Thanks to his increasingly powerful soul and body, Shade had not actually been unconscious for very long this time.
Only six hours had passed from when he fainted before dawn to when he woke up now. It was still dawn. After confirming his mental state, Galina even joked that if he had woken an hour earlier, he could have seen Miss Isabella visiting the wounded aboard the ship.
"The wounded? Is everyone all right?"
"Everyone is fine, though everyone is exhausted. Aside from Vanessa and Megan, who are still busy outside, everyone else is in their rooms. Breakfast is still being prepared. Do you want to go see them? No, let me examine you first. Let me take a look~"
In the past, it had always been the Witches who visited Shade after a great battle. This time, however, it was Shade who went to visit the ladies after waking up. Galina's examination did not take long. Rather than doing anything else at a time like this, she took the initiative to tell Shade about what had happened after Miss Isabella entered the woodland.
Relief work was now underway in the city, and the full extent of Vesta City's losses from the battle was still being tallied. While changing clothes in his room, Shade looked out at the dawn and thought of Professor Yuke Wood again:
"Though he played the villain in this story, he was still a Hero who protected the Material World. No matter how The Church embellishes this war, at the very least, Vesta City University's teachers and students should know that the missing Professor Yuke Wood was a Hero.
"It would not be convenient to explain the World Tree Remnants to ordinary people, but surely The Church can at least do that, right?"
"I knew you