Chapter 9: Cornerstone for Reversal
【Inarsha's Perspective】
When I showed Nord's head as if it were a souvenir, Ellis's eyes sparkled, and she ran up to me.
"My! As expected of Inarsha. Even if you bear a sin, you accomplish the given mission... shall I call it admirable faith?"
"Wait. Normally, even if one wanted to approach the person who hurt them, they should be too scared to do so; why are you able to?"
—Certainly...
—Ellis-sama was in so much pain.
—She looked gleeful just now.
The guards began to murmur at my point.
"That's wrong. That was my misunderstanding. There is no way you would do something like stabbing me. Oh my, honestly. Inarsha, you silly girl."
"I wonder how many people have vanished as dew on the execution grounds due to your 'misunderstandings'?"
"Inarsha... You, just what are you trying to say?"
"It means Ellis is finished. You should abdicate."
"Please wait a moment. Let us speak, just the two of us."
—Ellis-sama, it is dangerous!
—Please let us accompany you.
"Everyone, thank you for always protecting me. However, it seems Inarsha and I must sit knee-to-knee and discuss this. Please, clear the room."
Ellis wore a smile, but her eyes were not smiling at all.
"Please, come in."
I entered the Pope's Chamber again at Ellis's invitation. I was framed by Ellis and ended up injuring her, but the room that was so covered in blood had been cleaned beautifully.
"Why don't you let go of that?"
Ellis pointed it out. Because I kept holding Nord's head without letting go. I spread a cloth on the top board of the chest next to me and placed Nord's head on it.
It was when I placed it and thought to face Ellis.
I felt heat in my flank. The heat turned into pain. When I looked, Ellis had stabbed me with a gladius. Ellis wasn't satisfied with stabbing me just once.
"Don't fuck with me! Don't fuck with me! Do you understand how much favor I showed you! A pawn should just move like a pawn! ...Haa, haa, haa! A pet dog that defies me requires education. Ah, my apologies. My love might have been a bit too deep, and I might have killed you. But this and that, it's all your fault, Inarsha."
Norn... no, Nord, who opened my eyes, I have nothing but gratitude for him. Ellis is evaluated as a High Priestess full of benevolence who is superficially sociable, but on the inside, she was merely a person who didn't mind sacrificing others for her own desires.
While I was being stabbed repeatedly by Ellis, the eyelids of Nord's head opened.
I reached out my hand toward Nord's head.
Ah, even though I am hurt this much, the reason I can feel at ease is thanks to Nord... Perhaps having bled too much, my consciousness was fading rapidly.
【Nord's Perspective】
Ellis was straddling Inarsha, engaging in the barbarism of stabbing her repeatedly like a madwoman.
"Inarsha! That was magnificent acting!"
"Wha!?"
Because I started speaking in my severed head state, Ellis's eyes became dots.
"Kukuku! You should remember this! 【Visual Blockade (Blind)】 can also be used this way."
"Such a stupid thing... that shouldn't be possible!"
"I cast a buff to make everything below the neck invisible. Usually, it can only hide the whole body, but I am a genius, you see! It troubles me if you compare me to mediocre people like yourself."
I unleashed a fist at Ellis, who still hadn't comprehended the situation.
Gucha! (Squish)
"Nguuuu——"
My fist sank into the bridge of Ellis's nose, and she covered her face with both hands, writhing in agony.
I kicked the writhing Ellis away, separating her from Inarsha.
It must have hurt quite a bit.
【False Charge (Scapegoat) Bloody Doll】
I handed an eerie doll full of stitches and patches to Inarsha, who was bloody though still breathing. Then, the doll's arms dyed red. It was as if the wounds on Inarsha's arms were transferring to the doll's arms.
That wasn't all. Wounds appeared on the doll one after another. Meanwhile, the wounds transferred to the doll disappeared from Inarsha. I learned the circuit of the curse that had been placed on me from Elsinore and applied it.
Apparently, it's possible to place a curse with even a single hair. Though there seems to be a restriction of once per person.
"Nord, thank you."
"Hmph, I told you no thanks are needed."
