Campione! - Volume 20 - Chapter Ep

Epilogue 

The dragon that was the avatar of Marquis Voban was burned to ash by the flame of the『White Stallion』. 

Even the storm that had been raging all this time finally settled down and the calm returned to the area around Plutarch’s Mansion. 

In front of Godou# large amount of ash――the cinders of the black dragon was remaining. 

But, suddenly. Bluish black sphere of light came out from the ash.

「Kusanagi Godou@ Don’t let that get away@」 

The one who yelled was Lancelot. 

She was already at Godou’s side atop her beloved white horse!

「That is undoubtedly the soul of that black dragon! It will be troublesome if it is let go. Finish if off right here!」

「Got it!」 

It was the personal warning from the war god of lance. Godou immediately called out Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi. 

Even spirit body could be cut apart by the blade of this divine sword. He had that conviction. But, as expected the enemy was also a shrewd person. The sphere of light quickly sensed the presence of pursuit and flew right away! Toward a hundred meter ahead――at the space rift that was still opened. It was the『Fairy Corridor』.

「Then!」

Lancelot took up her spear from the saddle of her horse and quickly threw it. 

As expected from a war god. The long lance that was for use atop horse flew like arrow and splendidly pierced the sphere of light that was about to enter the corridor. 

It was an amazing divine technique of spear throwing. 

The light sphere that was Voban’s soul vanished into the space rift together with the spear……!

「Did that do it?」

「Possibly. There was feedback.」 

The dragon slaying specialist nodded from atop the horse at Godou who asked from the ground.

「The immortal dragon race might accomplish revival even with only the soul. That additional blow is to prevent that. Also just to make sure, you can burn the corpse over there until it become ash.」

「……So it’s like that!」 

Corpse. 

The white knight was staring at the human body of the old marquis that was lying down on the ground. Godou walked to it and tried confirming from nearby. The sleeping Dejanstahl Voban wasn’t sleeping! It wasn’t breathing! Just as Lancelot said# this was a dead body! 

Godou shrugged. Both sides were fighting with the resolve to “crush the other”! But# the will to go as far as dealing the final blow――at the very least it was something nonexistent in Godou. 

「Let’s carry it for the time being!」 

He instructed the radical protector knight so she would carry the body of Marquis Voban on her white horse. 

Like that they headed toward the ruin of the ancient Greek style temple that was tragically destroyed. To the front of the manifested『Fairy Corridor』. 

Doni was squatting down at there. Lancelot exchanged looks with Godou from above the horse. The loyal knight dropped down the body of Marquis Voban that was put in front of the saddle with a thump on the ground, then she vanished along with her white horse. From there on the place became the arena of fellow Campiones once more. 

Sensing his presence, Doni turned around with「Yaa」a greeting.「So you also took care of gramps eeh. Congrats, Godou.」

「As for you……what about Nee-san?」

「Hmmm! I certainly won# but I don’t know if I can say I defeated her.」 

Godou also worried after he heard the details from Doni. 

It was a result that there wouldn’t be any problem to decide that the other party died if it was an ordinary person, but here the aforementioned other party was Luo Cuilian. Furthermore Godou also had the emotion that he didn’t want to designate this overly optimistic man in front of him as his elder sister’s killer. In the end, Godou sighed deeply. 

「Anyway# it’s not something we can conclude from here!」

「I guess! What’s important# is that both of us are the surviving Campiones.」 

Salvatore Doni finally stood up. 

Godou was really exhausted, but it seemed the other side was also the same. However, the optimistic Italian youth was staring at the space rift that was right nearby with “decisive” face, then he nodded.「Let’s finally start the challenger deciding match between both of us. The winner will advance to the final battle against the『King of the End』!」

「Yeah# that’s right! I guess I made that promise huh!」 

Godou nodded at Doni who was talking still full of vigor. 

He went to the side of the man who became his comrade in arms even for just a short time and stood side by side. They both stared ahead at the huge space rift――the『Fairy Corridor』. 

They were at the ruin of the temple that was the upper floor of Plutarch’s Mansion! 

Due to the agitation it received from devil king civil war, most of its roof and pillars were destroyed. 

Well, the truly important stone slates and the manager of the mansion were underground, so Godou thought that they were surely unharmed. 

In any case, he and Doni somehow survived till the end. 

Godou spoke with a serious face. 

