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Chapter 44 – Rule Breaker And Oath
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In the halfway, Meliodas, Gowther, Ban and King made it to catch up with Tristan who kneeled near dying, heavily-injured Knight amongst the scattered corpses, holding his head "pull yourself together. What happened on the mountain?".
Wheezed, the Knight grabbed his wrist "the Knight group was... annihilated... Lord Dawn Roar's group is... fighting back against... the Armor Giant... who is protected by... fallen angel... with a goddess and... a Death God... watched nearby... that armored monster...".
After the Knight in his arm passed away, Tristan put the body back to the ground before asking them, not looking back "do you hear that?".
When they focused, carefully listening, they heard someone singing "the sky is so high where the wind sings~".
"the lullaby of Enchanted Woods", Meliodas recognized "it can't be... she shouldn't be here. What is she doing here?".
Ban and King asked in unison "who?".
Tristan sounded not too sure "for your question, we can't tell you for sure until we check".
Meliodas ordered them to move faster to the scene "either way, don't let your guard down".
"Captain, my apologize for interrupt", Gowther lifted his hand "but I know who is this 'Armor Giant'. This is what I want to ask for help. I need your help to decide what should we do about this, especially after we witnessed what happened on Cornwall Kingdom".
Tristan turned his head slowly with horror on his eyes "...what did you say?".
Meliodas firmly ordered "Gowther, explain it, details".
So, it turned out that Gowther had found a strange companion (so that was where his armor that Merlin had asked about, had gone to) who hid with him on the woods. As they ran to the battle scene, Gowther explained about how he had met with this... Creature, let's just call it. After witnessing what happened on the Cornwall Kingdom, Gowther concluded that Creature he had found maybe the failed product, the lost guinea pig of someone who drank the Demon's blood.
"but I have no idea about the fallen angel, goddess and Death God that he mentioned", referring to the passed-away-knight's words, Gowther closed his explanation "perhaps somebody else have come to accompany that guy when I left him alone?".
"probably", Meliodas landed behind the tree along with Tristan "it's them!".
Gowther, Ban and King also hid behind the tree near their leader's hiding spot. If you saw clearly, you could see all members of Dawn Roar standing face-to-face against the huge man cladded in Gowther's armor who stood above the corpses, with the Sins (and one Junior Sin) spied on them. Actually, if you carefully observed it, it was not only the Sins. Across their place, there were two other spies. One hid across the cliff behind the bushes (Jericho) and the other one floated down before hiding on the tree to watch down the scene unravel before them (who else? Elias, of course). From his position, Elias could see Jericho and the manhunt. Interesting, he thought.
Crossing his hands behind his head, Elias casually leaned his back on the bark of tree "well, since the princess asked me to just watch and observe before I decide what to do, I guess I'll just watch before I decide what should I do with them".
It was so tense, neither the Dawn Roar nor the Armor Giant move a single muscle. The spectators who hid, as the veteran they had been, knew better that whoever moved first would die.
However, what would happen after this was unpredictable at all.
First thing, the kids from the village appeared.
Not too long after that, a white-haired red-eyed woman with white dress came to pick them, telling them all to return to the village. The scared kids who called her as 'Iris' obeyed her, except one kid. Pelio, the leader of his group, instead he ran to the dangerous scene and ignored Iris. As the Sins and their Juniors (Elias and Tristan) contemplated about how to usher these kids safely back to their village, Pelio approached each members of Dawn Roar, pestering them who stood still like a statue but after he looked up and found the Armor Giant, Pelio did grave mistake with swinging wooden sword on his hand to the Armor Giant's legs, such brave (read: stupid) action.
Everything happened so fast after this.
The enormous, iron fist of a metallic monster swung down to the innocent kid.
"NO!", Iris flung herself to shield him. In order to protect Pelio from the iron fist of Giant Armor, she took the brunt, spreading a pair of three-colored wings from her back that shielding them. Blood flew out of her head as she looking down to Pelio with motherly smile on her face, her eyes turned back into her original Emerald orbs "...you're not injured, right?".
Shaking his head, Pelio sucked a deep breath at the stunning mother "...Iris, you are...?".
