260 – 76-3. Even if I’m forgotten.
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In the imperial palace of the Grancia Empire, a shelter was prepared in case of an emergency.
The lone wolf.
Lone wolf.
Like an isolated wolf.
A place like an air-raid shelter with countless magic circles and a tight finish of steel.
To get there, Fine Grancia was running through the imperial palace.
‘No way… I thought you came from the future…’
She rides on the back of a black wolf.
Fine thought deeply about what had happened.
It was strange to suddenly break into the secret garden of the imperial palace.
And those sad eyes she had looking at herself.
Finally, seeing her mother benevolently treated with her ability to see relationships between objects and people.
‘What did Magic Hat do?’
She pulled the corners of her mouth to make her horizontal.
Magic Hat, the Devil of Truth.
A person known as one of the four great warriors of the cult of warriors.
After the demon war ended, he disappeared along with other warriors who had fallen into the demon king.
I thought I wouldn’t see him anymore after Emperor Locke founded the empire.
Why did he break into this place now?
“Kaka, Kkamangah.. Why did you stop all of a sudden..?”
“Grrr.”
At that moment, the wolf’s feet stopped running toward the shelter.
A shadow that moves as if it is shimmering in front of your eyes.
Soon it popped up and took shape, then changed into a human form.
“…… ?!”
Cards such as the King of Clovers and the Jack of Spades are placed where the heart should be.
Like a caterpillar trying to become an adult from a pupa.
The wriggling shadow is reborn as a human with the symbol of the playing card.
“Nonsense..”
Fine Grancia doubted her eyes, her self. She
She started breaking out in a cold sweat, and goosebumps ran through her body.
“Your Highness Fine. Are you okay?”
“Fine-sama, the night air is cold. Why in a place like this….”
“Why did you ride on top of the wolf? Now, come over to us.”
They were all faces she knew well.
The servants that Fine has been friendly with since childhood.
The power of lies that took away their form stretches out her hand towards Fine.
Little by little they came closer to Kkamangi.
──Aww!!
Noticing the change, the wolf charges towards them, exposing its huge fangs.
A spirit is a creature that can see through even artifacts and masterpieces.
I was able to distinguish the shadows pretending to be human.
‘I’m scared.’
Fine’s fern-like hands tremble.
The peaceful daily life until now is starting to crack.
Why are you targeting me?
Are you trying to conquer the world by kidnapping the imperial princess?
Seeing that people came to protect themselves from the future, something must have happened.
Is the handsome black knight older brother or mother Bellin okay?
The whereabouts of her younger brother, Rufus, and her butler, D’Jour, were also unknown.
The sound of the footsteps of an animal galloping through the night continued like that.
“Wait..! Black man..! Over there is Emilia..!!”
I can see the shadows gathering in the distance.
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The figure of a maid with fox ears hugging a child among them.
“Go away! I mean get off!!”
As Emilia swung her sword, she was threatening the shadowy humans.
The identity of the child in her arms.
“Don’t touch even a hair on our young master!”
Lupus Grancia.
The younger brother of Fine Grancia.
The imperial prince named after the hill where Emperor Locke won a great victory.
Since this is the past, he was about 2-3 years old.
“Kkamangah, help those people..!”
“Kong!”
Fine, realizing that Lupus’s life was threatened, immediately gave orders to the wolf spirit.
I thought he had already fled to the shelter.
Maybe he couldn’t leave the young prince behind.
Immediately, Kkamangi slashed the enemies surrounding him with his paws.
“Go away! I mean go away..! Miss?”
“Fortunately, it’s not too late…”
She appeared while harming the shadows.
Fine looked carefully to see if there were any injuries on Lupus and Emilia.
Except for the maid’s light abrasion, both of them seemed to be in no danger of life.
“Princess, what is all this about..? The imperial palace is overflowing with strange shadowy humans, and plants are dying as if time is going backwards….”
She Looking at her, Emilia talks about her past. Seeing that scene, Fine’s tears flowed.
“Uh, huh..? Miss..?”
Why do demon kings like to torment people?
What did I do wrong to have to suffer like this?
“……”
Looking at Magic Hat’s misdeeds of not only harming herself but also her little brother Lupus, Fine bit her lower lip.
“Yes. Because everything is fine Come this way now.”
Emilia walked closer to Fine, who was starting to cry, and gave her a hug.
Then, in the arms of the maid, a little girl started crying sadly.
Fine Grancia was too young to calmly accept the current situation.
“Rurr-rrr.. Kong! Kung!”
I had no choice but to be used to this type of trap.
The spirit barking fiercely again.
Kakmangi realized that something was wrong and was informing the owner of the danger.
“… Ah.”
The ace of hearts suddenly appeared behind Emilia.
Her heart had been pulled out alive, and she was laughing, tearing her mouth open like a magic hat.
