I don't want to be a heroic spirit

He was a man of about thirty-five, with dark gray-blond hair and eyes like blades. He was dressed in a suit as black as darkness, and his eyes were fixed on the news in front of him.

"Do you need me to come over?"

Standing next to Westcott is a girl with long light blonde hair, Ellen Mathers. She is the executive force behind DEM, the head of the Second Executive Department, and the wizard who holds the title of the world's strongest.

"When you arrived, the research facility had been practically razed to the ground."

Westcott shrugged, a smile on his face but no hint of a smile. His tone was so cold it sent chills down one's spine. "After all, the spirit that appeared this time was Meteor. Putting aside other factors, her extreme speed alone is already a real problem."

"Meteor...huh?"

Behind Westcott, Airen, known as the world's strongest magician, slowly lowered his eyes.

"Hmm? What? Are you interested in that elf?"

Westcott's mouth curled up slightly, and his cloudy eyes glanced at Ellen.

In response, Ellen remained silent, as if she hadn't heard Westcott's words at all.

"Or……"

Westcott spoke again, "You... think you can't deal with Meteor?"

Westcott's words made Ellen's brows twitch slightly.

"…This isn't funny, Isaac."

With obvious dissatisfaction in his slowly opening eyes, Ailian said: "I am the strongest. There is no enemy in this world that I cannot deal with."

"But I have to admit that Meteor is also very powerful."

Ailian suddenly changed the subject, "She can accelerate to double or even several times the speed of sound in an instant. If she were to unleash this extreme speed in battle, it would indeed become very troublesome."

Westcott continued to smile as he listened to Ellen's analysis.

However, this wasn't the analysis he wanted.

"Will you lose?"

All he wanted was results, so he asked directly.

"It will win."

This is the result that Ellen gave to Westcott.

Seemingly satisfied with Ellen's answer, Westcott nodded. "Then go ahead. Even if all the facilities there are destroyed, it's just a trivial matter. The researchers and magi left there are just consumables that can be replaced at any time even if they die. But the meteor that appeared there, which has something more important, is most likely for that purpose."

"But this is quite intriguing. Where did Meteor get this information?"

Ailian understood what Westcott meant and said expressionlessly, "I can get the answer from Meteor."

"Really? Then I'll leave it to you."

Westcott's tone was calm, as if nothing around him could pique his interest. "If it were you, you would definitely be able to perfectly fulfill my expectations... After all, you are unmatched in the world, humanity's greatest magus."

……

Neril Island, a small island located in the Pacific Ocean.

It looks like an ordinary island, but in fact, this island is not shown on the map at all. DEM built a research facility underground on this island, and in the deepest part of it, it imprisoned a life form designated as a special disaster that Ailian once captured.

That is...

"Honjo Niya."

Looking at the gray-haired girl in the container, Melyuchina gently said her name.

"...Is he in a coma? That's good too."

There were many signs of torture on Honjo Nia's body. Melyuchina frowned when she saw these signs, but she did not start treatment immediately.

"Before treatment, let me seal your memories of the past five years... Keeping this will give you nightmares."

Because she was worried that Honjo Nia would wake up after all the wounds on his body were healed, Melyuchina planned to seal all the memories of the torture he had suffered.

Although, Melyusina is very resistant to magic such as memory manipulation, because in her opinion, a person's memory is also a part of the self.

To Melyuchina, arbitrarily changing a person's memory was as disgusting as a real person wantonly playing with another person's soul.

But...extreme times call for extraordinary measures.

What happened in the past five years has done nothing but harm to Honjo Niya. It might be better to completely forget such painful memories.

Only by sealing this memory can Honjo Nia continue to live.

While using magic to seal Honjo Nia's memory, Melyusina suddenly discovered a small thing in Honjo Nia's brain.

"This... should be the device that DEM used to seal Honjo Nia's memories, right?"

In the original novel, no matter what torture methods DEM used, he could not make Honjo Nia despair and turn around, because Honjo Nia had already lost hope in everything and completely closed off her own emotions. Without hope, there would naturally be no despair.

Afterwards, Honjo Nia accidentally escaped, and her memories of being imprisoned and tortured were sealed by DEM. After that, Honjo Nia gradually realized the beauty of life in the process of getting along with Gokawa Shido. Just when she was about to be sealed by Gokawa Shido, Westcott unsealed the seal on her memory, successfully reversing Honjo Nia's despair.

Then, Nia Honjo had the [Divine Eclipse Volume] snatched away by Westcott, and successfully became the most useless elf in this anime.

You've ruined a good hand of cards, Aunt Erya. You clearly have such a powerful ability.

After dealing with the seal on the memory and the device in Honjo Nia's brain, Melyusina gave Honjo Nia a simple treatment.

However, Honjo Nia still did not wake up.

Melyuchina whispered as she picked up Honjo Nia in a princess-carrying position.

"It's time to take off."

Then, it turned into a reverse-flying meteor and quickly rose into the sky.

When Melyuchina was performing surgery on Honjo Nia, Elen, an uninvited guest, had already arrived at Nerier Island.

After seeing the situation clearly, Ailian twitched his eyebrows.

"That Meteor guy is making a big fuss."

Ailian saw the miserable state of the base. In Ailian's opinion, the base was completely unusable. If she wanted to repair it completely, she might as well find a piece of land and rebuild it.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Ellen. Her only duty is to fight and declare herself the strongest through victory.

Ellen's confidence is not without reason, because artificial magicians are definitely no match for a beginner magician like her. There are only four beginner magicians like her in the world, two of whom are not good at fighting, and the other has serious physical problems. This is why Ellen has firmly established herself as the "World's Strongest Magician".

