“I wanna go home…”

“There, there.” Tirna gently patted Elma’s head as she was gloomily hugging her knees in the corner of the room.

Tirna totally looked like Elma’s mother, I absentmindedly watched the scene when Phinis-sama, seemingly still in a bad mood, heaved a sigh and said, “Good grief, this is all you guys’ fault…”

“Huh? Say what?” Fluga-sama glared at Phinis-sama.

It seemed that she still held a grudge over being beaten by Phinis-sama.

However, Phinis-sama was unbothered by it, and said plainly, “If you hadn’t given her your powers, she wouldn’t have been able to purify my Sacred Treasure even if it was broken…”

“My, that’s so unfortunate. But hearing it makes this meat taste soo good.”

Nom nom, Fluga-sama stuffed her cheeks with the dried meat and grinned.

“……”

“?”

Phinis-sama then silently approached me, pushed her body against me, and said, “I was bullied by Fluga… Comfort me…”

“Ehh…”

“Hey, why are you making me the bad guy here!?”

Fluga-sama naturally raised her voice in protest, but—

“……”

Swp, Phinis-sama hid behind me.

“Why’re hiding like you’re scared!? Or rather, you’re obviously stronger than me, aren’t you!?”

“Don’t know…” Phinis-sama looked away.

“This bitch…” Fluga-sama said through gritted teeth, her fists clenched till they shook.

◇ ◇

“I apologize… for having killed you…”

“N-no, even if you say so…”

In any case, the Hallowed Sacred Treasure problem was now solved.

This meant that all that was left to do was to engrave the Phoenix Seal on Elma, but she was currently having a mental breakdown, so I decided to take care of another matter first.

“H-however, have I really come back to life…?”

Yes, it was reviving the man who was blackdollified by Phinis-sama and then dismembered by Elysium.

I mean, he was an unrelated party who unfortunately got dragged into this mess, and since Elysium was trying to use monsters to wipe out humanity, I figured we needed as many fighting forces as we could get.

Not to mention, a famous adventurer like him, who even received the moniker of ‘Hero of Light’, had a lot of support from the people. It was imperative that we get his help.

Since he was still confused about the situation that he was currently in, I calmly explained the situation to calm him down.

After which, the man nodded, “I see,” while looking as if he was slowly digesting the information and said, “Everything sounded outright ridiculous, but seeing as she… I mean, Goddess Phinis, who took my life, obediently listens to you, it’s probably all true.

“However…” the man looked at the girls as if he was amazed, and said, “I never would have imagined that in this world, there would be a man who could win the favor of the seven saintesses, who was said to rarely even appear in the same era, and even the goddesses, whom you’d only hear in legends. I’m sure that you have been saving the world without anyone’s knowledge. Haha, now I feel kind of embarrassed of being called a ‘hero’…”

“No, that’s…”

I naturally felt embarrassed being flattered to that extent, but it appeared that the girls found it rather pleasing.

All of them had a proud look on their faces, and then they said one after another.

“Fu, that’s a matter of course. As I, the legal wife, see it, my husband’s deeds merit him to be called a ‘hero’.”

“Yes, indeed. I agree with everything that Arcadia-san said except the ‘legal wife’ part.”

“Yeah. I’m the legal wife, after all.”

“Oh, that’s a funny joke, Ophir. However, the legal wife is supposed to be me.”

“Unfortunately for all of you, you have a big misunderstanding. The legal wife is me. You agree right, Elma?”

“What!?”

“Fufu, I wonder if I should use this opportunity to announce my candidacy as well.”

“Hey, hey, it’s so bold of you guys to claim to be the legal wife before this goddess. That settles it, all of you come at me. I’m gonna put you all in your place!”

“U-uhh, everyone…?”

This wasn’t the time for this…

Just then.

“Hahaha! Why don’t we go for a second round while they are settling their differences? Right, Turbo?”

“Y, yeah… wait, I didn’t mean that!? I just unconsciously nodded!?” Turbo-sama’s face turned bright red.

“Hahaha! I knew you liked it!” Igniver-sama laughed jovially.