Fiancée of the Wizard Volume 8 Chapter 5 Part 4
Agedilus finally understood. He had thought that the current “Filmina” was not Agedilus’s Filmina. However, he was wrong. “She” was certainly Agedilus’s Filmina.
He did not think that the current “Filmina” would not have a proper consciousness left in her. Be that as it may, that did not mean all her actions were completely due to her acceptance of the demon lord’s core. It was unthinkable to hear her statement just now from the usual was Filmina. That being said, this was most probably the result of the demon core multiplying within her. The demon lord’s core had let the hatred and despair within her loose. That meant that as “she” says so, the current “Filmina” was certainly “Agedilus’s Filmina”. It was Agedilus’s Filmina that had blamed herself. It was Agedilus’s Filmina that hated and despaired, and that was why she had accepted the demon lord’s core.
「……I am sorry. You were in front of me from the start」
When Agedilus tried to call for her: Filmina. When he was about to reach for her cheek with his hand——Filmina’s eyes gleamed with a dark glow once again.
「That is why I am not going to repeat the same mistake again」
The moment she said so, a gust of wind razed around. The wind made a roaring sound. At the center of this, her black hair fluttered in the wind and her dark eyes gleamed. Meanwhile, she continued talking.
「With this power, I will not let anyone hurt you anymore. With this power, I can protect you. Why can’t you understand me? I, I can finally, finally protect you——!! 」
Filmina was almost screaming by the end of her line. At the same time as her scream, a black magical power exploded in one go, with Filmina in the center. This strong magical power then continued to destroy the surroundings without stopping.
However, at that moment, Agedilus noticed an oddity that surrounded him. The magical power that overflowed from Filmina swallowed up the surrounding spirits and continued to destroy all kinds of things. Nevertheless, somehow, he could remain standing here safely. When he looked at Noct while scrunching his eyebrows, he noticed that Noct too, was safe.
Agedilus who was barely standing by supporting his body with his wand, and Noct who was lying down unconscious. Both of them should be an easy target for Filmina’s magical power. Nevertheless, somehow both of them were not inflicted by the magical power.
It was not that Agedilus made a barrier. If it had been the usual Agedilus perhaps, but currently he did not have to strength to do so. Yet, both of them were safe as if protected by something.
No, it was not ‘as if protected by something’. Surely, something was wrapping around them and protecting them from the flow of magical power.
Why would we be protected, Filmina aside——thinking till that point, Agedilus finally reached a conclusion, and smiled wryly. Even at this stage. Agedilus himself thought his laugh was out of place, but he had no choice. He could not help it.
「Even at this stage, worrying about others huh」
As aforementioned, the current state of Filmina was definitely not the original state of her. Agedilus voice did not reach her in her insane state, being swallowed by hatred and despair. Yet, nonetheless, without intending so, Filmina was protecting Agedilus and Noct from her own magical power. By placing a barrier around them.
It was as expected. He thought so once again. Then, Agedilus laughed. “She” was “Agedilus’s Filmina”. Oh well, there must be a limit to how caring she could be. Such a person could not possibly become the demon lord that allow cruelty and was merciless. Every person had their strengths and weaknesses. Although he did not intend to agree with that demon, but surely Agedilus himself was much more suited to be a demon lord.
Indeed. Filmina cannot become a demon lord. Her kindness would not let her. Even if Filmina herself allow it to happen, even if anyone wished for it, Agedilus, Agedilus definitely did not allow it. That was the same if Agedilus and Filmina’s position was swapped, how Filmina would never allow Agedilus become the demon lord.
The magical power still continued to raze the surroundings. Currently, it was within this estate, but eventually this outrage of magical power would swallow the nation, then the world. Filmina’s body and soul would not be able to hand this gigantic and powerful magical power. Her body has an average magical capacity, and she does not have any protection from the spirits.
「Filmina」
He could not hear that calm and gentle voice answering his call, 「Edi」. Instead, Filmina who had been covering her face her hands at the center of the flow of magical power lifted her face up. Then she slowly faced Agedilus.
「I am tired of just being protected. I cannot take waiting any longer. I want to be at your side all the time」
Surely, this was the most honest she could be beyond her hatred and despair.
Agedilus gulped. A transparent droplet spilt on the cracked floor in front of him.
「Filmina」
His call for her was not met with any response. Without making a sound, Filmina was crying. Her completely blackened long hair fluttered in the air. Her dark eyes that does not reflect any light were overflowing with tears. Its teardrops rode on the wind of magical power and reached Agedilus’s cheeks. Was it coincidental? When he wiped the teardrop with his fingertips and licked it, it was very salty. He could not mistake it; it was a human’s——his beloved wife’s tears.
「E, di」
Filmina’s lips softly murmured while quivering. The moment he heard it, an emotion so unbearably impulsive razed in him, and overcame his conscience.
「Filmina」
One word was not enough. He wanted to call that name more. He wanted his name to be called even more. He wanted to touch her, embrace her. If she wishes, he wanted to whisper her thousands if not tens of thousands of words of love.
Agedilus always received complaints that although he normally had too much to say, at important instances, he would not say enough. He could not say that he never regretted about it before. Of course, he could not. Probably the first instance of this was when he had faced the general of the demon lord’s army in the earlier war. Using the big magic spell, Agedilus thought, surely, he had felt a lifetime’s worth of regret. Yet even after this incident, starting with the incident in which Filmina was cursed, he had regretted many times.
—Indeed. Including these regrets, Agedilus had made a vow. Not to the goddess. He had made a vow to no other than himself. That he will never make the same mistake.
Again, Agedilus listed the things he needed to do in the back of his mind. In order to get Filmina back, he must take the shard of the demon lord’s core out of her. However, even if it was a shard, it was a shard that had so much magical power. If one was to forcibly take it out from Filmina, surely both Filmina and Agedilus would be hurt. Its dirty magical power would swallow both of them. In such a way, both of them might die. And this possibility of death was not low at all. The spell that he was about to make was extremely complicated and difficult. Agedilus knew this more than anybody else.
But, what was that?
He had thought once. When he faces death, if he was to have a companion, Filmina alone would suffice. Perhaps now was the moment, he thought.
Even if they both died, it would not be that bad. It would be a death that would have neither be left behind or leave behind. Undoubtedly, if Filmina knows that Agedilus was thinking so, she would scold him.
「……Ah, but, I can’t」
Agedilus had made a promise with Filmina. A promise to live together with her. They had promised to never break it. The life they walk together in would surely be filled with much more joy and happiness than their death. Surely it would be so bright that one’s eyes would hurt. Then this bright life was not just theirs. Eventually, they would have one more. A presence that was more precious than anything else to Agedilus and Filmina, their child.
Then, he already knew what he must do.
The resurrection of the demon lord? A threat to the world? Who cares? To Agedilus such trivial matters were not important. More than anything or anybody else, somebody that he could not afford to lose even if he had to trade the world with it, the somebody that he had vowed to continue to protect no matter what sort of method he uses, the somebody was in front of him.
「The woman I fell in love in is crying. There is no better reason to sacrifice my life」
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