A mansion in the middle of the Fairy Forest booms with life as countless of girls ranging from human, to beast kin, to elves, to dwarves, to demon and finally, to dragon kin are roaming around the place and being a busy body.
The age spans from a minimum an infant to a woman in their early adulthood. Bustling from every race and age, none showed any hostility and criticism of each. They stand side by side and will hold hand and help each other.
The mansion and its vicinity are a self-sustaining territory where one could gather firewood and edible plants, the river that calmly flows behind the mansion are being cultivated and fishery and breeding of the fishes were implemented a long time ago.
The mansion also provides livestock as their source of food as they keep fowls and cows in which they procure meat, egg and even milk. Other animals that could give necessities such as wool leather are also being raised and materials such as those are used to weave clothes and other materials.
A few distances away from the said mansion is a field where girls from the same group train with weaponry and sorcery. Eagerly swinging or concentrating their chants, the girls move their body accordingly to what they are specialized of. They are provided with lunch and snack by the girls back from the mansion and give their cheers. Such mutual conversations are a common sight.
Inside the mansion provides study halls and a grand library where those who seeks knowledge runs to. Even in such serene and soundless place, there are girls here and there. It also has an underground facility which provides alchemic studies and more for those who pursue such passion. All experiments are done in moderation and all readings are done intensely.
There is also a place where one can pursue that art of forging and crafting. Materials are provided by a nearby cavern where the girls themselves dig for their desired material. Fine cuisine and cooking are also put in practice for those who desire to walk the path of gourmet.
In short, everything one could possible hope for an ideal place to live is crammed in one single mansion that was modified several times to accommodate the population of the girls that lives here. Hundreds of rooms, huge facilities for anyone’s passion and pursue their dreams and more unsaid.
A place, a single mansion where peace is implemented and free of degradation and discrimination is provided for all of them. Of course, because there is a lack of male residence, homosexual love between girls are also allowed.
Once they became an expert on their passion, they took on the world with professional advocacy, some leaves that place as a scholar of education or magic, go on an adventure as a strong and honed swordsman or sorcerer but despite following those, they never fail to return in that place
Also, it is a place with advanced sorcery where they provide a fixed teleportation to towns and cities throughout the world and they utilize such things for a wide variety of trading and businesses, whilst, the original purpose was far darker.
It is a place where one should work to be fed. Slacking and laziness can be tolerated to an extent but one way or another, those who slacks will be compelled to do something. They do not shoot each other down, they pull the hands of those below because it was something taught to them, the sole woman who is responsible for their upbringing, their vast stock of knowledge, and for their values that was once corrupted or deranged.
All of the girls that live bright and lively here are all once a slave…
Victims of scams, who’s homeland are razed and destroyed by greed, who’s once was took everything and stripped of what little of what they have, those who fell in deep debt, and even those who were violated that their morals and dignity was thoroughly broken, all of them are sheltered in this place.
“Lady Hinoki, this is the report for this month’s budget for our division!” a girl donning a hat of a chef lay down a paper on a table top in front of Hinoki.
“Good work! How is your division doing?” she asked.
“We are doing fine! Our food was well praised by the townsfolk in all of the human settlement! It won’t be long until we opened our own business and repay your kindness!” the girl brightly smiled at Hinoki’s query.
“Also, Lady Hinoki is the one who works the hardest. You are everyone’s big sister and the only one we can rely on and cry on. You even do the budgeting and such economical tasks that we are not even familiar with.” She added shyly.
“Well, the budget will freeze if we can’t keep the flow of trade going!~ I’m not going to deny it. My work is hard but, I get to learn more every day. It was fun watching girls who I once took care of grows.” Hinoki said with gentle eyes as she calmly spoke.
“Thank you for everything! Anyone, every girl in this place thinks highly of you, Miss Hinoki. We are really thankful that you helped us stand up again…” the girl spoke with dreamy eyes. “I may be disturbing you Miss Hinoki so I think I’ll leave now! Bye!~” she added as she ran off.
