Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 10: The Soul of the Dragon

Lying in a vast expanse of white, Odo opened his eyes and saw a blue sky that looked very high and empty. He quickly realized that his place was now his own Soul Realm, a place where he was dying. The child was wearing the same clothes as before losing consciousness, a shirt with trousers without Dimensional Robes, but in a nondestructive condition like never before.

“What every time I run out of strong monster opponents have to come to this place, huh? Somehow it felt a little strange,” muttered in a lazy tone.

Odo held the forehead with his right hand, then sighed. He began to sit down, then observed the place with the vast white floor with a slightly blurry vision that slowly improved. He raised his hand from his head, then heaved a heavy sigh. Unlike the previous, not too far from where it was, there was a bright green leafy tree five meters high. Finding what was in front of him, he immediately knew what the tree was.

“Don't say ... because I absorbed the Magic Core of the Ore and the Fruit of the Sacred Tree that Reyah entered ..., this tree grew in this place ...? Haha, so it is true that this is my Soul Realm. Ah, let it be, it makes the place not quiet ...”

With a tired smile clearly visible on his face, Odo stood with a flat gaze. Returning to observe around while recalling the details of the incident before he entered his own Soul Realm, Odo turned around and was once again surprised instead of playing when he saw a figure that was very familiar to him.

On both of his eyeballs, it clearly reflected the figure of the Black Dragon whose body was made of an array of pitch-black mist standing with a sharp gaze. Unlike the previous one, the dragon was only a size no bigger than an adult human, even so the magic aura that felt was still very strong.

“What's right, time hasn't lost either? What are you immortal?” Odo stepped back until his back touched the trunk of the tree growing in the Soul Realm.

“Auto Senses!! Car ...! Oto!” yelled Odo in panic. In his mind, maybe he could ask for help from the last defense magic. Unfortunately, there is no reply at all.

“Damn, if needed even no!”

Soon Odo ran to the right and away. Unlike expected, the figure of the Black Dragon that was filled with black fog did not move and remained standing still. Its nature is more than just passive, it is more like not responding to Odo's movements.

“That black aura ..., what is Dark Matter? If so, it means that at that time this damn dragon managed to enter my body and infiltrate all the way to my Soul Realm. Then ...”

After keeping a few meters away from the black fog-covered dragon figure, Odo stopped and stared intently at him. Thinking of some means, the black-haired boy chose not to provoke and waited for the silent movement of the Black Dragon. Observing him, Odo saw that the figure was indeed not much different in shape from the Black Dragon previously resisted, except for its shrinking size and the black fog that enveloped it.

“Yo, my self, you seem to be confused?” Suddenly a voice echoed within Odo's head. The haired boy realized that it was the sound of Auto Senses and ignored it for being a little annoyed by the last defensive magic.

“Hem, cruel, o myself. Though maybe I can explain this situation to you, loh.”

Odo remained silent hearing the voice in his head. While taking a deep breath and exhaling heavily, the look in the black-haired boy's eyes turned dark. In a split second, a magic structure instantly scattered around him and formed several lightning magic circles that surrounded him. A flash of lightning made his hair stand up because of the electrons flowing in his body, making his body glow and his cornea turn dark blue.

“Listen yes, you are the magic I created. Just tell me if I don't want to delete, don't talk too much unnecessary, Senses. If you have a lot of behavior, I really won't use you anymore, okay?” odo said as he pointed towards the Black Dragon who was not looking at him at all.

“Oho, I think without being told, you already have an answer to your doubts and anxieties. Yes, I am you. If I know, you also know .... I'm just a processor who stores your data and information, myself.”

“I told you, don't talk about unnecessary things. Actually I want to ask a lot of things, but now the problem is ...”

“Let's just relax, this is our world. We are the rulers of this Nature. Ancient lizard does not seem like a difficult opponent.”

“Indeed ..., then ..., I leave all the magic processing to you.”

