Chapter Chapter 105: 12. It’s not over til it’s over (3) (1/2)

RATH 105

TL: Eevee

12. It’s not over til it’s over (3)

#5 Their story: Risen de Roa’s story.

When the light in the sky began to die down, I said yet another lie.

-You nuts?

-I’m probably not going to die peacefully anyway?

I sold out Lady Aris.

But the number of girls I had sacrificed to kill Nerkia wasn’t just a few.

I pulled in a margrave House, and a marquis at that.

One of the Ten Great Families was no big deal.

-Getting ripped apart limb from limb is already a given for me right now, so would I really survive if I got a few different bits torn off instead?

-Kah, you were already the most insane of all my contractors to date, and yet you surpass that title and go even further beyond! I can only respect you for it!

Wow, I got a god’s respect.

But seeing as I’d gone this far.

“It’s not going to fail, right?”

As if to respond to me words, the mass of light got bigger again as it shattered the magic barriers and plunged to the ground.

-But, how are you going to dodge?

-It’s alright, I set it up so that they at least wouldn’t die even if they were hit.

It was an attack that contained the power of all the elementals we had.

An attack composed of every element, an attack that was superior to any other element.

If we’d wanted to we could have made that attack vaporise someone’s very existence, but we could not let off Nerkia, the traitor of the academy and the enemy of men, that easily.

So he was to be taken alive at all costs.

And after we dragged him in, to pay for the sins of betraying the academy, we would turn him over to the silver devil.

We would make him face the thing that we knew was more fearsome than death!

-But controlling that move to be non-lethal won’t be easy?

-Well, of course it won’t.

Controlling magic power the way you want it to is a very difficult thing.

Imagining killing someone is very simple.

But imagining an attack that would decimate the someone yet leave them alive is very difficult.

Unless you were a master torturer, how many people knew the exact limit of the human body?

Moreover, that was a grand spell made by a hundred people.

Common sense dictated that an organisation where all one hundred exactly knew the said limits shouldn’t exist in the empire, no, the entire continent.

-But we experienced it personally getting hit by the silver devil!

-Kah, incredible, Yugrasia! Even that became education!

Every day we tasted incredible pain.

A pain to surpass death.

But we did not die.

On the contrary, our bodies were healed to the point where they felt lighter the next day.

But, it hurts.

It hurts so much it felt like we’d die.

And it was a very simple thing for one hundred people who had experienced that to imagine the sensation where people would just avoid death.

Because all they had to do was remember what had been their daily life!

“Gaaaaahhhh!”

“Kyaaaah!”

“Run, run away!”

“Where? Where the hell are we supposed to run away from that!”

I heard the screams of pain begin from down below.

As the slowly descending Elemental Roar began to engulf the castle walls, casualties had begun to emerge.

“This… is going to hurt.”

But I had to endure.

In order to catch that asshole Nerkia.

-You not gonna put up a shield?

-You can’t defend against the silver devil.

You can’t dodge it, either.

So that attack which was invoked in the image of the silver devil would be unblockable.

Letting yourself get hit and waking up quicker would be the best case scenario.

Thankfully, even outside of those hundred, twelve more people were waiting outside the blast radius on standby.

“Well, they’ll get the job done, right?”

I closed my eyes and waited for a peaceful rest… not, but the pain to hit.

And an attack that felt far too weak compared to the siler devil’s attack rattled my entire body.

“Ugh…”

How much time had passed?

I felt my consciousness returning.

Was this still Arucia’s main base?

Or was this the healers’ tents?

“You alright, vice-pres?”

“Ow…”

I could faintly hear a female voice.

“Come on, get up.”

Had the event still not ended yet.

The hurried voice urged me on.

I shall indeed, wake up.

If the event hadn’t ended, that meant that that asshole Nerkia still hadn’t been caught!

Light began to stream into my eyes as I slowly opened them.

“Ah, you’re awake.”

And the one in front of my eyes was Lady Aris, breathing a sigh of relief.

“Really, you had me worried there…”

As she saw that I had regained consciousness, she smiled brightly.

“Did you know how much I wanted to kill you, vice-president?”

“Ah…”

Now that reminded me, I even dragged Lady Aris into this, hadn’t I?

“DIE.”

With a smile like you’d see from the King of Hell, a giant sword aura tore through the air.

#6 Their story: A certain student council president’s story.

“Ugh… are we alive?”

A giant mass of elemental power dropped onto us from the sky.

I took the people near me and had us shelter underground, and squeezed out all my magic power to form a magic barrier but I couldn’t block it completely.

I honestly thought I was going to die.

But thankfully, it seemed they’d at retained a sense of decency by not killing us.

“First… I need to wake them up.”

Lying around everywhere were the corpse-like bodies of Arucia students.

And as I shook them awake, I heard Risen’s voice from far away.

…Had it begun already?

“L, Lady Aris! Just listen to me!”

“Shut up. Do you think I’d let you freely wag that devil’s tongue of yours?”

Although thankfully it seemed that we had a bit of time thanks to Lady Aris.

I had no idea what he’d done but Lady Aris’s anger was piercing the heavens.

“Oi, oi, Kiir? Wake up? At this rate we’re all going to be eliminated?”

As a start, I grabbed the Arucia student council president Kiir’s lapels and started shaking him.

As he started to make wuhhh~ and other weird noises I started to smack him around a bit.