Chapter 77 – #17 the Fragment of Calamity Comes With the Storm (5)
Shoot aaaaa…
The “Secret Room” Where various materials and items that could never be publicly displayed were hidden.
After finishing their work in that room, Emilia and Mona came out into the hallway, and it was pouring rain outside.
‘It’s finally coming down.’
It was because the sky was already full of dark clouds when they arrived at the imperial palace by carriage.
I was thinking it might rain.
“Lea, do you really not have to tear it up?”
“…”
Mona pointed to the parchment in Emilia’s hand.
The magic tool with a special compulsive force that “Makes sure” The contract written on it is written with a promise to marry Emilia and the emperor.
However, if this parchment is torn, the magic tool’s effect will easily disappear.
That’s why Mona suggested tearing it up or incinerating it right away, but Emilia vehemently refused the offer and brought it out.
“You want to marry the emperor? Well, it might be useful to get away from Master.”
“It’s not like that.”
Emilia frowned her fine eyebrows and threw the parchment she was holding at Mona.
Mona is puzzled and accepts the parchment.
“Have it. Because you can’t hide it anyway. It doesn’t matter if you want to tear it up or burn it.”
“What, if that’s the case, why did you bring it?”
“You have to have the real thing to ask anyone or not. Of course, I have no intention of asking Highness Kallik directly, but…”
It’s just that, if there is no real thing, I just brought it out in case I thought that everything I saw here was an illusion.
I have no intention of entrusting myself to the emperor using this as an excuse, and since Count Meln must have known about this document in the first place.
So it was just a whim that I came out with this.
In reality, it doesn’t matter whether you burn it or not.
As I told Mona in the first place, Emilia, who has no place to hide because she doesn’t even wear her clothes, can’t even go back to the banquet hall with this.
She seemed to forget all of a sudden, but Emilia was still naked.
Anyway, I still don’t know what this parchment has to do with Earl Meln, but… Anyway, it seems that the work here is over.
Although she was a little late, she had to hurry back to the banquet hall–
Sting…
“… ?”
All of a sudden, a chilling sensation reached the back of the neck.
Emilia raised her head at the strange tension running through her skin.
What… ? Something now…
“… What?”
Mona, who had been following Emilia by her side while flying through the air, also raised her head with a puzzled look on her face.
Could she have sensed something in her too?
‘What… Something… Feeling anxious…’
Her heart throbs A tingling sensation is felt as if electricity is flowing through the skin.
Even as I raised my eyebrows, I couldn’t properly grasp the true identity.
However, there was something she barely realized.
‘The smell of blood?’
The thick smell of blood reached the tip of her nose.
It was too late to notice because of the smell of rain wafting through her window.
I can smell the faint smell of blood from across the hallway…
「Kyaaaaah
『Aaaaa!!』
Then, a scream was heard.
“Uh, huh?! Leah?! Wait a minute!”
Upon noticing it, Emilia was already rushing towards the source of her commotion.
* * *
A banquet held in the splendid imperial palace.
In order to make the banquet stand out even more, countless servants were busy moving in and out of the banquet hall.
Guard knights to escort dignitaries are also standing inside or near the banquet hall to prepare for an emergency.
Other knights are standing outside the castle, guarding against outside intruders.
It was inside the palace with more people than usual,
However, since that many people were concentrated in the banquet hall–
The place away from the banquet hall was rather quiet and less crowded than usual.
And the incident took place in a place that was not human.
“Ah, aaaaa!”
Write it down!
Tuk, tuk, degururr…
The male servant, who was running away with his back turned, was cut down by a huge jet-black greatsword.
It is horrifying to see his decapitated head rolling across the luxurious carpeted floor.
The hallway was already covered in blood.
A total of five servants died here.
Two maids, three male servants.
Even while the banquet was in progress, I was just checking to see if there were any people who were lost or who were hiding for some purpose.
Then, they found an uninvited guest in jet-black armor approaching limping down the hallway.
When I came to my senses, two servants had already been horribly cut down by a knight who had come close to me.
Blood splattered and the cut body fell to the floor.
When he saw it, he screamed and tried to run away, but in the end, he couldn’t even run a few steps and cut down all the remaining servants.
Horrible corridors full of horribly dismembered bodies and their spewing blood.
