Yuto and the others got off in front of the gates of the Sei Sei Seijo Academy with Meira driving.

''Then we'll be waiting for you here.''

　Nodding to Meira, Yuto and the others headed to class. They were very late, but they managed to arrive before the last class of the afternoon was over.

''Yuto, you go to the roof. There will be a big fuss if you see those injuries. We will take everyone with us as soon as class is over and meet up with you later. We'll make sure that you are well informed of your situation.

Well okay, I will.

　In this school where there were only super-ladies, if a high school boy with a bandage suddenly arrived, there was certainly a high possibility of a big mess. Thinking about the future, Yuto agreed to it.
　After separating from Mizuho and the others, Yuto went to the roof of the school building on his feet and waited for Mizuho, Ichigo and the others to arrive. Yuto had sent a text message to Gaston during the trip, and he already knew the location of the children who seemed to be the hostages of the water stoppage.
　Nevertheless, this way of Cagliostro is out of the ordinary for a competent person belonging to the country, Yuto thinks. It's as if he thinks that once he captures Marion, what happens afterwards is of no importance.
　Also, the hostage, the curse, and the way it's done makes Yuto angry.
　And with the stories from Gaston and the information that Nisae's agency had, and imagining that Cagliostro's aim, it contained something that even the Doudou family could not overlook.
　There is a slight possibility that this man knows about the existence of the demon world, and his actions more than two hundred years ago were also a section of an attempt to connect the demon world with this world.
　I don't know what in the world they were thinking, but even if they sacrificed Marion alone, there is no way they could open the gate to the demon world.
　Moreover, even the most talented individuals cannot do it by themselves.
　Isn't it a madman to come up with such a thing?　I can't help but wonder.

　But there was one thing that bothered Yuto.
　Just like Lokiarum of Surt's sword, this man may have taken in the flesh and blood of a demon to prolong his life. That seems to be a jutsu that is not understood in this world, based on the overall story from Hisae. The jutsu that has been seen several times in the demon world is not known here. Then why are these people giving the technique?
　This leads Yuto to speculate that there is something behind Rochiarum and Cagliostro.

(Is that indeed too much of a leap...)

　That, and the fact that they said they were going to coexist with other human beings, but I don't know what that was about. This was another point that felt like the ravings of a madman.
　Even if this Cagliostro didn't exactly understand the existence of the demon world, or even if he did, it would be insane to think about coexistence with an outsider in the demon world.
　It's not realistic to say that coexistence is a problem before discussing it, based on Yuto's experience in the demon world.
　In the other world known as the demon world, there are many demon gods that have powers beyond human knowledge. These demon gods did not cooperate with each other, and in many cases, they did not even interfere with each other, although they often thought it was rather troublesome.
　However, even these independent existence demon gods had one thing in common.

　That was their contempt and condescension towards humans, and their bottomless hatred.

　It was true that there were all sorts of outsiders in the demon world. Some of them possessed Demon God-grade power and were exceptionally friendly to humans, while others were indifferent.
　However, there were extraterrestrials who had the greatest power in the demon world and would never allow humans to survive.
　These were the demonic ones.
　The essence of these people is ungodly and evil.
　Passing through the Demon's Grotto, the Du family calls the different world there the "Demon's World" because it is the world where these demons roam around.
　These demons rejoice in the misfortune of all living beings and play with their lives to create a hellish world.
　The Dou Dou family was the bulwark of this world to prevent these people from ever coming to this side of the world. That's the reason why they protect the Demon's Grotto.
　If Cagliostro was communicating with the demons in the demon world, there would be no such thing as coexistence. There is only subordination and servitude, and beyond that, the negative emotions of humans are amplified by these demons, and ultimately they become food for these demons.
　Yuto understands this reality in his bones in the demon world.
　This is due to the irreversible experience of sacrificing his comrade in arms and his beloved Lieselotte.

(This man Cagliostro.......do you know that or not? No. If you knew, the idea of coexistence would never occur to you.)

