Combat Maid Harem

"It's not time yet. I have half a day before my wedding with Ramiela. If worse comes to worst, I can postpone the weddings."

Lawrend looked away from Reavire and stared at the tree.

"Do you know who I am?"

The tree rustled.

"Do you know West?"

Silence.

"Do you know Aleshia?"

Silence.

"Do you know any of my maids that have been in this world?"

Silence.

"So you only remember me?"

The tree rustled, confirming his guess.

"I see…"

A look of enlightenment flashed across Lawrend's face. He looked at Reavire and waved her to leave.

Reavire saw he wasn't done yet and decided it couldn't be helped. This was also a process of moving on.

"Before you leave, give me control over the Human World."

"W-why?"

"Just trust me. You will do that for me, right?"

With the way Lawrend constructed his words, Reavire couldn't say anything to argue. She bit her lower lip, and a wave of energy left her body and covered Lawrend.

"Thank you."

Lawrend nodded at her with gratitude.

"With my memories of you, Valentina, remember!" Lawrend shouted.

His soul body, which formed his physical body, released gas from his soul containing the memories of Valentina. He easily duplicated these memories, so there was no problem with forgetting anything.

There didn't seem to be any visible changes to the tree. It absorbed the gaseous soul that Lawrend gave to it, but it responded without any changes.

"Do you remember Aleshia?"

The tree rustled.

"It's correct!" Lawrend exclaimed.

He excitedly closed his eyes. He recalled the place where Valentina died in the Ignis Clan.

"With the memories of your death place, Valentina, remember!"

His voice echoed through the void and reached the Human World. The traces of memories and changes created when Valentina died appeared in the form of smoke and vanished into a gap in space that Lawrend created.

The gigantic tree absorbed it with no difference again.

"Do you remember how you died, Valentina!?"

The tree rustled much more strongly than before. Some leaves fell on the ground.

"Good! Good! Good! I can revive you, Valentina!" Lawrend shouted.

If he could complete her soul, he could revive Valentina. She was just a soul anyway when she died.

The tree rustled as if celebrating with Lawrend.

"Now, with the memories of West, Valentina, remember!"

A faint scream came from the sun, and West fully disintegrated. All of his memories with Valentina were forcefully ripped off. The scream traveled from the sun and was absorbed by the branches extending out into space.

"I see! I see! You are growing so big and extending your roots deep into the world because you want to find your memories—your soul!" Lawrend vehemently shouted.

Reavire watched his ravings with disbelief. This was the first time she learned that reviving a soul from memories was possible.

"Reavire, share me memories of you watching her without me in it!"

"Yes!"

Reavire cooperated. A part of her soul flew out and landed on the trunk.

"With the memories of Reavire, Valentina, remember!"

The tree absorbed the soul. Lawrend could feel it now. The faint spark of Valentina's soul. She was still in a state of death and life, but she was there. It was genuinely possible.

With the memories of the human world, Valentina, remember!"

For the final inflow of memories, Lawrend opened a large portal to the human world. Smoke lifted from every town Valentina had been in and from the bodies of humans who had seen her.

Every bit and piece of her experience was collected in a stream that the tree absorbed. It released a blinding green light that Lawrend didn't shy away from staring at.

"Are your memories complete yet?" Lawrend asked.

There was silence.

"S-should I revive you now?" Lawrend felt anxious. He didn't know if the memories he gave it would dissipate if he stopped.

There was silence again.

"Tell me, where are the other memories!?" Lawrend practically screamed.

He saw it. He saw the hope of reviving Valentina. He wanted to see her again, and he imagined she was already here, given the progress he had made. He thought it was as good as done.

"Reavire, what should I do!?" Lawrend asked, his voice begging for help.

"Master, you haven't asked the universe yet!"

It was a guess on her part.

"AH!"

Lawrend snapped his head back to the tree.

"With the memories of the universe, Valentina, remember! Remember and awaken! AHAHAHAHAHA!"

Lawrend laughed hysterically. His voice and laughter reached beyond the planetary systems of the human world, spirit world, and his world. These three worlds served as anchors and pulled all the remaining influence Valentina caused when she was alive.

With the memories of Lawrend, West, Reavire, the Human World, and the Universe, Lawrend succeeded in calling out to Valentina's dissipated soul.

In essence, Lawrend used Heaven, Earth, and Man to call upon Valentina's lost soul. The memories served as the framework, and the lost soul fitted inside like a glove.

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Lawrend called out. He sensed Valentina's soul. She was alive. He had succeeded in reviving her!

"Huh?"

The voice of a woman echoed from within the tree.

And as if it had served its purpose, the gigantic tree that reached into space withered visibly. The leaves turned yellow and shrunk into nothing, the branches shortened, and the trunk shrunk in diameter.

In the middle of it, Lawrend waited for a few minutes. The anticipation and excitement were killing him, but he stayed still with patience.

When the tree shrunk down to a human, the remaining was crushed into ashes that drifted along the wind. In the middle was the soul of a woman who was stark naked.

She was as beautiful as always. Lawrend stared at her, and the tears in his eyes flowed like a river.

"Valentina…"

"H-huhhh??"

Valentina looked at him with confusion.

Slowly, her eyes flashed as her whole life returned to her. She remembered everything, and she also started tearing up.

"Master!"

Valentina flew to Lawrend. He hugged her.

She lost her magic, but that was fine. Lawrend carefully hugged her fragile soul. She was fine now. It would all be all right.