Forsaken Priest of the Hero's Party-Chapter 54: Cosmic Enlightenment

The sun and the moon. One is the king of the day, and the other is the queen of the night.

The people of ancient times thought of these two as the heavenly couple.

They seemed almost the same size and were considered a very well-matched pair. Of course, the moon is just a tiny satellite that can’t even be compared to the sun.

Far from being a spouse, it doesn’t even qualify to be a servant.

Ah.

The sun and moon, which seemed similar in size due to being far apart, approached Roka, who was floating in the void of space. The closer they got, the more their size began to be fathomed.

First, the moon brushed past Roka. Its gentle gravity pulled Roka in. It was shocking that this lumpy, hole-ridden sphere was the same beautiful moon she had seen before.

T-this is the moon?

The child, who thought rabbits lived on the back of the moon, was shocked by the revealed truth.

Nothing lived on this dead start. This dead satellite. There is no life anywhere.

The lunar surface was not as beautiful as it looked in the night sky. The child was inwardly greatly shocked by that fact.

But in a sense, this ugly appearance of the moon is the result of sacrifice. Suddenly, a glowing comet from the other side of the sky brushed past Roka with a burning tail. Roka’s pupils dilated when she saw where it was headed.

Now...Roka hasn’t seen many jewels in her short life...But she was 100% certain that the jewel before her eyes was the fairest of all.

One composed of 70% ocean and 30% dirt. She was entranced upon seeing the jewel named Pyros.

The jewel that served as the home of all.

Their house.

In Pyros was where all the joys and sorrows of the world unfold and are erased.

But now, a white comet was approaching this star, trying to cause an unprecedented catastrophe. The comet, carrying destructive energy, became the most fatal arrow and fell towards Pyros.

Boom!

However, before the comet could invade Pyros, it collided with the moon. No sound was heard, but instead, a magnificent sight unfolded before her eyes.

The earth is overturned, and dust clouds rise. If this had fallen on Pyros, there would have been tremendous casualties, but the dead satellite, the moon, took the comet without any damage. Just one more lumpy crater was created, that’s all.

The moon is blocking meteors... becoming our shield.

Why am I seeing this? What is Kamira doing now?

Such questions didn’t occur to her at all. The universe gently removed the veil that covered her and revealed its flesh.

This cosmic secret was so shocking and appalling that it was overwhelming for Roka to just accept it. For her, all of this was not just a curious thing.

The child Roka, who wielded the magic of the sun and moon, actually knew little about the sun or the moon. In fact, is it only her? Unless one is a scholar who observes astronomy, many people know little about the secrets of the sky.

Many priests of the church who serve the Heavenly God, Aldehir, possess a lot of knowledge about astronomy, but that secret is usually shared only among them. And even for them, the opportunity to observe the moon up close like this will probably never come in their lifetime.

Ah...!

Suddenly, Roka’s gaze turned to Pyros.

The ocean of Pyros was slightly pushed towards the moon, and it became clear that the moon’s gravity was pulling the seawater.

Of course, the tidal force that creates the difference in tides is not composed solely of the moon’s gravity, but without the moon, that force would be greatly weakened.

The moon is pulling the ocean.

Of course, the actual phenomenon was much more complex, but knowing just that was enough. Anyway, having realized a little bit of the moon’s true nature, it felt like she had learned something.

But when the moon passed and the sun came, Roka newly realized that what she had learned was nothing. The blazing sun approached, boasting a size that could not be compared to anything she knew.

People who have only lived on the ground can be said to have never properly seen the sun. This time, the girl didn’t even have the mind to exclaim.

Here, everything was a hundred times larger than the continents. All that came out of her mouth was a short exclamation of ‘Wow, wow.’

Two black funnel-like sunspots pierced through the periphery of the swirling sun, crossing the flames. The red flames crossed the surface of the sun at a speed faster than anything on the ground.

The pure power it possessed was so different in scale that it didn’t even feel frightening. It couldn’t even be compared to the power that humans could wield.

