Campione! - Volume 20 - Chapter 2.4

Part 4 

Perhaps it should be said that it was just as expected. 

The『Dead Silver Dragon』seemed to have some kind of previous offense, as might be expected from something that was serving that brutal Marquis Voban. It appeared that it had tormented innocent people by its master’s order! 

For that reason, it could be targeted. 

By the attack that could only be carried out toward great sinner that distressed the people.

「Come to my side, for the sake of victory. Swiftly carry the halo that is thy master!」 

Godou chanted the usual words of power and borrowed the power of sun. 

Regardless that it was midnight, morning sun showed its face rising from the eastern sky, firing bombardment of flash. 

The target was the dead silver dragon. The servant of a devil king which right about now was going to breathe flame at the blue light that was Liliana’s flight magic! 

The fragment of sun traversed through the darkness of night, impacting the soaring dragon. 

Swallowed by beam that demolished even the mountain, the dead dragon’s large body was instantly evaporated! It became the proof that divine beast class wasn’t sufficient to become a Campione’s enemy! 

But, there was one more monster that ought to be defeated. 

The super large fierce guardian god――the giant that was destroying the mountains of Okutama had a gun pointed at it. 

「Now then! It’s time to showcase the attack of the god of long distance archery.」 

John Pluto Smith had readied his gun and stood at ready, and pulled the trigger. 

The beam bullet fired from the gun muzzle was truly the arrow of moon goddess Artemis. She was a divinity that was famous as master of bow together with her older brother the sun god Apollo. Of course, it was a projectile weapon that was too meager for the fierce guardian god that had out of norm size just like Daidarabocchi. But 

The fierce guardian god had its heart shot through, and it howled. uuuuuuuuuuuuooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuO O O O O OOOOOO O O O O OOooooouuuuuuuuoooooouuuuuuuOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOoooooo-! 

Long howling voice rumbled, resounding through Okutama Mountains with great echo. 

That was the roar of death agony. 

The whole body of the fierce guardian god that was bigger than mountain became light particle and crumbled in pieces, it was exterminated all at once like mountain haze that was bathed with sunlight.

「Even though its body is huge# but after all it’s just something that is like a balloon without substance. Well, its existence itself as『spirit of superhuman strength dwelling in Sect Founder Luo Hao’s body』is strange in various aspect though.」

「Yeah. There is a limit even in being absurd.」

「As expected, sect founder-dono is really preposterous.」 

Smith praise was mixed with exasperation inside. 

And then Godou looked up to the sky once more. He was feeling suspicious that the cloud was increasing slightly while thinking about different matter. While they were attacking just now, the light of flight magic was flying away to far distance. 

He saw it heading to the east but――

「Are they going to the direction of Akiruno or Hachiouji……?」 

Godou pictured the map of Tokyo west part in his mind that he only faintly remembered. 

Right after that, rain was starting to trickle down, in large drops. If the water drops kept falling like this, it would become a really heavy rain. 

The cloud was suddenly increasing was because of this. 

However, he felt presence of magic power from the raincloud above. Godou murmured.

「Perhaps this is Nee-san’s work! It seems she is planning to extinguish the mountain fire using rain.」 

The flame generated by devil kings’ violence was still not dying down. 

There was no way Marquis Voban would be bothered by that, the rain wasn’t accompanied by wind or thunder. Godou spoke further with conviction.

「Perhaps it’s great that is in the mountain# just for a bit!」

「Hou, why?」

「Even if fire occurred in city, no matter how great it is, Nee¬san absolutely will leave it alone! It’s because this place is a mountain that she was motivated to clean up the fire. This time it’s nature preservation for her!」

「I see now.」 

Smith laughed that was visible through his shaking mask, and then he suddenly murmured.