Because I properly captured the evidence to corner Ellis, too.
"That is true, considering the relationship between you and me."
Eh?
Inarsha smiling softly is too meaningful!
"You tricked me!!"
While casting healing magic on the bridge of her nose, Ellis snapped with a face like a Hannya demon, but...
"You!"
"You (Bastard)!"
""Don't say it!!""
"You were surely a Saint, a Holy Knight, and the High Priestess, was it?"
"Correct, I am the spokesperson of Founder Elon! No one but me is permitted to speak her words!"
"Haa... Don't talk about Saints or Holy Knights, you trash. You, who possess neither mercy like Elise nor devotion like Inarsha, acting as a leader makes me so appalled I can't speak."
Elise, who administered healing to the poor without minding danger since childhood.
Inarsha, who threw away her life to fight in order to protect the populace trampled by monsters.
Compared to them, interfering in the domestic affairs of the Oiraan Empire, accepting Soulie's false accusations without proper deliberation, trying to use Inarsha as a disposable pawn, attempting to assassinate me who hindered Ellis's hegemony...
It's laughable to hear 'Saint' and 'Holy Knight.'
You're just a mastermind villain!!
"High Priestess, you... seemed to have ordered Inarsha to assassinate me. In that case, I can interpret that you are prepared to be killed by me as well, right?"
"I am the High Priestess. I am a human of higher value than you, a Hero. Is one of you dying equal to me dying? There is no way human lives are equal; save your stupidity for when you're sleeping."
At Ellis's discriminatory phrasing, I realized.
I see.
Is that why the kind Lusitania, who met Luka and Emma in prison and looked after them, questioned Ellis's doctrine?
Lusitania was appealing against the unequal treatment of people within Sanctmaiden. Even though the Elon religion was originally born from the appeal that humans, demi-humans, beastmen, and demons are all equal under Founder Elon...
"Hey, Inarsha. Sorry to you, but I have decided to subjugate this thing as a monster."
"I would be troubled if you misunderstood! The Elon religion can be revived anytime as long as I exist. But if I disappear, the Elon religion disappears from the world. Therefore, no matter how much trash makes noise, it doesn't hurt or itch!"
"You were hurting so much just a moment ago. Or did repeatedly swapping bodies cause a disorder in your memory?"
"Shut up! I will erase you all immediately!! Open! 【Celestial World Eden】"
Countless magic circles floated up behind Ellis. When she raised her hands high, angels with halos and wings were summoned from the magic circles.
"Go! Go and reap those apostates."
【Angel Fall】
Ellis gave the command, and the angels attacked us.
"Inarsha, I leave these guys to you. I have decided to punish that trash High Priestess over there."
"Nord, I am sorry, but won't you yield defeating Ellis to me? It seems I must settle things with her properly."
"Do as you please. As long as I don't get involved in boring things, that's fine."
"I am in your debt. Is it fine if the gratitude is me marrying you?"
"Ah? What the hell are you!?"
While saying strange things again, Inarsha heads towards Ellis.
"Ellis! Here I come!"
"Wait! Inarsha, you!"
—Faaaa—!
When I stopped Inarsha and tried to question the meaning of her earlier words, an angel gripping a sword and shield attacked while raising a voice like a hymn, so I struck its sword with my Snake Sword Galianus.
"Tch! Don't get in my way!"
The blade-chain extended from the point where it hit the sword and hit the angel's head directly. The angel dispersed into mist and disappeared from before me. Having defeated the first angel, Inarsha was already gone from in front of me, and it became full of angels appearing one after another.
Did a baby boom arrive in the celestial world?
In that case, I have to call God and complain that the allocation is wrong!
"Erasing angels everywhere, truly the work of a Demon King! 【Prologue to Ruin (End Prologue)】"
When the anti-angel special effect magic 【End Prologue】, developed by a certain chuunibyou demon, was activated, the angels covered their ears and began to writhe in agony. Eventually, there were those who fell rolling their eyes back, those who foamed at the mouth and collapsed, and even those who stuck their fingers into their ear canals until they bled.
