Campione Lord of Realms Vol 3 Chapter 1

Chapter 1 – Kusanagi and His Camp, Achieving a Reunion Beyond a Time of Eternity

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Part 1

The heroic world Hyperborea!

The girls finally also embarked into the rumored mythological world.

The sea with deep blue color was stretching endlessly with multitude  of islands scattered all over it. As befitting such world, they were  presently standing on a corner of a harbor.

They would surely enter an adventure if they embarked to the sea before their eyes.

「……And yet the man of the hour, his majesty is going off to who know where.」

The person who had arrived here only yesterday commented.

Although she called the man who was her lord and also her lover with  the title of 『his majesty』, her tone was extremely casual. She used that  nickname more because of her easygoingness rather than respect.

The beauty she was talking to sported an elegant smile on her lips.

「It can’t be helped. The person we loved is a 『rootless person』 after all, and that is putting it mildly.」

Her reddish blonde hair looked like a crown.

It was because of the aura of domination and nobility that the beauty──Erica Blandelli radiated.

Two months had already passed since Erica came to Hyperborea. During  that time, she was only spending maybe around half a month with her  lover Kusanagi Godou.

Erica shrugged and grumbled.

「In addition, he will immediately count on other people at the drop  of hat! Even not long ago, he said something like 『I want to create an  organization that can help the people who are travelling through  Hyperborea……』 before leaving all the works to make the organization’s  grand design to me. While the person himself is travelling aimlessly to  everywhere!」

「Well, but even with his majesty dropping off troublesome matters like this──」

In respond to her sworn friend’s remark──Seishuuin Ena smiled wryly.

「The way Erica-san dealt with it so speedily is also amazing. You are  already gathering personnel and even create the headquarters right?」

「It’s not something that can be called a headquarters. It’s just temporary dwelling.」

Erica said with a shrug.

「When the time come, we can simply create a befitting headquarters or  even a palace. The most important thing at this stage is to increase  the number of like-minded comrades. Rather than land, item, or building,  what we have to prioritize in gathering is manpower, and above all else  money, a lot of them.」

「Then, you still haven’t decided the organization’s name?」

「It’s pointless to get fixated to something like that, so I already  decided right away. The organization is called 『Explorer’s Guild』.」

「Ahaha, so it’s like the saying, simple is best.」

Ena laughed. She was dressed in an easy to move in outfit like usual.

She was wearing a black mountain parka. It was a male’s clothes, so  the size was obviously bigger than her body build. Actually it was a  second hand outfit that she received from Kusanagi Godou. She went 『Ah,  this is a nice outfit!』 when she saw it and forcefully asked it from  him.

She was wearing a white sweatshirt underneath it. For the bottom she was wearing tight gray jeans.

And then there was a long and narrow cloth bag hanging from her right shoulder──.

Anyone who knew Seishuiin Ena would know that the content of the bag  was a 『sheathed Japanese katana』. It originated from her nickname, the  『princess shrine maiden of the sword』.

By the way about Erica, she was dressed far more elegantly than Ena.

She was wearing a black knitted one piece that reached until her  waist and a red cardigan with a length that hid her buttocks. For the  bottom she was wearing white leggings and black boots.

Not only the outfit was easy to move in, she was clearly also paying attention to display classy elegance.

When the two of them were talking while dressing like that, they  naturally gathered the attention of the passing by people and the  workers in the harbor.

That was because it was clear from a glance that they were Earthian based on the strange outfit they were wearing.

Their outfit was too different from the cultural style of Hyperborea.  It seemed that in the recent years, Earthians had been arriving in this  heroic world one after another.

「Anyway. I’ve finally arrived here, so I want to quickly meet up with his majesty.」

「Mm hm. I too have several matters that I need to consult with Godou  soon, so it’s a good timing. Let’s try searching for his whereabouts  with magic──」

「……Umm. Hello」

There was someone who called out to the conversing two women.

It was sudden, but this was also something that 『often』 happened.  Earthians always stood out. They naturally tickled the curiosity of  Hyperborea people.

When the two turned their gaze, they saw a tall youth nearby, smiling at them.

He had a flaming red hair. Furthermore, his features were really  pretty. He also had a unique air around him. He looked casual as though  he was always in a good mood──he really looked like a nice person.

Even though he was only smiling gracefully, he gave off an impression of a very friendly person.

He was wearing a gray robe and he was holding a wooden cane. His  appearance looked similar like a 『magician』 who appeared in fantasy  movie.