“OK!”

Odo transferred all control of the magic structure to Auto Senses, instantly the lightning magic circle that had formed around him changed its arrangement and became more effective. Using the Mana that was indeed his own in the place, Odo optimized the magic and enveloped his body with lightning to increase the defense.

From the tip of the index finger of the right hand directed at the silent Black Dragon, Odo cast a lightning strike magic. Jdeer! Lightning struck the dragon, but it remained unmoved and stood facing the tree before it.

Realizing the mid-level lightning strikes were ineffective, Odo changed his strategy. He ran around and stood a few meters behind the dragon. Pairing the horses with the right foot thrusting further forward than the left foot, Odo lowered his body position, then extended his right hand forward with a clenched position. His posture was strengthened by the strengthening magic performed Auto Senses. By concentrating the Mana on the tip of the clenched right hand, Odo arranged the magic structure in terms of the attribute change to lightning, while the Auto Senses regulated the effectiveness of magic power consumption. The lightning that enveloped Odo's body began to concentrate, adding to the pressure and magic power. By supporting the right arm with the left hand, He slowly opened the right fist and further concentrated the Mana thunderstorm, forming a high-destroyed energy ball.

“Bararaq Orza!”

“Bararaq Orza!”

Jzee!!

Lightning magic shot out like a high-speed Raillgun, darting straight towards the Black Dragon. The duarrrkkk!! The attack hit the dragon hard, smoke coming out with the explosion. But a few seconds later, a flap of wings removed the smoke covering it. The dragon turned around, facing towards Odo with a brightly lit golden eye. Gaining that gaze, the black-haired child did not run away or tremble, he just stood straight and stared back flat.

“Senses, this creature is the Soul of the Black Dragon, ‘kan?”

“Yes, that is the soul of the dragon. But there was a little strange about him. The aura that enveloped him was Dark Metter with an element of Curse that was not yet clear. It is possible that this confronting us could potentially spread the Pandemic Curse.”

“OK. Then you set the attack magic, variety is up. For the battle strategy, leave everything to me.”

“Hem!”

Odo jumps back using thrower magic. As he expected, the Black Dragon reacted and ran with its two legs, chasing aggressively by its nature. The movements of the dragon were not fast when compared to Odo. But covering it, the creature spread its wings to get balance and accelerate its flight.

Odo landed on the surface of the white floor with his right foot first, then extended his right hand forward and activated the gravity magic circle embedded behind the previously used ejection magic circle. The Black Dragon that dashed into the circle instantly came to a halt, and knelt down due to the intense gravitational pressure.

“Kadal creeping only!”

Without wasting any time, after putting both feet on the surface, Odo loaded up the various attack magic that Auto Senses had prepared. Five magic circles appeared above Odo's head, two of them lightning magic and the rest light magic. Releasing all the magic simultaneously towards the dragon, the attack hit him. This time the attack injured the figure of the creature, its wings were hollow and its skin was violently charred due to the high-temperature light magic.

At the moment the attack hit the dragon, the gravitational magic circle holding it was affected and destroyed. As if ignoring the wounds on his own body, the Black Dragon woke up and stood on its two legs like a human. The two damaged wings were stretched out, then scattered black particles the size of dust.

“Dark Matter? Don't say ...”

The Black Dragon opened its mouth. The black particles coming out from his wings very quickly gathered in front of his mouth, then turned into a dark plasma ball made of Dark Matter. Within seconds, without letting Odo into action, the magic bomb was fired at high speed. The distance made the black-haired child unable to dodge completely, his left hand was hit by a landslide and crushed to the shoulder. Fortunately, the bomb did not explode when it hit Odo's hand and still darted.

A duarkkk!

A few tens of meters behind him, the bomb that was fired just exploded and made a strong wind that slightly pushed his body forward. On Odo's left shoulder, which had lost his hand, the blood did not come out and looked like neatly cut flesh.

