Campione! - Volume 19 - Chapter 4.3

Part 3 

「So, this time it’s Prince Alec that is standing in the way of 

Kusanagi Godou……」 

「He is a strong willed person on top of being serious, so I thought that he would come out to proactively attack in the early stage. But having my prediction coming true like this, is not something pleasant.」 

A clash against a frequent powerful enemy. 

Erica was shrugging at the side of the impressed Liliana. 

The night where seven Campione had gathered in one place had passed, now it was Friday at the last week of February. At the evening where there was still a few more hours yet until the sun set, a new battlefield was forming in Odaiba. 

「But, both Prince Alec and Godou are rational people, don’t you think that it won’t suddenly become a battle?」 Erica said. 

On the rooftop of a eight storied building constructed at seaside, she was observing the ground from the edge of that place. 

Three Campiones were in the middle of informal talk at the park a few hundred meters ahead. The two of them were using magic to reinforce eyesight, so they could even see the expression of the three. 

The two men looked disappointed while Madam Aisha was all shaken up. Though the atmosphere was not a murderous one. 

「Erica. Stop speaking of a possibility that even you don’t believe.」 

This time it was Liliana who spoke. 

「Those two, it’s like they are not in sync even when they both have the same thinking. The one who said that was you.」 

「What a nostalgic story that is.」 

「By the point of time this combination met, it was already a countdown until the opening of battle.」 

「Even though just the cleaning up of Shinjuku was already a disaster, today will it be Odaiba that become the scene of a disastrous scene I wonder?」 

「Rather I now want to suggest, can they instead just arrange for all the people in the capital to be evacuated all at once……」 

Around this area was littered with logistics warehouse, so there were few people other than the staff. 

However, if they walked a little they would reach a bustling area of the seaside subcenter of the city. The commerce and leisure facilities there were crowded to the limit. The crowd was something that couldn’t be sneezed at even in this weekday. 

Fortunately, there was no sign of people nearby the three devil kings. 

They were standing while talking at each other showered with the sea breeze of late afternoon at the park that was facing the sea――. 

「What is fortunate from Shinjuku yesterday, is that both Marquis Voban and sect founder Luo Hao didn’t have any intention of a massacre.」 

「It was terrible for Amasaki-san and others who were collecting the victims that became werewolfs and salt statues though.」 

「It will be great if their work can be over today.」 

Having said that, thanks to the event happening late at night, the number of the victims itself could be held down. 

For a place where three senior Campiones came across each other, they should rejoice instead that the damage to Shinjuku area was extremely little. However. 

「But, I wonder if Shinjuku Imperial Garden will be able to return to normal?」 

Erica tilted her head. 

Shinjuku Imperial Garden that was transformed into “Demonic Forest” by cult founder Luo Hao’s authority. 

Last night, Erica and Liliana infiltrated inside it. 

Inside the forest, man-eating plants were crawling everywhere, things like poison miasma, dazzling fragrance, and so on were obstructing the advance of the knights. Sometimes there were even a yell that resembled a human scream coming from underground. Most likely it was impossible to discover Madam Aisha inside that demonic region. 

But, before they gave up the search, Kusanagi Godou wielded the『sword』from outside the forest. 

The words of power that cut apart the divine spirit – god Taisai of wood element――. 

「When Godou used the『sword』, the man eating plants and magic plants like mandragora lost their mystical force and they stopped moving but……the trees and flowers that grew excessively were still at the same shape.」 

「Even the sword words of power cannot erase the very growth of the plants.」 

Liliana also murmured. 

「Until the end this is just my witch instinct. But even if they return to the vegetation when the park was normal, after half a year passed the spirit will be active again. Possibly the park’s state of pseudo “Demonic Forest” will continue forever……. At any rate, I think that park should be completely isolated for a while.」 

「Even us, although we escaped but it took quite a bit of effort. 」 

「Madam Aisha accomplished an escape from such forest by herself, that’s why――」 

「Those people, they are really absurd aren’t they……. Hey, Lily.」 

The gazes of the two were directed to the ground, there the black prince Alec and Kusanagi Godou were throwing provocative words at each other. 

Erica spoke with a pondering look without taking off her eyes from there. 

「Actually I have been thinking this from a long time ago. The authority of Campione, how much power it has when used in maximum strength――honestly speaking, perhaps it is still unclear with both of them isn’t it?」 

「What?」 

「If I have to speak from the one close to us, someone like Godou, his greatest firepower that is the『White Horse』, we don’t understand that at all just how much destruction it can bring about.」 

「Now that you mentioned it, he said『It’s scary just how much its maximum power can do so I don’t try it out』……」 

「He proclaimed that didn’t he? That’s right Lily. To say it positively then the authority of Campione is flexible, and saying it without any embellishment than it is just too vague, just where is the limit of the authority――everything is obscure in detail. But, if it’s material so that we can imagine various thing then I happen to have it.」 

Right after he became Campione, Kusanagi Godou confronted the god king Melqart. 

At that time he used『White Horse』without thinking anything and unleashed a firepower that dissolved the whole harbor of the ancient city Palermo of Sicilia Island into melting liquid. 

It was an act of barbarity right in the center of urban areas with lot of population. 

As expected even “the man who wouldn’t stop when he got provoked” learned from experience, since then he was always deliberately holding back the might of『White Horse』. It was to the degree that he showed how he could target only a single ferry boat on a lake in his battle against Salvatore Doni right after that. 

However――in reverse until now he had still never completely liberated the authority’s full power. 

「I think Lu Yinghua said it before. That perhaps his master can change the whole Japan into decay world. Madam Aisha can also cause a severe famine with her winter authority, and above all is the monster that brought about the greatest calamity that was the historical destruction. Even Godou, actually it wouldn’t be strange if he could do something like――turning Kanto area into a burnt field with the blaze of『

White Horse』. That thing, so to speak is a fragment of sun.」 (TN: Kanto is the eastern half of Japan, including Tokyo) 

「Come to think of it even Lord Salvatore too――」 

The leader of Southern Europe “King of Sword”. Liliana let out that name with a gloomy expression. 

「Even though his worth should be only about cutting something into two with a sword, but is that really all……there were several cases that looked suspicious.」 

「Regarding that, I think that’s largely because Lord Andrea was also carrying information suppression……」 

The butler of the sword king was an extraordinarily straitlaced person. 

For the sake of the honor of Italia as well as Southern Europe’s magic world, he promptly concealed the scandal of his master and went through days of wracking his brain so that it wouldn’t spread to outside. 

「Anyway. This kind of people is all gathering in one place, so the danger to the people of Tokyo should be at the level that is beyond description. Even now it is progressing in front our eyes.」 

「First we should pull them away from Odaiba, just as 

Kusanagi Godou instructed……」 

「Yes.」 

On the ground, Kusanagi Godou was finally taking action. 

Covering Madam Aisha behind him, he received the fighting spirit of prince Alec right from the front. The situation was already beyond explosive, the fire was already lit on the fuse. 

The two knights exchanged glance and nodded at each other. 

There was the plan for Liliana to leap between the three devil kings at appropriate timing, and used her forte the flying magic to take away her master the young man and Madam Aisha away. As much as possible she had to bring them away to a place without people――. 

And then, at that time when the knights were about to move, Both of them felt a presence behind them. 

Without any sound just like a feather that was falling from the sky, someone landed softly. If the two of them didn’t strengthen their five senses using magic, they would surely didn’t notice it. 

Speaking about an expert with such mastery of lightness―― 

「So it’s finally your entrance is it, Lu Yinghua. You are intending to hinder us?」 

Erica spoke without even turning around.