Yes, love can save humanity.

Hild smiled and asked Charles, "If the distance between us could be eliminated, would you still refuse?"

"..." Charles was silent for a moment, then said, "I haven't thought about this question."

This is true.

Putting aside the fact that the war is imminent, thinking about how to live in the future is not the same as setting a death flag for yourself.

Even if he helped Northern Europe to survive, he still had to return to the Fairy Kingdom, waiting for a new simulation and the opportunity to leave the Fairy Kingdom.

Faced with this future full of uncertainty, Charles, who is not considered a genius, is really unable to consider the distant future.

"Charles, you are really... too serious." Hildreth tapped Charles' head lightly and said with some dissatisfaction, "Then I will ask it in a different way."

"If we can stay together forever, what choice will you make?" Hildreth asked, "Or choose no one? Or... everyone stay together?"

Faced with Hildre's hypothetical question, although Ciel had long understood Hildre's intention, he still said in surprise: "Sister Hildre...what do you mean?"

"We are all one and the same. It's not strange to like the same person."

"If there is a huge difference in our relationship, there will inevitably be a gap, and we cannot accept such a result."

Hildre pulled Slud and Otlin to his side and said with a smile, "So, if we ignore the distance issue, Ciel, are you willing to live with us as a family like before?"

Charles was stunned, feeling mixed emotions for a moment, not knowing how to start.

But this time, he had to answer.

Because, this was the question that this beautiful and lovely Valkyrie, who had finally regained her enthusiasm, asked after lowering her posture to the lowest level.

"Of course." Charles smiled, "If I can, I would like to."

"That means... Ciel, you agree?" Hildreth confirmed again, "Can you tell me in more detail so that I can be assured?"

"Yes." Ciel nodded and said seriously, "I want to be with Sister Hildreth and my two sisters forever."

"Great!"

After waiting for three lifetimes, Hildreth finally got the answer and happily hugged the sisters around her.

As if declaring victory, Hildre said proudly: "Hehehe, I am the one who knows Ciel best!"

"Sister Hildreth, you did win. It was just that you were the most shameless one, relying on your status as a sister to bully Ciel."

Ortlinde poured cold water on him, saying, "Knowing Ciel best is not something you, who has been locked up for more than a decade, can do."

"I was put in solitary confinement because you, Ortlinde, complained about it, right?" Hilde said dissatisfiedly, "If you hadn't complained, I would have been with Ciel a long time ago!"

"That..." Slude pointed out seriously, "In the last reincarnation... Ciel confessed to me first..."

"Slude, don't say anything. You are always the passive one."

"That's right, Sister Slude always can't make a decision and wants to maintain the status quo."

"Hmm..." Facing the verbal attacks from her two sisters, Slude blushed and looked at Ciel, "In the last life, Ciel... confessed to me first, right?"

At Slud's question, Hildre and Ortlinde stopped arguing and looked at Charles together, waiting for his answer.

Facing all the looks, Charles said somewhat embarrassedly: "Didn't I already answer that?"

"That's Hildreth's problem." Hildreth blushed and said shyly, "I want to hear you tell me... Is that not okay?"

Faced with his elder sister's shy and charming expression, Charles, who was unable to resist, had to avoid the sharp edge and looked at Hilde and Ortlinde on the side.

However, Hilde and Ortlinde did not sabotage each other as they had done before. Instead, they looked at him in unison, waiting for his answer.

A straightforward and passionate confession is more heartwarming than an implicit reply.

Seeing the affectionate looks of the three Valkyries, Charles knew that he could no longer say anything polite.

"Ah."

"I like Sister Slud, Sister Hildre, and Sister Ortlinde." Perhaps influenced by the atmosphere, Charles blushed and nodded, "If possible, let's be together."

"...That's great." Slude smiled.

"What a greedy confession... but this is indeed the best choice." Ortlinde looked helpless with a smile on her lips.

"It's more than that, isn't it?" Hildurde joked, "Lord Skadi, don't you like it?"

"Skadi..."

Speaking of Skadi, Charles's expression was complicated. He was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "If she can break free from her shackles..."

Before Ciel could finish his words, Hildreth interrupted him.

"Charles, you're making things more complicated again~"

"You came back because you couldn't let go of God Skadi and us, right?" Hildurde preached, "Don't think about the future, just tell me the answer, okay?"

"..."

Charles was silent.

Of course he liked Skadi. He liked her usual dignity, strength, pride, and ignorance of the world, like a young lady from a distant past.

If he didn't like her, he would have plucked her when she appeared before him like a fragile flower ready to be plucked.

If he didn't like her, why would he try so hard to change Skadi and hope that she would become normal?

"Yeah." Charles nodded, "I like Skadi."

"If possible, I also want to be with her." Charles said, "It would be nice to form a carefree family like in the last life."

"That's the way it should be~" Hildreth said with a smile, "It's better for everyone to be together."

"Ciel has really become a bad boy." Ortlinde covered her head and sighed, "I really lost to you..."

