Assassins Pride - Volume 3 - Chapter 6

Assassin Pride Volume 3 Chapter 6
LESSON:Ⅵ～The Beast of Darkness and The Beast of Lunar～

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Her blade cut off the poisonous fog and galloped. Racheldi transformed her arm into tree roots. The collision of the weapons produced several sparks, which spread to a perfect circle.

The dark-dressed young girl’s uniform fluttered in the wind, moving her whole body energetically and kept wielding her sword. There was a look of delight on Racheldi’s face, and warded off the barrage of attacks.

“That status! The non-hesitation blade! You must be a knight of the cavalry, right? ”

The front of Alraune’s arm was divided into several twigs. Each one bent like a whip and rushed towards the enemy. The girl in black went faster, and the blurred afterimage had entered the realm of god speed. She perfectly parried dozens of attack, then turned the blade across, digging up the beauty’s left eye.

The left side of Racheldi’s face was chopped, and the skin jerked to repair the defect immediately.

“And not just an ordinary soldier! Can you tell me about your unit? “

“Minor wounds are useless… ? In that case… “

The girl in black ignored it and put away her sword while muttering to herself. She drew her revolver smoothly and fired all the bullets into the beauty’s legs.

“Gu!” Racheldi bent her knees with a groan, the girl in black drew out her second weapon in her left hand. She swung her mace and smashed her enemy’s head.

Woodchips and petals were drifted away, and the headless Racheldi fell to her knees. But it did not take long for the plant to grow out of the wound and return to its original beautiful form.

“Ah, this is ‘the second one’. The saplings I planted so painstakingly were dead? Please be a little more polite ── “

Before Racheldi finished talking, a long sword plunged into her plump chest. “Ara? “A gust of wind passed over her sloping neck. The girl in black pulled the sword back to its scabbard and Racheldi’s head fell with a smooth profile ── a Katana-Draw that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

『Even wounded can be cured.』『Even death will revive. 』『Is it an infinite regenerative force? 』『maybe a precise illusion? 』

『No.』『Impossible.』『It’s got to be somewhere.』『There must be some trick here.』

The black notes fell like a leap from the sky, and the girl in black did not even give people time to read the notes and drew her weapons one after another. She smashed Racheldi’s hands with mace and staff, and kicked her defenseless body out with a front kick.

She chased the enemy’s shadow in mid-air and immediately kicked the ground.

『So』

The girl in black put away her mace, drew her revolver, and at the same time stretched out the weapon of her hands in front of her while running, and fired. Racheldi crashed into the wall, and the shots fired from the side landed as if to nail her all over her body. The girl in black rushed close and then kicked the enemy’s potholed body. The wall collapsed with a noise.

『No matter how many times , I will keep killing』『Until you die.』

It was like a storm of fencing. The girl in black swung her right-hand long sword and left-hand katana at an inexplicable speed, blowing Racheldi with her high-speed Blitz Fencing. In the endless destruction, the beautiful woman’s body split and assembled again and again, regenerating quickly after being crushed.

Her raised lips were instantly cut off and could not even make a sound properly.

“I……It’s really m……m……merciless! SSSSo, hhhhhhow aboutttt this?”

Then there was a wail from afar. The Double-Katana attack of the girl-dressed-in-black stopped abruptly.

At a glance, Racheldi exposed her miserable corpse and remained motionless. She laid thus in the middle of the terrible trail of destruction.

The girl in black lifted up her hood and looked out at the direction of the school tower.

“What the… ? So the original body is elsewhere… ? It’s really troublesome…”

She whispered in an inaudible voice and then kicked the ground. Christa, who had been dumbfounded, reluctantly regained her senses and stopped the girl in black who was going to run away like the wind.

“Please… please wait, Knight-sama! When and why did you come to the St. Frideswide… ? “

『I can’t told you anything.』『Just stay here.』

The girl in black threw down a pair of terse notes and, in the blink of an eye, leaped out of the wall surrounding the Glasmond Palace. Christa, who was left behind with the miserable remains of the enemy, sat feebly on the ground in the poison fog that was still drifting away for now.

“In……In order to protect the academy, what I should do as a student president is……────”

Alraune’s poison (Anima) seeped into Christa’s knee as she struggled to stand up, and she unwillingly clenched her lips.

Black Madea galloped through the academy’s territory like the wind. She thought to herself that it was supposed to be a simple surveillance mission, but it went into a messy situation.

