I Am a Heroic Spirit

Kusakabe Ryoko was relieved that Arthur did not have any trouble. Then she saw that Tobiichi Origami was overwhelmed by Arthur's aura, and knew that it was her turn to take action.

"But, space shock..."

"Leave that to me. I'll take care of it. You can leave now."

Before Kusakabe Ryoko could finish her words, Arthur interrupted her and spoke in a commanding and firm tone.

Kusakabe Ryoko hesitated for three seconds, grabbed Tobiichi Origami, said goodbye to Arthur and left.

"Elf, are you willing to accept the help of me, Arthur Pendragon, and become a subject of the King of Great Britain?"

Arthur extended his right hand toward the elf again.

The elf stared at Arthur in a daze. The heroic figure of the Silver Knight displayed the majesty of a king and the nobleness of a knight. He was like a ray of redemption, illuminating the elf's confused life.

"...I do, my king."

The elf stretched out its slender arm and grasped Arthur's right hand.

-

In the aerial battleship Fraxinus.

"You've earned the elves' trust just like that. You truly deserve to be called the Knight King."

The girl commander said vaguely.

"That's it, it's time for us to retreat."

"Yes, Commander."

-

Since that morning, Arthur has become Zhang Luo's second long-term away from home after Andersen and St. George, and has completely replaced the consciousness of Ser Q.

Andersen's mission is to strengthen the Asakura King and contain him if he eventually becomes a villain. St. George's mission is to lead and integrate the power of Christianity, while Arthur's mission is more specific: to save and subdue the elves.

Saving the elves requires two steps. The first is favorability, so that the elves will not hate the real world and hope to live in it. The second is to help the elves control their own power.

In the first few episodes of Date a Live, Kotori told Shido that Space Shock was caused by the elves unconsciously. Later, Kurumi asked Shido to take back what he said at school, otherwise she would launch Space Shock. It was only then that it was revealed that Space Shock can be controlled. It was launched right after she said that. At this time, Kotori also launched Space Shock to offset it, which shows that Space Shock can be launched by the elves' own will.

The interactions between the real world and the world where the elves live can actually be controlled by the elves. Just like in the original work, because of the agreement with Shido Gokawa, the elves came to the real world and did not cause a spacequake.

The solutions to the problems of the elves' free movement and space vibration are the two points summarized by Zhang Luo.

Because they cannot control their own power perfectly like Kurumi and Gokawa Kotori, the spirits will cause space shocks when they are transported to the real world from time to time. However, before learning to perfectly control their own power, a strong will can also help the spirits achieve this goal.

However, unlike the love relationship between Gokawa Shido and Yatogami Tohka in the original work, the elf now is more like the Knights of the Round Table compared to Yatogami Tohka in the original work. For the elf, Arthur has become her belief.

After leaving Tiangong City, in a remote corner of the neighboring city, Arthur had changed into casual clothes, and the elves had also changed their spiritual clothes into women's clothes similar to Arthur's.

Holding tightly onto the corner of Arthur's clothes, the elf observed the world curiously like a newborn baby. Even a remote path where not many people walked could arouse her curiosity. However, the elf never let go of the hand holding onto the corner of Arthur's clothes.

"your name?"

Walking down the path leading to the main street, Arthur asked knowingly.

"A name? I don't have one, King. Can you help me pick one?" The elf looked at Arthur with longing eyes.

"Name," Arthur looked at the elf, a little hesitant. He thought it would be better to use the name from the original novel. He was not good at naming. "Let's call it Tohka, Tohka Pendragon. Just use my last name."

Besides this, he couldn't think of any other nice name.

"Tohka Pendragon! Same last name as the king!" Tohka said excitedly, her face turning red.

Arthur smiled and said, "You've probably never seen human society in its truest sense. Come with me and take a look today."

"Yeah." Tohka nodded vigorously, her eyes filled with trust, almost fanatical. It seems that compared to the protagonist halo of Gokawa Shido in the original work, Arthur's knight king halo is more effective.

The two of them crossed the small path and came to a main street lined with various shops. At this moment, Tohka frowned and began to peer around.

"Wha...what? There are so many people. Is this a human wave tactic?"

As if startled by the vastly different number of people and vehicles than before, Tohka spoke in an angry tone while maintaining full alert.

However, unlike before, Tohka did not make any attacking moves, but instead grabbed the corner of Arthur's clothes even more tightly, with most of her body hiding behind Arthur, looking around vigilantly.

"Don't be afraid, they are just ordinary people. They won't hurt you and they don't have any hostility towards you."

After Arthur explained, Tohka's originally alert expression relaxed.

At this moment, Tohka's nose twitched twice, and she said with shining eyes, "What a nice smell, King! What is that? It smells so good."

"……fragrance?"

Arthur sniffed the air. Just as he'd predicted, there was a delicious aroma wafting around him, like some delicious dessert.

"That should be it."

