Campione Lord of Realms Chapter 2 (Patreon)

Chapter 2 – Umayado no Ouji and Tamayori Hime, Building a Capital of the Dead

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Part 1

「Oo, the weather today is also good. It’s truly the weather for travelling.」

Umayado no Ouji narrowed his eyes while looking up to the sky of Hyperborea.

The blue color of the sky here was far deeper than the sky of his  homeland Japan. Fumika who came from the same land knew of Japan’s sky  to be duller in color.

Toba Fumika. She was called with names like Tamayori HIme, the shrine maiden of Tamayori, etc.

The 『Tama』 in the name Tamayori referred to mitama (spirit of a  deceased person), soul, ghost. Fumika was someone with the ability to  call the spirit of the dead to her, conversed with them, and made them dwelledyori in her body.

But, originally she was a middle school student who loved civilized life (and boys love) above all else.

Fumika couldn’t bear it and complained like usual.

「It’s nice and all that the weather is good for traveling, but!  Taishi-sama, please seriously look for a place that have people soon! I  won’t complain anymore even if it’s just a dull village!」(TN: Umayado no  Ouji’s other name is Shotoku Taishi, or crown prince Shotoku.)

「Ha, ha, ha, ha. You are talking as though I’m purposely wandering within the mountain like this.」

Umayado no Ouji laughed to dodge the request with his handsome face.

He had delicate face structure that looked vague whether he was a man  or a woman. There was a trace of somberness in his expression. His  whole body was enveloped in an air of otherworldliness.

He was dressed in round-necked robe worn by members of nobility and  the imperial court with orange color that was traditionally worn by the  crown prince. He was wearing a traditional cap of the same orange color  and white slender hakama.

He was like a character that came out from a manga world. There was no sense of reality from him.

But, it was only natural in a sense. He was a ghost and the super  famous person from Japan history, Shoutoku Taishi. Furthermore he was  also a prodigious spiritualist.

Fumika pleaded.

「I know what you are doing! If it’s you Taishi-sama who is known for  being able converse with dozens of people at once──and predict the  future, you should be able to easily find the shortest route to human  habitation even without map!」

「Ha, ha, ha, ha.」

「Geez! Don’t just laugh and ignore me!」

「Forgive me. I only wanted to walk in a mountain for a bit. My feet won’t get tired anyway because I’m a ghost.」

The crown prince said such thing, but he actually had actual body and also legs.

He was a ghost, but he completed the adventure of 『Coming back from  the realm of the dead』 in Hyperborea. From there his spiritual power  that was already outstanding from the beginning grew even more and he  became an existence that could materialize despite being a ghost.

Fumika who was also made to accompany such grand adventure complained loudly.

「I’m already tired with walking through unfamiliar mountain like this! Even food──」

「No, no. Fumika, if it’s food that there is enough. Look.」

Umayado no Ouji pointed at a donkey that was for carrying luggage.

It was obtained from a family of shepherd that they encountered  several days ago. The baggage that was fastened on the donkey’s torso  was carrying things like smoked meat, dried meat, cheese, kumis, and so  on.

In addition the crown prince looked around at the surrounding scenery.

It was a grassland within this mountain. There was a forest slightly  ahead from here. There were also flowers blooming profusely on the  ground.

「This Hyperborea is extremely blessed with nature. If you reach out  to the tree over there, you can obtain delicious fruit. Edible wild  plants and medicinal herbs can also be found everywhere. This land is  truly kind to traveler. Well, I’m not going to eat seeing that I’m a  ghost though.」

「I need to eat! Also if possible I want things like potato chips or pizza!」

Soon two months would have passed since their sea voyage through the ocean of Hyperborea.

Fumika came to this world as the youngest member in Rokuhara Ren  team.  Her main role was to back up the ghost Umayado no Ouji as the  Tamayori Hime.

However, the crown prince got a sudden impulse.

If they had to stay here anyway then he wanted to freely travel Hyperborea.

There Umayado no Ouji decided to leave the team and bowed his head to  Lu Cuilian, a godslayer that they happened to be acquainted with by  chance to borrow a magical sailing ship.

The ship was an excellent object that could move just by thinking  about it, but their travel was still filled with many hardships.

After all Umayado no Ouji was whimsical.

When they found a moderately big island around week ago, they  immediately landed on a random spot on the beach. Then he talked about  intentionally walking through the mountain at the center of the island  until the opposite shore.

They coincidentally encountered a family of shepherd within the mountain who were leading a flock of livestock with them.

The people of Hyperborea generally were kind to traveler. Maybe they just had that kind of culture.

The family invited the two into their house and treated them with  food. They even allowed the two to stay the night. However──they only  had very simple food. For example『grilled fish with only salt sprinkled』  or 『soup that only boiled vegetable with a bit meat and salt』. In the  first place it seemed that the meat itself was only for feast at  important days.

Fumika wasn’t really picky when it came to food like a glutton or gourmand, but──

Since she came to this world, her frustration about food had been in the verge of exploding.

She also had the desire to enjoy her beloved manga, anime, and game, but her biggest dissatisfaction was about food.

「I, want to eat things like junk food or sweets or cake, or even rice  or sweet potato that doesn’t exist at all in this world! This place  also doesn’t have things like juice or coffee!」

「The folly of the world……everything in this world is transient, the  only truth is the teaching of Buddha. Fumika, if you arrive in such  state of mind, you too will be able to completely forget about those  foods that are covered with fat and appetites of the flesh──」

「Please don’t divert the topic with some random Buddhist prayer!」

Quite a lot of time had passed since they began this travel of just the two of them.

Even Fumika who was a shy and reserved person had become able to talk  really frankly with Umayado no Ouji. It was thanks to the passing of  time and her dissatisfaction.

The aristocrat who was a devout believer to Buddhism during his lifetime formed an archaic smile.

「Well, I don’t know whether there will be food that can meet the  standard of Fumika’s heart there, but we should be able to see it soon.  ……Oo, just as I thought. Look over there.」

「Eh──town!? What’s more that town is really splendid!」

The two of them didn’t stop walking even while talking.

The scenery before them suddenly opened up and there was a cliff.

The sea was stretching wide before it. They finally arrived at the  opposite shore of the island. When they looked down at the coastline,  there was a coastal town that looked like it had several thousand people  living in it.

Even a town of this scale was considered as a very large settlement for the civilization level at Hyperborea.

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Like that they arrived in the town of another world.

Fumika thought that they would only stay there for two or three days  before going to travel again like usual, but her expectation was  betrayed. That ws because Umayado no Ouji became busy with various  things.

「Fumu──a monster from the sea? Very well. I shall respectfully offer a prayer to Buddha to borrow his strength.」

「The fishermen are quarreling about the fishing turf? Very well. I  shall listen to the story of both sides and present a path of  reconciliation for them.」

「The sea will overflow every year? Very well. I shall offer instruction with my knowledge in flood control.」

「Gather the people. We will begin a construction work from now. I ask  those who can’t work on site to prepare food for the others.」

「Epidemic? Don’t worry. I possess the knowledge of medicine and the  divine protection of Bhaisajyaraja. Gather all the patients in one  place!」

Like that he solved the worry of the people one after another.

Although he had a personality that was somewhat strange, in this  regard he was acting in a way that was worthy for a devout believer of  Buddha with deep affection and charisma.

Umayado no Ouji became relied on by the people of the town while Fumika was watching in blank amazement.

At first he had the position as advisor, before long the person was  acting no different than the town mayor. He was practically the leader  of this town already.

During that time, Fumika was naturally standing nearby the crown prince as Tamayori Hime.

No matter how much he looked like an energetic human, he was still a  ghost as expected. Without Fumika’s existence, it was unknown how long  he would be able to keep his existence stable like this.

Naturally Fumika was treated courteously as a relative of the 『Taishi-sama』.

──That was why, Fumika got the chances to try making “request” seeing she had nothing to lose by asking anyway.

「Say……. If possible, I want to try eating something like this. Is that alright?」

Hyperborea was a land with undeveloped civilization.

The building there was in the form of pit dwelling. The inside was  unexpectedly comfortable and it was really easy to live in, but it  seemed some more time was needed before buildings like palace, shrine,  bathhouse, and the like appeared. There were also a lot of people of the  town who lived in tent.

The most advanced method of travel here was using a coach.

But, even then there were restaurants and food stalls here.

Fumika gathered the Hyperborea people who had such establishment in  the town and those who were good in cooking and she tried talking to  them about the concept of potato chips but──.

She was unable to obtain very good reaction.

「Greasy, crispy, flat, and salty?」

「I never saw or heard about that kind of food!」

「Putting something called pootato into heated oil after it has been  cut into thin pieces!? Where would we find something like that……?」

The Hyperborea people tilted their head and held discussion with each other.

Most of them were fair-skinned and tall with black hair. But, there  were also people with thin colored hair. Fumika sometimes also caught  sight of people with tanned skin and black skin although they were in  the minority.

A young man with black skin made Fumika went 「Eh?」 and leaned forward.

「I think I’ll be able to make it. Wait for around ten days, I’ll treat you to the real deal of this pootato thingie!」

The young man was still eleven or twelve years old. He was younger than Fumika who was in the second grade of middle school.

When Fumika asked around, she heard that he was a boy who was popular  in the city as a skilled cook. At this time Fumika rudely thought like  this.

「Hmph. Perhaps this boy is just talking big to show off?」

However, ten days later Fumika thunderstruck.

「Thi……this is! This is definitely potato chips!?」

The boy unexpectedly showed up at the seashore house where Fumika and Umayado no Ouji were living in.

The boy lined up the various articles he brought outside the house and then he began to cook skillfully.

The unknown potato that had been sliced thinly was thrown into  earthenware pot and it was then fried with heated oil till it turned  crispy. Then the sliced potato was taken out of the oil and a lot of  salt was sprinkled on it.

A dish with appearance and taste that were exactly like potato chips was finished──.

There was still a leftover potato that the boy brought. Fumika  observed it with fixed gaze. No matter how she looked at it, it only  looked like a potato of the variety of Irish cobbler or May Queen. (TN:  Fumika was looking for the type of potato called jagaimo (Solanum  tuberosum).)