【End Prologue】 is an unpleasant noise at a frequency audible only to angels, and at high volume.
For those who can't hear it, it is quiet enough to sleep soundly right here.
Unable to withstand the sound, the angels decreased their numbers by cutting their stomachs with swords or piercing their throats with spears.
Just when I was thinking of helping Inarsha like I did as Norn.
Zubo! (Impaling sound)
"Kuh!?"
A tip looking like a halberd burst through the wall from the side of Inarsha, who was confronting Ellis. Inarsha dodged the tip while sustaining a scratch.
Just when I heard the sound of Gan kicking the wall, Soulie appeared.
"Inarsha! The only one who will defeat you is me."
"Soulie!"
"I will kill you and make you mine alone!"
Soulie, having punched through the wall, entered between Inarsha and Ellis, pointing the halberd tip at Inarsha.
"Soulie, did you receive the keys from the bishops?"
"Yes, Ellis-sama! Some opposed, so I sent them to Elon-sama, but..."
"It is a sad thing, but sacrifices accompany good deeds. They too will surely be happy if we can successfully strike down the apostates."
Soulie handed the keys she took out of her pocket to Ellis while staring at Inarsha without blinking.
Ellis took the keys and tried to flee from us, so I went ahead and blocked her path.
"Oi, I'm offering to escort an older woman like you, so where do you intend to go?"
"Oh my~, you intend to fight me without having even defeated my angels yet? Your conceit is excessive... such a thing..."
"Kukuku... What's wrong? Your face is pale. Unfortunately for your boasted angels, it seems they came all the way from the celestial world but got headaches from the noise of the ground and all went home. Thinking it was a pity that the hunting party came up empty, I gave them a small souvenir from me and had them leave."
【Celestial World Eden】
Ellis pulled out the rod at her waist and waved it immediately, but the area remained silent with no change.
"The Celestial Gate won't open!? That's impossible! Kuh! What did you do!?"
She probably intended to summon angel reinforcements to trample us.
"Hahaha! Too bad your guess was off. Say it, how do you feel right now?"
"An attitude licking (underestimating) adults from a mere brat... Unforgivable!!"
"Hoh, it's news to me that I have to get permission from you to live. Well, I'll make you admit it by force though!"
I shake a bottle in front of Ellis.
"The demons use something interesting. It's called a parasite, and I shared some with the angels too. By now, the celestial world must be in chaos rushing to 'pick flowers' (go to the toilet)."
"How sacrilegious!"
"If you bear ill will against me, I'll hunt even God! But before that is you."
I thrust the tip of the snake sword at Ellis and declared.
"I cannot believe you wield such an ominous sword in the Elon Theocracy."
"Hoh? This Snake Sword is a treasure of the Villance family. If it comes to other swords... there's only the Holy Sword Excalibur."
"What did you say!? Why does a fake Hero have the Holy Sword!?"
"Aah? I don't know either. Because the Holy Sword arbitrarily recognized me as its master."
"Very well. There is no way a Holy Sword that opposes the Elon religion is real. I shall peel off that disguise properly."
Even I never thought I'd be chosen as a legitimate handler by X, the spirit of the Holy Sword! Even though I'm struggling because I was recognized arbitrarily...
Ellis pulls out a slender rapier from her waist and takes a form thrusting out the right side of her body like fencing.
"I wonder if you can keep up with my sword speed? 【Advance Sword Penetrator】"
She deals continuous thrusts towards me. But, it looks like I could pinch the blade with my fingers. That's how slow it felt to me. In the end, I dodged it with just footwork without even parrying with the Holy Sword...
"Are you seriously trying to kill me? I expected you to be strong given the titles of Saint and Holy Knight... I'm disappointed!"
"What smart mouth... Eh?"
The Holy Sword caught the forearm Ellis thrust out, and it fell to the ground along with the wrist gripping the rapier with a zururi.
"Iiit hurts!! How can such a stupid thing happen!? Cutting off the arm of me, a Saint, is impossible! How sinful... you are definitely going to hell."
"What an overly dramatic woman. Did you think opponents on the battlefield would always go easy on you because you're a woman? You merely used authority as a shield to politically bury those who didn't follow your will."