She had infiltrated the St. Frideswide a few days earlier to investigate the man who had reportedly visited the academy and claimed to be Melida Angel’s father. Was it really him? Or a prank by an unrelated person? If it was himself, quickly catch him and reveal his true identity, if it was a fake, contain the students to avoid the scandal inadvertently leaked out. And in the meantime, it was Madea’s job to keep an eye on 《him》, who was still cunning.

Though 《he》seemed to have noticed Madea infiltrated this place……

Anyway, was this as expected? It was only a few days after the “Masked Father” riots that the situation changed dramatically. The Bibliagoth’s labyrinth librarian qualification, the accident happening on the students, the start of a covert Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis)… one of the assassins even went so far as to try to kill innocent students at the nurturance school. Even Madea, who had been immersed on daily missions since she was a teenager, had never lived so fast in the course of a bloody life.

With Melida Angel as the center, what will happen in this country at the moment? Then how does《he》plan to manipulate this complex entangled fatalistic line?

Her emotions became impassioned, and the fiery Mana ran through the body with blood.

However, contrary to the high-spirited heart, her body was heavier than usual. It was probably the result of the poison powder that the Artificial Lycanthrope Alraune, who caleds herself Racheldi, had been spreading through the academy.

Although Madea resisted with a high pressure Mana, the enemy was also fierce. The host of murderous particles penetrated the skin, into the lungs, indeed carrying out the act of aggression. If she couldn’t make this quickly, soon she would be overrun. What’s more, the more time it took, the more likely the victims among the innocent students would appear. It was like bounding the snowball.

Madea’s heart beat became faster for another reason, so she clenched the sword in her right hand. She found multiple people in the forward direction. It was the schoolgirls who had set up their weapons in the garden’s Fountain Square, and the Alraunes who were closing in on them.

Madea went faster and smashed the enemy one by one while charging. She shattered the medulla oblongata of the first and stabbed the second into its kebabs from behind. She threw a chakram to the third, and at the same time blasted the fourth into a beehive with a revolver pulled out by the other hand.

She ran quickly, grasped the chakram that had been pierced into the enemy’s throat, and brandished it with all her strength. The beauty’s head flew high in the air, and the schoolgirl let out a faint wail.

The four Alraune suddenly fell to the ground, showing no sign of regeneration. Still couldn’t figure out the key to her ability. If she couldn’t figure it out soon, the odds were going to get smaller and smaller. Suddenly, the girl’s trembling voice came to Madea’s ear as she fretted.

“Are… are you a soldier like Kufa-sama… ? “

The young girls scattered around the garden probably bravely wanted to save the academy like heroes and came out with weapons. But Madea coldly handed out the notes to the girl.

『There’s nothing you can do.』『Stay with the others.』

『If you spread out,』『Even if I wanted to protect you, I couldn’t manage it.』

” Huh ,what……? I’m very sorry, but the fog is too thick to see clearly. “

The schoolgirl frowned with doubt. Madia bit her lip under the hood.

Although it violated her faith, it was the last resort. Madia pointed at the school tower by the point of her sword and ordered with a real voice that rarely came out:

“Little, little chicks are hindrance……. Gather together like lambs, students…….!”

“Hmm? Huh? Ah, ah ──────────! You’re the one at that time!?”

At this time, one of the students let out a crazy wail.

The girl with trembling lips and pointing her finger here may be called Nerva Martillo by her first-grade classmates. But Madea just tilted her head miraculously.

“……Who are you?”

“Damn it──────────! I, I, I, I forbid you to forget, you devil! Haven’t you learnt your lesson? Do you want to sabotage my chance of performance!? “

Madea, who had no memory of the girl’s twisted double ponytail, then turned abruptly and kicked repeatedly. Blowing the students backwards.

“What……!?”

Nerva and the other girls who were kicked out were not much damaged. As they were kicked against the wall together, Madea drew his weapon and shouted:

“Get down!!!!! “

Then the clods on the ground bounced off. More than dozens of root spears stretched from all directions in an attempt to attack Madea. The weapons of both hands leaped violently, avoiding a direct attack at a critical moment.

As if sprouting from the ground, beauties emerged from all over the vast garden. Dozens of Alraune, smiling coquettishly in exactly the same gesture.

“You are really a threat. Aah! I’ll completely defeat you on my field! “

Madea thought as she remembered the position of the student and the enemy.

──Now test the possibility…… The possibility that 《the original body of the enemy is mixed in the clones》.

