Whispering Verse

"Since you said this is your obsession, that's good. Shelly, I also got a strange disease because of the devil's curse. Now I need the hearts of two fiery knights to cure my disease. Shelly, kill you behind me Two of you, give me your two hearts."

The coughing queen said, so the female knight who was kneeling on one knee stood up, swung her sword to kill the other person who was kneeling on one knee, and then looked at Shade with the blood-stained sword.

"Meow~"

The cat on her shoulder immediately barked intimidatingly at her, obviously worried that she would hurt Shade. At the same time as the cat meowed, not only was the cat's hair exploding, but even the small flames on its tail became larger.

"Miss Knight, do you still know me?"

Shade comforted little Mia, then frowned and asked the female knight holding the sword. The gray-haired female knight nodded lightly;

"Yes, you are Mr. Shade Hamilton, a knight who helped me a lot in the Golden Desert."

"So your choice is."

Shade looked at her sword, and Miss Knight nodded slightly:

"This is my persistence, and it is also the last thing I can do in my life. I have traveled such a long way, sacrificed so many people, and experienced so many things. Even if the ending is miserable, even if I fall into hell in the end, Even at this moment, I will never regret any decision I made. I have been moving forward in my life and will never look back."

She raised her sword, saluted Shade for the last time, closed her eyes and pierced the sword into her chest.

In this way, she ripped out her own heart alive, put it together with another person's heart in a tray filled with green crystals, and presented them to the coughing queen on the bed.

The Queen did not reach out to take it, so the tray fell on the bed, and Miss Knight closed her eyes and passed out.

Click~click~

The sound of breaking glass spread from the position where the female knight fell, and then the surrounding scenery disappeared like glass breaking, revealing again the scenery of the temple mausoleum in the Boulder Gold Desert.

Shade didn't care about the black fog that was gradually dissipating around him. He didn't care about Miss Meister who was still sitting on the bench. He didn't care about Knight who was lying on the edge of the coffin, clutching a stone heart, and passed out due to phantom pain. Miss, instead, she jumped up holding the moonlight sword in her right hand:

"Moonlight Slash!"

From the coffin, a thin-looking man covered in bones had already sat up. Although it looks like a human being, in Shade's thaumaturgy [Seeing Demon], this thing's whole body is emitting black light. It is simply an ancient evil spirit demon.

The illusion dissipated, and the sword with the bright silver moonlight slashed at the man who seemed to have never recovered. But just before the sword was about to cut off its head, it suddenly stretched out its hand wrapped in a burnt yellow bandage and firmly grasped Shade's moonlight sword.

Click!

The sword's body cracked at its fingertips, and then the entire sword was completely shattered into spots of light. But at the same time, three identical swords thrust out from the void at the same time had arrived in front of it, but with a wave of its hand, they were all shattered into pure moonlight.

The demon that had just escaped from the seal did not give Shade a chance to attack again. It waved its right hand, and the huge force directly caused Shade and the unconscious Miss Knight to be ejected off the high platform where the coffin was.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or not. Shade rolled around on the ground a few times and then his head hit the chair legs of the stone bench. At this moment, what he saw were light brown smooth legs. When he looked up again, he saw that he was inquiring. Miss Meister looked at him and met his eyes.

"Miss."

The saint smiled and asked:

"Don't you understand yet? The appearance of this mausoleum in this desert is itself an important step in the sealing process."

"It's also afraid of the sun here!"

Once the body of this church is destroyed, it means completely destroying the "power of the earth to protect all things" that has been effective for countless thousands of years from the inside. This church was able to survive such a harsh environment without being damaged because of the power of the sacrificial magic. The disappearance of the magic also means that the life of the church has come to an end.

But Shade couldn't care less. After jumping up, he saw that the coffin lid had been completely lifted, and the thin man with only linen wrapped around his waist and bandages on his arms was slowly floating out of the coffin. stand up.

"Take care of Miss Knight and my cat!"

He put the cat, which had also fallen from the high platform just now but was uninjured because of his cushion, on the chair next to Miss Meister, and then crossed his arms in front of his chest:

"Moonlight Slash!"

Instead of moving forward but upward, Shade, who was wearing golden armor, turned into a moonlight cross and rushed straight to the roof of the church. After the cross-shaped sunlight on the roof shone into the dark interior of the church, the church roared. The collapse began without warning.

The collapsed building only stirred up an inconspicuous dust in the endless desert. And when the blazing sunlight shone on the demon's body suspended above the ruins, and the shadow of flames enveloped it, large areas of ulcers immediately appeared on its rough skin.

