This showed that he had reached his limit of heat tolerance.
Although the flames had not reached him yet.
He had still suffered what was almost the most fatal damage possible.
Just as Kitahara Kaede was about to resign himself to his fate.
The sound of rustling pages suddenly rang out.
Then, a sigh sounded beside Kitahara Kaede's ear.
"Ahh~"
There was unmistakable weariness in the voice.
That single sigh made Kitahara Kaede feel endless desolation.
Hearing that voice, Kitahara Kaede wanted to find its source.
But when he forced his eyes open.
What he saw was that familiar scene.
He had returned to that village.
He had left that strange place.
Or perhaps, he had never left at all.
He had merely just escaped back.
Kitahara Kaede was still shaken.
But more than that, he wanted to find the person who had spoken.
Because Kitahara Kaede had sensed many things within that sigh.
Familiar, yet unfamiliar.
Still, Kitahara Kaede knew that he could not possibly find anything here.
So he lay back down.
Then he began recalling what had happened before.
He remembered that he had previously been in the library on the Ancestral Star of Extreme Evil.
Of course, at that time, he had still been relying on the power of the talisman.
To tear away the fig leaves of those Extreme Evil powerhouses.
Which had been hidden away for who knew how many years.
Then Kitahara Kaede had read through them all.
Just thinking about it made him sick.
But now was not the time to think about that.
Right now, Kitahara Kaede felt mostly relieved.
Because what had just happened clearly felt as though it had occurred right before his eyes.
Yet when Kitahara Kaede came to his senses.
It was like a dream.
That made