After getting a fierce victory from Rodan, Elvy came downstairs, and at that moment, we greeted her with joy. Especially me and Mila, as soon as Elvy came down, we both immediately ran towards the girl.
"Elvy-chaannn!!"
"El-chaannn!!"
Together we hugged Elvy tightly.
"Riku-san, Mila-san, I won!" she said with an innocent smile.
She looked really happy, but the fun ended when I started pinching hers cheeks.
"Oh my, you just make people worry! You were too careless just now!!"
"He's right, El-chan! You can't do that anymore, understand? Or Onee-chan will get angry!"
"Ouch ouch! I-I'm sorry! I will never do it again! So please don't pinch my cheeks! It hurts…" Elvy moaned in pain.
"You have to promise."
"Right, El-chan, you have to promise."
"O-Okay, I promise," Elvy replied languidly as we both continued to advise her.
Seeing her honestly apologetic, I nodded in satisfaction and stopped pinching her again.
Well, whatever it is, I'm really grateful that everything is okay.
With this, there are no more problems.
Everything was over, and fortunately there were no casualties from our side, only a few people were seriously injured. But I can still cure it with the [Heal Potion] I have, after all I have a lot of those potions in my [Inventory], because at that time I used up all my medicine points to level up my skill. I made thousands of high-grade [Heal Potions], so I no longer have to be afraid of running out of [Heal Potions].
Well, the point is, we were able to get through this fight without any casualties.
So you could say we won a landslide victory.
But—
Somehow I seem to forget something and it is very important.
—But what?
"Hmm…"
While I was thinking about that with a serious face, Elvy suddenly tugged at the hem of my dress, she looked at me with an uneasy look, looking like she wanted to say something.
"What's wrong, Elvy-chan?" I asked in surprise.
Then, Elvy answered in a low voice while bringing her face closer to mine.
"Umm… Riku-san, shouldn't we go fetch Alicia-san soon?"
"Ah?"
I forget.
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"Elvy-chan, hurry up!" I shouted in panic.
According to what I said, Elvy accelerated her flight even more.
As soon as I recalled that I had left the goddess alone to fight the Demon Lord Leader, I immediately went to meet her. Right now I'm flying with Elvy to go to hers place, so we can get there faster.
"There!" I said while pointing down where Alicia was where we left off.
Seeing that, Elvy nodded in understanding and immediately landed around that place.
When we got to the bottom, Elvy and I immediately looked for Alicia's whereabouts, because she was no longer here.
"Alicia! Where are you?!" I shouted while walking around the place.
"Alicia-san, where are you?!" shouted Elvy, who helped me to look for it too.
The two of us kept looking around the place, but there was absolutely no clue about Alicia's whereabouts.
Don't tell me that she was defeated?
—No, that's impossible. Even if that girl was weak in stamina, she should still be able to defeat undead monsters easily.
What actually happened here?
Where has the girl gone?
While I was searching and thinking about all the possibilities with paranoia, I suddenly heard Alicia's voice from a distance.
"Riku, Elvy, I'm here!" called Alicia saying our names.
Hearing that, I quickly immediately turned towards her, and was slightly relieved to see that she was fine.
"Alicia-san?! You are okay?" asked Elvy and immediately ran to Alicia who was currently sitting on the— Hm?
—What's that?
Seeing what she was sitting on, I tilted my head in confusion, and Elvy who noticed it also immediately stopped approaching.
"Umm, Alicia-san, who are you sitting on?" she asked, pointing at a little girl who maybe 9 or 10 years old who was currently sitting with Alicia.
I also walked beside Elvy to see the girl more clearly.
She had beautiful long red hair, and shining blood red eyes. The girl was wearing a black lace dress.
It felt like I'd seen her before.
However, that person should have a more mature appearance, not a child like this.
Maybe I just remember wrong?
"Alicia, who is that child?" I asked.
However, Alicia tilted her head in confusion, as if I was asking something strange. "What are you saying? Have you forgotten? She's the Demon King Leader, Estella— Well, forget that, I'm more curious about Elvy. What's that? You really changed the last time we met. I'm guessing Riku must have messed things up, right?" she said, smiling mischievously at me.
"Wait! What do you mean 'forget it'?! Leader of the Demon King you say?! How could she become the Demon King's Leader?! Seriously, what the heck is going on?!"
There are too many things I want to respond to, so I'm confused where to start.
How could this goddess be this relaxed? What kind of life has she actually lived so far?
Isn't she too careless?
Alicia sighed as if she found my question to be troublesome.
"Oh my, should I tell her?" she asked with a lazy face.
I want to hit her.
But that might change her mood and she might not want to talk about it.
I'd better hold off here.
Right then and there, even though she looked very reluctant, the goddess told us everything.
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"Hey, are you sure you let them go?" asked Estella standing back up after she was hit by anti-undead magic for the second time.
Hearing that question, Alicia looked very unconcerned, she yawned sleepily, making Estella frown in annoyance. But, what happened next was even more annoying.
