Those connected together.
I am Rosarin! I’m a first-year student at the Royal School of Magic!
I’m just an ordinary daughter of Duke, but one day I became a magical girl named Rosarinrin!
I’m going to beat the bad guys to death with my partner, Mofumaru!
“… That was the setting I was going for.”
“First of all, I don’t understand whatsoever.”
Alphage-sama gave me a heavy interjection.
Anyhow, we returned to the Fire Spirit King’s temple. I’m the one being made to sit on my knees on the floor. Why am I the one taking responsibility? I’m a Duke’s daughter, you know?
“Lord’s escape from reality.”
“… You know it well.”
Mofumaru, who was actually on my shoulder as a mascot, convinced Alphage-sama with a single sentence.
“I didn’t want to do it either, you know! I was begged by my beloved Dirk and my cute cousin…! Now I have taken it seriously and look what happened!”
“Miss Rosarin is weak to her family.”
“I cannot deny it…! I wanna die from embarrassment! My life is a disgraceee…!”
I was flailing about. Alphage-sama was watching me with a lukewarm gaze. Mofumaru evacuated to avoid being crushed by me.
“By the way, the Wolfanea Squadron and Knight Valkyrie…”
“I made them. For the Wolfanea Squadron, I used a magic tool that consumes magic power to become a body enhancement suit. If used correctly, it can also become a weapon. Dirk’s Knight Valkyrie is an effect of the weapon ring.”
“I see.”
While we were having this rather unimportant conversation, Jend jumped in, crying.
“Oneechan, stop my Oniichaaan! Oniichan is going to diee!!”
“Jend! Leave crying for later! I don’t understand well, but I will stop him, let’s go!”
“Yeah!”
I strengthened my body and moved with Jend in my arms.
“Wha!? Wai—!?”
I left Alphage-sama behind in a flash, but I’m sure he’ll be fine with Curtis guarding him.
When I arrived, I found my servant on his knees and a troubled Spirit King and Dragon duo. It was so surreal. While I was running with Jend, he gave me a brief rundown of the situation. He told me that Jash, who is a very serious guy, almost killed Kou and asked them to do whatever they wanted to him.
“What I did was unforgivable. Even though I had my reasons…”
“I~am~telling~you~ I don’t care about that anymore! I met Oneechan thanks to it, and I am very happy now!”
Kou said, but Jash kept his head down and didn’t move.
“I’m sorry, but if possible, could we wipe the slate off clean for helping you two?”
“… Ojousama.”
Jash looked as if he was holding back the pain.
“No, it’s my son’s fault for not being able to detect a kill intent. We are not going to retaliate. He doesn’t seem to mind.”
According to Maria-sam, dragons, depending on their species, consider others weak when killed rather than blame the killer. However, in the case of hostages or other dirty means, retaliation may be possible. I guess it’s a difference in values between races.
“… Jash, do you want your butt spanked, too?”
“!?”
“Jash, do you know that I will make anymore who makes my children cry, cry even harder?”
“I, I apologize! I will make it up in a different way!”
Sensing my seriousness, Jash got down on his knees to me.
“Good. In the meantime, play with the children as hard as you can today until your strength is exhausted. Kou, Jend, play with him as hard as you can.”
“”Okay~””
My good boys took Jash’s hand and ran off.
“Now then, Saintess.”
“It’s Rosarin.”
“… Fufu.”
When the Fire Spirit King called me Saintess, I reflexively interjected, and he laughed.
“Is something the matter?”
I don’t think I said anything funny, so I tilted my head.
“Pardon me. Your reaction resembled my old acquaintance a lot.”
The Fire Spirit King had a very calm look in his eyes.
“By the way, how did you get possessed by the Evil?”
The Fire Spirit King had heard rumors that Kou had been forcibly captured by me and was being treated badly, like a slave. He said that the Evil reacted to his negative emotions at that time.
“But the main body of the Evil is in Wolfanea, right? Even with the Water Spirit King, where did it come from?”
“Ah, Magi… you wanted to be called Rosarin, right? Us, and that thing, is connected.”
“Eh?”
When I asked the Fire Spirit King for a detailed explanation, he told me that there were two seals applied by the Salvation Saintess. The seal on the souls of the Silver Wolves and the Spirit Kings. The Yggdrasil sucks up the magic power of the earth and passes some of it on to the Spirit Kings to strengthen the seal and……… wait. Part of the Yggdrasils has been suspended, right?
Surely not…
“U, umm… part of the Yggdrasil was suspended for a while, right?”
“Yeah. That’s part of the reason why the seal was temporarily broken, and also one of the reasons why we got possessed.”
We will have to keep this from Jash! He could kill himself!!
As I held my head in my hands, the key to the safe house began to flash.
“Navi-kun, what’s up?”
I put magic power into the key and let Navi-kun out. There shouldn’t be any ruins around here.
“Long time no see, piece of junk.”
“Negative. I am administrative AI. No malfunction, no piece of junk.”
“I thought you were protecting our Lord’s property.”
“Positive. They are now the awaited person’s.”
“Awaited person’s!?”
“Positive.”
“Awaited person… you… are you the person we have been waiting for!?”
“Eh… ah… to be precise, I’m a Beneficiary, but…”
“Ahh…! We finally meet…! I was waiting for you! All this time…!”
The Fire Spirit King kneeled down and started crying.
“Eh… umm…”
Maria-san and maybe Navi-kun were both looking warm and fluffy, but I’m the only one not keeping up.
It was a surreal sight to see the giant Spirit King apologizing to little Navi-kun over and over again for calling him a piece of junk.