Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

- It was an event in a burning fire.

The city surrounded by fire resonated with screams of pain and resentment.

Human beings kill the fleeing demons with a look of hatred.

The old man, the baby, the man, the woman, the warrior and the inhabitants, without any distinction, make the city red with their blood.

"Don't miss one!! Kill them all!!"

Without any mercy, humans kill demons.

One, another, and the severed demon overlap like a chorus.

Hell is this place now, the girl hiding in the shadows thought.

The Demon Nation has multiple bases besides Demon King Castle.

'fortifications' to monitor and stop human invasion.

The 'city' or 'village' that protects the powerless demons.

The 'city', which was guarded by a demonic clan called the 'Levataine of the Struggle', was in a human raid.

Humans acted in an efficient move as if they knew everything about the 'city', and the warriors were instantly killed.

Leviataine, who was leading the warrior, is defeated without being able to fight back a great deal.

The humans then quickly attacked the inhabitants.

"... eh"

One girl with dark green hair, squatting in the shade of the building.

They killed my parents, they killed my friends, they killed people I knew, and the girl just had to run away.

I shook up and trembled, and I just had to pray that humans would leave.

"... how could you, like this"

Blood seeping groans.

The girl had already gotten the answer to the question overflowing from her mouth.

For man and the devil are hating each other, putting up arms against each other, and killing each other.

What a struggle.

What's Leviataine.

What is the abomination of its name that makes the struggle good?

"Gee gee gee!?"

Somewhere in the city, you can hear the roar of demons who ruled as a workforce.

Demons as well as demons are being killed by humans.

The demon that the girl's parents set aside has probably already been killed.

Reminds me of the demons my parents were serving.

At first, it's defiant, and it even points a kill intent at this one.

The demon temper is rough and sometimes even points its fangs at the demon tribe.

Therefore, the Demons teach demons.

Which is up there, which is the main one.

In this way, the Demon Nation is symbiotic with the demons by managing them thoroughly.

"- Oh."

What the hell did the girl think then?

The girl doesn't realize her mouth is distorted.

At that moment, the girl does not realize that the girl's appearance has been distorted without the same specifications.

But whatever transformation there is, it's pointless in this place that's turned into hell.

"Hey, you there?

"No. But he should still be nearby"

"... eh"

A little body of a girl jumps on the voice of a man heard from right around the corner.

"You were right about the Melt Church. I can't believe it's easy to drop the Demon City."

"Oh, I'm surprised. From the structure of the city to the power of war, it's not Dompisha. You had a god's message at the top, didn't you? I thought God's presence was a frown spit, but now I feel good to believe it"

Coming up, the voices of the humans.

A girl without the art of contention could only kill her breath and tremble.

I pray to heaven to meditate my eyes and not come -,

- I found it.

There were two human men, overlooking the girl.

The armor, the sword in his hand, is stained red with the blood of the demons.

"... you're a kid. Shit, I feel bad when I'm close to people."

"It doesn't matter how old you are. Let one get away with it, he'll kill dozens of his people. All demons have to be killed. Otherwise, the fight won't be over."

"... oh. It's necessary for peace."

What floats in the face of a man looking down at this one is the strong will to 'kill all of the demons'.

What a fool, ugly.

No man, no demon, no one knows.

"I've killed you all," he said, "there's no peace.

"... if you resent yourself, resent yourself for being born into a demon clan"

A man waves his sword down.

To a girl who can't move, death has fallen.

The end is near just to sprinkle the blood and sprinkle the organs.

- Wrong.

Hated.

The girl hated humans.

I hated the strife that takes place in all of this world.

- I hated my name (Leviataine), which lists the "struggle”.

In this hell, everything is pointless, both the transformed way and the heart-burning hate.

Nothing, nothing worth it, no ripples whatsoever, crumbles.

It should have been.

――――

It seems like forever, for a moment.

Death chose, not the girls, but the men.

"Hey, what- heh!?"

"Hi-yah."

Give them a short interrupter, and they'll sprinkle their lives like dust.

――――

Eat up the world, Red Lotus Hell.

Tear down the people who hold the weapons, the claws of death.

Lightly, like a reaper, it scatters death among the people who attack the city.

- For the rest of her life, the girl will never forget the sight.

"Ah......"

Brilliant silver hair. Double angles rushing through heaven. Red lotus eyes. Black dress.

That woman was the most beautiful and right woman in this world, the girl thought.

