Demon Sword Kamui
Wings of light that shelter thousands of people. Their immensity far surpasses the [Wings of Compassion] that Kazuki used just before her death. Their brilliance, as well as their defensive and healing powers. People do not know why this is so. They do not even think about it. Most of the people protected under the wings have no idea who Kazuki is.
People who know Kazuki are also surprised that she, who should have died, has appeared in this place. Ren is no exception.
(......I've never met anyone who came back from heaven before)
(Ren……)
Kazuki is dead. She is now a bodyless being. Even Ren knows that.
(Kazuki……)
She was an important existence. He understood that even more now that she disappeared. He was able to see her again. That makes Ren very happy. Especially if it wasn't under such circumstances.
(I'm not the only one)
(Eh?)
(Ren has many allies. There are comrades who want to do something for Ren.)
In the starry night sky, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. A bolt of lightning strikes the divine race in the sky.
(...Master?)
(And many others.)
Thousands, tens of thousands of lights flow from the moon floating in the night sky. A small light compared to the divine race. However, the lights attack the divine race without fear. Each individual power is too small to resist the divine race. Even so, they are trying to fight.
(...Impossible. They don't have the strength to fight.)
Ren couldn't bring himself to be happy about it. Spirits have no power to fight. Even compared to humans, there is no way the spirits, who are in the same mental form, can compete with the divine race, who possess far greater mana.
(Even so, everyone wants to do something for Ren.)
(…………）
The spirits have been Ren's only allies since he was in the other world. That hasn't changed since he came to this world. Their ties to Ren are much stronger. Certain people call Ren the [King of the Dead]. Ren is an awe-inspiring presence to them. But he is still their friend.
(Ren! We will fight! Together with you!)
Ren doesn't know how special this is. How extraordinary it is for the spirits of the dead to defy the divine messenger of God. They may themselves destroy the reason for their existence.
(...Together ...but, I...)
Ren has no way to fight. He is only protected by the wings. There is nothing he can do for his friends who are fighting for their existence. That frustrates Ren. He is desperately thinking about what he can do.
(...I'll help you.)
(...Clau?)
The one who interrupted was Claudia.
(So Ren help me too. Fight with me.)
(Can you fight?)
(I can fight. That's why I've been waiting for Ren all this time. For a thousand years, no. I've been waiting for two thousand years. To be together again. To destroy them!!"
Claudia's grudge erupts at once. She had been waiting for this moment for so long. Even though she was no longer her, she kept waiting for this day. To take revenge on the divine race who stole everything from her. To destroy this world.
(...Then, let's do it. Let's destroy this world.)
If the divine races are the rulers of this world, they are the ones Ren must defeat. Ren decided to destroy this world. He thought that this dirty world had no value to exist. Kazuki's death made Ren feel this way.
The feelings of Ren and Claudia, who share the same feelings. They were originally one thought. After two thousand years, those feelings became one again.
On top of Kazuki's wings, another set of wings overlaps. The six jet-black wings spread across the sky, the opposite of the radiance of the white wings, an abyssal darkness that seemed to suck in everything and everyone.
The sword holds the power of resentment, the power of fear. It is the one and only power to destroy evil. He who holds the sword in his hand must be prepared. The curse of the sword will befall you. But if any man comes forth who can accept it... O people who dwell in the ground! Gather under him and drive out the darkness of the world. For he is the Savior.
Words that have been handed down from thousands of years ago. It is now a reality.
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The power of the Wings of Compassion is the power that even the divine race knows well. It was the power of Auriel, who was once a member of the divine race. Auriel fell from heaven and became a demon. It didn't just become a demon. It became an existence that opposes the divine race. An unforgivable existence for Michael. However, it is also an existence that cannot be overlooked.
"Ridiculous... why does a fallen being have so much power?"
If you fall from heaven and become a demon, you will lose the power you once had. Michael knows that it actually happened. But at least, the power of the Wings of Compassion seems to have the same power as the time when it was still a divine race. It has endured many demon attacks. It's not the power of a demon.
It was an unbelievable situation for Michael. But something even more improbable happens.
"...The dead! You dare to defy me!?"