「T-this is, where did you find this!? So Hyperborea also has potato.」

「I went to search around the forest after talking with you and found a  lot of this plant growing in one place. When I tried cooking it, it  ended up to be something good.」

The skilled Hyperborea boy cook casually said that.

Fumika thanked her enthusiastically before she gasped.

「I can eat fried potato anytime if there is potato here! If we have  bread flour then we can fry fish to make fish and chips, or even  hamburger──」

「Bread flour? What’s that?」

「Err, it’s bread that is pulverized to be powder! Ah, bread is something that is made from wheat flour!」

The boy listened to Fumika’s story for a while and then he returned home.

『I’ll do something about the bread thingie too!』

The boy reliably accepted Fumika’s request.

After the boy left, Umayado no Ouji who was watching what happened from start to end murmured.

「That child, he is most likely a master craftsman who descended from the bloodline of god.」

「Fueh!? The boy just now is!?」

Fumika was shocked, after that she tilted her head.

「He was really amiable, and he felt completely like a boy you can  find anywhere in the neighborhood……there wasn’t any divine aura at all  from him.」

「That’s just how close the distance between god and human in Hyperborea.」

Umayado no Ouji solemnly concluded.

「This place is a primitive mythological world. It’s even older than  the land of the gods Japan where I lived in──yes, this place is the  domain when a mythology of an ancient divine era from a long time ago  was taking shape. Gods and humans, and also heroes and great men are  standing side by side, talking and eating together as though it’s only  natural. ……Allow me to make an announcement of a future.」

The imperial prince of the land of the sunrise grinned and announced.

「That child will definitely succeed in creating the food called bread that you spoke of.」

Ten days after that announcement──.

The boy came to visit Fumika. He brought with him a bread that was  similar to nan that was roasted in a hearth and also a pan that looked  similar with focaccia.

When the boy walked through a plain, he discovered a bunch of naturally growing wheat by some chance.

He wanted to turn it into flour and consulted 『a famous craftsman in  the city』 and that person invented a tool that was similar to a stone  mortar in less than several days. That tool was used to pulverize the  wheat into powder.

It seemed that Fumika was complicit with the birth of wheat flour here.

Perhaps that craftsman was also 『a master craftsman who descended from god』. When Fumika got such premonition,

Umayado no Ouji smoothly muttered.

「Now then, I wonder if those plants were accidentally discovered, or  perhaps, they were born in respond to that boy’s wish to find them……」

However the two of them didn’t have the leeway to only focus on this problem.

There was a rumor about an island of the dead spreading.

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Part 2

The dead were wandering in that island──.

The humans who died on the island also became the moving dead──.

Sailors who came to the town where Fumika and Umayado no Ouji were  staying talked about such ominous topic in whispers. It became a rumor  that spread through the city in the blink of eye.

Furthermore the island in question wasn’t located far away from here.

It seemed that if one sailed to the west from this town and rode the  flow of the tide, they would arrive there within three days. That was in  case they sailed using the wooden canoe of this Hyperborea.

「Hou……. Just half a day will be enough if we use our ship.」

「Uuu. I knew that Taishi-sama will surely say that……」

Umayado no Ouji’s comment made Fumika looked tearful.

The magical sailing ship that was personally created by Lu Cuilian.  It could move faster than the modern era yacht if it was helped by the  wind. It was as fast as a motor boat.

「Taishi-sama won’t say that you want to go to that island right!?」

「Of course I’ll say that. Naturally Fumika will also come with me.」

「I’m in holiday right now! The townspeople have finally discovered  sugarcane and they are attempting to create sugar right now-. Recently  they have also finally completed the making of fresh cream. Right now is  a critical time so that the cake in my dream can be realized soon!」

Actually there was a team formed.

The aforementioned cook boy and also several more people who had the  job of searching food. Just by telling them the concept they would go  and make most of the tools themselves to create the food. It was a  gathering of geniuses in handicraft and invention who were attempting to  somehow create “things that Fumika wanted to eat”.

The result of their activity was spectacular and just the other day Fumika had eaten a curry bread.

They discovered various kinds of spices when people searched around  the city. Whether it was the crispily fried bread dough or the curry  itself were all in a high level that rivaled famous bakery in modern  Japan.

She could stay at home while eating such things.

This harsh journey in Hyperborea actually wasn’t so bad──even though she could finally feel like that……

「It’s a good timing. This cake thingie can become a congratulatory  gift that awaits you when we return home safely. Let’s go Fumika, know  that our spirit of inquiry cannot be stopped by anyone!」

「Fueeeeh!?」

Regardless of what she wanted, Fumika couldn’t oppose Umayado no Ouji who possessed extraordinary spiritual power.

In the worst case, there was also the possibility that he would make  her sleep with hypnotism and loaded her on the ship. So Fumika  accompanied the crown prince in his travel tearfully.

Like that, several hours after they left the town──.

They landed on the rumored『island of the moving dead』.

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「The moving dead, it means zombie isn’t it!?」

「It seems they are called that in your era. Tamayori Hime must be  familiar with such thing. You know, it’s just like with the commotion  with Yomotsu Hirasaka……」

「Ghost and zombie are perfectly two different things-. Taishi-sama, you are saying that even knowing that aren’t you!?」

「What are you saying? Both of those things are similarly dead.」

Zombie also appeared in Japanese mythology.

Fumika and Umayado no Ouji also had experience of encountering such  thing. Yomotsu Shikome and Yomotsu army. The flock of the dead that was  serving the goddess Izanami.

Kansai region was the place where the zombie outbreak occurred.

And then right now Fumika was at a place with even more “zombie-ish” atmosphere.

This island was completely desolate and deserted.

They had just landed on the beach. There wasn’t a single tree growing  along the coast. There were only sands piling up everywhere and rocks  of various size all over the place──.

This was the first time they saw this kind of sight in this Hyperborea that was abundant in nature.

This was the perfect location as a stage for the dead to wander. In  addition the wind was also really cold and the sky was cloudy with  gloomy grey clouds.

「Let’s see. I guess we should head further inland.」

Umayado no Ouji said that and opened the palm of his right hand in front of his eyes.

Then the magical small sailing ship that was stranded on the beach  vanished with a pop. A small ship model appeared on the crown prince’s  palm.

He used spiritual power so that he could carry the ship around.

An eerie groan could be heard when they finished preparing to depart.

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……uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

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「T-they came out, the zombie army!」

「Hoo. A restless bunch are they. The manner here should be for them  to hide for a bit and wait for the visitor to let their guard down  before appearing in an ambush.」

「Taishi-sama! Right now isn’t the time to make a comment like you’re watching horror movie-」

They were at the coast where there was only rock and sand, so the view here was unobstructed.

That was why the approaching『moving human corpses』 that came one  after another from inland──all told there were around two or three  hundred zombies could be discovered immediately.

There were corpses with the majority of their body rotting, there  were also corpses that seemed to be “freshly dead” with how relatively  clean their body was.

There were corpses with torn limbs, corpses wearing tattered clothes,  corpses that weren’t wearing anything. The variety was quite diverse.

Such crowd was approaching from inland with sinister aura.

Their movement was sluggish but their footsteps were firm. Cloudy  eyeballs and hollow eye sockets were fixed at Umayado no Ouji and the  living Fumika──

One after another they reached out their hands to leap and devour the two as prey!

However Umayado no Ouji chanted Buddhist prayer with a bored expression.

「Pure and immaculate light, Buddha’s limitless light of wisdom, destroy all darkness.」

The rest was simple.

The zombies who came until nearby were easily “purified”.

The crown prince’s body was enveloped in divine light. The zombies  who were touched by that radiance became sparkling particles and  dispersed.

Furthermore everyone were showing peaceful expression while disappearing.

「Taishi-sama, you are sending them to Nirvana aren’t you? Amazing!」

Fumika was in admiration while being protected by the light right behind Umayado no Ouji.

「You are really amazing at this kind of thing despite everything else, Taishi-sama!」

「You were mixing some unnecessary words there……」

The crown prince spoke with deep feeling and started walking briskly.

Fumika also walked in fast pace so she wouldn’t be left behind. The  crowd of zombies was always swarming toward the shining crown prince,  but they were all purified without exception.

「There is a “curious place” ahead from here. Let’s go.」

「Y-yes」

Even though they didn’t even have the map for this island that they  visited for the first time, Umayado no Ouji was hurrying ahead without  any hesitation.

It seemed his spiritual sense for telling him something. It was the  usual clairvoyance. Fumika had gotten used to this and she followed  silently without asking anything about the details.

The approaching zombies were simply annihilated automatically.

Naturally their number was rapidly decreasing. When Fumika noticed,  the zombies who were attacking them so fiercely had already gone and  there were only the two of them here just like at the beginning.

Fumika regained her composure and she looked around at the island once more.

There was still nothing but rock and sand everywhere as far as the  eye could see in this wasteland. All the islands that she had visited  until now were teeming with green grasses and trees. This scenery was  really sad.

And then she came to see “something” ahead of them.

「W──what, is that!?」

「A metropolis……or so it was in the past. This island might be the  ruin of a capital that was destroyed several hundred years ago or even  several millennia ago.」

There was stone tower standing tall at this desolate wasteland.

There wasn’t just one tower. Astonishingly there were dozens of stone  towers standing up. The height was diverse. Also, there were more  low-rise buildings──they were built using bricks and the like and only  barely maintained their original shape. A scenery that was like a  townscape could still be seen from the metropolis somehow.

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「Fumu. Just as I thought. I wonder what kind of country once existed here.」

「Come to think of it, Onee-chan said it! Once there was a  prehistorical civilization in Hyerborea like the Atlantis continent, and  its ruin has sunk into the bottom of the sea!」

Fumika spoke in excitement.

She looked around inside the ruin together with Umayado no Ouji.

Roads that were covered with bricks were stretching around inside the  city. Although the roads were full of holes everywhere, it was  unexpectedly easy to walk on them.

If the inside of the houses were excluded, goods for everyday  life──like vases or metal tools could be seen here and there in broken  state.

