Sairin Yuusha no Fukushuu Hanashi

The mud surrounding Orteguia spreads here as well.

He stepped back with Elfi and escaped from that range.

But our gaze is nailed overhead.

"What do you mean, Io? What is Reaper doing?"

"... I want to hear it. In the first place, Idler was supposed to be protecting me from the attack before he got here."

"What?

Idler, who remains afloat, looks down at us with a happy grin.

"I'll keep an eye on everything and nothing. I was just pretending to be dead. The only way to get off the board was at that time. How'd it go? I think it was a pretty real act, technically."

"That's not what I want to hear. What the hell is this mud! What the hell are you doing?"

"I have a lot of questions. This is the mud from the underworld that I created with magic. By wrapping my nucleus in this mud, I can finally fulfill my purpose."

The mud in the underworld?

I don't understand what you're saying.

"Hey, I really want to send you guys a thank you. Well, you've weakened Orteguia so far. It would have been the end of letting this overgrown guy get out of the mud. Thank you, Iori. Thank you, Elphiszark. Thank you so much for working for me."

Shortly after I said that, Idler reached into the space.

When I wonder if the ripples have spread across the zup and space, Idler's hand sinks into it.

Then Idler took a single sword out of the space.

Unexpectedly, I was stunned.

Why not?

"... why do you have the Heavenly Sword?"

That's the sword Lucifina had.

To Orteguia, it was a sword that was supposed to have been taken.

"If you're Iori, don't you have to bother asking me the answer?

"You... you killed Lucifina"

"Yeah, that's right."

Naturally, Idler nodded.

When I think I've put my hands on my body, a change appears in Idler's appearance.

to the appearance of Orteguia (...), changed.

- I'm the one who killed Lucifina.

That was the exact same voice as Orteguia.

If there is a difference, it is that the voice contains a delightful color that cannot be hidden.

During the blink, if I noticed, I was back to what my original idler looked like.

――――

I remember a conversation I had with Idler on Aldrin Great Forest night.

When I asked Idler if he knew the magic of taking over someone else's body.

"Whatever the magic of turning into someone else or making a doll that looks just like me, I don't feel like I can even move on to someone else"

That is.

"You turned into Orteguia and killed Lucifina... you made a doll that looked like you and pretended to be dead"

"Yeah, it's fast and helpful."

"Why? Why did you do that? Didn't you want revenge on Orteguia?!?"

Bewilderment came before anger.

This situation does not swallow well.

Idler's intentions are beyond grasp.

"I guess there are three reasons. One was because that timing was the best way to get the 'Celestial Sword' back. Everyone was weak, and I thought there was nothing else I could easily take with me except there. I couldn't have missed the opportunity."

――――

"Second, to make you hate Orteguia."

"... what?

"You heard it in the Great Forest, didn't you? You don't seem to hate Orteguia, but what are you going to do? You said you were going to kill Orteguia with Elphiszark, but I thought that would be sweet. I would have liked you to have defeated Orteguia. I hate Orteguia from the bottom of my heart and kill it by any means - I wanted to motivate you to do that."

Did Lucifina get killed for something like that?

"Well, the third one is pure, because I wanted to kill him. I couldn't forgive him for touching Melt's sword in the middle of a half-elf. That's why I killed Lucifina there. Was it satisfying?

Idler is laughing.

He says, "That sounds fun."

Melt's made sword.

As if, like other HRs, Idler said.

"You... weren't a melt?

"No, but?

Laughing with his nose, Idler replied.

"Oh, I had that exchange at death. But it's nothing. I'm not positive about your words, am I? I don't even remember Melt."

"Well, you..."

That's when I almost said it.

The mud explodes vigorously and scatters the splash all around you.

From the inside, the mud-painted Orteguia appeared in desperate shape.

Still, his lower body remains wrapped in mud.

"That's a long time."

"Ki, Sama. Who are you!!"

Orteguia shouted in a blood-soaking voice at Idler, who dropped her gaze downwards with half a laugh.

While doing so, mud flows without swallowing Orteguia.

Scratch it, Orteguia is staring at Idler.

"Well, that's why you did it. It's in front of a child who can't do it, or should I introduce myself?"

The color of Idler's eyes changed.

Moving from peach, which was dark, to dark red.

In the center of it, a white crucifix appeared.

Spread your hands as if scratching the world - Idler said.

"I am the one who can unite the devil.

He who transgresses the light of salvation and falls "

Therefore, my name is...

"-" Fallen Light God, "Hardia."

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- It is said that a two-pillar God once existed in this world.

“Holy Light God” Melt, said to have created man.

“Fallen Light God," Hardia, said to have created the demon.