「Do you have some kind of business with us?」

「I wish to have a bit of talk if it’s possible. How about it, madams?」

The red haired youth casually replied to Erica’s question.

If one only considered his wording, then what he was doing would look  like nothing more than the act of 『hitting on women』, but when this  youth was the one saying those words, it became a refined action like a  knight waiting upon a noblewoman.

「Pardon me. Actually──I felt an extraordinary connection between the two of you and me.」

The two women exchanged gaze briefly because of the youth’s sentences.

(What he is saying, it completely sounds like someone trying to pick up women isn’t it……)

(Yes. 『Please wait a second, the cute girl over there, want to have a  drink with me!? I think that we were surely going out together in our  past life!』……. You can say that his speech is almost no different at all  from the cliché pickup lines of the frivolous boys all over earth.)

(And yet he doesn’t look like a frivolous person at all. What a strange guy.)

That exchange between women happened through a brief eye contact.

However their relationship that had lasted for more than ten years  was long and deep. Erica and Ena conveyed their thoughts to each other  before turning toward the red haired youth once more.

「Err. By connection, what kind of connection specifically?」

This time it was Ena who asked. The youth answered without a moment delay.

「Together, we will be able to help each other──not only that, we will  be able to regain the connection of love that has grown old at this  moment, but one that surpassed the thick barrier of time and space, that  kind of connection……. Please forgive me that I can only give this kind  of vague description. It’s only a vague feeling but, anyway, I felt that  kind of connection between us.」

「…………」

「…………」

Both Erica and Ena were silent.

Normally, this wasn’t a talk that they would seriously listen to.  But, the remark 『that kind of』 that came out several times from the  youth’s mouth. That remark was familiar for the two of them in a sense.

Seishuuin Ena was the childhood friend of a shrine maiden who had a similar manner of talking.

The most striking spiritual ability of the princess shrine maiden Mariya Yuri, the graceful woman who was her sworn friend was──

「Mister, could it be that you have the ability of spiritual sight?」

「Only in meager amount.」

When she asked the youth frankly, he affirmed it together with refreshing smile.

He was clearly just acting modest. If that was the case, Erica spoke up.

「How do you think the we will be able to help each other I wonder?」

「Most likely──it will be in regard to the danger that is approaching  in the near future……the maelstrom of calamity that is the crumbling of  the whole multiverse. Actually I have been sensing it this whole time.  That soon, the terrifying 《Witch》──will cause 『the real end of this  world』.」

「The real end of this world, you say!?」

「Yes. Normally when talking about 『the end of the world』, it refer to  the danger of a single universe breaking down. However in regard to  『the real end of the world』, it’s a large scale disaster that might  destroy the whole multiverse that contain thousands of universes──」

「Wait wait!」

Erica was dumbfounded. Ena reflexively interrupted.

She sharply questioned the youth who was citing out such outrageous matter.

「You mentioned things about universe and multiverse……mister, are you also an Earthian, and furthermore a Plane Walker!?」

「Aa. There is also that kind of title isn’t it.」

The red haired youth easily admitted it and smiled innocently.

「My name is Leonardo Blandelli. My best regards from here on.」

Erica and Ena were overcome with surprise for real this time.

Blandelli──. A boy called Leonardo with the same family name like Erica.

It was a name that called to mind of the 『older twins』 who the two of them couldn’t possible forget.

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Part 2

「This is, real awful……」

Kusanagi Godou muttered in amazement.

He was standing at the edge of a seashore cliff. He was staring at far away from there.

There should be a rocky area over there. An area beside the sea with  scraggy boulders all over. However, that area was a 『swamp of lava』  right now.

It was a melting pot of muddy and melting lava boiling hotly.

The great amount of rocks that were formerly there had been melted by  the divine power of heat of someone passing through. It transformed the  area to be like this…….

Next Godou tried to stare at further away.

Hyperborea’s sea. The deep blue ocean that was stretching out without  end. On top of it, there was a red stain advancing straight forward  with great speed.

The seawater was evaporated by super high temperature. Vapor was thickly rising up from the sea.

Godou noticed that it was a lava flow that was moving by its own will.

To be more accurate, it was a 『god』 with the form like  lava──furthermore it was an angry war god. Perhaps the god was burning  with desire of revenge.

Toward Kusanagi Godou and Rokuhara Ren, the two godslayers.

After all, it was them who changed “him” into that kind of form──.