Hinoki just sprouted as a smile as the young girl closed the door. It was her new life now that made her heart grew warm and loved by girls she herself raised. But alas, there is a hole where coldness seeps.
The day she and Astlan returned to the mansion where his previous companions live, he became colder but listless. He weeps as memories of his comrade's flashes before his eyes. Hinoki did her best to their replacement. She did her best effort to revitalize the whole mansion but it did nothing for Astlan’s declining emotion.
Even so, Hinoki didn’t give up and tried to appeal to Astlan but, in her dismay, what happened between them never occurred again. Her affection never reached Astlan or melted his frozen heart.
However, Hinoki tried occupying herself from thinking about Astlan and left the forest. Astlan never thinks much about it but he goes wherever Hinoki goes.
Odd circumstances lead to one another and they rescued another group of slaves. At that time, Hinoki insisted that she would take care of them herself. However, she can only bring girls with her. Such a condition is given by Astlan but she didn’t let out a complaint.
This incident happens time after time until they realized their growing population reached a count of hundred. Remodeling of the mansion and adding facilities became a yearly task for everyone. And before long, it became like this where the slaves that they rescued, after training and learning properly from Hinoki, would also rescue slaves themselves and raise them.
As such, the hierarchy was made inside the mansion but mutual respect and kindness are what made everyone connected with each other.
Because of the growth in population, considering that everyone is a girl, Astlan moved out of the mansion and built himself a wooden lodge far away from the said mansion beside a river where, incidentally, made all of the powerful beasts such as a huge white tiger, a behemoth and a pack of thunder wolves his pets.
The said pets didn’t attack the residence of the mansion and are intelligent enough not to cause any attacks to those who entered their territory without permission. The strong magical beasts became the guardian of the girls and their friends at some point, they share food with them.
The mansion is still large enough to accommodate Astlan but he never bothered with it for the reasons as he wants to be alone and doesn’t want to attract attention. Also, considering that everyone was previously a slave, some came from a sexually abusive master and a mere sight of men could bring back trauma or even nightmares to them so he immediately took initiative to move out.
Some girls who came here after Astlan moved out don’t know his existence and for those who know, they know how scary and strong he is. It was a fact for them that Astlan is Hinoki’s true master and he is above everyone else.
However, because of Astlan and Hinoki shares knowledge and vast ideas, they were able to lead the community into a prospering one. Astlan didn’t mind cooperating with Hinoki in regard of that and willingly shared knowledge from his world. Astlan is also the one responsible for the creation of the warp panels that enable teleportation on a fixed place.
However, such charity never reduced the rage inside his heart. It is more accurate to say that it was bottled up for a long period of time.
And so, that’s how he spends his time…
“Hou?~ Master of Master, are you staring at the moon again?” called out by a woman as she teasingly said that.
Astlan stares at the curtain of the night on the riverside. A gentle and slow running river that made an only low sound that made the night more serene. His back leans against his pet white tiger that curled up around him.
Came out from the shadow is a woman with a voluptuous and erotic body. Her blond succulent hair glistens under the moonlight and her orange eyes with sharpness stare directly at him. Her flawless white skin seems to glow as it was being illuminated by the moonlight.
The only odd thing about her is that she sprouts a curvy horn that grows upward together with wings and a tail. At first glance, one could immediately tell that she is of the demon race, and what’s more, she is a succubus.
However, this succubus has long ago failed to seduce Astlan and now, she was frustrated but at the same time, relief that Astlan is not attracted to her.
“What’s wrong, Tilea?” Astlan coldly said without making any eye contact with the said succubus.
“Cold as ever…but that’s just how everyone wanted you to be. Also, I believe I said that I love you and I will pursue it. It is weird right, a succubus falling in love even though we really never had sex.” The succubus said as she sits right beside Astlan and leans to the giant white tiger.
