Arifureta After III Abyss Lord Arc Chapter 2 Epilogue Second
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AN: Before this, the「Epilogue First」 was posted.
Two chapters are posted today.
Those who haven’t read it, please go to the previous chapter.
Kousuke and others passed through the solemn (projection) gate and managed to return to earth.
Like that, what entered into their view was……
――O king-, please answer-. Why, are you treating that kind of tiny human little girl as princess-
「You bastards-, as I thought you all are the pawns of demon-」
「You, you’re wrong nano~! Myuu doesn’t know about demon or anything! It’s true nano! It’s not a lie nano! Hell will freeze over before Myuu ever lie nano!」
Powerful greater demon that materialized with clear figure. And then, terrific number of demon swarms running rampant behind that greater demon and in the sky.
Director Dime was making a look that was more demonic than even demon even while bleeding from his head. And then, behind him the full force of Omnibus was standing.
Myuu who was waving around her hands while desperately making excuse about something. And then, the Deadly Sins Squadron Demon Ranger who were covering hteir face with one hand and looked up to the sky while going「Achaa~」.
Also, behind the heaps of collapsed cultists all around, were Yue and others and the classmates standing still in a daze wearing a face that seemed to say「Ee~, what is this situation……」. Plus Bernard and others who were all safe even though they were looking ragged.
An incomprehensible 3-way struggle (?) was created.
「Ee~, what is this situation……」
Hajime who spontaneously muttered. The three camps who were in an explosive situation gasped and turned their gaze toward Hajime and co.
「Claire! Also Wynn and others too! You all did well coming back!」
――Crossing over the world boundary? Who are you-
「Aa――――!! PAPAAAAAAAAA-」
Myuu who rushed through the demon ranger right away *sutetetetete-* toward Hajime. Without stopping *pyon* she vigorously jumped toward Hajime’s chest. Hajime firmly caught her and caressed his beloved daughter’s head while she was rubbing her face on his chest.
「Wai-, director! What in the world this situation is!?」
Just when they thought they had returned after risking their life, they found their comrades taking combat stance toward the side of returnees who should be cooperating with them, furthermore it was toward a little girl as the opponent. In addition, even though demons were flooding into this world as expected, for some reason they weren’t rampaging and instead in a dispute about something.
Honestly, it was incomprehensible. Even though they had resolved themselves to be suddenly thrown into battle depending on the situation until the path to hell was closed……
Director Dime answered while glaring at demon ranger with a demonic look that said「You bastards, I won’t let even a single one of you return alive!」.
「The returnees, the daughter of the codename “demon king” is colluding with demon! Most likely the source of power of returnees is also related somehow with demon, there is no doubt about it!」
There, Hajime-san suddenly recalled something.
The golems who possessed communication ability that he didn’t remember installing――demon ranger.
If he remembered correctly, Myuu said to him. She didn’t name them. In other words, demon ranger introduced their own name.
――”Bel-chan”, who was Belfego~r
――”Sa-chan”, who was Sataan
――’A-chan”, who was Asmode~us
――”Lu-chan”, who was Lusife~r
――”Ma-chan, who was Mamo~n
――”Levi-chan”, who was Levia~tan
――”Bal-chan”, who was Baalzebu~b
「Man, they are totally demon.」
Hajime-san muttered. He didn’t even imagine that demon really existed, to say nothing of how they could existence from earth’s fairytale could possess the living golems he created in other world Tortus.
Although, for Hajime, this could be said as an act that was a bit too careless, to an unnatural degree.
One thing came to mind.
「……You guys, you did interference huh?」
*Whoosh*, demon rangers averted their gaze with all their might.
Most likely, they were sending thought ‘Their name is the same like famous demons but, well, they don’t actually exist so it doesn’t matter I guess……’ so that they wouldn’t be deeply doubted.
If for example demon ranger had even the slightest ill will or hostility, a mind interference to make Hajime ignore that surely would become completely ineffective, but at that time the situation was like that. Various coincidences also piled up and until now he was overlooking them.
Although, now that he realized the existence of demons, his attention couldn’t be diverted anymore!
Hajime’s eye glint was intensely focused on demon ranger. Demon rangers somehow looked like they were shivering.