The jet-black knight standing in the middle was muttering something without showing any emotion at the sight of the dead servants.
“Warrior… Hero…』
『Where… Where are you…』
Red eyes flash.
He had already killed more than ten servants and knights before reaching this place.
However, he still couldn’t find the goal he wanted.
In the [Seal Room] Where he was confined, the light of the mighty holy power that annihilated the undead kept burning him to death.
Among the undead, he had an immortal body that was exceptional, and he was killed by the light of the holy power, but then came back to life, a terrible hell-like vicious cycle repeated.
I feel resentful and angry about that fact, but the biggest problem right now is that most of his functions are not working properly due to the influence of being exposed to holy power for a long time.
One of them is the ability to detect the presence of a hero.
Instinctively, I know that there is a person with the 【Blessing of the Hero】 nearby.
However, I couldn’t figure out the location or the distance.
He has cut down all visible living beings and humans, but they do not seem to be warriors either.
If you’re a hero, there’s no way you’d be this weak.
“Dragon… Saa… Is… Where… To…』
It is the last command of the king who swore allegiance.
That order must be carried out immediately.
But, how…
『If you kill me… First… All… Kill…』
Simple. Kill it as you see it. Just kill whatever you want.
Then, if there is an opponent he cannot slash, that is a warrior.
If there is a hero among the beings he cut down, it’s good that he’s carrying out his orders.
The monster, the jet-black knight also known as the Death Knight, decided to do so, detected the place with the strongest sign of life, and set it as a target.
Where there is the most living life.
There is a high possibility that the warrior is also there.
Blame, blame, blame, blame—!
『… ?』
Just at the time when the death knight, who had set his goal, was about to move forward again.
A new figure appeared in the hallway where he stood blankly.
A beautiful woman of beauty. Furthermore, in his eyes, which were not affected by phantom magic, it seemed that the human was standing naked.
She didn’t really have human common sense, so it didn’t matter whether the other person was naked or not.
However, her figure, which felt the energy of life several times deeper and stronger than others, looked dazzling to the eyes of a death knight.
‘Human… Is it… ?’
It was an opponent with a strange gicheok.
It has a dazzling light of life, but at the same time, it also has signs of witchcraft that somehow feel nostalgic.
Perhaps a few hundred years ago, one of the most important henchmen who served the demon lord along with him―― Similar to fellow demons also called dream demons…
But not herself.
The opponent is not a demon.
Although slightly confused, once again confirming that the opponent was human, the death knight fixed his greatsword.
And, run away
All he had left was his will to kill.
Hurry up and cut down this living creature that caught your eye.
And next, we have to head to the other side where the hero is presumed to be, where there are a lot of living presences–
Thinking so, the knight swung a sword that was enveloped in black energy.
I’m going to go to the middle of the day!
His sword cut through even steel with a single stroke,
The naked woman was blocked by the thin sword in her hand.
* * *
He heard the scream and rushed right away, but when Emilia arrived, the situation was already over.
Corridors covered in blood. Several corpses strewn across the floor.
And standing in the middle, a vicious knight clad in jet-black armor.
Two corpses were also found in the hallway leading up to this point.
Servants who neither have the means to fight.
Like that corpse, and the horrors of this place… The culprit was obvious.
‘I’m not human.’
The pattern on the back of her hand was as hot as if it were on fire, the [Protection] That proves that she is her hero.
Until now, she hadn’t really lived a life as a warrior.
Of course, if there was a person in danger right in front of her eyes, she saved it, and she did the best she could.
However, they did not go to that land to subdue the demons or set out on a journey to overthrow the demon king.
Emilia, who was only full of revenge on Count Meln, had her mission as a hero put on the back burner.
I would have.
‘That… It’s harmful It should never be left alone.’
‘I have to defeat… !’
However, with her knight spreading the signs of her death in front of her, Emilia seems to have realized for the first time that she is a hero herself.
You must defeat your opponent.
That guy shouldn’t be left alone.
It seemed that such a consciousness and such a will were transmitted continuously from the pattern on the back of the hand.
Without grasping the situation or asking who her opponent was, Emilia held out the decorative sword she had picked up in front of her on the way to this place.
And in the next moment, she took back the knight’s greatsword, which had been swung along with the killing force, with the sharp sword in her hand.
