himself.

「....-!」

A chilly breeze suddenly blew through him. Lux’s body shivered.

He should return quickly to the banquet hall of the party and warm his body with the fire at the hearth.

After that he would look at everyone’s sleeping face and wait quietly for dawn to come while also serving as a lookout.

Thinking that, he turned on his heels and walked through the corridor inside the castle once more, but then a faint prickling pain stabbed his head.

Then abnormality was conveyed to Lux not through his eyes or ears, but through his nose.

He couldn’t say that he was used to smell this, but with his position he had experienced this smell several times.

The smelly iron’s──smell of blood was rising up from the courtyard’s atrium.

Lux immediately looked down from the second floor’s courtyard to the courtyard at the first floor. There, a collapsed person and an angel type Abyss that was looking down on the person stood out in the darkness.

–

「──Eh!?」

–

Lux immediately pressed his mouth and swallowed back the scream that almost flew out from his mouth.

A great amount of blood was flowing from the collapsed person──that person was dead.

There wasn’t anyone in the courtyard when he was strolling just now.

And yet, this scene suddenly appeared. That fact shocked him

He rubbed his eyes thinking if it was an illusion, but far from vanishing, he could see even more different existences.

「──Target’s elimination complete activating alteration of history’s divergence point starting erasure of reality at present time.」

It was a monotonous voice that was said rapidly without punctuation.

A peculiar outfit that looked really similar to a pilot suit.

The one who was clad in a suit that was tightly fitting on the body was a petite girl with cold expression.

But, a trait that was even more striking than those was growing on the girl’s head.

The mechanical bird feathers that were growing out from around the ears.

Lux’s memory was remembering the existence that possessed such trait which displayed their inhuman nature.

「You are──El Fajura!?」

The Gear Leader who once controlled the Ruin Gigas and attacked the New Kingdom along with Hayes.

After it was destroyed by Yoruka and stopped functioning, its whereabouts became unknown but──

「......... Encountering hostile existence, asking permission to eliminate....denied roger.」

The Automaton who noticed the voice looked up at Lux from the courtyard.

She tilted her head diagonally and glanced at Lux, then she showed a slight smile and muttered something.

There was no mistake.

「Why!? Why are you here!? No, more importantly that man is──」

A man around thirty years old wearing a tailcoat suit under his mantel.

Right beside him, Lux could see the Sword Device of a Drake falling out from its sword belt.

Lux’s heart leaped strongly inside his chest despite not knowing the man’s face.

(Who is this man? I’ve never seen him before but, don’t tell me──)

「Starting fate’s course correction, the manager orders to ignore object that is not a target and continue, consenting.」

El Fajura’s robotic and monotonous voice struck Lux’s eardrums.

Right after that, seven colored light shined at the castle’s courtyard and Lux’s field of vision was faintly melting.

(What in the world is this..... Am I dreaming!?)

Just before Lux’s lost consciousness, a man wearing an ultramarine robe that was called an armor suit showed his face.

Singlen Shelbrit.

Lux burned the figure of that man who was called the Blue Tyrant into his eyes and he lost consciousness.