I am the Star Spirit King.
　I am the head of all the spirits on this planet.

　I am the head of all the spirits on the planet, and my daughters, who are too pretty to hurt in my eyes, are now looking for contractors in the human world.

　I wish I didn't have to do this yet, but my wife would not allow them to stay looking for a contractor.

　When my daughters were strong enough to refuse human commands by sheer force of will, my wife instructed me to reveal them to the human world.

　I am very worried about them.
　But I can't watch over them all the time.

　The spirits' many problems would come to me.

　That's why I only check on my daughters from time to time. But my wife was angry with me, telling me to trust them more and leave them alone.

　You can't blame her for worrying about it!

　In the meantime, the girls have been admitted to the magical academy in the human world. I asked one of my acquaintances to help me with the admission process and to help them if they were in trouble.

　This acquaintance promised to make the most trustworthy person under his command the educator of his daughters. That put me at ease, and it wasn't good to take my eyes off him for a bit.

　Within a year, my daughters came back.

　Did they come back lonely at first?　And so on.

　But when I talked to them, they've already found a contractor and completed the deal.

　........Isn't it too soon?
　Are you sure you're okay?

　My daughters are still in their infancy. Without knowing much about the contractor's identity, didn't they just sign a contract because they were attracted to the strong magic power?

　I have two contractors to choose from.

　If I see the slightest impurity, they will extinguish that contractor of mine. With this in mind, when I was about to go to my daughters.

"...?

　Suddenly, the body was strongly drawn to the other world.

　This is a compulsory summoning!

　There is no human being who can summon me, the king of all spirits.

　When a demon king reigns and plunges the world into despair, or when the world is on the verge of collapse due to the abnormalities of the world tree, I can only manifest myself when many people have a strong desire to live, and my magical power reaches me.

　The human world is almost at peace now.
　There is no way that I can be summoned.

　Moreover, what is calling me now is a compulsory summoning.

　A compulsory summoning is a magic that forcibly manifests itself in the human world without regard to the spirit's will. It requires ten times more magical power than a normal summon.

　I'm not going to be able to get out of it.

　I've been thinking about it for a while now, and then I arrived at the place where they're going to summon me.


"Who forced me to come here?
Who's that?

　There was a boy standing in front of me. He looked about the same age as my daughters who had been humanized.

I am the Star Spirit King. I am the Star Spirit King, the chief of all the spirits on this planet.

　I answered the boy's question normally.

　Well, you don't think this boy called me?
　And all by yourself?

　I try to ask what it means, but my body doesn't move as it should.

　There is no doubt about it.
　I'm under the control of this boy now.

　Which means that this boy has indeed summoned me. I have many things to worry about, like how he did it, but this is not a good time.

　My daughter's contractor has been chosen.

　Before my daughter is summoned by the contractor, I have to go back to the spirit world and go to the contractor with my daughter.

''Well I'm sorry, but I'm in the middle of an intake. Will you allow me to return?

What? You can't get yourself back?

"You summoned me by force, didn't you!　I'm surprised that there are people who can summon me, I never thought the day would come when I would be forcibly summoned, but this is my daughter's moment. Please, let me come home.

　He bowed to the boy. He hadn't bowed to a human since he became the Star Spirit King.

　But it wasn't hard to see the boy in front of him, and also for the sake of his daughters.

''All right, I'll repatriate them. I'll send you back at once. I'm sorry I forced you to come.

　The boy immediately sent me back to the spirit world.


''You are a good guy. The magic power was pure, and I hope my daughters' contractors are just like him.

　I come back to the spirit world and mutter to myself.

　I can't wait, I have to head to my daughters!



My name is May. Good to see you.
Father, I'm home!

　Thank goodness we're in time.
　I guess my daughters hadn't been summoned yet.

'Master Hurt, will you summon us?
I'll be fine.

　The two have been here for a while since they returned here after signing up and waiting to be summoned by the contractor.

'Your contractor is called Halt?'
"'Yeah! It's incredibly strong.

''But seeing as you don't re-summon them immediately after signing a contract, isn't there that much magic in there?

This can't be true for Mr. Hurt!
Something must have happened!

　Mmm, the girls are holding the shoulders of Hurt and others.

　In the meantime, Mai's body began to glow. You will be summoned to the human world.

I guess I'll have to start with Mai.
Yeah, I'll go ahead!　I'll ask you to have May summoned immediately as well.

Nice to meet you, Father.
I will go with you. I'm going to have to see about this Halt.

　I forcibly interrupted Mai's summons and tried to manifest myself to the contractor. With my power, it was as simple as this.

　I touched the summoner's magic as I appeared.

　It's a very comfortable magic.

　But that's not the same as leaving my daughter in charge. If I find any irregularities, I'll have the contract revoked!

　Let's see if we can intimidate him first.

''You want to sign a contract with Fire Spirit Mai?　But first, show me the power... hmm?

　That's funny, because there's a boy in front of me who summons me by force.

"Show me the power, and I'll show you the power. Now, I want you to kneel to me...
'Wait, wait, wait, wait!'

　My body tries to move as the boy utters the words. There was no way he could kneel to a human in front of his daughter.

　I am the Star Spirit King!

　He managed to endure by sheer force of will and moved with the boy to the space between the spirit world and humans.


'What are you doing?'

　The boy is a little upset.
　But I have my say.

I'll tell you what to do!　Why do you make me kneel before my daughter all of a sudden, my lord?　This is outrageous!

What? Because you asked me to show strength.
Well, that's because my daughter didn't know you were the summoner, you see, but...

　In the first place, it's a foolhardy thing to ask someone who can summon me alone to show me some power.

　If you're not careful, this planet will be destroyed.

"Am I not worthy of being Mai and May's contractor?

No, no, no, no!　Not at all, you're more than capable of being my daughters' contractor. But, you know what?

Do you have any conditions?

　Having been summoned by force, I am, by nature, in no position to negotiate with the boy.

　I had no choice but to quietly accept any order. But I had to protect my girls at all costs.

　I would do anything to protect them.

　So I begged the boy to cherish my daughters, to cherish them with all my heart.

　The boy gladly agreed to do me a favor. He told me that when the need arose, he would ask for my help.

　Thus, I, as the Star Spirit King, was to formally sign a contract with Lord Harto.


　After that, I had some business to attend to, so I returned to the spirit world by myself. Almost at the same time as my return, a large amount of magical power flowed into me.

　I could sense his intentions from the connection of the contract with Lord Harte.

''It's difficult to accumulate the magic power to summon you on the spur of the moment, so I'll give it to you first.

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　In the empty throne room, my murmurings became a wooden spirit.