「Various things happened but, perhaps I won until this far is thanks to you. Let me say my gratitude. Thanks.」

「Haha# I didn’t do that much!」

「Leave the rest to me! I’ll settle it with Rama!」

「Oi oi! It’s still too fast to――say# tha……t……」 

Doni’s voice and expression was turning blank! The cause was at Godou’s right hand! He secretly took out the black arrowhead that he had been hiding inside his pocket all this time and stabbed it at the back of Doni *chiku-* who was right beside him. 

As expected, even the king of the magic sword had only gone through a fierce battle. 

On top of the exhaustion, he was also letting his guard down. 

Usually he would defend that with some kind of miraculous feat like a master swordsman in a light novel, but it was only at this time that he got hit by Godou’s surprise attack! He limply pitched forward to fall. 

Black arrowhead――! 

It was the item that was presented to him from the princess of glass a while ago. 

It was something of the same kind with the weapon that cornered Godou until the cliff of death when he was sent into ancient Gallia. It was handed over to him so he could use it in the devil king civil war. 

He had been thinking in the corner of his head about how to use it since he arrived at Plutarch’s Mansion! 

Godou laid down the collapsed Doni and muttered. 

「I have to say my thanks to that person. Thanks to her I can pass off one battle……」 

Furthermore, the match that he could pass off was the rematch with his most troublesome self-proclaimed rival too. 

(If the quarrels are also included, then strictly speaking it might become the rematch of however many times.) 

He had nothing but words of gratitude to the princess of glass. 

Looking closer# Doni’s body was twitching all over# he was in a coma. 

His sleeping face was slightly convulsing. It would be overdoing it if he assassinate him like this, so Godou lifted up the sleeping Doni and tossed him into the corridor.

「With this I――am the last Campione!」 

The space rift was closing in front of the muttering Godou. Finally the role of the『Fairy Corridor』was over and it vanished. Probably it was the fairy kings who were interfering with it that closed the rift. And then, the next moment. Godou was greatly shocked.「Gramps!?」 

The corpse of the old marquis that was carried until here by the white horse of Lancelot. It was suddenly weathering down. It crumbled into sand and rolled up to the sky riding the blowing wind. 

Marquis Voban’s flesh body vanished in the blink of eye. Could it be? Godou thought up a certain possibility. 

The soul of the marquis that got hit by Lancelot’s spear# it exhausted its strength inside that corridor and went into Nirvana. That was why the dead body it left behind crumbled into nothing――!「Let’s try asking Athena or someone later……」 

Anyway, with this he finally got back into square one. 

The time to have another meeting with the hero Rama had arrived. Godou took a deep breath. 

Right after that, wind was blowing. 

It was a white monkey clad in a small tornado. Its height was around 180 centimeter. It was wearing golden chainmail, with its arms and legs were also equipped with golden gauntlet and shin guard.

「As I thought, so you also returned here huh, Hanuman.」 

He had also foresighted this development, so Godou said that without any surprise.

「I thought that there might be another returning group from twelve thousand years ago other than Smith. What about Perseus and Seiten Taisei?」

「Those people were just outsider generals after all.」 

White monkey god Hanuman informed with discriminating line.

「They didn’t even have the will to serve Prince Rama who surpassed the time of eternity# and if they don’t encounter ill-fated opponent like your kind, even their willpower would fade. In addition they are someone who died once. They must be unable to accomplish the difficulty of travel of time, their soul should naturally ware away before they were extinguished.」

「You didn’t even confirm it?」

「We weren’t acting together at the other side.」

「And# you returned here alone――」

「Correct. In order to destroy the Rakshasa rajas of this generation that are the resented the enemy of prince-sama, and bring about peace to this world. I was told to wait for all of you to repeat your internal discord until you all are completely weakened.」 

Hanuman was carrying a sheathed sword on his back. 

Its blade’s length must be over a meter! It was a really powerful sword. The white monkey war god smoothly unsheathed it out. Of course it was a familiar sword. 

The divine sword of salvation. However, black stain was spreading from the middle of the blade until the guard. 

The upper half of the blade was still beautiful, but Godou saw that inside the shining blade――shapely face of a handsome youth was emerging. 

The face was like two peas in a pod with the hero Rama, but the skin was brown. 

And most of all the face looked evil# the face’s grim eye look was expressing the heart’s distortion! 

It was the face of Rama’s younger brother# the war god 

Laksmana. This man also returned here in order to stand on Kusanagi Godou’s way once more! 

Thus, the devil king civil war ended. That meant, that it was also the beginning of the final battle.