Alice Tale in Phantasmagoria - Volume 2 - Chapter 156

Chapter 156

Florid ice pours down like evening sakura .




Though it’s a sudden matter, winning on the first move is the way of the world .

(Mist transformation)

I’ll show this overly vivid storm of ice be passed straight through .
Lately, I feel that I’m relying on this too much .
I don’t want a counter strategy to be used against me so, let’s do this in moderation .
I exit the storm of ice while thinking that sort of thing and, dash straight forward .

「It has no effect then . 」

――Young .

She used an adorable voice, of the sort that still hadn’t reached that of a girl’s .
I ran across the land while thinking, there’s no way I can deliver the finish like this is there .
The distance to the girl I’m confronting closes .
Now then, what do I do next?
I jump at the opponent while carrying a slight amount of tension and, overflowing curiosity .

「Answer to my heart, oh magic sword . 」

The girl quickly drew a slender sword from her waist .
Quickly straightening her back, she takes one step back such that she crosses her legs .
She exerts herself, lifting her slender sword toward the heavens in front of her chest .
A silent intent to battle with which to stab to death the prey jumping in toward her .
Her posture has become rather, befitting of that .

(But, in that case it’s the same thing you know . I won’t be caught . )

While it is regrettable, something like, if magic is no good then how about doing it physically, is overly insufficient as a counter measure for mist transformation .
Please learn from viewing a painful experience .
The distance has closed――Now!
Together, we took the final step in with the intent to strike .

「――Ru――――」

the moment a word formed from the girl’s mouth, space warped .
Reflexively, I jump away at a right angle .
My body raises a scream, at my usual forceful conduct .
But the thrust that produces enough spin to wind up a whirlwind, cuts through the air as a result .
That was a fine step in, it made my back break out into a cold sweat .
――But, what was that just now?
There should have been, some sort of mechanism there .

「……Such immaturity, it will not hit then . This is as far as it goes after letting the chance for immediate victory by . 」

She turned her heel, with a『technique』that placed her slender sword into its scabbard using elegant movements as if it was flowing in .

「Ehh? You’re ending it with this!?」

Still giving no reply, the small statured human silhouette sank back deep into her overcoat and faded into the darkness .
After that was, only the crying voices going ho- ho- like owls and echoing across the night sky .





「……Her exit was overly splendid wassn’t it . 」

I tried stroking my own hair .
One section of my『mist transformed hair』for which my right angled jump had ended up being too late, fell gently to the ground .
Had I charged in, I’d have been skewered then .
Something like the saintess’s skill?

「Ah, that Sitra comes first right now does she . 」

I tried attentively looking over the environs but, I couldn’t sense a human figure or hostile intent anymore .
I can’t feel that a girl of that age, with that much true power was a brigand but……
In any case having misfortune descend toward my self, is the price of fame, is it?
Seriously, it makes my head hurt……



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(Sleeping, like always……)

I pass by the side of a stump monster that’s sleeping peacefully .
It’s a nostalgic path .
The place where the beginning of my journey approached is here .
I advanced without getting lost and, went out into a place where the forest opened .

「The ruin is, shining, more blindingly than it normally does……」

In this darkness, it’s becoming a landmark such that nothing can surpass it .
I understood that something unusual was happening even from far away .
Checking my status, in any case it seems that the saintess went into these ruins .

(Nn? Ilya’s heading over here is she . )

It really is easy to know a party member’s movements .
Perhaps she’s moving by foot, it’s a leisurely pace .
Maa, it’s a road at night so I want her to take care .
On that note because I know Ilya’s movements, the saintess should also know I’m present near her .
In terms of position, it’s the room for the job change’s trial called the altar’s area is it .
I enter within the magic system and, a ruin bear promptly came charging at me .
After meaninglessly seeing through it’s power centric side swipe with millimeter precision, I step in with a lightning palm .
It ended in about 2 seconds .
Besides the bear-san I invited to heaven after the chance meeting of a traffic accident, there was no one that came at me .
They’re sensitive to that which is called a gap in power aren’t they .
Walking briskly with a mood like a walk, I arrived at the altar’s area .
Going inside the room, the saintess was in the middle of praying while kneeling in front of the altar .
On that note, while saying they were weak monsters, she can fight to the extent of being able to force her way within here on her own can’t she .
I absentmindedly, waited for that prayer to end .
I won’t particularly, call out to her and make her stop halfway through .

「――I have kept you waiting, Alice-san . 」

With her prayer finished, the saintess turned about .
Both her eyes are closed as always .





「I apologize for the matter of having stolen one of Alice-san’s oneesama’s eyes . 」

After starting anew her first words are that is it .

「It was an event on the battlefield . Since we were both putting our lives on the line . 」

Maa, my lovely ane ended up striking with the back of her sword at the last moment though .

「And so, why in this sort of place? Maria-san is troubled though . 」
「I was investigating, an aspect of this world’s abnormalities . 」
「The world’s abnormalities?」

One aspect, of the darkness swallowing the northern sky?

「……A surge of magic power is being blown out from this ruin, no, from ruins throughout the world . 」

Certainly, it kind of is shining but……
Does Sitra have a skill that senses this sort of abnormality?
She’s like a prophet .

「Would Alice be aware, of the number called 666?」
「――The number of the beast . 」

I shuddered, sensing the sudden link with reality .

