Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Episode One Thousand Seventy Twenty-two, Maria of Benoa.

"You're really alive, aren't you? It's not a mirage, is it?

Maria, although she wiped her tears as she stood up, had not been able to wipe off the tears that crossed her voice. Setsuna is also going to be so impressed with her shaking and approaching. I was just glad to see her safe. I thought it was the same as before, but my hair seems to be growing longer than before. I didn't know because I was putting it together.

"Oh, he's alive. Me too, Lem."

"Will you let me make sure?

"I don't mind, but how?

Here's what I'm gonna do.

That said, she has turned behind Setuna and embraced her from behind. Setuna did not resist. I wanted Maria to do what she wanted. That much should be forgiven. If you think about her these past two years, this is still too cheap.

"Doctor..."

"Oh, it's true. I feel it. Isn't it kind of a mess again?

"That's a teacher. I know very well."

"Huh. If you're talking about Setuna's body, you know it better than anyone else."

Maria was good at talking as she crawled her fingers through Setuna's body. Then he entertains Setuna's hair too long with his fingertips and hugs her hard again. To Marian's expression of affection, Setuna closed her eyes. About two years after the “Great Destruction," her embrace had the power to try to erase facts that she had not met at all, instead of touching each other. I guess that's all I've been feeling bitter about.

That's how she indulged in Setuna's body, this time making sure Rem was real. He held Rem in his wheelchair. At that time, finally, Setuna could see Maria's extreme expression.

"I'm glad Lem's okay, too."

"It is in our dialogue. I am truly relieved to see that Maria is safe."

"Hehe... that's the way you put it, when it comes to Rem"

Maria went in tears as she embraced Rem's luxurious body.

"I miss you. Anything."

I miss it.

That was her sense of reality and Setuna felt the same way. About two years have passed since then. There was a feeling in Setuna that the longer months were flowing, and Maria might feel the same way. The feeling that we haven't seen each other in decades shows up in Maria's words and deeds.

"What is it, what is it?"

It was the brunette toddler who raised her dissatisfied voice. The young girl, less than ten years old, had been left alone and trampled on the estate.

"Aren't we the only ones left behind? Boring, boring!

"Oh, sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry"

Maria rushed over to Maria, indignant that she was not convinced by it, even though Maria apologized hastily.

"Explain it!

"I want you to explain it to me too."

"Oh, you did, I have to explain to both."

Maria, looking at this one, grinned, crouched down to the spot and held the toddler. And point to Setuna and Rem in turn.

"This is Master Setuna, and this is Lem. I told you so many times, didn't I?

"It's not about the precious person Maria used to talk to me about. I'll remember that. I see, this is Master Dana of Maria. You're certainly not a good man. Nice try."

The young girl, held by Maria, peered into Setuna's face and then touched her face with her little hand. The soothing yet soft feeling was never like feeling sick. No offense. In the rainbow eyes of a young girl, there was nothing but purity.

"What's Master Dana?

And, although Setuna raised questions, she didn't think it was a Marian way of teaching. Maria used to refer to Setuna as her husband. Calling it that should have been meant to soothe or stir the scene.

"Dear Maria, what exactly did they teach you?

"Ha ha... well, what's that, it's a joke, it's just a joke"

"What's a joke? Weren't you always serious?"

"Ugh... extra things"

Maria was stunned by a toddler's words. Setuna looks at Rem and puts her gaze on Maria.

"Dear Maria..."

"Maria......"

"So, it's just a joke. I don't care. I don't care."

Setuna didn't go any further into it because Maria ended up as an excuse. If you make an extra penetration into Maria's opponent, it can be a snake.

Maria shifts her gaze to the young lady she held back.

"This girl is called Amara."

"Bye. My name is Amara. Remember that very well. I'm sure it's in your interest."

You like your name too much, she has argued, loudly. I can't help but think of him as a healthy child. Maria keeps explaining.

"I think you'll see, not human. It's the Spirit."

"Uhm!"

"Spirit?"

"Spirit...... is it?

Both Setuna and Rem were not too surprised and decent by Maria's explanation. Maria's expression is just what this surprise face assumes, and she nods as she holds her amazing toddler tight.

"Yeah. I didn't believe it at first either. I'm pretty sure this kid isn't human. As you can see, I'm not even the Imperial Devil."

