"Father, I'm home."
"Mai and May? Well done. I'm home."
This is the Spirit Palace at the heart of the spiritual world.
I am the Lord of the Spirit Hall, the King of all the Spirits - the Star Spirit King.
My, sweet daughters are back.
What, if you're coming back, why don't you tell me in advance?
Celebrate Mai and May's return, and have something open even at the feast.
─ ─ If you take that personally, my wife (...) might get angry.
I can't be very flashy, but I think it's good enough to gather all the spirits in the spirit world and welcome them both.
So I wanted you to contact me in advance.
Hmm?
What? What?
Don't do that?
Did you come back without contacting me because I was about to do Soyu?
Oh, well, I'm sorry.
... Don't do it again?
Wow, okay.
I won't do it next time I come back.
So, but you really don't want to pick me up?
If I care, not only will they be in the spiritual world, but all the spirits in the human world be called to greet you in a grand way...
Yes, no!
Sorry. Just kidding!
I would never do that!
So, it's Mai.
Don't try to call my wife in a nutshell!
My daughters' attitude towards me has been getting cold lately.
Back in the day, when I called my massive collection of spirits, they both complimented me on 'Father, wow' or something...
By the way, when I did that, my wife said to me, 'What the hell are you thinking by forcing me to call the busy spirits!!' and I was so pissed off.
'Cause you want to show your daughters something cool! You should have used the king's authority for a little while!!
─ ─ When I complained to my wife about that, I was hotly discouraged over the course of a few days saying, 'What is a king?'
My wife, of course, knows no fatigue because she is a spirit.
Also, my wife is a spirit originally created by God who presides over the knowledge of this world, and the amount of that knowledge is amazing.
So my wife's hot valve really lasted for a few days without a second off.
Since then, I have tried not to defy my wife much.
I can't get my head up on my wife like that, but she's actually pretty great.
It is the divine clan, beginning with the Creator, that governs this world. But the gods have a rule that they can't get their hands on the human world directly.
So we, the Spirit, take on the role of converting 'mana', the source of energy in this world, into various energies and so on.
Mana is the driving force that drives the world.
One of the closest forms of mana that inhabitants of this world have is magic.
Our spirits are converting mana into magic. In other words, there are always spirits in humans who can use magic in this world.
It's not just in humans.
The spirits that convert mana into magic are also present in the demonic stones in the body of demons and in the huge rivers of mana that flow under the earth called the Dragon Vein.
A spirit in the dragon pulse fills this world with magic.
By the way, there is no will on the Spirit to convert Mana into magic.
And when humans use magic, they give attributes such as fire, water, wind, earth, thunder, darkness, and light to magic, but the attribute conversion of that magic is also the role of our Spirit.
Spirits who perform attribute conversions have spirits who are unwilling, and spirits who are willing, like Mai, Mai, and I.
A spiritual like ours rarely makes a covenant with a human, and also does it with such magic that a human cannot normally exercise.
This world is moved by the Spirit.
Kings of all those spirits.
That's what I am.
If you care about that, you can stop the dragon pulse and crumble the world.
Well, my God of Creation entrusts me with this world, and I can't possibly do that.
In conclusion, what you're trying to say is that I'm pretty awesome.
I can do more or less anything.
My daughters have counted on me.
"" Father, don't you know what divorce magic is?
─ That's right.
Of course I know.
Because I am the Star Spirit King.
I grasp all the magic that exists in this world.
I know, but I was wondering why my daughters were so interested in split magic.
Split magic is the magic that creates the self that divides the magic of the body equally. For example, if a human with 10,000 magic powers creates a single identity, the magic amount of the body and the identity will be 5,000.
But this magic, it consumes about 5,000 magic to activate, so there is no magic left in the body, and the moment it activates the magic, it dies out of magic.
If you are lucky enough to convert life energy into magic, you will suffer from a magic deficiency that spares death but is terrible.
In the first place, there are a limited number of people who can possess more than 10,000 magic in this world.
That's why very few people can use this magic.
That's why I was wondering why my daughters were so interested in split magic.
... Ah!
Speaking of which.
I knew someone who might be able to use split magic - no, I knew someone who would be able to use it for sure.
That person is the covenant of my daughter Mai and May, and a bucket of magic enough to force me to summon the Star Spirit King.
"I don't know... you guys aren't thinking of letting Hart use your split magic, are you?
I just imagined it would give me a headache, such as more of those buckets.
The spirits are bewildered by the fact that he spreads his magic beyond any reason.
Well, most of that scattered magic will be recovered by the nine-tailed fox by his side, so it's the status quo that's doing something about it.
"" I'd like Master Hart to use his split magic, can't you?
... Seriously.
Looks like my daughters are going to make the bucket remember the split magic.
"Why don't you tell me why you want Hart to use split magic?
If that's convincing, I thought I could teach you the divorce magic.
Rarely did my daughters rely on me.
A little, I wanted to help.
"" Uh, the... ""
My daughters blush.
Hey, what's that, a disgraceful face!?
You've never looked like that before!
"" I want to increase the number of days I can sleep with Master Hart... "
-What?