Episode 193
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“Your existence is a lie.”
Spreading her six black wings, the pitch-black angel opened her mouth. It was Lady Shadow, Aurelia.
“Sure, maybe.”
The virgin Aurelia, who was spreading her pure white wings in front of him, was not flustered.
“But my lies are more truthful than your truth.”
“… … !”
“A fallen being who has surrendered and given himself over to the ugly truth.”
Pure white Aurelia smiled.
“Please, for the sake of our ideals, won’t you step aside?”
“Did you say it was strange?”
“To save the Kingdom of Britannia, which is suffering from the tyranny of the Empire, and to uphold the will of the Goddess. You don’t intend to say that you have forgotten the people of your homeland who are suffering on the island of Britannia even now, do you?”
At the same time, what was written on her face was a determination without a shred of doubt.
“I intend to carry out the beautiful lie that you failed to carry out until the end.”
The pure white Aurelia spoke, and the pitch black Aurelia remained silent. The ugly truth and the beautiful lie.
It was at that moment that the Shadow Lord finally tried to intervene.
Aurelia in black silently extended her arm and stopped Dale.
“Are you saying this knowing the end that your beautiful lies and blind faith in ideals have brought upon the island of Britannia?”
“Who brought about that ending? Was it you who massacred the people of your country? No.”
Pure White Aurelia asked back as if she couldn’t understand.
“It’s an empire.”
“… … !”
“Our ideals were beautiful. Wasn’t it none other than the Empire and that shadow monarch you call your puppet that trampled underfoot those noble beliefs?”
“Ah, ah, holy virgin… … !”
Gilles de Rais was kneeling beside her as if praying. Dale couldn’t even laugh at the sight. Nevertheless, the pure-white Aurelia didn’t stop talking.
“Are you trying to blame good for the defeat of an irresistible evil?”
Pure White Aurelia asked back. Lady Shadow bit her lip tightly.
“That is the truth.”
“Yes, it is true. The truth is that we cannot help but be defeated by an evil we cannot resist.”
“… … .”
“Did you kneel before evil for just that reason, holy virgin?”
To the pure white question, pitch-black Aurelia was unable to answer.
“No, why should we feel responsible for the blood we shed in the first place? Wasn’t it the empire that trampled our country and massacred its people from the beginning?”
Couldn’t do it.
“I will gladly believe in my beliefs, even if my existence is a lie, even if our destiny is to be defeated by an evil we cannot resist.”
The pure white virgin spoke with determination.
“Even if good is doomed to defeat, I will not stop resisting evil.”
Dale couldn’t say anything either.
As the Shadow Lord, I can see the truth in the shadows of the Pure White Virgin.
If she were a creation of the devil, dark and black inside, the story would be easy. But that was not the case. That pure white Aurelia created by the three devils… … .
──There was no doubt that it was true.
“I will carry out my mission. So get out of the way, you truth that is closer to a lie than a lie.”
“That can’t be.”
It was the job of her lord, the Shadow Lord, to block her path.
“Your existence has been officially condemned to death, burned at the stake in the frozen soil of Saxony.”
“Ah, as expected, you only think about your own actions until the end.”
“It can’t be helped.”
The Shadow Lord answered.
“Because there is nothing in the world more important than my conduct.”
“You really are thick-skinned.”
“Do you think so?”
The Shadow Lord sneered.
“My life is no longer my own. The Shadow Lord’s life is worth more than the blood you shed on the Isle of Britannia. That is the weight of my life.”
Dale said.
“I will survive to the end, gain power, and bring down this empire. For that, I cannot die easily.”
“Then there’s nothing I can do.”
Finally, the virgin with pure white wings took hold of her sword. The holy light on the tip of the sword swirled around, and the shadow lord also chanted a barrage of darkness and cold.
But before that, it was Aurelia the Black who had kicked the ground.
The warrior’s beloved sword, ‘Peacemaker’, was swung in her hand.
The pure white angel and the pitch black angel clashed.
Kaang!
The pure white aura and the blood red aura clashed.
Kaang!
“Ah, how dare you touch the Virgin’s presence!”
At that very moment, Gilles de Rais also drew his sword. It was not the Avatar he had seen on the island of Britannia. It was a fanatic who had found salvation after countless slaughters, and it must have breathed new life into his thoughts.
The Guardian of Steel was there.
“Now no one will dare to hurt the Virgin!”
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A gigantic body several meters tall. A massive armor made of heavy steel that was so thick it looked like it would burst, wrapped around its body. It was a lump of steel that couldn’t even be called armor.
It was a vow as a rider that he could never lose the virgin again, and the heavy hammer in his hand was swung.
Kuung!
Aurelia the Black spread her black wings and retreated, while Gilles de Rais brought down his great shield in front of her.
“No one can pass in front of here!”
“Oh my, this is really f*cked up.”
Master Baro scratched his head as he watched the scene.
“Do you really think so?”
Dale asked, and Master Baro shrugged.
“Oh, well… … I haven’t used it for so long that I’ve almost forgotten how to use an avatar.”
“There is no need for that.”
