Quantity 9, Chapter 9 “The Finish of Zora Household”

Half 1

Finley, who had been rampaging wildly, was taking a breath heavy on his shoulder, coated in blood.

I had no concept that my sister was so terrifying.

It’s like a Berserker who loves combating and lives for combating.

Zora and Merce are mendacity on the bottom by Finley’s facet, battered and badly injured.

“My sister is frightening”

After I mutter my sincere impression, Luxion involves my facet.

[She has excellent warrior qualities. However, the future will be a little rough.]

“Tough? When it’s already tough?”

[Let’s talk about it later. More importantly――]

As Luxion pointed the crimson lens at Zora, Lutoart, who had regained consciousness, was approaching her.

“M-Mom――”

Is he making an attempt to save lots of Zora? These guys appear to have a parent-child affection.

Luxion shouted as I attempted to look at till the troopers to seize him arrived.

“A faint response from the demonic armor? Grasp, Zora is holding a chunk of the armor!”

“What ?! Everybody, get out of right here now! Oscar, you shield these two.”

I pushed Finley backwards and hurriedly readied my rifle.

Zora was holding one thing in her hand.

Zora thrusts it, sharp as a shard of glass, into Lutoart’s neck as he approaches.

Lutoart was shocked.

“Mom――W-Why?”

After stabbing his son, Lutoart, with a chunk of the demonic armor, Zora checked out me and smiled broadly as if she had gained.

“You let your guard down! Lutoart, you’ve been a ineffective idiot, however ultimately, you’ll be of use to your mom on this approach. I’m going to run away when you’re combating.”

As Zora staggered to her ft, it appeared that she supposed to make use of Lutoart, who was affected by a chunk of demonic armor that had pierced him, to purchase time in order that she might escape.

Merce was additionally standing up.

She held her face in her arms and stared at us via the hole between her fingers.

“I’ll kill you. I’ll positively come again and kill you!”

As Merce tried to run away with Zora, Lutoart reached out and grabbed her ankle.

“Assist me――Ane-ue”

Merce kicks at Lutoart, who asks for assist.

“Let me go, you idiot!”

They had been about to desert Lutoart and escape from the hideout.

His look, Lutoart’s conduct turned unusual.

He began to giggle, and a variety of flesh eyes appeared on his again.

Lutoart’s limbs prolonged as his physique was consumed by the demonic armor.

The tip turned sharp and a big mouth appeared on his stomach.

From the start, he couldn’t preserve his human kind, however turned into a special kind.

“Lutoart, you”

I eject the loaded rounds from my rifle and substitute the journal.

Lutoart had turned his physique to Zora and Merce, who had been making an attempt to flee slightly than us.

Zora and Merce are falling on their butts in entrance of the reworked Lutoart.

“D-Don’t come right here!”

“Go over there! The enemy is over there!”

Listening to their phrases, Lutoart, his neck stretched out, smiled eerily.

“――Appears scrumptious”

Lutoart’s gigantic physique jumped straight on the two of them.

I take the three of them exterior whereas Lutoart’s consideration is on the 2 of them.

“Let’s get out of right here!”

As I hurried up the steps that led to the bottom, I even heard a sound I didn’t need to hear together with a lady’s scream from behind me.

Finley shouts.

“What’s that monster!”

Oscar had picked up Jenna like a princess and was operating.

“I additionally don’t know something about it!”

As for Jenna, she hugged Oskar tightly even at this second.

“Everybody, hurry up!”

We acquired to the bottom and went straight out of the constructing.

Exterior was getting brighter, it was already daybreak.

“Luxion, what about Lutoart?”

Luxion’s crimson lens glows.

[He’s already on the ground]

As quickly as Luxion stated that, the constructing collapsed and the monster that was Lutoart got here out of it.

There was no hint of Lutoart left in any way.

The lump of flesh had a big mouth and 5 tentacles rising out of it.

I used to be horrified on the sight of him me and licking his tongue.

“Oscar, take the 2 of them and again off!”

“Y-Sure!”

Oscar holds Jenna and leaves the scene with Finley.

Lutoart was me.

