Editing Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut:Volume 8 Epilogue (section)

===Part 2===

「Haa……. Somehow it became an amazing thing huh.」

After everything calmed down, Lux was descending the stair that was going underground──to the depth of the library by himself.

It was the hidden room that wasn’t opened for the students.

Lux stepped inside the hall made from stone where countless utensils and bookshelves were lined up.

After the punishment game with Celis was over, everyone breakup and left the headmaster room. When Lux was going to leave too, Relie tapped his shoulder and told him about a certain request.

It was a request that she wanted him to listen to a talk from a certain girl.

No, strictly speaking it seemed that the person wasn’t in the age that could be called as girl though…….

「──I longed for your arrival you know, my sweetheart candidate. It looks like you have became a bit more handsome after just overcoming another trial isn’t it?」

The one sitting on the chair that Relie previously used before was a girl with particular outfit and appearances.

She wore a wicked smile that could also be called as somewhat vulgar. The captain of Seven Dragon Paladins, Magialca Zen Vanfrick.

He had made prediction to some degree from Relie’s request, but as expected this was still an unexpected call.

But, Lux didn’t show his discomposure at all and responded to her question with a calm wry smile.

「Thank you very much. But, we were able to repel Sacred Eclipse this time was thanks to Celis-senpai, I was only getting helped by everyone in the Academy.」

Lux ignored the part 『sweetheart candidate』 that Magialca said while replying.

「That’s what you call being humble. Rather than you accomplishing something by yourself, you are making a lot of company who wish to help you, that’s where your talent originally lies on. I see, as expected you are a suitable man for me to entrust my request to.」

「A request, from Captain Magialca……?」

In respond to Lux’s mutter, Magialca let out a breath and showed a shadowed smile that was filled with implication.

「You, recently you are attracting the eyes of various bunch aren’t you? Whether it’s that shitty fiend vice captain Singlen, or that Steel Witch Rosa Granhide. And then I heard you also have ties with that knight who guarded the Lords personally, Fugil Arcadia.」

「…………」

The moment Lux heard that name mentioned, somehow he got a hunch of what Magialca would say.

Lux had no intention to change his expression, but Magialca smiled, as though he had perceived the slight subtlety of his complexion.

「Don’t be that worried. I don’t intend to take and eat you here. But well, that bunch called the Lord is a more troublesome opponent than I thought.」

「……What do you mean?」

「It’s about the timing when they played the 『trump card』 of that so called Sacred Eclipse which you guys destroyed.」

Magialca showed a fearless smile and switched the crossing of her legs.

「The demon that lured and summoned a lot of Abysses, furthermore it also let out a signal that contained the risk of calling even the nearby Ragnarok. In addition, if we fully trust the story of those Lords, you’ve heard that the thing will resurrect many times through the passing of time haven’t you?」

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Sacred Eclipse──would resurrect even if it was defeated.

As long as the system that produced it wasn’t destroyed, it couldn’t be stopped.

Thus there was a necessity to go to Avalon, the place that was said to control that mechanism.

This matched with the information that he found with Krulcifer at the Ruin Hall of Ymir Theocracy.

This wasn’t the Lords’ lie──, was how it should be.

「There is half a year remaining until the world’s destruction. The calamity that destroy the world, Sacred Eclipse. This information sounded like nothing more than nonsense when that bunch said it, but with the incident the other day it’s suddenly possess authenticity. It appeared right after the summit, as though it has been planned.」

「So you mean that it’s too contrived? That the Lords attain even the mean to control Sacred Eclipse.」

Lux immediately replied like that, but Magialca quietly shook her head.

「It might be, but my prediction is a bit different. That bunch has a grasp of the general action the Sacred Eclipse is taking, but they cannot go as far as freely controlling it──I think it’s something like that. If that bunch can actually control it, it won’t be strange even if we got screwed more ingeniously and then annihilated, right?」

「…………」

Lux also thought that she had a point there.

Just merely because they weren’t lying at this present stage, didn’t mean that the Lords could be completely trusted.

「Well, keeping that in mind, there is only half a year until the world’s destruction. As the top of the world who is entrusted with the Seven Dragon Paladins, I have the duty to protect my own assets──I mean, the world’s peace.」

After speaking out such just cause that was somewhat transparent, Magialca stood up and puffed out her chest.

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「Therefore, the Seven Dragon Paladin of New Kingdom Atismata, Lux Arcadia. I will bequeath you with a special mission from the captain. Find the traitor that exist among our world alliance──and erase them! I already have a prospect where they might appear.」

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Magialca flapped her red coat and announced loudly.

「────」

Lux felt even more omen of disturbance from the ruler’s smile that was like an abyss.