“Fuck...”
Louis' hand holding the sword trembled. The sight he saw when he came down was even more gruesome.
A scene reminiscent of a battlefield that had once swept through the country.
Although Simone and the students had risked their lives to reduce the number of casualties, the deaths before their eyes made it seem like all their efforts were in vain.
So many students who had gathered with the sole purpose of saving the Crown Prince were killed by skeletons.
Buildings that collapse and the ground that collapses can somehow be repaired, but human death is irreparable.
"Your Highness..."
Capral also approached Louis with an angry face like Louis.
“I know.”
Louis said through gritted teeth.
Even though countless students died, there were things he had to do as the Crown Prince.
“Capral, Rohias.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Defeat the skeletons heading to the main building and protect the students. Get the principal’s cooperation and send everyone home! Until everything is over, collecting the bodies is also prohibited.”
"All right."
“What will Your Highness do?”
At Eohias' question, Louis looked up at the rooftop.
If he could, he would go straight up and fight alongside her, but the fact that Simone sent Louis down must mean that she also wants to use techniques that could be a nuisance.
“I will also focus on organizing the skeletons together with you. For now, I plan to stay at the academy and observe the situation.”
“I will follow Your Highness.”
Louis, who was about to walk away, looked up at the rooftop again as if he had some regrets.
What he had to do was leave the matter of Anasis to Simone and head to the main building.
He knows that. But he couldn't bring himself to take that step.
'Simone alone took on that strong man...'
Of course, he knows that Simone is strong too. In the end, it seemed like Simone was able to subdue Anasis.
Even if Anasis is a legendary traitor, Simone might be able to subdue her.
But wasn't Simone also very tired and injured?
'It was a bit strange though.'
How tired and exhausted must she have been for her to collapse in an instant? On top of that, she was bleeding a lot because she hit her head first.
The last time Louis saw Simone, her face was so pale that she looked like she was dead.
'Damn it...'
If only I were just a little stronger.
If so, would it have been possible to fight alongside Simone without getting in her way?
At that moment, Abel's image suddenly flashed through Louis' mind.
A sword of a different dimension from one's own.
As a sword master, his swordsmanship would have reduced the skeletons that filled this land to dust with just one strike.
Yeah, he probably would have fought on equal terms with Anasis.
Louis looked down at his golden sword.
'I have to get stronger.'
It wasn't just because of Simone. He had to become strong to protect his people from the Demon King and many other powerful enemies like Anasis.
"Your Highness."
“...I’m sorry. Let’s go.”
Louis was about to start walking again when he heard the calls from Capral and Rohias.
“This is crazy!”
Simone's voice, like a scream, is heard, and something falls from the rooftop.
“That’s...”
Louis reflexively raised his sword and stepped back, then stopped and slowly approached something that had fallen and fallen to the ground.
Then, he pushed back Capral and Rohias, who were following him with their eyes wide open.
“Wait a minute. That’s... a human head.”
Black hair cut short, white skin.
At first glance, her appearance doesn't look much different from Simone's, but if you look closely, her face is very different from hers.
'Anasis.'
Louis frowned. Why was her head hanging on the floor with a split in it?
Did Simone win? The moment Louis approached her without hiding his embarrassment.
The eyes on his closed head suddenly opened and she looked up at the rooftop and started laughing.
'A severed head... is smiling...?'
After a brief moment of confusion at the incomprehensible sight, Louis regained his composure.
“Capral, Rohias, move to the main building!”
"Yes!"
Capral and Rohias started running towards the main building.
Louis raised his sword high into the sky as he heard their footsteps.
“How dare you, a mere phantom...”
Then, without hesitation, he struck Anasis' head with his sword, splitting it in two vertically.
Anasis, who was split in half and no longer looked like a human head.
But Louis couldn't loosen his stiff expression.
Anasis was still laughing. She rolled her eyes as if she was going to pop out, looking back and forth between the rooftop and Louis, who was splitting her head, and laughing at them.
And then he said.
“The body has nothing to do with my life, you foolish idiot.”
“What is that...”
A head with its vocal cords severed speaks. And Louis heard that voice clearly.
It was as if the sound wasn't coming from that head, but rather another intangible entity was approaching Louis's ears.
As Louis stood there speechless at the bizarre sight, the rolling eyes suddenly stopped and looked at Louis before muttering.
