Crossover Anime: Starting from Soul Society and Slicing Through All Worlds

Chapter 45: Unraveling the Girl's Heartache

"We'd also like to hear about the divine sword that can defeat the Demon Flame Dragon."

Hearing that even the "hero" Ye Cheng had asked, the surrounding villagers became excited again and began to tell the legends they knew.

"According to a legend circulating in our village, in order to defeat the legendary and powerful dragon, the Demon Flame Dragon, we need to find the last descendant of the Ice Clan."

The last descendant of the Ice Clan guards the weapon [Frozen God Sword], which can seal the Demon Flame Dragon, and this generation's last descendant of the Ice Clan is a girl.

The hero who wishes to obtain the "Frozen God Sword" from her must untangle the girl's knot in her heart. The way to do this is to go to Mount Marjide and pick a special flower called the "Puffing Flower" for her.

Upon hearing what the villagers said, Yosuke Shima immediately decided to give up on this troublesome preliminary task, because the name of the mountain was just too long for him to remember.

Moreover, since arriving in this other world, he has almost always followed the crowd, wandering wherever he goes. Asking a stranger from another world to go looking for Mount Gide is extremely difficult.

Moreover, even if you reach Mount Marjid, searching for a flower called "Puff Flower" in a large mountain would be a very time-consuming task, even if it is not dangerous.

Once they find Mount Marjide, bring back the so-called bougainvillea, and resolve the girl's inner conflict, the Demon Flame Dragon will have destroyed countless villages and gone back to sleep.

"Can't you just give me that 'Frozen God Sword' thing? As you can see, we are heroes, you know."

In order to obtain the so-called divine artifact "Frozen God Sword" as soon as possible and reduce the difficulty of defeating the Demon Flame Dragon, Ye Cheng directly admitted that he was the so-called "hero" under Cui's speechless expression.

Yosuke Shima didn't see anything wrong with this. According to the usual practice of Sega games, when the "hero" is going to fight the BOSS, the villagers provide the "hero" with divine artifacts to help him. Isn't this a perfectly normal thing?

These villagers are clearly treating Night City, who has both good looks and a great presence, as a "hero." So, skipping the prerequisite quests isn't entirely impossible. This is what's known as a game loophole, or a bug in the industry.

"I'm afraid that won't work... Although we would love to help the hero, the 'Frozen God Sword' has been guarded by the descendants of the Ice Clan for generations."

If she doesn't want to hand over the 'Frozen God Sword,' there's nothing we can do about it."

To be honest, the villagers didn't have much affection for the so-called descendants of the Ice Clan.

The other party, claiming to be a descendant of the Ice Clan and guarding the "Frozen God Sword," stayed in the village all day, eating and drinking for free, and never did any work. Naturally, the villagers couldn't like such a lazybones.

However, the "Frozen God Sword" can indeed restrain the sealed Demon Flame Dragon, and for the sake of the village's peace for generations to come, they do need to support such a reclusive descendant of the Ice Clan.

"Night City, why don't we just go find that Demon Flame Dragon directly? Although the prerequisite quests in Sega games can reduce the difficulty of clearing certain dungeons, they are not necessarily required to be completed."

"As long as we're strong enough, we can defeat that Demon Flame Dragon even without relying on that Ice Sword." Yosuke Shima pushed up his glasses, finding the preliminary quests too troublesome, and now suggested going straight to the Demon Flame Dragon to fight it; if they could win, they would fight, and if they couldn't, they would run away.

Surprisingly, the elf girl Midori actually agreed with Yosuke Shima's reckless battle plan this time.

In Cui's view, the task of unraveling the inner turmoil of a young girl from the last generation of the Ice Clan was simply too improper.

Following the typical formula of fairy tales and legends, the hero travels through mountains and rivers to pick flowers for a witch or similar character, resolves her inner conflicts, and thus gains her assistance, ultimately defeating the evil dragon.

So, wouldn't the next part of the story be the same old cliché: the hero and the priestess-like character who helps him live happily ever after?

Cui would definitely not accept such a plot development, not to mention that she has never seen what the so-called descendant of the Ice Clan looks like.

But the plot development of having Ye Cheng untangle a girl's inner knot already made Cui feel quite uneasy.

Honestly, with Ye Cheng's looks, fooling those naive young girls is as easy as eating and drinking. This so-called descendant of the Ice Clan is obviously a shut-in according to the villagers. What if Ye Cheng gets stuck with her after she resolves his inner conflict?

To avoid this possibility and to reduce a potential opponent, Midori agreed to Yosuke Shima's suggestion to directly confront the Demon Flame Dragon.

In any case, Cui felt that with the combat strength of the three of them, even if they were no match for the Demon Flame Dragon, escaping shouldn't be a big problem.

"Why don't we go and meet that so-called descendant of the Ice Clan? Maybe he's a very easy person to talk to?"

According to the villagers, this descendant of the Ice Clan was just a withdrawn, otaku girl.

The prerequisite for obtaining the 'Frozen God Sword' is to resolve her inner conflicts. She's not some kind of flower, and with my many years of experience, do you think I can't coax... or guide a mere autistic girl?

The last descendant of the Ice Clan, a girl named Mebel Rebel, lives on the edge of the village. She rarely interacts with the villagers, and even her food is delivered directly to her doorstep by them. She is a complete good-for-nothing when it comes to life.

Although Mebel's house is called a house, it is more like a cave in reality. Apart from having an extra door, Night City can hardly tell that such a place can be called a house.

Based on what the villagers had said before, this girl from the Ice Clan seemed to be a very lazy person who liked to sleep all day, so it was understandable that she would decorate her house like this.

When Ye Cheng and his group pushed open the door, a bone-chilling cold blew in their faces.

Inside the small cave, both the ceiling and the floor were covered with a large number of icicles.

Inside the room, a girl with waist-length blue hair, a lazy air about her face, and an exceptionally beautiful appearance was sitting in the room, holding a long sword completely covered in ice.

The girl's eyes were vacant. Although she had a face that was just as beautiful as the elven girl Cuiye, her face was expressionless, as if she had not woken up at all. She did not even care about Ye Cheng and the others who pushed open the door, as if she was indifferent to everyone.

(End of this chapter)