I don't want to be a heroic spirit

...Then I really want to curse.

A vague and ethereal voice sounded, and a small and delicate foot appeared in front of Melyuchina and landed gently on the ground.

"Please don't be discouraged. Your strength is unquestionable, Lancelot. You truly did 'kill me once.' Even I didn't expect you to be able to do this... You are truly remarkable."

"If I hadn't reacted at the moment of death and used the power of [Ain Soph] before you destroyed it to grant myself the ability to resurrect immediately after death, I would have been killed by you."

"Now, I can no longer use [Ain Soph]. In other words, if I'm killed again, I'll be truly dead. This is all because of you, Lancelot."

"You're already amazing. The timing, the strength... You've done everything you could to force me into this situation. It's just... your luck isn't very good."

With her eyelids slightly lowered, Takamiya Mio whispered, "My [Ain Soph] has suffered irreparable damage. Retrieving the spirit crystals will surely be quite troublesome... But you don't need to worry about that."

"I have decided... I pay my highest respects to your noble will and determination."

Even though Melyusina had lost the ability to resist, even though Melyusina was unable to respond.

Moved by the other party's determination to open a path even if it means burning her life, Takamiya Mio decides to use her true trump card.

Staring at Melyuchina's slightly dimmed golden eyes, Takamiya Mio slowly recited the name of the last angel she had.

“——【（Ain）】”

moment.

The whole world is filled with light.

Then, after an unknown amount of time, the light receded like the tide.

In the devastated ruins, Melyuchina's figure had completely disappeared.

Only Takamiya Mio was standing here alone, as if she was the only one left in the world.

540

Chapter 540 A brand new world.

On the razed battlefield, Takamiya Mio stood quietly like a beautiful stone sculpture.

After a long time, she slowly let out a sigh, and it seemed that time, which had been still for a long time, began to flow again at this moment.

No one knew the reason for her sigh. Perhaps she was lamenting that she had to personally kill someone she quite liked, or perhaps she was lamenting that she hadn't successfully died...

Coming back to her senses slightly, Takamiya Mio muttered to herself.

"We need to erase this part of the memories of Xiaoshi and others..."

Takamiya Mio needs Shido Itsuka to seal the spiritual power of all the elves and obtain their power. Only in this way will she not lose him again. Only in this way will he remember everything that happened and change from "Shido Itsuka" back to "Takamiya Shinshi".

With her round and translucent toes like pearls lightly touching the ground, Takamiya Mio slowly floated up, wanting to find Gokawa Shido and the other elf girls.

The moment she turned around, Takamiya Mio's body suddenly froze, her slightly constricted pupils filled with shock.

She turned around suddenly, and in front of her stood a graceful figure.

That [existence] seemed to have stayed here for a long time.

However, what horrified Takamiya Mio was that... she didn't even sense the other person's presence.

Even now, although her naked eyes could clearly see his figure, no matter what method she used to detect it, the result was that there was [nothing] over there, as if Takamiya Mio would disappear from her sight as long as she shifted her attention a little.

Her beautiful figure proves that she is a woman.

She wore a large seven-pointed crown on her head, and a black veil covered her face. She was wrapped in a luxurious long gown with an extremely pure black background and ice-blue patterns. Her snow-white hair was tied up at the back of her head and hung down to her ankles.

The thin veil was occasionally blown up by the breeze, but no matter how carefully Takamiya Mio looked, she could not see the other person's true face hidden under the veil... It seemed that even if she saw her true face, she would forget it in the next second.

Mystery, unknown, dignity... These things shown by the other party made Takamiya Mio feel fear. Even when facing Melyuchina, she could remain calm. Although there were things she could not do, she was absolutely confident in her strength.

However, facing the woman in the black dress in front of her, Takamiya Mio finally felt a panic that she was out of control.

So, instinctively, Takamiya Mio took a step back... but stepped on empty air.

"!!!"

Takamiya Mio's pupils trembled violently. It was not until now that she realized that the environment around her had undergone tremendous changes at some point.

White... No matter which direction you look, all you see is a pure, frightening white.

There was no sky above her head, no ground under her feet, and even gravity did not exist here.

No, calling it white isn't quite accurate... There's only [Nothingness]

Because there is nothing, all the naked eye perceives is a "white void".

Knowing this, Takamiya Mio looked at the girl in the black dress with trembling eyes, and asked in a deep voice as if to dispel the fear in her heart.

"Who are you? Where is this place?!"

Time passes while waiting.

I don’t know how much time has passed... In this empty space, Takamiya Mio’s sense of time has become dull.

It seemed like a century had passed, so long that even Takamiya Mio's "self" gradually became blurred... The girl in the black dress finally moved her lips under Takamiya Mio's gaze.

"My knight, I am in your care."

It was a voice as cold as winter, and the chill and indifference contained in it almost froze a person's body and soul.

Takamiya Mio was stunned for a moment. Her brain was like a machine that had not been used for a long time. It took some time to start up again and operate normally. It took her a long time to react to what the other party said.

"...your knight?"

Then, Takamiya Mio thought of Melyusina... After all, she had never seen anyone who was more worthy of the title of "Knight" than Melyusina.

Melyusina also once called herself "Elven (Fairy) Knight Lancelot", and frankly admitted that the person she served was His Majesty Morgan, and that the spiritual crystal (spiritual base) in her body was also given to her by His Majesty Morgan.

After Melusina came to this world, Takamiya Mio has been observing Melusina from the perspective of Murasame Reion. After all, the other party is the only elf who was not born into the world with the spirit crystal given by her, so Takamiya Mio also pays attention to His Majesty Morgan whom she mentioned.

At first, Takamiya Mio also suspected that the "Morgen" that Melusina mentioned was herself, but as time passed, this suspicion was gradually dispelled.

