Campione! - Volume Ex - Chapter Ep

Epilogue – Sanctuary’s Parting
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About one year passed since the battle against Verethragna as well as Zurvan.

The commander-in-chief of the Campiones association, Caesar Blandelli.

Aka Godou was changing residence. Although he was still staying in the 『world of the King of the End Mithra』, he moved from Marseille of southern France to Valencia City.

He set up a new home at the center of the city and lived spiritedly there.

It was because the baby was born safely.

Furthermore, there were two of them. They were twins. Naturally the boisterousness that was characteristic of a home with a baby doubled.

「Leo is always cheery. He is smiling to anyone.」

「Monica-chan is calm no matter what. She has a side that is a bit unlike a baby. Perhaps she will become an amazing big-shot in the future.」

「Leo too is a popular person who everyone loves. He might become something like an idol~」

There were two cradles, and also two napping babies.

Yuri and Ena were peering at each of them and smiled with their eyes.

Recently this kind of scene would be repeated almost every day in the hall of Caesar estate. Rather than the babies’ actual father and mother, it was instead the princess shrine maidens who were doting and taking care all of the babies’ need. They were like grandparents who met their grandsons.

Liliana who was relatively composed toward the babies murmured with a subdued tone.

「If I have to say which, then Monica is the one taking after Erica……」

「I wonder about that. If you look at them from the aspect of sociability, then it’s Leonardo instead who is taking after me. If I’m forced to say then, Monica is──right, she is an unfriendly child isn’t she?」

Erica spoke frankly even though she was the actual mother.

Perhaps because in this family there were three other women who became substitute mothers, even without Erica kindly looking after them, the two babies didn’t feel loneliness.

It might be because of that, or perhaps because of her base personality, Erica was the one who interacted with the babies with the most candidness.

She was speaking without hesitation toward the princess shrine maidens who were staring smilingly and lovingly at the babies even now──toward the two women who obviously tended to pamper the babies.

「Well, just because they’re blood relative to a Campione, there isn’t any guarantee that they’ll grow up to be a big-shot. Such things has been proven by history. I think these two children shouldn’t be burdened by excessive expectations for their future. Ena-san and also Yuri-san too, please collect yourself more.」

「Eeee. Let’s do it, giving these two a gifted education.」

「Even if it’s not a gifted education, let’s prepare a good environment to educate the two of them, Erica-san! Doesn’t Godou-san also think so!?」

The graceful Yuri unusually became heated. Godou smiled wryly and answered.

「It will be enough for me as long as they don’t become people who frequently make trouble for other people.」

「In other words, Godou wants them to not become like their father.」

Erica laughed merrily.

She was wearing a crimson dress. It was designed to be widely opened from her shoulders until her chest. The sleeve was short, the waist was tight, and the skirt was softly flaring wide. She finally finished giving birth and became able to dress up gorgeously. It was really like Erica to not dress like a mother.

Liliana who was dressed in male clothing commented beside her gorgeous rival.

「For the time being the two look similar with Erica. Of course as they grow up, they will go through various changes.」

The big brother was Leonardo Blandelli, the little sister was Monica Blandelli.

They were male and female fraternal twins. They were fraternal so they didn’t really look similar but, both of them had blond hair. Well, it also often happened that the color of a baby’s hair would change as they grew up──.

Liliana continued speaking.

「This is my instinct as witch but, I feel that the two of them have talent in magic. When they were made to touch several magical tools and grimoires, they didn’t get scared or cry. Instead they fiddled with those things calmly like a toy.」

「There is that way of checking?」

「Yes. A baby’s senses are sensitive, so when they get near followers of the path of magic or those in that territory, without grounding in that field will show an intense reaction of refusal.」

No matter what she said, Liliana too was paying a lot of attention to the twins.

She was originally a helpful girl. Each time the babies cried she would take care of them attentively. Thanks to that they could have it easy even though this was a laborious period of taking care of baby.

──Anyway, Godou became a father of twins.

It was really noisy when the two of them started crying together.

Godou himself also got really used in taking various cares of the babies. Such livelihood was continuing for several months. Furthermore there wasn’t any battle with gods occurring at all.

Rather it was a peaceful days for Kusanagi Godou.

