The adults all knelt on their knees, hung their heads down, and prayed for the arrival of the Gods' envoys.
The Lord and the Master of Chaldes were waiting for an opportunity to move behind him.
"It's like some kind of ritual."
Fujimaru Rika commented briefly.
"It's been like this all the time, this is the rule."
Gerda answers Fujimaru Rika's question.
In addition to those questions that seem strange and imaginative to her, she will answer any questions asked by these three.
"I will do this sooner or later, probably... in more than ten years."
Fujimaru Rika glanced at her side.
There was no fear in Gerda's eyes.
Because it has been experiencing it for more than ten years...
...... Sure enough.
The [human] in this strange belt is not so much a human being, but rather a domestic animal in a feedlot.
No thoughts, no fear, accept the established death.
......Tengmaru Rika wanted to see what the so-called gods in this world are going on.
"Anyway, after such a ceremony, the envoys were about to descend from the sky."
"You see--"
"Here you come!"
The magic reaction...appeared.
Mashu changed his posture of the Asuka early on, and stood in front of Fujimaru Rika's side with a shield in his hand, looking towards the sky vigilantly.
Nolra's behavior was more direct - the flame belonging to the dragon was suppressed by him in his throat and could pour out at any time, and the temperature of the surrounding air increased slightly to a certain extent.
"People."
"People."
"People."
That's-
A loving female voice.
Fujimaru Rika subconsciously was stunned.
She seemed to have heard such a voice before.
This voice is gentle, loving, and plain.
Just like the mother's murmuring in the baby's ears, like the warm wind blowing through the spring willows, like the hand of a girl exploring into the clear spring water-
but.
"Today, it is the day of choice."
"The lives of you will be harvested today."
Such a gentle voice said such words.
Cold -
It was as cold as someone was chiseling bone marrow with an ice cone.
It's really too weird to say such cruel words in such a voice.
Fujimaru Rika also remembered where this familiar feeling came from.
That was the last special point before the Temple of Time - Mesopotamia - on the eve of the eve of the stop of Renli's fire.
There, Fujimaru Rika once met the mother who was abandoned by her children.
Tiamat.
Hidden under the beast's huge and terrifying appearance is just a fragile mother who longs for children to be with her.
Her wishes cannot be satisfied after all.
After all, human beings will leave the gods, just like children will leave their mothers.
Her voice was loving, but full of sorrow; calm, but engraved with pain.
This is also the difference between her voice and the voice of the God in front of her.
Why, someone said to the children in the tone of a mother that they wanted to harvest your lives—
"This is love."
The voice from heaven continued to speak.
Fujimaru Rika lowered her head, the anger in her eyes was covered by her hair and no one could see it.
"You should understand that as the only God who remains in this world - the hand of love extended."
"People, people."
God's voice was filled with sighs.
"Drop your head."
"Praise the ice and snow and the glory."
At the same time, it seemed that in order to echo the voice of the gods in the sky, the children who were accompanying the adults also knelt on the ground.
"O God, O God."
"Glorious Lord Valkyrie."
"Please take the adults away."
The children's pious voices made the scene in front of them even more terrifying.
Children are praying for their parents to die, but their parents accept it without regrets and willingly -
How could there be such a terrifying scene?
"They followed all the rules of the gods and raised us."
"Those who didn't raise us also played with us until we were fourteen."
"They are honest and pure people, not evil people who need to be punished, so-"
"Please take them to Valhalla!"
Open your palms and lift them upwards, and the children's voices were like songs.
——The soul-tempting song of adults.
"Send the soul to Valkyrie of Valhalhara...Senior!"
Mathus was already angry and scared to the point of gritting his teeth.
"Surveillance magic reaction, if nothing unexpected happens, Valkyrie will soon arrive."
Fujimaru Rika's voice was filled with calm and solemnity.
"We now need to let go of all fantasies, the God's envoy... and even the God is our enemy."
“Be ready for battle.”
"yes."
"Um!"
Mashu and Nolra responded short and firmly, expressing their attitude.
"It appears...!"
"The subspecies of the gods... attacked the magical demigod of Chaldeans, Valkyrie...!"
Buzz —
To be continued...