I told Eris and Myne to back away from the undead archdemon. It was still struggling to free itself from the weight of the black axe.
I told Greed while switching the black bow to scythe form.
『Very well. But, will you alright? That thing is an Area E』
[I’ll be fine…..I’m no longer the me from the time at Gallia.]
Myne and Eris――acting alongside them, it’ll be inevitable to fight strong enemies. I would eventually step in to where they were now.
If I kept relying on Roxy, then the result will be the same just like what happened back then.
[Let’s do it, Greed!]
『Your resolve, I’ll answer to it. Very well, I’ll take 20% of your status.』
[You used your power the wrong way. I used to be the same too….]
I killed Hado Burix. He was responsible for sending Roxy to Gallia, and had kidnapped orphans in the kingdom just to play around and kill them afterward. For five years, I carried the grudge of not being treated like a human by him.
Still……..I shouldn’t have killed Hado. The idea of using my power to judge those who can’t be judged by normal means, was just an act that puts sorrow to those around me.
One lie lead to another lie, if you noticed…….I’d lied to Roxy countless times. About how I wanted to become her strength, how I didn’t want her to know about my Gluttony skill. I selfishly kept the truth from her just for my own convenience.
During the audience with the king, such evil turned its face by clashing with that Lanchester holy knight guy. Aaron had to pointed it out to me. And even back at the research facility, my heart was drawn by the misery and greediness that prevented me from backing out, when I should’ve done just that.
After reaching Area E, I came to understand it.
[Rafal, you are just like me]
[At first I thought that the way we were living in hatred was similar. You to me…..and I to you.]
I raised the scythe quietly.
[However, let’s end this already. Now……you are you, and I am me. Let’s end our ties here. I will continue onward, Rafal.]
At the mass of hatred that no longer capable of communicating like a human, I swung the second secret form Deadly Inferno.
The scythe left a claw-like scratch on its head. Then, starting around the wound, its body started to blacken.
I held down the excited Gluttony skill for having consumed a straight Area E stats. At that time, I could hear inside my head the voice of Luna, the core of Haniel that I’ve consumed in the past.
『I told you that I’ll lend you my power, didn’t I. Don’t forget……』
『Fate, it begins』
Something happened to the undead archdemon body. Its stomach area suddenly bulged. And then, after reaching critical point, it broken away from the body itself.
[Na! So that’s the separation]
Although I expected that something will come out after Rafal――undead archdemon was defeated……I never expected that it will be this many.
I cut away with the scythe, Eris shot with her bayonet. Even Myne retrieved the black axe and chopped at it, but all that did nothing.
The things that got out of the creature’s belly were black bats. And their number easily exceeded a thousand.
[What is this?]
Myne said calmly while kept crushing the bats.
[The collective creatures that is the origin of the Nightwalker. And…..the thing that will lead me to what I seek for.]
[It’s been a while since we last met, that I can’t hold myself. We used to be friends in the past, Myne the Wrath.]
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