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Chapter 9 part2




Yuusha Isagi no Maou Hanashi Volume 5 Chapter 9 part2
Franz and Amalia were brought into some kind of dungeon.
Both of them got captured in an instant when they were staying in their room like always.
Though they didn’t personally knew about that person, but they knew that the one who captured them was one member of Caliburnas’ party.
It was the sorcerer name Sest, an adventurer ranked fifth.
After trapping each of them inside a barrier, he sucked all of the air within that barrier.
In the end, the two of them lost their consciousness without being able to even fight back.
When Amalia opened her eyes, Franz wasn’t at her side.
She was trapped inside a small musty jail made out of stone.
Suddenly, she saw a light of a torch swayed from afar.
“FRANZ! Where are you!? Can you hear me!?”
No reply came no matter how hard she strained her voice.
A man appeared in front of Amalia the time her throat start to hurt.
It was a man in his prime of his life with imposing stature wearing a splendid doublet.
That man who had a burly moustache on his face stroked his blonde hair backward as he looked down into Amalia.
“Hey young lady. So you already awake”
“You, you are…”
No way a man that appeared in this kind of situation would be a good guy.
Amalia glare at that man with all of her might.
Her clothes were ripped off to piece leaving her with only her underwear as her protection.
Since her legs were chained, she couldn’t stood up.
She pointed at that man with her left hand while her right hand tried to hide her chest.
“You, where do you took Franz! I am an adventure you know! Don’t think that you will get out lighty out of this!”
“What an energetic lady you are”
The man cracked his neck with his hand stuck up into his pocket.
“Lets introduce myself first. My name is Serbator Barioni. Your father and I have a friendship relationship. You should’ve heard from him at least my name, right?”
“… Barioni? That person from this country’s, seven nobility…?”
One of the households that reign over the territory at the Metropolis, Paraberiu.
He was a noble among noble, a man that she wouldn’t be able to meet in her life even if she was the daughter of the Guild master.
“Ah, then, then you also heard about it, right! My father, I heard that he is sick!”
Serbator interject her with his hand.
“I don’t really like long story, you know. Today, I came here because I have a request to say for you”
At that moment, Amalia’s instinct reacted.
She felt a chill on her back.
It wasn’t her father who summoned her to Dynacity in the first place, but it was actually another person who had plotted something to her.
Since the one who told her the news was one of the Adventurers Guild staff, Amalia ended up letting her guard down.
She thought that there was no way that an adventurer would even had a thought to deceive their own comrade.
In the end, it wasn’t that Amalia really believed in that person, she just blindly stopped to doubt them.
That man squat in front of Amalia.
“Let me said it to the point, I want you to become Caliburnas’ wife”
Amalia’s eyes were opened wide in surprise.
“…Haah? Haah?”
When she was pondering on what he would say to her, she had to travel all the way from the end of the continent just because of such silly reason.
“Are you stupid, what are you trying to do saying something like that!? The answer would be obvious right, I refuse! I can choose my own partner by myself, you hear me!? What a fool!”
“Hahaha”
Serbator just raised a dry laugh from his mouth.
Then he writes a code with his finger.
So, he was a magician.
The spell that he cast clearly contain hostility in it.
In reflex, Amalia covered her face.
“Just like the rumour, you’re strong willed girl”
He cast a water ball magic, and shot it toward Amalia’s abdomen.
It wasn’t strong attack that would break her bone or something like that.
Probably he was holding back.
Her body became soaked as she choughed after receiving a blow over her Fighting Spirit.
“But, you’re not really smart person, eh. Here, I’ll tell you the reason for all of this”
On the other side of the metal bar, he laughed.
“It’s not like I have any interest in you. But, even if Adventure Guild was a new system that created recently, the world still worked by heredity system. In other words, Caliburnas need the descendant of Bardz, you, as his wife. How about it? It’s not that big of a deal, you know? You could receive a lot of fame and wealth by becoming Caliburnas’ wife”
Amalia raised her face.
From the gap of her wet hair, she glared at him.
“… Well, you’re right, except for the fact that having to pleases some little scoundrel like you, it would be the worst deal I get if my life”
Serbator shakes his head.
“What a shame, you should’ve accept while I still could act nice with you”
Amalia flinched a bit when she looked at his eyes.
That gaze so cold that gave her a pressure different from that coming from an Adventurers.
However, Amalia thought that she mustn’t be defeated by a man this level.
She straightened her back and talked back to him.
“… Why do you even need to do this? If Caliburnas really wanted to becoming the next guild master, he could just challenge big brother Hanofa in fair and open contest. In the end, you’re using this kind of cheap trick because you don’t even have the guts to do so, right? What a fool”
Serbator didn’t bit into her word.