By this point, knowing who was that woman, Tristan and Meliodas were the first to take flight as their blood felt like boiling (they wanted to rip apart the Armor Giant who dared to hurt her, his daughter and his little sister), followed by clearly baffled Ban, King and Gowther in tow but someone stopped the five of them. With her Holy Shroud Magdala which the nature magic of this Holy Shroud only affected male, knowing the father and son behaved, Nel Hativa stopped them, wrapping the Holy Shroud around their body to 'arrest' them temporarily.
Meliodas hissed "Neiva! Let me go!".
Tristan growled "let go! What are you doing here?".
Nel Hativa didn't budge, simply pointing with her chin "be silent and just look for a while, you idiot hot-tempered thick-headed brats".
Second thing, at the time they saw several members of Dawn Roar lifting their weapons to the Armor Giant and floating on the air, another paled-skinned white-haired girl with bandages covering all around her body came in to knock all members of Dawn Roar who trying to attack the Armor Giant. Her eyes were covered by bandages, her bangs cupped her cheeks, her long straight white hair that reached her hip was blown by the wind and she growled like a beast before she sprouted a pair of raven-like dark wings from her back, dark feathers as the night sky spreading around the air.
Gowther concluded the bandaged girl was the 'Fallen Angel' and Lily as the 'Goddess' that the dead man referred "then who is the Death God, I wonder?".
Next second their attention turned into another kid who came flying to approach the unconscious woman in front of Pelio "...Lily?".
Ban shocked, feeling like witness another ghost "no fucking way!".
King jaw-slacked before his mouth hanging out and open like a fish looking for water "...are you kidding me?".
"oh, f*ck", Tristan cursed absentmindedly "not too surprising though, considering Lily is here too, but this is not gonna be good at all".
"mother! Lily, wake up!", Elias crouched beside her and shook her shoulder, ignoring the rain. When Lily wasn't moving at all, Elias snapped his finger and coldly said "Enkidu, bind them all".
The bandaged white-haired girl, so agile, avoided the chains that came out of the portals on the air but these chains successfully bind the Dawn Roar and Armor Giant tightly.
When Pelio approached him, telling about how cool it was and asking what kind of magic he had, Elias pushed him and gruffly growled "like what people said, the difference between bravery and stupidity is as thin as a paper, huh?".
(by this point, after Meliodas sweet-talked her a little, Nel Hativa released them all with slight blush on her cheeks. Both Necromancer and Dragon Sin ignored the collectives of staring dagger from wickedly-smirked Ban, disdainful-narrowed-eyes King who mumbled something about telling the poor princess and the impressed-observant-eyes Gowther).
Already used to it, Tristan simply shrugged his shoulders "uh-oh... this is not gonna be good...".
Pelio who dropped to his butt, yelled back to Elias for pushing him hardly "what do you mean?".
"actually, what for do you all come here, you damn brat? Do you seriously think that you can take down the evil criminal yourself, to purge the evil so you can become the real hero? Ha! Don't make me laugh. Who do you think you are? You are nothing but a kid! This isn't a game, it's a manhunt! This place is not the kindergarten for you all to play! You shouldn't have to come here from the first place!", with venomous tone in his voice and the disdainful intense glare, Elias swatted his hand to the side with the air of authority around his body "go away... just go back home and cry to your parent, before I even have the thought to beaten you all black and blue for making my mother get injured just because of protecting you, you spoiled useless brat".
From far distance, Ban lifted his thumb "sharp tongue as deadly as sword as if he could kill you with only his words, cold fury with murderous intention and calm attitude. Yup, without doubt, he is Elias~".
King wasn't so sure "seriously, Ban? I still wonder if it's really my brother... he's changed a lot".
Yes, compared to the last time King saw him, Elias had gotten taller, his skin got paler and his straight blonde hair also longer which Elias' hair reached his shoulder that tied neatly on his lower nape but as his older brother, King didn't recognize this Elias who had changed and really different with the Elias he had known.
Ban raised an eyebrow "is that so? I think he's not changed at all".
King nodded his head furiously "well, nothing we can do or say to argue him back because his logical statements are the truth, yes, this part of him doesn't change at all, but still—".
Tristan sighed and cut King's words off "yeah, I know all kids love her but this kid is really scary when he's angry like this".
"say, Triss", Meliodas tilted his head and crossed his hands before his chest "by you said Elias, you mean her adopted son?".
Tristan nodded his head "yep".
Meliodas asked again to confirm "the one that you and Neiva saved on his dying state about 20 years ago and you two handed over to her?".
