Hyaku Ma No Aruji

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"I think it's time for me."

"Well done, Flander. You've got it this far."

"Haha, I'd be surprised at my obsession myself. This one is much more intense than what was once untrained. - Will Melea survive properly?"

"Melea would be fine. In terms of power. The question is whether or not he has the will to live. No, there is now, but after you disappear, can you get back on your feet?"

"It's okay. Melea is serious about living itself. I guess being dead once formed that temper."

- You're right.

"Can I ask you one thing?"

"What?

"Is Tenryu Kurtista a friend of Merea's?"

"I don't know. It's a secret between me and Melea."

"Haha, that's enough answers."

When the wind blowing on the summit of Lindholm Spiritual Mountain was wild.

Heavenly dragons with their bodies down the corner of Spirit Mountain and English spirits with extremities about to disappear had a conversation.

"Perhaps your intentional help with something is against your tenacity. Let's just hope so. - Watch Melea and do it. I don't think I can keep an eye on him anymore."

"Can I just watch"

"Watch me, if Melea is going to follow me, I need your help"

"Even as far as I'm concerned, I like Melea a lot. Other world matters I hear from Melea are quite interesting as well. And personality. Well, I don't hate it. - While I'm up to it, if that's okay with the condition, I'll watch. You've been looking after me forever."

"Thank you."

Flander's legs were almost gone already.

- Are you going?

"Right. I guess it's the last time."

"What about the other English spirits?

"I think I probably went somewhere else. There are no more signs. Everyone thinks the same thing. I'm ashamed Merea dropped me off."

"You're the weirdly strong ones."

"Heroes are strong."

"Bad sarcasm"

Flander's arm disappears and his appearance (yes, it does) finally boils down.

Flander's face showed the usual smile.

Kind, seems a little troubled, reflects somewhere uncut, a strange smile.

"-Tell Melea I'm sorry I went on my own."

"Is that all you need?"

"'Thank you' is something I've already written down. That's where Merea woke up for the first time."

"Right."

"Oh, and can you tell Merea again about the" Demon King Hunt "thing? For once, I explained it to you, but it's not enough."

"I know."

"Perhaps Melea will be regarded as the Demon King. In your story, if there's even one particular power or a special power, then that's the kind of time they put on the Demon King's rettel, isn't it?

"Oh. It's just like your demon eye. You are still better off because you were also excellent at the ceremonial skills, but in this day and age, you would be certified as the Demon King only with the" Demon Eye of the Surgical God ". If that's a force that helps in the war, it doesn't matter if the others are vulnerable. That's the story."

"You can do whatever you want."

"The word Demon King is conveniently used for the stronger to gain stronger power. Seriously, it is a nation with the power to certify it, so the nature (s) is good, so bad. Even if it's not, it'll crush you."

"Really... that's a handy word. It looks like a lot, and it's actually nothing stuck inside. There is no such thing as true meaning. Even if I know that, I can't say it."

"- If you don't win, you can't even speak. That is the era of war. I don't remember how many times it was the circumference, but it always was. On the contrary, if you win, that's how it goes. Is it a strong country as well, or is it - a very stupid and sweet country - that can complain about powerful countries in these times"

"Stupid, sweet country..."

"Well put, it can be said that the attitude of perseverance is exhilarating."

"- Yeah."

At that time Kurtista and Flander were thinking of the name of one country in their brains.

"Then the demon kings who will be chased by the mighty kingdom should flee into that country."

"I wish I could get away with it. And if you don't get crushed right after you run in, yes. If there were such a kingdom to fight, it would certainly be a place for the demons."

"Well, tell Melea where it is and where it could be."

"Stop saying things like that until this happens. If the country I'm thinking about wasn't your country, it wouldn't even be a laugh."

"haha, so is that"

Flander began to shake his appearance in the air like a mist, spinning his words with a faint voice as well.

"If Merea is certified as the Demon King, and you have trouble finding a place then - tell her to go for the Kingdom of Remusse, east of the continent. If that's where you still have your former 'sweetness' on your chest, it'll definitely help you with Melea."

