The attackers from the Celestial World had gone, and General Miralda returned to her human form.\n
In the meantime, I also went back to being the other me.
ââŠPhew.â
Those things enveloped in holy power were pretty insane. Had I not changed, I wouldnât have been able to do anything to stop them from taking the Orb of Control out of me.
My attacks wouldnât have reached them, and it would be a one-sided fight.
It was impressive how the other me attacked the palm. He couldnât have been sure about it.
And so I was glad that he had forced his way out.
After all, the memories that had returned were now shared between us.
Now I had more information to speculate.
Still, this meant that they were still uniting souls in the Celestial World. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
The memories were not mine. They hadnât been forgotten. I had never seen the place before.
âHoweverâŠthat means they were never able to succeed again.â
Now that I thought back on it, I had never met anyone else who had two combined souls. And I had never heard of such a thing even happening.
And not just in the Demon World, but the human world as well. All of their experiments had failed.
The other me remembered the tremendous pain.
I was thankful that it was only a memory for me. Had I actually experienced it, I would have likely gone mad.
ââŠPerhaps my soul was sticking out of the magic stone.â
When I tried to think of an explanation for why I didnât remember it, thatâs what I landed on.
It was very difficult for me to imagine a state where souls were haphazardly united.\n
And so I thought of it as our souls being too big to properly fit into the magic stone.
And the part that didnât fit inside, was me. Thatâs why I didnât remember the experiments.
Could that also explain why it had cracked when the stone was removed?
It was possible that it had become brittle after the experiments.
In any case, it was touched directly with holy power, which caused some other phenomenon, and then the crack appeared.
And once the crack appeared, the soul was able to escape.
Well, this was all my imagination.
Besides, it seemed like the other me didnât understand what happened at that moment either.
âThe Orb of Control has been removed.â
Miralda said as she leaned over Wormell.
Residents of the Demon World could not survive once the Orb of Control had been removed.
âI wasnât watching Wormell as he fought, but if they were the same as the one I was up against, then itâs likely that his attacks were not effective.â
âAnd so they took him by surprise then.â
Miralda muttered ominously.
The other me had tried attacking them as well, but their holy power was able to block attacks that contained mana.
On the other hand, their hands could just slide into our bodies.
âThey created a barrier with holy spears, sent holy power into it, and also enveloped themselves with holy power? That seems rather excessive.â
âI suppose they had a good reason for doing so.â
âI am not sure. By the way, is it true that they were from Research Institution Eira?â \nâThey had the same mark, so they must be.â
âEira. The ones who nearly defeated Lesser High King Yamato. In that case, did they come to gather souls? This amount of damage is not too surprising, given how many men they sent.â
There was hardly anyone alive around us.
Arrows made of light had seemed to shoot in every direction. And so I wasnât sure if the others were okay. Perhaps they were in just as hopeless a situation as we were in.
âIt was a one-sided attack from the sky. There would not have been much that they could do. We were all on our guard in the main camp, due to the stakes. But they attacked this camp instead.â
Not everyone was able to deal with an attack from the sky.
And the people who were able were underrepresented in our camp.
However, I was not sure it would have made much of a difference if there were more.
We then searched for survivors, but things only continued to look worse.
Apparently, the enemy had attacked almost every part of the area within the barrier with holy power.
Miralda and the others questioned the survivors about what had happened.
In the meantime, I went over the events in my head.
I was sure that I really was their target.
They had come here to retrieve the soul of their test subject.
But why now? That question remained.
âWas it because I changed?â
No, that wouldnât explain why it happened at this time.
After all, the other me had come out a long time ago.
\nI saw Halm and Miralda talking, and so I decided to ask.
âHey. How long do these stakes of holy power last?â
âAnywhere between half a day and a full day. However, I heard that they can sometimes last for several days, if they send in enough power.â
I nodded at Halmâs answer.
Not long ago, the other me and Baltasar had fought.
What if a stake of holy power had been sent during that time?
However, it had only been for a very short while. And I immediately returned.
This would have troubled the researchers. They would have thought they found the other me, only I changed right after.
It would have been very confusing for them.
However, they remembered that the souls had been united, and then they would realize why they hadnât been able to find us up until now.
Things would have been much easier for them had they been prepared. But they had found us so suddenly, and they were not ready.
And then the stake turned into a pillar of salt before they could locate us. And so we were lost to them once again.
It was the start of another search.
And recently, they happened to send another stake in this area, and finally found me.
Yes, me, and not the other me. However, they knew it didnât matter this time, according to their data.
That would explain everything.
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