Volu 12 Chapter 4 - Mountain of Olympus (Part 4-7)
Part 4
“I am Sienna Gattuso. The contractor of the Olympia twelve gods to retreat by flying. If Ilyailiya tried to chase after her, the two corpses would stand in her way.
“……This pertinent!”
This ti Fu Xi’s whole face was filled to the brim with rage. The emotion of surprise had passed away……now she felt rage.
“Although it is a different Mythology, but for the likes of a retainer to beco emotional until that far! The likes of two people who escaped death, you will be pulverized by our elites!! GOOO!”
The Chinese knight order regrouped their battle preparations all at once. Without any battle cry, without any expression, they were a wordless army.
……Fu Xi showed rage at the persistence of Sienna and Adelina, but Hers felt fear at their expressionless faces when he looked back while retreating.
No, rather than calling it expressionless……they had already, lost their face.
“ “UGOoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!” ”
Sienna and Adelina raised a terrific hoarse voice like a shriek from the bottom of hell, they attacked as though trying to give even one more attack more to the enemy before them.
“Don’t yell! Emotion is the privilege for only a ruler! Go, o ……!!”
……Italia was also thorough in shaving off the strength of China.
Ilyailiya wasn’t getting deeply involved with the battle against the dead and pondered while staring at Fu Xi’s back.
Was Vera Garibaldi soone who could polish a strategy this elaborately she wondered. The action of this side……or more accurately Fu Xi’s action was perfectly foresighted, a tactic that made it feel like she was dancing in the palm of soone.
Wasn’t this really like a thod that Loki would think of? Italia who lost their master was played around by Loki’s eloquence and made into a puppet――such hypothesis erged in Ilyailiya’s mind.
No, the explanation wasn’t enough with just that. Sienna and Adelia were holding on and fighting exactly with the resolve of putting their lives on the line. Would they exhibit this much desperate effort for the sake of Loki’s strategy?
No. This fierce self-sacrifice wasn’t sothing that could be displayed for the sake of the likes of Loki.
These two……were burning their lives for the sake of a [lord] to whom they gave their absolute trust.
…………In other words, Regina Olympia Fornar was……alive?
Ilyailiya beca the second person who reached the truth.
“If Regina is alive……her aim will be……?”
Part 7
Kazuki and Hrotsvit gulped their breaths while watching over that offense and defense. From looking at the state of the people surrounding the battle, they understood that it was a battle where interference was unneeded.
The duel between Arthur and the two sword style knight……it was his first ti seeing her but he understood in a glance. That owner of martial prowess was exactly Lancelot’s present representative, she was undoubtedly his contractor.
King Arthur versus Sir Lancelot! Obviously he couldn’t help having his eyes and soul stolen by that sight! Although there were a great numbers of dream duels that anyone couldn’t help having in the world of Mythology, however how many of those dreams could surpass the showdown between these two!
“……Is this reality?”
Even Beatrix who rushed together with Kazuki leaked out a faint voice as though she would faint.
“Certainly this is sothing that one should really feel surprised about. King and knight……I don’t know what is the authority of King Arthur but, the basic spec of the two of them should have an overwhelming gap in between. Nevertheless Lancelot is fighting her equally! Most likely the mont they landed on Atlantis the two of them imdiately sought each other out and have continued to fight until now.”
The battle of Atlantis began since noon, right now the sun had already begun to go down.
“It’s emotion.” Kazuki thought after looking at them.
“Lancelot is changing the explosion of her emotion into magic power to cross swords with Arthur.”
Magic power was the power of the mind. Even Kazuki had the experience where he was able to exhibit more power than he originally had when his emotions were heightened. From the magic power of Lancelot, there was the atmosphere of masterfully using well such [explosive instability].
Lancelot filled each of her swings with emotion and fought as though she was throwing her rageyell towards soone. Despite that she had no opening……the explosive power of an amateur and the finesse of a master were in complete harmony.
Why, how was she able to fight in this way? Just how much of a reason was it that made a human able to beco this emotional? There was only one possible thing……there was no doubt it was love. The sa like how Kazuki was loving the comrades with whom he had tied bonds with, there was no doubt that Lancelot loved King Arthur.
“It seems the weapon will decide the match doesn’t it?”
Hrotsvit talked. “Arthur’s Excalibur……and then Lancelot’s weapons, if it is following the legend then they must be Arondight and Joyeux. Any one of them is an outstanding Sacred Treasure. In contrast with that Arthur’s shield……Prydwen is an unfavorable comparison.”
Exactly at the ti when Hrotsvit pointed that out, Lancelot challenged.
“HAAAAAAAAAAA!”
Lancelot swung Arondight that was remarkably large and struck Arthur’s Prydwen――with that attack, Prydwen was smashed.
Lancelot whose balance crumbled from swinging an attack with all her might, was attacked by the golden flash of Excalibur. Lancelot was slashed right from the front, both her feet braced and she withstood the shock of the smashed magic, her body didn’t even sway and her other hand counterattacked with Joyeux. Arthur let go of her broken shield and put her hand quickly on the sheath hanging at her hips. With that, she blocked Joyeux.
