Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

Most of the junctions that supported the void labyrinth were extinguished.

I was fortunate that the junction didn't disappear quickly, whether it was to evacuate the demons inside.

About fifteen minutes until the labyrinth crushes the Great Forest.

It's impossible to evacuate the subhumans, but we can do something about the labyrinth.

If we could move directly beneath the labyrinth, we'd have a piece on it in about two minutes.

If me and Elfi do everything we can, we should be able to shatter the labyrinth that has lost its boundaries.

Some fragments will splash, but that will try to get the junction protecting the Great Forest to prevent it.

"Io, I see Beldia. We'll be here in three minutes."

"Okay."

I'm calling Verdia here while I'm processing Hilde Garda.

With Beldia's flight speed, we should be able to get downstairs faster than the labyrinth falls.

Elfi was also pushing his heartbeat that it would be okay to add more people than go.

"... but you didn't have your body after all"

"Afraid that the labyrinth would be dropped, I guess I moved it. It gives me trouble."

The void labyrinth did not have Elphi's 'heart'.

We explored every corner, but only found remnants of the junction that would have sealed the 'heart'.

Unfortunately, Elfi could not return to his full body.

When I say that, so does the power of my brave men.

I absorbed the last labyrinth nucleus. It should be noted that the full season power did not return.

Apparently, the use of elephant magic is a must.

Well... I expected it.

It helped avenge Hilde Garda, so let's be good.

"I have no choice. I just have to split it up there. More than that, Iori."

Elphi turns her gaze to the corner of the room.

There, Lucifina was leaning against the wall and unconscious.

After paying Hilde Garda an arrow, she quickly lost her mind.

I have already confirmed that my body is not feeling well.

The wound was also healed by healing magic.

"I'll take the sub who was being held hostage. Io asks for that half elf"

With that said, Elfi gently held the three sub-men back.

I realized I was being cared for, and I thanked him small and headed under Lucifina.

I don't have a face to match, thinking.

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…………

Point your gaze at Lucifina.

Lucifina's appearance, unconscious, did not change dramatically from thirty years ago.

It would be because it inherits the blood of a fairy species (elves), with a much longer life span than humans.

No.

"... a little hair growth?"

Blonde hair bracketed with strings is glowing reflecting light from the outside.

Thirty years later, I still think it's beautiful.

So it was sad.

"Mr. Io...?

You heard yourself, Lucifina called my name in a plundered voice.

Slowly his eyelids opened and he had silver eyes and eyes.

"Are you done...?

"... eh. Yeah, he knocked it down. So it's okay now."

Suppress the emotions that overflow from within and answer them with a rubbed voice.

"Really..."

A breathless, Lucifina voice.

It was such a voice, like waking up from a long dream, still left in a dream.

That was strangely disturbing, and I took Lucifina's hand.

To tell you it's not a dream, it's a reality.

"-"

Open your eyes and Lucifina drops her gaze in my hand.

Close your eyes to indulge in something, and Lucifina tries to say something.

But he saw me shut up without being able to look straight at Lucifina and swallowed up the words.

And I said it in a slightly trembling voice.

"... Io is sweet after all"

White, thin fingers slowly grip back.

I could not see Lucifina's eyes in that same voice as thirty years ago.

"Oh, I..."

The first words don't come out of my throat.

I have no right to have Lucifina say that.

Because I hated Lucifina and wanted to kill her miserably until a while ago.

"I... believed it. Io said he'd find me someday."

Shut up. Hold my hand hard, Lucifina said.

"I... couldn't believe you"

Lucifina's words pierce her chest.

I didn't understand what Lucifina meant that night.

The whole idea of being betrayed preceded me, and I forgot anything else.

"... I was trying to avenge Lucifina until I was on my way. Lucifina's been fooling me, mocking me, betraying me, 'cause that's what I thought.... I couldn't believe Lucifina."

For thirty years, Lucifina has been suffering.

Yet I didn't even care about it and kept hating Lucifina.

Given the weight of the thirty year month, I want to throw up.

"No."

Lucifina slowly shook her neck to the side.

"Suspicious, angry - yet, Io found me"

"But"

"Lucifina can't beat you," Io told me.

