Volu 2, Chapter 3
Part 1
The forr Australia – Northern Territory.
It was a wasteland of red clay color that was once called Uluru Kata Tjuta national park.
There existed a rocky mountain standing calmly even now in that place where its vegetation had been burned to nothing by Typhon’s fla.
Ayers Rock.
The second largest slab of rock on the surface of earth.
Three days after the negotiation with the fairy. Receiving the sunlight of the sun that was setting down beyond the horizon, two shadows were stretching down on top of that rocky mountain which was shining like a ruby.
Those shadows were the Kamishiro Homura, and his grimoire that was also his weapon, the avatar of .
“Uu―. Even so it’s really cold here...”
While sitting cross-legged on top of the rocky mountain, Homura’s body trembled from the blowing wind of the wasteland.
Looking at him like that, the avatar of , a girl that Homura called as Vel, gave him a candid advice.
“The southern hemisphere is right now in winter, it’s only natural to get that cold being on top of a rocky mountain in the middle of a wasteland where there is nothing like this. Master should be wearing thick clothes before coming here.”
“That’s okay. I’m gonna exercise anyway after this.”
“Will it even beco an exercise?”
“...More or less. After all those three nad cotton or Evang○ion or sothing has far more powerful magic power compared to Typhon or Jambure just from seeing the image that Elfiena brought.”
“I think they are called that only clergyman could handle.
Once sothing caught fire of that fla of god, the fire wouldn’t extinguish until the target was burned to nothing.
“If the dia that is the written copy is gone, you cannot use . With this now you are nothing more than a magician of relatively good quality. There is nothing to be feared from you anymore. Next I alone am enough.”
He said that while the corner of his mouth grinned, then Alfaro slowly walked towards Sumika.
But Sumika didn’t look at him.
She just lifted Lily’s body in her arms and stared at the girl’s face.
She stared at that face which distorted from chagrin and sorrow.
“*Cough*...... Fa, ther......why, did......-“
‘Even though you promised’, while coughing out those words and blood, Lily lost consciousness in Sumika’s arms.
Slowly a glob of tear ford at the corner of Lily’s eyes and dropped down through her cheek.
“~~~~~~-!”
Seeing the glistening of that tear, the expression of regret of Lily, Sumika’s chest grew hot as if she was swallowing fire.
Of course, that heat was rage.
Sumika laid down Lily on that spot and asked the approaching Alfaro with her back still turned on him.
“...This strategy, did Lily know anything about it?”
In response, Alfaro answered without any guilt in him.
“No way. Of course I didn’t tell her anything. After all I don’t think that sister Lily is that much of an actress. It will only make all of this co to nothing using only ham acting.”
“...Lily really believed. To you. To the church. To betray that kind of girl, don’t you have any pang in your conscience?”
“Hohoho. What a strange thing to say. Where is the need to feel pain in my conscience from this? A person that covered for a renegade who turned their back to god is also a renegade. There is no way I who am a can forgive such a foolish person. There is no doubt of the fate of the demon and all of you who protected that demon, but I led sister Lily here intending for her to die in this place from the start. Well, the girl didn’t have even a drop of doubt about such―”
“Enough.”
Suddenly, Sumika interrupted Alfaro from continuing his words with a low voice.
“―? What are you saying just now?”
“I’m saying to not open that filthy mouth! You heretic–!”
Expressing her exploding rage, Sumika turned to Alfaro.
Right now the girl understood completely.
That the man in front of her eyes was a heretic that had no difference at all with Typhon and the like.
That he was an evil who stole from other people without any hesitation whatsoever from the utmost selfishness.
“I’ll kill you...! You demon wearing human skin......-!”
Sumika reloaded bullet into the two silver revolvers while grinding her teeth so hard it could break.
Even with destroyed, Sumika was an S-rank magician.
There were many ways she could fight with.
She would imdiately take care of this evil in front of her and heal Lily.
Deciding in her heart what she should do, Sumika turned the gun’s nuzzle at Alfaro.
But,
“――Heretic you said?”
Alfaro suddenly stopped his walk in front of such Sumika.