“Although this body of the soul and the pain is not felt, but the loss of the hand it feels spooky as well..,” thought Odo.

“We lost combat ability to 40%” Auto Senses voice re-echoed inside his head.

“I know, just focus on the settings and prepare the magic. I won't lose.”

Taking a breath and calming down, Odo thought of a strategy to be able to defeat the Black Dragon. He installed empty-handed fighting horses of the Luke family stream, a freestyle combat technique using Battle Art that focused on Mana manipulation to increase the body's resilience and destructive power of attack. Clenching his right hand fist straight forward, Odo regulates the breathing and circulation of Mana in the body.

Looking at Odo who prepared the attack, the Black Dragon spread its wings back and spread out the black particles to prepare for its attack. Not allowing it, Odo immediately used throwing magic and darted quickly towards the dragon. Using the Battle Art to strengthen his right hand, Odo struck down the stomach of the Black Dragon and made it bounce far away. The particles that started to collect scattered in the air and disappeared.

The bouncing Black Dragon spread out its two wings to stop the pace. Before the creature was aware of it, Odo had been standing behind it by moving swiftly using lightning magic to increase the speed of mobility. The Black Dragon swung its tail and grabbed Odo at the back, but the sabetan was caught and the tail pulled. Removing his tail and preparing a fist, Odo struck the back of the Black Dragon whose body was pulled backwards, then sent out the shockwave created from his Battle Art technique.

Dekg!!

The body of the Black Dragon did not bounce off, but damage was precisely delivered into his body. As his hand hit the Black Dragon's back, a slight black fog crept into Odo's hand. He immediately pulled out his right hand, then used light magic to get rid of the black fog attached. Just then, the black-haired boy smirked at having found an effective way to fight the Black Dragon.

“Auto Senses!”

“Ya!!”

Odo enveloped his right hand with Mana that had been planted with light attribute elements. Just as the Black Dragon was about to turn around and attack, Odo instantly struck his face until the dragon was blown into the air. He clutched the tail of the Black Dragon tightly, and at the same time Odo made a strengthening magic circle on the knees and leg joints to strengthen the horses, then pulled the Black Dragon and slammed it against the floor violently. Removing its tail, the black fog left on the right fist instantly dissipated thanks to the light-heavy Mana that coated the skin.

Before the Black Dragon woke up, Odo manipulated the Mana on his right hand into sharpness and tightened the fingers. Quickly, Odo darted out using thrower magic and cut off one Black Dragon wing. As he was about to cut off the other wing, the dragon slapped its tail towards Odo. He was hit hard enough on the face and bounced backwards. Realizing that there was Dark Matter stuck to the face when hit by a stroke, Odo immediately jumped away while wiping it with his right hand still shrouded Mana heavy with light.

As if he did not let Odo attack again, the Black Dragon who was still falling on its stomach opened its mouth and collected black particles in a very small amount. Concentrating it and forming a black sphere the size of a marble, the Black Dragon fired the mini bomb towards Odo. The boy did not dodge, he had predicted that the attack did not hurt fatally because it was aimed at the left shoulder that could not be used properly because his left hand was destroyed. His left shoulder was pierced and hollow, but Odo did not stop at all.

A second after being hit by an attack no stronger than firing that firearm, a small explosion was created several meters behind him. Without wasting any time, Odo instantly used thrower magic to dart, then struck the Black Dragon right in his head before the creature could stand up.

Maidservant!

The punch was so loud, the Black Dragon slammed onto the floor. Not giving it a chance, Odo clasped the one remaining wing, then stomped on the Black Dragon's head and pulled the wing to shreds. His wings were torn and Dark Matter slightly spurted from the wound. The Black Dragon again grabbed its tail, but this time Odo managed to dodge it and clutched its tail tightly. The Black Dragon opened its mouth and tried to attack with a small plasma ball. Seeing that, Odo grinned widely and unhesitatingly kicked the dragon in the face.

