To be honest, Lin Yiyan also wanted to swing his sword and slash at the Administrator. But if he was driven by emotion to rush out like this, Cardinal's resolute choice of sacrifice would be in vain. So I had to hold back my tears, grit my teeth, and stay where I was.

The Administrator's eyes were filled with iridescent swirls of trance and joy. Immediately after, lightning burst from the tip of the tiny sword, leaving the entire space blank, and then piercing Cardinal's tiny body. In the world where the halo appeared, the slender figure fell back two or three times as if it had been bounced away.

After such a large-scale electric shock energy scorched the air, and after the diffusion disappeared, Lin Yiyan desperately chased Cardinal with wide burning eyes. The young Great Sage has not yet fallen. The long cane supported most of his body weight, and his feet were firmly planted on the ground, looking resolutely at his enemy. However, the marks of the injuries are palpable to the point of heartache. The black hat and robe were burned and smoking everywhere, and some of the lustrous brown curls were carbonized and blackened.

Lin Yiyan could only stand silently in place, just five meters away, Cardinal slowly raised his left hand and patted his burnt hair. A hoarse and genuine voice rang out in the air, "Hmm...... That's all you can do...... ? In this case, even if it is ...... Hit a few ......"

Click!! Once again, the world shook with a loud noise. From the Administrator's rapier unleashed a lightning strike larger than the last, mercilessly striking Cardinal's body. The square hat was knocked flying, reduced to countless ashes and disappeared. The slender body stiffened with pain and shook, and one knee fell to the ground before it fell.

“…… Of course, I have mercy, little one. As if he was desperately trying to suppress his inner ecstasy, even though his voice was low, it still made the air tremble with the smell of burning, "Isn't it too boring to kill it all at once?" Anyway, I've been waiting for this moment for 200 years...... This!! ”

Titicaca!!

The third lightning strike.

Lightning arcing like a whip hit Cardinal from above, striking her body to the ground with astonishing momentum. The small body that had been bounced to a high place fell again with a slight sound, and fell sideways weakly.

More than half of the velvet robe had turned to charcoal gray, and the white shirt and black hakama inside had left tragic scorch marks. Hands and legs and skin as white as snow, Dinal's arms trembled and stretched out, trying to hold the ground and lift his body slightly.

However, as if to mock the gesture of exhaustion, a new lightning bolt struck in a horizontal slashing motion. The young body was knocked away at once, rolling on the ground for several meters.

"Huh...... Hehehe. Hehehehehe. ”

High in the distance, the Administrator couldn't help but laugh.

"Hehe, aha, ahaha."

It was no longer possible to determine whether it was white or iridescent silver eyes, bursting with a fierce light more intense than the flickering prismatic brilliance.

"Aha! Hahahaha!! ”

With her loud screech, from the tip of the Mirror Thin Sword that was swinging straight up—

A continuous stream of lightning strikes struck Cardinal, who was already unable to move. The tiny body bounced up like a ball, and the clothes, skin, and everything that existed were scorched.

"Hahaha!! Aha!!ha ”

As if the body was dominated by the joy of the devil, the voice of the Administrator, who was scattered with silver hair and laughing, could no longer reach Lin Yiyan's ears. What makes tears continue to overflow and blur and distort vision is by no means caused by the white light of infinite lightning burning the retina. It's the emotions that keep coming over me.

The sadness that Cardinal's life was being lost, the anger at the Administrator who was happy to be immersed in this brutal execution, but more anger at the inability to do anything about it. Lin Yiyan couldn't swing his sword, and he couldn't take a step forward. Even if the worst outcome was in vain, Cardinal's self-sacrifice was in vain, and even if the sword in his right hand kept pouring out to me that he had to slash at the Administrator, Lin Yiyan's body would be as immobile as petrified.

The reason for this is very clear to Lin Yiyan. If it was my imagination to take down the patriarch Chudergin with an ultra-long-distance Vorpal Strike that is not normally possible, it is this force that makes Lin Yiyan as immobile as a puppet now.

Lin Yiyan, who had launched an attack on the Colossus of Swords just a few minutes ago, was fatally wounded without a single slash. The feeling of the sword that was cut off from the abdomen to the spine left Lin Yiyan with too strong a brand of defeat. The extremely profound horror that had been entangled in Lin Yiyan's hands and feet could no longer allow him to awaken the imagination of the black swordsman Yi Yan.