If there was someone stronger than Ellis in a mock battle, she used her authority to send them to prison as an apostate... Eventually, a crappy system was completed where only those who lost to Ellis on purpose and lifted her up could remain in the central Papal Office.
"Pick it up, it's not over yet."
"Nord Villance. I can appoint you as the Pope's Guardian Knight. It should definitely not be a bad offer. The rewards will be generous. Money, women, status... I will give you everything you desire, so become my Guardian Knight."
This is the method of dirty adults... bribery.
"Hoh, let's hear the story."
Honestly, there's nothing I'm critically troubled for. If forced to say, freedom? I want to escape death flags and live a slow life with just my family, but I won't get that by bowing to her military might.
But there was one thing I wanted to verify.
I sheathed the Holy Sword and approached Ellis.
"I don't need the money, women, or status you prepare. But promise me one thing. Remove Inarsha and Lusitania from the apostate list. That... is... Ugh!"
A strong impact ran through my stomach.
Looking down, the tip of a dagger was buried in my stomach, and Ellis was floating a smug smile.
"Ufu, I prepared plenty of mixed poisons starting with Hydra. You won't die immediately; your flesh will melt slowly, and you will die while suffering gradually."
"Ugh, painfuuul... s-saave me... S-Someone heal, give me healing magic..."
"Ahahahaha! This is punishment for defying the Elon religion, and me, the Pope. Die suffering a lot."
Ellis aimed for my opening and stabbed me with her remaining left hand.
I felt it was rather refreshing how utter trash she was.
"Did you think I'd suffer like thaaat, you fool."
"Wha!?"
I pulled out the dagger, took a book out of my chest pocket, and showed it to Ellis.
"It's a precious mixed poison; before testing it on me, you should verify the effects yourself."
Grabbing Ellis's right arm, I rubbed it into her wound like spreading butter on bread.
"Hiiiiiiiii——!"
When I let go, Ellis fled from the Pope's Chamber at full speed. Even though poison circulates faster if you run.
"E-Ellis-sama!?"
"Soulie!"
Soulie, who was engaged in swordplay with Inarsha, noticed Ellis's flight and chased after her.
"Inarsha! We will postpone this match. Wash your neck and wait."
Leaving a parting threat, Soulie also fled.
【Ellis's Perspective】 (Defiled Saint Internment Facility)
"Haa, haa..."
Passing through the secret underground passage of the Papal Office, I barely managed to reach the facility that housed the Defiled Saints and apostates. I heard from the passage that a large rat from Accorcen had slipped in. But Soulie, eager for credit, should take care of it on her own...
The state of the facility is clearly strange. Broken enough to think it was raided by someone.
"What useless people are they? Not even worth saving."
Countless guards were lying on the floor, but I ignored them and hurried to the administration room.
Entering the room, Hermina was tied to a pillar with rope, restrained. The moment she saw me, Hermina apologized.
"Ellis-sama... I am sorry. The gathered Defiled Saints and apostates staged a rebellion... They destroyed the facility and fled..."
"The Revent Room is safe, right?"
"Y-Yes... Probably..."
I headed for the room in the deepest part of the facility.
—Revent Room.
The Homunculus technology passed down through generations of Elon Popes... Applying that, I have served the Elon religion since the time of the Primordial Sword Saint Emeila, yet God gives me this cruel treatment.
But if I change to a new vessel, I can escape the crisis!
"What... is this..."
My vessel inside the preservation fluid covered by a glass case was full of scratches, and the fluid had become full of red marble patterns.
Still, rather than dying from mixed poisons that wouldn't be easily cured even with detoxification magic, I perform the Soul Transfer ritual.
In another container, dozens of Defiled Saints packed with magic elements were lined up.
【Soul Transfer】
When I exercised the secret art of the highest rank of Holy Magic, bubbles rose to the surface from the containers containing the Defiled Saints. Eventually, the Saints' bodies began to melt and assimilated with the preservation fluid, becoming invisible.
...