「To think that Vahagn would end up like that……」

Godou muttered in a daze once more.

When he had just arrived in this heroic world Hyperborea, he entered a  temporary ceasefire with a youth who was his “fellow kind” and  confronted the war god Vahagn in a united front.

At that time, they melted Vahagn with the flame of sun.

However, most of the gods who were classified as war god of the steel  possessed the divinity of immortality. Vahagn too belonged in that  type.

Steel──metal and ore would melt when heated and became liquid.

Vahagn was also like that. But he escaped to the sea in the form of  lava flow to retreat from the presence of Godou and others…….

「Good grief.」

Godou grumbled.

「A lava like monster showed up here and there near the coast,  swallowed and burned everything until nothing remained behind──. I heard  that rumor in the middle of my trip and came here to check it out, but  it’s just as I expected huh.」

Perhaps Vahagn was an even more troublesome enemy than before now that he lacked flesh and blood in a solid body?

It didn’t feel likely that physical attack would be effective toward  him, whether it was blunt force or cutting force. With the enemy in the  form like a lava flow, it would be pointless even if he instigated his  trump card the Boar at him.

When Godou wanted to click his tongue.

「Oo! My bosom buddy, to think that I can meet you in this kind of place!?」

「You huh.」

It was a familiar voice that he didn’t want to hear if possible.

When he turned around, his “fellow kind” Salvatore Doni was there. He  was a blond haired man with slender build and foolish smile. He was  completely outfitted as a traveler with the khaki colored military coat,  jeans, and the backpack he was wearing.

「Let me guess, you’re here because you heard about Vahagn……the rumor about monster right?」

「Bull’s eye. Hee, the lava just now, it was a god with that name huh.」

When getting close to a god, godslayer was able to sense the existence of their 『enemy』.

Because power for the sake of fighting would boil up in their heart  and body. But, the lava flow that was moving toward the horizon and this  cliff were too far apart.

And yet, Doni saw through in a glance that the opponent was a god.

Godou didn’t want to admit it, but as expected from a veteran. Even  the number of Kusanagi Godou’s showdown against this man couldn’t be  counted with the fingers of one hand anymore.

But, this was their first encounter in this land of Hyperborea.

「Then Godou」

Doni made a suggestion cheerfully.

「Let’s chase that guy together. It’s a race of who can defeat him first!」

「Shut up. I’ll chase him alone.」

Godou refused bluntly.

If the cause of Vahagn running riot was Rokuhara Ren and him, then  chasing after him and settling the matter was only natural for him to  do.

However, there was no way he would do that together with Salvatore Doni!

「Well, that’s also fine. Haha, this Hyperborea is really a nice  place. To think that I’ll  be able to fight against an interesting war  god right after my arrival!」

「You’re the only one who can think like that……ah, no. Guess that’s not actually true.」

Godou changed his mind before he could finish speaking.

Finding joy and the worth of living from a fight against powerful  enemy. The number of godslayer, Campione with such nature wasn’t few.

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In any case, Godou parted from his old acquaintance and started the chase.

He visited the villages and cities near the shore to ask around in  his investigation about the lava flow monster that came from the sea.  Like that, during his talk with a lot of people, he heard about a  certain rumor.

There was a female fortune teller whose divination was really accurate──.

「Hee」

Thinking back, he had been greatly helped by the kind of ability like premonition or farsight since his high school era.

One of the women who were his dear wives, Mariya Yur possessed the  power of spiritual sight that surpassed everybody else. She had  foresighted which path that Kusanagi Godou should take many times.

However it didn’t seem like that she would be able to come to here for a while because of various reasons.

And so, Godou decided to try searching for this rumored person.

……That female fortuneteller was setting up shop at a street corner of a certain fishing village.

She was a woman with long gold-copper colored hair. While she looked  youthful like someone in her twenties, her eyes looked droopy with  alluring air of indescribable charm drifting from her.

She was wearing a red robe. She was certainly possessing the bearing of a fortuneteller.

「Do you have time? I’m looking for someone, so I want you to tell me my fortune.」

「……A warning.」

When Godou addressed her, that sentence was the very first thing the female fortuneteller told him.

「There is something else that you have to accomplish, someone who you  should search rather than going to this hunt──that’s what I feel. How  about postponing your business with the bearer of flame for later?」

「!?」

Godou was speechless.

Bearer of flame. Was she referring to Vahagn who was transformed into  lava flow? Certainly, calling him like that was befitting with his  current form.

