The Trial of the Spirit Kings.
For starters, we moved to the Fire Spirit King's place.
“Rosarin-chan.”
“Yes.”
“I don't want to fight a boss right out of the blue! I mainly want to prepare my heart, prepare my heart, prepare my heart, and prepare my heart!”
“Well, I was thinking of going around all of them today. If you prepare your heart right this instant, we can make it in time, right?"
“That schedule is too difficult!! And you are being too unreasonable!”
“Ahhahhaha.”
“Well then, let’s begin the trial.”
The Fire Spirit King was also casually ignoring Rinka. Rinka prepared herself with a whimper.
The members were me, Dirk, Geraldin-san, Jend, Alphage-sama, Curtis and Rinka.
“Take this!”
“Naive! Leave the supporting to me!”
Alphage-sama nullified the Spirit King's flame magic without chanting.
“... Ah, so refreshing.”
“Alishia!”
“Yess~”
Alphage-sama’s spirit, Alicia, a refreshing-looking beauty with water attribute, iced the Fire Spirit King in an instant. Strength in beauty!
“...... Whoah.”
The Spirit King was frozen. What to do with this... no, not yet!
I deployed a barrier around Rinka as a wall of fire enclosed everyone.
“Hiiiiiii…”
Rinka was freaking out. The Spirit King has lured over magic creatures. There were many salamanders, but these members (except Rinka) have no problem with them at all.
“T, this is seriously scary! I will die!”
Rinka was in tears as she was surrounded. Even though there was a barrier, it will eventually break.
(Summon me.)
“N, no way! It’s too dangerous!”
(No problem. Summon me.)
“There are too many problems… it, it’s getting close milimeter by milimeter… stop being unreasonable! Alright, I get it, I will summon you!”
Rinka spoke to whatever that was and began to operate her magic power.
”Beyond the world, answer my voice! My kind-hearted friend, Minato!”
(Grrrrrrrrragh!!)
A dragon emerged from Rinka's modest chest… She did it. It’s that one. The snake-like one. It's not a dragon. The snake-like dragon has sealed up all the Spirit King's magic and then beat him to a pulp. It was an obvious overkill.
“You overdid it! Mi-san, stop it! I said, stop it!! That person is not a bad guy!”
My niece was really a can-do girl. For a villager with a pencil, she instantly transformed into a brave warrior and roughly defeated the Demon King… no, the Spirit King. And the dragon was still trying to kill him.
(But he frightened you, Rinka. He needs to be punished so that it won't happen again.)
“Don't worry! I'm not afraid anymore, thanks to the reliable Mi-san! Oh, that’s my Rin Neechan! There’s Rin Neechan over there! You wanted to see her, didn't you!?”
(Rin is? Mhm, sure, she's changed somewhat… but she’s definitely Rin. It's good to see you doing so well.)
What to do? I seriously don't know this dragon, though!?
“Rin Neechan, we rescued a snake a long time ago, do you remember that?”
“Hm?”
“This is Mi-san, the beautiful silver-haired woman next door who was keeping the snake. It just so happens that the snake we rescued was a family member of the local Goddess, just like Mi-san.”
“............... Eh?”
“And Tenchan, who we used to play a lot, is a Tengu, and Koma-san is a Komainu.”
“.................. Seriously!? There was a world around me that I wasn’t aware of?!”
“Mi-san, turn into your human form. Rin Neechan will understand better.”
(Mhm.)
The dragon quickly became a silver-haired beauty… and that silver-haired beauty was definitely familiar. Or rather, she was the neighbor next door where I lived in until my death.
“P, perhaps, Inari-san too!?”
Inari-san was the person who used to be the neighbor opposite to Minato-san’s residence. Rinka had given her the nickname Kon-chan. I thought this because the name was Inari(Goddess)...
“Kon-chan, too. She’s a fox.”
“No wonder she liked deep-fried foods so much… w, well, it seems that you have some combat potential, Rinka.”
“No, I don't really want to summon everyone over. This time I had no choice but to summon Mi-san, even if it meant breaking down the barriers of the world, but I don't want my friends to be put in harm's way like that.”
(You are too weak, Rinka. I’m worried.)
“Well, I am weak, but…”
(I’m glad that you are concerned about us, but we are also worried about you. If you are in danger, call for us. We will not do anything rash. Even things are like this, I’m still a deity. I will not die so easily.)
“... If you promise not to do anything reckless, if you promise to abandon me when the time comes..."
(.................. I will handle things carefully.)
“That's saying in a roundabout way that it's impossible, right!?”
(I can’t abandon you, Rinka. I promise not to do anything reckless as much as possible.)
“...... I get it. You promised.”
Rinka and Minato-san seemed to be very good friends. I asked Rinka how long she knew that Minato-san was a dragon, and she said that it had been since she was quite young. I didn't know.
“I have seen your power, Rinka the Hero. I grant you my blessing.”
“I didn’t do anything myself, though!?”
The Fire Spirit King, ignoring Rinka's protests, gave Rinka his blessing.
I know it went in an unexpected direction, but we got the Fire Spirit King's blessing!!
What do you think about this chapter?