"Wherever you go, you just fight. Didn't you start with the answers you wanted?

A glance at the human wreckage that she herself erased, the woman murmured with a ruthless look.

The rare face of emotion melts the girl's heart hot.

Red eyes caught the girl.

"- Oh."

- That this man is the one who deserves to embody my ideals.

Look at Elphiszark Gildegard.

- Gracia Leviataine thought so.

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- I'm the one who let Orteguia kill Tor and the others.

Gracia's words were incomprehensible to Elphiszark.

No, if you don't want to understand, your brain was refusing to understand that.

The look on Gracia's face, who says she's got her people in her hands, is too uneven.

It's not a malicious mockery that you betrayed me, killed my people.

I want to slap you down into despair, not a laugh from hate.

pity as if to see painful things and the mercy of letting them even embrace the pain.

Elfiszark had to be rigid in his expression, which was too divergent from what he spoke.

"I didn't mean to conspire with you. I just wanted to keep the annoying noise away from Master Elphiszark's thoughtful and gentle ears. It's just that."

Sounds sorry.

Still, I didn't think I had a faint dust expression.

"Miscellaneous, sound......?

"Yeah. Those guys are just murmurs that confuse Master Elphiszark. The bullshit that leaks out of their mouths, even at the end of their deaths, is just a pointless, worthless murmur. It was a ripping thought to see that ruthless Lady Elphiszark get filthy. The presence of Orteguia, in a sense, could be said to have been fortunate. Because I was able to kill them all because of that man, only because of his strength."

"You... what are you talking about? Gray, Shea"

It was as if Elphiszark could not understand the intentions of his former subordinates, who did not break down their devotional attitude and continued to speak in a tone that made them feel courteous.

"You really... killed Tor and the others?

"Yes, to Master Elphiszark, I am not foolish enough to lie without going down"

".................. ugh"

Gracia's expression reveals a slight sense of guilt.

But that doesn't come from killing Tor and the others.

Gracia regrets that she kept her mouth shut about Elphis Zark, and that she made me listen to all this crap.

"You... betrayed me?

"Because from that day you saved me from that hell, this self is for the ideals of Master Elphiszark!

Go ahead.

Like the Marwins who betrayed their desires to satisfy them, like Dionis, who betrayed them with a misguided rage to protect their dwarf possessions, like Luzas, who betrayed them by turning the sorrow that had bereaved their loved ones into hatred, 'You were deceived,' Gracia would have understood, laughing at me.

But it's not.

Gracia thinks, 'I haven't betrayed you'.

He told me that it was true that he killed Tor and the others, and I'm convinced that's the action that would benefit Elphiszark.

…………

Gracia turns a gaze of anticipation, somewhere to be ashamed of.

That's something I've seen many times before.

Gracia wanted me to compliment her.

"... ah. Yes, I was. If you don't give me a detailed report, I can't even compliment you. I'm sorry I couldn't think of anything."

Gracia bows her head to the silent Elphiszark with a convenient interpretation.

"… well, let's talk. How did I bewitch those fools?"

◆

"Master Elphiszark is as ruthless as ice, and yet, to me, he is a warm lover. My ideals appeared as if they took shape...... they existed. Yet Master Elphiszark has changed. The freezing ruthlessness disappeared, and I began to point it at humans and even subhumans, that they would have the love that was supposed to be directed solely at me. That's not right. Wrong. Master Elphiszark should remain in the right shape. So I looked for the cause that changed you. It was easy to find. Because it was right around the corner. Those who disgraced you were incompetent men, including Thor, Musbell, Abel, Faye, Verdia and Gregoria. As one person, I did not understand the true ideals that Master Elphiszark should list, and as one person, I did not realize Master Elphiszark's mistakes! On the contrary, I dissolved Master Elphiszark's ruthlessness and induced him to bond with the inferior people, such as humans!! I can't forgive, I can't forgive, those people are just alive, harming Master Elphiszark!!"

Like singing, like being drunk on the talking self, like cursing, like boasting of the angry self.

That's how Gracia threw up, spitting and opening her eyes.

"- So, after killing them all, I decided to get my true Elphiszark back."

In front of the silent elphiszark, Gracia exhales roughly and wipes her drooling saliva with a towel to shame.

Then, as proud of his own accomplishments, he went on to say the words.

- The first person I killed was Gregoria.

Fairze Gregoria.

A man who inherited the sorcery that followed from the first generation of "rain” and dedicated his power to the prosperity of the Demon King's Army, the Demon Nation.

