Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 8 Episode 5 (section)

===Part 3===

Celis who protected Airi from Sacred Eclipse and escaped was being watched by a man from hiding.

He was a hunter. Not a swindler or even bandit.

He told himself that in his heart and waited silently for a chance.

Thinking back, he had only ever walked through worthless life until now.

He was blessed with some talent as a Drag-Knight.

But, he didn’t obtain the strength to go as far as becoming the best, and the royalty and nobility were also prejudiced against him.

Gerdaf received punishment and thrown into jail from the crime of knowing about his superior’s corruption and yet staying quiet about it.

「──What an unreasonable story.」

Everyone was calmly committing a crime behind the scene anyway.

It was only the more powerful people doing thing that was par for the course.

And yet why──he was faulted for staying quiet about it?

But, he was noticed and bloomed a second time from being prisoner into being a Drag-Knight.

While he was a criminal, he was a powerful person whose deed was recognized.

Gerdaf fixed the aim of his 《Circular EdgeFull Moon Dragon Scale》, the rare armament that his EX Drake was installed with, then he smirked smugly once more.

「Aa──」

Melting pleasure was welling up inside his brain along with his sigh.

Before his eyes, that Celistia of the four great nobles was fighting.

In order to save her fellow students, she opposed the enemy without despairing even without wearing Drag-Ride.

The time Gerdaf felt pleasure was when he degraded such beautifully noble something into the ground.

In the end, the one who won was those who accomplished evil skillfully──.

He couldn’t resist thrusting out such reality toward human who was walking the correct path.

This time he received the order to get rid of this girl by making it looked like she committed suicide.

This was a rare chance, so he would make her get eaten by that strange Abyss, then he would dissect her body until it was beyond recognition.

His hand pulled the trigger with such dark desire seething inside him.

The firing nozzles of the rare armament installed on both his Drag-Ride’s shoulders instantly let out a faint light.

「…….There-!」

The blades in the shape of ring that was tinged with purple light were fired consecutively in that place.

Celis didn’t notice. The blades would definitely hit.

「──Howling Howl!」

Right after Gerdaf was convinced of that──his prediction was betrayed and the eight blades were deflected.

「What-!?」

The man’s eyes opened wide from shock. Right after that, his sight caught the figure of a huge jet black Drag-Ride.

Lux who was clad in the violent dragon Bahamut stood in his way.

「So it’s you who targeted Celis-senpai?」

「……What do you mean? I am just a guard soldier of new kingdom. In order to defeat that monster, I’m aiming for a chance to attack──」

Indeed, the man was clad in the army uniform of new kingdom.

But, Lux was calm to the end and pointed the tip of his sword at him.

「The armor fragment that was shaved from my previous fight with you matched with the damage on your EX Drake. If you want to proof your innocence then dispel your armor.」

When Celis was attacked at that time too, the man stole the uniform of guard soldier and changed into it.

When he lured out Coral previously, he must be working other dirty tricks too while he was at it.

「…………」

Gerdaf let out a small sigh at what Lux pointed out.

After a few seconds of silence, his attitude changed drastically.

「It’s shocking. Did you tail that woman, predicting that I’ll attack again?」

Lux didn’t find Gerdaf by coincidence.

He requested Noct of the Triad to watch out Celis’s surrounding from afar.

There was the possibility that after causing Celis to fall into a trap, the enemy would come again to strike her while both her heart and body were weakened.

「I can predict the rough idea of something like thinking of a person committing evil in the shadow.」

「……Hoo. But this is a bit unexpected. The new kingdom fell into a predicament because of that woman’s fault. To worry that much for the safety of such loser──」

「Is something that you cannot even imagine? You who have never fought even once for the sake of someone else?」

Lux’s gaze was cool-headed, like when he attempted to carry out revolution in the old empire at the past.

Gerdaf who was stared by those eyes bit his lips and confronted Lux.

「Hmph, the criminal of old empire putting on air like a saint. Fine, then I’ll teach you a lesson! This me who is lowly by nature, will soil your correct path and drive you into despair you cannot recover from!」

*Dou-* The EX Drake leaped backward and fired Circular Edge once more.

All directions──the wheel blades each drew different trajectories from eight directions and assaulted Lux simultaneously.

A single swing of sword deflected several of the blades, but the remaining curved blades grazed Bahamut’s armor.

「I’m one of the 『ServantsSix Punishers』, Heiburg’s assassination corps, the 『Hunting Punishment』 Gerdaf Veil. I’ll tear you limb from limb and disgrace the pride of that duke daughter!」

He took distance. At the same time the curved blades were coming back as though they were getting drawn in.

Lux skated his Bahamut in the air before the armament was fired once more and the battle began.

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