Arthur looked in the direction of the fragrance and saw a very popular shop in a relatively remote place thirty meters away. It was a small two-story Japanese-style house.

"oh oh?"

Tohka gave a brief answer and then kept staring in that direction.

"Want to go eat, Tohka?" Arthur noticed a familiar figure outside the store and asked Tohka gently.

"Is it okay, King?" Arthur's question made Tohka move her fingers and asked hopefully.

"Of course, if Tohka wants," Arthur said.

"I want to go. I really want to go!" Tohka said excitedly.

"Let's go, come to think of it, maybe I know that shop." Arthur took Tohka's hand and walked away.

"Mr. Cat, please don't! You've already eaten up all my pocket money this week."

"I want to eat all the snacks and buns from Nanatsujiya!"

Only after getting closer did Arthur see the familiar people's actions and conversations clearly.

A fat white cat was lying on the shop window, drooling at the snacks inside and meowing. The teenager behind it hugged the cat's hind half tightly and dragged it out, hoping to stop the cat's embarrassing behavior.

"Eh? A talking cat?"

Tohka looked at the cat and boy with curiosity. Although it was just a meow to ordinary people, Tohka, as an elf, could hear the cat's words from the meow.

"Eh?"

"Meow?"

The boy and the cat turned their heads together, following the sound and looking at Arthur and Tohka beside him.

The next moment, the cat suddenly broke free from the boy's hands, fell to the ground on all fours, its fur and tail stood up, it let out a warning roar, and took a threatening posture to protect the boy behind it.

Chapter 155

(Although everyone understands this, I still want to explain that updates will be less stable during the period around the Spring Festival. The reason should be clear to everyone, so I won't elaborate.)

"Natsume, step back, these two guys are dangerous."

The cat was filled with uneasiness. With its ability, it could naturally see that the two people in front of it were not ordinary people. The girl was fine. Although the spiritual power in her body was enough to compare with its own, as an old and powerful monster, it was still confident that it could defeat her. But as for the man, although it could not tell how strong he was or whether he had a powerful aura, it could sense the oppression from the superior being from him. That feeling was as if it was facing a giant dragon. No, it should be said that the guy in front of it was very likely a dragon.

"Cat teacher?"

Seeing the cat's big reaction, the boy behind shouted in panic.

Natsume Shiki, and the great monster Madara.

Arthur had already recognized the man and the demon in front of him. He turned his head and looked. Wasn’t the shop next to them Nanatsujiya?

"A talking fat cat, and a human called Fat Cat Teacher." Tohka looked at the human-cat combination in amazement and asked Arthur, "King, can a cat be a teacher for humans?"

"Well, strictly speaking, it's not possible, but this fat cat is not an ordinary cat, it's a big monster." Arthur said seriously.

"Enough! You keep calling me a fat cat, but I'm a noble and elegant high-level monster with a beautiful appearance!" The cat teacher bared his teeth and glared at Arthur and Tohka. A strong demonic power emanated from his body, and it seemed as if he was about to transform.

"Don't mess around, cat teacher." Natsume Shiki picked up the cat teacher and said, "I'm very sorry, my cat is rude."

"No need to apologize, child. Cats don't need etiquette," Arthur said with a good-natured smile. "I am Arthur, Arthur Pendragon."

"I'm Tohka, Tohka Pendragon." Tohka also read out her name seriously.

"I'm Natsume Shiki, and this is Neko-sensei," he said, then he remembered Neko-sensei's previous attitude and asked tentatively, "Are you demon exorcists?"

"No, I'm a heroic spirit, and she's an elf." Arthur shook his head, denying Natsume Shiki's guess.

"Heroic spirit? Arthur Pendragon, are you King Arthur of Great Britain?" The information revealed by Arthur was already very detailed, so that Natsume Shiki immediately guessed Arthur's identity. Suddenly, Natsume Shiki became a little restrained.

"King Arthur? What is that? Natsume, those two guys are very dangerous, push them away quickly and let me go!" The cat teacher struggled in Natsume Shiki's arms and shouted loudly.

"Don't be like this, cat teacher, King Arthur is not an enemy." Natsume Shiki grabbed the cat teacher tightly to prevent it from coming down to make trouble.

"How interesting." Tohka watched the interaction between Natsume Shiki and the cat teacher with interest.

"It's fate that we meet. Why don't I treat you and we can go inside and talk." Arthur said with a smile.

"Will this disturb you?" Natsume Shiki said hesitantly.

"Okay, okay! Let me tell you, the snacks at Nanatsujiya are delicious." The cat teacher disagreed with Natsume Shiki. When Arthur offered to treat her, his eyes lit up and he agreed immediately. However, this was also how the cat teacher saw that Arthur and Tohka had no hostility. As a great youkai who had lived for hundreds of years, he could still see that.

"Don't bother us, we're just going in to have some snacks, and it'll be more lively with more people around," Arthur said. Tohka was already looking into the shop.

