I Became a Mythical-Tier Tamer Due To A System Error Chapter 71
“Ha……!”
At the princess’s cold reaction, Clara revealed her true colors.
“So you mean to rebel? Don’t you pity this poor older sister of yours? You fucking little sister.”
“……”
The princess closed her mouth.
She was no longer swayed by Clara’s words.
Her eyes showed her determination to survive no matter what.
I straightened my sword and stepped forward.
“Assist me.”
“Understood.”
Hearing the princess’s strong voice, I let out a sigh of relief inside.
‘The most important part of this episode has been preserved.’
The climax story where the princess, having regained her will, fought Clara.
The narrative that she shed the heavy burden in her heart while battling her sister was saved.
‘Of course, since I interfered, the story ended up being a little clumsy.’
But the core pillar of the story had been preserved.
That alone was a great harvest.
Kaaang!
The swords clashed.
Clara’s blade shook. The battle was going very smoothly.
‘She’s slowed down.’
Clara couldn’t use her left arm, so the frequency of her techniques had drastically decreased.
It was clear she was growing more and more exhausted.
Thanks to that, I got frequent chances to counterattack.
Not only that.
Fwoooosh!
Along with my sword strike, the princess’s cover fire appeared.
Hot flames pounced like a beast.
In that fleeting moment, Clara had to make a choice.
Would she avoid my attack, or dodge the princess’s fiery baptism?
There was no option to avoid both.
“……Ah! Aaaagh! It’s burning!”
As the fire caught her, Clara screamed.
“No, I don’t want to die again! It’s too hot!”
She desperately swung her arms to put out the flames on her body.
Slaaash!
I seized the moment and swung my sword.
The opponent was nothing more than a monster that could speak.
There was no reason to pity her or to show mercy.
“Urgh……!”
At the same time as Clara’s tearing death cry.
Just then, Ren’s shout rang out.
“This is the end!”
Crack-crack-crackle!
A lightning-imbued sword pierced swiftly through Verdi’s abdomen.
“……Kuh!”
When the sword lodged in his abdomen was pulled out, Verdi coughed blood and collapsed on his knees.
‘……It’s over.’
Verdi could no longer rise again.
Ren, having used ‘Thunder God,’ seemed utterly exhausted and collapsed on the spot.
“Ah…….”
Clara’s crimson gleam faded from her eyes, replaced with an emerald glow.
Clara opened her eyes wide and looked around. The wrecked chapel, the fallen Verdi, and the Astrid princess gazing at her.
“Ahhh…….”
……So the brainwashing finally broke.
Clara shed a single tear and moved her lips with difficulty.
“……Sorry. I’m sorry, Remi.”
“Sister.”
The princess sensed that Clara’s atmosphere had changed.
She approached the prone Clara and knelt on one knee.
“……Remi.”
Clara slowly raised her hand and caressed Arlhardt’s cheek.
“……Beware the witch.”
After saying that, Clara closed her eyes with a faint smile.
The moment Clara’s hand, which had been touching Arlhardt’s cheek, fell limply.
The princess grabbed it.
“……”
What was she thinking as she held her sister’s hand?
Arlhardt remained silent for a long time.
……How much time passed?
When the princess finally stood up.
Perhaps from overusing her mana, she swayed in exhaustion.
Grab.
Someone caught the princess.
“Huff…….”
Curio.
Even barely able to support her own blood-soaked body, she embraced the princess.
“You’ve done well. Young master Ren, and also…….”
Curio’s eyes turned to me.
“……You as well, thank you.”
Her gaze carried both knightly respect.
And a trace of wariness.
“I-It’s really over……right?”
A voice came from the chapel entrance.
Figures like Queens and Lapin had been secretly watching the battle from there.
“You may rest assured. They have been completely subdued.”
When Curio replied with a cough, the survivors let out sighs of relief and entered the chapel.
“Ah, S-Sir Knight……!”
Ren’s small voice.
I turned my gaze there, and Ren, lying down, smiled faintly.
“Forgive me, but could you teach me swordsmanship? It was such beautiful swordsmanship. I dearly wish to learn……”
“……”
I stayed silent.
The protagonist had the habit of making a teacher out of anyone he considered stronger than himself.
So he ended up with various masters.
Even Verdi and Curio had briefly taught Ren.
……But you’re gravely mistaken this time, Ren.
I only knew the strategy. I had no real swordsmanship and was far weaker than you in reality.
“Let’s leave that for another time.”
“Yes, if we meet again, please……!”
Covered in wounds, Ren tiredly glanced around, his expression turning puzzled.
“……But where is Villed?”
“We were looking too! Even after searching every corner of the first floor, that young master wasn’t there.”
“……Where did he go? C-Could he have been caught by a ghoul?”
Queens broke into a cold sweat and widened his eyes.
‘I forgot, I should have created a double after the battle ended.’
I cleared my throat and opened my mouth.
“If you mean that unconscious man, don’t worry. I moved him to a safe place.”
“In that case, that’s a relief……”
Hearing my answer, they were reassured.
“Then, I’ll decode the barrier. Once it’s fully deciphered…… we’ll be able to release it.”
Bijou plucked the red threads of the barrier in the hall.
“I…… will take a short rest……”
Completely exhausted, Ren finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.
“I never imagined the culprit would be the Knight Commander……”
“With such an amazing scoop, I can’t wait to get outside~!”
The others sat on the pews, chatting idly while resting.
I was someone who should not remain here.
That’s why I naturally moved to the monastery’s rooftop.
“……”
It was while I was gazing at the field dyed red.
I turned my eyes toward where I felt a presence.
Lapin had appeared at some point and was staring holes through me.
‘……What is this?’
It wasn’t a gaze of wonder or suspicion.
She looked at me gently, just as she normally would.
