A dimensional journey starting from the Dragon Clan

"big sister!"

The arms of Chun's parents blocked her from panicking and trying to run over.

"It's too dangerous, Tsubaki."

"That's right, it would be bad if you got involved."

Although the parents showed gentle expressions, their expressions clearly did not match the situation around them.

That feeling of disobedience was like a wedge, piercing deeply into the heart of Tsubaki, who was still a child.

As her uneasiness grew, Tsubaki shouted with an expression that looked like she was about to cry.

"Why!? Isn't that Mr. Black's friend!? Why do those monsters do this to Sister Assassin..."

"That's because...that big sister wants to kill you."

"!"

From behind everyone, the boy's voice came.

That was Jesta who came up from the underground workshop.

He still maintained the posture of a boy and said to Tsubaki with a forced smile while enduring the pain caused by Flatt's technique.

"If you were alive, that big sister would have a headache."

"Eh……?"

"shut up."

Sigma made a quiet stopping sound.

But Jesta continued to speak while her whole body was shaking with pain.

"Ah! The same goes for Sigma-nii over there... He wants to kill you for his own sake. Is he a bad person?"

"……no."

"Take me...why?"

"You don't need to worry about it. You are the king of this world, just do what you like. Don't you want to be a magician and be praised by your parents? No problem, you can definitely do it Yes. Because I am your companion."

Jesta always emphasizes that he is a "companion".

I'm afraid he wants to make Tsubaki aware of himself so strongly so that he can exclude himself from the target of attack...

The assassins now act not through Jesta, but through the magic power of the master named Ayaka injected into the swordsman. But on the other hand, as the assassin's master, Zesta is in a situation where it is difficult for "Mr. Black" to recognize him.

"Am I, Your Majesty the King?"

"Ah, that's right. Those who envy you want to bully you. So Mr. Black has been protecting you in the hands of those guys to prevent you from being harmed."

Jesta seemed to be pampering the girl, trying to stimulate the child's sense of omnipotence.

However, he miscalculated one thing.

Or, if he hadn't been attacked by Flatt and hadn't been shocked by being "abandoned by a Dead Apostle who was more powerful than himself", he might have been able to calm down a little more and understand Chun's feelings and control them. .

He didn't know.

The girl named Chun was an innocent girl who was plagued by diseases and possessed an innocence commensurate with her age. He had always thought so.

In fact, Chun can indeed be said to be innocent.

Tsubaki in this world is a girl befitting her age.

However, he didn't know that its essence was the innocence created after going through a lot of pain.

Because of that nature, the girl who didn't know why everyone was angry, even though she was scared, even though she was about to cry, and even though she prayed for happiness, she still noticed it.

"Yeah……"

She found an answer from the "experience" she had been undergoing since her birth.

"I 'failed' again..."

After Chun lowered his head sadly, he slowly raised his head again.

Then, while trying her best not to cry, she spoke to everyone around her.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry...Mom and Dad"

"There's no need to apologize, Chun. You can just feel at ease. You don't have to do anything."

No need to apologize.

Even though Tsubaki was very young, she understood it by feeling.

That sentence does not mean "Tsubaki did not fail and did not do anything wrong", but means "Although Tsubaki failed, she will not be angry."

In other words, it was really because of him that he troubled Sigma and the others - more importantly, those black skeletons were running rampant because of their own reasons.

Hearing the sounds of the streets still being destroyed, Tsubaki continued with a sad voice.

"But...but...if there are still people in the building, everyone on the street..."

"It doesn't matter how many people die on the street. They are just consumables like batteries."

"That's right, Tsubaki, those people who are angry with you, everyone, those skeleton gentlemen will kill them."

"Ah, and in Tsubaki's world, no matter how many people die, the mysterious anonymity will be protected."

"That's great. Next, we need to think carefully about how to conceal the impact on the outside world."

--what?

——What are these guys talking about?

The assassin who listened to their conversation while attacking the aliens could not help but frown.

They should have been brainwashed to protect Tsubaki.

He didn't look like he was being manipulated by Jesta.

If this is the case, they are speaking to their daughter in the same way they usually do.