Yes, metal tool. There were various articles that had decayed and  rusted with not even their original shape remaining. Those were things  that couldn’t possibly be found in the average household of Hyperborea.  This ruined metropolis boasted a civilization level that surpassed  “outside the island”.

Umayado no Ouji nodded.

「Riona certainly mentioned that. The country called Atlantis was sunk  into the bottom of the sea along with the continent due to a great  flood. I see. This metropolis──is the ruin of such country. Now it has  risen to the surface again for some reason……」

The aristocrat of ancient Japan who was wiser than anyone was investigating everywhere with deep interest.

He already didn’t look back at Fumika anymore. He went to where he  wanted to go, observed what he wanted to observe thoroughly, he was lost  in what was occupying his mind.

This person was always slike this, so Fumika only followed him without saying anything.

Umayado no Ouji clearly had a side of him that “wasn’t concerned with  his surrounding when his prodigious brain was focusing to the extreme”,  so Fumika could do nothing except going along with him.

However──this time she couldn’t do that.

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…………Co……me. ……C……o……me.

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A calling voice from far away reached Fumika’s ears.

(Ah. This is, something that I have to ignore.)

She had experienced similar things like this since her childhood due to her disposition as Tamayori Hime.

Ghosts who wanted to do wicked things using the flesh body of a  living shrine maiden called at her. At those times her heart would turn  hollow and she would respond to the invitation.

She would start walking unsteadily like someone sleep walking.

Not too long ago she was caught by the living spirit of『the sleeping princess of Valencia』.

And then now she left the side of the crown prince who was absorbed  with investigating this historic ruin and walked away by herself…….

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She arrived at the outskirt of the city.

She entered a certain building and found a stair to the underground.  She walked down the stair as the calling voice told her to. The stair  was horribly long.

Time slowly passed and she arrived deep in underground.

Her field of vision suddenly opened wide.

She got out to a horribly vast underground space.

It felt like a city could be built within this place. Fumika got out  to a balcony where she could take an unbroken view of the whole space.

There were handrails, guardrails, and pillars made from white marble.

And then──there were countless『gravestones』 lined up within the underground space.

They were stone gravestones. They weren’t engraved with any  inscription or epitaph. However to Tamayori Hime, it immediately became  clear that these gravestones were symbol to mourn the dead. She could  feel the feeling of sorrow that was dwelling within the stones.

Here……Fumika finally returned to her senses.

「Fueeeeeh!? W-why are there so many ghosts here!?」

The gravestones that were lined up orderly, all of them had spirit of deceased person possessing them.

They were the ghosts of people who died in the distant ancient time.  The underground space was filled with their thought that missed the time  when this metropolis was bustling and prosperous.

Fumika was trembling. But she trembled in fear even more at the next moment.

The underground space was naturally pitch black, but there were faint  lights here and there on the ground. That was why she was able to see  the gravestones.

However deeper inside was filled with deep darkness without any light.

Two flying thrones were approaching from the depth of that darkness.  They were very luxurious chairs that were decorated with gold  craftsmanship and jewels.

The two people sitting on them were clad in resplendent gown and wearing crown on their head.

However──the two only had skeleton as their body. They were clearly  dead. One of them had long hair growing from the skull and smaller size.  It seemed to be the skeleton of a woman.

And then.

「My queen. Our voice has finally reached the living.」

「She seems to be a girl with great prospect, my lord.」

The two skeletons were talking.

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Part 3

The skeleton king and skeleton queen who sat on floating thrones.

The two of them were carrying short staff in their hand. Both staffs  had jewel fitted on the tip. Both staffs looked exactly alike except for  one part.

The skeleton king’s jewel was black, while the skeleton queen’s jewel was white.

The two of them toyed with those staffs using their hands that were only bones while talking in turn.

「Kukukuku. A long time has passed since our kingdom sunk into the sea.」

「We have been dreaming for the revival of our country all this time even after we became a living dead.」

「We also called the souls of our people who died from drowning and  passed the time in obscurity for countless years, while resurrecting our  people bit by bit……」

The skeleton king swung his black staff.

Something was crawling out from the ground where the gravestones were lined up.

It was human hand. Hand, arm, and shoulder were also coming out.  Before long half of the whole body appeared from within the ground.  Parts of its body had begun to rot. It was the body of the dead with  evil countenance on its face.

It was certainly moving although stiffly.

The zombie that came out wasn’t just that one.

There was next and then the next one. More than one hundred zombies  appeared while Fumika was looking in blank amazement. They began to  wander aimlessly in the underground space.

「I see! The remains of the spirits dwelling in the grave stones──are buried beneath!」

They were rebirth as zombie. Fumika understood the trick.

The moving dead all were aimlessly loitering with blank gaze.

They were searching for living prey. However, the balcony where  Fumika was standing on was located twenty or thirty meter above them.

They might not be able to find her. When she was relieved like that,

「You guys! The little girl who you should kill is over there!」

The skeleton queen yelled. She swung her white jeweled staff.

Then──the zombies who were moving sluggishly until now suddenly began to move energetically.

The balcony where Fumika was standing on was located at the edge of  the underground space. The zombies clung on the cave’s stone wall and  climbed up.

More than a hundred zombies were climbing like that simultaneously!

「Fueeeeeh!?」

Fumika screamed.

A lot of zombies fell from the wall. They crashed on the hard ground  and went splat. Rotten flesh, entrails, and white bones scattered.

But nearly twenty percent of the zombies skillfully and powerfully continued to scale the wall.

They would soon arrive at the balcony where Fumika was at in no time at all. Fast. What would happen to her when they arrived!?

「Kukukuku. Those who are killed by the army of the dead will  immediately become one of them. Rejoice, o girl who can hear the voice  of the dead. You are able to become one of our people too with this.」

「I have been wishing to obtain someone like you as manservant.」

The king and queen who sat on the floating thrones spoke.

「We wish to turn someone who can handle our《Black Jewel of Death》  and《White Jewel of Death》 more skillfully into our servant. Isn’t this  great my lord? Our wish will finally come true!」

「Umu! With this we will be able to attack and destroy the land of the living!」

「Wha──what are you two planning!」

It seemed they were planning to make their zombie army attacked Hyperborea’s land.

Fumika felt anger at the words of the king and queen.

However, finally a zombie finished climbing the wall and appeared. It nimbly got on the balcony where Fumika was standing.

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GUAAAAAAAAAAAH!

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The zombie howled fiercely. Perhaps it intended to threaten Fumika or perhaps it was an expression of its fighting spirit.

Fumika couldn’t bear it anymore and pushed out both her hands as  though to say『Please stop!』She wished that her hands could at least  protect her body.

「Fueh, I……I’m begging you, don’t come over hereee!」

She mustered her yell from the bottom of her stomach.

Of course, there was no way she could stop the brutal zombie by doing  something like that──and yet, for some reason the dead who intruded  into the balcony stopped moving completely.

「W-why!?」

Fumika was surprised. However the second and third zombies had also finished climbing.

She would die for sure this time. She pleaded tearfully.

「There are still a lot of things I want to eat and things I want to do! Please let me go, mister zombies!」

Her begging accomplished nothing and the two zombies rushed straight  at her. But──for some reason they went straight passed Fumika.

「Fue?」

「Mumuh?」

「What is going on here, my lord?」

At this point not only Fumika, the skeleton king and queen also noticed the abnormality.

Why wasn’t she attacked by the zombies──. If there was anything  different from usual that she noticed, there was only this connection  with some kind of mighty existence nearby that she felt.

「W-what’s this?」

Fumika gasped.

She was too panicked and didn’t notice, but there was a voice that was calling for her like usual.

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……O the chosen one, o one who has returned from the realm of the dead. Take our hand.

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Fumika comprehended the meaning and stared fixedly at the owner of  the voice. At the Black Jewel of Death in the hand of the skeleton king  and the White Jewel of Death in the hand of the skeleton queen──.

「You two are choosing me!?」

And then she got an insight. Certainly she was the one worthy for those treasures.

The jewels could create the living dead and controlled them as they  pleased. Those were certainly treasures that existed for the sake of  Tamayori Hime. The instant she was convinced of that, she loudly  chanted.

「The swiftly rushing god of winds, please grant me thy  intermediation──. Okitsu Kagami, Hetsu Kagami, Yatsuka no Tsurugi,  Ikutama, Tarutama, Makarukaeshi no Tama, Chigaeshi no Tama, Orochi no  Hire, Hachi no Hire, Kusagusa no Mono no Hire……ten treasures in total  one two three four five six seven eight nine ten. Furube yura yura and  furube──!」

It was Fumika’s ace up her sleeve, the words of power of Tamayori.

She used it in the realm of the dead that was stretching underground  Hyperborea here not too long ago. Right now Fumika’s body and soul were  radiating mystical force that was far mightier than that time.

That’s right. She had heard it at the battle against the sun god Apollo.

Those who accomplished『returning from the realm of the dead』 in  Hyperborea’s sanctuary would become mightier than before. Toba Fumika  was also one with such accomplishment. Besides she had received the  training from her『honorable master』 Lu Cuilian how willpower was the  most important. That lesson had been beaten into her through intensive  training that was shaving close to being a torture.

If it was the current her──it should be possible!

Fumika held out both her hands and called out powerfully.

「White and black jewels, please, come to me!」

「Nuoh, the greatest treasures of our kingdom!?」

「Where are you going!?」

The two jewels slipped off from the staffs of the king and queen and flew at Fumika.

The white and black jewels. The white jewel went to Fumika’s right  hand, while the black jewel went to Fumika’s left hand──next she simply  called out to her subordinates.

「Mister zombies, beat up those skeletons!」

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Umayado no Ouji detected the surge of powerful mystical force and he raised his head.

「From the underground……come to think of it, where is Fumika?」

He had been staring at a stone wall and carefully examined the letters that were carved there.

However due to the abnormality he detected, he quickly liberated his  spiritual power. First he searched for Fumika’s nen. It was far  underground──it seemed that girl was below the ground.

「Fumu.」

Umayado no Ouji murmured and then he flew.

