My Husband Is Not the Magic Tower Master - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95

The demon beasts drew near one by one, licking my cheeks before rolling onto their backs, inviting me to touch them.
Before I knew it, simply running my hands over their soft skin and fluffy fur had drawn us close together.
Soon I found myself sitting on the ground, exchanging words with them.
Of course, only I spoke while they expressed their understanding through gestures and sounds.
“Wait—aren’t you one of those wyverns I saw tearing apart the Magic Tower roof earlier?”
“Screeeee.”
“Look, your relatives attacked us the moment Carlo and I showed up back then. Three heads. Cerberus!”
“Whimper-whimper-whimper.”
The demon beasts seemed to be conveying their feelings to me, all of them showing apologetic expressions.
But I couldn’t tell if they were truly sorry or simply feigning it.
Ever since I began wielding the power of Synchronization, they’d grown obedient.
Yet at the same time, there was one thing alone.
“How do I get out of here?”
I never received an answer to that question I posed to them.
“Tell me how to return to the Human Realm. I left my family there.”
“….”
“So you don’t want to answer that, is it?”
Why? Were they hoping I’d settle here now that I had companions to converse with?
“No, that’s awful.”
I’d been keeping the power ready in my palm ever since, worried their attitude might shift at any moment.
They were growing endearing by now, but I couldn’t spend my entire life here watching their faces and isolated in this place.
‘I need to find a proper way to escape.’
I lay upon the soft wing the wyvern offered me, staring blankly at the saffron sky—for hours now.
I finally accepted the reality of my situation.
“Well… all right. Should I try walking around for a bit?”
I was trapped in the Demon Realm, my other magical abilities didn’t work here, and the demon beasts couldn’t speak.
It was a truly absurd predicament.
But lying here in one spot wasn’t helping—I couldn’t even feel the passage of time properly, and honestly, I was just bored out of my mind.
I stretched and began walking forward with the demon beasts.
“Let’s go.”
“Squeak.”
“Yelp!”
Among my eager companions, one wyvern and one Cerberus had been especially devoted to following me.
As we walked on, whenever I grew restless, I’d strike up countless small conversations with them.
For instance, I gave each of them a pet name.
Or whenever my legs tired from walking, I’d start a pointless debate with both of them about whose arms I should rest in.
“Puppy, you sound nice.”
“Yelp!”
“Kitty, you’re up tomorrow.”
“Squeak.”
The Cerberus was a demon beast with three dog heads, so I nicknamed it Puppy straightforwardly.
The wyvern that had been thrashing its wings and destroying the Magic Tower roof had a face that oddly resembled a cat despite its destructive nature, so I called it Kitty.
After walking like this for some time, I lost track of how long it had been.
“Ugh. I’m exhausted.”
I couldn’t go any further.
This wasn’t some grand national march, and I had no idea how many more days this might take.
Simply wandering through an unknown, featureless void searching for answers felt closer to gambling than anything.
“Stop. I can’t walk anymore. I won’t.”
When I finally felt trapped in the middle of a barren, desolate desert.
I collapsed forward onto the ground in despair, abandoning all hope.
Time had already stretched on so long in the Demon Realm. How much time had passed in the Human Realm?
The more I thought about it, the more my mind filled with an endless, hollow despair.
“…Carlo.”
He must be waiting for me.
But this place is truly hopeless. What in the world does the Demon Realm expect me to do?
“My magical power doesn’t work at all! You’ve saddled me with just one ability and left me choking on it—so what am I supposed to do?”
This insane Demon Realm where even conversation doesn’t function properly!
And whenever I ask what I actually need to know, these creatures just clam up and dodge.
How am I supposed to find harmony with the Demon Realm and accomplish anything here?
Surely you don’t expect me to grow old, die, and be reborn as a demon beast?
“Ugh. I can’t do this….”
Frustrated beyond measure, I threw myself flat on the ground and pounded the earth with my fists.
As I did, the power of Synchronization that I held cupped in my hands spilled over, and by chance a few drops fell onto the barren soil below.
Patter. Pitter-patter.
“Huh?”
That was the moment.
Against my cheek pressed to the dry ground, I felt something suddenly damp and moist.
The sound of things sprouting up here and there, and a violent tremor that shook my entire body.
I instinctively opened my tightly closed eyes and glanced around—and there, an astonishing sight unfolded before me.
‘Why are there trees here?’
Saplings planted one or two at a time from who knows when, green shoots and a lawn that looked like it was just beginning to take hold.
Even tender wildflowers you’d expect to see only on a mountainside with clean air.
“…A lush prairie?”
Something like that?
Of course, it was impossible for such an environment to form from just one or two drops containing magical power.
Instead, I had gained a valuable hint.
Watching the sprouts that had grown in patches around my palm where I’d accidentally spilled my mana, I finally understood what my task should be.
“That’s magnificent.”
Immortality, Subjugation, Destruction, Synchronization.
Among them, Synchronization seemed the strongest.
Unlike maintaining a state, binding an opponent, or extinguishing life, this was the realm of pure ‘creation’.
So this power was something this beautiful.
“Damn, I nearly stumbled into an epic journey across another world without even knowing it.”
If I restored the ecosystem here to its original state, would a way to escape appear?
‘I hope so.’
I was imagining pouring all the mana from my body down into the ground when I lifted my head again with a start.
“Oh.”
Before that, there’s something I need to do….
“Chirp?”
“Meow?”
“Come here, puppy and kitty.”
The moment my resolve solidified, I carefully extended my hands infused with mana to the creatures at either side.
And the instant the power of Synchronization touched them.
A brilliant golden light began to spiral around them, and soon their forms transformed, unlike their previous appearance.
Woof! Bark bark!
Meooow!
“Wow. So they really were a dog and a cat all along.”
With gentle eyes and cute, harmless faces that all could adore.
As if they’d been corrupted by the Demon Realm all this while, their bodies had shrunk to an even cuter size than before.
The puppy and the kitty immediately bounded around me in circles, and before long they were even speaking to me in human language.
“You’ve finally granted our wish!”
“Thank you, child of Stein!”
As expected, they came bounding toward me, licking both my cheeks enthusiastically.
“Yeah, okay… I’m grateful, but you’re both soaking wet.”
Even as I was buried under their fur, I busied myself groping at the ground beneath me.
Then I released all the mana I possessed with all my might.
I calculated how long it would take to transform the barren Demon Realm soil into a lush natural prairie at this rate.
And the conclusion I reached was….
‘Two weeks.’
Just two weeks, and I could return to the Human Realm.

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