Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 10 Episode 4 (section)

===Part 3===
「It’s around here I think? It looks like Rosa’s Gorynych was dispelled here.」

Lux and Coral pursued Rosa and returned inside the practice ground in Heiburg’s military’s ground. They were looking at the broken trees of the forest while following behind the footprints.

「Thank you Coral. If it’s from here, I can go alone.」

Even though he was wounded all over his body, it seemed Lux’s breathing was calming down. He unsheathed the Sword Device of Wyvern once more and equipped the Drag-Ride on his body.

「Don’t force yourself Lux-kun! If you like, you can also entrust the matter of Lady Rosa to me──」

「No, that’s no good. If I don’t settle it with her with my own hands……」

Lux stepped inside the darkness with an expression that was afflicted with fever.

It was hard to understand because of the rain and the armor fragments of Gorynych that were scattered around, but some trace of blood could be seen.

Rosa too was also at a dying state without doubt.

But, she might have enough stamina remaining to escape.

If Noct also came here, she would be able to check the reaction of living things around with her Drake’s probing device but──

「Be careful Lux-kun! ──There is someone nearby!」

When Coral informed him with a stifled voice, Lux stopped his feet and put up his guard.

But, it seemed it wasn’t Rosa, but half of Heiburg soldiers who escaped from the battle before this.

It appeared they were also at their limit already too. They weren’t wearing Drag-Rides.

When they noticed Lux and Coral, they threw away their swords and prostrated.

「Ple, please spare us! We too had no other choice but to obey Lady Rosa. We are putting down our Sword Devices like this so──」

「I get it. Coral, please take care of them. I’m still searching for her so──」

「It’s fine but, will you be alright by yourself? I just confirmed from the Dragon Voice, everyone of the Triad will come soon you know?」

「Yes. I can still, go on.」

Lux slowly flew forward, following the bloody footprints until behind a large rock.

「Throw away your weapon and surrender. If you do that I won’t take away your life here.」

「…………」

Perhaps Rosa wasn’t behind the rock, no reply came.

Lux readied his Scale Blade. It was at that moment he felt a presence behind him.

「──AAAAH!」

A hoarse voice burst. At the same time, Rosa clad in a Drake struck with her Blade.

But, that trick wouldn’t work for the second time.

Although Lux was exhausted, as expected he had predicted the ambush.

「As I thought, you are going to do something like this.」

Lux performed a counter of Critical Hit using the Scale Blade. The Blade of the Drake was smashed.

Rosa who saw that backed away while her body was trembling fiercely.

Perhaps her arms and legs were respectively broken, her body was tilting to the side.

From how she was covering the area around her stomach, it hinted that her ribs were also broken.

「Why, why doesn’t it work……! Even though it shouldn’t be like this……just whyyy!」

Her eyes were moist with tears of despair, even so she threw a Dagger towards Lux.

When Lux calmly used his Blade as a shield, Rosa used that chance to vanish her figure.

It was the basic ability of special equipment type Drake, the camouflage ability.

However, in her dying state, she wasn’t able to use it properly.

Lux slashed at a spot where the air was distorted, breaking the waist part of the armor.

「Tsu……! NOOoOOOO-!」

Rosa’s armor was dispelled at the same time with her reappearance. She broke into a run deeper towards the forest with her flesh body.

「This is your loss, Rosa. Surrender obediently and accept the judgement of the law. Atone for your sins until now.」

「Why, why why why why……. Even though evil is absolute, even though I shouldn’t have lost, even though I was told that I would win, why──!」

Rosa hugged her shoulders with an expression of heartbreak while shivering. Even so she didn’t let go of her Sword Device.

In the middle of running her foot got caught in quagmire and she stumbled. Her whole body was soppy with blood and mud while at the end she fell on her butt and looked up to Lux’s Wyvern.

She was at an open spot that was surrounded by trees. There Rosa was finally unable to move anymore.

「Please, help meee……. Forgive meee……! I, don’t want to dieee……! I don’t want what’s mine to get taken away by someone else anymoree……!」

Rosa leaked out tears down her cheeks that were soaked with blood while pleading.

