Chapter 201: Sinners (1)
I saw Lily's tail, which had finally released my arm that it had been coiling around, gently swaying.
No matter who looked at her, she was the very image of a succubus.
Although her attire remained the usual ascetic habit, that actually made it feel more immoral and... captivating.
It felt like, just by looking at her like this, I was committing a taboo.
Well, since we were actually doing sothing close to a taboo just monts ago, perhaps it wasn't just a feeling.
However, that was only when viewed from a 'human' perspective; from Lily's current standpoint, she had rely regained her true self.
Both the appearance of the usually devout nun and the appearance of the succubus who had fully awakened to her desires, as she was now.
Either way, it was her true form.
Both were unmistakably Lily.
This was a fact that would not change no matter what anyone said.
So it wasn't corruption or anything like that, as they say.
She simply ca to reveal herself exactly as she was.
"──Lily."
As if celebrating this, Lilith, who had taken her lips off my neck before I knew it and approached her, placed a hand gently on Lily's shoulder with a proud smile.
"Congratulations on awakening."
At that mont.
"──!"
Just as Lilith's hand seed to emit light, Lily's eyes also began to flash with the sa light.
The magic power of the two connected and began to 'resonate'.
It ant that Lily had also started to see the sight Lilith was currently seeing.
And before long,
"──Found you."
Lily grinned once more, raising the corners of her mouth.
At the sa ti, her two eyes began to glow with a light pink hue this ti.
With the vivid light of 「Charm」.
Then, Lily turned her back and clasped her hands behind her, shaking one open hand lightly like her tail.
As if tempting to hurry up and grab it.
The mont I grasped that hand in response, Lily's tail, which quickly coiled around my wrist, pulled in just like that.
『──Co.』
And.
『To the sweet dream.』
Darkness descended.
***
When I opened my eyes again, the appearance of the hall we were in could no longer be found anywhere.
Nevertheless, it was a familiar landscape.
After all, it was a place I had been to before.
The first things that caught my eye were the altar and the divine statue.
Fitting for the God of the Hearth, behind the statue that tended to the embers of the hearth, colorful 'divine lights' were shining down through the stained glass.
Yes.
This was a church.
Where Lily had grown up almost her entire life.
The church in Sista Village that served Sistina.
Perhaps the place she psychologically considered the most comfortable had been unconsciously recreated.
Since this place was inside her 'dream'.
To put it differently, it could be called the imagery world created by Lily──a 'Unique Barrier'.
"This is..."
The companions, who had been fighting fiercely against Alzar's clones just monts ago, showed a surprised reaction to the fact that the location had changed abruptly when they opened their eyes, but before long, realizing that this was the Sistina Church, they all lowered their guard.
Although they didn't know exactly what the situation was, it was at least certain who had created this space.
"Welco, everyone."
The person responsible, Lily, was offering a prayer while kneeling in front of the altar.
"To my dream."
Those who received Lily's 'invitation' were us, her party mbers, and Lilith, who had briefly connected with her to share magic power so that Lily could control this power.
"......!"
And, there was only Alzar, who was showing an expression of disbelief.
Naturally, the Alzar 'clones' were nowhere to be seen.
"H-How...!"
In other words, the Alzar currently lying on the floor as if he had collapsed, unable to control his huge fra unlike the clones that floated buoyantly, was unmistakably the real body.
"You really, dragged in...!?"
He seed unable to believe it even after seeing with his own eyes that he had really been dragged into this dream, into the Unique Barrier.
He had prepared 'Reverse Spells' thoroughly over a period of 10 years in preparation for this Unique Barrier, which was Lilith's specialty, but it ant that they hadn't worked at all.
From his perspective, it must be sothing he absolutely could not accept.
"──Lady Sistina."
On the other hand, Lily was still offering prayers in front of the altar as if she didn't care about Alzar at all.
"Please, forgive ."
Then, when she slowly rose from her seat.
"──!?"
The nun Lily we knew was no longer there.
Only a single succubus dressed in 'hunting clothes'──an appearance completely opposite to Sistina's teachings──was revealing a burning fighting spirit.
Fwoosh!
As soon as the flas that briefly engulfed Lily cleared, revealing that daring attire that one could never have imagined from her usual self, the companions showed a greatly surprised reaction, but.
"Y-You...!"
"S-Sister...!?"
Lily didn't seem to care at all.
Rather, she looked very comfortable.
As if she no longer had any hesitation.
She was proudly revealing her horns and tail, which she had been hiding by wrapping them tightly with a veil and habit, without hiding herself at all.
"There is nowhere to hide anymore."
Lily said.
"All the filthy deeds you have committed so far──"
While wielding the whip that looked like a rose stem with sharp thorns, which she held in her hand before I knew it, with a snap!
"I will make you receive punishnt for them."
As the owner of this dream──and the Queen of the Night.
"Kugh...!"
Alzar, who had been staring at that sight with his mouth open as if absent-minded for a mont, floated his huge fra into the air just like the clones did, chanting an incantation as if he had accepted the situation belatedly.