Maidservant! Giing! The duark!

The black plasma ball was fired in the wrong direction and made an explosion near them which made a shockwave push Odo's back, and made his balance disturbed. Without hesitation, Odo immediately stomped back on the Black Dragon's face to improve the balance.

“Because of you!!”

Drastically, Odo increased the magic pressure at the maximum level. His mana that had been set charged with the luminous element lurking and making particles of golden light out of his body, was a deliberate thing and his arrangement had been done by Auto Senses. Mana heavy light storms overlapped with Dark Matter belonging to the Black Dragon. It was realized that the charge from the black matter could swallow the light magic easily considering that the magic power of its light attribute was weaker, even more so, Odo trampled on the Black Dragon's face continuously to catch the concentration of the Dark Matter creature that lost its wings.

Stamp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, and stampede. Odo's mind went mad, continuing to step on him even though Dark Matter had weakened and the Black Dragon was no longer controlling it. Highlight Odo's eyes darkened, his facial expression turning sinister and grinning widely. Without himself noticing, He released the tail of the Black Dragon and instead brutally continued to trample on the face of the helpless creature lying on its stomach. The Dark Matter Protector protecting the Black Dragon's body had been completely lost, only with a physical attack of Odo's foot could it injure the dragon. His teeth fell out, his face began to break, one of his eyes broke, and the bones of his muzzle mouth began to bend.

“O ..do ...Odo ... Odo!” A voice echoed inside his head loudly. Odo's consciousness slowly returned from the poisoning darkness and awakened. When he saw the terrible condition of the dragon, trembling he lifted his foot from the top of his head and stepped back. He fell down and sat down with a fearful look at what he had done. His breathing turned heavy and his vision felt.

“Take a deep breath and calm down ...”

“I know, shut up!” Odo took a breath to calm himself down, taking several deep breaths to be completely calm. When he saw the Black Dragon who did not move anymore, Odo felt nauseous looking at his head that was not careless.

“Padahat only open Boundaries a little, but the change has already ...”

“What are you talking about, Auto Senses?”

The last defense magic fell silent, Odo felt suspicious at his attitude. Before Odo asked again, suddenly the motionless Black Dragon body started to emit a very bright dark blue light. Realizing that something was wrong, Odo tried to stand up and move away, but his body was still limp and fell back.

“Sialan ..., now what else?”

The light emanating from the Black Dragon's body was very bright, completely enveloping the dragon's body and making a pillar of light towering in place of the white expanse. At the same time, the green tree that grew in that place also emitted a pillar of bright light that soared up into the sky. As the deep blue light emanating from the Black Dragon's body dimmed, the bright green light emitted upwards by the green tree dived sharply downwards and grabbed the Black Dragon that was splashed.

A swuuuzz!!

Odo closed his eyes because it was too bright. As he slowly opened his eyes, the drastically changed figure of the Black Dragon shocked him. The body of the rough-skinned reptile turned into the figure of a silver-haired teenage girl that floated a few inches in the air. The girl's appearance was wearing a blue and white domineering dress with a long back fluttering, but the front was open. Besides, there were also some strange things to him. On its head, there are two horns shaped slightly curved that the middle to the end is blue lighter than the bottom. Upon seeing the dragon wings and tail on attached to the girl's body, Odo realized that the figure of the teenage girl before him was the incarnation of the Black Dragon.

The girl who floated upright opened her eyes, then puffed up her chest slightly and moved her hand gently to the side. His unraveling hair suddenly fluttered regularly, then arranged itself with a model of Twintaill bond (Purpose pigtail), with at the end of the two lips there is a golden halo that rotates in place. Both her legs and hands burned in a blue flame abruptly, and when extinguished, a matching complement to her dress was created. On the legs appear knee-length socks and dark blue leg armor, while on both hands created clothing arms with lacy widened ends that are separated by sleeveless dresses.