After hearing what her parents said, Tsubaki looked at Sigma and the assassin as if begging for something.

However, the two of them didn't know the best answer, so they could only respond in silence.

Then——Chun realized that his idea was not wrong.

Already noticed.

"Do not worry about it"

Although Tsubaki was trembling all over, she still smiled at the "adults" around her——

"Because I will do my best."

Just like that, as if he was about to be inhaled by the smoke-like body of "Mr. Black," Tsubaki hugged him tightly.

"Eh?"

Even Jesta couldn't decipher Tsubaki's intention and became confused.

However, first it was the assassin, and then Sigma noticed Tsubaki's intention and made a stop.

"stop!"

"Wait a minute, you have nothing..."

However, the words could not be conveyed, and the alien that emerged from "Mr. Black" blocked the two people who wanted to run to Tsubaki.

As a result, Tsubaki can exercise her will as she pleases.

"Please, Mr. Black"

The girl's Command Seal glowed faintly.

"Everything, please change everything back to how it was before."

"Varied……"

Along with the shocked expression on the boy Jesta's face, Tsubaki's Command Seal shone more intensely.

"Please leave me alone forever."

For a moment, Mr. Dark looked like he was acting surprised.

"Don't be so flippant!"

"Stop!"

Assassin and Jesta shouted at the same time.

Sigma could only stare at this scene.

Not long after, "Mr. Black"'s body began to tremble violently as if in mourning————

The next moment, the world turned upside down again.

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Snowfield, Qiuqiu Mansion.

"Well……"

When Sigma came to, he found himself in the same place as before he lost consciousness.

This is a corner of the courtyard connected to the Xihe Mansion in Minqiu.

However, the sky is blue and the grass is lush.

The destroyed buildings were restored to their original appearance, and Sigma understood that he was not in a world of confinement, but had returned to the real world.

The evidence is - only the figure of Jiuqiu Chun disappeared as if he had fallen into a sudden opening in his home.

In a blink of an eye, the assassin seemed to have woken up as well, clenching his fists and speaking.

"Here...this direction, would that young child actually choose this?!"

As she stood up unsteadily, with clear anger hidden in her eyes, she shouted to the Minqiu couple who also wanted to stand up.

"What kind of lifestyle...how were you forced to live, so that young child would choose this result?! You...what did you do to that young child, to your own daughter! What have you done!"

"...I don't know what you are talking about, but do you have free time to accompany us?"

Nuqiu Xihe put his hand on his head, giggling, and turned his gaze to the existence behind the assassins.

"What a disappointment... I never expected that it would be damaged to that extent. I was expecting the assassin sister to cry and chop off that innocent Tsubaki's head..."

The boy had an anxious look on his face, and on the front of his clothes, near his heart, was a tattoo in the shape of a revolver magazine.

His fingers slid over the pattern - the pattern that should have been imprinted on the plane suddenly rotated, and other patterns were filled to the top.

As a result, the body of young Jesta suddenly expanded and transformed into a red-haired wolf with a height of more than 2 meters, jumping around this place.

"Ah, assassin! Let me play with you with my love. I have to wait until next time!"

The Dead Apostle climbed onto the roof, turned around, and ran in panic in the air as if trying to escape from the assassin.

"...! Do you want to escape!"

The assassin ignored his injuries, stepped on the ground, and then disappeared after chasing Jesta.

After that, only Sigma and Minqiu were left.

"Ah...what a bad luck. I never expected that the Command Seal would actually reside on my daughter instead of me."

"Yes, but this is also a proof. At that age, Tsubaki was selected because the quality of her magic circuits was higher than ours."

Facing the couple who spoke in a flat tone, Sigma felt a strange sense of disharmony.

——? what? This feeling is.

Are you still being controlled by Tsubaki's servants?

No, this is not a sense of disobedience, Sigma judged.

"Ah, are you... Sigmar-kun, or a subordinate of Faldius? Can you get in touch with him?"

"You must go to the hospital before that (contact)."

"...That's right. Are you looking for a tool to cut off your right hand over there?"

"Yes, it is."