“You are like trash. If I take that bowl, I will kill you royal bastards first. You will not die nicely.”
Hahahahahahaha.
Louis hurried after her and tore the lump apart again, but the laughter did not go away.
The lump that had once been Anasis was split in two and rolled faster, disappearing somewhere.
“Damn...”
He missed it. He managed to catch up with the rolling head or the mass, but no matter how much he cut it, the fragmented mass just rolled on, getting smaller, and he couldn't catch it with his hands, so there was no way to catch it.
Do I have to keep watching it run away like this?
As Louis looked foolishly in the direction where it had disappeared, a strong wind blew over his head.
Louis raised his head without realizing it and saw Simone jumping out of the third-floor window with the black wind.
“Huh?”
As Louis was flustered and reflexively took his position, Simone looked down absentmindedly and drew her finger horizontally towards Louise.
Then, Louis was blown backward by the black wind that was surrounding Simone, and Simone landed lightly on the spot where he had been standing.
“Dangerously.”
Simone rebuked him with her eyes.
Of course, if you saw the person falling, your body would have moved first, but if you tried to catch Simone there, at least your bones would be broken, and at worst, you would be brain dead.
Louis nodded with a look on his face that said he really had no idea what was going on.
Simone just fell from the third floor.
It was dangerous for him to try to catch it, but it was even more dangerous for Simone, who had to fall from the third floor, and yet she landed so easily?
Simone was a human who used all her creative skills with her black mana to get her start, but as far as Louis knew, she probably didn't have a skill that would allow her to survive a fall from the third floor.
Simone looked around, not noticing Louis' subtle gaze, and said.
“Don’t chase Anasis.”
"Yes?"
What... are you... saying...?
Simone was startled by Louis's subtle response and cleared her throat.
“You don’t have to chase after me. Anyway. Yes.”
Oh my... Simone sighed.
She tried to somehow keep the soul that borrowed strength from her from sticking out too much, but even when she was doing well, if she let her guard down, another soul self would pop out.
“Why? If you leave it like that, it’ll happen again.”
“There is no reason. We have already lost her, so there is no use chasing her.”
Anasis cannot be captured by force. She is a being close to a strong-willed spirit or vengeful spirit.
I'll have to ask Geneon for more details, but Anasis is a being that cannot be clearly defined.
She is alive but has no physical body, so she can change their appearance freely and she wants a vessel to contain themselves.
Since she has no body, she cannot be captured by force, and at the point where she falls from the railing and runs away, Simone also fails to subdue her.
Simone closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them.
She was not only unprepared but also lacked the strength to deal with Anasis.
Holding on to the spirits of the higher levels and using their power is a type of trick that puts a lot of strain on the body and cannot last very long.
The moment Simone released the tension in her body, the spirit above her, which had been rushing forward as if trying to take over her body, gave up Simone's body and disappeared.
The sunken eyes and black lips gradually returned to their original state, and the skin also regained its color. Along with this, extreme fatigue and body aches began to creep in.
Simone sighed and looked around.
“It would be better to focus more on cleaning up this situation than trying to catch up on what you missed.”
The corpses of students sacrificed by Anasis, and the souls that disappear somewhere as if they were being sucked in so quickly that it is impossible to catch them.
'I guess I'm going to the Demon King.'
Simone took out the magic stone from her bosom and extended it to them, but then gave up and put her hand down.
We must not allow those souls to flow to the Demon King.
Then the Demon King will rise again, the world will turn upside down, and Anasis will sacrifice the Demon King to become stronger from here.
'You shouldn't send your soul away.'
She knew it, but dealing with Anasis was so burdensome that she no longer had the strength to absorb or restrain those souls, no matter how hard she tried.
So what she's saying is that there is no answer right now.
"Ha."
There's nothing she can do.
Simone said, trying to straighten up her staggering body.
“The main characters, the main characters and their friends...”
“Simone, this is...”
Louis hurried to help her up.
“The main character... No, that guy. We have to call Abel and his group.”
Even if you try your best, changing your fate is not easy.
'What happened can't be helped.'
If that's the case, then at least we should prevent what happens next.
'The King of the Underworld. The Demon King must be destroyed.'
Louis' hand holding the sword trembled. The sight he saw when he came down was even more gruesome.