And with a monster’s mouth.

“All mine. The place, the wealth, and the facility ―― It’s all mine”

Luxion dutifully explains Lutoart’s emotions as he approaches me and says it’s all his.

[I think he was jealous of the Master. He thought he could have your title, your fortune, and even my power. It’s really beyond help.]

“Completely”

Whereas avoiding Lutoart’s tentacle-wielding assault, I shot him with my rifle and the spot the place the bullet landed exploded.

One of many tentacles blows off, and Lutoart begins to run wild.

When the four-meter-long Lutoart went right into a rampage, it engulfed the encircling buildings and destroyed them, making a horrible cloud of particles and dirt.

“There’s part of me that feels sorry for you. I’ll end you off rapidly.”

I held up my rifle and Lutoart jumped on me.

It jumps up excessive with its big physique and tries to crush me and eat me.

I rapidly moved to keep away from it, and Lutoart, who had his massive mouth pointed at me, shouted.

“The whole lot is mine! What’s Leon’s is mine! All of them ―― even these women”

“――Ah?”

I couldn’t forgive Lutoart’s line, so I rapidly readied my rifle and pulled the set off.

Not one shot, however all of the bullets within the journal.

When the bullet landed, the realm exploded, and most of Lutoart’s physique was blown away.

“GYAAAaAAaAAa!!”

Lutoart gave the impression to be screaming as he writhed in ache and destroyed his environment. Then he dripped a considerable amount of black liquid and rapidly stopped transferring.

“It’s over”

Luxion speaks to me in a tone of amazement at my anger.

[Did you become enraged when you were told that Angelica and the others would be taken from you?]

“――Shut up”

[Rather than being enraged, you should stop wooing Milene in front of them.]

“Like I stated, it was simply to reassure her.”

[You usually hit on her, though? Well, it seems like it’s all over.]

I heard Greg’s voice from a distance.

“O~i!”

Greg is driving on the again of Jilk’s air bike, and after I lookup on the sky, I can see Einhorn and the armor Chris is driving in.

Apparently, they labored effectively.

I have a look at the items of demonic armor that stay after Lutoart disappears.

“Even so, the place did they get all these items?”

[The Holy Kingdom of Rachel is suspicious. That being said――]

Luxion referred to as the primary physique up into the sky ―― and irradiated it with a laser to make the particles that was mendacity round disappear.

[――This made me feel refreshed.]

I set free a sigh of amazement at my associate who appeared to really feel like he had completed his activity.

“You by no means change”

Trying up, I noticed that the massive spaceship had blended into the encircling panorama with its optical camouflage.

It was solely barely uncomfortable, but when I hadn’t been instructed, it will have seemed like a standard sky.

I put the rifle on my shoulder.

“The demonic armor wasn’t a risk, apart from Herring. The outdated black knight was nonetheless extra terrifying.”

In response to my impression, Luxion gave his idea.

[The size of the fragments of the demonic armor has a significant effect, but I think it is also greatly influenced by the specs of the user.]

“As a result of Lutoart was weak, was he nonetheless weak when he was a monster with demonic armor?”

[I guess that’s the price you pay for taking on a great power you can’t handle. It is wrong to rely on demonic armor in the first place.]

The worth of nice energy, huh.

Then what did I pay for to get Luxion?

Or will I lose one thing sooner or later?

――Properly, there’s no level in considering an excessive amount of about it, and it’s not likely appropriate for me.

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Half 2

“You tricked me, Roland!”

Viewers room.

I grabbed Roland by the chest and screamed as I squeezed him, who was sitting on his throne together with his legs crossed.

In spite of everything, it was solely pure that Roland, who I had thought wouldn’t be round for much longer, would present up in good well being when the commotion was over and the cleanup was virtually full.

Roland appears to be having a whole lot of enjoyable although I’m grabbing him by the chest.

“I really feel good at the moment, so I’ll forgive you on your disrespectful conduct on the award ceremony.”

A riot within the royal capital has been suppressed, and a advantage award is to be given.

So now we have now the nobles and troopers who participated within the suppression.