This fortune teller, she might be the “real thing”.

Godou felt a bit excited from anticipation. He then tried asking further.

「Then, what do you think I should do instead?」

「There is someone with whom you are connected with──a woman somewhere  whom you held a rotten bond with that you cannot sever even if you try.  Perhaps you should be careful against that woman. I caught a glimpse of  that woman’s ridiculous expression the moment I met with you. I even  sensed an unprecedented omen of countless disasters being brought about  from purely good intentions……」

Woman connected to him with undesirable but inseparable relationship. Ridiculous act. Causing disaster from good intention.

It was a series of power words. Godou tasted a sensation that was  similar to dizziness. That sounded really like her, someone who was also  his fellow godslayer. She should be sealed!

Either way, he might need to investigate it urgently──.

「Thanks. That was informative. Tell me your name if possible. I’ll  come again in the future if there is something that I want to ask.」

「I……don’t intend to stay forever in this village though.」

「In that case I’ll search for you. Either way I’ll need to know about your name in that case.」

「Fumu. Understood. ……I’m called Monica Blandelli.」

「──What did you say?」

Godou questioned his own hearing.

It was the name of someone who he once parted with heavy heart in the  past. There was no way to reunite with that person except by crossing  the interstice of space and time. They had parted at the occasion of the  decisive battle against the King of the End Mithras as well as the war  god Verethragna.

His twin son and daughter who shared his blood.

Godou stared fixedly at the female fortuneteller who shared the same name with one of them.

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Part 3

「By the way……how long are you going to stay here?」

Godou suddenly tried asking that after finishing his talk with the red haired fortuneteller.

He had to find out about her circumstance a bit more. He had no  intention of becoming a stalker, but he couldn’t just easily part from  her right now. That feeling filled his mind.

Monica easily answered.

「Actually I have an appointment. I’m planning to stay here until the person I’m waiting for come here.」

「Hee. In this village?」

「Earthian, you are not the only explorer here. We too are someone  with the resolve and will to force our way through into the secret depth  of this vast world……」

Godou was wearing a mountain parka.

Anyone looking at his outfit would immediately notice that he was an  Earthian. In contrast Monica was wearing a red robe that made her looked  like a magician. Her outfit wasn’t that different from the outfit of  Hyperborea people.

However, Godou asked with expectation in his voice.

「You say that but, you are also from earth right?」

「Oh. For you to notice that, you possess a considerable insight.」

Monica stared in wonderment. Godou was about to reply further in respond.

But just before he could, someone appeared from behind and called out. The voice belonged to a young man.

「Sorry that I’m late, Monica. But, I managed to encounter some good people.」

「……Elder brother.」

The female fortuneteller Monica stared at behind Kusanagi Godou and muttered.

Godou immediately turned around and felt astonishment. There was a  tall youth with red hair there. The two women who were together with him  were both his relatives.

「How are you doing, Godou. We met in such an unexpected place.」

「To think that your majesty is also here. This, it feels like the guidance of some kind of bond more and more.」

Erica gave an exasperated greeting while Ena looked up to the sky in wonder.

And then──Monica Blandelli’s 『big brother』 smiled broadly to Godou, and with an extremely gentle amiability he,

「Hello. This is yet another encounter with someone who I’m feeling an extraordinary connection with.」

Said such strange thing.

「Connection?」

「Yes. My name is Leonardo Blandelli. My best regards from here on.」

「…………」

Godou fell silent.

Thinking back, the seed had been sown since a long time ago.

Erica wrote a grimoire during her pregnancy. That grimoire was filled  with things like the secret of the gods and godslayers, and also with  the secret method to cross the world’s boundary.

That grimoire and the twins were entrusted to the war god Lancelot──.

Most likely, that valiant queen of the horseback riders had watched  over the children with excellent care, one that was attentive and yet  not overprotective…….

Before he realized it Leonardo had come to Monica’s side.

Both of the siblings were at the middle of their twenties. They were a beautiful couple with very similar looks.

Godou finally made up his mind. He spoke decisively.

「I’ll be the one guessing about you two this time. You two were born  in Valencia. You belonged to the magician group there, the 《Campiones  Association》. The founder of that association and its first leader is  your father……am I right?」

「Hou. This time it’s someone with a considerable farsight!」

「To see through until such extent──I wonder who can you possibly be?」

Monica offered her praise while Leonardo smiled with composure.