Tilea was one of the older slaves that Hinoki and Astlan freed from an abusive noble. She was subjected to a repeated torture of everyday sex, being used as a cum dump, filling her with a vast amount of magical energy just to be drained of it constantly. For a succubus, it felt like just a food passing right through the stomach with a gaping hole.
Her spirit is almost broken and she was extremely hungry. Locked up in a room smelling of muck and stinks and damp of rotten cum, with chains bounding her, didn’t help her situation. Her eyes are devoid of life as she waits for her impending doom of death.
Not until Astlan and Hinoki saved her.
When they saw her, she was practically naked with only chain binding her wrists, ankles, and neck. She pleaded her own death as she cannot bear the humiliation and her dignity was shattered. Instead, she was rescued from that place and given a place. A place where Hinoki painstakingly did her very best to restore her almost drained sanity and helped her get up. She took care of her for years until she regains the light in her eyes. Slowly but surely, she regained her vigor and struggles to break free from the past.
However, a scar is a scar. It is permanently engraved in her and as a succubus, her desire for a man was depleted and she was unable to recover as a succubus but she grows as a prided woman.
“Master…I came here…because I am going to say my farewell…I am leaving tomorrow…” she softly said as she fiddles her thumbs. “Won’t you, just this once, grant my wish to copulate with you…” she added.
“Tilea…” Astlan could only mutter as he is bothered on how he will reciprocate or even return her feelings, less, give her what she wishes, copulation.
“Master, you found me… lifeless, battered and unable to look at myself in the mirror. Now, it is all thanks to Lady Hinoki and you that I was able to love myself again. However, Master, I want to… to feel like a woman again. You are my desire and you are the only one who can bring back my life a succubus.” Tilea said as she leans closer to Astlan. Her eyes are sincere and it moistens as a droplet of tears rolls down from her cheeks.
Astlan felt disgusted. Not because of Tilea or anything. He felt disgusted at his self because accepting a woman in his life is hard for him like a thorn creeping down on his throat. Tilea’s sincerity and affection pains him greatly.
However, he doesn’t see any valid reason to refuse and he is going to do it for Tilea’s sake.
Wordlessly, he stood up and scooped Tilea off the ground and carried her in his arms. Tilea is bewildered as her mouth gapes from Astlan’s action. She expected to be turned down but right now, Astlan slowly walks toward his wooden lodge.
Tilea’s lips form a curving smile as she reaches for Astlan’s neck and pulls herself towards him for a hot and passionate kiss.
For that night, Tilea made love with Astlan until she’s satisfied. It was that night that she was able to move on in her life and learned how to let go of her love towards Astlan. She was happy even though she knew well that she forced herself to him. Every kiss, every embrace, and even every stroke of Astlan were deeply engraved in her mind.
His warmth, his breath, and even his taste were forever remembered by Tilea’s body.
The next morning, Tilea venture towards the outside world which is cruel and absurd. She traveled south, towards the demon continent to start her life anew.
Hinoki and everyone from the mansion tearfully saw her off. Astlan watches in the shadow as the dramatic scene unfolds. With knowledge, skills, and abilities that she repeatedly honed in this place, Hinoki is confident that Tilea is going to be fine and someday, she will return to that place.
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The night after yesterday, Asltan dips his body in a magically heated spring, submerging his whole body in a steamy bath together with one of his pet, a behemoth that shrinks it size in par with a normal dog.
He looks up at the starry night sky again as he contemplates about Tilea’s sincerity that deeply pained him. His wrath secretly grew with a hate towards himself.
“It’s been a while now master…” from the curtains of shadow comes Hinoki, wearing a thin light blue transparent sash around her shoulders and walks towards Astlan in a camisole. “May I join you in your dip?” she quickly added.
“Good work. I don’t mind, help yourself.” He plainly said.
Upon Astlan’s words, Hinoki started stripping her clothes without abandon as she removed every fiber that she wears. Astlan didn’t bat an eye towards her lascivious and erotic body that would make any men in a gasp for breath. Even the same gender would surely turn their heads towards her and think twice of their own sexuality.
