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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: selkie
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Elisia had been seized with a deep sense of happiness while fighting against the Hero.
But…
It was then that she was staggering, swayed by emotions like this.
“!! Heut!”
Bam!
The next moment, the Hero suddenly pushes her away with a strong force.
Elisia felt as if she was coming to her senses at the sight of him counterattacking for the first time, when he had
been focusing on defense until now.
‘Th-this, I let go too much for a moment… Even if I’m happy with the Hero’s consideration, I still have to do my
best here…’
As the Hero was focusing only on defense in order to have her pour out her full strength, Elisia’s relaxed behavior
could be taken as insulting his favor.
And the next moment…
“Pull yourself together, Elisia!”
The Hero raises his voice and speaks, as if accurately pointing out Elisia’s thoughts.
Then he continued to speak to her with the feeling of a teacher pointing out a student’s mistake.
“Your power, the power of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s army, is not just this much! Please come at
me with all your might!”
“H-Hero…”
The Hero’s firm voice calling her name.
In response, Elisia sincerely reflected on her actions that had been slightly distracted for a moment.
At the same time, she felt as if her body was burning at the Hero’s words asking her to come at him with all her
might once again, and she firmly put strength into the hand holding the sword.
‘Yes… the Hero is cheering me on like that, so I can’t show a sloppy side here. I have to do my best and live up to
the Hero’s expectations!’
Thinking that, Elisia hardened her heart to stop enjoying the situation any further.
And…
The result of her resolve began to draw out the attack of her full power as it was.
Ripple…
The black shadow under her feet.
For a moment, ripples like those of a lake with a stone falling into it began to occur in it.
And…
Woooosh…
With an eerie sound, Elisia’s shadow began to cover the arena floor in black, like water flowing out of a bowl.
Then, it showed the appearance of something huge that was alive and began to surge with a terrifying majesty like a
tsunami that would pour out at any moment, centering on the place where the Hero was.
This is Elisia’s strongest and worst attack technique, and the power that can be said to be her full strength.
She had used it once before against her mother, Elias, in a previous fight. But unlike then, where she had held
back somewhat, this time she was pouring every ounce of her power into it without hesitation.
“You said you would accept all of me, right? Accept it quickly, Hero! Because this is… my heart towards you!”
Elisia declares proudly as if confessing her love.
And…
Looking at her like this, the Hero straightened his posture with a small laugh and prepared to swing his sword.
“Yeah! Bring it on! I’ll take all of it. I will accept it with all my might!”
“!! Hah!…”
The Hero’s actions of throwing back an unreserved answer to her declaration.
In response, Elisia couldn’t help but feel her heart flutter automatically, even though she knew that it wasn’t a
confession or anything like that.
However, apart from those feelings, Elisia did not let her attention be distracted any further because of her
affection for the Hero, and continued the attack as it was.
“Here I go!!!!”
With Elisia’s cry, her attack begins to fall towards where the Hero is.
Dozens and hundreds of black blades made of shadows began to pour down on only one person, the Hero.
If interpreted normally, this attack was nothing more or less than to kill someone in front of you for sure.
But,
The person receiving this attack was not such an ordinary being, but the Hero.
One of the strongest beings Elisia acknowledges and a being she sincerely trusts.
Elisia was convinced that the Hero would surely be able to receive such an attack.
And…
“Haaaat!!!”
As if responding to Elisia’s expectations, the Hero swings his sword towards the waves of shadows rushing towards him with a shout.
At the same time,
The tremendous magic power condensed in the Hero’s greatsword was spewed out towards the shadows along with a streak of light.
Booooom!!!
The Hero’s strike, along with the explosion that occurred momentarily, began to shake the entire arena.
In response, the faces of the spectators watching the situation, the high-ranking demons in this place, and the Demon King, who was sitting in the VIP room after switching places with the representative after her defeat was confirmed, were automatically filled with surprise.
And a moment later.
“….”
“Ah…”
In the ensuing situation, a new scene began to appear in their eyes.
