Eliza screamed from deep inside her.

"I won't let you get away with this!"

She even materialized a bazooka in her hand.

There were about 120 cannons materialized around her.

The black dragon Sapphire was preparing to attack.

A large amount of dark energy was gathering in its mouth, that energy was growing to be launched like the power of a bomb.

Eliza also prepared her powerful missile bombs.

At the moment when the tense atmosphere could be cut by a small knife, the dragon gave its first shot.

The energy beam or its evil breath was sent straight at Eliza, which manifested a magic circle that gathered air and sand from her feet to create a platform and climb to the top.

The platform was created each time she jumped up.

Eliza was able to dodge that attack, but it would not happen again.

The dragon quickly noticed her presence and proceeded to charge its attack again.

Eliza saw her chance and launched her counterattack.

"Dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

The missile attack was sent straight at the dragon who received them all.

A gigantic shockwave generated those explosions that made generate strong earthquakes in the surroundings.

The nearby trees were devoured by the explosion.

The explosion lasted a few seconds before it turned into a big smoke curtain.

Eliza was glad of it.

"With this there can be no trace left of that dragon─"

That was her mistake.

The dragon's head came out of that curtain showing itself in front of her.

She quickly reacted, but the result was not as expected.

Eliza could barely dodge the attack, resulting in her legs being devoured.

She was falling when again misfortune struck her.

Literally the dragon's tail moved right where she was and gave her a strong blow sending her flying even higher.

Causing her body to be severely damaged.

As if she had been run over at high speed and barely her body is recognizable.

Eliza had lost.

That's what she thought.

(It seems like... I'm not a good servant.)

She was falling while being fixed by the dragon to be attacked again.

(I really tried my best to be by your side... master Lion.)

(Even if you changed... I could recognize you instantly.)

Eliza remembered something she never told Lion.

◇◇◇

By the time Lion left the ship, Eliza was awake.

"Umm?"

"Master? Professor?"

Eliza was in the cockpit motionless.

She heard screams, but didn't understand what was going on.

Suddenly she saw Professor Foncas arrive.

"Professor, what's wrong?"

"Isn't the master supposed to be here by the time I opened my eyes?"

The professor all hysterical told him.

"The demon king's army is attacking us! Lion-shi came out to help us!"

"The master did that?"

Eliza couldn't believe it, but more so, she didn't want to leave him alone.

"Please professor, let me leave here to accompany the master, I beg you!"

"I won't do that."

"...?"

Eliza didn't understand why the professor refused.

He walked over to the computer and began to leave some directions.

"He said not to worry, but clearly I won't let him die."

"That boy, he has the weight of a future that we must not lose."

"In these wicked times, we need someone to enlighten us and lead us to victory."

"That's right, we need a hero and I can't let him die."

"For that reason I will go to support him. Elysium, you will stay here waiting─"

Suddenly the ship shuddered.

"What is that?"

The surveillance camera showed what was happening.

A huge explosion that devoured the demon king's army suddenly occurred.

The professor could only expect the worst.

"Lion-shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"

"Masteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!"

The screams of agony were the least of their worries.

A shockwave from the explosion was swallowing everything in its path and destroying it.

The demon king's remaining ships were crushed.

Professor Foncas pressed the button so that the ship exited quickly at light speed.

So as to avoid damage.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

The ship lurched fiercely as it accelerated bit by bit.

"Professor Foncas, are you all right?"

"I am, this is nothing compared to other times."

The shock wave was being overcome.

"It looks like we'll be entering the warp jump to get out of here."

At that moment, the professor's eyes saw something in the cameras that he should never have seen.

There, in front of them, was a small planet used as a supply base.

In that supply base there are many ether bombs stored.

The shock wave takes approximately fifteen seconds to reach them.

While the ship will start the trip at the speed of light in eighteen seconds.

Those three seconds are really detrimental.

"Professor?"

Professor Foncas understood everything too late.

"Professor, what's wrong with you?"

He had to activate this from the beginning.

He had to use light speed travel instead of going to help Lion.

It was too late when he said the following words.

"I'm sorry, it was a miscalculation on my part."

Before Eliza uttered a single syllable, a new explosion occurred engulfing everything in its path.

Even the ship that managed to complete the warp jump.

◇◇◇

Eliza opened her eyes and noticed that the lights were off.

"Professor?"

"Where are you?"

"Professor?"

The lights wouldn't come on and the professor didn't answer.

