Campione! - Volume 21 - Chapter 6.2

Part 2
「What are……your intention, Kusanagi Godou?」

Rama asked in astonishment.

「Don’t tell me, you are planning to fight──in my place to exterminate all the devil kings!?」

「I’m not going to go that far. But, I’m planning to try going along with this 『fate of savior』 for a while in your place.」

Godou laughed calmly to soothe Rama’s agitation.

「Though till the end it will be in my own way.」

「However……」

「Don’t say anything more. I’ll be your replacement. That’s why rest without worrying. If you like, you can retire somewhere. You won’t be punished even if you do that.」

「…………」

「Don’t worry. I can 『go against fate』. I have no plan to accept a work of savior that I don’t like. The world might get wrecked in exchange for defeating the devil kinda. ……Aa, that will be the same like you I guess.」

Godou spoke jokingly.

However Rama didn’t laugh, in exchange he muttered with a voice that was filled with flood of emotions.

「Aah. A man like you really is──」

He didn’t talk further and presented his right hand instead.

Godou also grasped back that hand wordlessly. The hand of the hero Rama who had buried a lot of devil kings. The hand of Kusanagi Godou. The conclusion of this decisive battle that concerned the 『end of this world』 was the handshake of the two.

–

「Then, farewell Kusanagi Godou.」

「Fare thee well, my elder brother’s friend.」

Godou and others got out of the territory of the god of fate and returned to the end of Astral World.

It was a world where everything was colored grey. And then, seeing the back of Prince Rama and his younger brother Lakhsmana who were leaving slowly──.

Godou didn’t know where they were going.

However, the elder brother and the loyal younger brother were making refreshed face.

Lakhsmana who wholly received the nature of heretic god was afflicted with distortion and madness.

But right now, except his skin color, he had become a pure handsome young man who looked exactly the same like his elder brother. He was accompanying the hero Rama from behind.

The younger brother of the great hero finally recovered his ideal form back.

And then, when their back was gone from view.

「Then, I’ll be going too. Let’s meet again, Godou.」

The step mother Pandora spoke lightheartedly and she even winked at him.

And then she vanished *fuh* like that from that place. It was a casual exit that was just like her personality.

Just, until this point she sent only a glance at Erica who was only an ordinary person until now. Until the end her stance was a heartless goddess toward humans who weren’t godslayers.

As expected, even that mother had a part that was like a god in her.

「……Perhaps, I won’t forget her anymore after this.」

「Is that because Godou obtained the authority of the god of fate?」

Asked by Erica, Godou nodded.

「Yeah. I come to understand the underlying principle of the world thing a bit better now compared to before……I think. Well, in the first place I was wholly ignorant in that field anyway, so in the end it’s only to the degree of 『a bit better』 though.」

「It’s fine like that.」

Erica said with a smile that was exactly like usual.

「If someone like Godou got cocky saying 『I’m the god of fate!』, I’ll surely get amused and laugh to death.」

「No way that kind of death won’t ever happen.」

Godou smiled wryly. In respond the Diavollo Rosso returned to a serious expression and whispered this.

「But, now that it turn out like this what I’m curious about is──that thing, the Great Law of the Covenant. I wonder if Godou too can use it now?」

「Perhaps it’s impossible. The authority of fate that I received is mostly only a part of it.」

Godou easily said it, then he added 「Besides」.

「If I use that kind of foul play against those guys, just what kind of complaints they will say to me……」

「Those guys?」

The extremely intelligent Erica was unusually puzzled.

Godou noticed, she was unable to perceive them. He concentrated his mind.

The scenery that only had grey color at the surrounding immediately changed. The fabric of fate that was like white carpet became a domain that extended everywhere.

The current Godou could reach to this place anytime if he was in Astral World.

Godou spoke to his partner in order to inform her what he felt in the territory of god of fate a little bit of time ago.

「Try to see it, this.」

「My.」

When Godou pointed at the “carpet”, Erica was surprised.

Illustrated tales were unfolding again. Pictures were drawn one after another with Godou at the center, a single tale was progressing.

──The picture of people being tormented by a monster that seemed like demon spewing out fire.

──The picture of a gathering of people yelling to the sky seeking for salvation.

──The picture of a character that descended from heaven, the mass lifted their hands and cheered. However.

「I also saw it before, but this time there is a new development.」

「Wha-」

──The picture of the descended savior wielding a sword, defeating the demon.

──But, this time the savior spewed fire and attacked the city. Such picture.

──The demonic swordsman who spewed fire became the lord of the castle before long, and the army obeyed him…….

「Hey Godou. This main character, isn’t his hair blond?」

「As I thought, you also think so huh.」

The hair of the demonic swordsman was drawn with golden string.

Furthermore, the pictures of him swinging sword around, splitting giant rock or castle into two were also emerging here and there.

Erica spoke after surveying the illustration tales in general.

「Actually it was really puzzling. Why is a parallel world that is outside 『this world』 suddenly came with an appeal for a savior to prince Rama?」

「It’s something that never happened until now I think.」

「But thinking back, just slightly a while ago, a lot of godslayers departed this world. Those people acting docilely──should be impossible……」

「They absolutely will cause some kind of trouble.」

「Then, that world come with a demand to 『our world』 that became the origin of such 『world danger』, to quickly deal with the source of the problem……」

「It’s not strange at all is it?」

Godou and Erica reached the same conclusion and they sighed simultaneously.

However, his lovely partner immediately made a fearless grin. It was the smile of a female lion that he had seen continuously for a year already.

「And, what are you intending to do, my lord?」

「I’ve got to bring back those guys, so it’s nice timing. Like this I’ll go take a quick look at the 『world on the other side』 for a bit.」

Godou spoke to the nodding Erica.

「What are you going to do? Will you return to Tokyo for now?」

「To ask something like that to me, you still have some way to go. Of course I’ll go together with you.」

「Yosh.」

「Later let’s somehow try to call everyone──Yuri, Liliana, and Ena-san. Surely they will be needed.」

Erica’s words were heartening. There would be nothing more reliable than her strength, knowledge, and above all else her wisdom even in an unknown world. He had finished experiencing it in the ancient Gallia.

「Then, let’s try going for now.」

「Yes. I’ll follow you no matter where it is.」

Godou and Erica started walking together.

Of course, it was in order to depart to the world in the illustrated tale that was being afflicted by the appearance of a devil king──.