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Arifureta After IIThe Fight is Over
Looking at the nuth between the kingdoainst each other
But, in reality it wasn't like that at all
It was just like a clu sed by muddy stream
That could only be said to be natural After all in this place, everything in every senses orking in the kingdos> congregated at the surrounding of Arquette's underground vault, it was possible to surround the in the raphical advantage that was urban warfare
Third, there was already no , although only for a bit but the <Dark Beings> looked exhausted
Fourth, it was only within a part of the <Dark Beings>, but because they had been continuously losing fighting against only one person, fear against hurow in them
And then, above all else, the bloodcurdling fighting spirit of the kingdoht, the pressure from that beaten down the reatest cause of the curbsto attacked The vindication of honor for five years ago Hatred toward the very race of <Dark Being> itself
Just one person──
Even though he bore no duty or responsibility whatsoever, he continued to fight for three whole days while getting worn out The soldiers' feeling toward that person couldn't be expressed ords
For a soldier, after witnessing such an exalted gallant figure, there was no way they couldn't be shaken There was no way they could stop their soul fro spirit where there was no need for hesitation to use that word to represent it was exters> one after another
『Re, Retreat-! Retreat-』
So> yelled that
If their opponent was only one person, their obstinacy could hold on If they were against one man who looked like he would collapse anyti that the next attack for sure would finish the fight, that they would be the one ould bring down the eneambler who felt that the jackpot would coht of when to quit
「Rout the them away from Kouki's nearby!」
Moana's command thundered The soldiers chased and routed the ene that the battle had been decided, the <Dark Beings> were running away fro thes> who realized that they were already unable to escape and launched suicide attack at Kouki, but before Moana and others could even say 「Ah」, Kouki ere swaying in place cut thele stroke of katana
It ord skill that wouldlike a joke
The veteran Spenser atching felt as though he couldn't recognize thethe head When he noticed it was already over
Kouki kept standing i down His expression couldn't be seen, but even though Moana had been calling at hio, he showed no reaction in response
His state was uncommon
And yet despite so, with that state where he wasn't even taking stance, he aying back and fro while slaughtering <Dark Beings> that leaped at him with sword attack that couldn't be perceived
「The sword's……summit──sword saint」
Spenser whispered with a hoarse voice It was a legend that his father told him when he was but a child
An unseen and unavoidable sword strike One of the suht to aim for
In the far past, that technique was considered as the king's sword, the character of the legend was extolled and people were calling him <Sword Saint>
The current Kouki, he looked just like the second coend
「Kouki!」
When Spenser went 'hah' and caure of <Dark Being> at the surrounding The tu could be heard froate
And then, Moana took the healing art users with her and rushed toward Kouki
She was rushing toward Kouki with greatbefore this
「Don't-, yoursilently with both his hands dangling down and his face looking doaying
Moana who heard Spenser's voice and looked back──was already in Kouki's range
「-!!!」
「Gua!?」
A hair's breadth Lilin pulled Moana back The two fell behind and rolled around 「What are you doing」 Moana said while her voice was stifled fro In the field of vision of Moana who lifted her face, white strings were fluttering down in the air……
「Eh?」
「Are you safe, Moana-sama!?」
「Your majesty-, are you injured!?」
Lilin asked with a pale expression while Spenser called with an impatient expression, but the astonished Moana didn't pay thes
Those were──her hair
The tips of Moana's white hair were slightly cut and fluttered in the air
Who cut those hairs?
That was obvious
「Kouki?」
There was no answer to her call
Kouki were standing still on his original position──above the door of the underground vault
Thanks to rolling down on the ground, Moana finally could see the face of Kouki that was looking down At the same time, she noticed the abnorht in those half closed eyes Those eyes were e at anywhere
「It looks like……he is alive But, he is unconscious What the……」
「Unbelievable……」
Both Spenser and Lilin lost their words Moana too also the same
That was understandable
Just who in the world could possibly i at him once more, Kouki's state was really atrocious
There was all kind of sizes of wounds throughout his body Few places were unharmed He was blood drenched all over his body, his brown hair was dyed dark red by his own blood and ene was shallow and faint, it sounded like it would stop anytiap of his torn clothes arped, perhaps it was because his ribcage was broken and changed shape……
The sword that changed shape was gripped in only one hand, because his other arm was broken all over fro closer, the hand that was grasping the srapped in several layer of cloth scraps, so that even if the hand lost gripping strength, the souldn't slip down
jijiji-, jijiji- The holy sas flickering with light like a lah expressing the light of Kouki's life as it was
Just how long he had been fighting continuously in this state?