Now, Takamiya Mio recalled this information again, and her eyes stared at the woman in the black dress more and more solemnly.

"Are you Morgan?"

The black veil moved, and the woman in the black dress seemed to nod.

"So... you showed up this time to avenge Lancelot?"

Takamiya Mio asked this tentatively, but received an answer that surprised her greatly.

"I don't have the time to do something frivolous like that."

The indifference in her tone did not sound fake, as if she really did not feel anything at all about the death of her men.

But it was precisely because of this that Takamiya Mio felt her hands and feet go cold.

"Destruction is inevitable. It's a rare experience, and it's good for her once in a while."

Morgan lowered his eyelids slightly, and his cold, ruthless voice seemed to drag everything in the world into an eternal vortex of ice and snow. "But even if it's just a lecherous dragon who only cares about other people's wives, it belongs to me, just like Britain under my feet... Since you have reached out for what is mine, you must swallow the bitter fruit yourself."

As soon as the words fell, a bone-chilling cold enveloped Takamiya Mio's head, and even her thoughts were frozen for a moment.

Biting the tip of her tongue, Takamiya Mio forced herself to regain clarity and composure.

“[(Ain)]!”

The angel who destroyed Melyuchina, Takamiya Mio's strongest and most trusted angel.

A terrifying angel that erases the source and reduces the target to nothingness.

Without any hesitation, Takamiya Mio read out the angel's name again.

The next moment, invisible waves spread out in all directions with Takamiya Mio as the center.

Under Takamiya Mio's gaze, Morgan's figure was erased like color being erased by an eraser.

In this empty space, only Takamiya Mio was left.

The sound of my own heartbeat, the sound of my own breathing... these sounds fill my ears.

As if feeling helpless about her own excessive nervousness, Takamiya Mio laughed.

"There's nothing to be surprised about... My Angel of Nothingness is invincible in this world. No one can resist it... There's nothing to be nervous about."

"Indeed, erasing a person's existence from its very roots is an unreasonable ability that even I haven't seen many times. It can be considered a pretty good toy."

"!!!"

Takamiya Mio was startled, and the moment she raised her head, she saw the figure that shouldn't be there.

“You…! Why would you…?!”

Her Angel of Nothingness failed?

How could this be possible?! She had clearly obliterated the other person's existence! It was more complete than throwing a piece of paper into a fire.

“[(Ain)]!”

Unwilling to believe in evil, Takamiya Mio used the Angel of Nothingness again.

The invisible wave appeared again, and both Morgan and Melusina disappeared when they touched this wave.

However, this time it was different.

Morgan raised her right hand and made a gesture of grasping it. The next moment, a weapon that looked like both a spear and a staff appeared in Morgan's hand and was grasped by her.

There was clearly nothing under his feet, but Morgan held the staff and made a gesture of hitting the ground with the bottom.

In an instant, an invisible wave suddenly spread out with Morgan as the center. The moment it came into contact with Takamiya Mio's Angel of Nothingness, the two extremely similar waves canceled each other out and disappeared together, without even a trace of aftermath.

Takamiya Mio opened her mouth blankly, uttering meaningless syllables continuously, as if she had witnessed an absurd event that could overturn all the laws of the world.

Morgan's cold voice sounded at this time.

"As a toy, it's quite acceptable."

It was at this moment that Takamiya Mio realized that she was not dreaming.

"That's... my Angel of Nothingness! Why would you..."

"After personally experiencing the effects of your ability, I used a technique to analyze, simulate, and reproduce it. That's all. These are just some trivial tricks that are not worth mentioning. There's no need to be surprised."

Morgan's lazy tone seemed to indicate that he had no interest in anything, but at the same time, he gave off an unquestionable sense of strength and dominance.

"But...why am I okay?"

Takamiya Mio frowned, still confused. "If it were two Angels of Nothingness canceling out the force, the aftermath would have engulfed both of us."

"That's just because you don't know how to use it. If you just adjust the output and vector of this ability a little bit, you can completely cancel it out like this without any aftereffects. I can reproduce it with the technique, so naturally I can do something like this as well."

Little things?

These were all theories that Takamiya Mio couldn't even imagine, just like a seven-year-old child hearing about the Goldbach conjecture for the first time, but Morgan made such a light statement.

"Okay, let's end this game of questions and answers."

Morgan said this expressionlessly, then struck the "ground" beneath his feet with his staff again.

"Boom"

The knocking sound echoed in the space, and Takamiya Mio suddenly felt a sense of weakness that was hard to ignore.

Then, she discovered... all her angels were unusable!

Not only the Angel of Law that was severely injured by Melyuchina before, but also the Angel of Death and the Angel of Nothingness, now she can't feel any of them?!

Even the spiritual power in the body seemed to be locked up and could not be used at all.

Morgan effortlessly turned Takamiya Mio into a piece of meat on the chopping board.

The winner has been decided... Takamiya Mio is clearly aware of this.

She had lost all means of resistance.

Shaking her head with a wry smile, Takamiya Mio said, "Are you going to kill me?"

"That will only make you want what you want. You may be able to fool yourself, but you can't fool me."

Morgan stood in front of Takamiya Mio and said coldly, "You know very well that even if you erased Gokawa Shido's memories and only kept Takamiya Shinshi's, your Takami Shinshi would not be resurrected... Your real purpose is to personally create a being capable of killing you."

Because she cannot meet Soumiya Shinji in the living world, Soumiya Mio looks forward to their reunion in the afterlife.

However, Takamiya Mio could not kill herself... She was simply too powerful, and even after trying every possible means she could think of, she could not bring herself to death.

So, if Morgan could kill her...Takamiya Mio would feel relieved.