「This place──the world of the King of the End Mithra seems to be alright already, so we have to return to our original world soon. I’m also concerned about how the other diverse worlds are doing.」

Godou muttered. Liliana also nodded.

「It’s also uncertain how the previously mentioned space distortion phenomenons will develop from here on.」

「Soon it will also be the time for Leo and Monica to crawl and so on. As Ena thought, Ena wants to return over there before they become fully matured. Right Yuri?」

「Yes. But, actually I’m──a bit concerned about “that problem” though……」

When Ena turned the topic toward her, Yuri was hesitant to say.

That problem. It was a well-known matter to these members. It was still unsettled, so they couldn’t really return to their original world yet.

「You mean about the holy grail and Madam Aisha. Everyone, how about we check the situation after this?」

Erica addressed everyone as befitting her managing role.

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There was a cathedral at the center of Valencia City.

That bell tower was called with a nickname of Torre del Micalet. It boasted the height of fifty meters. It was the symbol of the city along with the cathedral.

……Underground it, there was a hidden room.

As Caesar Blandelli, Godou ordered the magicians of the Campiones association and the cathedral staff to create the room with utmost secrecy.

Placed in there was that pink colored lump of rock──

「There is no change with the holy grail and Aisha-san huh.」

Madam Aisha was wrapped with a blanket on a bed while sleeping soundly.

The lump of rock placed beside her was Valencia’s holy grail. It was the source of life that gave birth to the beasts of disaster and storage of an immense magical power.

Godou and his comrades visited the underground of the cathedral.

The twin siblings──Leonardo was held up by Godou, while Monica was held by her mother Erica.

The big brother was sleeping well so he was quiet. In contrast Monica was hugging her mother’s chest while looking around restlessly at the underground room.

Even though she had no way of knowing where this was and what kind of facility it was.

Erica held up her beloved daughter who was like that while sighing in melancholy.

「In the end, even after getting pulled out from inside the holy grail, the “synchronization” of Madam Aisha and the holy grail is still not undone……」

「She won’t wake up in these several months no matter what we do……」

Liliana also muttered. Ena also spoke with a troubled face.

「Well, if that’s all then we’ll be able to think 『She is a good person but she is also an extremely troublesome person, so it might be lucky if she keep sleeping like this♪』 though……」

「We don’t know when the holy grail will take in Madam Aisha again. Being optimistic is forbidden.」

Liliana warned really like a serious knight that she was.

By the way, it seemed that the sleeping Madam Aisha didn’t even need to excrete or take in nutrition, so rather than calling her asleep it might more of a type of a state of apparent death.

「To think that someone like Madam Aisha, is being suppressed helplessly like this……」

Yuri muttered with a worried look. However, Ena didn’t agree.

「Ena wonders about that. The line of thinking that she is using this chance to catch up on her sleep after she had been going in a long journey continuously also seems possible. After all in the devil king civil war her authority was made to run wild and she drove away six Campiones to other dimensions.」

「Certainly even though the person herself didn’t feel it, the possibility that her fatigue was piling up might be high.」

Liliana was also nodding.

Erica was looking down on such godslaying madam while speaking.

「In any case we should attempt to destroy the holy grail. We have been searching for the method to do that these several months. But, Yuri you don’t agree to that do you?」

「I feel that the destruction of the holy grail will bring great disaster to this region.」

Yuri warned with a serious expression.

「From the time of the previous battle, the holy grail somehow got connected deeply to the earth vein of this Valencia region. It gave birth to the “beasts of disaster” by absorbing that vein’s aura──」

「That’s what Yuri is feeling. Then, it’s obviously the correct interpretation.」

Erica shrugged.

A giant crater was gouged in the land at the battle against Verethragna.

At that time the holy grail was thought to be erased too from it. But, later on the site’s investigation discovered the lump of pink rock to be covered with soil and sand.

Unbelievably, the holy grail was completely unharmed.

Perhaps, it was protected by the『connection with the earth vein』 that Yuri mentioned.

Godou spoke in conclusion.

