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Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut Vol 20 Epilogue
🕑 Added 2020-08-15 16:26:44 +0000 UTC
Epilogue – The Weakest Undefeated Bahamut
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Part 1
「Have a nice triiiipp, mommies!」
「Come back soooon」
「Leave it to me to house sit desu!」
At the seventh Ruin, Moon that was floating in the sky of Turkimes Commonwealth.
The Gear Leader Re Plica and young children were waving their hands toward the duo who were going to depart to the new kingdom.
「It has been one month──since Lux-kun finished holding the wedding ceremonies with everyone huh.」
The girl with braided silver hair, Aeril Vi Arcadia smiled while speaking with a heartfelt tone.
The babies who were put into cold sleep hidden deep within the Ruins.
She had gathered the few survivors who descended from the bloodline of Arcadia Empire and Xfer and raised them.
She was managing the Ruins’ function while gradually sealing them to slowly return the technology and knowledge of the current mankind to the normal state.
Aeril was passing her days while carrying out that role as her job.
She went around the seven Ruins while strictly managing the system, deciphering the hidden information, and rescued the survivors that evacuated into the depth of Ruins.
She would help those survivors to adapt to this era and search a place for them to belong.
Of course the number of criminals and ambitious people with their own private force who were still targeting the Ruins was still many, so she couldn’t let her guard down.
Every day was always hectically busy for her, but those days were fulfilling for her.
「I’m unwilling to be treated like mother even though I’m at this age and have never gave birth even once. We should make them call us Onee-sama instead.」
The brown skinned Drag-Knight Soffice was murmuring with a blank face that looked somewhat displeased.
Aeril smiled wryly hearing that.
「Those kids are smart. They intentionally call us like that knowing that we dislike it.」
The two of them flew toward the new kingdom while thinking of the children who were growing up well day by day.
They flew under the clear azure sky with their Drag-Ride. Then Soffice asked Aeril beside her.
「Come to think of it Aeril, are you alright about Lux?」
「…………」
She suddenly asked such vague question.
However Aeril instantly grasped the meaning of her question.
That was exactly why she was unable to reply right away.
「You loved him right? How about asking him to be his sixth queen? It’s still not too late.」
「Why are you talking about that again at this kind of time?」
Aeril asked back with a stiff smile.
「Is it alright for me to ask this when there are other people?」
「That’s……spare me from that.」
Aeril smiled while keeping flying for a while. Then before long she began talking.
「I love him. Perhaps, if I insist that I also want to marry Lux-kun……they won’t refuse me. Those people are kind after all.」
「…………」
Aeril tone seemed light without burden. Soffice quietly waited for Aeril to continue.
「But, it’s alright. Lux-kun is that kind of person after all, so he always shoulders a lot of things. I can’t possibly add even more to his burden than this.」
「Are you alright with that? You are──」
「Yes. I’m already saved by him. I’m able to free myself, from the cursed fate of the Lords so……」
She could be accepted in this era.
There was someone who trusted her feeling and fought for her, liberating her from the chain of hatred of the old era.
Aeril was already free now, so…
「I see.」
Soffice also smiled and flew through the sky while drawing closer to Aeril.
But, several seconds later Aeril muttered with a small voice.
「……Well, perhaps I’ll think about it when Lux-kun’s term as king is over. At that time, Lux-kun’s workload might also lighten too.」
「Aeril……. I think, that’s a pattern of failure.」
「It’s fine! I’m just thinking, that’s all!」
The two were flying through the clear sky while making such frivolous talks.
The wind and sunlight of spring felt extremely gentle and pleasant.
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Part 2
「──Then, this is it for my lesson. Everyone, please learn it properly.」
「Yes!」
Celis told the students inside the classroom before slowly going out.
When she got out to the corridor, Sharis who was now the king’s royal guard showed herself as though she had been waiting for her.
「Looks like you have grown accustomed to being a special lecturer aren’t you?」
「Please don’t make fun of me. I’m still fumbling around with this work.」
Celis’s dignified expression softened into a bashful look.
After she graduated, she was studying in the university for the sake of governing the western territory that had been ruled by Dist until now while sometimes she would also show herself at the academy as a lecturer about Drag-Ride.
「Also, please don’t let your guard down. Perhaps there are still some threats remaining somewhere even if their scale is far smaller.」
「And yet considering all that, it looks like you are really concerned with the passing of time huh. ──Well, it’s a day where you can meet him after several days after all, so I guess it can’t be helped that you are getting impatient and also fired up.」
「Wha-……! The way you said it like that is not permitted! It’s not like I’m worrying or anything about Lux so──」
「I see, you are saying that he is properly sparing his time to look at you Celis. Looks like he is doing really well with this polygamy life.」
Sharis teased Celis with a suggestive tone.