Again, Tristan nodded his head "yep. That kid's got such temper when it comes to her".
Meliodas and Tristan the tensed aura and they turned to Ban and King who stared to them before they asked in unison "...what?".
With equal shocked level, King and Ban jawdropped.
King shrieked in disbelief "YOU KNOW MY BROTHER!?".
Ban joined him "YOU KNOW HIM AND YOU NEVER TOLD US!".
At that, Meliodas simply stated "in fact, I don't but Tristan does".
Tristan lifted his hand "well, whatever questions you have to me, let's discuss about it later because I know this won't be good".
"my, my. It can't be helped, I guess", with an expression as if saying 'I've got this', Nel Hativa winked her eye and lifted her forefinger to her lips "just stay here until the condition is safe enough after I've evacuated those kids, okay?".
Looking down guiltily to Lily's bloodied which being cradled on Elias' hands, Pelio was on the verge of the tears "I just... I was...".
"Pelio", woman with long straight blonde hair reached her hip, her face looked like Gowther's but hers had softer looks and more feminine. Her brown eyes showed nothing but kindness as she smiled down motherly to him "what are you doing here? I've been looking for you. Let's go home. It's time to eat".
"...mom? It's really you? You died because of your illness, then why...", Pelio cried as he ran to hug her "mom, I missed you so much!".
She smiled and hugged him back, patting his head before her hand glowing in purple light. After Pelio fell asleep and collapsed unconscious on her arms, she changed back into her real form, no one other than Nel Hativa. Carrying Pelio on her arms and with spark on her eyes, Nel Hativa lifted her thumb to Meliodas who approached her "mission complete".
Meliodas tilted his head "seriously, Neiva... should you do it only to make him sleeping? I'm glad you don't misuse this shape-shifter ability of yours, otherwise you can use it really well for doing crimes".
"come on, Meliodas~ don't tease me like that. I'm not the one who being labelled as criminal, right?", Nel Hativa rolled her eyes playfully before pointedly looking straight to Elias "and Elias, I understand your wrath but it's not good at all, lashing out to other kid as your stress-relief. Remember what your mother said about this bad habit of yours?".
"like I care about it when my mother got injured like this", Elias clicked his tongue before mentioning the lines about him not lashing out due to a mere stress-relief "nice trick, Aunt. What are you doing with the other kids?".
"make them sleeping too, like this one. Since you're done with your lashing out, I'm gonna send them all back to the village before I started my job here, that's it", Nel Hativa shook her heads before heading to where she had left the other sleeping kids "brats. I'm surrounded by brats and how could this be my life? By the way, as long as I'm away for a moment, good luck with them~".
After Nel Hativa disappeared to evacuate the kids back to the village, Meliodas turned to Dawn Roar, fallen angel and Armor Giant "oh, right. We still have to finish our business with these guys".
After the Sins (included Tristan as the Junior) clarified their identity, Slader yelled in excitement "oh, it's a happy day! Just if I have the chance and can break free from these chains already, I really want to fight you all, the legendary forces but unfortunately, today we have another mission, to bring back the head of the Armor Giant".
Obviously, the Dawn Roar and Armor Giant (helped by the Fallen Angel) tried to break free from the chains but they couldn't. While Elias had the deal with Dawn Roar and Armor Giant, Tristan had carried Lily away to treat her wounds, helped by Meliodas with Ban, King and Gowther watched closely.
Elias scoffed "it's no use to struggle because these chains were special. Enkidu is the Chains of Heaven, it is specially a weapon dispatched by Mother of Chaos to restrain every life being be it human, fairy, giant, even Demon and Goddess. These chains even can restrain Gods. It's futile to struggle because the higher your magic power level, the more you struggling, Enkidu will restrain you stronger instead. Only someone with the pure heart and soul like my mother Lily who would not get restrained by these chains".
Even Slader as the leader of Dawn Roar couldn't break free and he demanded, not giving King or Ban the chance to speak at all and it irritated them without Slader realized it "who are you?".
Elias smirked and he suddenly remembered of Lily's words before he left the Enchanted Woods with the princess and her group.
"you have wings on your back. You can fly wherever you want—".
