For You This World I'll Destroy

Strength to Protect (4)

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The lantern Flower Pillar became the main lighting in the wooden room. In a recessed wooden chair, a girl was tied up there. Her golden strands of hair were unraveling, melodious with a few strands of red hair. Two red horns peaked on the girl's forehead matching her pointed ears. The girl fell asleep with even delirium with a stupid facial expression

Hmm, a Dragonkin Daemon. The extinct race along with the last La Puella Dragonica. Mysteriously.

“Oh steak for free? Can be very.. hehehe, more juicy pretty please?”

Oh, my God, he could have been delirious just as I put down one steak plate that Master Desmond made for me. The noise on the top floor showed the crowd of timeless Adventurers Guilds. Right, this room often Desmond lends me “interrogating” my enemies.

Kusentil jidat the girl, “Oi, wake up. When do you want to sleep?” I said.

Open the purple eyes of the girl who was half conscious of seeing me, “Eh? Eresh-senpai? Hahaha.It is impossible for you to come here. Quina has covered her tracks perfectly,” she said back to sleep, “Quina. Business... save the world, ajalah ya Senpai... hehehe.”.

H-ha? What's this girl talking about? The eresh? A senpai? What's that name? I thought he was from another world. I just don't think I understand what he's saying. But saving the world?… The idea got me interested.

Then I flicked his nose until finally the girl was wide-eyed and jumped in shock.

“K-K-Kamuu, the evil witch who has my bones?!” he said in a crisp voice. Then look around and panic, “Dark room, with helpless girl bound like this. A-A-aacckh! W-What do you want to do to me? M-There are still many foods I want to taste before I die!!”

“W-What?” I said in the ancient language. I shook my head and took off my pinch. So I took the wooden chair in front of the girl and looked at her.

“Many things we have to talk about, Lady Quina Megistus,” said I cut the delicious steak, then put it in the special sauce I made. The rancid smell of the sauce almost made me faint, let alone its purplish color and overflowing bubbles definitely dispelled the appetite.

“Who are you? Whatdoyouwd? Why are you blocking my path?” my many.

“Why should I answer—?”

Before Quina could finish her words, my hand ambushed her jaw. I took a spoonful of my special sauce and prepared to feed the girl. Smiling I saw fear in Amta Quina,

“You know, there's a reason why my waiter never let me touch the kitchen. In the past, with my cooking, I once put one family to sleep forever,” said I who brought the special sauce closer to Quina's mouth,

“Maybe, you want to try it, Quina Megistus?”

Glazed over the girl's eyes and immediately said, “Alright! I'll tell you everything!!”

Uh-uh? M-It was easy to persuade him to talk. Well, whereas I look forward to every second of the girl's crying and suffering. One of the hobbies that I seem to have to give up right now.Sighing deeply, I sat down in front of Quina and said, Sighing,

“Continue, tell me, who are you?”

Without hesitation though, Quina replied, “I am Quina Megistus.”

I squinted my eyes, “Iya, I already know. My question is not that know.”

“—The first magician and Primordial Goddess who gave birth to the concept of magic in the world. I came to this world with a mission to taste all the delicious cuisine in the world,” continued Quina who made me furrow my eyebrows.

“Araa, Lady, if you're joking, come on. Funny little bit. We know the Primordial Goddess sacrificed herself to protect civilization from ******* space war ten thousand years ago,” I said that crossing my legs and smothering my eyes could not stand it, “Don't all those stories just a mere essay. The truth is that you ran away from your duty and went across the world for your purpose?. Uuuh, tasted all the food in the world?”

“You could say yes, but also no, hehehe. The story is more complex than that,” said the girl with a plain laugh.

… For the sake of my Goddess, relax that girl. I want to feel like I'm feeding my deadly potion to her right away, but I'm not as careless as Lumina. I had to dig up as much information from the explorers of this world.

I also cleared my throat, “Yeah, let's just say your words are true. Why, a Wise Goddess like you, attacked me a few days ago?” my many.

“You have my lapels in your magic hat, right? Although my abilities were mostly lost, but I could still feel my limbs calling me,” he said whose eyes were misfocused on seeing the steak beside my death sauce,

“But I never thought I'd be dealing with a Daemon, an intermediate creature that connects Homo sapiens and Homo deus. The goddess who lost her power is like me, nothing compared to you, Clairysviel Adeola Noctis.”

