What the hell was that...

　Yoko, who had returned to Glendale from her hometown of Phonost, was stunned to see a pillar of fire stretching high into the sky.

　An enormous amount of magical power.

　Yohko knew the owner of that magical power.

''It's the Lord. But to pour that much magic power into it, what is the Lord fighting against?

　The Holy Lance that Hurt used when he defeated the demon just the other day.

　Even that was a magic with an amount of magical power beyond Yohko's understanding.

　However, the pillar of fire that Yohko is looking at now contains many times more magic power than that Holy Lance.


　The pillar of fire was slammed into the ground.


　About ten seconds later, when that pillar disappeared, Yohko had moved right up to Hurt.

　What Yohko saw there was a huge, blackened, burnt-out dragon(s) and a giant dragon(s).

"Oh, Lord, what is this?

Welcome back, Yoko. We were just killing the dragon that was attacking Luca and Chalk.

　A short distance away, Hakua and Luca were hugging each other and shaking.

　Perhaps they were scared.

　Hakua is also a high-ranking dragon, but she is still a child.

　In contrast, the dragon that Hurt said he defeated is a large body and is an adult.

The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that you are going to be able to get your hands on a new pair of shoes.

'Yeah. It wasn't much, but the endurance was bad enough. I don't think I've ever shot so much magic in my life.

　Now Halt can activate about 10,000 rounds of fire lance if he has one second.

　Six hundred thousand rounds in one minute.

　He kept firing it for ten minutes.

　A total of six million rounds of fire lance were fired.


　However, the dragon did not die.

　The dragon thrust its claws into Hurt's belly as he approached it to confirm the life or death of the dragon that had fallen to the ground.

　Of course, there was no way that attack would work on Hurt, whose status was fixed.

　If six million rounds are not good enough, then let's double it──that's what Hurt decided, he gathered up 15 million rounds worth of fire lance and launched it down from above the dragon's head.

　By the way, three million rounds worth is extra.

　As expected of the dragon, it stopped moving even a twitch, but its body did not completely burn up.

　Well, it was no use.

　Because the opponent whom Hurt had shot approximately 20 million rounds of fire lance at was the Dragon God, one of the gods of this world.

　Even now, Hurt didn't realize that the opponent he had defeated was a god.

　The reason why Luca and Chalkia are trembling is because Hurt has defeated the Dragon God, the object of their prayers.


　They were heading towards Hurt's mansion when Hurt suddenly appeared in the air after being grabbed by the Dragon God.

　Hurt couldn't fly at high speed, so he chased after the Dragon God while using magic to create a foothold.

　Seeing his frantic flight through the air, Hakua and Luca were happy.

　They felt that their husband, Hurt, was trying his best to protect them and chasing after them - that's how they felt.

　However, the speed of the dragon god's flight was much faster than Hurt's speed in the sky, and Hurt was getting farther and farther away from them.

　I want to see more of Halt working hard for me.

　That kind of Hakua's feelings made her shout.

''Haruto!　I can't help you! ─ ─.

　Right now, Hakua was furiously cursing herself for carelessly shouting those words.

　Indeed, Hurt was cool.

　He had slashed off the arm of the dragon that was grabbing them, and after saving them, he had defeated that dragon with overwhelming force.

　My husband had saved me from myself in a gallant way.
　I'm very happy about that.

　But I can't be honestly happy.

　Because the dragon he had defeated was a god.
　It wasn't that he was being attacked, he was just moving around.

　Of course, if you ask me if the dragon god was completely at fault, that's not the case.

　He could have flown with Luca and Chalk on his back.

　If that was the case, there was no way for Hurt to think that the dragon was attacking Chalkia and the others.


　The dragon god knew that Haruto, who was once a guardian hero, had been reincarnated in this world, and he had come to take revenge for the battles of the past.

　However, the result was, as you can see, a disastrous defeat.

　On the contrary, he was defeated before he even understood that the opponent he had lost to was the one who should get his revenge.

　Since the Dragon God is a god, he will not die.

　However, his body for manifestation was completely destroyed and he was unable to move at all.


　After confirming that the dragon's body was completely immobile, Hurt finally turned his attention away from the dragon.

'Yohko, what's that?'

　Hurt's gaze is fixed on a beautiful woman trapped in the ice behind Yoko.

　The beautiful woman had a bewitching shape (natured), as if she had plucked her childhood from Yoko and made her an adult.

　It was a woman with an atmosphere that did not exist among Hurt's wives.

''Actually ... she's my mother.
What?

My mother died 200 years ago because of me.

　Large tears spill from Yoko's eyes.

'My Lord, my mother, I need you to help me.

I'd like to do something about it, but it's two hundred years old, and as expected, my soul...

　Death in this world is when the body is damaged and the soul leaves the body.

　However, as long as the soul is intact, it can be revived by connecting the body and soul after the body has been restored.

　Connecting the body and soul can be managed with Luca and Seira's Resurrection and the elixir made from the leaves of the World Tree.

　To the extent of recovering the physical body, even Halt can do it.

　The biggest problem is the location of the souls.

　Normally, when a demon, demon race or human in this world dies, their souls are incorporated into the circle of reincarnation in about an hour, and they are reborn into the next creature.

　Therefore, if they were to be resuscitated, it had to be done within an hour when the soul was near the body.

　It was hopeless to revive Yohko's mother, who had been dead for two hundred years.


'If it was my mother's soul, it would still be here.
...Really?

　Halt touches the ice with the beauty in it.

'Ta, indeed. Her soul is here, isn't it?

　Having experienced transmigration and reincarnation, and being able to use dark magic and holy attribute magic, Hurt had somehow gained the ability to sense the souls of others.

''This is amazing. Has it really been two hundred years?　My soul is barely depleted.

　Yoko's mother──Kikyo's soul was sealed in her body by Yoko soon after she died.

　Because of that, she was unable to enter the circle of reincarnation, and her soul was with her body the entire time.

　If not defeated by the brave men, the Nine-Tailed Fox would live for tens of thousands of years.

　Such a nine-tailed fox, Kikyou's soul was not something that would be consumed in about two hundred years.


''I haven't.......been injured or anything. If we connect the soul to the body as it is, can we revive it?''

　Halt let the magic flow through the ice and checked Kikiyo's condition.

　Her body was in such a clean state that it was hard to believe she was dead.

　This is because Kikyou had restored her own body just before she died, so that Yohko wouldn't have to worry about her.

　Although she was able to recover her body, she was unable to preserve her life due to the damage to her soul caused by the demon weapon.

　That wounded soul was also slowly healing naturally over the course of two hundred years.


　Harut was confident that he could revive Kikyou and began to release his magic power.

　And then──.

Heel!

　The chanting was heel (lower level recovery magic).

　However, its effect is a resurrection magic resurrection that only a handful of people are allowed to use, even among those who specialize in recovery magic.

　Such magic - the wise man, Hurt, invoked it.