Editing Unlimited Fafnir:Volume 10 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 4===

"Why... am I still alive?"

Lying on the ground, Loki Jotunheim stared blankly into the dawn sky.

"Naturally, that's because I healed you."

Surprisingly, the answer instantly came from beside his ear.

Shifting his gaze, he saw a young woman looking down at him.

"...Kili Surtr Muspelheim—"

Loki recited her name in surprise.

"You're so lucky. Since the damage to the internal organs was on the light side, it was within my power to heal others using biogenic transmutation, you know? Oh well, there might be after effects and rejection reactions afterwards, but whatever."

She shrugged lightly while speaking coldly.

"Why...? Was it to make the authority's transfer... incomplete...?"

Loki asked "why?" in a different sense than earlier.

Rather than wanting to know the cause of his survival, he wanted to know why the decision had been made to keep him alive.

"Wrong. It's to prevent you from being etched into Yuu's heart."

Kili answered enviously. She sighed deeply.

"If you died, Yuu will never forget you. Perhaps you might become the most important thing in his heart. This is something I absolutely forbid."

After saying that, Kili turned around.

Watching her recede into the distance, Loki muttered quietly.

"...How inane."

But after a while, he began to laugh.

Had he died, what would have happened afterwards? Obliterated together with Midgard at dawn? Although an incomplete replica of a weapon from a lost civilization, it was capable of firing one shot on the level of the original.

But right now, he was alive under the dawn sky. In other words, all his plans had ended in failure. To think he, supposed to be dead, had survived because of a certain person's excessively self-centered reason. This was completely out of left field.

"How inane—This humanlike ending."

His lips twisted in a grin, Loki muttered. With difficulty, he forced this body, barely clinging onto life, to sit up.

Now that he had survived, all he could do was apply himself to his work and given responsibilities.

The thought of having to deal with a defeat's troublesome aftermath felt exceptionally depressing. Be that as it may, even though this was the worst-case scenario, he had still achieved his minimum objective.

Gray had discovered the critical point of her ability to control her authority—Through this incident, rulers trying to exploit her would probably realize their own folly.

The demands made upon her were going to be withdrawn and with that, the dream of achieving absolute world peace would vanish.

"Well, but this bit of accomplishment isn't enough for a 'hero'..."

Despite the intense self-mockery and sarcasm in his remark, Loki's face was showing delight.
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