
Giving Like before reading will not make a loss...
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After Rigel teleports to Ainsworth's residence, Ray is left with Merial there. Merial is still shocked by what the sword hero Takatsumi says. He was very surprised by what he saw. The hero he idolized turned out to be just a heartless rotten man. A book that has a good cover but does not mean it has good content, Merial finally understands the meaning of the words.
"Miss Merial, let's tell the others about Rigel's departure..." Said Ray.
But Merial did not respond to Ray at all, he kept silent because he looked still in shock. Seeing that, Ray raised his voice.
"Material...!!!"
"Ugh, a-what's up, Ray...??"
"Let's go back and tell everyone. I'm sure Mr. Walther is fine."
Ray smiled to cheer up the Merial. Merial can only nod and follow Ray while wishing his family well.
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The scenery around Rigel changed, he had arrived before the gates of the Ainsworth residence. There were no guards guarding the gate, this place seemed completely empty, even though it was still afternoon. Rigel wasted no time flying through the air to search for the whereabouts of a person. From farming to farming, there are absolutely no humans or semi-humans who are supposed to work.
Worries ran through Rigel's mind, there were so many things to deal with at one time. He would not be able to solve everything simultaneously, he had to meet Tirith after confirming the condition of Walther Ainsworth.
Rigel sniffed something in the air, he could smell something burning not far from here. Not far in front of him, where the Ainsworth mansion was located, a mass of smoke gathered there and the scent that Rigel smelled came from there. Gnashing his teeth tightly, Rigel darted as fast as possible and arrived right in front of the burning mansion.
"Basic Keparaat... Creator Skill : Create Water.“.
Making a large amount of water and directing it to the sky to form rain and extinguish the fire in the mansion. Rigel didn't use the skills he got from Hydra because it can only be used at sea. Although there are poseidon tears, the amount of water that will appear is too much and draining.
"Tch! It will take a long time to put it out if this is the case...!!!"
Desperately trying to extinguish it with water, Rigel changed his method from one that made rain by spouting water into the air, to one that locked the entire mansion and put out the fire in an instant.
No need to waste any more time, Rigel stretched out his hand and quickly imprisoned the burning mansion with a water prison. It only took a few seconds for the fire to be extinguished. Rigel ran into the mansion and shouted.
"Is there anyone here...!!! Answer me, Mr. Walther, whoever, answer me...!!!"
Rigel ran and kept looking for people. Raising the rubble of a collapsed building in hopes of finding someone inside, but his hopes are continually betrayed.
At least, even if it's just a corpse I have to find it!
Grac...
"T-mister Creator..."
Not far away, the voice of someone asking for help weakly sounded. Rigel swiftly went to look for the source of the sound and found someone's hand buried in the rubble. Rigel slammed his foot and the ground was created to lift the debris around the buried man.
"Mr Walther...!!!"
Rigel finds him, the head of the noble family of Ainsworth and the father of Merial, Walther Ainsworth. His clothes were slightly burnt and his body was black due to the charcoal from the burning wood. However, the most shocking thing was, he did not have any burns. Rigel lays Walther's head in his hand. Walther coughed and pulled out dust that went into his mouth and lungs.
"I'm amazed at you not burning in the middle of that fire...??"
"Ahaha, I-I am indeed not as strong as my daughter or my wife... But if it's endurance, I'm as hard as Adamantite, uhuk... Uhuk..."
"Don't move much first, let me heal you first..."
After Walther recovered a little and was able to walk, Rigel propped up his burly body to get out of the mansion fearing that some debris would fall.
"What's really going on here...?? Can you explain the details to me...?? Then, where is everyone...??"
Walther, who was still lying weak yet strong enough to speak, told what was the cause of all this.
"Just calm down, Mr. Rigel. Everyone has been safely displaced thanks to my wife. She had a very sharp instinct and premonition and was always on target, my wife returned to the mansion the day before the attack and asked everyone to evacuate. My wife has spatial magic, so it's not hard to keep everyone out secretly. The reason I stayed in the mansion was to find out who the person who attacked my house was, because no criminal was stupid enough to rob the house of a great noble."
Walther paused for a moment to take a breath and continued his story.
"Then, just as everyone was displaced, thousands of light swords fell from the sky and rained down on this mansion making it burn. I don't know who did it because no one came to the mansion, however... The one who could execute attacks of such a vast scale was only a hero, even if there was another figure, he should have a very powerful weapon to do so."
Rigel listens to Walther's story with a bitter face, he never guesses if Takatsumi finds out that Rigel has a connection to the Ainsworth family. No, he should not have known it because Rigel himself never revealed that the Ainsworth family helped him. All of this refers to one definite answer...
"So that's it, yeah... You're one step ahead of me, Takatsumi. You've sent people to spy on us whether it's up close or in the distance."
Rigel had worried about the presence of spies before, but he chose to ignore them.
Tch! I should really stop ignoring anything!
"Can I ask you, Mr. Rigel...??" Walther.
"Yes, but only to what I can answer."
Rigel probably already knew what Walther wanted to ask him. Most likely, this concerned the mastermind behind all of this.
"Is my daughter okay...??"
Huh. Rigel didn't expect Walther to ask about his daughter's circumstances.
"Yes he's fine, and yet... Aren't you going to ask me who caused all this to happen...??"
Walther only smiled gently at Rigel who did not understand his point at all. Supposedly Walther was upset and angry at Takatsumi's actions, the mansion he lived in burned down and it almost killed him. But until now Walther has not even said any curse.
"Well, I don't care as long as my family and people are okay."
"I don't understand it at all, all your possessions are burned and you don't care??"
"Treasure and burning things can still be replaced, Mr. Rigel. But your family and loved ones won't be able to change easily. Even for me, there is no treasure that I love most besides my own family. And also, as a father who loved his daughter, I was more worried about her safety than myself."
Rigel could not answer. Perhaps Walther's words were a little deep in his heart. Rigel had gained the memories of his mother, and he perfectly understood how precious those memories were to him. Rigel silently waited for Walther to recover.
After Walther recovered his strength, he said it was okay to leave him here because his wife might pick him up. The moon has replaced the sun to shine on the sky, night comes.
"Go, Mr. Rigel. I know that there's still something you have to do, right...??"
"... Yep... You're right, then I'll go."
Without wasting any more time, Rigel teleported to the place he had marked, where the girl he loved spent the night staring at the stars.
"Then, I'm leaving... Teleport..."
The scenery around Rigel changed, he was in the garden he used to stop by. Right in front of him, a blonde girl in white pajamas stood behind him. The girl seemed to have guessed that Rigel was coming and she had noticed Rigel's arrival.
"For a long time no see, Rigel..."