The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 101: The Destruction of an Illegal School
POV: Kirigaya Kaizo
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Parts excavated in solid bedrock are stacked in several layers. A young boy is walking alone through the inside of the institution where red flames swirl.
He has shiny black hair. Her clothes covered her entire body in black and could be mistaken for darkness.
Her childish appearance still retained innocence, but her pitch-black pupils were emotionless, reflecting only the inhumanely flickering flames.
Who destroyed the Instructional School institution, which had many fighters in just half a day? The boy doesn't know.
Was it the capital's Spirit Knight, or an accident due to a raging sealed spirit?
The instructional teachers, who trained combat skills into the boy, were nowhere to be found.
Did they run away, or maybe they were already dead? If that was the case, the child would be released and would be a free man. But such things were trivial to him.
The boy, whose heart had been stolen, became apathetic to everything. Except for him, the only exception.
Dark spirits, Alicia. The highest level sealed spirit given to him by the teachers in the institution. The girl had given light to her heart that was covered in darkness.
(She's the only one I'm really gonna take care of and protect.)
Inside the blaze, the boy's goal was clearly a temple that was under the institution.
In the temple, there were many sealed spirit artifacts that were illegally dug up by the Instructional School that were strong enough to even be juxtaposed with the military might of a small country.
The ring that sealed Alicia should also be kept there. The spirit seal that was the proof of the spirit contract had not been engraved on the child's hand. The teachers in the institution were cautious because he had more power than necessary and did not allow the exchange of spirit contracts.
The boy had the power to exchange feelings with spirits while possessing a male body, the same nature as the Demon King. The teachers were afraid that he would rebel after contracting the highest level of dark spirits.
"Sister!" A girl's voice came from behind.
"Mia?"
There was only one person who would call him big brother within that institution school. The boy turned around and saw a young girl running behind him.
He had gray hair tied up on both sides of his head. Along with her clear blue pupils, she had lips like a beautiful rose bud. His skin that was visible from the gap of his black combat uniform was white like soft and smooth snow.
"Mia, you still haven't escaped?"
"Mou, I'm looking for you, brother!" The girl, Mia Vialine, pouted on her cheek like she was angry.
Naturally, the boy was an orphan in the institution's school, and had no sisters. 'Sister' was just something he called out on purpose.
"What happens to those who watch over us?"
"I killed them." He replied without blinking next to his eyebrows.
"That's because they're trying to stop me from finding brother."
He did not brag or feel regret about the murder. He had just killed because it was a necessary task, or it could be said to be like a hobby.
"I understand."
There was no sympathy for those who were killed. Because the people who took it as a weapon of slaughter were none other than themselves.
Mia Vialine is the second ranked fighter of the Instructional School. In this institution literally made up of monsters, the girl is nicknamed "Queen."
While the boy had outstanding combat skills, he had yet to kill a single person. He is a creature that draws the line.
"The ring that sealed Alicia was in the underground temple. I'll take it."
"Ah, sister, since you already have Mia, you don't need things like contracted spirits." Mia frowned with her cute lips looking bored.
"That reminds me, where is Lina?"
Lina Flame is the seventh member who is tied to the same unit as the boy and Mia.
"Lina's? Uhmm, he may have been killed by that red giant."
"Red giants? What?!"
"The thing that attacked the institution a few hours ago. That powerful fire spirit."
At that moment, the ground suddenly shook violently. The vibration made the surrounding environment affected quite badly to make the concrete roof cracked.
"That's coming brother!"
Suddenly from the depths of the passageway, he felt an intense presence. A deep red flame gushed high upwards burning the ceiling as if it was nothing.
At that moment, what appeared from within the flame was a roaring fire giant. In his hands that were like lumps of lava, it gripped the fiery red fire sword.
(Spirit fire? No, that.).
It was not a simple fire spirit. A hair-piercing chill ran through the boy's body. It is a symbol of destruction. Just by looking directly at his whereabouts, his mind began to erode.
(I'm sure, it's a demon-grade spirit!)
It was a creature that had destroyed the Instructional School, which housed many elementalists, in just a few hours. It was said that demon grade spirit power even broke through the spirit knight division.
(It's not an opponent I can fight without a contracted spirit.)
The fire spirit seemed to have noticed them. Wrapped completely in flames, it melted the bedrock as it slowly approached them.
"Sister, leave that to Mia. It's an easy opponent for me." Mia licked the ring placed on her small hand. He was planning on using an anti-spirit military spirit.
"Mia, it's not a creature that can't be regulated by humans. Let's run away together."
"No, no problem. Mia's not human. Mia is the monster, 'Queen' itself."
An ominous spirit seal shone on Mia's right hand. No, it was not the spirit seal, but the Cursed Armament Seal given by the School of Instruction.
Trick's Murder. That was the reason why Mia was called Queen. The Cursed Armament Seal that played the time and space as it pleased, but the price to pay was something big.
"Goodbye, brother."
"Mia!"
The young boy extended his hand to his shoulder and at that moment, the red flames released by the giant completely burned the field of vision of the boy.
The incident of the spirit rampage caused the destruction of the Instructional School. It was something from a year before the boy appeared on the front stage as the Strongest Sword Style Holder.
It was an event that happened in a remote region of the empire that was not even marked on the map, and now the region disappeared completely before it had time to be drawn on the map.
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*Connected.....
*Note: This story is fictitious. If there is a similarity in the name of the character, the scene, or the story, it is a mere coincidence and there is no element of intentionality.