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Fiancée of the Wizard Volume 8 Chapter 4 Part 6

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Apparently, I had closed my eyes without being aware of it. When I opened them, the sight I saw in front of me was very similar to what I had seen just now. A beautiful morning glow colored light was filling the large hall. Ah, the end to the long night has finally come. Strangely, I felt so with some certainty.

The man beside me hugged me with his arm while raising the wand with his other hand up high. The morning glow colored light gathered.

Then the light became a single arrow of light, and flew towards the neck of the large wolf pinned down onto the ground—–that is Noct’s.
A noiseless scream shook the air. A whitish silver light that differs from the morning glow colored light wiped out the black light that had been continuously projected by the large wolf’s collar’s core. The whitish silver light then swallowed my entire sight with white. I could not open my eyes. While I was closing my eyes, I heard something break, making a sound of glass breaking.

Then after a while, I finally opened my eyes. I could not help but raise my voice at what I saw.

「Noct! 」

The person in the center of where the whitish silver light gathered was not the pitch-black large wolf. It was Noct in his original form—in his human form.

「The, the magical tool that I had made…..」
「That magical tool is all you’ve got huh. How shabby」

While the demon dumbfoundedly murmured while being pinned onto the wall, the man muttered exasperatingly. While the man was doing so, I slipped from his arms and crouched down beside where Noct was lying down. Then I turned Noct’s thin body to face upwards, and lifted his upper body upright with my body.

It was a body that was too light for a boy this age. Confirming that his chest was definitely moving up and down, I sighed a breath of relief. It is alright. He is, breathing. As soon as I confirmed this, all the nervousness in my body was released in one go.

「What a relief……」

Noct’s wet teary face was very calm. Hand combing his untidy ash-grey hair, I murmured. The collar-like choker that had been wrapped around his neck was not there anymore. Inferring from what the man and the demon said, the choker was controlling Noct. 『The symbol of family』? How terrible. In my mind, I said in utter disgust, what an unforgivable 『mother』. Then, after a while, I finally realized.

「His color, has changed? 」

I could not help but mutter so. Then I gazed at him once again. His ears had been black like the large wolf just now. However, now, it was gleaming in a beautiful whitish silver color, far from black. When I glanced at the tail, its fur had also changed to a whitish silver color just like his ears. A beautiful whitish silver color just like the wolf we had met in Noct’s subconscious. The color indicated…

While I was busy being confused, Noct in my arms quivered his eyelids. Then blinking several times, he finally opened his beautiful yellow eyes. His eyes were blank, as if I was looking into a void that expanded boundlessly.

「Noct, are you alright? 」

There was no response to my question. Noct lifted his body that I had been holding, and slowly looked around as if finding for something. While leaving him to me, the man pointed his wand towards the demon.

「Now it’s just you now」
「——Are you sure? 」

I wonder where her befuddlement went; her befuddlement when the collar, her magical tool was destroyed that is. Even while being pinned and pointed at by the man’s wand, she did not seem to show a sign of panic. The demon curled her lips. For a while, the man scrunched his eyebrows suspiciously at the demon’s evil smile. Then eventually, he paled.

「Go away from Noct, Filmina! 」

My reaction to his unusually panicked voice was delayed.

「—————–What? 」

When I came to my sense, I was held in the man’s arms. Although there had been some distance between the man and me, that is. After tilting my head at what happened, I finally understood. Apparently, he had used a teleportation spell to come between me and Noct. I wonder why he had used a teleportation spell just for this short distance.

When I was about to lift my head and ask him, what happened, a light-hearted sound rang. The sound seemed strangely far away. Perhaps that was why it took some time for me to realize that it was the sound of the wand slipping from the man’s hand and dropping onto the floor.

「Edi? 」

Even though I called him, there was no response. I wonder, why. My hand felt a lukewarm and sticky sensation. Fearfully, I lifted my hand in his arms and ascertained what it was.

It was red. A red so bright that it could be described as beautiful, dirtied my hand.

「……Edi? 」

I called the name once again fearfully. However, there was no answering voice that usually would say, 「what」, whilst calling my name. Instead, the man’s body tilted and leaned against me. Its weight was almost like a cold object made of lead.

