Chapter 1.8 (1/2)

Chapter 1.8

1.8 Romance and Sora

Sora thrusts his left hand into Elias’s abdomen and yanks out her mana stone.  Feeling its pulse within his grip a.s.sures him of his victory.  He took a gamble and succeeded… so why hasn’t Elias vanished?

Elias laughs while Sora wonders about the strange development.  “Ahahahahahahahahaa!!”

“Wh- what…?”

Sora’s surprise is to be expected.  Elias is of the demon race.  Ak.u.ma, just like monsters, vanish upon having their mana stone stolen from their bodies.  Sora is holding Elias’s mana stone, yet not only is she not disappearing, she’s laughing.

Impossible, I’ll never be able to win like this

Elias says, “No way~, I never thought you’d take my mana stone~.  I messed up~.  Looks like I lost~.”

Sora says, “Eh, I won?”

“That’s right~.”

I claimed a victory against Dai Maou Elias, but it comes with a bitter aftertaste.  How is Elias still alive after having her mana stone stolen?  That doubt overshadows any happiness he might feel.

Sora says, “Elias, can I ask you something?”

“Yes~?”

“How are you still alive after having your mana stone taken?”

“Yeah~, it’s a long story that should be within my memories~.”

“Got it.”

Sora searches Elias’s memories and discovers that she possesses three mana stones.  Furthermore, if one is lost, it’ll immediately be restored.  How is anyone supposed to defeat that!

Sora, with his question settled, rejoices at his victory.

–Cute Star ★ wants Brother Moon to visit–

With the battle over, everyone is returned to the room with the round table.  Sora turns to Elias and says, “What effects does the Dai Maou’s divine protection grant?”

“Hmm~, to be honest, I don’t really know~.  This is my first time granting it, so I’ll look into it~.”  She then approaches Sora and spins him around.

“What are you doing?”

Elias looks him over while saying, “Mm~, I’m investigating the ability of your evil eye~.”

Elias, unlike Sora, possess 5 evil eye skills.  Her first evil eye allows her to hijack her target’s body.  Her second evil eye lets her kill her target on sight.  Her third evil eye lets her see the skills of her target.  Her forth evil eye allows her to see very far away.  In other words, it grants her clairvoyance.  Her final eye allows her to tempt her target.

Elias’s eyes flutter, chira chira, towards his face a few times.  Is she using her third evil eye to see my skills?  Sora is reluctant, but still asks, “Did you learn something?”

“Fuufuufu~, I heard something good~.  I know exactly what the Dai Maou’s divine protection grants~.”

Elias gives a long, detailed, explanation about her divine protection.  Simply stated,people who receive her divine protection don’t die easily, have an irregular stat growth, and acquire powerful max Lv. skills.  More than all of that, the level limit is removed.

She says, “Well~, isn’t it amazing~?”

“It’s incredibly awesome.  Cerberus would have killed me without your divine protection…”

“Yep, yep, it’s all thanks to me~.”

That comment is a bit annoying, but she totally right.  I wouldn’t be here if Elias hadn’t rescued me and without her divine protection, right now I’d be in Cerberus’s stomach.  Everything really

is all thanks to her.

Sora says, “Thank you,” and then moves to his final perplexity.  “There have been some discrepancies with your memories, like, Cerberus.”

“Mm~, you’re right~, that surprised me too~.  Things have most likely~ changed while I was away.”

“Ah, I see.”  Elias was sealed in the void for centuries.  Monster will naturally have migrated during those hundreds of years.

Sora, satisfied with having his questions answered, turns towards Yami and Sura— Elias grabs his shoulder.  She says, “Where are you going~?”