「Then, we’ll change to plan B that we asked Liliana. The preparation is already finished right?」

「Yes. I purchased a mansion located at the outskirt of Valencia City and applied many layers of powerful barrier magic. If we hide Madam Aisha inside it──」

「The synchronization with the holy grail might also weaken, right?」

「We can hope for that with not so but it is a low probability. Let’s transport the madam there tonight.」

Actually they once attempted the plan to move Madam Aisha faraway.

It was even a rough plan to forcefully send her back to their original world, hoping that perhaps with that her connection to the holy grail could be severed forcibly.

However just before they carried it out, the holy grail caused an abnormal agitation of aura.

In addition almost the whole region of Valencia was attacked by earthquake──the plan ended up being suspended.

The damage was only being several bricks of the houses falling off but, if they continued the plan at that time, it was unknown how great the quake would become. They didn’t want to imagine it.

Leonardo woke up in Godou’s arms.

The boy who was always affable smiled innocently at his father.

Godou nodded back to him while saying.

「Well, we have confirmed before that nothing strange will happen if we only move her within Valencia City. Let’s try this experiment.」

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However──.

The situation met a development that they didn’t even expect.

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The lord of war god Lancelot finally became a father.

His residence right now was overflowing with baby’s crying voice and laughing voices. It was always loud. Lancelot du Lac was watching over that smilingly.

The queen of the witches──the divine ancestor who was a girl in both heart and body, Guinevere.

Since the time she called that girl as『beloved child』 and protected her, she didn’t hate children by any means.

The knight of the spear wouldn’t obtain a material body if there was no order from her lord Kusanagi Godou. But, usually she could come out to the surface world as a spiritual body and wandered around as she pleased.

Recently she was making use of that privilege often.

It was in order to watch over the devil king’s two children and secured their safety.

Lancelot was secretly keeping a watchful eye on the twins like their protector knight. And then tonight, her prudence prevented the situation from becoming the “worst case”.

Caesar residence deep at night──.

When Lancelot passed in front of the bedroom where the twins and their mother Erica were sleeping, she felt a very minute stirring in the air.

She could pass through the door because she was a spiritual body. She immediately intruded inside the bedroom.

And then, she immediately sent out her thought.

「My lord, grant me strength! For the sake of saving your children!」

Lancelot didn’t wait for reply from her king and flew outside the mansion.

Sleeping on the bedroom’s bed was only the queen Erica. The twins weren’t there. But the knight Lancelot who was also an expert in hunting followed the aura of the kidnapper and began her pursuit.

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When Godou received the request from the white knight, he was coincidentally going out to the city at night.

He immediately hurried to the cathedral and rushed to the underground──he faced the twins who were safe somehow and also Lancelot.

「We were saved thanks to you, Lancelot.」

「Doing this much is only natural for a knight. But my lord, this turned to be a slightly troublesome matter.」

「Looks like it……」

The twins were at the feet of the materialized Lancelot.

Leonardo and Monica were wearing silk clothes. The two of them were plopped on the floor. They were sitting on the stone floor with their back straightened still.

The two of them were babies who soon would be able to crawl.

There was no way they could sit in such posture so well. The best they could do should be to use both their hands to somehow lift up their upper body.

But above all else, the twins were staring fixedly at their father.

From their gaze a definite will and──even intelligence could be felt.

The pink colored lump of rock was placed behind the twins. It was Valencia’s holy grail that for some reason looked like a “lying down female cow” to Godou.

The armed Lancelot was standing imposingly between the rock and the twins.

She was obstructing the twins’ approach no matter what. Such resolve was overflowing from her.

「I pursued the presence of the ground spirit that kidnapped the babies and arrived here. The children held on to the holy grail with their own hands while standing up──even now it was trying to take them in.」

「Just like Aisha-san huh……」

「Umu. I hurriedly pulled away the twins from the holy grail but……it’s just like you see.」

The moment the knight cut off her words.

Leonardo and Monica suddenly opened their mouth and spoke out words.

『──So you have come, godslayer. The father of the chosen children.』

The twins spoke the same words with perfect unison.

Furthermore, they were using the voice of adult woman. While their voices were vibrating the air, white light was blinking inside the holy grail. The light also vanished when the voice cut off.

There was no doubt. The twins were speaking as the proxy of the holy grail’s will!

