“……I also wanted to speak to you too…… You are also Gasper as well, so you have to talk to everyone else as well…… ……There is a place for you where they will acknowledge you……”
Valerie’s hand loses strength and drops down. “……I wish you can get along with everyone……”
Those were her final words. “…………!”
Gasper shakes his head many times and hugs Valerie’s body. ……A scene which is too sad to see. But there is one person who takes an improper action by clapping under this situation. Marius Tepes is putting on a smile as he holds the Holy Grail with one hand. Marius then says it to Rias fearlessly. “Rias Gremory-sama, please shoot me with your power of destruction.”
Rias has veins pop out on her forehead when she hears that and gathers so much demonic-power of destruction within her hand that it’s too dangerous. “……Yes, I won’t hold myself back. Even I can’t endure this any longer.”
The demonic-power of destruction is shot towards Marius! “Blow away!”
It’s so strong that it’s dangerous to take that on without guarding against it. No, even a normal defence will be useless. That’s because you will be blown away along with your action of defending against it. However, Marius shows no signs of taking such action, therefore he allows himself to be covered by the demonic-power of destruction. ……What’s left is the Holy Grail that is floating in the air and the lower half of his body. The upper half of his body has been extinguished completely. It ended already……? That’s what I thought for a moment before the lower half of his body starts to build up muscle from the area where it is gone and starts to form a shape. What appears there after a while is Marius who is completely revived. He looks exactly the same as before Rias blew him away with her demonic-power of destruction. Marius moans while he takes the Holy Grail that is floating in the air into his hand again. “Yes, please look. I also have the trait of being able to recover immediately. This is due to the Holy Grail that was pulled out from her body being able to unleash its power without any resistance like the time when it was inside the possessor. When I had my upper body blown away, I thought even my soul would be erased……but as long as a fraction of my soul remains within my lower body, it seems like I can revive from merely this much damage.”
……So this is the Holy Grail’s ability! He can still revive even though his upper body gets blown away! ……No wonder Grendel talks crap like “he can get a new body if his soul remains”. Seeing this situation, someone claps. It’s neither us nor Marius. From the dark places of this ritual area, many shadows appear. “—Just as I thought.”
“Your regeneration ability has improved.”
“You are just like a Phoenix.”
The ones who show themselves are all middle age men or men who reached past their middle age. Everyone behaves with dignity. They are most likely pure-blood Vampires. They must be royal or ones with closer standings. All of them must be the ones who sided with Marius. Marius smiles at the appearances of these men. “Oh if this isn’t my dear uncle. The preparation is set. What will you do? Do you want me to further strengthen you now?”
Marius asks. The men say it as if they are speaking to us. “Vampires who are the eternal residents of night were beings with many weaknesses.”
“The sunlight, a cross, and holy water…… Despite being a more superior species than a human, we acknowledged their prosperity due to having those weaknesses.”
……Do they want to say that Vampires are the best? I sigh as I listen to them, but they speak even more nonsense. “We will recreate ourselves into a new being that will surpass Vampires by using the Holy Grail!”
“And by replacing the humans, we must conquer this world. By being conquered by us who are the superior beings, the humans will be able to receive their actual desire where they will become our livestock!”
……Livestock huh. I wonder how far they need to look down on others. Just like the blood lines of a small group of Devils, they can’t help themselves but to appear really important and look down on others. One of the men sighs as if he is grieving. The higher-ups continue to speak. “Even though we couldn’t help the increase of our livestock that has been left alone, it surely was a long time till we got here.”
“I agree. However, the world will change to the state which it was supposed to be now.”
“The only thing left is to eliminate the current King and Carmilla in order to start a new world. Then we can move onto the final phase of our plan where we will recreate all of the residents of this country.”
“Even though this country was able to get the Holy Grail, that King of ours was urging about maintaining the current situation and rejected the idea of the Vampire’s evolution. He was too much of a fool.”
Marius nods his head and directs his smile to us. “—And so, well, the higher-ups that followed me have such opinions. I only care about continuing my further research on the Holy Grail.”
……This guy is also crazy in his own way. For that purpose he brought the Khaos Brigade into this country, he stirred up all of these geezers, and then made them start a coup d’état. All of this just for the sake for his own research on the Holy Grail—. And he even killed Valerie who he deemed as worthless now. Azazel-sensei narrows his eyes. “……You guys sure are having a rough attitude right now, seriously. But you know, a Longinus is truly an outrageous masterpiece. Just having someone born with it can break the principle of this world.”
Sensei looks at me and Vali. “……Me too?”
I point at myself. Sensei puts on an expression where he looks shocked. “You might not have realised it, but you broke many kinds of principles.”
Well, that may be true if you put it that way……
“……Having people like you in possession of that Sacred Gear will be dangerous. I will have you hand that Holy Grail over to us. I will also allow a battle to start here depending on your answer.”
Rias warns Marius in such way. “You people are also using the Sacred Gears and Longinus as you like too…… Don’t you think we can’t come to understand each other simply due to the differences in what we value and the culture we have?”
Sensei replies back to Marius’s words. “Then I will have you hand that to us Grigori. The research about them is our speciality. We can do things from keeping it safe and even seal it away. If you really don’t want to, then you can even hand it to Odin or Zeus. Anyway, that thing is dangerous. Due to its traits, it’s something we need to keep our eyes on or keep it away. But I guess there’s no way you will listen even if I say this much.”
Even Sensei is smirking at his own words. Marius simply makes a faint smile. Obviously there is no way he will hand the Holy Grail to us so honestly. I also say it to him after taking a step forward. “Just give it back to us already! We are all sick of your Vampire’s ideal, pride, and values!