“Hey…What happened?!”

“Sir Ichirou, where’s Sir Susanoo?!”

The two girls came running to me because of what happened after Diyu treated Cattleya.

“It is as you two see…Susanoo traced the attack and did this…”

“Sir Susanoo…did?!”

“How about the two of you? Your…wounds…”

“Ehehehe. Diyu saved me! But Diyu got hurt…”

“That’s not a big deal dummy…! You know you cannot regenerate like me so I had to take it myself.”

Diyu speaks while looking away from our direction as while scratching her cheeks as she intervened in our conversation. It seems along the way, they were able to make up with each other.

Their feats earlier… They already know each other’s strength and weaknesses. It seems they have done the same thing in the past…many times…before…

Diyu will take care of the enemies around them and Cattleya prepares for a large-scale attack. Diyu protects Cattleya in exchanged, Cattleya will eliminate their enemies with her magic.

.........

Camaraderie…

It’s a word fitting for these two.

“Ichirou, besides the attack that came to us earlier, how did this happen?! That…that…space…being tore like that…”

“I don’t know…all I know is that Susanoo did this in a feat of anger.”

“Anger? Why?”

“It may not look like it but, Susanoo cares for his comrades.”

“I never knew…he is always…cold… but…nevermind that… good job taking out those devils.”

“Yeah…they cleared up when the giant was defeated.”

“Oh…you guys already slackening…”

WHOA!

Susanoo suddenly appeared out of nowhere that it startled all of us and leaving us speechless.

“Hey…! Susanoo…what is the meaning of that?!”

“An enemy attack…”

“…I know that…but…”

“It was Kran…”

“…Kran?! Kran the Arcana of Envy?!”

“Yeah…but I wasn’t able to kill him. That bastard…after firing that beam…he immediately scrams…That reminds me Ichirou…he has your soul weapons, right?”

“Yeah… he was also the one who have taken away my arm and legs…”

“Wait..! Wait you two! What are you guys talking about..?! We’re getting a bit… w-worried here..”

“P-please…stop making scary faces…Sir Ichirou and…Sir Susanoo…”

Eh…?

Did we…?

Diyu looks at me with anxious face…while holding Cattleya’s hand…

Cattleya, on the other hand, is trembling and trying shrink away to Diyu’s back.

It seems we scared them as Susanoo and I talks.

“We’re sorry… There are lots of things happening… I promise we will let you two know but for now…”

I reassure the two girls who are timidly staring at us. We didn’t mean to frighten them, but, I got agitated after hearing about Kran. I swear that I won’t let him hurt more of my friends. I really don’t mind what he did to me but to target these two girls here…

Unforgivable…!

But for now…

“Susanoo… can you fix the mess that you made?”

“That…?”

I pointed at the large crack in the space. It looks dangerous no matter how you look at it. Not only the landscape of the land was completely messed up but, this dimensional crack will be a permanent damage and can cause a real problem, not only for the residents of this world but also to Cattleya who governs the Demon Continent.

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“Ichirou…I’m afraid to say this but… I don’t have any idea how to…”

“…You let your anger take over your sanity and this is the result… you should at least know how to take responsibility for your actions. That will definitely bring trouble…”

“…Hmm… I see…then… I shall call for a helper…”

“Helper?”

As Susanoo said, helper, he sprouted a smile I have never seen before. Actually, this was the first time I saw him smile. His eyes are saying that… he can pass troublesome things to someone.

Susanoo pulled out a dark purplish crystal from his pocket. It has a deep black luster inside and it radiates violet aura. It looks pretty sinister.

It piqued my interest. Cattleya and Diyu who was huddling earlier also stare at the crystal. I come to the two girls and shielded them with my arm if ever dangerous something happens.

Diyu may not say it but she is extremely tired. Regenerating her body must have taken a toll on her. Cattleya, likewise, is tired too because of using large scale magic earlier. And right now, they are in a mental turmoil because of questions they want to ask us.

I can’t let them know what Susanoo and I are. I don’t want them to get further involve with us. The Order of the Sins is enemies that we should fight by ourselves.

………

Susanoo filled the crystal with magic and casually throw it to the ground. As the crystal bounces one time, it generates magical energy and a portal rises out from it.