『──It was regrettable that the knight over there got in the way but, it can’t be helped.』

『──If it’s like this, let me make a request from you.』

『──Entrust these twins to me. I won’t do anything bad to them.』

Godou was irritated at the detail that was spoken out from the lips of the two babies.

「Entrust? You really speak one hell of a bullshit there. You plan to imprison them inside you just like Aisha-san right?」

Godou questioned accusingly. But the twins answered with a very calm voice.

『──No. I have given up on that.』

『──In the first place it won’t bring a significant benefit for me to take in two babies who aren’t even godslayers.』

『──But, these children posses inborn natures that is a gift from the heavens. Both the elder brother and the little sister have the talent that is worthy for them to become my priest.』

『──I, the mother of the earth, ought to possess the fitting authority for my rank. Don’t you think so?』

『──I believe that I will be able to establish that with these chosen twins.』

『──Of course, I shall bestow the suitable reward to them as my priest. Let me see……the twins will become able to control the power of the mother earth goddess as they will it. They will be in possession of supreme power in the world of man. Ah, of course that is if the godslayers are excluded.』

It was a one-sided suggestion from the corpse of a goddess, the holy grail. Godou was exasperated.

「So you’re telling me, to make my children serve as priests for their gifted education huh.」

『──But, it’s a role that has to be filled by someone. Furthermore, it has to be by someone who possesses the suitable talent. If this is not done……』

Leonardo and Monica spoke coldly with the goddess’s voice.

『──A calamity will occur.』

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A week passed since the kidnapping of the twins.

During that time, a lookout was placed to guard Leonardo and Monica by turn even at night. In the end there wasn’t any more kidnapper intruding but…….

In exchange the true shape of the 『calamity』 became clear.

「It’s another earthquake……」

Ena was looking up at the ceiling anxiously inside the dining hall of Caesar residence.

The chandelier was shaking back and forth. Of course the floor too. Porcelain plates and utensils were clattering inside the cupboard, making her feeling terrible anxiety.

When the cupboard somehow managed to not topple over, the earthquake was also quieting down.

「Recently it will happen three or four times a day without fail……. This is an alarming situation. Furthermore, the shaking is getting stronger the longer this goes on.」

Liliana spoke with a sigh.

「During this week, we cooperated with the witches of the Campiones association and tried to investigate the land at the outskirt of Valencia. There is no more doubt that the holy grail and the earth vein are connected. And then, the most troublesome problem is──the awakening of the soul.」

「By soul, do you mean that? The soul of that holy grail?」

Liliana affirmed 「Yes」 to Godou’s question.

「If I’m to speak exactly just like my spiritual instinct as a witch saw it, the cause is most likely Madam Aisha. Even like that the madam is a Campione, she is containing a soul that more wild than anyone. Perhaps influenced──no, dragged out by the violent spirit of the dead goddess and has awakened……」

「And then the earth vein is getting unruly, so the earthquake also happen frequently. So that’s what’s going on.」

Godou looked up to the ceiling.

It couldn’t be said as fair to blame everything on Madam Aisha. However, he guessed it would be fine to ask the woman to take around seventy percent responsibility of this──.

「The culprit is only doing her sleeping beauty impression soundly in a mansion in the outskirts. How envious.」

「Just perhaps, Ena thinks that the connection with Aisha-san is becoming more distant that this is one of the reasons why the holy grail started searching for a priest or priestess.」

Seishuuin Ena was the one of the most knowledgeable in regard to the connection between gods and humans.

The princess shrine maiden of the sword spoke solemnly.

「There Leo and Monica caught its eyes. They had also gone to where the holy grail was several times along with Ena or his majesty. But, even though they aren’t even one year old, they’re able to contain the spirit of nature inside themselves to that degree, they’re really amazing children. When they grow up, they might be able to become the same like Ena.」

Ena who was sitting on the chair was placing Leonardo on her lap.

He was a child who wasn’t scared of strangers, but he would become especially in a good mood when being hugged by woman. Even now he was smiling amiably.

Ena stared lovingly on the back of the head of such boy while saying.

「The technique of divine possession to welcome the spirit of a god into oneself──. I want to teach it to them properly one day. We can seclude ourselves in the mountain together or something……」

「Err, Godou-san.」

Yuri started speaking while carrying Monica.

