Book 2: Chapter 38 (1/2)

(Please be safe, my lady…!)

I started running toward the castle gate that separates the 1st Holy District and the Holy Royal Palace.

「Reiji-kun, we should talk to the 1st Knights Order.」Lelenore-san said, as we ran at full speed.

Certainly, the castle gate was guarded by the Knight Order.

…Just what the hell are you guys doing? Something is happening right now! Right behind you!

「There’s no need for that.」I replied.

「Eh?」

I awakened many of the skill orbs that my body learned.【Physical Strength Enhancement】,【Back Muscle Enhancement】,【Abdominal Muscle Enhancement】, and【Body Enhancement】coupled with【Sprinting Technique】.

「EEHHHH!?」

The distance between me and Lelenore-san increased greatly. My body became swift as wind, and I reached the castle gate instantly.

「Hey, which House’s escort are y–」

「Stop! Stop! You can’t pass through here–」

I lowered my center of gravity and kicked the stone pavement with【Power Burst Enhancement】and【Jumping Technique】.

「EEHHHHHHH!?」Lelenore-san screamed in shock.

I jumped over the castle gate easily and landed on the other side.

(【Healing Magic】)

My muscle fibers were screaming in pain, but I healed them with magic.

And then I started running through the deserted Holy Royal Palace, straight for the hemispherical darkness.

(What is that? Is the young lady inside that?)

I remembered the time when I fought the dragon in Achenbach Dukedom.

I didn’t have the power to fight back then, so I was taken away from the battlefield by Non-san.

If I had the same power I do now back then, there might not have been so many casualties.

Raikira-san might not have died.

(—But this time, I will make it in time!)

I was almost reaching up on the dark dome. Should I just go in straight, or by some other means?

「!!」

Just then, I found a figure of a person standing in front of the dome.

* Eva Sillys *

Eva initially thought that the darkening of her vision was due to her fainting. But soon realized that her non-visual senses were still normal. The warmth of Mira’s embrace, someone’s scream, and the wind blowing in—a scorching smell.

「Your Majesty, what is this!?」

There were only a limited number of bright things in the dark. The brilliance of Holy Blue that overflowed from the body of the Holy Prince Kluvshrat, who was right next to her, and the same light overflowing from the Holy King, who was standing on the stone steps.

When she squinted her eyes, there was a denser darkness next to the Holy King, and black fog seemed to gush out from there.

「UOOOOHHH! Get lost!!」

The Holy King swung his staff with all his might, aimed at the dense darkness.

The place where the darkness was was the place where Louis stood not long ago.

(Louis…?)

An unpleasant thought that Eva didn’t want to think about crossed her mind.

That that darkness might be Louis.

The darkness pulled back and evaded, but the darkness of the surroundings—the darkness that filled this space seemed to have eased just slightly at that moment.

「Sorry, I am okay now.」

「Eva-sama!? Are you okay?」

「Yes… just don’t look at my eyes.」

Eva, whose mana had recovered, raised her body while trying not to look at Mira’s face.

It seemed that the only people who could understand what was happening here were the Holy King, El, and Duke Rozier.

(My magic eyes caused Louis-sama to…)

She knew that Louis’s bullish behavior was clearly caused by her “Magic Eye of Inspire”.

Her chest hurt so much.