The spirits of the dead are attacking his allies. This is impossible. It is impossible for the dead to defy the divine race. There is no way that the spirits of the dead, called by God, can attack the messenger of God.
"...Don't mess around ...Don't mess around! I am the ruler of this world! Going against me is the same as going against the world!"
Michael doesn't understand. The dead cannot resist God. That's why they don't go against the divine race who are messengers of God. The fact that the dead can resist means that the divine race is no longer messengers of God.
"Destroy everything! Destroy all the living who dwell in the ground! Destroy all the dead on the moon!"
Michael, who is furious, does not understand that he is making an unreasonable demand. What is he going to rule over if he destroys all the beings living in the ground? In the first place, such a thing is unacceptable.
"...W-what?"
And in his furious state, he could not see it. He did not realize that the entity that was trying to destroy them had awakened. The existence that can be called the natural enemy of the divine race has awakened.
Jet-black wings spread across the sky. Michael knows this. The existence that was once a part of him. The existence that took it away.
"…N-no way… that's… is it Claudia!?"
The answer to this question was given to him by the black wings. From the wings spread out in the sky, feathers flew in all directions. The divine race who received them were dyed jet-black. The bodies of the divine race crumble. They shattered like falling dust and disappeared before falling to the ground.
"...Enter the body! Hurry up!"
Michael gives instructions to his allies. But this is an impossible order. There is no way they can enter the body of humans without any ceremony. Only Michael and the other two, who had originally obtained a vessel, were able to do so.
One after another, the divine races are transformed into black powder. For the divine races, who were summoned by Michael and manifested in the ground, there was no greater calamity. Life, which could be said to be eternal, was to be cut off here.
The divine races who had not yet been attacked realized that Michael had disappeared, and they fled in a panic. Where Claudia's feathers cannot reach. Toward the heavens―― Michael and the other three were now the only divine races left on the ground.
"This is ridiculous...... such nonsense"
Yuya is muttering with a pale face. The will of Michael is making him do so.
"What are we going to do? This is... this is bad, right?"
It is not a situation that can be dismissed as just bad. How many of the divine races have been destroyed? The divine race has a life that can be said to be eternal, but because of this, no new life is born. Not that they are not born at all, but they are born only once every few thousand years, and even then, not once in the last three thousand years or so. Depending on the damage, far from destroying the humans and demons, the divine race might have fallen into danger of extinction.
"Anyway, I have to do something about Claudia… but how can Claudia…"
She was supposed to have died two thousand years ago. The fearful existence for Michael was supposed to have been destroyed. But that Claudia is once again terrorizing the divine race. The only one and only one who can destroy the divine race.
"He's coming. It's Ren."
There's no way it's going to end there after escaping into the body. There's no way It'll end. Ren was already moving. He was moving to kill Yuya and others, which was originally his target.
Ren was not the only one. The time for the final battle is now, and the Luine Kingdom Army is with him.
"...That man ...what is he? What kind of existence is he?"
As soon as Ren entered the war, the impossible happened one after another. A calamity came upon them that had only happened once in the 10,000-year history of the divine race. If Ren was the trigger, Michael wondered what kind of being Ren was.
"Haven't you figured it out yet? It's the Demon King, right?"
"The Demon King... No, the Demon King is..."
A Demon King because he is the King of the Nord. Michael finally realized that it means something different from what the humans call the Demon King.
"That's all I can think of. If not, then what is that sword?"
"...Demon sword, Kamui."
Michael could clearly see the sword Ren was holding. It was a jet-black sword with red vein-like streaks on its blade. There was no doubt that it was the demon sword Kamui that the Demon King Rei had used 2,000 years ago.
"After all, that was the beginning. It was there that those who knew of our existence appeared in the ground."
"...Then destroy the source."
"I think the odds are against us."
There are only four of them. Before Ren entered the war, he thought four people would be enough, but now it's different. For the enemy, there is also Kazuki, and for the divine race, Auriel.
"Even so, we have no choice but to do it. There are still three thousand pieces. Wake them up."
"……I understand."
