor, suddenly attacked by weakness and lost our minds.

When I realized, I was here.

"This is the cathedral of the Patriarchate. Look, that door..."

When Ulysses stood up, she pointed to that black door that had never been opened before.

Thor also manages to get up and look suspiciously around.

I, too, woke up some powerless body to the fullest.

"Hey, are you okay..."

"I'm fine. I don't know what it is."

"Maybe our magic didn't follow our bodies. No matter how many memories you have, how many magic tricks you have, you've never used a very large technique since you were born here, and you're a child everywhere."

It's like we don't know why we suddenly moved to this place.

But if we open the door in front of us, it must be now, and that's all we felt in common.

"Open it."

"... he said. He said to open this place when it's all over."

I gently touched the black door with the huge tree sculpture.

I didn't feel that I could open it only with the force of my arm, but the tree in that door, by touching it, stretched out the bright red branches and slowly opened from the middle.

"... opened"

We looked at each other and went into it.

I went down a long stone staircase somewhere like a pale light, even though it was dim and there was no light source, and I went out onto a wide floor along the way.

There are countless murals arranged there, like they are stored.

"It's a mural of Maidea mythology. All the murals that aren't on the table"

Oh, but I've seen this mural before.

I pointed to the biggest mural.

I've seen that before at a church in Carted.

"The Return of the Gods"... because it's the most famous "

"Is this the original?

"I guess so. Generally, it's decorated in front of the cathedral in a large way, I guess, as an original."

Even though all the gods are turning sideways, only the gods at the rear are facing the front.

I thought this was strange when I first saw the mural.

"Sure, the god behind you is the god who directs death, so you're facing the front," the Carted bishop said.

"Well, Thor, I'm surprised you know that. Yeah, well, the“ front ”indicates death. That's all we can tell is that this is the god of death."

"... hmm"

I didn't really understand the academic aspects of the legacy, so I was shocked by a single mural on the edge of my eye.

"Hey, this!!

……

That mural depicted the world being destroyed by a giant monster.

There are countless arms and wings growing in the shapes that are black and varied, and there is something like Saturn floating in your head.

That seemed similar to that giant soldier we repelled earlier.

"What is this, the guerrilla giant soldier just now?

"No... this describes the battle against the Giants (Gigas) in the Mythical Age. … it's a battle against the Giants (Giganto Magilliva) …"

"Giganto Magilliva......?

"Yeah. Magiliva is the name of Para Magiliva, Maidea's goddess of war, who eventually also became a word that meant just war. It's a mythical jargon, we call the Battle of the Giants“ Giganto Magiliva ”... I wonder what that giant soldier has to do with it"

Ulysses put his hand on his jaw and looks like he's still thinking of something.

"In the meantime, let's move on. Looks like there's more down there."

Thor, who thought he had no choice but to stay here, pointed his thumb at the aisle behind this floor.

Pichon... Pichon...

Through the dusty, dusty staircase, I was able to get a sight I never thought I'd see and a refreshing, fresh cold air.

It's a green world there.

White unfamiliar flowers bloom on mossy, misty land.

At the heart of a large underground garden, a giant tree spread its umbrella.

"Perselis!!

As Ulysses noticed something, he ran over to the root of the tree in the center.

There was a green witch there, getting smaller and falling.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Perselis!!

"... that... there's Ulysses..."

She got up powerless as she was, laughing nicely with a slightly sluggish, seemingly unwell face.

Ulysses supports it.

"It's okay. Because the shock that just broke through the green curtain just passed on to me through this tree. The green witch resonates with this tree..."

"... that's..."

She said, "I'm fine now!!," he stood up with Piong.

Ulysses seemed very worried, but found something next to her and changed her expression in an instant.

Like I lost my words, I don't even blink.

Me and Thor come close to Ulysses and Perselis, wondering.

And I discovered what was beside them...... I doubted my eyes.

There was a coffin of water surrounded by budding sprouts and embedded in the earth.

Inside, one boy sleeps with his bright white face in peace.

"Yes, what the hell is this..."

"Oh, hey, there's more."

Thor found countless coffins that were like enclosing the roots of a tree, pointing to them.

But Ulysses doesn't move from the boy's coffin.

"Lili......?

Something's wrong with him.

I look at the boy in the coffin of the earth, so I can't clearly see his expression lying down, but I know it's strange.

And slowly I knelt to collapse powerless, covering my face with trembling hands.

"Hey, why... why are you here... Shma..."

Me and Thor are confused by how Ulysses is doing.

