Azi said it very casually, but Mana Takamiya couldn't be casual about it.
From the brief exchange just now, Mana Takamiya clearly understood how strong the woman before her was.
It was a strength that she absolutely couldn't resist or defend against.
She couldn't do anything, no matter what the girl before her wanted to do.
"What... What exactly are you?!"
"That's why you little girls are such a pain. Don't worry, I'm not interested in anything in this world."
This world? If she used that kind of term... then she was a Spirit after all, right?
Mana Takamiya couldn't help but clench her fist.
Although she knew the other party's identity as a Spirit, she still couldn't do anything, because the other party was too strong.
Quickly shifting her attention away from Azi, Mana looked at the frozen building below and slowly spoke.
"What exactly happened down there? Where's Kurumi? Wasn't Arthas with her? Could it be that Kurumi's power went out of control?!"
"No, it wasn't Kurumi who lost control. It was Arthas."
Azi narrowed her eyes slightly, staring at the frozen world below. She didn't know what to do in this situation either.
According to the planned schedule, Arthas should have been absorbing his power fragments one by one.
But in this situation...
Azi didn't really understand what state Arthas was in. If he had followed the path she had arranged, he would definitely have been able to return to his original form, but now...
Just as Azi was thinking this, another aura that she cared about appeared around her.
"Oh... You've all arrived, huh? Then let's all come together."
Suddenly saying this out of the blue, Azi waved her hand while Mana Takamiya was still stunned. Then, several familiar figures of girls appeared before her.
"Big sister, Kotori... You guys?"
"Hey, who are you?! What did you do to us?!"
Kotori said with some annoyance. The girl's appearance at this moment was very strange.
Her body was wrapped in strange flames, and she had something similar to horns like Azi on her head. Her eyes had also turned into a vibrant red.
"Th-This is an Astral Dress?! Kotori Itsuka, you're actually a Spirit?!"
Mana Takamiya said with some disbelief, and Shiori Itsuka also widened her eyes.
Her younger sister, whom she had spent so much time with day and night, was actually a Spirit?!
"It's not just her. It should be said that everyone here except you is a Spirit," Azi said with a smile.
Origami Tobiichi, who had been silently observing everything, couldn't hold back anymore.
"How is that possible... There's no way I could be a Spirit!"
"Eh, eh, eh... Am I a Spirit too?"
Shiori Itsuka also had a look of disbelief on her face.
"Just who are you?! Why do you know so much?!"
"Well, how should I put it? To some extent, I'm also your creator. You can call me the First Spirit."
"You're the First Spirit, then... Did you cause the disaster thirty years ago too?"
"You're talking about that disaster? It did have a certain relationship with me."
Without denying it, Azi nodded lightly. Thirty years ago, Arthas's power had gone berserk, and it was too late for her to stop it when she wanted to.
The berserk power had fallen into this world, causing great destruction.
Even so, Azi didn't have any guilt. It was just a low-level world anyway. Whether it was destroyed or not had nothing to do with her.
The only thing she cared about was where Arthas's power had gone.
Later, she had discovered that these powers had found several girls in this world and merged with them. Even she couldn't separate the powers again.
And these girls who were attached to Arthas's power were the Spirits of today.
Hearing Azi's explanation, everyone present fell silent. Although it was a little hard to believe, Azi didn't seem to be lying.
And she didn't need to lie. Everyone except Shiori Itsuka could feel Azi's powerful, chilling power. It was an absolutely overwhelming and terrifying power.
"So... are we going to return to Arthas's body now? To become a part of him again?"
Kotori said this, and Azi nodded.
"Th... Then we'll all disappear, right?"
A timid voice rang out. It was Yoshino.
"H-How could this be? Disappearing like that..."
"I... I'm a Spirit?"
Origami Tobiichi, who was on the side, fell into self-loathing. The girl's parents had died in a spacequake caused by a Spirit, and she herself was a Spirit.
In other words... she had personally killed her own parents.
"If Arthas takes back your powers, you will indeed disappear, but..."
Azi said this, looking again at the frozen building below.
"It seems that that guy doesn't intend to do that?"
Raising her eyebrows slightly, a violent explosion rang out again the moment Azi's words fell.
The frozen building was instantly shattered, and Arthas flew up, carrying Kurumi, who seemed to have fainted.
"You've already taken back the power from her? But... why hasn't she disappeared?"
Looking at Kurumi, who was unconscious, the girl was clearly just a normal human now.
"Disappear? What are you joking about, Azi? Do you think I would let my woman disappear?"
"How loving. My dear Lich King."
Narrowing her eyes slightly, Azi said this with some annoyance, knowing that the other party had taken back what belonged to him.
"Lich King or whatever, forget about it. The current me is just Arthas."
Letting out a long sigh, Arthas had regained most of his past memories after taking back the power from Kurumi. He had once been the Lich King, the ruler of the Scourge.
In his homeland, he had led his army to contend with the gods, and had reached a consensus with Azi, the guardian of the earth, to jointly destroy the gods of that world.
But later, an even more powerful enemy had attacked. In order to protect his people, Arthas had perished together with the attacking enemy.
The godhood of that powerful enemy that had attacked was devoured by Azi, and later, she had obtained great power.
Azi, not believing that Arthas was dead, had led his remaining subordinates on a difficult journey to revive him.
And now, he had finally remembered his past and had returned to Azi's presence once again.
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