The Weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings – 1

The city’s night sky, robbed of light by the earth, held not even a handful of faint light.

In the very high sky, difficult for the human eye to observe, two figures were clashing.

Flashes of light erupted in the black sky, visually expressing silence and solitude, as if white paint had been brushed across it.

The sound of metal clashing against metal echoed.

A man wearing a white mask and a woman with red twin tails.

“Not bad, Lyrical Star.”

An unpleasant voice leaked from inside the mask.

Despite the compliment, the woman frowned even more and gripped the staff she was holding even tighter.

“Persona! I’ll finish you here.”

The fight must have been quite intense, as the woman was panting heavily.

“If you can!!”

As the man raised his hand, the color of the mask changed. As the dark red mask was superimposed on his face, flames erupted from the man’s hand.

“Take this! Hell’s Black Flames!!”

He relentlessly fired dark red fireballs.

The woman, wearing a star-decorated outfit, bit her lower lip slightly as the fireballs flew erratically like bullets in a bullet hell game.

“Hmph!”

The woman took a deep breath and dashed forward.

Accelerating in the blink of an eye, she leaned forward, breaking through the encirclement created by the flames.

-Sizzle

The sound of the hem of her skirt being scorched by the fire could be heard.

But the woman, Lyrical Star, did not stop there.

Lyrical Star’s speed increased even more.

Her figure, flying with a red tail, was like a comet.

“Die!!”

The man stretched out his hand and spewed a huge stream of fire.

“Ha!”

Raising the staff she was holding upwards, Lyrical Star soared vertically.

The stream of fire narrowly missed her by a hair’s breadth.

The man called Persona looked around, searching for her as she disappeared upwards.

There was nothing to be seen in the black sky.

“Where…!!!”

Just as the man was about to raise his hand again to change the color of his mask, he felt a huge surge of energy.

Persona was startled and looked down.

There, lying parallel to the ground, was Lyrical Star, aiming her staff at him.

A huge magic circle unfolded at the end of the staff.

“Vega”

As Lyrical Star finished speaking, a triangle appeared in the magic circle.

“Deneb”

Each vertex of the triangle began to glow blue.

“Altair”

The lights at the vertices gathered in the center of the triangle.

“Oh no!!”

Persona hurriedly twisted his body, trying to escape the influence of the magic circle, but Lyrical Star’s incantation was faster.

“Oh, the brilliantly shining summer’s great triangle, purify the energy of evil.”

The staff, ready to fire, began to tremble.

“Lyrical Star… you!!!!”

Persona, sensing his impending death, screamed, and Lyrical Star mustered all her strength and shouted.

“It’s magic, so no dodging!!!”

A huge beam of blue light split the sky.

Persona, struck directly by Lyrical Star’s attack, turned into fragments of light and fell to the ground.

“……..”

Lyrical Star watched the end of her enemy, who had tormented her for months, and caught her breath.

“Persona of the Four Heavenly Kings, he was a tough enemy.”

She had faced many enemies since the Queen of Darkness, also known as the Witch, had appeared, but Persona, who called himself one of the Four Heavenly Kings, was on a different level from any enemy she had met so far.

She was still watching Persona’s figure, scattering fragments of light as he fell, and she realized that there was something bothering her.

“But if he’s one of the Four Heavenly Kings…”

As Lyrical Star finished speaking, the atmosphere vibrated.

-Thud

“!!!”

Space twisted, and a dark portal appeared.

A huge man, a tall and thin man, and a voluptuous woman.

There were three beings that emerged from the portal.

“Who are you!!”

“Hahaha, you defeated Persona!!”

When the huge man laughed, Lyrical Star had to cover her ears.

“So this is why the Queen told us to be careful of the Magical Girl.”

The tall man chimed in.

“Hmph, but what a disappointment? Persona is the weakest of our Four Heavenly Kings, you know?”

The scantily clad woman twisted her lips and sneered at her.

“Then, shall we have a go?”

Lyrical Star gritted her teeth and raised her staff.

“Oh, you have a fiery personality. But today is not the day. We just stopped by to say hello.”

The tall man greeted her with an exaggerated gesture.

“Then, Lyrical Star!! I’ll fight you next time.”

The huge man thumped his chest and shouted bravely, and with that, they disappeared.

The sky became quiet again, and the city’s lights still shone brightly.

Lyrical Star looked down at the city she had protected and thought.

‘I protected it again today.’

Her day, which had been going on for five years, was coming to an end like this.

“It should be around here.”

Lyrical Star, who had come down to the place where Persona had fallen, was looking for his fragments.

When her enemies died, they turned into fragments of light and disappeared, and this was the process of confirming it.

It was a kind of kill confirmation.

Lyrical Star’s footsteps stopped as she walked through the middle of the park.

She had found her enemy. But he was not in the shape she wanted.

She thought she would find fragments of light, but what had fallen in the park was Persona in his complete state.

Summoning her staff again, she slowly approached Persona.

“Ugh… that really hurt….”

A frivolous tone that broke the tension flowed from the man lying face down.

His writhing on the grass was similar to that of a student who overslept.

Lyrical Star poked Persona’s butt with her staff.

-Poke

“What… Ouch!! You surprised me.”

Persona was startled and got up, and Lyrical Star reflexively thrust her staff towards his stomach.

-Thud

Her staff, which was moving quickly, was caught by Persona’s hand.

“What, what is it! All of a sudden!”

Persona shouted annoyedly, and Lyrical Star’s brow furrowed.

“What are you.”

“Me?”

Persona’s eyes widened at the woman who had suddenly attacked him and asked for his identity.

“I’m asking you, what is your identity!!”

Lyrical Star snapped, as she didn’t feel the evil energy of her opponent she had fought in the air at all.

“Me… me… I’m Kang In-ho?”

Lyrical Star’s brow furrowed even more at the sudden self-introduction.