Celis’s pace quickened somewhat in respond to that while heading to the courtyard.
「Oh ho, unlike your mouth, your body is honest. Or perhaps──you can’t hold it in anymore?」
「Enough already! We are inside the academy you know!?」
As expected Celis got angry when Sharis teased her once more.
「My bad Celis. It has been a long time that I got too carried away.」
Sharis apologized with a wry smile. Perhaps she had spoken too far even for a teasing due to jealousy.
At the end of the corridor, there were two girls sending an exasperated stare toward them.
It was Airi, and Noct.
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「Good grief, I thought that the two of you have become adult after graduating, but you two haven’t changed at all.」
「Ahahaha」
Sharis laughed off Airi’s sigh.
「Yes. But, well, is Celis-san a type to act orderly and endure even though you have only just gotten married?」
Noct retorted. Then Airi threw her interjection to that.
「That’s because she is someone who can easily feel lonely even though she look like that. It’s more worrying when she is pretending to be tough.」
「Err, can you two please not tease me too much? More importantly──why are you two here?」
「Yes. Just as you know, today is the day Aeril-san visit, but we heard from Yoruka-san that it feels like there will be a bit of incident occurring──」
Noct calmly told the two.
「How troubling. Even though peace has finally arrived, there are still many people coming out with sinister designs.」
Airi sighed and told them about the situation in concrete.
It seemed──some bandits Drag-Knights had grasped the information that Aeril would head to Cross Field this time for giving her report. They were planning to attack by taking one diplomat in Cross Field as a hostage..
「Yes. Well, it seems that Yoruka-san will be able to save the hostage soon, so we need someone to take the role of pursuing the bandits but, both of you──your skill have dulled recently haven’t you?」
「I see, perhaps that is true.」
Celis’s lips slightly relaxed.
Her hand was naturally moving toward her sword belt on her waist.
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Part 3
There was a sprawling plain slightly to the west of the fortress city Cross Field.
The captain of the bandits that were made up of dozens of Drag-Knights was now being completely anxious.
They weren’t a large organization.
They had sneaked out a flute from the chaos of the previous great battle. Using that they were burning small villages at the countryside while making it looked like Abyss’s attack.
They plundered the villages’ fortune and food to expand their organization little by little.
They were a group of wretches who attacked the weak like a thief at the scene of fire when the fate of the world was at stake.
They were originally soldiers of small country. One day they assassinated their superior and stole the Drag-Rides and formed a group of bandit.
However──even they didn’t put much stock to their own strength.
They knew that there was always someone above themselves in this world. They would never try challenging the strong.
Even at the previous great battle, they only focused on attacking the weak while making it looked like the work of Abyss.
But, their consecutive successes created confidence──a lax in their heart.
That was instinctual for any living thing.
Before they knew it they started to get bored of the easy victories and of living sneakily while avoiding public notice like a mole. They began to seek for even more stronger battle strength and reward.
After the previous great battle, the activity of the Ruins was halted and people and Abyss stopped coming in and out from there.
Even if they tried to destroy the outer wall to enter inside, the wall was too solid and normal weapon would be useless.
Therefore, they thought that it was impossible to strengthen their force even more than this.
But, if they could capture the Ruins’ manager who was called Aeril Vi Arcadia, then it would be a different story.
It would become possible to open the Ruins with her strength and they would obtain great power.
The leader of the bandits eavesdropped a talk that Aeril periodically stopped by at Cross Field. He dispatched his subordinate’s Drake as spy and took one unarmed diplomat woman as hostage.
Their strategy was to use the hostage as bait, then they would surround Aeril and beat her up.
The strategy progressed smoothly.
It advanced perfectly without the new kingdom army or that famous Syvalles detecting them.
That should be the case but──.
「Why-!?」
The leader who was piloting EX Wyvern at the sky of the plain yelled toward the unbelievable reality.
They were hit by a surprise attack before they could launch their surprise attack.
More than ten Abysses that were manipulated with the horn flute and the force that was hiding in the shades of rocks were attacked instead by only several Drag-Knights.
Naturally, the bandits were in pandemonium.
The force that was going to attack Aeril was taken down one after another.
In that moment──a call came from another Drag-Knight.