"... stupid. That man was killed by my opposition."

"Yes. In fact, it was the demons who were defying Master Elphiszark who cornered Gregoria."

On the day Gregoria died, there were no elphiszarks at Demon King Castle.

He was marching to empty the castle to contain the people who attacked him.

It was Gregoria who was entrusted with that absence.

"The power of" rain "exerts its true value by connecting the path with the" Demon King's Print ”of the contemporary Demon King. But that day, Master Elfiszark was far from Gregoria. That's where I poked."

Gracia dared to inform the opposition and encourage them to act.

As per the prospect, opposition forces raided Gregoria that day.

Strong connections were set to block paths with the surrounding area, draining the power of Gregorian “rain” to the extreme, and hitting them in groups.

"The junction that cut off the space was made by Hilda… Thirty years ago the Four Heavenly Kings,“ Thousand Weirds, "to cooperate and tension it. He was happy to work with me if I could see something fun."

"... even if the Four Heavens King cooperated! With that degree of small work, Gregoria can't possibly be killed......! That man had the power to approach me and Orteguia!?"

"Yeah, that guy killed all the guys he was raiding alone."

"Then why is Gregoria dead..."

Trying to ask, Elphiszark understood.

Understood, I understood.

"You... but you did it"

"Exactly! I put my hands on that man. Gregoria is in exhausted condition. Note that he is not an easy man to tailor. But if I belong to the same faction!! I can stab that man in the back!!"

――――

"I pierced your chest and tore your neck off. Gregoria drowned in her own blood and died while calling bullshit. Always, always, it was a natural end for a fool who had repeatedly insulted himself without even praising Master Elphiszak."

Chest up, proudly, that's what Gracia said.

"... Hey, Demon King"

Elfiszark remembered Gregorian's words.

It was when the attacking man, the demon king's army, not a single rock, was being pursued by intense duty and Elphiszark was exhausted.

"Don't try to do everything yourself, even though you don't have the skill."

"What do you mean I don't have the skills!?"

'Just like that. I can't even tell you how someone who stands on top can carry a load he can't carry and crush. Did you think the Demon King could do anything? Don't be complacent. It's arrogance not to distribute the burden to your men'

'... right? Right. "

'Oh. If you know what I mean, pull it in. I'll take over this job. Out of the way.'

Crude, poisonous tongue family.

A radical man who is quick to get his hands on and relentlessly kills them all if he feels in the way at all.

Never had a complimentary personality.

Still.

Still, Gregoria always thinks about the Demon King's Army.

- We understood ourselves and we were there for us.

"- The fool who doesn't understand Master Elphiszark and just rebels, this is what I did!! Because the presence of that man can only get in the way of Master Elphiszark!!"

That's what Gracia said, as she trampled on that past.

I will not forget the day Gregoria died.

He devoured his teeth, helplessly unable to help, thoughtlessly unable to see the opposition.

That's how the fluttering Gracia pushed her back, and Elphiszark moved on over his buddy's corpse.

I felt those pasts blacken as if they were pictures broiled by flames.

"Gregoria was able to wipe it off well at the end...... but there were still many pests. No matter how much I surprise you from the standpoint of fellowship, I also have limitations. Thor seemed to suspect me and explore a lot, and I decided to use a quicker method."

The pronounced opposition forces were all killed by Gregoria.

But not everything disappeared.

There was only one man who could bear with Elphiszark, who became the Demon King, asking about the times of rebellion.

"... Orteguia Zarefeld. I decided to use that man."

Even if Elphiszak becomes the Demon King, there are multiple reasons why opposition forces have emerged.

One of them was the presence of Orteguia.

Orteguia had the strength to compete with Elphiszark, but did not participate in the Demon King's Prix battle he started.

As a result, a small number of demons were still trying to take charge of Ortegia, which was non-participation.

There, Gracia was eyeing.

"A few days before Orteguia started the revolt, I made a deal. Instead of me circulating information about Mr. Elphiszark, I am at your disposal for the treatment of Mr. Elphiszark and his men."

――――

Unaware of the stunning elphiszark, Gracia continues.

Orteguia accepted Gracia's proposal.

Orteguia led to the killing of Tor and the others, he said, because Gracia asked him to.

"- The first thing that died was Musbelle. A ghost clan named Dionis wanted to join the Demon King's Army, so he made him fight Musbell to test his strength."

However,

"- In case you get away with it, Musbell's legs were first slashed off, though."

