Volume 2 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Chapter 5 - Ragnarok's Winter 1

The snoas rapidly piling up

The surprising a down froh it was a nice weather of autuo, it suddenly beca at the snowy landscape that nearly only had white color

Beside hi eyes

「This isup!」

「Cassandra is someone from a warm country after all」

Three days had passed since the confrontation with Marquis Voban

They were in the iant country on a goat chariot to return to the hu the land since yesterday , and yet the weather beca cae in a nearby residence

Well, in japanese's sense it was just a si lined up It see there until recently, but noas eard

They stayed the night there to take shelter fro out to the house's frontage, there was a snowscape everywhere

A lot of snow fell fro thud sound sometimes

Furthermore, the snowfall still wasn't over

But there was a s was stocked in the residence

And then, there was no floor laid out at the round bared They could lid fire there It seeorously burned the kindling there to waret cold」

「He even had that kind of flint, so he surely won't be troubled about ht Thor went out to take a look at other place

He fleay like a superhero toward the snowy night sky alone

By the way there wasn't any probleiant's residence It seeht like Ren and co were living here

According to Riona,

『The giant of Norse y is a really lackadaisical existence Their size too, soiants who are just a little bigger than huht like huiant anyiants who ave birth to children It seeically they aren't that different froh definition of those who allied themselves with ”Odin and his faction” are God, while the neutral and the hostile are ”giants without exception”』

Riona spoke a surprising fact when he retorted to her

──Byuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-!

The wind that was er It was the same like when the wolf slayerinto a blizzard

Ren and co were feeling really cold just froe

「Ren-saers of my hand cannot move really well!」

Cassandra was raised at the warh she was an active princess ould go outside the palace casually, there was no way she was used to the fingers of her li numb from cold Ren nodded

「I'm also the same It will be helpful if the snow at least stop We will be able to create ski or sleigh to play in the snow like that」

「My I don't really understand but that sound really fun But」

Cassandra looked interested hearing about playing in the snow

However, her expression immediately became clouded

「I don't think that we and this world──will have the leeway to do so like that」

「Uwaa」

A distrust toward Cassandra as looking down in sadness elling up inside Ren's heart

He thought while ignoring that with his willpower In other words, the cursed prophet of Troia was infor with Riona I think she is beside the fire」

「Ah, yes」

「Wait a second Ren- Are you are intending to be lecherous with her again? Lether life with you, I ask that you keep it in more moderation in front of me-」

Stella suddenly popped out on his left shoulder

Shecold with her usual Goddess outfit She earing an adorable pink cape There was fur at the coat's edge And then, her expression was really gri to be lecherous just fro a ”fiancée” you know?」

Ren cal cranky

「We were separated before this but, norether around the clock anyway」

「Be, be quiet you- Listen! Know that so ! Furtherirl who is wasted on someone like me isn't it?」

「Kiiiiiih! What's with that needless comment that doesn't even need to be said- Princess too, say so, that……perhaps the two of theh she was ordered by the s honestly

She couldn'ther words in hesitation When he wasto enter the house with them ere like that,

「Ren-sama, that!」

Cassandra pointed toward the snowy sky

There was a largea hammer and fully equipped with feathered hel wind Of course it was the lightning God Thor

「I went around looking everywhere in Midgard but, the snow is terrible anywhere!」

The fire in the heart was burning with popping sound Thor was gru The drink that was filling it to the briht fro in an instant

Everyone was sitting in a circle at the hall that had fur laid out on the floor

「I thought that there would still be a bit more time before winter This year the snow piled up really quickly ……Oo, right right I'll give you this to celebrate for your engagement」

「Thank you very much, Thor」

He presented a simple jar with earthen color

Riona accepted it with a wide──and extreraceful ser than the alcohol I gave you before In exchange, the effect is also evenThere is no present more useful than this for man and woman ill soonforward to it Isn't that so Rokuharsan?」

「I guess so Perhaps we should use it right away later, just kidding」

「My Even though everyone is listening, what a vulgar goshujin-sama」

When Ren casually made a joke, Riona also kept in tune with him

Unlike before where she would call out to hiht beside Ren while saying 『goshujin-sama』 with a bit of coquettish atmosphere

On the other hand, there was also a Goddess as looking like she was grinding her teeth

「Fu, fufufufu…… This bird girl whose mind is rose colored, isn't this wonderful……-」

Stella as the Goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite

She relinquished her usual adorableness and raised the corner of her eyes

「It look like you are forgetting about that beast and also the danger approaching this sanctuary……!」