“If you do not want to do it, then I’ll kill your little brother first”
“…Eh?”
“Then the next one will be your father. He already reached old age. We would frame him into act of treason, remove him from all of his title and finally execute him. Not really a smart way to end things, if I say so myself, but it couldn’t be helped. I suppose your big brother will also get involved in this”
From Amalia’s hair, a droplet fell to the stone pavement.
However, she just sat there in a daze without minding the cold.
She couldn’t process what was this man just had said to her.
(This person… what did, he just said…?)
She sure that all of that wouldn’t actually happen.
Its all was just his bluff.
He couldn’t just get rid of Amalia that easily.
Looked at the frozen Amalia, Serbartor continue his talk.
“Do you understand? It’s a matter of course that Caliburnas will become the next Guild Master. If you decide to not cooperate with us, I have to trouble myself to get things done, you know. In the end, your personal thought didn’t really mean that much. How about it, young lady? Will you cooperate?”
He talked gently, like he tried to explain things to a little kid.
But, on the contrary of his tone, the content of his words were cruel and inhumane.
Amalia felt a shock like she was hit by something.
Her sight fell on the dirty floor before she mutters.
“But, I am an adventurer… In this age, as long as you have sword in your hand, I can choose, my own fate…”
“Hah?”
Serbator looked down on her with a gaze like looking at a trash.
“What adventurer. Savage who didn’t even receive any proper education dare to call themselves in such exaggerated manner. In the end, you bunch are just cattle to us nobility. Thought Bardz have been quite problem all this time, but we won’t let things go on like that forever”
Hearing those words, Amalia couldn’t hold it anymore.
There were a lot of kind person even among the nobility.
If she agree with his opinion, then it would mean that she also disdain those people.
“Don’t you ever read a history book before!? What Barioni family do when the war happen? they just secluded themselves behind their knight on the inner side of the continent, hah! My father is fighting, helping you guys! Even the adventurer guild have been great help maintain the public moral! In the end, you’re just a poor noble who tried to get his hand on my father fortune, how dare you act all high like that to me!”
Amalia glared at that man with all of her heart.
Serbator clapped his hand.
“You really talk well, eh, young girl. That’s right, I’ve thought of a great idea”
Serbator moved close to her, hiding his evil nature on the top of that expressionless face.
“I’ll bring your little brother here and break his finger one by one. I’ll gouge his eyeball, and cut his ears. And if you still shakes your head, I’ll force him to eat revival stone, and repeat it once again. I’ll repeat it as much as I needed to”
Amalisa gasped.
“…Kh.There’s no way that my father would stay calm if you do that…!”
“Bardz didn’t even know the fact that you came back to Dynacity. There isn’t anyone who can become your ally in this large city. I’ll come back again after you cool your head. I hope you would be ready to answer by then”
Said that Serbator turned his back.
Amalia stretched her hand.
“Stop, stop! I will never forgive you if you ever put your hand on Franz!”
That shout could only echoed inside the jail.
Serbartos walked away leaving Amalia alone with her pale expression.
Amalia now alone without any human presence around her.
She felt frustrated that she could only hug her knees.
“… What is this, what is this, what is this… Why do people always trying to hindrance my father…Even though everyone wanted this world to become a better place, why…!?”
She felt so frustrated and wretched, but even so, she would never shed any tears.
Amalia shakes her head while her eyes cast down.
“… I would never let things happen as those people wanted to…!”
(part 2)
—-
“… Shuu”
“… I also have my job, you know. If you keep pestering for me like that, it would just raise a bad rumour”
“Drop the jest, it has been three days since that day”
“Don’t worry, they wouldn’t kill her that easily. She still held an importance for Caliburnas Faction”
“… You don’t need to worry, Shuu. I would cover my self, they wouldn’t be able to realize who am I”
“Oh, are you trying to put a disguise?”
“Yeah, that’s right. Despite my appearance, I actually pretty good at hiding my true identity”
“… Are you sure?”
“Even though Mister Last Resort had already rest in peace in the bottom of the sea, today will be the day he raise back to the land”
“I can’t really understand what you are trying to say, though… Heeh, you have such kind of hobby, eh”
“No, I suppose it’s better for you to call it as my second persona. He wouldn’t feel a thing, and think everything in this world as comical. But, he finally remembered, that this feeling is what is called as “rage”… Mister Last Resort is trembling with “rage”…”
“Isa-kun, please stop with the joke”
“… That’s right, all of the things that happening until now is a sick joke”
“I said that to you, though. Well anyway, I already grasped the place where they keep Amalia”
“What!?”
“She was trapped inside underground jail under the royal castle”
“Dynacity’s…?”
