Epilogue: I’d destroy the world if I could have it! part 2

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Translator: Soafp

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[It’s time to get up. Things aren’t looking good.]

Claire woke up to the sound of a voice in her head.

“This is …….”

There, in the white fog, she was strapped to what looked like a hideous examination table.

Next to her, Alexia was also bound.

“Alexia, are you okay!? Wake up!”

“ugh …… where is this ……?”

Alexia also woke up. They look around and gasp.

“This is ……!”

“What the hell is this…!”

There were four cylindrical capsules. Inside of them were red liquid and human beings.

“Don’t tell me those are the missing students ……?”

“No doubt about it. They are the students who were on the missing persons list.”

“How could they do this……”

“He’s siphoned off their magic. Let’s get out …… They are are going to revive the demon Diabolos or we’ll suffer the same thing.”

Alexia tried to break free from the restraints, but she was not scared. Claire tried the same thing.

“It’s as if they’ve locked up our magic”

“…… Isaac, that b*stard, how dare he!”

Alexia said as if to throw up.

At that moment, the cylindrical capsule began to move. With a dull thud, the red liquid drained from the two capsules.

“W-what?”

“I don’t know. ……”

At that moment, a voice sounded from behind them.

“You woke up. Just in time. The capsule is just about ready. …… I’d say there’s about ten percent left.”

The boy with silvery-white hair appeared.

The two were at a loss for words at the sight of this beautiful figure, which looked as if it had just stepped out of a fairy tale world.

“You are……?”

” I am Fenrir, the fifth seat of the rounds.”

“You……, you’re Fenrir?!”

The boy who introduced himself as Fenrir was young enough to be the same age as Alexia and the others, maybe even younger.

“Appearance means nothing in the face of eternal life”

Fenrir stood in front of the two capsules that had been drained of their red liquid.

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to put you in these capsules in order to revive Diabolos’ right arm. I was going to suck your magic out with this collar, but it’s convenient that you went out of your way come here. It saved me a lot of trouble.”

Fenrir chuckled.

“The school is in an uproar right now. You think you can get away with this for free?”

Claire said.

“Who’s going to punish us? The Knights? Or you?”

“Well, that’s ……”

“We live in the underworld. From the surface, they will never reach us.”

“There’s the Shadow Garden …….”

Alexia said quietly, and Fenrir stopped moving.

“Shadow Garden punish us …… kuku.”

He laughed.

“What’s so funny?”

“I never thought that a princess of a country would put her trust in a group of unknown people. I just think it’s pathetic. ……”

“……”

Alexia’s face turned red. The sound of teeth clenched together echoed through the room.

“In the first place, is Shadow Gardens really punishing us? What exactly is this Shadow Garden organization? You don’t know anything.”

Saying this, he pulls the bodies of the former students out of the capsule and discards them.

“They are underworlders just like us. They are not the ones who are punishing us. Even if one of us loses, the winner will rule the underworld again. That’s all.”

Fenrir looked back. His eyes had turned red.

“Now, the preparations are ready. It’s time for the resurrection…”

Fenrir turned first to Claire.

“Claire Kagenou. It was reported that you use strange powers.”

Fenrir stood by the examination table and lifted her chin.

“……Let go of me!”

“The blood is certainly thick, but not so thick that it’s abnormal. Well, let’s find out and see what happens.”

He then pressed a syringe filled with red liquid against Claire’s neck.

Claire shook her head and resisted, but Fenrir’s power was strong.

“It’s no use.”

The needle of the syringe pierced her neck.

At that moment—

[How long are you going to make me wait?]

Aurora’s voice echoed in Claire’s head, and dense magic overflowed.

The syringe shattered and the restraints flew off.

“W-What is that magic power?!”

Fenrir moved away.

[I’ll lend you a little help”]

“Aurora, thank you.”

Claire then pulled out her sword and broke Alexia’s restraints.

“Nice work, Claire,”

Alexia also drew her sword and readied it.

“Aurora …… you said, Claire Kagenou”

Fenrir looked straight at Claire.

“I told you so. You know Aurora?”

“Kuku……I see. I’ll have to check to see if it’s real. Blood fangs,……, answer my call.”

Fenrir pulled a sword out of the void.

The sword was longer than his height and had a stagnant, blood-red blade.

“Blood Fang …… is the magic sword of the swordsman who was once called the strongest. It can’t be true,…….”

Alexia muttered. From that magic sword, she felt a weight of pressure that sent shivers down her spine.

[Be careful, Claire.]

“I know. Aurora won’t fight?”

[You don’t have much magic left. If I use your body, you’ll lose a lot. Besides, maybe you should learn how to use your powers.]

“……right”

Claire kneaded the magic inside her body.

Then, Claire closed the gap at once.

Fenrir, however, takes Claire’s sword lightly.

“This much…… what?”

A red tentacle was wrapped around Blood Fang. The tentacle, extending from Claire’s right arm, moves under her direction to entangle Blood Fang.

“With this power…!”

“Don’t look down on me”

Fenrir swung his blood fangs. With just that one movement, the red tentacles popped.

Claire was ready for her next move.

