「I have been invited here already. I shall try roaming this heroic world for a while more.」
War God Verethragna said that as he left casually.
He said the same thing like the lightning god Thor the other day in the form of a young man clad in gray traveler outfit.
Yukino felt that this god might become the spark of anti fate again and wished to stop him. However unlike him, she couldn’t do something like reviving from death.
「It will be really hard for us if we get into battle again……」
As expected Yukino too was dead tired in mind and body after finishing such intense battle.
She switched her mood after seeing off the war god with a heavy heart.
「Then Onee-sama. What kind of danger Rokuhara-kun was in? You flew away in such panic before this.」
「Hm? Aah, various things happened and he got into a quarrel with the Black Prince-sama──」
Yukino was taken aback by the shocking report that Riona spoke of.
「With that nasty handsome guy!? And what happen to Rokuhara-kun now? Is he safe!?」
「Well, somehow. I spent a lot of spells and managed to 『seal』 the Campione prince too. I imitated what Yukino did.」
「Seal!? As expected from Onee-sama!」
As expected Toba and Riona were partners who encountered each other due to fate.
Yukino was convinced of that once more. There was no way there could be other god’s descendant than her and Onee-sama who could possibly manage such feat.
Then someone came as she sent an emotionally moved gaze to Onee-sama.
「Yaa yaa. You did it young missies! Onee-san is so moved here-!」
「Ena-san! You were watching!」
The entrance of the woman who was the owner of Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi made Yukino’s expression burst into a wide smile.
After hugging the shoulders of her two juniors in celebration, Ena smiled amiably and cheerfully said something terrifying.
「Ahaha. Actually I also consulted with my side that it feels like it will be real bad if we keep letting Aisha-san go unchecked like this and we need to seal her soon, something like that. So what you did just now, it was also a really big help for us. So congratulations for that too──something like that♪」
「I-I see.」
「By the way Riona, why did you leave in the middle like that? Eh, you did that to Prince Alec!?」
Ena was also surprised when she heard the news that Yukino had just learned.
Thus, the three women went to check the sealing location.
They left the ancient ruin and walked for a while until a large hole that was gouged in the desert ground.
「Below here there is the giant labyrinth that was created by that Black Prince-sama. This hole was created when escaping from there.」
「Aa……so that person did that kind of thing agaain.」
Riona answered the puzzled Yukino, while Ena was nodding un un in understanding.
They also passed through that hole and found Rokuhara Ren after walking deeper for a bit.
「Ah, you’re here. Over here!」
He was waving his hand energetically.
Yukino was relieved seeing his smile. But, she felt a bit of discomfort that she acted like that. Even though it wasn’t like she held any good will or anything toward this kind of frivolous person.
And then she hurriedly denied that thinking just now.
(──No! Although I don’t like a little, he is still a travelling companion. It’s only natural as a human for me to be worried for him! It’s not strange at all-)
「What’s wrong, you suddenly shook your head like that?」
「It’s nothing at all, Onee-sama-? I just wanted to stretch my neck a bit!」
Riona looked dubious. Yukino forcefully made an excuse to her.
Yukino looked at the direction where the youth was standing.
At the ground near where Rokuhara Ren was standing, a crest of bird was engraved there.
However, that bird had three legs──it was the crest of divine bird Yatagarasu. The firebird of Japan mythology had three legs.
The same like the pentagram that Yukino’s arrow burned, this bird crest was definitely a proof of sealing too.
「So that unpleasant man is sealed here……」
「Yep. And, who is the Onee-san there?」
Ren sharply noticed Ena’s presence and he suddenly greeted her cordially.
「I’m Rokuhara Ren. I’ll be happy if we can get along.」
「Hee, so it’s you! I had heard about your rumor for a quite a while from our Erica-san. I see, you certainly have a nice face.」
「Ah. That means you are that Onee-san’s comrade!」
They suddenly entered an excited conversation even though this was their first time meeting.
Yukino felt odd seeing Ren and Ena getting into such cheerful conversation.
(Rokuhara-kun’s rumor──what kind of rumor? Well, he is an earthian, and it’s true that he is a conspicuous person, still……)
Surely he wasn’t a person who someone like Seishuuin Ena would pay attention to.
Rather, it should be more likely that her Onee-sama was the one who got this kind of attention. As she was getting such hazy feeling in her heart, that Toba Riona suddenly frowned.
「This feeling──everyone, get away from there!」
Riona was pointing toward Yatagarasu’s crest.
