I'll kill you after I finish this game!

"As a noble lady, you should know something about human relationships. Try to put yourself in their shoes and you'll get the answer you're looking for."

Rezé did not give Matilda a direct answer; it was better for the girl to discover the answer herself rather than for him to tell her.

"Why do I feel like the Crimson World Apostles are keeping humans as livestock?"

Matilda finally couldn't help but point out the problem she had discovered, her delicate and pretty face showing great anger.

Crimson Apostles need to consume Existence Power to manifest reality, and only humans possess high-quality Existence Power.

Putting aside the issue of the distortion between the two worlds, what benefits would the Crimson World Apostles gain if they devoured all of humanity at once?

Damn it! What do you mean by maintaining balance? Just keeping the human population stable at a level that won't cause problems between the two realms?

Is it enough to just keep the Crimson World where one's fellow citizens reside from becoming distorted and collapsing?

Matilda didn't accept this kind of balance, this stifling balance!

At first, you ignored the Crimson Apostles causing trouble in the mortal world, but now that a problem has arisen between the two worlds, you've come up with this solution.

As for Matilda's anger at this bizarre balance, and her dissatisfaction with this injustice, Rezer simply said:

“Weakness is the original sin; the weak will be beaten. Your father, as a lord, is no different from other lords.”

Unfair? The strong and the weak are the most impartial scales of justice.

The idea that strength equals right and weakness equals wrong, and the concepts of who is right and who is wrong, simply do not apply to the Crimson World Apostles and humans.

All lofty ideals are useless; differences in stance and level lead to the apostles' contempt for humanity.

The attacks on humanity by the apostles have gone beyond simply distorting the two worlds; they represent species discrimination and contempt!

Upon realizing this most real and cruel truth, Matilda's anger slowly turned into calm.

Ah, so it's because of weakness. It's a very simple and easy-to-understand principle: the weak are never respected.

This is the most real law of the world, and also the real law of the universe.

The strong rule, the weak are ruled!

Living in harmony is nothing more than a self-deceptive idea of ​​the weak.

But I, Matilda, am not a weakling who can be trampled on by others!

To be qualified to crave battle and struggle, one must be strong.

........

"Father, Mother..."

As she watched half of her body still turn into flames of existence, dissipating into dust due to the collapse of the foundation of existence, Matilda still shed tears of human sorrow.

Ultimately, they arrived too late. The three apostles who served as their followers, as well as a Crimson World Demon Lord in human form, were looking at the suddenly appearing Matilda with surprised and solemn eyes.

In the castle's dazzling, fiery light, the girl's tears shone brightly, a testament to her farewell to the past.

Holding the Crimson Lotus Sword, the sorrow in his eyes was gradually replaced by indifference as he reflected the enemy's clear face, transforming into a cold and stern gaze filled with murderous intent.

"What's going on with this human?"

The Crimson Lord and his three attendant apostles looked at the girl who exuded a terrifying and twisted presence. She was neither a Crimson Lord nor a Flame Haze, and they did not sense any trace of her power.

However, the existence of the other party itself is like a contempt and trampling of all things, filled with a powerful and chillingly abhorrent distortion.

"Why have you come to the human world to devour living beings, apostles?"

Even though she had already grasped the meaning and concept of the Crimson World Apostles, before her desire to fight reached its peak, Matilda uttered a cold and ruthless question to the Apostle before her who had devoured countless creatures within her territory.

Because it was her first time fighting an Apostle and her first time facing one, Matilda was warlike but not a bloodthirsty being.

This question is not only directed at the other person, but also at one's own heart.

Since we have our own world to live in, why did we come into this world?

"Huh?"

Upon hearing that Matilda, this strange human, would ask such a naive and laughable question, the Crimson Lord immediately dismissed the possibility that she was a Flame Mist in disguise, and said with a cold laugh:

"This question was asked by humans in ancient times as well. We, the inhabitants of the Crimson World, are born to act for our own desires. As for why we devour humans? Don't you humans eat chickens, ducks, fish, and sheep for survival? We, on the other hand, act for the sake of action."

Most of the Crimson People who come to the human world hunt humans to obtain the power of existence, which is the only way they can exist in this world.

Humans eat other animals to survive, and apostles hunt humans to replenish their power of existence in order to carry out their missions. Is there any major problem with that?

"So that's how it is... then it must be true."

Matilda nodded expressionlessly at the Crimson World Apostle's mockery, as if she had known it all along; her own conclusion had not been wrong.

The so-called "balance between the two realms" is nothing but discrimination and contempt against species! In that case, there's nothing more to say about fighting each other.

Matilda will no longer ask any childish questions about peaceful coexistence, because fighting with Crimson Denizens is simply a matter of course.

You killed my family and the people in my territory, so it's only reasonable for me to fight you in the future, right?

With his mind clear, his desire to fight was instantly unrestrained, and his killing intent, along with the spiritual pressure brought about by the surge in his soul quality, distorted the atmosphere!

Razer, who was secretly watching the battle from the sky, remained calm and composed. After carefully examining Matilda's soul condition, he whispered:

"The current level—Activity—has already begun to make the seeds of the universe sprout."

