Guiding Light (2)

A deep, dark inner bottom.

In the abyss of the evil beast called Balthazar, a single star is shining.

Like a star shining alone in the pitch-black night sky, Ensia was praying with her hands clasped together.

Enveloped in bright golden light and praying with a pair of dazzling wings spread, it was truly divine, worthy of the name ‘angel’.

“I don’t know what you’re doing, but do it quickly.”

“…Professor doesn’t really have a mood.”

But it’s not my business.

Thanks to Ensia’s exploding holy power, the ghosts were holding back for a while, but the overall situation did not improve at all.

The analysis of the sympathetic nervous system is still in progress, so I’m still in a state where I can’t fight.

Whatever I did, I had to do it quickly.

“hehehe~ I called some reinforcements.”

“Reinforcements?”

“I know the professor too.”

Ensia, who winked in one eye, withdrew her spread wings.

Then, beyond the distant trail, something approached sweeping away the ghosts.

Quaaang——!

Flashes of light and streaks of light blew the ghosts away like dust, and a person could be seen running in the empty spot.

“Enshi! Professor!”

The person who came running after a month was none other than Cynthia.

She came running with her black hair flowing, and jumped right into Ensia and hugged her.

“Wow! That’s dangerous!”

“You’re not hurt…? What’s wrong…”

“There’s nothing like that, so hold on to your worries!”

Ensia, who messed up Cynthia’s hair and replied, was the same as usual, regardless of the atmosphere.

It seems that he has awakened in his own way, but he seems to have regained his energy.

However, my feeling of seeing Cynthia was not very pleasant.

Because that guy shouldn’t be here right now.

“Cynthia. Why are you here?”

“oh···.”

“I must have left a written note in case of emergency.”

If things get bad, break Balthazar’s consciousness.

I’m sure I even wrote down the related technique in advance, but Cynthia ignored it and entered this dangerous place.

I wondered how he got here in the first place.

“That, that’s…”

“I called.”

Ansia answered.

“you.”

“···Neng. Spit out some holy power to help out… heh.”

“·······.”

So, at most, was sending SOS outside.

A deep sigh boiled over.

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Just like that, I hit the guy on the head.

“Ugh! Violence teacher!”

“Shut up.”

He sighed and chewed on Ensia’s words.

You sent an SOS signal to the outside.

However, it was still unknown how Cynthia had come down to this bottom.

He’d probably be with Adeline, but even with her help, at most, going around the surface consciousness would be the limit.

“I helped.”

His gaze turned to the sudden interruption of the voice.

There, Kaya, who defeated the army of ghosts before she knew it, was standing in front of my realm.

“I see.”

When I saw her, I understood.

Cynthia’s mental control is special.

She penetrates into the other person’s mind through ‘communion’ and ‘negotiation’, not through ‘command’ and ‘erosion’ like me.

As a non-forced trade.

She sought permission and help from inside the person, so in theory, she could use most of the functions of mind control as long as the other person helped her.

“The negotiations seem to have gone well.”

“Yes. I’m your uncle’s disciple.”

“Did Encia do what you came down to here?”

“That’s right. This kid has increased my range of motion.”

Kaya spoke calmly, but her body wasn’t at all like that.

from the tip of the hand.

She was slowly crumbling and disappearing.

It was a side effect of forcibly coming out of the seal, which was impossible to come originally.

“There are many things I want to say, but I don’t have time. You and the children came here to stop ‘Balthazar’ from waking up, right? What you need is the ‘ghost tribe’s sympathetic nervous system’.”

I nodded in affirmation.

This is the basis of Baltazar.

At the very bottom of the unconscious, the hostility to humanity instilled by the emperor and the worship towards him are mixed to create the demonic ego called Balthazar.

And the catalyst that makes that possible is the power of that goddamn singularity.

‘I don’t know why that guy cooperates with the emperor.’

In order to overcome this situation, it was necessary to get rid of that quickly.

To do so, the sympathetic nervous system interpretation of the ghost tribe is needed.

“I can help with the sympathetic nervous system.”

“Just get to the point quickly.”

“The sympathetic nervous system is inside me. You just need to inform me and swallow it.”

The eyes of Ancia and Cynthia, who were listening, widened.

Her words meant that she would kill herself soon.

“Ha, but if you do that…”

“Don’t worry about me. I’m dead anyway.”

Kaya was still looking at me.

“Right? Mister.”

“·······.”

A long time ago, Kaya from the old world was killed by the Emperor.

And, currently, the head of the Ghost Clan who leads the Witchbeasts.

. . . The thought was not long.

“Yes. Go for it.”

“… Yes. It’s clear. He’s like a man.”

A momentary but sad expression passed across her face.

“… then. The rest is up to you, white hair.”

Kaya’s eyes turned to Encia.

“Since you took me out of the bondage, it would be possible to completely process it into information, right?”

“It’s possible.”

I was wondering what to do, but was it through Ensia?

It would be possible if it was the current Ensia.

Although her holy power is specialized in support, its essence lies in communing with and transforming her ‘inside’.

This is probably why her holy power is so pure and why she is so popular with spirits.

Because Ensia’s power is more deeply connected to her inner self.

“That’s why I called Shinny.”

“me···?”

“This person is still a demonic beast, so he has demonic energy.”

At those words, Cynthia widened her eyes.

