When I woke up, I saw a dimly blurred ceiling.

After several blinks, the sumptuous vision gradually clears up.

The next time I try to wake up my body, it doesn't work the way I want it to.

When I put a little effort into my abs, I must have felt painful.

"Gu......"

Unexpectedly there is a distressing voice.

Damn, transplant the wound from Ellea... just like that, didn't it heal?

But I don't know how many days have passed since it was just ”painful”.

Damn, you slept for a week until recently, and you were unconscious again for a few days?

If so, will my body be so dull in just a few days?

This weight, it's like a gold tie - and when you point your gaze towards the foot.

The girls were sleeping with my feet on their pillows because they wanted to stop by.

By the way, Rabbi seems to be asleep sitting in a chair in the corner of the room.

Lily has her right leg, your sister has her left leg, Fran somehow lays her head between her legs, and even Ellea lies on my leg.

Well, maybe someone put her body that way, and then...

"I don't think you're treating the injured, Lord of the Flesh Forest."

Yeah, yeah, that's what I wanted to say.

What I heard was a voice of someone I didn't know.

Lord of voices - when I turned my gaze toward the entrance to the room, there was a little girl there.

To a height not very different from Fran's, but a greater attitude than hers.

Dark hair stretched to the waist reminiscent of your sister, red eyes.

Confidence engulfed in the expression and a fine body on the back.

As this is the castle in the Imperial Capital, there was only one human being who could walk at will - the idea.

"Reatrice Spicata?"

It was the name of the Emperor of the Inheritance.

She laughs when she hears my words.

"To call me emperor in person is to strike me in the neck on the spot if you are a civilian, Misaki."

"... oh well. Great man, what is it?"

"Come on, you're a great guy. Right, I'm great. Empire, no, I am the greatest man in the world, there is only one man in this world who deserves to unite and govern the world."

I say it clearly without precipitation and without the nuances of jokes.

Though I've heard the name from Fran and her sister several times and imagined she was quite in trouble from that talk.

I see. Sure, they don't think this is a glimmer.

"But I am not just a fool to drown in my greatness and put pressure on others by power. The vessel is huge, and I can honestly thank you."

"Ha."

I still don't know what you showed up before me for, Riatoris, Emperor Toto.

No way, I just came to see your face, or something?

It has a slightly longer foreground to it, and I feel like we're just talking irrelevant.

Reatrice said with all due seriousness that I was incapable of measuring her sincerity.

"Misaki, the empire would have ended without you. Thank you, I thank you from the bottom of my heart"

And bow your head deeply.

I was watching the sight. [M]

Then Riatoris, who finished thanking him and gave him his head, says with a disgruntled look.

"I don't even know if there's a reaction to my thanks, it's a disrespectful one everywhere. Guillotine on the spot if you're a civilian."

How much do you want to kill civilians? This man.

But it's also true that my lack of response is rude. [M]

I managed to twist my head and return the words.

"Well, I just did it to achieve my purpose, so I don't think I did anything exaggerated just to save the empire."

"Well, I mean, to protect the women who sleep there?

"Of course there is, and most importantly - I wanted to kill those three, with my own hands."

As I said, I smiled unexpectedly.

Given the difference in power, there's no way the Empire and the three of them could have fought and the three could have stayed intact.

Perhaps for some reason they weren't scratched, or ”events” that would have healed their wounds.

Thanks to you, I was able to avenge myself. [M]

I can't help laughing.

"Kukuku, kuhahahaha! Right, I guess so, Anima users still have to be!

Listening to my reply, Riatoris suddenly laughed out loud.

Of course, if you make a sound like that, the sleeping girls will close their eyes too.

The first lily moves with a low voice saying "Mmm......"

"Whoa, what I did. It was so delightful and uncontrollable."

"Was it that funny?

"Oh, you're still Mikoto's brother. Well, we were in a touching reunion, too bright to water. Let me go home today."

She turns her heels back and leaves the room.

After all, did you come here just to thank me?

He doesn't seem like a disciplined person, though he's not a glimmer.