The girl smiled at Odo. From that smile, the black-haired boy only responded by putting on a flat face and saying, “Honey Trap?” Reacting to the words of Odo, the girl who suddenly appeared shook her right lip and seemed to want to show off her beauty.

“Hem, if the Black Dragon can make such a trap, it means he's a genius,” the sound of Auto Senses in Odo's head.

“Yes, he can be very genius can know my taste.”

The silver-haired teenage girl moved her tail with spear-like tips to the right and left, and was seen putting on a confused face wanting to say something. Highlight the girl's bright blue eyes look sharp because her pupils look like reptiles.

“She's loli, huh?” said Odo.

“Thank God, son of man, you have freed myself from the Curse of Madness of the Demon God!” said the silver-haired girl floating in the air. Hearing that imperious tone, Odo narrowed his eyes and put on a flat face because his common sense was unwilling to accept what was heard.

“Man, why did you talk to yourself?” ask the teenage girl. Odo was shocked after loading for a long time, frantically the black-haired boy stood up, then stepped back.

“Why are you scared, I am so scared that you have to look at me like that?”

Odo was completely confused by the question the girl asked. Thinking of various possibilities, Odo forced himself to ask, “You are the Black Dragon, right?”

“From your point of view, I am indeed the Black Dragon you fought earlier.”

“It ... Your trap? Or....strategy against me?”

“Before speculating, why don't you try to hear what I said first, man?”

Odo sniffed, then turned his face and discussed with Auto Senses about the possible ruse. While doing so, in the eyes of the girl Odo really looks like a person who is talking to himself and because of this he smiles lightly.

After finishing discussing with Auto Senses, Odo looked at the dragon girl with a flat gaze. “Alright, you can talk,” said Odo with a haughty tone as if to compete with the way the girl in front of him. Seeing that, the dragon girl could not help but laugh. The dragon girl's laughter looked very natural in front of Odo, not seen acting for a moment or the like.

“You are very strange, man .... Huh, let. After all you are the one who freed me from that Curse of Madness, there is no point in competing with anything less important I guess.”

The girl flicked her right pussy, then puffed out her queen chest with a hint of arrogance. “I am the eldest daughter of the Dragon God, Zialina Seliari Urganisalinez!” he said by raising intonation in the name section. Odo just put on a flat face hearing the name, He really does not know and does not know.

“Hemp.” The dragon girl turned her face away. While glancing at Odo, He said, “It is not your fault that you do not know which one is this graceful and noble. Humans now surely no one knows the true figure of the Black Dragon they fear.”

The words made Odo put aside another less important thought, then stared intently at the dragon girl. While giving an intimidating look, Odo asked in a pressing tone, “You ..., remember what you did during your time as a dragon, huh?”

“Of course I still remember. Although it was a bad form of the Curse of Madness, I clearly still remembered everything. When I was first cursed together with my two brothers by the Demon God, and made the three of us mad dragons of destruction ..., as the three of us slaughtered our own entire Heavenly Dragon clan ..., and when we killed our own Mother and Father .... You know, the Madness Curse given by the Demon God is very powerful, but it does not take away our consciousness. It just gives an incredible impetus to create destruction and attack everything that is around ..., everything ...”

Odo put on a face unconcerned with the dramatic explanation, it did not answer his question and instead added another question to his mind. Sighing and putting on a lazy face, Odo again asked, “Devil God? You mean the God who became the ancestor of the Ancient Devils, Odrania ... Karln Ilmika Spirculo, ‘kan?”

“Yes .... The bearer of doom and the mastermind behind the wars of Gods and Devils. The ancestor of the Demon King, and was the figure that brought about the destruction of the utopian gaze back then..”.

“Akh, whatever, that's not what I want to know .... You know, Seliari .., which I asked you if you remember when you were still in the form of a dragon and against me only. No need to add an unimportant explanation .... Just make my load increase ...”

