My mother's love song

Any of these injuries would be an incurable fatal injury to an ordinary heroic spirit.

With all these combined, coupled with the curse of the magic spear, even the Undead Queen who rules the Kingdom of the Dead would die.

Scathach's red eyes revealed a trace of sadness: "Sorry, Rhodes... I may have to break the appointment."

As soon as she finished saying this, the magic power that Scathach used to keep herself aloft completely disappeared.

The wind was howling and her body was falling in free fall.

"It's such a pity that I can't be killed by you..."

Scathach's figure disappeared into the endless darkness.

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"Ahh~ You're so stubborn. As for me, I really hate humans who keep pestering me."

The black lightning that shot out from Beta's fingertips shot towards Aozaki Touko, but was blocked by the ritual barrier and bounced away.

Orange, whose body was covered with wounds and whose ponytail was scattered, managed to hold up her upper body.

Beta did not launch another attack. She remained calm with her arms folded across her chest, watching the magician awkwardly get up from the ground.

After Orange stood up again, she said, "...Are you not dead yet?

I killed all the familiars you brought with you, are you still planning to resist? It would be happier if you just died like this."

The magic Beta used on Orange just now was probably of the same nature as the Cathedral Church's [Baptism Chant], but more vicious.

In short, it is a magic that can burn a living being's soul along with its body.

In other words, Orange, who achieved immortality by projecting his soul into different containers [dolls], would undoubtedly die completely before this forbidden spell.

Just like the infinite reincarnation [Akasha Snake] who had similar properties to Aozaki Touko had his soul burned out by Edmond Dantès.

Oops, oops… If I had known earlier, I should have prepared a backup plan.

Realizing that it was impossible to save his life by sacrificing the doll as he had done in the past, Orange did not show any panic expression, but instead sneered at Beta.

"Haha, what a coincidence. Compared to a transcendent being like you, the only advantage we humans have left is our tenacity..."

boom!

The flashing magic bullet streaked across the cave, and Aozaki Touko's body was impacted and flew out again, hitting the wall and vomiting a mouthful of blood.

"Who gave you permission to speak? Magician, why are you so proud of yourself?"

Beta said coldly.

"Ugh..."

Aozaki Touko crawled up from the cold ground again.

The gorgeous magic dress and stockings were torn to shreds, and the exposed skin was burnt black and even smoking.

"What a bad character... He could have killed me directly, but he chose to torture me in this way, avoiding my vital parts."

Her legs were almost unable to stand normally, and Aozaki Touko struggled to hold on to the wall. While looking at Beta, she took out a cigarette box from her arms.

"For this reason, please fulfill my last wish before I die."

As she said this she took out a cigarette and threw it to Beta.

"Humph."

Beta took the cigarette, put it to her lips and lit it, tacitly agreeing to Orange's wish to smoke a cigarette before she killed him.

Perhaps she was curious about this human's unusually calm attitude despite facing a disaster, so she observed Orange with interest.

Aozaki Touko slowly lit a cigarette with Rune and said, "It seems that you really hate humans."

Beta said with disdain: "It's natural for demons to hate humans, right? Or what? Do you think I can get along with humans in a friendly way?

Just like our great predecessor who surrendered to a human magician... Goetia? Hahaha! It is because of people like that that demons are looked down upon by humans.

Well, if I have the chance in the future, I will kill that guy myself."

Beta looked at the sparse smoke and said calmly: "But to be honest, it's a pity that I have to kill you.

I can feel from you that you and I are of the same kind.”

"I don't know whether I should be happy or cry when the devil said we are the same type of people." Orange smiled.

"Hmph, stop pretending. I can sense the madness hidden in your body and mind.

He actually gave up his original physical body, the concept of his true self, and used his countless identical dolls as containers. This is not something a human being can do.

Aozaki Touko, you are an out-and-out human heretic, a monster even among magicians." Coronzon β said coldly.

“Haha, I will just take it as a compliment from the great devil and accept it with peace of mind.

Actually, I have a question. ”

This time it was Aozaki Touko who asked the question while staring at the blond devil.

"If you hate humans so much, why did you cooperate with them and sign a contract this time?"

"Contract? Cooperation with humans?"

Beta laughed dryly as if he had heard something ridiculous.

"How could we possibly fight against humans? Hatres was simply killed by us ten years ago."

"?"

Aozaki Touko frowned, and Beta was very satisfied with her confused expression, so he continued.

"That man was betrayed by his own disciples 10 years ago, abandoned in the fairyland, and eaten by us when we were still beasts.

But he didn't die, instead he traveled back to 30 years ago. Do you understand what this sentence means?"

Aozaki Touko held a cigarette and opened her eyes wide: "Wait, you mean..."