Just like Lily and the bandaged girl did, Elias sprouted his wings, not Fairy wings but a pair of bird-like wings instead. Similar with Lily who had three-colored wings, Elias had a pair of gray-brown wings with two white patches on the wingbars of each wing. White patch on his wings become the large white flashes as he flapped his wings. Looking down with some nobility aura around him, Elias introduced himself just like Guinevere told him to, in case he should reveal his identity like this time. Lifting his bang, Elias revealed the tattoo of Mockingbird, right above the claw-like scar on his forehead, earning more than one flinch from his surroundings (to be more precise, from Jericho, also Ban and King who barely able to look at that).
"I am Fay Prince Elias, one of Junior Sin, Mockingbird Sin Of Hypocrisy. The one who recruited me is the Black Swan Of Desire, White Enchantress Gwen. I will talk with you later, Dawn Roar, but for now I need to take care of this one first", lowering his bangs to cover his forehead again, Elias glowered murderously as he turned to the Armor Giant, lifting his hand to Armor Giant "the price that you have to pay for every droplet of my mother's blood is immense, you know?".
The one with katana and red armor, Simon yelled to him "wait! We are ordered to bring his head by our superior!".
Elias raised an eyebrow "just who is your superior?".
The huge man, Hugo if they remembered, answered "well, the one who gave us this mission is Cardinal of Liones Kingdom, Sir Helbram".
Well, it was no use to hide it, anyway. That was the reason of why they answered him but they didn't expect that kind of reaction from Elias. Unlike King who flinched, Elias laughed instead.
"just a cardinal? My superior is a princess. Between a princess and a cardinal, obviously an order from the princess has heavier weight so there's no way I failed her, not to mention the fact that she's so scary when she's angry. She told me to watch and observe before I decide what to do with this creature. After what he's done to my mother, he can't protest at all if I kill him, right? I don't want if my prey is taken from me. Fret not, just wait there and I will leave his head for you then. If you dare to interfere, then I also will kill you here and now", Elias lifted both his hands to the side as so many weapons in various shape (lance, sword, axe, spear, etc) came out of portal on the air around Elias who hovering above the Armor Giant "Gate Of Babylon".
Meliodas pulled King and Ban threw Gowther on his shoulder to get closer to Tristan. Tristan held Lily close to him and snapped his finger to protect themselves using Perfect Cube when Elias launched all of those weapons to the Armor Giant. The Armor Giant groaned in pain as several swords and spears stabbed his legs and he dropped to his knees on the ground.
"good, at least you kneel down. How about I rip your limbs apart next? Your head will be the last", he snapped his fingers with intention to deal the deathblow but when black-hooded figure came in between him with Armor Giant swinging its Death Scythe to deflect all of weapons that he had launched to Giant Armor. Scowling deeply in displeasure, Elias floated down "what are you doing, Aunt?".
"in case you forget, other than Necromancer, I also work as Death God who have to escort the Dead to the Necropolis, though Death God is more like my part-time and not my main occupation", lowering her broad, black-hood down, Nel Hativa smirked, playfully swinging her Scythe "you know, I'm not known as Death God for nothing, since it's my second occupation. Just like me, your mother would not be known as Fay Queen and earn the title 'Titania' as the strongest Fay of her Clan, if this would be enough to kill her".
"she's right", Lily hugged Elias from behind, leaning her head down to kiss the crown of his head "calm down, my son. I wouldn't be chosen as Queen of my Clan and gain the title as the Fay Queen 'Titania' if it would be enough to kill me".
King snapped his head and just now he realized Lily was gone "since when...?".
Meliodas hummed "that's fast, as usual".
Ban was the only one who noted the veil that covering Lily's face "whatever, but what's up with the veil? I don't think there's a point on hiding her face when we have seen her face~".
Tristan waved his hand "nah, not too surprising. She's the Queen of her clan, remember? As the Queen, it's natural for her to stay at the high place and not descend down to do everything with her own hands unless it's necessary. That fact alone is enough to be the reason of why she should cover her face, though she shouldn't be here from the first place".
"mother, you were bleeding! Reckless as usual!", Elias hissed though he was grateful to Tristan as usual for his care to his mother (for Elias), his reckless sister (for Tristan). Clinging to her, he protested "how could you let yourself get injured just in order to protect those useless children!".
"oh, come on, I don't want to hear that from you. You are the one who reckless. This is only scratch, no big deal", Lily pinched the bridge of his nose before giving a light peck on his forehead "even if this is not the first time for you to kill someone and I understand your anger, but I don't want to see my son to kill someone in front of my eyes. Don't be angry. When the children cry for help with tears on their eyes, how could I abandon them?".