……No way.
Did she recognize me?
“Ville……”
I put my finger on Lapin’s lips and looked around.
Thankfully, no one else witnessed it.
“Don’t call me by that name in this form.”
“Alright.”
Lapin nodded softly and sat down beside me.
……I was dumbfounded.
‘Why does she recognize me?’
Was it because she was a chimera…… maybe her sense of smell was sharp?
‘I don’t know.’
From a moment ago, her silent gaze had been one of expectation.
‘……What is it that you want?’
Ah.
Come to think of it, I had promised her fruit.
‘Don’t tell me, is it because of that?’
A hollow laugh slipped out.
“You were waiting for that this much?”
I took out the Heart of Ilawne.
The once pea-sized fruit had grown to the size of a cherry tomato.
The Heart of Ilawne was a weapon that grew alongside my growth.
That meant I had achieved great growth through this episode.
Pluck.
I snapped off the stem and held the fruit out to Lapin.
I didn’t feel it was a waste.
There was a setting that even if I picked the fruit, it would regenerate after a day.
“Here.”
When I handed her the fruit, her eyes sparkled.
“Thank you.”
Lapin accepted it and put it into her mouth.
A new Animal Friend is within 1 meter!
The moment I saw that message, I instinctively looked around.
‘……Where?’
I checked the ground, the sky……
‘Where is it?’
I couldn’t find anything.
This world had no animals to begin with.
And within one meter, at that.
‘……Is it a bug?’
The only thing next to me was just one.
I closely watched Lapin as she chewed the fruit thoroughly.
‘……No, it can’t be.’
Even as I shook my head, I turned my eyes back to Lapin.
‘……But just in case.’
I reached out my hand to her.
“Lapin, give me your hand.”
“Hm?”
Lapin blinked as if wondering why, but willingly gave me her hand.
I held Lapin’s hand and stared into her emerald eyes.
“……Animal registration.”
But nothing happened.
“?”
Lapin tilted her head and looked at me.
“Villed, what are you doing?”
“……Nothing.”
I released her hand.
As expected.
There was no way I could bring a person into the farm.
‘Sometimes these bugs really throw people off.’
Just as I turned my gaze back to the crimson landscape.
“Found it!”
Bijou’s bright voice rang out after fiddling with the barrier for a while.
We went down to the chapel on the second floor.
Ren and the princess were asleep, but the faces of the survivors who were awake were full of color.
“We can go back!”
“Yes! If we break this, we’ll return to the original world.”
Before Bijou floated a crystal-shaped mass of mana.
“The barrier has become so unstable…… when it breaks, you might feel dizzy. No, not a little, a lot.”
Bijou swallowed nervously and reached her hand toward the mana crystal.
“If you’re ready, I’ll begin.”
When everyone nodded, Bijou snapped her fingers and shattered the crystal.
At that very moment, everything seemed to squeeze tight and shake my body.
It felt as if I were being sucked into a black hole.
It was the most dizzying experience I had ever had, but it lasted only briefly.
“……”
I opened my eyes.
The blue sky above told me we had escaped the barrier.
Collapsed tables and my booths.
The place where the barrier had started with the sound of gunfire.
“……Your Highness?”
Around us were knights in blue capes and red capes.
The moment they saw us, they shouted.
“W-We’ve found the princess and survivors!”
“Survivors, this way!”
“Contact the medical unit, quickly!”
In front of V’s booth, between the collapsed tables.
Verdi and Clara lay motionless.
It seemed this incident had come to an end.
But someone was watching from afar.
“That knight was so arrogant, and this is all the result he shows me?”
A woman wearing a black linen hat.
She sat leisurely at a table, sipping coffee.
She let out a short laugh as she looked at the fallen Verdi and Clara.
“It would be a shame to end it like this. I need the princess’s corpse as well.”
When the woman snapped her fingers, black mana began to gather.
That mana soon transformed into the form of a butterfly.
“So, I’ll lend a little help.”
The butterfly left her fingertips, fluttering gracefully in the wind.
It flew elegantly and landed gently on top of Verdi’s head.
Fwaaaah!
The black mana burst out in an explosion.
Verdi, who had collapsed, slowly raised his head.
“……I owe you, witch.”
Covered in wounds, Verdi rose to his feet and looked around.
The knight cadets gasped in shock, drew their weapons, and surrounded him.
“Royal Guard 14th Knight Commander, Balrak Verdi. You are under arrest for the crime of high treason against the state!”
“Surrender peacefully!”
“Don’t move! Put your hands behind your head!”
“……”
Verdi looked around, but he didn’t seem to pay the knights any attention.
Rather, he appeared to be searching for something.
Before long, he found what he was looking for.
The fallen Astrid princess was being supported by a soldier.
“……”
It all happened in an instant.
Fwoosh!
Verdi leapt swiftly.
His speed was overwhelming.
The knights surrounding him didn’t even have time to react.
“……Where did he go?”
“Ah, over there!”
“The princess……!”
On his left shoulder hung Clara.
On his right dangled the Astrid princess.
His intent was clearly to flee with hostages.
“Stop him!”
Realizing it, the knights drew their spears and swords. They had to attack together now to capture him.
“……Permission to attack!”
“Don’t! The princess is in danger!”
With the princess caught on Verdi’s shoulder, they couldn’t attack.
Crouching, Verdi braced himself and leapt high.
Thud!
He landed on something.
It was…… a massive truck of enormous size.
It was McGrim’s festival container truck.
Crackle! Vrooom!
As he touched the truck, black sparks crackled and the engine roared to life.
Vroom, vroooom! Screeeech!
As if it were accelerating wildly, the wheels spun fast and the truck sped away.
However.
Kwooooom!
When the truck crashed into Yggdrasil’s barrier, the barrier shattered into pieces.