Heroes and Machine Girls Looking at Profiles - Chapter 78



78 – The Sixth Runaway.

What Iola saw was truly hell.

An apostle of God who seems to have already lost his sense of reason and runs towards me screaming.

Her hero Kenji stepped forward to intercept her, but as soon as she swung her arm once, her hero Kenji went out and fell.

As if in compensation, the Sado’s arm was broken and bent in a direction it shouldn’t have been, but as if that didn’t matter, the Apostle rushed towards his army.

What followed was a truly cruel and one-sided massacre.

He grabs the soldier with one hand, slams her on the floor, smashes her head, and before she knows it, he mobilizes his restored arm again and tears, destroys, and ravages her.

When the soldiers of the empire and the cultists were torn apart, Iola fell into panic at the terrible sight.

I have seen the battlefield many times.

Enough to be able to tolerate even a fairly brutal scene.

But isn’t this serious?

A bloody angel who tears people like sheets of paper with his hands and throws them into trees, looking for his next prey.

That was the apostle of God before my eyes.

“hehehe…!!”

After ravaging the soldiers and slaughtering almost all of them, the Apostle of God opened his eyes in search of his next prey.

And then, those eyes met Iola’s trembling eyes.

The moment when she thought that those evil hands would soon be heading towards her, she was scared.

The hero Kenji, who had fallen, rushed in and blocked God’s apostle.

He is truly a warrior, his resilience is extraordinary.

While the warrior Kenji was holding the apostle of God, Iola ran away from the scene without even looking back.

Keep going… Keep going… Until you stop hearing the sound of people striking each other from behind.

“…That’s what he said.”

When a woman named Iola ran away to this village in a panic, she was explained by a villager who heard her.

Although he hid the fact that he was a fanatic because he was well aware of the public image of the religion called fanaticism, he still said the main points.

She feels like she was attacked by a monster, lost all of his men, and ran away alone.

Well, if he can’t subdue the hero Kenji, he must be quite strong.

At least, it is certain that he is a person of the level of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King Army.

And, the relics of the Goddess Church near here.

Furthermore, there is no way someone like that would suddenly pop out, so the identity of the attacker has been narrowed down in many ways…

But why?

If, as I think, the attacker attacking the warriors Kenji and Iola is the Valkyrie, then I don’t know why they are doing this.

Basically, Valkyries tend to avoid killing unless ordered to do so.

Of course, if the mission requires killing, he will do so without hesitation, but he rarely chooses to do so on his own.

Even Brünnhilde, who was spewing out hostility toward humans and me, did not mix hostility with that spear, even if it was filled with hostility.

So, it was impossible to imagine that the Valkyrie would carry out such a massacre on their own.

…Even if you think about it, it won’t be of much use.

This is something I need to check for myself, I thought and looked back.

Ortrinde and Zikrune both looked at me and nodded.

They probably thought the same thing.

“…Is the attacker nearby?”

“Perhaps, traces of battle were found nearby.”

“Stay alert and wait, I’ll go.”

The moment the person standing guard opened his eyes wide and opened his mouth as if trying to stop me.

The young village chief Annie stopped him.

And then, looking at me, she said.

“…There must be a reason.”

“Okay. I have to go.”

“I won’t ask for details. If you want to do it, no one will be able to stop it.”

Annie quietly steps back and bows her head.

“Good luck.”

It moved with the sole purpose of taking the life in front of it.

With his hands, he tears, destroys, and erases moving life from this world.

I slaughtered it without thinking about anything else.

There was one thing that was persistent.

No matter how much you try to destroy its life, it rises and attacks again like a persistent weed.

No matter how many times you trample on it, it gets back up again and attacks you. After you trample it over and over again, there is nothing left around it.

Having suddenly lost her purpose, she waited quietly again without moving from that spot.

Waiting for life to hunt to appear before my eyes.

How much time has passed?

There was something that caught me in that feeling.

Letting out a low groan, it raised its head.

It is life.

It is also a very brilliant life.

The instinct to hunt it and the reason not to want to do so clashed within it.

However, due to the evil and black spell, Lee Seong could not use up its power and was dragged down to her consciousness.

Life.

Brilliant life.