Blushing furiously due to embarrassed, Elias sighed in defeat, he could never win against her "you are really beautiful and kind-hearted woman, mother. No wonder the late Fairy King Dahlia only loves you till his last breath, but please, be careful. I and Oberon wouldn't want to lose our mother".
"did you guys really think we wouldn't sense you? too bad~ but thanks to you, kid, I had enough time to charge my power. Thank you very much", one of Dawn Roar's members came out of his hiding spot (where he had been hiding under the scattered corpses on the ground while his clone who got chained by Elias and sat on the rock was only an illusion). Lifting his bow, he pulled the string before he shot his arrow "charging complete, mission complete".
Lily reached out her hand "wait!".
Meliodas yelled to the bandaged girl near the Armor Giant "move aside!".
Suprisingly, she caught the arrow that was launched to Armor Giant (the arrow had been fulfilled with magic power, for heaven's sake, yet she still could stop it) and not only that. She spun her body, just like dancing, before she threw back the arrow to its wielder. Before the arrow hurt its wielder, Meliodas came in between the archer and the upcoming arrow, using Full Counter to deflect the arrow. Lily was ready across him, she reached her hand forward before opening the portal to another place so the arrow would land somewhere, wherever it was that would not endanger people's life. Lily confirmed she had sent the arrow to the place where all kind of magic could be absorbed (where else? Of course, the Magic Lake of Salisbury).
Hugo mumbled in awe "she caught Weinheidt's arrow with her bare hand...?".
Simon added in amazement "even threw it back...?".
As the impact of catch the arrow and throw it back to its wielder, the bandages which covered her eyes and head got slashed and fell.
Nel Hativa leaned her scythe on her shoulder "uh-oh... the price of releasing her seal will be immense, human".
Although she was different physically, which her supposedly raven hair had turned into white just like the appearance of her ghost, and her Emerald orbs turned into Ruby orbs, as her twin brother, Tristan could immediately recognize her "you are...Tina...".
"hey there, long time no see you, older brother", white-haired red-eyed girl, with bandages covered her head and both her hand and leg, smiled to him. She staggered a bit before wobbly stood up. Surprisingly, she lunged into him and clutched his neck as he lying flatly on his back. Tears of blood flowing out of her eyes as she smiled down creepily to him "time to go to sleep, forever... good night".
Grabbed her wrist, Tristan who lying on his back, choked "Tina... what...".
"it's so cold... where have you been, brother? why didn't you come when they tear me to pieces, skin to bones using their knives and swords?", eye-to-eye, she leaned down to whisper right in front of his face, hands still clutching his neck and her tears of blood fell to his cheeks "so why do you still live? In fact, you've wanted to die so you can't protest if I bring you with me, right?".
"ah, I guess you're right...", Tristan choked before lowering his hands to the side, closing his eyes "you can kill me".
"like the hell we will let you! Yggdrasil!", Lily lifted her hand as gigantic tree appeared behind her. She moved her hands and several chains came out of the tree "Vincula De Caelo".
For all those times they had spent together as mother and son, Elias knew just from a single glance. He reached out his hand and followed his adopted mother's lead "Enkidu".
Unfortunately, neither Lily's Vincula De Caelo or Elias' Enkidu reached them because Armor Giant caught them instead.
"Oath, Loathe, Loathsome", using this as her advantage, darkness enveloped her and Tristan, Tristina read her spell, spreading her wings broadly along with ominous darkness and miasma "Rule Breaker".
After the darkness cocoon entirely enveloped Tristan and Tristina within it, waves of darkness spread around this place and suddenly, Elias turned to King and started launching his attacks to him.
Using his Chastiefol Spirit Spear, King could dodge his attack but he didn't have an idea why Elias had to attack him now "Elias, what are you doing?!".
"where have you been, Harlequin?", Elias lashed out all his frustration towards his brother, for leaving the Fairy King's Forest and for abandoning them, he and Elaine "do you think whose fault it is?!".
King flinched, but his friend was in danger and he couldn't afford to let go "whatever you want to talk with me, as your brother, I will listen to it later but not right now".
"like I care about it".
A beautiful demon appeared, none other than Nel Hativa who had changed into Demon form "everyone looks perplexed here. Should I explain?".