Naturally, the fight was one-sided.

To Dionis, who fiercely attacked him, Musbel could not escape, and was torn apart from his whole body.

"I was healing my wounds with good healing witchcraft, but what I was reading was pests. Soon the healing magic stopped catching up, and I lost my life miserably as if it were rubbish"

Gracia's voice, speaking so, was filled with joy.

It sticks snugly to the tympanic membrane of Elphis Zark and doesn't leave.

"I have nothing but healing magic."

I once remembered the words I exchanged with Musbell.

That was when Abel got hurt because of Elphi's extraction mistake.

I kept my big mouth slapped, and I was self-loathing myself for making my people hurt, at that time.

'So I can't be a sword fighting for Master Elphiszark. Many times, I wondered if I deserved to be the Four Heavens King. "

'That's not true!! You have so many things you can only do!!'

'... yeah. Thank you. I can't fight. But I can heal the wounds. So whoever scratches me, I'll make sure it heals. "

"Musbelle......"

'So don't be depressed. Master Elfiszark, you just have to keep moving forward. I won't be left alone to heal my wounded companions in the process. "

That's what consoled me.

You won't even know how much that word lightened Elphiszark's chest that night, Musbell.

Musbell lacks combat ability.

But after acknowledging it, I was doing what I could wisely.

With regret for his helplessness, he was still pushing Elphiszark's back.

"- This is how the coward, who can only heal and hide behind Master Elphiszark, died."

That's what Gracia said, as she mocked that readiness.

The days spent with Musbell are burning in my memory.

About that boy who was kinder than anyone and had strong courage.

To the high tinnitus, I felt my memories go away.

"- The next one to die was Abel and Faye. Abel was amputated by Lucifina and Faye was forced to disappear by the hand of Orteguia"

Musbell's next experimental platform was his twin brothers.

Abel and Faye, who were broken the commandment, were supposed to fight Lucifina together.

"But Faye got ahead of him, 'At least you're the only one,' and he hung up on Orteguia.... Well, not long after what I did, I was made to disappear by Orteguia. [Chuckles]"

The remaining Abel also tried to strike Orteguia, but was inhibited by Lucifina.

From the front, after being amputated with a great sword, Abel was killed by weak magic.

"Abel's screams were unbearable to hear because of her ear problems. I cried out for pain, and even if I were Elphiszak's subordinate, I would have liked you to die clean about the time of death."

That's right. Gracia's eyes, throwing up, were distorted by the shape of the Three Suns and Moons.

In those eyes, Elphiszark looked familiar.

"'When I see my people scratch, my chest hurts.'"

I remember Abel and Faye's sad voice.

When Elphiszark himself went to the front line to hurt his people.

He said I was the only one who could scratch him, that day when the human knight slashed his arm off.

'... um. That's the same for me. So, I'll protect you.'

"'... it's not. We don't even want to see Master Elphiszark get hurt."

"Me too...?

"'Yeah. Master Elphiszark is one of us, isn't he? So I don't want you to get hurt. I don't want Master Elphiszark to think that I'm the only one who can hurt him.' '

"You guys..."

"'No one can fight without scratching.... so we all want to get wounded and fight together' '

That's what they told me to myself that I was wrong to fight for my people.

I wish my sturdy self was hurt. I want to be the shield of my loved ones.

Those thoughts still remain the same.

Still, thanks to those two words, it was understood that Elphiszark would fight together, in a true sense.

"-This is how those two selfish people died, only in their brains to fight."

That's what Gracia said, as she desecrates that devotion.

The noisy voices of Abel and Faye are still in my ears.

The two of them, who blamed Gracia for the fight, often had their tongues out.

Gracia, angry at it, joins the fight and is embarrassed by Tor.

I liked Elphiszark to see such a sight.

I felt the sight shatter back then in the pain of piercing.

"And finally. - I killed Tor."

Quiet, but with a voice that cannot hide the pleasure that lies within, Gracia said.

"The worst and worst treacherous, who most bewildered Master Elphiszark. Only that man couldn't care less if I didn't kill him. I came up with a proposal far from Master Elphiszark's ideal and drove Master Elphiszark's ideal crazy!! So with this hand I tasted so much regret that I was born, I killed him!!"

The last one.

Thor was taken to a separate room by Gracia and stopped his breath root with his own hands.

