Act 25 - Our hero

Seirei Gensouki 25 - Watashi-tachi no eiyuu, Our hero.(精霊幻想記25.私達の英雄)

## Synopsis

* English
* Japanese

We know that person, for sure… .

The night Sendo Takahisa, the hero of the Centostella kingdom, ran away and went beyond the line of death.

While everyone at Galarc’s castle was looking dumbfound at the flames of purgatory rising from the slums, a golem, a divine weapon sent by Reiss, suddenly attacked them. Except Aishia everyone is at a loss in front of that overwhelming fighting ability, they get anxious and scared. But there was a girl who stayed calm at that place

[Now, I will put in order the future that diverged]

With the guidance of the smiling girl the forgotten hero now returns to the battlefield.

私達はきっと、あの人を知っている――。

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セントステラの勇者である千堂貴久が出奔し、死線を超えた夜。

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貧民街から上がる煉獄の炎を呆然と見つめていたガルアーク王城の面々のもとに、突如として投下されたのはレイスが差し向けた神造兵器のゴーレムだった!!　その圧倒的な戦闘能力にアイシア以外はまるで歯が立たず、焦り恐怖する一同。だがその場において平然とする少女がひとり――

「さあ、分岐した未来の帳尻を合わせるわよ」

 微笑む彼女の導きにより忘れられた英雄が今、戦場へ帰還する!!
## Contents

### Prologue: Preparations.

A little after the end of the divine war, more than one thousand years before Rio’s era, at the Strahl Region’s easternmost land. An incredibly beautiful woman stood alone in a deserted place. She seemed so fragile that she looked like she would collapse if someone pushed her and seemed to not be even twenty years old. The woman said that she is at the right place while taking a look around her. The woman seems to have come to that deserted place with a purpose but she doesn’t look like a traveler, she looks just like she is taking a stroll wearing just a one piece dress and without carrying any luggage. A sudden burst of pain makes the woman make a pained expression while she puts a hand on her stomach at the same time that her body sways. Her face was pale as a corpse’s and she seemed to be in such a pain she could collapse at any moment. The woman grits her teeth to motivate herself because she had a work to do.

“I’m sorry. There’s no time. It seems he will die before I can transcribe everything. I will have to entrust everything to the him from one thousand years later and to you.” Those were the words she said herself to Ryuo and Aishia a little before visiting that place. The woman thinks she said that to that girl but… it won’t do if the woman, Lina, doesn’t prepare as much as she can for the future to come one thousand years later even if she lost the authority to foresee the future and is on her way to a certain death due to the authorities from the other world. That’s why… Lina thinks to herself, she will use the slight remaining lifespan of her body to do everything she can. Lina thinks she will start her fight right here while looking at the sky. Lina smiles with satisfaction even while knowing she had little lifespan left. Then she looked at the ground, specifically at the land where Galarc’s royal castle will stand one thousand years later.

### Chapter 1: Seventh wise God.

Year 1000 of the sacred calendar. Early in the morning, when the sky was still dark. A great pillar of fire rose from the red light district of Galarc’s capital, the hellfire that Takahisa unleashed to burn the brothel down. It burns so powerfully and tall that it can be seen from the castle, everyone there is in chaos wondering what is going on. The still sleeping Satsuki and the rest also got up and let the mansion in a hurry, now in the garden Celia, Latifa, Sara, Orphia, Alma, Satsuki, Aki, Masato, Charlotte, Komomo, Gouki and Kayoko look dumbfoundedly at the fire pillar. Gouki’s servants including Sayo and Shin, Charlotte’s escort knights, Monica, Liselotte and Aria who slept over at the mansion are there too, Miharu was the only one missing. All of them look with held breath at the fire pillar until it disappeared, the silence continued for a bit after that. Everyone thinks the same thing. That fire pillar wasn’t a natural one, no natural flames would rise so high by themselves so someone must be making them do so. But modern magic can’t create such flames and very few people can use spirit arts of such an absurd scale, when they think of candidates very few come to mind, for example… Masato asks if those flames could be… but stopped himself right there, he didn’t dare to ask if Takahisa was really the one controlling those flames. He might have been scared to ask what Takahisa was burning with those flames and why he was doing it.