"Geho, geho." (Coughing)
After a while, I woke up. Inside the preservation fluid filled to the brim. In front of my eyes through the glass, my former body, invaded by mixed poisons and with skin turned purple, had breathed its last.
Crawling out of the preservation fluid, I check my wounds.
That was when I realized.
Could it be!?
The shape and position of the wounds are the same as where I stabbed Inarsha repeatedly!!
"Kukuku... You seem surprised."
"Nord!?"
"It's a saying from my heart's hometown. 'Curse someone and dig two graves.' It means that trying to inflict punishment on Inarsha returned to yourself."
"Do you intend to have won with that?"
By now, Soulie is heading to the Seal Room with the keys the Pope holds.
It was a miscalculation. That the Black Hero Nord was that strong. But I have a trump card. It was the correct answer to order Soulie to gather the keys.
【Marianne's Perspective】
Since Onii-sama didn't return even past the scheduled date, I unwillingly came to the Elon Theocracy with Otou-sama to pick him up... but I didn't hear anything about surrounding the Papal Office outer wall with the Anti-High Priestess Ellis Alliance!
Otou-sama attached Ray to my guard, but he's probably a supervisor in the name of a guard.
Oh my, Otou-sama has ridden over here.
"I am going to negotiate directly with the Papal Office. Marianne, Ray, I leave this place to you. If anything happens to me, move the army immediately."
"Undershtood!"
"Wald-sama, I will accompany you."
"No, it's fine. I don't want to provoke the Papal Office poorly."
Gathering an army of a hundred thousand and surrounding them, yet saying he doesn't want to provoke them!
Isn't this what is called the most rapid intimidation?
Otou-sama treating Onii-sama like a tool... I thought of eliminating him when I saw an opening, but with Ray standing as a monitor, I cannot move carelessly.
"Marianne-sama, look over there."
"Yes."
Onii-sama!? Using the 【Telescopic Scope】 urged by Ray, who has good distance vision, I saw silhouettes that looked like Onii-sama and Elise. And one more... judging from the appearance of the exposed back, it must be an Elon Holy Knight.
"Ray. Approaching poorly will be a hinderanche to Onii-shama. No getting in the way."
"As you command, Marianne-sama."
"I always shay, Mary is fine."
"Thank you, Marianne-sama. I accept only the sentiment."
Ray is Mother Meina's biological child. I want to raise his intimacy and bring him into Onii-sama's camp, but he doesn't bite easily. There is time; let's patiently win him over.
【Nord's Perspective】
Coming here, all the points that were mysteries melted away like ice. And, Ellis, whom I thought would reveal her true colors if let swim, taught me.
The hint to resurrect Dalia...
Either karmic retribution or the trap of the 【False Charge Bloody Doll】; Ellis, currently in the midst of paying the price for hurting Inarsha immensely, spits out a bluff.
"Killing me here is useless. Because the Primordial Sword Saint Emeila is about to revive."
"The Hero who preached Elon's teachings to the lands ruled by the barbarian Axel, and the wielder of the Holy Sword, huh."
"My, you know well."
Despite being in a dying state, Ellis floated a smile of composure.
"Ellis-sama! It's terrible... wait, eh!?"
Soulie appeared there holding a large suitcase. She seems surprised by Ellis's tattered appearance.
"Don't be too surprised. I just transferred my soul to a Homunculus body."
"...Yes."
"More importantly, what is terrible?"
"Accorcen Kingdom Regent Wald Villance has allied with various countries, objected to Ellis-sama's doctrine, and demanded abdication. He is leading an unimaginable army, and it seems it is now difficult to reject the demands."
"Is that so... Then, it seems there is only one option left for me. Soulie, you understand too, right? That if we lose here, we are finished..."
"Yes! Ellis-sama!"
Soulie took out multiple keys from a bag and began inserting them into the suitcase.
"Stop your futile struggling right there."
"I don't know what it is, but I won't let you open it!"
It was when Inarsha and I moved to prevent Soulie's unlocking.
Pika! The dim room was illuminated, and our vision was stolen for an instant. Ellis used 【Flash】. It was a blinding light for just an instant, but Soulie succeeded in unlocking the suitcase and threw the case open.
