"Master…"
Despite the surprise of the sudden appearance of Yale and Lina which interrupted them, Liye's legacy disciple, or in other words, the last disciple had had before entering in reincarnation, felt happy after having reunited with his master after thousands of years.
"It is good to see you again my disciple, but you should retrain a bit with my sister-in-law because she has yet to become an Essence God."
The disciple could just smile awkwardly after hearing those words. He didn't doubt about the relationship that his master had with Lina given how that appeared together with Yale holding her in his arms.
In fact, he always thought that Lina and his master would be a good match to each other, but he never had the guts to say it to Lina for fear or the punishment.
Both of them had high positions in his heart. His master gave him a new life when he was doomed to die, and if Lina hadn't been there, he doubted that he would have been able to be as strong as he had become.
They were the only ones who hold such a high position in his heart, so he always felt that they could only match with the other, but he never thought that it would really happen.
"You can call me Yale now. This is the name I am using currently, but I don't mind if you call me Liye either. Right, in the end, which of the names I gave to you did you decide to use?"
Before meeting Yale's past life, the man who turned into his disciple was just a nameless slave who was identified by a string of numbers. Of course, he was just a normal slave because there weren't any means to create soul slaves in the place he lived, but since he was born as a slave as he was the son of slaves, without even knowing the identity of his parents, so there hadn't been too much difference for him.
Thus, Yale's past life gave him several names to choose, but he was unaware of what one he had chosen at the end.
"The name I chose is Shiba."
He replied honestly and noticed the shock on Yale's face.
"That is unexpected. Despite being in a foreign language, that is a name with part of that number you hated so much. It seems that you accepted your origins instead of trying to deny them. With that kind of mentality, I can understand your accomplishments to the date."
Given how hard had been Shiba's past before meeting Liye, Yale knew that it was hard that he managed to accept it, but at the same time, accepting it had been extremely beneficial for his mental state and his soul.
"At the start, I just chose it to remember my past and don't forget my revenge. I planned to discard it afterward, but before that happened, I realized that despite how hard it was, it was still my past and what helped me to become who I am. Without those hardships, I would have never met you, master, and I would at most lived as a normal person in that small world."
Although he had always cursed his origins, he understood that at the end those origins had been a blessing in disguise since he was able to meet his master.
"Well done. I wasn't wrong when I decided to make you my disciple."
Yale was really pleased with Shiba because if it hadn't been for him, Lina wouldn't have gone to Yale's world and thus they wouldn't have turned into a couple.
Yale considered that the fact that Shiba randomly ended in the place where he was waiting before reincarnating was fate, but he would have never guessed that his decision of taking Shiba as his disciple would have been so influential in his own fate.
"Master, probably you already heard about her from my sister-in-law, but she is Eni, my girlfriend."
Shiba introduced the cute girl beside him. Although she lived for thousands of years, it was easy to see that her personality was still somewhat childish.
"Nice to meet you, brother-in-law."
Eni was happy that her sister found a boyfriend, so she greeted Yale with a delighted expression. She felt that if her sister knew about how was being in love, she would be less strict with her.
"Yale, my sister, is a bit childish, so don't be offended if she isn't polite towards you."
Lina loved her sister a lot, so she wanted that Yale had a good impression of her, but she felt that Eni had been too casual when greeting Yale.
"So, you are my sister-in-law, I heard a lot about you. Nice to meet you."
Yale didn't care in the slightest about being polite or not, so even without Lina's words, he wouldn't have been offended.
"Yale, it has been a long time."
Yale turned his head after hearing Kermu's voice.
"Good to see you again. Sorry for interrupting you before. Oh right, since we are here this is a good chance. Lina, let my friends leave your world now, Julie included."
Lina nodded and did as Yale instructed while Yale also made Wyba and the others appear outside the Storage Space.
"What happened to Julie?"
Seeing that Julie appeared lying down on a bed they were shocked, but since everyone reunited together after more than ten years, they had a lot to spoke, and those who were isolated with Shiba and Eni learned about what happened.
George, Zack, and Sammie also noticed about what happened after everyone appeared, so they joined them. Sammie couldn't remember the others since she was too young when the war happened, so they needed to introduce themselves again.
"George, I can heal your arm now. If you want, you don't need to continue using that golem arm anymore."
Being a Life Essence God, there was no way that Yale couldn't heal George's arm, so he felt that was a good chance to heal him.
"No need. Sister Eni is a Law God in the Life Law and already offered to heal my arm, but I am ready used to my golem arm, and after Master, I mean Brother Shiba taught me a bit, I improved the golem arm a lot, so I doesn't feel worse than a real one."
Shiba and Eni had forced George and Zack to call them Brother Shiba and Sister Eni. Originally, they wanted to acknowledge them as masters due to how much they taught them, but they refused because they were Yale's friends and would be improper taking them as disciples without asking Yale first.
Sebe, Serka, and Kermu didn't have any problem in calling Shiba and Eni like that from the start.
"Yale, why did you bring Julie outside? She isn't in a good state to be here."
The one who said that was Aizu, who was feeling sick after seeing how Yale and Lina interacted with each other, so she decided to gather her courage and speak to Yale.
"It is the opposite. This is the best for her with all her friends gathered together. If I am not wrong, she must wake up soon."
Just as Yale finished his words, Julie slowly opened her eyes. She was still confused, but she had already recovered her consciousness.
Since she had mainly a psychological problem, Yale felt that having her being together with her friends was the best option to help her even though it wasn't something that was ensured to work. She improved quite a bit while being in Lina's world, and Yale noticed that she was about to awake when Aizu spoke to him.
Everyone cheered when Julie woke up despite Julie herself being unable to understand well her situation.
Two hours later, Julie finally was able to process everything that had happened.
It was at that moment that Yale asked for everyone's attention.
"We are finally reunited here, but there is someone who sacrificed his life for making this possible."
Everyone fell into silence after hearing those words.
"Swordmad didn't doubt to sacrifice himself for us, so we should at least pay respects for his sacrifice."
Yale took out a normal chunk of iron and in an instant he crafter a sword that was identical to Swordmad's sword. After all, Swordmad's sword wasn't any special sword, so it wasn't hard to replicate given Yale's current proficiency in blacksmithing.
Yale stabbed the sword in the ground before speaking.
"Swordmad, when I lost my memories and was in my most vulnerable state, you taught me and protected me as my master. Even at your end, you sacrificed yourself to help me. You are a man who earned my respect. I promise that I will find your soul even if I need to travel through the whole universe… No, I will do it even if I need to go to another universe."
After Yale's speech, everyone offered a minute of silence for Swordmad.
Most of them had met him and knew that he was quite a selfless person who cared more for Yale than for himself, so they respected him a lot.
In fact, although they didn't know, if it hadn't been for Swordmad, most of them would have died because Yale wouldn't have had the chance to change the past to save them.
"I won't disappoint you."
Yale gave his back to the sword after creating a barrier that was a strong as the one separating the continents and walked toward the others.