They’re additionally bewildered when Roland, who was dying of poison, seems.

The identical goes for the royalty at his facet.

Milene was holding her mouth with each arms, and Julius and Jake had ―― “Ah~, I knew it” form of appears to be like on their faces.

These guys appeared to suppose that Roland was a person who wouldn’t die even when they tried to kill him.

Minister Bernard and others seemed both dismayed or detached.

I query Roland.

“Did you deceive me about dying of poisoning?!”

“Fool. It’s true that I used to be poisoned, and it’s true that I’m sick. However when it was throughout, I used to be surprisingly restored to well being. Within the meantime, I’m heartbroken for all the difficulty you’ve all gone via.”

I felt my intestine churning on the lie that was being spoken.

“You――Did you deceive me?”

“Bear in mind this, child. On this world, it’s the deceived who’re unhealthy. I’ve a certain quantity of appreciation on your devotion. I’ll provide you with credit score for efficiently crushing Raschel’s ambitions and eliminating the troublesome individuals who had been lurking within the capital”

I checked out Roland, who was grinning at me, and I began to interrupt out in a chilly sweat.

“Wait a minute”

“I’m afraid I can’t grant you that want. ―― Marquis Bartofalt shall be raised to the rank of Duke for his providers!”

“Wha?!”

I believed I might by no means rise any larger, however I used to be awarded an extra title.

Roland pushed me away together with his hand and stood up from his throne, waving fortunately.

“Rejoice, child! The Holy Kingdom of Raschel’s anger has reached its restrict after you defeated the Holy Knight. The bounty was raised by the Holy King’s order to the equal of 10 million Dia. This quantity is unprecedented even in neighboring international locations. That’s wonderful, a celeb!”

Ten million Dia. In Japanese yen, that’s a billion yen on me.

It appears that evidently when the Holy Kingdom of Raschel realized that their plan had failed, they instantly raised the bounty on me.

“T-Ten million”

I hate the look of happiness on Roland’s face.

As I staggered again just a few steps, Roland got here as much as me, put his hand on my shoulder and gave me a whisper.

“Thanks for caring for all that bother. How does it really feel to be promoted and positioned alongside the Redgrave Household? I’d love to listen to about it.”

“――It sucks”

After I stared at Roland, he gave me a hateable massive smile.

“It was value all of the arduous work simply to listen to you say that.”

Whereas everybody round me checked out Roland with a sophisticated look on their face, I swore that I might get revenge on this man.

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Half 3

“Roland is my enemy”

After ending the Distinguished Service Award, I returned to the ready room, sitting in a chair, hunched over and folded my arms.

Whereas I used to be excited about the right way to get revenge on him, Livia, who was within the room, appeared troubled and smiled at me.

“It’s solely Leon-san who can name His Majesty an enemy.”

“He’s been resented by lots of people, so everyone seems to be complaining behind the scenes.”

That bastard put me in command of all the difficulty, whereas he rested.

When the folks within the viewers room came upon, they seemed as in the event that they had been chewing on a bitter bug.

Milene-san had a chilly, expressionless look on her face as she checked out Roland.

Are these the form of eyes that have a look at filth?

If there was a flaw within the excellent Milene-san, it will be the truth that her husband was Roland.

Noelle, who’s within the room and sitting with the backrest in her arms, laughs at my hatred of Roland.

“Leon could not prefer it, however you already know what. The truth that you might be allowed to do one thing like that to the king is proof that you’re acknowledged.”

“And the result’s a Duke. The place did I am going improper in life to be on par with Ange’s household?”

I look out the window with distant eyes, and Noelle shrugs her shoulders.

“Are you actually that sad about getting a promotion? Isn’t it like a margin of error while you rise to this degree?”

“There’s a massive distinction between a Marquis and a Duke! ―― Are? Is there, proper?”

Ask Angers for assist together with his arms crossed towards the wall and he’ll clarify that my notion is right.

“It’s not an error. There are three Dukes of the Lords and Nobles within the Kingdom at the moment. My dad and mom’ home, Duke Redgrave, and the previous Principality, the Duke Fannos. And there’s Leon’s Duke Bartofalt. As a lord and nobleman within the service of the dominion, you’ve grow to be one in all solely three dukes.”

