Chapter 612 (1/2)

It’s me, Zelyse de~su!」

It was Zelyse who had just escaped. But when Fran saw her, she tilted her head.

(Is he really Zelyse?)

『No matter how you look at it, it is him, right?』

(…Something felt strange, is he Zelyse’s younger brother?)

Fran seemed to feel something strange about the Zelyse in front of her. But before she could question him about it, Zelyse opened his mouth first.

「You seem to be interested in this sword, aren’t you?」

What he held up was unmistakably that Pseudo Fanatic Sword. The blade of that sword was missing from the middle.

I was pretty sure that it was that Pseudo Fanatical Sword that we had chased before.

「What is that sword?」

「This sword is an Intelligence Weapon that we created. The name of this sword is――The Transcendence Invincible Strongest Sword――well, it’s a bit long, so let’s just call it the magic sword, Zelyse, shall we?」

The moment Zelyse said that the Pseudo Fanatic Sword’s appearance changed. Like a piece of candy, the supposedly hard sword expanded, stretched, and deformed.

A few seconds later, Zelyse had a sword in his hand that did not resemble the Pseudo Fanatic Sword.

It had a poisonous-looking purple hilt and a huge knuckle guard. It was a short sword with a flashy fluorescent pink blade. No, maybe it was even shorter than that. The blade was thick and looked sturdy, but the base of the blade was thicker than the tip, it was basically something like main-gauche.

The blade, which had been broken, had been completely repaired in its transformation process.

What bad taste, that was all I had to say of it. However, it had a tremendous presence. It seemed that it wasn’t just a change in appearance.

There were also changes in the information that was visible in my appraisal.

The part of the name that had been “None” was changed to Magic Sword, Zelyse. And the skills and other information became completely invisible.

Perhaps the naming process had raised the sword’s status. It might be a phenomenon similar to how I named Urushi and evolved him.

「That sword, is an Intelligence Weapon?」

「That’s right! It’s the sword with a will, the one that sealed me in before!」

Could it be that he had created his own Intelligence Weapon? After all, he has been experimenting with various things using Zelos Reed as his test subject…

It was almost legendary if I do say so myself. It could even be considered rarer than the Divine Swords.

What was more, he said it sealed him in before?

「I don’t get it」

「Fufun? Want to know?」

「Nn」

「Then I’ll tell you!」

Zelyse exclaimed proudly. He really was an easy guy, wasn’t he?

「You see, I’ve been researching the possibility of creating an Intelligence Weapon for a while now. Well, I couldn’t figure out how to seal a soul into a specific vessel, so my interest shifted to the Chimera」

I was created by the Gods, so I’ve never really been aware of it, but I thought it was difficult to seal a soul, which was usually under the authority of the Gods.

「But I still collecting research materials and conducting simple experiments on it」

「Hmm」

「Then, I’ve made a lot of new discoveries over the past few years. Well, it’s thanks to the data of Zelos Reed-san that was provided by me from that timeline though」