Just as the microcosm awakens before the sixth sense, Matilda's five senses and the limitations of the human body will now be broken.

"boom--!"

Matilda's crimson eyes suddenly lashed out, creating a tangible wind pressure that tore through the atmospheric sound barrier and struck the enemy directly in front of her.

"...Varied!"

The Crimson Demon King was instantly sent flying by the enormous impact in disbelief, while the three attendant apostles behind him felt the terrifying pain caused by the Mach 12 impact!

The four entities, transformed into sound-barrier-breaking projectiles, crashed into the castle engulfed in flames, carving a deep canyon-like fissure into the ground before hurtling off into the air ten kilometers away.

The sheer force of the impact, not from the enemy's power, made the three apostles feel as if their bodies were about to fall apart.

This kind of greeting attack is merely Matilda's "eyesight".

A gaze filled with mere hostility and murderous intent creates a destructive force that is astonishing in the eyes of the apostles.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

One sonic boom after another, exceeding 180 decibels, resounded low in the air, close to the ground.

"choke--!"

With the sound of wind breaking and the clang of swords, a crimson sword light, like a living meteor, streaked across the bodies of the three Crimson World Apostles at a speed exceeding Mach 20.

The Crimson Lord, flying backwards, was horrified to discover that as he flew face up at high speed, Matilda's fiery figure appeared before him.

Her long, fiery hair swayed and danced, and her crimson eyes seemed to hold the power of a cinnabar hell.

That single look was enough to shatter the soul of another, and the feeling of having one's strength and will completely burned away appeared on the Crimson World Demon King.

"Damn humans, stop being so arrogant!"

A sense of shame and humiliation welled up inside me, and I screamed wildly to banish the fear and terror within me.

The Crimson Lord unleashed an even more terrifying power of existence, instantly weaving together intricate magic to block the knight's sword that Matilda was about to use to behead her!

"Clang!"

With a crisp sound, the sharp knight's sword and the intricate, magic-circle-like Free Style collided heavily, sparking a rapid and intense burst of sparks.

“Click—!”

A sharp crack made the Crimson World Demon King, who had recovered his senses and was able to control his flying body, freeze. His Freedom Technique was struck and cracked with countless spiderweb-like fissures.

There was no special power, just pure, exquisite, and monstrous strength combined with an impact force reaching dozens of times Mach. This pure power was enough for the Free Dharma to resist.

"Clang!"

The swords clashed, the Freedom Technique that had resisted for only a second was violently shattered, and the blades slashed directly at the Crimson World Demon King, but...

Swah——

In Matilda's slightly fluctuating gaze, the Crimson Lord before her, cleaved in two, suddenly transformed into countless flames that formed feathers and scattered.

Is it the Stand Free Style...?

Thinking so quickly, Matilda immediately and without hesitation spun around, turning her knight's sword into a swirling whirlwind.

With a clang, the Crimson World Demon King, who suddenly appeared from behind and launched a surprise attack, had a gloomy face, but also a wicked smile.

This time, instead of using his magic to resist the woman's sword strike, he used a strange golden coin to block the monstrous woman's attack.

After blocking the enemy's attack, a gold coin was flicked from his fingertip, spinning and stretching until it transformed into a golden chain that instantly wrapped around Matilda's knight's longsword.

"Jingle Bell!!"

As the Crimson Demon King swung the chain, it made a crisp sound, and an eerie glow emerged from it.

Click——

Before Matilda's horrified and furious eyes, her red knight's sword was covered in cracks, and the sword, which was bound by chains, immediately turned into dust and scattered.

The enemy also achieved their goal of disarming Matilda. The Crimson Lord could see that this strange human woman possessed terrifying swordsmanship, so he naturally wouldn't let her run rampant. Therefore, he had to weaken or disable her preferred attack methods.

"A Noble Phantasm? That's quite interesting..."

Reiji, sitting cross-legged on his somersault cloud in the sky, watched this scene with great interest. This Crimson Lord had a lot of combat experience and immediately analyzed the troublesome nature of Matilda's swordsmanship.

The knight's sword that Rezé gave to Matilda for training was not a high-end item; it was just a training sword with nothing special about it except for being incredibly hard and durable.

The reason why the Crimson Lord was able to destroy the sword that Raize had casually created was because he used a Noble Phantasm from his native world.

"Foam Chain" - originally shaped like a gold coin, the afterimage of the coin when tossed can turn into a chain.

A Noble Phantasm capable of binding and destroying weapons; no weapon or Noble Phantasm can harm it.

In a future timeline, a certain classic tsundere once fought against the Noble Phantasm hunter Fariagne, who used this Noble Phantasm. Unexpectedly, it appeared here.

"hateful!!!"

Matilda's face immediately contorted with rage, and she clenched her fists and roared through gritted teeth with an incredibly short temper.

"Hahaha, human, how will you defeat me without weapons?"

The Crimson World Demon King, thinking that the woman was powerless and enraged without her weapon, let out a gratifying laugh.

But Matilda's anger stemmed not from that, but from the red knight's sword, a gift from Rhine.