To Become a King and a Magician

Can the Dead Be Resurrected?

If Reiroukan Misaya were asked to answer, the answer would be no.

There are many ways to make a corpse move—necromancy, puppetry, or transformation into a Dead Apostle... However, if a dead person wants to be resurrected again, without being turned into a Dead Apostle or treated as an empty shell, then at least within the scope of Misaya's knowledge, it is impossible, no matter how skilled the Magus is.

Therefore, she never imagined that she, who had been dead for so long, would one day open her eyes again.

"Yes, you're awake."

A woman's gentle voice reached her ears.

She sat up slowly and glanced at the strange substance beneath her body that soaked her like black mud. She looked toward the source of the voice. When she clearly saw who was speaking, her body suddenly trembled.

"You... Sajyou... Manaka?"

"Yes, it's me."

Sitting on a small rock and swinging her delicate legs, Manaka spoke with a smile.

"Long time no see. I'm glad you still remember me, Misaya. Now I don't have to bother introducing myself—"

*BOOM----!*

Before Manaka's voice faded, Misaya suddenly raised her hand and pointed it toward her. A dense black bullet shot straight out from her fingertip and flew directly at Manaka!

*BOOM!*

As if extinguishing a small spark, facing Misaya's sudden attack, Manaka merely waved her hand indifferently, and the fist-sized bullet vanished into thin air like melting ice and snow.

Shaking her head in annoyance, Manaka sighed, "When you see the person who resurrected you, the first thing you do isn't to say thank you but to retaliate with hatred?"

"You still dare to call yourself my benefactor!"

Misaya's beautiful face instantly twisted in anger!

"Have you forgotten what you did to me? Because of your curse, I—"

"Silence."

As if she could no longer tolerate it, Manaka directly uttered those words, and the words imbued with compulsory magic instantly made Misaya shut her mouth like a mute.

With a flick of her small fingers, she manipulated the black mud to form chains that bound Misaya and brought her closer. Manaka smiled and said, "Misaya, I don't want to hear your anger, I don't want to understand your thoughts, and I don't want to respond to your unreasonable behavior."

"The reason I resurrected you is actually because I hope you can help me with something."

'Help?'

Misaya couldn't help but frown.

'Does she want me to help her with something personally? This woman, who in my impression is omniscient and omnipotent, wants me to do something for her?'

"Actually, I don't want you to help me. After all, I prefer to torment the sluts who seduce Saber myself. But unfortunately, if I leave here now, I might immediately be surrounded and attacked."

Although her form is not yet perfect, Manaka is a Beast, a great calamity that threatens human history. The moment she appears in the world, she will be greeted by Heroic Spirits and Guardians one after another. Not to mention Gaia, there will definitely be people coming from Alaya as well.

Of course, Manaka is not afraid of Guardians. They are merely scavengers in human history. However, she has expended a great deal of energy to come to this world and is now at her weakest point in history. If she faces Guardians in this state, she might not be destroyed, but she will be severely injured and unable to escape.

Fortunately, the large underground cavity she chose as her landing site is enveloped by her power, forming a strange space almost isolated from the outside world. As long as she stays here, she will never be disturbed and can calmly absorb the leyline's power to recover.

Even so, this is not the real reason Manaka is staying here.

Her power isn't enough? The Counter Force might interfere? Doesn't want to be bothered by Guardians?

Manaka actually doesn't care about these things at all. Whether in the past or now, the only thing she cares about is her prince. As long as she can see her prince again, as long as she can throw all the sluts around him into chaos, Manaka doesn't care about anything else.

And precisely because she cares about Arthur, Manaka plans to stay here for the time being—now is not the time for her to meet Arthur.

Just like girls who spend hours dressing up before going on a date, so that Arthur can see her best side when they meet again, Manaka feels that she needs to prepare properly!

However, what troubles her is that she doesn't really know how to dress up. Although she is connected to the Root and can be said to be omniscient and omnipotent, that is more reflected in Magecraft. In her daily life, there are still many things she doesn't understand.

So she resurrected Misaya.

"So... you want me to teach you how to dress up?"

"Hmmmm! Misaya, you're a girl, a JK, so you must be good at this."

Like a diligent student, Manaka nodded enthusiastically while holding her notebook and pen. Seeing her like this, an unknown fire suddenly ignited in Misaya's heart, and her anger erupted uncontrollably from the depths of her soul like a volcanic explosion!

Who is Sayjou Manaka?

She is the perpetrator who killed her father, cursed her to death, ruined her life as a Magus, turned her into a monster, and caused her to die in extreme distortion. Misaya harbors nothing but hatred for her, only hatred. Even in death, she still hated her in her heart.

But what is the situation now?

Just to learn how to dress up, Manaka, who has a blood feud with her, resurrected her? For such a ridiculous reason?

"You must be joking! How far do you want to humiliate me? Sayjou Manaka!"

Grabbing Manaka's collar, she roared in anger, with cold fury in her eyes. However, in the next moment, she was bound by black chains again!

Looking at Misaya hanging in the air, Manaka laughed and said, "You're really quick to anger. This makes me doubt whether you can dress up at all. Girls with bad tempers usually aren't very feminine."

"But it's fine. Asking you to help me dress up is only one of the reasons I resurrected you."

"One of them?"

"Well, actually, I want you to help me, who has limited mobility, to bring someone here. That person... No, that vixen's name is Natsukawa Naoki."