Hinoki entered the spring and reheated it herself. Her mastery of magic far surpasses any mages and scholars alike all around the world. She is able to summon powerful spirit beasts too in regard to her half-blood race of a spirit elf.
“Master, I am glad that you agreed with Tilea’s selfish request. She’s like a little sister to me and I am happy that you made her feel completed.” Hinoki abruptly said.
“I am sorry for copulating with your little sister.” Astlan sarcastically said upon Hinoki’s statement.
“You jest. However, master, I cannot shake off the feeling of jealousy…” she honestly said as she scoops up some water on her palms and stares at her own reflection.
“Jealousy…” Astlan mutter. “In what way I made Hinoki jealous?” he added with a quizzical look on his face trying to figure out a possible answer.
“I really don’t like justifying something but, I am a bit upset that you easily embraced her in a romantic way while we did it outdoors. I feel defeated.” Hinoki complained with a pout on her face. “But well, Master, I am still glad…thank you for not pushing her away and accepting her sincerity,” she added.
“I felt nothing,” Astlan interjected. “I feel hate towards myself for that. I feel like I haven’t returned her feelings properly. In the end, it was just an act of self-gratification by Tilea. I cannot comprehend the thing you called sincerity. I just acted of how she wishes.” He continued with a damp expression that shows emotion tinged with rage towards his own self.
“I don’t know if you have too much or lacking in ego but, Tilea’s wish isn’t purely self-gratification. It was an act that she felt that it was the only way to repay you. Whether you really felt something or not is not something I can say.” Hinoki rebutted.
“This isn’t just about Tilea’s sincerity. It is about you, master. You are still holding the single, transient thread of memory of your previous lover, of your previous companions, of your previous friends! Don’t you understand that you, yourself is accumulating people who care for you of who you are right now, I included! Master, won’t you please, look at us and not the people from the past! I don’t care if you don’t look at me but, there is still the future that you can still grasp!” Hinoki cried with anguish creeping on her face.
Astlan could only shut his eyes from Hinoki’s words as it hits him hard in the chest. Even now, Astlan is still holding to their belongings as if to cut the wound deeper by constantly reminding him of how everyone dies in front of him.
He doesn’t want to still his heart of his rage because he doesn’t want to forget them.
Hinoki herself is in constant worry and guilt that she may have turned Astlan into this monster as she tolerated his previous actions. The only remorse that she did was become Astlan’s lover and have intercourse with him. But it didn’t do any good. It just reminded him of Helianthus, Astlan’s lover. It only reminded him of his deep-rooted grudge against the gods and goddesses.
The night ended as no more words were uttered and the stillness of the night becomes deafening for Hinoki who ended up returning to the mansion.
A certain kingdom in the human continent that controls the seafaring community emerges victorious against yet another war against the beast kin. They invaded their island with hundreds of ships and razed their villages.
The beast kin continent is an archipelago made up of thousands of island so sending a troop or relaying information needs a transport vessel such as a ship. The beast kins was greatly flawed as a traitor among them sabotaged most of their ships, leading to a destruction of one tribe.
The Fox clan.
Among the fox clan, they have those who are normal foxes and there are several powerful ones that are adept in magic and incantations. But, within them is a fox blessed by a blood of a goddess who once came to this world from another dimension.
The Goddess name is Asteria.
Within their clan, only a single female remains with the blood of a goddess. It is said that foxes have an innate holy power within them but, those with the blood of Goddess Asteria is far more powerful that even at young age, they can accelerate their power growth.
And that said remaining female of their clan, the one they treated as the princess, is captured and locked up in the castle basement of the opposing kingdom.
Through one of the residents of the Mansion in the fairy forest who came back through a warp panel, Hinoki heard about the story of the war between the said kingdom and the beast kin Fox Clan. Personally, Hinoki would not interfere in such affair but today, she felt that she wants to go to see this for herself.