After hearing the conversation between the two people, Sigma asked involuntarily.

"Cut off...the right hand?"

"Ah, yes. That little guy Tsubaki seems to have used two command spells. But if there is only one left, you can make a contract with that heroic spirit again. If there is such a heroic spirit, the same method can be used It will be very beneficial if we cooperate with Erdius.”

Sigma understood.

This couple remembers everything that happened while they were being manipulated.

Even so, the first words that came out of his mouth were not words of concern for Tsubaki, but his intention to cut off Tsubaki's right hand and take away the Command Seal.

——Ah, yes. This is the magician.

——The magic seal probably belongs to one of the parents. Even if Tsubaki dies, he will definitely not be pessimistic. What matters to them is only the individual who inherits their magical blood relationship.

——Blood, bond.

"...Do you want to cut it off? Xiaochun's hand."

"Ah, no problem. Since you are in an unconscious state, you don't have to worry about complaining. It would be troublesome if you lose the function of leaving an heir in the future. So be sure to pay maximum attention to your heart and nerves. Please tell Director Faldius and Levis to deal with the hospital related personnel during the (amputation surgery). I don’t want to ask Francesca, but if it is that guy’s magic, the worst case scenario, It's 'even if the head falls off, only the reproductive function can be retained'."

This is not overt interest or sarcasm, but a bland presentation of the truth.

After listening to Xihe's words, Sigma noticed.

The strange feeling doesn't come from outside.

This is a kind of "emotion" that comes from one's own heart.

— "Child, child. Listen carefully, son of your countrymen."

The voice echoed in Sigma's heart.

——"The things you should attack and destroy are those who want to take something from us."

The voice of nostalgia is a word that has no meaning anymore.

However, it was this voice that shook the current Sigma's mind.

——Ahh.

--yes. That's right.

——I...I feel that Junqiu Chun is a resident of a different world from me.

——Although she is a magician, she still has parents. Blood-related parents.

——It doesn’t matter, right? That kind of thing is.

In his mind, Chun's smile, the punishments he had received in the past, and the faces of the compatriots he had killed emerged one after another.

——Ahh...what? What, this strange feeling.

Suddenly, Sigma realized that he was holding something.

That was the crossbow that was taken out from the ground in the dream.

"Well... why do you have that thing? It's difficult to use as a weapon, and now that the heroic spirits appear, it can no longer be used in this war. Can you give it back to me?"

Sigma suddenly thought while listening to what Xihe said.

"...I want to protect Chun. I said it. I said it myself."

Then, that mysterious being in red clothes believed in such Sigma.

"I always feel like I'm mumbling... You mercenary, are you okay?"

"What? There's nothing you can do on this land."

Probably because he was quite confident in his family's defense mechanism, Chun's father looked completely confident.

Even so, he was not careless or arrogant. His fingers had already adopted a posture that could be used to solve this problem at any time.

Sigma inhaled slightly, regained his inorganic (without emotion) mage mercenary's face, and then spoke.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency Minqiu Xihe. I will report the details to Your Excellency Faldius."

"Ah, let's do it like this. Regarding the information about the heroic spirits here, well, I can tell you the part that you can understand."

"Okay, there is one more thing. I also need to inform Mr. Minqiu."

"notice?"

Sigma told the surprised Yuzuru calmly.

"This is a Holy Grail War, and I am one of the participants."

"Then what? The assassin just now was your heroic spirit, right?"

Xihe said in surprise without realizing that he had a fatal misunderstanding.

In other words, Sigma is far from a heroic spirit now, and is nothing more than a low-level magician.

Even if something happened, he just needed to be dealt with before he used the command spell to call back the assassin.

"My immediate superior was not Faldius, but Francesca... I was allowed discretion in the war."

"Hey... don't think about strange things."

Just before Yuzuru, sensing the unstable atmosphere, twirled his fingers, Sigma threw out the last words.

Even conveying this point is within the calculation "to guide the opponent's actions."

"This is my... declaration of war to you."

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"It's really incredible. We did tell you the location of the spells, but I didn't expect that you actually showed us all of them without missing a beat."