But Dale shook her head quietly. Although she understood the threat of the Virgin and Jill de Rais before her, they were not unbeatable enemies. She also understood that fact.
Nevertheless, the Shadow Lord’s decision was different.
Paradoxically, because we can trust their truth.
“Please step aside, Madam.”
“… … !”
Dale said. Towards her article. Calling out a nickname that she had rarely mentioned since that day.
The pitch-black maiden stepped back, and Dale spoke before the guardian knight Gilles de Rais, who claimed to be the pure white shield.
“I believe your lies.”
“… … .”
“You were created by three demons, and even though you know that, do you still hesitate to become the Goddess and the Savior of the Nation?”
“Yes.”
The pure white maiden, Aurelia, answered. She looked just as I remembered her from the island of Britannia.
“Because I’m no longer the immature girl I was back then.”
Aurelia answered. As Dale was, as was Lady Shadow at Dale’s side, so was Aurelia, created by the three demons.
“Let’s negotiate.”
Dale said.
“As long as your actions do not harm me or Saxony, I intend to let you escape from here safely.”
I could understand why Lady Scarlett had dragged Dale here and left him to clean up the mess. Even the Empire wouldn’t be happy with this presence.
The more confusion the better. And the other virgin in front of Dale will undoubtedly claim to be an apostle of confusion, regardless of whether she is right or wrong.
“Therefore, you must wear a ‘leash’ so that you can be under my control.”
“How dare you… … !”
The steel guardian, Gilles de Rais, roared, and the pure white maiden remained calm.
“What do you wish for?”
“Blue curtain of darkness.”
Dale opened his mouth. At the same time, a blue butterfly flew up, and one of the mountain assassins guarding Dale was reborn as a blue puppet.
─ Have you called, our lord?
“I need your web.”
Dale said.
“Can you tie that spider web to the virgin and this man so that they can become my ‘eyes and ears’?”
─ Oh, it’s not that hard at all. You can even become the puppet string that makes them dance.
Arachne, the blue veil of deceit and lies, smiled.
“Don’t worry.”
Dale said.
“Her presence will be your leash, and at the same time, she will be your assistant in the darkness who will protect you.”
“… … You said blue spider webs.”
The pure white virgin asked back.
“Are you sure I won’t be tied up in that spider’s web and become your puppet?”
“One thing is certain.”
The Shadow Lord answered coldly.
“If I make up my mind to do that, the Virgin will never be able to leave here alive.”
“… … .”
The pure white maiden remained silent. The maiden now before Dale was not the same as she was in the past. Just like Lady Shadow, who guarded Dale. But the Shadow Lord was no different.
“It would be suicidal to turn all the powers around me into enemies.”
“Maybe so.”
The Virgin smiled faintly, as if there were an irresistible evil there and she was willing to fight against it.
“For now, surrender yourself to the blue spider web and look forward to the future.”
But the Shadow Lord spoke, his whispers sweet as the devil.
─ Please, according to Your Majesty’s will.
Blue Tower, Arachne snapped her fingers. Like the blue dissonance Sepia had shown before, blue particles scattered in all directions. Just as they were thought to have scattered, the particles connected and formed a spider web that enveloped the two people.
Gilles de Rais tried to resist by swinging his hammer, but it was not something that could be broken by force. Even magic would be no exception.
The web wrapped itself around the virgin and her guardian like tentacles, and it was not something that could be resisted in the first place.
“… … .”
Aurelia, in pure white, tied up in a spider web, remained silent.
The Shadow Lord walked silently between the two.
It was just then.
Sling.
At the same time, he pulled out the pitch-black magic sword ‘Kia’ that was tied to his waist and thrust it down.
Phew!
“… … !”
Towards Gilles de Rais, the steel guardian knight who guards the Virgin Mary.
“Yes, you… … !”
“Don’t misunderstand.”
The Shadow Lord whispered coldly.
“This man simply paid the price for ‘his sins.’”
““Jill de Rais… …!””
It wasn’t just one pure-white virgin calling out his name in confusion. It was two Aurelias calling out the man’s name.
The name of a guardian knight who once claimed to be more loyal than any other knight on the island of Britannia.
“Look at this hellish mass of flesh. It is an otherworld created by sacrificing the flesh of a devout young boy.”
“Oh, Holy Virgin… … Ah, Lady Aurelia… … !”
Neither of the two Aurelias answered. In the silence, Gilles de Rais continued muttering.
“I will be with you until the end, until the end… … .”
Chomp!
But those words did not end there. The Shadow Lord’s sword swung, and what was imbued in it was the coldness of the end.
A cold aura of destruction that is incomparable to any aura in this world.
Each and every one of Gilles de Rais’s flesh disintegrated at the particle level, disintegrating without even leaving behind a pile of ash.
Leaving behind the chill of destruction brought by the end of Providence, the Shadow Lord asked.
“Pure White Virgin, your existence has been stained with the blood and evil of innocent young single people since your birth.”
The pure white virgin, tied up in a spider web, bit her lips and remained silent.
“Are you willing to carry out your ideals even in that filth?”
Dale asked. Silence fell.
After a moment of silence, the pure white virgin answered.
