Return of The Unrivaled Spear Knight

>Joshua tilted his head in confusion.
“You already declared that the new leader of this empire will be decided a week later.”

A bizarre fervor ignited in Heimdall’s eyes.

“I’ll wait, and nothing will happen until then.
So let’s put an end to everything on that day, in the grand plaza of Arcadia, where the new leader of this country will be chosen.”

* * *

Meanwhile, in the mansion on the outskirts of Arcadia where Lucia had stayed until now, Joshua’s mother was witnessing something incredible.

Joshua, the person Lucia had been desperate to see even if just in her dreams, had finally come to her, but…

“You… aren’t Joshua.” Lucia quickly realized this after carefully observing the man, even though he was still far away.
The man may look like her son, but he was someone else entirely.

The knights hiding nearby instantly jumped out: half of the Auxiliary Battalion, who had volunteered to be Lucia’s guards, and one other knight—the death knight, who had been called the Wild King before his death.
Lucia was getting scared, but she relaxed after the knights showed up.
She had noticed the knights acting as her guards a long time ago.

“Your Grace, something is wrong.”

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“Yes, something is not right about him.
There is a high possibility that he isn’t His Highness, just like you said, Your Grace.”

“Is he using an artifact? Regardless, he’s hiding his identity and pretending to be His Highness, so I assume his intentions aren ’t good.”

While the knights discussed among themselves, one of the knights shouted, “You! Identify yourself!”

Despite the knight’s shouting, the person wearing Joshua’s appearance didn’t budge, just stayed silent as if he didn’t know how to speak.
His face was expressionless like he had no emotion at all, and his deep blue hair just fluttered in the air.

“If you aren’t going to answer…” The knight slowly grabbed his sword’s handle, but a sudden humming in the air made his eyes widen.
It was coming from behind the person pretending to be Joshua.
The knight’s mind slowly ground to a halt, stupefied.

“That’s…!”

Why did it take this long for him to notice the blood-red spear? It had disappeared at some point, but the knight could never forget the unique spear with its two spearheads.

“That’s… His Highness’s spear!” the knight shouted.

The spear on the person’s back floated in the air.

-It’s meaningless.
He can’t speak.

The knights boggled at the spear.

“A spear… is talking?”

-Anyhow, shouldn’t you be wondering about something else other than Duke Aden von Agnus’s whereabouts?

The knights gaped.
“What…?”

-It’s just that I would be more concerned about where Joshua, your master, had been during the past three years and why he showed up now.

The spear was speaking directly into the people’s heads, but what it was saying was more shocking than how it was saying it.
Still, that wasn’t what had them speechless.

“Mmm…” The knight that had shouted trembled like a frog before a viper, his skin stinging.
He let out a choked groan.
He was reacting like he had met a strong opponent, even though he was only up against a spear.

“I heard that a weapon with an ego is totally different from ordinary weapons,” the knight muttered in disbelief, “but…”

He couldn’t even move an inch.
When he managed to drag his eyes to the side, he could see his colleagues were in the same situation.
Manifestation of will—only someone on the same level as the Nine Stars would be able to do something like this.

“Ho-how…!” Lucia let her surprise slip out of her lips, but when she realized that she was the only one who could still move, she froze out of shock.
Nervousness crept in.
“Wh-what did Joshua do?”

Although she hadn’t met Joshua, she had heard from the Auxiliary Battalion that her son was safe, but in a situation like this, she couldn’t help but worry again.

-Wait, are you worried about him? Wow, seriously…

“P-please,” Lucia pleaded.

-…I believe your worst scenario would never come true.
It’s embarrassing to say this out loud, but your son is so strong that even the gods up in the sky are afraid of him.

“How do yo-you know that?”

Why did Lucia feel like the spear was smiling? It was just a weapon, after all.

-Come to think of it, is it our first time talking in person?

“Wh-what…?”

-We’ve met before.
You know, our names are similar too.

The spear hummed again.

-I’m Lugia, the Demon Spirit’s weapon.

“The Demon Spirit’s weapon…?”

-Yes, I belonged to the owner of the Demon Realm, and…

Lugia emitted a gloomy light.

-I have been Joshua’s friend for a very, very long time.

Before Lugia could continue, someone else proved that they were still able to move by leaping into action.

-…Oh, yeah.
I forgot you were here.

Lugia was sucked into the hand of Joshua’s doppelganger.

-Was your name… Duke Altsma?

The Wild King and Lugia collided midair.