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At Nostalgic Orcus (Beginning)

Inside the darkness, there was a silhouette standing quietly

The place was a large space made from stone that felt smooth like marble with several thick pillars inside It had a soleht source, there was only the faint glih the door of the rooh the dark and stretched into the roo silhouette

Suddenly, a new shadow piled up on that back The slender silhouette came from a female, a voice that was clear and beautiful even while it sounded hesitant it called to the back

"…Haji silhouette――Hajime turned around just a little toward that voice which called his na is over already?"

"Yes It's quick thanks to the co with the spec of the apostle, isn't it?"

Kaori showed a wry s the ti the surface level of the Orcus Great Labyrinth with her classmates And then, in consideration so that she wouldn't break the atmosphere, she entered into the hall quietly

"…This place is, where youbeside Hajiaze was fixed at was――a half melted broken lump of mineral

Haji deep inside a forest filled to the brim with tranquility It was the exact opposite of the eative eaze noas saturated with affection and pain

"When I saw her for the first tiht it was a horror scene Inside pitch black darkness, crilike that Even when Yue called with a voice asking for help, I tried to close the door, you know? This fellow is absolutely a no-good person That hat I thought"

"Fufu Certainly, it's unthinkable that in the depth of the abyss like this place there would be soht? Especially at that ti other than survival Nohen I recall that ti, really, why did I help her, huh?"

Kaori let out a chuckle at the way Haji a fond sirl is sohly teaches me that on't kno life will it turned out in the future"

"No truer words than that"

Their words cut off, both of theht about his beloved lover Kaori thought about her love rival (close friend) And then, almost at the same ti there

"We will surely take her back, won't we?"

"Yeah We will take her back for sure"

Hajime and Kaori looked at each other's face and both of theh there was soot to say, Hajime's face went 'hah' and he opened his mouth

"Ah, but Kaori, you will reht, okay?"

"Eh? Why…aa, by any chance, is it about this body stopped functioning?"

"Yeah For the ti, I prepared an artifact for countermeasure, but as expected in front of Ehito, I don't kno inally that body is that guy's creation"

Kaori's expression turned bitter

Indeed, the apostle body was so castle, Ehito stopped Kaori's body fro It was doubtful whether they could coainst that On the other hand, if Kaori returned to her original body, it would be a great decrease in her battle strength

And so, the role of dealing with the apostles that would co the surface was best for Kaori

However, even Kaori wanted to go to save Yue Even though she understood that logically she should stay behind, emotionally she was unable to really accept it "Muu" Kaori pouted her lips, to that Haji her words to persuade her

"Don't make that face Even if we take back Yue, if the others ended up dead, putting ht? Also about Myuu and Re at the deepest part of Orcus It had been proved once that they are effective as a hostage, so it is necessary for someone to protect them here just in case"

"…Haa, it can't be helped, isn't it? It's vexing, but I don't want to become a burden Besides, there are also a lot of people I don't want to die so…yep, I understand I will protect the place where Hajio home too I also won't let anyone lay their hand on Myuu-chan and Reht-!?"

"Why are you e those two…"

Haji fixedly with puffed up cheeks To such a Hajime, Kaori turned her face aside with a huff and let out a sulking voice

"'Aiko, Lily, please' Even though you said so like that Hajime-kun is a womanizer"

"No, that's because I read the mood…"

"The other classazes, you know? Saying so like Don Juan or Casanova, I think that even if Hajime-kun is called that, you really cannot deny it, I'll tattle at Yue when she returns Even though, I too airls one after another…uu, Yue whose position is i with ti that That wasn't because he was exasperated with Kaori's attitude, it was because a feeling that denied a part of her words was naturally welling up in him

Hajime crouched down in front of the mineral that sealed Yue before, the ic power to flow in it He lifted his hand while addressing Kaori

"The punch at that time That was quite effective you know That attack really opened my eyes"

"He? …Ah, that's, err, it hurt, wasn't it? I did that quite with my full power…"

Kaori's eyes turned round for a e of topic, but when she noticed that Haji wild in the audience hall, her expression turned aard and she averted her gaze

Hajiic pohich shined vividly incomparable with the time when he undid the seal of Yue with difficulty This tiic power unexpectedly easily

This mineral left behind in this place was because of its abnoric power peric power It caused him to be uneasy whether it could be put inside the 'Treasure Warehouse' At that time, the treasure warehouse was a super important item without replacement and he didn't know the way to manufacture it, so Hajiht break because it usedin and out ite this mineral into the treasure warehouse There was also how Yue seeh she didn't say it out loud

While transfor stone into blocks, Hajilances

"Yeah, that punch, it literally reverberated until my core Even what you said that I'm the worst and uncool, those words stabbed deeply"

"Aa, uuu E, err…that…"

Kaori raised a strange moan and looked all shook up

"If it was another person doing that, then it wouldn't affect h"

"Eh?"

