Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut

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Chapter Epilogue
Epilogue – Divine Princess Descend

–Part 1

The kidnapping plan of Dragon Marauder was prevented, and the Pilgrimage Festival also ended safely. Two days already pa.s.sed since then.

The repair of the destroyed cathedral, the treatment of the injured, the reorganization of Sanctuary Knight Order, and so on. There were still a mountain of problems, but the theocracy’s main force survived, so dealing with aftermath could be left to them.

A part of Dragon Marauder that still had some life in them retreated, the rest was captured and became prisoner.

For the time being the division commander Drakkhen seemed to be planned to be questioned by new kingdom later.

Because Lux and others were also very exhausted from the battle this time, he had inn prepared by Einfolk house for him along with Lisha and others.

Even so Celis acted with fake stoicism, she behaved firmly even while resting, Yoruka didn’t look like she was tired at all, Philuffy was sleeping by leaning on Lux, Lisha who saw that became red faced and jealous, those two days were really lively.

What was unexpected was during the rest, not just Alterize, even the family of Einfolk house sometimes came visiting.

Not to mention the father Stiyl, even the moody eldest brother Zain also came. Furthermore the two little sisters were also showing their face under the guise of nursing them.

They came bringing Ymir’s rare praying tool and book, or the country’s deluxe baked sweets and fruits, they opened their heart to Philuffy who loved sweets, and asked the famous Celis about her valor.

In contrast, Krulcifer came to look at their condition in the beginning, but after that she didn’t really show her face. When Lux asked, it seemed she was going to visit Mel.

Mel’s life also wasn’t in danger, but she was weakened due to the side effect of the secret medicine called Elixir, she wouldn’t be able to use Drag-Ride for a while.

According to the record left behind at the desk of the dead Bishop Orphel and Drakkhen’s testimony, it came to light that Orphel was pretending to collude with Drakkhen while forming a plan in order to capture her instead.

After that Ney Louches returned to the surface. Krulcifer ordered her to remain as a believer of the theocracy.

They already received information regarding Ruin from the archive. Krulcifer judged that it would be better for the Automata to not be imprudently stimulated until they understood various things.

And then, in a sunny morning without snow falling.

──Finally the time to return home arrived.

–

「It was a short time, but I’ve been really indebted to you.」

The morning of the day of departure.

In the living room of the mansion, Lux along with Krulcifer was in front of the head of Einfolk house, Stiyl.

Lisha and others had departed first using horse carriage, so they weren’t here.

Lux and Krulcifer would also follow them after saying goodbye. When they came out of the holy capital, they planned to fly using Drag-Ride toward the new kingdom.

「It’s me who am much indebted to you Lux-dono. She will put you to trouble, but please take care of my daughter.」

「Yes. Please take care of me too from here on.」

Compared to the day when they first met, today his vaguely obstinate impression had vanished.

He was a man of few words which was suitable with his quiet and strict impression, but his tone was somewhat gentle and kind.

「My? It sounds like greeting for marriage proposal isn’t it.」

Krulcifer chuckled with a teasing smile. Lux became fl.u.s.tered with red face hearing that.

「Tha, that’s not it-!? I’m just, speaking to be a

llowed to get along well with Krulcifer-san in the Academy──, ……wait, speaking of that.」

In the end, what happened with the case of misunderstanding about her betrothal with Lux?

Or rather, was it alright to speak about that right now in this place?

While Lux was troubled like that, the eldest son Zain who was nearby shook in laughter.

「Hahaha. That’s an unneeded worry you know, Lux-dono. Our family has already know about the good-for-nothing plan that this foolish little sister perpetrated after all.」

「Eh──?」

When Lux was bewildered like that, the butler Alterize who was standing at the back let out a deep sigh.

「The other day, I heard it by chance when Lux-sama was talking with Ojou-sama. The truth is that Ojou-sama isn’t betrothed formally with Lux-sama or anything. That it was Ojou-sama’s lie──」

「My? It’s upsetting to have everything become turned into my fault. It was merely you who jumped to the wrong conclusion without even giving me any time to give you the accurate detail, isn’t that also the cause of the misunderstanding?」

Seeing Krulcifer smiling without the littlest hint of any guilty feeling, Alterize’s face turned even more displeased.