If it was just a re sheath, then surely it would be impossible for it to receive the attack of Joyeux.
“Sheath of fairy !” Hrotsvit yelled.
“Hiding a power that is not inferior even compared to Excalibur, the sheath of Excalibur. It brought about regenerative power in the owner……the greatest factor that caused Arthur to still have far more spare energy remaining even in this equal battle must be that sheath. Even with her shield destroyed, there is still the next one. ……The battle is decided then.”
“King Arthur……” Lancelot sent her voice while Joyeux was pressing down on Avalon.
“As long as you have Excalibur and Avalon, you are a perfect king. Because of that, as long as those are present, you won’t be able to look back on yourself……”
“If I’m perfect, then what is it that needed to be looked back on.” Arthur talked back with a strong voice.
Lancelot answered with a voice that was calm like a lake. “It’s love.”
“……!” Arthur, no, the girl was surely King Arthur itself right now. Her eyes were bared open with a snap.
“Because you are a perfect king you abandoned love. There is no way I can allow that, for the sake of Guinevere!”
“The likes of an adulterer like you have no qualification to say that!!”
The ultimate adultery drama in Mythology, it could be said that it was the one between Lancelot and Queen Guinevere.
“As the perfect king you were born and raised with destiny attached on you. For the sake of protecting Britain from enemies in all directions, you who were still young searched for a backer and married Guinevere. Surely if you continued to love her from your heart then Guinevere would answer your love! Yet, you had to beco a perfect king and you didn’t have that leisure. And then……humans cannot truly love a perfect being.”
“Such thing……is just an excuse to varnish over the immorality of Sir Lancelot!”
It wasn’t adultery but immorality, Arthur accused with words that rang even stronger.
“O king, on Lancelot’s chivalry, there is no way any lie or deception towards the king exists in it.”
Lancelot recklessly swung Arondight and Joyeux. Arthur put up a defensive fight with Excalibur and Avalon as though she was using a two sword style. If Arthur kept like this without showing any opening, Lancelot would collapse before long just by enduring it until the end.
“Arthur, you too abandoned being a woman for the sake of becoming the perfect King Arthur! That way of being is not correct! I wielded Joyeux because I love you. And then I curse that perfection with this Arondight!”
“There is no justice in a curse!”
“I mourn the deed I once done. However, no matter how much I mourn it, surely if I visited the sa ti once again I will choose to do exactly the sa deed. That’s what a human is. A perfect order is not the way for humans to live. O king, while humans are watching the dream of ideal order, they are animals that love the emotion of chaos. Humans are the the most natural personification of that, haven’t you witnessed him at the island country of the orient?”
“!!” Arthur’s movents stiffened.
Kazuki felt Arthur turning her awareness this way just for an instant.
“I bet my all on this stroke of the sword!”
Aiming at that disorder of heart, Lancelot swung up Arondight powerfully.
“I’ll smash your perfection!!”
Arthur held up Avalon even while being disarrayed in emotion.
Arondight was filled with Lancelot’s everything――and severed that sheath, Avalon, into two. It was a sword stroke that was nothing but splendid.
Lancelot who had finished swinging Arondight, staggered powerlessly.
She had used up all of her spirit.
“Even so……this is my victory.”
Arthur raised Excalibur in order to end the duel.
“I’m satisfied nevertheless.”
Lancelot responded with a voice that was like a calm lake.
“I’m satisfied just by giving you a mont of agitation. The current you is not a perfect being anymore. Please continue to be human. Be human to the bitter end……Mythology……Order……rather than adoring such things, I believe that love between humans is absolutely everything……”
“That’s Celt-style’s duel!”
While rushing down the foot of the mountain, Loki yelled in a fluster while sensing the presence of a duel that was being carried out in the forest.
The perceptivity of the Diva Loki who was the materialization of a trickster could sense from afar even inside the enshrouding magic power cloud, even though it was not to the level of .
“In that duel, the rune of Celtic……a pledge is included in it! The winner will fulfill their pledge and obtain even more power! Don’t let them finish it!!”
If Britain’s knight order pinned down the location of Lancelot and Mordred right away with Robin Hood’s ability, it was unavoidable that this duel was carried out while Loki was away.
Loki yelled in his good luck of being able to co running there before the conclusion could be decided.
“Apollo, Artemis! Shoot all the arrows you two got! Aim at the two……no, at Arthur! If an opening is opened at Arthur, that Lancelot can still fight!!”
The Versace sisters obediently pulled the strings of their bows as though they were commanded by their own King.
The king of knights and the knight that were excellent martial artists noticed the coming arrows at the sa ti. However, Arthur who was swinging down Excalibur with all her strength wasn’t in a stance that could take evasion.
“King Arthur!” Lancelot who yelled that covered Arthur.
In front of Excalibur that was swung down on her, Lancelot turned around. And then she spread her arms widely, throwing her body in front of the coming arrows. The accurate arrows aiming at Arthur pierced the few remaining magic power of Lancelot who barged in between.
And then her back was further gouged by the attack of Excalibur that couldn’t be stopped anymore.
“With Avalon destroyed, and this duel cannot beco your strength, that’s my only regret.”