She had been calling out to him for a while when suddenly the emergency lights came on.

"Professor, it was─"

"...!"

Eliza saw the state of Professor Foncas.

He was full of wounds and blood everywhere.

A huge wound on his belly.

He staggered over to Eliza.

"The explosion... it hit us full on... it was only three seconds difference to get out of here..."

"It really is scary how... one second can make or break your life..."

"Puah!"

The professor collapsed on the floor, but brought his hand to the computer.

"Elysium... listen to me carefully..."

She wanted to help him, but she couldn't get out on her own.

"Professor!"

"Listen to me Elysium... no, Eliza."

"..."

She glared at the dying man.

"You can think what you want, but Lion-shi is alive."

"He's not dead, he's alive."

"...!"

Eliza didn't understand his words, but the professor was aware of them.

"It may seem illogical what I will say... but he is alive..."

"I can't explain it... I can't make you believe me... but he's alive... because he's not the kind of person who dies."

"I've seen him... he fought against formidable enemies and still managed to win..."

"I'm sure he'll come back one day, even if he doesn't seem to be the same... surely when he shows up."

"You will feel that he is the right master you swore your allegiance to."

"Lion... Vandelion will return one day... Eliza, please wait for him and help him achieve his task."

"I... I can only give you my blessing."

The professor finished setting up the computer to release it after he hero comes for it.

The cockpit began to save itself.

"The power won't last for long... Eliza, I'm sorry."

"Don't talk nonsense professor!"

"You've done so much for me!"

"It's me who should thank you for everything!"

He looked at her with a pained look.

"I'm glad... that you wished you were happy... unlike me..."

"Noooooooooooooooooooo! Professooooooooooooooor!"

Professor Foncas fell to the ground as Eliza was stowed inside the ship.

Passed the centuries and a day.

"My name is Vandelion, Lion you may call me and I am the hero Professor Foncas was talking about."

◇◇◇

Eliza was happy to see her beloved teacher again.

But now it was different.

She would not see him again because her time had come.

The black dragon attack was preparing to finish her off.

Suddenly something strange happened.

"Why is there an eye in the sky?"

A huge eye was looking at Eliza.

"Fufufu, finally the eagerly wait of this event will begin."

She could hear a strange voice similar to a woman's, but she didn't attach any importance to it.

"Goodbye... master..."

She closed her eyes so as not to see her pathetic end.

(At least, I would have liked her to call me by my name one more time.)

"Elysium."

(Yes, that name, but in a more loving way.)

"Elizaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

"..."

Eliza opened her eyes as she heard Lion's voice without a doubt.

She turned both ways and saw nothing.

But suddenly she heard something coming up behind her.

Before the dragon's evil breath fell on Eliza, she was grabbed by a speeding object.

Eliza's eyes couldn't believe her eyes.

"M-M-Masteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!"

"How the hell did you end up in this state? Don't tell me now."

Lion was taking Eliza in his arms.

She didn't understand how this was possible.

He shouldn't be here yet let alone in heaven next to her.

Why was Lion here?

That was because until recently they were looking for the manual to deactivate the collar to let the dragon be released.

It was there that Eclair saw the problem.

"Wait a minute, what if instead of going back to sleep... the dragon is worse off furious?"

When she was forced to put that bondage collar on her, she never thought her employer had the slightest idea what they were going to do.

Both Lion and Estelle would be equally terrified after thinking about it.

"Hey, are you saying your boss was such an idiot that he didn't think of that possibility?"

"I can't say I thought about it seeing how it ended up in the end..."

"This isn't much worse now master!"

"It is."

The situation was clearly disadvantageous for everyone.

"Damn it. Then there's no use taking the collar off."

Lion bit his lip as he realized that their situation was much worse.

It was Estelle who suggested something.

"Master, what if instead of trying to calm him down or put him to sleep... we just kill him."

Lion and Eclair stared at her.

Eclair upset said to him.

"That dragon was supposed to be a legend, and it turned out to be real in its existence! The same applies to the three heroes!"

"Do you think anyone who could defeat him when the strongest of his time couldn't?"

"It's possible."

Said Lion, altering to Eclair.

"You say it seriously! Do not you looked at the size of that thing?"

"A small dragon is just as big as its leg, while an adult can barely reach its thigh. That dragon is almost a thousand meters long!"

"No problem in fact, I once fought an army of elemental titans while having diarrhea, that was more dangerous than a dragon."

"It is not time to lie!