A scene reminiscent of a battlefield that had once swept through the country.
Although Simone and the students had risked their lives to reduce the number of casualties, the deaths before their eyes made it seem like all their efforts were in vain.
So many students who had gathered with the sole purpose of saving the Crown Prince were killed by skeletons.
Buildings that collapse and the ground that collapses can somehow be repaired, but human death is irreparable.
"Your Highness..."
Capral also approached Louis with an angry face like Louis.
“I know.”
Louis said through gritted teeth.
Even though countless students died, there were things he had to do as the Crown Prince.
“Capral, Rohias.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Defeat the skeletons heading to the main building and protect the students. Get the principal’s cooperation and send everyone home! Until everything is over, collecting the bodies is also prohibited.”
"All right."
“What will Your Highness do?”
At Eohias' question, Louis looked up at the rooftop.
If he could, he would go straight up and fight alongside her, but the fact that Simone sent Louis down must mean that she also wants to use techniques that could be a nuisance.
“I will also focus on organizing the skeletons together with you. For now, I plan to stay at the academy and observe the situation.”
“I will follow Your Highness.”
Louis, who was about to walk away, looked up at the rooftop again as if he had some regrets.
What he had to do was leave the matter of Anasis to Simone and head to the main building.
He knows that. But he couldn't bring himself to take that step.
'Simone alone took on that strong man...'
Of course, he knows that Simone is strong too. In the end, it seemed like Simone was able to subdue Anasis.
Even if Anasis is a legendary traitor, Simone might be able to subdue her.
But wasn't Simone also very tired and injured?
'It was a bit strange though.'
How tired and exhausted must she have been for her to collapse in an instant? On top of that, she was bleeding a lot because she hit her head first.
The last time Louis saw Simone, her face was so pale that she looked like she was dead.
'Damn it...'
If only I were just a little stronger.
If so, would it have been possible to fight alongside Simone without getting in her way?
At that moment, Abel's image suddenly flashed through Louis' mind.
A sword of a different dimension from one's own.
As a sword master, his swordsmanship would have reduced the skeletons that filled this land to dust with just one strike.
Yeah, he probably would have fought on equal terms with Anasis.
Louis looked down at his golden sword.
'I have to get stronger.'
It wasn't just because of Simone. He had to become strong to protect his people from the Demon King and many other powerful enemies like Anasis.
"Your Highness."
“...I’m sorry. Let’s go.”
Louis was about to start walking again when he heard the calls from Capral and Rohias.
“This is crazy!”
Simone's voice, like a scream, is heard, and something falls from the rooftop.
“That’s...”
Louis reflexively raised his sword and stepped back, then stopped and slowly approached something that had fallen and fallen to the ground.
Then, he pushed back Capral and Rohias, who were following him with their eyes wide open.
“Wait a minute. That’s... a human head.”
Black hair cut short, white skin.
At first glance, her appearance doesn't look much different from Simone's, but if you look closely, her face is very different from hers.
'Anasis.'
Louis frowned. Why was her head hanging on the floor with a split in it?
Did Simone win? The moment Louis approached her without hiding his embarrassment.
The eyes on his closed head suddenly opened and she looked up at the rooftop and started laughing.
'A severed head... is smiling...?'
After a brief moment of confusion at the incomprehensible sight, Louis regained his composure.
“Capral, Rohias, move to the main building!”
"Yes!"
Capral and Rohias started running towards the main building.
Louis raised his sword high into the sky as he heard their footsteps.
“How dare you, a mere phantom...”
Then, without hesitation, he struck Anasis' head with his sword, splitting it in two vertically.
Anasis, who was split in half and no longer looked like a human head.
But Louis couldn't loosen his stiff expression.
Anasis was still laughing. She rolled her eyes as if she was going to pop out, looking back and forth between the rooftop and Louis, who was splitting her head, and laughing at them.
And then he said.
“The body has nothing to do with my life, you foolish idiot.”
“What is that...”
A head with its vocal cords severed speaks. And Louis heard that voice clearly.
It was as if the sound wasn't coming from that head, but rather another intangible entity was approaching Louis's ears.
As Louis stood there speechless at the bizarre sight, the rolling eyes suddenly stopped and looked at Louis before muttering.
“You are like trash. If I take that bowl, I will kill you royal bastards first. You will not die nicely.”