“……Lancelot!” Arthur called her na with grief filling her voice.
Lancelot turned around at Kazuki’s direction with a stagger.
“Man of love, Hayashizaki Kazuki. This is for you.”
Lancelot who finished fighting sheathed her beloved sword Joyeux in her right hand with dignifiedly beautiful movent, she then threw that Joyeux together with the sheath at Kazuki’s direction.
“Please take care of my beloved King Arthur.”
“Wait, don’t die, Lancelot!!” Arthur yelled.
“No, I’m dying. It’s my pledge.”
Arondight separated from Lancelot’s left hand. Arondight floated in the air and flew as though it possessed its own will――it pierced through Lancelot’s heart in one go.
Kazuki witnessed the mont the pledge was handed down. The pledge certainly stole her life.
{When Arthur Basileus is defeated by the hands of another Mythology, her life will be lost by her pledge.}
Robin Hood inford Kazuki so.
{Please take care of my beloved King Arthur.}
With what kind of intention Lancelot said that to him.
The two sentences that contravened each other tore up Kazuki’s chest.
“YOU BASTARDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!”
That Arthur raised a yell like a dragon breathing out fla.
“Fiend! You savages to whom even the word fiend is wasted on you all trash are lower than fiends!! How dare you……how dare you dirty this duel with Lancelot!! Unforgivable!! I won’t forgive this no matter how many tis I stab Excalibur into the chest of you bastards!!”
Arthur straddled Dun Stallion powerfully and glared at the direction where the arrows were coming from. The direction of the mountain――at the other side of the magic power cloud it started to beca visible how a knight order was being deployed. Italia’s knight order! Arthur led the knights of the round table and spurred her horse following her rage.
“We are eting their attack.” Loki said to Vera.
“Italia’s knight order will et Arthur from the front, we the Loki Einherjar will stab them at the back.”
King Arthur that was rushing following her violent emotion had forgotten that right beside her was Mordred and the others waiting. If they t her attack then naturally it would beco a pincer attack. Vera also understood that.
“We don’t need to be ordered that by you.”
Vera who was the representative of Regina raised high one of her hands and declared.
“O powerful knights of Olympus, right now is exactly the ti of the decisive battle! Although there is no King on our side, show a battle to the heavens that won’t sha us to anyone!! Even now Regina-sama is inside our hearts!”
Only at this kind of ti the Italian knight order beca united as one and raised a battle cry.
Loki whispered to Vera.
“……Don’t oppose the montum of Britain’s knight order’s charge, spread out to the left and right and overturn the positioning advantage skillfully. It will make it easier for China and Russia who will co from the mountain to attack Britain.”
“……Acknowledged.” Vera nodded.
The ground under Loki’s feet bulged up and a purple haired woman showed her face from there.
“Nyoro nyoro.”
Midgardsomr was coming to et Loki.
“Yosh, I’m going to talk with China and Russia. I’m going to make a friendly suggestion so that China will get even more exhausted. Ilyailiya will surely guess the gist of my intention. You’re gonna give the signal to Regina too yeah? Do it just as arranged ‘kay, Vera-tan.”
“……Why are you calling over-familiarly like that.”
“Kukuku……sothing like a combination attack of Italia and the Loki Einherjar of all things, even Kazuki won’t be able to predict this. It’s going to be a sight, seeing what kind of face he will make yeah.”
“Hayashizaki Kazuki, what are you doing getting dazed like that!”
Kazuki who was standing still with Joyeux in hand was scolded by Hrotsvit who didn’t know of the storm inside his chest.
“Britain’s knight order is heading there driven by their rage. At this rate they will turn their back to Mordred and the other Loki Einherjar.”
Even though there was an enemy right besides them, Arthur and her group were running headlong towards a different enemy.
“I don’t know about Lancelot but Mordred’s intention was surely this from the start. We have to block them! Hurry!!”
Kazuki returned to his senses with a ‘hah’. And then he looked back at the situation and understood.
“……! Wait, I’m going to stop Arthur!! I don’t understand whats the intention of Italia pulling their bows at us and Britain, but if we don’t calm them down first……”
“Certainly it’s strange. It isn’t clear if Italia is our enemy or not, but now that it has co to this its better to let Arthur do as she pleases and charge at them! Don’t be na?ve!”
“It’s not na?ve, China and Russia are supposedly pursuing after Italia! If Britain is charging at them in rage like this and they got avoided, they will be turned into a shield!!”
“!” Hrotsvit made a face that seed to say [Uwah, certainly it’s like that], and pondered.
“……Can Italia, who doesn’t have their King, think wisely like that……no, the movent of Italia until now is certainly suspicious……”
……There was no presence of Loki on the battlefield until now.
“By any chance is Ilyailiya and Loki related with……”
The mont Kazuki uttered that, Hrotsvit’s lips chilled.
“Those inconvenient matters are all Loki’s sche, sothing like that is just…………no, it’s possible isn’t it. It’s possible. Truly……certainly, Loki is that kind of existence.”
“Anyways, we cannot leave the clash between Italia and Britain alone. I’m going there, so Germany, attack Mordred and the Loki Einherjar for us.”
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