It felt like a dream, like a nod.
I forgot the original weight of my body, and I felt as if it was light as a soul.
I feel nostalgic.
Yes, this is the kind of floating feeling I felt when I came to this world.
Does that mean I'm still dead?
You really like to think that way, don't you?
I heard a woman's voice.
I look in the direction of the voice.
No, I don't know if I have a body or an eye in this state, but at least my awareness focused on that voice.
And I'm sure of it.
After all, I'm dead.
"Wait a minute." Why do you think that? "
"That's because you're right in front of me."
The woman looks dazed at me, but I will return the fact to her as it should be.
Because if this were the world, she wouldn't be here.
It's been a long time, General.
"... I see. Ibuki"
She laughed as I remember her.
Glossy black hair, a feminine body, and a smile that seems to show happiness in all of the world.
Still, it soon became clear that she was not Trace, but Ibuki Torii.
That's because there was a gray-haired girl with the exact same face next to her.
"Hey, it's been a while, Trace."
Yeah. Haha, I didn't expect to see you again so soon.
In contrast to Ibuki, Trace responds badly.
Well, if we get this far, we'll be all set.
There are already two dead people in front of me (I wonder if Trace is a human or not), so I can't be alive.
I felt terribly sorry for Sweetie and her friends, but there was nothing I could do about it.
Oh, or else the country and the world would have come to an end.
"So if you don't wait. That's how you're not going to change when you come up with your own answer.Oneechan has always thought that we should fix things like that. "
"What is your sister?" You're already much younger than me, aren't you? "
Mentally, I'm still your sister.
Ibuki stretched her chest out in a way that she couldn't bear unless she had the advantage.
You haven't changed that much, have you?
With that in mind, I finally ask with a calm head of confusion.
"So, if I'm not dead, where am I and what are you?"
I haven't dispelled my suspicions that I'm dead, but if there's someone I can talk to in front of me, I feel like I can talk to them.
Not to mention, the opponent I was pursuing from the bottom of my heart.
It doesn't matter if it's a running lantern or a phantom that you see when you die.
Because the visibility is white, it is certainly not a realistic place.
”First of all, if I were to say where I am, it would be like in your heart”
Well, okay, so what about you?
"If I were to ask," What am I? "Torisu Ibuki's soul is like the guardian spirit of your heart. Is that the kind of thumbing? "
... it's ambiguous.
I'm not looking at Ibuki, I'm looking at Trace.
Is it right?
Well, yeah.
Is it right?
For the time being, I decided to accept it.
There were other worlds in this world, so there would be other worlds in your heart.
It was a mystery why two people lived in such a world as a matter of course.
“Let me answer that question as well.”
Ibuki reads my mind in a natural way.
No, if it's in my mind, then you don't have to read it or fuck it.
When I waited for Ibuki's answer, she said with the same tension.
“I wasn't really a human being, I was a spiritual soul.”
"... what about you?"
"Torisu Ibuki wasn't originally meant to be born in the world of Sang, was he?"
I couldn't immediately understand what I was saying.
Ibu continued to explain the confused me unilaterally.
"In conclusion."I was a spiritual being that should have been born in this alien world where the general had just been flown, not in Japan, where the general lived. "
"... what? Were you obsessed with spiritual religion after your death?"
"Shhhhh, I'll tell you the whole story."
Ibuki gnaws at me with a light mouth as she adds a tsukumi to her bowl.
I accidentally laughed at such a cheerful exchange that I didn't even know it had been for years.
"...... Well, because each person you believe or disbelieve is such a special me?In fact, even if I died, I didn't become a Buddha lightly.Or rather, there was a lack of skill, and my soul was inadvertently left behind. "
I was unexpectedly putting words in her mouth again.
"... unprofessional? You?"
"That's right. Sadly, there was a lack of skill on the part of me, who had been singing so much about life."Do you know what it is? "
Um, let's live our lives as hard as we can, no matter when we die, like Torisu Ibu.
