Slayers - Volume 9 - Chapter Ep

Epilogue

“Well, take care.” Gourry and I said our goodbyes to Luke and Mileena the next day.

“Guess we both ended up empty-handed,” Luke said with a strained smile. “But lemme tell you somethin’, okay? If we end up in another fight with you somewhere, someday, over some treasure, we ain’t holdin’ back.”

“Noted.”

“Well... take care an’ all yerselves.”

“Don’t do anything to drive Mileena off, you hear?”

“H-Hey! Shut up!” Luke’s face turned bright red at my comment, and he swiftly turned his back on me. “A-Anyway... So long for now! Let’s go, Mileena!”

“Farewell.” She cast me a small smile, and began following after Luke.

“Sheesh... At least things have calmed down a bit,” Gourry said—a line that was positively braindead in its casualness—around the time the departing couple were about the size of ants to our eyes.

“Hahh...” I let out a deep sigh. “Tell me, Gourry. How exactly have things ‘calmed down a bit’?”

“Huh?” Gourry gazed into the distance for a while, thinking, then said, “Now that you mention it... I guess we haven’t resolved much of anything, huh?”

“Precisely. We made a demon go splat, then scared Sherra off... But we never actually learned who those men in black were. That Zain guy disappeared on us too, and we didn’t even get a sword out of it all. Still, there’s one thing that’s really weighing on me: what was Sherra after? Her intelligence and personality notwithstanding, I’m concerned that a General’s mixed up in all this... And for some reason, she’s taking the form of a human girl to run her little scheme. I’m not sure exactly what said scheme is, but I suspect Hellmaster’s death has something to do with it.”

“Huh.”

Don’t just say “huh”! This lug still didn’t understand what was going on here... Granted, I couldn’t really speak with too much authority on it either. There were still too many unanswered questions. There was only one thing I could say for sure—the demons were mounting a comeback after Hellmaster’s demise. If we weren’t careful, we might see an all-out war between the humans and the demons.

That was what my gut told me as I gazed up into the clear blue sky.