Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 7 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 13===

「Why──de, arimasu?」

It wasn’t Krulcifer, but Ney who was whispering in a daze while watching the battle from the viewing room of the Hall.

「Why is that person, still fighting to that extent even though there is no chance of winning?」

「I see, that’s true isn’t it……」

Why, did she think that she had no ally or anything.

Had she gave in to despair, thinking that she had no place in this world now.

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『However, I just want you to promise me one thing. That no matter what kind of relationship there was between me and you——, don’t turn hostile toward me, that our relationship with each other right now won’t change.』

『No matter what happens, I will always be Krulcifer-san’s ally. I promise.』

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Even though the young man who recognized her made that promise to her before, she completely forgot it.

Even though she knew, that he wouldn’t break an important promise no matter what.

『……Krulcifer-san, can you hear?』

There, Lux muttered while receiving Mel’s fierce attack on the ground.

『When I was banished from the imperial court of Arcadia Empire, I was thinking, that perhaps there is no one who will recognize me anymore in this world.』

Whether it was his family that was related to him by blood, or the people who were resenting the imperial family, they were all seeing Lux as hated enemy.

Lux who once suffered heartache and felt despair toward the whole world was saved by Philuffy.

『But, I noticed. If it’s really something important, if it’s something that you want, then you must not give up no matter how painful it is. That’s why──I and Lisha-sama and everyone, will become Krulcifer-san’s strength!』

Lux said that and continued to fight.

Krulcifer merely watched wordlessly at that with a wry smile.

「……He is really an exasperating person. After all he is always unawarely getting hold of a person’s feeling like that.」

‘But, surely it’s like that.’ Krulcifer thought.

Even if the unseen past was toying with her, she had a truth in the present.

That it wasn’t a mistake, for her to fall in love with him.

「Ney, please prepare the transfer to the surface. Also, can you apply the ability in this『book』 that has been deciphered completely into Fafnir?」

「Xfer-sama……, this is──!?」

「No, my name is Krulcifer you know. That’s why, don’t mistake it from here on.」

「……I understand, dearimasu. Krulcifer-sama.」

Krulcifer once more lifted Fafnir’s Sword Device before her eyes.

And then, when she gazed at the battlefield that was still continuing, she came to hear a single voice.

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「──You’re wrong! Actually you aren’t to blame for anything! Krulcifer!」

Stiyl Einfolk faced toward the spot where Krulcifer vanished and raised his voice as though to call out to her.

His face wasn’t the usual severe and rigid expression, but an expression that was blurred with impatience and pain.

He responded to Lux’s call and came to this place with his own feet.

「……What does that mean?」

Mel reacted to Stiyl’s shout and turned a chilly gaze and voice toward that direction.

「Seven years ago, the nobles who sniffed your secret took you to the Ruin, and a rampage occurred! It was my duty so that such thing wouldn’t happen, but I couldn’t stop them! And then one and half a year ago, that time even the high official of the theocracy turned traitor, tricked you, and brought you to the Ruin which caused that incident!」

「-……!?」

Alterize and Zain, and also the Sanctuary Knight Order members present there who heard that turned speechless and stood still.

「There might be some wicked bunches still who are aiming at you might in the theocracy. That’s why, I thought there is nothing I can do but distancing you from the house! I couldn’t protect you from malice, except by doing that!」

‘That’s why’ ──Stiyl rolled up the sleeve of his coat and took off the glove that he wore even inside room.

Underneath it, terrible scar that was running from the right arm’s elbow until the palm was remaining.

『That’s──!?』

Krulcifer who saw that from the viewing room reflexively held her breath.

The memory of that time that was remaining hazily in her mind.

She remembered that someone was desperately saving her, but Stiyl told her that it wasn’t him.

Since that day, Stiyl was wearing glove even inside house and using cane to walk.

The fact that Krulcifer herself became the impetus of conflict.

Because of that, Stiyl didn’t tell Krulcifer in order to hide that he was seriously injured.

「……It’s an unsightly story! I became unable to fight anymore! I couldn’t protect your wellbeing, except by hurting your heart! That’s why, my daughter……! Don’t be hurt alone just for the sake of a fool like me!」

Stiyl reach out his deeply scarred hand and raised his voice.

At that moment, the flying Ddraig Gwiber fired Ground Buster to right below.

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