"First, I peeled all my hair and scalp just out of the way. Next, I stripped my fingernails off both hands and feet. Next, I slashed off my fingers on both hands and feet. Naturally, it doesn't drop all at once, fine, cut into rings, slowly. Because the sin that bewitched Master Elphiszark is heavy. Then I skinned my whole body, scraped off my nose, pierced my unwanted eyes, pulled out all my teeth, ripped my lips off, scraped my meat little by little so I wouldn't die - and so I killed them."

Oh, and.

Elfiszark remembered.

After the battle with Amatsu, the wreckage of the companions that Elphiszark saw.

That what Gracia said and the condition of the wreckage were consistent.

"For always wisely slapping me in the mouth that looked great, I was crying at the end. Please don't kill Master Elphiszark. Even though I can't possibly do that. What staff... could not lead Lord Elphiszark, the most treacherous man"

Elfiszark knew Gracia's face well.

Because it's the face I've seen so far that I hate it.

Because the smell on its face was exactly the same as the things that were floating around those who betrayed Io.

Although Gracia's disgust was not directed at Elphiszark.

When those people betrayed me, I wondered if Io was in this mood.

Now Elphiszark thought.

'... if that's your ideal, I'll just support it'

I remember Thor laughing.

'... is it really good? I understand that accepting my ideals is harsh for you. I don't care if you say no.'

'Right. Your ideals are not half raw. Maybe more demons are unacceptable'

'Then why? Your family, everyone...'

'... Yep. But I like it. About you. "

'Nah, you still had a thing for me...!?'

"You, you. It's not a preference for heterosexuality.... I wish you or Musbell or Abel and Faye or Gracia were laughing at me. So wherever you go, I'll follow you. We'll do everything we can to make you happy wherever you get there. '

"... right"

'Abel and Faye are making a scene, Gracia is angry and making a scene, you're on track, Beldia and Gracia agree, but you're stuck with us and you're depressed... I like the routine you said that about. I can't forget my hatred for people.'

So when I saw Tor smiling, Elphiszark could think.

He said the path he was trying to take was never a mistake or anything.

"- That's how I stopped breathing, a treacherous person with nothing but a foolish idea inferior to a monkey!!"

That's what Gracia said, so as to crush the memories of the day of his existence.

I couldn't help it, it faded.

The glow of those days will never come back.

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Fluid conveys Elphiszark's cheeks as they remain restrained.

An overflowing Shizukuishi falls on the floor with a potato.

How did Gracia interpret the tears?

"Oh, don't cry, Master Elphiszark. Everything has been done for you. equal to nothing, such as my efforts"

That's what Gracia said with a gentle voice to stroke as she saved Elfiszark's tears with her fingers.

"And finally,"

As Gracia rang her fingers, a demon clan with a trolley entered the room.

There's something on the trolley, but the seat is hung and you can't look inside.

But Elphiszark understood.

I need to see what's under there.

- This is my achievement.

Gracia peeled off the sheet.

Something down there came to light.

"What do you say? Isn't that right? This is the end of the traitors."

- I had four necks.

"Gregorian's neck, I didn't get it, but I still saved the others"

The magic of preservation was hung. They remained in their state at the time.

With a distressed look, there was a desperate Musbell neck.

There was Abel's neck, torn to pieces with a blade and scratched.

There was Faye's neck, which fell apart, as if the bomb could have played inside.

There was Thor's neck, which was stripped of everything and no longer left a prototype.

"- Ah, ah"

Open your eyes and raise the groan that Elphiszark will not speak.

How many blame bitterness have you lost your life in?

Unimaginable, their necks were miserable.

"I saved it for thirty years to show the end of the traitor and to make it a catalyst for certain sorcery."

Gracia took Musbell's neck in her hand,

"This, treacherous, is!!"

Momentum, slammed to the ground.

Musbelle's neck rolls down the ground with the damp sound.

Gracia, over and over, steps on its neck.

The neck hung by the magic of preservation never broke, but the dull sound echoed continuously.

"What... what"

Meditate your eyes, Elphiszark leans down.

There is no one here who can see what is going on in his chest.

"Ha ha!! What do you say, Dear Elphiszark!! Don't you like your breasts!? The incompetents literally, align their geese necks!! Ha ha!!"

"... ugh."

"And that's not all!! By catalyzing this neck -"

"- That's good enough"

In an upbeat mood, Elphiszark blocked Gracia from curling up quickly.

"... Already, good. Gracia."

"Dear Elphiszark?

With tears overflowing, Gracia solidified when she saw the laughing elfiszark face.