Roka gaped at the sight of the gas clouds rotating as if they were alive. It was different from the moon, which seemed static and lifeless. This sun was dynamic as if it were alive.

The uneven gas arms created a spiral nebula, creating a vortex that seemed to be able to swallow up a hundred Pyros. The river of flames flowed at an unbelievable size and speed.

In the midst of that, something red and mottled revealed itself. It wriggled as if it were alive. Its size was much larger than the continents, even at the smallest estimate.

If Roka’s eyes could see the electromagnetic spectrum, she could have seen much more, but in the visible light range, it just looked like a lump of fire. It was a glowing orb of light.

Whoosh!

The thing that was on the surface of the sun for a moment trembled.

Somehow, Roka thought it was similar to when she shivered from the cold. But that’s nonsense. That place is the surface of the sun.

She had never been there, had no reason to go, couldn’t go, and had no intention of going, but just by looking, it was clear how hot it was there.

Is it cold there?

Nonsense.

Is it alive...?

However, looking at it wriggling deep into the sun while twisting its body, like a caterpillar eating into an apple, it seemed like it was running away because it was cold no matter how you looked at it.

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Is that something like a spirit? But do spirits live in the sun too?

One thing that’s certain is that the sun doesn’t seem to be a dead star.

Roka’s gaze, which was looking at that lump of fire wriggling as if it were alive, ignoring the surrounding environment, wavered again.

Her focus narrowed.

All of a sudden, she was back in the bathroom.

Everything disappeared ephemerally, like a dream when you wake up after a short nap. The only difference from a dream is that what she saw is vividly remembered even after waking up.

Kamira, with an unchanged expression, gestured at the dazed girl. She hadn’t seen anything that Roka had seen, but when she saw the crimson stone shattered, she went wild.

“You... how could you break that necklace? Did that bastard Olloc sell me a broken collar? How can this happen?!”

Thanks to the terrible storm of demonic energy that occurred when the crimson stone shattered, Kamira couldn’t approach for a moment. It meant that Roka had a little time.

She quickly checked her physical condition. Just like before, nothing had changed.

The sun’s magical power was depleted. Her own magical power was also depleted while suppressing the Blood Flame.

Only the moon’s magical power remained intact, but this alone was not enough to defeat Kamira.

It seemed that God had given her nothing.

Of course, Kamira was panting but prepared to capture Roka again. This time, she went wild, saying she would restrain her more than just a necklace.

Don’t run away.

Faced with the imposing young lady, the wolf made up her mind.

A different fighting spirit flashed in those eyes than before.

Running away and getting caught twice was enough.

If she ran away with her tail between her legs for the third time, she would spend her whole life running away.

I won’t run away again.

Even if it’s so scary that it makes you shudder, there are times when you have to charge instead.

Now is such a time. Only when she was prepared to risk her life did the girl realize what she had gained. No matter how strong Kamira was in front of her, could she be stronger than the blazing sun?

She had seen what no human could see even if they devoted their entire life to it.

The true appearance of the sun went beyond all the common sense and standards that Roka knew.

When the sun and moon took off their gorgeous veils and showed their true faces, her understanding of wielding magical power also progressed to the next level. She got a sense of shaping the form of magical power.

Princess Ardein focused her power on her blade or manifested the etherial dragon. but that’s just the influence of the technique passed down from the imperial family. It’s not a path Roka can take, nor a path she should take.

Come to think of it, what form could contain the sun’s magical power? The answer can be found right in the morning sky.

Yes, the sun itself. The sun’s magical power just needs to take the form of the sun!

Similarly, she began to get a sense of ‘how’ to handle the moon’s magical power as well.

The moon’s magical power, the only magical power left to Roka, wriggled, and the toad-like back of the moon she had seen earlier kept lingering in her mind. Anyway, she was the only person in the world who had directly seen the moon.

The sun is just the sun, and the moon is just the moon. There’s no need to overcomplicate it.

Sometimes the most natural thing is the most extreme.

The moon’s magical power condensed and created the most natural form. A pure shape of the moon, without any impurities mixed in, began to take form within Roka.

