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Interlude 5
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Lu Yinghua, talking for a short while with his sealed master
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Inside the residence of Sect Founder Luo Hao, also known as Luo Cuilian──.
The garden was very wide because it was also used for martial art training.
Here there was only minimal presence of stalagmite, pond, or cloister that was often seen at Chinese garden. It was to keep the obstacle at minimum.
The residence’s owner had just confronted the devil king extermination hero in this place just now.
The hero party had already departed. They were chasing after the bow and quiver of the hero Rama that were stolen by Alexander Gascoigne.
At a corner of the ground within the mansion, there was the pentagram mark that looked like 『☆』 engraved on the ground.
The bewitching calamity, Sect Founder Luo Hao was sealed underneath it.
……However, she too was a godslayer who had been schooled by adversity in many battles.
Of course, she had wrenched many victories using her strength as easily as plucking a flower at the roadside, but she had also experienced as many difficult struggle and fierce fighting.
Lu Cuilian was calm and composed even now while she was sealed in the land.
She sent a 『voice』 from the underground toward her personal disciple and spoke.
『Fuuuuuh. It seems that girl is quite an interesting talent. Though of course, this result is also solely thanks to the assistance of Rokuhara Ren for her……』
「So it’s as I thought, Ren-san’s new authority is the factor that became the deciding factor.」
Lu Yinghua was kneeling in front of the engraving that was sealing his master.
He was finally liberated from the time freeze. He reverently bowed his head toward the ground and spoke.
「He also got me twice. Even though that authority of time freeze was something uncontrollable that even stopped the time of a single city at the beginning.」
『Fufufufu. It seems that he has completely tamed it now.』
Luo Cuilian was chuckling inside the seal.
She wasn’t even angry at her current predicament. Rather she was even enjoying her imprisoned state. She was a really incorrigible existence.
『As I thought, that youngster is also a godslayer. He isn’t an ordinary person regardless of how he look.』
「Well, right now he is getting entangled with the Black Prince-sama, so I think he won’t have any spare time to get involved with our side.」
Lu Yinghua shrugged.
「He is also accompanying the hero like that with the intention of taking her head at her moment of carelessness before long──or perhaps not. To be honest it’s just unclear what his plan is. Though I can only say that it’s just as expected from him that he can put himself in such position where he can do various mischief.」
Lu YInghua tilted his head after saying that.
「But──even more puzzling than Ren-san’s action is the 《fate》. It’s motive this time is hard to comprehend.」
『Hou. Disciple, for you to notice that……you too have grown up.』
「No shifu. It’s obviously strange no matter how you look at it. Even if she is a god’s descendant, there is no way she can serve as a substitute for an actual god. It’s absolutely will be better if fate just drag out a war god or god king from somewhere just like before.」
Yinghua wasn’t happy at all even when his master praised him.
Rather the irrational choice of the “enemy side” felt really unpleasant for him that he couldn’t wrap his head around it.
「Well, certainly, that woman seems excessively overflowing with vitality. She feels like she won’t die even if she is killed……she will keep hanging on doggedly, shamelessly……」
Her appearance was certainly that of a cool-looking beauty, but her inside was really rough.
She could even be described as rough and wild, though not vulgar.
She was completely brimming with vitality and audacity to not die even when killed, to keep surviving even if she had to drag herself through mud.
The point was, she was strong both in body and heart. More than simple battle strength, it was her vitality and pure toughness that really stood out and left an impression. Anyway she was just tough.
「……eeeeh?」
Lu Yinghua suddenly thought. That description, it sounded like……
「That’s like, that woman called Yukino is also one of the Campiones……」
And then he connected the pieces.
This Hyperborea was already filled with the momentum of anti-fate. This world was becoming a field where it was difficult for the orthodox hero, the war gods of the steel to fight in.
Then. Then.
What if they sent a 『joker』 to change that disadvantage into advantage? A human who was also the same kind of god, moreover it was someone who if there was an opportune time she just might──
「If they send a woman who won’t be strange even if she become a Campione as a devil king extermination hero, give her a lot of favoritism, jack up her specs, and make her get into a war of attrition so that she and the Campiones can devour each other……then perhaps the fate side can put up a good fight even in this Hyperborea──」
Of course, everything was just his wild imagination.
However, wasn’t this wild imagination sounded like it made sense?
「Is fate──planning to make that woman into an imitation godslayer……no, a devil king that is even more bullshit than Campione and sending her to a battle royale where she and the devil kings will destroy each other? Just like the Devil King Civil War in the past……」
Lu Yinghua’s thought had reached until that far.