Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

Episode XVI: BAD END

- The collapse of the rapidly collapsing gate slowed down.

"Oh man, your plans have gone crazy. It was your plan to take it to the gate. [M] That's not a very good thing."

I hear Hardia's voice, far away.

Elphi's last words are burned on the retina, on the tympanic membrane.

An enveloping smile and those words of mercy.

"Oh... be kind, let me tell you something. It's better not to expect Elphiszark to come back. Sure, she has properties close to immortality, but it's not like she'll ever die. wipe away without leaving any residual z with immense magic, or use the power of God? With either means, Elphiszark can be killed. - In this case, the latter."

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"There will be no resurrection of Elphiszark."

- Something in my head felt like I could burn it out.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.

Absolutely, I'll kill you.

There was a sound of the ring that was fitted with the pakin crumbling.

"... have you crushed my powers?"

I heard Hardia breathing.

Doesn't matter.

Whatever means you use, I'll kill this woman.

Before, trying to step out -,

"- After all, you guys are dangerous. It's not what I planned, but I'll have you fall instead of Elphis Zark. If you eat it the same way, you don't know how Melt's power works."

- Hardia rang her finger.

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Zuburi, and.

My feet sank to the ground, as if I had stepped into the water.

If you looked down, there was a 'gate' at your feet.

The gate that should have been in front of me is now opening its mouth at my feet.

"Hardyaaa!!"

Try to get out of the hole by all means.

But it was futile.

Slowly, slowly, your body sinks into the hole.

"-Iweave!

Out of sight, there was a voice calling me.

A black flaming dragon spreading its wings and tears from its eyes - Berdia - was flying this way.

"Your husband told Io to live!! So Io has to live -"

"Out of the way."

Depressingly, Hardia waved the 'Heavenly Sword'.

An unleashed slaughter swallows Berdia.

With the blast, Beldia was seen crashing under Demon King's Castle.

"Belle, Dia......"

"The demonic flair is what kept my mouth full of licks, right? I have some disrespect. I just have a heart of mercy, too. You should follow your husband's path."

"You... only! Only you, I will definitely kill you!!"

Hardia laughs with her nose.

Then Hardia had a smile of abuse, as if she'd come up with it.

"I'm thankful for you, it's true. That's why I wanted to kill you first. But the order's reversed, and I'll tell you about me instead."

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- That sounds more pleasant.

Shall we talk from the beginning, then?

"I think I already know, but in the war between Melt and me, the Demons betrayed me and took Melt's side. I mean, the demons and the humans reconciled. Yet why is there now a dispute between man and the devil? Didn't you talk to Hilde Garda and wonder a little bit about it?

"It's easy - I designed it to be that way. It's easy to start a war. Demons, humans, subhumans, you just have to turn into each other and adjust so that each other hates each other. Shoot one of the dignitaries with a shot of witchcraft and they'll hate each other easily."

"Each time,“ Yin ”Hilde Garda's guy was trying hard to stop the war, though. I'm interrupting all his hard work. It was a lot of fun watching him go crazy."

"Oh well. Does that mean it's my fault Lucifina was possessed by him as a result?

"Well, no. So, while we've been at war for hundreds of years, the Demons have prevailed. The numbers are higher for humans, but I knew the quality of each one was higher for the Demons. That's why I made the announcement to the human side so that the war wouldn't be one-sided. This was pretty easy. Just keep communicating the demonic base and strategy."

"Uh, I remember. I'm also responsible for the fact that demons like Gracia Leviataine have become strong haters of humans. Sure, I told the humans where the town of Leviataine is, because I am. Well, if I left that town, the human side would've been at a pretty disadvantage, right?

"Why did you do that? If you know me, you know me, right? The demons betrayed me by giving birth on purpose. It's just stomach, stomach. If I'm strong enough to add, I guess it also meant free time. Look, I was stuck in the underworld. It was the only entertainment I had to play with by sending my own people over here. That's the same as Hilde Garda. Haha, he's a badly made kid, but he looked a little like me there. Well, I'm not happy."

"... so. Although it is good that he made Orteguia while doing that and sent it into this world, it was troublesome because he ate elphiszark. I couldn't easily open the gate anymore. I'm in real trouble. It would have been easier if Elphiszark had killed Ortegear, because I lost light. Hey. - So, Itsuki Amazuki. I decided to summon you."

"I acted like a melt and gave the kingdom an announcement to summon the brave. The truth is, I wish I could have called it out by myself, but you didn't have that kind of magic left. Besides, melts are better than I am at meddling in other worlds. So I used Melt's technique to summon you to this world."

"Hey, that was a shame. You're a hero, aren't you? Thirty years ago, that was an unfortunate result for me. Not at all, isn't it?... and even so, that's like the result of my overdoing things."

"Actually, I'm the reason the ghosts started participating in the war. Little by little, the Demons adjusted to put pressure on the Ghosts so they could take sides on the human side. So, look, Dionis? Because the ghost tribe had talent there. I interfered in my dreams to make sure he had a strong sense of inferiority with the others. As a result, he began to work harder than anyone in the ghost tribe.... That's good, but I think I got a strong inferiority for you when I was supposed to be one of them. As a result, I'll betray you, so you can't really do that to him, can you? Whatever scumbag did was scumbag."

"And then, you see, magicians like Luisas. I'm responsible for the destruction of his village. He was a good magician. I killed your sister so you could hate the Demons and actively participate in the war. I thought that worked... it turned out to be unexpected that I resented you, not the demons who killed my sister. You had a good witchcraft talent, but you were a shame about your head. It was my mistake to make that one your companion. Haha, human beings are really stupid."