It was the sight of the arena floor, about half of which had been blown away by the Hero’s strike, and Elisia sitting down in the center of it.
And… the figure of the Hero standing proudly in front of her, holding his sword straight.
“Th-the final winner is the Black Hero!”
“Uwaaaaaaa!!!”
The referee’s declaration of victory resounded at the same time as they grasped the situation before their eyes.
At the same time, cheers from the audience celebrating the winner’s decision echoed inside the arena.
And,
At the center of such cheers was the Hero, the one who had shown powerful strength until the very end and the one who, for the first time in the history of the Demon Realm, had won the position of Narsil as a human.
“Thank you for your hard work. And… I’m sorry, Elisia. You worked so hard, but it ended up like this.”
“N-no, it’s okay! There’s no need to be sorry at all. You won by competing fairly and squarely. Rather…”
“Rather…?”
“Ah, no… it’s nothing. Th… that is. Congratulations on becoming Narsil, Hero.”
Elisia, her face blushed under her helmet, spoke in a trembling voice to the Hero’s words.
Looking at her, who seemed to be forcibly suppressing her resentful feelings and trying her best to be considerate of the Hero, the Hero felt a discomfort in his heart once again.
‘She seems very disappointed… She says she’s okay, but I’ll need to comfort her in some way later.’
With that thought, the Hero grabbed Elisia’s hand and helped her up, receiving the cheers of many people.
At his action, Elisia trembled slightly, but grabbed his hand and got up from her seat, and then the Hero escorted her back to the waiting room, supporting her as she had been injured by the final blow in consideration for her.
All the while, he did not notice Elisia’s face, which was smiling happily and blushing as red as an apple under her helmet, as she moved to the waiting room with his support.
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The Narsil Selection, which ended successfully with the Hero’s victory.
However,
The pure impact on the competition itself was only that the Hero’s reputation spread throughout the Demon Realm, but the aftermath of the incident that occurred during the competition was not so simple.
“So… the internal situation of the Allied Races is that they are openly pointing swords at each other?”
“That’s what the Hero MK.2 says.”
Belzebuth asked, and Samuel answered in a stiff tone with his usual ●△● face.
Regarding this, Belzebuth felt that the situation was flowing more interestingly than she had thought, and she automatically began to put a smile on her lips.
She was well aware that a major division was occurring within the Allied Races after virtually losing the last war.
However, even so, the fact that they, who had been firmly allied with each other until just a few months ago, had deteriorated to the point of waging a full-scale war overnight was something that could not be taken lightly in many ways.
‘If I do well… maybe I can take advantage of this opportunity to get something bigger.’
Although she succeeded in recovering the entire territory, the current national power of the Demon King’s army was in a situation where it had to be devoted entirely to internal affairs.
It would take at least several years for the destroyed castles and territories to be restored and for the people who had fled to settle down again, so it was absolutely impossible to do things like wars externally until then.
But…
Apart from the internal affairs of such a Demon King’s army,
Belzebuth judged that there was a way to gain profits while minimizing the consumption of national power in this situation where they were biting and tearing each other apart.
“Thank you for your hard work, Samuel. Then… I will ask you to continue to report when more detailed information comes out.”
“I understand.”
With those words, Samuel left Belzebuth’s office as it was.
Immediately after that, Belzebuth, who was left alone in the room, began to rummage through information about what was happening among the Allied Races in the mainland this time.
‘But still, there’s too little information as it is. I guess I need to send some more useful spies to the enemies’ territories in order to proceed with more detailed work.’
Thinking that, Belzebuth began to plan and organize the work that was needed first.
Meanwhile,
On the paper placed next to her, who was moving her pen like that, was information about one piece of news sent by a spy active on the continent.
Content that Belzebuth herself did not show much interest in because there was no reason to pay much attention to it.
It was… the news that Shude, a former member of the Hero’s party and a great witch of the Magic Kingdom, had suddenly disappeared.
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