The Daughter of Evil - Volume 1 - Chapter SS2

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THE DEMONIC TWIN BLADES; SCENE 2
The Demonic Twin Blades short story

☼ Master Craftsman Langley ~In the Kingdom of Lucifenia, “Great Levin Church”~

“—So it was futile after all…” Mikhail regretfully murmured as he took back the case with the twin swords inside.

“Sorry. Didn’t do much good.”

Confronting Mikhail in the church’s guest room, I formally bowed my head to him.

“No, I know you went to a great deal of effort. The way I hear it, you even used gunpowder.”

“Well, yeah.”

Mikhail handed me several gold coins.

“I’ll reimburse your expenses. Please accept it.”

I gratefully took the money.

As planned, Mikhail evidently was heading out of Lucifenia after tomorrow.

After that I wouldn’t see him again.

…

When I blurted out that I had something to ask him, Mikhail brightly leaned forward to answer.

“Anything, go ahead.”

“—Have you ever heard of the word ‘Inheritor’?”

“–!? …Where did you hear that?”

“I had a bizarre dream. Inside it, a demon taking the form of a fish told me that you were an ‘Inheritor’.”

“Odd…A demon dream? I’ve commissioned many blacksmiths with the destruction of these swords until now, but you might just be the first to have experienced such a thing. –Regarding being an ‘Inheritor’, I am. It’s not really anything I need to hide, so I’ll tell you about it.”

Mikhail brought his face closer to show it to me, his left eye swiveling.

“You have probably already figured out that my eye is artificial, yes? But this isn’t something that was put in here later on. I’ve had this unique eyeball since the day I was born.”

“Is something like that…actually possible?”

“Among those born in Levianta, people with peculiar powers, called ‘Inheritors’, appear on rare occasions. They can, for example, have prophetic dreams called ‘purple dreams’, or manipulate blue fire, and so on. These are said to have been the result of them ‘inhering part of the gods’ power’. As for myself—I was told by the archbishop that I am the ‘Inheritor’ of the pillar god Behemo, of the ‘Twin Gods’. Thanks to this artificial eye, I can see more than other people.”

“…Such as?”

“To put it simply, I have ‘see-through vision’. For example, I am able to see through the four walls to this room. Additionally…You have a pregnant woman working at your smithy, don’t you Mr. Langley? The sex of the fetus in her womb…is male.”

“You can even see that?”

“And many other things besides. …Well, anyway, to sum up ‘Inheritors’ are those who have peculiar powers like that. It’s a little different from sorcerers.”

“Speaking of sorcerers…Why hasn’t the Levin church asked Elluka Clockworker to dispose of the twin swords? Someone like her would surely be able to do something like that, wouldn’t she?”

“Well…That’s a bit of a long story.”

Mikhail’s formerly talkative tone had quickly grown more severe. He probably didn’t want to say much on this subject.

I had no inclination to persistently grill him on the finer details. I’m sure the church had their reasons, and I was very averse to getting myself wrapped up in any excess trouble any further by trodding on that area.

I was puzzling over whether I should go pray while I’m here, as I’ve come all this way to a church—and with that in mind, I bid Mikhail goodbye and headed for the chapel.

Right before I left the guest room, I once more turned to look at Mikhail.

Behind him—I could swear I saw an illusion of a woman covered entirely in scales.

–While offering my prayers to god in the chapel, my mind whirled with various things.

Vessels of Deadly Sin.

Demons.

Spirits.

Inheritors.

Sorceresses.

All of them things that were only weakly related to my life.

And I had no wish to get involved with them now.

I had become…too old for such things.

I would just live the rest of my days quietly at the smithy.