It was an opportunity for her to drag Astlan out.
Since no one really knows about Astlan, she figured she’ll tell him herself. Without any remarks or complain, Astlan followed Hinoki.
She regretted it.
Hinoki’s plan had an adverse effect because as of this moment, Astlan’s power keeps rising as he stares inside the cell. Hell, even Hinoki herself felt anger surging within her diaphragm as she painfully stares at the fox girl inside there.
She did felt the same rage when she saw Tilea’s state. Not only for Tilea but for the other slave as well who became a victim of such brutish actions. But what’s in front of her has clearly crossed the line.
Inside the cell lays a fox girl with caramel brown hair and lifeless brown eyes. Her magic is tightly sealed with layers of barrier and her face screams despair. Her cell smells like dead rodent and dried semen are scattered everywhere.
She wears nothing but the shackles that binds her. Her hair and tails are messy that it has black patches. Her eyes release tears endlessly while her lips quiver in fear. Her body is full of bruises and scratches.
But that it didn’t end with that. I was far more fucking worse, twisted, and hellish that it made Astlan automatically released such fury.
The fox girl inside the cell is barely even fourteen years old but her belly bulges as if she is pregnant. No, they are certain that she is pregnant.
Astlan, it may be called hypocrisy, but felt anger at the sight. A good and quick death would have prevented this but breaking a young girl like this is too much. Hinoki, for the first time, understood what rage is and she’s doing her best to hold back.
“Oh? Who are you, people? Did you come to have fun too?” A man came out from the stair of the dungeon and called out to them. He wears noble clothes and garnered with ceremonial armor. He fiendishly let loose a grin when his eye landed on Hinoki.
“Well, well, why such beauty descended our home?! Did you, perchance, want to experience the same pleasure that stinking fox over there experienced?” he uttered with licking eyes.
“You know, I coul--! Gah!” the man’s words trailed off as Hinoki herself gouged out his eyeballs with her bare hand.
The man squatted and flail in horror and pain. Hinoki’s indiscernible rage showered the man in hostility.
Hinoki, in rage, was about to put an end to man’s life, however…
“[Ira - Perfect Heal]”
The man’s eyes were restored in an instant by Astlan. At the same time, Astlan broke the layers of barriers together with the cell bar effortlessly.
“Hinoki, clean her up and take her away. I will follow shortly.” He coldly uttered without breaking eye contact with the man.
“She is my top priority. I am going to control this anger of mine. Please, Master, do justice for this.” Hinoki said as she immediately unbinds the shackles that holding the fox girl. She covered the fox girl with her silken cape. Hinoki then carried the girl in her arms with overflowing gentleness. In an instant, bright light covered her and they vanished.
“You people won’t get--! Ack!” the man tried to yank out a threat but to no avail, Astlan didn’t even let him finish.
“AaaAaAAArrrggghhh! W-What the hell is happening to my feet?!” he yelled as he noticed what was about to come.
The man’s feet started creeping with pain. He immediately unfastened his shoe laces and removed his shoes just to see a horrible scene that made his guts twisting in disgust.
His feet are rotting.
Releasing a foul stench and slowly decaying with no whatever reason, it was rotting painfully. Even the blood reeked odor that one could feel nauseous.
“[Ira – Death and Decay]”
As the name implies, a suffering and dying from decay. It was Astlan’s way of destroying humans that killed his previous companions, by slowly destroying them painfully. His angered flared anew as those feelings came back to him like a waterfall.
The man writhed in horror and pain as the rotting crawls towards his knees.
He looks at Astlan again to beg for forgiveness but upon laying his eyes to his countenance, he knew, even an animal will immediately get the hint…he will not be forgiven. In desperation, he thought up of cutting the part where the rotting has not begun yet.
But when he was about to reach for his sword, he cried in despair.
His hands also began to rot.
