Despair

After destroying the decoy body of the demon lord, he was sitting on his knees in that dark room. Tears were continuously coming out of his eyes as he was staring at the corpses of his friends.

'Only if I had reached here in time...' He thought to himself.

He slowly stood up while calming his breathing and prepared himself to cast a spell.

"Dimensional Magic: [Inventory]" he said while pointing his right hand towards the corpses.

A white-colored circle appeared below them and all the corpses and the blood which was on the floor went inside that circle. Once all of it got inside the circle closed.

The spell he used right now was a dimensional spell which allows the user to store things in a personal dimension.

"You will pay for this!" He said and walked out of the room with a death glare in his eyes. He walked down the stairs and checked out from the inn.

Four guards and a girl who was wearing silver-colored armor entered the inn at the same time as he left, the girl glanced at him but he ignored her and walked away.

After leaving the inn he went straight to the library he used to go for collecting information on the magic of this world. He entered the library, reached a certain shelf, and started finding something in the books there.

One by one he took and read all the books, but he was unable to find what he was looking for. After turning the pages of around 297 books he stopped at a certain page of a certain book and read a certain paragraph, but after reading it he was even more disappointed.

The paragraph was about rebirth magic, magic by which the caster can bring back the souls of the dead in their body again.

It was similar but a little different from reincarnation magic, in reincarnation magic the soul of a dead person is planted into a different body and in rebirth magic, the soul is brought back into the same body.

But the reason behind his disappointment was the way of casting this magic. Reincarnation or Rebirth, both of the magic spells will work only if cast within 5 seconds of death.

After 5 seconds, the thin thread which combines the soul and body breaks, and the souls are recycled in the process of birth and death.

The only exception is when a soul from a different world is to be reincarnated, like what happened which him.

Filled with disappointment he left the library.

***

A day has passed since that horrible event; along with Haruto's friends, the king was also killed. The news about the king still hasn't been announced publicly but due to the sudden increase in security around the capital, people have started talking about it and rumors are spreading.

After the death of his friends, Haruto went to the guild to know about their families or friends but came back empty-handed.

All of them were raised in an orphanage after their village was attacked and destroyed by local thugs, but he still wanted to give them a proper goodbye so he buried their bodies in a public graveyard.

Right now he is coming back after submitting a report to the guild about what happened, in the papers, it was stated that their party was attacked by monsters at night while they were coming back after completing the quest and Haruto was the only one who survived.

'Just give them a few gold coins and you can change the way someone died, sigh,' He thought to himself and kicked the dirt on the ground.

He stopped in an empty place; none was there instead of him.

"Now then, it's time for you to say goodbye! All of it happened because I was holding back, but not anymore. I don't care what happens to this world now, what I care about is to give you and your species a nightmare you have expected."

He said and released the entire aura he had with 2% of his power, his aura which he was holding back so anyone can't detect his true potential.

The ground and structures around him started shaking rapidly only by his aura.

The land beneath his foot burned and rocks melted, but this much aura was only coming from 2% of his full power.

"It's still not enough!" He screamed and raised both of his hands towards the sky.

"I will open the seal which will allow me to use teleportation magic, and then, then I will nuke their kingdom."

He released all the aura he had within the 2% power limit, he then formed a triangle by his hand using the thumbs as the base and the first two fingers of each as one of the sides of the triangle.

He bought the triangle in front of his face and screamed.

"Sixty-four Star Seal, Releas—"

Before he was able to say anything a big white-colored energy beam that was launched from the sky, hit him.

The beam caused a great impact on the ground and the area within a 50-meter radius got destroyed.

As the beam disappeared after a few seconds, Haruto also vanished with it.

He was nowhere to be seen.

Then the white-colored energy which was coming down in the form of an energy beam suddenly stopped and then it started going up towards the sky, following the energy which was going up the damage which was caused by the impact also started getting repaired.

It was like someone was playing the whole thing that happened in reverse.

Flowing upwards the beam slowly vanished and the surrounding area was fully recovered from the damage like nothing ever happened there.

***

"Father! Where are you going?" A little girl asked in an acute and passive voice as she came out of a room following a man.

Wearing a white colored skirt, she had light purple colored hair and crimson eyes.

"Don't worry my little princess, I will come back soon," The man said and patted the little girl on her head.

The man walked away towards the bright light which was coming in from a huge gate, leaving the girl behind in the darkness. She ran towards that man, trying to reach him but the distance between them kept getting longer. In the end, she gave up and fell to her knees.

Tears came out of her eyes as she saw that man going further away from her and then he vanished from her sight leaving her alone in that darkness.

Suddenly she woke up in her bed and found out that what she saw was a dream.

She put her touched her eyes and felt that she was crying, even though it was a dream; it made her cry in real.

"A dream?" she asked herself.

She wiped out the tears and got out of her bed and walked towards the door, while walking towards the door she saw herself in a mirror which was hung on the wall.

Her appearance was the same as the girl in the dream, Light purple colored hair with a pair of crimson eyes, and was wearing a white colored nightdress.

The only possible difference between the girl in the dream and her was their age, the girl in the dream was around five years old but she was a girl in her teens.

She was staring at herself in the mirror while someone knocked on the door and she came back to her senses.

"Miss Hanako, may I come in?" A voice asked from outside the door.

She again wiped the tears with her hands and replied.

"Yes, come in."

The door opened and a lady who was wearing a classical maid outfit walked inside with a pair of clothes in her hand.

"Miss Hanako, may I help you change?" The maid asked.

"No, I will do it by myself," She replied.

The maid bowed to her and slowly walked out of the room.