Chapter 431: Intermission: Lillywood Yggdrasil ~~ To the Ordinary and Special You ~~ (1/2)

The first time I met you, you weren't anything special. I could understand that you were a kind-hearted person. I recognized you as a person with a strong heart. But still, you could be described as ordinary.

——–You were an ordinary being.

——–You were someone insignificant.

——–You were a child.

——–You weren't anyone special. However……

The first time I heard of the existence of Miyama Kaito was from my precious family, my little sister, Isis's mouth.

To be honest, even if it's my family telling me about him, I couldn't believe that someone like Kaito-san existed. There was no way that a being without strong power could resist Isis' magic power of death. I thought that there was no way that someone as weak as him could hold her hand.

But then, I heard your name come out of the mouth of Kuromueina, who I consider my mother. I wonder what it was that I felt at that time? I think it was a mixture of anxiety and anticipation, as if an unknown entity had appeared.

It was in the Spirits' Forest in the Human Realm that I first met the human named Miyama Kaito.

I am the oldest spirit in the world, and all the spirits existing in the world are my followers. From my point of view, the human being called Kaito-san was…… so anticlimactically ”ordinary”.

You were but a young being who hadn't lived even a few hundredth…… No, even a thousandth of my life, holding no great strength or magic power. A very ordinary person.

It seems like you're able to use a rare magic called ”Sympathy Magic”, but I could also use a magic like that. It wasn't a particularly unique ability.

Although you were blessed by Shallow Vernal-sama, making you loved by nature…… Still, Kaito-san himself could be categorized as an ordinary human.

I'm not making fun of Kaito-san by any means. In fact, I had a very good impression of you when I talked to you.

I could tell that you had a gentle personality, and I also got a good impression that you cared about nature. However, I still couldn't see why Isis and Kuromueina consider you as a special being.

However, you easily surpassed my imagination.

You were liked by the overbearing Megiddo, gained the interest of Magnawell, and even Shalltear…… recognized you as someone special.

You were certainly someone ordinary…… but you were still unafraid to challenge the extraordinary.

And then, you have dispelled the darkness in Kuromueina's heart. You did what neither I nor the other members of the Six Kings could do, accomplishing it as if it was something so easy.

”It was truly amazing”, was what I thought.

……That's right. I think by that time, I had begun to think of you as someone special.

Was it the atmosphere around you? If Isis' magic power of death keeps others away, it’s as if the atmosphere around you attracts others.

You don't fear me, one of the Six Kings, treating the Spirit of the World Tree…… A tree like me just like any other person.

There are two main types of emotions that are usually directed at me by people outside of my family. From the spirits, fairies, elves, and plants…… They who are connected to nature, they praise and believe in me as if I were a God.

The rest of the world treats me with awe as one of the Six Kings.