Upon seeing this, he was about to burst in a shout when Astlan stuffed his mouth with his fist breaking his teeth in the process. He then pulled his tongue out and broke the remaining teeth. The man could not do anything but to frantically flail like a disgusting fish as blood spews here and there, dying the ground red.
Eventually, the man dies as his heart was eaten by the decay.
Feeling unsatisfactory with the man’s sufferings, he proceeded to rot the whole kingdom with his power, bathing them with a twisted rage and unrivaled duration of pain.
In the end, he does what he usually do…destruction.
Five days has passed since they rescued the fox girl.
Hinoki personally tended to the girl and was assisted by other more girls. The fox girl will throw horrified tantrums pleading for death and be hunted by nightmares that kept her awake for the whole night.
Hinoki stayed beside her all the time with the exception of necessities. At night, she will pull the fox girl in her bosom to soothe her nightmares. At day, she will talk with her with a smile plastered all over her face when she wants to go out and just punch a wall or something.
Together with Hinoki, Astlan stands outside the room for five days straight without sleeping, drinking or even eating.
The fox girl will randomly cry in outburst yelling plead to stop. The fox girl was meticulously nurtured to healthiness and her initial distraught appearance was groomed well bringing back a little shine in her hair and tail.
Hinoki did her very best to counsel the fox girl but realized that, unlike Tilea, the girl is far too young and have yet to matured and yet, this happened to her.
There are times where Hinoki would momentarily exits the room and weep silently or even broke down in tears to Astlan as she thought of how horrible the ordeal the girl have gone through. Astlan, knowing this and partially care for the fox girl’s well-being, patiently waited there.
But what pained Hinoki the most is that, in fact, the fox girl is carrying a child inside her.
Ten days has gone by since the fox girl started getting confusingly comfortable with the place. She even recognized Hinoki as her stand up mother. Her nightmares gradually lessen and her outbursts are minimal now.
She started opening up to Hinoki and with their simple conversations, Hinoki discovered the followings:
The fox girl’s name is Yahsa. She came from the beast continent’s outer archipelago where the fox clan is. She is thirteen years old and she is the princess of the said clan. Her heritage is of that a bloodline where a goddess power runs down in their veins.
But what shook Hinoki is the prominent thing that she kept saying.
She hates men.
She loathed and to the very core, harbor so much hatred towards them. Because she was constantly violated from seven months, she came to hate men in general that the mere sight of them makes her vomit.
She said that there is an exception.
“The man outside of this room…I don’t hate him… He was the one…who rescued me and killed all of those people, right?” she said with a crestfallen face.
Hinoki felt a little relief upon hearing such words. Astlan is an exception.
But now, what bothers Hinoki is about the baby inside Yasha. She hesitated to ask about it whether or not she actually wants it.
All the girls attending Yasha are the same. They could not utter a single word about Yasha’s bulging belly. They are sensitive enough to keep quiet about it.
Until Astlan himself entered the room…
The girls who kept glancing over him when they enter and exit the room in suspicion had their eyes widened upon his intrusion. After all, most of them saw Astlan for the first time they were brought and raised here. But they didn’t utter any word as they heard Hinoki calling him master.
Yasha stares at him with quizzical and afraid eyes, but nevertheless, didn’t show any further reaction.
“That child inside you…” Astlan coldly speaks as he pointed at Yasha’s stomach.
Yasha, in return, could only clutch the sheet of the bed in the anxiety of what Astlan will say. She is well aware that the man standing in front of her is in power.
“I will give you two choices. One, keep the child, give birth to it and raise it. Two abort it. I can do that for you painlessly.” he said as his tone gradually becomes colder.
“You can start a new life here without any hassle and a thing that would constantly remind you of the past.” He added.
Everyone is baffled of what Astlan said.
It was the most twisted suggestion he could throw. He just casually said that he is willing to take a life. For those who don’t know what kind of monster Astlan is, they were horrified and started shaking in fear.
But for Hinoki, she silently gritted her teeth and look down from the irony. She wants to shout at Astlan for that kind of ironic suggestion that he just blurted but refrain from doing so as Yasha is the one who will decide.
