Volume 4 - CH 48

Act 4-48: Song of Ruin II(Side: Pandora) 

――Central Church’s Babel Branch.

「What did you just say?」

Cardinal Pandora showed her trademark iron wall-like smile in front of the communication magic, questioning with a shrill voice.

『His Eminence, The Pope has passed away. The same goes for Cardnal Sea.』

「Hah? No, I mean, how can it be?」

Her legs shook as she retreated, and plopped in the chair behind, barely managing to keep her calm.

『Because they offended someone they shouldn’t have.』

The man in front of his communication magic replied in an awfully calm tone, holding two bundles in his hands. As if convinced of something,

「Who did they dare touch?」

Pandora asked back immediately. But, she was almost convinced of the reason. It was most likely someone related to Lumine Hellner.

As for the reason, it was because the one who received revelation about Lumine Hellner’s gift being the one scorned even by Our Father’s god was none other than Cardinal Sea. And Lumine’s execution had literally been approved of by His Eminence as soon as he heard about that revelation. And since it happened now of all time, it was too much of a coincidence.

But, those two-If we discounted the four archbishops who hailed as castaway child of god- are supposed to be two of strongest person in central church. Run-of-the-mill methods won’t be enough to assassinate them――

When Pandora was pondering about such things,

「Guess who~?」

The man who contacted Pandora suddenly burst into mad laugh.

「What’s the matter?」

Pandora got away from the communication magic tool. Archbishop Schnee who acted cold as usual displayed an expression that he had never shown before.

『Beelzebub debu~♪ Beelzebub debu~~♪ Bubudebabudebu~♩

Stinkiest amongst the stinky maggots, the King of Fly♬, His name is, Beelzebub♫』

The head of the man suddenly rotated unnaturally as it made creaking sound, his body also started dancing wildly as he sang, ignoring the sound of snapping bones and torn flesh.

That moment, the bundles in the man’s hands unveiled――

「PANDORA-SAMA! THIS GUY IS BAD NEWS!」

Archbishop Schnee shouted as bead of sweats appeared on his forehead.

「I KNOW THAT! CUT THE COMMUNICATION IMMEDIATELY!」

It was a natural reaction after seeing such gore.

The bundle contained the head of a crew cut brown-haired man. That head’s mouth opened wide as blood trickled down from its nose and eyes.

「PLEASE CUT THE COMMUNICATION IMMEDIATELY!」

「I CAN’T! I’VE BEEN TRYING TO DO THAT, THE MAGIC TOOL ISN’T RESPONDING AT ALL!」

How strange. The communication magic tool should’ve been cut off and yet, it didn’t react at all.

Moreover, the strange dance of the priest who used the communication device was kept on display.

『Beelzebub debu~♪ Beelzebub debu~~♪ Bubudebabudebu~♩

I’m faithful follower of Supreme Ruler♪  His order is my pleasure babu, Anyone who displease him will babu~~~~~♩

Beelzebub debu~♪ Beelzebub debu~~♪ Bubudebabudebu~♩』

Suddenly, the flesh of the priest transformed into a fly-like creature.

The fly-like creature then stopped dancing, standing in attention,

『You’ve offended Our Supreme Ruler. Therefore, anyone deeply involved in this matter shall receive punishment. He won’t be this merciful if something like this happens again.』

The communication was cut off on after the fly-like creature said so.

「We are… safe?」

As my tense nerves eased out, I plopped on the ground as if my hips just dislocated.

「Maybe.」

Archbishop Schnee confirmed so as he fell on his knee. His current expression was as bad as Pandora, and it might be the first time he felt like that ever since his birth.

「That must be the ultimatum.」

The reason why Pandora was still alive was simply because she wasn’t involved in the execution plan.

Anyhow, Pandora’s real reason for visiting Babel was completely unrelated to the plan, she just acted as mere messenger, just happening to receive the communication from the priest when she had nothing to do. Those two factors resulting in her barely dodging the bullet.

「Most likely, the world seems like it’s went mad.」

Lumine Hellner. Though I had no idea why His Eminence the Pope and Cardinal Sea regarded that girl as dangerous, now it was clear to me. The Supreme Ruler mentioned by that fly must’ve been really enraged after discovering that His Eminence the Pope and Cardinal Sea are trying to kill Lumine Hellner, thus sent assassins to eliminate the two as a warning. No, maybe everyone directly involved in Lumine Hellner’s assassination plan had already stopped breating.

(Rather, maybe I should feel relieved that it only ended up with this degree of damage.)

That was definitely an enemy of mankind, a god. Thats just how wicked the fly she saw was. Due to this incident, the central church had to pay with the lives of Cardinal Sea and the Pope. But it wasn’t a big problem since she knew that personnel change happened regularly. Though the loss of the two were a huge blow, it wasn’t fatal.

That fly was definitely far more dangerous than the Demon King. No, the likes of Demon King might be equal to tiny ant on the road for that Fly. They’re definitely not an existence that supposed to be left on their own devices in this world.

Even if they exist, it should be our god dealing with them. But, Our god would’ve already entered this world if it was so simple to do so. Even if we mobilize our entire central church force to fight that Fly, I can only see our side being slaughtered one-sidedly, leaving behind a mountain of corpses.

Since that was the case, we had no choice but to accelerate that plan. If the four archbishops and I get divine power in true sense, we might be able to fight them.

(No, that alone might be far from enough.)

The hero’s team. Their strength would grow exponentially once they gained divine force. Though we’re going to dispose them once they subjugate the demon king, we’ve to make a little adjustment to our plan. And it wasn’t just the hero. We wouldn’t be able to fight THAT unless we use everything that we can use.

「Contact the Hero-dono. And then, please arrange a meeting with all archbishops. 」

Maybe because he understood Pandora’s intention, Archbishop Schnee, who usually complained to her, agreed and left the room immediately.

(This is a war that Us, children of god, can’t afford to lose.)

Pandora clenched her right fist as she steeled her resolve.

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TN: Evil God Pazuzu AKA the flashe