Hahahahahahaha.
The lump of blood that had turned into a lump laughed happily and started rolling around quickly out of the dormitory.
“Where! I never thought I’d miss it...!”
“Where! I never thought I’d miss it...!”
Louis hurried after her and tore the lump apart again, but the laughter did not go away.
The lump that had once been Anasis was split in two and rolled faster, disappearing somewhere.
“Damn...”
He missed it. He managed to catch up with the rolling head or the mass, but no matter how much he cut it, the fragmented mass just rolled on, getting smaller, and he couldn't catch it with his hands, so there was no way to catch it.
Do I have to keep watching it run away like this?
As Louis looked foolishly in the direction where it had disappeared, a strong wind blew over his head.
Louis raised his head without realizing it and saw Simone jumping out of the third-floor window with the black wind.
“Huh?”
As Louis was flustered and reflexively took his position, Simone looked down absentmindedly and drew her finger horizontally towards Louise.
Then, Louis was blown backward by the black wind that was surrounding Simone, and Simone landed lightly on the spot where he had been standing.
“Dangerously.”
Simone rebuked him with her eyes.
Of course, if you saw the person falling, your body would have moved first, but if you tried to catch Simone there, at least your bones would be broken, and at worst, you would be brain dead.
Louis nodded with a look on his face that said he really had no idea what was going on.
Simone just fell from the third floor.
It was dangerous for him to try to catch it, but it was even more dangerous for Simone, who had to fall from the third floor, and yet she landed so easily?
Simone was a human who used all her creative skills with her black mana to get her start, but as far as Louis knew, she probably didn't have a skill that would allow her to survive a fall from the third floor.
Simone looked around, not noticing Louis' subtle gaze, and said.
“Don’t chase Anasis.”
"Yes?"
What... are you... saying...?
Simone was startled by Louis's subtle response and cleared her throat.
“You don’t have to chase after me. Anyway. Yes.”
Oh my... Simone sighed.
She tried to somehow keep the soul that borrowed strength from her from sticking out too much, but even when she was doing well, if she let her guard down, another soul self would pop out.
“Why? If you leave it like that, it’ll happen again.”
“There is no reason. We have already lost her, so there is no use chasing her.”
Anasis cannot be captured by force. She is a being close to a strong-willed spirit or vengeful spirit.
I'll have to ask Geneon for more details, but Anasis is a being that cannot be clearly defined.
She is alive but has no physical body, so she can change their appearance freely and she wants a vessel to contain themselves.
Since she has no body, she cannot be captured by force, and at the point where she falls from the railing and runs away, Simone also fails to subdue her.
Simone closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them.
She was not only unprepared but also lacked the strength to deal with Anasis.
Holding on to the spirits of the higher levels and using their power is a type of trick that puts a lot of strain on the body and cannot last very long.
The moment Simone released the tension in her body, the spirit above her, which had been rushing forward as if trying to take over her body, gave up Simone's body and disappeared.
The sunken eyes and black lips gradually returned to their original state, and the skin also regained its color. Along with this, extreme fatigue and body aches began to creep in.
Simone sighed and looked around.
“It would be better to focus more on cleaning up this situation than trying to catch up on what you missed.”
The corpses of students sacrificed by Anasis, and the souls that disappear somewhere as if they were being sucked in so quickly that it is impossible to catch them.
'I guess I'm going to the Demon King.'
Simone took out the magic stone from her bosom and extended it to them, but then gave up and put her hand down.
We must not allow those souls to flow to the Demon King.
Then the Demon King will rise again, the world will turn upside down, and Anasis will sacrifice the Demon King to become stronger from here.
'You shouldn't send your soul away.'
She knew it, but dealing with Anasis was so burdensome that she no longer had the strength to absorb or restrain those souls, no matter how hard she tried.
So what she's saying is that there is no answer right now.
"Ha."
There's nothing she can do.
Simone said, trying to straighten up her staggering body.
“The main characters, the main characters and their friends...”
“Simone, this is...”
Louis hurried to help her up.
“The main character... No, that guy. We have to call Abel and his group.”
Even if you try your best, changing your fate is not easy.
'What happened can't be helped.'
If that's the case, then at least we should prevent what happens next.
'The King of the Underworld. The Demon King must be destroyed.'
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