“Certainly… are you going to process it through me?”

“yes.”

Whoa.

Since you can’t immediately process Kaya, who has demonic energy, are you saying that you’re going to use Cynthia, who’s more friendly with you, as a relay?

It is a very creative idea mentally.

I majored in my subject, but it seems that I haven’t learned much.

“The rest is that we’re defenseless in the meantime.”

“I’ll take care of that.”

I have to take on the role of protection.

Anyway, it seems like I’m the only one who can do that.

“Call me when you’re done.”

I stood in front of them with revolvers in both hands.

It is truly an army of the dead that stretches out like the open sea.

In the midst of the dark sea of demon beasts, only our small area is drifting like an island.

Hwaaa

Encia and Cynthia hold hands and interact with Kaya’s ego.

Her body is bathed in light, preparing to slowly disappear.

“Goodbye, mister.”

“·······.”

Is it an unexpected goodbye?

but. We met out of nowhere, so breaking up is also out of the blue.

So I didn’t have to look back.

I told her without looking.

“I know that you were the only one who opposed the Trial of Ascension.”

“······uh?”

A goofy sound was heard.

I didn’t turn around, but I could clearly see what kind of expression he was making.

It was obvious what he was thinking.

how do you know that

you must be so surprised

“You tried to stop it. I know that you were the one who was more guilty than anyone else.”

So I didn’t give any unnecessary answers.

I only said what was necessary and what had to be said.

I knew what answer she needed.

“On behalf of the emperor, I, who went through the same history, will speak.”

Then I turned my head and looked at her.

it serves you right.

Aren’t you looking at me with wide open eyes?

“You did nothing wrong.”

“·······.”

“So, don’t even ask for forgiveness.”

Even if the world we went through is different, she and I will definitely share the same history.

There was no difference in the sympathy they shared, and the feelings they had had would not have been different.

so you can tell

How she felt on the battlefield and how much guilt she must have felt.

“Raise your head and be confident until the end.”

“·······.”

“Because you deserve it.”

He turned away from her for the last time.

so i didn’t see

Even the water droplets spreading in wide open eyes.

Even the tears that fell like a meteor.

I didn’t see

“···thanks.”

A crying voice was heard.

It was probably the cries of an old colleague that was familiar to me.

“I don’t know if I really deserve it.”

“·······.”

“Thank you, mister…”

That was the end.

I took a step forward and headed to the battlefield where the monsters were waiting.

After all, he wasn’t a person so ignorant that he could see his comrades crying until the end.

So I pulled the trigger.

continued to pull.

They fired bullets like rain and roamed the battlefield with flashes and explosions.

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Just like that, I covered her final sob with a gunshot.

*

The fight in the inner world is completely different from the way it is in reality.

Unlike the reality where a decision is made by the difference in physical strength, the inner world is decided by the strength of the mind.

Whatever weapon you hold, whatever magic you create.

It means that it is my mental strength that determines its power.

And, the moment when the law of power is fixed by mental power.

Even if the opponent was a god, I could face it.

Quaang-! Kwaaang——!!

A high-pitched gunshot sweeps through the abyss.

A single bullet becomes a fierce storm and sweeps away the ghosts, and the trail stretches forward endlessly.

With flashes of light from gun barrels, the ghosts would tear apart and disappear, making their way along the trail.

“I still don’t know why you stuck there.”

I raised my head and looked at the sky.

There was a single shadow that swallowed the vast abyss.

“As long as you cooperate with the emperor, you are my enemy.”

─·······.

The guy was silent.

It’s probably not even worth talking about.

You don’t even answer something you don’t want to say. Not even a kid.

“They must be trying to send Baltazar back to the emperor.”

─·······.

“The emperor’s deportation must also be something you plotted.”

─·······.

The guy doesn’t answer.

So I decided to just consider it positive.

In other words, that guy made a secret pact with the emperor, induced the emperor to rise up, and now he’s about to release the commander I captured.

What does this mean?

It means I’m a bastard that needs to be caught.

─You can’t stop it.

“Has your mouth been pierced now?”

──Do not try to challenge the supreme will of the gods with the body of a mortal.

“under.”

God.

Laughter comes out of nowhere.

“Do you think you’re the first to preach to me that way?”

I’m sorry, but he’s not the first one like that.

Those who rose to the throne of God and preached arrogantly.

Diablo did it, Baltazar did it, and Ouroboros did it.

The emperor, the head of them, was a guy who took one more drink.

“There was not a single one who was good enough to be called God.”

And the end of those guys is always the same.

“Now it’s your turn.”

Raises mana and holy power and spreads it throughout the body.

…Of course, it won’t be easy.

It is said that there is no limit on magical power in the inner world, but the opponent is a singularity.

It is a being that creates constellations, and has risen to a divine position called the primordial light.

In contrast, I am alone.

There is no one to help, and you have to protect the children alone in this vast space.

“…there’s nothing I can’t do.”

However, that is not a reason for me to give up.

Going through countless battlefields, all I experienced were moments of desperate despair.

I even crossed that line.

Beyond, we have reached the end of the war.

It won’t be any different now.

so that.

In the end, I will be able to overcome even that arrogant bastard called the light of the beginning.

With the tip of the revolver pointed at the sky.

I pulled the trigger into the eyes of the guy I was facing.