Ever since losing Haku, no matter how little Anyo outwardly seemed to care, the pain deep in his heart had never faded. It felt as though a corner of his life was missing. At this moment, that missing piece had been restored.
Anyo took a deep breath, calming himself amid the overwhelming joy of regaining what he had lost, and began carefully examining Haku's current condition.
This was Absolute Zero, the Ice Release Anyo had helped Haku develop back then. He had never expected Haku to use it to save her own life at the critical moment. So she had not sunk to the seabed that year. Instead, the waves had swept her away, and she had happened to encounter a Land of Snow ship and been hauled aboard. Because of her incomparably pure Ice Release and appearance, the king had mistaken her for the Snow Queen and kept her as a treasure, undisturbed until today.
It was also thanks to the former king, who had collected precious treasures from the Land of Snow to build this altar, that Haku's signs of life had been preserved.
Even so, after more than a decade sealed in ice, her signs of life had grown extremely faint. Every part of her body had been eroded by the ice. Once it broke, her entire body would shatter along with it.
I finally found Haku. I absolutely cannot let her leave me again. Absolutely not...
Anyo steeled himself, his mind racing to find a way to save her.
First came the Spirit Transformation Technique. Even if her physical body was destroyed, as long as her soul survived, Anyo would have a way to resurrect her in the future.
But this time, the Spirit Transformation Technique, which had always worked without fail, encountered an obstacle. After