ACT 15 - Hero's rhapsody

ACT 15 - Hero's Rhapsodhy
Seirei Gensouki 15 - Yūsha no kyōsōkyoku (精霊幻想記 15 - 勇者の狂想曲) are the 15th installment of the Seigensou light novel series, it follow the story after the battle between Rio and Lucius.

Prologue: Liselotte's melancholy.
Ten days after Christina's and Flora's disappearance, Liselotte is in one of her home's drawing rooms with Roana seated in front of her, Liselotte is reading a letter, the letter explains Hiroaki's wish of making her his wife, that he doesn't wist to rank his wifes between but the sake of appearances she would be the third wife and is asked to go to Galarc's castle for having a marriage interview with him, Liselotte begins to think first think about how to refuse while holding the urge of sighing, she's worried about how much importance François will give to the alliance with Restoration, if he will really respect her freedom or if he will give more importance to having and ally like Restoration between themselves, the Proxia empire and the Bertram kingdom, now she sighs while still reading and Roana apologizes for suddenness of the matter, now Liselotte thinks in everything he did at Amande's and the Rikka firm's front for the sake of being to choose freely, she wonders if in the end everything will be in vain, now Roana asks her to go together to Galarc's capital in the next days, that Hiroaki desires to hear her answer directly from her, Liselotte makes an understanding face when hearing that,she thinks that Hugenot and Restoration must be in quite the tight spot since Christina's and Flora's disappearance, she says she will prepare their departure right now, Roana says respectfully that there isn't any need for hurrying for their sake, Liselotte answers that right now she has businesses too in the capital, Roana apologizes again for the troubles and the talk ends.

Chapter 1: After the fierce battle.
The end of the fight against Lucius, Rio walks towards Christina and Flora through the mist and rainbows that appeared when he undid the Yamata no Orochi and the ground completely destroyed and annegated due to his spirit arts, he asks Christina again about Flora's condition, Christina explains again about Flora's poisoning, Rio put his hand inside his chest pocked and took and antidote from the time space cache, pretending that the antidote was always there, he gives the antidote to Christina and explains to her what it's, Christina is surprised of being given a potion and checks cautiously if it's really fina to give to Flora, Rio sees Christina's wounds from walking barefoot in the forest while carrying Flora, Christina tries to hide her wounds while saying that they aren't a great deal, Rio tooks out a potion from the time space cache while pretending again to take it from his pocket, he says to Christina to use it on her wounds, Christina refuses saying that Rio's wounds are way more serious and that he should use it himself, Rio says to her to that he already gave himself the minimum treatment and that he still has to deal with Duran that it's coming their way, that later he would remove the magic sealling colar too, Christina reluctanly accepts while Rio puts himself between her and Flora and Duran.

Duran rises his hands while saying that he doesn't have any intention of fighting, that he just helped Lucius because he was promised to be given Flora, that they were just people who fought on the same battlefield, that there places were they simpathysized because he likes tiranny but his hobbies weren't as bad as his, that even more than Flora and Christina he wants Rio to work for him, that his country is a small kingdom, that because of that he needs as much strong people as possible for not being looked down bu the big countries around him and for fighting against the other small kingdoms when problem arise, that he will give Rio anything he wants, Rio refuses all the times, in the meanwhile Christina already gave the antidote to Flora and treated her wounds with the potion, Rio mades a deal with Duran, he offers him to have Lucius' sword for himself, Rio himself repairing the destroyed battlefield and later saying that to the ones who asks it that the Palladia kingdom was unrelates to the sisters kidnapping, Christina agrees to it too, in exchange Duran must let the sisters go quietly and keep silence about the name Rio, Duran accepts, picks up Lucius sword from the ground and leaves toward the village.

When Duran isn't visible anymore Rio pierces the sword on the ground, put his hands on it and repairs the destroyed hilly area with earth spirit arts, Christina sees him and goes even more eeehhhhh?, Rio stands and sheaths his sword, he helps Christina to stand and takes out the magic sealling collar from her neck, Christina thanked him first of all by reflex and the she begins to wonder just how did he do that, Rio says to her that they need to go to place where they can rest and talk quietly about what to do from now on, that his wounds aren't bleeding anymore, Rio says that they can't stand there forever because Duran may come back, but Christina insist while looking at his body full of blood, Rio says that he can heal himself while moving and Christina begs to him with her lowered to at least let her do that, Rio in the end sighs while looking at the sky with a troubled a face and gives up.