Assembly
“Cis!”
“Lily!”
The two of them hug each other tightly. Asch too, approaches Cis and pats her head gently.
“Asch-sensei……”
“I’m sorry for being late. I received a grand reception, and my calculations were slightly messed up”
Saying that, he sends his eyes to Lloyd, who was standing at the corner.
“……what happened to Hazen?”
He strained his voice that trembles in anger and asked.
“What do you think happened? You actually know, right?”
Asch shows an undaunting smile.
“……”
Lloyd, he couldn’t believe it right away. When he made Hazen into a doll, it was something that shook his achievements. The greatest and strongest Magician in history that moves eternally. As long as he has this toy, there’s nothing he can’t do in this world. That’s what he had thought.
“There’s nothing to lament. You’re a genius……I acknowledge it. You can be proud of it more than any title”
Asch looks down on Lloyd, with tremendously condescending eyes. Asch, who boasts his sense of superiority from the bottom of his heart at Lloyd, who shows a disgruntled expression from the bottom of his heart.
“……”
“Well, Hazen-sensei was a remarkable teacher as well though. However, a mentor is someone you surpass one day, right? That, is the relationship of a disciple and a mentor. The mentor exists for the sake of being surpassed by the disciple. Otherwise, the disciple’s existence has no point. By the way, Lloyd-kun. I wonder how you turned Hazen-sensei into a deceased?”
“……”
“Of course, you fought him fair and square, right? Don’t tell me, there’s no way you caught the old man off guard and cunningly captured his soul, did you?”
“……”
Lloyd didn’t answer anything. No, he couldn’t.
It was something that happened on a crescent moon night. Lloyd thought that that was, divine grace. The strongest Magician, who showed not even an instant of opening, started suffering because of a heart attack that came from old age. That was, an extraordinarily short time, but it was a simple task for him who has served by his side and acquired his trust.
He swiftly captured his soul, extracted sample blood and Magic Power Field(Gate) from the body that became an empty husk and left it as it is. Lloyd carried on to conceal his whereabouts and transformed Hazen＝Heim into a living doll.
It was exactly as Asch said; it was a despicable method. Otherwise, he simply just wouldn’t be able to capture the soul of Hazen, who’s touted as the greatest Magician in history.
“Eh……is that possibly how it is? What a surprise. Are you saying, you can’t win through your own strength, so you turned the greatest Magician in history into a deceased with a cowardly method and continued to make use of him as your own doll?”
While gesturing exaggeratedly, Asch says out in a voice loud enough to resound in the Saint・Lizabeth Church. A conduct, as though he’s performing an opera in a theatre. The ill-natured Magician, he’d known full well that that’s the part that Lloyd doesn’t want touched on the most.
“……shut up”
“Well, I am sorry about that. I had thought that you are a genius. Hence, I had assumed that you naturally won fair and square against Hazen-sensei with your own strength. Fair and square. Who would’ve thought, it was a cowardly and cunning method……no, is it better if I don’t say this too much? It will end up hurting your pride after all”
“Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! If you say anymore――”
“You shut up, Lloyd”
Samon gets the raging Lloyd under control.
“That’s right, Archbishop Samon. Rather than this dastard, the main subject is more important huh”
“What did you――”
“Lloyd! He’s purposefully fanning your pride. If you get emotional, it will go exactly as he wishes”
Samon says, and Lloyd takes a step back frustratedly.
“Now then, Asch＝Dahl. I guess it has been 13 years huh, since I last met you”
“That’s right. The you at that time was, still youthful and brimming with hope, but you sure have gotten frail. Both your body……and your determination”
At the Dark Magician’s sarcasm, Samon twists his expression slightly.
“……rather than something like that, I wonder what is it about you calling my story a lie?”
“Well then, let me ask. Swearing to God, can you swear that you didn’t lie?”
“Of course”
“……kukuku……you, sure are a big liar”
Asch shows a twisted smile.
“It is not a lie. Hey, Cis. Believe me”
Samon says and spreads his arms widely.
“Asch-sensei……I, want to be of help to Archbishop Samon”
“No way! Why?”
Lily shakes her shoulders.
“……suppose that I, can be of even a little help to those people through spreading the Aristo religion. If I, have inherited Aristo’s blood, then isn’t it my fate to do that”
“Cis……”
“Lily. Like how you, became friends with me. Asch-sensei……like how you who offered your hand to such me. If my strength can be even of a little help”
Cis stares straight at Lily and Asch. Asch stared at her for a while, but before long, he sighed loudly.
“I’m disappointed……”
“Eh?”
“Cis＝Klose. I’m disappointed at you”
Asch answer Cis.