「Danger to the sanctuary you say? What do youdisplayed in your eyes that are seeing through the future isn't it?」

Stella as asked by Thor directed the talk toward Cassandra haughtily

The princess of Troia as always calm and carefree in front of Ren and co However, this tinored the Goddess's colances at Ren and Riona ere snuggling close to each other

「Princess!」

「Ye, yes My deepest apologies-」

「Stella It's cruel to ask that fro terribly gracefully

That sance like a mistress who ruled over the royal court

「I have an idea regarding the future that the princess is worrying about Noill talk aboutthen please deny it」

「Ye, yes」

Ren was secretly iirls

Riona who did the 『engage beca ability or perhaps hu

「The summer won't arrive The winter will continue for more than three years The stars vanish froe toward the land The captured iants of flaht of the Gods……」

Cassandra didn't say any words at Riona's sole God Thor as lending her his hear was knitting his eyebrows before anyone noticed

「O witch of bird of fire Isn't that sounding like the oracle that a priestess froard?」

Another voice commented when Thor said that inquisitively

「Indeed」

It was a voice──that sounded thoughtful and old

Ren, lightning God Thor, Riona, Stella, Cassandra Everyone here was taken aback and stared at the owner of the new voice

「I also think so If you can, please let me listen to the detail, o child ofon a chair as speaking those words

He had entered until this place without anyone, not even Thor noticing

He earing a grey robe with ht that he looked like a wizard However

When he thought that the thing leaning on his right shoulder was a cane──it was actually a spear

The wooden handle that seemed to be from a shaved branch of ash tree had several letters that seemed to be sorcery symbol carved on it It had a sharp steel tip attached

The old man's left eye was crushed, perhaps he lost it from a battle where he wielded this spear

「Oo, ard, and also the father of all warriors Odin! For what reason you descended to this house!?」

Thor called out to the one-eyed old man who looked like a wizard

And then, Riona seemed to be excited by the entrance of a new God and leaned forward

「If you are Odin, then I have a request Will you co with us in a brief journey?」

「Until where?」

「Just nearby……until the end of Midgard」

「What a coincidence Actually I'uide all of you to the same place ……But, this will be a journey that deht」

Odin talked while giving a glance toward Cassandra

「I will call someone here to pick up the princess over there She can come to my palace ahead of us Now, let's hter of Heia child of man Let us swiftly e of the name Heimdallr

But, perhaps it was the nah that After all the gaze that Odin directed toward Rokuhara Ren was terriblythe sea

The cliff that was extreh more than ten kilometers It hat people called rias coastline in ical world Sanctuary Midgard

And then, it was the gigantic land──continent's extreme end

Yesterday they fleay froht to the east, and finally they arrived at this place

「So this place is the end of this land We arrived really easily here」

While looking across the far away ocean from above the cliff──

Ren and Riona whispered to each other The ride of the soaring Gods brought them until here in just two or three hours

The chariot of lightning God Thor that was pulled by two goats

And then the black horse with eight legs Sleipnir It gave a ride to Odin earing wizard-like garer, heroic, and sturdier cohbred horses on earth

「But, as I thought……the snow is also falling even at the end of the land」

Riona spoke gloo the coastline──was snowy landscape

The snoasn't blowing violently in this area There was also no wind The snoas silently falling to above the cliff and the ocean and broke apart But, it was piling up by a lot

Ren and Riona had changed into leather boots in preparation of the snow

「So Riona What is it that you want to see together with us?」

Thor spoke with a puzzled look However

Unlike the si God, the old God Odinlook

「Most likely it's that thing」

SPLASHHHHH-!

The sea water suddenly swelled up right under the cliff

During dozens of seconds, a terrifyingly thick──”white thing” that looked like a pole could be glimpsed

Perhaps even an island for example could be placed on the top of that extree it was……it was flaccidly bending in a big way

SPLASHHHHH-!