He flew in the sky with the power of nen and brought his body to the place he wanted to go to in a moment.

He rarely did this because it would surprise his surrounding, but  Umayado no Ouji could even use teleportation. He was truly an  extraordinary spiritualist.

And then the crown prince saw it.

「……What is going on here, Fumika?」

「Ah, Taishi-sama. If I have to explain it simply, I am exterminating  evil right now! ──Right right, everyone do your best! Just one more push  to take them down!」

At the balcony where they could look down at the vast underground cave.

Fumika was cheering from there. Toward the zombies who were crawling  below. They were in the middle of carrying out a really odd『attack』  right now.

Their target was the two thrones floating in the air. Or rather the two skeletons sitting on them.

「Nuoh!? How dare all of you do such thing toward your king!?」

「Truly! There is a limit in how one can be so disrespectful──ah stop! That’s dangerous!」

The two skeletons were flustered.

Stones of various sizes were flying *byun byun* from the ground of  the underground cave. Around a hundred zombies were picking up stones  and threw them at the airborne target without rest.

There were also zombies with amazing physical strength among them.

That king of zombie would lift up a rock lump with both hands and  threw it *BUN!* toward the air. The stone was flying with great speed,  just like a cannonball.

However their aiming lacked accuracy, so the stone throwing attack just wouldn’t hit.

Then one superhumanly strong zombie tried an even more novel  strategy. It lifted up its fellow zombie highly and then threw it toward  the floating throne.

This throwing didn’t reach the target even though it just needed a  bit more to reach the throne. The zombie was falling in an arc.

*Splat*. The thrown zombie crashed on the ground and ended up into a crumpled rotting meat.

「In other words we just need to destroy those two skeletons isn’t it?  ……When one wished for the power of that Kannon, it’s possible to obtain  evaporation depending on the situation.」

Umayado no Ouji casually chanted a sutra.

The skeleton king and queen who were tenaciously holding out  immediately became glittering light particles and vanished. The battle  was easily ended.

Fumika let out a deep breath ‘fuuu’ and thanked him energetically.

「Thank you very much! As I thought Taishi-sama is amazing, you finished them off so easily like that!」

「No, rather it’s you who is using your power in the wrong way.」

Umayado no Ouji pointed out dispassionately.

His clairvoyance had seen through the immense spiritual power that  was dwelling in Fumika’s right hand and left hand with a glance. He had  also seen through the nature of the power.

「You have learned interesting trick even though I have only taken off my eyes from you just for a bit.」

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Part 4

Fumika immediately reported after the battle ended.

「Taishi-sama. It looks like these people had died when the kingdom  here sunk into sea. Apparently the king and queen used the power of  these jewels to gather them in one place and turned them into zombie.」

The zombies that appeared in the underground cave, and then the ghosts possessing the gravestones that were lined up here.

As Tamayori Hime, Fumika was already establishing an emotional bond with them.

「This──black jewel is an item to create zombie.」

Fumika lifted her left hand.

The Black Jewel of Death resided in this hand. The other hand had the White Jewel of Death.

「Umu. And then the white jewel has the power to freely control the dead and the spirit of the dead. Is that right?」

「Correct. And then……what should I do now Taishi-sama?」

Fumika wasn’t surprised anymore by the keen insight of her guardian and entered the main topic.

As expected Umayado no Ouji gave the answer as someone with imperial virtue.

「Of course we should free them from the yoke of their foolish ruler  and send them to enter a new cycle of samsara. Well, I’ll do something  about it.」

Thus Umayado no Ouji chanted the sutra to send off the dead to enter Nirvana──

The ghosts and zombies that gathered in the underground cave were  simultaneously erased by light of purification and vanished. They  vanished while thanking Fumika and Umayado no Ouji.

The semi dark underground cave was illuminated by a sublime radiance. It was a moving sight.

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「Even though I finally obtained such amazing power, it’s  disappointing that I can’t use it casually. As expected it’s too  wretched to use this power like that king and queen to turn someone’s  corpse into zombie……」

「About that. I have an idea.」

They climbed the long stair and returned to the ruin above ground.

Umayado no Ouji casually spoke to the disappointed Fumika.

「Tamayori no Hime. Try bringing forth a living dead from the『earth』.」

「Fueh?」

He suddenly gave an order and started walking quickly. He didn’t even  look back. Fumika helplessly followed behind him until they arrived at  the outskirt of the ruin.

A plot of land that only had stones of various sizes and whitish sand was stretching out there.

Umayado no Ouji stared at that vast landscape and talked aloofly.

「When human or beast meet their end and become corpse, all of them  have the same destination. Their flesh and entrails rot off and become  only bones, returning to earth. The mother earth has swallowed  innumerable corpses since time immemorial. Fumika──know that you can  find the life and death of the people who lived in this land within a  fistful of earth, or even within a single grain of sand here.」

「A-as expected that’s impossible for me-」

「That’s only if it’s you from before. But, the current Toba Fumika is  someone who is recognized by even those ancient jewels. The result will  be different from the previous you.」

This was the first time Umayado no Ouji praised her growth.

Thanks to that Fumika got a bit motivated and stared at the ground that looked like sand. Look at the circle of life and death within the fistful of earth, within the grain of sand──

She intentionally closed her eyes to fill her sight with『darkness』.

「Great god of afterlife, I beseech you to grant me your compassion.  Saki Mitama, Kushi Mitama, please grant me your blessing for  protection……」

She chanted the words of power and held both her hands where the Jewels of Death resided over the ground.

Death. Corpse. Lifeless husk. But, she didn’t want rotten thing like  what she faced just now. It might be better to have a zombie that was at  least tidy like in the book『The Empire of Corpses』…….

「Hou.」

「I, I made it.」

When Fumika opened her eyes, there were seven『corpses』 before her.

Umayado no Ouji too was staring in admiration. The people who were  born from the earth were all stark naked with pallid skin. They had the  sturdy body of young man, but they had no genital down there.

They had no hair and they all had the same face. And then, they were also expressionless like dead person.

「E-err, can you guys bow? Uwah, they’re good. Try running for a bit.  What about gymnastics? Eh, you guys can even do backward somersault!?」

The『corpses』 moved exactly as Fumika ordered.

They had agile and sharp movement. They were very different from the previous zombies.

「They might be even more amazing than the robot in our era……」

「Robo──aa. You mean metal device that can do work following what they  are stipulated to do. Certainly if it’s them, they can become good  workers……」

Umayado no Ouji pondered beside the dumbfounded Fumika.

「I have something that I want to try.」

He muttered.

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Time passed since then……around a year had passed.

Well, in Fumika’s sense『I think around that long had passed』.  According to Umayado no Ouji, it seemed there wasn’t really any meaning  in counting time in mythological world.

『In the first place people who came from earth won’t age here.』

『Fueh!? This is the first time I hear that!』

『After all you are just a transient traveler in this sacred  sanctuary. The speed of the flow of time in this mythological world and  the earth is also different.』

Since the crown prince taught her that, Fumika stopped concerning herself about that.

It was also because she was simply busy.

Umayado no Ouji moved their base to the『island of the dead』 that he  personally exorcised. And then he energetically began to create a new  land.

──There was “animal of sacrifice” in this Hyperborea.

By killing such animal and throwing it to the sea, a land would be created and became island.

Fumika learned about that at the journey to chase after the sun god  Apollo. It was when she experienced going into the realm of the dead as a  comrade of godslayer Rokuhara Ren.

『Taishi-sama, that! The thing floating over there!』

『Good. Then let’s not procrastinate.』

They went out to the sea with the magic sailing ship and searched for drifting object.

Other than that they also went into expedition to other island and forcefully secured the animal of sacrifice.

Most times animal of sacrifice had the form of a magnificent cow. It  could also be a horse or deer. There was also animal of sacrifice in the  form of caterpillar with a thousand legs or wriggling meat lump.

In any case, when capturing one they would leave the labor work completely to the corpses.

Then they carried the animal until their new headquarters the island  of the dead where Umayado no Ouji would personally kill it in one  breath. The ritual of sacrifice would always be carried out beside the  sea.

By doing that the land of the island increased. Green and abundant nature was also formed──.

When the island had become a lot bigger, they also started accepting  immigrant. First the townspeople who respected Umayado no Ouji as their  leader appeared altogether.

The team who diligently created new menus for Fumika’s sake also all came.

As the number of people increased, the need for food also increased.

『Till the field. Plant the seed. Create waterway to draw water from the river.』

Group farming was also starting by the crown prince’s guidance.

In addition they captured wild animals and created ranches for breeding livestock too.

The corpses that Fumika created were also extremely useful for the  labor work of securing food. They were created from earth, so the  production cost was only the fatigue and spiritual power of Tamayori  Hime. Thanks to that they were able to industriously mass produce the  corpses.

The corpses would silently do their work as their routine dictated, and when the work time was over they would stop moving.

The job of the living humans naturally became managing and  maintaining the corpses. Or creative works like creating food for  Fumika.

With the increase of crops produce, workshops to process them were  also created. As expected the corpses also served as the labor there.

Those workshops didn’t just process things that already existed in  Hyperborea like smoked meat and the like, they also began to mass  produce foods like sausage, ham, and bread that Fumika 「I want to eat!]  craved for. In addition of food they also mass produced daily  necessities. The technology to process metal was also developing  rapidly.

There were a lot of maestro who descended from the bloodline of god in Hyperborea.

Several such people could be found within the neighborhood. And their  skill was in the realm that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call them  maestro.

After giving such people the concept and hint, they would create innovation by themselves with amazing momentum.

Even when they needed crops or materials that weren’t from this world──

『We found it after searching ca~refully』

Such development happened many times.

Umayado no Ouji said this about the overly convenient development.

『The animal of sacrifice──originated from the myth where things that  are convenient for human like grain, medicinal herb, animals, and the  like are born from the origin bull or giant. Because of that it’s also  not strange that “things sought by human” are being created one after  another from a land that is born from those animals of sacrifice. 』

The land would respond as long as human sought for something──.

