“Hahaha~!”
Semiris laughed heartily in reply,
"Then I'll wait for Hulim's fame to spread to the heavens!"
"Um!"
Hulim nodded vigorously again.
"So, Hulim..."
A complex and mysterious magic circle unfolded beneath Semiris's feet. It looked familiar to her from three years ago, yet somewhat different.
"--Bye now."
"Goodbye, Semiris..."
Semiris and the magic circle transformed into a beam of light and flew into the sky before disappearing.
The waving right hand stopped in mid-air, and Hulim looked at the air in front of him, where the familiar figure from the past was no longer there.
"...Semilis?"
However, no one responded.
... ...
Heaven, Tiramsuin.
As a beam of light unfolded, a figure appeared in a white space.
As soon as she returned to Tiramsuin, the smile Semiris had maintained when she left collapsed, and she squatted on the ground with her head in her hands.
"I also... I also want to continue to stay with you..."
"Semilis? You're back?"
At this moment, a voice sounded from above the white space.
Semiris quickly rubbed her eyes, stood up, and replied respectfully: "Yes, Mother Goddess, I am back."
"... You're back so soon this time? Did something happen in the Underworld? Wait—"
The voice of Earth Mother Traya suddenly became anxious.
"——What's wrong with your body?! Why is it so weak? Did you bless more than one person?"
"No, you must sleep immediately. If you continue like this, you will damage your essence!"
Hearing Traya's request, Semiris immediately pleaded.
"Please wait a moment, Mother Goddess, can you give me a little more time? Not much, just a few hundred years... No, a hundred years, just a hundred years! Please let me wait another hundred years before entering deep sleep."
"You kid... what are you talking about? Don't you know your current situation? Even if you delay for just one minute, let alone a hundred years, the possibility of your essence being damaged and collapsing will rapidly increase! Do you want to die?"
"No, I can't agree to anything you say. You must fall asleep immediately!"
"Mother Goddess——!"
"Let's talk about it after you wake up."
"No, I'll be asleep for too long this time. I'll miss it. I promised her that I'd keep an eye on her in Tiramsuin. I returned to Tiramsuin to prevent things from getting worse. So... even if it's just willful, please help me, Mother Goddess. Just maintain the status quo!"
“… …”
Traya was silent. This was the first time in tens of thousands of years that Semiris had asked him to do this. No matter how difficult it had been, she had carried it all by herself...
"... Well, tell me what happened. I can help you, but even if I do, given your current condition, you'll have to sleep for ten months, only waking up briefly and having three days of activity. Are you willing to do that..."
"I...I do!"
Semiris hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement. Although it was only a short period of time, roughly three days a year, as long as she woke up intermittently, she wouldn't miss out on the child's growth...
Afterwards, Semiris told Traya in detail about what she had encountered in the Underworld. She was a human girl with all-around adaptability, a girl she had never seen before...
After recounting her experiences in the underworld, Semiris immediately fell into a deep sleep.
But in the white space after Semiris left, a low murmur was heard.
"A girl with all-round aptitude."
"Or a descendant of that person."
"Could it be that..."
The voice did not continue to talk to itself, but left the place, and the white space fell into a long silence again.
... ...
Land boundary.
That day, Hulim returned home very late.
Although she looked calm, as a parent, they were keenly aware of the abnormality in their daughter's heart.
The Rezelians wanted to counsel their daughter psychologically, but they didn't know the reason and couldn't start. Even when they secretly asked their daughter's good friend Fran, they got no results.
Instead, my daughter's behavior was exactly the same as before. She practiced swordplay and read in the morning, then went out in the afternoon and did not return home until late in the evening.
But the more normal things seemed, the more uneasy the Rezelians felt. It seemed as if every time their daughter came back from outside, the unexplained scars hidden in her heart were getting worse...
... ...
A month later.
It is still next to that ordinary small lake.
With her magic power exhausted and a little sweat on her forehead, Hulim lay on the big rock where she met Semiris, looking at the sky quietly.
"Where is Tiramthuin...? Can Semiris see it from up there?"
The breeze blew through the woods, bringing the rustling sound of leaves, and the forest was quiet.
After a long time, Hulim muttered to herself again.
"I did something bad..."
"...If Semiris saw me like this, she would be disappointed..."
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