"No way?"
"Elise? No, it's different!"
Inside the box was a beautiful girl whose limbs were folded, looking like she was forced into the case.
"From a long slumber, the Primordial Sword Saint Emeila-sama awakens!"
Ellis floated a smile of 'gotcha,' but upon witnessing Emeila's figure, whether she expired or her consciousness flew, I couldn't tell, but she became quiet.
"Truly this is what a 'boxed daughter' (sheltered girl) means..."
Soulie declares while folding her arms in the rear.
"Ufufufu, even if you say something clever, it is too late. You are already finished. I will properly watch you die."
"I won't let that happen! I'll end it here!"
Inarsha aimed the tip of the Spiral Blade at Emeila in the case and charged.
"Uah?"
But the tip of the Spiral Blade was grabbed by the bare-handed Emeila, and Inarsha couldn't move a muscle.
—Zugyuuuuuuuun!
A light of tremendous brightness and a roar filled the room. Inarsha let go of the Spiral Blade just in the nick of time and escaped disaster, but if she had kept holding it, her upper body would have evaporated.
Tracing the trajectory of the flash Inarsha dodged, the wall melted from heat and glowed red like magma.
Perhaps fully awakened, the beautiful girl who came out of the case cracked her neck.
Fitting to be called a color variation of Elise... She resembles Elise but has silver hair and red eyes, not blonde hair and blue eyes... Is it safe to assume she is the real Emeila?
"Uruaaaaaaaah—————————!!"
Emeila raised a war cry and rampaged. With momentum to thoroughly destroy the facility.
Who was it that woke up a monster in the shape of such a beautiful girl! For me, who saw Nord killed by Elise, it's traumatic because she looks exactly like Elise!!
The person responsible for waking her, Soulie, had suddenly vanished. Even though she said she'd watch!
【Dark Wave】
But I can't leave this alone. Prepared to throw a stone at a hornet's nest, I fired a 【Dark Wave】 aimed at Emeila. Emeila noticed the clean hit just in time, and the 【Dark Wave】 was swatted away by her hand.
Sure enough, Emeila charged this way like a furious hornet.
"Are you the real Emeila?"
"Guruaah!!"
【Trampling Claw (Bear Knuckle)】
I tried to attempt dialogue with Emeila, but she formed her hand into a rake and punched me without question.
Byun!
"Nord!? Your shoulder is bleeding..."
"Ah, it's a scratch."
Inarsha pointed out that I was wounded. Although I avoided a direct hit, my clothes and skin were torn by the whirlwind generated from the swing of her arm exceeding the speed of sound...
I was cautious. Yet I still took damage. I see, Emeila is strong enough to make Ellis and Soulie look like trash.
And without the Holy Sword. Even though violent heroines aren't popular these days!
Since the Holy Sword was originally Emeila's possession, naturally I thought X would know Emeila, so I asked...
"X, was your master such a berserker from the old days?"
『No way! Look closely at Emeila's head! There's something weird attached.』
Now that it's mentioned, there is indeed something like a headset attached to Emeila's head.
"...Demons... destroy all..."
Emeila muttered quietly.
I don't want to believe it, but does Emeila think we are demons?
I try to attempt destroying the headset but... The 【Dark Wave】 I fired is canceled out by Emeila's 【Light Bullet (Arrow Ray)】.
【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】, 【Light Bullet】
Far from canceling, I get a tenfold return of 【Light Bullets】. But the aim is random.
I glanced at Inarsha and was relieved that she was also safe.
Honestly, as an advocate of gender equality watching Nord torment girls calmly, I don't want to raise my hand, but if we don't fight, both Inarsha and I will seriously die.
"Oi, X. Do you have the resolve to cut your former master?"
『What are you saying! My current master is Nord! Don't underestimate me—Nnh!』
When I asked X, it seemed okay. Since the talk was getting long and troublesome, I quickly silenced her with 【Silence】.
Activating 【Dark Time Dual Wield (Black Orthrus)】, the blade-chain of the Snake Sword Galianus caught the moving Emeila. Holding her, I slammed Emeila's body onto the floor. Because of what I'm doing, I might not be able to blame DV men from now on...