And then, all expression vanished from his inferior Buddha face that kept smiling vulgarly until just now,
“Toward this that worked his body to the bone for god, this Alfaro who is a , the likes of a renegade that conspire with a demon dare to......call a heretic?”
He whispered with a low voice to himself while his shoulders were trembling,
Then suddenly―
“YOU REALLY RUN YOUR MOUTH YOU WHOREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!”
Along with a raging roar that was like a cannon, white light surged out from Alfaro’s body.
“......-!?”
A flash that painted over the whole world with white.
Inside that brightness where there was only radiance, Alfaro’s hair wriggled and his shape changed.
Alfaro’s shadow grew bigger until twice his original size bloatedly.
In proportion with that change, Alfaro’s magic power jumped up to the degree that couldn’t be compared with until now.
Before long when the light stopped, in front of Sumika’s eyes―
“This, is......-“
A body height of around 5 ters, not a human shape but sothing strange-looking was standing there.
The head was crowned by a ring that shined silver, a large body with a pair of wings at its back.
That form of Alfaro sported a look of rage that made one think that was how Acala must look like, that form was exactly like an angel from inside the legend―in reality, it was a transformation by ans of the power of the people that were called angel.
{Witness this divine appearance! This is exactly the power that is only possessed by us, the ! Our status just cannot be compared to the like of you magicians who can only be possessed by a heroic spirit that was only human in the first place. This holy art where we are possessed by an angel that is the ssenger of god, is the greatest proof that we have obtained the acknowledgent of god! Correct, all our actions is by the will of god! Therefore, we, the , are exactly god ourselves! Nevertheless, for the like of a renegade that is supporting a demon to curse us as heretic ―HOW RIDICULOUSSSS!}
Correct. Alfaro was truly possessed by an angel.
Just like how Sumika and other magicians were possessed by heroic spirits.
The executor that moved to execute god’s law and wiped out the insults towards god―
The .
This was exactly the cause why the was special, the biggest reason why Homura was alerted by this man.
{The sin of insulting us the agent of god is costly, you little girl. You will not die easily...-! I’ll snap your four limbs one by one, twist them, I’ll grant you every possible kind of pain before killing you...!}
“Kuh...-!”
The large body shook and Alfaro approached Sumika.
On the other hand Sumika was also not just staying quiet and watched.
She wasted no ti to return fire with the sorcery of absolute hit, . ―But,
All the bullets were slipping through Alfaro’s body.
{Hohoho! Useless, useless-! Cause and effect of absolute hit or whatever you do, it’s only a power of a human in the first place. The that is residing in is just too different in status compared to that from the start! Just a power of a human cannot even touch the current -!}
“...-, if that’s so then――-!”
If physical attacks didn’t have any effect, she just needed to use sorcery.
Sumika reprimanded herself and chanted soul of language of spell to compose a sorcery.
“Greedy fang coarse bloodstained claw beco jet black wind and co here
The falling sky is above thy the desolate battlefield is for thy sake
Howl growl despise madness and avarice that group of storm surging as they are
The hungry jaw swallowed whole even the far away sun!”
That soul of language distorted the truth of the world.
Storm blew around the stepping forward Alfaro and cloud of sand danced in the air.
That wind whirled in the blink of an eye, turning into a spiral, rampaging and swallowing Alfaro.
The enemy was carved apart into little pieces by the storm of vacuum that reached until the cloudy sky.
It was a grand technique that could only be chanted by two people among the S-rank magicians, including Sumika.
Wind elent fifth rank sorcery―
“!!!!”
{IMPERTINENTTTTTT!!!!}
But, that storm of vacuum was torn apart by the gale that Alfaro’s wings caused.
“Wha......-!”
Sumika was taken aback by the absolute strength of the angel.
Alfaro didn’t overlook that opening of an instant.
He wasted no ti to reached out his right arm that had been enlarged by the power of an angel and captured Sumika’s body.
“Damn......!”
{Hohoho, caught you. You are caught now. Hohohohohoho!}
“U, AAaaAAA!”
Sumika was grasped from her chest until her waist and lifted up from the ground.