Sitting with both legs tucked forward, the black-haired child looked very curious about what the Dragon God Princess said. It was already the nature of Odo to be a curious person, it was on him even before reincarnation. Sighing and turning his face a glance, Odo finally gave in to the curious race and asked.

“I'll listen to your story .... Just be as content as you are, I'll listen to him. There must be a quagmire or something... After breaking free from the Curse that drove you crazy for thousands of years, ‘kan? Just say ...”

“Why ... are you sure to say that?” Seliari floated down to the surface and sat quietly on the white floor.

Staring flat at the dragon girl, Odo folded his legs and changed his sitting position to sitting cross-legged. “You .. crying, loh ...”

“Eh ...? I ....?” The dragon girl immediately wiped away the tears that were flowing without realizing it with her sleeves, it was getting more and more and dripping with great clarity. His face did not look sad and put on a stiff smile, but the feeling could not be easily hidden. The dark past while still being exposed to the Curse of Insanity, despite having been freed, memories full of guilt and regret clearly filled him.

Seeing that, Odo felt a bit of pity for him. Although the situation that existed now was very unreasonable after hearing the fact that the Black Dragon was a Princess of the Dragon God who was cursed to go mad by the Demon God, but Odo did feel a very familiar thing with what the Princess suffered. Seliari is a victim, from a dark time to opening a new age that exists now. Thinking of various other things, Odo increasingly wanted to hear the dragon girl speak, considering that at least it could ease the girl's grief.

“Talk just ..., I'll listen to you ...”

Hearing those words, Seliari nodded once. After wiping away the tears, He looked at Odo with glazed eyes, and began to tell stories with feelings that overflowed unstoppable.

Seliari was the son of the Dragon God, the eldest of three sisters. The beginning of him and his two sisters being cursed is because the Great Dragon clan who live on the border of heaven and the demon world rejected the offer of the Demon God to join the coup to bring down the power order of the people deities. This happened before the War of the Gods and Demons broke out, which is one of the reasons the Dragons were labeled as a cruel and violent race. The Demon King who was angry at the Dragon God cursed the three dragon princesses with the Curse of Madness and destroyed the Great Dragon clan. When the curse-affected princess turned violent, they instantly performed a dragon transformation in the Dragon God palace.

The transformation that the Great Dragon race had was not the change of the physical body from a humanoid body to a dragon, either, but it was more like making an incredible amount of Mana come out of the body and harden into a physical dragon form. The transformations that existed were more of a sort of wearing gigantic dragon-shaped armor, with the humanoid body compressed into a Magic Core and implanted in the form of dragon changes created. Due to the influence of the curses that existed, the transformation of the three Dragon God-shaped princesses was terrifying and deeply distorted from the true form of the noble Great Dragon race. At the time of the transformation in that distorted form, what the three Dragon God princesses were doing was the worst-case scenario that could happen from the Madness Curse instilled by the Demon God.

The three of them slaughtered their own clan, ate their Dragon God and Mother before it could be transformed into the shape of a dragon, then massacred the entire members of the Great Dragon clan indiscriminately. The power of the three Dragon Princesses was extremely strong and powerful, all the dragons that existed there was no one who could match him because they had swallowed the Dragon God and seized his power. Among the three Dragon God Princesses, the most powerful one was Seliari who had swallowed the Dragon God herself. Seliari vividly recalled the times she and her two sisters slaughtered the Great Dragon clan. Although faint, Seliari remembered the sensation of her mouth while chewing Mother and Father until it crumbled and swallowed. His claws and tail were used to kill the other siblings, and his fire breath was to burn the palace and destroy the lair of the living dragons.