After thinking about it for a while, I realized that I didn't have to think about it.
Three days before she died, I let her leave her to blame.
"...... it's me"
"Yes, this isn't a lot of time to blame you, but I was worried about what would happen to you if you lost me, and when I realized that, I lived in your heart."
"You're staying illegally."
"Curses and blessings are on paper, aren't you?"Do you want to be cursed? "
If Iba had been in me all this time, I'd have worried her a lot.
I've been a bartender for years since she died, half desperate.
I didn't think it was going to come to another world for any reason.
"And I am the one who created the distant cause of your coming into this world."
Yes?
“I told you, didn't I? I was originally born in Japan by mistake.So, whether I wanted it or not, my existence has always been drawn to this world.And that nature was passed on to you, who had me in your heart. "
The reason for this was somewhat unexpected.
I was called to this world because I happened to have the same magical aptitude as Hermes, and I thought there was nothing else.
"Rather than that." Originally, I was the one who was wearing Hermes' magic aptitude.I was born in Japan, and I didn't have that kind of preparation. "
"...... I mean?"
"I was the one who was mistakenly called upon to summon the Demon King, but since I was among the total, the total was also called, and because of that, the Demon King's power itself has fallen into the total's mind. I'm sorry."
…………
What should I say even if I get an apology?
She was only inside me because I was worried, which is because of my unworthiness.
As an example, I used the power of the demon king who had inadvertently lived there without question.
Normally speaking, I'm a Japanese person who has nothing to do with magic, so I guess I should have suspected that I had magic power.
At least, I wonder if magic aptitude exists for me when I was in Japan.
And one more mistake.
When I was gently depressed in my heart, Ibuki made a gentle face.
That's the usual look that pulls me up when I was in Japan, when I tended to fall into negativity.
"The power you were using was not the Devil King's."It's mine. "
Huh?
"That's why you're not under the influence of the Demon King."I'd rather you thank me for stopping the impact. "
It was a poison that pushed away a sting that was in my heart.
In fact, I've been worried ever since I was told that the power in me belonged to the Demon King.
I have created a weapon that can use my power to cause havoc in this world.
That's why cocktails are accepted in this world.
But that's exactly what Hermes thought, and as his pawn, I thought he was just helping to destroy the world as he wanted.
I wonder if he even manipulated my feelings so well.
Even though I thought of cocktails, I thought they were planted somewhere and were consistent with the Demon King's rule.
Even the last thing that was stopped was just a wicked reward.
I've always had that anxiety in my heart.
"Ever since I came to this world, I've been holding back the power of the Demon King who tries to erode the total consciousness."And instead of the demon king, I gave the general my natural power, which has been activated since I came to this world.Even so, after the ritual occurred and the Demon King regained his power, his power to control the [connected] total became stronger, and he could no longer afford to lend me my power.That's why the general can't use magic power like hot water anymore. "
That's what Ibuki said.
The power I was using belonged to Ibuki.
I didn't really get the influence of the Demon King.
That's why I walked the path I believed in and finally managed to defeat the Demon King with a cocktail.
Without a doubt, it is the future I have won.
"At the end, the general tried to suck up the magic power that was in him."Originally, you would have sucked up all your magic and died.But that's not what happened.At that moment, I was finally able to help the General once again."Thanks to Trace here, you've stopped the demon king's erosion on my behalf."
"...... Ahaha, I didn't think there were any customers in the first place."
Ibuki and Trace laughed at each other.
When I was alive, you saved me, but even after I died, you saved me.
That fact also fills my heart with something strange, and slightly moistens my eyes.
His head seemed to be flattened by mysterious emotions.
Knowing it or not, Ibuki strokes my head.So I realized that in time the outline of my body was born.
But without that, Ibuki says, as if to praise her younger brother for his hard work.
"That's why you've never been a demon king."You have chosen and advanced your precious future with your will. [M] Well done. "
Without the influence of the Demon King, I've really worked hard for cocktails and important people.
That's what made me so strangely happy.