There was no need to look for the other party's traces specifically, because Ailian had already sensed the absurdly large spiritual power fluctuations.

"What unreasonable spiritual power... Is this the meteor that caused the S-class spacequake?"

Ailian's brows knitted slightly, and a solemn look gradually emerged in his eyes. "Apart from the original elves, this is the first time I have seen such powerful spiritual power..."

Ailian discovered Melyuchina, but Melyuchina noticed her presence earlier than Ailian.

The maximum range of magic detection is tens of kilometers, which is far beyond the reach of Ailian's spiritual power detection system.

"Hmm? Are there still enemies?"

Melyuchina tilted her head in confusion. "Is it the one who slipped through the net before? No... This opponent is clearly not on the same level as the ones we encountered just now, and... she seems to have come from far away?"

Melusina glanced down at the sleeping Nia Honjo in her arms and hesitated for a moment. "It seems we'll have to delay our return..."

After finding a safe room, Melyuchina gently placed Honjo Nia on the bed, and left a barrier to prevent anyone from discovering the place, then turned around and prepared to fight.

"Ok?"

Melyuchina cried out in surprise because her hand was suddenly held.

Although the other party was not very strong and she could shake him off with a little effort, she still stopped and looked back at Honjo Nia, whose eyes were full of worry.

"Did you have a nightmare..."

Melusina was silent for a moment, then took Honjo Nia's hand and knelt on one knee like a loyal knight, with her free hand gently resting on the back of Honjo Nia's hand.

"I will be back soon. You don't need to be afraid anymore."

Melyuchina gently kissed the back of Honjo Niya's hand, her gentle tone reminiscent of the gentle breeze blowing across the lake. "The nightmare is over. From now on... you can sleep well."

Melyuchina raised her hand and stroked Honjo Nia's forehead for a while, her palm emitting a gentle power.

When Melyuchina withdrew her hand, Honjo Niya's arms had relaxed, the clouds of worry between his brows had dissipated, and looking at the peaceful smile on his face, it seemed that he was having a good dream.

Seeing this scene, the smile on Melyuchina's face became a little more relaxed.

After leaving the room, a few minutes later, Melyuzina saw Ailian who came to see her.

Similarly, Ailian also saw Melyusina. After discovering that Melyusina was the only one there, Ailian frowned.

"Meteor...are you the only one here? Where's 'Material A'?"

However, Airen did not receive a response from Melyuchina... He could only watch as Melyuchina flung out the blade on her arm armor and felt the momentum that surged like a surging wave.

"You're not going to answer me? What a shame."

Elen took out the lightsaber attached to the manifestation device and said, "Looks like I'll have to use some tricks to get you to talk after defeating you."

Hearing what Airen said, Melyuchina blinked in surprise, and after looking at Airen, she tilted her head in a slightly confused manner.

"Do you think you can beat me?"

"What do you want to say?"

Ailian stared at Melyuchina with a matter-of-fact tone, "I am the strongest. No matter who my opponent is, I will win. There is no enemy in this world that I cannot defeat."

Ailian's words made Melyuchina silent for a while.

"Before the battle begins, I have something to tell you."

Melyuchina pointed at herself with her thumb. "The only person in this world who can be called 'strongest' is you, and only you. I am born to be the most powerful creature on this planet."

Then, he pointed his index finger at the dazed Ailian, "And you are the challenger... a foolish challenger who dares to challenge the strongest dragon and can't even see his own strength clearly."

Coming back to his senses from his daze, Airen's body began to tremble with anger.

"You're such a good talker! Wait until I beat you to your knees and see if you can still be as eloquent as you are now!"

After saying that, Elen charged towards Melyuchina.

……

"I'm back……"

Itsuka Shiori...or rather, Itsuka Shido in women's clothing pushed open the door and walked in, his face full of fatigue.

Today, with the help of Gokawa Kotori and others, he had a series of contacts with Yui Miku, and the process went very smoothly... Because it was too smooth, he felt extremely tired, and now he just wanted to go back to his bed and lie down for a while.

Because he was very familiar with the environment of his home, Shido Itsuka didn't look at his feet, and then... he fell flat on his face.

"Ouch! Why is there something on the floor? Did Tohka throw her pillow on the floor again? Or was it Kotori..."

Covering his chest in pain, Shido Itsuka slowly got up from the ground and looked back.

"……Eh?"

Shido Gokawa's whole body froze instantly and he stood there in a daze, because next to him, a girl with long golden hair and covered in scars was lying there.

"Hey! Are you okay? Wake up!"

Itsuka Shido tried to wake him up, but to no avail.

"Keep your voice down, Shidou. I'll be embarrassed if you wake her up."

When Shido Itsuka heard the voice, he turned his head and saw Melusina standing not far away, looking at him with a pair of gilded eyes without any warmth.

"Lancelot, why are you here..."

Itsuka Shido asked subconsciously, then he remembered that there was an unconscious woman beside him, "No! Lancelot, come and help, this person is seriously injured and needs to be treated quickly."

"I refuse."

With eyes wide open in shock, Gokawa Shido looked at Melyuchina and asked in confusion: "Why?"

"Why do you say that..."

Melyuchina tilted her head, "Because... the wound on that man was caused by me."

"!!!"

"Why are you so shocked? Shidou, take a closer look at that person's face. You should know him, right?"

Shido Gokawa was physically and mentally exhausted due to a series of events today, and his brain's ability to process information was a little sluggish. It was not until Melyuchina reminded him that Shido Gokawa carefully looked at the unconscious woman in front of him.

"...Wait a minute? This isn't the person I met on Orimi Island..."