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Translator: Kazumi
Editor: Kabur & Silavin
In the end, the work of reviving the Prost Clan was completed with the help of only two Gods, Clara and Kousuke.
It was a process of giving a body in the form of a summoning of souls held together by the coffin of Prost.
Clara knew how to summon the necessary souls, so Kousuke simply followed the instructions.
Of course, this was only based on Kousuke’s intuition, but according to Shrein, it would not be so easy to summon a soul.
If it were that easy to summon people, then the Prost Clan members, especially those in Biana’s position, would simply take their time to summon them.
The reason they have not done so was because even if they wanted to summon them, they could not.
It was only natural that Biana almost had a stroke when she saw Clara and Kousuke summon her clan members one after the other.
Shrein, who had foreseen this, supported Biana as she was about to collapse, but Kousuke, who was engrossed in the summoning, did not even notice.
The number of people summoned by Kousuke reached up to a hundred.
There were other races in the world that maintained a much smaller number of people, so opinions may differ whether this was a large or small number for a single clan, but it was an extraordinary number for someone to summon so many people in such a short time.
By the end of the event, the expression on Biana’s face and on the faces of the summoned individuals was truly that of a person watching a God.
Of course, it would be difficult to accommodate a hundred people in the room where the Prost coffin was set up, so the summoned people were moved to another room.
As Kousuke was steadily summoning the last member, the Prost Clan members remaining in the room bowed their heads to the last person summoned, and Peach also called out.
“…Ah?!”
Kousuke reacted at the reaction of Peach to the last of the summoned individuals, and was about to ask her what happened when suddenly, the summoned spoke to Peach before he could.
“Oh. The fact that you are here means everything went well, right?”
Kousuke tilted his head at those words, not understanding why the last summoned reacted that way even though she had just been summoned.
[Kousuke, this last one is Old Ines.]
Clara’s advice startled him, and Kousuke involuntarily looked at the person he had summoned once more.
No matter how he looked at her, Kousuke did not see her as someone who could be called “Old”.
From what Kousuke understood, Ines had been the leader of the Prost Clan for many years.
While Kousuke was surprised, Biana approached the summoned Ines and introduced Kousuke.
“Old Ines. That one over there is the <Supreme One>.”
Old Ines, who had been told this, widened her eyes in surprise, as did Kousuke.
Peach had given her some knowledge, but she did not know what the <Supreme One> looked like.
“What!!!”
Upon hearing this, Ines hurriedly knelt down.
Seeing this, the rest of the Prost Clan members who were still present frantically got into the same position.
Some of them looked at Biana reproachfully, wondering why she had not said something earlier.
After the last summoning, Kousuke, who had confirmed that the summoning circle had finished its work and disappeared, offered a suggestion to them.
“Ah. for the time being, why don’t everyone discuss such matters after things have calmed down a bit?”
[Right. I suggest so as well, and it looks like it’s time for me to go.]
Ines, who saw Clara saying that, again hurriedly bowed her head as she knelt down.
She seemed to realize immediately who Clara was, with her Divine Power still leaking out of her.
[I’ll leave the rest to you. Well then, I will be heading back to Sanctuary.]
“Okay.”
[Next time you come to Sanctuary, please come see me, so I can thank you properly.]
After saying so, Clara abruptly disappeared from the room.
It was a very simple way of disappearing, but it was also a way to avoid leaving any trace of her power on the scene.
Kousuke erased his remnant Divine Power, while Clara’s disappearance also eliminated most of the Divine Power that was present in the place.
It would be more accurate to say that the Divine Power simply diminished, but for those who had been there until now, it was better to say that it disappeared.
The remnants of Clara’s Divine Power that were still there would remain for some time before finally fading away.
That alone was proof of Clara’s descent to that place.
“So, about the future, as I said before, can everyone discuss what they want to do while I go settle some things?”
Before Kousuke performed the summoning, he and Biana had discussed some direction as to what they would like to do.
Of course, that included bringing them to the Tower.
“Thank you for giving us the opportunity. But, what are you planning to do right now, Kousuke-sama?”
Biana asked Kousuke, and he smiled back.
“I’m going to talk to the Temple Director who is in charge of the temple here. I guess I can’t leave him out of the loop until the end.”
Biana bowed to Kousuke as he said this.
“I really apologize for the trouble.”
“Well, now that it’s come to this, things should be handled more quickly if I deal with them as a living god.”
Since his identity was already known to the Temple Director and others, and since he had done all this, it would be quicker to talk to them as a God.
Kousuke had no intention of going out of his way to try to talk to them as an adventurer.
“I’m looking forward to it.”
“Yes, leave it to me. Now then, I’ll go say hello to them.”
Kousuke said so, and with Peach and Mitsuki in tow, he headed for the Temple Director’s office.
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The Temple Director, perhaps preparing for Kousuke’s request to meet with him, was able to receive him immediately.
The temple was located deep in the mountains, so there were few visitors, which was probably one of the reasons for the quick meeting.
Without even saying hello, Kousuke explained what had happened this time.
He did not tell the whole story, but just mentioned that Clara had descended in that room and the Prost Clan had been summoned.
The Temple Director’s face turned blue when he heard that the Goddess Clara had descended and his face turned white when he heard that the Prost Clan had been summoned by the power of the Goddess Clara.
After waiting for Kousuke to finish speaking, the Temple Director, Adrian, asked fearfully.
“So, um… What happened to our Main Goddess?”
“She can’t descend for such a long time. She has already returned to the Sanctuary.”
Hearing this, Adrian’s face became overtly relieved.
It was as if he had stopped hiding his emotions in front of Kousuke.
Adrian’s expression improved somewhat, and he cleared his throat before asking again.
“So…what about the summoned vampires?”
Adrian asked anxiously, and Kousuke tilted his head.
“What are you so afraid of, Temple Director?”
To put it bluntly, the Church was hostile to vampires a long time ago.
That knowledge would have already been conveyed to them through Biana.
“No, I mean…our past conduct as well…”
After a pause, Adrian said drastically.
“What do they, the Prost Clan, intend to do with this temple?”
With those words, Kousuke understood what Adrian was trying to say.
At the same time, it was clear that the temple side had grasped the fact that the Arcis temple originally belonged to the Prost Clan.
They feared that the Arcis Temple, which was functioning to govern the land, would be taken away by the resurrected Prost Clan.
“Temple Director, we are going to discuss what the Prost Clan will do, but I don’t think they will decide to take this temple back from your people, at least not yet, okay?”
This was not only Kousuke’s guess, but Biana’s words as well.
The reason why they wanted to use the function of the Prost coffin to maintain the temple was to avoid being persecuted as a vampire.
Those who tried to force their way to take over by force had already been dealt with in the past.
Hearing this, Adrian sighed in relief.
“Umm, if they are given any extra help, won’t the people around you try to rebel against them?”
“…What do you mean?”
“For example, if they know something about the past, they might want to purge it.”
“Nope, I don’t think so.”
“If it was you, then I won’t question it, but what about those around you?”
“…”
Kousuke thought of many things that the temple people could have done with the information, but he could simply hope that it wouldn’t go in that direction.
