Kapitel 131: Save 76 ─ Fiendish Knight
These guys had no idea who they were messing with.
I looked at the great nobles and their families who couldn't believe that after all that damage it was okay.
Poor naive people.
Not only them, Tom, he couldn't believe his eyes.
But it didn't matter, it was time to show them that Battler and I, we are the most terrifying combination.
"Guh, don't fuck with me!"
Tom backed up to come straight at me.
"You're just all talk, you're nobody!"
The spear in his hand spun in the opposite direction.
It was absorbing magical power.
The spear was spinning to such an extent that the density of the magic element in the air was visible.
"I'll make sure you're just a sack of bones!"
His armored unit was galloping straight to pierce me.
I'd be scared if what happened just now hadn't been an act.
"You know, there's something I wanted to tell you, it's about your attitude Tom-kun."
"Shut your mouth!"
His armed unit was getting closer.
I took a boxing pose. And I started to warm up a little.
Left.
Right.
I threw weak punches as I spoke to him.
"I don't know if it's just you or is the whole Exner Household full of smug jerks?"
"Starting with your brother, Linus. That guy is the biggest idiot of all for trusting Jude."
"Don't you talk bad about my brother, you Kingdom scum!"
Tom stepped up and because of my words missed the punch.
He made a U-turn to come again.
"Don't take it the wrong way, it's just an opinion based on what happened. First, your brother betrayed the one who helped him from the beginning, didn't he?"
"Don't talk anymoreeeeee!"
He missed again, what a bad aim.
"Listen to me at least, continuing─ did your brother really expect Randolf not to retaliate against you if you achieved your goal?"
"Personally I think something bad was going to happen; the Rosenberg Household wouldn't stand idly by after removing him as Acting Chairman, it's the most logical thing to do since they are their rulers for a reason."
In this country, the nobility has only one type, a house of dukes. Their rank is the same as relatives of the royal family.
The Acting Chairman acts as the highest authority, something like a king, but it is assumed that the one who played that role was the Vermillion Household, which despite being the highest ranking, they would be at the same level as a grand duke. All this to avoid problems with the other houses.
The nobles who live in this country and are foreigners, have the same rank as when they lived in their homeland. Nobody cared if you were the disinherited prince or a rich marquis. If you did not have the blessing of the sacred tree, you were not a relative of the great nobles.
That's why Linus and Jude's plan was going to backfire. Randolf would not allow his house to lose power, which would lead to a power struggle no longer political but warlike.
I base this on his actions he did against Lucy and Diana's family.
Back to this fool who failed again.
"Now the second problem with your house, is you. Tell me, what the hell do you think you are doing? Sara was going to be your wife, you were willing to give such a nice girl a life of suffering! If I were her husband, I would certainly make sure she was happy every day."
It's a little late to say it, but if I take Lucy, can't I take Sara too?
Thanks to these idiots I understood that I am really a terrible man. The Queen of my country is now my lover. I am happy to know that I will be able to touch and kiss a goddess like her.
So, can't I take a spoiled girl like Sara as my own? I feel like my head is full of strange things. I feel happy at the thought of having more voluptuous girlfriends.
No doubt I'm a bad man, but I promised to make those two happy so I will also do it with Lucy and the others.
Now with Tom─
"Are you an idiot?! It's just a political engagement, love is the stuff of fantasies!"
"Oh, so you admit there is no love. You know, I'm glad you said that, so I won't feel sorry for Sara when I see your pretty bruised face."
"The only one who will end up bruised will be you!"
This time Tom aimed his spear right, he was coming straight for to pierce me.
Oops, scary.
But it won't happen.
"Battler..."
I raised my right fist to the same level.
"Strike!"
And I held it still watching the beautiful white colored spinning spear being crushed by the motionless fist.
"...!"
Tom realized too late that the spear was sinking due to the blow.As he withdrew it, he observed how it looked like a smashed banana.
His shocked face must be hilarious.
"Tom-kun, you're a very greedy boy."
Saying that, I walked over.
He raised his shield to protect himself, but that won't do him any good.
"Battler... Jabs!"
As if it was amateur training, Battler's fists were nonstop hitting the shield.
Tom used both hands on the shield due to the fact that he was backing away.
"Being greedy is not wrong. We all are, we are greedy by nature, but your sin is that that greed brought suffering to Sara and Lucy. You wanted the Exner Household─ no, you wanted your stupid onii-chan to be the next Acting Chairman, didn't you?"
The shield looked like a dune because of the blows, I raised my left and with a single blow I sent it flying.
Two of his fingers were torn off with it.
