Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 443 Mission: 04-1 Disagreement
“…Oh?”

Nero slowly turned around and saw that the silver-haired man holding the flaming sword had stood behind him without him noticing.

"You've arrived pretty quickly, haven't you? Since you can travel between different singularities without the Yama Blade, then..."

She chuckled and asked, "Let me guess, could it be that the Master of Chaldea has finally arrived?"

While chatting and laughing, she kicked away Cu Chulainn, who was gradually disappearing, and at the same time swung her sword to cut off the attacking spear.

Mr. Nero finally confirmed his guess: "You do know. But why?"

"That's a question~"

"Because we know each other, of course."

The Master from Chaldea, Fujimaru Ritsuka, arrived at this moment. She looked at the blond Nero in front of her and said slowly, "Since you are still alive, you should remember our previous encounter in England, right?"

"Yeah. Long time no see, Ritsuka."

In the midst of her busy schedule, Nero ignored the attack coming from behind and saluted by lifting her skirt.

Then, Fujimaru Ritsuka showed a determined look.

Their pursuit from the sixth simulated singularity wasn't difficult, but it wasn't easy either. Even after realizing Draco no longer possessed her beastly powers, it took Ritsuka quite some time to convince Tiamat to temporarily spare her. After the troublemaker Morai was subdued by his alter ego, this was the most difficult part of the journey.

Then, after rising again on the "Ladder of Twilight", what came into view was a burning wilderness and a tragic battlefield covered with scars.

However, the presence of traces of battle itself proved that they were getting closer to Nero. After defeating the "natives" of the singularity who had joined forces to stop the beast's actions, the fluctuations of the battle brought the group here.

At this time, Fujimaru Ritsuka finally achieved the first goal of her trip.

"Can I ask what you are doing?"

She asked the question seriously, which was also the question Mr. Nero wanted to ask.

"Isn't it obvious?" Nero smiled provocatively, "I'm taking the power of the beast."

"I know. I'm asking why you're doing this."

For Ritsuka Fujimaru, who has been working hard to save human history, she is very clear about one thing: beasts are enemies.

They are the ultimate evil created by ultimate love, enemies of humanity that will unleash a massive disaster that will destroy the world.

So, she wanted to know why Nero did this.

From the moment she saw Nero, recognizing him as her former companion, Fujimaru Ritsuka knew one thing for sure: Nero was not her enemy. After all, Georgius in that singularity had once said that, despite possessing demonic powers, Nero possessed a "noble" heart. And Georgius in this singularity offered a similar assessment—perhaps even more so.

So she knew that Nero could not possibly want to be an enemy of humanity, and he had never stood against humanity.

So, why?
"Then why don't you ask—why do you act with the beast?"

Nero's question made Ritsuka slightly stunned.

Yeah, why?

Draco, standing next to Ritsuka, remained expressionless in the face of the quarrel surrounding him. To her, this still seemed like a superfluous and boring farce, a sad noise that prevented the sixth beast from resting in peace.

"...I said so."

With a thud, Mr. Nero slammed his sword to the ground, making a dull thud. He looked at Nero with a cold expression and said, "Can we stop guessing?" At this moment, Nero swung his sword to sever the "cause and effect," breaking Scathach's yet another Noble Phantasm release and killing her. Before Scathach gradually disappeared, she turned her head and looked behind her, smiling and saying, "What's wrong?"

"I just feel uncomfortable with your appearance of having everything under control."

As he spoke, he twisted the throttle on the hilt of his sword. Tongues of fire and strong winds spurted out, stirring up waves in the pool of blood behind him. "And what makes me even more upset is... you actually left me behind all alone."

Magical power surged from his body like a tide: "Remember I told you? I hate..."

"Are you being considered a burden?" Nero asked. Then she clasped her hands together, tilted her head and winked at Mr. Nero. "Oh, I'm really sorry."

"Not to mention that I'm still considered a burden. It's true that my strength is much weaker than yours, but—"

The next moment, Mr. Nero was dragged by the flames and disappeared from the spot. He spun and smashed towards Nero: "——You don't even bother to explain. Aren't you too contemptuous of me?!"

"Danger, danger~"

Nero quickly jumped back to avoid the attack. She didn't draw her weapon, but simply jumped back and forth on the water. "This situation is urgent, isn't it? If you want to fight, I can make time for it after we get back, okay?"

"Stop changing the subject! If you were really that anxious, you wouldn't have wasted so much time on this floor!"

Mr. Nero spun, the blade in his hand spinning as well. "And don't think I can't see, you're really desperate for a fight, aren't you? Come on, let's have a good fight!"

"..." Nero was silent for a moment, and the smile on his face suddenly became ferocious: "You said that!"

A burning long stick was stretched straight forward. Nero shook his hand, and the long stick slammed into the Scarlet Queen in Mr. Nero's hand.

The collision created an air wave, which caused blood to splatter, and the blood splattered the figures of the two people.

Fujimaru Ritsuka was speechless as she watched the two men fighting over a disagreement. She looked helplessly at Draco beside her and asked, "You're Nero too, right?"

"I'm not like that kind of guy." The short Draco folded his hands indifferently: "Too noisy."

"But my impression of Nero has always been that he's a very noisy Heroic Spirit, right?"

"That's long-winded. Everyone says I'm different."

For Draco, whose heart was as dead as water, the enthusiasm and passion of the two "Neros" in front of her were like a stone dropped into the water, which would stir up the filth in her calm heart and reveal it to the outside.

It's really annoying.

In the center of the storm, which was not visible to the outside world, the sound of metal clashing continued to be heard.

At the beginning, Nero used his long stick to hit Mr. Nero's sword, breaking his stance. But the moment the sword fell to the ground, Mr. Nero took advantage of the situation and pole-vaulted, turning and spinning to chop down, with a trail of flames behind him.

"You have too many weapons!" he shouted, brandishing his knife.

"envy?"

"No, idiot!"

After hearing Mr. Nero's answer, Nero turned his staff around and stabbed it into the air, saying, "I'm jealous! Credo hasn't let me touch a power sword since I was ten!"

"Huh? How dare you say that, you bastard!"

The greatsword and the long staff collided again.

(End of this chapter)