"I'm not lying. If you do not want to believe me well.

Lion told them a small detail of a small detail of their lives omitting crucial details.

"I-I don't think you can do that."

"The master is amazing! Did you really stay alive after that?"

"I usually end up half dead sometimes, but my traumas are suppressed by instinct."

"We waste too much time on this talk, let's go immediately to the kingdom."

"I suggest we hurry, how will we get there so fast?"

"Ah..."

Neither Lion nor Estelle had any idea how to get there.

Eclair went to pull out a dusty rug they found, she pointed to the carpet.

"We'll use this."

"A carpet? And this is how you call yourself a wizard?"

"Please don't insult me until you explain what I will do."

She threw the carpet on the floor and then recited a spell.

The carpet slowly began to stretch.

"Is this real!"

"It can't be!"

They were both astonished, minus Eclair who already knew this would happen.

She climbed onto the carpet and explained why it floated.

"Wind magic is able to do things like this, every object that doesn't weigh the same as a chair can be lifted."

But after climbing up, immediately the carpet fell to the ground.

The proud look on her face turned to one of embarrassment.

"Although if a person who weighs more than a chair were to climb on such an object, the force of the wind would be too light to be able to support it..."

"...Were you seriously trying to show off and now you're trying to justify how pathetic you are?"

Estelle exclaimed glaring.

"I only wanted to help!"

"Your help was more useless than you were trying to pretend. Drop dead already."

"Don't kill me just because of a mistake!"

"Cut the crap."

Lion walked over to the carpet and tried to do the same as Eclair.

He inserted his magic power into the carpet and slowly got up with Eclair on top.

"Huh? He got up?"

Lion understood instantly.

"It seems to be just like an engine."

"If a vehicle can't support its own weight then it wouldn't move an inch. That's why it needs force, an impulse that would cause the small battery inside it to make that huge metal body move."

"Yes, this carpet is an engine and it can't support anyone's weight because it lacks fuel, it lacks a huge amount of magic power sent constantly every second to be able to move."

Lion grabbed Estelle and they jumped onto the carpet.

He didn't leave the carpet for a second.

Little by little he was soaring until he surpassed the top of the trees.

"We're flying! We're really flying!"

"Master is amazing!"

The two girls were amazed, but for him this was nothing new.

He had experienced in the past something similar.

Therefore, he understood how it worked.

Little by little the carpet was moving in the direction of the kingdom.

With a speed that was increasing until the light wind became heavy.

The girls clung to Lion to keep from falling.

"We'll go at once to the kingdom, hold on tight!"

The free fist that wasn't holding the carpet for some reason was glowing.

The flying carpet was only a few miles away from the kingdom.

From afar the dragon could be seen being beaten by Eliza.

"There they are, we must hurry..."

He noticed something on the ground.

"Alice?"

Princess Alice was there by a tree, Lion looking at the situation deduced what happened.

He quickly asked Estelle.

"Estelle, please stand by Alice."

Estelle looked at Alice and nodded instantly.

"Understood. I wish you good luck master."

She jumped from the carpet to a nearby tree and hopped down from tree to tree until she reached the ground.

"Princess, are you all right?"

"Kyah! Ah, Estelle-chan, don't scare me like that!"

After making sure Alice was safe, Lion along with Eclair made their way to where the dragon was.

She asked him.

"This... are you really planning to do this?"

"Of course I do, do you think I'm lying?"

She shook her head from side to side.

"It's not that I don't think so seeing what you did with the carpet. I consider it suicide to do it!"

"You think? Well for a normal person it would be, not for me."

"You really will!"

Before answering him, Lion watched Eliza falling.

"Elysium."

She didn't respond, he quickly went to grab her.

"Elizaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

He grabbed Eliza in his arms as they avoided being hit by the dragon's evil breath.

That was how we ended up like in the beginning.

◇◇◇

"M-M-Masteeeeeeeeeeeeeer!"

"How the hell did you end up in this state? Don't tell me now."

Lion was staring in horror at the result of the state she was in.

"Didn't I tell you I was coming! Why did you end up like this?"

One of Eliza's eyes was badly damaged, she couldn't explain if it was holy or tears flowing from one of them.

"I'm happy that the master is okay...I really am."

Lion couldn't be angry with her seeing her condition.

He hugged her tightly.

"What a fool you are, no one told you to overexert yourself."

"I did it because the dragon was too dangerous to hold me back."

He stared at the dragon with deep hatred.