There was no more doubt. Godou glanced at Erica and then at Ena. The two of them were also looking very sure.

「I’m Kusanagi Godou. There was also a time when I introduced myself as Caesar Blandelli.」

「Aa, as I thought. I had a hunch that was the case, Chichi-ue.」

「Chichi-ue……? Is that so, I see.」

What Godou said should be a dramatic introduction.

However, Leonardo accepted it with a casualness that felt anticlimax,  while Monica was accepting it with indifference and relaxed manner.

His 『children』 who he managed to get reunited with after many years, they had been raised to be very unique individuals.

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After the encounter that was too bland to be called as a joyful reunion.

Godou’s group including the twins entered the nearest tavern and sat  surrounding a table and wine cups. There they told each other about  their respective situation.

「Then, Monica became the leader of Campiones Association?」

Monica nodded at Ena’s question.

「Indeed, .」

「O-Oba──well, it’s true I’m something similar to that. It’s fine I guess.」

Ena seemed to feel a discomfort from being called an aunt. She fell into thought for a bit before accepting it.

Regardless of everything, as expected they wanted to know how the  twins had lived until now. The parents and aunt were leaning forward  eagerly to listen. The twins readily told them their story.

「Elder brother and me, our ability as magician is about equal with each other, but」

「When I became sixteen years old and succeeded the leadership  position from the stepmother of us siblings, the White Queen, my child  was born.」

「Y-you had a child at sixteen!?」

Godou was taken aback by Leonardo’s report. Monica added to the explanation.

「Come to think of it, the queen also mentioned it. That Chichi-ue was  also a man who loved women, and it seemed that elder brother inherited  that blood exceptionally thickly……」

「No, everything is because of love.」

Leonardo smiled sophisticatedly and said that brazenly.

「Anyway my time was taken with raising and educating the child. I  entrusted the cumbersome leadership position to Monica so that I could  focus to the internal matter.」

They already had grandchildren. As expected even Erica was dumbfounded learning that.

「Without knowing it, we already became grandpa and grandma……」

「Well, in that universe──the world of King of the End Mithras, Blandelli House still remained until 21st century, so that’s only natural, but still……」

Godou groaned. Leonardo told him even more.

「When the children reached an age where they don’t need that much  care anymore, we siblings entrusted the rest to the White Queen and  moved to carry out the plan that we already had since some time ago.」

「Yeah. We studied the grimoire that Haha-ue left behind and used our intellect for travelling across space and time──」

「You two took up that challenge!? As expected from the children of  his majesty and Erica-san, you two have become completely reliable!  Oba-san is really proud!」

Ena had quickly accepted her status as an aunt and rejoiced.

And then──Godou peered into the eyes the twins firmly and asked.

「And? What are you two going to do now?」

「What do you mean, Chichi-ue?」

「We are finally able to meet due to tremendous amount of coincidences  piling up on top of each other, so I at least want us to be able to be  in contact with each other. But, you two also have your own objectives  right? Even if we’re going to stay together for a bit, won’t it be  better if we part away at a suitable time?」

Godou said that to the puzzled Monica.

Kusanagi Godou was one of the godslayers, a group that absolutely  would never flock to each other. And even before that he was raised in a  family environment that was overly free. He didn’t harbor the principle  that children should listen to what their parents said or that children  should stay near their parents. And most of all the twins had become  adult since a long time ago. They weren’t at the age that should be  coddled.

Godou was a man who was completely unable to sympathize with the way  of living of children having to follow the footsteps of the parents.

However Leonardo fell into thought for a bit before saying 「Noooo. We parents and children should act together instead perhaps.」

「Is that also what your spiritual sight is telling you, Leo?」

Godou called his son with a pet name for the first time. Leonardo nodded.

「I also have talked with Haha-ue but, we siblings had felt the  arrival of 『the true end of the world』. This is something that has to be  prevented no matter what. I think that Chichi-ue should also hold the  same opinion with us.」

A crisis of the destruction of the whole multiverse──.

Godou groaned hearing that. He glanced at Monica.

「Your oracle just now, the one telling me to search for the woman  connected to me with a rotten bond. Could it be, that doing that will  lead to the solution for this true end of the world?」

「Perhaps.」

An affirmation with a short reply. Compared to the brother, Monica was someone who talked very little.

Erica stared at the twins and spoke with a serious tone.