I prepared myself for what to come…even if Susanoo is the one summoned it… it is something unknown to me. Not to mention, Diyu and Cattleya are completely clueless and frightened after what happened to them.

“Relax… Ichirou, you know well this woman…”

“Woman…?”

“….What’s taking her so long?”

As we stand firmly in front of the dark portal for about thirty seconds… someone came out…

Wearing a gorgeous maid outfit bathed in blood, with straight silky beautiful hair and strong willed sharp eyes that can pierce through your soul. Holding one of her arms which looks like it has taken a wild beating, blood flowing from it, Priscilla the Maid come out.

My eyes widened upon the tattered state of the woman who I know one of the strongest heroes summoned among us. She collapses on her knees like her energy left her body. Susanoo immediately assisted her.

“Priscilla…?!”

I exclaimed as Priscilla notices me. She also surveyed her surroundings. She stares quite long at Diyu and Cattleya. Her eyes glistened and it seems she regained some strength…

“Oh, my…Ichirou Nagasaki…it seems you escaped death. I commend you for that. Also…piece of trash…you’ve got good timing calling for me.”

“Maid… what happened?”

“Fufufu… I lost… to some people who call themselves Order of Arcana Sins.”

“You… you were in the Dragon Capital, right?”

“It’s under attack right now. Piece of trash… I am sorry to inform you this but… the elven twins are missing in amidst of chaos…”

“How…troublesome…one problem after another…”

“I need your help piece of trash…you too Ichirou Nagasaki.”

“Maid, before that…”

“The reason you called me… Tch…. I am not your handy man…”

Susanoo pointed at the Dimensional Crack he created earlier. Priscilla, upon seeing it, knitted her brows.

Cattleya enters their conversation…

It seems Cattleya also mark Priscilla as someone with terrifying presence as she approaches her. Even Diyu timidly walks beside Cattleya. They have a good instinct on who to fear…

“U-um… W-we need to…t-treat your wounds…first…”

“Oh my, how considerate of you. I like you. Never mind that, I like that girl with blond hair too.”

“Eh..Eh…?!”

“Unlike these two trashes here who didn’t even asked if I am okay or not, you two girls get a high evaluation from me. Being cute is already one hundred percent.”

“U-um…your…wounds…”

“Ah. I’m sorry for my rambling. You two don’t need to mind about these wounds. It’s not like I am dying from it.”

“Eh..-Eh…umm…and…”

“That Dimensional Fissure that has open space that has vacuum suction that probably comparable to outer space-quality vacuum with a measurement of Torr or originated from Torricelli, must be 1×10−6 to < 1×10−1 or if we convert it to PA or Pascal unit, we will come up with 1×10−4 to < 3×10−15 . Luckily this isn’t a deep space vacuum or perfect vacuum where there is no state of the particle. Incidentally, Quantum Vacuum has aspects that per--!”

“Umm! I don’t understand any of it. I’m sorry…but…umm…”

“I see. If I can fix it? For someone like you, there’s nothing impossible for me.”

That was one hell of a physic lesson and my heart is not ready for it.

Priscilla stands up and look at the torn space made by Susanoo.

“Piece of trash.”

“…”

“You did this, right?”

“I don’t how.”

“Piece of trash…i’ll be cleaning up after you after all.”

“This will be a debt.”

“I don’t need it. I feel disgusted having you indebted to me.”

“Birds of the same feather flocks together.”

Priscilla, while looking at the torn space, flicks her finger in the air and it’s gone.

Hey…!

“Priscilla…”

“What is it, Traschirou?”

“Geh…J-just like that?!”

“Yes.”

“Just one flick of your finger?”

“Yes. If I take my job seriously, nothing is impossible.”

“You’ve taken care of it… just like that?!”

“You’re noisy and annoying. You should have just died a dog’s death.”

“Ehh..”

Ahaha…

Cold as ever… I do understand her indignation. I can feel how irritated she is. She also speaks of an elven twin. Ever since then, Susanoo becomes a bit restless.