"Forgive me Eliza, I couldn't make it in time, but I promise you it will all be over now, rest."

Eclair was using her own magical power to try to keep the carpet in the air.

But Lion handed Eliza's body to her carefully as he lowered the carpet.

"Wait, how will you get to the dragon?"

"I have a method, just watch."

Before focusing on the dragon, he looked at Eliza and muttered something.

He quickly checked his right hand.

A strange blue glow covered his fist.

He took a deep breath and then got into a position similar to throwing something.

Lion quickly gathered a large amount of magical power in his legs to propel himself into the sky.

Doing so entailed exploding his muscles.

But thanks to his blessing nothing happened.

He flew straight at the dragon as if it were a missile.

"Grit your teeth real hard you giant fucking lizard."

He clenched his fist so hard that internal damage was caused.

"And also your sphincter as hard as you can."

He was already a few meters away from the dragon, Sapphire brought his head closer so that his powerful jaws could tear it apart.

The fist glowed so brightly that even the sun's rays were devoured by its radiance.

"For I will return you to that eternal sleep from whence you came!"

Long ago on one of the world’s where Lion was, he met a certain man.

His tribe was killed by the demon king.

That old man taught him a technique as a thank you for saving his life.

Lion couldn't believe something like that existed, but it was possible.

A fighting technique that surpassed all others.

But at the same time so dangerous that it would be forbidden to practice it.

To perform it would be equivalent to suicide.

But to Lion thanks to his blessing the internal and psychological damage he suffered every time he was injured was minor compared to the suffering of the weak.

"Receive my strongest blow..."

He was a meter away from the dragon.

Lion raised as high as he could his fist that came from the end of his back to the dragon's nose.

"Ultrapunch!"

The moment his fist touched the dragon.

A strong explosive chain ran through Lion's body.

Shattering every cell in his arm along with the bones.

The cartilage and muscles were crushed and Lion's arm was completely black as if all the vitality had been sucked out of it.

At the same time a strange sound occurred.

It was a sound similar to the bursting of a bubble, but that sound was powerful enough to generate a shockwave that caused everything from the walls of the capital to Estelle with Alice to shake so much that they were almost lifted up and blown away.

Trees were swallowed up by the sonic wave of the blast.

The walls of the kingdom were severely crushed along with a strong earthquake.

While the black dragon Sapphire took the full brunt of the blow.

That blow was so extreme that the dragon's entire body was lifted up and sent backwards, resulting in multiple wounds opening up.

The dragon was sent flying several meters easily with that huge body.

Lion was falling to the ground while ignoring that extreme pain.

"I won, finally this crazy day is over."

◇◇◇

"Hurry up you good-for-nothing."

"..."

Former Marquis Atley and his faithful companion Baron Lambton were fleeing from the capital.

"We've been hearing strange noises for a while now, that invader must be really strong to come all the way here."

"Y-Yes, it's really irritating that noise."

"Stop blathering and get off your ass."

Malcolm was forcing Lambton to carry his stuff.

They went to Lambton's house and took everything they could.

There was what he thought the ex-marquis.

For a while now Lambton was being insulted by him.

Treated like dirt.

From the beginning it had always been like that.

Lambton was treated like dirt and he accepted it.

But now that man is neither man nor dirt of what he used to be, Lambton exploded.

"I've had enough!"

He threw down his backpack and then lunged to punch Malcolm.

"Why a loser like you think you can keep giving me orders?

"This all happened because of you!"

"If you had shown that intelligence you had supposedly, we were not here now idiot!

Malcolm himself was an angry to a small man who told him his truths.

He took a swing at him and then picked a fight with him.

"Shut the fuck up!"

"It all went wrong because of that guy!"

"If only he didn't exist, I'd still be living in luxury."

"But we're not like this because of you, you idiot!"

"A mangy dog will always be one!"

Suddenly they stopped fighting.

"Why did the sky darken?"

"What's that sound besides?"

A strange noise they heard at the same time the sun disappeared.

Raising their heads, they were horrified.

"What is that thing!"

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

They proceeded to run after seeing how a huge black dragon fell from the sky and was going to impact on them.

"Noooo! I don't want to die yet!"

"I can't die until I regain my glory, I won't die!"

The two were running for their lives using all their strength.

But they did not understand that they could not run from something whose size was bigger than a football stadium.

Without realizing it, they were crushed by Sapphire's lifeless body.

And that was how the madness of that day ended.