Perselis looks worried and peers into Ulysses.

"Did you open the door... demon kings..."

Looking back to his sudden voice, General Kanon, a former brave man, and Princess Shatoma, a former Vine princess, who had just come down from the upper floor, stepped into the garden.

Without changing his expression, the brave narrows his eagle-like eyes peeking from between his military hats.

And you told us the shocking truth in front of us.

"White Sage... the body sleeping in that water coffin was born between you and your wife, a 2,000 year old green witch, son Shuma"

To the words that came out of the mouth of the brave, me and Thor opened their eyes and turned to Ulysses who knelt.

He still doesn't say anything.

To my great surprise, I listened back.

"Duh, what the hell, brave man!!

"... before you question it, you guys check all the coffins. A familiar face would be asleep."

We hurried and went to check the coffin of water embedded so as to surround the roots of the trees.

"... na"

After checking the faces of some strangers, Tor and I discovered a body that looked familiar.

Dark-haired, pale-faced, sleeping man.

"... Ha, what the hell is this"

Thor unexpectedly laughs in a trembling, incredible voice.

"Two thousand years ago, the Black Demon King."

Thor found what he once was, what he was in his time as the Black Demon King, twitching and distorting his expression.

He also shudders his head with his trembling hands again.

I was caught in a nasty rush creeping up from under my feet and went to check the bodies in line in turn.

Along the way, you will find Ulysses' former figure, the enclosed coffin of the White Sage's body, and hold your breath for a moment.

And then you close your eyes once, take a deep breath, check again and go.

A sensation of indiscriminateness suppresses the breasts that beat heavily.

………

But there was no one in the eight coffins lined up in a semicircle that I had a hunch about.

"Red Witch... your body is gone."

"... why..."

"Why? It's easy. Because you blew yourself up so hard that you didn't even have a body left. With me."

"You... what the hell are you"

Thor is in front of the sleeping coffin of a dark-haired man who looked like him in his previous life, and Ulysses is in front of the body of his son in his previous life, speechless and just dazed.

I don't know what it is either, but I was investing in my feet standing here thinking I couldn't possibly break my knee.

The cold sweat in my body is disgusting.

Still stand and stare at the brave.

I'm afraid I don't know what his next words are.

"Red Witch... Your body was to be laid in that boy's coffin"

……

"The body of the" eight ”coffin lined up here is the magic fuel that unfolds the green curtain of this sanctuary. I've been in charge of retrieving it for a long time. Yes... what I needed was a body from your Demon King class."

Step by step, brave man approaching.

Each time I took it step by step.

Without saying anything, Princess Shatoma's gaze as she watches in the back.

The brave man stands before me, looking down sharply at me, continuing his words.

"Fuel with built-in magic over a million mg that appears every 1,000 years. The vessel of magic necessary to protect this sanctuary. That's who you are now. But Red Witch... you never did that last time. Because its flesh has vanished from this world without leaving any shards of fine dust"

……

"The humans of the Holy Land 2,000 years ago feared that one coffin would be empty and looked for a replacement. So chosen was White Sage and Green Witch son Shuma. Both parents, the child of the Demon King class, died at only ten years of age and was placed in a water coffin."

The brave man turns his gaze to Ulysses and to Perselis on his side.

"A 2,000 year old green witch was forced to become the wife of another man again because she was killed her husband, killed her son, and eventually gave birth to the next generation of green witches. Because the heir of the green witch is determined to be the woman who draws the blood of her predecessors.... of a coffin lining the roots of a tree, look at a former witch. She'll still be young... and soon after she had her daughter, she lost her life without me laying my hands on her."

……

Every time he heard his words, Ulysses looked pale and shook his head like he couldn't believe it.

"Don't be silly!! Oh no... there's no way I'm allowed to do that!!

Ulysses looked up and forsake him violently.

He is soaking hate in his face as much as he has ever seen in tears.

"Lili...... calm down...... eh!!

Thor suppresses Ulysses, who rises and is likely to kill the brave.

"Forgiveness or nothing, it was the sanctuary of the time who did it. I don't have your revenge anymore... You're wrong to resent me, White Sage."

"I don't... I know that!! I know..."

Ulysses seemed to say he couldn't stand the hatred of bumping into nowhere.

And lay down on the cold earth of Gakuri and the sanctuary, slapping the trembling fists.

"Why is this... I can't believe this was happening... He was just a kid... and I promised him..."

"Lily."

I felt his sadness and hatred and held my mouth with both hands in an attempt to somehow retain the tears that crept up.