The graceful princess shrine maiden had a brooding look. Godou’s daughter was looking up at her with a dubious look.

「I have something to report. The matter that we have been investigating for some time──the way to return to the world where the King of the End is Rama-sama, I believe that we might have learned it.」

「Is that true, Yuri!? Amazing!」

The reason why they were staying in this Valencia for a year and a half without returning to their original world.

Of course they were also worried about the situation with the holy grail. But, them not knowing the method to return back with all of them together was also a big factor of that. After all they came to the nineteenth century of the world where the King of the End was Mithra by the authority of the god of time Zurvan.

Perhaps if it was only Godou alone then he would manage somehow.

However this time he had the girls and the twins with him.

Actually Mariya Yuri was single handedly taking the role of searching for the proper way to return home. She used her spiritual sight to sense the direction where it felt like there was a clue, then she would become a spirit body and head there──.

But even though it should be a good news, Yuri was reporting with a hesitant look.

「I found the route to visit that Temple of Infinite Time through the Netherworld. When I intruded over there──I found it. The space distortion connected to our world……」

「Aah. You mean the one connected to Ochanomizu!」

Godou recalled.

「With this we can go home anytime. Thanks a lot, Yuri.」

「But……I, have several things I’m concerned about.」

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Late night at Caesar residence──. Godou was in Erica’s bedroom.

The two of them were beside the cradle. They had been awake all this time while watching over the sleeping twins, Leonardo and Monica.

Godou spoke with a subdued tone.

「These two, they have been synchronizing to a degree where they can receive words of power from that holy grail.」

「Yes. If Leo and Monica are separated from the holy grail in their current condition……a bad influence might appear in the two’s body and heart. If it’s someone else──someone like Lily for example telling me this, then I’ll say 『You’re thinking too much』 and curtly ignore it, perhaps.」

Erica lovingly touched Monica’s cheek and Leo’s forehead.

「But, the prophet this time isn’t Lily or Troy’s legendary Cassandra. But the oracle of Mariya Yuri who we trust more than anyone.」

「It’s an experiment that we don’t really want to test huh……」

Godou’s voice was surprisingly powerless even to himself.

「Should we live permanently here with everyone instead?」

「I wonder. Yuri gave one more warning right? The corrective force of history──」

「…………」

Previously, they fully experienced that existence in the ancient Galia.

When an irregular that changed the history that was already fixed slipped in, that change would be made as though it didn’t exist. That was history’s corrective force.

This place was the middle of 19th century of the world of the King of the End Mithra.

They hadn’t particularly experienced the existence of the corrective force here but…….

「The recent 『earthquake』 and 『numerous unusual events that might shake the world history』are──the product of the corrective force. That conception was certainly something that we didn’t think of.」

「Until Yuri told us that is……」

「But thinking back now, we are extraordinarily irregular existences here. We are visitors from the future……furthermore we are from the future of a parallel world. This is a considerably distorted and twisted situation we are in. Well, if Godou isn’t here, then it might not become that much of a serious matter but──」

「…………」

Kusanagi Godou was a godslayer. An extraordinary existence.

He also wasn’t in a state of apparent death like Madam Aisha.

He also wasn’t like his other comrades, who although they were quite strong., after all they were still human in the end.

If he felt like it, he guessed that he would be able to continue staying in this era without paying any heed to the influence of the corrective force. But, the influence toward his surrounding and to the world might become immeasurable……no. In fact, currently it was becoming like that──.

「In the end, the answer is decided huh.」

Godou talked to himself.

He was looking down toward his children who were sleeping in the cradle in front of him.

……He was living a really dangerous life if he said so himself. He had experienced countless experiences of dying or almost getting killed. However right now a fear that he had never felt no matter how dangerous the situation was grabbing Kusanagi Godou’s heart and body.

It felt like the ground below him would crumble down.

Right now he was going to lose these children──.

「Come to think of it, Verethragna said various things.」

「Thinking back now, he might be able to see slight sign of the situation becoming like this.」

Verethragna didn’t warn them clearly but, he certainly said it.