「However, even if she is using magic to extinguish the fire, she isn’t appearing in front of us!」

「About that# perhaps……」

「Yeah. Sect founder-dono and marquis-dono, most likely they are chasing after your companions. In order to erase those two, Madam Aisha whose power is sealed and the wounded Salvatore Doni.」

「That’s right!」

「Then, what should I do I wonder? Should I rejoin the devil king civil war for sure this time, and restart a bloody fight to the death with you who is in front of me――」

「…………」

「Or, should I show deference to you like now, and devote myself in assisting you.」(TN: Here JPS is saying a phrase that is usually used to speak about the fruits of a wife’s labor in assisting her husband’s career!)

「What’s with that? We aren’t married couple here!」 

Godou smiled wryly at the joking way of speaking of the masked man. 

He said this to John Pluto Smith just before the battle right now. 

『I understand that there is no intention of defeating me inside you! If that’s not my misunderstanding# then lend me a hand# or at least don’t be a nuisance!』 

That was all he said. 

After saying that he wasted no time to turn his back to Smith and used『White Stallion』to cover for the flight of Liliana and others. 

The hero of Los Angeles then supported with his magic gun without any prompt.

「That time too when I and Nee-san were fighting. If you actually seriously planning to kill, then it would be better if you make us continue fighting until both of us are weakened. That way you could kill us with certainty, but you shot in half-cocked timing.」

「Fufu」

「You did that in order to separate us two. Am I wrong?」

「I wonder. Perhaps I was obstructing the battle of you two because of fighting instinct like『I won’t be satisfied until I defeat that guy with this hand』you know?」

「Perhaps! But# I don’t feel anything like killing intent from you at all.」 

That was what he thought since he reunited with this man inside the mist. 

Actually that became the clincher for him which enabled him to say『lend me a hand』. John Pluto Smith was staring quietly at Godou, and then he finally nodded. 

「……I thought that if there is anyone that could notice my intention, then it would be you or the Black Prince. And it looks like I’m right!」

「If it’s me or Gascoigne you said# just what do you mean by that?」

「Because among us seven godslayers, we are relatively less hot-blooded! Well# until the end it’s just relative comparison with the others though. At any rate, it seem that you comprehend the meaning of the fishing line that I was dangling# so it’s really joyous!」

「……If you have the feeling of wanting to forming a united front with me」 

Godou complained at this roundabout way of doing thing.「I think it would be great if you said it earlier than this.」

「While the preparation to outwit the other 

Campiones――especially Madam Aisha is not completed# there would be no meaning even if I did such thing. After all this is a battle royal. Repeating impromptu alliance formation and alliance annulment will only make the situation chaotic.」

「…………」 

The civil war was already earnestly following intensification with birth of old timer alliance and the Japan-Italy alliance and so on. It was also doubtful just how long those alliances would continue. 

When Godou consented with Smith’s point# he noticed!

「Wait. You are saying until that far to me, means that you finished your preparation?」

Right now was the second day of the devil king civil war, late at night. 

However, it seemed that it was different for John Pluto Smith. 

Just now the person himself said so. By any chance the accident of time travel was instead something that gave the masked godslayer a leeway to prepare some trick.

「You# don’t tell me you were using Aisha-san’s corridor aiming for that――」 

‘Fuh!’ Smith chuckled brazenly under the mask! Godou was convinced that Smith was making such expression. 

A fearless smile that was worthy for the gambler of ‘it turned out all right in the end’! A satisfied smile that was made by the young man who was covering up his unpainted face. Godou was imagining those smiles, and it was at that moment.

「!」

「Hou」 

Godou and Smith detected it at the same time. A Heretic God was approaching. 

Strength and fighting spirit for the sake of battle were overflowing inside their body. Just what god was coming here?

「So it’s you!」 

Godou lightly glared at the uninvited guest. 

Late at night at the second day of devil king civil war, in the middle of Okutama Mountains that was raining. The sudden mountain fire was dying out due to the beneficial rain from the heaven and the supernatural sect founder. 

The little brother of『King of the End』Ramachandra, Laksmana was drawing near――!