Naturally.

Because he killed his young child irrationally after he died.

"But putting that kid in a coffin meant nothing. Those who should enter the eight coffins will not change no matter how times shift. Because it was a vessel of eight determined souls."

"... eight... vessels...?

"Red Witch. You were one of them....... So the eight vessels are not aligned, and the green curtain has been working in incomplete form for the last 2000 years without descending from Act VIII. For the first time in all eight curtains, this green curtain becomes the defensive wall of the iron wall."

……

"Foolish former sanctuary humans were terrorized by the confusion of their time. Because the Black Demon King was dying and the Demons were left alone in the wild, and the Red Witch had halved the West, and the other continents had disturbed harmony. Everything is a tragedy that happened because I couldn't retrieve the Red Witch's body... about this... I'll admit I made a big mistake."

The brave man did not seem, but lay down his eyes, which were supposed to be cold.

".................. no"

I stared straight at Ulysses, lying and crying on the ground, with open eyes, and much regretted the one truth I had already arrived at.

All I could easily convince myself was that there were the remains of the former Black Demon King and White Wise Men in this place, but no Red Witch.

Even though they said it was fuel for rolling out the green curtain, I still don't know what it is, but the words that come out of my mouth never seemed wrong.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... lily..."

My leg, which I've been working on, breaks.

My whole body will be dominated by regret holding my head and sticking it up.

"I'm sorry... lily... because I... did that"

"No... Maki isn't bad... Maki isn't bad... eh"

Whenever I uttered those words, Ulysses shook her head in agony.

And the grudges and hatred without a place to go are tormenting him again.

I can't watch. What should I do?

What should I do?

"Ulysses...... what's wrong, don't cry"

That's when Perselis, who shouldn't know anything, says over and over again, "Don't cry," hugging Ulysses from the front.

She herself, shaking her body to incomprehensible fears, still held him strong.

What was it like for Ulysses?

He turned his hand around her back and embraced her back as if he were curling.

"Forgive me... Forgive me... eh"

Arrange many words of penance in the shadow of her former wife who finds herself, crying down.

Whenever I heard those words, I was attacked by such nothingness that even my soul would fall out somewhere.

I should have been the enemy of this world, having done any cruel thing, tormenting people and eventually involving and destroying the western continent.

What a smooth way to live, knowing that.

What's wrong with seeing your loved ones suffer and being annoyed with regret for the first time?

"Hey Machia, hold on!!

"... Tor... wah, I... what can I do..."

"If you fall here, it's over. Hold on to your feelings and get back on your feet!! We haven't heard anything important yet!!

Thor was on this occasion, just one strong feeler.

Rather, that's what I had to do.

Even he should have been frustrated by the complicated notion of finding the body of his former figure and not knowing what it meant, but he properly understands that he is the only one who can be the axis of the three of us here and now.

"Brave!! You said certain eight vessels. Demon King Class... You're saying that there are eight people like us with more than a million mg of magic in their souls..."

"That's a shame. Eight Demon King classes to be in this coffin, and nine, including me, to retrieve the body."

"Nine?

"I'm the only one who shows up in this world every 1,000 years, and the other eight, I don't know who's born in the 1000 year cycle. But not all demon kings are aligned in one age. In short, reincarnate those whom Vabilofos determined he wanted to replace with the next vessel.... you'll only remember 2,000 years ago, but before that, you've been reincarnated over and over again, and you've been killed by me and installed in that coffin. Since the beginning, over and over again..."

"... at the beginning... time...?

I can finally think a little bit about the words of a brave man.

Raise your face, slightly return light to your eyes, and listen back powerless.

"I see... is that why there are nine of you..."

"... lily......!?

Ulysses with his expression darkened, but now he looks a little calm, gently releasing Perselis and wiping his tears with his sleeves.

And I assured you with strong eyes.

"It's a simple story. If you go back to the beginning, the number" IX ”comes up easily…" Nine Pillars of Maidea. "

Thor also has a complex grin of suspicion and convincing seeps, as he says he has come firmly to something.

"Of Mayday mythology, the nine Genesis gods who made this world... haha, what a story"

The brave man narrowed his eyes, came here to release a chilling kill, and looked to us.

"That's right. You fools will forget everything that matters. Mayday's Genesis God... that's what" once was "... who you Demon King classes are"

Put this word on a long, long cause that we still don't understand.

I felt his voice was so hateful and mournful that I thought that the brave man had always wanted to tell me about this.