"No problem, I just thought that if I can finish this fight quickly, I won't have to get involved in the fight against that dragon, and I can also enjoy my time relaxing here while waiting for the boy to come back," replied Alicia with a confident smile.
Estella laughed mockingly. "Are you really sure that kid can beat that lizard? From what I see, he's only human, do you think he can do anything against a dragon?"
"Of course, he's my Hero after all," Alicia answered without the slightest hesitation, making Estella slightly surprised, but after that Alicia shrugged her shoulders casually. "Well, forget that, I'm fine talking to you like this. But, I want to quickly go relax you know? So I'm going to end this quickly. I can just forgive you if you give up, then I won't have to waste more of my time relaxing, how about that?"
Hearing that, Estella just smiled disdainfully. A moment later, without further ado, she immediately started his fight.
"[True Dark]!" shouted Estella who immediately cast dark magic towards Alicia.
However, Alicia still looked relaxed.
"Oh my, can't you just shut up and be a good girl? [Reflect]," she replied.
Instantly, a magic mirror appeared in front of Alicia and Estella's high level dark magic was reflected. The magic instead reversed its direction of attacking towards her.
"Khh!" Estella was shocked, she hastily dodged it.
She jumped to the side and only left the reflected magic hitting a strand of hers hair. However, she didn't stop there, Estella immediately corrected her posture and attacked Alicia again.
"I really underestimated you, but don't think you can win with just this! Accept it, [Inferno]!"
A combination of fire and ice magic, when Estella cast her spell, a cold blizzard froze Alicia's body and made her unable to move. At that instant, without the slightest pause, a fiery tornado appeared which attacked Alicia while she was immobilized within the ice.
The flames swirled viciously around her like a tornado and burned her alive.
Estella smiled broadly. "You feel it? It was an extremely powerful myth-level magic, it could ignore any kind of counterattack, and once you were trapped, you couldn't escape. Fufu, this is the result for underestimating me," she said confidently.
However, after the fiery tornado ended, Alicia was still standing there with her relaxed smile.
"What?! It is impossible!"
Seeing that, Estella opened her eyes in surprise.
"[Sanctuary], this is the strongest barrier magic ever, it can protect you from any magical or physical attacks from outside the barrier. Unfortunately, I can't move while using this magic," Alicia said, explaining Estella's confusion.
"Khh!"
That made the Vampire even more overwhelmed, she looked agonized over what she should do next.
After all, she had underestimated hers opponent too much.
Alicia has counter magic that can reverse even high level magic, and she even has barrier magic which can protect herself from any magical and physical attacks down to myth level magic at once.
What should she do?
"Well, I guess it's time to end this," continued Alicia and then she casually walked up to Estella.
"..."
Estella was silent, she had run out of ideas to attack the woman.
"Shit, I guess I should back off first, [Telepo—"
Estella wanted to use her teleportation magic to escape, but—
"—Did you think I would allow it? [Turn Undead]," interjected Alicia, she immediately cast anti-undead magic on Estella.
At that instant, holy light penetrated strongly within the Vampire's body and burned it.
"Kyaaahh-!!" Estella screamed in pain.
"You probably have an item to be able to defend against holy magic attacks. But, it seems you can still feel the pain huh," said Alicia with a big smile.
"Khh!" Estella tried to stand back up, but Alicia used her magic again.
"[Turn Undead]."
"Kyaaaah—!!!"
"[Turn Undead], [Turn Undead], [Turn Undead], [Turn Undead]..." She used hers magic successively, leaving Estella speechless.
Every time she wanted to stand up, Alicia mercilessly cast her powerful anti-undead magic and she fell back down groaning in pain.
Smoke came out of hers charred body.
At that moment, Alicia slowly started walking towards her. Then, she squatted down in front of the sprawled charred woman and asked with a sweet smile.
"So, are you giving up?"
She really has no mercy.
But, as soon as she approached while asking that, Estella used this opportunity to attack, she immediately tightly gripped Alicia's arm.
"—?!" Alicia was surprised.
"Fufu, you idiot. Now that you can't run or use your magic anymore, I'll suck up all the magic power you have with my [Drain Touch] and end you!" Estella said with a big smile.
Seeing that, Alicia's eyebrows rose.
"No, wait—"
She tries to stop her.
But, it was already too late.
"Fufu, now your magic belongs to me!" Estella shouted and she immediately used [Drain Touch] to absorb Alicia's magic.
But—
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH—!!!"
—A loud scream echoed throughout the forest.
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"... and yeah, this stupid undead ended herself like that. She's stupidly trying to suck up my divine power," said Alicia, glancing at Estella who she was currently sitting on to limit her movements.
After hearing the story, I couldn't help but feel sorry for that Demon Lord Leader.
"Well, how should I say it, you worked hard."
I placed my hand on the shoulder of the little girl who was the Demon King's Leader and comforted her.
"Uuh..." the girl groaned gloomily.
She really is pathetic.