Furious
I was in darkness when I came to.
Nothing in all directions, just a continuation of darkness. As I"m looking around without even knowing my four directions,
“Have you came to, Leivelt・Runwalker-san?”
I hear a beautiful woman"s voice. I try taking a look towards the direction that I heard the voice from, and a beautiful woman who I"ve seen before was standing there.
“Ara? You aren"t going to praise me like before this time around huhー”
, says the beautiful woman who brings her right hand to her cheek and tilts her head.
“Well, of course. It is the second time we have met, G.o.ddess Astell”
Yup, the one who"s before my eyes, is the perpetrator who reincarnated me into this world, G.o.ddess Astell. Her appearance didn"t change at all since the time I reincarnated, an unbelievably beautiful woman.
“Ufufu, thank you. Although I would like to have you praise me more, there is not much time so I will get on with the topic. First of all, I shall clear up the misunderstanding, Lei-san is not actually dead. I just slipped into your consciousness while you are unconscious. Hence, we are able to talk”
Ooh, I"m glad. I thought I came here because I died, like before.
“Alright then, the reason that you slipped into me is?”
“That is, of course, because you encountered the Seven Demon Generals”
Seven Demon Generals. It"s referring to that fellow huh. I wanted to ask Shishou about it because it seemed like she knows him but I lost my consciousness so I couldn"t ask.
“The Seven Demon Generals refer to the seven Demon Races who possess the Demon G.o.d"s Blessing amongst the Demon Races. Those who possess the Demon G.o.d"s Blessing, they are able to die but, they will resurrect after a certain amount of time. Hence, those who possess my blessings in the past sealed them, but the seals have been undone and they have awoken. Although the expected date should have been quite some time in the future……”
And something outrageous came up again. Demon G.o.d huh. I"ve studied this continent"s history from Helen-san but, such a thing as the Demon G.o.d didn"t come up.
“It is because it was erased from history in order to not let people worship the Demon G.o.d. If the people know about the Demon G.o.d, then there will likely be those who try to worship it. It is in order to not let that happen”
“Why can"t they worship the Demon G.o.d? If it is based only on what I"m currently hearing, it sounds like you erased it so that the faith in you doesn"t fade”
She casts her eyes down sorrowfully when I say that.
“Indeed, it is inevitable that it sounds like that. However, the Demon G.o.d"s goal is to destroy this world. In order to achieve that, in order to resurrect itself, it is giving blessings to the Demon Race. However, I cannot be allowing such a thing to happen”
Indeed, we cannot be allowing it to destroy this world. I guess all kinds of G.o.ds exist huh.
“I will get to the main point since there is no time now, there are in total five people who possess the G.o.ddess" Blessings in this continent currently. Please work together with those people. One of them is you, another one is, as you know, the Arcadia State"s Holy Maiden. Another one is close to you. And the remaining two are the Heroes of the Regalia Empire”
……Huh? Heroes of the Regalia Empire? When the h.e.l.l did they summon them.
“Nevertheless, I suppose it is unreliable with just that. Lei-san, I will give you a portion of my power. I suppose this will strengthen your blessing. By giving you this, it is basically something like imposing the battle on you though……”
Astell who says that and smiles with a slightly pained look. Although I don"t know her feelings, I can tell that she"s worrying for me.
“I got it. I had known from the start that I can"t live in peace thanks to the t.i.tle that I received from you. Besides, it"s no big deal to have one or two more additional problems, I"ll just have to overcome it”
Astell gave me her utmost grat.i.tude when I said that.
“I will be counting on you, Lei-san”
She said to me and it turned pure white as far as the eyes can see.
Uun. My body is heavy. My entire body feels sluggish and I don"t feel like moving. I wonder why is it so sluggish. I open my heavy eyelids as I"m thinking about such things and over there is.
“Uu~n. Funya! ……You can"t grab theree, ehehe~”
Ferris who"s having some mysterious sleep talk was there. She"s sitting in a chair, resting just her head on the bed I sleep on and sleeping. You"re drooling. As I"m looking at such Ferris" sleeping face
“Ferris~, I"m coming in~”
“Ara, Lei, you woke up huh. I"m glad. Huh, why are you sleeping, Ferris”
It was Aerith. She sees my face and smiles relievedly at me, then she looks at Ferris who"s sleeping and hit her head.
“Ouch! Wh, what? An enemy attack?”
Ferris who wakes up from being surprised makes a surprised expression and looks all over the place. And when her eyes meet with mine
“Lei! You woke up huh! I"m glad!”
and she embraces me. Her tail is flailing in happiness. Her ears are also erected.
“Hey, calm down, Ferris. Lei should still be woozy since he also just woke up”
“Ah, I"m sorry, Lei. I was too happy that you woke up”
says Ferris who looks down with her face blushing. Such a face is also adorable. I pat the head of such Ferris. Ferris also rubs her head against my palm.
“What is with this saccharine s.p.a.ce. Well, whatever. Lei, how"s your body?”
“U~n, my entire body feels sluggish and it"s tough to even move it”
I say while checking my entire body. Un, as I thought, it"s heavy.
“As I thought huh. I think Lei knows it as well but it"s the weariness due to magic power exhaustion. You really don"t listen to what Eris-okaasama says”
and she flicks my forehead with reproachful eyes. I mean, it can"t be helped, right. Our lives were in danger.
“……Geez, you don"t have to look at me with those eyes. I know that you were trying to protect your cla.s.smates”
she says and pats my head. Aerith who pats the head of me who pats the head of Ferris. ……What"s this.
With such things happening as well, I was finally able to hear the story. It seems I had been sleeping for an entire day. Aerith told me that, apparently, Shishou carried me all the way here after I lost my consciousness and everybody else is also doing fine. I"m glad.
“Alexia and Helen-san were also extremely worried so apologize to them later. It seems your cla.s.smates also wanted to stay behind, but we sent them back home”
“Is that so, thanks. And, where are Alexia and Helen-san? Even though they should already be home at this time”
It"s already evening when I woke up. It"s Light Day today and there"s also no school so it appears that Aerith and Ferris looked after me the entire day. It"s their long-awaited break so I feel bad for having them do this for me.
“If it"s Alexia then she"s gone to the Royal Palace together with Shishou. She says she has to talk about what happened yesterday. Helen-san is being her attendant”
Is that so. I guess she has to report it if we went that wild near the Royal Capital huh.
“Well, more importantly, let"s have dinner. Lei, can you stand?”
“Un, somewhat”
I somehow stand up from the bed. Un, it feels slightly sluggish but it"s fine. When I somehow got down to the first floor and sat on the sofa, Aerith brings the dishes to me. Aerith is skilled although not to the extent of Ferris. As I"m looking at the dishes thinking, ‘all of it looks delicious", I hear the sound of a carriage stopping and it suddenly got rowdy outside. Wh, what?
And then, the door burst open and the one who came in was,
“Lei, you"re awake!”
a rather angry Shishou. Why is she angry? She"s very angry though. Behind her, Alexia and Helen-san with similar angry expressions were there. What in the world happened?