With dozens of eyes gluing to her, Madea held the sword in her right hand and the katana in her left.

“Start ……checking ! ”

The clods spattered and Madea rushed into the enemy on her own initiative. She passed through the green forest with great agility, and at the same time slashed the exposed enemy, but never went on hot pursuit, and only made one attack. Nor she looked back on the target that did not hit the fatal wound, but aimed at the next target.

There was an interminable scuffle that made the students tremble on the sidelines. The girl in black had an overwhelming advantage in physical ability. But Alraune was not only outnumbered, but also able to pounce on her enemy with complete disregard for pain. Black shadows danced freely, and green slices filled the air.

Switching to a single-handed sword, Madea cut her enemies into pieces. The vines seized the chance and wrapped around her feet then threw the petite girl away. In a straight line, Racheldi flung the enemy back with her overgrown arms. Madea used this momentum to pull out the mace and smashed the head of an Alraune during the flyby. In turn, she held the vines that had been wrapped around her feet and brandished them like a hammer, sweeping and knocking down several Alraunes.

With the fight, Madea began to distinguish between 《regenerative enemies》 and 《non-regenerative enemies》. Even if she blew off their hands, feet or heads, they would continue to be repaired. But the targets whose hearts were broken lied flat on the ground all the time. Not to mention the ones which were cut into pieces……

Madea observed the enemy group as soon as she found the opportunity, and it was not long before she witnessed the decisive moment. The enemy whose body she had cut in half fell to the ground, and something fell out of the enemy’s crumbling chest. It was “sapling”. Then pieces of wood gathered and increased in size, trying to mimic the shape of human being.

Trampling down the sapling before the enemy regenerated, the enemy who had lost her original form remained motionless. Then, at the same moment, Alraune, who was in the distance, suddenly collapsed.

“… So that’s it.”

Madea kicked the ground immediately, and after landing at the top of the fountain, all eyes were focused on her.

“That is──《Split HP》! “

After she said so, the green legion stopped. Only many eyes glowing yellow slowly swayed in the poisonous fog and stared at this side.

Madia checked the seven weapons with vigilance, then continued:

“Your ability is to replicate your sapling-centered clones. If I believe in what you said, the total number of copies is 100. Then, the 100 individuals are all you, can be said to be 《a hundred people to share a hundred HP》 connection… !”

“……”

“And the reduced HP is able to circulate between individuals! This is the essence of your seemingly unlimited regenerative powers. Your regeneration is not ‘resilience’ … When one of you heals the wound, there should be another you reducing HP instead,!”

In that case, Madea pulled out the saber. The blade held high in front of her reflected a little light, illuminating the eyes under the hood.

“Then all one hundred pieces of HP shall be mowed down. This would be my, victory……!”

The schoolgirls watching on the sidelines gulped nervously. Racheldi group looked up at the petite girl in black landing at the top of the fountain as a king, and they, who had been silent, suddenly applauded warmly.

“──It’s amazing. I have fought with the cavalry regiment several times, but everybody were in chaos, no matter who, he can only be fooled to death by me. What a harsh and cruel life it was to accumulate so much combat experience at your age? “

“…………”

“Let me fill you in, Miss Black. I can only reproduce by planting saplings because I need to extract life energy from the earth. In other words, what I want to say is……The HP of each of us is not 《1%》, but 《multiplied by one hundred》!!”

Racheldi, who had always kept a gentle smile, turned into a gnashing of teeth.

“Even if my secret is exposed, there is still only one way for me to fight, that is, to fight a protracted war after spreading poisonous powder! Can you feel it? The poisonous powder that seeps into your organs is slowly causing the body’s ability to decline. My direct combat ability is really not very strong, however, your time limit should be approaching minute by minute……! When your stamina (HP) is low enough, I am sure to win!!”

『That’s what I want.』

Madea kicked hard from where she was standing that the statue broke and she ran into the enemy group. At the moment of flying over the enemy, she cut off the neck of one Racheldi and smashed the head of the second one with smooth movements. As if the time to speak had been a pity, black notes fell among the scattering of sawdust and petals.

『If the reason』『Was revealed,』『There is no need to afraid.』

『At your level,』『even if my physical ability is halved,』『it is enough to cope with it.』

“Finally, the main course is served! Go ahead and decorate it with provocation (spices)! “

Racheldi barked with a look of ecstasy. If just looking at the war, it was unilateral suppression. Madea brandished her long wand and immediately began a series of bursts of fire. Racheldi was shot through and through, her smile ripped and she was blown away.