She rapidly fired with both her hands that were the only parts of her body that were still free, she kept resisting but―
{I told you it’s pointless already. By the ti you lost the power of , you have no chance to win anymore. And then, now that you are in this situation, you understand what will happen to you right?}
- GUI-*
With his thumb and index finger, Alfaro clutched the right arm of Sumika who was captured in his right hand.
And then, with a careless movent as if playing with a doll,
{First, starting from this annoying right arm――}
With his index finger at the back elbow of Sumika’s thin arm, and the thumb touching the wrist, he put strength in each finger.
Slowly, slowly, in order for tornting.
“...-!”
Sumika’s elbow that was becoming the fulcrum of the leverage in that position scread creakingly.
With a frantic look drenched with sweat on her forehead, Sumika fired wildly with the gun in her remaining left hand, yet as expected it was aningless―the next mont,
- PAKIN*
A dry sound was audible from the breaking of Sumika’s joint. The arm was broken backwards.
“Aa, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
{Hohohohoho-! That’s good! It’s truly a pleasant sound just now-!}
“Gh-!? NooOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
As if to enjoy the texture of a broken bone by grinding it repeatedly, Alfaro pinched the broken joint and kneaded it with the ball of his finger.
Sumika’s mouth opened until it couldn’t open any further from this cruel act and scread.
“Le, Leader–!”
It was really a sight that one couldn’t bear to see.
Chikori imdiately tried to rush to Sumika and dropped down, but―
“DON’T COEE――-!”
It was none other than Sumika that warned her with a voice even louder than her previous scream.
“Right now, Chikori-san must not... leave that spot! The enemy will rush in to Elfiena-san’s location...-!”
“Le, Leader, bu, but-......!”
“Shiori-san is an excellent , but her fighting strength is not that high... You really are the last fort protecting them! You cannot co here! This is an order-!”
Sumika ordered so to Chikori even with her face distorted in pain that was difficult to endure.
“...I’m fine. I’ll do sothing, about this man......!”
She glared at Alfaro.
In that eye, there was not even the slightest fear.
Even in front of the overwhelming power of an angel, Sumika still hadn’t given up yet.
She didn’t have any intention to submit.
Even right now in this mont, she was thinking how to cut her way through this hopeless situation.
Such clear light of courage and intelligence was remaining in her eyes.
(What unpleasant eyes these are-)
Alfaro’s expression changed from looking at that light in Sumika’s eyes.
From joyful expression of tornting a renegade, into an expression of clear precaution.
He was also a veteran that had been through many adversities in battle, a .
Therefore he understood. The fearsoness of a human with this kind of eyes.
(This girl, if she is let to live here, in the not far away future she will reach the level where my hands cannot reach. She might even possibly beco a threat to the like the ...)
It was dangerous. Those eyes were dangerous. That was why―
{I changed my mind.}
―Right here right now, while he could still kill her he had to stop her breath with certainty.
That premonition stopped Alfaro from the tornting any further,
{After this will also be very busy, so let’s finish this quickly.}
- GUI*, the right hand that grasped Sumika’s body was further enveloped by the left hand, both hands were filled with strength in order to crush Sumika to death.
“Gu, aa......-, AAAAAAAaAAAAAAA......-!”
Even with Sumika also resisting by using the sorcery of on herself, however in front of the arm strength of that boasted their remarkably strong physical strength even among the angels, it was nothing more than a useless struggle, Sumika’s body squeaked creakingly and cries of pain gradually spilled out,
“STOP IT!!!!”
{-......!?}
But in the next mont, a voice that sharply resounded in the twilight stopped the pressure.
The owner of the voice that stole Alfaro’s gaze could only be one person. Knowing about the dilemma of Sumika and Chikori from Shiori’s battle control, she rushed to this place, the Elfiena.
Part 7
(Wha......-!)
Sumika’s eyes opened wide from how Elfiena that they should protect exposed herself to the enemy.
“Wh, why..., did you co out......-!”
Elfiena answered Sumika who leaked out impatience with a quite voice.
“I’m sorry. But, it’s fine already.”