"Spirit..."

"What, you wonder what the Spirit is?

"Oh, oh..."

"Speaking of spirits, what dwells in all things… let's be?

"Uhm."

"Really?

"Yes, not only the four great groundwater firewinds, but the greatest elements that dwell in all things and make up this world - referring to it, we humans call it the Spirit. This is the first time I've actually seen that exist..."

The spiritual view described by Lem was also very similar to the spiritual view in Setuna's world. The four largest groundwater fires and winds are the most important. It would be about fire salamanders, wind silves, water undines, ground gnomes, etc. Setsuna knows that much, too, because it often appears in creations. However, those spirits and the toddler girl in front of them did not match up in any way. Though it is common for creations to differ from actual beings.

The young girl certainly looked like something that had to be alone. The rainbow eyes seemed only heterogeneous, and the presence somewhere floating, unlike anything else. When it comes to the Spirit, I'm not even convinced.

"Why does the Spirit look like that and be with Maria?

"Not because Maria did something funny."

"Yes?"

Maria smiled bitterly as Rem tilted her little neck.

He said my research looked interesting.

"Uhm."

"Heh."

"Is the research…"

"So, I got a little bit out of my way, so if you're chasing after me to get rid of it, this sucks."

Maria looked around the lab with a bitter smile.

"If you notice, stay all over Benoa, it's confusing."

"Speaking of which, you said you got lost or something."

"Oh... is that what happened"

That's what Ozfeld was doing. There's a man in Benoa who's been lost, and he knows more about albinism and divinity. There is no doubt that that is about Maria.

"Yeah. Then I had a hard time explaining it to the Knights. If I was chasing a girl, I'd be all over town, what a story, can I trust you?

"Sort of."

"You know, the Amara guy, he disappears when it's critical."

It's Maria's fault.

"Why would I do that?"

"I enjoyed it, but I'll get in the way."

"... Damn, which one got in the way"

Maria, speaking of Amara, looked quite happy. I can't say I look like a parent watching out for wasted children.

"So, since then, here?

"Oh. Amara says she doesn't know if she can go back to where she was, even if she uses the same method. Well, I was wondering if we could continue our research in Benoa. Benoa's got a problem with albinism."

"I see."

If you try being a doctor, Maria, and you can establish a cure for albinism, I guess that's fine.

"Speaking of which, where was Maria before she came here?

It's Lyohan.

"Lyohan......"

Setuna quietly rebuffed the name of Maria's departed city. Lyohan, an aerial city. The name of that city, the only autonomous city within the Vashtarian Community of Forces in the northern part of the Wargrain continent, was marginal to Setuna. Maria, with her far eyes, keeps coming.

"Faria and Miliu - that's when we got to Lyohan without missing anyone on the ship."

It would have been long before the “Great Destruction” took place that day, when the ship carrying the Marias flew Gandion with the power of three people: Ruufa, Gloria and Asura. In other words, after Setuna and the others went to the battlefield with the intention of dying, Ruufa and the others, as he wished, left the battlefield with the Phalia.

Just because you left Wang Capital, just because you left the land of the showdown, there was no guarantee that everyone would be helped. If the Resurrection of the Holy King is fulfilled, the world will perish. That way, it doesn't matter where you flee. No one or he would have been consumed by doom, and everything would have had to disappear. Still, I tried to make him go a little farther than the king's capital because it was possible.

Azmaria, along with Quon, had tried not to stop the resurrection of the Holy King. I believed her. I believed him. I had no choice. I'm thinking conveniently, but in any case, I just decided it was a lot more than I left in the King's Capital. Even if it wasn't possible, it must have kept him away from the king's capital.

Otherwise, if they wake up, the battle for the life of Setuna and the others could be interrupted.

They could take the place of death.

So Setuna entrusted Faria and Miliu to the Luufa. Only by doing so, I was unlikely to be able to seal off their thoughts and go to the dead.

In the end, it was Setsuna who didn't die in the dead place I went to after I did that.

"Everybody... you're alive."

"Oh. At least not until a year and a half ago."

After that, she shook her head sideways, yeah.

I'm sure he's still alive.

"Everybody..."

"Good for you, Master...!

"Oh......!

Setuna couldn't stop the tears from flowing as she stared back at Rem's full smile.