To Be a Power in the Shadows!
The real him.
"I'm sorry to hear that, Owl. I just got here, and I'm already..."
"Shut up for a moment, please"
The owl glanced at Maximilian.
"... what?"
Maximilian's eyes sharpened.
"I don't have time for you right now."
"Bullshit. I'm done with Shadow, if only I could finish you off later."
"You've been playing since the beginning."
"They were playing...?
"Dear Shadow, I'd like to ask you something."
The owl asks Shadow, who remains buried in the wall.
"... okay"
After a few moments, Shadow answered.
And the blue-purple magic pushes the rubble, and the shadow slowly rises.
"Nah, you mean you still have so much power -!"
Maximilian opened his eyes in amazement, but the owl was calm itself.
"Why don't you take it seriously"
"... I wanted to keep track of the man's strength. For the future..."
"It's for the future...... okay. Let me ask you one more thing."
The owl said that in a strained atmosphere somewhere.
Shadow silently urges the continuation.
"What does this mean...?
An owl pays the snow at his feet with a sword. The falling snow scattered, and a black mass appeared from beneath it.
That black chunk - was a slime that mimicked Sid Cagheno's appearance.
"Answer me. Sid you are... true Sid where have you been?!?
The owl's voice sounded around, cancelling the sound of the snowstorm. It was a cry of heart.
"That voice..."
Stare at the owl as if Clara noticed something.
But the owl was just staring at Shadow.
Shadow answers with a beat aside.
"Sid is in a safe place..."
"Where is it"
"... Need I say?
"-"
Shadow and Owl stare at each other for a while and silent tension drifts between them.
And......
"You have saved my life and shown me strength and the way forward. I... don't want to doubt you. So I believe that word… but"
The owl cuts words there and looks at the shadow.
"But if it was a lie... Sid, if you weren't safe... I might not be able to forgive you."
Shadow stares at the owl on the side and tells him.
"I'm not going to beg for forgiveness from the start. Whatever you know and think, my path will never waver..."
Owl's eyes narrowed sharply.
"Well... shall we continue"
Shadow took his gaze off and shook his sword gently.
"Then I will return to duty."
The owl approached Clara.
"Princess Clara. It is my duty to bring you to the main management of the Kings."
"I heard you owl...... the Kings have a secret, but does that also concern you?
"We're helping, not me. I was actually planning on giving a more detailed explanation, but I don't have time right now, please follow me. This is probably the last chance to leave the capital."
Clara stared at the hand offered by the owl.
"You are... no, nothing... Okay, I believe you."
"Dear Clara, is it really okay to believe...?
The king's prisoner speaks out anxiously.
"It's okay. I'm sure it's much more than me..."
Clara muttered something in a voice that seemed to disappear.
"Then follow me. We'll get out of the basement and join the platoon."
The owl carries a wounded bat and leaves the courtyard.
"Wait. Did you think I'd let you go!
Maximilian moved to be slashed on the back of an owl.
At that moment, an enormous amount of killing stopped him from moving.
"Nah - this killer -!?"
Maximilian flies over the scene in a hurry.
"- Did you think I'd let you go?
The Lord of killing so much that the atmosphere trembled - was Shadow.
His gaze sealed Maximilian's movements.
"Shadow."
Maximilian crooks his face and stares at Shadow. But that was all he could do.
Maximilians could only regrettably drop off the walking owls and kings.
And the last one...... the moment Zach tried to leave, even once again, the killing swelled.
"- Huh!?
Zach trembles in a freak and looks back.
Shadow stares at Zach in jealousy.
And Zach nodded over and over again as he sweated like a waterfall.
Looks like a sight-only conversation was exchanged between the two of us.
Early enough, to escape, Zach left...