The children who one day would be swallowed by hapless fate. When they matured, both their father and mother would surely be gone from their side. Have the strength to ascertain, just what would be the best──.

「I have decided.」

「I also have a plan.」

Godou and Erica nodded to each other.

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3
A month after that. The preparation was advancing with great hurry.

The twins and the holy grail were entrusted to the leadership of the Campione association. They were asked to protect and take care of the twins’ upbringing.

They were also instructed to hide the “departure and abdication” of the commander-in-chief Caesar Blandelli aka Kusanagi Godou for three years, and then after that news was officially announced the association would welcome its second generation leader.

The role as the next commander-in-chief and the association’s protector was entrusted to her.

「I’m counting on you, Lancelot.」

「Umu. I will do everything that I can.」

The cathedral’s underground. Godou and others were in the holy ground where the holy grail was enshrined.

Lancelot who one day would become the association’s leader was also materializing in order to give the final farewell.

In order to protect the association that they built and the twins to the maximum degree, Godou left behind the knight who he could most trust here.

At the very least he wanted one of his authorities to protect his children──.

「How is your connection with the holy grail?」

「It’s very satisfactory. If I’m at its side, I will be able to draw out strength from it as I please.」

Lancelot du Lac chuckled at Godou’s question.

In exchange of leaving behind the twins here, Godou and others demanded to the holy grail, ‘hand over a fragment of you’. The rock fragment that was shaved from the pink rock lump was swallowed by Lancelot.

……Valencia region’s earth vein that was connected to the holy grail.

It was a contract in the form of a spiritual union in order to draw out mystical force.

Until now the knight of the lance was receiving mystical force from Kusanagi Godou. Now they sought for the source of that power from the holy grail and the earth vein. With this even after Godou left, Lancelot would be able to act by herself.

「Don’t waste it pointlessly too much okay? It seems the earth vein thing won’t get dried out that easily but, it shouldn’t be something that can be used too much and won’t bring a negative effect.」

「I’ll keep that in mind. Leave it to me, my king.」

It would require troublesome explanation so Lancelot du Lac’s name was kept secret from the leadership of the Campiones association.

Then, when they noticed the call sign the White Queen was spreading.

It seemed they considered Lancelot as an ancestor of the Blandelli house who returned as a guardian spirit.

Lancelot aka White Queen said.

「After the twins grow up, I shall concede the seat of commander-in-chief to the one with superior caliber as leader.」

「Perhaps both of them won’t be suited for it, so you don’t need to be fixated with that.」

「No. By doing that, everyone will come to a point where they consider that the bloodline of Blandelli is the one and only royalty of the Campiones association. That too will become another shield that protects the twins and their descendants. I intend to protect the Blandelli clan including their offspring.」

「Leonardo and Monica’s offspring huh……」

Godou glanced at the twins.

Ena was holding Leonardo and Yuri was holding Monica. The big brother was smiling cheerfully, while the little sister was looking sullen.

These twins──were handed to leadership of the Campiones association who were on standby there.

「……Live on energetically.」

「E, even if we’re going far away, we absolutely won’t forget the two of you!」

Ena was looking slightly tearful. As for Yuri, she finally managed to stop crying only just now. Her throat was clogged with a sob.

On the other hand, Liliana was lifting up a long sword that was placed inside its sheath.

「Is this alright, Erica?」

「Yes. At the very least I’ll also leave this much.」

「Okay──. Then, we will also entrust this. The sword of lion that will become Blandelli House’s treasure, Cuore di Lione.」

Erica changed it into a slim sword using her magic of iron transmutation.

Cuore di Lione that meant the soul of lion returned to its original shape of a broad one-handed sword. It was sheathed inside a leather sheath. Liliana handed it to one of the leaders.

Erica was watching with her usual──elegance that was like a queen.

In this one month, she who was the mother of the twins was busy preparing for their departure.

She had discussion many times with the leadership of the Campiones association, instructed them regarding the management of the organization from here on, and in addition she also prepared “a certain thing”. She mostly left the taking care of the twins to other people.

During that time she was the very picture of gorgeousness, acting with resoluteness.

……If the time when she was crying loudly on Godou’s chest last night one day before the departure was excluded──.