“Ara, are you drunk? When the High Witches and Kings hear your conspiracy theories, you can be executed,” I said folding my hands.

“Ah, you guys are, it's a pleasure to trouble yourself with misconceptions. In my eyes, both Daemons and Humans, all of you are Homo sapiens or wise humans,” said the self-styled Goddess who seemed to enjoy this casual talk, “But you are different, in your soul have planted seeds that make you capable of evolving into Homo deus, or the Gods in your language.”

He said the bones are in me hmm? I'm not a hobby of collecting bones. Besides looking at the place, bones are not good magic preparations. But, lately, there's a rare bone that I got. Then I took the bones and showed them to Quina.

“Your bones, you mean this? The bones of La Puella Dragonica that died ten thousand years ago?” my many.

Quina nodded enthusiastically, then showed me her horns, “If Clairysviel still can't believe it, try matching those pretty horn bones with mine!”

“U-Uh. okay..” I said according to him.

…

Suit. Even the position of the scratches on Quina's horn and the fossils in my hands were exactly the same! Wait a minute, what are my eyes fooling me? Can't this girl trap me in illusion magic?

“Where? Now you trust me?”

Laughing at me smothered my forehead, laughing at all this nonsense. After millions of worlds have been destroyed, I don't think there will be anything that will surprise me. But... meet the Primordial Goddess? It's like a fairy tale.

“Ara, let's just say you're right Goddess Primordial—“

“Indeed right kok.”

“I've fought a Goddess many times in my life, BUT, I've never met a Goddess as weak and innocent as you. Moreover, SANG Primordial Goddess,” said I who looked into the purple eyes of the dragon deeply, “Tak arrive at my logic, why are you in a condition.... uhhh, pitiful like this?”.

Quina laughed crisply, “Oh, so you ever fought Nyghtingale Ereshkigal? Woaah, you must have been beaten all out, right? Hihahi. Eresh-Senpai is fierce and creepy, but his heart is good really... kali?” he said casually which then closed his eyes and called out to the darkness in his chest. There is an empty space that should contain something.

“Seven years ago, when I first set foot in this world, a clever little boy tricked me. He took my heart and all my strength, Quartz Megistus. In the end I ended up in this terrible condition, weak and helpless in a strange and dangerous world,” Quina said.

Gee whiz…. Don't tell me that kid is Arthur?

“It just so happens, six months ago, in this city, I met the boy again. But..it turns out that he's already used my heart to resurrect his childhood friend who died from the Nyght Plague. Iba, I also gave up the Quartz for him,” continued Quina.

I raise my eyebrows, that easy? He was too relaxed to make me skeptical.

“Well, life being human again is not a bad thing. In my odyssey, I managed to protect a rich merchant from an Anima. The merchant paid me as his Bodyguard to this day. You must know him.. She is Towa Lionheart, the Red witch,”.

I took hot water from my magic hat and brewed jasmine tea while composing my thoughts. Quina's story is too convincing as nonsense. Indeed in the story, the primordial Goddess is the last La Puella Dragonica in the world. No wonder the fossil would fit him.

But there is only one piece of information that I do not understand, “If it is true that you have given up your Quartz, why did you move your Matrovsk to attack Arthur and Lumina again?” I said I was tasting that delicious tea.

Quina bends her eyebrows, “He? I just heard it for the first time,” he said who bent his lips thinking, “Hmmm, these zombies..... uh, Matrovska huh? They were birthday gifts from Eresh-Senpai for me a few days ago. And most of it you destroyed a few days ago.”

As expected, the Goddess of Death was involved in this incident.

“Hmmm, weird yes. Why did Eresh-Senpai attack Lumina? Is the Quartz Megistus that he belongs to me really gone, to the point that he has to snatch it from Lumina?” quina Mumbles.

“Ha? Wait, there are two Quartz Megistus in this world?”

“Of course. Belonging to the bones in your hand, and mine.”

… It's more complicated than I thought. My head was trying to think about it. Even this jasmine tea was unable to relieve my head pain.

“It's my turn now! From the first day we fought, I've been curious about Clairysviel. You are very strong, perhaps, just one step away from being a Homo deus. But I can see it clearly. You are not a perfect creature. Some of your soul is lost locked up in the dark skies that surround this world.

What is your real story, Clairysviel Adeola Noctis?”

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