97 – K(2)
“Rias!”
I called her name in surprise, but Rias covered her mouth.
“Be quiet.”
The wounded look on her face made it very difficult.
She was holding on to her belly and leaning against the wall, barely supporting herself.
“K… By any chance, do you have a recovery potion or something?”
I immediately took a potion out of her pocket and sprayed half of it on her wounds, and poured the other half into her mouth.
“Coke!”
“Rias! Are you okay?!”
“Yes, I think I will buy it.”
“What the hell is this?”
“····Listen to me, Kay.”
“…Yes.”
“The imperial family betrayed me.”
“…What do you mean by that?”
“It’s literally. My father… No, that bastard thought that maybe the warrior who defeated the demon king would get in his way while we were on a journey to catch the demon king.”
“What?”
“If the position of the hero who defeated the demon king skyrocketed, he thought that his position would be dangerous.”
“But Sein!”
“That’s right, the world didn’t want power or the position of emperor, it’s all just delusion.”
Knap-!
The intensity of her teeth grinding made her mouth hurt.
But now there was something more important than anger at being betrayed.
“···Then, where is Sanhan, Priest, Syria, Leira?”
At those words, Rias couldn’t open her mouth easily.
The long, long, short silence made my heart beat loudly.
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No way…
Then Rias struggled to open her mouth.
“Sein… As soon as he was summoned to the imperial family, he was stabbed by the swords of the waiting soldiers… And died.”
“What…?”
“At the same time, we tried to attack too, but Layra squeezed the last of her strength and I was the only one who escaped…”
“So you’re saying everyone is dead…?”
“····Yes.”
Rias said that and closed her eyes tightly.
But I couldn’t see that image in my head.
They said they died…?
“…hahahaha.”
At the sound of my laughter, Rias opened her closed eyes and looked at me.
And she was startled.
It is said that people shed bloody tears when they are so sad or angry.
I really didn’t expect that.
“Rias.”
“… Huh?”
“I’ve heard it said before. If you want to ruin someone’s life, you have to risk your own too. The emperor… The emperor… The people of this rotten nation… You must take responsibility for your betrayal.”
“…Wait!”
Rias shouted and tried to stop me, but she was already too late.
An explosion occurred with a loud roar.
Quaaang-!
A whole building was blown away.
“I will kill them all…”
Is it because he is crying?
Unknowingly, I blurted out the ending.
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With one swing of Kay’s scythe, an entire building was blown away.
Even though she swung lightly, it was incredibly powerful.
For some reason, her power overflowed.
“What!”
“What happened!”
Citizens evacuate due to the sudden explosion, and guards rush to block Kei.
“Who are you!”
“So, who am I?”
Rias was embarrassed.
She knew how much Kei was an old man, but she didn’t know that she would move this much without thinking.
She said, first of all, she had to escape from here.
She whispered behind Kei’s back as she held her scythe.
“Kay, let’s get out of here first. I know you’re angry and sad, but now is not the time.”
“…Rias. I’ll make you a king.”
“What?”
At that time, Kei’s model disappeared.
A dark afterimage followed.
She swung a scythe.
So fast you can’t even see it.
She stained the guard’s body red and tore it to pieces.
“First, get rid of the capital.”
Just before filling her scythe with her mana, a loud voice was heard.
“Stop!”
The owner of the voice blocks Kei’s way.
Gorgeous golden armor, a holy sword, a great sword, and blonde hair.
There were traces of trying to imitate Sein as much as possible in case someone saw Sein’s appearance.
People who saw the man shouted.
“Hero!”
“Terius Hero!”
“Hero! Kill that monster!”
“You are dead now!”
The cheers of dozens, hundreds, and thousands of people filled the streets.
‘A warrior? Monster? It’s crazy and I’ve grown up.’
The man stood in front of Kei with a righteous expression on his face as if he was proud of receiving her cheers.
He seemed to consider himself a real warrior.
“I am! The hero who defeated the demon king! Terius! I will not forgive you for threatening people’s peace!”
Watching Terius speak childish lines with his handsome appearance, the village women screamed and screamed that he was cool, and called me a monster and threw stones at me.
“Come on! Take my holy sword!”
Terius then rushed in and swung his sword.
I was going to swing it exactly.
If Kay’s scythe hadn’t cut Terius’ legs off.
“Huh?”
Why am I down?
Terius’ face was just like that.
He carefully turned his head back.
And his leg amputated.
“Uhhhhh!”
Terius’ face went pale and he passed out.
Ke cut his throat without a change of emotion.
The fallen neck rolled across the cold ground.
“…Is the hero dead?”
“Sah, save me!”
“Kyaaa!”
Citizens went into a panic.
In the meantime, I could clearly hear the voice of a person pointing at Kay and shouting.
“Demon, demon lord…”
‘Demon King? …Yes, I may be the Demon King.’
The scythe with Kay’s magical energy turned so black that the border between the handle and the blade could not be distinguished.
With one swing, half of this city is blown away.
He poised to swing his scythe.
“That, stop it!”
It was Rias.
She took Kay’s hand.
“… Let go.”
“No, that’s not okay. The people are just being used. They’re innocent.”
“Anyway, they betrayed Sein, us.”
“Sain doesn’t want you to do this!”
“···Then what should I do?”
“I’ll be king.”
“What?”
“As I said, I will be the king. I will set everything right. You make me king.”
Kay turned behind her.
Rias’s face was filled with determination.
Her playful expression is hard to see from her, and her face was the same as the face she had seen before she captured the Demon King.
“·····”
Kay was silent.
Then, as if she had finished her thoughts, she spread the magic she had gathered in her scythe into the air.
[Sound amplification]
“Declare war on the kingdom.”
That was the beginning of the Great Imperial War that would later smell of blood.