"Aaaaaahhhhh~~!!"
While the Four Walls rushed into the secret passage and captured the priests, Francette unleashed all her rage and hatred upon the enemy guards.
Four for the priests and one for the royal guards.
...Was there something wrong with the balance of force distribution?
There was not a single soldier in the Balmore Kingdom who would think such a thing.
If that "One person" was that person, it would be Fearsome-Fran...
A demon. A devil. A demon lord. No words can describe the raging it.
Violence and death.
Blood and pieces of flesh.
The enemy soldiers' swords, armor, marble pillars, and human bodies were easily cut in half like a hot knife through butter.
"Hiiiiiiiii!"
The mass of flesh resting on the throne was making some unpleasant noise.
But for Francette, that was something she could put off for later... since they showed no signs of escaping.
She would not let anyone and anything escaped.
The one who had stolen the goddess from her.
Those who had shown disrespect to the Goddess.
Francette didn't even think for a second that Kaoru was dead.
Of course. Kaoru was a goddess.
However, if her current body was injured and destroyed, then this vacation would come to an end and she would return to her own world. That's what she thought, so she tried desperately to protect Kaoru, but all of that was ruined by those idiots.
She doubted she'd ever be alive to see Kaoru again.
Because of those idiots.
Because of fools.
The other soldiers and guards, refusing to make Kaoru their enemy, had disappeared.
However, they sided with the second prince and stayed here, getting in their way. And because of that, Kaoru had to leave this world.
Then, what should they give to these guys?...
"...Die!" (Francette)
Yes, there was only death.
Just following orders from your superiors?
Do you have a wife and kids?
...Who cares!
Die die die die die die die die die...
With no one to stop them, Francette danced, spreading death and madness.
And just like with Kaoru and her group, there was no one to stop them or stand in their way, so they easily made it to the royal palace and then to the audience chamber. What they saw with the First Prince, Fernand, and his party was a mountain of dead guards, not a single one still breathing, the former priests of Rueda lying half-dead against the Four Walls, the Second Prince, Ghislain, crouching on the throne and crying, and Francette, standing there in a daze, holding the sacred sword Exgram without a single trace of blood in her hand...
"Kaoru? Where is Kaoru?" (Fernand))
"…………" (x5)
No one answered Fernand's question.
From the current situation, it is clear that Kaoru and her companions had won by a landslide.
But why was Kaoru nowhere to be seen? And why did no one answered Fernand's questions?
A bad feeling spread in Fernand's chest.
Fernand did not dare mention the strange object that had been in his field of vision for some time now, for he feared that if he heard about it, the consequences would be irreparable.
Yes, it was about the hole in the middle of the passageway leading from the entrance to the audience chamber to the throne, and the smoke and heat rising from it—a foreign object that definitely shouldn't be in this place...
And at that moment, a ball of light appeared in the air, exactly halfway between Fernand and Francette, and it rapidly expanded and took the shape of a human.
It was something that Francette had seen twice, and the Four Walls had seen only once.
...Yes, the descent of the goddess Celestine.
"Kaoru's soul has stopped responding! Where is Kaoru?!" (Celes)
Celestine had equipped Kaoru with an automatically activated barrier and an automatic attack system against attackers. However, this was only to prepare for surprise attacks and long-distance sniping.
It would protect Kaoru from sudden attacks with swords, spears, bows and arrows, and other weapons.
If this were Earth, the Celestine would have had guns, grenades, rocket launchers, perhaps large caliber artillery shells, fuel-air bombs, bunker busters, and even nuclear bombs to protect.
However, in this world, there was no such thing. So, Celestine had prepared measures to protect Kaoru from "surprise attacks in this world". There was no need to think about measures for nuclear bombs...
If she had only a few seconds to spare, and not die instantly, Kaoru could eliminate the enemy using her ability to create potions (and their containers), and she could quickly heal her own and her allies' injuries. Also, Kaoru would only be useful if she were captured alive, so there would be no point in killing her without question. Celestine thought so, and underestimated the danger that Kaoru posed.
The remaining priests of Rueda must have thoroughly investigated the attack on Kaoru with a dagger by a former priest four and a half years ago, and when they found out that Kaoru had somehow managed to block the dagger attack, they launched double and triple attacks, so that no matter how well Kaoru blocked the attacks with the dagger or bow and arrow, it would be useless.
Fire attack from the outside. Lung damage from inhaling hot air. Suffocation from lack of oxygen. And finally, crushing to death by a huge rock.
The priests, who considered Kaoru to be not a goddess but an ordinary human who had simply been given a little blessing from the Celestine, thought that this would be a sure way to kill Kaoru, and in fact, they were correct.
In response to the Goddess Celestine's flustered words, one of the Four Walls silently pointed.
...a hole.
"Eh……" (Celes)
A hole that shouldn't exist in a place like this.
However, it didn't seem like Celestine should have been surprised or puzzled by it, and she had completely ignored it up until then, but then she suddenly started to stare at the hole for some reason...
"It’s not there… There’s absolutely no reaction from either Kaoru’s soul or consciousness… Even after expanding the search area, there’s still no reaction anywhere…
Ahh, I wanted her to last at least 400 to 500 years, and ideally 4,000 to 5,000 years, but it's only been less than five years! And it's been wiped out in less than five years!" (Celes)
When a human's body died, the soul and consciousness of the human would dissipate and disappear immediately. Unless there were beings like the _SERESUTIINES_ who happened to be there to protect them immediately, or who had predicted their death in advance and made preparations to protect them...
Celestine, who had never expected that Kaoru's body would perish in an instant, realized the situation late. Yes, by the time she realized that Kaoru's soul and spirit had disappeared, it was already too late.
"I was entrusted with my precious Kaoru by that person... My great benefactor and my first friend...
I won't forgive you! I won't forgive you!!
I will destroy and burn this country... no, this continent, and sink it to the bottom of the ocean forever!
May you never again see me and relive this unpleasant memory..." (Celes)
Stiffness. And fear and despair.
Not only the Brancott Kingdom, but all the countries on the continent. All the people and creatures living on the continent would perish.
Now, the execution had been announced by the mouth of the goddess.
A death sentence that could not be overturned.
Other than despair, there were no words that could express the feelings of those present.
If the main body of Celestine, or even if it wasn't that bad, if it was a being with a slightly higher level of Celestine, it would not have shown such intense anger. However, unfortunately, "Celestine", whose level of thinking had been lowered to the limit so that she could communicate with the humans of this world, still had the evil emotions unique to lower creatures, anger and hatred. Although only slightly...
And now, that "Evil emotion, which should only be so rare," was raging like a rage.
There was nothing they could do now...