[ Episode 360. After that ]
Quaggagak!
The two collided figures retreated with a terrifying clash of metals.
“Huh…”
Sinclair exhaled a long breath and looked at Maximin, who was not disturbed by a single breath.
“How long are you going to relax?”
“spare?”
Maximin tilted his head and asked again.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“If not using an aura or draw, what is it?”
Sinclair shouted, looking insulted. However, Maximin still only looked at the other person with a calm expression.
“It’s not particularly relaxing, but you can use it if you want.”
“Maximin-!”
The Greatsword flew.
Maximin dodged Sinclair’s thrown sword, but Sinclair, who was running alongside him, was hidden behind the greatsword.
Suung!
Numerous greatswords were stuck on the floor due to Sinclair’s aura rain. Sinclair pulled out one of them and swung it with fierce momentum.
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The spirit of opening the world shook the heavens and the earth.
However, Maximin held up the betrayal executioner and lightly blocked it as if it had been touched by cotton wool.
Took!
just one step.
Maximin, who was only pushed away, bounced back and stepped back.
“Are you playing with me?”
“No way.”
Maximin’s tone seemed sincere, but Sinclair’s fever rose when he saw that he didn’t use his aura.
“You and I don’t like each other. You must be feeling it.”
“…….”
Sinclair was the owner of supernatural power.
In addition, he was an unmanned man with tremendous stamina.
His Aura Bigi also has the ability to maximize his physical characteristics.
However, all of his abilities were suitable for one-on-one combat.
“Unknown.”
Maximin called Sinclair by his title.
“To put it mildly, he is strong against multiple battles, but weak against one-on-one against strong opponents like me.”
“Shut up.”
Both were spherical.
It was when Maximin caused a terrapin incident while running away with Isabel before he woke up to Biggie.
“You cannot defeat me.”
“Maximin Cronel…….”
Ugh!
With a grinding sound, Sinclair kicked the ground again. The shock alone cracked the ground where he stood, but Maximin lightly sprayed his sword toward such an opponent.
oh oh oh oh ——–!
The aura that was fired violently pushed the approaching Sinclair away. Sinclair raised his greatsword and blocked it with one side, but the explosive power like the first time was greatly reduced.
Even so, he managed to approach Maximin and brandish his sword.
“Use your biggie!”
“If you want that…”
Peruk!
Sinclair fell over from the sudden shock felt in the back of her head.
“There’s nothing I can’t do.”
I knew what was going on inside the castle. However, Maximin was trusting Isabelle and other personnel to deal with Sinclair.
“It was my own courtesy that I did not use Aura Biggi.”
“Keugh.”
Sinclair tried to get up, but a long shadow fell over his neck.
The blue blade touched his neck, exhaling anticipation.
“I didn’t want to win this way.”
Sinclair opened her eyes wide as she saw another Maximin stepping on her body.
“I knew that your aura, Biggi, was an alter ego. I never thought I would have the same power…”
My alter ego didn’t weaken.
That is Maximin’s aura.
Sinclair, who did not know that fact, let out a blank laugh.
“You who played with me without an alter ego are actually two…….”
“…….”
Maximin just looked down at him without saying a word.
“Kill him.”
“That is not for me to decide.”
Realizing that the commotion in the castle had ended before he knew it, Maximin drew back his sword and said,
“I will leave your treatment to Adrias.”
“Hehe. do whatever you want.”
The loser has no words.
Sinclair sincerely thought so.
Until I came here, I never imagined it would end up like this, but this must also be destiny.
**
“What happened…”
Diene was pacing around in the room assigned to her. And beside her, Luna and Lucia were sitting at a table eating sweets.
“Now you don’t seem to have any intention of hiding anything, believe in what you see, sister.”
“sister?”
Luna tilted her eyes while eating the snack and looked at Lucia.
“Ah, I should call you Diene’s sister. It’s true that you have two sisters……”
“Am I Luna’s sister?”
“yes yes.”
Diene sighed when she saw the two of them talking nonchalantly.
“Honestly… I guessed a bit.”
“What?”
“Undead.”
Diene said, recalling the undead knight who saved her from the tower.
“Because I liked to hide something darkly from the beginning. Since when did you know?”
“I am Portrion. It wasn’t even a fuss, so Adrias-senpai couldn’t hide it and eventually revealed it.”
Diene could feel her head pounding as she took a bite of the snack and talked casually.
“In the first place, even if you are a black magician, there is no particular problem unless it is an empire or a holy country. And now it’s a situation where I’m pretending to be the empire.”
“So it’s more of a problem. Because the Empire will give you a clearer reason to attack Adrias.”
“I also took the Duke of Cloche hostage, so what am I worried about? Perhaps Cromwell is an impregnable fortress that no one can penetrate?”
That’s… that’s right.
