Volu 4 Chapter 42: Dragon-san and Lanting Spirit
「What do you want from Lava!?」
Nectar shouted, at the sa ti taking out his staff and readying it for battle.
However, before he could do anything, other two spirits, one noble-looking man with a huge sword on his back nad Bastard and a beautiful woman wearing a pure-white dress nad Palette, got in his way.
「!!!」
「It’s been a long ti, Nectar. Now, I’m not as gentle of a person as Ten, so whatever do I want with that dragon indeed?」
「...... Why are you guys even here?」
「I think it is best for you all to be nice and listen for now. Say, do you hold this dragon dear?」
Lute pressed his instrunt against , one of the sharp, talon like protrusion extending from its hold pressing against my skin.
But before that, I could hear Lute whispering in my ear.
「Thou art a person, made of soft skin and weak flesh.」
As soon as I heard the words in ancient language, I could feel all of my strength leaving my body.
I felt so heavy that I wasn’t able to stand up on my own.
What did he do? My limbs felt all weird and weren’t responding to my commands at all.
In the anti, Lute strengthened his grip over my upper body, making completely dependent on his will for the mont.
Feeling the raising frustration in , the only thing I could do was to look at Nectar who was so distance away from .
Nectar held his hands on the staff so much that his fingers turned pale, and glared at Lute.
「What did you do to her?」
「I just put a little spell on her, one that basically reduced her physical capabilities to that of a normal human being. I think she’s unable to move because too much of her magic was depleted.
Letting out a deep sigh, Lute looked away from Nectar.
「Say, Ten? How did it go? Is this dragon going to cut it?」
Makoto opens her mouth, and answers Lute in Ten’s voice.
「She will. She t all the conditions.」
Although it was Makoto’s body, the voice belonged to Ten for sure.
Ten must have been the sa as , exhausted beyond belief.
However, I couldn’t help it but to be surprised that Ten and Lute were friends, and I was also confused about their words of conditions being satisfied.
Hearing her response, Lute sighed again and put his hands onto more firmly, strengthening his hold.
「I see. Very well, then. I shall take her there.」
Take ? Take where? Even though he seed to hate so much?
「Palette, is Belga coming along as well?」
「She’s on her way now.」
「Well then, Bastard. I’ll leave these guys to you.」
「I won’t let you!」
In a fit of rage, Nectar lunges forward towards Bastard and Lute, intending to fight them with magic.
No, Nectar! Don’t do that! You are alone, and there’s three of them! You don’t stand a chance! I wanted to shout like that, but I couldn’t draw my voice at all.
Instead, I found out that Lute’s expression was rather complicated when he turned to Nectar again.
「It seems that you really care about that dragon a lot.」
「Isn’t that obvious!? For , Lava is the most important person in the entire world!」
「In that case, why won’t you co with us?」
Hearing that, Nectar stopped in his tracks and cancelled the spell that he was about to cast.
「I cannot let her go, since it is all for the sake of fulfilling my ambitions, but if you co along, I shall tell you the reason for why am I doing this.」
Lute spoke quietly, but even though he was trying to hide, you could hear the emotions that were hidden behind his words.
I could tell that Lute was serious.
Nectar lowered his hands, the light of rage now gone from his eyes. He must have understood that as well.
At this rate, Nectar would co together with us. And he would do this purely for my sake.
However,
「No, don’t......」
I didn’t want Nectar to risk his well-being without first knowing Lute’s plans, so I wanted him to stay out of this.
I needed to avoid that at all cost.
I wanted to say sothing more, but unfortunately it was hard for to remain conscious as I was right now, so any more words would prove to be too much for .
Devoid of magical power, my body was unable to move.
I knew that there was nothing that could be done. But soone, anyone!
Please do sothing!
「I must say, that a really pathetic display you show here. My poor disciple.」
I could hear such a calm voice.
In the next mont, various plants and trees began to sprout from the spaces in between the cobblestone.
「Wha!?」
The plants that started to grow all over isolated Nectar from other spirits, and then separated from Lute.
As Lute beca disoriented, the restrains on my body beca weaker as I was being swallowed up by the sea of rapidly growing greenery.
But before that happened, I could feel soone gently supporting my back.
「Black Dragon, it seems that you’ve went and done sothing stupid again.」
This deep voice that symbolized years of experience in this world was sothing that I was pretty much familiar.
I looked up at that newly arrived person with a whole lot of intense feelings swelling up inside of my chest.
Even though his brown skin was full of wrinkles, his white hair and beard were making up for it, making him look noble and full of wisdom.
Additionally, he was wearing a Ballow-style traveler clothes. It was none other than Gramps, the Great Plant Spirit.
There were fresh leaves coming out of Gramps’s body, flying high into the air and falling onto the ground, where new plants were beginning to grow out of them.
In the anti, I was still holding onto him.
Now, even though I wasn’t feeling so sluggish anymore, I still had problems with holding my balance on my own.
While he was thinking about sothing seriously, I could see Nectar right besides Gramps’s side.
Then, Nectar encloses his arms around .