“Fine... you said, what do you...”
“It’s an unreasonable story in the first place. Sothing like a harmony between humans and fairies. ...Even though I know that, I forced that unreasonableness to all of you humans for the convenience of us the [Fairy race]. ...Yet despite so, Sumika-san risked your life until this far to protect who is so selfish like that. Now... that feeling is more than enough already.”
“――-!”
Sumika comprehended from those words.
What Elfiena was going to do coming to this place.
“Before coming to the human world, I was trembling in fear. There is no way that the humans who had been so thoroughly trampled by demons until now will willingly welco . Just what kind of terrifying experience I will et, I kept feeling uneasy and always cried in the place where there was no one who can find .
But... right now I am convinced.
Even though it’s impossible right now or in the near future, soday humans and fairies can surely understand each other.
Because, there are kind people that risked their lives for soone like among the humans. I don’t know how many years, how many tens of years it will take in the future, but such a day will surely co.
―That’s why in order to greet the day that will co soday with a smile, I want to protect, the important friends of the [Fairy race]. As the leader of the [Fairy race]. And then, most of all― as I myself.”
Correct, the girl was... intending to surrender herself.
To the people who were coming intending to kill her.
Everything, was for the sake of protecting Sumika and the others.
“~~~~~~~-u”
Sumika tried to yell in attempt to stop her, but her voice couldn’t turn into words.
Her lung was squashed, there was no air left even just for letting her voice out.
And then while Sumika was yelling with garbled voice,
“I surrender to all of you. There is no need for fighting anymore. Please let go of Sumika-san...!”
Elfiena finally said out the fatal sentence.
Suddenly, a sense of powerlessness that couldn’t be described by words seeped into Sumika and Chikori’s hearts.
But―the reality was even more callous.
{――Hoho. Ohohohohoho, hohohohohhohoh!!!!}
Elfiena words made Alafaro’s body that was enlarged with the power of an angel shake, he returned back a guffawing laugh filled with mockery.
“Wh, what is it?”
{Who will not laugh from sothing like this? Just because you who don’t know anything is surrendering then I will let them go... hohoho. Stuu―pid. Just who will do that.}
“Wh, why are you......-!”
{Why? Why you asked? That’s obvious isn’t it. I’m an agent of divine punishnt, a you know. It’s only natural to kill a demon like you. And then, killing the renegades who lend their hand to demons is also only natural. There is no way we will let even a single one live and return back.}
“That’s......”
Correct. In the first place Elfiena was making a misunderstanding.
They were not coming here to kill Elfiena.
They were coming to this place to massacre everyone that was here.
Just by offering the life of a person among those targets wouldn’t beco a valid reason to save the other people.
That was why,
{Of course I will also kill you. Right after I kill this little girl-!}
Alfaro wouldn’t stop.
Ignoring the words of Elfiena,
{Divine Punishnt?execute――}
In order to crush Sumika who was inside his palms, he put in even more strength――
Part 8
The torn out earth crust was thrown and approached him right before his eyes.
It covered the whole sky, the violence of pure mass coming from sothing like a whole island was not sothing that could be taken even if it was Homura.
Yet despite so,
Homura still hovered in the air and didn’t move with his face tensed.
“Master! Dodge!”
Vel yelled from feeling the danger.
Homura’s reply towards that was―
“Vel. Change of plan.”
He whispered with a voice that was completely calm and ordered Vel to change her shape into a [sword].
He changed the shape of Vel who was taking the shape of two handguns into a [sword] with his magic power.
- HYUN* He swung it at the land falling at him.
Just by that, the earth crust that was going to crush Homura right about now was split right into two. And then Homura went through between the gap of the earth crust and earth crust that he cut open with a speed incomparable with until now, he soared aiming at .
{GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!}
responded by firing beams from its fifty mouths towards Homura who bisected the cannonball of earth crust and flew nearing it from diagonally below.
But the fired beams, all of it bended flexibly as if all of it were running away from Homura who was flying fast in the air. That was not a defense from sorcery. Nothing like that. It was purely because the force of Homura’s ascending was too strong, that whether it was air or heat or even light, everything was brushed aside.