「Even though you two are the children of Godou and me, you two are in  the possession of very extraordinary clairvoyance! It’s strange, after  all none of your parents have that kind of lineage at all!」

「No, Erica-san.」

Ena cut in with a wink.

「Since they were baby, they were raised with the holy grail of  Valencia and the goddess Lancelot fighting over them. With such divine  spiritual aura continuously bathing them, I don’t think it’s strange  that their spiritual ability would naturally bloom like this. This is  the fruit of the gifted education they went through.」

「It’s also possible that even just a single misstep would cause their  growth to be harmed because of that spiritual aura poisoning them  though.」

「Ahahaha」

Ena only laughed at Erica’s calm mutter and didn’t comment anything.

Either way, there was no doubting that the twins had grown to be  strong regardless of the dangerous and unstable environment around them.

Godou made his decision after receiving revelation from his children.

「Can’t be helped. I’ll leave Vahagn to that bastard Doni──let’s go search Aisha-san!」

「Then, leave it to elder brother and me.」

「Existences like godslayers……Campiones who possessed such fierce  『individuality』 leaves many tells just from moving. Let’s chase after  that tells with the spiritual sight and magic of us siblings.」

Monica and Leonardo said one after the other.

After that half a month later──Godou’s faction that travelled  following the twins’ instruction finally managed to be reunited with the  woman who they should meet.

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Hyperborea’s cultural level was still unsophisticated.

There were also still a lot of people who didn’t have the custom of  settling down permanently in group. However, over there was a town that  was quite big for Hyperborea’s standard.

A lively meeting was held at that town’s center plaza.

Standing on a stage was──a brown skinned beautiful girl.

She was also wearing a veil and outfit that was like a nun in  pilgrimage, and yet she was performing a carefree song on the stage.

「Aa～～～don’t forget, your promise with me～～～～～♪」

The singing was moderately good but, well, it was a singing of an amateur.

The quality would be sufficient for singing in a karaoke box. But it  was lacking for singing solo in front of other people, furthermore in a  public place where hundreds of people gathered.

However, the gathered citizens were zealously rejoicing by the performance.

They expressed their excitement by clapping their hands and stamping  their foot. Not only that, when a piece of the song ended and entered  the interlude,

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──UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooh!!

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All of them would roar in praise and extolled the singing girl.

Also, the quality of the singing’s accompaniment was absurdly high.

They were taking position right below the stage. Each of them was  strumming their instrument. Their performances were all terrifyingly  skilled without exception. The type of instruments was also a lot.

There was a string instrument that looked really similar to earth’s guitar. A string instrument that looked like acoustic base.

In addition there was also percussion instrument that clearly looked more like a modern drum rather than traditional drum.

To be honest, the accompaniment’s level was higher than the girl’s singing.

However, it was obvious that the girl was the one driving the people mad.

「Hmmm……. There is an idol’s concert already. As expected from Aisha-san.」

「She is an owner of an authority of charm. Just this much is like a piece of cake for her.」

Erica also agreed with Godou’s muttering.

They were standing on a road some distance away from the plaza. There they were watching over the vocal recital.

「What is bothering me more is the music instead. It has a really  upbeat tempo, I can even guarantee that it’s not an original song of  Hyperborea……」

「The music instruments too, she must have taught them about earth’s civilization to Hyperborea people……」

Actually similar situations were also currently happening everywhere in this heroic world.

Earthians were teaching knowledge and concept that shouldn’t exist  here and caused a major innovation to the culture of Hyperborea that  should still be simple.

Godou recalled.

「Come to think of it, Aisha-san once mentioned that she often went to karaoke at Akihabara.」

「Godou. It seems the concert is over already.」

Erica pointed out.

Madam Aisha responded to the many calls for encore and continued to  sing on the stage. It seemed that her fatigue finally reached the limit  and she got down from the stage while waving her hands cheerfully.

She carefreely left the plaza while the loud cheers of the citizens saw her off.

Godou and Erica also immediately started moving…….

──A few hours after that.  The two of them visited a small hut that  seemed to be Madam Aisha’s temporary residence and shocked the  godslaying madam.

「My my Godou-san!? Even Erica-san too! I never even dreamed that we would be reunited in this kind of place!」

「I……already resolved myself for this, thinking that even something like this might happen.」

He chose that wording because of the heavy feeling of disappointment inside him.

There was no way that this virtuous person who always went at her own  pace could sense that feeling. Madam Aisha smiled cheerfully to them  without any care.