The other one followed her words and forced the black-clad enemy into a corner from all directions.

“Let’s compare whether my “remaining body” will be exhausted first, or your physical ability will bottom out first. Although you have destroyed a lot of saplings, I still have a lot of strength left. What about you by comparison? Your physical ability must be bottoming out! “

As if to cut off the end of a sentence, a Racheldi’s neck was chopped high into the air. Then there was a dying scream in the rear and right. Almost at the same time, petals scattered from the left, and even themselves were cut by continuous attacks.

──Even the remnants…… cannot be captured?

Racheldi shared the feeling with dozens of clones, and she felt dread from the bottom of her heart. The girl in black, who was supposed to be gradually eroded by poisonous powder, was faster than before. Was it possible that she had so far suppressed her power in order to see through her abilities?

The black notes slowly fell into view of a fallen Alraune.

『Let me tell you something 』『even I』『in my unit』 『am slow.』

『if you fight that guy』『your dull eyes』『will probably be frightened out.』

“Ku……! “

(illu)

Dozens of Racheldi, who had maintained a flirtatious smile, finally showed their canine teeth in disgust. Because when she did a head count, she found something. Her HP was dropping much faster than the poison powder erodes the enemy. If it went on like this, she’d be ruined ──…………

Now that this was in mind, there was only one thing to do.

Change the method.

“You’re better than I thought, Black Knight-Sama”! But I’m the natural enemy of the Burning Calvary Regiment (Guild Phoenix), Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis)! I know very well how to get you to show your flaws!!”

“——！”

As Madea noticed, a Racheldi raised her hand. In front of her was the schoolgirl in the St. Frideswide, who spread out in the garden.

The young girl tensed nervously, and then Racheldi’s arms flexed like spears. Madea whipped out her revolver and stopped the attack with a precision shot.

“Look, you’re making a mistake!!”

The rest of the Racheldiare showing an ugly glow.

A Racheldi stepped forward and stretched out its arms. Her fingertips were deformed like the roots of a tree, and the sharp and elongated fingertips were pierced into the body of the girl in black. At the same time, it made a metal-like crash sound.

Racheldi, who felt the attack hit for the first time, raised her mouth——and then her smile tightened stiffly.

There was very little blood dripping from the belly of the girl dressed in black. The enemy concentrated the raging flames in the center of the body, with only a few centimeters piercing the skin at the front of the root.

“Is it blocked only by mana and the muscles? An amazing speed of reaction……！But!”

Facing more than dozens of groups, although only for a moment, exposing flaws was still fatal. The rest of Racheldi followed closely behind the first one, stretching the roots together, and Madea’s petite form was engulfed by thorns from all directions. Countless spears completely captured the whole body, and the black uniform figure was knocked into the air like a small sandbag.

Frighteningly, although she avoided all the deadly attacks, the figure that was bumped into the air was defenseless. Dozens of Racheldi inhaled full air and then spewed.

The corrosive liquid spewed from their mouths was sprinkled on the girl in black in the air. It emitted a sound like hot water evaporating and choking white smoke, as well as military uniforms that had been brutally torn and scattered everywhere. The schoolgirl let out a wail.

“Nooooooooooooo!? Kni, knight-sama! “

“Ah ha ha ha ha! You just leave the bones, and then become my nourishment! “

Then came a creepy “SPLAT!” from the rear, the sound resounded all around.

The green beauty turned her head in horror and witnessed it.

A Racheldi was strangled from behind and her head twisted. The little girl with tan skin let go of the dead individual and murmured with a bored face:

“That’s about half of it remains.”

“……！”

Racheldi shivered and turned to look at the figure in black as it fell to the ground. There was nothing but a dark uniform, and the inside of it was gone. The corrosive fluid didn’t hit the girl at all.

The green beauty opened her hands more and more as if she were praising the strong enemy.

“That’s great! You just took off your uniform as a stand-in, right? But are you being too crazy? Where is your proud collection? “

The seven weapons, which Racheldicalled her collection, were scattered throughout the grounds. Madea was now dressed in underwear, and unarmed. To see her naked tan skin engraved with scratching scars showed that the attack was not in vain.

Realizing that the savior was at a disadvantage, the schoolgirl stepped in.