(Yue, please explain the situation concisely.)
(……Nn. Leave it to me.)
According to her, it seemed Myuu summoned demon ranger in the fight against the cultists to participate.
And then, the materialized demons noticed that what were inside demon rangers were their “kings” who had vanished a slight while ago. The demons were thunderstruck and went ‘what the hell you are all doing!?’.
Then, from that exchange between demons, Director Dime also noticed just what kind of existences were inside there. And so he resolved himself to fight to the death.
After all, they were the seven demon kings who governed over the famous Deadly Sins. Although they weren’t materialized, they were fully armed with unknown technology. Depending on the situation, they could lead the demons and trample this world……
Surely it couldn’t be help that Director Dime thought so. He was the absolute demon killer man after all.
「Se, seriously……Myuu-chan, what in the world you are keeping there……」
Kousuke spoke with a dumbfounded voice. Myuu spoke with a crisp expression.
「Because I am the demon king’s daughter.」
The little girl who was obeyed by the seven sins――certainly, it was worthy for a demon king’s daughter.
It seemed the materialized demons ran out of patience. They started moving to exterminate the humans here for the time being. Yue and others narrowed their eyes and heightened their magic power to exterminate them instead. Director Dime activated his sacred vessel.
And then, Kousuke glanced aside at Hajime with eyes that asked「What to do now」. Claudia and others were flustered and,
「Oi, demon rangers」
A terrifyingly low voice that resounded from hell reverberated.
Even though the voice was only at the volume of a mutter, it reverberated to every corner of the plaza and sent fear that grasped the listener’s heart tightly.
It was a bloody and ominous dominating aura that stopped everyone there at their track.
Especially the demon rangers who were targeted by that aura, their body jerked and trembled.
「I heard that the saint or something was targeted as a mother body. When the demons at the lower stratum saw Shia, they said she will become magnificent mother body. Don’t tell me……」
Demon rangers stood at attention with their golem body. Somehow they were oozing great amount of cold sweat (?), oil (?).
「You guys, you are possessing my golem because you are looking at Myuu with that kind of eye……it ain’t anything like that riiight?」
If that was actually the case, what would happen?
「Perishing for the second time. Want to try experience that?」
However, this time not even the soul would remain. Far from that, even the other world called hell might not even remained.
Demon rangers, they shook their head left and right *whoosh whoosh* with unprecedented high speed. They waved around all their arms. And then, unison prostration!! What a truly beautiful kowtow. It was like the kowtow that was inherited in Nagumo family.
Because, they knew! They knew a god who really god blown away until not even his soul remained! They also saw the destruction of the other world called holy precincts! They seemed to want to say that.
――Wha-, kings! Acting like that
The materialized demons were flustered and tried to remonstrate them but……
Are you guys idiot!? You guys don’t get it!? You guys will seriously get destroyed you know!? Come on, prostrate! Prostrate quickly! Come on, quickly!
As though to say that, all of demon rangers kept their head lowered while their hand was making a gesture that seemed to be telling the demons to bow too.
「Aa? You guys over there wanna have a go?」
The pupil in Hajime’s eyes shrunk and glinted. Bursting out crimson magic power. It was already Limit Break state! From the space behind him Cross Velt came out――a thousand of them. In addition, the swarm of Grim Reaper crawling out. Everything was clad with crimson magic power to annihilate the demons.
「Let’s have the continuation of the trip. It’s the start of the curbstomp tour of hell’s residents.」
A one man army, taken to the extreme here.
The members of Omnibus with the exception of Director Dime and Madam Maya couldn’t feel strength in their waist. Even those two were getting pale with their fighting spirit almost broken.
The demons finally noticed that the existence before their eyes might be a bit, no, might be a really bad news and backed away.
Bow down! Come one bow down quickly!
Demon rangers, desperately insisting.
「Papa, papa.」
「Nn? What, Myuu?」
Hajime snapped when thinking they were doing Hikaru Genji project to his daughter, that they would protect Myuu until she grew up and could bear children before they made her into mother body. But he then smiled gently when Myuu lightly tapped on his cheek *slap slap*.
The gap was terrifying.
