Chapter 180 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 5 Chapter 31

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「Bale Killer」 was the last resort for Ykslaas’s group, and was a secret technique that would release their suppressed true power.

Claude would turn into a black metal giant, the 「Metal Giant」, Olred would turn into a red metal dragon, the 「Red Metal Dragon」, Brutus would turn into a blue metal snake, the 「Metal Serpent」, and Shironos would turn into a white metal lion, the 「Metal Leo」.

And then, Claude ended up specializing in the power of Darkness, Olred in the power of Fire, Brutus in the power of Water, and Shironos in the power of Light. They would end up having more openings than their normal Majin form, but in exchange, the power that they could use would also become greater.

That power that could easily kick about the average Mazoku was more than enough as a final trump card.

And then, there was their master, Ykslaas.

The power that she released through Bale Killer, not even she herself knew how much it would be. It was because on top of having no chance to use it, she understood that it wasn’t something to be used so frivolously to begin with.

Ykslaas knew the amount of power that her Four Knights would obtain through Bale Killer from the start. Since she was a Demon King, she comprehended it as being born with that knowledge.

Within her group, the topic of what kind of power Bale Killer was had never come up.

That is why Ykslaas didn’t know.

That even though she had never used it before, she knew that her Four Knights would change in someway through their own respective Bale Killer.

That is why, she hadn’t noticed.

Why they, who should have been Mazoku to begin with, had a power that was called something like 「Bale Killer」.

「Eh……?」

What she noticed right before she activated her Bale Killer, was a sense of discomfort.

It was the sensation of the magical power that was enlarging within her flowing out.

And then, the sensation of the power that composed Ykslaas being completely taken away by someone.

Wrong. This was wrong.

Ykslaas hurriedly tried to shut them out, but that resistance was fruitless, and her power continued to flow out.

The Reinforcement Magic that was cast on Ykslaas, it was unable to be maintained and was cancelled out.

Even a faint amount of magical power that was at the level where she could use simple magic was completely taken away.

「Ah……ah……」

It was being stolen.

Having power stolen even from Ykslaas’s body, she lost the power to even stand, and she collapsed into a sit with a *petan*.

Even her steel will that should have stirred her to move had vanished.

Everything was stolen, by something that wasn’t her.

She herself, was vanishing.

「I don’t want this……to have this sort of ending, I don’t want it……」

She had long resolved herself for death. She even thought that she could die without accomplishing her objective.

But, this sort of thing was wrong.

This sort of method of dying, there was no way she could accept it.

「Why, why is it like this……」

She couldn’t understand even after thinking about it. No, it felt as if she was prohibited from even thinking.

All she could tell right now, was that everything about her was being stolen.

Ykslaas’s view was distorting.

She was crying──Ykslaas was already no longer able to notice that simple fact.

With herself as the materials, she felt that something that wasn’t her was being put together.

Would that, defeat Vermudol?

In that case, what was she──Just what was the Demon King Ykslaas?

She called to mind the Four Knights when she asked about herself.

Claude.

Olred.

Brutus.

Shironos.

She called to mind their figures, their smiling faces.

The knights that followed her believing in the world in harmony that was found beyond their mission.

Did they, predict this sort of conclusion?

Did they think that they would end up having such an incomprehensible thing being born, and then entrusting everything to it?

「……That’s wrong.」

They had followed Ykslaas.

No matter what kind of conclusion was reached, Ykslaas needed to be the one to settle everything.

She had thought that, however, a different thought was suddenly born within Ykslaas.

Was that truly the case? Did she truly need to be the one to settle everything?

If the thing that was going to be born now were to defeat Vermudol, wouldn’t that be fine? Instead, she should entrust everything to it.

That is what she should do. Even her Four Knights, they would agree with that.

「……」

With that, there was no mistake.

Ykslaas, was also fine with vanishing like this.

「……I don’t want to.」

When she tried to move her body that pretty much no longer move, Ykslaas resisted.

She didn’t want to. She wouldn’t accept this sort of conclusion.

For it to be fine to vanish like this, she wouldn’t accept such a thing.