「A, aaagggggggghhhhhhh! 」

Noct had stood up without me noticing him. Backing away, he screamed while restraining his red hand with his other hand. A purple-colored magical power buzzed around him and attacked him. As if struck by lightning, Noct’s body tilted, and then crashed into the ground. “The consequences of breaking the contract”. Such phrased popped into my mind. But what is important is not this but
「Edi, darling, why won’t you answer me……? 」

I lightly shook the man’s body that was leaning against me. However, I could not receive the response I wanted. The man’s body slipped and wordlessly fell beside me. I heard a heavy thud. I compared my red hand and the man that lay on the floor with closed eyes. I did not, understand.

「Ah, what a shame. I had intended to make him kill the girl. Really, how useless he is. An unwanted child is terrible after all. Even though I had gone through the trouble of guiding him, how useless he was」

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Before I knew it, the demon had come down from the wall. She was standing in a relaxed manner. Giggling, she looked at me. As if exasperated, the demon shrugged her shoulders. I tilted my head.

I could not understand the current situation. No, I was wrong. It was not that I could not understand it; I did not want to understand the current situation. I did not want to accept that in reality, the man had protected me and was pierced in the stomach by Noct.

「What, do you mean? 」

While I dumbfoundedly asked, the demon only giggled to herself. She walked towards me slowly, and stood in front of me while I sat down at the spot. Then she deepened her smile.

「Before I made the unwanted child wear the magical tool, I hypnotized him. In case of an emergency, to surely kill “the enemy”. Humans cannot react if there isn’t any aura of intent to kill or an intent to kill, right? It was an extremely powerful hypnosis that was very very deeply, even deeper than his subconscious——rooted in the roots of his soul. You guys had thought you had untangled him from my hypnosis in his subconscious but……what a shame. Don’t you think my hypnosis that the magician over there was mocking is quite good? 」

Proudly, the demon threw out her busty chest. Upon hearing the demon’s words, I remembered the doll weaved by leaves of a black bay laurel tree that I had seen in Noct’s subconscious. I had thought I had peeled it off from Noct, but apparently that was not enough.

While I blankly thought so, the demon softly caressed the shard of the core of the demon lord in her hands.

「Well, the magician should know by now. In this case, I don’t care about despair or hatred. In this state, I would be able to hypnotize the man to be my master」

As if in a euphoria, the demon lovingly kissed the shard of the demon lord’s core. Then she pointed the shard, her hand towards the man that was lying down beside me. Towards my adorable darling whose beautiful gleam of life was about to vanish right now.

……At this moment, I felt an impulse within me. It was almost as if my whole body was boiling.

「Don’t touch」

It was almost like the voice that spilt from my mouth was not mine.

「Don’t touch, Edi」

Was my voice first. Or was it after. I did not know the order, but I knew that the shard of the demon lord’s core in the demon’s hand gleamed with a dark light. I expressionlessly stared at the bright, overwhelming, and merciless light.

I had almost thought the demon had done something. However, apparently it was not according to her intentions. While the demon widened her eyes in surprise, the shard of the demon lord’s core floated away from the demon’s hand, and came in front of me while gleaming a dark light.

 

———Will you accept it or not?

 

I certainly heard this silent voiceless question.

I should have known that it was wrong. It was something I must reject. Yet, somehow, I accepted it naturally as if it was a matter of course.
I wordlessly nodded. Gleaming brightly with a dark light, it was absorbed into my chest without making a sound.

 

——Lub dub

 

In a strangely calm manner, I heard my own heartbeat making a weirdly loud sound.

「You little girl! Give it back, it does not belong to someone like you……a, arrgghhh!? 」

How noisy. Although I had simply looked at her while thinking so, the demon was blasted by an invisible shock wave and was slammed into the one of the few walls that were remaining. When I continually gazed intently at her, the demon scratched her throat and started to scream and struggle.

How noisy. I could not bear how noisy it was. For some reason, I raised my hand towards it. I did not know why the demon gulped in fear, but a black light was released from my hands. The demon was pierced by the light was turned into ashes before she could scream or blink.
An object that seemed to be a core dropped onto the ground with a cold sound. But this also shattered when I glanced at it. Other than this, nothing was left. In this room remained just me, the man, and Noct.

 

———Ah, it has finally become quiet.

 

「Edi, it is alright now」

 

With a red hand, I shifted the man’s jet-black fringe from his face. 『Something』 flowed from my hand into the unconscious man. It was something that was not supposed to be mine. However, it was mine now. It was something worthy of using to save the man.

Then, the 『something』 that I poured into the man started healing his pierced stomach. There, he is alright. Hey, you are alright. That’s why, please open your eyes. My adorable darling.

I carved his pale beauty into my memory. Then, everything in “me” was wiped out with something very black.