『You are the captain of the bandit group Hound something aren’t you. You have been attacking the villages and towns at remote region with weak security since half a year ago by taking advantage of the chaos──』
『W-who is this! Where did you bastard sniff out this plan!? What’s your objective──』
『……Haa. What a troublesome person. Don’t ask in a rush like that.』
The calm voice of the girl irritated the leader even more.
『For your first question, I am Airi Arcadia. An advisor of Syvalles. And──』
Airi proclaimed to the bandit indifferently.
『About this so called plan of yours, we have learned it from some time ago. Though we investigated first whether your group is connected to even larger organization or not. It seems there isn’t anyone behind your group, so we’ll annihilate your group already.』
『────』
They were left alone.
It wasn’t that the opponent didn’t notice them. They had been detected since a long time ago but the opponent pretended to not notice them──.
It was them who got spied on. The bandit leader realized that now.
「Damn you……! Men, give it your all! Engage the enemy with all your strength!」
「──OOOOOOO!」
In respond to the man’s order, his subordinates who were under attack yelled in fervor.
Although they were bombarded by the enemy, they also had a considerable force of their own.
They also still had more than ten Abysses at their side.
They were going to counterattack with such thinking──, but then the bandits heard a strange sound.
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──*GAUN!*
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There was a sharp sound of something slicing through the wind, then several of the Wyverns were shot down.
There was a girl clad in huge crimson Drag-Ride at the sky above the plain some distance away.
Around her were several projectile weapons with the shape of arrow head floating.
It was a Divine Drag-Ride, a machine with high level of difficulty to pilot, but the girl was piloting it skillfully.
「Don’t tell me that’s──the Crimson War Princess, Lizsharte!」
The bandits shook in their boots.
But, the leader gave precise instruction even while feeling shaken.
「Don’t falter. She is just one person! Bombard her with the Cannons of the Wyrm squad and take her down!」
But, right after the Wyrm user bandits followed his instruction and readied their Cannon──the weapons they were holding got shot through one after another.
「Whaaa-!?」
「Sorry but, you won’t be able to shoot her down with attack of that level. You need to be able to read the future at least──」
The girl floating behind wearing blue and silver Divine Drag-Ride chuckled gracefully.
Lizsharte approached to right behind her and pouted her lips.
「What do you mean by that Krulcifer! Come to think of it, I never have a mock battle with you recently. I should be still stronger than you.」
「Then, let’s finish this work quickly and test out that claim. They are too much of a letdown that it’s dissatisfying.」
For some reason they began to quarrel with each other.
Even so, the two’s hands kept moving without rest.
The bandit Drag-Knights were getting shot down one by one in less than several seconds.
「Damn you, release the hidden Abysses! Blow the horn flute!」
The leader panicked seeing that and gave instruction to the force at the rear.
But, a fight with a different new kingdom army was already breaking out there too.
And then──they were trounced one sidedly.
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Part 4
「Ei」
The purple land battle type Divine Drag-Ride Typhon skated with a speed that couldn’t be followed by eyes while launching a punch with its whole weight behind it.
Each punch would smash through the core of a medium sized Abyss. The Abysses were returning to dust one after another.
「Impossible, how can that much power……!」
The Drag-Knight who was using the horn flute to manipulate the Abyss was intentionally left alone to defeat all the Abysses first.
Even the Abysses who flew to escape from the land battle were stabbed by the huge Lance of a girl driving gold colored Divine Drag-Ride. Their number kept decreasing drastically.
Of course, they were Philuffy and Celis.
「Impossible. What’s with that movement, that skill! How can the Abysses are so easily──」
『I don’t think that you have any time to worry like that though? It’ll be better if you hurry and escape.』
Airi’s warning came once more through the Dragon Voice. It flustered the bandit leader.
This was the true strength of Syvalles that he heard from rumor.
Even the bandit group that should have grown considerably wouldn’t even last a minute before it got annihilated.
The leader lost its fighting spirit due to the difference in strength that was beyond the imagination. He reached out his hand to use the hostage that was hidden behind a rock as his shield but──his trump card had vanished.
「N-not here! Where did that diplomat go to!? She was still here just now──」
「You only noticed it after this late──」
A girl in black clothes wearing azure Divine Drag-Ride appeared from empty air some distance away.
The girl was carrying the female diplomat with her armored arms. She then leaped away.
「HOOWWWWWWWW!?」
Yoruka used a function of the special equipment type Drag-Ride──camouflage to approach close to this position. The leader only noticed it right now.
However, the bandit leader shuddered at the stealth ability to approach until this close without allowing her presence to be detected at all despite using camouflage.