Even though, those insults kind of hurt…

Diyu steps up to Priscilla suddenly…

“U-Umm! I-I don’t know who you are or…Um… how strong you are…b-but… please…don’t speak ill of…Ichirou like that… and…about…the death…thing…Please retract it!”

“Oh?”

My body jolted from what Diyu said. Even Priscilla was flabbergasted by it. Cattleya was tugging Diyu’s hand.

I know how Cattleya feels. Priscilla closed that torn space casually and effortlessly. Even with that, we already know how strong she is just by insight alone. And now, Diyu is trying to make her retract her words defending me from her badmouthing.

“Understandable young maiden. I apologize for my rude behavior. I retract my words earlier about Ichirou Nagasaki and will make amends for your sake.”

“E-eh…ah..thank you.”

“Now that we don’t have any further issues, Pie-…Susanoo, I request of you to assist us.”

Susanoo immediately nods from Priscilla’s request.

“Let’s go. Lead the way Maid.”

“We shall.”

Susanoo hurriedly grabs Cattleya’s and enters the portal together with Priscilla. Afraid to be left behind, I also carried Diyu in my hands and enter it.

“Eh?! We’re going too?!”

Come to think of it, Cattleya was struggling saying she needs to be left behind.

Ah…

We are already on the other side and at my back, the portal immediately closes…

The place we arrives is a long hallway surrounded by brick walls. The place has no sunlight entering and the place is cold. This must an underground or something.

The whole place is shaking a bit making small rubble of rock falls off from the ceiling.

“No way…you really brought us along… Where is this?!”

“This is the underground basement of the Dragon Capital Mujinn. The situation is dire and so, we are in the basement where I evacuated all of the civilians including children, elderly and wounded. At the far right is the door that leads to the dining room. Next to it is the grand hall where most of the dragon soldiers are fighting off against the devils. On the other side, is a stair that leads further down where the non-combatants refuges.

Diyu’s question was grandly answered by Priscilla who gave the exact detail.

So…we really arrived at the Dragon Capital in that instant that Diyu can’t believe it.

………

“Hiiiii! Kuhh….AHHHHH!”

“!”

“Cattleya?!”

Cattleya screams loudly. She hugs her own body as she keeps screaming. Ever bits of her body shakes and trembles fearfully. Her eyes become unfocused as strong paranoia attacks her. She instantly becomes pale and her tears start to run to her cheeks. Her small body was embraced by Susanoo.

“Cattleya…! What’ wrong?!”

“Haa…Haa…T-there’s…”

“Cattleya! Cattleya!!”

Diyu shouted as she comes close to Cattleya. Cattleya is finding it hard to speak as her lips also tremble from something…

“Maid…”

“What…?”

“Can you create a close space that blocks all kinds of presence from outside?”

“That’s easy, but for what?”

“This child here is extremely sensitive to strong presence. She gets scared easily.”

“For this child, I shall.”

An invisible barrier like magic is erected around us as Priscilla flicks her finger. Again, she does those absurd feats like they are nothing.

After for about three minutes, after Priscilla gives Cattleya a milk to drink from her dimensional storage, Cattleya was able to calm down and catches her breath. Susanoo repeatedly strokes her head as she tries to collect herself from the panic.

As Cattleya calms down, she then speaks… toward us. Susanoo questions her as to what did she felt.

“I…I felt too many presences…extremely scary and strong presences…”

“Could you describe it?”

“Umm…sinister presence…from many directions…there are about…five… five sinister presences…”

“and..?”

“There are two presences I am familiar with. It must be from Lady Violetta and Sir Ashfon.”

“I see… they are here too.”

“Besides Sir Susanoo, Lady Priscilla, and Sir Ichirou, there are also several good presences in the vicinity but…”

“…”

“Somewhere… somehow… there is this presence…that…that just gave me this fright that I cannot imagine it existed. Painful… too painful…”

“Painful…?”

“Yes, but besides that presence, there’s also a presence of someone really…nice… or…feels good…”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s like…good against evil…positive against negative…good against evil…kind of feeling…”

“…”

“Two powerful presences are about to clash. But both presences feels like…really divine…even though, they are opposite with each other…”

Two opposing force even though, they are both divines?

What does she mean by that?

What kind of premonition is ahead of us?