Chapter 117. Things Wriggling Underneath the Feet (3)
Even the air was sweet.
Fabiano felt so from the moment he saw her blue eyes.
“Whew…….”
At the same time, he noticed that he was falling into Evil.
Although he was defeated badly by Barzio, Fabiano was a seasoned knight who had built up much experience in the Torch Knights.
“May the Goddess protect us, even if I pass through a dark valley I cannot reach…….”
He quietly recited the Order’s benediction and tried to straighten his soul.
Thus, when he opened his eyes again and looked straight at reality, the air in the room he thought was sweet was full of the smell of rotting corpses, and the girl he thought was beautiful was looking at him opening her eyes tainted by darkness bizarrely.
“Young Lady, we came to protect you.”
Tarania opened her Jewel Eyes and approached slowly to reassure the girl in front of her.
“H-help me.”
A young girl opening her arms with tears in her eyes toward the approaching Tarania.
“Do not approach any further. Tarania.”
Tarania tried to approach with a smile to reassure her, but was stopped by Blanc who had drawn Aselheit’s sword.
“……Count.”
Blanc raised his head and looked at the ceiling.
He moved Tiday’s Evil to his left eye and was peeking into the world of shadows not permitted to human eyes.
There were things visible only to pitch-black eyes tainted by Evil.
“It does not work on me. You wicked thing.”
Blanc remembered the amorphous Evil that had hidden in Ciella’s soul.
Those things that blinked numerous eyes attached to their bodies and absorbed people’s lust and desire.
Blanc, whose level of handling Tiday’s Evil had become far superior to back then, could see.
“It is not just one or two.”
The amorphous Evil floating above the blonde girl and looking at them.
They were attached to the ceiling looking down at the Demon-breaking Knights.
And the girl was glaring at the knights along with them.
***
“Our goal is not to annihilate these things.”
Tarania opened her Jewel Eyes fully and looked at the Evil floating on the ceiling.
Although she couldn't affect them since she hadn't pulled them out to the real world yet.
“It is to find the location of the black mage who scattered these things in Baltimere.”
Fabiano, standing behind, took out his whip wrapped around his waist.
“If we save just one and kill all the rest, the remaining one will find its mother on its own.”
Blanc glared at them, opening his eyes tainted by Evil bleakly.
“I will tie them up.”
Ominous characters began to be engraved on the whip Fabiano held.
“Please pull out the black rope. Sir Tarania.”
For Blanc to cut them down, pulling them out to the real world first was the priority.
Tarania nodded and tried to make eye contact with the girl, but.
The girl was already deeply tainted by Evil.
“Heuh! Heu! Kyaaak!”
The girl was reciting something with her mouth and trying to play tricks.
Blanc approached her quickly, grabbed her hair, and said.
“I do not know if you are listening, but.”
Then he fluttered the cloak he was wearing in front of the girl’s eyes.
“I will definitely detach those things from you.”
To Blanc’s eyes harboring high-ranking Evil, it was visible.
That behind the gaze currently rolling white and turned pitch-black, there was the soul of a young girl trembling in fear not knowing what to do.
When Blanc injected Aura into the cloak, the night sky soon rose on the dark cloak.
Bright stars that seemed to have taken a part of the universe rose on the cloak, grabbed Evil’s gaze, and seduced it with illusion.
“Hold it there!”
Feeling the energy of Evil weakening, Tarania’s Jewel Eyes were burning emitting blue Ghost Fire.
“Heuh…… Aaaaaak!”
The girl screaming painfully just like in Ciella’s time.
The girl’s soul was being pulled out along the narrow hole of the dense prison created by Evil.
Along with the girl’s scream, all candles lit in Rozo’s mansion began to flicker.
“Kyaaaaaak-!”
It cried so mournfully that it melted the intestines of everyone in the mansion, but there was an eerie energy felt even within that.
That energy grabbed the girl’s soul trying to escape to itself and tried to take it back into its sticky inside, but.
“You wicked thing!”
Blanc did not hide his anger toward it and heated up Tiday’s Evil even more.
The scream of a man filled with fear and pain starting from Tiday’s Brand seemed to be heard.
“Heuheuk…… Please save me.”
The girl twisting her body painfully covered in tears.
“Follow me.”
The girl finally made eye contact with Tarania.
Her body floated slowly into the air.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
Black tears flowing from the girl’s eyes began to rise drop by drop toward the ceiling.
“I call the Goddess' name from inside the deep pit. Please turn your gaze to the pitiful lamb crying fallen in the dark place here and…….”
Every time Tarania recited the prayer, the girl’s body bent violently, but the Demon-breaking Knights did not stop.
Because it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
“It appears!”
At Fabiano’s shout, Blanc stopped subduing the girl with his gaze and quickly entered his Mental World.