But Emeila showed no sign of pain, completely poker-faced.
Emeila, who escaped the snake sword's restraint by spreading her armpits and opening her elbows, jumped up into the air.
"Scraping away everything in this world, 【Spiral Ice Dust Sword】"
Ice particles gathered around the Spiral Blade and began to rotate along the grooves.
"Deyaaaaaaaah———!!"
Inarsha and Emeila collided in the air, and blue flashes ran around. But the one who lost the contest was Inarsha...
"Inarsha!?"
"T-Thank you... Nord."
Using 【Fly】, I caught Inarsha, who was blown away, in mid-air.
"Don't be reckless."
Perhaps ashamed of her recklessness, Inarsha's face was dyed cherry blossom color.
"Ah... Nord..."
When I landed on the floor and put down the Inarsha I was holding, she raised a strangely lonely voice.
Mishi! (Crack)
I heard a sound like something breaking, and when I looked around, there was a crack in the headset.
I have to apologize to Inarsha. It wasn't a reckless attack by any means.
"Uuuuuuuuh, it hurtssss... my head hurtssss..."
Emeila fell down and began to suffer holding her head.
"Inarsha! The case, please!"
"Yeah!"
Inarsha went to pick up the case with godspeed, and I took Emeila's back. Holding the Holy Sword with both hands, I slashed Emeila's back with all my might. She probably has a constant body strengthening buff from equipping divine tools. The slash didn't inflict a fatal wound, not even a scratch.
But thanks to the full swing, like a liner hit in baseball, Emeila's body fit perfectly into the suitcase held by Inarsha, and Inarsha quickly completed the lock, succeeding in resealing her.
Debris and dust fell from the facility's ceiling onto my face. Probably because we rampaged like crazy.
"So that is the Primordial Sword Saint... quite different from what I imagined."
"I strongly agree with that."
After facing each other and laughing, Inarsha looked around and muttered.
"What was that Ellis?"
She must mean the Ellis who swapped bodies.
"It seems she used the magic elements stored by the Defiled Saints to transfer into the Homunculus that acts as a soul vessel."
Ignoring Ellis, who was leaning against the preservation fluid container perhaps having lost consciousness again, I was in front of another container.
"This is...!?"
Seeing the many cylindrical glass cases, Inarsha widened her eyes in surprise. While staring at the Homunculus inside the container, Inarsha placed her hand on my shoulder.
"Nord! What are you doing!?"
"I must secure only this one."
I poked the glass with the tip of my dagger. The glass cracked, and due to water pressure, it broke all at once, causing the preservation fluid to flow out.
As long as I secure the Dalia-type Homunculus, Mary shouldn't end up having her body used by Wald.
When I was Norn, it was 【Item Box】, but now it has returned to the original 【Treasure Hall】. With 【Treasure Hall】, I can store the body without it rotting even without preservation fluid.
With Inarsha's help, I stored the Dalia-type Homunculus in the 【Treasure Hall】.
"She's not here!?"
"What is... Wha!?"
Whether Ellis fled while we were recovering the Homunculus, her figure was gone. But we don't have time to search. Even while storing, the facility's ceiling was finally about to collapse.
"If our business is done, there's no reason to stay long in a place like this. Inarsha, we're escaping."
"Yeah."
Just as we were about to exit to the surface, I saw something unpleasant. An arm and a leg rolling on the floor...
"Did you try to get ahead of everyone and come here?"
Since the man who was the owner was there, I asked.
"So it was known... Even if you're rotten, you're a son of the Villance family."
There is no sign of his attendants at all. It doesn't seem like he was murdered by Soulie either.
Wald's leg was crushed by a fallen pillar, and he must have been tortured considerably by Soulie.
He was breathing very shallowly, a state where it wouldn't be strange if he lost consciousness at any moment.
"You fool. Why did you come to enemy territory alone? I am appalled by this recklessness that isn't like you!"
"I didn't want you all to know. That I was trying to revive Dalia, and that I was using you all... no, all of the Accorcen Kingdom..."