Straight ahead, look me in the eye, Lucifina says.

"The only way to help the three people who were being held hostage was for me to break her possession. If I hadn't woken up, I wouldn't have been able to help the hostages. Different?

"It's..."

I've taken care of the demons surrounding the Great Forest.

He was also able to counteract spies who were in the midst of the subhumans.

Possessed, we have also provided the means to awaken sleeping Lucifina.

But I didn't have the help to save the last three hostages.

No matter how much we did, we could not find a definitive means of saving the hostages at Hilde Garda's disposal.

And there was no sure way for Lucifina, who woke up, to be able to regain her body's lead.

So I...

"Look, right? You believed I'd win, didn't you?"

――――

"That was… I was more than happy"

Lucifina smiled so, hoarding a clear Shizuku in her silver eyes.

... If they say it that way, you can't say anything.

Swallow the words and hold Lucifina's hand hard again.

With an empty hand, wipe the Shizukuishi, which is about to fall out of zero.

So, within staring at each other for a while.

"Io! Beldia's here."

Elfi called me from behind, and I got up.

"Can you stand?

"Yes, I'm fine"

Pull Lucifina's hand, make her stand up.

Then, I handed Lucifina the 'Celestial Sword' I had recovered.

Support your fluttering body and you two head under the elphi.

"... I'm glad you're safe"

Beldia had already arrived and said so when she saw me.

Elfi told me first, and I'm not surprised to see Lucifina.

"The fall of the labyrinth has already begun. Let's go downstairs."

That said, Elfi with three hostages jumped on Beldia's back.

Let's get on early, too.

I pull Lucifina's hand and try to head under Beldia,

"... Lucifina?

Along the way, Lucifina stopped.

"You're going downstairs now, and you're going to destroy the void labyrinth with your two powers, right?

"... oh yeah. So let's get going."

Lucifina shook her head and said.

"I can't go down there."

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"Hilde Garda is sturdy building the bottom of the labyrinth in preparation for an attack from below. Enough to withstand the slaughter of The Sky Sword from below. Plus, there's a trick for just in case it's destroyed. The moment it crumbles, there's a lot of magic coming down there."

Lucifina tells her quietly as she slowly unties my hand.

"This void labyrinth was created by Hilde Garda during the last thirty years using my body. So I know. Even Io and his men can't fully protect the Great Forest."

"... but that doesn't explain why Lucifina can't go with us"

I already knew.

About what Lucifina is thinking.

"I have a sure way. The void labyrinth is resistant to attacks from below. Even if it's destroyed, there's magic pouring down there. Except for attacks from the inside, though. From the inside, you can destroy everything in the labyrinth without activating the enchantment that is being planted."

That said, Lucifina drops her gaze on 'The Sky Sword'.

"If we bring the power of the 'Heavenly Sword' to its limits, it is possible. Only once, I can unleash a more powerful blow than Io's magic or Mr. Elphiszak's demonic eye."

"Does that mean we're gonna use" The Wrecker (Blake Magic) "in" The Sky Sword "?

Lucifina nods at Elfi's inquiry.

"The Heavenly Sword" has the power to instantly multiply the magic flushed inside.

After maximizing magic, you can wipe out the labyrinth without a trace if you use the "demon of destruction” to free all the magic enclosed by the "Heavenly Sword".

Lucifina said so.

"No. If you did that, you wouldn't be sorry."

"It's fine. This is what I have to do."

Lucifina shakes her head so she can put it on me.

"This is a sure way to protect the people down there."

Lucifina is telling the truth.

Hilde Garda was probably ready for something like me and Elfi to attack from below.

When I broke through that prep, I guess I was also contemplated.

And I guess the surest way to break through those traps is to destroy them from within.

This guy always does.

I don't hate sacrificing myself to help someone.

"Because I'm sure! There's no way I can leave you like this!?"

"To me! You have no right to go down there!

"-"

The words made me happy.

"... are you going to sin?

Without nodding, Lucifina said.

"... I became a knight because I wanted to protect many with this hand. That thought has still not changed. So if I can save someone, I want to fight to the end."

