The thorns—the same thing as the purple crystal pillar that pierced Elderiyah's forehead, I fear—accompanied by the command of pain, as violent as a whip of steel, and on the other hand, as sweet as the finest honey. However, if you lick that honey again, you will never be able to find yourself again.

The reason why he can barely maintain himself now must be thanks to Yi Yan's desperate call and all-out confrontation that made Yugeo wake up. Moreover, when he returned to this room, he was not seriously injured, also because Alice did not intervene in the battle between the two, but just watched over them.

Integration Knight Alice Synthesis· Thirty's sword skills, as well as the Armed Total Domination Technique that transforms the artifact Kaneki Sword into a golden snow, contain a power that even the current Yugeo will never be able to resist. If Alice had drawn her sword and joined Yi Yan in battle, Yugeo would have been cut down before she could regain herself.

Yugeo has yet to understand the right reason why Alice, a knight, is determined to rebel against the Congregational Church. Perhaps she had been persuaded by Yi Yan, as he had imagined when he climbed the steps of the cathedral, or perhaps something had happened above there.

Alice's right eye is wrapped in a bandage that should have been torn from Yi Yan's clothes. It must have happened the same thing as when Yugeo was at the Sword Academy when he drew his sword against Wimbel Gizek. Because of the great sin of disobedience to the church, his right eye was broken. When she went to the academy to take Eugeo and them away, she was also cold when she met again in the cloud garden on the eightieth floor, and it was not Eugeo but Yi Yan who made such an important decision for Alice......

- But now I don't have any say in this fact.

- If I want to say why, it's because I lost to the Administrator's sweet words and opened my heart. Because I did this kind of thing, betrayed Yi Yan and Alice. Betrayed Tidro, Ronie, Frenica, Senior Grugloso and Sens. Soltilina, the Housemaster Azrika and the Processor, Mr. Sadley, the Farm of Wald, Celka and Grandpa Garita of Lulid Village, Chief Gashut, and Cardinal, the little sage of the Library.

Yugeo gripped the hilt of his sword tightly in his right hand, enduring the pain that grew colder and colder. I guess there's not much time left to keep my original consciousness like this. Before you disappear, you must pay for the sins you have committed.

There is only one way to do this.

Eugeo lifted his face and looked around slowly.

Is it because the center of the 99th and 100th floors is staggered, and the lifting plate that Yugeo was riding on stopped on the ground on the south side. Glass windows surround the room, while the sky is full of stars. The pillars are adorned with huge swords, glittering in the light of the moon and stars.

Suddenly—

Sensing as if being called by someone, Yugeo looked up.

The pure white ceiling, which is located at a height of more than 10 meters, is painted with mythological stories as when I saw it before. Gods, huge dragons, and small crystals are embedded in the various parts of the human paintings, releasing clear light.

…… What is calling to me, the ...... light?

Ugeo was about to stare at one of the crystals when he was about to stare intently. This time the real sound came from a different direction. He quickly turned his face back to the front.

In the middle of the large room, a round bed with a diameter of about 10 Mel is placed. It is enclosed in a drape that hangs around it, making it impossible to see inside. But after listening quietly, I heard a slight sound through the pure white cloth. It was a sweet sound that was both singing and whispering.

It was the voice of the High Priest Administrator. It seemed that she was chanting the technique, but not for the ferocious rhythm of the attack. If it's just a daily necessity, now is a good time.

After sheathing the Sword of the Green Rose and placing it across the ground, Yugeo took off the silver armor that had been destroyed in the battle with Yi Yan. After removing the armguards, armor, and cloak, and returning to his original shirt and trousers, he gently touched his chest to confirm that #ThatThing# was still on his body.

When you take a step or two closer to the curtain. A small figure stepped out of the depths of the bed. At the same time, there is unpleasant laughter.

"Ho-hee, ho-hee-hee...... I thought it would be nice to last five or ten minutes, but I didn't expect you to come back alive. Maybe it's really a big bargain for nothing. As soon as he saw the figure coming in the moonlight, Yugeo held his breath. He desperately insisted that his expression did not become stiff.

The costume of the right side crimson, the left side navy is ugly. The center of the chest, which is inflated like a balloon, is patched with an unsightly patch. A flat, expressionless white round face with silky eyes and a mouth that hangs high. Although the golden hat on the bald head is gone, such a strange appearance can never be mistaken.