“Kni, knight-sama! We are here for backup……! “

“Don’t do it, student. “

Madea stared at the enemy with a knife-like gaze and spoke in a whisper that didn’t know if anyone could hear. There was no way to get a glimpse of her emotions.

“You… are not like me. Your hands are made for the protection of the weak. In that case, it is not time to be defiled with dirty blood. Shut up and be protected by me, you chicks……! “

“But, but…… “

Racheldi laughed heartily at the sacrifice of the young warrior.

“What a great pride! I always thought this job was just some boring weed-mowing, but it was completely a big misunderstanding. I never thought I’d meet a warrior like you! The experience of defeating a powerful enemy like you must be a great nourishment in my deep mind! “

“That’s what I’m going to say…… Seriously, when it involved《him》, there’s only blood boiling fights……”

The unarmed Madea murmured to herself, then lowered herself.

Her mouth hung up grimly, her feet spread like a beast. Boom……Feeling the sound that would shake the earth, Racheldi showed a serious expression.

Madea was wrapped around by mana, which seemed to burst out of the ground, and tightened her hands at the same time.

“Is this unfortunate for St. Frideswide……? No! Students, you are lucky to be here to witness this. Now, I’m going show you the pinnacle of mana capable ones! “

Medea waved her arm hard and Mana gushed from her fingertips across the battlefield. Mana wrapped around the seven weapons that had been stuck on the ground, and then jumped up as if they had life.

“——What!?”

Racheldi turned her head in amazement, and the multicolored weapon roared.

The weapons were like meteor wrapped around with Mana, running through the air, slicing, chopping and smashing the enemy’s body. The chakram depicted a leaping track that ravages the enemy group, the wand in Madea’s hand, smashed a beauty’s head.

When they finally came to their senses, the Racheldis fired their roots at Madea. The revolver and the long staff pulled the trigger automatically, and the half-burnt trajectory shot down the enemy’s arm. The beautiful Alraune was speechless at last.

“What the……What’s this……! Hii!!”

“This is my trump card ──!”

Madea kicked the ground sharply. She seized the sword that flew through the air and struck back at the enemy. She used the wand of her left hand to destroy the heart of the other. Follow the revolvers and long wand around, spew out the muzzle flame and flashed without a break, and shot through the enemy one by one.

In the midst of the enemy that seemed to be dwindling in number, Madea closed in on Racheldi, who would probably remain until the end. She aimed at the heart of the beauty, twisted Alraune, tensing the sword in her right hand.

“《Hollogius……Phantasma》”

The weapons, which rushed from multiple directions, nailed Alraune’s body, and with all her strength she thrust out a long sword that shattered her enemy’s chest. The upper part of the enemy’s body was blown off in a big way, and the saplings flying in the air were cut in half.

The last of the Racheldi who had gathered in the garden suddenly bent her knees.

In the self-disintegration of the whole body, left to the last lips ── maliciously raised up into a smile.

“The so-called trump card……Isn’t it something that should be kept until the last minute? ojou-san……”

“……”

“You were a little naive… at the end… “

Pit-a-pit!——The last Racheldi disintegrated like a rotten leaf and fell to the ground.

Madea, who had drawn her sword, sank limp to her knees. The poisoning was getting worse. Losing control of the attack skills, and six weapons lost their brilliance and fell.

To the final judgment left by the enemy, Madia replied with a quick breath:

“Indeed… I may have been naive. “

At the same time, the figure of a beauty slowly lifted her upper body in the poison fog.

It was in the glass made Glasmond Palace inner site. The woman rose from the sunken wall and turned her head toward the distant garden.

“U fu, fu…… It was careless of you to ignore a sapling when you understood my ability to such an extent. I also keep a little bit of HP on my side……….”

Racheldi exhaled quickly and took steps at the same time. Her whole body was heavy and her vision blurred, almost in a shuffle. HP and the Anima were cut to the limit by the powerful enemy, and there was no strength left to repair the damaged body.

The dying Alraune pressed her hand against the fence and crawled toward the trees.

“It’s dangerous to continue fighting that knight……! But it was me who smiled in the end. And then I’ll just go into hiding, waiting for the poison to circle around the student and that one——”

“No, you’re finished here.”

Hearing the sound from behind, Racheldi even turned her head a few seconds slower. The silver blitz fencing she turned to see looming over her was the final tableau of her vicious life.

“HAa!!”

