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Mother!

Beyond Tenacity

Now that your saint stage has ended,

you have no way of defeating me.

Even if you use another saint stage attack, it will not reach me.

This whole area is now filled with my Decaying World spell.

So no one is coming to save you,

and even if they did, there's nothing they could do.

That's enough reason for you to give up, isn't it?

This was quite fun, though, human.

Gaja?!

Gaja!

This won't hurt, but please forgive me, Queen Loropechika.

Lightning Magic: Pulsaranta.

This will stop her movements for a few seconds.

On that day…

I swore that I would destroy our enemies in your place and protect our kingdom.

And yet, six months ago…

I failed to stop Megicula and Vanica's attack, and you were cursed.

I'm so terribly sorry! I'm a failure as a Spirit Guardian!

No, no, no! I'm still alive!

If you hadn't been there, I would've died.

And the fact that none of our citizens were hurt makes me the happiest.

It's all thanks to you, Gaja!

Because I tried to protect the citizens, the kingdom… everything,

you ended up like this.

You've been forced to do the one thing you didn't want to do.

I've truly failed as a Spirit Guardian.

Rather than the kingdom… I wanted to protect you.

I won't let them kill you.

I won't let you kill.

I will not die from any injuries you inflict upon me.

I will convert my very life into magic… and destroy this devil!

Here and now…

This time for sure, I will save you!

Ultimate Lightning Magic: Apocalypra Astrauza!

Decaying World can't erase all of—

Just one more attack!

I don't care if it's weak!

I just need enough saint stage power to pierce its exposed heart!

So this is a spell fueled by burning the caster's life.

Its power far surpassed my expectations.

That was magnificent, human.

But unfortunately,

my body is under the protection of an ultra-high-speed recovery curse.

Gaja!

Undine!

This is the same as our last fight.

Now you can't use your saint stage powers at all.

This time… it's truly the end.

Not yet!

"Not yet"?

There's clearly no way you can win.

So why do you continue to struggle?

Could that be how humans occasionally surpass expectations and create spells?

But there's no human alive who can produce

a spell capable of defeating me within Decaying World.

Devils never disobey those whose level is higher than their own.

Because it's absolutely futile.

But you humans hold on

to nonsensical ideas and risk your lives for meaningless things.

Acier Silva fought with love for her children as her weapon.

That man fought with

loyalty to the queen to whom he'd sworn his allegiance.

And you're fighting with hope that doesn't even exist.

For the sake of something so petty…

Why cling to such things when it would be easier to just give up?

There's no way I can win? I already know that.

You're right… But that belongs to me,

so I don't care if you don't understand it.

What's with this devil, anyway? It's absolutely insane.

See, even if our chances of winning are slim,

there are times when humans just have to do something!

The truth is, even now, I just want to fall to my knees and cry…

It's not as if we can win as long as we don't give up.

But if we give up, we have no hope of winning at all!

Still, even then…

Our strength lies in us not giving up!

Hmm.

I still can't understand it.

It's quite fascinating… but I can't waste any more time on this.

Curse-Warding Magic: Exploding Life.

I will detonate Loropechika and kill all the humans in this castle at once.

And then…

I will fully manifest here.

Loropechika!

Man, that was close!

I barely made it!

That's right…

We saw each other again just fine! Right, Noelle?!

That's what you taught me!

I'm not fine at all, Stupidsta!

What is that human?

Queen Loropechika…

We stopped her from blowing up, but she still has all sorts of curses on her.

Only one gate to the underworld is open…

So what's a supreme devil doing here?!

I'm gonna be honest. We've got no chance at winning without our devil union!

He managed to do all that inside Decaying World?

I see. He must be the anti-magic human that Vanica and the others spoke of.

I'm quite intrigued,

but he could conceivably bring about the most unthinkable situation.

That's enough games.

First, I'll kill Vanica and Loropechika for good…

and then manifest completely right now.

What?

The curse runes vanished?

I'm still…

standing right here!

That woman… How?

She should have been beyond recovery.

Not only that, but her magic's increased!

This isn't the type of spell I'm used to, so it took a while to activate.

While Twilight Valhalla is active,

it boosts the magic of any companions within its range

and makes it so they won't die, no matter how much damage they take!

We're invincible for just a few minutes!

Once it's over, the damage will come back.

But who cares about that right now?

Whoa! That's awesome, Rill!

And I'm so glad you're still alive!