…………

"... Yet this hand has taken the lives of many. How many people do you think I've had in my hands in the last thirty years? It's not ten or twenty. Hundreds of people and I've killed them. I stabbed and mocked many of my people off my back and hung them on my hands. I've killed innocent people with this body."

"No. It was Hilde Garda who did it. Not you."

"No. If I hadn't been possessed by Hilde Garda that night, this wouldn't have happened. If I had strong will, I might have been able to escape Hilde Garda's possession, on my own. All because of my weakness."

So you have to be punished.

I don't have the right to go somewhere with Io and enjoy happiness.

So here, I dedicate myself to protecting the Great Forest.

Lucifina said so.

... Oh, yeah.

Without having to think about it, it was natural for Lucifina to think about that.

Lucifina has killed more people with her own hands than anyone else.

You can't possibly not feel guilty.

For the past thirty years, Lucifina has kept her sane, partly because she believed in me.

But that's not all.

If I had to sin, I would not allow my guilt to lose its sanity.

"... don't be ridiculous"

With anger, my head is about to turn white.

I couldn't help it, I was angry.

Feel guilty, to Lucifina, who is about to die.

I pressed for sin, to Hilde Garda.

And now I've never been able to help, to myself.

"If I say that, I'm guilty, too. I didn't realize you were possessed by Hilde Garda. I didn't realize what Lucifina meant by words that night. If I'd known, this wouldn't have happened."

"... eh. That's, no!

"It's not. Besides, you've suffered ever since you were possessed. I've been shown hell. If you're saying Lucifina is carrying a sin, you've already been punished enough!

Lucifina Emily All is self-inflicted.

I have always cared that the village burned, my family died, and that I was the only one who survived.

I assume that I have to save someone instead because I have lived.

No matter how many times I denied that it wasn't, Lucifina couldn't change the way it was.

'If you want to save someone, you can scratch yourself as much as you want,' he thinks cheaply.

That's why I was trying to protect Lucifina.

"I know. That Lucifina was kinder than anyone and always tried to fight for someone. You're finally out of hell! I would never admit to dying here!

"I killed a lot of people! Besides, I deliberately attacked and killed Mr. Dionis and those whom Mr. Io has desperately helped on his journey! I didn't even stop Mr. Dionys, but I killed her in tears, laughing!?"

"It was Hilde Garda and Dionis who did it! Those guys have already been punished! And you've already been punished! That concludes the conversation! You don't have to suffer anymore...!

Stuck in words, Lucifina shivers her body.

Then I told him to squeeze it out.

"How can you say that to me? I... I killed Io, didn't I?

――――

It was a non-contextual word, like steaming back an earlier story.

It has nothing to do with why you stay in the labyrinth and what you did to me.

But in those words, I knew.

Earlier, when I first shook my hand, Lucifina was surprised.

He kept his voice down and looked at my hand.

Trying to say something, he watched me and shut his mouth.

- Lucifina was just like me.

With Hilde Garda possessed, she betrayed me.

In the Labyrinth of Abomination, he taunted me with words from the past.

In front of Gracia's fort, he used the 'Celestial Sword' many times to try to kill me.

Lucifina cared about that.

If I didn't have a face to match, I'd have felt guilty.

Just like I cared that I couldn't believe Lucifina.

Lucifina was mindful that she betrayed me.

Shut your mouth and hide your guilt because I looked so awful.

Lucifina cared about me.

Without realizing that, I...

"I can't get Io's face out of my head. I can't forget Io, who betrayed us and died in tears......!

Large tears overflow from Lucifina's eyes, which breathe repeatedly with a rough breath.

"In minutes coming from different worlds...... oh my god. I told Io, who has fought my whole life to save this world, that I was stubborn!? Yet Io was kind. Hold my hand for me!... It's not good for me to feel happy like this!

Lucifina is strong.

Must be a lot stronger than me or something.

So it's more scratchy than anyone else and brittle than anyone else.

"I don't hate Lucifina. I'm not even angry. Besides, I'm not being nice. That's what Lucifina feels for me... because to me, Lucifina is a loved one"

If I wanted to protect you, words were coming out of my mouth naturally.

"Everyone has something out of their reach. It's arrogance to feel responsible there."