“Yes. I don’t know how much the royalty related to this case, but they probably aren’t related. If they did, though, then there would be no hope anymore for this country”
“Is that so, thanks, Shuu”
“However, that is more of the reason that I can’t let you go. Caliburnas is staying in the castle. He is inside the castle right now”
“I just had to make sure that he didn’t find me, right?”
“There isn’t any guarantee for that”
“Is there even any other plans that guarantee us to successfully save Amalia without anything happen!?”
“Isa-kun, I have my own idea”
“…”
“I’m sure that the chance where we could save Amalia will come”
“…Shuu”
“Please, Isa-kun”
“…”
—
Amalia woke up from daze as she heard a voice after a long time jailed inside the dungeon.
She strained her ears to catch those sound.
It was the sound of boots.
There was Someone coming from the stairs.
It was Serbator who brought two bodyguard with him.
Amalia straighten her back, prepared herself to ambush him.
Thought the lantern’s light hurst her eyes a little, she still able to completely perceive his face.
“So, young girl, have you decided?”
“… Yeah”
“Hmm, you have strong gaze”
Sarbator stroked his jaw.
Then he ordered the guard behind her.
“Then, bring that here”
“… What are you trying to do?”
“You’ll understand if you see it by yourself. You must be bored staying inside this place all the time, right?”
“… Then quickly let me out from this place. No matter what you say, I’ll never changed my mind.”
Serbator smiled wickedly.
Amalia couldn’t be helped to feeling disgusted seeing that smile.
After gone for a while, it was someone unexpected that the guard brought in front of her.
“…EH?”
A handsome blonde man. His appearance looked like someone around his twenties.
The adventurer king who wore silver mantel over his shoulder.
“Yaah, it’s been quite a while since we last met each other, right? How have you been, Amalia?”
The name of that man, who asked her that question with an innocent smile like when he was meeting a person who just came back from a trip…
“… Caliburnas”
With the jail bars separating them, Caliburnas stood over there.
“I heard it from Serbator-dono. He said that you wished to marry me? I am happy, Amalia”
Looking at how Caliburnas smiled while saying that, made Amalia shocked.
“… What are you saying, Caliburnas…?”
Amalia had met with Caliburnas once through her father.
There was even a time when he taught her swordsmanship.
Though, she was still too young at that time, she couldn’t really understood what he was teaching to her.
She wondered, did his smile really looked like this?.
“Caliburnas, don’t say… that you’re also part of this plan?”
“What do you mean?”
“Don’t feign ignorance! If you see my current condition, you should’ve understand right!”
Even the world is big, there wasn’t really that many people who dare to reprimand Caliburnas.
But he just shakes his head.
“… I wonder, what are you saying? I don’t know, I couldn’t understand.  What in the world are you trying to say, Amalia?”
“Wha, Like I said…”
Amalia bit her lip.
Caliburnas was her big brother’s enemy.
But at the same time he was also the hero, and his father’s comrade in arms.
Also, an adventurer.
“Caliburnas… Please, Franz is being held somewhere… please, save him!”
Amalia grab the grill and howled.
Caliburnas just slightly shakes his head.
“…Hmm”
He turned his back looked at Serbator.
“What the meaning of this? What did she just say? Serbator, this is different from what you’ve said”
“Don’t fret, Caliburnas”
The noble laughed as he placed his hand on Caliburnas’ shoulder.
“Amalia just worried about her little brother. You surely know the way to remove that worry from her heart, right?”
Caliburnas then said something that made Amalia doubt her ears.
“I just need to kill him, eh”
“EH?”
Amalia felt like someone just smashed her heart.
“Caliburnas…?”
Amalia wondered what in the world reflected in that man’s eyes.
She then asked with a trembling voice.
“… Why, Caliburnas? How could you said something like that…
I won’t forgive you if you do so… Just you remember, I am the daughter of the Mercenary King, Bardz… There was no way you could dispose such existence easily even in secrecy…”
“The power of assumption is scary thing, eh. Caliburnas, could you wait a little before killing Franz?”
“Since it’s your wish, Serbator”
“Thanks”
Rather than a conversation between friends, it’s more appropriate to saw their conversation as a conversation between a beast tamer and his beast.
Scary.
Amalia couldn’t remove her gaze from Caliburnas.
She wondered whether he would kill Franz for real or not.
Surely, he would.
It wasn’t just her guess, it was her instinct that scream so.
Serbator moved his face toward the grill, then said.
“Bardz had three wives with him. The first wife was Beatrice, the second wife was Margaret and then the last one was Arisra”
“What are you trying to say. Though Mother Margaret and Mother Arisra both have weak body, it doesn’t matter whether we were connected by blood or not, they treated us with kindness. I would never forgive you if you insult them..!”
