“Are you ready?”

  Within the shrine of the bck demoory, the young girl her tire stood upoage, while below, the shriaff busied themselves adjusting their equipment and magic.

  “Ready,” she replied, gng towards the back where Misako and Farkonia stood.

  Since Farkonia’s decration of submission, the girl’s power had reached a level beyond imagination.

  Thus, the time had e.

  “Activate the magical broadcast!”

  At Misako’s and, all the bck demon folk below activated their long-prepared magid devices.

  In an instant, enormous magical dispy ss appeared throughout the Abyss, showing live footage of the stage.

  “Greetings, everyone. I am Misako, the Bck Demon Lord. You may have doubts, but please, hear me out.”

  “The world we inhabit is not truly a world, but merely a mere fragment of it. In the distant past, our aors engaged in a rebellion against the world itself, and we were defeated. Whether by choice or not, our sins were itted, and thus we were cast to this pce, known as the ‘Abyss’.”

  Misako paused momentarily before tinuing.

  “But! This era of suffering is about to end. After such a long period, the transgressors are no more, and a new geion has arisen. As the new geion, you should not bear the sins of your aors; you deserve freedom!”

  At this moment, the girl who had been waiting beside Misako stepped forward.

  “Is that… Could it be!?”

  “No way! Is that truly the legendary figure!?”

  “It’s happening. Everything is ing back…”

  As the bck demons across the Abyss saw the girl through the magical ss, various reas erupted—shock, disbelief, awe.

  Uional creatures, the bck demons and magical beings, with their long memories, had preserved their history through statues, artworks, and their innate abilities.

  Thus, when those who had once revered the girl saw her again, they instantly reized her.

  “...I will grant you freedom. I shall break the seal.”

  In that moment, an immense surge of energy gathered around the girl. A tempest of pure energy surged forth with a destructive force that seemed poised to annihite everything around her.

  Had it not been for Misako and Farkonia, the shrine would likely have vahat day.

  The girl began to levitate slowly, asding towards the sky. The energy encirg her grew ever more magnifit, f a radiant light.

  ‘It’s like… the sun,’ thought Misako and Farkonia. Having seen sights beyond the Abyss, they perceived the girl’s radiance as akin to the sun.

  She soared upwards, reag the cloud yer.

  In the moment, a tremendous csh of fri and lightnied, with intense energy collisioween the girl and the cloud yer—or rather, the seal of the Abyss. The disturbance was so profound that it could be felt even at the furthest reaches of the Abyss.

  “It’s quite stubborn.”

  Seeing the seal resist, the girl trated all her magical power into a single point.

  “Break!”

  Her punch, powerful enough to shatter space itself, struck the seal directly. Instantly, the entire Abyss trembled violently. The sky, once blue with white clouds, was bsted upwards, and enormous fissures radiated from the girl’s location, spreading across the Abyss.

  Crack, crack…

  The seal shattered like breaking gss, the sky without the sun gradually disappearing.

  “...What is that...”

  “It’s so beautiful…”

  At that time, outside, it was sunrise. Perhaps due to the uure of the Abyss, all its inhabitants saw not the surrounding cliffs but instead a sky turning pale with the dawn and an e-red sun slowly rising, casting light upon the nd.

  “Farkonia…”

  “Yes…”

  Misako and Farkonia, who had not seen the sun for so long, were deeply moved. What was on everyday occurrence had bee a treasured sight after such a long absence.

  Even light-averse bck demons stood in the sunlight, basking in the unpreted radiance.

  They remaihere, feeling the sun until it had fully risen.

  …

  “It’s been quite a while.”

  The girl gazed at the sun. For her, looking directly at it posed no harm, not even a disfort from its brightness.

  Although she knew she had spey thousand years in the Abyss—a truly long period—she oddly felt that time had passed swiftly.

  ‘But no doubt, they have been there even lohan me.’

  She had arrived at the Abyss long after it had begun, but Misako and Farkonia had been there from the start.

  The girl desded slowly to the ground, greeted by tless ad gazes.

  As the one who had shattered the Abyss’s seal aored light to the realm, her power and achievements were revered to the point of deification.

  “By the way, I haven’t asked your name, Sn Mistress of the Abyss.”

  “…”

  Although the title sounded a bit strahe girl was more ed with the first part of the question.

  She had once fotten her name due to amnesia. Though she ter recalled it, she had rarely used it.

  [ Then why not just discard it? ]

  ‘...The heart devil?’

  [ Humph! You’re seeking revenge, aren’t you? Using your old name would be like announg, ‘I’m here, I’ve returned’! ]

  ‘Indeed.’

  [ Why don’t you use that name for me instead? I don’t have a name, and calling me ‘heart devil' or 'inner demon’ feels awkward. ]

  ‘Very well, I’ll call you that from now on.’

  [ ...Aren’t you worried at all? ]

  ‘Worried? Rather, I should thank you. Thank you for awakening me, allowio tinue on my path of revenge.’

  [ Hmm, hmph! ]

  ‘In that case, my name should be...’

  [Hmm... Ah, I’ve already thought of it. You shall be called...]

  “Aris.”

  The girl opened her eyes once more and spoke her name.

  “Uood, Lady Aris, Sn Mistress of the Abyss. Everything in the Abyss belongs to you.”

  Misako, Farkonia, Shirone, Haru, Veridith... the bck demons, dragons, mermen, ogres, smurfs, giant serpents... all the powerful beings and races bowed before her.

  Thus, the Abyss and its sn mistress were restored to the world.

  ShoujoDirector