To Be a Power in the Shadows!

their path and his choice

"If you stretch the yarn like this, you'll feel safe on your way home."

That's what Alexia says. She goes through the underground labyrinth.

"I hope so"

Beta responded with a yawn behind her.

"Hey, didn't you yawn now?

"No. It's just been over half a day and why don't you go home? I'm sure he's not in the underground labyrinth."

"I wonder. I was a reliable source..."

"Let's go home and go over it again."

Two footsteps ring in the basement where the magic lamp illuminates.

Monotonic underground tunnels follow.

Unexpectedly, feeling a great deal of magic, Beta stopped.

A little late, Alexia stops and looks back, too.

"Now...... someone used magic. It's also a tremendous amount of magic…"

"Maybe it's Master Rose"

"Hey, didn't you notice earlier than I did?

"It's a coincidence. I can only protect myself."

"Oh, good. Let's hurry."

The two run and trace their magic.

And through the big doors that were destroyed, it was an old cathedral there.

"Senior Rose......"

There, Rose was standing with her eyes closed.

At her feet are breathless black-crushed men. Alexia stopped for an unusual Rose vibe.

"Are you Mr. Alexia..."

Rose slowly opened her eyes.

"The magic..."

"I have gained strength… I will go my way to believe"

That said, Rose walks past Alexia's side.

"Ma, wait! What do you mean!? Why did you stab your fiancée!?

To Alexia's cry, Rose looks back just at her face.

"Mr. Alexia...... I'm sorry. I don't want to get you involved."

And with eyes that looked at something dazzling somewhere, I stared at Alexia.

"So tell us why! Then we don't know anything!

"Talk to me and I'll get you involved"

Alexia glances back at Rose.

"In the sanctuary...... we could do nothing. He was just a bystander there, not knowing who was right and who was wrong. I feel like one day I'm going to be deprived of something important without knowing anything like this... so I told you, didn't I? The three of us are trying to protect something important."

Rose, who takes Alexia's word, seemed to see somewhere far away.

"I wanted to believe what I said that day. And yet why are you looking at me like that? You think I'm just a bystander, too?

"Sorry......"

"Answer me!

Rose laughed with a very sad face.

"I can't go back. So... I envy you."

"You don't know. Do you envy bystanders who know nothing"

"I don't mean that. I lose a lot of things and I'm sure I will continue to lose a lot of things. Everyone will deny me and curse me for evil."

"What are you going to do...?

"I'm sorry...... I'm on my way."

Alexia stopped hitting Rose as she walked out.

"Wait."

That's what Alexia pulls out her sword.

"Enough, let me ask you by force. I'm not a bystander."

Rose also pulls out his fine sword.

Alexia and Rose match. Alexia's red eyes have anger. Rose's honey-colored eyes had deep sorrows.

Rose's fine sword swayed.

The next moment, they moved at the same time.

The reaction was simultaneous, with equal sword speed and skill.

Rose, for a moment, showed a startling color. Rose is the school's strongest demon swordsman. There must have been a clear difference in skill between Alexia and me. At least, at the beginning of school.

But in just a few moments Alexia's sword had grown to be invisible. And Alexia's sword looks terribly like that man.

Yes, Alexia's sword... is Shadow's sword.

Two swords hit.

Magic gushed and dyed the cathedral.

Two people close to each other, but the results were clear.

Alexia's sword struck the universe, and Rose struck Alexia's jaw with a fine sword pattern.

And Alexia collapsed from her knees.

What separated the results was a simple difference in magic power.

If Alexia had equivalent magic... I didn't know the result.

"I'm sorry."

One last time, apologize to Alexia. Rose tries to walk away.

So I noticed the nuts.

Strangely, the presence of the nutmeg was entirely outside Rose's consciousness.

"Dr. Nutmeg...... sorry, I'm coming"

"I won't stop you. I don't deserve to stop."

Nutmeg said that with an emotionally unreadable face.

The nutmeg in Rose's memory was always a soft look.

"It was just... a little unexpected. Idiots are worried about being stupid, aren't they? We may have had different beliefs, different countries, different organizations, different personalities. However, we were together where we were aiming. Maybe it wasn't such a bad combination......"

"Dr. Nutmeg...?

"Good luck. Our paths will one day cross...... Until then, I've been babysitting for some time now."

That being said, the nutmeg kneels and embraces Alexia.

"Dr. Nutmeg, are you...?

"Come on, go. I just passed out, so you'll wake up soon, won't you?

The nuts smiled a little mischievously.

I have a lot to ask.

It just turns out we're not willing to talk to each other about anything anymore.

"So..."

Rose turned her heel back and disappeared.

The nutmeg puts Alexia on her knee pillow and exhales.

"Is this Master Shadow's choice…?