Chapter 245: Visiting The Great Wall City
Seiryuu and Renzai spent only a day in the United Tribes, and went back to keep on track the preparations of what they are calling ’The Goddess’ Palace.’ Astri likes to call it ’Tsukihina Home’, because the United Tribes Castle is also her home.
Astri goes with the girls to clean Xzan, Dante, and Dieg’s graves, guarded by Skalven, Kangki, and the other children.
"Mom, why didn’t fathers Xzan and Dante didn’t come back to life like father Dieg? They also loved you until the end." Yuki asks.
"It is not only a matter of love. There are other kinds of circumstances. When Dieg died, I had never shifted. I believe that when I shifted, his soul, which was dormant, awakened along with my powers, since spouses have a soul connection. Xzan and Dante weren’t bound to my soul yet, either.. Of course, his love and desire to save me also made his soul not pass all stages of death." Astri explains.
"All stages of death? What is that?" Hopin asks.
"First of all. Death is not the end. It hurts more the ones who stay than the ones who die. There are many stages of death. Monsters, for example, go through the first stage of death. Their soul is connected to evil, that is what keeps their bodies functioning, but they don’t have a heartbeat or feelings anymore."
"You brought father Kangki back from death?" Elias asks.
"Basically, yes. His soul was still connected to his body, and with the time he spent next to me, his soul was waking up slowly. And when he decided to accept his feelings, and mine, he came back to life."
"How was it, father Kangki?" Kai asks Kangki.
"Painful and refreshing." Kangki answers.
"How many stages of death exist?" Hopin keeps on asking.