Chapter 130: Arrangement
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 130: Arrangement
While Regina dealt with an unidentified monster, Yohan surveyed the city and groaned in dismay.
It hadn't even been a full day since he and Regina were stranded on a deserted island, yet the Empire was already in ruins.
Does this even make sense...?
A single glance at the landscape was enough to tell him just how many monsters had invaded.
When Regina returned after finishing off the monster, she too fell silent at the sight of the ruined Empire.
“What’s with you two? Why so serious?”
“...You can look at this and feel nothing?”
“Feel what? Considering the monsters we were up against, isn’t it a good thing this much is left?”
Just as you’d expect from a witch with inhuman sensibilities, Makina showed no reaction to seeing the country she lived in reduced to ruins.
In fact, she was pleased, calling it a miracle that even the framework of the city remained. As Yohan let out a hollow laugh at her assessment, he realized that Regina, too, was unusually quiet.
He glanced over and, sure enough, Regina didn’t seem particularly saddened by the situation either. The reason she kept her mouth shut? She probably just didn’t want to waste energy on pointless words.
Witches, I swear...
If they were left to their own devices, humanity would probably go extinct in a flash. He was struck once again by how incredible the Emperor must have been to handle these witches without any superpowers like his own.
Yohan headed straight for the center of the ruined city. Along the way, he encountered survivors screaming in agony and people being hunted down and devoured by monsters.
It went without saying that he couldn’t save them all. Yohan forced himself to ignore even those being eaten right in front of him as he walked toward his destination.
Seeing this, Makina chuckled.
“You’re just the same, aren’t you?”
“Yeah, I suppose it might look that way.”
“So what’s the difference?”
Yohan didn’t answer her question. The fact that he and she were different was so self-evident it didn’t need to be spoken aloud.
They were the same in that they didn’t save the lives before them, but their true intentions were different.
“Quiet now. We’ll be spotted.”
Yohan made a shushing gesture and pointed to a monster in the distance.
A giant crow was pecking at the chests of the corpses piled beneath its feet.
It was the <Heart-Eating Bird>, said to have once devoured the flesh of a god.
─Krrk?
The bird, in the midst of its feast, lifted its head and looked toward their location. In that brief instant, Yohan’s party had vanished via teleportation, but the Heart-Eating Bird’s sharp, beastly senses told it that someone had been there.
─Kkieeeeeek-!
It immediately let out a monstrous shriek, summoning the nearby monsters and putting them on high alert. Now they could respond instantly, no matter where an attacker appeared.
The other monsters, who had been in the middle of hunting humans, seemed displeased at the sudden summons, but they couldn’t voice any complaints against an order from the most powerful being in the area.
─Kiruk, kiruk.
As the monsters scanned their surroundings for potential assailants, the Heart-Eating Bird turned its gaze back to the corpses.
While its subordinates had abandoned their own meals to stand guard, it intended to enjoy the banquet all by itself. Such an abuse of power, just like a human!
“─I knew you’d come for this.”
And at that moment, Makina burst out from within the mountain of corpses, piloting a giant robot—an MTB.
It was a machine that had, in theory, only ever existed as a blueprint, but Regina had brought it to life by replicating Creation magic.
This MTB, the pinnacle of every scientific technology Makina could imagine, was theoretically capable of fighting and defeating any monster.
─Kieeeek!?
“Dieeeee—!”
Thrilled to be hunting a monster from the cockpit of the giant robot she had only ever dreamed of, Makina grabbed the <Heart-Eating Bird> by the neck and soared into the sky.
The magic reactor roared to life, overheating the mana cannon on the robot’s right arm.
She pressed the muzzle of the cannon, now glowing hot at its limit, directly against the monster’s chest and fired.
Kwaaaaaaang—!
The weapon, one never meant to be aimed at a living creature, completely obliterated the monster’s chest. The resulting chunks of flesh scattered across the ground below like a rain of blood.
“Uhaha, uhahahaha!”
With her magic wings spread wide, soaring through the sky and raining down attacks, she almost looked like an angel descended to earth.
An angel of steel, saving humanity in its moment of crisis.
Of course, no such angel actually existed.
“Dieeeee—!”
Booooom—!