His only choice now was to abandon everything, his subordinates and his battle strength and ran away.
「──UOOOOOOOOOOH!」
But, he couldn’t fight those five Divine Drag-Ride users.
While his subordinates were luring them, the leader flew in full speed toward the direction where the five weren’t fighting.
──But, the man saw it at that moment.
A huge black Divine Drag-Ride was flying toward him from far away in front of him.
(There is another one……. But I don’t care! If it’s just one then I can blow it away using Howling Roar as long as I can see them coming. And then I’ll only need to run away at full speed!)
The leader made that judgment and gathered the energy of the EX Wyvern into the head part in preparation of the battle.
One second, two second…….
The leader heard the Dragon Voice once more while the mysterious black Drag-Ride was approaching.
『What a troublesome person. Why are you intentionally choosing to face the opponent with high difficulty?』
There was no time for him to interpret the meaning of Airi’s exasperated words.
The bandit leader could only carry out his best option──executing the tactic of displaying his maximum power to remove the enemy that was approaching him head on.
He pointed the tip of his Blade to behind to pretend that he was going to slash while firing the Howling Roar a step ahead.
The moment he yelled to fire the Howling Roar──an impact ran through the EX Wyvern that the leader was wearing.
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*ZAGUUU!*
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「──Eh?」
A stupid voice leaked out from the man’s mouth.
『Nii-san is used to that kind of trick. The number of times he had fought in the tournament is astonishingly high. After all he is the Weakest Undefeated.』
The shoulder that contained the Force Core of the EX Wyvern had been slashed without him realizing it.
How did an opponent that was charging from the front and entered the range of the shockwave that he should have fired first dodged it──.
In the first place, the figure of the black Divine Drag-Ride was gone from his front.
It had vanished from his field of vision when he realized it.
「WHYYYYYYYYYYYY……!」
The leader who was taken was falling while screaming. In the middle of it, he saw the black Drag-Knight floating behind him when he turned around.
『He passed you by in high speed. He approached you only in half speed, then when he foresaw your strategy from close distance, he accelerated rapidly just before you crossed each other. Nii-san had circled behind you before you could fire your Howling Roar.』
Lux made use of Divine Drag-Ride Bahamut’s high mobility after seeing through the opponent’s plan and took him down accurately.
『Seeing through the opponent’s preliminary movement and tactic, then counterattacking in advance. This is──the technique called Quick Shot.』
The bandit leader couldn’t listen to Airi’s words until the end.
His Drag-Ride was dispelled and he fell toward the ground in his flesh body.
Naturally he was prepared to die, but someone caught him just before he crashed.
A brown haired girl clad in the strengthened type general purpose Drag-Ride EX Wyrm──Tillfur Lilmit.
She immediately tied up the leader with the Drag-Ride’s wire tightly and took away his Sword Device.
With that the bandit leader was completely restrained.
「Capture success──perfect! As expected from mee! 」
「Yes. That’s splendid Tillfur. Clap clap clap.」
Beside her Noct who was wearing EX Drake was clapping while staring fixedly at her.
「Wait, this is all we amount to do!? Even though we have come out tooo!」
Tillfur went along with the joke and yelled a retort with tearful eyes.
Sharis who was wearing EX Wyvern smiled wryly while patting Tillfur’s head from the side to console her.
「It can’t be helped. After all the elites of the new kingdom are coincidentally fully present int eh academy. Besides, Lux-kun too──」
「Ah, that’s right. Lux-chi, welcome baack!」
Tillfur was dejected, but as soon as she saw Lux landing on the ground, she drove her EX Wyrm in full speed toward him.
「I’m back Tillfur. Airi and everyone too──」
Lux in his Bahamut smiled. Then everyone else also gathered around him.
Everyone became one with Lux at the center.
「How was that, my battle just now. It made you fell in love all over me once again right?」
「I don’t think that you did anything that great though──?」
Lisha puffed out her chest with a smug face, but Krulcifer retorted at her.
「That’s because you snatched my prey! My Tiamat’s firepower is too powerful that it’s difficult for me to hold back to not kill them!」
They argued with each other like usual.
「Good grief, what a troubling juniors I have here. Even though each of you have your own position, you two are getting back to act like children when in front of Lux.」
Celis who was watching that from a distance muttered with a small sigh.
「Indeed. But, Celis-senpai too, was really high spirited.」
Philuffy told her with a faint smile. Even Celis’s face blushed red hearing that.