「Someone like you is really……. Have you forgotten that last night you were also scolded by Lord Stiyl?」

「I’m reflecting of it. It seems that Onii-sama is also really joyful seeing my rare blunder anyway.」

「Fuh, don’t say something that sounds bad in people’s ear. It was just funny, knowing that even you have personality that will play with various little tricks for the sake of a man.」

The father Stiyl also smiled wryly while watching that conversation.

(……I see, Krulcifer-san, she was able to talk properly with her family.)

Just from seeing that trifling dialogue, even Lux could vaguely understand that Krulcifer and her family was able to understand each other a bit more than before.

He was also relieved that the case of engagement was solved, but seeing this was what made him the most happy.

「Sayonara Lux-sama. When we next meet, please also bring souvenir from the new kingdom with you by all means.」

「I wanted to talk a little bit more. Later again…..」

「I won’t forget for sure. Then, good bye.」

Lux also said goodbye to the two little sisters, then he exited the gate of Einfolk house together with Krulcifer.

The sky was sunny, but there was snow remaining. The surrounding was still chilly.

Townscape of tall buildings made from stone, and solemn atmosphere flowing peacefully.

Even though he was only here for a few days, Lux felt somewhat reluctant to leave.

「Now, let’s go.」

After Krulcifer told him that and started walking, footsteps suddenly came approaching from behind.

The moment Lux reacted to that and turned around,

「Yahhoo! Oniii-chaaan!」

A silhouette drew near with rapid footsteps and the small body leaped toward Lux’s chest.

「Uwah!?」

A girl that looked vaguely familiar with wool m.u.f.fler around her neck brought her face near.

A girl with trait of beautiful platinum hair──one of the Seven Dragon Paladins, Mel Gizalut.

「Mel……!? Why are you here!? Is your body alright!?」

He heard that she was unable to even walk properly due to the side effect of Elixir, but currently Mel looked energetic.

「Thank you for worrying about me. As I thought, Onii-chan is really kind.」

Mel who showed a wide bright smile was in her usual innocent pretense mode.

「Don’t make merry too much. Your body is still seriously ill you know?」

「Come to think of it I guess that’s true.」

She smoothly deflected the admonition and she looked up to Lux.

「Then Onii-chan. It’s fine even if you carry me in your arm if you are worried about me you know?」

「Ahaha……」

Lux felt a bit relieved seeing Mel’s innocent att.i.tude.

Her misunderstanding toward Krulcifer should be cleared, but she had just lost Bishop Orphel who was like a parent to her.

Perhaps Mel noticed Lux’s feeling, her expression abruptly changed.

「You are really a strange person. To still worry about me even after I attacked you like that.」

「……That was, not Mel’s fault.」

「I’m relieved that you will say that, but getting indebted to other isn’t something that I like. That’s why──someday I will pay back this debt for sure. Perhaps I’ll even pay it quickly when I go to the new kingdom in the future.」

「……I see. Take care of me from here on, Mel.」

Lux was relieved hearing her voice.

Then Krulcifer chuckled to interrupt.

「Aren’t you going to also pay back your debt to me with something I wonder?」

「I already did that right? From here on you will be able to fight for my sake after all, that’s the highest honor there is.」

「……What is this about?」

Lux was puzzled at the conversation between the two.

「I was appointed as an aide of Seven Dragon Paladins──for Mel that is.」

「EEeEEH!?」

Krulcifer smoothly said such thing.

「Wait, is it okay!? Krulcifer-san normally would be at new kingdom, and yet──」

「That’s why once a month I’ll return back to Ymir, conversely Mel will also come to the new kingdom. It will be somewhat troublesome. But with this I’ll also be able to partic.i.p.ate in the duty of Seven Dragon Paladins.」

「…………」

It was a stunt that was possible because the new kingdom was allied with the theocracy, but he also wondered if this was okay for Mel.