“It’s been 8 years since the death of Arisra. After that, Bardz never tried to remarry ever again”
“Like I said, what are you trying to say here!?”
Serbator laughed.
Just like a demon, he laughed.
“Those people, we were the one who killed them. A mere savage that raised in rank from a mercenary, dare to butt their heads into our business after all. Bardz realized the truth. And so they tried to distance himself from you guys”
“….!”
Amalia felt like a crack created on the world that she always believed in.
The noble raise his voice to threaten her.
“We will do it, Amalia. You shouldn’t make light out of us for your own sake, too”
Amalia realized that her family already dragged into a bottomless bog since long time ago.
Those people that she always thought as her ally, in the end, they were her enemies all along.
The world was Amalia and her family’s enemy.
Any sound refused to enter her ears.
Amalia just crumbled listlessly at that place.
My mothers, were killed?
And father know about that all along?
Even when he knew that, he still trying his best on managing the Adventurers Guild.
All this time, he always fighting all alone?
But… that’s just too sad.
She already lost the will to think.
Never in her mind that she thought that she was this weak.
Her plan using black magic to threaten Serbatos and escape from this place, in the end just a child play.
If she does that, what in the world would happen with the people around her, she wonders.
Her heart. It’s breaking.
Serbatos nodded in satisfaction looked at Amalia sitting absentmindedly at that place without even shedding a tear.
“Caliburnas, it seems that she has already changed her mind.  Let’s quickly finish the preparation for the ceremony”
“Ooh, you’re really good at this eh, Serbatos. Then I don’t need to kill Franz, right?”
“Yeah, try to ask her. I’m sure that she will nod”
Caliburnas asked Amalia who just staring at the ground.
He asked her with eyes cast down lifelessly like doll, with a lifeless smile like a doll.
“Amalia. Will you marry me?”
Caliburnas, a hero that often come out in a tale and story.
He extended his hand through the gap of the grill, and proposed her inside the prison.
The girl, who have nothing but underwear on her body, feebly, like her neck about to snap, nodded.
“Yes… Caliburnas”
That day, that time.
Mark the end of Amalia’s world.
—
“Shuu”
“The time has come, Isa-kun… And, that mask is?”
“It’s my persona.Human had to cling into something when facing the opponent that they couldn’t win.  And for me, that something would be Mister Last Resort. Furthermore, this is Version 2!”
“There would be no need for you to fight with that person, so you didn’t need that mask. I already prepared costume for us to wear”
“… Is that so… Alright then”
“The wedding ceremony would be tomorrow. I guess all the information that we need just that info about Caliburnas would take Amalia as his wife. Also it seems that they will hold a private ceremony inside the castle”
“So we only need to sneak in, right”
“Well yeah. But I’ll say it again and again, please stop yourself on fighting Caliburnas.
If you couldn’t promise me that, I couldn’t take you to castle together with me”
“… Even if you said I mustn’t, yeah. I already fight several people that they said I mustn’t mess with”
“I suppose so. But, it couldn’t be helped this time. Fighting Spirit is a battle technique that using magical power to increase the density of one’s soul. However, what that man had wasn’t a soul, but god energy. The density that that power could give was incomparable to what normal man could capable of. No matter how strong a swordsman, or even a sorcerer you is, it’s impossible to hurt him.I could even say that Caliburnas is a living neutron star. Unbelievable amount of power that no human could imagine are residing in his body”
“…That is quite harsh, eh”
“Since Isa-kun look like he is really confidence in his power after all. If I didn’t said at last this much, I’m not even sure that you will even listen to me”
“Then how we will defeat him!?”
“With me, Renzou-kun and Yoshinobu-kun. The amount of magical power that us possess because of the contract with Forbidden Technique is abnormal. It’s not just ten times a normal human could have, but 100 times. I could even dare to say that it could reach 1000 times of that normal human could have.  The only way we have to defeat him is for the three of us cooperating, scraping his stamina until the end while kept bathing him with magic”
“Then my job will be stalling for time, eh”
“To put simply, something like that”
“Could we even save Amalia without defeating Caliburnas first?”
“… It’s not fair, but I will say this beforehand. The percentage of our success isn’t that high”
“… Shuu”
“I also have my own mission to accomplish.  I have to eradicate God Disease from this world no matter what happened”
“…”
“I won’t ask you to understand that. However, this is my way to do things”
“… Alright, I’ll believe in you, Shuu”
“… That…”
“Your face when you said that we probably would be able to save Amalia looked like you’re really in pain.  Even if she is a girl, you’ve never meet with her even once”
“…”
“You understand the pain of other people. That’s why I will believe in you”
“… You just overestimate me”
“I don’t care. It’s up to me wherever I want to think so or not, right?”