It was a nature of the land that was characteristic of the origin  mythological world. Fumika was terribly impressed by it. And then she  thanked the land of Hyperborea once more.

『Thank you very much! Thanks to that I can eat rare cheese cake with  blueberry sauce even though I’m in the middle of expedition in another  world, and soon even bath, shower, and even pseudo shampoo and hair  conditioner will also be completed, I have nothing to complain anymore!  Ah, but, I’ll miss anime and manga soon, so perhaps I’ll search for a  maestro with talent in that area-』

Yes. The time that Fumika had experienced was around one year.

However, the metropolis of the dead where Umayado no Ouji was  reigning as the king was advancing in civilization with terrific speed.  That fact was attracting Hyperborea people from all corners. Rumor gave  birth to new rumor and it connected to the rapid increase of the number  of immigrants, which developed the metropolis even more.

And then──Fumika never neglected to offer her gratitude to the land.

It increasingly heightened her strength as shrine maiden and she  ended up obtaining a spiritual power that was worthy as the close aide  of the aristocrat with imperial virtue Umayado no Ouji.

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「And so, recently I’m not getting scared even if Onee-chan return back!」

「Hou. Even Fumika has become really confident.」

The one who muttered that was her master, Lu Cuilian.

She was the head who led the pirate group ByakurentouWhite Lotus Group, so she also had the name of Byakuren OuWhite Lotus King.

However, most of the time she was called with her Chinese courtesy name and title together, which was sect founder Luo Hao.

The elder sister Toba Riona was the reincarnation of the sacred bird  Yatagarasu. The little sister Fumika was Tamayori Hime. Their talents  were recognized and the sisters were taken as the disciple of this sect  founder.

Today the master intentionally came to this metropolis of the dead for observation.

The garment covering her body was traditional Chinese clothing with  some fluttery parts. She was a beautiful woman who personified peerless  beauty.

However she was none other than one of the most atrocious  『Campiones』. Recently the word Campione──which meant godslayer had  become popular in Hyperborea.

Lu Cuilian smiled cruelly.

「I wonder about that. I have sent my newest personal disciple to her.  I have heard from Yinghua’s report, that her growth has been extremely  remarkable compared to when she was still in this Hyperborea. I don’t  know whether even the current Fumika will be able to match her or not……」

「My chance of victory isn’t zero. I think the determination to not become Onee-chan’s yes-man anymore is important!」

「Ha, ha, ha, ha. How do you think about this current Fumika?」

Umayado no Ouji elegantly laughed toward Lu Cuilian.

「She is in high spirits for better or worse. I missed her old self when she was still a good-for-nothing.」

「Wait, Taishi-sama!」

Lately Fumika had become considerably self-confident.

She would also speak without any reservation to Umayado no Ouji. The  outfit she wore had also changed from her middle school uniform to a  kimono that looked like a Juunihitoe (twelve-layered ceremonial kimono  usually worn by a court lady). She ordered it  to be made by a maestro  of Hyperborea.

It was really light because the fabric was reduced to make it easier to move in it.

She also wore a celestial crown that was usually worn by a shrine  maiden with high status. Her visual appearance had really changed.

On the other hand Umayado no Ouji’s appearance was still like before.

「And what do you think Luo Hao-dono, about the quality of my capital?」

「It’s magnificent, Umayado-dono. To be able to change the way of  living of the mass to this degree, as expected from the personage who  was considered as the crown prince of the land of the rising sun. I’m in  admiration.」

The crown prince and the honorable master had good relationship,  perhaps because they were fellow superhuman who were detached from the  real world.

Even now the two of them were conversing gracefully with an  atmosphere like refined people exchanging noble, refined, and eloquent  speech in the middle of a bamboo thicket. Lu Cuilian was looking around  the lower world with an unusually impressed expression.

They were standing on the highest floor of a tower with height that reached 50 meters.

It was Fumika’s special 『gigantic corpses』 who piled up stones and  bricks until this height. They were the extra large version with height  that reached 18 meters. Other than that there was also the version with  small size. They were playing an active role mainly in civil engineering  works.

The unbroken view of the capital of the dead could be seen from the balcony at the highest floor.

Several more towers with similar height were in the middle of  construction. There weren’t just the gigantic version at the  construction sites, the normal sized corpses were also briskly doing  manual labor.

In Hyperborea, pit dwelling was the most popular type of residence that was used.

However there was almost nothing like that in this capital. In  exchange dwellings that used bricks were lined up and forming several  residential areas.

Corpse for family use was indispensable for each house.

Any immigrant would definitely be granted a corpse as congratulatory  gift. The corpses excelled in housework, whether it was building fire,  cooking, washing, or watching kid.

If they lacked manpower, they could also buy additional corpse.

With Umayado no Ouji’s discretion, hospitals and schools that only  charged a pittance for their service were also built. Water and sewer  services were also installed right at the beginning so there was also no  problem with water availability.

The public service corpses were going around cleaning the capital, so  there was no unclean place anywhere. Stench was something foreign to  this capital.

There were also public baths here and there. Shampoo and hair conditioner and soap had also been invented.

This place was unreasonably hygienic unlike the 『true Middle Age  Europe』 that was often portrayed in Japanese anime of fantasy world.  There were also people who teased that the people of this city seemed  spoiled.

The capital of Fumika and Umayado no Ouji was exactly like that.

Even though from a glance it looked like a fantasy setting from the  middle stage of modern early period, the infrastructures were developed  to modern level here and there. There were even the smell of hair  conditioner drifting around…….

In a place that was genuinely like Middle Age Europe, perfume would have to be used to cover up the bad stench.

Lu Cuilian witnessed that degree of completion and sighed with a valorous smile.

「Sometimes there would be 『a hero who spread new civilization to the  world』 who made his entrance in the mythologies all over the world.  Prometheus of Greek mythology granted fire to mankind. The hero of South  Seas mythology Maui created the starry sky, lengthened the time of the  noon, created animals……」

「Ah, I have heard about that from Otou-san before.」

The father of Toba sisters was a history researcher. He was also well versed in folklore and mythology studies.

Furthermore he had the personality that was eager to talk about his  extensive knowledge needlessly, so Fumika had a lot of chance to touch  this kind of miscellaneous knowledge.

「If I remember right, they were civilization hero isn’t it?」

「You and Umayado no Ouji are doing exactly the same thing. Fufufufu,  it really has been a long time since this Luo Hao is made to feel a  spirit of rivalry where I don’t want to lose.」

「Fueh!? Honorable master is also going to start doing real sim city!?」

「I wish that I’ll be able to take a look at the city that Luo  Hao-dono will build──there will also be troubles that will definitely  occur as the people’s livelihood improve. Soon I’ll have to consider the  countermeasures for that too.]

Umayado no Ouji suddenly made a pensive look.

「I have seen the future just now. There will be an attack in the near future.」

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Part 5

「It’s unusual for uncle to snack on sweets.」

「Wait wait, Edward. Even I have times when I wish for sugary taste.」

The person who was addressed by a silver haired youth──

Was a blonde haired warrior with burly body. He grinned and lifted up his wine cup.

It was a goblet made from silver. Red liquid──wine was poured into it to the brim.

It had been five years since he “reincarnated” to this sanctuary of  Hyperborea. He made requests to the people of this land so they created  many articles that satisfied his taste. As the result of that he could  have a modest drinking party on a table at a very well maintained garden  like this.

Usually he would cut grilled meat with dripping meat juice with a knife and ate it as accompaniment for his drink.

But right now there were baked sweet lined up before his eyes.

「They are not unsuitable with wine. That’s all the truer when they are rare items brought from afar.」

Madeleine, Biscuit. Kouign-amann. Galette.

It seemed these sweets were called like that in that place. The sound  of the words were extremely familiar to him who came into the world as a  great noble of France and grew up with Occitan language that was widely  used at the southern France.

Knight. Count. Duke. And then king──he had all those titles.

His long grown blond hair looked similar with a lion mane. Coupled with his manly face, he had a ferocious appearance.

However, his hand manner when bringing the wine to his mouth was extremely elegant──.

He was a knight and general with dauntless courage. But he was also a  great noble who greatly loved delicious food and arts. The youth Edward  who shared the same blood with him asked him a question.

「By far away just where is it located, uncle?」

「Princes de NoirsBlack Prince──you must have heard it since a long time ago if it’s you. They are from the so called capital of the dead.」

「Aa, as I thought. Rumors about that place often came recently.」

The silver haired youth displayed an elegant smile.

He was a young nobleman who was born in the royal family. The clothes  he was wearing was black from head to toe. Edward’s nickname came from  such appearance. He spoke.

「Also let me correct you. My nickname is the Black Prince.」

「Fumu. For me English words that are completely lacking in elegance  are something that I don’t think I need to speak from my mouth though……」

「If I can speak further, uncle’s name should also be pronounced in England style. If not, the earth inhabitantEarthianwho came from the future of our era won’t be able to understand.」

「What!?」

The color of his eyes changed.

「Are you telling me to pronounce my name as Richard instead of Rishar!?」

「Exactly. Richard I──o you who are called as Lion Hearted King. If  you are going to resent someone then resent my ancestor and your little  brother, John Lackland.]

Black Prince Edward nonchalantly spoke.

「The House of Plantajune at that time……House of Plantagenet in  England spelling lost the vast territory that they possessed within  France mostly because of his ineptitude. Thanks to that the fact that  our household was a noble of France became a trivia that was only known  to those in the know.」

Although he called him uncle, his relationship with him was actually  『the elder brother of the grandfather of his great-grandfather』. They  were earthians 12th-14th century that was known by 21st century people as Middle Ages.

Furthermore they were royalty. The British royal family of Plantagenet dynasty──.

「……Uumu!」

He groaned like a bewildered ferocious beast.

His name was Risharl if it was pronounced in French. In British it was pronounced as Richard.

If possible he wanted his nickname 『Lion Hearted』 to be spelled 『Coeur de Lion』 in French too but──

He wouldn’t be able to endure it if the other party reacted 『……Who?』 after he grandiosely introduced himself.

Honor and fame were his life. He roared like a lion with heartrending grief.