「Let’s meet again at the new kingdom. Also, as I thought, you are really a good man──」

「Ah……」

*Chuu*, Mel lightly kissed Lux’s cheek before separating from him.

「……Thank you, Onii-chan.」

Her cheeks reddened looking somewhat shyly and she waved her hand with a bashful expression.

And then, she ran away toward the direction of Einfolk house.

When the soft sensation of luscious lips caused Lux’s face to grow hot, Krulcifer was unusually looking at him with unblinking gaze.

「What are you doing getting lovestruck when the other party is a child? Or perhaps, Lux-kun’s interest is for little girl I wonder?」

「Tha, that’s not it!? I, I was just a bit surprised──」

Seeing Lux’s panicked manner, Krulcifer went 「Hmmm?」 and smiled with a hinting expression,

「Haa……. In any case──it felt like this time nothing goes as planned. Even though I thought that we finally could enjoy a trip with just the two of us……even the engagement matter was found out, and I was ganged up mercilessly in the family meeting.」

「A, ahaha……」

Lux smiled wryly.

(About that, no matter how I think about it, that’s completely Krulcifer-san’s won fault though──)

Lux smiled wryly without being able to say that.

……But, he wondered what she was actually really planned to do.

If Einfolk house wasn’t told that the engagement was a misunderstanding, the matter might really come to pa.s.s as it was, and yet──.

Was she thinking, that she would be fine with that?

When Lux was thinking about that, his chest was growing hot for a bit.

「No way, right……」

Lux muttered that and climbed the horse carriage, then Krulcifer sat beside him and smiled coolly.

「Say, Lux-kun. I made various blunders in my return home this time──but, there is just one result that is really a good thing you know?」

「Eh……?」

Krulcifer slowly brought her shoulder near to Lux and she put her hand on his.

The smooth sensation of her hand and the body temperature that was transmitted through the fur coat caused Lux’s heart to throb hard *dokun* inside his chest.

「I was scolded because I lied about the matter of engagement, but I was praised by the whole family for choosing Lux-kun as fiancée candidate. They told me that I chose a fine man.」

「Is that so, that’s great──……wait, EEEEEH!?」

「That’s why, it’s clear from the matter this time, if Lux-kun will become my companion, we won’t need to ask for anymore affirmation from Einfolk house you know? That’s why next──it depends on only Lux-kun’s feeling.」

「Wai-, wait a second!? I’m someone who still has a lot of debt burdening me, I’m a criminal of the old empire──」

「It’s not like this is a talk about binding the engagement right now. But, seeing that reaction, it seems I have a chance isn’t it?」

Krulcifer smiled in enjoyably and she brought her body to stick even closer to him.

「Thank you. I love you──Lux-kun.」

The girl softly kissed the lips of the panicked Lux.

–Part 2

「Even so I’m amazed with headmaster. To really let Lisha-sama and others go away──」

Cross Field of the new kingdom.

Airi was sitting on the sofa of the Academy’s drawing room while making a reproachful gaze.

A few days after Lisha and co, four Divine Drag-Ride users departed to chase after Lux.

Airi and the Triad who were spending their time worrying endlessly ended up welcoming a certain visitor following the instruction of Relie who had departed to the royal capital for an urgent business.

「Really good grieeef. Even though I also wanted to go tease them. Well, I don’t have the apt.i.tude to be able to fly until Ymir in one day thoughhh……」

Tillfur muttered that with pouting lips.

Then, the senior Sharis tapped on her shoulder.

「Come now, it can’t be helped. They have important duty, and the princess had also strengthened our Drag-Ride for us. Obtaining the skill to be able to use this skillfully is the priority.」

「Yes. Catching up with the ability of Lux-san and others……even if we are unable to go that far, this is for the sake of obtaining the power to be able to become their strength even if just for a little.」

After Noct concluded in the end like that, *kon kon* a knocking sound could be heard.

「Please enter」 After they spoke out, two people entered inside the drawing room.

A young man with bad expression of the eyes and a part of his blonde hair was standing on end, and a gentle looking young man with androgynous face.

The Seven Dragon Paladins of Wanheim Princ.i.p.ality, Greifer, and his aide Coral.