After slaughtering their own clans, the three dragons fought each other like crazy creatures. Preying on each other, constantly seizing power from each other, and relentlessly fighting. Their strength is very powerful, even some wars in that era there must be stopped because the three dragons fight each other. After the War of Gods and Demons finished with the heaven party coming out as a handler, the three dragon princesses still fought each other frequently and made destruction on various lands. Even after the Demon God perished, several continents were destroyed, land floated from the bottom of the sea, mountains erupted and destroyed civilization, a civilization was re-formed with the birth of new born kings, a new order was born, a new order was born, but the Curse of Insanity does not weaken at all.

Seeing the fate of the three daughters of the Dragon God, one of the Heaven God tried to eliminate the curse, but could not be in full. In the end, with the agreement of the Gods, the three Dragon God princesses were banished to the far reaches of the Astral World using dimensional transfer magic. A few years after being banished, one of the dragon princesses, Seliari, returned from the corners of the Astral World and often broke through the dimensional borders and went to the real world, that was the origin of the Black Dragon's terrible reputation. Because there was nothing commensurate with him in the real world and his body was physically bound to the Astral World, The Black Dragon did not stay at home for long in the real world and was more often residing around the Valley of Fire in the Astral World whose inhabitants were rich in Mana and Ether there were many abundant.

Hearing Seliari's story, Odo just shut up and remained seated cross-legged listening. The black-haired child whose left hand was missing gave no words to comfort the Dragon God's Eldest Princess or tried to calm her down while telling a story full of sorrow and regret. Odo understood, it was not something he could understand easily, therefore he chose to remain silent. Taking a breath and waking up, the black-haired boy stared at Seriari flatly.

“It's better, ‘kan?”

“Hmmm.” Seliari nodded, then stood up while wiping away the tears with both hands.

“There are times when talking can ease the burden, if buried continue even make stress. I don't know what you're feeling right now, but for sure .. I know a little bit that it hurts .... More or less ..., I know it ...”

Odo turned his face, then turned away from Seliari. Taking a deep breath and exhaling it, Odo asked without looking at his face, “So, now what do you want after breaking free from that Madness Curse?”

The Dragon Princess fell silent, she lowered her face and looked like she had no spirit in life. Odo who glanced at him could understand this. After killing his own entire family and messing around for thousands of years, even though it was under the influence of a curse, the pain and regret was indeed very heavy for him. Odo did not understand what the long-lived creature was feeling, but thinking of himself in Seliari's situation, he must have been unable to bear it and might have chosen to take revenge on the world that gave such an unjust destiny.

“She ..., absolutely does not hate the world, yes .... Really, very different from me,” Odo thought. The black-haired boy felt a little regretful about his previous life where he continued to complain and blame the environment.

Breathing heavily once more, Odo turned around and faced the Dragon Princess. With a flat gaze, the black-haired boy asked, “May I ask? Why is your curse suddenly gone? It's not that the Gods alone can't undo the curse, is it?” The question was not just to be curious, but also to change the mood of the Dragon Princess.

“It ..., probably because I was inside your Magic Core .... Since basically the Curse is too strongly attached to the physical form of my dragon, once it enters your body. Well, my dragon's body has properties of some kind of very strong binder .... What's more ..., the biggest reason is probably that ...”

Seliari pointed at the green tree that was several dozen meters behind Odo. The black-haired boy turned to look at the tree, then put on a confused face with what Seliari said.

“What's wrong with that tree?” ask Odo.

“That's one part of the Sacred Tree, isn't it?”

“A ..” Odo immediately remembered Reyah's explanation of this.

“The tree is one of the famous washing components since time immemorial. Although some have been destroyed in the time of ancient warfare, but still its efficacy and properties have not changed at all. Thanks to that ..., I managed to get rid of the Curse of Madness ..”

“I don't think I lost a lot of Dryad's sensual disosor,” muttered Odo while turning towards Seliari

“Hmmm?”

“By the way, after this what do you want? Now you're just a Soul, aren't you?”

“I'll stay here.”

“Hah?”

“I'll stay here.”

“I heard, don't have to repeat ..”

Odo looked away, then sighed with a very lazy face because he felt Deja Vu who was very familiar with the conversation of long-lived creatures.

