<Episode 61>
I could barely move my lips as I chanted his name.
“Ugh, huh…… !”
In the end, I couldn’t suppress my overflowing emotions and burst into tears.
[No, wait a minute……… ]
Oried looked uncharacteristically embarrassed and carefully lifted the arm that was not holding me and patted my back.
But the more clumsily he consoled me, the more my resentment grew.
“What is it really…..I was already scared to death, but you, attacked me….”
[Sorry. There was no other way to find you.]
Oried softly answered the words I spat out while wiping away the tears that were dripping down my face.
Yes, Oried must have been surprised when I suddenly disappeared.
It was said that Yuhirian’s power was stronger than Oried’s, so he knew very well that there would have been no other way to break through Arkane’s power and find me.
Thump-
“Ugh………!”
But rather then gratitude, I felt resentment toward him, who had caused me more hardship than Arkane.
No matter how much his personality had changed, I could never forget the look in his eyes that tried to kill me while smiling casually.
I glared resentfully at Oried and struck his chest with all my might.
“It hurts…….”
However, it was I, not him, who felt the pain, letting out a faint moan from the rock-like hardness.
What is this?
Rather than dissolving my frustration, it only piled them up!
[Edith….]
Oried, who was staring at me in embarrassment while holding my red hand, glared at me with resentful eyes and called my name as if he was speechless, and then just kept his mouth shut.
“That’s Okay. What happened today… I will remember it forever.”
Okay, let’s stop it here. There is something more urgent right now.
“Meinhardt! Are you okay?”
While being held by Oried, I turned my head and looked back at Meinhardt.
“I’m fine…..”
“You’re lying! There’s a lot of blood flowing from your wounds!”
The situation earlier was so urgent that I didn’t notice it, but I felt so fortunate that he didn’t die from excessive blood loss right away.
When Mainhardt responded calmly with deep wounds all over his body, I walked towards him with Oried as my flagship.
“Wait a moment.”
Just like before, when I put Yuhirian’s personality to rest and brought in Oried…
I placed my hand on Meinhardt’s forehead, closed my eyes, and gently brought up the power of life that still remained within me.
All I hoped for was his complete recovery.
“……Edith.”
A lively power was pumped into Meinhardt.
While doing so, I felt like my head was getting a little dizzy.
“It’s okay now, so you can take your hand away.”
Meinhardt spoke in a quiet voice.
I opened my closed eyes and looked his condition.
All his wounds had healed cleanly, leaving no traces.
The hem of his clothes, stained dark red, was the only evidence that remains of his injuries.
With this, for the first time, I succeeded in healing another person using the power of life without summoning Ilipia.
But…
“I’m dizzy….”
The moment I took a deep breath after thoroughly checking to see if Meinhardt’s wounds were fully healed, a feeling of dizziness came over me that made my eyes spin, and I completely laid down, leaning helplessly in Oried’s arms.
[Today is your first time successfully maintained the constant summoning state, and you are quite exhausted after drawing so much power. Don’t do anything anymore and just take a rest.]
Oried said softly as he adjusted me in his embrace so that I could be in a more comfortable position.
There is also advice that Ilipia gave me in the past, and since I am still young, even if I can maintain the state of summoning spirits at all times, I should use my powers in moderation.
[And you… I thought he looked familiar, so he is a descendant of Kandel.]
“I greet the Spirit King of the Earth. It’s true that I am Kandel’s blood relative, but as of now, that castle has been abandoned a long time ago.”
[Yes, something like that happened. Then you must be Judith’s blood relative?]
“……she was my great-aunt.”
While I was resting in Oried’s arms, I could hear the voices of Mainhardt and Oried having a conversation.
Judith.
Of course, Oried also knew about Judith Sephia Kandel.
‘…Live your life without being tied down by a petty mind like me. Be free and don’t sacrifice yourself under the guise of standing up for anything.’
‘What remains after sacrifice…… In the end there is nothing’
A castle that was colored with a fading golden light, with all its prosperity reduced to ruins.
The image of a woman turning to ashes, facing the pouring twilight, clearly came to mind.
I probably won’t be able to forget that sight for a very long time.
[I heard it was noisy down there, Edith. Arkane’s descendants that you saved are starting to run rampant again.]
“Oh, that’s…….”
Okay, I swallowed the moan that was about to escape me and quickly raised my head and looked down at the land spread out below.
There was only one chance then so…
In order to check whether I could properly use the power of life, I first revived the descendants of Arkane that Yuhirian had brutally killed.
I narrowed my eyes as I stared at the disgusting darkness that was swarming with parasites.