As someone who was a bit acquainted with them, Relie asked them to guide and kept these two company while they were staying here.

Relie called the two to be helper in Cross Field where the combat force had thinned down.

「Good grief, you are a slave driver as usual yeah, not even giving any time to rest after the long trip……」

「Ahaha, sorry for this. Even though it seems you all are having difficulty with various things, but you were asked to guide us in the Academy and keeping us company.」

Greifer who was grumbling peevishly and Coral who was greeting with a wry smile.

But, inside her heart Airi was relieved that they came here.

Because from what she heard from the story of her big brother Lux, these two were upright characters.

The vice captain of Seven Dragon Paladins──Singlen Shelbrit.

He was the perpetrator who pulled Lux into Seven Dragon Paladins, and gave a hint of his plan to create a world that was unified into a country ruled by Drag-Knight. He was a powerful person with terrifying thought.

If that man by chance came here, it would cause no end of nervousness for Airi.

「We are also indebted to the two of you in the princ.i.p.ality, so please don’t mind it. More importantly, can I ask you something?」

「What is it? If it’s not something that touch secret matter, you can ask anything──」

Coral smiled gently. Airi asked him with a serious expression.

「Can I ask what is going to happen in the world right now? Like the reason Headmaster Relie was suddenly called to the capital in a hurry──」

Coral was taken by surprise hearing what she said. He then smiled.

「……How sharp. We haven’t heard about the detail. But, I have a hunch that soon after this, something big will happen. We are coming here also for the sake of discussing that I believe.」

「What does that mean?」

Sharis asked with a tilted head. Coral took a deep breath and told her.

「Right now, it seems a military council is being held in the royal capital you know? Two Seven Dragon Paladins are being called to the royal capital. One is vice captain Singlen. And then, the other one is……」

When Coral halted his words promptingly, Greifer beside him continued with a mutter.

「Yeah, our captain in Seven Dragon Paladins──the representative of the alliance chose by the world.」

–Part 3

「U, AaaA……」

Wordless dry scream was squeezed out from the citizens of the royal capital Lordgalia.

Terror, despair. When people encountered an outrageous happening, they would lose words before screaming.

The steel giant body that pierced the sky, which had stopped moving for a long time when it tried to attack the castle before.

The fifth Ruin, Gigas was activated once more and started walking.

That terrifying weapon which attempted to destroy the royal capital, the new kingdom in the past was reactivated. The citizens were turning stiff, they were rooted in the place.

–

「──The people of the royal capital is scared. This is our turn. Oi, philistine. If it’s your Leviathan, will you be able to take that on somehow?」

「If you feel like accompanying the farce, then go out there, you old hag dressing like young girl. That’s some guts you’ve got there, giving instruction to this me when you bought your World Rank with money.」

「Hou, is that the jealousy of a man who cannot accept defeat? Since when you became that kind of unsightly man?」

In a room for guests inside the royal castle, two man and woman from among three people were talking.

One was a figure wearing blue coat sitting on a chair with loose and arrogant posture.

The vice captain of Seven Dragon Paladins, the Blue Tyrant, Singlen Shelbrit.

And then the woman arguing with him was wearing red cloak with showy ornaments. She was staring outside from the window.

She was an old friend of Relie, the head of Vanfrick Company that had the world under its thumb from behind the scene, Magialca Zen Vanfrick.

Relie who was also inside the room was called here in order to welcome the two of them.

「……A, an urgent message-! Th, the Gigas is starting to move in the capital! The immediate formation──n, no, the dispatch of interception squad is permitted-!」

A youth who was still young, a platoon captain in the military of the next generation rushed into the room where the three were at.

But, Magialca who possessed the greatest authority among the three didn’t even twitch.

「──I know by looking from the window here. Don’t yell loudly, I hate noisiness.」

The girl──no, she looked young but she was a woman of blooming age, the woman was calmly staring at that sight from the townscape of the royal capital.

Regardless she didn’t show even the slightest twitch. She made a wry smile that showed her pointed canine tooth.