The man's face was still expressionless, but it quickly flew out of the ruins, wanting to leave here and find another location where it could hide from the sun. Shade, who suddenly appeared behind it, grabbed its shoulders, and then the dark sin chain tied its neck from behind. Shade and it pulled hard back to back, letting the two of them join together. Falling back into the ruins of the church.

After a very degrading roll, the thin man tried to take off again, but was stuck two meters above the ground because he could not get rid of the dark chain tied around his neck.

Even the "Demon of Doom - Fanarius" in his heyday couldn't break free from the chains of seven runes of sin, and this unknown demon who had been sealed for countless years obviously couldn't either. It was then completely exposed to the sunlight of the sand sea, and its still calm face melted, revealing the rotting red flesh underneath.

But the chain, which also contained the power of "mortal sins", only made the light of the seven deadly sin runes connected into the chain appear darker under the sunlight. With his back to the demon, Shade let the chain pass through his shoulders and connect to the top. Shade felt that he had won this time.

But things were obviously not that simple. The demon in the sky suddenly stretched out a hand towards the ruins. After finding that it could not make Miss Knight fly over, it stretched out its hand towards the statue standing on the edge of the ruins. .

A beam of black light flew straight towards the statue. Once hit, the statue, whose effect of "Power of the Earth: Blessing All Things" has disappeared, would inevitably be completely destroyed. The ancient knight died when his body turned into stone, but his petrified soul is still here.

The corner of Shade's mouth trembled, but he finally retracted the chain, and then appeared in front of the black light the next moment. With both feet off the ground, the moonlight sword in his hand danced in an animated circle, aiming at the black light:

"The principle of regressivity!"

A faint starlight color flashed behind him, and then the black light was returned along the original path, but passed the demon and flew higher into the sky. Only this time, it did not choose to leave, but instead aimed a hammer at Shade. With a roar, the set of golden armor disintegrated in the air and fell to the sea of ​​sand below, but there was no trace of Shade in the armor.

Shade, who took the risk of using "Ragrai's Jump" twice in succession, appeared behind the thin figure again in his shirt. Accompanied by the dragon's roar, the blazing sunlight once again formed the [Sunshine Great Sword] in his hand.

But the devil, who had been plotted once, also used the power of space movement to avoid the sword coming from behind this time. Now, 80% of the skin on the body has been ulcerated, looking at the devil with completely black eyes. The sword in Shade's hand then turned into a black smoke and hit him on the ground.

The smoke and dust from the explosion rose again under the clear sky of the sand sea without any clouds. Shade, who was knocked into the sand sea, had not yet climbed out, and the devil had three wounds that could not be healed by the [Sunshine Sword] on the front of his body. , then stumbled on the church ruins and gravel, trying to walk away on his feet.

It doesn't even have the power to fly again.

Just after taking a few steps, he looked up and saw a light brown-skinned woman with a cat standing in front of her on her shoulder.

Then the devil's all-black eyes looked at this strange woman again. The smiling saint was about to extend his hand, but the cat with a burning tail on his shoulder barked very ferociously:

"Meow~"

It jumped from the god's shoulder to the ground. The hair on its back stood up and it screamed again. There was a fierce look in its amber eyes that Shade had never seen before.

The demon did not look at the young cat. A surprised expression appeared on its bloody face and he turned to look behind him. The black eyes could clearly see that the various parts of the golden armor scattered on the sand were shaking in response to the cat's meow.

The armor components seemed to be responding to the cat's call, lying on the golden gravel and lighting up with the blazing sun's rays one after another.

Miss Meister took two steps back without leaving a trace. The devil suddenly turned his head again and looked at the glowing orange cat that kept meowing on the sand. What was reflected in the dark eyes at this moment was clearly that it was standing on the sand. on the ground.

"Moonlight Wheel!"

The rotating light wheel that flew behind it cut off the demon's head in a way that no one expected. And as the demon's head fell to the ground, its body and head quickly burst into flames in the sunlight.

The stinky black smoke produced by the combustion made the clean-loving little Mia retreat immediately, but soon she ran happily towards the ground where she just stretched out a hand from under the sand and was now struggling to pull herself out of the ground. of Shad.

PS: Don’t worry, I don’t mean to whet your appetite. Let’s lay the groundwork here. The story has developed to this point, and it’s time for this volume to finally let little Mia express herself in a suitable way.