Then Aki asks everyone where Miharu is while looking worriedly around her. It was then that an enormous magic power appeared high in the sky above the castle, everyone felt a pressure so strong it made the air tremble. Everyone who could feel magic power changed their expressions and took battle stances. Then Sara, Orphia and Alma were warned about the presence of another spirit by their contracted spirits, they look in that direction and saw Aishia standing there while putting a mask on her face. Everyone look at her with surprise because they can’t remember who she is. Celia asks herself why Aishia is there and soon concludes that Aishia’s presence must mean that whatever it is in the sky must just be that bad. Asia screams at everyone to run away and takes flight towards the source of that enormous magic power. Celia heeds Aishia’s words and tells everyone it will be bad if they stay in the mansion, when she was just about to tell everyone to run away she saw Miharu leaving the mansion, she approaches her and tells her to come with everyone quickly but stops when Miharu doesn’t answer.

Everyone’s eyes focus on Miharu but she just walks forward while making a dumbfounded expression as if she was spacing out. Celia walks towards Miharu hurriedly while worrying about her strange condition. Miharu stops and looks up at the sky and begins a chant. “Possession”. Celia stops in her tracks while doubting her ears, that chant resembles one of the spells she learnt recently. “Type seventh heaven alter ego mod.”. Celia says that as expected when she listens to rest of the spell but also has questions. The spell Miharu chanted is different in some parts from the one she learnt and Miharu shouldn’t have learnt magic to begin with. Is Miharu using the spell a magic tool is enchanted with? When did she got such a thing if there is one? Satsuki calls out to Miharu worriedly while looking how the light of the spell envelops her body, but Miharu doesn’t answer and she just looks at her hands as if she was making sure of something, then she makes a joyful smile no one can imagine the usual her making. Miharu says with satisfaction it was a success. Miharu’s eyes then meet Celia’s who was looking wordlessly at her, then in a way that isn’t like her at all tells her with a smile that now she will correct the future that diverged.

Time goes back a bit. High in the sky above Galarc’s capital, a little before a great mass of magic power appeared in the sky. Reiss floats in the sky while pouring magic power into a crystal sphere several tens of centimeters in diameter. After a bit of time a complicated magic formation began to surround the sphere. Reiss thinks it is one of the valuable golems, the souvenirs of the Wise Gods, that he wanted to analyze it and become its proper master before sending it into battle but… The golem has a protection so it can’t be activated unless the registered master does it. Reiss is now hacking that protection and inputting illegal commands. This method has its problems, now as long as the golem is active it will be impossible to give it new orders, the golem will counterattack fiercely if someone attempts to input new orders while it is active, so it is necessary to stop the golem’s activation to give illegal orders to it again, but it isn’t easy to stop a golem’s activation when one isn’t the registered master, the golems are the strongest autonomous combat magic tools created by the seven wise Gods, when activated they won’t go into inactivity by themselves, one has to defeat them or wait until they run out of magic power.

Reiss thinks the current him can’t defeat an active golem, that now that he is investing so much on this he will make sure he buries them all. Reiss tells the golem that its target are those in the mansion’s garden with Celia and Aishia as the priorities and also those that try to interfere that can become a threat. Reiss keeps preparing the golem with the determination of throwing it away if needed, now that Rio and Sora are absent it is his best chance to eliminate the people at the castle, right now Aishia and Celia seem to be the most dangerous ones but if Lina is involved behind the scenes it wouldn’t be strange if there are more troublesome people lurking nearby. Reiss thinks he wants to leave the heroes out but that if they interfere it might be impossible to not kill them once, that he will set it to keep at minimum the damage to the castle and the urban areas because the golem has been accumulating excess magic power during one thousand years, that at worst Galarc’s capital will disappear from the map. Once Reiss is done inputting the commands he lets go of the sphere that began to release a great quantity of magic power as a proof of the golem’s activation. Then just like a spirit materializing a body made of particles of light envelopes the sphere, the golem’s core, and takes the form of a bipedal two meters high metallic robot.