「Very well! You can call me as King Richard Lionheart from now on!」

To be frank, his attachment to Englad was nonexistent.

His homeground was Aquitaine and Anjou to the end.

He only stayed in England for around half a year until he died in  1199 CE. He could still feel more familiar with the area around  Yerusalem where he fought in the Third Crusade rather than England.

Black Prince Edward raised his goblet that he poured with wine by himself to the roar of the Lionheart King.

「Very good. I shall drink to uncle’s decision.」

「Then Edward. What do you think about this city of the dead?」

「Let’s see……these baked sweets, they are far more refined than the  baked sweets that we know of. They must be invented in the future of our  Plantagenet royal family. There should be earthian who brought these  things to Hyperborea.」

「Fu……don’t you think that it will be worth it to plunder this?」

Richard pinched at the cut up Madeleine.

Sweet. The rumored capital would surely become a prey that was just as sweet.

……Honor, duel, and chivalry were more valuable than anything. That  was the way Lionheart King lived. However he was extremely devoted to  the battlefield custom in the Middle Ages. Attacking some adequate land  and pillaging it, then kidnapping the important people to ask for ransom  later. He also didn’t feel any hesitation at all when doing slaughter  in the battlefield──

He was also that kind of person.

「I heard that the distance from our capital of the round table is  around ten days using horse. There is also no need to use ship so it’s  convenient.」

The capital of Richard and Edward and the capital of the dead.

Originally they were located in different island. However as the  result of both sides expanding their land, both islands had become  adjoined when they realized it.

「Uncle really love war.」

Black Prince Edward smiled. He too was a knight and a general.

Furthermore, he almost never experienced defeat during his life. As a  general, no one could object to his title as a brave general and he  surpassed even Lionheart King in that respect.

He was a hero in the one hundred year where Britain and France had direct confrontation.

The maiden and patriot Jeanne d’Arc was also a “big name” in the same  war, but she wasn’t a general. The influence and contribution that they  gave to the war situation couldn’t be compared.

Edward died a premature death in his life. The cause of his death was  sickness in the end. He was roughly undefeated in battle──.

This young nobleman was also someone who was “reincarnated” in Hyperborea because of a certain reason. He lightly nodded.

「Well, Theo has also ordered me to train the soldiers well. There  won’t be any problem if we consider this as a part of their training.」

The capital of the round table was located on a high ground. It had rampart surrounding it.

The castle where the two of them had their drinking bout was located  at the center. Today too the knights should be working diligently in  their training at the training ground that was located within the same  city.

Those knights carried steel sword with sharp blade, chainmail, and shield.

They also rode horse using saddle and stirrup. Originally those things didn’t exist in Hyperborea.

That was why, they the knights of House of Plantagenet taught the  theory of those things and ordered the master craftsmen──maestros of  this sanctuary to create them.

「Now then, the corpses that are playing an active role in that city, I  wonder how useful they will be in the battlefield. It won’t be bad to  ascertain it.」

Unlike the big brother of his ancestor, the Black Prince Edward was intellectual to the utmost.

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Thus──.

Ten days after the prophecy of Umayado no Ouji, the enemy really came.

Two hundred soldiers who were armed with long spear and large shield.  And then there were also knights──riding on trained war horse, they  were equipped with heavy equipment like chainmail and cavalry spear!

「W-why is there something like that in Hyperborea!?」

「That’s the result of someone doing the same thing like us but in military matter……」

Umayado no Ouji muttered beside the surprised Fumika.

The two of them were standing at the outskirt of the capital of the  dead. They were looking down at the outside of the capital from the  highest floor of the tower that was built at the city outskirt.

Umayado no Ouji had told that the enemy would come from the north.

That was why they positioned their force at that direction. It was a  force of──500 armed corpses that Fumika had diligently prepared for  today.

She increased her corpse production amount in a quick pace and equipped them with all the weapon that she managed to obtain.

Bow and arrow with arrowhead made from obsidian, stone spear that was  made from the same material, wooden shield, bronze sword and spear and  armor, and also iron sword that was their treasure. The equipments of  the corpses were terribly unorganized.

In contrast, the equipment of the 『enemy』 was uniform. It must be the same workshop or maestro that created them.

Furthermore, the soldiers and knights were well trained.

The 200 enemy infantry advanced in formation. The 500 armed corpses  intercepted them. Even though the difference in number was double, it  was the enemy who had the advantage──.

Fumika was at her wits’ end.

「Even though we win in number!?」

「More than the difference in quality of the equipment, it’s the  degree of training of the soldier that is the deciding factor. If our  army is only a watchdog at best, the other side is truly a pack of  hunting dog.」

Umayado no Ouji was in admiration.

Ten soldiers carrying large shield where they could completely hide their body behind it were lining up in one line.

Twenty such horizontal line lined up vertically. The enemy soldiers were advancing orderly in the formation of 10 X 20.

The corpses were charging at that formation disorderly like a mob.  Although they were attacking earnestly, they were mostly repelled back  by the shields.

The enemy soldiers were instead protected by their shield while thrusting their spear.

Even the lifeless corpses would stop to function if they were  beheaded or their heart was seriously damaged. The pale zombies were  falling one after another.

Sometimes there would also be corpses that took down an enemy soldier.

But, the enemy formation was lined up 10 x 20. The soldier from the  next line would immediately step forward to fill the hole at the  frontline.

The large shields that were lined up at the front line of the enemy  army not only for protecting their own body, but also to protect the  ally at their left. It was an impregnable formation. Furthermore.

The enemy cavalry made use of their mobility to circle at the rear of the corpse army.

It was the beginning of a pincer attack. Fumika’s creations were  trampled by the horses’ hooves. The long spear that was stabbed from  above the horse rapidly pierced the corpses’ heart──

They were overran without being able to resist.

「I-I’m angry now! I’ll use my trump card if it’s like this!」

Fumika pointed both her hands to the ground from above the tower.

She liberated the power of Jewels of Death that were dwelling in her  hands. It was for summoning the specially made resource that was sealed  within the ground in preparation for something like this.

Of course what emerged from the ground was a pale and naked corpse.

However it was giant sized. Its height reached 15 meters──.

Fumika’s trump card the giant corpse ran toward the enemy cavalry and sent flying several knights with its huge foot.

「Keep going like that!」

As expected even the knights were unable to oppose this difference in size.

Fumika was getting enthusiastic. It was then, a heroic beautiful voice drowned the battle cry in the battlefield.

「Unbelievable, a giant made his entrance! As expected from a  mythological domain, it’s able to do something so tasteful. This is  truly the best prey my──Richard’s magic sword Escalibor!」

It was the lion roar of the knight who seemed to be the commander.

He was riding a horse with fluttering blonde hair. He was wearing a  battle surcoat over his chainmail. A lion crest was drawn on it. The  knights all were wearing the same thing. It seemed to be a uniform.

And then──the knight Richard threw his spear.

In exchange he pulled out the long sword on his waist.

「Here I go, Escalibor!」

He called the name of his beloved sword as though yelling the name of a killing technique.

At the same time Richard swung his long sword horizontally. A beam of  light was fired from it. It cut through the air like laser and severed  the neck of Fumika’s prided giant corpse too.

*Goton!* The giant head fell on the ground.

「Fuehh!? What’s that person!?」

「How strange, light was fired from the sword. Perhaps he is also a  godslayer like Rokuhara Ren or Luo Hao-dono……or perhaps, he is someone  descended from the bloodline of god just like Riona!?」

The knight Richard took an unexpected action in front of the surprised Fumika and Umayado no Ouji.

Even though he was already riding a horse, he got down on the ground  on his own initiative. And then he charged toward the large army of  armed corpses and swung his sword around.

Laser danced boisterously with each swing and the flesh of the pale corpses was torn apart!

Not a drop of blood scattered from the corpses, in exchange heads  with blank eyes and limbs twirled in the air. A one-sided slaughter with  sword stroke was beginning.

No more corpse was left standing around Richard in the blink of eye.

An empty space was left open around him.

「M-my mister zombies are……」

「I dislike conflict but, it looks like it will be my time to make an appearance soon……」

Fumika covered her mouth to suppress the fear that was welling up inside her.

Umayado no Ouji also opened his hands to form handseal in order to use his spiritual power.

……An intruder appeared at such timing.

That person approached toward the magic sword Escalibor and its  wielder with light footsteps as though he was just stepping into a  friend’s house.

Just like Richard, this youth was also a Caucasian person with blonde hair.

However, unlike the knight who was ferocious like lion, this youth was smiling foolishly.

He seemed to be an earthian just like Fumika and Umayado no Ouji. He  was dressed in a fashion like a foreign traveler from how he was wearing  khaki colored military coat, jeans, and backpack.

But, he seemed to be a warrior.

A sheathed long sword was fastened to the backpack on his back.

「T-that person, what is he planning to do?」

「What the──we are going down Fumika. Hurry!」

Umayado no Ouji told the astonished Tamayori Hime with an expression of urgency.

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Part 6

「Well well, it’s really the right decision to go to travel.」

The youth who seemed to be in the later half of his twenty spoke flippantly.

「I finally arrived in this Hyperborea. And then I suddenly  encountered this interesting scene just after walking for a bit──really,  I’m just in luck!」

「This look interesting you say, earthian?」

Richard glared at the youth with a displeased look.

Even though he was going to display the valor of the Lion Hearted  King under the heaven unchallenged right at the next moment, he was  suddenly interrupted like this. From the way this youth dressed, he  guessed that he was from earth but…….

「You bastard, you must be a real moron to approach a ferocious lion so brazenly like this.」

「Fa~r from it! Rather you mister were getting heated up excitingly,  so I thought that I want to try being your opponent by any means. Give  me the right to duel you, pretty please.」

「……Fumu」

Richard wouldn’t lose against anyone when it came to losing his temper.

However, this was the first time he was being challenged to a duel this merrily.

He observed his opponent closely. A blonde haired man of slender  build. Idiotic and flippant looking face. However, from the way he  walked and stood until this far──he felt a slight danger from him.

He shouldn’t take his eyes off from any movement this man made no matter how slight.