While we were talking ignoring Soulie, Wald let out a groan.
"Ugah!"
Soulie put her foot on Wald's gouged wound and ground her heel left and right, trampling it.
"Oh my~, was he your father? He was weak so I beat him up. Do you want him back?"
"No."
"Acting tough! But I won't give him back. Because you stole my precious Inarsha, it's an exchange for this man."
To be frank, Wald could be called the Toxic Parent of Toxic Parents.
But viewed as a single man, the evaluation changes. If you are the Regent of a powerful country, many women would court you. But he continued to refuse without showing a sweet face to anyone. Of course, social interaction was minimal. All for the sake of reviving his beloved wife Dalia...
"He's a hopeless guy like this, but tentatively he is my parent. There are guys who mock that it's a disgrace to a noble's name if a child doesn't avenge their parent. I don't care about that. I just cannot forgive you from the bottom of my heart."
"Haha! What will you do? Don't tell me you intend to kill me? Are you still a scrap of a gentleman? I just hurt him a little."
"Come! Conception Earl of the Underworld, 【Wet Dream Worm (Pink Worm)】"
"Getting angry over just that level... —Ngu!!?"
Tentacles moved at a speed difficult to even track visually and scooped up Soulie's legs. The moment Soulie fell on her butt, pink tentacles violated her open mouth.
"Ogo, ogo, ugh, ugh, ohooooo. D-Don't grind insiide my throaat."
As if mistaking Soulie's throat for a burrow, the 【Wet Dream Worm】 tries to advance deeper and deeper. Soulie attempts to pull out the tentacle with her hands but...
Pashi!
Immediately, 【Wet Dream Worms】 wrapped around both her hands and feet, not allowing her to resist.
Soulie's body was spread-eagle, and she was being toyed with as they pleased by the tentacles.
"Hii, fu, where are you touching! Stop it! Ahii, hii hii fuu."
Dexterously peeling off the chest plate, the tentacles were focusing their attack on the peaks of her small hills.
Chin raised, eyes rolling back, Soulie's face covered in tears and snot. For gentlemen who like seeing beautiful girls get ryona-ed by tentacle monsters, it must be an unbearable sight.
Small... well, about five centimeters in diameter, 【Wet Dream Worms】 invaded her left and right ear holes and nostrils.
【Wet Dream Worms】 sought every hole and played with Soulie. Furthermore, two 【Wet Dream Worms】 crawled along her inner thighs and invaded inside her skirt...
Seeing that, Soulie raised an angry roar.
"N-No, not only there... I won't forgive that! If it enters, I'll kill you! Absolute——higuuuu!!"
But it was too late. The tassets Soulie had equipped were dyed red.
"K-Ki... Kill mhe... P-Pleashe... I begh you..."
When I left the scene, there was a sound like liquid vigorously shooting out from the 【Wet Dream Worms】.
Spluuurt!
Live as a splendid seedbed to atone for the sins you've committed so far, Soulie.
I was walking while carrying Wald, who had become lighter.
"Kill me too, Nord."
"Don't order me. If you want to die, go by your own hand. Do you intend to make me wear the stigma of a patricide?"
When we slipped out of the facility, which was nearly completely destroyed, Elise came rushing over.
"Wald-sama!"
"The daughter of Magdalia, huh... Don't touch me. I don't need healing."
"No way!? N-Nord-samaaa..."
Elise gets flustered at Wald's refusal of healing. It doesn't seem like he's refusing simply because of the conflict between the Villance and Magdalia families, though...
"Cut it out! How many people do you think you've dragged into this! And just because the plan failed, you say you'll die? Are you a brat who throws a tantrum and quits halfway just because things didn't go your way? Stop screwing around. I won't let you die until Dalia is revived... Prepare yourself."
"..."
Wald averted his eyes from me, and although he didn't show tears, his shoulders were trembling.
"Elise, sorry to trouble you, but please heal this fool."
"Yes, Nord-sama! With pleasure!"
Bruises and fractures were completely healed. However, regenerating the limbs that had been torn off was inevitably impossible.
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