From the very beginning she noticed huge doubts in her reasoning, but she couldn't understand what exactly was wrong.

Now she finally understands.

Beta said: "Ah, the two people who were killed in that incident were the same person from the beginning."

The blond devil had a very happy expression on his charming face.

"The murdered teacher Hatteras and the student Kuro who was silenced because he didn't want to join his classmates in killing the teacher, they are the same person."

"Ten years ago, the teacher of the Clock Tower entered the Tomb of Albion with three students. Two of them conspired to kill him. The remaining student was exiled to the depths of the Tomb of Albion because he was unwilling to take action."

"That student encountered a wild beast in the spirit tomb and was eaten. I don't know if it was due to the specificity of the spirit tomb or our fault, but he didn't die and traveled back 30 years."

"Kuro was found deep in the graveyard with no memory. He was naturally given the title of HeartLess and lived on under the name HeartLess."

“You should understand what happened next.

30 years later, that is, 10 years ago, Hatres once again entered the spirit tomb with his past self and was once again killed by his disciples!

Isn't it ridiculous? Human beings are such stupid and hopeless creatures.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Compared to humans, demons seem simple and kind! Hahahahahahaha!"

Orange was stunned, and Beta was laughing so hard that she was shaking with laughter.

“We possess the highest level of mystical eyes, able to discern subtle changes in time, and to distinguish between déjà vu and real sensations.

So when Hatresh appeared in front of us for the second time, we immediately realized that this was the second round of the time loop, so we didn't eat him, but let him go.

This isn't some sympathy for those who have both been betrayed, but it's just too funny. The ugliness of human beings is so unbearable, hahahahahaha!"

"So when he asked you for help later, did you agree to his request?"

Orange frowned and said calmly.

"This is really ridiculous..."

"Okay, let's stop chatting here."

Beta threw away the cigarette that had already burned to the butt and narrowed his scarlet eyes.

Feeling the pure murderous intent in the air and realizing that his own death was approaching, Orange still maintained a relaxed expression.

"Thank you for your explanation. It helped me understand the truth. If I die without resolving the confusion in my heart, I might become a ghost bound in the tomb because of my resentment."

Beta raised his arm and pointed at Aozaki Touko.

"Do you have any last words, Grand Magus? I'm not interested, but I'll let you tell me anyway."

"Yes, that's right. I don't think there is any last words, but I do have one piece of advice for you."

Aozaki Touko dusted off her dress and said with a serious and cheerful expression.

"In fact, I have a rule that I have set since my academy days: Anyone who calls me Red of Pain must die."

"........."

In the quiet air, Beta tilted his head in a daze: "What is this? Is this a magician's curse before death?"

Then she burst into laughter.

She banged on the wall hard, her body trembling uncontrollably, and she laughed for a long time before finally stopping.

"Thank you for providing me with this joke. You humans always like to engage in such unrealistic fantasies.

Farewell, Grand Magician."

The demon opened his bright red lips, and dark lightning pierced through the center of Orange's chest.

Without even being able to utter a groan, the Grand Puppet Master fell backwards.

Beta turned away without looking at her body.

Just as she took a step to leave, Beta's expression changed.

"!"

Crack, crack, crack, crack…

A strange, disgusting sound came from the cave, and it could be said that it was extremely familiar to Coronzon.

An alien, strange, and heretical magical aura came from behind and enveloped Beta's body.

Her lips parted and trembled slightly.

Beta looked back at Orange's body.

"Hey...what did you grow in your body?"

There was a darkness in the center of the magician's chest that was pierced.

The dark space seemed to absorb all the light and concentrate it in Orange's chest.

Two rays of light flickered in the darkness, they were... two red eyes.

"Huh? How could such a thing happen... Huh!? Why does such a thing exist! What on earth did you do with that man?"

Suddenly, tentacles covered with teeth, jaws and claws burst out from Orange's broken chest!

"Ms. Devil... come and say hello to the sister you've never met."

Chapter 532: Eaten Up (Please Subscribe!)

Guanbuzi City, Galanzhitang Office.

"...You want me to be your familiar. Orange, do you know what you are talking about?"

Rhodes sat on the old sofa by the window, stroking the soft hair of Asagami Fujino, who was sleeping happily on her legs.

It was early winter of 1996, and he was now in Orange's company.

Strictly speaking, it was on the fourth floor of the office, the director's bedroom which Rhodes had never disturbed before.

In the room, the pale-faced Aozaki Touko was lying on the bed with a wet towel on her forehead.

The Grand Master Magician who was defeated by a cold was a very new product for Rhodes.

Because he heard from Aoko that Orange was sick, Rhodes was forced by Aoko and Arizumi to come here as a representative of Misaki City to visit the patient.