"Oops, I forgot to mention one thing"

I thought I'd leave the room as I was, and Reatrice stops on the edge of the door.

And then I turn my neck, and I just turn my side.

"I dare say I'm older than you or Mikoto because I'm in trouble if I'm mistaken, right? You can't judge by the way you look."

I told him to tease me and gently raised his hand and left as it was.

I used to stare at closed doors even after she left.

... You were a lot of amazing people.

I almost wanted a little break in the thick hours, but it's time to wake up. I don't think they'll let me do that.

"Hmm... Cape...?

Lily raised the face she was burying around my calf and looked at me as I rubbed my eyes.

Are you still asleep or have no tightness in your expression?

"Morning. 'Cause it's dark out there and everybody's asleep, and I wonder if it's late at night now. So, good evening?

"Yeah, good evening"

Looks like he's not sleeping well today.

I couldn't help but get tired of sleeping in that position.

"That, Cape......? The Cape...... a dream? No, this is not a dream..."

Gradually the light dwells in the blurred eyes and the lily consciousness awakens.

"The Cape is awake. Cape is awake, are you awake!? Hey, Cape's awake. Yo! Guys, not if you're asleep!

Apparently, the lily finally wakes up, shaking her body in turn with Ellea, her sister, Fran, and Rabbi.

Confirming that they all woke up slowly asleep, they finally stood in front of me and hugged me so that I could press my head against my chest.

Soft, but a little painful.

"Good... Cape, I thought you wouldn't wake up anymore...!

"If you die in there, you won't have to be stupid."

"But you didn't wake up for three days! Don't make me worry too impotent anymore......"

Talking in tears, Lily hugs my head hard and hard.

I felt strongly that you were loved, and my cheeks were loose naturally.

While doing so, other faces wake up and start making noise when they realize what's happening to me.

"Cape. Oh, that's good! I don't know how many times you cried because of me. Huh!

With that said, I tear again and hug you to my chest, sister.

"Wah... wah, no, Misaki kept his eyes open, why Shinja, so, so... wow!

Ellea exposes her emotions so hard to see that she buries her face in my stomach as she squeaks her face.

It hurts so much, but, well, let's just be patient about now.

It's true that you worried about her, especially.

Reaching and stroking her head, Ellea rubbed her own head into the palm of her hand.

But if I didn't, Ellea could have died, and I have no regrets.

We can touch each other this way, too, because we live with each other, somehow.

"I believed Mr. Masaki would always wake up, because that's not the kind of balls he'd die of."

Rabbi is bragging about it for some reason, from a little further away.

And Fran looked at me standing still, with an unexplained look on her face for some reason.

"What's wrong, Fran?

I thought, "I'm glad your sister didn't die."

"Is that so strange?

"Yeah, strange. It's very strange, but - now don't think deeply, with all of us, let's be honest and happy that your sister woke up."

That being said, Fran stuck to my foot to imitate the other three.

Then, until they were satisfied, I was embraced - and by the time I was freed, I was in a mess.

We're all relentless towards injured opponents. Hey, I wonder if you're saying this kind of love is heavy.

But I'm filled with more happiness than that, even though I feel carefree and painful.

Little by little, I was feeling my heart wound healing.

After all, is it a big deal that we have seven vengeful opponents left?

Every time the number of people decreases, the mind becomes lighter.

I just think they don't exist in this world anymore, and I feel like I've been saved.

You can't get back what you lost, but you can get back what you took.

I can even get a new one.

That's what revenge is for me.

It's a process, not a result.

Means to make the future ahead better.

Before I lost consciousness, that figure I saw in Teito was definitely - it must have been Anima from Kigure, Nagaho, Umeno, Sakizaki, Ayla, and Roppei.

They're here, right here.

Without even knowing I was there, I've been in a proper (...) asylum.

There is no way to miss this opportunity.

We have to kill him.

Without exception, scratch them with bitterness and algae in regret and hate.

Death to the worst possible, ugly death.

To do this first - well, who shall we use as pawns first?