"It's okay, Zun, I've lived a happy life without any regrets."

Looking at the Sky Temple Zun with a sad and lost face, Makoto Fukami comforted him again.

"And, even so, our hearts are still tightly connected, aren't they?"

"-Hmm!"

Hearing this, the Sky Temple Venerable returned to his senses, raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his face, and nodded heavily.

"I will take Brother Cheng's share, as well as Huayin's, Alan's, everyone's thoughts, and continue indefinitely into the future together!"

"Yes, that's it, this is the Sky Temple Venerable I know."

Looking at the Sky Temple Venerable who got rid of the loss and was full of determination, Fukami Makoto smiled and nodded.

"So, I'm not going to disappear, Zun—I'm there for you at all times."

This sentence made the Sky Temple Venerable caress his heart.

"I think, therefore am I?"

Makoto Fukami heard this whisper from the Sky Temple, and the expression on his face became more and more relieved.

"Yes, as long as you remember me, I will live forever in your heart."

He knew that the Sky Temple Venerable would no longer be sad because of his own affairs.

Thinking of this, Makoto Fukami lowered his head, and then was slightly stunned.

"Is it almost time?"

He looked at his body, which had begun to become transparent, whispered, then looked back at the Sky Temple Venerable and smiled.

"Looks like it's time to say goodbye, Zun."

"Brother Cheng ......"

Hearing this, Sky Temple Venerable's voice tightened, but immediately, he relaxed his expression, a smile appeared on his face, and said to Makoto Fukami.

"Well, goodbye, Brother Cheng."

Makoto Fukami also responded with a smile.

"Goodbye, Zun."

As the words fell, Makoto Fukami's figure disappeared in front of the Sky Temple.

Looking at the location where Fukami Makoto disappeared, thinking about Fukami Makoto's previous words, the smile on the face of the Sky Temple Venerable just now fell, and he was silent for a moment, then he re-revealed a relieved expression, breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the sky, and then walked through the gate and continued to walk towards the Great Sky Temple.

As he advanced, the Sky Temple saw many familiar people in the temple.

Kisarazu Narita pruning shrubs.

Hachioji Shibuya who cleans the garden.

Yamauchi Osari.

Akari Tsukimura.

and

A strange ...... chatting with Akari Tsukimura

Wait a minute!!!

Suddenly, the whole person of the Sky Temple Zun froze in place.

He looked at the woman who was talking to Akari Tsukimura...... Looking at the woman who was incomparably strange, but incomparably familiar, her nasal cavity was sour, and a voice of disbelief with a slight cry emanated from his constantly quivering lips.

"Mom...... Mother......? ”

The sound was not loud, as if I was afraid that if it was a little louder, I would scare away the scene in front of me.

But even so, the Sky Temple Lily, who was talking to Akari Tsukimura on the other side, also heard the voice of the Sky Temple.

It's magical, it's like there's telepathy between them.

The Sky Temple Lily stopped talking, took her eyes off Akari Tsukimura, turned her head, and looked in the direction of the Sky Temple Zun.

"What's wrong? Respect. ”

The Lily of the Sky Temple was puzzled, and asked with a gentle feeling of concern.

"Why do you see my mother with such an expression?"

As she spoke, she got up and walked towards the Sky Temple.

The Sky Temple Venerable looked at the Sky Temple Lily who was approaching him in a daze, slowly raised his hand, and stretched out his fingers to the other party with trembling fingers.

However, as soon as the Sky Temple Venerable's hand was stretched out halfway, it had a tendency to retract again.

He was afraid......

He was afraid that the mother in front of him was just a phantom, and with a light touch, it would dissipate.

But at this moment.

The Lily of the Sky Temple suddenly reached out and grabbed the hand that the Sky Temple Venerable was about to withdraw, and held it tightly.

Then, he took a step forward and hugged the Sky Temple Venerable into his arms.

Warm, authentic.

It's true!

This scene is real!

A huge sense of happiness suddenly struck, making the tears of the Sky Temple Zun burst instantly.

He hugged the Lily of the Sky Temple and kept whispering.

"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy......"

Faced with such a reaction from the Sky Temple, the Lily of the Sky Temple was slightly stunned, but did not ask anything at this time.

She just gently stroked the back of the Sky Temple, smiled, and responded one by one.

"Well, I'm here."

At the same time, another large, warm hand fell on the head of the Sky Temple.

The Sky Temple Venerable raised his head, and through his tearful blurred vision, he saw a figure that made him even more excited.

"Father!"

Yes, that figure is the Sky Temple Dragon who walked out of the Buddha Hall at some point.

He did not reprimand the Sky Temple Venerable for his weakness at this time.

On the contrary, he looked at the Sky Temple Venerable who was crying like this, but there was a smile slowly emerging on his usually serious face.

I saw him nodding to the Sky Temple, and in his eyes, pride and distress coexisted.

He didn't say anything, but that expression said it all.

- Great work, Honor, I'm so proud of you!