「Lava, I’m so glad......!」
Despite feeling reassured by Nectar’s warmth, I couldn’t suppress my surprise and confusion. I looked towards Gramps, who was looking as humble as ever.
「My poor disciple, you certainly weren’t neglecting your training, but it doesn’t change the fact that you’d stood no chance against them.」
「God damn it! So I really am too weak!? But more importantly, Master......」
「Why the hell are you here!?」
Before Nectar could finish that question, we heard a scream like that coming from behind us. Looking back, Lute managed to squeeze his way through the plats that stopped growing.
However, his expression wasn’t that mask of calmness and lancholy like before. Now his face was stained with both surprise and shock.
Gramps just stared at Lute, his calm and serene expression didn’t change in the slightest.
「You must be that spirit with that musical instrunt. I thought it might be possible to et you here, but to see it actually being true, color surprised.」
We were so surprised that we couldn’t even raise our voices.
Does Gramps know Lute!?
Thinking about it carefully, Lute’s reaction was also the one as though they have t face-to-face before.
Then, another woman got through the plants and rejoined Lute, glaring at Gramps with so much hostility that you could almost feel the killing intent in it.
「I knew it, that other spirit is no longer with you, is she? However, you should have been entrusted with taking care of the seal. Why were those things coming into this world?」
「Shut up! As if you were to one to speak!」
I could almost feel a regrettable tone in Gramps’s voice, as if he was about to cry.
That person? Who were they talking about?
And what was that thing about a seal just now?
However, judging by the atmosphere between the two, now was not the right ti to be asking that kind of questions.
「I couldn’t be helped. It cannot be helped that you’ve forgotten. You wouldn’t be able to keep going if you didn’t forget.」
「What the hell do you an ‘It couldn’t be helped’!? Isn’t that wrong!? Do you have any idea how much sadness that person have felt!?」
「What......?」
For the first ti around the expression on Gramps’s face has changed, but Lute continued to cry and lant even despite of that.
「There’s no way I could have forgotten that person, about Adversa! Did you know that it was the world itself that killed her!?」
「...... you’re being delusional.」
Said Gramps while his green eyes shone brightly.
「But let just say this: I am going to undo the seal on that thing!」
Lute’s response was dramatic. Maybe even overly dramatic.
「What, did you just say......?」
「It seems that you’ve forgotten the role your beloved played.」
Lute opens his eyes wide and was at a loss for words, and then Gramps slowly approaches him.
But just then, there was a loud sound of sothing being shot, and a bullet of light separates Gramps from Lute.
「Lute! I made it in ti!?」
The one to arrive at the scene right now was a brown-haired woman in dark clothes, holding a magical gun in her hand. Was Belga, looking just like at the ti I first t her.
There was also a bunch of magical guns flying all around her, ready to take a shot at whoever she deed an enemy.
Standing before us, Belga looked back towards Lute with her face as white as a sheet.
「You’d honestly thought that would hold back!?」
「!!!」
The situation suddenly got even more dramatic.
There was a large explosion sowhere around the room, and as Lute wanted to say sothing, soone appeared in front of us.
Kyle appeared thorough the large hole in the wall while being covered in an armor of thunder, and swung his staff at her while assuming battle stance.
Gramps shook his arms as if trying to get away, while the thunder and the sound of bullet being shot clashed with one another.
At that mont, plants opened yet again and the other spirits rejoined their companions.
Bastard shook his great sword with one hand and cut the moving plants as if they were made out of paper, rendering them useless.
「Water Barret!」
However, at that mont Nectar cast the spell with almost god-like speed, sending several water bullets towards them.
Once the bullets grazed Bastard, they changed shape and created a wall of water, huge enough to reach all the way towards the ceiling.
The water wall crumbled quickly and what erged from the other side were the monsters created by Palette’s paintbrush, rushing towards Gramps and Nectar to intercept them.
Even though Lute was still shaken up, I saw him taking a hold of his instrunt and getting ready to stroke its strings. In the next mont, a teleportation circle appeared right beneath their feet.
I wasn’t going to let the story repeat itself. I was going to prevent them from escaping this ti around.
「Lava, stop! Don’t do anything stupid!」
「SHADOW BIND!」
Completely ignoring Nectar’s calls, I squeezed the last ounces of magic that I still had in to create countless shadows around my feet, although they were much weaker than before.
Even so, I still sent them towards Lute, hell-bent on stopping him.
Although Bastard managed to destroy so of them, others went straight towards their target.
However,
Noticing what I was doing, Belga pointed all of her guns towards and fired them all at once.
A blinding light filled my vision, shrinking my shadows as a result.
As the magic surges, all other responses disappear.
When the magical light finally disappeared, Belga lost consciousness in Kyle’s arms.
It must have been the doing of the magic in that light.
You could do sothing like that by purposefully disturbing the circulation of magic in soone else’s body.
However, I couldn’t feel the influence of Lute’s magic on anymore.
Also, I couldn’t hear anything anymore. Sa with thinking straight.
Just then, after finally reaching its limit, my consciousness slipped into the darkness.
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