「I began writing this which doubled as something to kill time before I gave birth. To think that I’ll leave this behind in this way. Once more I’m feeling it keenly, that you really don’t know what will happen in the future of your life.」

Erica muttered with a thick book in her arms.

It had a binding of black leather. A crimson rose was drawn on its cover. But, the thing that was worthy of special mention above all else must be the extraordinary unearthly aura that the book was clad with.

In this one month, Erica was spending almost all of her free time for this book.

「This is the first grimoire that I wrote──and then this should become my masterpiece. Can I ask you to give this to the children when they arrive at the suitable stage?」

「Understood.」

Lancelot readily accepted the grimoire Erica entrusted to her.

……All the matters had been finished before their departure. After that it became harder to depart the more they spent time like this. Godou announced as the leader.

「Liliana, begin.」

「By your will.」

During the preparatory phase, Liliana was constantly being composed and sticking to the support role.

For the sake of Godou and Erica who got a difficult choice forced on them, and also for the sake of the twins’ future, she deliberately didn’t show her emotion on the surface. Thus she had taken care of various problems for them.

Liliana opened the gate to the Astral World using the secret ritual of the witch.

From there they headed to the Temple of Infinite Time with Yuri’s guidance, to return to their original world──the world where Rama was the King of the End.

It was the end of the long, truly long expedition.

The twins who inherited the blood of Kusanagi Godou were entrusted to complete strangers even if they were their comrades in the association. Leonardo and Monica. Godou turned toward them and yelled.

「See ya, you guys! Come to my place without fail, okay!」

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4
「Then, Onii-sama finally found it?」

His pillow talk partner was Hikari.

Even the second daughter of Mariya family who he knew since she was an elementary school student finally became twenty years old this year. Well, they already had lied on top of each other many times like this for several years now──.

Hikari was using Godou’s arm as a pillow and slept right beside him.

The princess shrine maiden whose whole body was shaking in the throe of passion until just now before she finally became unable to hold back her voice wasn’t wearing anything on her body except a blanket.

「Yeah. I finally found the way to return to the world of the King of the End Mithra.」

「Ho, how is it, the situation over there!? The children of Onii-sama──!?」

「Haha. The place that I reached in the end was the 21st century of the world of King of the End Mithra. I couldn’t meet those two.」

Godou smiled wryly.

It must be thanks to the passing of time. His heart wasn’t that disturbed even when talking about the twins.

Well, sometimes he would be attacked by a feeling of loss as though a part of his body had been torn off and he would want to run off somewhere. Also, from the start he was already a person who liked children but, he would become especially gentle when he happened to see a baby…….

Even so recently there was a discovery that made his heart felt at ease.

「But, when I tried going to Valencia on the other side, the Campiones association that I made was still existing there. The scale isn’t as great as in the past but, it seems to be an organization with some vitality.」

「The, then Onii-sama, that──」

「Blandelli House also remained even now. I also tried contacting the child who will become the next commander-in-chief while hiding my identity. It was a boy named Julio. That kid really got a good head on his shoulders. It even made me uneasy whether he really is my descendant.」

「Co, congratulations!」

「I couldn’t meet Lancelot though. The holy grail hidden in the cathedral and Torre del Miguelete──there is a magic mechanism that withdraws power from it and suppress that fellow from running wild. It looks like the mechanism has evolved a lot. Perhaps it was the work of Leo or Monica. They studied Erica’s book……」

「Ah……Onii-sama.」

「My bad. When I got happy, I get into the mood again.」

Hikari was surprised when Godou suddenly plugged up her lips.

However, the princess shrine maiden whose body had grown up to possess beautiful proportions like her big sister Yuri immediately clung on him and started kissing back.

「I’m also happy. Please feel free……」

「Yeah.」

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Years passed and Godou received several changes.

The change that was the greatest even among all of them was his headquarters. For a traveler who crossed through the diverse worlds, a planes walker, a property that was worthy for his rank was necessary.

「You have prepared a very tasteful dwelling, Godou.」

「Welcome Nee-san. Yinghua.」

「Long time no see, honorable uncle.」

「Hikari is also here, so talk to her later. She was worried about you, you know?」

「Geh. That woman is also here? That girl sometimes is strangely sharp and tough to deal with, so I want to avoid meeting her though……」

His step-sister who he was reunited with two years ago unexpectedly.