Even that might be a trap.

Lux couldn’t let his guard down until the end.

「Are you planning to trick someone again by acting like that? Or perhaps──」

Was she planning to buy time? When Lux was about to say that, footsteps could be heard approaching from the surrounding.

「────」

For a moment Lux was anxious thinking if enemy reinforcement was coming, but it seemed he was mistaken.

Common soldiers whose armors had been dispelled already were heading here while leading Coral.

「They had thrown away their weapons and surrendered just now. Lady Rosa, I want you too to be restrained quietly.」

Coral tried to persuade Rosa with a calm tone, but in contrast, when Rosa noticed him, she called out to her subordinates.

「Qu, quickly save me here! If you guys defeat them──! If you let me get away then a reward──」

「Shut up you bitch-!」

「KYAAAAH!?」

Rosa immediately shrieked. Her face was snapped backward.

One of the soldiers threw a rock that hit her forehead.

「Tha, that’s right! Be quiet you trash! You villain!」

「We are getting treated like this! Everything is your fault!」

「How dare you threaten us all until now! How dare you, how dare you──」

The Heiburg soldiers who numbered more than twenty started hurling abuses at Rosa with that as the trigger.

They threw rocks, stepped on her broken limbs, ripped her remaining pilot suit, punched her face.

It seemed they were keeping a lot of grudge, or perhaps they were doing this only to protect their own positions.

Even though the girl was crying and screaming, the soldier’s collective behavior didn’t stop and increased in intensity instead.

「NOOOOO-……! PLEASE FORGIVE MEEEE-! I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I’M SORRY! STOP IT ALREADYYYY! SAVE MEEEE-!」

The girl who had already lost her strength and became powerless was showered with insults and violence by the men.

That wretched sight that was just too painful to look at caused Lux to grimace unconsciously.

──It was her just deserts.

This was the payment for how she ruled this country harshly with strength and fear and carried out immoral actions.

Lux had no duty to stop them.

Besides even though she was weak right now, if she recovered her strength, she would undoubtedly stand up again as a follower of atrocity.

At that time, he wouldn’t know if he would be able to outwit Rosa again.

「──!?」

But even so, Lux reached out his hand reflexively trying to stop the beating. It was at that timing he heard Calensia’s voice through Dragon Voice.

『I beg you Lux-san──please kill her with your hand.』

Calensia’s voice was tinged with urgency.

『Eh……?』

Lux was bewildered by her words and he stiffened.

『My family is also taken hostage by her. Everyone is suffering by her tyranny. I beg you. Please save us.』

『However, such thing……I』

Even so Lux was showing hesitation, but Calensia whispered.

『Please Lux-san. Right now I still cannot go there. If she is imprisoned, surely she will escape and take revenge. I know that what I’m asking is unreasonable. But, please. I’m begging you, in order to save this country.』

Lux was listening to Calensia’s pleading while gripping his Wyvern’s Blade tightly.

–

『As a king, you tried to save not only the people of this country, but even the rotten imperial family and nobles too. That’s why, you couldn’t see through me, the evil that was going to steal from you and got outwitted.』

–

The words of Fugil that he said to Lux when the old empire was destroyed was replayed once more inside Lux’s head.

(That’s right. There is no way──I can do the same mistake like that time again.)

The imperial family that was treated as the symbol of evil and also their retainers, if possible Lux also wanted to save them. He tried to save them.

However he was betrayed by his eldest brother Fugil and failed. Fugil thrust his own naivety before him.

Even now he couldn’t see the answer, what was the most right. However──

「Please, kill this woman!」

「It’s impossible for the people of our country! Anyone here will hesitate from fear of the Servants’ revenge! Please kill her in our place!」

「If only this woman is killed, the King of Vices will also disappear! Peace will return to this country!」

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.

The boos of the soldiers that sounded like a chorus strengthened. Lux’s world distorted and crumbled.