[Close your eyes or look somewhere else. It wouldn’t be a very nice sight to see them being disposed of.]
“……..”
I have already witnessed in real time the scene of them being massacred by a harvester under the control of Yuhirian’s personality, but now you are considerate…
“I will hold into her.”
[Do that.]
Oried and Meinhardt exchanged conversation in a comfortable manner that did not even feel awkward, considering that it was their first time meeting today, and handed me into the other person’s arms.
The moment Meinhardt picked me up again, the strong smell of blood filled my nose.
“………”
Even though I healed him with the power of life, I couldn’t help but wonder how badly he was hurt…
If Meinhardt had not protected me and saved me several times, it was clear that I would have died without ever succeeding in summoning the spirit power.
I felt moved and looked at Meinhardt’s face.
Kyaaaa
As if Oried was removing Arkane’s family members by pressing them down with gravity, a terrifying sound that shook the soul shot into the heavens and earth and vibrated strongly in the air a couple of times.
At that moment, I unconsciously lost my breath due to that overwhelming feeling.
[Everything has been sorted out, so we can get down now.]
Oried said, the hem of his dark green clothes fluttering in the wind.
“Yes.”
Oried and Meinhardt went down to the ground at the same time.
However… I looked back at the vast plain and fell into silence.
You said you cleaned them up, right?
There were mountains of grotesque corpses thet seemed to be on the borderline between spirits and monsters, piled up everywhere as far as the eye could see.
[Dirty things, if Phoenix had been here, he would have burned them all and reduced them to ashes.]
The reason seemed to be Oried’s deep-seated loathing for Arkane.
Could it be that he hates them so much that even the act of overturning the earth and bury them would be the same as letting them into his territory?
[Come to think of it…Have you received Astrape’s blessing?]
Oried, who was lost in thought with his golden eyes flashing with fierce hostility, looked back at Meinhardt and said, as if a plan had suddenly occurred to him.
“Yes. That’s right.”
[Good, then even a lightning strike could set their bodies on fire. Can you do it right now?]
“That won’t be difficult, but…”
I turned my attention away from the conversation between Oried and Meinhardt and fell into deep thought.
The urgent situation now seemed to have come to an end.
However…All this time, I wasn’t thinking about this.
“Excuse me…Meinhardt.”
“Please speak.”
As I carefully called him, Meinhardt, who had been looking at Oried, lowered his head to stare at me and answered.
“What are we going to do?”
The presence of Arkane, the one who sent us to this time, was no longer felt anywhere.
“That…….”
[……….]
Silence fell between Meinhardt and Oried, as if they had only just remembered that fact.
Both seemed to be agonizing over a solution to the situation.
Oh no, I thought in despair.
To be fair, there was no reason for Arkane to send us back to our original time.
Then what should we do now?
It couldn’t be that….…Should we live here?
Nonsense!
[This.]
Just when I felt my heart sink…
[You made quite a mess.]
A voice so beautiful and soft that it was difficult to guess its gender was heard.
Could it be that we ware discovered by someone from the past?
I suddenly turned my head towards the direction from which I heard the stranger’s voice.
“Ah….”
and….
In fact, I was spellbound and exclaimed as I encountered an unrealistically beautiful being that seemed to personify light.
A strange being appears in the middle of a huge hole that looks like a fallen star.
Right now, he was staring at me with his serene gaze.
His bright, almost white, blonde hair that you couldn’t tell it’s colour unless you looked at him carefully hung down to his feet and gently fluttered in the blowing wind.
The clothes, a combination of gold and white, had a sacred atmosphere and were pure, without a single stain, even though they were standing alone in a space filled with the remains of darkness.
Tuk, tak.
As this perfectly beautiful being without a single flaw came closer, I looked at him in shock as my heart slowly pounded
The corners of his eyes were slightly lowered, giving him a soft yet gentle look, and his eyes, which had a brilliant brilliance under a tightly draped curtain of platinum, were colored a bright red.
“Roberick……”1Nooo, don’t mention his name. I was finally so happy after his disappearance of the recent plot(〒﹏〒)
That color automatically reminds me of someone I don’t want to remember.
I was lost in doubt, muttering Roberick’s name in a daze.
The colors are eerily similar.
Also, what was that all?
A unique, clean and sacred atmosphere flowing through the air around him.
That elegant beauty looking at me
The whole thing was strangely reminiscent of Roberick
[You…….Ignis?]
Oried called his name in a voice that seemed surprised.
…Ignis?
“Nonsense….”
If it’s Ignis…….Isn’t he the Spirit King of Light, known as Arkane’s absolute nemesis, and Roberick’s main attribute spirit?!