The student president of the St. Frideswide brandished a deadly strike and cut the green beauty in half from the top of her head. The saplings rolled down from the cut-off chest, disintegrating with a smooth profile.

“What I owe you… Now I’ll pay back! “

Krista rushed past and then swept with a second blow, and the cut-off beauty’s upper body flew in mid-air and her back hit the ground.

The body turned to dust from the end and began to be captured by the wind. After losing a hundred yorishiro and all her Anima, Racheldi, who had exposed the ugly remains, put her hands in the air.

“Not……It can’t……be……I’ll……disappear……? This beautiful Alraune……The mission of covering the world with my flowers……! Will be destroyed by a little bird like this……? “

“It’s true that I’m still an immature little bird, but——”

“Damn……damn youuuuuuuuuuu………………………… “

Alraune desperately clawed at the untouchable sky, but her arm burst with a flash of light. The belly-shaking bass rushed to the sky, and the black dust flew into the air shortly before it vanished with the wind.

At the same time, the poisonous fog spread by the ferocious Alraune began to dissipate rapidly. Christa felt the ease of breathing and knelt down on the ground with her sword in her arms.

“I’m sincerely obliged to you for giving me the opportunity to restore my reputation, Black Knight-Sama……！”

She felt the heat sliding down her cheek and murmured to herself with emotion. In this way, the unprecedented crisis of St. Frideswide was drawn down by the student president herself.

†††

As soon as he stepped down from the elevator, Kufa asked the girls who were lined up there:

“What’s the status of the victim?”

Standing by in the elevator room at Glasmond Palace were several third graders, led by Christa Shanson, the student council president. At a glance, Christa’s skin was bandaged and blood was still clinging to her mouth.

Kufa predicted the worst answer, frowning in apparent distress. In Bibliagoth, and in the lift that finally got moving, he had imagined all the possible scenarios.

As expected, Kufa’s prediction was half positive, then half negative.

“While the teachers were on their way to the aid of Bibliagoth, thieves broke into the academy. That seems to be the real goal of the thieves in this attack.”

“Student President, even asking this question makes one’s tongue freeze…”

“Don’t worry, Kufa-sensei. As far as injuries go, no student has been hurt more than I have. All thanks to a knight in black, who kept it to a minimum──”

Before the words were over, a young girl ran past President Christa. A young girl with brown skin and fierce eyes, somehow dressed in light, tight clothes, tugged at Kufa’s chest.

“Give… give me your uniform!”

“What? … Why are you dressed like that, anyway?”

“The enemy destroyed my shirt! I want something to hide my body! Take off your clothes! Now!”

Because the girl was so noisy, Kufa took off his dark uniform and put it over her head. “Fugu!”, she moaned, fumbling like a child, and put on his coat.

President Christa looked stupidly down at the figure of the savior, who was too long in both sleeves and shirt, and seemed to lift her spirits and shift her gaze to the group of people who had come back from the elevator.

“Let’s just say it’s great to have you all back.”

“It’s hard to say that everyone’s all right… someone needs to be in a hospital bed in the infirmary right now.”

Looking puzzled, President Christa’s eyes widened in surprise as the witch stepped down from the elevator with the help of a female student.

“Head, headmaster-sensei!”

President Christa’s voice changed pitch and she ran to the dean of Blamange. The old woman, solemnly escorted away by a multitude of students and sisters, would soon be taken to a hospital bed where she could be treated by a doctor. They could only hope that she would soon be well again for now──

At this time, in the reduced number of the elevator room, sounded a leisurely let people angry voice.

“Oh, finally it opened. That《chain castle》is seriously good stuff, maan”

The familiar voice made Kufa and Madea turn their heads reflexively and shout.

“Oyaji!?” “Papa!”

The man waving in the wind appeared at a certain tempo under the crutches and loose military clothing was the commander of the White Night Cavalry Regiment (Guild Jackraven) to which Kufa and Madea belonged. The middle-aged man, with his untrimmed beard and long, unrestrained hair, had a nasty image of a cigarette full of bite marks.

The boss said “You” as greeting, and with a very non-tense attitude, he raised his hand.

“My lovely children, have you been working hard? Did you cause any problems? Did you bother your boss as soon as you faced problem? Daddy’s going cry when the shit hits the fan, Huh?”

“I’m going to kick your ass. What are you doing out here?”

Having lost sight of the schoolgirls, Kufa revealed his true nature and spoke freely. The boss scratched his head helplessly and sighed with a heavy smoke smell.

