Return of The Unrivaled Spear Knight

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“Wh-What do you—”

“Duchess Vanessa would like to see you.”

Lucia’s eyes widened in shock.

“Are… Are you saying that he’s here?”

“Not in the mansion, but in Arcadia.”

“Outside…? You mean we need to go out,” Lugia moaned, still petrified.

“Also, he told me not to force you.
But as you know, if you need something, then you need to act…”[3]

Lucia eyed Chiffon with conflicted emotions.

It may be a trap.
No, the possibility of that was quite strong.
Even so, she couldn ’t help but fret.

Life had a way of creating situations that demanded action, even when it was obviously wrong.
For Lucia, this was one of those moments.
Vanessa was no doubt planning on it.

While she was deep in thought, Chiffon quietly whispered to her.

“Ms.
Asiru…”

“Wait,” Lucia casually answered.
“I need to think—”

Her eyes suddenly widened.

Chiffon stared deep into her eyes.
The look he gave her said that he already knew everything.

“You haven’t lost your memory, have you?”

A suffocating silence engulfed the room.

***

The god of fate seemed to voice his anger.
Pure white lightning fell endlessly from the cloudless sky.

Where the lightning struck, the ground broke out into a sea of fire, forming into a perfectly straight line like a road made from flames.
Even from quite far away, the tremendous heat was enough to make exposed skin tingle and smart.

“Oh my g…”

The mages belonging to the Magic Tower were split to the left and right of the inferno, too afraid to even dare to approach it.

As if he were a god, one figure stood alone in the middle of that crimson road.

[You ’re pretty good at using both Bronto and Magma at the same time now.]

“…”

[Anyway, wow.
The Great Plain of Aiyash.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.]

Joshua had been walking along that road of flames, but he paused at Lugia’s words.

“Do you know this place?”

[Everyone knows.
Oh, and you know that it humans weren ’t the ones to build this, right?]

“….”

Joshua started walking again.

Whoosh

The flames obediently split to the sides, opening a path ahead of him.

“He’s… not human!”

“To think that a person could use the elements without knowing magic!”

“He’s a god, a god!”

Joshua laughed after hearing them instantly change him from a “dragon” to a “god.”

“…?”

It seemed like fate was, once again, playing a prank on him

Why was it that the piece of paper protruding from his chest pocket happened to come into his field of vision now of all times?

“It definitely came from Serciarin,” Joshua murmured as he entered the first floor of the Tower of Trials.

The mages were no longer visible.
The flames that seemed to sear the flesh even from far away were gathered in one place as they blocked the entrance.
The eternal flame of annihilation, Magma—even without any power, the Primordial Stone’s flames would last for an entire day.

[Why don’t you read it?]

“….”

[It must be a love letter, right? Are you really a man if you make a girl wait?]

Some people would immediately stop wanting to do something as soon as someone told them to do it, but that was not the case for Joshua.

Even without Lugia’s egging, Joshua had been planning on reading it immediately because there was something that he kept thinking about.

“….”

Joshua ’s expression constantly changed as he read the letter from the Princess.
After he had read all of its contents, he abruptly clenched his fist around the paper.

Joshua closed his eyes with a serious expression.

[Oh my… Is that the letter that the blind Princess gave you?]

Lugia shared Joshua’s senses.

[Figures… She’s different from the rest since she’s not originally human.]

Lugia was referring to Secsiarin’s Eyes of Truth.

[So, what are you going to do now?]

Lugia’s question seemed to come out of the blue, but the demon quickly clarified:

[By human standards, both emperor and duke are high positions, aren’t they? You have the ‘justification’ that you humans all like, so it seems that the only thing left is to make your choice.]

“….”

In the silence, Lugia’s words were the only thing that Joshua could think about.

Joshua finally opened his eyes and slowly opened his mouth.

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“For now, I want to finish this.”

[Oh?]

“And…” Joshua smiled coldly, his dark eyes flashing with darkness deeper still.
“Do I really need to choose?”

[HUH?]

“I am greedy.”

[….]

“What’s mine should always be mine.
No one can take them from me,” Joshua muttered into the empty room.

He savored his final words before he spoke.

“If there are two choices, I just have to take both.”

1.
She wanted to die a painless death after all ☜

2.
The original phrase used here was ‘Was the thief admitting that their feet hurt.’ but the meaning has been translated instead ☜

3.
The proverb used here was 급한 사람이 우물을 파는 법 which can be directly translated as ‘The one who is thirsty will dig the well.’ It means that the person who needs it will eventually do the work.
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