After a few minutes.

One of the "shadows" standing nearby - the old captain chuckled.

"Thanks to your accurate information, otherwise I would be the one who fell to the ground... Thank you very much"

"Don't express gratitude to your servants. It's because we support each other."

the captain said with a chuckle, seeing the "two pieces" that just rolled to the floor.

"Ah um... Wu Gu... Ha..."

"What...this..."

Although he rolled his eyes, he could only continue to moan inexplicably, a piece of human-shaped flesh.

"What's going to happen to these guys? If they are left alone, they will be regenerated using magic markings, right?"

"The path of regeneration is blocked. Judging from the quality of the magic mark, this state should last for half a month."

Those were the Minqiu couple whose limbs were paralyzed and most of their magic circuits burned by the special costumes.

Facing the two people who were barely breathing, Sigma said.

"I'm confused..."

Sigma continued expressionlessly as he showed no emotion towards the couple lying in front of him.

"If there is an instruction to kill, I will kill without hesitation. If there is an instruction prohibiting killing, I will not kill. However, there is no instruction this time. I am in a state where I don't even have long-term goals."

"However, you have decided where you should go, right?"

Sigma replied calmly to the words of the "Shadow" wearing artificial wings.

"I said I would protect Chun, but if she wakes up and finds out that her parents are dead, the child will be very sad...or, if she feels that this is her responsibility, she may commit suicide. However, If these guys are left alive, the same thing will happen again."

"So, 'neither let them live nor kill them', is that right? No, to be honest, it's very powerful. It's the kind of technique that paralyzes all the nerves and magic circuits in the whole body. It's not so much a magician as it is a magician. It’s a magician’s method.”

“I learned a lot about this from Frachesca.”

Then, while looking at Minqiu Chun's mother, he said to the shadow.

"My mother is no longer here. I heard from Francesca that she died during the Holy Grail War in Japan."

In his mind, "words that no longer make sense" kept repeating in a loop.

——"Your parents were also taken away by outsiders."

——"Your fathers were killed by the filthy invaders outside."

——"Your mother was also abducted by the terrible demon from outside."

——"So, my child, go and destroy them. Those who want to plunder from us."

——"My child, so go and fight. I hope that one day your mother can be returned to our hands."

When the voice faded, the shadow spoke as if it had the right timing.

"Ah, you've said that before."

The snake staff boy with half of his face petrified looked at Sigma's face and asked slightly.

"...Parents, what do you think of them?"

"My mother... I just think it would be nice if she wasn't such a guy."

Although it is meaningless now, Sigma still hopes so.

"So, what's next?"

Sigma looked up at the sky while answering questions from the female "shadow" who looked like an airplane pilot.

"Because someone told me that I could move freely, I just did it. Although Faldius would want to kill me, I think Francesca would be very happy."

"No matter what you do, you're just 'happy', right? That monster doesn't seem to be able to help."

In response to the captain's words, Sigma nodded expressionlessly.

"I know. But if he can be happy, it will be my reward for taking care of him."

Sigma held the entrusted crossbow and declared to himself and his servant ‘Watcher’.

From here, I will also jump to the inside of the stage.

"I want to... destroy this Holy Grail War (System)."

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"...ah?"

When Ayaka came to her senses, she found herself in the middle of the intersection.

This is the intersection in front of Crystal Hill, very close to the hospital and the police station.

The asphalt road and its surrounding areas were severely damaged, and a blockade indicating no entry could be seen in the distance, as well as police cars and construction vehicles parked as if to cover up the road.

There were police officers who were also looking around. There was no figure of the swordsman fighting in the distance, only the water ball floating around him.

"came back……?"

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Coleman Special Orthodontics Center.

"Oh...are you back safely? No, no, it's great to block the road."

Faldius shrugged and spoke to his confidant Aldora while looking at the images of surveillance cameras all over the street.

"So, although the days of stomachache continue, we also need to make adjustments in the remaining few days."

"So what to do first?"

After hearing her words, Faldius smiled bitterly and closed one eye.

"Anyway, let's take some stomach medicine first."

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Crossroads Center.

