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Kuro was undone from hi trances. Soujin's shout was effective enough to take him back to this world. With his mind working perfectly now, he is invincible (maybe).

Although Kuro was somewhat scared due to the stranger's sudden shout, Kuro tried his best not to show it to his face. Taking a deep look at the situation, he was in relief as the stranger didn't pounce toward him and try yo kill him.

'Mio-chan is here as well…' Kuro tried to sorts the complicated thoughts inside his mind. And got to the single conclusion. 'King?'

Although faint, and barely felt, it existed. The aura of dominance, similar to what Maou had. 'If so, the woman by his side should be, the queen, or random stranger…'

Kuro then decided to bet his everything trying to solve this problem which a single mistake may cost his life. "Are you the mister Ayame-chan always talked about?"

Of course it's a lie. Ayame have never talked about the person she knows. As for why I said 'mister,' although I somewhat guess that Ayame's some country's princess, I wasn't sure that if the person in front is father.

Although risky, it piqued Soujin's interest and cheered his mood a little bit. "Oh? I see~ my daughter talk about me from time to time. Fumu fumu (nods). What does she say about me?"

His words almost guaranteed that he is somewhat related to Ayame-chan. Then that woman by his side…crimson pupils, white hairs… her appearances looks like the image I made for adult Ayame-chan.

Without taking a time, Kuro said unhurriedly. "She said… she is bored inside the country, lonely. Oh, an you're very loving." At the same time, Kuro also thought of something inwardly while gently rubbing Ayame's back 'I'll find the reason why you have low self esteem.'

'Bored inside the country' is mostly the reason why we met in first place, and from her experiences of sleeping while being caught by someone, shows how inexperienced she was outside the world.

'Lonely' as in: first, I've never see her with someone other than Mio-chan. Second, whenever stranger appears, she'll go quiet suddenly. Third, she could smile so well around everyone (korone, okayu, botan, etc…

All of this is under prediction. And… seems like, it was jackpot. The woman by Soujin's side, once again showed a surprised face.

Soujin, folded his arm as to think something deeply, and darkened his face… huh? Darkened his face? At the same time, not spending a single delay, he disappeared from the place, and grabbed Kuro by his face. For some reason though, Okayu and Ayame lying in his lap was undisturbed, as if they were under the sweet temptation to stay asleep—no impact was delivered there.

Kuro's face dragged and pushed at the distance he was unsure how much is covered, he confirmed his neck by touching it. 'Unbroken, good… now this is going to be pain.'

The place where both Kuro and Soujin stopped, was at completely foreign place of this forest. Soujin released a deathly aura which threatened any life forms around. But Kuro was unfazed. Which caused some surprise in Soujin. "Hoh~, you are unaffected by death pressure."

Seeing Kuro's mouth unmoved, Soujin shrugged to himself. "Come to think of it, you can also speak, Maoul for some reason, can't you? Let me ask once again. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂?"

The pressures changed from 'deathly' to 'strong dominance' which puts Kuro to his knee unconsciously and an strong presences that caused his desire to resist weakened. Nevertheless resisting, he can't even move from his current spot. "I… I am… Kuro…"

Words came out from Kuro's mouth, he was dominated by the sheer pressures alone. Which made Soujin ponders a bit. "Tell me your identity. Are you reincarnator? If so, what were your previous title here in your past life?"

Word keeps coming out from Kuro's mouth no matter how much he tried to resist. "I don't… have an identity…I am… just a children… orphan… I am… not a… reincarnator… I didn't… have a title… here in my… past life…"

Toward this Kuro's answer, Soujin was further confused. "So you're not the person who have attained some achievements in time magic and reincarnated in either past or future… but this is weird. It's impossible to resist death aura, unless you have experienced death itself, ah, hold on. Tell me, have you died before? If so, how much did you die to get here?"

Kuro struggled but it brought 0 effect. "1 time…"

"Yep. Figured. Although I don't know what's your intention of getting close to my daughter, since I can't endanger my daughter… die here." Soujin, flicked his finger, as the force in the air, danced around the wind, forming a shapes of spear.

The spear, made completely out of the spiralling forces and sheer air pressures, it launched toward Kuro who's in his knee. The air in spear so compressed that it was visible to bare eyes, it transmitted the trauma hidden in Kuro's memory.

The warm body that's rapidly losing it's heat. The hot blood that continued to flows out of her heart. Cloud Javelin…

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The darkness within Kuro activated and coated him. Meanwhile, the aura of dominance could no longer suppress his body and unlocked him from the bind. However, it was already too late to dodge.

Instead, Kuro spiralled both his arm in the air, drawing a circle made out of black abyss. The blackhole-like orbs tried to guard Kuro and absorb the forces within, but it was broken easily like a mirror shattering, and the compressed air made into spear, continued piercing the wind, and eventually…

Accurately pierced Kuro's brain, or so what it seemed. Kuro's forehead suddenly glowed and a mark floated out, indicating a mighty creature, the kings among the animal: Lion.

The lion marking easily blocking the spear, the marking shone in silver glimmers as an actual white lions came out of marking.

The lion roars almighty asserting fears in every living things, and it pounced toward Soujin who was standing there, looking at the situation amusingly.

Brandishing its sharp claws, it swiped toward Soujin, also drawing an silver claw marks mid-air. However, Soujin just swiped its arm in lazy manner as the claw attack, as well the lion which was pouncing, was deflected to the air, the lion itself was sent to somewhere far-away.

"INTERESTING! I don't know how you did it, but you actually harnessed that crazy lion's interest." Soujin looked at Kuro as if he was looking at exotic animals in zoo for the first time.