「Exactly that . The number of the beast, the worst number . However it is called, the meaning is the same . It is the name of ruin . 」

The Book of Revelation .
When I was living apathetically in that world, such things were no more than the setting for a game .
While it may serve as an anecdote, the people who believed in it were only the devoutly religious .

「It’s said that calamity occurs in the age when the beast appears, right? ……This current situation is . 」
「Truly . We may be, observing the end of the world . 」

Sitra, gave an extremely detached answer .
It was so lacking in a sense of realism that, my head couldn’t keep up .

「Whether for country or race, this is not the occasion to be causing a commotion for such things……it was not . 」

Even saying as such, countries will not move for a future premised on an if .
This is something that’s the same whether in that world or this world .
It’s human that countries with poor relationships can’t offer to hold hands, because they『might』be destroyed .

「Sitra, knew?」
「……It was when I passed out on that battlefield, that these blind eyes saw the future . 」
「I see……that’s why, there was a change of heart in the you who had that much resolve . 」

Since I couldn’t understand the meaning of her saving me, on the battlefield she desired, while carrying a heavy, stiff determination .
Maa, I suppose it is a fact that Libra’s matters angered her though .
Sitra was nodding silently .
The beast of ruin, that brings the world to its end .
That name is……in short, Diadora right?
The legendary black dragon, said to have approached its resurrection in Sacrament .





「I do not know, the true form of ruin . 」

Sitra spoke, as if reading my heart .

「Black dragon Diadora is, fundamentally the contracted dragon of the high elf spoken of in anecdote . It is in the category of a fairy tale . 」

Lunaria・Einshaula’s contracted dragon is it .

「This abnormality is, the beast is, something different……I sense that it is so . 」
「And so, is that what the matter of going to investigate the altar at such a late hour was? Is it somehow related?」

Sitra looked up from the altar .

「Is Alice-san, aware of the number of these ruins?」
「Could it possibly be――666?」

Moving her head, the saintess nods .

「The number of similar ruins left in the world has, become 666 . 」

To say the world, it’s not only this region but, including the empire and the other lands as the word implied, I suppose it speaks of the entirety of this world .

「……This has become quite a grand conversation hasn’t it . 」

The beast……I assume, it really is a more dangerous being than the Yamata no Orochi .

「Even having investigated this abnormality, the northern……etto, fairy village? Is going there the correct answer?」
「I am fundamentaly none other than a being ordered to accompany you but, I believe it is probably not a matter that could be said to be unrelated . 」

Since this isn’t the occasion for a fool’s errand even while being told that the world is ending is it .

「――Ah . 」
「Sitra . 」

All of a sudden, the ruins shook .
Or rather, is this an earthquake!?
I assume it won’t crumble right, this ruin!

「This place is dangerous, let us hurry and go outside . 」

Large stones fell from the ceiling beside us as she spoke .
Pulling Sitra’s hand, I hurriedly left the room .
Sitra was steadily gazing toward the altar, with those unseeing eyes――



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It’s good that we somehow escaped from the ruins but, this earthquake, is still continuing .
Regardless of anything this is too long!
In terms of the sensation from the shaking I assume it could be called somewhere around a seismic intensity of 3～4?
I suppose this doesn’t mean it’s at the sort of level where buildings would collapse but, I’m worried about the town .

「O～～i, Alice-chan!」
「Ojisan!? Why are you in such a place……tte, Ilya . 」

Ilya came along with an apologetic sort of face, while accompanying ossan like a bodyguard .

「Like, I heard that you’d run off while it was still night so, didn’t I have to come looking for you along the way back from my work . 」
「Well, I did cause you worry . But I’m also a splendid adventurer now you know? Please don’t give me menial tasks or the like for going out on a walk at night okay . 」

Ossan makes an sullen face, at my claim .

「Even if you say that since Alice-chan is such a cute girl riight, going out for a walk at night isn’t good iss it . 」

This ossan, is he worried for me? Or is he complaining out of jealousy?

「――Alice-san . 」
「Nn? What is it Sitra?」

Sitra’s hand was trembling as I continued to hold it .
Unlike intermittent shaking, her body was clearly trembling .

「――Coming . 」

A roar rose, from the ruins .
The screaming voice of a『beast』, of such an extent that the atmosphere shook like it was being torn apart .
『Something』, from the ruins――came out while biting through the ruins .
An earthquake of the sort that reverberated from the bottom of the earth, was it……the birth of that being?

「We can’t fight if we’re here in a forest like this……run to the plains!」

Everyone recognized that it was an emergency situation so, they ran off without debate .
Aah, shit .
I don’t know the extent of the opponent’s threat but, the town of Rinal is right before my eyes .
From the beginning there was nothing like the option called escaping .
I try checking the positions of my comrades and, it seems Shion-san and Maria-san are already running about in town .
It can’t be……I can assume there isn’t anything happening in town right?

「――Having come to this, this is already the limit . 」

With a hood covering deep down to her eyes, the girl I clashed with just a bit ago came to run by my side .

「Who is this . 」

Ilya readied her lance but, I held her back .
I can’t sense……the intent to fight .

「……Will you come fight with us?」

At my question, she faced me with eyes that shined even from within her hood and, gave a small nod .

「For what it’s worth, let me become your power――Fairy of Silver Lightning-dono . 」

She’s a strangely mature child, relative to the youth that lingered in her voice .
And so, almost at the same moment wherein we arrived at the plains, one more roar that seemed to pierce the heavens rose from the ruins――

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