She stepped inside the gap, dodged the blood fangs, and then reaped Fenrir’s torso.

A dull clang sounded.

Fenrir had caught Claire’s sword with the hilt of his blood fang.

“T-the hilt?!”

“It’s just that you won the Bushin Festival… but in the end it’s a child’s sword.”

Fenrir reversed his blood fangs, flicked Claire’s sword, and then used the hilt to hit her in the jaw.

“Ugh!”

The impact was light. Claire had leapt backward as quickly as she could to soften the blow.

But her mouth was cut and her lips turned red. Fenrir’s pursuit attack was coming at Claire, who had been knocked out of her stance.

At that moment, Fenrir’s movement stopped.

Somehow a sword had been thrust into his left shoulder.

“Clever. If you had moved, you would have been stabbed in the heart.”

It was Alexia.

“I knew you were looking for an opening. But when did you ……”

Fenrir stepped back, drawing his blood fangs. Blood spurted from his left shoulder, but he didn’t care at all.

“Haa.”

Exhaling sharply, Fenrir swung his blood fangs. The blow was sharp and contained an enormous amount of power.

Alexia prepared to defend with her sword. Her movement was not fast. The magic power in the sword was also small.

There was no way she could defend against it.

The blood fangs shattered Alexia’s sword. Just before that, Alexia took a half step back. Then she changed the angle of the sword and let the impact flow.

“Heh.”

Alexia then turned to counterattack.

With the shortest movement and the least amount of magic power, she struck Fenrir’s vital point.

Fenrir was in a dead body.

With his blood fangs drawn out, he seemed to have no choice but to wait to be pierced by Alexia’s thrust.

But Fenrir kicked the floor with his fist.

The floor cracked with a tremendous vibration, and he regained his stance in a move that would have been impossible for an ordinary man.

Alexia’s sword pierced through the air and made a scratch on Fenrir’s cheek.

Fenrir remained in the same position, but was far out of range.

“A sword of ordinary people,……, compared to Princess Iris and despised,…….”

“I guess ordinary people aren’t so bad after all.”

“I’m looking forward to seeing you in a hundred years. The sword is an accumulation. But that is why the difference is so great …….”

Fenrir closed his eyes after saying that.

“I’m going to get a little more serious. ……”

The air changed.

An unfathomable magic power gushed out from Fenrir’s inner being.

At the same time, his hair turned white. His face was covered with deep wrinkles and his limbs withered into thinness.

Then he slowly opened his eyes.

The innocent boy had transformed into a withered old man.

“So that’s what he really looks like. ……”

He was so frail that he looked as if he would collapse if pushed.

But Alexia and Claire never underestimated him. The weight of the pressure was rising tremendously in spite of his appearance.

Cold sweat ran down their cheeks.

[I remember …… the evil demon of Midgar.]

“The Demon of Midgar?”

Aurora’s murmur was picked up by Claire.

[He was a greedy killer who kept on slaying people in order to increase his power. He must have been old. ……]

“I didn’t realize there was someone who knew that name. Aurora?”

Fenrir said in a wrinkled voice.

“The Witch of Calamity,……So she is real. Are you going to make that girl your successor?”

“What does that mean, Aurora?”

[Concentrate. It’s his trick to catch you off guard.]

“But—“

“Claire!!”

“Eh?”

Fenrir’s blood fangs extended.

The long, lashing blade, like a whip, was close to Claire’s neck.

Stunned, Claire looked at the approaching death.

But the next moment, Claire’s eyes turned purple. More than a hundred tentacles shoot out, and when the blood fangs are repelled, the tentacles approach Fenrir as it is.

“Kuku…… this is it, this is the power.”

The red tentacles that pour down incessantly, Fenrir ducks with his willowy body movement.

The tentacles repeatedly graze his body, turning his clothes into rags.

But not a single wound could be inflicted on his body. Then, abruptly, all the blood tentacles popped and disappeared.

“….. magic power……”

The purple-eyed Claire, breathing out roughly and falling to her knees. The magic power was only 36 left.

“You have declined, Aurora. Or have I grown stronger?”

“…… it’s just that this body of mine is meager.”

And then a blood fang blasts Claire away.

“Ugh……!”

Barely avoiding a fatal blow, she rolled over, unable to even catch herself.

Claire’s eyes turned from purple to red.

“How dare you!”

Alexia attacked.

Her move was the quickest, most minimal. But Fenrir was far superior to her.

What Alexia saw was a red afterimage.

And then her sword shattered into pieces.

“A-aah ……”

“Swords are stacked,…… and the summit beyond a thousand years is too far.”

So saying, Fenrir took up a large upper stance.

“My sword ……”

The sword of hers that shattered into pieces. The humiliation of the past comes back to life.

She has continued to train so that she will never be frustrated again. However, no matter how much she accumulates, the top of his sword is still too far away.

Tears formed in the corners of Alexia’s eyes.

“—-It’s over.”

The blood fang swung down from the top.

At that moment, the sound of sharply cutting wind was heard. Fenrir stopped his attack and quickly moved out of the way.

With a snap, a fountain pen was thrust into the ground.

“Who are you?”

“You are …….”

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