***
“Yes, you should have had a good maid.”
“That… what the hell are you talking about?”
A guy who doesn’t lose his composure even though the blade is full of his neck.
I couldn’t help but pause for a moment at that strange attitude.
They’re holding Fine as a hostage.
No. It’s a lie. Obviously, Fine is going to the shelter….
“She would think she was headed for shelter. But what about this If I die, she won’t be safe either.”
Magic Hat seemed to be barely able to hold back laughter.
“Ah, poor Emilia. Emilia.”
She started to sing even though the demon knew that he could hit her on the neck at any moment.
“Dedicated to her family all her life, no one knew that she had just died.”
“Not even her teeth. It’s a dog. “
I’m slowly cutting off his neck.
Red blood that drips and drips.
“Why do you think I am lying?”
“Of course not. Fine will definitely be protected by my spirit.”
My hands are shaking.
Please don’t be bluffing what he says.
I prayed and prayed that my death was imminent and that it was a ruse to find my gaps.
“Do you believe in the eyes of the spirits or Fine Grancia? You are so stupid.”
Magic Hat said as she transformed into her childhood form of Fine Grancia.
“The moment the dear hero entered my arms, wouldn’t it be enough to sew the maid’s body?”
Now, he waited only for the moment when Fine and the maid named Emilia met.
Because she has eyes that can detect lies.
“It kills the real thing in a fraction of a second.”
To deceive Fine and Kkamangi, they swapped the fake for the real.
Pu-wook-.
At that moment, she felt a strong chest pain around her heart.
The feeling of sand falling from her body.
‘Dream Knife..!!’
Kamaggi was killed while trying to protect Fine.
The spirit linked to the owner’s emotions is not invincible.
“If you want to save Fine Grancia, you will have to release her powers. Black Knight.”
A magic hat that makes a clanging sound and removes a fallen demonic sword with your feet.
He scattered sand and looked at me, who collapsed, and murmured briefly.
‘If he’s even injured, Fine is really in danger.’
“Cheer, cooer..”
“Oh, I didn’t know you were a person without blood or tears.”
Blood and sand are gradually mixed and formed into lumps.
The demon sneered at me while even stomping on my head with its foot.
“If you don’t want to give her the experience of losing her little brother… decide quickly.”
My vision is blurred.
I felt my body getting cold as the blood drained from my body.
Lupus.
Yes, Lupus must be here too.
A demon who talks to me while holding Fine and then the prince hostage.
Using his last failure as a stepping stone, Magic Hat devised a more vicious plan to destroy me.
“If you release her powers even now, she swears she won’t harm her or her younger brother.”
“Really.. To..?”
I didn’t want to let Fine die.
She didn’t want her to live the unhappy life of losing her little brother.
“Yes, because all I want is you, the black knight.”
Magic Hat demands a deal from me.
If I die like this, I will be unable to protect anyone, let alone Fine.
The blood that couldn’t circulate properly in the heart gradually made my vision darker.
My death was imminent, and my life was burning my intellect like a flame banjo.
‘Contradiction.’
There is one contradiction that has not yet been resolved.
Why are Magic Hat and Fine’s memories different?
Empress Belin asked if it would be okay if the future of my meeting with Fine disappeared.
‘Perhaps… the reason Magic Hat doesn’t remember her….’
It’s because of what I’m going to do from now on.
It was only now that I realized why I had come to the past, being led by the hand of an unknown saint.
It was because Fine and I had met in the past.
──Damn it.
The darkness lifted again and the imperial palace began to reveal her true form.
“The authority has been released. Black Knight.”
Seeing that, Magic Hat laughed as if she had intuition of her victory, tearing her mouth open.
“I will keep my promise. But.”
A magic hat that reveals its true color as soon as its authority is released.
The scenery of the world was changing with crackling noise.
“I will kill everyone else except Fine Grancia and Lupus. Because the original world line was overwritten.”
The magic hat’s shadow stretched and turned into tentacles.
Then a building was demolished, and the people in it were being pierced and killed one by one.
Shelter.
That is definitely a shelter in the imperial palace.
According to the original history that Fine remembers, everyone here should have died.
No matter how much I try to stop it by summoning the sword.
“Oh no, no. No. Resurrection should be done with me.”
“Ah, uhhhhh.
As if it were an unstoppable fate.
The sword that cut through the air landed on the ground.
“You must watch this scene like a dear warrior.”
The Demon God who regained his power was vigilant and pierced my abdomen from behind with a shadow.
A magic hat that speaks as if patronizing you to die slowly.
“Uh, Mother..?”
In my field of vision, the childhood Fine who couldn’t escape to the shelter appeared.
“Uh, mother why..? Um, why am I here….”
“My daughter.. Pine..”
In front of her is a woman leaning against a wall bleeding.
I saw Belin Grancia, who was being attacked by Magic Hat and was cooling down.