Prologue (1/2)

00.OLD HAG DIES AT THE SUNSET

The world at the sunset. A red world. It was not only dyed in the red of the sunset, but also by the the death of people oozing out at the ground. It was h.e.l.l there. It was the depths of h.e.l.l. A h.e.l.l where giant Shuras covered in steel were killing each other.

“s.h.i.+tty old hag, this is your end!”

At the center of all this, a giant sword was being swung. The more than three meters sword was being swung by the giant in black armor that had more than four meters.

“Silly brat. Alas, you haven´t eaten enough. Let me suck your hard thing!”

And the golden giant, who was looking at the eyes of the black giant, raised its giant war hammer in response to the descending blow of the sword. And then, the sound of the two heavy steel cras.h.i.+ng echoed through the battlefield, making sparkles fly around, swirling at the dimly dark surroundings and illuminating it sublimely.

However, there was pretty much n.o.body that had the chance to look at this fantasy like scene. Most of the ones that had been alive here had already died. There were innumerable wreckages of iron giants throughout the land. There were pieces of meat that used to be humans. There were also dead bodies of beasts.

At the beginning, the ones killing each other at this land weren´t only the two of them. There were many other iron giants. There were soldiers standing at their surroundings, there were magicians, there were huge beasts baring their fangs and killing one another.

It was the deciding battle of the two power houses: The Rowen empire and the Doubah alliance.

The outcome of all the people swinging their own weapons, continuing to kill and continuing to be killed was the fight of those two giants. Because those two had kept killing, they only had each other left as opponents to kill.

If it wasn´t for that, a one-on-one situation like this one would be impossible to happen. With both of the generals clas.h.i.+ng, the spectacle was just like the heroic tales that would be told to children.

The one inside the black iron giant was the emperor of the Rowen empire, Jiin

The one inside the golden iron giant was the queen of the Mourian mercenary nation, Beladonna.

Right now, both were putting all their power into killing each other in this battlefield. Their bodies were fired up without limits.

“Hyahyahya, this is so fun, Jinn, my boy.”

“Nonsense. Because of you that I had failed my ambitions. The army I´ve been raising for long years and months became in this state.”

Jinn shouted. However, he could not stop the attack. The armor of the giant had already become worn out, and he didn´t have any other tricks in his sleeve. Therefore, all he could do was to swing his sword. Silver vapor was being blown off from the pipes at the back of the giant. All he could do now was swinging the sword the giant carried.

“As if it is possible to say a disastrous occurrence like that is fun.”

The black giant swept his sword at the feet of the golden giant, but seeing through these movements, the golden giant caught the sword with the sole of its feet before it could catch speed.

“Ghggh!?”( グヌゥゥウッ)

“Ha, naive.”

The old woman shouted. And then, after the golden giant kicked the sword off the hands of the opponent, it attacked the black giant whose stance had been broken. Stepping at the foot pedal with all the strength she could muster, spurting out the silvery vapor in one go, the golden giant crashed into the black giant. Then, as Jinn raised a groan due to the impact of the crash, Beladonna continued to laugh at him.

“Hyahya!!”

“What are you laughing about? You too; your own subordinates had also died, and you are now only by yourself. What is so funny? What are you laughing about!?”

“Hey, hey, are you serious? Are you seriously saying that?”

The old woman was insanely laughing. She kept laughing as if he had told her a joke.

“You are having fun as well, aren´t you?

As if going through the vision of what her iron giant could see, she asked at the emperor that was inside the black giant.

“Despicable!”

“Even if you say all these things, you body is honest. Hey, hey, look at us, spirits of the dead in this battlefield. Look at this pa.s.sionate love scene between this emperor-sama and this old hag!!”

The golden giant was pretty much at zero distance from him. It was possible for Jinn to imagine the figure of the old woman inside the giant insanely laughing. But at the same time, Jinn was able to understand that she was the exact reflected image of himself. He was self-aware that his lips were raised to the point of them feeling they would tear apart. However, he could not admit this. Jinn had decided to be a ruler. He could not be a soldier.

“Die, old hag!!”

Therefore, what he pressed forward was his fist. The steel fist covered by a knuckle guard crashed at the golden giant that was on top of the black giant, forcing it away with the impact.

“Hya, aren´t you hard, my boy?”

At the same time the old woman had been , she was about to swung the war hammer at his side, but…

*Crumble(ギャリッ)

With this dull sound, the hand dismantled in the air. And then, being thrown to the sky, the war hammer was sent to a place away from the black giant, making a metallic sound when it fell down to the ground. What happened was that the right hand reached its limit after how it had been recklessly overworked until now.

“Tch!?”

Because of that, the old woman immediately clicked her tongue.

“It looks like you were unlucky!”

The golden giant that had lost its weapon and had its stance broken was pierced by the sword of the black giant. The attack went through the armor and went straight in direction of the old woman´s torso.

“Hyahaaaa!”

However, stepping at the left foot pedal, the old woman made the golden giant slightly turn to the side as it dived into the sword.

“Ggh”(ぐぬぅうッ)

While having its direction bent by the previous movement, the giant sword pierced through chest of the giant. With the impact, Jinn clenched his teeth, but the old woman kept laughing as if she was at her climax.

The broken pieces of the golden giant scattered around and silver vapor blew out of its slits in a uncontrollable manner. However, the momentum of the giant didn´t lessen.