Because that look wasn't who I wanted it to be.

"In the end, you didn't see anything. Even the nearest subordinates' thoughts didn't seem to understand....... heh. It wasn't something I could tell him about the eyes I saw."

"Duh, what's wrong, Master Elphiszark? Don't you feel good?

"Oh, I'm desperate. I didn't see anything, to myself."

That's pathetic, smiles.

"Me too, I liked it. There's a painful, hard, but busy, happy routine with you. I mourned everything...... met after that, I also liked my days with Io. I liked the time I spent with him, nervous, mean, depressing, helpless."

"………………… What are you talking about, Master Elphiszark"

"It's all, too, broken. Just remembering, powerlessly, thoughtlessly trembling that I couldn't save my people... still, all the memories of those days that were glorious, faded away. The lives of the accomplices, who swore to walk with them, were also crushed halfway down the road."

Still, Elfiszark said.

"... I have things to do. Unseal this, Gracia."

"I don't understand what you're talking about. Didn't we talk earlier? You enter the Demon King's Army to kill Orteguia. If I talk, there's plenty of potential..."

"Gracia."

Speaking of which, I understood what would happen.

Still, as lord - as former lord, I had to say.

"- I don't want that"

That was a decisive rejection.

Gracia's eyes open in a way that she doesn't understand.

Then the mess and the mouth tremble, and the tremor spins all over his body.

And

"... what? What? Huh? hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

The neat face was distorted into a murder phase, and the high scream burst.

"My Lady Elphiszark haha!! Do that!! You're not telling me!! There's no way you're telling me!! You're not telling me, you're not telling me!! You're supposed to compliment me!!"

An intense fist wrapped around the magic struck Elphiszark in the face.

Goddamn dull sounds, clashing against the wall so that the head that received the fist could play.

I didn't mind the wall smashing as I made a terrific noise, and Gracia kept rupturing the eclampsia.

"Why do you say that?!? Why!? I killed all the culprits of Obscenity!! Why!! Where the hell did Master Elphiszark go then!! I'm kidding, what thoughts do you think I've been waiting for Master Elphiszark for the past thirty years!!"

Gracia raised a hysterical cry as her face turned bright red and her saliva scattered as her whole body nearly cut off a thousand blood vessels.

I do not even care that the skin on the back of my hand has been torn off the face of the Lord that I worship, and I continue to beat him to the point of obstinacy over and over again.

As if embodying the will of the furious Gracia, the magic went wild indoors, crushing the conditioning by the time it was unbroken.

"Ah, no, no, no, no!! Still, Master Elphiszark is contaminated. My head isn't cold yet! Floating with fever, it is no longer normal. No, no, this is not my Elphis Zark, no!!"

"Gray, Shea, I'm..."

"In the face of my beloved, proclaim the bullshit aaaaaaaaa!!"

Grabbing Elphis Zark's head, which nearly opened his mouth, Gracia slammed him against the wall.

My forehead is cut and Elphiszark's face is stained red with blood.

"... ah"

Seeing that blood, as if it had been switched off, Gracia stopped.

"... oh, I've done it again. It's my fault you lack calm right away because of the blood muscles that talk about struggle and all that."

When I squeal like that, I hold Elphiszark with a respectful gesture.

Then he crawls his tongue on his red-wet forehead and licks its blood away.

"I love you. The most important thing in the world is that I love you. I'm the only one who understands your ideals. So..."

With a grin on her blood-swet mouth, she accidentally dyed her cheeks red, Gracia said.

"- Now it's been about a hundred years... I'll put Master Elphiszark in a dark seal, and I'll let him in. I'm sure you'll return to my Elphiszark next time."

That was the word after thirty years of understanding the suffering of Elphiszark, who remained conscious in the darkness of nothing.

Gracia smiles when about thirty years of suffering is not enough.

"I'm also ready... well, about noon tomorrow, let's seal it up again. I offer you once again a world of nothing, nothing to see and nothing to hear."

Mouthpiece on Elfiszark's forehead, Gracia turned her back.

"Ma, me. Wait...... Gracia............!!"

To the voice of the Lord who calls to rest,

"- I love you, Master Elphiszark"

That's what I told him, and I closed the door.

Heavy, the sound of doors closing.

The indoor lights went out and the Elphiszark world was covered in darkness.

―― ――――

No fine whimpering, no voice calling someone's name.

- It melted in the dark and never reached anyone.