"Okay, thank you very much." Natsume Shiki agreed.

Inside a private room in Nanatsuji's house, a table was covered with a variety of delicious snacks. Neko-sensei and Tohka were busy eating the snacks, devouring a whole plate of snacks in seconds, as if they hadn't eaten in ten days. The relationship between Neko-sensei and Tohka also became harmonious, perhaps because they were both foodies.

Arthur and Natsume Shiki ate and talked at the same time, unlike the two foodies next to them who focused all their attention on the food.

"So, you want to save those elves?"

After listening to what Arthur said, Natsume Shiki glanced at Tohka who was competing with the cat teacher for food, and asked Arthur with admiration.

"That's right. Most of them are innocent and have no intention of harming others. It would be too sad if they were killed by humans like this," said Arthur.

"As expected of the King of Knights, your character is admirable." Natsume Shiki said from the bottom of his heart.

"Speaking of moral character, aren't you the same? You gave your name back to the monster, gave up the chance to become the lord of evil spirits, and you have a gentle, kind, and beautiful soul." Arthur's eyes softened.

I have read a lot of Japanese comics and seen a lot of different protagonists, but most of the male protagonists can be said to be losers, and the only thing that can attract girls is their gentleness. It can be said that except for hot-blooded comics, 99% of Japanese comics are like this, including Shido Gokawa next door.

However, most male protagonists only have the disadvantage of being useless, and perhaps a golden finger. And the trait of gentleness is only worthy of Natsume Shiki.

"You're too kind." Natsume Shiki's face flushed. The praise from the famous Knight King made him proud and a little shy.

"Hey, Natsume, you should slow down when you return names! Don't wait until you die and have no name at all. How can I compete with that Nurarihyon for the position of the Lord of Ghosts and Goblins then?" The cat teacher next to him finally raised his head when he heard the topic of names and complained to Natsume Shiki.

Teacher Neko was deeply troubled. When would Natsume die? While human lifespans pale in comparison to those of a yokai, Natsume's speed in changing names was incredibly rapid. Could it be that Natsume's friend book would be completely ripped clean before he died?

Thinking of this, Teacher Cat became even more sad, and he ate his snacks even faster.

Hearing the cat teacher's complaints, Natsume Shiki just smiled, and his eyes looking at the cat teacher were still so gentle. Although the cat teacher kept saying that he wanted him to die quickly so that it could get the Book of Friends, he knew in his heart that the cat teacher was just talking. After all, if it really wanted to die, there were too many ways.

After the meal, most of the dessert, basically five layers, went into Teacher Cat's stomach, the remaining four layers went into Tohka's stomach, and Natsume Shiki and Arthur only got less than one layer.

"Ah, I can finally have a full meal. It feels so good!"

"I feel the same way, Fatty. This was a really good meal."

The cat teacher, with his short front paws, cradled his belly, which was bulging with sweets, and lay down in the middle of the table with his belly facing upwards, looking very happy. Tohka also cleared a space in front of him and lay lazily on the table. The two foodies sighed happily together.

Natsume Shiki lowered his head in shame. It was so embarrassing, cat teacher.

After Arthur paid the bill, the two parties separated outside Nanatsujiya. Natsume Shiki carried the cat teacher home, while Arthur continued to take Tohka to the city center.

"Did you have a good time today?" Bathed in the sunset, the two walked on the streets of the city. Arthur turned his head and asked Tohka who was smiling beside him.

"Yeah, very happy." Tohka nodded vigorously.

"So, what do you think?" Arthur also smiled.

"Everything is fine. The king is the best, Natsume is very gentle, and although the cat stole a lot of my delicious food, it is also very good, just not as good as Natsume and the king. The food is delicious and makes people want to eat more. The scenery is beautiful, and everyone is very friendly." Tohka moved her fingers and said each word seriously.

After saying that, Tohka paused, frowned, and smiled bitterly.

"They—I think I understand what those AST guys are thinking."

"Hmm?" Arthur stopped and listened to Tohka's words.

Tohka also stopped, a slightly sad look on her face, a little different from the melancholy expression she had when she first dealt with AST, but it still made anyone who saw it feel distressed, an expression full of tragedy.

"Every time I materialize, I destroy this beautiful, gentle, and fascinating world. I finally understand why AST wants to kill me. So, after all, I should disappear, right?"

After she finished speaking, Tohka smiled. It was not the innocent smile she had shown all along the way today. Instead, it was a weak and heartbroken smile, like a patient who had realized that he was going to die. It was obvious that she had made up her mind to die and was planning to commit suicide.

Can you realize this? Arthur raised the corners of his mouth, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. As long as he could realize this, he had achieved his goal, but there was no need to think about the rest.

"There's no need to blame yourself too much about the damage that the spacequake has caused to the world." Arthur's smile disappeared from his face, replaced by a serious and earnest expression.