「Various things happened to me and I resumed my travel. In the end I  drifted to here. The people of this town are really hungry for  entertainment, so I was thinking what if there is music here, and when I  taught them about karaoke──」

「They wanted you madam to be the one singing instead. It became that kind of development wasn’t it?」

Erica stated bluntly without hesitation.

Madam Aisha replied 「Yes」 as she clapped her hands together.

「As expected of Erica-san, it’s exactly as you say-」

「It’s inevitable for things to become like that once the people heard  the singing voice of someone with the authority of charm. ……It gives me  a bit of bad feeling to drag away the local idol of this town though.」

Erica muttered. Godou nodded in agreement.

「Yeah. But this too is to prevent the end of the world. Come with us, Aisha-san!」

「Eeh, what do you mean Godou-san～～～～n!?」

Godou forcefully pulled Madam Aisha’s hand and dragged her outside of the hut.

Erica helped by pushing the back of the madam.

Even though she was feeling bewildered, the eternally lost madam came  together with them. All three of them were going with their own way.

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And then──there was someone who was watching that from the shadow.

This was something that Godou and others would only learn a bit after  this. That person had watched everything from start to end and muttered  with a slightly frivolous tone.

「Humm. So Kusanagi-senpai is also targeting Aisha-san.」

「Ren. We can’t let them take her just because they’re the first here. Let’s follow them!」

It was Rokuhara Ren and the small goddess Stella who was sitting on his left shoulder.

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Part 4

Rokuhara Ren was also a godslayer from Japan like Kusanagi Godou.

Compared to the other “fellow kind”, he wasn’t particularly bursting  with fighting spirit, and his self-assertion also wasn’t particularly  fierce.

Rather he was an easygoing person with lighthearted mood no matter the situation.

Every time he would get evaluated as 『shallow』 because of that.

Ren had no intention to deny that at all. Rather than looking serious  with deep grimace on his forehead, it was better for him to act like a  shallow person.

He wanted to always be in a good mood, and he wanted to live by enjoying everything.

「That’s why, I want to make our city to be an even better place, don’t you agree?」

「Yes! I have enough already with the country bumpkin life of Hyperborea!」

Around this time, Ren was often getting into a talk with his partner Stella.

They were talking about how much the “New Town” that they had just  created──the base of their activity that later on would be called as the  Capital of Pleasure should be developed.

Stella’s true identity was the goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite.

She was far removed from being transcendental and divine. Rather she was a goddess who was loyal to her worldly desires.

「The foodstuff here has improved much thanks to Ren’s suggestions, so  next is gorgeous outfit. Let’s make them gather a lot of jewelry too-.  Also cosmetic tools and mirror. That’s right, we have to quickly make  them build a hairdressing place!」

「Fufufufu. This tapioca milk tea is very delicious!」

The beautiful princess of Troia, Cassandra rejoiced each time a new menu was completed.

Also, all the matters of ruling and economy were delegated wholesale  to the commander-in-chief of Campiones Association Julio Blandelli.

There were also the matters of building construction, road  construction, attracting and accepting immigrants, etc. There were a lot  of things to do.

These matters were splendidly managed by splendid performance of the  talented woman Toba Riona (she still wasn’t cursed into a blue bird at  this time).

When they had just started the city building, Ren himself was solely focused in 『Bistro opening!』.

He also stood inside the kitchen as the handsome owner chef of a  restaurant that provided delicious cooking and alcohol. He even  personally took the customers’ orders and served them. It was a really  busy time for him.

In the first place Rokuhara Ren was a cooking boy.

He skillfully cooked food from Italia, French, Japanese or Chinese,  Korea, etc, all which he studied by himself. His bistro became greatly  popular in the blink of eye thanks to that.

In a sense, the prosperity of the restaurant was inevitable.

For Hyperborea people, the tastiest food was 『whole roast cow』.

The main dish of their daily food was 『a soup filled with just a bit  of meat』. Their civilization level was in such an extremely simple  level.

Ren’s bistro got evaluated as a divinely delicious restaurant. Its second and third branch immediately opened up after that.

Ren hired Hyperborea people as staffs, taught them the cooking  culture of earth, in addition he was also improving farming production.

In this aspect, Ren’s effort was progressing far better even than Fumika of the Capital of the Dead.

Fumika who was living with her parents and estranged from the  activity of cooking her own food could only clumsily described “what she  wanted to eat” to other people.

However Ren moved his own hands, shook the pan, and let the people ate the actual thing.

