Four hours have passed since Joseph Asanaga raided the Holy Maiden with his daughter.
The sun is already sinking, and with it, those who walk outside are no longer visible, except for the police elves.
Occasionally, the passing policemen bowed and walked away, looking at the knights who were stiffening the entrance to the Great Library.
Their elite knights turned into Joseph's puppets.
Nestled on the rooftop of the Great Library, at the center of the rectangle, Joseph and Caizi also have the shape of the building, which is situated in a perfect blind spot from below.
The only cathedral room overlooking the location was the office of Terrence, the manager of the library, and the presence of Joseph, who controlled the men, including Terrence, was not sensed by others.
"I've licked it a little too much, no, I have no choice but to admit that I've had a problem with myself." I didn't think they were strong enough to work through the collaboration between me and Caizi. "
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"Don't blame me, Ayako." You couldn't get rid of the maiden, could you? [M] As for each other, let's forgive each other. "
Even though Caizi could not speak, she could not refute Joseph's words.
Because the chains created by Caizi's magic were the main order of the Saintess's assassination, and Joseph was only the front seat to create the situation.
"Nevertheless, there is still time." You'll earn two days until you notice something weird. They don't have a place to escape, so let's slap them where they came from. "
"...... ah"
Ayako chewed her back teeth and became impatient at Joseph, who showed her extra time.
Surely Joseph is right, there will be plenty of time before the anomaly is detected.
However, in the time he had spent loving Ayako, Ayako had cultivated her experience as a fighter and warrior.
It is judged that the experience is an advantage that has given the enemy two days of time.
There was no escape, but it was trapped in the barrier, and it became difficult for Caizi to reach out. This situation was nothing more than a great failure for Caizi.
In the first place, I chose assassination in the Great Library because “if the assassination succeeds, it will take time for it to be discovered.”
Assassinate, get the items you want, and escape. By the time it was discovered, he had already disappeared. That was the ideal, and it should have been a time slot for that.
Even in the process, Caizi added the process of "killing Joseph or freeing himself from his demonic hand."
You can't open your hand even though the key item to open yourself is at the end of your eyes and nose. Ayako rebuffed the information she had heard from Nanako to comfort herself in the face of the fact.
”I'll tell you while Joseph's bastard is away. The blue cane held by the Elf Saintess is transformed into a weapon called the [Punisher's Cane of Great Sin] by painting it in the blood of the Saintess. And he said unto him, Pure blue is stained with the blood of the holy lady, and it is dyed with the color of sin. It is a legend that it has the power to provide death relief to sinful souls that wander about in this world." This wandering sinful soul refers to a ghostly monster, which means it has a special effect on Joseph, who is demonized by the Parasite Ghost. "
The legend of the Seven Dragons is a summary of the flavor texts of the game era - so-called item descriptions and settings.
He realized that even those settings prepared for "atmosphere making" earlier than Sakurai in this world were effective as reality.
Therefore, it was originally judged that the "Dai Sin Scepter", which would compensate for the damage to the ghost monster, had "the power to kill Joseph", and it was used as a negotiation card to bring Caizi to the side.
How accurate is that information? There is no way to confirm the accuracy of the information that Caizi, who is parasitized by the floating Joseph, is about to monitor.
That's why for Caizi, who has not been able to get a clue to the elimination of Joseph, the information from the seven elephants brought may be the only hope. She had no choice but to stick to it.
Is there anything we can do to break this situation?
When I began to reconsider Caizi's ideas, which he had repeated over and over again since he was stuck in the no-paper compartment, knowing that it was pointless.
"What? A monster?" Where did it come from? "
Joseph, who was standing next to him, raised his doubts about what he saw through the flesh dolls (knights) under his control.
It was a three-necked goose-like monster that emerged from the back of the Great Library, and it suddenly attacked the knights who hardened the ground floor lobby with a strange voice.
Gyoku Kae!!
Thinking that he had swung his three necks in a steel helmet, he threw them vigorously along with the centrifugal force. As the shot landed, the head bounced, and fragments of the helmet spread around.
As the blown head returned to its extended neck, the steel helmets regenerated and began to swing their heads again for the next attack.
Many of the Knights' bows and arrows used to intercept them were flicked one after the other by their swinging helmets, reducing their power to the feathers that protect the torso even if they missed their defenses.
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"I don't know. Suddenly, a monster appeared from the back of the first floor." If you get rampaged, you'll be in trouble... I'll put some reinforcements on you from those who keep the base down and the knights who make the entrance stronger. There's only one way to get from the basement. - What? "
A new monster appears in front of the puppets controlled by Joseph. And it wasn't just one.
The mushroom-shaped monsters rushed around the bookshelf, and the knights and monsters bounced around.
A demon-like demonic monster with a black sheep's head that was pulling only its upper body out of an open demon book swung around the surrounding bookshelf.
A skinny clown wearing a cracked mask was 3m tall, laughing and attacking a nearby monster holding a meat hammer in both hands.
The targeted fluorescent slime shakes its body fluids around by clown attacks, and the splashed fluid resurrects into a new slime.
“Huh? What's going on? For the time being, the knights will stop us."
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"Ah, ok, give me a second."
To see what was going on inside, Caizi asked for the dolls' vision.
If she is also a doll created by Joseph, relaying him will give her a view of the knights under his control.
"............"
"Frenzy" is the word for what you get in your sight.
The monsters that raged in the Great Library involved another monster in an attempt to attack the knight, and the monster that was attacked was attacked by another monster by mistake.
Some people ignore it and follow their behavioral principles to bully monsters that are weaker than themselves. Some monsters start imitating it with slimes that roll nearby because they are intrigued by the appearance of those monsters.
Joseph is an exceptional puppeteer and an adventurer with an exceptional knowledge of martial arts.
Therefore, more than 50 knights are simultaneously struggling to suppress swords, arrows, and monsters, but this is only because their consciousness is not facing out of the Great Library.
"Where are the monsters coming from?" A big library defense operation? No, I can't think of anything like that. Then what is this? "
He is essentially an engineer and fundamentally lacks experience as a warrior.
All that Joseph could do was keep the slime that was growing so much that it filled his feet from the outside of the building, and Caizi looked for materials to judge the situation from within the shared knights' sight while tonguing strongly.
And within that sight, for a moment there was a flicker.
I could see the boy scoffing at the corner of his mouth.
"Hee hee hee hee hee hee hee! This is how you treat monsters! I'm the real monster. Yay! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!"