Editing Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha:Volume 7 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 11===
At that time — a battle had just begun in the Moderates Faction’s infirmary.

“!…Ah…”

“Kuh…ugh…”

Yuki and Lucia collapsed onto the tiled floor as they groaned in pain — Admirath looked down and leisurely watched them as he said

“Look, as I said…you two are definitely not opponents for me.”

The two of them had to protect the fainted Kurumi and Maria from the battle, and couldn’t use any powerful attacks, and they had also inhaled the gas that Admirath released. It was a miracle that they had been able to hang on until now in such a disadvantageous situation, and they had already done everything that they could, but they were still no match for the Demon Lord candidate Admirath. It was easy for him to take their lives with his enormous scythe, but Admirath only used the back of the blade on purpose so that he could beat them until they were rendered completely immobile. The reason was absolutely clear, it was all — in order to allow them to witness the moment in which Kurumi and Maria died by his hand.

“Lay there on the ground obediently for me, and watch me take away your precious family members.”

After saying that, Admirath swaggered towards Kurumi’s bed.

“!…Ku-rumi…!”

Yuki tried to lift her head, and she desperately tried to call her little sister’s name to warn her, but it was all in vain. Admirath arrived at the bedside, and looked at Kurumi’s adorable sleeping face as he became more and more excited on the inside.

''This is great. Next, I’ll pinch her thin cheeks, and watch as her hypoxic face gradually turns purple, while slowly enjoying the sensation of ending her life. Moreover, it’ll be in front of her sister Yuki.

…Could there be any better arrangement?

Should I kill Kurumi before all of them and then similarly strangle Maria, and then kill Lucia after torturing her? Or should I kill Maria first, so that the two sisters suffer before I kill another one? No…what about killing Lucia first, it would be nice if she died without knowing how her little sister was going to meet her end. In any case — no matter what, the first person to kill won’t change. So—''

“Alright…this time, I’ll definitely be taking your puny life.”

Admirath’s left hand edged ever closer to Kurumi’s body. However, that hand suddenly made an excruciating ‘crack’ sound — it was crushed by another hand that had reached over from the side.

“Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!?”

Without even the time to be surprised, Admirath yelled out in pain and immediately tried to throw off the unknown threat that had attacked him. But the hand that had crushed his lower left arm did not let go — after continuing to struggle until the end, Admirath had no choice but to collapse to the ground when he had finally broken free.

“W-What guts…to dare to destroy my good moment…!”

His own shameful appearance caused his anger to swell up as he gritted his teeth and looked up to see the beautiful succubus Maria, who was originally asleep on the bed next to Kurumi. Although she had fallen unconscious after losing to Lars, she still retained her adult form.

“What—…”

At that time, Admirath suddenly uttered something with an expression of deep hatred while he stared at her face. Maria’s hand was holding a particular object. So he sheepishly looked at his left arm, and at his left arm which had gone numb after a searing pain — he had lost the part below the wrist, and a vast amount of bright red blood was dripping out.

“M-My hand…my…aaaaaaaaaaaahhh!”

Maria disregarded the agonising screams of Admirath, and turned around to look at the messed-up room, as well as her older sister and Yuki who were unable to get up.

“I see…so even Lucia-oneesama and Yuki-san have been…”

After muttering that, Maria tossed the hand that she had pulled off in front of Admirath and said

“How impudent…you wanted to attack Kurumi while she was asleep after beating the two of them.”

“H-How dare a tiny succubus like you be so arrogant…!”

Admirath lifted his gaze from his severed left hand and cursed, while Maria simply responded with ‘hmph’ and said

“Listen carefully okay? Kurumi-san is my most valuable playthi…my most precious friend!”

“D-Damn it!”

Admirath grimaced in pain as he desperately tried to swing his enormous scythe — but he could not do so. It was because Admirath’s remaining right arm had been severed from the shoulder by a blade of wind just before that. Upon seeing his right hand attached the scythe fall to the floor—

“What —Aaaaaaaaaahhh!”

Admirath screamed in shock. And then, Kurumi, who had woken up at some point sighed as she said

“…Maria, were you about to say ‘plaything’ just then?”

It was only now that she turned around said to Admirath

“What is it…I was wondering who it was, so it was the scum who took Basara hostage.”

Then, Kurumi realised that Basara was safe because she could see him on the broadcast of the fighting space on the display device in the infirmary.

“……I see, so it was a lie.”

After murmuring that in a low voice, Kurumi looked down at Admirath.

“After making me feel so bitter, I’ll have to repay that to you…”

Kurumi slowly floated up from the bed. Using the black elemental as a catalyst, Kurumi’s magical power swiftly heightened, and all of the spirits in her service appeared around her.

“I’ll pay you back for hurting onee-sama and Lucia-san right now!”

Kurumi’s left palm stretched over — when Admirath thought that, his entire body had been blasted into mid-air together with a loud boom.

“! —Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!”

The powerful high-pressure airflow had instantly swallowed Admirath, and in pushing him backwards, a countless number of walls and rooms in a straight line had been destroyed. He was even pushed out into the arena, where he made a crater in the thick rock wall in the hills behind it, and almost split the entire mountain in two.

“!…Ugh, ah…ngh—?”

There was a figure that appeared in front of Admirath as he groaned in pain. It was Maria, who held her right fist close to her torso—

“—It ends here.”

At the same time, the adult Maria smashed through Admirath’s chest with a single punch. Maria’s blow completely released all of the power that had been built-up in her right fist.

Together with a booming noise and a heavy impact, her fist was met with a solid sensation. —So, when the dust settled after the rock wall had been blown apart, Maria set down the fist that she had held in mid-air. In the cave-like pit that she had generated with her blow — she glared harshly and heatedly yelled to the already motionless Admirath

“You’re far too arrogant — if you think you can get away with attacking Kurumi in her sleep in front of me!”

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