The golem looks silently at the castle, the mansion and Miharu’s group two thousand meters below while its eyes let out a sinister light, it takes a look at Reiss trying to confirm if it is an enemy too or not and Reiss raises his hands and takes distance from the golem to avoid being considered as an enemy too. The golem decides Reiss isn’t an enemy after not receiving an attack and loses interest in him. The golem looks again at the mansion, points its right hand in its direction and shoots a great magic attack towards the mansion.

Celia holds her breath in front of the changed Miharu, then she feels the magic power in the sky increasing and condensing until even untrained people can see its light too. Celia says that it has to be a lie when she sees all of that magic power turning into a great magic attack that looks like it can swallow the mansion whole. Everyone in the mansion look on with despair at that magic shot that was like having a full moon falling over them. Only two people were different, Aishia who was gathering her magic power in order to fight the golem in the sky and Miharu who began to chant more spells while looking at the sky. “Dectect magician-maximize magic castle wall”, a spell that made ten great magic formations appear just above Aishia. Celia gets flustered in her mind when thinking about the difficulty of activating such a spell remotely. Aishia also looks with confusion at the ten magic formations creating a barrier that covers her and the mansion. She doubts for a moment about using her spirit arts too but decides that the barrier will be enough and stops.

The golem’s attack collides with Miharu’s barriers, a great light illuminates the whole city, there is a great noise and a storm blowing around the point of impact. There were one, two, three and four breaking sounds and the golem’s attack began to slow its advance. By the ninth breaking sound Miharu tells Celia, that is still covering her eyes with her hands to block the light, that there is no time to stand there idly. Celia opens her eyes a little and lets out a surprised voice when Miharu touches her shoulder and chants teleportation magic. Both Miharu and Celia reappear next to Gouki and the golem lands at the same time on the point where they used to be standing until then. Celia screams when she feels the shockwaves of the golem’s failed attempt at crashing against them like a meteor. Gouki asks the two when they came to his side while facing the golem again. Celia has goosebumps when imagining what the golem would have done to her if she hadn't moved.

Now Aishia is the one approaching the golem at top speed and stomping on it with all of her strength but the golem blocks easily the attack with its right arm. The golem makes two wings growing from its back separate into a lot of small triangular floating blades and makes them hover around it. Aishia takes distance from the golem while Satsuki prepares her spear and Aria stands in front of Liselotte protectively. Aishia also puts herself between the golem and the group while the rest of armed people take position in front of the non combatants. The golem makes all of the small blades fly at the group and Aishia shoots them down with light bullets of her own. The blades lose their trajectory for a moment but soon resume their attack, meanwhile Aishia’s light bullets are always destroyed on impact and before she can create more the golem attacks her. Aishia crosses her arms and puts a barrier in front of her to stop the golem’s fist but it is useless, the barrier breaks easily. Aishia tries to step back to disperse the impact but she fails to do it, the golem’s fist breaks her arms while sending her flying towards Latifa that was standing behind her.

Aishia returns to her spirit form to avoid hurting Latifa. Latifa lets out a surprised voice when Aishia disappears and her mask begins to fall to the ground. Aishia quickly materializes again with her arms healed, picks up the mask to put it on again and creates more light bullets to shoot down the golem’s blades. Aishia makes an anxious expression when the blades begin to close in on the group but then a lot of magic formations cover the ground around them releasing light bullets and begin to push up and away from everyone the golem’s blade feathers. Aishia uses her light bullets to push the blades stopped in midair further away from the group but during that time everyone loses sight of the golem who uses the opening to try to pulverize Celia but Miharu who was standing next to her stops the golem’s fist with a barrier. The barrier breaks and Gouki takes a stance with his katana in preparation to intercept the golem but a new magic formation appears between the two. The golem dodges the sphere of light coming at it. Then more magic formations appear in the way the golem dodged to and shot more magic attacks at its body but it dodges those too. Everyone looks surprisingly at the chantless spells because they can’t tell who is casting them, only Celia understands that it is Miharu’s doing. Aishia also realizes Miharu is casting magic chantlessly and begins to approach her. Miharu then chants the force wings spell and wings of light grow from her back, Celia’s surprise intensifies when she sees Miharu has even mastered that spell too. Satsuki and the rest also look dumbfoundedly at Miharu. The golem also changed its movements, it gathered its blown away feathers around its body again and began to destroy the magic spheres with its arms instead of dodging them. Miharu says that it will be bad if things continue as they are, she asks Aishia if she can do something about the blades floating in the air and tells Celia if she can gather everyone in one place because she will be that thing's opponent in the meanwhile.