"Eh? So... Goddess Skadi also likes Ciel?" Slude said after realizing it, "I didn't even notice... In that case... aren't we stealing the person that Goddess likes?"

"We were the first to arrive!" Hildreth pointed out, "Even if the great god Skadi came, there is no reason for him to give up Ciel!"

"That's right, even the respected Lord Skadi cannot take Ciel away by force!" Ortlinde also nodded, "Besides being the Valkyrie, we are also Ciel's sister and girlfriend! Lord Skadi also came later!"

"...Hilde...Ortlinde..." Hearing the answers of her two sisters, which could be described as overthrowing, Hilde wanted to object, but after looking at Ciel, she nodded and said, "If it is Ciel... we really can't give in."

"You guys..." Facing the conversation between the three Valkyries, Charles didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Well...what about my opinion?"

"""There is no room for Ciel's opinion!"""

The three Valkyries laughed in unison.

Facing the smiles of the three people, Charles also laughed.

Sure enough, it is happier to be with people who truly care about you.

It would be nice if I didn’t have to go back to the fairy kingdom.

It's a pity no.

Therefore, the best thing he can do is to try his best to find a way out for this warm home and this warm world.

Only when dusk falls, dawn will come.

Chapter 42: Shine in the sun, Sword of Fire!

The next day.

Ciel came to the center of the Nordic Lostbelt alone.

Nowadays, the lives in the Nordic Lostbelt have been evacuated to the Tower of the End. The tower is covered with city defenses. The Fantasy Tree has been refined, and "Wandering" and "Wild Hunt" have returned to their original owners...

Before facing "Dusk", he had tried his best to eliminate all unfavorable factors.

Now all that needs to be done is the final warm-up preparations.

"Loki, are you ready?"

Ciel lowered his head and said in a deep voice to the remnant of the god buried in this body: "We will be the only ones left to face the main force of 'Dusk'."

"I am just the echo left after death, so it doesn't matter what you prepare."

"On the contrary, are you ready?"

"With the blessing of my spiritual base, you will be able to be injured when facing Surut."

"As a price, you will experience a burning sensation that you have never felt before, a burning sensation that is enough to destroy your soul."

"From what you said, it's really a bit scary." Charles smiled and said, "Tell me, can I charge you with the crime of 'shaking the morale of the army'?"

"That's true."

"Don't worry, I will help you until the end before I disappear completely."

"After all, there may not be a second chance to avenge and humiliate my murderer."

"Yes, there are not many opportunities to take revenge on the person who killed you." Charles said with a smile, "Then let us once again start to take revenge happily."

"God's spear, give me strength."

Charles stretched out his hand, and endless starlight poured out from the earth, gathering in his hand and transforming into a silver-white spear of light.

He raised his head, summoned the spiritual energy in his body, and threw the magic spear into the sky.

"『Fully Expanded, Great God's Proclamation』!"

With the release of the real name, the spear of light turned into a meteor that streaked across the sky and rushed straight towards the false sun in the sky.

"boom----"

Flames and thunder intertwined in the sky, making a deafening sound.

The violent impact turned into a storm that covered the sky and echoed in the sky, dispersing and destroying countless clouds, clearing the canvas called the dome until only the azure blue remained.

The sun went out.

The area that originally belonged to the sun was now only a hole.

Dark and deep, the hole contains a flame that moves like a living being and is powerful enough to burn everything in the universe.

then.

A giant palm made of flames stretched out from the hole.

Endless molten lava fell from the sky along with the hand that stretched out of the hole.

“Sizzle——”

The vast ice field is turning into scorched earth at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The sun has set.

The flames fell.

From the sky, falling to the ground.

The flaming giant passed through the hole and fell to the ground.

What a huge and terrifying monster it was.

Even the Fantasy Tree that maintains the sky and the Tower of the End of Life cannot be compared to it. Only the highest Peak of Garh in the Nine Realms can be compared to it.

Possessing the heat that ravaged all life, the "Seventh Day (Surutu)" that ended the Norse God Age passed through the prison of the "Third Day (Odin)" and descended into the world again.

"Xia————————er!"

The giant, as huge as a mountain, burned the vast and stagnant ice field to scorched earth just by coming into the world. He stared at the earth and looked at the Charles who was so small and ant-like in comparison, and let out a fiery roar.

"It only took one battle for you to engrave my name in your heart, and even forget about Odin and Ophelia?"

"It's so easy to change your mind."

Ciel's voice was very soft, not even as loud as the wailing that was burning the world.

Ciel's voice was heavy, like a bullet that hit the Fire Giant King's wound accurately.

"I am going to kill you!"

That's it.

The terminator of the Nordic destiny, the giant king of fire, fell into madness under the burning fire of hatred.

Just add the final fuel to the fire and let Him transfer all his hatred to himself.

Before I am destroyed, no life in the Nordic Lostbelt and the loved ones I care about will be harmed.

"Even a hopeless guy like you can project all your emotions onto me."