And then finally Homura reached the altitude of 9 kiloters above the surface at the main head that existed on the topmost of . He ascended until above the horn that was growing there and told Vel.
“An SOS ca from Shiori. The other side is going bad. If thinking about the situation between humans and fairies after this, I wanted to defeat this big thing using Elfiena’s information, but―ti’s up.”
Correct. Homura’s face tensed when the earth crust cannonball was falling at him before, was not because he feared the power of .
It was because Shiori’s voice seeking help was entering his mind through .
He had requested a favor from Shiori beforehand.
At the ti where the situation really had beco hopeless, she had to absolutely contact him.
And then, right now such contact had really ca.
Then―he couldn’t choose his thods anymore.
“We’re gonna finish the whole thing with one attack.”
Saying that, Homura chanted.
The sea of another dinsion. With the soul of language that connected to that abyss―
Hear my voice o the person drifting about the sea of another world
The seething star shines brilliantly in blasphemy informing thy ti of destiny
The hunter of soul o the pulsing blue impurity
The water gate of the strange sea was opened follow the rotation and co here
Tonight if the distant land becos a good hunting spot for thee
Obeying thine unsatisfied insatiability still hunt the fool who knows not of fear
A blasphemous rhythm that was etched during an instant.
As if to hail that poem which defiled all life in that distant land, the space(sky) distorted.
The blue of another world dazzlingly oozed out at the jet black starry sky without a single cloud.
That blue light matched the prayer that Homura etched and spread throughout the whole sky swallowing the moonlight.
And then, from the center of the space that was like a sea that shone madly,
“Pillage. ― ”
―That, appeared.
Raising a sound of water like waterfall, a grotesque shape showed its appearance from the upside down sea surface.
At a glance, it looked like a large ominous bird.
But it was by no ans anything like a bird.
On that face were compound eyes that shrewdly examined the surroundings.
Rope shaped tentacles like tail and feathers were writhing in the air looking for prey.
The blue pulsing transparent flesh was wrapped in luster and sliminess, it was just like an aggregation of minerals, its composition that was a ssed mixing of inorganic and organic materials was a blasphemy towards the history of living being’s evolution.
This was exactly the blue holiness that hunted the prey from the sea of another world―
The figure of the Iod.
But, this showed its appearance only for an instant.
As soon as it manifested, Iod’s flesh crumbled into particles of blue light.
Was the summoning failed?
Of course that was not it.
The crumbling blue phosphorescence drew a double spiral and gathered in the black sword that Homura held.
Homura made Iod to reside inside the sword that was made by .
And then―
{OOOOoOoOoooOoooooo―――–!!!!}
He stabbed the jet black sword wrapped in blue light into the middle of the forehead of ’ main head.
didn’t dodge.
One or two heads gone was not a big matter.
After all it was impossible for it to die as long as its hearts didn’t get injured.
Just a single swing of a sword wasn’t worth the effort to dodge.
Correct, it was feeling haughty.
But―
{――~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~—!?!?!?}
soon understood how that haughtiness beca a fatal injury.
The instant the sword that was covered by Iod got stabbed into the forehead, felt sothing was disappearing with a trendous montum from its own flesh.
That sothing was, vitality―no, it was life force.
The power that supported the foundation of all living things.
Life force was vanishing from its body and a terrible fatigue was weighing on it.
This was bad.
sensed that instinctively and it reached its hand to try to dislodge Homura who was stabbing the sword into its forehead.
No, more accurately, it tried to reach out its hand.
But, the hand didn’t move.
’ body already didn’t have any strength left to even move its muscles.
As if the whole body was turned into stone.
Even when it ordered to move, move, not a single tip of its finger moved.
Like a corpse.
No―it was exactly a corpse right now.
The flesh of died right in this instant.
The power of Iod was a power of alternate dinsions with effects that surpassed materials and objects.
Iod’s fang didn’t injure the flesh of the prey, it directly pillaged the life force.
No matter how possessed a body that was near immortal, as a living being it had a limited life force.