Hearing another explosion, Yohan knew the operation was proceeding as planned.
“Looks like she’s doing well.”
He peeked out the window and saw Makina high in the sky, bombarding the ground below.
Just as you would expect from the one who designed the robot, she was bringing out its full performance.
“If she keeps causing a ruckus like that, all the monsters in the area will be drawn to her.”
“And while that’s happening, we…”
“It’s our turn to rescue the captured princess.”
Yohan said as he opened the massive doors before him and stepped into the cathedral. Inside, something resembling tree branches was wrapped around a giant sphere. Yohan knew what both the sphere and the branches were.
“Adelheid.”
The sphere was an ice orb created by Adelheid, the Witch of Ice, who had sealed herself away when faced with death. The branches surrounding it were the tentacles of a <Mana Eater>, siphoning magic power from the orb.
It’s faster to rescue the witch whose location we know, rather than trying to find Teacher or the others when we have no idea where they are...
As the Witch of Records, Regina could read the world’s records, but naturally, the more eyewitness accounts there were, the more details she could uncover.
And unlike Evangeline, Margaret, or the other witches, there were countless sightings of Adelheid, who had fought to defend the Empire until the very end.
“Get rid of those.”
“Yes, understood.”
Regina, who had been replicating the Witch of Creation, now replicated the Witch of Annihilation and completely erased the Mana Eater’s tentacles wrapped around Adelheid’s sphere of ice.
Sensing the attack destroying its tentacles, the Mana Eater went berserk, sending down hundreds, even thousands, of new tentacles at once.
Their entire field of vision filled with them. It was a hopeless situation, but the ones standing before the Mana Eater were a witch and a beast.
“Here I go.”
“─Hngh—!”
Yohan thrust his penis into the wirelessly connected onahole he’d received from Regina earlier and began injecting his magic power.
It was the kind of device you’d only see in some unhinged Japanese manga, but for the magic of Creation, nothing was impossible.
Receiving a real-time supply of magic power to cover her consumption, Regina unhesitatingly wielded the magic of Annihilation and wiped out the Mana Eater.
As long as its mana cost was covered, it was an overpowered magic capable of easily overwhelming even Evangeline’s magic of Love.
It was not an attack that a parasitic monster, coveting the power of others, could ever hope to withstand.
─Krrr……!
Leaving the monster to its violent end, Yohan approached the ice sphere sealing Adelheid.
Sure enough, a single glance was enough to see her critical condition inside the orb. The tissue of her limbs was severed, and it looked as if her organs were about to spill out.
Even for a witch, whose life force far surpassed a human’s, they were injuries so severe she wouldn’t be able to wake up immediately.
“Regina, are you ready?”
“Yes, I’m ready.”
“Then I’m opening it.”
If it had been Linne, the Witch of Creation, or Evangeline, the Witch of Love, they wouldn’t have been able to save Adelheid.
Their magic was insufficient when it came to healing. But Regina was different.
She was a witch who could replicate the magic of every witch recorded in history.
An All-Master, capable of replacing every other witch on her own.
Craaack—!
Trusting in her, Yohan shattered the ice sphere encasing Adelheid’s body. It was a simple task. The sphere was a magical construct, and Yohan possessed the power to nullify any magic.
As the ice sphere broke apart, Yohan caught Adelheid’s falling body and rushed over to Regina.
In that moment, Regina, now replicating the long-lost Witch of Healing, began to treat Adelheid’s wounds.
As she healed Adelheid with a power that seemed more befitting a Saintess (聖女) than a Witch (魔女), Adelheid’s injuries vanished completely, and she cautiously opened her eyes.
“...Where is this?”
“You’re awake?”
“...Yo, han?”
Recognizing Yohan’s face, Adelheid’s eyes darted about as if she couldn’t comprehend the situation. Then, her gaze fell upon a painting on the ceiling.
It was a painting half-obscured by the dried remains of the Mana Eater, which hadn’t been completely annihilated.
A religious painting, depicting Him descending from on high and reaching out His hand.
“Ah, ahh—.”
Ecstasy flooded Adelheid’s mind.
It was a rapturous religious experience.
She reached out a trembling hand and touched Yohan.
“You are—.”
The end of the world shall come.
Do not worry.
I have arranged everything.