Book 15: Epilogue

Book 15: Epilogue

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Epilogue

──This is a story of the future.

The area around it was a burned-out field; buildings were crumbling, and there were human corpses and pieces of machinery lying around.

──Clank, clank, clank.

The sound of machines echoed through this war-torn area.

The ones making this sound were mechanical knights who looked like robots.

These mechanical knights were marching in a line.

What were these mechanical knights marching against?

It was──.

“──Damn it. They’re not getting any fewer...!”

A young man swore as he saw the mechanical knights approaching, hiding in the shadows.

Yes, they were the humans fighting the mechanical knights.

This young man was wearing a suit that made him look somewhat futuristic.

Then, the young man’s companion, a girl, opened her mouth.

“Stop it. Even if you complain here, their numbers won’t decrease.”

“I know. In any case, if we don’t deal with some of them here, we’ll have a hard time again anyway.”

The young man said this, but his expression was somber.

The reason was that while the young man and his partner were only two people, the other side’s fully armed mechanical knights numbered nearly a hundred.

It would be a ruthless battle no matter how you looked at it.

But...

“...That’s true. But we must do it for our own survival.”

The young man and his partner had to reduce the number of mechanical knights here in order to survive.

The young man sighed at the girl’s words.

“Huh... We really have created a troublesome existence here, haven’t we?”

“Yes, that’s true. But it is a punishment for the greed of mankind.”

“.....”

The young man could only remain silent at the girl’s words.

“The girl is right, for it is undeniably their own fault, mankind’s own fault, that mankind is now in the predicament it is in.

“But that doesn’t mean I’m giving up.”

“Of course not. I don’t want to die either.”

“...That’s right. Then... it’s time to get to work!”

“Yes!”

The two looked at each other and nodded, then began to act.

The moment the mechanical knight approached the predetermined point, they launched a surprise attack.

“Take this!”

The girl held out her hands, and flames of tremendous heat poured down on the mechanical knight.

A few moments later, the knight thrust out his shield.

However, when the girl’s flames collided with the shield, they burned through the shield and swallowed the mechanical knight.

As soon as the mechanical knights’ attention was drawn to the girl by the surprise attack, the girl screamed,

“Now!”

“──Uooooooooooooooooo!”

At the girl’s signal, the young man attacked the mechanical knights.

In the young man’s hand was a sword wrapped tightly in cloth.

The sword did not look like it could function as a sword at all.

However, as the young man swung the sword, countless shining swords appeared behind him and rained down on the mechanical knights, following the sword’s trajectory.

While many of the mechanical knights fell to the ground from this attack, the girl smiled.

“As expected, your Sword Light of the Sword Saint is amazing.”

“If you say so, so is your Hellfire Player.”

After praising each other’s “abilities,” they quickly pulled themselves together to fight the remaining mechanical knights.

After winning the fierce battle, the two returned to their hideout feeling dizzy.

Then, a woman in a technical position waiting at the hideout called out to the young man.

“Ah, you’re back! We’ve been waiting for you!”

“Huh?”

The young man was surprised by the unexpected words.

Then the woman smiled.

“Finally──we were able to build a device that will take you to your great-grandfather.”

“What?”

“Really?”

The young man and his partner were surprised by the woman’s words.

“It is true. But... I am still skeptical that we can really get out of this situation by bringing your great-grandfather here.”

“.....”

As the woman said, the young man was also very skeptical that simply relying on his own great-grandfather would improve this situation.

But what he found in the young man’s house before the invasion of the mechanical knights intensified was his sword wrapped in cloth, and the person who used it was the young man’s great-grandfather.

And when those who had awakened to the “ability” of predicting the future investigated the means of escaping this situation, they were shown to bring the young man’s great-grandfather to them.

The moment the power was applied to her hand to pull out the old maid, Reimei was convinced that she had won.

“That’s naive, isn’t it?”

But the next moment... Ikkaku changed his target before drawing the whole card, and he drew the... winning card.

“Wha...”

Reimei, who was sure to win, was speechless.

Then Ikkaku discarded his cards and... stood up.

“I won, Reimei-sama.”

“No way!”

Reimei held her head.

But the result was cruel, and Reimei’s loss was not reversed.

Immediately, Reimei gathered the cards and clung to Ikkaku.

“One more time! One more time!”

“No. There’s no end to it.”

“Do something!”

No matter how much she screamed, Ikkaku’s attitude remained the same.

Then...

“U-um...”

“Nikkaku! You think Ikkaku should play with me, don’t you?”

“N-no, I don’t think so...”

“W-why...”

The other subordinate, Nikkaku, rejected Reimei as well.

“W-we have a guest.”

“Huh? A guest?”

“It’s Kuuya-sama.”

When Reimei heard that Kuuya-sama wanted to visit Yuuya, she immediately gave her permission.

“Ikkaku, bring Yuuya and the others to me right away.”

“Very well.”

A few moments later, Ikkaku brought Yuuya and Meiko.

Reimei’s eyes widened when she saw the power Yuuya was holding.

“This power is...”

“──Reimei-sama! I apologize for the delay in thanking you. Thank you again for the other day.”

When Reimei was surprised by Yuuya’s power, Yuuya bowed his head.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. If left unchecked, it would have affected the underworld as well. Anyway, I’m glad that everything ended well.”

After saying that, she turned her attention to Meiko this time.

“I’m glad to see that you’re okay too, Meiko.”

“Thank you very much! Thanks to Master and all of you, I’m having a great time!”

“Umu. By the way... Yuuya. You’ve gained some power again, haven’t you?”

“I-is that so?”

“Yes, you have. You have the power of existence, but have you also acquired the star power?”

“Star power?”

When Yuuya was surprised by the name of a power he could not remember, Reimei was surprised as well.

“What? You don’t know? I can feel a faint star power...”

“Um... What kind of power is that?”

“Well... as the name implies, it is the power of the star... In your case, is it the power of the Earth? I thought it had disappeared...”

The moment Reimei said this, Yuuya looked at Meiko.

“Um... the truth is, besides thanking you, I wanted to ask you something else, Reimei-sama.”

“Hmm? What is it?”

When Reimei asked him about it, Yuuya immediately told her about an event that had happened on Earth.

He was talking about the god soldier who had attacked them, in addition to the Saara who had appeared from the coffin.

“I think the ‘star power’ Reimei-sama is talking about is probably the power of this Saara-san...”

“I see...”

After listening to the story, Reimei showed a grim expression.

And then...

“Yuuya. You seem to have gotten yourself into trouble again. I never thought that you would have to deal with an ancient god...”

“W-what do you mean...?”

Reimei replied to the confused Yuuya.

“Your opponent is the god who once ruled the earth.”

──Yuuya finally solved the case of the other world, but... now it seems that he might get involved in the problems of Earth──.

***

“!”

Suddenly, particles of light rained down on a deserted alley.

The particles gradually formed the shape of a person, and soon, a young man stood there.

“This is... the age of our ancestors...”

This was not the war-torn world the young man knew, but a world where he could feel peaceful human life.

The young man was stunned for a while, but eventually, he came to his senses and braced himself.

“I can’t stay like this. I must find my ancestor as soon as possible...!”

And so, a new trouble secretly loomed over Yuuya.