It ran madly towards the life caught in its senses.

“…There is no doubt about it. This is the presence of Schubertleite.”

As we left the village and were walking through the forest, Ortrinde nodded his head and said.

…Just as I thought, it must be Valkyrie Schubertlaite.

The goal was to retrieve her and investigate the remains of the goddess, so one of the goals was almost before our eyes.

However, things in this world cannot go smoothly like that.

“…Master, please be careful. Sister Schubertleite’s condition is not serious.”

“Yes, I felt it too.”

Unlike humans and other living creatures, Valkyries emit a very clear energy from the magical energy, or ether, felt in their bodies.

Because it is a clearer and cleaner energy than weapons or magic tools containing magical power, the presence of the Valkyrie is very easy to recognize.

However, the presence of the Valkyrie Schubertleite felt from afar is very foreign.

In the clear ether of Valkyrie, a black, sticky, unclean presence is felt.

…Besides, this presence is something I have already felt.

I turned my head and looked back at Ortrinde.

She must have thought the same thing, so she nodded.

Yes, this sign.

This is the presence I felt from the eagle that was secretly watching the battle between me and Brünnhilde.

Gutrune.

Clearly Brünnhilde had said that name.

We still don’t know its identity, but we can only assume it is closely related to this incident.

“…There is no time, my lord. We must stop her now.”

Ortlinde spoke with a slightly impatient expression, unlike usual.

Yes.

The problem is the current state of Schubertleite.

The ether that can be felt from her.

It seemed like it would disappear soon, leaving only a faint afterglow.

Unlike Gerhilde, who naturally consumes ether and goes into a dormant state for her own protection.

As if a machine without a safety device had run away, the body could not stop while continuously consuming ether.

There was absolutely no way it would end well.

So, it was necessary to force the body to stop.

And, that time was right around the corner.

Just as we noticed their presence, they also noticed our presence.

I could feel the presence of Schubertleite approaching this direction at tremendous speed.

“aaa!!”

Along with a loud banging sound, the sound of an object hitting the wall and being smashed spread out.

Outside the room, the maids were trembling and trembling with white-faced expressions.

Nevertheless, they stayed in the room, pushing the new maids away from the room, as if they had experienced it many times.

“What the hell!! How did you know?”

The owner of the voice, and the owner of this room.

It was Princess Anies.

Recently, there are rumors floating around all over the place.

At first, I thought it wouldn’t have much of an impact since it was just a rumor coming from the Demon King’s army.

However, the rumor spread quickly throughout the empire and across the continent.

The momentum was such that even the power of the imperial family and the influence of the heroes of the past could not be stopped.

The world no longer praised Princess Anies as a hero.

A witch who betrayed the hero Hans and put the continent in crisis.

As such evaluations gradually began to emerge, many voices criticizing Anies also began to emerge.

People are more likely to listen to voices that criticize themselves than voices that praise them.

Of course, the voices criticizing Anies grew louder day by day, and at the same time, they got on Anies’ nerves.

And then a scorpion from Anies’ home country, Cloeti Kingdom, dealt the final blow to Anies’ stress.

‘The atmosphere in the royal capital is unusual. Please refrain from returning home for the time being.’

A message from my father, King Cloeti, that begins with such a paragraph.

For Anies, who was already trying to return home for the time being due to rumors about him occasionally heard from the imperial capital, the sound was like a bolt from the blue.

According to the contents of the message, the rumors about the princess flowing from the royal capital of the Kingdom of Cloeti were more, if not less, than those from the ecliptic capital.

In fact, the royal capital of Cloeti Kingdom was a place where the idolization of the princess was stronger than the imperial capital.

Should we call it a reaction, the place most affected by the spreading rumors was the royal capital.

As much as the praise for the princess was great, the criticism and criticism were also very great.

Of course there was a crackdown because it was an insult to the royal family, but it was not enough to prevent it.

In the end, Anies was unable to overcome the stress and was having seizures every day.

“Somehow…If we don’t do something…”

For now, it’s just a rumor, but someday there may be a movement to reveal the truth.

In fact, the Goddess Church even appears to be moving to detain the entire warrior party, saying they will reveal the truth.

“…Alessa…Let’s consult with Alessa…”