Declaration Of War
“……eh? Wha? Eh?”
I couldn’t wrap my head around what happened before my eyes, which should by right be impossible. It’s because Otou-san and Okaa-san, who by right shouldn’t be here, are around, and furthermore, their eyes are somewhat vacant.
Lig also ends up looking at Oji-san and Oba-san and freezing at the all too unexpected happening. As Lig and I, the people concerned, are frozen
“It was three days ago that you guys’ parents came to this country……no, ‘came’ is wrong. It was three days ago that they were sent here”
“……what does ‘sent here’ mean?”
Leo-sama started explaining to us why Okaa-san and the others are here, but he suddenly hit a snag. I noticed it thanks to him going out of the way to rephrase it for us though; the fact that Okaa-san and the others did not come here out of their own will.
“Calm down and listen to me. You guys’ parents were……placed in the same cage as zombies and sent all the way here”
I couldn’t comprehend what Leo-sama is saying at all. However, Leo-sama carries on with his story.
“It was horrible inside the cage. The zombies were biting off and gnawing on the flesh of both your parents’ body, deliberately avoiding their vitals. Furthermore, I don’t know what kind of Magic it is, but repeatedly, their injuries and the bitten wounds were healing, and they’re bitten even more. After the cage that you guys’ parents were placed in moved, the blood your parents bled when they were bitten was making tracks across the cage
“……ar, are Okaa-san and Otou-san al, alright!? Is there nothing abnormal with their bodies after going through something like that!?”
“They seem unscathed as far as we can see, but we still don’t know. For all that we know……”
I rushed to Otou-san and Okaa-san‘s side without listening to Leo-sama’s words any further. I grab both their hands
“Otou-san, Okaa-san! It’s me! Stella!”
, and calls out to them. Seeing me like that, Lig also calls out to Oji-san and Oba-san similarly. They were looking into blank space with unfocused eyes for a bit, but they subsequently looked in the direction of my voice. I’m glad. They finally came back to themselves. That’s what I thought, but that was just my misunderstanding.
After Otou-san and Okaa-san, who focused on me, looked at me for a bit, they suddenly open their eyes widely and started clawing at their throat.
It looks like that was the same even on Lig’s side, and I could hear Lig’s calls for them to stop from the side. I grab both their hands in a panic and try to stop them as well, but they have a significant amount of strength that wells up from who knows where and I’m unable to stop them.
And then, unable to stop them, Otou-san and Okaa-san‘s fingers carried to tear through their own throat. The blood splashes onto my cheek.
I could do nothing but watch the two of them bleed profusely from their throat. Otou-san and Okaa-san, who go on their knees while bleeding from their throat and mouth.
I hurriedly try to hold them. ……however, the nightmare has, not yet ended. As I was about to hold Otou-san and Okaa-san, who collapses in front, without caring about being soaked by the blood
“AaoAAAah!”
, they started screaming and tried to bite at me all of a sudden. I approached them thinking that if I’m not wrong, even if their throats are torn, they were still breathing, so they might be able to be saved; but to think that they turned into zombies.
Before I know it, I was using Magic……Magic for killing my beloved Otou-san and Okaa-san. My senses for danger, which I picked up from becoming the Holy Maiden and leaving for the Demon Lord subjugation’s mission, reacted.
It was pretty much subconscious. When I comprehended what happened, I had stuck both hands out in front and cast Magic, and there was a hole in Otou-san and Okaa-san‘s chest.
As I look beside me dumbfoundedly, while holding his sword in his right hand, Lig has fallen onto his backside. And then, the head of Oji-san and Oba-san have fallen beside where Lig sits.
Amidst all that, Obaa-san’s head, its eyes were opened as wide as they could, and they were glaring in my direction. I, who made eye contact with Obaa-san’s eyes, couldn’t hold back and ended up puking again.
The tears from my eyes and the stomach contents from my mouth wouldn’t stop. With the smell of blood mixed with the smell of the stomach contents that I puked, I was forced to comprehend it even I don’t want to……the fact that I killed my beloved parents with my own hands.
“……sorry. We weren’t able to save them”
Leo-sama, the Twelve Devas, who was looking at such us, speaks to us, but I couldn’t respond to that. However, time didn’t wait for such us.
“””If you’re watching this, I guess that means the present from me arrived?””
, it’s because a slightly uplifted voice was audible. Everybody looked in the direction of the voice and over there, the blood from my parents and Lig’s parents formed a shape, and there was the figure of a single human.
It’s a person who’s dressed in a robe. I think it’s probably a man, judging from the voice just now. At that which newly appeared, the Twelve Devas and the other people release their killing intent all at once.
“”Perhaps you may be releasing your killing intent, but this is not me; it is something like a letter for conveying a message. Hence, I shall preface it by saying it is meaningless even if you attack it””
While simultaneously feeling anger at this man’s voice, I ended up feeling nostalgia as well for some reason. I understand the anger, but I was looking at the man, unable to hide my confusion at the nostalgia that I felt simultaneously. I couldn’t take my eyes off for some reason.
As we’re looking at that man, Lig gives in to his anger and swings his sword. However, even when he sliced the man who’s made of blood, he just returns to how he was originally right away. The man continued talking during that time as well.
“”Twelve Devas, Chivalric Order Captain, Magician Squad Captain, along with the Four Divine Angels, and then, Goddess Fistoria. We, the Country of Demise Pandemonium, declare war on you guys, Fisland Holy Kingdom. My goal is to kill Lig and Stella, whom I suppose are over there, and destroy the Holy Kingdom. And then……to kill Goddess Fistoria.
You better prepare yourselves. I’ll drag you down from that arrogant throne you’ve been on until now and crush you under my foot””
The man’s talk finished with that, and the blood couldn’t maintain its shape and fell onto the ground. None of us were able to move at the sudden declaration of war.
Furthermore, I, who couldn’t completely accept the fact that Otou-san and Okaa-san died, felt like I was about to faint at any moment. It’s just that, Lig was the only one glaring at the blood that fell onto the ground amidst all that.
