Be quick. Be faster. In the face of Lin Yiyan's continuous attack, which was neither type, nor technique, nor tactical, but instinctive, Yugeo pressed over without hesitation. Every time the two swords intersected, Lin Yiyan felt the invisible shell crack open.

I don't know when, a rough smile has appeared on Lin Yiyan's lips. That's right, a long time ago, Lin Yiyan should have fought with Yougeo with a sword halberd like this, no, it was like imitating a martial arts scene. Not in the training ground of the Sword Cultivation Academy. Nor on the way to Yangdu. By the way, in the grasslands and forests not far from the village of Lulid...... In order to practice swordsmanship, a handmade wooden sword that is slightly stronger than a toy is used...... It's like a kid fighting each other......

A little over two years ago, did you and Eugeo, who met in the forest not long ago, ever do this kind of thing?

Cracking...... Is it your own memory............?

Ka Chin ——! A strong metallic sound sounded, breaking the momentary state of distraction.

The black sword and the sword of the green rose collided at a wonderful angle, suppressing each other's power, and once again came to a standstill in the intersecting state.

“………… ...... Eugeo? Hearing Lin Yiyan's scattered whispering voice. Eugeo replied with slightly open and closed lips. Although he couldn't hear the sound, Lin Yiyan already knew it. The blue and silver integration knight lightly called Lin Yiyan's name.

Sharp wrinkles are carved between the white and smooth forehead. The teeth between the slightly open lips were clenched, and there were faint particles of light flickering in the dim eyes. Those eyes crossed Lin Yiyan's shoulders and caught Alice standing by the wall behind her. Lips quivered again. Alice's name was silently called.

"Eugeo...... Do you remember, Eugeo!? Lin Yiyan shouted desperately. But the black sword slipped at this moment, unable to withstand the pressure of the green rose sword and was pushed away.

The body was seriously broken, and Lin Yiyan, who stumbled backwards for several steps in order not to fall, should be full of flaws. But instead of pursuing, Eugeo raised his sword and stood still. Lin Yiyan, who retreated to Alice's side before standing firmly, took a hard breath and used all his strength to call out his best friend's name.

"——!! Eugeo" The knight's body shook, and then he slowly lifted his prostrated face.

Even though his face was still pale, there was something that looked like an expression on it. Confusion, anxiety, remorse, and longing...... The many emotions frozen by the spell made the thick ice shell shake slightly, and the smile was blurred.

“………… Yi Yan. ”

After a short pause,

"Alice ............"

I was able to hear it definitely this time. The voice of Yugeo calling the names of Lin Yiyan and Alice. Passed on. The sword touched his heart.

After "...... Giugeo" called again, the smile that appeared on the corner of his best friend's mouth became a little grim.

He turned the sword of the green rose in his right hand around and held it with his backhand. Hanging his arm, he stuck the tip of his sword into the marble floor. There was a sharp "clang" sound, and the blue-white blade wrapped in a faint mist sank into the ground about two centimeters into the ground.

Taking this as a signal for a truce, Lin Yiyan also lowered his black sword. While exhaling the air blocking his chest, he took a step forward with his right foot.

However. In the next moment, things that Lin Yiyan hadn't expected at all followed.

"Yi Yan!" Alice behind her screamed Lin Yiyan's name. I don't know when she got closer, she wrapped her left hand around Lin Yiyan's body from behind and helped Lin Yiyan up. At the same time, new voices burst out of Ugeo's mouth.

“…… Release Recollection.”

That formula is. The largest and strongest fighting technique that exists in the Under orld awakens the memory of the weapon, revealing the essence of the armed total domination technique of supernormal power - memory liberation.

The sword of the green rose burst into a dazzling blue-white flash.

There is no dodging and no defense. The absolute cold that spread outward with the sword as the center sealed the entire vast hall in an instant. Whether it was the lower staircase that carved a hole in the corner of the ground, or the lifting plate used to ascend to the hundredth floor, even Alice and I were completely immobile under the thick ice that reached deep into our chests. If Alice hadn't lifted herself up just now, I guess even her head would have been swallowed up by ice.

On the ninety-fifth floor of the cathedral, he encountered the Knight Captain Belcully, who was also frozen to his neck by ice. Synthesis· One。

Yugeo's Memory Liberation Technique was able to freeze a large amount of hot water in the bath filled with a pool that Lin Yiyan had almost mistaken for a pool at a speed that even the strongest and earliest integration knights could not escape, and he definitely did not underestimate this skill. However, on this ninety-ninth floor, there is simply no water that can be used to freeze. If a large amount of cold elements are generated, it can be said, but where does so much ice come from?

