Chapter 46: Chapter 21: Capturing the Black Dragon
-with Nia and Beelzebub-
"Oh, you're finally awake"
Nia greeted the witches who just woke up from their unconscious state while holding their head from the headache from the effects of having incredible amounts of memories, getting forcefully injected into their heads.
"T-this..."
Cara muttered while kneeling on the ground as she lost all of the strength of her body from... knowing that their journey and ideals all this time was for naught.
"What was I fighting for... all this time"
She felt devastated inside, her dreams, shattered in an instant. She held her chest from the sudden burst of despair she felt in her heart, remembering all of the sacrifices that she had done to reach this point... they all died for nothing.
"Ugh..."
She let out a growl as her tears gushed down her cheeks, weakly crying on the ground while the other witches were feeling the same despair that she felt... except for one person, and that is 'Nightgale' standing in the corner as she sighed in relief from avoiding a near wipeout of her comrades.
She looked at Nia with hope in her eyes from remembering every single memory that she obtained from her... If it's true that they have a place where they, the witches, are treated with care like a normal human, she is willing to follow them even in death if they can give the witches a proper and warm home.
"Are you open for discussion now, Cara-san"
Nia asked with a light smile on her face while cooking a skewered fish on the bonfire.
"... Is that place... true, Miss Nia?"
Nightgale asked with a tinge of hope as she walked closer to their location.
"I think you already know the answer, Nightgale-san, those are not my imagination but it was extracted directly from my memories... My happiness, love... I know you felt it too when you obtained my memories"
Nia honestly answered with a genuine smile on her face from remembering the memories that she had with Lucias, her family, her sisters... She miss the feeling, the warmth, that they brought to her... She wanted to go back but she knew this would be impossible if she doesn't finish the quest.
"I already gave you the details of my quest... and my objective through my memories"
"... Can you... really... help us..."
Cara asked in a whisper while looking up to her to meet her turquoise eyes.
"I can if you're willing to follow me, I need your help to gather the other witches around the four kingdoms... I won't force any of you to join us, the choice is still yours"
"I'll go"
Nightgale immediately answered without hesitation while raising her right hand in the air.
"... I will go"
A young looking woman with mature facial features, her reddish-brown hair are almost waist length says while moving beside Nightgale.
"Me too"
A young girl with fresh and neat short blonde hair energetically said as she flew around the cave.
"I want to go"
"I'll go"
"Me..."
"Please take care of us"
One by one all of the witches inside the cave raised their hands, leaving the kneeling Cara alone inside the cave as Nia asked her one more time.
"Do you want to join us, Cara-san?"
Nia asked with a wide smile on her face while stretching out her hand towards her to help her get up from the ground.
'... I... can't... I killed my own kind just to attain my useless dream... I'm sorry everyone... I shouldn't have been arrogant..."
Cara was about to refuse and stay inside the cave to await for her death from the guilt that she felt from ordering her own companions to die just for the sake of nothing, but Nia cut her off before she could even talk.
"If you feel guilty about your actions... then change, killing yourself isn't the answer to all your problems... Make up for everything that you have done to them, hold the guilt that you feel not as a weight, but a remembrance of why you should change, use it as a motivation to drive yourself forward, Cara-san... Change is never to late"
Nia says with a light smile on her face while looking at the stunned Cara on the ground.
"You... But I killed my own..."
Cara says before crying for the uncontrollable emotion that she felt, gripping her heart causing her to choke on her words before lowering her head in guilt.
The woman with reddish-brown hair kneeled in front of her before hugging her head to comfort her as she caressed the back of her head to calm her down.
"We didn't blame you for their death, Cara... We knew what you did was just because you wanted the best for us... A place where we can be safe, where we are accepted... We're thankful to you for gathering us, helping us when the world abandoned us... Without you, most of us would've been here... Don't blame yourself too much"
"Honestly we were afraid of you since you suddenly changed and became more cruel, but we always held the hope of meeting the kind Cara that we once met"
The blond haired girl bluntly said while flying on top of them.
"You girls..."
Cara muttered while looking at her companions... most, looking at her with a light smile on their faces before looking back at Nia's
hand in front of her.
"... I'll go"
She grabbed her arm with trembling hands, accepting Nia's proposal before standing up with new found resolution in her eyes.
'I won't fail you girls again'
"Great! So we now need to move on with the second stage of the plan"
Nia clapped her hands, attracting the attention of all of the witches inside the cave.
"We will go to the Sleeping Island to go into contact with Tille Wimbledon Faction and take over the Bloodfang witches"
"Take over? Not make them join us but take over?... I wonder what you're planning Miss Nia" (Beelzebub)
"We will wipe out the entire Bloodfang Witches if they don't want to join us... They sold non-combat witches to the nobles to gain access to their territories... She is a selfish and arrogant witch, we have no use for her" (Nia)
"She let the witches be used as a toy for the nobles out of their will, they are scums that I want to destroy, Beelzebub" (Nia)
Nia said in anger while clenching her fist, while the other witches gritted their teeth from anger from remembering their actions through Nia's memories.