Reality with one eye.
His soul with one eye.
Thus, Blanc, who created a passage connecting two worlds through his sword, summoned the most effective energy in this situation and coated his sword with it.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
“Now!”
Along with the girl’s short scream, the room they were in shook greatly.
At the same time, bright lights flooded into the small window in the room.
It wasn't just this place shaking.
Every corner of Baltimere was shaking.
The Grand Exorcism simultaneously cast by the Torch Knights and priests of the Goddess Order was being performed.
The voices of noble people calling the Goddess' name resonated throughout Baltimere.
The noble people thrust the candles they held toward Evil and were finding the pitiful lambs flailing inside it and pulling them out with their two hands.
And a holy single strike no less than that was unfolded in Rozo Andrew’s mansion here as well.
From the hand of Blanc Cadmus, the Seeker of the Blue Star and Demon-breaking Knight of the Torch Knights.
“The world I created shall burn white following the will of the Goddesses!”
Blanc’s single strike split the black ropes constricting the girl’s soul.
Following the pillars of light spreading high into the sky, blue sword energy shot out.
It split the mansion’s wall, cut through the darkness covering Baltimere, and soared high into the sky.
“……!”
And at that moment, Blanc could see.
Between the gaps of the world he split.
Following the black rope.
The woman drawn in the portrait was seen.
The woman wearing a black veil was looking at Blanc with surprised eyes.
As if she didn't know he would pierce through here.
It was a very fleeting moment, but Blanc rolled his eyes quickly even in that short moment and grasped the situation.
Thus he could find it.
Along with the moon rising hugely behind the woman’s shoulder.
The Continental Lighthouse was seen.
“Found you.”
The Black Wolf said, baring his fangs.
***
“Got it!”
Fabiano’s whip grabbed one Evil trying to run away through the gap in the world.
“……!”
When one of them was caught by the ankle by Fabiano, the impure things opened hundreds of eyes simultaneously and began to look at Fabiano.
“Uaaaaaaaak!”
Instantly, a massive pressure of power fell upon Fabiano.
The floor was gouged deep making a cracking sound, but Fabiano clenched his teeth and endured it.
“Count!”
“Where do you dare!”
Blanc quickly blocked Fabiano’s front and fluttered the cloak he received from Ulrich.
Stars rose instantly on the black cloak.
At the appearance of the cloak as if the Milky Way rising in the night sky was embroidered, the Evil had their gazes stolen instantly.
The eyes of the Evil, having lost the enemy and lost their gaze in the illusion, were closing.
“Heup!”
Although Blanc could barely win by combining the help of Neudorf’s knights and Berger when dealing with the Evil attached to Ciella, a single sword movement was enough if they were things that lost their ability like now.
“Return to where you bastards were!”
White burning thunderbolt.
Meteor Shower containing it shot down at the Evil.
Blanc’s swift and sharp sword struck down without hesitation toward the Evil that closed their eyes.
And those dragged out from their world became unable to open their closed eyes ever again.
“Ugueuk!”
Fabiano, while spilling a handful of blood from his mouth, quickly searched his bosom, took out a sheet of paper, and attached it to the Evil he caught.
“……!”
It was an Evil that only opened its eyes when Fabiano’s hand touched it, but it could not refuse the sanctification order written on the paper containing a Cardinal-class benediction.
It was the Goddesses who created this world.
And the place where Evil existed was the world created by the Goddesses, not the other side of the world where it had hidden all this while.
“Go in!”
The Evil blinked hundreds of eyes and tried to resist somehow, but its resistance was futile beyond measure.
When the paper flashed white, the Evil disappeared without a trace in an instant.
“Is it done?”
At Blanc’s question, Fabiano lowered his head and looked at the paper fallen on the floor.
“It is done.”
On the paper Fabiano took out, an Evil raising hundreds of eyes was drawn along with the densely written benediction.
“We succeeded.”
Tarania swept her chest and quickly approached the girl sprawled on the floor.
“She is alive.”
Looking at the girl who was breathing shallowly although haggard, Blanc also swept his chest.
“I have gained the face to see the mansion’s owner.”
The pitiful girl captivated by Evil and the father driven to a terrible decision were saved today.
By three Demon-breaking Knights.
Although no one would know and no one would speak of it, the father and daughter’s souls could safely return to the hands of the Goddesses again today.
“Whew…….”
They were three Demon-breaking Knights exhausted from dealing with dark Evil deep in the night, but smiles hung on their faces.
“We succeeded.”
Since they captured the targeted Evil alive, now only the task of taking this to Moirai and interpreting its origin remained.
The Demon-breaking Knights and Exorcist Priests gathered in Baltimere tonight achieved the purpose gathered here…….
BOOOOOOOM-!