If that life force was pillaged until there was nothing left, what was left behind was only a corpse.
However only its consciousness didn’t die and vanish, it would be left behind inside the coffin that was its dead body for eternity.
That was exactly the power of Iod.
From the ti when Homura heard that ’ immortality was from its flesh body, he had hit upon this idea. He aiming at the hearts was only for Elfiena’s sake. For the sake of the [Fairy race] from now on, he wanted to concede this achievent of saving the mankind from this threat to them. It was just that. For the Kamishiro Homura, he didn’t need any strategy guide since the beginning.
And then the power of pillaging that he released didn’t stop consuming to the end.
The blue light that pierced from the forehead completely consud in an instant, and then just like that the light pierced through the length of its leg with the speed of light, and it didn’t stop there and penetrated the ground――
{―execute, e?}
Piercing through the earth altogether with Alfaro who was crushing Sumika in his grip right now.
Part 9
{AaAaAaaaaAA~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~–!?!?}
A thorn of blue light projecting out from the underground suddenly pierced Alfaro.
Alfaro was confused from this happening that occurred so suddenly, he released Sumika and scread, but―
{......a, a...}
His voice soon deflated and Alfaro’s whole body languidly and powerlessly dangled down propped up by that thorn.
Before long the blue thorn was vanishing into light particles and Alfaro’s body crumpled to the ground, it didn’t move anymore.
“This is...”
Sumika who witnessed that situation from nearby imdiately guessed who was the one that made this attack.
She had the knowledge regarding the , and most of all this was what she was trying to summon with her before this.
However, the that didn’t have any knowledge at all about this fell into panic from the sudden defeat of the .
“Wh, what!? What happened!?”
“Alfaro-sama was defeated...!? But, how!?”
And then from this mont of agitation, they let down their attention to the enemy in front of them―
“Fly off all of you――-!”
“ “ “UWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” ” ”
All the remaining mbers of were mowed down by the stone pillar that Chikori wielded and were annihilated.
However Chikori didn’t even glance at the enemy that she defeated.
“Leader! Are you okay!?”
She imdiately rushed to Sumika’s location together with Elfiena.
“...Sumika-san, just now... was that Sumika-san’s doing?”
“No... it’s not . That was the power of an called Iod... And then the one who can use this power, is only Homura-san if you exclude my , so I think most likely he saved us.”
“Bu, but, Master right now is in Australia right?”
“I think it’s likely Shiori-san that contacted him. ...All things considered, it’s really unbelievable how he pierced an enemy from the other side of the earth no matter how much Iod’s power is a power that is outside physical interference. Really, it’s just too amazing I cannot say any words...-!”
Suddenly, Sumika’s expression distorted in pain.
The joint of her arm was bent into wrong direction and everywhere in her body were broken bones from having her whole body constricted like that, it was only natural.
“Sumika-san! Please wait. I will heal you right now-! I have a knowledge of healing skill!”
Realizing Sumika’s injury, Elfiena reached out her hand to Sumika. But,
“No... please heal that girl there first rather than ...”
Sumika rejected it and pointed at Lily who was collapsed in a place slightly separated from them.
Elfiena showed a confusion from that.
For her who didn’t know about the relationship between Sumika and Lily, she didn’t understand the reason for healing first the enemy that ca to kill them.
But―
“She is, my friend.”
“―I understand!”
Elfiena imdiately responded to Sumika’s request from that one sentence.
Elfiena’s healing skill was actually precise.
Making use of fairy’s special characteristic to enter inside material, she healed the wound by inciting cell division.
And then by directly calling to the soul of the unconscious person, she completely prevented the complete loss of the dim consciousness.
Lily’s wound was really heavy, but with a treatnt this precise perford on her, her life could be preserved.
“―――......”
A feeling of relief relaxed the strained consciousness of Sumika.
The exhaustion that attacked her made her stop resisting the calming effect from her brain hormones and she closed her eyes.
And then she took a temporary sleep just like what her body demanded.
Translator's Notes and References
1. ↑ I use word ‘demonic’ quite often, but the aning is closer to magic, not really related to demons.
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