"Even so, for a re succubus...!"
Then, just as he did in the hall, he summoned clones and 「Black Hands」 in the dozens in an instant, but.
"Who gave permission?"
"...!?"
With a single word from Lily, his clones and the 「Black Hands」 vanished like a mirage at once.
"This place is my dream."
Lily, who chased the uninvited 'guests' out of her world with a single gesture like that.
"Do you think I would let such dirty things in here?"
Giggle, she sneered with a mischievous smile.
"For the filth brought in here, you alone are enough."
Saying she would clean him up quickly along with those things.
"Damn it...!"
Alzar, who ground his teeth, floated a magic circle once more.
Even though his specialty, 'summoning', was blocked due to the nature of this Unique Barrier, it didn't an the main body's magic power disappeared.
And while other 'existences' (if expressed in ga terms, it would be 'entities') other than the personnel she permitted cannot be added to this dream space, which is Lily's Unique Barrier, the 'actions' of the existences already permitted to enter could not be stopped.
『Devour...!』
For instance, the attack magic he cast just now.
Of course, this ant that the 'action' itself couldn't be stopped,
『──Please protect us!』
It absolutely did not an that the magic could not be blocked.
Crackle!
The black flas that tried to devour us according to the incantation were soon blocked by a familiar barrier.
It was the 「Miracle of Protection」 that Lily always cast to protect us.
This ant that Lily could still cast holy magic.
In other words, it ant that Sistina was still protecting Lily.
Lily, who unconsciously chanted the incantation as usual, seed slightly surprised herself seeing the blessing actually wrapping around all of us.
Then, showing a relieved expression soon after.
"...You are still looking after , even though I have beco a demon."
She expressed her gratitude by gathering her two hands again and offering a short prayer toward the statue of Sistina on the altar.
"Don't make laugh...!"
Alzar floated magic circles again without stopping.
Even though his specialty, summoning spells, was sealed, he was still an excellent mage.
『Burn...』
However, in terms of pure magic skill, there was simply a mage among us who was already more excellent than him.
"...!?"
The magic he tried to cast again vanished along with the magic circle before it could even activate properly.
Because a 'Reverse Spell' that perfectly analyzed and nullified his magic in that short mont──「Counter Magic」 was cast.
Perhaps he intended to cast 10th-circle magic utilizing hellfire.
But Rine made it 'sothing that never happened' the mont it was cast.
He wasn't even given the ti to be astonished by this.
"I don't know what's what, but──"
Pa-pa-pat!
Ibi, who stepped the 「Shadow Step」, went around to his back in an instant.
"From now on, you're going to die properly, you perverted bastard?!"
Swish!
The dagger drew a strip of light.
Alzar, who barely 'reacted' to this, urgently cast defensive magic and blocked it, but it was only one blade.
"Ugh...!"
He couldn't block the other blade that was wielded almost simultaneously, and it eventually cut his thick flesh.
Then, this ti, instead of the black blood like tar that spurred out whenever we cut down the clones, 'proper' red blood scattered.
Whoosh!
Toward Alzar, who urgently pushed Ibi away with 「Gust」, Toric's axe struck down rcilessly this ti.
Alzar barely cast 「Steel Skin」, but that single blow possessed enough power to dent even steel.
Actually, Alzar, who crumpled his face to the fullest, made Toric retreat by raising 「Hellfire」 this ti, but.
"Haaap!"
In that gap, Miki, who rushed in before I knew it, quickly unleashed a 「Triple Strike」.
Puk-puk-puk!
Alzar's large body flew back a great distance from the strong shockwaves that burst consecutively.
He managed to float his body and avoid being hurled to the floor, but.
『You trash bastard who can't do anything alone once you co out of your room!』
"Kuaak...!"
He ended up listening to my Vicious Mockery, which I hadn't used since it wouldn't work on clones anyway, and eventually failed to maintain his 'concentration', causing even the 「Flight」 that was levitating his body to be cut off.
Thud!
As his huge fra fell, a large vibration resounded.
If we poured out attacks without stopping like this, we could probably kill him easily.
However, we were satisfied with landing one hit each like that.
...Well, actually, it wasn't truly satisfactory.
"Get up."
Still, we could endure it.
"Because for the punishnt for the deeds you have done, it is still far too insufficient."
Taking revenge on him wasn't our role.
That was why we were quietly watching Lilith sneering at him while lightly holding the blade of the giant scythe she held in her hand against him, instead of ending his life imdiately.
Whish!
Simultaneously, Lily's whip that flew in coiled around one of Alzar's arms in an instant.
"Gah...!"
At the sa ti, the sharp thorns dug into the thick flesh, and forcibly pulled Alzar's huge fra, which began to bleed red blood, into a standing position.
"The night is still long."
Showing a mischievous smile that resembled Lilith's closely.
"The sins you must repent for are much deeper."
She announced a long, long ti of corporal punishnt.
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