“You’re still the same… after all, it was your report that was so haphazard that I came to the rectory to confirm it… by the way, what the hell are you doing?”

The boss looked behind Kufa. As soon as the middle-aged man appeared, he ducked back to the brown-skinned girl behind Kufa, her slender shoulders leaping in shock.

At the sight of the exposed agent, the boss gave a blank look and said excitedly:

“Uh, seriously, what are you doing? You can’t show your true appearance.”

“U, uu ～… this, this is an act of god!”

“Then give me your confession later.”

Didn’t know if it’s a joke, the boss said dryly, casting his eye on the last person in the room. It was a young Lycanthrope with half his face bandaged.

The boss didn’t seem hostile, but he whipped up a cigarette.

“You’re the《witness》in this guy’s report… correction, the guy who want to join our Guild?”

“It’s not that big of a deal. It’s just a mutual give&take of information.”

Jin replied in his usual relaxed tone.

“I will provide you with information that will make sense to you. So give me what I want in return.”

“What are your chips?”

“About the treachery of Kufa Vampir, and the credibility of Melida Angel’s bloodline.”

The boss urged the other to go on with his eyes. Scratching his cheek lightly, Jin continued.

“I testify as the《enemy》that the qualities of the Paladin do lie dormant in Melida Angel. But it had better not to use brute force to try to expose that. I was trying to find out if it was real, only to have my troupe destroyed.”

“… Hou”.

“What that man wanted to keep secret was my connection. He said he didn’t want anyone to know he was working with me from Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis)… even though it seemed to backfire.”

His boss’s quizzical gaze fixed on Kufa’s cold beautiful face.

The captain of the White Night’s cavalry turned his eyes back to gold and asked in a low voice.

“So, what do you mean by return?”

“The method of turning Lycanthrope back into a human being.”

It sounded like the Human Corpse Demon (Ghoul) youth was a little more serious.

Kin looked at the boss with dim eyes, but his voice remained the same.

“The only people doing this kind of research are your people. So I hope you’ll share your research with me without reservation. If you promise me that, I will continue to provide criminal intelligence as a covert operative for the Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis), ──how does that sound?”

The eyes of the boss looked at Kufa again, and then moved back to Jin.

(Illu)

“You’re not thinking of becoming human again, are you?”

“It doesn’t matter. YES or NO.”

“Let me take a look.”

After a moment of reflection, the boss replied, accompanied by cigarette smoke.

“I’ll judge whether you are helpful or not according to your future work. Ok?”

“Yeah, that’s good for now.”

Jin raised one eyebrow and nodded. He looked up at Kufa a little and communicated wordlessly. Not knowing if there was insight into the intention of the youth and others, the boss lightly shrugged.

Madea, watching from the sidelines, looked over Kufa’s shoulder with trepidation.

“So, so this whole thing is settled…..? It’s, it’s over?”

“But it’s not as simple as that——hey, 《Kufa》”

Suddenly being called by the name of a task, Kufa panicked. The boss went on with a serious expression.

“It seems that this incident is not so simple. The attack by the Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis) appears to be only a small part of what is happening now.”

Kufa nodded with a serious expression. It was something he had been aware of.

“And I’ve always had the impression that the situation report didn’t add up. From the testimony of Blamange and others, it seems that even the assassins of the Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis) have not properly grasped the situation surrounding St. Frideswide……I wonder if the accident of the examination has nothing to do with the Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis)‘s attack.”

The boss nodded heavily in agreement. Kufa continued to ask.

“But I gotta ask, why do you guys know so much about this place?”

“… there was an informant.”

The superior pinched up the cigarette, simultaneously exhaled the smoke, and simultaneously replied. Kufa frowned.

“We, White Night Calvary Regiment (Guild Jack Raven), in our quest to find out the truth about the masked father, have been looking in many directions. And that’s when someone approached us.

“Who is this so-called informant?”

“It was one of the three Knightly dukes — The “Diablos” ──Duchess La Moore.”

Even Kufa’s eyes widened in surprise. Unquestionably one of Flandre’s most powerful woman, she must be sensitive to our presence, known as the Calvary Regiment (Guild) of darkness.

“Why would duchess La Moore do this?”

“Because the great labyrinth, Bibliagoth, belongs to the House of La Moore. The Duchess, who had been holed up in the study, observed that there were other unscheduled《gates》that seemed to be opening during the librarian examination. One is the《gates》of Mordrew’s weapon trade union administration”

“Yare yare”, the boss shook his head.

