65 – I Won’t Forgive You This Time!
Chapter 65 I Won’t Forgive You This Time!
「Kuh… Are you going to build up your power? Then, I too…」
「(No, I think you’re wrong.)」
Cust thought that Alistar’s scream was his shout to build up his power. So he decided to do the same thing and release the power that was being stored in Pamela.
Magari sensed that his screaming was mixed with sadness and suffering, so she denied it while smiling.
「(Y-you… what are you doing!?)」
『I’m going to destroy that devil and save Pamela!』
「(I can’t be saved, can I!?)」
『It can’t be helped. Sacrifice is necessary.』
「(You desperately try to avoid sacrificing someone when it isn’t me though!!)」
Even when Alistar was complaining, his life force is absorbed and gathered in the black magic power that swirls around the holy sword.
「(Rather, what is life force? I mean, I know that it’s not good for it being absorbed, but what is it to be more specific?)」
『Hmm … life span?』
「――――――」
Alistar opens his eyes wide.
「Bffft! Mwahahahaha…!」
「W-what’s wrong, Saint-sama…?」
Malta is creeped out by Magali who bends her body and laughs with a red face.
Malta can’t hear what the holy sword is saying, so she didn’t know the reason why Magali burst into laugher. It’ll be a problem if it was known that she laughed because she saw Alistar in a pinch, so it was lucky.
『Come on, shoot it!』
「(Nooooooooooooo!! I don’t want to shave my life for others and not for myself!!)」
『Kuh…! You’re saying something selfish again…!』
「(No, this is not selfish, you know!?)」
He tries to swing the sword, but Alistar desperately shows resistance.
Normally, he is a man who can be manipulated easily by the holy sword, but this time he’s resisting seriously. For this, even the holy sword has a hard time.
The resistance is too strong. Just how much does he love himself?
『B-but you see! That devil over there is ready to attack! If you leave it as it is, you will get hurt!』
「Ah…!!」
When Alistar turned his eyes, there’s a lump of black magic power created above the miasma-face Devil Cust.
Looking at it, it can be seen that it contains considerable destructive power because it gives a terrible intimidating air that makes the atmosphere screams.
If Alistar receives it directly, his life will disappear just like an empty dream.
「Kuhyahyahyahyahyahyahya!! It seems like I was the one who finished first! Eat this!!」
「(Nuoooooooooohh!?)」
The black lump is being shot out.
Alistar screams when he sees it.
Magali was overjoyed to see him in such a panic, but she suddenly realized something.
「(… Ara? Isn’t I, who’s on Alistar side, am in danger too…?)」
Exactly. If Alistar does nothing, Magali will disappear together with him. No, not just Magari. Malta, Pamela, and Helge. Everyone will die.
「Alistar! I entrust it to you!」
Of course, Magali never care about other people, she only makes Alistar fight for herself.
「(Screw that! Shooting this will shorten my life span, you know!? Damn it!)」
「(Which is more important between your life span and my life!?)」
「(Mine!!)」
Being able to abuse each other with just eye contact, this can be said a talent. Only Alistar and Magali that can do something like this.
『Well, I don’t think this is the time to be so carefree though…』
Just like what the holy sword said, the magic ball is approaching every second.
Alistar was forced to make a decision. Intercept the magic ball and reduce the life span? Or get a direct hit and lose his life?
…………When thinking so, he has no other choice.
「Alistar…!」
Malta held up the collapsed Pamela and looked up like she was clinging at him.
Alistar keeps running cold sweat.
The choice he chooses is…
「Daaaaammmmnnn iiiitttt!!」
「Hell yeah.」
The wind around the black magic power on the holy sword becomes stronger. Looking at it, Magali grinned.
Alistar raises the holy sword high and swings it down.
「『 Evil Slash』!!」
『…I wonder if that name really can’t be changed?』
Together with the holy sword’s sad voice, the jet-black slash was fired off.
It pushing forward with tremendous momentum while shaving the ground. The destructive power is incomparable to the usual one. It collides with the magic ball that was coming.
Crash!
Together with a violent collision sound that can be heard, a storm is blowing to the point Malta who is in a distant position is about to be blown off.
However, it only lasts for a moment. Alistar’s slash broke through the magic ball and rushed to the astonished Cust.
「I-impossible!? It’s the power that I’ve been accumulated for decades by nesting in Pamela’s heart you know!? For it to be surpassed easily like this…!!」
「The foundation of our power is different…!!」
Alistar said so to Cust with a tragic but brave face.
By the way, his feelings like 『I’m compensating it with my life span, which is very important, there’s no way I can’t lose. But still, it’s sad』 is overflowing. He sheds tears a bit.
However, for Malta who was watching from the side, she interprets it as 『The foundation of my power is to protect someone, there’s no way it will lose to someone who lives in another person’s heart and use their desire and hatred as nourishment』.
Moreover, she misunderstands his tears as tears for Pamela, who was manipulated by the devil.
She blushed her cheeks.
「Ugyaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!?」
While Marta is making a big mistake, the Devil Cust, who was nesting in Pamela’s heart, controlling her and devouring her negative emotions for several decades, got his life disappeared by the attack which Alistar reluctantly used his life span to create.
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「Ara……?」
「Did you wake up?」
When Pamela opened her eyes, what reflected in her vision was Malta who smiled faintly.
Looking at such her, the strong desire to snatch something from her is…
「………Not come?」
Pamela opened her eyes in surprise.
Since she was born… the strong desire since she was aware of her surroundings, she doesn’t feel it.
「Why……」
「Onee-sama was being parasitized by a bad guy. Your desire, all of it was that guy’s fault. ……Still, I can’t justify everything about what Onee-sama did.」
「……Is that so.」
Watching Marta sadly grimacing, Pamela nodded that it was natural. What she did is not something that can be forgiven just like that.
「……But, Onee-sama was saved by that person. So, you have to atone for your sin, and you have to say your thanks to that person… to Alistar.」
「You are, right…」
Pamela nodded a bit to Malta who was crying and smiling.
「(I won’t forgive you this time!)」
『Uwaa!? Don’t try to throw me to the sea!!』
On the other hand, while beautiful sisters’ love was being shown, Alistar was trying to sink the holy sword into the sea.
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【Mermaid who got crazy with desire, Pamela. The one who stopped her was Alistar after all. Pamela was the worst mermaid who sold off other mermaids. It was her sister Malta and Alistar who stopped her. The knights who came as Saint Magali’s escorts were brainwashed and turned to the enemy. Somehow they were able to stop them, but Pamela, who manipulated them, started to sing a song. It was a horrifying song that even Malta was unable to move, but it didn’t work for the Hero and the Saint. It was because of their strong mental strength that won’t yield to evil. And then, they knew the mastermind who controlled Pamela. It was a devil who was nesting inside Pamela’s heart since birth. The devil possessed the power equal to the great devil by the malice and desire he devoured from her. He unleashed that power to Alistar and the others. But things didn’t go as he intended. Because there was a hero who never gives in. Alistar was given the absolute trust from Magali and Malta, and then released his power to protect them. However, there was a cost in countering that vicious devil. Although he had to pay a terrible price by shaving his own life, Alistar didn’t hesitate to release his power for others’ sake. As a result, the devil was wiped out, revealing the overly devoted kindness of the Hero, Alistar.】
Excerpt from Chapter 6 of 『Holy Sword Legend』.
