Chapter 249

However, the Queen herself was the closest to him and heard his declaration. The Queen wiped the line of tears from her cheeks. Ahhh… Why was she crying at seeing a man like Kuze. She seemed just like any normal young girl. I’m so glad I got through without killing. “…Why didn’t you kill him?” Mestelexil was immediately pressed for answers by Kaete after returning from the match victorious. “It turned out that Kuze didn’t have anything else up his sleeve besides the Greatshield of the Dead. In the end, he was just a sniveling groveling mess. There were any number of ways to kill him from that position. Why did you just watch?” “Hmmm…” Mestelexil loved one-sided violence. He enjoyed running roughshod and crushing those without any power to resist. “But…Kuze…d-didn’t kill me! So…I didn’t…do anything!” However, his fight with Kuze wasn’t actually one-sided. Mestelexil knew that Kuze was able to kill any target in his sights at will. Kuze held the violent force to resist, yet he chose not to use it, right up to the very end. Mestelexil’s immature emotions felt that fact wasn’t fair, somehow. “I—I want…to act cool…like Mama!” “Hmph, there you go again with your nonsense.” Kaete scratched his head in exasperation. However, in a rare twist for Kaete, he turned around without reprimanding Mestelexil any further. “Hey, Kaete!” Mestelexil the Box of Desperate Knowledge was an ultimate weapon, capable of learning. This intelligence of his was beginning to learn something from Kiyazuna’s brush with death, Kia’s wailing lament against death, and Kuze’s rejection of death. “Wh-why…is everyone…so sad…about dying?!” “…What a stupid question.” Kaete the Round Table seemed to genuinely believe it, too. He spat out his response. “Everyone out there still holds on to a stupid belief: that anything’s possible as long as you’re still alive.” Eleventh Match. Winner, Mestelexil the Box of Desperate Knowledge.