Volume 4 Chapter 43 Far from World Peace
"Hey! You guys! What's going on here?!"
We ran away from the south side of town and met 2 former Guant soldiers panicking outside the gate.
It seems the <Mana Crystal> thing only affects inside the gate.
The guards outside saw the soldiers inside fall and got caught up in it, so they realized the town was dangerous.
But we're okay, so they probably think we caused this.
"You've got the wrong idea. We didn't do this massacre."
"Don't lie! Then why are you guys okay?!"
Yeah, I guess that's what they'd think.
I felt Miloslaf's silent "Can I kill them?" look, but I shook my head to stop him.
We can talk about the reason first.
"What's happening in town is caused by the <Mana Crystal> thing, which the <Gualerto> Pope did. We survived because we were dealing with it."
"The <Gualerto> Pope...? You mean Rudolf, the Dark Mage?"
The former Guant soldiers frowned at my explanation.
I see, they're former Guant Kingdom people, so they don't like Dark Mages.
After I explained the details of <Mana Crystal> and the <Mana Crystal> thing to the former Guant soldiers, they finally realized they'd barely survived and were shivering.
"So..., then, does that mean no one's left alive in this town...?"
"I don't know. I think if the <Mana Crystal> transformation stops, we can check it, but I have no idea what's happening inside. Right now, we shouldn't be fighting with each other."
I understand the trembling former Guant soldiers' anxiety.
But in a situation where we don't know when the drug will wear off, we can't just go exploring the town.
"It would be nice to know if the <Mana Crystal> transformation has stopped. Honestly, even though we say we killed the Pope, it's still hard to understand why the <Mana Crystal> transformation is happening."
I sighed, whispering this to myself.
The bullet had indeed pierced the Pope's forehead.
If that's the case──
"Maybe, the trigger for the <Mana Crystal> transformation isn't the Pope's power, but that altar."
"I wonder."
Suzu's addition matched my guess.
But still, there's one more thing I don't understand.
"Then, why is this <Mana Crystal> transformation happening? If the caster is already dead, it wouldn't make any sense."
"...Big Bro Ryuuji, maybe that is──"
"Hmm?"
I looked in the direction Suzu pointed.
It was towards the town gate, and I understood what my little sister wanted to say as I gazed in that direction.
The path leading to the center of the town── from deep within, I could see a large figure shining in gold slowly approaching.
That creature has the head of a snake, legs and tail of a lizard, a thick right arm with claws, and countless tentacles growing from its left arm.
It's also spitting out miasma or poison-like gas from its mouth.
It looks a bit like a lizard man at a glance, but if you tie that terrifying thing to being a lizard man, you'd probably make it angry.
"...Is that... no way, a fiend?"
I guess Rudolf, the pope, was messing with something that led to that fiend or something close to it before he died.
But Miloslaf mutters, "No," and raises his greatsword, readying himself for whatever is coming closer.
"Do you know what that is?"
I ask Miloslaf, who has a rare serious expression on his face.
The dark knight keeps staring at what looks like a fiend far away and nods.
"That... probably is God Abnella. Rudolf's bastard somehow made the God appear."
"...Is that Abnella?"
I chew over those words, trying to understand.
I heard in the Quechua Empire that Abnella is a god of peace, but that terrifying form doesn't look right.
It doesn't seem like something we can just explain as a being beyond human understanding or anything.
"...Is that how Abnella looks──so terrifying?"
"I don't really want to believe it, but if you're talking about a snake's head with countless arms, that's probably God Abnella."
Countless arms... those are tentacles, right?
Well, they're arms, but still.
But more than appearance, there's something else I can't stop thinking about.
"...Wait, isn't Abnella's ideal world peace?"
"...Yeah,"
Miloslaf answers calmly to Minori's question.
Everyone's eyes are on Miloslaf, who answers as if he understands what they mean.
He probably does understand what everyone is trying to say.
I only feel a piercing hostility.
"That thing is probably just thinking about crushing us."
As I muttered this, I steeled myself and poured my Magic Power into the Magic Stone of Elmusca at my waist.
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