Tom was recoiling in panic, his voice was too.
"W-what's wrong with helping my brother get promoted! He's better than all the great nobles put together! If I could help him become the next Acting Chairman, that would make him very happy and he'd thank me! It's normal to help your family!"
He's right, from his point of view, if my sweet angel─ Pola-chan, would hand over the family territory to me, it would make me happy. It would show that she loves me so much.
At the same time it would be scary since stupid Lyle and Bram depend on that territory.
So, I don't want anything from my family.
Am I not a good brother by avoiding family conflict?
Those idiots should kiss my ass, but it's not them who I should be rubbing that in.
"That's why your greed is bad. bun-bun!"
After making a flatulence sound with my mouth, Tom walked away and then from his sides he pulled out two long axes.
"Your argument is absurd!"
"Of course it is. Since you don't need to be a good brother for a bastard big brother who is capable of biting the hand of anyone who helps him. If it was you he bit, would you still help him?"
"Of course I would!!!"
Aah, what a cute brotherly love, it makes me nauseous that they're both attractive.
I hate all pretty boys to death, they all must die!
Leaving my faithful thought to my true hatred of Linus, Tom was coming to kill me, but I struck a ready pose to intercept him.
"Karate!"
I crouched down a little and grabbed Tom's front legs. I threw him high as far as I could.
Clearly he didn't understand what was going on, but I didn't care.
After a few seconds, he fell to the ground. I calmly walked over to him.
"I told you didn't I? Don't be arrogant and greedy, that suits a guy like me perfectly!"
I grabbed one of his legs and ripped it off like a lobster's.
Then another, and another, and the last one.
I put my right foot on his body and grabbed the upper body hard.
"Is this the best that Exner Household technology and Aster's best pilot can offer?"
There was no response from anyone. Instead, Tom's tearful voice did.
"Uwaah~ help me nii-chan!"
Don't be a crybaby.
"Your punishment isn't over, understand a little of Sara's pain knowing that her future husband wasn't going to love him."
I played with Tom a little and turned what was left of his armed unit into a ball. Of course, I wasn't going to kill him, I just wanted to torment him a little.
Once it looked like a ball, I kicked it and it flew away.
"TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!"
I heard Linus' voice perfectly. Tom was alive, I hope...
Then, a big boom happened.
The rubble where Jude was standing rose up.
He was apparently more upset, he grabbed his remaining swords and again they caught fire.
"I'm going to kill you, Demon of the Realm!!! Lucy is mineeeeeeee!!!"
Jude lunged at me. I decided to pull out some weapons perfect for him.
From Battler's backpack, two objects flew out.
They were blunt swords. It was like a steel board that can't cut you, but it will hurt.
It was like a steel board that can't cut you, but it will make it hurt.
"Nice timing, Jude-kun! It's time for your lesson in humility!"
We interjected.
"If Lucy won't be my wife, then she won't be yours or anyone else's!!!"
Someone needs to teach this idiot that "No" is "No".
I did a little force and Jude went flying.
He yelled at me. "Just because you defeated Tom, doesn't mean I'm inferior! My armed unit is superior! I'm Aster's chosen one, I'm a great noble and you're nothing but an outsider!"
Jude planned to win against Battler by relying on the specifications of his armored unit. Ixion was irritated by that.
"I can't play along with your game, Master."
"Don't say that. The spectators are getting excited too, aren't they?"
The voices of Aster's people were heard which Ixion intercepted.
"Throw him out Jude on behalf of all the nobles of Aster!"
"That guy deserves to know that the military and knights support you."
"Truly he is horrible. No doubt he's a fiendish knight."
Fiendish knight, that's a good name for them to remember not to mess with me ever again.
Well, the military men in this area were from Banfield Household and Exner Household. I never expected them to proactively help me.
Jude's armed unit turned the blade of his sword into a red color like a heat sword.
It was a weapon to melt enemy armor as it cut with its high heat.
My blades melted.
"Master..."
It seemed that Ixion was irritated with me, that he pretended to be at a disadvantage. It must be irritating for him that Battler is losing.
"What an impatient guy you are. The fun only starts from now on."
Battler was moving away from the push of the larger unit, but then I gradually increased the engine power as the armored units were competing to block the attacks.
Battler, who had been pushed back so far, stopped moving and slowly began to push Jude's armored unit back.
I could hear Jude's panicked voice.
"Is the power output dropping!!! Damn, this miserable piece of junk!!!"
Jude was blaming the armor. He couldn't see the reality.
"Jude-kun, don't blame your unit. That armor is excellent. The useless one is you."
