Ecstas Online Light Novel Volume 2

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**I can’t wait for Santa-X** (Santa-Xを待ちきれない, *Santa-X wo Machikirenai*) is the second volume of the Ecstas Online light novel series.

## Volume Summary

Aikawa informs Kakeru that in a month, during christmas, Hellz Domain is planning to apply a patch, which would then allow the developers to contact everyone trapped in Exodia Exodus and inform the current situation. As Kakeru and Aikawa keep up their conversation, the Hellzekter arrive, so Kakeru uses Ecstas in Aikawa to trick his subordinates. They then inform him that the Holy Grave, a special item that may be able to reveal the true identity of the Demon King and that can kill him was excavated. Since it's a quest item it's not possible for Kakeru to simply take it away or order the monsters to pick. 2A Guild discovers the sword and Kakeru sets a trap for them in the dungeon, where after a burst of anger from Busujima, he ends up using Ecstas in her too. Still, 2A Guild was able to complete the quest and get Holy Grave. A while later in Sandiano, 2A Guild ia enjoying a day on the beach, it's there that Kakeru, Arisugawa and Leonhardt meet the elf Ernes, who suggets for the humans to visit the elf kingdom of Arzheim to see if an Alliance between them and the elf queen Ulriel is possible to that they can defeat Demon King Hellshaft.

At the dancing unicorn a couple days later, the members of 2A decide to depart to Arzheim, Ichinomiya asks Kakeru's opinion and he obviously says that they should wait more since they don't know what type of monsters they can find in their trip. Everyone jokes saying that Kakeru may be a member of the Demon king army since he was the only one against going to Arzheim and Yuuki suggests for them to write his name on Holy Grave as a precaution since she is easily afraid of other people. Everyone looks at her in surprise, Shizukuishi gets angry at her by even thinking that a "worthless man" like Kakeru could be the demon king, which ends up being a good thing for him. He decides that it would be good to meet the Elf Queen as the Demon King and asks for information about her to Satanachia, which leads to Satanachia beginning to act strange and all of a sudden do lewd things with him(with Aikawa being caught in the mix) after doing some kissing and groping with them, they're attacked by NG monsters, that is, monsters that were discarded by Hellz Domain's team in the inicial state of development of Exodia Exodus. The whole castle is filled with them, Satanachia goes out to take Care of the monsters, after a while Kakeru goes to deal with them too while carrying Aikawa with him. Meeting Forneus, Adra and Grasha along Satanachia, they exterminate all the monsters.

Kakeru and the Hellzekter believe that the reason of for the NG monsters appearing might be found in the underground cemetery of the castle. There, they find a ominous figure, a statue of a being that would be double the size of Kakeru with Hellshaft's armor. Aikawa then says to him that this is Exodia Exodus' first Demon King, Satan, so he is the demon king character before Hellshaft and that he was scrapped after Hellshaft's creation. Kakeru then orders to Adra to put seals in the cemetery as a precaution. A few days after that, 2A Guild manages to get a ship and go on their journey towards the Logress continent, where the kingdom of Arzheim is located. Arriving there, they are taken to meet Ulriel. Kakeru had gone to Arzheim as Hellshaft a couple of days before 2A and proposed an Alliance, but was shot down by queen Ulriel. When meeting her, 2A makes a plea for her to unify forces with them to defeat the demon king. Ulriel was planning to reject them but due to Ernes appearing and taking a side with the humans, and also due to Asagiri's strong resolve, she accepts to 2A's happiness. Kakeru is displeased by all of that, but then his plan B comes into action. When he met Ulriel before as Hellshaft, he said for her to be careful with the humans, especially with one in special(him). Ulriel asks to keep him as a "guest"(more like a hostage) as a guarantee that 2A will not betray Arzheim. 2A then goes back to the Balgaea continent to prepare for war against Hellandia.
Kakeru takes advantage of the fact that 2A is not there and transforms into Hellshaft, destroying the "prison" and escaping with Satanachia as his backup. Ernes appears and battles against Satanachia, it is then that they talk a bit, Ernes insulting Satanachia for becoming such a disgraceful being(going from a pure being like an elf to becoming a dirty one, which would be a dark elf) Satanachia ends the fight by saying that Ernes should fight seriously in their next battle because if not she would die.

Returning to Sandiano, Kakeru and Satanachia have a heart-to-heart talk, Kakeru feels bad for Satanachia since, behind her stoic persona, she is a really kind girl. He then says that he was firing her from her position as one of the leaders of the demon king army and that she should go back to Arzheim, make amends with them and live peacefully. He then abandons her in Sandiano and goes back to Infermia to prepare for the battle against 2A, who is not only accompanied by the elves but also by other races. He needs to hold them back till midnight, since that's when the patch called Santa-X would be applied. The battle gets heated, Hellandia is in disadvantaged, but then Satanachia appears again and helps in the battle. The tides begin to turn to Kakeru's favor and as the countdown for Santa - X begins, he happily shouts a demon king poem. Once the time is up and Santa -X is applied, a meteor falls at great speed, surprising everyone. Once it reaches the ground, static fills Kakeru's mind. He sees the figure of a girl briefly among the static before it disappears. The place the meteor landed was the underground cemetery and from there, a figure emerges. The oppressive silhoute of a being emerging from the earth, demon king Satan was revived. The now awaken demon king steps over a fallen elf, Kakeru then realizes that there was something different when the elf died. The usual blue particles were now red, he then pieces together that the character data was actually erased, which fills his heart with dread. Asagiri, who was watching everything, holds her sword tightly and ran toward Satan while Kakeru screams for her to stop. End of volume 2.

## Chapters

* Prologue
* Epilogue
* Afterwords