“Be swept away! Bloody Wave!”

Kamira gestured once again. The blood tide surged up to the ceiling and rushed in.

A fierce wave swept in, and this time there was no sun’s magical power to offset it. Seeing the rushing waves, Roka suddenly thought of the ocean. And the moon that had pulled the ocean earlier.

The girl shouted coldly in a single word.

“Pull.”

The bright moon rose. It was ridiculously small compared to the real moon, but it was definitely the moon.

It was as if the full moon in the night sky had descended above Roka. The moment it spewed out the enchanting moonlight, a powerful tidal force occurred. The moon pulled the sea of blood.

This moon was as small as dust compared to the real moon, but the blood tide Kamira created was also just a drop of water compared to the real ocean. So the rushing waves of blood began to be drawn in, unable to overcome the moon’s gravity.

“Wha-what? What is this...!”

The form of the moon, completed by directly seeing the moon and realizing it, attracts the blood from all directions.

The waves of blood, the sea of blood, the mist of blood, the wind of blood, all of them are drawn in, unable to overcome gravitational pull.

Blood seeped into the bright full moon, turning it into a bloody blood moon.

As the blood moon in the sky approached, a bloody hue shimmered all around, and instead, not a single drop of blood remained in the bathroom.

The greedy moon had sucked up all the blood in the room.

Aah!

At that moment, Roka opened her mouth wide and swallowed that moon. The blood force, the magical power with the attribute of blood, boiled up inside her body. Kamira’s eyes widened at the sight of that crazy act.

Has that bitch gone mad? If she’s not a vampire and just swallows that, then what?

Then her body will just explode, unable to handle the excessive blood magic? The blood in her whole body will start to run out of control, so why do such a thing?

“Ugh...”

Kamira sneered at the sight of Roka suffering.

In the end, that wolf, not knowing her place, swallowed something she couldn’t handle and got indigestion.

As expected, a beast is a beast.

When she laughed like that and was about to say something, Roka’s eyes flashed open and the Crimson Flame flashed between her pupils, a lump of blazing flames formed between her hands!

She burned the blood magic she had swallowed as fuel for the sun. Of course, it was a reckless act. She would probably need to recuperate for a few days after doing it.

But if she could just kill the enemy in front of her, it was enough to think about the aftermath later.

The sun.

A brightly shining sun settled between Roka’s hands.

“That’s...?!”

Seeing the materializing form, Kamira was terrified and tried to run away, but it was already too late.

Deceiving the natural laws of the world, the little wolf stole the sun!

And now...The Stolen Sun blazed.

At this very moment, this place was daytime. It was smaller than a coin, but it was undoubtedly the sun!

The moment she saw the brightly shining sun, Kamira realized. How much she actually feared and revered that sun that she had desperately tried to belittle.

“N-No...! T...The Suuuuuuun!!!”

The moment the sunlight touched her, the woman who thought herself special realized that she was actually just a pile of ashes.

But some kinds of realizations only come after it’s already too late to turn back.

The sun pronounced an equal end. To other vampires, to the True Ancestors, the sun is always impartial.

With a crackling sound, a pile of ashes crumbled down.

The sunlight exploded and spread, sweeping everything around. If even a small candle can light up a room, what about a small sun?

It lasted for a very short time, but it brightly illuminated everything before disappearing.

Fizz...

Originally, she had intended to shoot this sun at Kamira, but her strength didn’t reach that far.

Roka staggered and eventually collapsed. The child had gone through too much today.

But it was enough that she had won. She didn’t run away and overcame it. So the child was happy.

“Roka, Roka! ...Thank goodness. I’m so glad. Yes, just sleep for a bit for now. I’m glad you’re not badly hurt...”

When the princess and Kyle, who had come looking after seeing the sunlight, found Roka collapsed a little later, the child was sleeping with a faint smile.

Today, the girl had overcome a part of her past on her own.

It seemed like she would have a pleasant dream in her deep sleep.

Now Roka is a discount Natsu who can do a Shinra Tensei and Banshou Tein.