Yasha, upon hearing this could only tighten her grip on the sheet and bit her lips. As far as she is concerned, she knew well that she is relatively young and giving birth at such age is shameful. The child that will be born from her will be the constant reminder that she was violated and stripped off of her pride and dignity.
She contemplated hard as tears run down from her eyes. It was a sudden question and she felt that it needs an immediate answer. She does not fear what could Astlan do, she fears that if she agrees, there is something inside her that would surely break.
“I…” Yasha said with tearful eyes as she directly looks Astlan on the eyes.
She thought that what Astlan said about aborting the baby is ideal and would greatly benefit her as a burden will be removed but…
“I…will keep this baby! This…baby is of my blood and flesh, this baby is innocent and free from any sins! I No matter how I am constantly reminded of my past, for the sake of this child of mine, I crawl past it! Go away! Go away now, please!” Yasha yelled towards Astlan.
Astlan just blankly stares at Yasha’s face. He could not comprehend as for why she wants to keep such thing. But then it struck him, he was the same.
He kept himself reminded of his past but never tried to get over it.
Hinoki glares at Astlan with indignation. She was utterly angry at Astlan. She wishes for Astlan’s to leave the room.
Without anything else to say, Astlan left as it is and return to his wooden lodge.
He sat in a wooden chair and wallows deeply of what happened. He never thought that such words could come out from his mouth. He knows that he is a miserable man but never thought that he can be such a scum.
“What has this world…done to me…” he muttered into nothingness.
Months have passed and Yasha safely gave birth to her child. It was a girl with the same hair and eye color as her. Thanks to everyone’s effort in the mansion, the delivery was a success and there are no complications on the baby or to Yasha.
Hinoki sit beside the bed where Yasha rests while cradling the baby in her arms.
“Such a cute baby…Aren’t you glad that you gave birth to her?” Hinoki softly asked with a gentle and caring face.
“I never thought that…I am going…to be this happy…I am...so happy…thank you…” Yasha said towards Hinoki. “And now, thank you, for coming to my life…I am sorry…that I even thought, even just for a moment, to abandon you!” she added as she directed those words to the baby in her cradle.
As tears form up in Hinoki’s eyes, she asked Yasha, “Do you have any name for the baby yet?”
“Yes, there has been one in my mind for quite a while now,” Yasha said as she tenderly stares at the baby.
“Izuna…her name is…Izuna…” she said as tears roll down from her cheeks.
In a certain Kingdom in the human continent, a new hero was chosen.
A girl with platinum strawberry hair and a face of a fair maiden with a glossy lip and fiery eyes complimented with her ceramic skin.
She set out on an adventure to gain power and train more to defeat the Demon Lord Baal.
It is said that Demon Lord Baal started a war against the human hundreds of years ago. The reason is that he blames the human for the death of his daughter, Camellia, and swore he will destroy and slaughter every single human for whatever cost.
Naturally, a hero is needed to stand up against the army of demons that invades the continent.
“Don’t go out too far! There are still magical beasts by the forest!” a man shouted towards a girl.
“Don’t worry, I am not the hero for nothing, you know!” shouted by the girl with platinum strawberry hair.
As larger magical beasts appear, her steel sword was hacked into two leaving her defenseless. Or so everyone thought.
She raised her hand up and power immediately surges towards the center of her palm. Seven colored lights swirl around and before long, it formed into a sword with angelic appearance and beautiful engravings that even a master forger could not match up with.
“[Excelsior!]”
The girl shouted.
After a while, the hordes of magical beasts were defeated and the people who fought them rummage their carcasses for usable items.
“Hahaha! That was hardly anything at all to me! Next time, they ought to be stronger, okay?” the girl who summoned the rainbow colored sword boasted.
“That’s really like you, Senya…” one girl muttered.
It was her, the new owner of the God Artifact Excelsior, Senya.