No, that's not what should be surprised. It's why Ugeo did such a thing. He had already regained his memory, so why did he have to use ice to bind me and Alice?

Lin Yiyan endured the cold like piercing his body, while desperately squeezing out the voice from his mouth that had finally moved, "Yougeo...... Why ............"

About fifteen meters away, Yugeo slowly straightened up, still with that sad smile on his face, and whispered a short word, "...... I'm sorry, Yi Yan...... Alice. Please don't catch up again......"

Immediately, the boy, who was Lin Yiyan's best friend and Alice's childhood friend, pulled out the sword of the green rose from the ground and walked to the lifting plate in the center of the hall. Although the marble disc was covered in the same thick ice as the lower staircase, the knight on top of it touched it with the tip of his sword, and it began to scatter ice chips and rise upward.

Until he was swallowed up by the hollow in the ceiling, the corners of Eugeo's mouth still had a smile on his lips that seemed to endure many things.

"Excellent ...... Geo ——!! Lin Yiyan's desperate call was also erased by the hard impact sound when the lifting plate and the ceiling were closed.

………

Remove Core Protection。

At the end of the never-before-heard chant of a three-way chant, Eugeo understood. I realized that I had unlocked the door that I could never open. It all started back an hour before the duel with Yi Yan that he had never imagined.

Relying on the memory liberation technique of the Sword of the Green Rose, Yugeo firmly froze the integration knight Captain Belkuli, who has the terrifying trick of slashing into the future, with him, and finally ended in a draw, but in a state of distraction, he was taken to the hundredth floor of the Central Cathedral by the strange dwarf who claimed to be the patriarch Chudelkin.

There, Yugeo meets the High Priest Administrator, a girl with long silver hair and mirror-colored eyes, as well as a stunningly beautiful girl. Before he could awaken from his consciousness, the maiden said to him:

- You are a potted flower called love water that can't get anyone.

- But I'm different. I alone will give you love.

- as long as you give me equal love.

The girl's words themselves were like some kind of technique to bind the spirit. As if sucked into it, Eugeo uttered the three techniques she had requested.

I'm afraid it's the most important thing that will guard people...... The doors of memory, thoughts, and souls opened, and the dministrator smiled innocently as he peeked into Yugeo's heart, groped in, and plunged into the depths of the 'something' that was colder than ice.

Consciousness was interrupted again at that point. When Eugeo heard someone's call from afar, as if trying to pull him out of the dim darkness, he opened his eyes and saw—

Dazzling sparks and silver blades. There are also young black-haired men who are fiercely engaged with themselves. At that moment, Yugeo came to his senses. Dressed in the armor of an integrated knight, he meets a best friend he can trust more than anyone else, and a childhood friend he misses more than anyone else.

Even if you notice this, the cold spikes in the center of your mind have not disappeared. The order that came out of that spike in succession, "For the sake of the High Priest, the enemy in front of you must be cut by the sword" almost restrained his thoughts. Out of desperation, Yugeo had no choice but to activate the Blade of the Green Rose's memory liberation technique, sealing the two important ones in the ice. To interrupt the battle under the command of the Spikes of Resistance is the only way to do this.

…… I lost to the temptation of the Administrator and broke something that could never be broken.

…… However, even if this is the case, there is one more thing that I can do...... A must-do.

“…… I'm sorry, Yi Yan...... Alice. With that out of his mouth, Ugeo stepped onto the escalator. In order to return to the hundredth floor of the cathedral, in the Administrator's apartment. As the lifting disc came to a halt, Yugeo's armor and the sword in his right hand reflected the moonlight shining through the massive window, enveloping it in grayish-white particles.

It was around 2 a.m. on May 25. If it had been three days ago, it would have been a good time to burrow into the bed of his own room in the dormitory of the senior swordsman. Every day, I sleep soundly with the fatigue of class and training, and I will never open my eyes until the bell rings to wake up.

If you think about it, the night of the 22nd was in the confinement room of the college, and on the 23rd I was locked up in the underground cell of the church, and I really couldn't sleep peacefully. After escaping from prison on the morning of the 24th, the fatigue accumulated from the fierce battles was almost at the limit, and the thought of this body became heavy, and ironically, the ice spike inserted in the head jumped and jumped to dispel the sleepiness.

Dedicate everything to the High Priest. Fight for the protection of the Congregational Church.