Increased than the Duke is the Grand Duke, who is taken into account a nation.

Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a Grand Duke within the Kingdom of Horfalt at the moment.

In different phrases, I’m able that just a few folks within the kingdom have, when it comes to titles alone.

I maintain my head.

“That is horrible. I labored so arduous, however he’s giving me a promotion, what a demon.”

As I used to be lamenting, Ange had an indescribable look on her face.

“All that tough work has gotten you a promotion, proper? Within the first place, Leon has gone too far. What do you need to do by displaying off Luxion’s efficiency?”

Luxion was floating within the room, watching us, and even he was amazed when our eyes had been drawn to him.

[It was Master’s fault for not thinking deeply. Roland was dying, and it was wrong of you to give it your all because it was his last request.]

“Don’t inform me, you already know Roland was okay?”

[No, Roland was poisoned.]

“Eh?”

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Half 4

When Leon was affected by his promotion.

Roland was ingesting in his room.

“Did you see that child’s face, Fred! Kah! In the present day’s sake is the perfect!”

The person Roland was ingesting with was his good friend Fred, who had concocted the poison.

Why are Roland and Fred ingesting collectively within the daytime?

There’s a cause for that.

Fred was crying at Roland.

“I don’t need to should undergo that once more! I questioned my sanity while you wished me to combine the poison and provides it to that lady.”

The poison was ready by Fred, but it surely was in Merce’s arms underneath Roland’s route.

Roland celebrates the success of the plan as he appears to be like on the amber liquid in his glass.

“It was nice poison. It allowed me to idiot the child, and I used to be in mattress avoiding a difficult riot act.”

Roland had sensed the commotion upfront and had used his good friend Fred to make the most of the enemy’s plan.

It was additionally Roland’s plan to drink the poison himself and let Leon remedy every part.

“I didn’t really feel like dwelling!”

Maybe Fred was drunk, and he drank all of it down in a single gulp.

Roland pours a drink into his good friend’s empty glass and says one thing significant.

“Properly, I suppose that’s a begin. Because of you, I’ve accomplished the primary stage of my plan. Because of you, Fred.”

Fred was praised, however he didn’t look pleased within the least.

“One other evil scheme? Your Majesty by no means tires of it.”

Roland smiled when he was instructed that he was as much as one thing unhealthy.

“It’s the scheme of a lifetime. There’s rather a lot occurring as of late. Let’s hope the child can proceed to do effectively.”

He gave the impression to be plotting towards Leon in a roundabout way.

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Half 5

College hall.

The one strolling with Creare was Marie, who was rising taller.

Subsequent to her, Erika is strolling along with her.

Marie and Creare had been speaking concerning the newest disturbance.

“We managed to get via this one, too.”

[Yes. As usual, Master seems unhappy with his promotion.]

“That fool brother ought to no less than be pleased about his promotion. What does he imply, I don’t need to get a promotion? I don’t perceive what he’s complaining about.”

[Master also said that he couldn’t understand Marie-chan, you really are a lot alike. It’s fun to observe.]

“That I resemble my fool brother, it’s actually annoying.”

A displeased Marie was interested by Erika, who gave the impression to be having fun with watching them.

The benevolent smile on her face makes Marie uncomfortable.

(Hm~m, how can I deal with somebody who appears to be like youthful than me however inside is older than me?)

Though they’re the identical reincarnated folks, Erika is way older than her.

Marie was frightened concerning the distance between her and Erika.

The 2 of them are strolling facet by facet, and Creare is having fun with watching them.

[Even so, it’s amazing that Erika-chan is also a reincarnated person. Aren’t there a lot of reincarnated people? I wonder if there’s some kind of law to it. Let me examine your body carefully next time.]

Marie appears to be like sideways in amazement on the curious Creare.

“You name the princess “chan” too?”

[For me, royalty has nothing to do with it.]

The royal household just isn’t vital to Creare.

Erika appears to be like somewhat troubled and smiles.

“When I’ve time”

[Is it okay! Yatta!]