『A town where the food is just more delicious than other places──!』

That evaluation was giving a push to the scheme of calling even more immigrants to the city.

However, they still wanted more manpower. There were endless things  that had to be done. There would be nothing better than having a lot of  labor.

……That was why, Ren and Stella went for a visit.

To the Capital of the Dead, the producing area of unlimited labor 『Zombie-kun』.

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「And that’s why, please give us Zombie-kun cheaply, Taishi-samaa!」

「Fumu」

Umayado no Ouji didn’t immediately agree to Ren’s pleading.

They visited the Capital of the Dead by traveling from afar. Unlike  the faction of Rokuhara Ren that was still in the middle of its rise to  power, the palace of the capital here was already reaching completion.

They were consulting with the master of that palace not in the audience hall, but in the king’s private room.

It was a room that was only filled with the minimum amount of furniture as well as a desk for writing.

It was a simplicity that lied in the opposite spectrum of pomp and  splendor──. The thing called worldly desire was nonexistent in a  virtuous person like Umayado no Ouji.

Stella was looking around inside the room from Ren’s left shoulder with a dubious look.

「Don’t tell me, that you are thinking that you don’t want to hand  over some moving corpses to us just because our capital is drowned  worldly desires?」

「No, that’s not true. Though according to Fumika, we seems to be detached from the real wowrld.」

Umayado no Ouji put an archaic smile on his lips.

「I fully understand the “difference” between myself and the populace.  Desire and greed are also fine in their own way. Tormenting the  populace is avarice, but satisfying people is also a kind of avarice.」

「Then, what is weighing your mind then?」

「No──. I don’t mind providing a thousand of the dead to your capital for free.」

「Really!? That’s really generous of you Taishi-sama!」

Ren grinned happily. And then he added.

「And? What do I have to do in exchange of them?」

「Fu……. As expected from a godslayer, you’re quick to understand.  Don’t worry, I’m simply asking you to search for a certain someone and  bring them to me. I don’t mind even if you use force to do it.」

It was a request that wasn’t like a virtuous person like Umayado no Ouji to make. Ren thought it strange.

「What kind of person it is that made Taishi-sama to go that far?」

「It’s someone who you also know. The one who fought together with us  when our world almost crumbled──the godslaying witch Aisha-dono.」

「Aisha-san!? So that person is also here in Hyperborea!」

「Umu. In addition, the space distortion that threw our world into  chaos……the cause of that phenomena’s frequent outbreak as well as its  expansion was also that witch. Even I was only able to realize the  mechanism of that matter recently through my contemplation.」

「Eeeh!?」

Even the always easygoing Ren was shocked as expected.

From the beginning he had been confronting the expansion of the space  distortion phenomena that became the cause of the world’s destruction  as a member of Campiones Association.

He encountered the sealed Madam Aisha during that effort.

「Come to think of it, originally that person was sealed in Julio’s mansion.」

「I already thought that she isn’t just an ordinary person, but to  think that she is such an extraordinary villain. Someone who is a cause  for the destruction of thousands of world, she is truly an outrageous  demon queen.」

Even Stella was half astonished and half impressed as she gave her evaluation.

Umayado no Ouji added even more explanation.

「Apparently, that witch’s authority began to run wild due to some  kind of impetus and created space distortions everywhere. Furthermore  currently that phenomenon is spreading throughout the whole multiverse.  This matter cannot be overlooked anymore.」

It was a sense of duty that came from a nobility that was befitting this crown prince of imperial virtue.

After announcing that, Umayado no Ouji stared straight at Ren.

「I wish to have that accursed witch to somehow settle down this  situation whether forcefully or voluntarily. The agreement of the person  herself isn’t necessary anymore. Only a fellow godslayer will be able  to kidnap another godslayer. However it’s very difficult to take the  rein of our capital’s Lord Salvatore Doni──」

「And so it’s our turn huh.」

Ren winked and replied casually.

「It’s for the sake of a thousand Zombie-kun. Just leave it to me!」

「Well met. Then please head to the location that I will tell you  after this. You should be able to encounter that accursed witch Aisha  without fail there……」

Umayado no Ouji whose ears reached far and wide as well as being an  owner of precognition began to speak of a prediction solemnly.

Led by those words──Rokuhara Ren and the small goddess Stella finally discovered the 『eternal beauty』 the madam.

However, for some reason his fellow Campione Kusanagi Godou was also there…….

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