Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 432 Mission: 01-2 Beast Master
"Strange...where is this?"

Ritsuka Fujimaru woke up in a ruin illuminated by a red light. Everywhere he looked, there were only broken walls.

"Hey, you're finally awake." Beside her, a silver-haired man she had never met before sat on a broken wall. He looked out at the dark clouds outside the theater with a bitter expression, sighing, "Damn it, they're here again. Is this true?"

Yes, this is a theater. More accurately, it's the ruins of a theater. It's clear that this was once a magnificent building like the Roman Pantheon, but now only dust and cracks remain in the center of the circular wall.

"Cough, cough..." A weak cough came from the shadows. "Didn't I tell you that since they have been summoned by the Holy Grail that has returned to this place, they will not stop until I die."

Hearing that voice, Fujimaru Ritsuka extracted the mysterious familiarity from his chaotic mind and looked over there with wide eyes: "Nero? Is that Nero?"

"I know, but it's still annoying to see them popping up in droves like cockroaches!" the silver-haired man growled.

He pulled out a large sword from his side, taller than Ritsuka, and a heavy motor sound echoed from the sword.

"Isn't 'cockroach' a bit of an exaggeration for the heroes who come to defeat the enemies of humanity?" The voice that resembled Nero chuckled. "But it's quite descriptive."

The only blood-red celestial body hanging in the sky cast its light into the theater, allowing Ritsuka to see the true face of the person who spoke. Long golden hair braided in an intricate pattern, and a gorgeous scarlet dress. Without a doubt, this was the Roman Emperor she knew well, Nero Claudius. But the strange thing was -

"Nero in child mode?" Ritsuka corrected his previous conclusion.

"Exactly. But you should call me 'Draco' for now. It's not appropriate for me to use that name right now."

"Who is this person over here?"

"You may not believe it, because I am also Nero." The silver-haired man turned his head and answered.

Don't believe it? Ritsuka had seen all sorts of outrageous situations, and this wasn't a big deal. Without even a hint of hesitation, she nodded and said, "I see. It's Mr. Nero—Mr. Nero!"

"It's still this name? Okay, that's pretty good." Mr. Nero shrugged.

"You're as generous as ever." Draco laughed, his weak smile tinged with sarcasm. "Have you forgotten how you got here?"

How did you get here?
Li Xiang closed his eyes and recalled everything that happened before.

Chaldea was attacked by a beast, and after a series of chaotic clangs and bangs, she and the others successfully repelled what looked like a demon pillar, and then—

"And then was caught here by the beast?"

Draco's scarlet pupils rolled twice, and he smiled, "You remember? I am the culprit who attacked Chaldea and dragged you into this abyss of Limbo.

"Beast VI/S, the Beast of the Apocalypse. This is Yu's true identity."

The beasts are the embodiment of the seven great evils of humanity that destroy the world.

In an instant, Fujimaru Ritsuka's whole body tensed up, and he fell into extreme tension.

But after a moment, the weak appearance of Draco, who called himself the Sixth Beast, made her doubtful.

Is she really a beast? This fragile appearance, this empty spiritual foundation, can't even give the battle-hardened Ritsuka a sense of oppression.

"Are you really a beast?" Ritsuka asked.

"...Ha, he's so weak that we can tell at a glance? Yu Ke is really embarrassing himself." "Have those guys already rushed over?"

Mr. Nero, standing on the top of the wall, reminded the two people below: "I suggest you stay hidden."

Draco nodded. "Now that things have come to this, no matter how shameful it may be, I can only continue to live in disgrace. Then, I'll leave those enemies to you."

With that, she retreated back into the shadows of the theater.

Enemies? Fujimaru Ritsuka heard a faint noise in the distance and looked out the window with curiosity.

Under the crimson sky, countless shadowy figures gathered outside the theater, like a dark cloud. The golden fleur-de-lis flag held high in the crowd made her pupils tremble.

The bright sound of a motor roared above Ritsuka's head. Mr. Nero stretched his muscles and laughed, "Come on, baby, let's make some more noise!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already rushed towards the center of the crowd with a torrent of flames.

"Those hateful shadows are truly ruthless. They would actually go to such lengths just for a dying beast."

Draco's voice came again from the shadows: "But it seems that my evil fate is not over yet. Is that right, my Master?"

"Master..."

Hearing this, Fujimaru Ritsuka subconsciously reached out her hand and looked at the bright red Command Seal on the back of her hand. She checked her magic circuits, and the situation was truly - should I say unexpected, or even terrible?
She is now indeed Draco, the Master of the Sixth Beast.

"What is going on?" Ritsuka asked.

"It's simple. As you can see, when you were brought here by the demon beast He... my clone, I signed a contract with you. Congratulations! You have become the world's first—and perhaps the only—Beast Master. You are truly worthy of being called 'Humanity's Last Master'~"

From the shadows, Draco chuckled.

Ritsuka felt the flow of magic power flowing between the two of them: "Could it be that now you are relying on my magic power...?"

"Indeed, I survived thanks to your magic. After all, I was defeated, my beast's power was taken away, and even my body was torn apart... Perhaps it's a miracle that I'm still alive."

“…defeated?”

"Ah, I was defeated, by another Chaldea besides you. But that is of no consequence. What you should be concerned about now is—"

"--Get out of the way!" Mr. Nero roared at Ritsuka during the battle. A cold arrow was shot by the phantom of a heroic spirit and nailed to the wall beside Ritsuka.

"Those heroic spirits are attacking me?"

"It's not a Heroic Spirit, it's just an echo, something like a lingering image."

Draco said, "But, yes. They will attack you because you are the Beast Master.

"By the way, although I don't even have the power to kill a baby right now, you could easily kill me... but even if you do that, they won't stop. And you, on the other hand, will never be able to leave this universe again, okay?"

(End of this chapter)