This place is the main camp of the Izrim Empire Army. There are still about three thousand soldiers here. It is the sleeping soldiers who were left as protection for Yuya and others who are the vessels.
The three thousand soldiers awaken.
"...Holy War!"
Receiving Michael's order, the soldiers rushed with all their might towards the approaching Ren and the Luine Kingdom Army. Yuya and Minami's bodies followed suit.
"Stop the Luine Kingdom Army!"
The purpose of moving three thousand soldiers was to stall all but Ren. The divine races decided that this was the only way to break through the current situation. They would stall the Luine Kingdom Army, isolate Ren, and attack him there. With a two-man team, they would be able to kill him without a doubt. This was the calculation.
"Those who move in the darkness. Answer my call. The heart of my hatred desires the destruction of my enemies. Sink into the darkness of the everlasting world! Perdition (Hell)!"
A chanting voice was heard. With the sound of three thousand soldiers charging over the battlefield, it was only because of the power of the divine race that they were able to hear it.
"...What is that?"
The feet of those who have been driven mad by the [Holy War] stop where they should not. They can tell that people are trying to keep running by the way they are struggling to keep their feet on the ground.
So what is happening? As Yuya and Minami approached the army, they saw thousands of hands growing out of the ground.
"...Is this ...magic?"
Yuya and Minami, the divine race that resides in them, do not know this kind of magic. They do not even know what kind of attribute it is. It is a magic unknown to them.
Soldiers with their legs held by hands growing out of the ground. Their bodies gradually sink into the ground. They are being dragged into the ground by the strange figures that have emerged from the ground.
"...I see ...it was you ...you are responsible for everything!? Lucifer! No, Lu――"
Through that magic, Michael learned the truth. He knew who was the source of all this. But Michael and Yuya could not speak until the end. Before he could finish, his head flew through the air.
In addition, Minami's neck also falls to the ground.
"What were you trying to say? Well, it doesn't matter now. There is one more person."
Mei is the only one left. In order to kill Mei, Ren went further ahead.
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This battle was originally their own. King Albert, thinking that Ren had told him so and that he himself believed it to be true, moved the Luine Kingdom Army and tried to lead the fight himself. However, the result was that they were completely treated as an outsider. Without knowing what was going on, things moved and the war situation changed. From a hopeless situation, the situation unexpectedly took the form of a reversal.
The divine race who had been floating in the sky and attacking unilaterally disappeared one after another. The remaining divine race also becomes light and moves away high into the sky. Soon, only the moon and stars were visible in the sky.
But the battle was not over. Ren thought so and moved. He rushed toward the main camp of the Izrim Empire Army, just as he had planned to do at first.
King Albert and the Luine Kingdom Army rushed after him. The army approaching from the front made it clear that the battle was not over. Many of the divine races had simply retreated, and although they did not know whether it was the Izrim Empire Army or the remnants of the divine race, they were sure that the battle was just about to end.
But even that, Ren ends up doing it alone. Hearing the chanting for the first time, seeing the magic for the first time. It stopped the army that was rushing toward them, and Ren continued onward, leaving everyone else behind.
"Go ahead! Hurry up!"
He scolded his own knights and urged them to move on. That is all King Albert can do. The battle is definitely heading toward victory. He is happy about that, but he still feels a sense of regret.
"……That is?"
Rays of light run through the night sky with tremendous force. Did something happen again? Is that a good thing? King Albert doesn't know.
"......What am I doing?"
The thoughts of his heart come out of his mouth without a second thought. As the king of the great Luine Kingdom, he aspired to be the conqueror of the continent. He had vowed to become an administrator who would bring peace to the people. He thought he was qualified to do so. However, he was powerless against the threat of the divine races.
It could not be helped. No one can play the same role as Ren. Even if King Albert was the kind of man who would become a great king in the future, he would not have the same destiny as Ren.
[The Nord Emperor was defeated!]
King Albert was shocked even more. The impossible words shook his heart.
"...That's ...ridiculous..."
Why does he hear these voices? Isn't there some kind of mistake? He hopes it is a mistake. It would never be allowed for a knight of his own country to kill Ren.
The battle for the Luine Kingdom and King Albert ended in an unexpected way.
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