"first off, explain what happened to her", Meliodas pointed to the darkness cocoon as he trailed off "she is...".
Nel Hativa averted her eyes, unable to look straight to Meliodas "...yes, it's Tina".
"Lady Death God, at least could you explain what happened here?", Slader pointed out "and just help us to break free from these chains already".
"I will explain", Lily lifted her hand and explained about what happened here "Rule Breaker is magic spell that similar with a curse, it will send your heart into turmoil. It makes all kind of negative emotions such as sadness, anger, despair etc. to arise on the surface. No matter how deep that emotions have been suppressed, no matter how long the emotions have been hidden or buried. For Elias, it looks like he's been suppressing his negative emotions and he just let it out right now. My poor son, told him already to not suppress his stress".
"can't you do something over here?", King dodged every with his Fifth form of Spirit Spear Chastiefol Increase "you are his adopted mother, right?".
"yes, I am. To break the Rule Breaker spell, we need to purify the miasma that she sent to us in order to make all negative emotions arise or we can just let someone who got affected by this spell to just pour all of it. Purification is one of my ability but I'm not too expert on it. Just if Isolde is awakened, she can do the purification because it's her expertise", Lily simply sat on her Sacred Treasure, Yggdrasil before lifting her thumb "seems like you are his biggest source of stress, so it's your business with my adopted son. Just accept his wrath and fight back to defend your life. Fight".
King felt like he was punished by this perfect image of a mother "SERIOUSLY!".
Meanwhile, Nel Hativa gave quick explanation about Tristina's resurrection and the side-effect of her resurrection "the resurrection normally will have the side-effect. I never saw there's any of resurrection without effect. If there is, I will give applause and steal their technique then. There are four effect. First, lost all memory. Second, lost their 'self', which severals of their emotions just lost or their personality changed. Third, lost both and turned into another person, no longer the same person with the one they were before they died. Last, they may not lose their self and memory, they still have the same personality and memory, still the same person with the one before they died, but it will eat them away. If they have something that lost from them, they're gonna seek for it or on the opposite, it's them who have whatever strong emotions or memory thus they have to release it. For example, if they have regret or grudge, they have to release their rage and grudge to something as outlet otherwise... they will turn insane who only know how to rage just like the sorrowful blood-thirsty beast, that's if they haven't killed themselves accidentally in the process".
Wordlessly, both Nel Hativa and Meliodas knew, it was the second for Meliodas due to his curse (lost his emotions) from Demon King but for Tristan and Tristina, it was the—
As if he could read their mind (which not actually), Ban said it out loud "for Tristan and Tina, it's the last, right?".
In fact, Ban reminded of how Tristan went rampaging after his resurrection before Isolde stopped him. It felt similar with this time, which meant the source of whatever emotions or memory that Tristina had, was no one other than Tristan.
"well, it's unlike I can't do anything", Nel Hativa gripped her death scythe tightly "it seems like Tina intended to bring Tristan with her. There's only one way to go now, to save Tristan and put her back into eternal piece".
It looked like all bloods drained from Meliodas' face "Neiva, you can't possibly—".
Nel Hativa lifted both her hand to them "Réalta Nua!".
Meliodas stopped her attack with Counter Vanish "Neiva, stop!".
"move aside, Meliodas", Nel Hativa in her Demon form swatted his hand "it's my responsibility to bring back the dead to life. It's also my responsibility to bring them back to dead rather than let them live as the sorrowful, blood-thirsty beast".
"trust them!", Meliodas lifted a sword that he earned from Elizabeth "do you think I will allow you to do such a thing in front of my eyes?".
"just like the old time, huh?", Nel Hativa lifted her hand and a death scythe appeared from her shadow "do not blame me if I'm being serious, Meliodas".
"no, it's not", Meliodas refused to move aside "unlike the old time, we do not fight against each other with intention to kill, Neiva".
Looking at the fight between Elias and King, also the fight between Meliodas and Nel Hativa, Ban only could mumble "...this is a mess".
On the opposite, Gowther only showed his impressed eyes with his usual blank face "interesting. What will happen after this?".
Simon called out to Slader from the background "Captain, I feel like we are misplaced as the spectator here".
Slader nodded to Lily and Elias "same goes with me. However, the ones who have the control of these chains are that kid and his mother. Let's wait and see for now, but once we have the chance to break free, do it".