Rozo’s mansion shook at a loud roar that seemed to shake the earth’s axis.
“What is happening!”
“It is not our side!”
Blanc quickly kicked open the girl’s room door and ran up to the highest place in the mansion.
Blanc, having jumped up to the mansion’s roof.
What was seen in his eyes was.
“Oh my God…….”
It was the shape of a black dog with a huge and ominous body revealed under the moonlight.
An ominous black dog with hundreds of eyes embedded all over its body.
A giant Evil howled in the middle of Baltimere.
“They failed.”
***
Three Demon-breaking Knights were jumping over roofs under the moonlight.
They moved through the roofs to approach the black dog as quickly as possible.
While running, Fabiano took out a paper from his bosom and began to examine it quickly.
It was a paper with the names of noble people written on it.
The paper was burning.
“Team 1, Team 2, Team 3, Team 7…….”
The names of those who succeeded were burning by holy flame.
“Team 4 and Team 6 have not finished the Grand Exorcism yet!”
Instantly, the place where Team 4’s name was written began to burn by holy flame.
“Team 4 is a success!”
The Order and Torch Knights deployed elite personnel to burn the Evil in Baltimere.
Ten teams of 40 personnel including Blanc performed the Grand Exorcism simultaneously to pull out the Evil in Baltimere, and most achieved success, but.
“Team 6…… Team 6…….”
Fabiano called Team 6’s name regretfully looking at the paper, but their names did not burn.
“Team Leader!”
At that moment, looking at the shaking paper, Tarania pointed to where Team 6’s name was with her finger, but.
Blood, not holy flame, was spreading on the paper.
Red tears of blood were erasing the noble names written on Team 6.
“……Team 6, all dead.”
Fabiano took his eyes off the paper and looked at Blanc.
KRAAAAA-!
The Evil was howling in the distance.
“I will go first!”
Blanc quickly drew Aselheit’s sword, wrapped Aura around his whole body, and rushed out toward the black dog.
The knight named Blanc Cadmus was a person based on the sword principles of Pleasure and Speed.
The sound of wind was heard loudly in the ears of the swiftly running Blanc.
‘Too far!’
Baltimere boasted a huge area befitting the capital of a kingdom, and Team 6 and Blanc’s team were located on exactly opposite sides.
Even though Blanc was approaching quickly, the distance to the giant black dog did not narrow easily.
“Team 6 failed!”
“We must stop it!”
People wearing gray cloaks were appearing one after another beside Blanc.
Those who successfully finished the Grand Exorcism noticed Team 6’s failure like Blanc and were moving quickly to handle it, but.
The black dog raising hundreds of eyes did not wait for them.
“No!”
The giant Evil forced out to the real world and full of anger naturally looked for a place to vent that anger.
And eventually found it.
“Over there!”
One of the Demon-breaking Knights shouted like a scream.
The place the Evil was heading to was the residential district where commoners lived gathered together in Baltimere.
The black dog flicked its red tongue and turned its body to move.
To the place where fresh blood, cries full of fear, and soft flesh of humans were.
The Demon-breaking Knights were far away, the black dog was fast, and the victims would be many.
A terrible failure was approaching.
However, Blanc gritted his teeth and increased his speed, kicking the ground without giving up until the end.
Because the only Regressor in this world was a person who gave up the right to give up.
White Thunderbolt began to flash at the tips of his feet.
At the same time, the gray knights following him began to lag behind, but even so, it was too far to reach the Evil.
The moment the black dog’s tongue flicked wickedly and its sharp claws were raised high into the sky.
There was a figure falling down under the moonlight.
“With a posture like an iron wall that cannot be pierced by anything.”
It was a dry voice with absolutely no emotion, but.
The power that voice emitted was solid beyond measure.
“……!”
The black dog, filled only with the thought of tearing humans apart, instantly felt a solid and heavy momentum digging into its forehead and urgently raised its hand to block, but.
The sword falling amidst the moonlight was too overwhelming to block with two arms.
The solid and heavy sword burst hundreds of eyes and swung itself to the end of the earth.
KRAAAA-!
The black dog ended up being split in half, screaming only a faint scream without even being able to attempt what it tried to do.
Hundreds of eyes embedded in the black dog looked at the knight fallen from the sky as if they couldn't believe it.
“Huff…… Huff…….”
Even Blanc, who reached the black dog breathing roughly, looked at him with awe.
“It has been a long time. Count Blanc.”
A knight who jumped down under the moonlight wearing white armor.
He stepped on the giant black dog’s corpse and looked down at Blanc.
“It has been a long time.”
He was a person qualified to look down at Blanc.
Schumacher Tolome, the Vice-Commander of the Royal Knights of the Kingdom of Felix and the strongest knight of the Tolome family.
He appeared cutting through Evil in the dark night.