Senator long Chuderkin. Appears near the end of the battle between Eugeo and the Knight Captain Belkuli, and uses a technique called Deep Freeze to turn the Knight Chief into a stone, and then transports Yogeo, who was unconscious at that time, to the hundredth layer.

Outwardly he appears to be a short, comical clown, but he is also a divine sorcerer second only to the High Priest in the Congregational Church, and a ruthless interrogator. If he had known that Yugeo had temporarily retrieved his memories, he would have used that terrible petrification technique on the spot. In order to complete the final mission, it is necessary to make your way through here without suspicion.

Chudelgin glanced at Yugeo's unmounted armor on the ground, and exaggeratedly raised his barely hairy eyebrows.

"Hey, it's rare to give you armor, and you've broken them so lavishly. Won't it ...... After being defeated by those rebels, he fled back with his tail between his legs, Thirty-two? "The Administrator is the Administrator, the Rebel is Yi Yan and Alice, and the so-called Thirty-Two is probably the serial number of Eugeo as the Integrating Knight. In this situation, no matter what you say, you will have to answer it.

With all his mind, he spoke quietly, "The two rebels have been sealed in ice, Your Excellency the Senator. ”

Then, Chudelkin's eyes curved into a pair of arcs as if they were smiling, but the small pupils inside actually did not smile at all, but emitted a cold light.

"Ho, ...... it's frozen in ice? That's not bad, but why don't you really give them the fatal blow, Thirty-Two? ”

"......" In the moment of silence, Eugeo desperately pondered how to answer.

Of course, he didn't strike a fatal blow at Yi Yan and Alice. The Sword of the Green Rose's Armed Total Domination is a skill developed to block the enemy's movement without dealing damage. Even if you are locked in the thick ice, as long as you expose your face to the outside, there will not be much loss to the Mandate of Heaven.

Rather than be honest about it, it's better to tell him that he had dealt the fatal blow. But if he descends to the lower level, the lie will be exposed immediately. If it was Yi Yan, at such a time, he would rely on his innate wit and courage to quickly make an appropriate answer.

- No matter what time I am, I am always hiding behind Yi Yan. When he is troubled, he immediately relies on his partner, and all the major decisions are handed over to him.

But now is the time for me to think, for me to decide. Even Yi Yan is by no means able to overcome difficulties by relying on intuition alone. It's about racking my brains to think and sift through the right answers to bring me here.

- Think about it. Like that guy.

Forgetting for a moment the cold pain that had taken hold of the center of his mind, Yugeo thought about it. Then he opened his mouth and replied in a minimal volume, "No, they didn't hit them deadly. For the High Priest has commanded me to hinder the progress of the rebels. ”

He didn't know if he had actually received an order from the Administrator.

However, based on vague memories alone, when he first woke up in this room, there was no Patriarch around. If Chudergin wasn't there when Yogeo was transformed into an integration knight, he wouldn't have been able to tell if there was such an order, and even this man wouldn't have been able to disobey the High Priest's words.

Of course, if the Administrator, who was in the bed about ten meters away, heard the conversation, it would be all over. However, she seemed to be chanting some kind of technique in the overlapping tent, and the whispers were likely to be unheard.

While constantly desperately restraining himself from revealing his inner tension on his expression, he waited for Chudelkin's reaction-

Then, the short man in the clown costume curled his huge lips vigorously and made an unpleasant voice, "This is not good, this is not good, thirty-two. ”

He pointed the index finger of his right hand to Eugeo's face—

"When you call someone, you should add Your Excellency the Elder. Is it Your Excellency, Your Excellency, the next time you forget to add your words, as a punishment will turn you into a horse? Let the family ride on their backs and lie on the ground on all fours, "Ride!" Drive!' Yo, hee-hee-hee. ”

He let out a high-pitched cry and then neatly covered his mouth with his hands and peeked over the bed. After confirming that the High Priest's technique had not been interrupted and was still continuing, he touched his chest with an exaggerated movement, and grinned again, "...... In that case, they will have to carry out the orders of the Majesty. Immediately Deep freeze the tattered knights who rebelled against the church, which is the meaning of the Tsukishita. Ouch, you're standing by here, Thirty-Two. It's not fun if someone gets in the way, ho, ho. ”