Volume 7 Chapter 168
The Flame Knight and the Daemon’s Daughter
Gusion was blown away towards the entrance of the Great Temple by the Flame Knight that suddenly appeared.
This Flame Knight was Haruto’s magic.
In response to Seira’s desperate cry for help, the magic circle that Haruto had attached to her was activated.
Originally, this was a magic circle that should have summoned Haruto when Seira was in trouble. However, since Haruto didn’t respond, the Flame Knight was summoned in his place.
「W-What is this?」
Seira was bewildered, not understanding the situation in front of her.
In contrast to Seira, someone immediately took action.
「You! How dare you do that to Father!」
Robelia, furious at her father Gusion being knocked aside, attacked the Flame Knight.
Why the Flame Knight had appeared in this place didn’t matter at all to her. The fact that it had struck her father made Robelia attack without hesitation— considering it an enemy.
Gusion had repeatedly reincarnated as a human child to infiltrate the holy city, despite being a daemon.
His daughter, Robelia, also possessed demonic powers in the same way. Moreover, having undergone long-term training as a candidate for the Holy Maiden, she could use sacred powers akin to those of a Holy Maiden.
She could wield the blessed spear— the Sacred Spear.
And so Robelia skillfully manipulated the Sacred Spear and attacked the Flame Knight.
If the Flame Knight were a demon, even a grazing attack from the Sacred Spear would be a fatal blow.
The fight should have been decided in an instant.
—At least that’s how it should have gone..
「Why!?」
Robelia was getting anxious.
In terms of handling the Sacred Spear—or rather, in handling all blessed weapons, she was the most skilled among the candidates for the Holy Maiden.
She had the confidence that she could wield any weapon other than the rapier even better than the current Holy Maiden, Seira.
However, despite her expertise with the weapon she was most skilled with, the Sacred Spear, she couldn’t land a single blow on the Flame Knight.
「Damn it, if only I could hit him, just one hit!」
She thought that if she could land just one hit, she could win.
—That thought led her to take an action filled with malice.
「How about this!?」
She threw the Sacred Spear toward Isha, who was crucified on the cross.
Robelia had noticed that the Flame Knight was protecting Seira.
If he was going to protect the Holy Maiden, he should also protect Isha, the Holy Maiden-to-be.
—-And her prediction was correct.
The Flame Knight used his arm to catch the Sacred Spear thrown at Isha to protect her. In the process getting injured by the Sacred Spear.
「All right!」
With this, the Flame Knight should disappear.
Now, she just had to save her father, Gusion—-
「……Huh?」
Robelia couldn’t believe what was happening.
Even though the Flame Knight had been injured by the Sacred Spear, he didn’t disappear.
Furthermore, he pulled the Sacred Spear out of his arm with his left hand and aimed it at Robelia.
There was no way a monster could wield a blessed Sacred Spear. Unless he was an entity far superior, capable of even repelling the blessings of the gods—-
Or perhaps it was some kind of magic.
However, the existence of autonomous magic that could engage in combat at an equal or greater level than herself was something she couldn’t believe or didn’t want to believe.
The Flame Knight, wielding two spears, one of fire and one holy, approached her.
「Is this for real? Wait, this can’t be!」
Robelia stepped back.
Fear was evident on her face.
「Water Prison!」
A large amount of water flowed in from nowhere and enveloped the Flame Knight.
「Father!」
Gusion had recovered from his injuries and trapped the Flame Knight in a water prison.
「Are you all right?」
「Yeah, this much can’t hurt me」
The two watched the Flame Knight inside the water prison.
Even though the flames were completely covered by water, there was no sign of them disappearing, which was intimidating.
The Flame Knight was infused with so much magic power that even a demon like himself found it surprising.
「Father, what in the world is this knight?」
「It’s probably magic— of that Sage」
「I-impossible!? There’s no way that humans can use such powerful magic—」
「He protected the Holy Maiden from the two demons under my command. He has the power to at least defeat two demons without a scratch.」
Gusion had sensed through soul connection when his subordinate demons were defeated.
And he heard from Seira and Haruto himself that he and his group had defeated the demons.
—-Or at least he thought he knew.
In reality, the Sage, Haruto had defeated one demon, and the other demon had been taken down by his family.
The demon was unaware.
He did not know that it was not just Haruto, the Sage, who could defeat demons.
Or that the Sage’s family was exceptional.
Or even that Haruto’s family held anger against him—there was no way Gusion could have known.
「In any case, let’s kill that Sage quickly」
「I’ll help too」
「Yes, you may. Tonight, with the release of your power as the future Holy Maiden and my true power that I’ve hidden until now, even a Sage will be no match for us」
「That’s right—Father! Watch out!」
Robelia pushed Gusion aside.
The Sacred Spear pierced the spot where Gusion had been until a moment ago.
Robelia, who had taken Gusion’s place, was pierced through the abdomen by the Sacred Spear.
「N-No……」
「F-Father, r-run, a-way..」
Pierced through the demon’s core and a human heart simultaneously, Robelia breathed her last. She, who had demon’s blood in her, was purified by the holy magic, turning into ashes as she scattered.
「Robelia, Robeliaaaa!」
He glared at the direction from which the Sacred Spear had flown.
There stood the Flame Knight.
The intensity of the flames making up his body was increasing.
In addition, he was covered with electricity.
Why?
How?
What is happening?
—-None of that mattered.
A plan that had been constructed over a thousand years had been disrupted.
There was no love for his daughter.
He was a demon.
He knew nothing of love.
He had lived as a human for a thousand years, but had never known love.
His daughter Robelia was nothing more than a tool for executing the plan.
Even so, she was a tool that had taken hundreds of years to prepare.
Having that tool destroyed was not something to be pleased about.
「……Haruto, I will definitely kill you」
Muttering these words, Gusion released the demon’s power that he had sealed for a thousand years.
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