Diene wanted to refute, but the sight she had seen during the day compelled her to agree.
I never thought that Cromwell would have Evan, the knight of light, Maximin, the strongest swordsman on the continent, and Salem Yedidia, the wanderer.
‘Even without them…….’
Diene, who felt Adrias’ power, couldn’t even guess how much power he had now.
He single-handedly caught the monster that he couldn’t kill with his own magic and Lucia’s original magic.
‘To be exact, it was Adrias and the undead.’
The undead are also Adrias’ power, so there’s no need to exclude them.
And considering how many more of his undead there were, he hadn’t even seen his full strength yet.
“Amazing.”
“What?”
“I didn’t know that Adrias could be that strong. I thought it was strong to a certain extent, but that was…”
“That’s right.”
Seeing Lucia answer casually, Diene sighed again. For some reason, it seemed that only sighs were getting more and more.
“Diene! Take a deep breath and sit here.”
Luna patted the seat next to her with the palm of her hand and called out to Diene.
“Eating something delicious makes me happy!”
Diene unknowingly smiled at Luna’s comfortable words and shook her head.
“yes. Even if you think about it, nothing will happen.”
Thinking of the innocent look of Luna and Adrias she had seen so far, it felt like her prejudice against warlocks had been broken.
No, now rather than thinking that they are black magicians, they were surprised to feel themselves thinking about how they could be safe from the empire.
smart!
“This is Adrias.”
“come in.”
In the midst of thinking about Adrias for a long time, when he appeared in person, Diene couldn’t stand the itching of her mouth.
“you……!”
“Are you okay, Luna?”
The two of them looked at each other and shook their hands.
“Tell me first.”
“Tell me first.”
Lucia, who was watching him, took the snack and ate it with an expression that he was playing.
“Luna are you okay?”
“what?”
“I thought you were heartbroken that Jerome left.”
At Adrias’s words, Luna slightly turned her gaze to look at the snack, and then quietly put it in her mouth.
“This cookie…is delicious.”
“Luna.”
“I should have brought you more sweets.”
Seeing Luna speak calmly, the people felt more sorry for them and kept silent.
“It’s okay because you said you’d come back.”
“Yes, he said he would definitely come back.”
Shortly after the death of the Blue Knight, Jerome decided to leave Cromwell, saying he wanted to know more about the world. Even though it seemed like it would be a rough journey because of his appearance, no one could stop him because he said that it would be good for him.
“That…is the person called Jerome related to the child you defeated today?”
“……well.”
Adrias was silent at Diene’s question.
“Ha, yes. Rather than that, what are you going to do now?”
“What are you talking about?”
“What is it? Now that you’ve become a tribute to the Empire, are you at peace?”
“Are you worried?”
“what……?!”
When the embarrassed Diene was unable to speak, Lucia laughed and watched from the side.
“I will probably be away for a while.”
“Are you leaving? in this situation?”
“I have something to see.”
These words were incomprehensible to Diene, who did not know that Adrias had many more important things than this war.
“I guess so. He is our senior who is busy with construction.”
“You’re making me sad again.”
Adrias smiled and said to Diene and Lucia.
“You can be here anytime and anywhere. I’ll probably be back soon, so it’s better if you wait.”
“What are you going to do now?”
“Yes, we should go and finish the job as soon as possible.”
What the hell is going on that makes you want to leave right after going through something like this?
It was Diene and Lucia who could not understand at all.
“I want to go too!”
“I will go alone this time. Luna, please play with Diane and Lucia here. Are you my sister?”
“huh!”
Adrias, who persuaded Luna at once, smiled and stroked Luna’s hair. Luna flirted with Adrias, holding her arm with a cookie-stained hand.
“I have to go back to my family.”
“yes.”
“…I will make sure that no matter what happens, I will never attack Cromwell.”
“thank you. I believe you, Diane.”
After finishing his words, Adrias waved his hand and left the room. As he left, a strange silence hung over the room.
“ah!”
“What’s wrong?”
“I didn’t ask. I had a lot to ask.”
“One thing is for sure, Diane.”
“what?”
Lucia washed her hand with the cookies on it and then smiled briskly.
“A senior is never a bad person. Well, there are many things that black magicians hide. At least he’s someone you can trust.”
“That’s what you call someone you can’t trust.”
“Does Diene not trust you?”
“It’s not like that, but…”
Diane, who was speechless, waved her hand.
“Ah, crazy. I will think for myself.”
“all right. Luna, do you want to go to my room?”
“huh? huh!”
Soon after the two of them left, Diene was sprawled on the bed in the really quiet room.
“I don’t know.”
I really don’t know.
She thought so and just closed her eyes.
The identity of Adrias, which he learned belatedly, was too complex, but in the end, only Adrias himself could tell.
It was a night of mixed feelings.
[ Episode 360. After that ] End