"We will form an alliance with the Tille Wimbledon Faction, and take back the witches that the Bloodfang sold to the nobles... We're going to take them back by force if we need to"
Nia said before walking towards the entrance of the cave with the witches following her from behind.
-with Lucias and Mash-
"A cosplay?"
"Wow... It look so real"
"Is there an event going on?"
The crowd murmured while staring at the oddly dressed Mash and Lucias sitting on the edge of the fountain as they observed the current dimension they were at.
"This place seems... normal..."
Lucias muttered while looking around the quite neighborhood of the dimension they spawned at. It was peaceful, like Lucias' dimension before he met Lala.
"I don't think it's not as normal as you think it is Master"
Mash says beside him while observing different species of humanoid monsters around them.
"Well... It's a lot peaceful despite the number of different races coexisting with humans"
He said before pulling Mash into a nearby restroom to change they're clothes and hide their weapons inside his inventory to avoid attracting too much attention towards them.
"Master?"
Mash titled her head in confusing while looking at his flushed cheeks from the embarrassment that he felt from walking in a public place wearing such clothes.
"Mash... Strip"
Lucias says without thinking while stripping off her T-shirt revealing his tones muscles in front of the clueless Mash causing her to blank out for a few seconds before her face blushed increasingly red from the sudden thought that enter her mind.
"W-we can't Master, not until we get married!"
Mash screamed while holding the large shield in front of her, blocking her sight from Lucias' body.
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
Lucias said in confusion while wearing an extra polo shirt that he had in his inventory, and passing a simple dress towards Mash.
"...This is?"
"Hmm? We can't be walking around the town wearing armour, so wear that for the time being, Mash"
Lucias explained while wearing his jeans before placing both his sword and Mash's shield inside his inventory.
"... Is that so?"
Mash muttered with a mix of relief and disappointment before staring at his location.
"What's wrong?"
Lucias asked in confusion while seeing her eyes but froze when he saw a text box on top of her head, indicating her current emotion.
[Disappointment]
[Confused]
"..."
'What?'
"...I'll go and change wait for me outside"
Mash said before pushing him out of the restroom and slamming the door on him.
'Dissapointment in what? Should I try and use [God's Eye] on her?No... I don't want to intrude her privacy...'
Lucias thought while waiting outside the restroom, ignoring the stares of the girls around him as he contemplated what he should do to make up to her.
"I'm done Master, let's go"
Mash said as soon as she left the restroom, wearing a short pink dress with very minimal and simple designs.
"Mash"
Lucias called out to her causing her to stop in her tracks before turning around to face him.
"Yes, Master?"
"... If you want anything just ask me, alright?"
Lucias says while using the [Cape of Deceit] to transform himself into his teenage appearance before patting her hair, causing her to light flush from his sudden actions.
"Let's hurry up and find them, Master"
Mash suddenly said before walking in front of him, leading the way causing Lucias to smile from her reaction.
[Disappointment] -----> [Satisfied]
"???" (Lucias)
-with Ingvild and Justice-
"Justice, be careful will you?"
Ingvild said while blocking the Dragon's Breath aimed at Justice before launching several Lance of highly pressurised water towards the woman.
The woman immediately reacted by spinning her body around to dodge each of the lances before injecting all of her mana on her nails, slicing the air and firing several blades of mana towards Ingvild.
"I didn't expect that she has the same physical strength as me"
Justice grinned before running in front of Ingvild, and shattering the incoming blades of condensed mana with her bare hands before charging towards the woman in front of them.
Ingvild immediately used her sacred gear as soon as the woman shifted her attention to Justice, she focused her attention on the song she was about to sing, leaving her security to Justice as she begun to sing to seal the woman's strength and ability to weaken her.
The woman, who felt her body slowly getting weaker by the second, fell on to the cold ground unmoving as she felt all of her limbs limp from the weakness that she felt.
"Don't kill her, Justice"
Ingvild said while binding the one eyed black dragon with highly compressed water to immobilised her movement, stopping Justice from delivering another powerful punch down its body.
"Why?"
Justice asked before jumping off on top of her.
"My sacred gear let's me control dragons, that's the reason why I let you test your strength on it even knowing about the dangers that comes with it. I can just control her if the situation gradually became far too dangerous for us"
"Hmm... I guess having her in our ranks would be a great help considering her power... but can we bust her out? I don't think that the dungeon will allow that" (Justice)
"No, I can feel that the seal placed on her is broken... Did she break it herself? It's not really a powerful seal on the first place so I guess that's possible" (Ingvild)
She explained before focusing her mind, removing all secondary thoughts that she had before starting to sing in a soft and melodic voice, covering the entire dungeon from its melody as a layer of mana covered the entire body of the black dragon, before entering its body to enslave it at her will.
"I'm sure, Lucias will be happy to hear that song of yours, Ingvild"
Justice grinned while holding her chin with her right hand.
"Please don't tease me, Justice"
Ingvild said with a deadpan expression on her face before placing her attention on the woman laying on the cold ground.
"Can you carry her back? Hide her wings with your suit for a while, I don't want to cause a ruckus when we exit the dungeon"
"Sure"
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