“…… Mutter...... Woo-grunt............" Lin Yiyan clearly heard the pitiful whimper coming from his throat. Cardinal, who recognized and accepted his defeat and still bravely faced his enemies, was about to die in front of him, but Lin Yiyan was willing to stand by and save himself - such a self was really hateful.

When Lin Yiyan noticed it, Yugeo, who was standing on the left, and Alice on the right, also shed tears because of their respective feelings. Although they didn't know how turbulent their hearts were, at least all three of them already felt extremely strong frustration without a doubt.

That's right - even if he leaves from here, these pains will still be engraved in his heart, enough to make Lin Yiyan unable to say what he can do in the end. In front of his immobile gaze, the Administrator swung his sword high with what was probably the last and greatest lightning bolt in his hand.

"So...... The two of us have been playing hide and seek for two hundred years, and it's almost time to end. Goodbye, Ligeris...... My daughter, and another me. The High Priest uttered the somewhat sentimental line with his lips twisted in ecstasy, and then swung his sharp rapier down.

The final blow, which turned into thousands of beams galloping through the air, merged once more, hitting, encircling, burning, scorching, and then destroying Cardinal's body that had fallen there. The tip of his right foot had turned to charcoal, and the sage slowly flew into the air and finally landed at my feet. I've lost weight to the point where I can't feel it. As a dry sound sounded, countless black fragments fell from all over the body to the ground.

"Hehehe...... Ahaha...... Aha! Ahh Turning the sword in his right hand and twisting his body as if he were dancing, the Administrator laughed again.

"See...... See, your destiny is running out little by little! Ahhhh......h What joy...... How...... Hehehe...... Hehehehe...... So, let me see the final scene. In particular, I give you time to say goodbye!! ”

As if in obedience, I knelt down like a broken doll and stretched out my hand to Cardinal. The right side of the girl's face had been scorched, and the only left eyelid that had not been charred was tightly closed. However, from Lin Yiyan's fingertips touching his cheeks, there was still a little bit of life before he was about to disappear, a little bit of faint warmth.

Almost unconsciously, he held Cardinal's body to his chest with both hands. Tears poured out uncontrollably, dripping onto the painful wounds. The girl's unburned eyelashes trembled and slowly opened. Even though he was about to die, Cardinal's charred eyes were still full of endless love.

"Don't cry, Yi Yan."

The voice that turned into brain waves sounded in Lin Yiyan's consciousness.

"This ...... The ending is not bad. Like this...... Can be held in the arms of someone who is connected to the heart...... Dead or something, never ...... Not...... I've thought about it.'"

"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry......" The words squeezed out of Lin Yiyan's mouth were no longer sound, but they only shook the air. Hearing this, Cardinal's lips were miraculously unscathed, and a faint smile appeared.

"In ...... What...... Sorry. Thou shalt return ...... Yes, there is a ...... that must be done Mission, right? Thou shalt be and, and Yogeo, and ...... Alice...... Three people...... The world is ...... of this, illusory and beautiful.

Cardinal's voice lowered rapidly, and his body seemed to continue to lighten. Suddenly, Alice, who knelt down like Lin Yiyan, stretched out her hands and grabbed Cardinal's right hand.

"By all means...... Definitely. ”

The voice, the cheeks, were already wet with tears.

"You have given life...... We will, in order to fulfill this sentence...... And hard work. ”

Then, Eugeo held out his hand from the left.

“…… Me too. ”

Eugeo's voice was as weak and gentle as before, but it was full of his will.

"Now, I finally understand what I need to do."

And yet—

His next words were beyond the expectations of Lin Yiyan and Alice, and I am afraid that Cardinal.

"And the time to accomplish that mission is now — this is the moment. I'm not going to run away. Now I have more things to accomplish. ”

- Weakness.

- It's too powerless.

When the High Priest Administrator scorched Cardinal with thunder, Yugeo just thought desperately.

The Colossus of Sword, which was originally thought to be the Great Demon of the Dark Country, turned out to be a human like Yugeo...... He was not only astonished by such words, but also trembled with fear at the High Priest who thought of such a thing and carried it out. However, what hit Ugeo even harder than this was the despair of his powerless self.

On the very top floor of this cathedral, Eugeo, Yi Yan, the knight Alice, as well as Shamilles the Black Spider and Cardinal the Sage fight the reason for the battle with the High Priest. That is, Yugeo's desire to save his childhood sweetheart Alice Bass from the Congregational Church. It was Yogeo himself who brought them into their present desperate situation. Therefore, he had to fight more than anyone else, and endure more pain than anyone else.