"No, but I've been desperately trying ever since, haven't I? Look, uh, there was a woman in the Imperial aristocracy named Olivia Elliestile, right? She started studying brainwashing magic because I gave her knowledge. Because humans are more vulnerable to pain than demons, and I turned my hand around and raised it so I could build soldiers to fight in disregard of that. Well, you didn't get what I thought you would. He came up with the ultimate magic trick, and he was happy like an idiot."

"And then there was the diocesan knight of the Patriarchate, George and Lily, right? After you died, I had them make Amazu homunculus as a second plan. I aimed to boost the power on the human side, but I knew I couldn't. You can't compare a brave man with the power of a melt to an incompetent homunculus."

"Marx, I've tried experimenting with a knight like that to transfer your power, but I knew I couldn't handle the power of Melt with just a human being. Hey, that was a real failure. It's all good because you broke it and reset it."

"And well... I was working so hard like this that I could kill Orteguia, who became the Demon King. But since they weren't more helpful than I expected, I decided to summon the brave again"

"Actually, I'm also the one who freed the sealed elphiszark. Even so, that was critical. For thirty years, I analyzed the procedure and adjusted it so that the junction would break at the time you came to the Nara Labyrinth. Yeah, but if you don't, Elphis Zark's been like that for hundreds and thousands of years."

"What do you think? I did my best, didn't I? I think it was very helpful when you were dying in the Patriarchate, when you infiltrated Gracia's fortress, and when you were in the Great Forest. Don't look so scared, I think you can work a little bit."

"P, haha! I told you! Keep it up, you're gonna see hell! I gave you good advice, and you're the one who didn't listen. Okay?

"Thanks to you guys hunting down Orteguia, I can take my original power. And from now on, I will destroy everything from this world. Humans, demons, and subhumans are the only ones who can do it. We need to wipe this world out once and for all. Otherwise, there's no point in separating Leitesia from Urchias."

"Io, you wanted to create a world where all races lived hand in hand, didn't you? Yet because of your actions, all creatures disappear from this world. In a way, can you say hell? You make hell out of your own hands, and you're going down in the middle of nowhere."

"Oh, yeah, yeah. I told you," The weakest brave man "in Orteguia, didn't I? That's the truth."

"If you defeat Orteguia, the brave will be used, and I don't have the means to return the human being I brought from another world to his original world in the first place. I set him up to summon someone to the point where I could easily kill him so he wouldn't get in the way after I defeated Orteguia. From" The Testimony of the Brave, "a miscellaneous fish that cannot draw much magic."

And I have one more condition.

"It's a kind, sweet person."

"I wanted to summon a sweet human being who really wanted to save the world or trust others right away."

"-Because that's easier to deal with, right?

"Now, you were in the woods, sympathetic to your story, and you trusted me. Ha-ha-ha. You like guys like Elphis Zark, who are confused, but have heavy beliefs and obsession, don't you? That's why I played your favorite character."

"Hahahahahahaha! Thank you, Iori! It wasn't a bad trip with you. Your face, always spicy, desperate, full, struggling with disproportionate minutes, was hilarious, it was the most fun to watch!!"

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"Huh...... zah, I can do it!! Hardiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

Scratch algae.

Any means are good.

Whatever.

Anyway, if you can kill that scumbag, that's good.

"You don't have to be so loud, you can hear me right."

"Kill! Come down!! Only you!!"

"Even you, always trying to calm down, can't you see the death of Elphiszark on a boulder? I don't care."

Falling.

swallowed by the gate, going down and down.

Hardia's appearance, it's getting far.

"- Bye. At best, be my nourishment."

Finally, I heard such a voice.

- It's a terrible hobby to steal a look at God.

Shortly after dropping off Heavenly Moon Io, who disappeared to the bottom of the gate, Hardia said so in a low voice.

Until she stares, nothing exists.

Hardia reached into a space where nothing existed and forcefully squeezed something invisible.

"Bugs."

Growling low, Hardia drops her gaze at the gate, which continues to release her own magic.

The gate that was about to collapse is to some extent stable, having taken in Elphiszark.

But the finished gate is smaller than I expected.

"Do you need a lot of time until you are completely back in strength?... Well, no."

With four wings spread, Hardia appeared away from Demon King's Castle - over the battlefield.

Unusually, the Allies and the Demon King's Army, they stopped arguing and were just stood up.

- The cause is in Hardia.

Hardia is Orteguia, Elphiszark, and Heavenly Moon Io.

It was projecting as a video over the battlefield that the existence that could be the hope of man and the devil would crumble.

Beldia, who was leaving Demon King's Castle, rushed in because she probably watched that footage.

- That's a good look.

What they have on their faces is despair.

To that look, Hardia exhales with her hands on her cheeks in trance.

A deserving face to the blind, and to the descendants of the demons who betrayed themselves.

"You were fooling us."

In a quiet battlefield, one woman speaks up.

Maria Teresia Stragen.

He is the Cathedral Knight that Hardia has most eyed and made the most of.

"Oh, you helped me so much when I was lying flat."

"-"

A demon clan, standing right near Maria, turns a sharp hostility.

"How dare you, Master Orteguia..."

Lefise Gregoria.

Produced by Hardia in the early days, descendants of the demonic tribe.

The fact that this woman followed Orteguia added a lot of hassle.

Lefiese's presence at Demon King's Castle prevented her from reaching sleeping Orteguia.

"- No more ungrateful children, no more human beings who took her from me."

List "The Sky Sword".

Sucking in Hardia's magic, the sword made of power finally shows its true worth.

The dark, cloudy magic is amplified by the sword and swirls violently over the demonic kingdom.

"Come on, let's get the place you deserve to welcome Melt"

Maria, Lefiese, tries to do something, but it's too late.

It's all too late.

"-" End World/Meltdown of All Demons (World End Meltdown) ""

The end, falls.

- That day, the demon kingdom vanished.