……

……

The other side.

9 to 5 classes.

Gates' room.

A spiraling gray scarf emerges first, and then the gray scarf is tucked away by a hand, revealing Gates and Watts underneath.

Pulling the gray scarf behind him, Woz glanced back at Gates, said nothing, just smiled, and left.

Seeing this, Gates immediately called Woz.

"Wait! Why are we the only ones coming back? What about the King of Time? ”

Woxz paused and chuckled.

"Heh, my Demon King His Majesty has other things to do, I and other mortals, just follow it, don't explore."

With that, he opened the door and left.

Click!

The door is closed.

Will remain in the room, fists clenched, the face of an inexplicable change of the picture of Gates isolated.

……

……

Downstairs.

Woz politely leaned over Junichiro Tokiwa behind the maintenance desk to say goodbye.

Shunichiro Tsukiwa subconsciously smiled and nodded, responding.

He didn't react until Woz had already left.

"Huh!? The one just now was a friend of Shogo, right? When did he come? ”

Junichiro Tsukiwa, who had been working at the maintenance desk at the door, couldn't help but take off his glasses and rub his eyes, feeling a little suspicious of his memory of today.

And at the same time as Shunichiro Tokiwa took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, an illusory ghost walked in from the door, leaned over him slightly, and then walked upstairs.

……

……

Knock knock!

There was a knock on the door, recalling Gates' wandering mind.

He opened the door, his eyes widening slightly.

"Mr. Makoto!"

I saw Makoto Fukami, who had an illusory body, standing at the door, looking at him with a smile.

"Long time no see, Gates."

He greeted Gates, then raised his hand and handed Gates a piece of reality that was alien to his illusory body.

"As agreed, I'll give it to you."

That's Specter's knight's watch.

Compared to that knight's watch, Gates is now more concerned about Makoto Fukami's situation.

"Mr. Makoto, your body ...... Why? Isn't the king already ......?"

"Well, His Majesty has indeed corrected the time."

Makoto Fukami explained to Gates.

"A thousand years is too long, so I chose to become an ordinary human being."

Hearing this, Gates, who had already read through the history of the Eye Demon in the Ghost comic book, quickly understood why.

"Yes...... That's ......."

Then, Gates glanced at the knight's watch in Makoto Fukami's hand and refused.

"Mr. Cheng, the reason why you were able to appear in this world is because you have this knight's watch to keep you, right? In that case, then I can't accept this......"

"No, you're going to take it, Gates."

Makoto Fukakai interrupted Gates.

"I've gone through my life, but yours still have a long life...... Remember? As I said, the practice of survival requires strength! Don't you want to help His Majesty, become his friend, and witness his royal path?

"Well, you need strength!

"More power than anyone else!

"Only then will you be able to stand by his side and fight with him all the time.

"So, Gates, you need it more than I do now."

Touched by Makoto Fukami's words, Gates couldn't help but think of what Kadoya said to him in the Demon World.

So, after a moment of silence, he finally slowly raised his hand and took the Specter knight watch in Makoto Fukami's hand.

"I see, Mr. Makoto, I'll use it well."

"Well, that's fine."

Makoto Fukami smiled and nodded.

Then, he said goodbye to Gates.

"So...... Goodbye, Gates. ”

"Goodbye, Mr. Makoto."

As Gates's words fell, the illusory figure of Makoto Fukami disappeared completely.

Only Gates remained in place, holding the Specter Knight's watch, silent for a long time.

That's when it happened.

Shogo Tokiwa's door suddenly opened from the inside.

Gates, who was pulled back to reality from a daze by the sound of the door opening, immediately stepped forward and turned his head to look.

"Time ......"

Then, he met the eye of Tsukiyo, who walked out of Shogo Tokiwa's room with a stack of books.

“……”

“……”

The scene was a little awkward for a while.

After a pause, Tsukiyomi retracted his gaze and led the door with him pretending not to see anything.

Click!

Lock with a key.

turned around, passed by Gates's side, still didn't say anything, just tried to hold his expression, and went downstairs very calmly.

Knock knock –

The footsteps were slow and then urgent.

Of course, this is not a big deal.

Gates, on the other hand, kept coming to mind the scene where Tsukiyomi used the key on her own key chain to lock the door of Shogo Tokiwa's room.

Once, twice, three, four......

"Heh, hehe......"

Gates suddenly sneered twice, turned back to the room, and slammed the door shut.

Boom!

A loud closing of the door echoed through the empty hallway.

Downstairs.

Hearing the loud sound of the door closing upstairs, Yue Yu couldn't help but tremble slightly, and shrank his neck slightly.

After a moment, she leaned over and tilted her head to look upstairs.

Her long hair was like a waterfall, sliding straight from one shoulder to the other, falling vertically.

It wasn't until he was sure that Gates didn't mean to run down to reason with her that he breathed a sigh of relief and showed a relaxed expression.

Then, I don't know what happened to her, she held the keychain in her hand, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

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