「P-please don’t make fun of me. As a former captain of Syvalles, I have the duty to look after my juniors──」
「Celis-senpai and Phi-chan too, are both of you doing well? Thanks for your hard work just now.」
「Yes. Lu-chan too, good work.」
Philuffy and Lux matched each other’s gaze deeply. The greeting they exchanged went deeper than just words.
「Yes! Of course. You are really kind Lux, to suddenly call out to me like this.」
Airi and Noct who saw from the side Celis’s eyes sparkling smiled wryly.
「Don’t tell me, she became a lecturer in the academy is also because she hasn’t been cured from her tendency to become lonely?」
Airi stared in exasperation at Celis. Noct nodded with her blank expresison.
「Yes. But I think that she has become a lot better than the past.」
It seemed that the degree of Celis’s dependence to Lux was still high.
There──Yoruka slashed at Lux’s back with her Yato no Kami.
The members of Syvalles who had completely let their guard down opened their eyes wide in shock.
「──!? Watch out-!」
Someone yelled that, but Lux calmly held his Blade in an instant to block the attack.
Either way, Yoruka’s Blade stopped just an inch before it hit.
「Good work in rescuing the hostage. The bandits has been mopped up with this right?」
Both of their swords had stopped just before the clashed. Lux then talked to Yoruka with a smile.
「Yes. Also, that’s a splendid constant alertness Aruji-sama. It looks like you haven’t let your guard down even after successfully defeating me in those two matches.」
「Yoruka might run away from the position of queen if I can’t reassure you after all.」
Lux replied gently.
One month since he made an agreement of 『two matches』 with Yoruka, Lux had splendidly defeated her and Yoruka accepted becoming his queen.
Even so, it seemed she was uneasy whether Lux would let his guard down after winning against her. Sometimes she would launch a surprise attack like this at him.
Lux thought that this way of being considerate was really like her.
He told everyone else about it and fixed any possible misunderstanding.
While Lux was continuing to rejoice in his reunion with the girls and conversed with them, the bandit who was restrained with a wire all over him suddenly raised a bewildered voice.
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「W-why……」
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The overwhelming difference in strength to defeat them without actually hurting them, and the specs of those Drag-Rides.
The bandit leader who thought highly of himself as someone possessing high battle strength even among the bandits couldn’t help but question what happened.
「Why, did you seal the Ruins even though you have that much power……! Don’t you want even stronger power!? No, you should even put the world under your rule! And yet──」
「Haa……. You really haven’t investigated enough even though you were driven by greed and intentionally attacked here. Don’t you know anything about Nii-san?」
Airi who was sitting on the shoulder of Noct’s EX Drake sighed and said that faster than anyone.
「Really. I’m amazed you can say that even though right now you yourself are entering yourself into the list of someone who failed because of such conceit.」
Sharis also shrugged while smiling refreshingly.
「You see, it’s because Lux-chi is that kind of person──that’s why he was chosen as the king. He has convinced everyone with the way he is.」
「Yes. Lux-san──no, it’s simply that his majesty is that kind of person. Though he is somewhat too soft on girls.」
「It’s not at the level of somewhat anymore. All of us here are the witness.」
Krulcifer instantly retorted at Noct’s mutter.
Lux who heard that showed a flustered expression for the first time today.
「I-isn’t the talk moving to a strange direction for some reason!? Is this a courtroom for me!?」
「Isn’t it just Nii-san getting your just desert?」
「Yes. There is no mistake.」
The combination of Airi and Noct’s fixed stare immediately pierced at him.
When it became lie this, he didn’t have any dignity whether as the king or as a Drag-Knight.
「Oooi, Lux-kun.」
「Yahhoo, young man.」
「Ah, both of you, long time no see──」
At that time, Aeril waved her hand in her Drag-Ride from the sky. Soffice also gave her greeting with her expressionless face.
Their arrival was a godsend for Lux. He raised his hand too and smiled at them.
「Good grief……. But, perhaps things can be considered as going well right now despite Nii-san being Nii-san. After all he is managing a lineup of troublesome people like this──and this country.」
The group that joined up with Aeril returned back and handed over the bandits after that. Then they had a talk about the situation of Ruins.
After that──surely everyone would get along well with each other even while fighting over Lux.
Everyone helping each other, understanding each other.
They were surely advancing forward bit by bit.
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「Then, how about we return to Cross Field’s academy soon, Lisha-sama?」
After rejoicing in this reunion after quite some time, Lux called out to the girl who was now queen.
The princess who Lux once served replied to the king with her best smile.
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「Yeah, let’s begin the dawn of the new kingdom, together with all of us.」