Kurtista nodded reassuringly, making sure that the name of the country that was floating behind his brain was the same as that of the country that Flander spinned.

"Leilas'... home town"

"... right"

- You don't ask.

"What?

"What's happening to that country now"

"- Yeah. Whatever's going on, if Kurtista thought of the kingdom of Lemuse just like me in the current story, I'm sure that's the most likely place for Merea, because I predicted it."

"Damn, it's a head that goes around a lot instead of disappearing."

"Besides, even in the home of Leilas, now, is the kingdom of King Remusse in this day and age. Enough to know it's the most likely there is. Instead, if you ask me something weird, I think I'll be left untrained again halfway through."

"- Right."

"We're not supposed to interfere in our time. So let's leave the rest to those who live now."

Two, Flander's swinging appearance looked up into the sky.

Kurtista looks up at the sky, trying to mimic it.

"And yet, Leilas, I'm going first. It's hard for you to leave your husband to go first."

It had little appearance, but it did look like a kurtista, as Flander laughed at the sky.

"Leilas was restless as he seemed."

"Heh heh, yeah"

Kurtista also pointed a nostalgic eye and a silly grin at the sky.

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Silence.

The wind stops.

- I thought the time in the world had stopped.

Still, I figured - it came when we broke up.

- Well, it's time for me to come to her.

"... oh"

Tenryu Kurtista's eyes wobbled only once.

"See you soon. If I ever see you in the Heavenly Sea of Souls,

"Oh. - Soul imprisoned untrained, now is the time to lift the curse and go to the next place. Farewell, old English spirits."

That day, in a place unknown to Merea, the ghosts, long wandering in Lindholm Spiritual Mountain, cut off their untrained and ascended into the sky.

Merea finds out after a few hours that they've gone.

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As Merea blurred in the stone hut that she had erected on Spiritual Mountain, the voice of the heavenly dragon, heard from the outside, echoed.

So out of the cabin, Merea heard from the Tenryu Kurtista that the Flanders had gone,

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Out of the question.

But it was a strange grin that closely resembled that Flander smile that came next to Merea's face like that.

Tenryu Kurtista looked overlapping with Flander with that grinning Merea face.

"- I knew it. I haven't even dated the Flanders in over a decade. I grew up with them all the time.... even if I could tell. Guys... I'm a lighter..."

Only one grain fell from Merea's eyes, and Shizuku overflowed.

"- I'm going to build everyone's grave. Then I'm going down to the lower realm."

"Grave."

"We're all old English spirits. I think some have been forgotten. But I want to put up in this world a testament to the fact that they lived as proud heroes indeed. Betrayed, failed, and still, as much as they wanted me to be a hero, they had a salvation for someone. I think it's amazing."

"- Right. It was all good for you."

"So remember here that they were indeed heroes. Only their thoughts will never let it weather"

"Down to the lower realm, what do you do?

"I'll go find it."

"The world is dark with war. There are no universal values. Therefore, the first universal hero sought by Flanders can no longer exist"

"I know. That's what Flander said. So I guess I'll be a hero to what I want to protect. That was their fundamental temper. So now it would be a hero to the Flanders. They wanted me to live. As a hero who fulfills his wishes, he's here now.

"- Right. Then I pray that you will be a hero to none other than ghosts."

"Yeah, thanks, Kurtista"

"I was going to be a little sarcastic."

"Kurtista's sarcasm must be thinking of me, isn't it?

"Haha, you're still not cute in places like that, you are.... Well, I've been with you too long, too. - Love has shifted a little. That's all. - Well, the clouds are rising again. It's time for me to go."

"Yeah."

Clouds were about to hang again on the sky that looked up from the summit of the Spiritual Mountain.

- Bye.

"Yeah, sooner or later"

"- Oh."

Tenryu Kurtista disappeared into the sky after saying so.

Merea, alone, remained on the summit of Lindholm Spiritual Mountain.

"Merea-Maire" was alone that day - at last.