“Unfortunately, the place is empty, but we have evidence of a security breach, targeting test takers.”

“By the way, that’s the gate I used to get into Bibliagoth”

Kim chimed in, and all eyes were focused on him for a moment. The boss went on to say:

“And what’s important is the rest of it. According to the Duchess, there appears to be more than one gate to the reservation. There is also a《gates》in the outer settlement of Bader Bassel, which is said to show signs of activity.”

“……who’s in charge of the《gates》?”

“The three great knight duke houses… 《Dragon Knight (Dragoon)》, House Shicksal.”

The boss said something that made the scene very nervous. Bearded middle-aged man mouth twisted, as if in the performance of inner distortion.

“… What the hell is going on?”

“Investigating this is our──my job.”

Kufa said firmly and turned away. Losing her support, Madea “Awawa” panicked, and Jin made a backchat to the white shirt figure making his way to elevator without hesitation.

“Will you be all right on your own? Against the knight duke?”

“Well, you guys go ahead and save the rest of the candidates, and try to defend St. Frideswide. I’ll take care of the Shicksal’s《gates》.”

As Kufa spoke, he also tapped the elevator’s control panel, and the glass magical circle began to descend slowly with the end of the sentence. As they were about to part, the boss took something from his arms and threw it to Kufa.

“Take it! It’s a farewell gift from the Duchess of La Moore!”

Drawing a smooth parabola into the palm of Kufa’s hand was a heavy book. This was one of the intellectual legacies that Kufa had seen several times before, and that was one of the great legacies of Bibliagoth.

“That’s the magical book《Maeterlinck’s observation map》. The door to the outer settlement of Bader Bassel is on the 18th floor……..Work hard, Kufa! It is, without a doubt, a ──”

“The mission that only I can accomplish.”

Kufa said, and the elevator was sucked into the tunnel. Kufa further manipulated the control panel, increasing the landing speed to the limit. He felt himself helplessly anxious.

The information the White Night Calvary Regiment (Guild Jack Raven) had not yet possess ── No, was it because only he himself could foreseen it? It was not Melida-ojou-sama who was the object of the Troops of Tomfoolery Dawn (Guild Grimhuis), or their client, Lord Mordrew. But along with their attacks, there was another force that had engaged in some kind of strategy.

The guys must have set up the spell book《Perouna’s trompe l’oeil》on the elevator, and lured only two of the scattered St. Frideswide’s candidates to the Shicksal’s 《gates》. Their goal was the secret of the maiden, or her life──?

The elevator, which reached Bibliagort as fast as it could, came to a screeching halt. Kufa took a step at once, and something seeped slowly from the floor in front of him.

『Oh Ho Ho Ho… you have not learned to run back… !』

His figure was not even in rag, it was the mere shadow of the former《Undead King》. Kufa still thought he’d been destroyed by Jin, but he seemed to have managed to retain his soul, gathering a few scattered Anima to try to mimic the shape of a human being.

Only the bones of the index finger palm, boarding a similar light snow cold.

『I won’t give up… ! In that case, I’ll make Flandre the land of the dead. It will not be leader or the knight dukes who will sit on that throne, but me, this Krodor-sama──』

Then, the explosion as if an explosion had blown away the old man’s jest.

The mana that spewed out of the young could even melt the earth. The anima which could even freeze time and space sent shivered through the Necromancer’s soul.

The young man’s hair turned white and stretched to his shoulders. The canines were as long as tusks, and they stuck out on the red lips. With murderous rage in his eyes, he gazed in front of a pale blue flame.

Only the trembling spirits of the dead shook his skeleton.

『What, what’s this? It’s impossible……why would a nobleman from the night world be in a place like this……! 』

“You’re in the way.”

Kufa took one step, and the pressure of the explosive expansion crushed Krodor. Even the fragments of the soul of the persistent King of the dead were completely burned away, disappeared in mid-air.

Turning into a half-vampire, Kufa took the next step, bending down at the same time. He unleashed all of his potential, intending to cross Bibliagort as fast as he could.

Kufa didn’t care about the knight duke houses, they just didn’t think much of himself. What it meant to attempt to intimidate that young girl was to imprint on their souls along with the nightmares.

That’s right. If the time to take that young girl’s life was to come──

“That was my mission only!”

Then, with the booming sound, the shadow of the devil flew up, flying in the infinite librarian above.