episode_0119

Haaa――… …

The moment when black energy quietly explodes around Charlotte. Those present stopped all their actions as if they had made a promise.

Carter was blocking the griffon in front, and the two knights were pulling the bowstring of the great bow next to him. and… … Even the griffons that were flapping their wings, biding their time to exclude intruders.

‘what… … . This chill… … .’

Carter shivered, feeling as if his body was slowly freezing from behind.

Just a moment ago, my body was so hot that my head throbbed, but now it was so cold that my heart ached.

‘Has the protection of the wind disappeared? no. I still have enough mana. ‘It’s enough to last me another minute.’

More than anything. The wind spirit cannot contain this kind of chill.

Carter’s head quickly spun at the incomprehensible situation that it was so cold that even though it was late spring, which was close to summer, it was so cold that his breath came out.

‘This level of cold is at least an advanced level of freezing magic, and there is no one among us who can use freezing magic. The princess cannot use magic itself.’

then… … . It is said that the only one left is Princess Charlotte, who came with the princess.

Carter, who felt fortunate that it was at least an ally’s magic, looked to the side to ask to adjust the output a little.

Carter was shocked to see the scene reflected in his eyes.

[scared! no! me! I want to go back home!!]

[What is it… … . What on earth is that? … ! How, how can a person like that exist?! A being that cannot exist, how!]

The middle-level spirits and high-level spirits were trembling in contemplation, like people on the verge of death.

A spirit that belongs to the natural world and has no concept of death.

Even if this body dies, it’s okay to recreate it―― They calmly shrugged their shoulders at their own death, saying.

[Contractor. We must run away now. That, that is not a power that a person can have!]

[Ugh!!! no!! I hate it!!]

They were trembling with fear like aspen trees.

Carter, who was unable to say anything at the shocking sight and was shaking under his eyes, looked back, trembling when he heard a faint scream coming from behind him.

“This… … . what… … .”

Spiritists who can see spirits have the ability to see through the essence of their opponents.

That’s why they can see spirits.

If we interpret the words a little differently, it means not only spirits but also other things.

This is consistent with the saying that even ‘things that shouldn’t be seen’ are looked at.

“Wow… … !!”

[Contractor!!]

[carter!]

Inside Princess Charlotte’s body, no. After peeking inside the shell of the monster wearing the scarf, Carter felt so unbearably nauseated that he even forgot to lift the scarf and just vomited.

I came to understand what the spirits were saying, ‘an entity that should not exist.’ Why didn’t I notice it until now? Why did I only notice it now?

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Inside its shell was a human soul. Not one, but hundreds. No, thousands. no… … . There were many more souls swirling within it.

Tens of millions of human beings, biting, eating, regurgitating, screaming, and laughing at each other, were huddled together under a single human being.

And when Carter realized one more thing, he even dropped his weapon from his hand and collapsed in his seat.

‘That’s only a part of it… … ?’

Could this be the beast of the apocalypse seen in the Bible? How was he able to live sanely with that much soul in his body?

In the first place, is that really a human?

Carter, whose limbs were shaking, shook his head and stepped back.

“Monster… … ! devil… … !!”

It may have heard the words spoken unconsciously, but it looked at Carter quietly.

Its face, with its back to the twilight, was covered in black darkness and could not be seen at all. All I could see was one bright red eye.

It was quietly looking at Carter and slowly walked forward, looking straight ahead as if it had no interest.

“Forget it.”

Every time it took a step forward, sticky black liquid fell, and a soul-crushing sound echoed throughout the valley.

Griffons, animals that live solely on instinct, trembled and retreated every time it approached.

“Things I heard here, things I saw here. Everything.”

The knights who heard and understood those words rolled their eyes and fainted on the spot.

Unlike the other knights who had fainted, Hermel, who was the only one who remained sane, looked ahead in confusion as the knights around him suddenly fell.

To Hermel’s eyes, it was only a little dark due to the shadows falling in the valley, and he could only see Charlotte’s back as always.