"Ah, Mr. Bennett! She is right there! That girl is the master of the swordsman."

When Flatt found Ayaka, the watch (Bennett) on Flatt's wrist jumped.

"Don't get so close. The swordsman has too much power. If you are an enemy, he will kill you instantly."

"Although this is the case, I still care about that Master's affairs. By the way, Bennett, can you do me a favor and become a white flag?"

"Although the opponent is indeed very powerful, they are not just surrendering directly, right?"

Including those same conversations as usual, Bennett truly felt that he and his Master were back in their original world.

Bennett kept an eye on his surroundings and prepared himself for attacks from magicians and heroic spirits, while asking Flatt to approach the swordsman's master.

"But... I won't be able to function well in future battles. The black archers (Avengers) in front of the hospital took away my Noble Phantasm, and other heroic spirits saw the difference. "

"It doesn't matter. If we treat it as a hard mode, there are always ways to solve the problem of numerical differences."

"...I should thank you for caring more about me than your own answers when you were asked about the Holy Grail by the assassin."

"What are you talking about!? I want to know too! What kind of existence is Bennett and what kind of wishes does he have?"

Bennett continued to face Flatt, whose eyes were shining.

"...It might just be disappointing. No matter what, please don't yearn for an existence like me. After all, I was born out of human malice."

After a lecture, Bennett softened his tone.

"But the thing that remains in your memory from the days I ran with you like this is without a doubt 'me', and even the Holy Grail cannot change that."

"Mr. Bennett..."

"Okay, now is not the time to be moved." Bennett coughed twice and brought the topic to the right track.

Flatt responded with his usual smile.

"You are now a qualified 'human being'."

"...Hahahahaha! Is that so?"

Bennett seemed very happy that he could be recognized by another person. Bennett smiled happily, a combination of a young magician who did not look like a magician and a human who did not look like a human being.

They walked briskly and fearlessly, and just like that they came into contact with the girl who was the master of the swordsman.

"Hey——, Ayaka-chan!"

"Eh!? Who is it!?"

Ayaka, who was suddenly greeted, turned around and saw a young man in his teens or 20s standing there waving.

"Why do you know my name"

The young man said after seeing the alert Ayaka's reaction.

"Ah, it is indeed someone else! Yes, the flow of magic power is completely different! But, are you also called Ayaka?"

"Eh……?"

Ayaka looked at the young man in confusion.

"Who are you?! Do you know about me?"

"I am Flat, please take care of me. There is someone with the same appearance and name as you. I am friends with that child... Your magic power flows, as expected..."

Ayaka asked after cautiously distancing herself from the young man who was looking at her and saying something.

"Wait...tell me! If you know anything about me...if you know who it is, please tell me!"

Frater made a serious expression on Ayaka who said something strange and nodded: "Yeah... I understand. You really don't know what's going on with you."

"So... you really know what's going on?"

Ayaka asked doubtfully.

Flatt said to reassure her: "Well, your body -"

"Wha—" there was a sound, and the sound of the wind being cut sounded first.

Then, the "red" blooming from the young man who claimed to be Flat added color to Ayaka's vision - and in an instant, the sound of the asphalt road breaking was heard.

"Eh?"

Was it Flat or Ayaka who made that sound?

Flatt fell to his knees with a thud.

"...Flat?"

Bennett's voice echoed around him.

He is on guard against a magician named Ayaka.

There were also attacks from other heroic spirits, including swordsmen.

Although Flatt and Bennett both trusted the police officers who were in alliance with them, the swordsman was still the object of initial contact.

But - the one that penetrated Flat was a long-distance sniper attack that had nothing to do with the swordsman camp and did not rely on magic as a medium.

Bennett, who has lost most of his power, has no way to directly protect his Master in this modern war.

"ah……"

While looking at the hole that was penetrated in his abdomen, Flatt completed the analysis very calmly - probably out of his expectation, he was shot by the enemy from the top of a tall building.

He raised his head to see that direction.

"It's too bright...I can't see clearly."

The sun that was about to set in the west came into view. Flatt involuntarily raised his hands to block the light and muttered to himself as if nothing had happened.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Bennett...I made a mistake."