If Asta hadn't shown up, I wouldn't have made it before that explosion hit.

Thanks to that, I may achieve my ultimate masterpiece!

Individually, they're utterly insignificant,

but when they combine their strength, they can do all this…

You humans truly are fascinating!

Dark disciples who died to amuse Vanica and myself sleep below the tower.

I will imbue them with the power of devils,

as well as that of Acier Silva and Vanica, whose souls I hold.

Living corpses of blood and steel…

One hundred in total.

Whoa! My body really does hurt all over!

Whoa! We're getting dragged in!

Thank you for saving Loropechika!

You're welcome! And thanks for saving us!

Sorry! I'm absolutely useless right now!

The rest is all yours!

Hello?! You just got here! What are you talking about?!

Noelle! You've got this!

I already know.

I'm sure you were plenty reckless as usual.

You've done enough.

Just the fact that you came…

Just thinking about you…

gives me strength!

Ah, so it's true, then.

I've been making excuses until now,

but to think I'd realize it at a time like this…

I guess I must love Asta.

But right now, we're on the battlefield.

Right now, I'm going to defeat Megicula!

Let's go, Undine!

Final saint stage!

Whoa! You're so awesome!

Take care of Loropechika, Asta!

Ow, ow, ow! You got it!

We don't have enough saint stage power to deal with this whole army!

Picture Magic: Master of Valhalla.

Noelle with her saint stage

and Charlotte with her special anti-curse attack are both vital!

Meaning I'll have to provide solid backup!

True Briar Magic: Crimson Vine Spear!

You humans just keep evolving during battles.

You're truly…

the ultimate playthings.

Noelle!

Luck!

I'll clear a path, so follow me!

This is great, you guys!

Inspiration just keeps welling up inside me!

If there were one more lightning mage to show us the way,

this would be even better!

I'm basically dead already…

But even so…

I'm grateful that I get to fight for Queen Loropechika again!

Gaja!

Let's do this!

Right.

Now!

Even if I'm still incomplete,

you were able to press me this hard.

I'm truly surprised.

But still…

this is the end.

How dare you show up in front of my family again?

You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this moment.

After the curse was set on Mother, she rapidly wasted away.

The members of our family had no idea,

so they just thought it was from the recent birth.

When the curse-warding spell was cast on Mother,

I was hit with a secondary effect.

If I told anyone that Megicula was involved in Acier Silva's death,

I would die.

If I told someone, the one who heard it would also be cursed.

It was a spell that spread like a disease.

I can't tell anyone.

I just have to do something about it myself.

I have to save Mother!

I have to find a way to break the curse!

Nozel… That's enough.

If you keep this up, your life will be in danger, as well.

But…

People can't become strong so easily.

But don't worry.

You… All of you…

will be stronger than me one day.

So live…

Nozel.

A year after being cursed, Mother died.

For that year, all I could do was watch helplessly.

Stronger…

I have to get stronger.

So I can avenge Mother someday! To protect my siblings!

Nebra and Solid are also getting stronger,

but they're no match for an opponent like that.

And Noelle…

Nozel… Would you teach me magic?

If there's no chance that she'll get stronger,

it would be best to lock her away.

Failures like you aren't needed on the battlefield.

If she's just going to end up feeling the way I do,

I should distance her from the fight…

Why did Mother have to die giving birth to someone like you?

You killed Mother.

No!

I killed her!

I'm useless and I couldn't do anything.

I was afraid of losing more, so I ran away.

I'm just a coward with no resolve to protect anything.

At this point, I have no right to involve myself with you.

Stronger…

Stronger!

The logical move was to try to become the Wizard King.

I can't die here…

I managed to fight enemies with evil magic like that devil.

In which case, for the sake of the time that's bound to come…

I want…

to thank everyone here right now.

We finally… meet again.

Everything I've ever been or had is going into this attack!

A touching reunion… Is that what this is?

Sorry, but I don't have emotions like that.

You have the strength of steel and the flexibility of water.

Don't think you can block this!

Blood is flying… and steel is getting through…

But even so, I can't destroy their heart.

I guess I was wrong after all.

I shouldn't have locked her away or kept her out of this.

We needed to grow stronger together.

We didn't give up!

That's why we win this battle, Megicula!

I was on my guard, but I figured I wouldn't lose to humans…

It seems I misjudged… your true strength.

Is that why I let myself take an interest…

in the power of human emotions?

You two… have gotten so strong.