「See, Bel-chan and others won’t do such thing nano.」
「……How do you know that?」
「See, Bel-chan and others, they told Myuu nano. They all are just bored, doing nothing but ruling or quarreling, that they even got sick of their friends, and then, one day they felt power with presence that is similar with themselves, and when they tried going following the attraction, they came to Myuu’s place, they said.」
「Similar presence……」
Could it be, they referred to the self-proclaimed god of Tortus? Or else, did they mean the age of god magic? At that time, Tortus was just a step before the world’s demise. Certainly tremendous power was at work at that time.
Perhaps it somehow shook the worlds interval between Tortus and hell.
「Also see, Myuu has no power, so Myuu cannot become mother body? Or something anyway, and they are desperately saying that there is no way they would do anything like that to princess nano. It’s not really clear but, they are saying that it’s easeful being together with Myuu, and it’s fun with various things that happened.」
「……H~m?」
‘Is that so? That’s really the truth?’, Hajime looked at demon rangers with pupils that instantly shrunk. Demon rangers nodded in high speed simultaneously. They nodded *nod nod nod nod nod-*.
At the same time, Hajime’s eyes caught the demons.
Demon rangers emitted tremendous aura before the demons could say anything. It was a pressure that made even the returnees gulped unconsciously. They were oozing out cold sweat at the display of power that was definitely surpassing Unknown.
It went without saying how the demons reacted.
They simultaneously stood behind the demon rangers and prostrated similarly.
「Papa. Myuu like Bel-chan and others nano.」
「……I see.」
Hajime’s eyes returned to normal!
「Very well. Stay as Myuu’s ally from here on too. As long as you guys don’t show any suspicious act, I’ll allow you guys to stay beside her. However, if you turned traitor――you get it right?」
‘We understand that we will be blown up together with hell!’ Demon rangers performed an admirable salute simultaneously.
And then, they went 「Go home now! Look, go back quickly!」 toward the demons and chased them into the path that Unknown connected.
Although the demons looked like they wanted to ask various things to their kings, they turned a terrified gaze toward the figure of their kings who prostrated without hesitation, Hajime’s magic power that surpassed those kings, and the presence of age of god magic while returning into hell.
Hajime also returned Cross Velt and Grim Reapers back into the treasure warehouse.
Voice reverberated like a ripple through the plaza that had fallen quiet.
「De, demon king……」
Certainly, it was a demon king. Demon king-sama who was carrying his beloved daughter in his arm.
A really complicated atmosphere flowed in that area.
The gazes of Claudia, Director Dime, and others were swimming around wondering what they should do. The returnees were exchanging words like 「As expected from demon king」「Rather, as expected from papa」「Or rather, Myuu-chan is just plainly bad news」 at Hajime’s entrance and deed at this time.
And so, in order to return the atmosphere that had been absurdly messed up by the demon king back to normal, a hero stood up.
「Yosh-, the case is closed! Claire! Let’s eat the promised lemon cake!」
「Tha, that’s right! First it’s necessary to talk! Let’s talk while eating Maya’s lemon cake!」
The saint answered the hero’s expectation and responded right away. She pleaded loudly 「Maya-! Cake-! I demand lemon cake-」. Madam Maya was trickling out cold sweat as though she wanted to say 「I’m troubled instead if you are expecting that much!」.
Anyway, Kousuke somehow took charge of the place, and just in case, Yue also completely severed the path that connected from hell to here. Like this the battle of Vatican where the fate of the world was at stake was over.
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A week passed since then.
After Hajime did his thing “as expected from demon king” against Omnibus, he quickly dealt with the aftermath including the heaps of body of the cultists everywhere.
Although, what was troublesome was the custody of the cultists, and dealing with the citizens of Roma and mass media that witnessed the concentration of armed group attacking Vatican. Other than those there was also things like fixing the wounded people and damaged building, though there was no problem to heal and fix all those using magic.
And so, at the surface the pope of Rome dealt with things skillfully, and this case was taken care of with the explanation of a kind of mass hysteric by the people who lost their faith due to the tragedy that visited them.
Of course it went without saying that a certain demon king who was chuckling because Vatican was owing him backed up that explanation with the aforementioned technology – magic hybrid information control. It also went without saying that Omnibus was getting faraway look once more.