It seemed like I heard Bennett's cry.

It felt like he had transformed into something powerful and wanted to rush towards the direction of the bullet.

But Flatt understood.

I'm afraid, I can't catch up anymore.

If you want to ask why - Flat's enhanced vision has already seen multiple snipers deployed in buildings at multiple locations.

"...I'm sorry, Professor"

Then, while showing a lonely smile, he spoke the last words.

"Everyone...I'm sorry——"

In front of Ayaka's eyes, there was a sound of tearing the air for the second time, and then another red flower bloomed.

The blooming position is about 1m higher than the previous one.

That is—the position where the head of the young man named Flatt is.

"Ah...ah..."

It wasn't the first time someone died in front of my eyes.

However, this was the first time that the head of the person who was talking to me with a smile just seconds ago disappeared like this.

Amidst Ayakashi's mournful screams - Flat's body naturally collapsed into the red sea.

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in a certain place.

"What's wrong? Sven?"

The young man who was questioned by the magician who was traveling with him tilted his head and sniffed several times with his nose. After feeling a strange sense of uneasiness in his heart, he spoke.

"No, just now...it seemed like someone's scent had disappeared..."

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Coleman Special Orthodontics Center.

"Confirmed damage to the target's head. Enter pursuit."

"Okay, please don't worry about the damage to the magic seal, because it belongs to 'Iskald whose history has collapsed'."

Faldius drank black tea while listening to the report coming from the radio and confirmed it on the monitor.

The young body lying on the asphalt road was beating under the chasing bullets.

The difference from Langar's time is that it is not a doll but a real body.

"I think mood makers are the most dangerous."

Faldius said this to Aldra while drinking black tea elegantly.

"For this time, I think it is dangerous for Flatt and Swordsman to continue to increase their allies. If these two people come into contact in the barrier and are not dealt with as soon as possible, my stomach may die. "

"So, is the master of the swordsman the same?"

"I originally wanted to deal with her after Flat, but I can't do that now."

At first glance, the girl who is the master of the swordsman has been wrapped in the magic power of a dome of water. The swordsman who arrived in time hugged the girl and moved her indoors.

"I am also very interested in the true identity of that Master. As for handling it, I will investigate it first."

Soon after the gunfire in the monitor stopped, and just as the radio went silent, Aldera asked.

"Is this, 'stomach medicine'?"

Upon hearing this, Faldius shrugged and laughed.

"Yeah, that's it."

"The best way to eliminate stress is to eliminate the culprits one by one."

Just when he was about to drink the last sip of black tea——

A monitor dimmed in front of Faldius.

"...?"

Just when he realized it was the camera looking at Flatt's body, the radio from the sniper execution unit rang.

"───Requesting a response, this is 'Spade', uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh help me"

"what happened……"

Immediately afterwards, the monitor monitoring the intersection also dimmed.

"...!"

After judging that it was an attack, Faldius adjusted the team magic radios scattered at the scene to automatic transmission, but——

"What! What on earth is that!"

"Hey! Attack quickly!"

"Ahh... I can't do it anymore."

"Beast! Why is this happening..."

"Monster!"

"Open fire quickly! Kill him quickly!"

"No...why..."

"magician……?"

"No, no...ahhhhhhhhh!"

"Help...gu...guah..."

"That's not human...ahhhhhh!"

The display screens dimmed one after another, as if to match it, and the screams of the sniper troops sounded one after another.

Not long after, the troops not far away responsible for monitoring the scene also began to inquire about the situation.

"This is the 'Jackal'! Faldius! What the hell is that! I've never heard of you talking about it, so aren't you saying that Flat Eskard is a magician!?"

"Please calm down! Monster...? That may be the transformed form of Flatt's servant. It won't take long for it to dissipate due to the disappearance of the magic power. Please hold on!"

"No! That guy who looked like a heroic spirit did transform! But, it disappeared quickly just like you said! This thing is something else...bastard, ah, ah, it's neither human, He’s not a magician! What on earth is that! He’s not a vampire or a heroic spirit or something like that! He’s the real deal...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

A sound like something being folded came over, mixed with a scream, and then the microphone went silent.