The ure while vanishi+ng into the sea

「Just nohat caood He not only able to look until far away, his dyna

That hy he asked like this without thinking that he sarongly

「Was that a stupidly huge fish that can even s an island? It looks like its whole length islike sparkling scales」

「That's too bad, Rokuharsan That is a 『snake』」

「Snake!」

「It's coiling around this whole island……it's a superdreadnought big snake Its naandr It's also called as the world snake」

Riona indifferently taught the taken aback Ren

「It's said that when the end of the world 《Ragnarok》 that carry out the annihilation of aly arrive, the snake just noill clireat flood」

「damn it, that cursed monster snake!」

The hot blooded h it's not even the arrival of Ragnarok, it's squir boldly like this! I'll discipline it a bit and chase it back to the botto up because the end is near?」

「What?」

Thor was taken aback at what Riona said

And then, this time Odin suddenly opened his uide next Actually there is also another oht of the Gods

Ren took out his favorite notebook He took a memo just in case

「The total war between the Gods and giants…… Riona said that before」

The goat chariot started dashi+ng in the snowing sky oncethe rein It was already their standard positioning

「Yes There are various opinions regarding the detail of the war but, in short giants andfroy will becoand just noill cause a great flood And the finale is the burning of the whole world by extra large flareat here it's an all-star gathering……」

Ren muttered

「It's a bit similar with Trojan War」

「They are a saend and Arht be superior at the flashi+ness of the event」

「Even reat war」

Odin spoke He was straddling the divine horse Sleipnir

A deep blue ocean was spreading below them It was the northern sea where so ice

「He and the world snake Jor fro that then father yourself! Your fate is to be bitten to death by that cursed Fenrir!」

「……Like that, narok Only few Gods will survive and the creation of a new era will begin」

When Riona was speaking htat

Even though they were infe there, fe in front of them

「Aren't they the valkyrie ladies?」

「They are chief God Odin's direct……royal guard and also lady attendant There is also Odin's daughter aht Ren who noticed the her short spear to ”below” and spoke to her lord

「Please look The ”shi+p of death” Naglfar finally show itself」

「Hrm」

Odin nodded above Sleipnir

The overly deep blue of the ocean spreading below them looked really cold It was evenfro shi+p” advancing through this ocean However

「A like a tanker……」

Ren was astonished It was unbelievably long and large It felt like it would be possible to do 100 meter sprint on the deck Riona also nodded

「Rather we ht have to call it as aircraft carrier instead That shi+p is boarded by the frost giants and the arnarok and come to attack the land」

「That is also a main character of the final war!?」

Certainly, it was a worthy──ie shi+p at superdreadnought class, it should beof the culture level here But, the ”shi+p of death” Naglfar's frame was created from a mysterious smooth material

It was eerily bluish black It felt like a chill was running on his back just froend, it's h, the gloo out! O iron haly threw his favorite harasped by one hand But, this ha and roared thunderously while flying in a straight line toward the deck of the giant shi+p Naglfar

The aim was at the area of the shi+p's bow──the old man who seearment and his appearance was frail However, a round shi+eld suddenly appeared on his hand

GOuuuuuuuuNN!

The lightning clad hammer directly impacted the old man

But, the old man was protected by the shi+eld he held up and he was unhar to sail leisurely The lanced at Thor as far above the sky and sneered……

「Stop it son The giant Hryht doith an i you call or hoerful your strength is」

「Ununununu-」

Thor gritted his teeth at Odin's ad God's hand without bringing any result Even during that the overly huge sailing shi+p was advancing through the snowing ocean and it was gone froht after that Ren felt an ominous presence and looked at the horizon

「That's, don't tellred

The sky that was stretching on the ocean was completely covered with criht radiation in the atmosphere that occurred near the Arctic and Antarctica』 This was similar to that It was like a curtain of flaiant Surtr」

Odin as also a God of oiant ill burn the whole world to ash with the sword of fla his sword outside this Midgard」

The giant and sword of flame Ren was taken aback by those words

「……Surtr is co fire with him The sun will be dyed black, and the land will sink into the sea The glittering stars will fall──fla the sky」

The spear wielding wandering God announced heavily

「Most likely, the destruction of the world is near」

3

Over there was a world of scorching heat

There was alrowing hot rocks that would give burn just froion of intense heat

The land of scorching heat was e sparks without end

Furtherrandly scorching the sky There was no river, in exchange boilingplaced on the 『branches』 of the world tree Yggdrasil

This ”world of fla heat that was located at the lowest level There was an immense tear at the end of this land

The bottom and the other side of the tear couldn't be seen

「Are you the so called giant of fla any iant whose whole body was pitch black was standing right beside the tear

His body that was so big it could grapple with even that giant wolf Fenrir right fro up hotly from the top of his head until the tip of his toes

The facial features of his face were beco shadow that couldn't be seen He also didn't wear any outfit or armor

However Voban was sure If thisthe end of the world, than who else could it be?