Having those gazes that were filled with expectation directed at him, Lux stood before Rosa with Blade in hand.

「Lux-kun……you must not hurt this girl more than this! There are still things that we have to ask her!」

Coral who stood beside him stopped him like that, but Lux quietly lifted up the Blade.

「No, that’s no good. After using Over Limit, I won’t be able to move anymore once I run out of strength. If Lady Rosa escapes during that time, I won’t be able to protect everyone.」

That’s right.

This wasn’t just about Lux.

Philuffy and also the Triad who were here too, then everyone in the New Kingdom too would get exposed to danger.

「Someone has to do this. I have to do this. There is no, other choice. If this girl won’t stop no matter what, then, there is no choice──but this.」

Lux erased his feelings and stared at Rosa coldly.

And then he quietly lifted up his Blade, brandishing it towards the girl whose pupils were opened in fear.

「Please……save me! Don’t kill meee! It shouldn’t be like thiiiss……. I had no choice, but to do this……! I’ll do anything! I’m begging you, that’s why……!」

「──Then, I too have no choice but doing this. In order to stop you, this can’t be helped.」

Lux told her with a blunt tone.

But, right after that Lux’s heart throbbed violently, he was caught in the sensation as though his blood flow was flowing in reverse.

In the era of the Old Empire, on a rainy day the same as this, the figure of himself yelling for help in front of the coach that fell down the cliff was overlapping with the figure of Rosa right now.

Even though he was asking for help to save his heavily injured mother, what came back were only jeers and thrown stones.

Lux and his family who were the farthest from the throne succession rights weren’t involved with the despotic administration of the Old Empire.

And then Lux and his family were banished from the imperial court at that time too was because his grandfather tried to remonstrate the emperor in order to save the people, but── the people didn’t know anything about such circumstance.

They were only directing all the resentment they had piled up until then to Lux and his family who were weak imperial family members who were abandoned by the emperor.

「U, gu……aa-!」

Nausea and dizziness assaulted Lux simultaneously. He felt like he was going crazy.

But, the voices of Heiburg’s soldiers who were oppressed until now wouldn’t stop ringing.

And then, Calensia too was also sending a heartfelt plea『Kill her』 through the Dragon Voice.

While Coral was watching over Lux with an uneasy look, Lux was going to swing down the Blade unthinkingly, it was then──

–

「You, must not, Lu-chan……」

–

A warm hand softly touched the leg of Lux who was wearing a pilot suit.

A dear and gentle voice caressed his ears. Lux instantly came back to his senses.

‘Kill, kill’, inside that hellish world where the chorus of Heiburg’s soldiers who were wishing for Rosa’s death penalty, only Philuffy tried to stop Lux by embracing him.

「Phi, chan……!?」

Philuffy who was slashed by Rosa and should be grievously injured was rushing to Lux’s side once again under the heavy rain with her body still wrapped in bandages.

「Wait for us missy Philuffy! Running with that injury is──!?」

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The members of Triad starting with Sharis were coming from behind wearing their respective Drag-Rides.

The abnormal atmosphere until now was dispersed with that. Only the quiet sound of rain was hitting the eardrum.

「If it’s my body, I’m all right. That’s why, Lu-chan, you mustn’t kill.」

「…………」

Philuffy’s voice that was absentminded and at her own pace like usual.

Just from hearing that, tension left Lux’s body.

His boiling killing intent and rage towards Rosa vanished, only the scene of this place entered his eyes.

And then Lux told the Triad.

「……Please take care of her, Lady Rosa’s apprehending. Also, about everyone’s──」

Midway, the armor covering his body was dispelled and strength left Lux’s body.

He had already passed his limit a long time ago.

After this, surely he wouldn’t be able to move by his own strength for a while.

「Lux-kun-!?」

「Lux-chi!?」

「Lux-san!」

Lux listened to the anxious voices of the Triad while getting gently embraced within someone’s arms.

It was a gentle and warm sensation that felt somewhat nostalgic.

Lux was feeling the warmth of his childhood friend Philuffy on his back while losing consciousness.