Marie urged a happy Creare to behave herself.

“Didn’t you simply get scolded by aniki the opposite day! In case you do something unusual, he’ll dismantle you this time.”

[I just have to do a thorough examination. Besides, Master may say a lot of things, but he won’t go that far.]

Erika, who had been watching the noisy Marie and Creare, confirmed curiosity on the point out of Leon.

“What sort of particular person is the Duke?”

When Marie was requested with a tilt of her head, the gesture made her really feel nostalgic for some cause.

Remembering her daughter from a earlier life, her coronary heart ached.

“――Properly, he’s variety or slightly soft-hearted? So long as you retain rolling him round within the palm of your hand, he’s a handy brother. However when he runs wild, he turns into uncontrolled. Because of that, I’ve been in a whole lot of bother.”

(That baby used to make this gesture, too)

[Marie-chan was repeatedly to be given a hard time by Master, wasn’t she.]

“You’re so noisy”

Annoyed by Creare’s teasing, Marie tells her about their earlier lives.

“My brother and I each performed that Otome recreation in our earlier lives and got here right here after we died. It’s the identical for you, proper?”

“――Sure, I solely performed the third work.”

“I’ve solely accomplished the second recreation correctly. The primary recreation was actually arduous, so I pushed it to aniki. Then that fool stayed up all night time and fell down the steps and died. It was actually silly.”

Marie talked about Leon as if to mock him, however her expression was darkish.

She regretted her actions that precipitated it.

Erika sees via Marie’s emotions.

“You appreciated your onii-san, didn’t you?”

“Haa? You don’t actually hearken to me. It’s simply an inseparable relationship with a idiot brother from the earlier life.”

If Leon had been right here, the bickering would have began, however since he was not right here, Marie felt somewhat lack of one thing.

“You’ve all the time regretted it, haven’t you? That you simply precipitated your brother’s dying.”

“T-That’s”

“From my perspective, you appear to be a really shut brother and sister.”

“We’re strangers now!”

Embarrassed at being instructed that she and Leon had been shut, Marie denied it in the interim. Nonetheless, when she thought of it, it was not a solution.

Erika appears to be like satisfied when she sees Marie pouting when she realizes this.

“The best way you’re offended, it’s actually the identical as ever.”

“――What?”

Irritated a bit by Erika, who sounded as if she had recognized her for a very long time, Marie gave her a pointy look.

Then Erika stops. Marie strikes on with out noticing.

“I’m glad Kaa-san appears to be like nice.”

For a second Marie didn’t perceive what was occurring, then she stopped and seemed again at Erika.

Erika’s standing determine, she lastly realized the unusual feeling she had been having.

Usually, she would say, “Ha? What?” and made a disgusted face, however tears rolled down her cheeks.

“Y-You’re mendacity, proper?”

Erika shook her head, and her lengthy, recurring hair shook.

“Will get carried away simply, variety Kaa-san. Possibly, that’s what I believed on the very starting. However I wasn’t so certain about that. However, I’m fairly sure from listening to about onii-san ―― oji-san.” (Be aware: Uncle)

It’s not a typical story, equivalent to how she pushed a recreation on her brother and killed him.

Marie held her mouth along with her hand and tried to carry again her urge to cry.

She couldn’t bear in mind the title of her daughter from her earlier life, however she might definitely see her daughter’s face overlapping with Erika’s.

“How do you know――”

How do you know about me? She couldn’t say something when she tried to ask, however Erika guessed and answered.

“I’ve all the time had that feeling. I’ve been listening to concerning the Saint and the Baron ―― now the Duke within the royal palace. I had a sense that it was Kaa-san in some way. And we met, and your gestures had been very related.”

Earlier than they really met, Erika apparently guessed that Marie was her mom from a earlier life.

Marie hugs Erika.

“Inform me earlieeer!! I, I aaaam!!”

Erika gently hugged Marie, who was crying arduous.

“Sorry, Kaa-san”

Erika seemed like a mom caring for her baby, and Creare, who was floating beside her, spun round on the spot.

[Marie-chan’s more like a child]