A sword that was equal with the huge body of the giant Surtr──was stabbed on the ground in front of hi with both hands The blade was dazzlingly red hot,inside it

oooooooOOOOOOOOO…………

Surtr let out a groan It was like the bellowing of a storm that shook the heavens

「Fuh…… So you realize that I'm the person who snatched away Fenrir's role」

Voban guessed the roan and chuckled

He also learned the language of fire giantMuspel during his journey in the Norse ain in battle isn't just from Fenrir I murdered the God of dark sorcery Baphomet, I murdered the three Gods of storm of the far east──Fuhaku, Ushi+, and Raikou, and also murdered the God of fire Shukuyu Recently I also buried the protector of oracle Gordias with this hand ……I have confidence that I ae the plot of ant confidence

「It seenarok──I think it's not a problem even if you cause disturbance any tireatly disturbed by my victory You will easily obtain victory if you take advantage of it」

ooooooOOOOOOOOO…………

Surtr as clad in flaroan

And then, he suddenly──pulled out the sword that was stabbed on the ground BUN-! He excitedly swung it around In that instant,

Treration blew out from the sword's tip

It rushed toward the sky like a rising dragon, covering the surface of the sky with explosive flame

Above the head of Voban and Surtr, the crimson flame──occupied the whole starry sky like the radiance of aurora that was coloring the night sky of the polar region

ooooooooOOOOOOOO…………

「Hou This flaht of the drasil surely is seeing this──」

The Godslaying wolf siant Surtr

「So you declared ith that single stroke just now You have quite a good taste, my friend」

Also, Voban himself wasn't bothered at all by the heat

The chill of furious blizzard that he wielded in Midgard──he covered his own body with that anduntil here

The wound of his body was also coh vitality of Godslayer

His preparation was co of ally

「Kukukuku With this Ragnarok can begin anytiht to finish off as Fenrir's substitute was──the chief God Odin

Freely controlling the spear of Gungnir and the sorcery of rune, with the dead heroes acco him There wouldn't be any coest God of Norse y

But, most likely

There would be a need to take care of his young colleague before facing Odin

It should becoreatly danced

4

Ren and Riona, Thor and Odin, thenride and fleard the west this tinarok」

Odin was la divine horse Sleipnir

Thor's goat chariot was running in parallel right beside it As usual Ren and Riona were also riding together with him

「The impetus was, yes, the release of Fenrir That as captured for long tinarok's arrival That should be his fate, and yet……because a single human released Fenrir, the sequence became reversed」

Odin as also a God of wisdo with Fenrir's release」

「It'll be better still if it's the giants, but you're saying that it was the frail human who did it? Impossible!」

「No That person is a Godslayer」

Thor spat out his words In response his father shook his head

「A de who murdered many Gods and usurped their sacred authority That person possessed a type of authority that 『change the deter him」

「That's……」

「The fate and authority of that terrifying deht now is……in that Godslayer's possession The role to kill auged the tied aright beside him while,

「For example, if this me──can defeat the substitute of Fenrir or chase hiet suspended?」

「……Perhaps it will」

Odin received Ren's gaze straightforwardly and s you know?」

「For that, I'll take e it somehow And, if you don't mind, it will be really helpful if you can lend h」

「Wait wait! Your nae when you're just a human!」

「So you haven't noticed yet, my son」

Thor was flustered But his father spoke with detachment

「That hue and disaster to our sanctuary」

「Whaatt!?」

「But……I can see that the one who killed Fenrir also has a different plan」

Odin stared at Ren with the stern face of a veteran warrior

He was the one eyed God But, the strength of the gaze dwelling inside that one eye reat fear

Under that gaze, with his usual attitude Ren──sical world is destroyed, our world will also feel its negative influence Perhaps, no, surely even our place will……」

「Ragnarok, the end of the world will begin there That's e are sharing the saether here」

Riona continued Ren's words s at Ren's face fro about ”that h the aforelance Riona ioshujin-sama isn't a decent person at all, but He isn't that crazy……that he want to fight formidable ene at is destroyed」

「Kukukuku So youanother poison, child of ether Ren winked at his 『fiancé』 who coed And then the old God Odin estive smile

「Very well I've also ascertained this accursed Godslayer's disposition Betting on le eye that obtained every wisdom, let us forht cynicism

「Till the end this is only for this ti in this sanctuary, it will only call in a different kind of destruction to here──that's what I believe!」

It was at that time

A rainbow could be seen on the sky in front of thee Bifrost! At the other side of it is the divine world of Norse ard!」