The blue flame burst out of Battler's engine nozzle and began to push back the red unit.
And then I also pulled a sword out of the backpack.
Battler grabbed it with his left hand and slashed Jude's sword with it.
"... What─!"
The slashed sword spun in the air. When it stabbed into the ground, white smoke burst out with a sizzle from how hot it was.
"Slow reaction. Not the armed unit, but the pilot."
As Battler kicked, the red armor folded back and was sent flying.
The pilot's skill was shoddy and he couldn't fix the armor's posture in the air.
Battler threw his battle axe and slashed the left arm of the red armor that was slowly trying to get up.
Shouts came from the spectators, but they sounded like praise to me.
"That armor is wasted on you~. You can only use it in this grade, even though its specs are so high. The bastard bloody knight was much more terrifying than this. If that person rides that armor, he would be completely out of control."
I got a chill remembering that time.
I have no desire to fight a guy just like Bandel again. I'd be grateful if everyone was weak.
The memory of me spinning around, crying and being brutally beaten was coming back. I didn't want to go through something like that anymore... but today it was necessary, I spun around.
"Haha~, I'm so glad you're my opponent. Because─ even with the sacred tree's divine protection, you're still useless on the inside. Besides, the sacred tree's divine protection isn't a big deal either!"
When I laughed, I could hear the onlookers sending their anger at me.
The conversations Ixion picked up only repeated things like "Please let us shoot that guy!" Or "That bastard! How dare he mock us!" Or "Please give permission to attack that guy!"
The weak point of Aster's people was a speech calling them useless people who could only rely on their emblems, huh? I would remember it firmly in my mind. The red armed unit was standing.
I saw him standing while provoking Jude.
"Come on, get serious. or maybe that's the best you can do? Try to defeat me with the divine protection you're so proud of. try it! Give it your all─ because I will crush you like the good-for-nothing you are no matter what you do!"
I would face the opponent who challenged me with all his power, defend against everything using the difference in armor specs and win on top of that.
That was the right way to take the riding position. Jude was a rookie no doubt, I would say he was evenly matched with Derrick.
The red unit emblem on his back grew even larger and even lit up. Several fireballs were fired from there, but Battler easily dodged them. The fireballs were huge, but they had no speed.
Nor did they have any density. They just swelled up a lot.
Even though he was getting a lot of energy, he couldn't control it. It was like a shower nozzle.
Even if the shower had a lot of water supply, the nozzle clogged the flow and only a little water could get out.
It was really a waste.
"Oi, oi, is that the best you can do? There's a limit to how disappointing you can be. Don't you have any other hidden 'aces'? The armor's appearance is really deceiving! Maybe you're already running out of triiiiiiiiiiiiicks?"
As I laughed, the red armor rammed into Battler.
I put the gun away and had Battler stop the approaching red armor with one hand.
Even though the armors clashed in midair, Battler barely moved at all. The red unit that got its momentum was knocked out by the impact. His unit was dented from the collision.
Jude must be getting shaken up intensely inside.
I kicked the armored unit flying so that a distance was created between us, then had Battler hold a rifle.
I took aim with the muzzle of the rifle and told Jude where I was going to shoot.
"I'll aim for your right leg, so let's see you block or dodge it."
"Kuh!"
Jude let out a pained voice and tried to escape by materializing the emblem in front of the armor to use as a shield.
Ixion spoke up when he saw that.
"That shield pattern has already been analyzed."
When I pulled the trigger, the bullet went through the right leg of the red armor that was thrown around and destroyed it.
Naturally, the shield was also pierced. Jude was losing his composure at the sight.
"The divine protection of the sacred tree was pierced─?"
"Don't think that another country won't take any countermeasures forever. Just piercing through your proud divine protection is already possible."
Well, it was a lie.
But saying that would further instigate his sense of danger.
"Okay, next is your right arm."
Jude couldn't seem to accept what had just happened. He used the power of his emblem to place even more shields.
He placed three shields and even thickened them even more.
"It doesn't make sense anymore."
It was just as Ixion said.
When I pulled the trigger, the bullet went through all those shields and blew off the red armor's right arm.
"Let's speed it up, next is your left leg!"
I was showing Aster the sight of the emblem being easily pierced and how the newest Banfield Household armor was hit.
"What, that thing is just a target? I heard Aster's armor is powerful, but it's not as scary as the rumor says, huh. If so, it looks like we can attack right away. Maybe I'll advise His Majesty to invade Aster, I'll tell him that if we don't hurry, another country will take it from us or something! Aster is going to be a good hunting trophy!"
As I said that while destroying Jude's armor, the Aster military around us started to panic.
