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Volume 8 Chapter 196

Star Spirit King

「「Father, we’re back」」
「Mai and Mei eh. Welcome back」
This is the Spirit Palace at the center of the Spirit World.
I am the master of the Spirit Palace, the king of all spirits—the Star Spirit King.
My adorable daughters have returned.
If you were coming, you should have informed me in advance. I could have arranged a celebration for Mai and Mei returning.
—-But, if I do something like that without permission, my wife might get angry again.
I can’t do anything extravagant, but I could have gathered all the spirits in the Spirit World to welcome you.
So, I wanted you to let me know in advance.
Huh? What? You didn’t want me to do that?
Did you come back without notifying me because you thought I would do something like that?
Oh, I see. I apologize.
……Don’t do it in the future?
Alright. I won’t do it the next time you come back.
But, are you sure you don’t want a welcome?
If I decide to, I can gather not only the spirits in the Spirit World but also those in the human world and give you a grand welcome—
N-No! Sorry. It was a joke!
I won’t do anything like that!
So, Mai, don’t try to contact my wife through telepathy!
Lately, my daughters’ attitudes toward me have been cold.
In the past, when I gathered a large number of spirits to show them, both of them praised me, saying, 『Father, you’re amazing』…….
By the way, when I did that, my wife scolded me a lot, saying,『What are you thinking, forcibly summoning busy spirits!』
Because, I wanted to show my daughters something cool! Can’t I use the authority of a king a little?!
—-When I directly appealed to my wife about that, she gave a passionate speech about 『what a king is』 for several days without a break.
Of course, my wife, being a spirit, doesn’t know fatigue.
Moreover, my wife is originally a spirit created by the god who governs the knowledge of this world, and her knowledge is amazing.
So my wife’s passionate speech continued without a moment’s rest for several days.
Since then, I have tried not to go against my wife too much.
Although I can’t raise my head to my wife, who is a powerful spirit, I am quite important.
The ones who govern this world are the gods, including the Creator God. However, the gods cannot directly interfere in the human world. Therefore, we spirits, who convert the energy source of this world, 『Mana』into various forms of energy, play a role.
Mana is the driving force that moves the world.
The most familiar form of Mana for the inhabitants of this world is magic power.
We spirits convert Mana into magic power. In other words, there is always a spirit among humans who can use magic.
Not only among humans.
Spirits that convert Mana into magic power also exist in the magic stones inside monsters’ bodies and in the giant Mana rivers flowing underground called dragon veins.
Spirits in dragon veins fill the world with magic power.
By the way, spirits that convert Mana into magic power don’t have a will.
And when humans use magic, spirits, whether with or without will, play a role in converting Mana into magic power and assigning elements such as fire, water, wind, earth, thunder, darkness, and light to that magic power.
Among spirits that perform element conversion, there are spirits without will, like the ones I control, and spirits with will, like Mai and Mei.
Spirits with will occasionally form contracts with humans and may use magic that humans cannot normally perform.
This world is governed by spirits.
And I am the king of all those spirits.
If I want, I can stop the dragon veins and cause the world to collapse.
Well, as the one entrusted with this world by the Creator God, I would never do such a thing.
In conclusion, what I want to say is that I’m quite amazing.
I can do almost anything.
My daughters have come to rely on me.
「「Father, do you know about duplication magic?」」
—-So that’s it.
Of course, I know.
I am the Star Spirit King.
I know all the magic in this world.
I know, but I’m curious why my daughters are interested in duplication magic.
Duplication magic creates a copy of oneself by dividing the magic power of the original. For example, if a person with 10,000 magic power units creates one duplication, the magic power of the original and the duplication becomes 5,000 each.
However, this magic consumes about 5,000 magic power units to activate it. Therefore, the original has no magic power left, and they die the moment the magic is activated.
If they are lucky enough to convert life energy to magic power in time, they can avoid death but will suffer severe magic depletion.
Moreover, there are few individuals in this world who can maintain a magic power of 10,000 units or more.
That’s why those who can use this magic rarely appear.
That’s why I was curious about why my daughters were interested in duplication magic.
……Oh, right!
Come to think of it.
I may know someone who can use duplication magic—or rather, someone who can definitely use it.
That person is the monster with the monstrous magic power, the one who is the contractor of my daughters Mai and Mei, and the Nine-Tailed Fox who can forcibly summon me.
「I don’t think you two want to teach duplication magic to Haruto……that monster, right?」
The thought of such monster being multiple gives me a headache just by imagining it.
Because, due to that monster scattering an incomprehensible amount of magic power, the spirits are in confusion.
Well, most of the scattered magic power is collected by the Nine-Tailed Fox near him, so it’s somehow managed— that’s the current situation.
「「We want Haruto-sama to use Duplication Magic, is that a problem?」」
……Seriously?
It seems that my daughters intend to let that monster learn duplication magic.
「Tell me the reason why you want Haruto to use duplication magic」
If it’s a convincing reason, I thought I might teach him duplication magic.
My daughters came to me for the first time in a while.
I wanted to help a little.
「「Um, well—」」
My daughters blush.
W-What is this? That embarrassed expression!
They’ve never shown such an expression in front of me!
「「Well, we want to increase the days when Haruto can sleep with us……」」
—Huh?