The wild instinct of Richard as a lion and knight sniffed the smell of blood and steel from this youth.

「Very well. I permit you to enjoy a duel with King Richard Lionheart to your heart’s content.」

「Thank you! ……Wait, I have heard that name before.」

The youth put his backpack on the ground and pulled out his long sword. Then he tilted his head.

Richard chuckled. It was worth it for him to twist his conviction.

「Fuh. Of course you are. Shiver from mine fame and tremble in fear.」

「Sorry. I can’t remember what who is the person who has that name so  that’s impossible. Well, I can’t remember it so that name must not be  that famous.」

*Snap*. Richard felt like he had heard his blood vein burst.

Right at that instant, he unconsciously swung down his beloved sword Escalibor diagonally.

「You ignoramus, just that foolishness of yours is worthy of death!」

「Whoops, that’s dangerous!」

「──Mu!?」

*Giin*. A metallic sound resounded.

Richard’s strike was lightly deflected by the long sword in the youth’s hand.

Even though that sword stroke used all his speed, power, and natural  flexibility that was like a beast that had been polished from cutting  down several hundred warriors in battlefield.

That strike──was parried with lightness that was similar with swinging a feather pen.

Richard grinned with his scorching hot heart still raging. He desisted from attacking further.

「You are a fool but your swordsmanship is extraordinary huh……」

「Amazing. Even though it’s rare that someone can understand that just from one exchange.」

「Don’t underestimate the Lionheart King. ──Fuh. I intended to cut you  down as an insignificant fool, but I changed my mind. I shall recognize  you as a warrior.]

Richard spoke before unleashing his second strike.

「I shall listen if you have a name to introduce as a knight or a  warrior. I am the count of Anjou and the duke of Aquitaine, sometimes I  was also the king of England and a knight, Richard.」

「What a coincidence. I also have a title as a knight.」

The blonde haired youth introduced himself without any change in his warm and genial attitude.

「Salvatore Doni. There are also people who call me with something like King of Sword.」

「Very good. Try showing me a valor that is worthy for that title, Sir Salvatore!」

By the way, the battle between the corpses and his subordinate  soldiers and knights who were clamoring around them had been halted.  They watched the duel that suddenly began.

A circle of people surrounded the two fighters. It was just like an arena.

Umu, Richard nodded while feeling fiercely moved.

He didn’t care about the corpses, but the knights, the Hyperborea  people that he personally trained and raised were properly focusing on  this duel with heated gaze.

That was how the royal guards of the Lionheart King should be. He slashed as his moved emotion dictated him to.

「Here is my magic sword Escalibor, know its sharpness!」

「Oh. That name means Excalibur right? It’s really stylish when it’s said in French language!」

The youth dodged the approaching blade in a hair’s breadth. He dodged.

What made it possible was Salvatore Doni’s footwork──even the  battle-worn veteran Richard only knew of such abstruse footwork for the  first time.

Even though the back of the youth’s feet never left the ground, he walked as though he was gliding.

He moved his standing position smoothly and speedily to front and  back, left and right. The numerous slashes that Richard unleashed  swiftly were being avoided with paper thin difference.

Many of his strike only needed a few more centimeter, or even just a few more millimeter to land.

It was truly a paper-thin discernment. The clearness of this youth’s  martial art was too magnificent. However, Richard who had his  consecutive attacks  being handled like that was smiling fiercely. Doni  muttered 「Hee」.

It was just for an instant, but the King of Sword directed a sharp gaze toward the Lionheart King.

「Mister, you are stronger than I thought. Nice!」

「Kukuh. Looks like your estimation was off. I don’t know where did  you learn swordsmanship but──know that martial art that is tempered  through battlefield is like this!」

Slash. Slash. He swung sword as fast and fiercely as he could.

He didn’t give a damn to abstruse swordsmanship or meticulous tactic.  That kind of thing wasn’t really useful in the thick of chaotic battle.

The first priority was speed and the intensity of the slash. That was the swordsmanship of real battle.

In fact, one could look at Salvatore Doni. He had a strange  stance──his right hand that was holding his long sword was dangling down  limply. He didn’t even point the tip of his sword toward Richard.

Well, it must be what people called a stanceless stance.

It was a stance to unleash a swordsmanship that took the enemy by surprise from that state and turned the table on them.

However in front of Richard’s fierce attack, he could do nothing but  dodging the attacks in a hair’s breadth. That was because the lion armed  with sword was rushing with fast consecutive attacks that were too  intense.

And then──

「Fuhahaha! Open your eyes and sear into your brain the real ability of my sword!」

Richard roared vigorously. He took a large jump backward.

Even though until now he did nothing but slashing single-mindedly, he  suddenly changed his rhythm. If he swung his beloved sword horizontally  like this, a beam of light would be fired from the blade──.

It was truly the finishing strike that would bring certain death.

「Go, o radiance of Escalibor!」

「……No. I have seen your sword enough mister. It won’t work on me.」

Doni shwed a strange expression the instant beam flooded out from the magic sword.

Tension suddenly left him──his expression turned calm in complete  opposite of the duel’s excitement. With such expression, the King of  Sword swung his sword diagonally up.

Doni’s blade shockingly caught the light of Escalibor splendidly.

The beam that should burn the enemy to ash had its trajectory twisted and flew to the sky faraway.

「Oo……」

Richard was astonished.

It wasn’t just because his Escalibor’s beam was defeated for the first time.

Salvatore Doni’s right arm that was holding the sword was shining  silver. It was as though an arm that was created from silver was  attached to his right shoulder──.

The silver armed swordsman grinned flippantly once more.

「Really sorry. When I swing a sword with this arm, that sword will  become something that rival even Excalibur no matter what kind of  useless sword it is.」

「Oo……I have heard about that.」

Cordially welcoming minstrels as their patron, and greatly loving heroic poem and knight tale.

That was Richard I. That was why he patterned his own sword after the  magic sword in King Arthur legend. The ruler who had continued to  sought after romance and adventure stared fixedly at Doni’s right arm.

「There is the god of silver arm Nuada in the land of Ireland. It’s  said that he unsheathed the sword of victory and destroyed every kind of  enemy──I see. You are someone who murdered Nuada and plundered his  authority! Don’t tell me Sir Salvatore, you too are a Campione!?]

「Oh. So that title is also spreading in Hyperborea.」

Doni grinned and moved to continue the duel once more.

Right after that, a rain of arrow fell down from the sky.

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*Hyun hyun hyun hyun hyun hyun!*

It was the sound of a lot of arrows cutting through air. Dozens of  archers were firing their arrow all at once and they moved in an arc  before falling down from the sky.

They fell toward Salvatore Doni.

「Rain of arrow right after duel with sword, how lavish!」

Doni immediately used his authority and protected himself.

Several hundred runes appeared around Doni and shined.

It was the authority Divine Protection of Steel that he plundered  from the northern Europe’s hero Siegfried in the past. It protected  Doni’s body with impregnable protection and turned him immortal──.

The number of raining arrows easily surpassed a hundred.

Doni who was protected by runes was naturally unharmed. He turned his gaze toward the direction of the shooter.

「So it’s you buddy after this mister. I’m really happy that you guys aren’t holding anything back with your hospitality.」

「Pardon my rudeness, Campione-dono. But, well, if you are “the real  thing”, I thought that you won’t die from this. So I sent you this feast  before making my greeting.」

The shooter replied with a pompous manner of speaking.

This person was riding a black horse on a small hill that was slightly far away.

He was wearing the same battle surcoat and chainmail like the knight  who introduced himself as Lionheart King Richard. But his mantel was  black. His gauntlets and boots were also black.

The black color was standing out so much that this person should be called as nobleman in black.

「I am Edward. There are also people who call me the Black Prince.」

「Hee! I have an acquaintance with that nickname too!」

Doni’s eyes sparkled. The nobleman smiled elegantly in respond.

「Could it be that person is also one of the Campiones like you?」

「Hahaha, bull’s eye.」

「That’s great. I hope to be acquainted with that person one day.  ……But, let’s finish this day with just this greeting to you good sir. Is  that alright uncle? More than this and this battle won’t end as a mere  snacking.」

「Tsk. You showed up just when it was getting exciting.」

Richard grumbled.

「So you were secretly monitoring me huh……」

「Fufufufu. It’s uncle’s bad habit that you tend to overdo things.  That’s why I take the trouble to collar the lion for the sake of Theo’s  ambition too.」

「Hey. Rather than talking about that」

Doni asked in curiosity.

「How did you shoot the arrows just now? Much less an archer unit, I  only see you alone. On top of that you aren’t carrying any bow」─!」

「Although it’s not as amazing as your skill and body, I too have this kind of skill.」

Suddenly souls appeared behind the Black Prince Edward.

The souls were archers readying long bow that was wider than they  were tall with arrows nocked on. Furthermore their number was easily 50  or sixty people, the number for a single unit.

「Elite soldiers of England, display the skill of Mode AngreGreat Britain Style Archery!」

With the order from the Black Prince, a volley firing began.

Dozens, hundreds of arrows were cutting through air and rained on Salvatore Doni’s body.

The average warrior would already be skewered instantly and died. Of  course, Doni wasn’t even scratched with the runes protecting his body  but──

「It’s quite powerful! Are you planning to hold me in place using these arrows?」

「Exactly. Uncle, quickly now.」

「I get it!」

The Lionheart King was already moving even before Edward had spoken.

He blew a whistle and his favorite horse ran toward him. Richard quickly got on it and began to sprint away in full speed.

His subordinate knights and soldiers immediately joined him and they retreated in good order.

The force of the corpses only watched that quietly. They had no more  fighting spirit. Doni himself was heightening his mystical force to  increase the toughness of the Divine Protection of Steel to seriously  protect himself.

The rain of arrows that was falling in an arc showed no sign of stopping at all!

The soul archers were continuing to shoot without resting.

New arrow would suddenly appear when they put their hand into their  quiver. Like that they wouldn’t run out of arrow. Doni yelled while  feeling fed up by the raining arrows.