I walked over to the red unit that had lost its extremities and lifted it up by grabbing its head.
I squeezed the rifle barrel in the cockpit and spoke to Jude.
"You really are just useless. It's disappointing that the divine protection of the sacred tree is just this."
"D-Damn it!"
I could hear Jude's frustrated voice. I must have been frustrated.
"If only you were more decent, if only you interacted with Lucy normally, it wouldn't be like this. The development of Lucy falling in love with me wouldn't be possible."
There was a limit to how jealous you could be.
"Maybe Lucy hated you because you're so weak. You put on airs and graces even though you're a weakling, then you also caused trouble by dragging her around you─ you're the worst. I can understand how Lucy can hate you."
"You bastard, you don't understand anything! What do you know about me, I like Lucy, I love her!"
"You're wrong! Lucy doesn't like you, let alone love you. Rather she hates your persistences!"
She never said anything like that, but with her current state there was no way she could accept it anymore.
If a girl I liked told me "I hate your persistencies" it would make me want to cry just imagining it. I no longer felt like I could stand up again if Alisa and Airi said something like that to me.
It seemed like Jude was the same way too.
"If only... If only you had never appeared in front of us!"
"It would still be the same. Even then Lucy wouldn't choose you."
"YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!"
He still tried to resist even with the barrel of a gun pointed at him. He didn't try to beg for his life or anything.
This kid was really trouble.
Jude's heart showed no sign of breaking at all.
But the military men watching this battle were about to have their hearts broken instead.
An owner of a great noble emblem couldn't beat Battler even after piloting the best Aster armor.
Far from winning, they even toyed with him. Faced with such a reality, they were shown how weak they were.
Ixion warned.
"Master, the enemy armor is running out of control. It is going to explode due to excessive energy supply. Please stand down immediately."
"Huh? Hey, can Jude escape from there?"
"Maybe he's noticed it himself, but he doesn't seem to have any intention of escaping."
"Shit!"
I put the rifle away and had Battler force open the cockpit hatch. I saw Jude inside.
His face staring at me was oozing madness.
"Get out of there already, you stupid bastard!"
Jude was laughing.
"I'll take you to hell with me. I'll blow myself up like this, I'll blow you to pieces!"
"Master, look around carefully!"
I heeded Ixion, and observed a terrifying thing.
The inside of the cabin was almost entirely covered with blood vessels that interconnected with Jude as if he were a chrysalis.
Above him, a strange eye was watching us.
"Hahahaha, you'll die with me, I won't allow Lucy to be unhappy with anyone but me!"
Ixion reported.
"Master, I don't know what's going on, but the quick analysis I'm doing inside the cockpit shows a pattern similar to that."
"To that?"
"... To Diabolos."
I broke out in a cold sweat as I remembered my biggest trauma of the war. Bandel turned into a hideous creature and an even more hideous floating shark appeared out of nowhere.
I almost died after fighting them.
"Ixion... You mean that thing came back?"
"I don't think so. I made sure to check and it was incinerated. But this thing is very similar. We should take it out as soon as possible and get Jude out, it seems to be being controlled by those roots!"
Jude's eyes were red, red liquid was pouring down his cheeks and he looked like a rabid dog from the pulse generating those blood vessels.
For a moment I remembered what happened to me last year. I became stubborn and had horrendous thoughts towards the girls.
Don't tell me what!
Wooden roots emerged from Jude's emblem and entangled Battler.
"What?!!"
Ixion reproached me.
"This is because you're wasting your time, Master."
Ixion snatched the control from me and Battler began to forcefully tear off the roots and ivies. After that, he immediately grabbed Jude and yanked him out of the cockpit.
The red unit was out of control and began spewing smoke. Battler kicked it and it exploded grandly in the air.
Battler covered Jude with both hands as he took distance from the explosion. Ixion was perplexed by the power of the blast.
"The power of the explosion is greater than expected."
"That was dangerous."
"The power of the emblem also had a higher output than expected. It's worrisome."
"Either way, it all ends with this."
Jude had fainted when we slowly landed on the ground.
AUTORENGEDANKEN 
Siegburn
Siegburn Rudel will teach the egocentric nobles what it means to be self-centered and presumptuous for real.
We get to I don't know what plot twist it is, but from here the crazy theories start XD.
As some clarifications you may be wondering: the Kingdom's armed units are superior in parameters than Aster's, that's because the Kingdom doesn't use magic stones like them, that's why they depend on training and good armor, in Aster they only depend on the emblem.
The reason why Jude didn't end up as F, is due to an explanation much later that will happen.
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