Celia calls out to Miharu anxiously when she began to fly towards the golem without waiting for their answer. Aishia says she will be on her way while following after Miharu. Celia then obeys reluctantly and tells everyone to gather in one place because it seems like Miharu has a plan. Everyone’s reaction is slow because they have even more questions for Miharu than Celia herself, their understanding not catching up with the situation aside, they also don’t think they can entrust Miharu with fighting, for them Miharu is a girl who can only use weak spirit arts and with a timid personality unsuited to battle, but it was true that right now she is using a lot spells she isn’t supposed to be able to use, showing a fighting style that blows away their common sense and flying while flapping her wings of light.

Miharu flies towards the golem while deploying several magic circles around her. The golem also charges towards her, it dodges the attack released by one of the magic circles around Miharu, it moves next to her and throws a punch at her. Everyone gets pale faced watching Miharu in danger but she stops the golems’s fist with a barrier. The golem tries to use its flying blades to attack Miharu’s back but Aishia shoots them away with her light bullets. Miharu says that as expected while insisting Celia to gather everyone in one place with her gaze. Celia comes back to her senses and tells everyone to please gather in one place. Everyone is still doubtful but they began to gather close to Celia.

Meanwhile the golem flies around the stationary Miharu who doesn’t even bother looking the golem's way, while it keeps accelerating and decelerating in a way the human body and reaction speed can’t handle in an attempt to attack from her blind spots, but Miharu’s barriers keep stopping the golem’s attacks and shooting magic attacks of her own at the golem the moment it stops moving. It was as if Miharu knew everything already about how the golem would move. Celia thinks that way of fighting that embodies the ultimate form of a sorcerer is incredible and loses herself watching until the feeling of the golem gathering magic power for a large attack startles her out of her daze. Everyone on the ground tremble at the same time as Celia while seeing how the golem charges at Mihau from the front. Miharu blocks the golem’s fist with a barrier but the fist quickly destroys it. Miharu flies diagonally upwards while taking some distance from the golem, she thinks it is almost the limit of how much time she can earn but that just as planned the gathering is done while taking a look with a smile at Celia’s group on the ground. Miharu shoots one more magic attack at the golem in front of her and the golem destroys it with its left fist, then it points its right hand at Miharu and shoots a ray of light at her. The ray of light expands in a conical shape from the golem’s hand in order to not let Miharu escape.

Sara and the others on the ground scream at Miharu to watch out, Satsuki says that it can’t be when it looked like the light beam had already swallowed Miharu. Everyone gets pale faced imagining Miharu could be gone without leaving a trace but she teleports next to them and says she is right there while standing next to Celia. They let out surprised voices while wondering when Miharu got there. The golem realized Miharu teleported and looked at the group again while also Aishia puts herself in its way once more. Miharu informs Aishia that she won’t be able to fight freely with so many hindrances around her, but that she will leave her in charge of fighting that thing because she will evacuate these children. Aishia says she understands after a small pause. The golem prepares to attack the group again with its flying blades and Aishia also prepares her light bullets to intercept them but before they can’t clash again Miharu chants a mass group teleport spell and disappears taking everyone with her. Aishia stops her light bullets out of surprise and the golem also stops its blades after losing its targets. The golem begins to inspect the area with its eyes in search of everyone. Aishia uses that opening to shoot her light bullets at the golem, move next to it and shoot a magic attack with her right hand from close distance at the golem. The golem dodged the attack narrowly at the last moment, the light bullets Aishia shot previously draw strange trajectories until they impacted the golem’s body in the meantime but they don’t seem to have done much damage to its body. Despite that the golem seems to have made Aishia its main target for the time being and focuses its gaze on her after giving up the search of the rest. Aishia tells the golem that she won’t let it go anywhere, that she will defeat it right there and her mask begins to crack under the tension.

* TLN: the summary of the rest of the book will be posted at anytime between in the usual 10 to 14 days since the release of the book, between the 10th and the 14th of February.

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