“Look yes, Dragon Princess .... You think I'll let you stay inside my body? Just so you know, I am the son of the leader of the army who attacked you not long ago ..”

“A ..., really!? Y-You're the son of the leader of the human soldiers? W-Is your dad okay!?” seliari asked in panic.

Seeing that reaction, Odo was a little confused. He walked over and right in front of the Dragon Princess, then said, “He's safe .... But, because of that there are cities and regions that are experiencing a massive supply crisis due to that defeat. Yeah .., to be honest it's not your fault, I know it. But yes, it does not mean that I have a reason to let dangerous creatures like you continue to be inside my Magic Core..”.

“Do you .... not believe me?”

“Ya .., I don't believe .... Therefore, give me a reason that can make me believe. What is my advantage in letting you stay and not wiping you out?”

As soon as he understood these words, the black-haired boy before him was giving him a chance, which is why he asked like that. Breathing in and steadying herself, the Dragon God's Eldest Princess replied, “I can give you strength and cultivate this Soul Realm for you.”

The answers that came out were more than Odo expected, there were some that added curiosity in the mind of the child. “Treating the Soul Realm? Nothing less than this place ...?”

“Eh?”

“Eh?”

They were both confused with each other, there was something incompatible in their knowledge. “Maybe this is a little offensive to your personal matters, but may I know .. why can your Soul Realm be so empty? Is it because the tree grows inside you?” ask Seliari.

“Kurasa. What's wrong? What if empty problem?”

“Not a problem ..., but just ...”

“What's it all?”

“That Soul Realm is the embodiment of the dreams and hopes of its owner that form the basis of the construction of magic .... If this place is nothing ..., it means your personality is ....”

“Plain and holy ..?” said Odo in a confident tone.

“Not .... Most likely ..., you don't really have your own determination and outlook for the future. In other words ..., empty .... Exactly like this place.”

Vaguely what Seliari said was very stabbing Odo, he was right as he was. Although the black-haired child often said and thought about determination and hope, but basically it was just a copy of what he often heard from the surroundings. Like himself before reincarnation, Odo was a dependent and constantly moving person because of the influence of those around him, no action was taken on the pure basis of his own initiative and determination.

“Hmmm, by the way I haven't introduced myself yet, yes. My name is Odo Luke, just call me Odo.”

Seeing the black-haired boy before her suddenly introduce himself in that situation, Seliari felt that there was something odd about her personality. The princess looked straight into Odo's eyes, trying to figure out the nature of the child.

Turning his face away and putting on a slightly grim face, Odo sighed and looked back at Seliari with a relaxed altered gaze quickly. “Then I agree with your offer, you can stay in this place,” said Odo.

To Seliari, it sounded like Odo did not want to discuss what had been said before. Odo seemed to want to avoid something very sensitive for him.

“Ya ..., thank you ...”

With a strange feeling still lingering in Seliari's mind, their conversation ended temporarily and began again with very different things. They talked about magic, history, and various other things that could be said to be less important in the situation. The Dragon Princess realized that the conversation was very directed by Odo, and felt very unwilling to discuss personal matters. At a time when the conversation was not considered less important, Odo also asked Seliari the reason why the dragon figure that could even make a great war disturbed could be defeated so easily. At that moment, the Princess replied that her consciousness had indeed slowly recovered considering that the Curse of Madness had been reduced in strength by one of the Heaven God, because that was when Odo fought her, Seliali subconsciously while transforming into a Black Dragon did not put on his full strength.

Speaking with Odo for a long time, the Dragon Princess understood the nature of the child. Seliari is a long-lived creature, even before being exposed to the Curse of Madness has reached hundreds, therefore he has known many living things that have a variety of properties, namely, and in that case Odo cannot be included in any category. The original nature of the child is very abstract, feels not just empty, but deliberately made empty, that is what the Dragon Princess feels from him.