　When Yuto came to the Demon World to look for his father Ryoichi, it was right after one of the four human nations in the Demon World had been destroyed by these demons. This country was the frontline of the battle against the demons.
　I'm not going to be able to say that I'm not going to be able to do anything about it.
　So why did they bring about the destruction of this country?
　Hundreds of years ago, there was a massive invasion of the human nation by demons that occurred in the demon world.
　After that, the humans were able to overcome the invasion and entered an era of relative peace. Although there were small-scale battles with the demon race during that time, they survived by joining forces with each other as usual.
　As a result of this, the human nation enjoyed prosperity and abundance during this era of peace.
　However, a few years before Yuto's visit, a great invasion of demons occurred suddenly and without warning, the first one in hundreds of years.
　But at this time, virtually the only country that sent reinforcements was the one country that Liaichi had holed up in.
　This was due to the fact that one of the Demon Gods, who had not been part of the invasion of the human nation until now, had joined the war. It was this newly joined demon god that had spent a long time integrating into human society, making a dark leap, and finally cutting down the footsteps of these four kingdoms.
　The humans were also wary of such a possibility. However, this era of peace and tranquility, despite the fact that they had the greatest common enemy in common, the demons, gave rise to conflicts of interest and leadership among the humans, and even resulted in their hatred for each other.
　This was accelerated from behind the scenes by the evil genie who would later become Yuto's arch-enemy.
　Yuto recalls.
　The devastation in the immediate aftermath of the country's destruction was impossible to explain.
　The good ones died out, and the few powerless people who survived were unable to escape, they doubted and hated each other, and sold their friends to the demons for protection, and then they themselves suffered the same fate.
　There was no hope, no dream, no human heart, nothing.
　Unaware of the desperate situation in the demon world, Yuto went to the demon world and met Lieselotte and her friends, who were trying their best to unite the power of the humans.

(The question is, what Cagliostro says about coexistence... is it his own idea, or was it blown into him by someone else? And why Marion...)

　Yuto looked at the city spread out from the roof of the school building with his powerful eyes.
　Cagliostro is an extension of the direction that Yuto and the others are headed from now on. If the Dark Night's Leopard is destroyed, Cagliostro will surely lose his position, no matter what. If that happens, the isolated alchemists and sorcerers will have no power. Or they could even be purged by China.
　Yuto turned his attention to what he had to face now.

(First ... we'll go to the hostages. That should tell us something about the water stoppage. If that's what Stopwater is fighting for, then we can tell the agency and get them to protect us, and we can remove Stopwater from the Dark Night Leopard. (The rest of this sickening curse is cut off from the main source of this sickening curse.

　That friend of Mizuho's, a girl named Houzuki Akiko, must be suffering even now. Moreover, her hair is also falling out, and she is in unbearable pain for a girl of her age.
　Yuto removed the bandages except for the left shoulder and dropped them on the floor, then closed his eyes and sat on the spot, sitting on his knees and catching his breath. Then sacred ki blows up from the tantian below Yuto's navel, and that ki eventually circulates through Yuto's body.
　Each time the ki circulated through his body, the cells of the yūjin became more and more active, increasing the person's inherent healing power.
　While concentrating his mind, Yuto recalled the time of the battle with Stopwater.

(That time Stopwater's smile........)

　Yuto couldn't forget the smile that his enemy, Stoppage, had shown him in the midst of that fierce battle with Stoppage.
　He didn't know if he was gloating over the fact that he had succeeded in running the agency, or if he was happy as a warrior that he had come across a strong enemy called himself.

(It could have been, too. But there was something more to it than that...)

　Yuto has experienced this feeling in the demon world as well.
　It is a mysterious sensation that only emerges when you meet a strong enemy and do everything in your power to kill each other.
　There's a kind of mutual understanding that sometimes arises when they are enemies but have exchanged lives with each other.

(He's after something. Using me here...)

　Yuto opened his eyes and stared at the blue sky spreading out from the roof.