Seiya - Great Granny Rista Sword

“Gwah!”

I hear a deep grunt, and my sapped energy returns.

Wh-what’s going on?!

I open my eyes to find Ultimaeus’s face contorting as Seiya stands before me with a sword in hand.

“This body can still take damage even after becoming a god...?”

Ultimaeus clutches his chest. He looks unnerved for the first time since their fight began.

“A dark-type weapon...? Impossible...! There shouldn’t even be any weapons here! All your weapons should have turned to dust!”

But for some reason, Seiya is holding a sword with a dark-crimson blade. I can’t process what’s going on, either! Seiya calmly explains:

“I  considered  the  possibility  I  might  lose  all  weapons  effective  against Ultimaeus before or during the battle, so I hid this here.”

“You what?! Wh-when?!”

“One year ago.”

“...What?”

“To be more precise, it was when Celemonic put a curse on you and Chronoa reversed time.”

“You mean when we went back in time?!”

“Yes. There was plenty of reason to believe the final battle would be fought in the  throne  room  again,  so  it  would  have  been  a  waste  not  to  use  the  time-traveling  opportunity  to  my  advantage.  I  wouldn’t  have  been  able  to  sneak inside the throne room otherwise.”

D-does that mean he was already preparing for the final battle when I was about to die because of Celemonic’s curse...? When I was bawling my eyes out, he  was  comforting  Princess  Tiana...and  calculatingly  hiding  a  weapon  in  the Demon Lord’s throne room?!

“Incidentally, I hid everything in that pillar. While it goes without saying that I hid weapons of every elemental type, I also included kits for Synthesis from raw materials just in case all my weapons became unusable for some reason.”

“Synthesis kits, too?!”

“I temporarily dismantled a Dark God’s Amulet and a Drain Sword and turned them back into raw materials, which came in handy this time.”

“W-wait! Then the sword you’re using—”

“Yes, and I was able to improve it by adding the Ristarte Hair Doll to the item Synthesis. I call it...”

Seiya points the tip of the dark-crimson blade at Ultimaeus.

“The Holy Power Draining Sword: Revised—also known as the Great Granny Rista Sword.”

“What kind of name is that?! It makes me sound like I’m a really old lady!”

“More importantly, Rista, stand back. The Great Granny Rista Sword’s power to  absorb  divine  energy  is  incredible.  Not  only  will  it  turn  you  into  an  old woman, you’ll probably die almost instantly.”

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Volume 5, Chapter 63