But, perhaps the platoon captain who saw that composed act got his nerve touched. The youth pressed on.

「Thi, this isn’t a trivial matter! Currently you are temporarily entrusted with the full authority of the military! If we don’t deal with it quickly, it will be too──」

「Well, calm down, young man.」

「Who can be calm in this kind of time! Lowly people like a merchant who doesn’t belong to any country, what do you think this danger to our new kingdom──!」

The youth forgot himself from being too angry and his hand moved to grab the woman’s collar, at that moment──, the top and bottom of the man was reversed.

「──Shut up brat.」

*DOoN!* There was the sound of a back hitting the stone paving.

Right after that the man’s gaze saw the ceiling, and he noticed that he was just instantly thrown.

He saw Magialca crouched and pulled out a knife which was thrust at his neck.

「Wha, wha……-!?」

He wondered what just happened. The woman in red cloak looked down on the youth who was knocked down into confusion and grinned fearlessly.

「Look carefully at Gigas’s movement. There is no sign at all that it will attack. Their aim is the same like this knife. A self-introduction that displayed their might. You’re going to get taken advantage of if you show your fear you know?」

Magialca whispered indifferently while standing up and putting away the knife.

While she was a head of a big financial conglomerate, she was also a genius well versed in martial arts.

The captain of Seven Dragon Paladins, and first rank of the World Rank.

The youth tasted a glimpse of that true strength that served as Philuffy’s master when she was young.

「Whether it’s war or business, they have some sort of common point. You lose if the opponent look down on you──well, it’s something like that. Take lesson okay, captain-dono.」

「U, a……」

The youth slowly stood up, but his legs were still unsteady.

But, his body was already ruled by fear.

「Aa, I don’t oppose in dispatching soldier. We’ve got to show some labor so that the citizens won’t question our performance. But don’t send out too many. And then absolutely don’t start attacking from our side. If you get it then go, ──your answer?」

「Ye, yes-!」

Finally the youth squeezed out his voice and left the guest room in panic.

After that, Magialca turned her gaze outside the window once more and smiled.

「Although, it won’t mean anything if we too don’t gather equal combat force. I’m giving out a.s.sembling call. We are going to meet their aggression with the whole combat force of world──the Seven Dragon Paladins.」

–

Gigas slowly traced back its footsteps when it was invading and retreated.

While the Wyvern force of the new kingdom’s military was surrounding it from afar, a girl’s voice reverberated through the whole territory of the capital.

『──This is my first appearance. My name is Listelka Rei Arshalia. The owner of this Ruin, and an imperial family member of the old era when the Ruin existed.』

The people of the capital stood still in a daze.

And then, the girl’s voice was slowly formed so that even the royal castle where the queen and consuls were at could also listen.

『I have no intention to fight with everyone. I only wish to return this Gigas that became a nuisance to this city back to its original position. The process will be carried out with meticulous caution, but please be careful so that no one won’t be hurt.』

The gentle and kind voice of the girl could be heard by the surrounding.

While everyone was paralyzed with surprise, the footstep of Gigas that was like earthquake resounded.

『We the clan of the LordCreator is wis.h.i.+ng for dialogue. We wish to tell the turht about what happened in this world at the past, and ask for cooperation. In order to save this world from the approaching fate of ruin──』

The girl in a dress finished muttering that inside the control room of Gigas──.

The first princess of Holy Arcadia Empire, Listelka cut off the communication that was broadcasted to outside and let out a small sigh.

「How was it Fugil? Did I do it well?」

「It’s splendid. Surely the negotiation after this will also progress well. I will accompany your highness too as guard.」

「That’s good. Then let’s begin Fugil──for the new peacereign of our wish.」

–

At the other side, inside the castle of royal capital.

Magialca’s lips distorted into an arc while staring at the Gigas where those people were at.

「So they finally started huh. The lot who were raising havoc inside my turf. ……You all were acting sneakily in the shadow for a long time. ──I’ll crush you all, you race of fossils.」

And then, she bared open her eyes with sharp eye glint.

The campus festival that would begin in the Academy one week later.

Before that the shadow of a huge storm was approaching.

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