His figure that was continuing to fight even when he was unconscious
Moana sent his gaze toward the spot where Kouki was standing The entrance of the underground vault
She understood just frole hair of them
An emotion that couldn't possibly be expressed ords beca the them until the end aren't you, Kouki……」
Moana stood up Spenser and Lilin tried to stop her, but Moana told them no need with a serous to get near the current Kouki ould remove anyone who approached However, they beca that s inside their chest fro attentively in silent No, it wasn't just the two of them, before they realized they were surrounded by soldiers atching attentively with the saaze
Two meter left until Kouki's sword boundary
「Kouki Kouki, it'stoward you now I'
「Everything is all right already Because you have protected to the very end There is no
Kouki reacted with swaying
Spenser was about to aze was directed straight at Kouki Trust at the utaze Spenser also relaxed his body
「That's why, you can rest already It's okay to not fight……that's why-」
Re distance──zero
The holy sword vanished That was how the unseen sword strike looked like when it approached Moana's neck──when it stopped still right above the skin
Even if he was unconscious, but if someone called at him wholeheartedly, the kind hiht here" was conveyed to him, he absolutely wouldn't harm someone ished to protect
Moana as convinced of that gently embraced Kouki without even a shred of discoroan When Moana peered into Kouki's face while supporting hi Moana's face Those eyes were faintly like la in it
「……Mo……a……」
「Yes, it's ht here, Kouki」
「…………I have……to……protect」
It was a hoarse voice that alently whispered with her tears overflowing once ht It's over already Everyone is safe You protected theht already」
「……I…………pro, tected?」
Kouki's eyes were slightly opened wide, it was like he wanted to say 「Unbelievable」 even though it was so that he did hiht into Kouki's eyes with a strong gaze while telling him
「Yes, you protected them Thank yo「u, Kouki Everyone, is saved by you」
Kouki who received those words was……
「……I'htly and closed his eyes
The body sluht as though to say that its role was over Moana as glued closely to Kouki understood, that so froth, was as though……
「Quick-, heal him! Hurry! This person absolutely must not be let to die!」
A command that sounded like scream was yelled The art users who stiffened fro their art
The expression of the art users of the capital who excelled in healing greorse with impatience That told the reality of the precariousness of the current Kouki
「Please, I beg you don't die……Kouki……」
Moana's prayer resounded a that still reverberated fro around in order to get the people of Arquette out froh he was floating fro terribly heavy was coiling around hi His voice too, his throat stung and couldn't really make voice
(What……the world after death is really simple huh……)
If place like hell or heaven really existed, hetoward hell without doubt If he waited here, before long even king Yae him
This time for sure, there would be no one that could chase after hih Shizuku and others had saved h I finally found h it finally felt like I can live by facing forward……how unfortunate)
Loneliness, sadness, frustration
When he thought that he wouldn't be able to s welled up like flood
At the sairl who he felt like he was seeing at the very end like a miracle
(Moana, sa I was fighting but……I wonder if I was able to protect everyone?)
He protected the so, but deep inside Kouki he was convinced of that That he surely achieved that
(Though, I killed as many as I protected)
It was impossible to save "both sides" However, if he pursued for "one side" and didn't fail in doing that……then as he thought, it reat nu to hell Was king Ya kept in suspense like this was……honestly felt scary, so he wished that he would quickly coination, what surfaced at the back of Kouki's uy", surely he will point his gun even to king Yama and asked 「Are you enemy, or ally」 instead If the answer to that is eneer)
What a really si that he couldn't possibly do
Thinking that, for some reason Kouki found it extrehed