This world was created by these “two gods of Genesis” called beings.

That one crack, Idler named it.

"Hardia, he said. If that's true, you're sealed up in the underworld."

"Abominably, that's true. For hundreds of years, I was enclosed at the bottom of the earth. But that's up to today. Thanks to you, I can come back here."

Answering Elphi's question, Idler turned his gaze again to Orteguia in the mud.

"From what I hear, you seem to want to find out what it means to be born. Who the hell are you and what you were born for - I, the parent, will answer you."

"Parents, you say?

"Even so. I made you because I'm the one."

――――

Whatever the stalling Orteguia, Idler goes on to say the words.

"Orteguia, though you call yourself the Demon King - you're not a demon or anything in the first place. Well, technically, you're the gate."

"Gate, you say?

"Yes. Connect this world with the Underworld, the Gate. It's just one of the tools that we've worked our magic into the mud of the Underworld."

When I heard the words, I understood the meaning of the words I heard in my dreams then.

"Orteguia's (...) identity is the gate to the Underworld (...)"

Was the Lord of the Voice trying to tell me about this?

"My body is enclosed in the underworld. So, in order to come back this way, we needed to create a gate that would connect this world with the Underworld. After hundreds of years of magic, I succeeded in sending my own identities into this world. With that application, I sent you to this world, the gateway I made in the Underworld."

――――

"It just takes a huge amount of magic to open the gate. Until I prepare my magic, if the gate is broken, it will not accumulate. So I gave you a strong survival instinct and the ability to grow. On top of that, I sent you to an area where no one would come near you - but I didn't expect you to eat the flesh of the Demonic Kings."

I heard that far and turned my gaze to Orteguia so Elphi could play it.

"No way...... Ortegia. Are you the black monster from that time?

Black monster - I hear Elfi's stories about his past before he gets here.

An unidentified monster that eats demons and demons and grows.

The monster was crusaded in the battle of the Elphies.

――――

Orteguia just opens his eyes and shuts up.

But the expression looked terribly like Elfi.

Silver hair as if it had trapped the starlight, golden eyes.

A pitch-black horn growing from the side head.

For a long time, I thought these two looked alike.

Even after Elphi defeated him, Orteghia survived.

It evolved to what it is today, using the growth ability that Idler gave.

With that in mind, I'm also convinced that Elphi and Orteguia are alike that they have no blood ties.

"By eating the meat of Elphiszark, the gates gained intelligence and grew to be close to the Demons. On top of that, Orteguia is a big name, diving into the Demon King's Army.... totally unexpected, and I had my head on the boulder. I can't get close enough to you, and I can't fathom you now. [M] It's been a long time."

"So... what was the point of my birth? Eat others, sacrifice them, but I thought I had to stay alive."

"Oh. Bringing me back from the Underworld to this world. For that, you had to live. But that's all you are."

Asking Orteguia with a trembling voice, Idler naturally gave the answer.

He opens his eyes flashly, tries to run something, and Orteguia closes his mouth, as he gave up.

look at that. Idler nodded contentedly,

"Thank you for your hard work so far. You should do your part."

Now it was time for Orteguia's body to be drunk in the mud.

On the surface of the mud, countless bubbles emerge as if boiling.

Slowly as it is, the mud moves and gradually changes shape.

What the mud shaped was a distorted square that was only named after the gate.

That square rips in two from the center and something black overflows from the inside.

Something turned into countless particles the moment it touched the air and headed towards Idler.

"Hehe. Finally, I can come back to this world."

Idler smiles softly as he is wrapped in black particles.

When the particles touch the idler, they disappear so that the bubbles can bounce.

No - in idlers, they take it in.

"Magic."

Elfi shrugged.

"What's overflowing through that gate is a high concentration of magic. It's absorbed into his body."

A huge amount of particles, like a storm.

The beret that Idler was wearing is flown far away.

He didn't even show the bareback he cared about, and Idler was grinning with his hands wide open.

――――

- On Idler's body, a change appears.

Over its head, a red and disastrous circle is constituted.

The pink hair, which was aligned with the shoulders, swept heavily, and when I noticed it, it stretched to the knee.

From its back, four wings composed of magic reveal themselves.

"- The abominable world that rejected me right now"

In a transformed appearance, Idler - Hardia said so with a smile.

While doing so, black particles continue to overflow through the gates.

Is that all the magic of Hardia that was sealed in the underworld?

- Unexpectedly, the gate collapses with guzzling noises.

"Oh. After all, wasn't there enough magic to form the gate completely"

Squirting, Hardia pointed her gaze at me.

Set up the jade knife and stare back at Hardia.

"You lied to us."