「If possible fight me using sword!」

「Hahahaha. I too as someone with considerable skill in sword but, I’m  really not a match against you at all sir. One day when there is a  chance, you can confront uncle or Theo!」

Edward left those words behind and kicked the flank of his black horse.

The black horse ran away. The archers chased his back even while continuing their shooting at Doni.

When the arrows finally stopped reaching him, the black knight was already running away until far in the distance.

The souls of the archers also were moving following their lord.

「Well, it will be a waste to chase them too deeply here I guess……」

He had only just arrived to Hyperborea.

Doni smiled complacently because it looked like he would be able to enjoy himself for some time here.

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Part 7

「To think that a passing traveler could actually be a new godslayer.」

Umayado no Ouji muttered while looking like he couldn’t suppress his emotion.

「From a glance it’s clear that he is a personage who possess uncommon  fortune. He is clad with similar aura, scent like that Rokuhara Ren and  Luo Hao-dono.」

「So that’s why we are hurrying here to watch, Taishi-sama!」

Fumika spoke with sparkling eyes.

They had gotten down from the watchtower to the area that became the battlefield.

The damage to the corpses was considerable. The survivors were  standing straight on standby right now. The silver armed swordsman and  Campione was staring at the army of corpses with an amused look.

「Hee. So something like this is normal in Hyperborea.」

「No! The mister zombies are the special product of our capital-. But,  even though this capital has finally become a place that is easy to  live in thanks to the mister zombies and everyone here, the people just  now came attacking……」

Fumika pleaded at the blond Campione with an upward gaze.

「I heard from the honorable master. The godslayers are people like  king or general or the like aren’t they? If you like, how about becoming  the minister of defense in our place!?」

「Ah. That kind of thing is troublesome for me so I’ll pass.」

「Fueh!?」

Fumika was bewildered because her offer was easily refused.

Salvatore Doni, the godslayer kept smiling brightly. He acted  flippantly and really friendly. He was really just like her old  acquaintance Rokuhara Ren.

That was why she called to him with the same friendliness just like when he made a request to that 『Ren-san』, and yet……

Right now Doni wasn’t even giving a glance at Tamayori Hime and  stared at the outside of the city and then to the capital of the dead.

「Fumu」

Umayado no Ouji appraisingly stared at the face of this Campione who  was unexpectedly quite a ruffian just for a moment, then he suddenly  spoke.

「Sir Salvatore, for now you should rest in our capital. Act as our  bodyguard too during your stay here. It is as you can see──our capital  of the dead is a country that boasted an outstanding comfort even in  this whole Hyperborea. Dangerous villains will come attacking this place  one after another.」

After saying that, the crown prince smoothly added.

「Of course, your fellow Campione and the gods will also come attacking this place one day……」

「Awesome! It feels like it will be fun here!」

His reaction was a complete reversal of when he answered Fumika’s appeal. Doni was looking enthusiastic.

Umayado no Ouji turned around and quickly returned to the capital.

「Come with me. I shall show you around the capital.」

「Hahaha. I’m really lucky to get a tourist guide in the first city  that I visited. Well, I don’t know how long I’m going to stay here  though.」

「Is that so. ……By the way Sir Salvatore.」

The youth followed after Umayado no Ouji with carefree footsteps. Umayado no Ouji casually spoke.

「Actually I have made a promise with one of your brethren. We are  going to hunt an animal of sacrifice together before long. If you like,  how about you come along too?」

「Animal what? Also, my comrades are also coming here too just as I thought huh.」

Salvatore Doni muttered leisurely.

「And their name? Could it be Kusanagi Godou?」

「Well. That’s my first time hearing that person’s name. The one who  exchanged promise with me is a personage with the title of Byakuren Ou.」

「It’s also my first time hearing that name. What kind of person they  are? It’s evident that a Campione must be powerful, so tell me something  like whether that person is someone moody or someone who put on airs,  that kind of thing.」

「Now now. It’s really not elegant to talk about someone else behind  their back. If you sir are curious, as expected ascertaining it with  your own eyes will be……」

Umayado no Ouji was establishing back and forth conversation with the new godslayer.

Just from talking a little like this, it was easy to see that this person was someone troublesome.

The fish hook that Taishi-sama lowered caught a big fish──Fumika thought like that and let out an impressed 「Fuee」.

As expected from the wise and intelligent Shoutouku Taishi. His skill in judging people and handling them wasn’t ordinary.

Meanwhile, Umayado no Ouji himself exchanged a glance with Fumika,

『Don’t say anything unnecessary.』

He said that with his eye contact. It seemed he was planning to  utilize all of his wiles to keep the Campione who fell onto their lap as  their possession as much as possible.

Fumika stared at the two youths and she suddenly thought something like this.

(It goes without saying that Taishi-sama is beautiful but……Doni-san too is unexpectedly handsome.)

That’s right.

If she shut her eyes to Doni’s eccentric act, this youth was a handsome man.

Blonde hair and slender style. Although his figure and atmosphere  weren’t at the level of Umayado no Ouji who stood on the height of  aesthetics, he had quite the looks. Rather if she classified him as a  handsome man in the cute category, Doni was a material that she had  nothing to criticize about.

(────ah)

The idea that welled up from her heart, her emotion that was turning moe. It had been a long time since she felt like this.

If there were two handsome men before her, she would naturally pair  them up, filled her head with delusion of their relationship, and  imagined them being locked in a grapple. Gasp under my chest. Writhe in  pleasure and die. Please, love that place of mine……. You are a virgin  right? I’m the only one allowed to touch that place of yours. Idiot,  even though it was you who turned my body to be erotic like this-.  Homosexuality. Sodomy. Buggery.

B and L., boys and love. It was something that Toba Fumika loved above all else.

There was a saying, the poor can’t afford manners. Yes, since coming  to Hyperborea, she only held dissatisfaction toward her living  environment and had no leeway to enjoy culture.

But right now Fumika’s necessities of life had been exceedingly fulfilled right now.

That fulfillment create a leeway in her heart, in addition her switch had been turned on and encouraged her──

(If there is no BL in our capital, I just need to create it.]

Impure thought was bubbling and whirling in her brain.

(There are two people who are just right to be material for dojinshi.  I’ll gather female maestros who has the talent and that kind of taste,  and form a production committee. After that I’ll follow my imagination  of who is the dominant one and who is the submissive one and what kind  of situation it is to direct them of what kind of work to create……)

Fumika toyed with a wicked thinking.

But, she suddenly gasped. The couple in question had been standing at her sides without her noticing it.

「W……what is it?」

「No you see. Those zombies, you are the one who created them right?  And, it looks like that Umayado-san there has thought of something  interesting.」

「Umu. Today the immaturity of the corpses as warrior has come to light.」

The two handsome men spoke alternately side by side.

「I was thinking about requesting the instruction from a master of the  martial art to train the corpses. For example someone like Byakuren  Ou-dono or Sir Salvatore……」

Actually this was the day that acted as the turning point for the capital of the dead.

The productivity that was brought about by Umayado no Ouji’s wisdom  and Fumika’s zombies. The 『Silver Armed Guardian』 who led the dead  swordsman corps. And then the mysterious mastermind who directed all the  BL kifujorotten ladies who gathered in the salon  and brought about ripened cultural rottenness that was different from  the rottenness of corpse. (TN: Kifujo, the higher class of fujoshi)

This was the moment when the three pillars of those developments were assembled like this.

Since this day, the culture and military strength of the capital of the dead began to develop rapidly──.

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Several days passed since the attack to the capital of the living dead.

Richard and others returned to their headquarters. The capital of the  round table. The townscape was similar to the era when the Lionheart  King and Black Prince Edward lived.

Houses were built with bricks, iron were tempered in the blacksmith’s workshops, and ale were gulped in the bars.

But, the capital of the round table was developing in various ways, even more than “my territory at that time”.

There were large scale constructions made from stones here and there.  Chapel, public bathhouse, arena, etc. In addition most of the large  streets were paved so horse carriage could run on them easily.

It was the result of the knights exerting their wisdom because it  wouldn’t be artistic if they only do exactly the same thing here like in  their era.

Richard and Edward who returned back were going through the main  street. The two of them were in the middle of traveling side by side on  their horse.

The people gathered and called out toward the two of them.

「Knight-sama!」

「Knight of the round table-sama, please pat the head of this child!」

「How handsome! Please look over here!」

「Glory to the knight of the round table of our capital!]

Richard was glowing with self-satisfaction from the passionate cheers that were showering them.

「Do you hear that Edward? The people of my capital are really sweet!」

「Uncle. It might be problematic if you say “my capital” as though you  are the king here. What if you say “our capital” at the very least?」

Both of them were riding horse side by side while the Black Prince offered his opinion to his partner.

「The only one who can declared that this capital is “my capital”  should be Theo alone. ……Oo, just when we are talking about him.」

「Mu!? ──Citizens, look over there! The leader of our knight order has returned!]

Richard I with his passionate soul immediately called out to the citizens.

The lion’s roar controlled the clatter of the crowd and reached the  people. Their focus was gathered to the direction where Richard pointed  at──at the sky above the palace.

Something bright was soaring through the sky and landed on the palace’s roof at that timing.

Even in the capital of the round table where supernatural knights gathered, there was only one person who could do such feat.

「Now gentlemen! Yell your loyalty to the leader of the knight order, the Sacred King Theodorick!」

「Umu! The only one who I, the Lionheart King revered as my only lord  in my whole life, his name is the Sacred King Theodoric. The warrior who  killed god!」

Richard immediately followed after Edward’s call to the people.

「I gave my heartfelt extol and praise! To Theo’s great achievement of  killing the heretic god of war Arthur and usurping the authority of the  Round Table!」

「That’s right! Our leader Theodoric, banzai!」

The populace was ignited by the lion’s roar and they yelled one after another.

「Leader Theodoric! The one who crush the yoke of fate!」

「Leader Theodoric! The godslayer of anti fate!」

「Leader Theodoric! The one who control the round table knight order and grasp victory!」

The yells of praise wouldn’t settle down.

Theodoric. Theodoric. Theodoric. The wild enthusiasm of yelling that  name was spreading everywhere inside the capital of the round table  before long.