Everyone hurriedly followed her instruction. Then it was right at that moment, the bird crest faded and the ground around there exploded *Bon-!* suddenly.
A square hole was opened on the ground and someone came out from there.
It was a peerless beauty wearing a dress. However there were white bird wings growing on her back and her lower body was a snake.
This monster goddess was holding a youth as she calmly flew out.
「That was a really horrible experience……」
That complaining youth was none other than the Black Prince Alexander Gascoigne, the one and only.
He got let down on the ground before the winged monster goddess flew away quickly. She didn’t return back anymore.
「……First thing first, your performance in sealing me there, it was splendid.」
Alec suddenly began to talk.
He straightened the creases on his messy coat and suit while forcing out a calm tone from his mouth.
「But, my subordinate you see, although her shyness is a flaw, she is also a god of sorcery. Even though I was sealed, if I summoned her──the result is as you can see.」
「So you ordered her to break the barrier from inside the seal.」
Riona sighed.
「So it was my bad for taking the time to layer the techniques. I gave you the leeway to deal with it.」
「Although, I admit that you have done well.」
Alec spoke with a composed face that faintly radiate smugness.
「I’ll give you an interview if one day you are looking for a new job. I’ll welcome you with wide open arms.」
「As expected from Alec. Normal means doesn’t work against you!」
Rokuhara Ren spoke of a praise that came out from the bottom of his heart.
Seishuuin Ena beside him was also staring at the Black Prince with an undisguised emotion.
「Prince, you are the same like usual. This is just like the past that Ena is feeling nostalgic somehow!」
「Aa, it’s you from Kusanagi’s camp huh. Long time no see.」
「We both ended up meeting in a strange place like this.」
Ena’s casualness didn’t change even when she was talking with the godspeed Campione.
Riona easily accepted hre failure, while Ren immediately moved toward Alec’s side with his usual easygoing personality to talk to him smilingly──
Yukino who was the only one trembling from a devil king’s resurrection raised her voice.
「Wait wait! Why is the mood gradually turning lighthearted here!?」
「Ahaha, I’m thinking that it might be better if we just reconcile here.」
「This time all of us had been worked to the bone after all……」
Ren and Riona said. Alec also agreed.
「Well, certainly. I’m also thinking that this is the time to draw back.」
「Don’t joke around! I still haven’t forgotten your theft of my teacher’s bow and arrow!」
Yukino summoned her teacher Rama’s steel bow.
Her sword god soul had also been awakened. The suited figure of young noble in front of her was a godslayer. Someone who was constantly the enemy of the gods. He was an irreconcilable enemy.
In addition, the spiritual energy inside her was also increasing explosively.
This was the Great Law of the Covenant. Right now there were two godslayers in front of Mononobe Yukino. Her strength increased in order to oppose them──.
(Eh, two? One is this Alex-whoever, then who is the other one……!?)
Yukino finally noticed the matter that she had shelved away until now.
It was the same when she confronted sect leader Luo Hao. It was also the same when she met Madam Aisha. She felt that there were three godslayers in that location.
However there was only one godslayer before her at those times, so she didn’t think deeply about it.
She brushed it off with the thinking that the godslayer must be hiding nearby.
But thinking back, this was the remote Island One. Furthermore they were in an empty desert. Just where could the godslayer hide──.
Yukino’s mind was thrown into chaos by the question that suddenly came up.
Alec threw a glance at the hero who was in that state and quickly walked away. He exposed his defenseless back and calmly left.
「Follow me if you really want to fight. I’ll also take the proper response in that case.」
「Ah…………」
Yukino couldn’t give chase.
Rather she felt that the question she suddenly felt right now was more important.
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Also──
Nobody realized but, there was also somebody else in this desert who was observing the racket made by the hero and godslayers from afar.
He was clad in jet black outfit and black mantel, riding on a black horse.
He was a handsome man dressed in all black. His nickname was the Black Prince.
His name was Edward Plantagenet.
He had the same name like an ancient British crown prince. That name boasted a grand distinguished achievement.
Edward’s hand was holding a telescope. It was made based on an earthian’s idea. It was an object to magnify the scenery far away and observe it with great detail.
He was observing the departing Alec and the remaining hero party through that telescope.
「Now then, what kind of strategy we should use to challenge them……」
It was none other than the murmur of the actual supreme commander of the Capital of the Round Table that boasted mighty military force.