Not only that, the surveillance systems Faldius set up on the streets were disconnected one after another like chains——

Just tens of seconds later, all the surveillance cameras in Snowfield went out of action.

Facing the situation in front of him, Faldius dropped the black tea cup in his hand. He didn't notice the sound of it breaking on the ground, and just uttered a sentence -

"……What on earth happened?"

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Somewhere in Monaco.

"I see... Flat Eskard has met his end."

The man who had just spoken to Flatt on the phone not long ago, and was the host of the night party, quietly raised a glass to someone who had disappeared from the world a long time ago.

"Bless me for the great deeds of my former neighbor, Messala Eskaldes."

"But... I don't think it's something to be happy about if you use young people who still have a future as bargaining chips to get something called 'the past'."

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"Cluck, knock, knock, knock," the voice rang.

When I noticed that this was the sound that accompanied the end of everything——

Ah, it has begun, "I" thought.

"I" immediately understood the source of the rattling sound.

That was the sound of the empty magazine flying out of the sniper rifle that ended Flat Escardus, rolling down from the top of the building to the ground.

The sound of rolling and falling along a distance of tens of meters, and finally reaching the piece of meat once named Flat Escardus.

Waiting forever and ever.

Taking the fact of "existence" as its purpose, the "I" born from this finally ushered in the moment of realizing its own meaning.

Ah, yes, you have to move, you have to move to the next stage.

"I" already understand.

What I must do after this.

The biggest and final purpose given by the Escardes family. The meaning of one’s own birth.

That's right, Flatt.

——Ahhh, ahhh.

--It has ended.

——It's already sunset.

——has been destroyed.

——has arrived.

--Already done.

——Because from the beginning, the "missing" thing itself is the last piece of the puzzle.

Following the reason for my birth, "I" restarted myself.

Is this a difficult path or is it an easy path.

Such speculation is meaningless.

Because no matter what, there is no way to go except to complete the purpose.

Because apart from this purpose, it has no meaning given to itself.

Keep living, keep existing.

To become a real "human", as long as it can continue to exist on this planet, it will be fine.

Ah, we have an appointment, Flat (me).

"I" will continue to survive in this world for your sake.

Even if it is, it will put this planet on—

The species that will be defined as "humanity" will continue to be destroyed even if not a single one is left.

And the other side.

Only at this moment did Bennett realize deeply why Xuan Hao showed that he would let him study with Frater...

It turns out that this abnormal boy has something of the same kind as him in his body.

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clock tower.

"Damn it...it really doesn't work..."

A corner of the clock tower.

In the preparation room of the Modern Magic Department, Lord El-Melloi II kept fiddling with his cell phone while making anxious sounds.

Just now, the call was suddenly interrupted amid sounds and screams like a building collapsing, and it was impossible to get any contact with Flatt.

"Do you want to get in touch with the police chief...? No, I don't know the personal number... and I don't think I can call the police station directly..."

Putting his hands on the table, after thinking for a while, he stood up as if he had made up his mind.

"I can't help it...as expected, here...ah!"

The moment he opened the door, his body was bounced back into the room.

Upon closer inspection, a barrier imitating the white snake was forcibly deployed at the entrance.

"...weaving this stubborn spell...is it Huaye's barrier! The Legal Affairs Department...what are you doing here!"

He looked out the window and saw that several of the android followers of the French political officer Gordelf Mujik were on guard, apparently intending to put the monarch El-Melloi II under complete house arrest.

"How do I contact Lenise or Melvin?"

The second thought.

Suddenly, he became aware of an unfamiliar voice echoing in the room.

It was a small makeup case in the corner of the preparation room.

There seemed to be some electronic sound coming from the box that was usually used to store spare cigars.

"...?"

Nisei was surprised when he opened the box, and was even more surprised when he saw what was inside.

"What is this...? Until just now, there was no such thing..."

What appeared in the box unknowingly, echoing the retro call melody was——

A blue mobile phone with a deeper luster than glass.

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