"No. I was just using it, not telling the truth."

"... don't be ridiculous"

Mobilize all the magic you were running out of and activate [Hero Reproduction (The Raise)].

I don't know what you're up to.

But we can't keep him alive any longer than we know this guy killed Lucifina.

Concentrate your magic on your feet and try to jump under Hardia -,

"Oh, it's no use."

The white ring I was wearing glowed.

Moment after moment, Gakun and his whole body lost their power.

"What..."

"That's a ring I made with power. I can give my protection to those who are fitting in. It helped in the fight against Orteguia, didn't it? But the moment you turn that power against me... you will be sealed."

"-"

"Naturally, right? Don't you think it's convenient for you to be given protection unilaterally?

Shortly after, Elfi moved.

Activate the Devil's Eye, trying to shoot through the idler,

"-" Tears to the Death of Beloved Stars. ""

Hardia waved down the 'Heavenly Sword'.

What was unleashed was a slaughter that was less massive than what we saw in the void labyrinth.

Faster than Elphi moved, the slaughter blew Elphi away.

"but fu...... iweave"

"Your opponent later, Elphiszark. It's good to be lying there. If you're a grown-up, that's all your life expectancy will be."

Rolling to the ground, Elfi throws up blood reflexes.

No, you can't.

That guy, too, is coming to a limit in his fight against Orteguia.

No more......

"'Testimony of the Brave'... I can't keep you alive, living in part of Melt's power. We need magic to maintain the gate, and you will definitely die, Io."

Even if I scratch my feet, I can only act as slowly as if I were in the water.

While doing so, Hardia snapped her fingers.

"-" Power and Foolish Creation (Collapse Hades End) ".

Come on out, Snake Eater.

The bumps and mud bubble and reshape.

What emerged was a giant snake with ten necks that were slightly smaller than that, centered around a giant neck that even the dragon species was likely to swallow.

A pitch-black scale as sharp as a piece of glass covers his entire body, reflecting and shining light every time he twists his body.

"He's dead, Io."

"Ooh... ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh."

Use the "Testimony of the Brave" to the fullest and unlock all magic.

Slightly, my body is free.

Activate the Devil's Destruction Seizure (Il Atalaxia).

But...

"It's no use."

In one blow, the shield was destroyed.

One of the snake's necks comes at me with his fangs stripped out.

Shake the jade knife, swinging it down against your head with all your might.

"Kuh."

It is inhibited by a strong scale and the blade is bounced.

Though he manages to flaunt his fangs, he is hit hard by a giant and beaten to the ground.

There, my other neck sticks in.

"Thank you, Io."

Avoid a single neck using wind blows.

"I won't waste your death."

Take a single neck protrusion. Consciousness flies.

"So give it up."

Prevent the bite of a single neck by squeezing force and deploying a demonic seal. The shield broke.

"Make it easier."

The remaining neck was swinging down like a whip at the same time.

I can't avoid it.

Direct hit.

On the scales, the feeling of being moped down the flesh of the whole body.

Vision stains red.

The iron-smelling liquid comes up.

Unleash magic.

It doesn't go through the snake.

Hardia is obsessed.

The center of the snake, the biggest neck moved.

He's slowly approaching me, trying to pin me down.

I can't move my hand.

I can't move my legs.

The magic is running out.

Consciousness is going to fly.

I have no hitter.

- Bye bye.

I heard Hardia.

Snakes looming.

Death...

Someone grabbed my collar.

Good momentum, can throw.

I hit the ground and rolled with a gobble.

Look up, understand.

It was Elfi who threw me.

Elfi took the snake's advance with his demonic arm.

"Hey, Itsuki."

"El, fi..."

"I was happy to travel with you."

What are you talking about?

"My heart calmed down only when I was spending time with you, though I was burned by my hatred for Orteguia. Thirty years, I was forgotten about the fear that was trapped in the dark. You talk about things on par with me, and sometimes you get mad at me. Actually, it's fun to be angry at you for saying you're impotent, and I liked it."

"Elfi......"

"You even ate dinner with me, went into a hot spring, and they saw skin that wasn't a minute of your body. That was the first time you ever showed a man your complexion, wasn't it? Totally...... That was the first time you traveled with Io. Never, it wasn't an easy day. But... um. Looking back, I knew I was happy with Io."

"Elfi."

"The time I spent with you is a treasure of my life"

From Elphi's body, magic falls out.

Here comes the limit.

"Then... I was really going to tell you this after it was all over..."

Dyed her cheeks red, with a full grin, Elfi said.

- I love you, Io.

So you live.

"E -"

Bakun, and.

Elfi was swallowed up by a snake.

So, it's over.