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"I'm the word of the guy I trust most in the world.... I was sick of not believing Lucifina, which may not be the word I'd say, but I don't think I could help it. Hilde Garda was around ready and was about to take over Lucifina from the start. At that point, there was nothing Lucifina could do."

"That's... but!

"It's good to care. But don't forget. - You're not bad."

That's what Elfi said to me.

That's the word I wanted you to say the most then.

That's what I could tell Lucifina because it's Elfi's word I trust most.

"I...... ha. You betrayed Io."

Lucifina never betrayed me.

"I need you to... eh. I hurt you!

Lucifina didn't hurt me.

"To Io, I said terrible things!

"Lucifina didn't do anything wrong!!"

Look into your silver eyes and I'll tell you.

"Okay."

――――

"Everyone in the world said you were bad, and Lucifina herself admitted you were! I'll deny it all! I've been fighting next to you, and I'm going to prove Lucifina's innocence."

――――

"If Lucifina says she can't stand the guilt, I'll back you up. Lucifina's guilt, her burdens, everything! I'll support you!!"

――――

It could be a word that doesn't seem,

It's a very unspeakable word for me that was swallowed with revenge.

Still, I remembered there was a hero (silly) who said these stupid things.

Even a fool, if he could save Lucifina, now that seemed good.

- Lucifina can still start over.

Betrayed me, I went to hell.

Disappointed with the world, disappointed with myself, I couldn't think of anything other than revenge.

Still, I'm here now.

I'm here to take revenge and move on again.

I can start over.

There's no way Lucifina can't start over.

"We are certain to break the labyrinth from the inside. Sure, maybe. But who do you think I am?"

――――

"I have the power of The Testimony of the Brave. There's no such thing as breaking a labyrinth like this. If that's not enough, I have Elfi. This guy is a former demon king. Even if you defeat three enemies of the Demon Warlord class, you're still the kind of guy who leaves you some leeway. Hilde Garda trap? We'll smash you from the front."

――――

"Still, if you say it's not enough. - Lucifina, help me."

I may not be the only one.

Maybe it's not just me and Elfi.

Then there's Lucifina.

"I told you thirty years ago. Lucifina doesn't need to be scratched alone. Lucifina doesn't need to fight alone. I'm here to help Lucifina."

"Iwo,"

"If you still don't rely on me, I hope Lucifina supports me."

Lie down, Lucifina shaking your shoulders.

"Help me, Lucifina. I'm gonna help Lucifina."

"Eh."

Lucifina squeaks her throat small.

Like cutting a weir, a large grain of tears falls zero out of silver eyes.

"Even me like this, will you support me...?

"It's such a lucifina that I want to support you"

Give Lucifina a hand.

"- So come with me."

"- Ugh."

Zero whimpers, tremble all over your body and Lucifina weeps.

While you sneeze your face,

"- Yes."

Lucifina accepted my words.

In the hand I offered, Lucifina reaches out.

Over thirty years, in a true sense, I thought I could be reunited with Lucifina.

A trembling Lucifina hand grabs my hand.

Just before that.

No matter how you adorn words, the fact that you have killed innocent people with your hands will not change. "

I heard voices.

For a moment I thought Elfi said that.

Not so long ago, the voice resembled Elfi.

The difference is that the voice is cold enough to be bottom cold.

And as much as there's nothing I can do, it's to be malicious.

――――

Bash, I heard a damp noise.

In a glass of vision, a red hua blossomed.

The right hand Lucifina was offering was missing the whole thing from her shoulder.

"-"

Lucifina's body dances through the universe and falls to the ground.

"The Heavenly Sword" left his hand and flew to the corner of the room.

"Lucifinah!?"

Almost at the same time I rush over to the fallen Lucifina.

"Why... Why are you here!!"

I could hear Elphi screaming, like sounding from the bottom of the earth.

Look up ahead of Elfi's gaze, I lose my word.

Someone is standing on the roof of the half-baked labyrinth and looking down on us.

I knew him.

That's someone I had no idea about.

I only met him once, but he was someone I could never forget.

Silver hair on the shoulder, golden eyes with mockery.

A pitch-black double angle that grows from the head.

Cover your whole body, pink black robe.

It is.

That one.

"You, ha-"

- It was "Demon King” Orteguia Van Zarefeld.