Bad summer.

It's early September.

There was still leftover summer incense, hot winds swirling through the sky.

The western sky is stained bright red and the horizontal end is burning. Its reddish eyelids were vividly dyeing the sea of clouds filling the sky, and he was, unconsciously, narrowing his eyes.

As he pokes his elbow at the deck of the Wolknakt, the handrail that surrounds its outer circumference, he looks out at the sunset sky. The Wolknakt floats over the cloud sea, lying far beneath its eyes, both on the ground and in the sea. Even the urban groupings in the northern coastal zone of the southern continent are only as small as bean grains, but they are also occasionally visible in the clouds. At present, the cloud sea was covering up under my eyes, and I couldn't even see what was happening on the ground.

Over the Southern Zaion continent.

What is beyond the west, beyond the great seaplains?

Where the continent was one, the group of small nations must have spread. but it's also more like a dream. A dream old story. Was it all a dream story? A dream story of unity held in a small group of nations. No, it seems like a distant, distant old thing, so much so that even thinking about it is a hundred million robberies.

That and this, because we must now concentrate on what is before us, and because the matters before us and which need to be concentrated are too important. Probably, I'm sure, yeah.

"I'm sorry then"

"What..."

I mean, Setuna looked back behind her back. The only voice that sounded unexpected was that of the goddess, and if you look back, there was only the figure of the Mayuri God. There was no appearance of the Mayura God, apparently once again leaving the control of the ship to the Mayura God, who was moving alone. I wake up the Mayura God who usually has no choice but to keep sleeping, so don't feel sorry for the Mayura God somewhat.

"It's about Urk."

Then why are you apologizing?

"I would have recommended the destruction of Urk. Don't even think about how you feel."

"It must be the end of the thought. You knew how much we thought about Urk."

The goddess didn't know about Urk directly. However, Mayuri God is peeking into Setuna's memory, and at that time, he would have found out about Setuna's interaction with Urk. Miliu and Elina must have sporadically heard stories about Urk. You would have known how much Erina missed Urk in it, and that Urk was, in a way, the most attention-grabbing of the Setunas. Urk was liked by everyone for his honest words and deeds.

Mayuri, God knew everything.

Still, the goddess decided that there was no other way to stop Urk than to destroy it. And it wasn't a mistake. That's all that was then. Nothing more, nothing less. The goddess hasn't made one wrong decision.

"But I was wrong. You were right. Urk was able to escape the reign of God with all his will. I was misguided."

"No......"

Setsuna shook her head.

"You're not wrong about one thing, Mayuri."

That's what Setsuna meant.

"This time, I just happened to be doing well. It just so happens that Urk has demonstrated power beyond Mayuri's imagination. I'm sure I know that too."

It's just a coincidence. Even considering Urk's character, it's not inevitable, no. It just so happens that, by chance, it was just a reign that could be broken with her power. If it had been more powerful domination, Urk would not have been able to destroy himself either. In that case, Our Lady of Setuna should have ended senselessly and, according to the Mayuri God, had to be destroyed with His hand. And by the power of the goddess, he must have joined the destructive part and wished to restart the Urk. That would have gone well with it, but another poor aftertaste than this one would have kept it inside Setsuna.

"This time, my self did just fine. That's not true, that's not true. Master Mayuri was overwhelmingly more right, without even thinking about it."

"But..."

"As it were, if Urk couldn't do something about himself, I'd have to put my hands down. If you scratched to the end and still couldn't, you would have done what you said. That was the best part. And I won't always get my choices right every time."

Rather, isn't it more likely to be wrong?

Setuna's, that's just emotional theory.

Because I don't want to put my hands on Urk.

Because I don't want to hurt Urk.

With such personal emotions alone, Setsuna did not try to lay her hands down. Didn't you just want to keep calling on Urk and find a glimmer of hope there and then continue to squeeze at it just because, in the end, you didn't want to get your hands dirty? Such thoughts were swirling inside Setuna.

"Dear Mayuri. This will continue to happen. My dear, there must always be a difference in your thoughts. At that time, you do what you think is right. And as a result, even if I'm mad, I'm sure you're right."

"Setuna......"

"I live by my emotions. I'm also going to know how stupid that is. But I can't stop it. I can't falsify my emotions. I'm me."

"It's... I'm gonna know"

"So I just have to live the way I want."

I also understand that that could cause the worst.

That's what I wanted to tell you about Urk this time, I guess.

This time, no one just complains because they happen to be doing well, and if they were failing, what would have happened? Not only Wolk, but there's a chance he was losing more. Without the help of Mayuri God, Setuna herself, would have been blurred. I was able to survive intact, because nothing but thanks to the protection of the goddess. Setsuna, I wasn't cut out on my own.

Inevitably, coincidences piled up, and this time it ended well.

But it doesn't always work the same way from now on.

No, rather, it's weirder to think it's going to work.

"Okay. Let me go as I please, too. As a result, even if you don't like it."

Mayuri God, nodding deeply, has once again looked at Setuna. Golden eyes are divine whenever you see them.

"I can't lose you."

"Dear Mayuri"

"I command hope. Precious desire, here I am. It is only in order to hear the hope of one and fulfill the hope that it exists"

It is also the word of the Mayuri God. Goddess of Hope. That's her and everything about her. I guess she is different from the Mayura God who directs despair, which is why she can be a force for the Setunas, and she will cooperate. Full of spirits, I guess they help. That's why Setuna and the others can forgive their hearts.

The goddess said.

"You're hopeful. of the world."

"Hope? I...?

"That's right, Setsuna"

Her smile was always beautiful and fantastic.

"You are the one who can do something about the current state of this world. Only you, the guardian of the Black Spear King's Staff, can bring hope to a world that is manipulated by the thoughts of the gods."

A world manipulated by the thoughts of the gods.

After all, does such a world require the power of the Demon King?

The devastating, no, even destructive power of the Demon King's wand.

"So live."

To the word of Mayuri God, Setuna, became angry.

"Live well."

The words I once heard at the bottom of Naruto resurrected behind my brain and looked up into the sky.

The darkness of the night is beginning to sneak in the sky, which has begun to burn red.