Editing Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha:Volume 7 Chapter 3 (section)

===Part 16===
Even though Volga’s enormous body had been cut into two sections, he still seemed to want to fight, as his upper body continued to struggle. However, the immense blood loss quickly caused his consciousness to fade, and then he stopped moving.

“Come on…how could this guy die even quicker than his rotten older brother?”

Volga’s miserable state caused Lars to smile bitterly in the lounge. Upon the display, when Yuki returned her spirit sword to its sheath with a ‘ching’, the stage that had been destroyed by Volga was restored. Based on that, it seemed that the battle space had not been changed, rather, the entire stage was copied. Yuki then walked off the stage, and didn’t even look at what was left of Volga on the floor. Yuki’s anger towards Admirath for deceiving Kurumi didn’t seem to have subsided yet, and that aura overwhelmed the audience, so much so that none of them dared to say anything. When the staff waiting at the side moved Volga away on a cart, Lars stopped looking at the display of Yuki returning to the Moderates faction’s lounge through the passageway and said

“So, what now, Leohart?”

“………”

Leohart replied to Lars with a heavy silence. The Council’s candidate, Volga, had been defeated, but that wasn’t enough for him to let his grievances out…because the sixth representative, his adjutant Balthier had gone to investigate the Council’s situation, but was still yet to return.

“It’ll be a problem if he’s not ready to head out, and I’m not able to reach him with communication magic either, huh?”

“…Yeah, I’m not able to detect Balthier’s spiritual reaction either.”

This meant that let alone speaking to him, it wasn’t possible to construct a link to him at all. Balthier was Leohart’s most loyal subordinate, it was unlikely that he would be hiding at such a time, so the most likely scenario was—

“After Toujou Basara, now even Balthier has disappeared…could it be possible that both of them have been captured by the Council?”

“…I don’t want to think that, but it’s not impossible.”

Lars seemed to sigh as he spoke to Leohart, whose expression was becoming more serious

“I can’t take this…if we don’t deal with this quickly, we’ll be giving the Council an excuse for trouble again.”

“But — we don’t have anyone else who can go right now.”

If Balthier wasn’t present, the Council would definitely send their own representative to fight. At present, Lars had one win, Luka had one loss, while the Council had one loss because of Volga, but Admirath had defeated Kurumi, and also caused Zest to lose through disqualification, a total of two wins. Under such an unfavourable situation, if even Balthier’s position was to be filled by the Council, and if they won — then even if Leohart won his duel, three of the five victories of the Current Demon Lord faction would belong to the Council. It would be equivalent to the Council winning the final substantial victory.

“So — you’re not just going to sit here and watch, right?”

Lars lifted his eyebrows as he asked. The young Demon Lord shook his head and stood up.

“How could I? I don’t want to give the Council any more than they already have.”

Leohart then said

“Even if there’s no one among us who can go — there are still ways to stop them.”