"Those who can do the sa like Kaori and uess there are only Shia and Tio left"

"You mean…"

"…Perhaps I cannot say anyuess"

"…Haji stone that was carved apart into blocks was stored into the new 'Treasure Warehouse' that Haji that, Haji Kaori's eyes to open wide

Hajiaze met with Kaori Those eyes lacked sharpness, instead they were clad in a gentle at at herself as reflected there

"Thank you, Kaori For continuing to think about uy"

"…Stop it So like that, it sounded like last will for souess My bad, that's not like ht toward Haji wryly

"No, me too, thank you I'm happy …Fufu, I have to say this to Yue when she coot Shia's position, I'll say that to her"

"Kuku, if you do that you will get bullied again, you know? After all, for some reason Yue likes to be playful with Kaori"

"Uu, that's, she absolutely enjoyedwhen I remember it While Hajime-kun and the others ride into the other side, I ine the outcoet paid back twice for that"

"Geez-, Haji at Kaori who bared her teeth in irritation And then, both of them closed their mouths at the sas that wanted to ain s stone And then, he turned the stone into block shape one after another stored them inside the 'Treasure Warehouse'

And at that ti stone was left there was some kind of pattern carved there

"…This is"

"What's the matter Hajime-kun? …Pattern? Isn't this Vandour Shune's crest…"

Kaori peeked fro and traced the pattern carved on the floor below the sealing stone with his finger, she then tilted her head at the familiar pattern and murmured

Hajime nodded wordlessly and then took out from the 'Treasure Warehouse' the tear shaped pendant that was the proof of having conquered the Ice and Snow Cavern

Right after that

kiiiiiiiii

Such shrill voice sounded out, in resonance the pendant and the pattern on the floor shook

The pendant that was put on Hajied toward the pattern on the floor It was hard to see because it was dark, but looking carefully at the center of the pattern on the floor, there was a small hole open where it seemed the pendant could be fit there

Hajime and Kaori looked at each other and nodded at the same time Hajime inserted the pendant into that cavity

Ih the pattern on the floor, then a sound ofpattern rose up It was a round stone pillar with a diameter around thirty centiht about Hajime's eye, it stopped still And then, before Hajime's eyes, its side opened up

"…So there is this kind of mechanism A mechanism that can be opened only by someone who has conquered Ice and Snow Cavern huh"

"That, what is it? It was under the block that sealed Yue, I have the feeling that it's related to Yue somehow but…"

At the center of the stone pillar there was a h transparency, in a glance it looked like a diamond Hajime put it on his palm and stared it fixedly, from his side Kaori murmured her conjecture

And then, it was soon proved that her conjecture was correct

"…Looks like this is the sa artifact that was used by Oscar and others"

"That's…so in this kind of place, I can only think of one person"

"Anyway, let's try activating it"

Hajiht after that, the dark sealing rooht mixed hite And then, in front of Hajime and Kaori who narrowed their eyes, the talk of the person who left behind the ian

That talk, was filled with very deep love and affection, and then also tremendous resolve and repentance And then, in it was an earnest wish, so warentle that it would shake the soul of the person hearing it noof about tenemotion that was hard to express, yet by nounpleasant, filled Haji beautiful tears that trickled sot to even wipe

"…We have to show it to Yue"

"Yeah This is so that Yue has to see no matter what…Kaori, I'll entrust this to you We don't knohat's going to happen on the other side, after all"

"…Yes I got it"

The mineral with the radiance of a diamond that Hajih she was handling a treasure

"Nevertheless, it's lucky that I understood the detail regarding the special trait of the sealing stone Indeed, with just 'Mineral Appraisal' there is no way I will be able to grasp its true character Well, though if I was told that I should notice it while facing that scorpion i like that, isn't it?"

"Yeah Thanks to that, an urge to create various things is welling up in ht now Let's quickly return andartifact…what a at Kaori whose face was soh the place that was his beginning with Yue And then, after closing his eyes for a beat, he turned on his heel with resolve on his back once more

After that, Kaori quietly followed after hi back, the two of the room was shut in darkness However, inside there wasn't just cold darkness that sed everything, it felt like there was kindness drifting there too

"Ah, papa! Kaori-oneechan Welcome back nano!"

"We are home, Myuu"

"Myuu-chan, we are home"

Hajime and Kaori who returned to Oscar's residence elcoetic voice and fully bloo h by the beloved daughter with rapid footsteps sutetetete― to which Hajihtly embraced her with his artificial arency

Myuu instantly circled her hands on Haji roo a pure white and frilly apron with the frills fluttering and ladle on hand, the perfectly equipped Remia appeared to welcome them

"Dear, Kaori-san, welcome home Will you have dinner? Or will you take a bath? Or else…will you have hter?"

"Wai-, Remia-san! That kind of cliché is unnecessary-! Or rather, just now didn't you sayto hter do-!"

"My ether? That's what I ?"

"-!? Re, Remia-san!"

"Dear, or else will you have Kaori-san?"

"Fue!? M, me? Wait that's not it! Please don'ton end like a cat while Reh she was looking at so "My my, ufufu" Before it was Yue, noas Remia It appeared that Kaori had the quality where she would be teased by older females

Hajiaze at Reht now there is not really much time I'll enter the workshop soon My bad but I'll takeit over there Ah, also, there were contacts frohness and Shizuku-san It seee it somehow The speech of Aiko-san…the 'Goddess of Harvest' was quite effective The nu rapidly, so they said that they want the artifact's production to hurry"

"I see Roger Sorry to …if I can be useful for you even just for a bit, then there is nothing happier foryour kindness, and also as a wife supporting her husband…"

"No, you aren't a wife, okay?"

"My o 'my my' here"

"Ufufu"

"No, hainst Re with a matchless warm smile Hajime caressed the head of Myuu as reluctant to part while entrusting her to Remia, then he walked out toward the workshop

Currently, the place where Hajime and others were at――the depth of the Orcus Great Labyrinth, in the hideout of Oscar Orcus, there were only Hajime and Kaori, and then Myuu and Remia there

After the conversation at the audience hall in the devil king castle, first of all Hajime and others went to retrieve the valuables that Haji castle, then they used the gate key that they safely retrieved and everyone scattered to all over the world

Of course, they had to directly go toward the place that didn't have a gate hole installed, so transportation artifacts would be needed Even Tio, if she was going to the village of dragon race, when it was tiate, but just going there would certainly take a few days so there was a necessity for an artifact that could fly at high speed