The godslayer clad in fluttery ancient Chinese outfit narrowed her eyes and stared at the garden of his new home. It was a property with a garden attached. It is such a spacious size that it would be hard to be tended to.

Lu Yinghua who had grown into a young man was standing behind his master.

She was dressed in a modern looking long sleeved T-shirt and skinny jeans.

He had also grown tall although not as tall as Godou. Physically he had reached his peak. If it was purely a martial art competition, then Erica, Liliana, Ena and others would be already behind him. While he was a disciple of a godslayer, he was a “divine child” that was beloved by the god of martial arts.

Yinghua was also looking around busily at the garden of his new home with an impressed look.

「So this place is the aforementioned temple of something or other that got rebuilt……」

「Yeah. The Temple of Infinite Time. In the past, the King of the End Mithra and Zurvan used this place as their hideout. It’s the so called singular point of the diverse worlds.」

One could enjoy watching the colorful flowers in the garden.

The pond and fountain would undoubtedly also heal one’s fatigue from long travel. Other than the beautiful garden it was also equipped with the king’s residence and seven towers. It could welcome dozens of guests.

Godou guided his stepsister toward the mansion while saying.

「If you like, relax for a while here. I prepared this place for that.」

「Hou. You’re telling me to heal the fatigue from my travel?」

Luo Hou smiled.

「Fufufufu. Even though you were that boorish in your youth, now you have become really capable to be considerate. Or perhaps, this is the guidance of that girl?」

「Right on. Erica is also here, so can I ask Nee-san to meet her?」

Of course Mariya Yuri, Liliana Kranjcar, and Seishuuin Ena were also with him here.

And then one day, perhaps──.

「It will be nice if those guys also come though.」

Godou was aware that he got a distant look while looking up to the sky.

The sky of the Temple of Infinite Time here had the stars of the universe and the blue earth floating in it. It was just like the sky if one looked up from the moon surface.

Several years ago, after deciding to part with the twins──.

Erica suggested a plan with a heated tone.

『Let’s create a place somewhere in the diverse worlds that will become a terminal as well as rest spot, and use it as our base.』

『A rest spot you say?』

『Yes. A place where Godou and Prince Alec, and also other people traveling through the diverse worlds can easily visit to take a momentary rest and exchange information. Perhaps we will also be able to obtain information about our children and their family through it. Besides……』

At that time Erica rubbed her cheek on Leo and Monica with hope filling her voice.

The lady and talented woman who was always indifferent toward her children’s future was──displaying the figure of an idiotic parents affection for the first time and the last time at that moment.

『If it’s these children, then surely they will become magician who is a cut above the rest, and become able to read the grimoire──《the memorandum for Plane walkers》 that I’ll write for them after this. And then one day they will cross over the divider of world and space-time to the resting spot where their parents are.』

『Now that you mention it, recently you are writing something aren’t you?』

『Because before giving birth I was told to rest by everyone and had a lot of time in my hand. And then I felt like trying my hand in writing a grimoire. I wrote the secret art that I, Lily, Yuri, and Ena-san learned, and I also added the knowledge about Campiones and the gods. But, I want to add even more things there.』

『What kind of things?』

『Obviously it’s the knowledge necessary in order to travel the diverse worlds. Also, I want to write about the way to go the several existing singularities. Plutarch’s Mansion, Temple of Infinite Time……. Hey Godou, don’t you feel a bit excited!?』

Erica’s eyes twinkled and she said this.

『One day──perhaps, Leo and Monica who have grown into adults will appear suddenly in front of me and Godou. The two of them who has become fully fledged plane walkers. There is also the possibility of them becoming older than us!』

Erica’s suggestion was completely a pipe dream. However, it was also a dream that he wanted to try to believe.

That was why Godou created “this place”. Right now the Temple of Infinite Time was the base for the Campione Kusanagi Godou’s activity as well as his dwelling.

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Kusanagi Godou would keep living from here on too as 『a Campione and a traveler of the sanctuary』.

And then he had a dear wish. That one day, he would be reunited with the children who shared his blood and embrace his son and daughter with these hands.