Chapter 251 - Mini Yggdrasil

“Hmmm, maybe it’s impossible, after all.”

In the courtyard of a certain mansion in the Ifrus Academy of Magic, a tomboyish girl was digging the soil trying to bury something.

She heaved a deep sigh while gazing at the soil that she had returned to its place.

“What are you doing?”

A beautiful girl with azure hair and eyes called out to the girl sitting on the ground.

“Hm…Oh, Luna. There’s something I wanna try.”

The azure-haired girl was called Luna, and she was one of the humans living in this mansion.

“Sylph-sama, you have some dirt on your face.”

As for the person who was digging in the courtyard— it was no other than the Wind Spirit King Sylph.

Luna gently wiped the face of the Sylph after she got dirty playing in the dirt.

“Thankie, Luna.”

“You’re welcome. It’s been a while, Sylph-sama.”

“Yup, howdy~!”

“I haven’t seen you in a while… Did something happen?”

Sylph hung out at Halt’s mansion for a time, but she didn’t appear that frequently anymore these days.

Luna was the first one to be concerned about this, then Halt, Tina and the rest of the Ernol family became worried, too.

“...Yup. Actually, I left Yggdrasil for far too long when I came here to play, so something quite bad happened.”

Sylph was the personification of Yggdrasil, which stood towering at the heart of the Elf Kingdom of Alheim.

Because she had been apart from Yggdrasil for a while, some parts of the tree started to rot.

When the spirits notified Sylph, she hurriedly returned home to Alheim.

After that, she had been thoroughly preoccupied using her entire power to heal Yggdrasil, so she didn’t visit Halt’s mansion for a few weeks.

“So that’s what happened… It has been hard on you, Sylph-sama.”

“Yup, I’m dead tired. I was lonely too… I didn’t get to see you guys.”

Sylph hugged Luna with teary eyes.

Luna patted her on the head.

Sylph calmed down after a bit, and she let go of Luna.

“So, sorry for asking this again, but what were you doing?”

“Hmm, see, I wanna plant Yggdrasil here.”

“— W-What?”

Luna didn’t understand what Sylph wanted to say.

Yggdrasil was the only tree that had lived since the foundation of this world.

Its leaves were the main ingredients used to create elixirs that could cure all manner of diseases. The branches were also suitable to make staffs that could be used by anyone to cast the most powerful magic spells.

Sylph was trying to grow such an important tree, Yggdrasil, in Halt’s mansion.

“I already managed to make Yggdrasil bear some seeds, but…It won’t sprout no matter what.”

Sylph looked really sad.

This was the first time that the Yggdrasil produced seeds since the creation of this world.

Even if Sylph was the personification of Yggdrasil, had no idea how to make the seed sprout.

“Yggdrasil is connected to this world. If I can grow an Yggdrasil here, it will be connected to the Yggdrasil in Alheim.”

“Er…So, in other words?”

“I can live here forever!!”

Sylph herself didn’t understand the principle behind that. However, if an Yggdrasil did grow here in Halt’s mansion, she just knew that she could stay here without having the need to return regularly to Alheim.

“I want to live with Halt and Luna. I wanna eat all the delicious foods you guys make everyday!!”

“Sylph-sama…”

Sylph looked lonely whenever she had to return to Alheim’s Yggdrasil.

There was no way out of it, because she was the Wind Spirit King.

She tried to bear it with that thought, but when she saw Mai and Mei, who were spirits that also obtained far more power than her, stay beside Halt all the time, she could no longer stand it.

And so, she stopped trying to bear with it.’

“I’m gonna live here! No matter what it takes, I’m gonna do it!”

She declared to Luna.

Her eyes revealed just how serious she was about this.

“I understand. If there’s anything I can do to help, please let me know, I’ll do it!”

Luna decided to help Sylph, because for her, she was already part of her family.

“Thankie, Luna.”

“Please say thanks after we succeeded in making the Yggdrasil seed sprout. First… Yes, let’s give it water.”

Luna rushed into the mansion after saying that.

“Ah, I already tried giving it water with my mana in it, but it didn’t work — hey! Huff, Luna, you didn’t even listen.”

Yggdrasil was filled with a colossal amount of mana.

In short, it was like a gigantic lump of mana.

Sylph thought that if she gave it mana, it would sprout, so she already poured a huge amount of mana into it, and even gave it with water infused with as much mana as she could give.

However, it didn’t work.

Perhaps, it wasn’t just mana that it needed.

On one hand, it was also possible that her own magical power as the Spirit King wasn’t enough for it —

She didn’t really want to think about that latter condition.

If it needed the mana of a Spirit King just to make it sprout, then just how much mana would it need to grow…?

“Sylph-sama, thanks for waiting.”

Luna came back with a jug in hand.

“I will water it with this, okay?”

Luna started to pour water on the place where Sylph buried the Yggdrasil seed.

“Grow, grow, grow so tall~”

“..........”

Luna hummed as she watered the place when —

“What!?”

“Ah! Sylph-sama, look. It sprouted!!”

The seed of Yggdrasil that didn’t sprout no matter what Sylph, the Wind Spirit King, did had sprouted from the soil.

“I-Impossible —”

“Grow, grow, grow, bigger and bigger~”

Sylph froze in shock, but Luna just continued watering it.

The leaves of the Yggdrasil sprout grew bigger with every drop of water that fell on it.

“Eh, no way — Huh? HUUUUHHHH!?”

By the time Luna emptied the jar, the Yggdrasil tree reached Sylph’s waist.

A mini Yggdrasil had appeared at Halt’s mansion.

“It’s gotten pretty big, hasn’t it?”

“N-no way!!!”

Luna was beaming while staring at the mini Yggdrasil, but Sylph’s face was twitching.

Sylph had been reborn several times already, so although she wasn’t as old as Yggdrasil, she was still a spirit that had lived for a very long time.

And yet something unprecedented happened right in front of her very eyes.

“Luna, where the heck did you get that water?”

“Er, where —”

Luna hesitated a bit before answering.

“It’s just ordinary water, okay?”

“...Really.”

Luna seemed like she’s having difficulty answering it, so Sylph decided to let it go.

What’s important was that Yggdrasil grew.

All that’s left was to check whether this mini sprout would really be connected to Alheim’s Yggdrasil.

“Luna, I’m going back for a bit to check whether I can create a [Path] from Alheim’s Yggdrasil to this mini Yggdrasil. Thanks a lot for the water.”

And with that, Sylph vanished.

She probably returned back to Alheim.

Luna was left alone, muttering to herself.

“Really, I can’t say that…the leftover bathwater was used to water Yggdrasil, right?”