“Charles! Oh, suddenly the knights――”

Charlotte stopped for a moment at Hermel’s call, looked back and smiled sweetly.

“Hermel.”

Charlotte said, lifting her index finger and bringing it to her mouth.

“It’s okay.”

The warm light of the sunset made her smile even warmer, and Hermel fell silent at that soft smile.

“I will protect Hermel. don’t worry. I will protect everything you want to protect.”

“Ah… … . huh… … .”

Hermel unconsciously nodded at Charlotte’s strangely reassuring words, and his smile grew even deeper as he spoke.

“Can you cover your ears for a moment? It’s better if you close your eyes.”

“Eyes, ears… … ? But then Charles will have to fight alone… … .”

“Hehehe… … .”

Charlotte laughed lightly at Hermel’s words.

‘How can I smile in a situation like this?’

Hermel blinked as he looked at Charlotte, who seemed to be alone and distant, giving off an air of floating.

Charlotte, who was laughing lightly, said with a wink with a small smile on her lips.

“It’s okay. I’m still pretty strong even when I’m like this.”

With that one word, Hermel’s worries disappeared as if melting snow, and he immediately nodded, covering his ears with both hands and closing his eyes.

“Is this okay?”

“Yes. That’s enough.”

Hermel was relieved once again to hear Charlotte’s voice clearly despite covering his ears, and nodded with a small smile as he was moved by the atmosphere.

And when it saw that Hermel had covered his ears and closed his eyes, it looked back without saying a word.

“Really… … . ̶̪̺̉̓Even when I think about it, ̷̗̘̂̈́, it’s ridiculous ̸̠̱̘̉̊. I said I would protect it̷̗̘̂̈́What, I said I would protect it… … .”

Every time it opened its mouth to speak, the murmurs of thousands of people interspersed her voice like noise.

It sounded like a ship horn, and at other times it sounded like a thin steel plate being twisted. Because there were so many voices, because there were so many oppressed voices, because it was such a painful scream.

Therefore, their words were nothing but distorted noise with no meaning at all. But that made it sound even more bizarre.

“I didn’t know that I would end up using my strength in a place like this… … .”

As soon as it finished speaking, the voices that had been just noise began to follow a certain pattern.

Those who were suppressed within it were cursed at the whole world, spewing out harsh and vicious words and the most blasphemous blasphemy without hesitation.

You can’t run away. can not avoid. Although they could not understand what it was saying or its muttering, the griffons instinctively realized that if they continued like this, they would die.

You have to fight.

[――!!]

Among the griffons, the one that had lost its wings, looked up at the sky, cried loudly, and ran towards it.

The leg power of the lion-legged griffon was truly explosive, and the ground cried out every time the massive griffon stepped on the ground.

It was no longer a living thing, but something closer to a tank.

“But what can I do? It’s my fault for losing my heart first.”

A clear voice was heard for the first time.

The atmosphere was so far removed from the surroundings, which were distorted by a haze that seemed to resemble a human face and a shadow of a hand reaching out to grab something, and the strange feeling of heterogeneity made me stiffen without realizing it.

That decided the griffon’s fate.

” ̵̣̠̜̆ ̷̨̘̗̕ ̴̩̟̔̆̅̑ ̵̗̻͚̉ ̶̞̥̗̎̀―”

It spat out words that no one could understand, and the bodies of the griffons that heard the sound became as hard as stone.

Then he slowly began to tilt his neck to one side.

Slowly, leisurely.

Until you can no longer tilt your neck.

The griffons, feeling that their lives were in danger, struggled and flapped their wings, but that was all they did, and they could not stop their necks from moving.

――!!!

The gryphons present here gave out their death all at once.

Crackling

In response, their necks turned to an impossible angle.

“Ah. I’m sorry.”

[Crrr … .]

[person… … liver… … !]

Of course, spirits were no exception.

It smiled kindly, walked up to the dying spirits, placed its hands on their bodies, and spoke.

“Don’t even think about telling your contractor what happened today. Then I’m going to kill you, not your contractor.”

With that smile, the two spirits lost their bodies and returned to their original places.