Suddenly, they felt another presence came flying here, someone with strong magic power. They thought she was another goddess with different kind of Lily at first, as she landed near the darkness cocoon, or should they say the Phoenix from how fire pervaded her wings and her body.
Looking up, Isolde asked the duo who still fought "you two, where is Tristan?".
Nel Hativa and Meliodas stopped their fight for a moment, blinking to her in awestruck but Meliodas was the one who ask "which Isolde you are? Isolde Belialuin or Isolde Marianna?".
Isolde tilted her head "what kind of question is it, godfather?".
Meliodas concluded "oh, Isolde Evergreen, then?".
All Dawn Roar members and Meliodas' comrades jawdropped "GODFATHER!".
"for your question, all of it. I have the memories of all times I've reincarnated", Isolde smiled fondly to him "I was orogonally Isolde Belialuin, the Phoenix Priestess. I remember that you were my godfather when I was Isolde Evergreen, though I consider you've been my father for my whole life. Right now, I'm Isolde Marianna, the Dove Sin Of Devotion".
"Dove Sin Of Devotion... while I understand that Desire, Revenge and Hypocricy are indeed included Sinful thing, but I don't understand about you, Lady", Slader asked "how could the Devotion be a Sin?".
"because that is my Sin. Considering my title as Dove Sin Of Devotion and how I committed my Sin, I guess it makes me become the Junior Sin from the Goat Sin Of Lust", her bitter amusement exchanged with concern as Isolde turned back to Meliodas "godfather, you haven't answered me yet. Where is my husband?".
After earning quick explanation from Nel Hativa and Meliodas, Isolder hummed "I see, so that's why you two fight".
"don't mind us", Meliodas sent flying kick which easily avoided by Nel Hativa "just purify Tina's Rule Breaker if you can".
"Sir Ban, could you help me?", turning to Ban and earning startled look from the Fox Sin who earnestly offered his aide when she needed it, Isolde smiled as she reached her hand out "if I remember, you have useful technique called Fox's Hunt, right? Please use it to pull Tristan out of this darkness cocoon once I create the opening. I will use my purification spell and when the darkness cocoon opened up a little, please use it to pull him out of this death trap. I don't want to risk burning my own husband with my fire when I purify her along with the darkness".
Knowing Isolde planned to purify the darkness cocoon along with Tristina after she broke Rule Breaker spell, Meliodas protested "Isolde, you can't do it!".
"godfather, although she is my husband's twin sister, but between her and my husband, my husband is on top priority for me", Isolde blinked away her tears, fire enveloping her hand "forgive me".
At that second, Lancelot grabbed her wrist "stop. Your hand is not for kill the life, but to save life. Do you seriously think this is what your husband want from you?".
Isolde glared to him and hissed "let go, Lancelot. He is my husband—".
"—They are precious people for me, just like you feel to them. I'm not gonna leave the two of them no matter what", Lancelot looked up before pulling out his Arondight from its sheath, he thought he had no choice now "...luckily, it's rain now".
From the corner of his eyes as he fought Nel Hativa, Meliodas realized that Elizabeth, Hawk, Veronica, Griamore, Diane and even Morgan had arrived here. Lancelot didn't realize their arrival, no one did except Meliodas who tried to warn Lancelot to not use it but it was too late. Even if Lancelot realized their arrival, included Morgan along with them, Lancelot wouldn't risk his sibling's life and he would choose to use this either way, for the sake of his brother and sister's life.
"The Lady Of The Lake, allow me to use it", Lancelot lifted his Arondight in front of his face upright, his eyes that turned into gold. Blue and green light with silvery yellowish sparkles emanating from his body and his sword as Lancelot's eyes were gleaming in gold and silver "answer my call and show yourself, Alicorn".
Morgan fell to her knees when she saw Arondight turned into a woman who bodily made by water. The Lady cupped Lancelot's cheeks and kissed Lancelot's forehead before Lancelot's eyes that turned into golden were gleaming in sparks of gold and silver as his body turned into winged white Unicorn with silver mane and golden eyes.
Lifting her hands up to cover her mouth, Morgan blinked her tears away in awestruck "Lancelot, you are...".
A/N :
Yosh, I did finished it. Seriously, little fight scene here is the reason of why it took me rather long time. Yeah, Ban, you're right, this is a mess. More will be revealed next chapter, also prepare yourself and the tissue for bittersweet on upcoming chapter.