Vol 1 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Taboo of the Magician
Part 1
This is what he saw in his right eye
There was a basement
Without even a millimeter of deviation, the walls spread in four directions, ular room
It was a dark, quaint ician's workshop
The air was saturated with the ether of ic squares drawn all over the floor Flasks, beakers, and pentagraed on the shelves In the nooks and crannies of the roo dispensed so the ether didn't becoas There were also dolls and picture books that had been scribbled inside of
Entering the workshop were two people
A brazen, young girl with golden hair, and an oldhis black robe as usual
”Father, what are you going to evoke today?”
”Hey, father, tell ic you used earlier”
She had a lively voice
The girl happily followed the old man wherever he went She jumped with surprise at his fa of divinations She had memorized the old man's techniques in an instant
The hter only becahted in her great genius, and instructed her in all of his own secret techniques without regret
”Addie, when you evoke Shax, you le of Solo the syle”
”Addie, before that, place the doll and purify it If you are not pure in mind and spirit, you will contrarily be used by the demon”
He had a stern, low voice
However, it was gentle
The small base of icians
Until that day
Suddenly his vision changed
It was a night where the ht from as probably a full
”What's that?”
The girl tilted her neck
In the faint light, the old man deformed his hollowed cheeks and made a crude smile
”It's a seed”
”A seed?”
”It's a seed I've been seeking for a very, very long time”
His eye color was unusual The girl pretended not to notice, but they were a bleary color, see
In the palm of his wrinkly hand was a tiny, crimson seed
A pure red seed?
”A catalyst?”
”Yes, there is a certain ic I want to try With this, I can finally realize that”
As far as the girl knew, the old ician in the world
Of course, if there is one type of ic, then there is another that can overco of Soloreater than the old man At the same tiic arts of Solomon
Special Magical Ability
To be good at soic was o as humans remained human, limits would stand in their way
However
Taking a deep breath, the old man made a curt, bizarre statement
”I--want to becoic”
And tiain
The workshop was stained with the same color as the seed
Red
Crimson
Torn apart, being torn apart, crushed, being crushed, ars, chest, scattered around the workshop
Blood, and blood, and blood, and blood, and flesh, and blood, and blood, and blood, and bone, and bone and teeth and blood and blood and blood and blood and hair and blood and blood and blood and blood and blood and blood and nails and blood and blood and blood and blood and lips and blood and blood and fingers and blood and blood and blood and blood and intestines and blood and blood and blood and ears and blood and blood and blood--were painted across the four walls of the workshop
And then
He sahat tuic circle
The old man's freshly severed head
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah--!
The shock only ed to call his conscience back into his paralyzed body
There was a sound of dragging
He felt that he was being pulled along by someone
The floor seehtly in pain It see by the collar, his ankles occasionally scraping across the ground
His vision was still dark He couldn't move his body at all
Nevertheless, his right eye reflected a cora in the shape of a bay laurel used for warding off demons both flickered before his eye near his collar
He understood
These were Adilisia's fetishes
Huh? Why can I see those sorts of things?
His thoughts were desultory
He was dragged a little further
Apparently they had reached their destination Adilisia was breathing heavily, even though she didn't seereat distance She was definitely lacking exercise Her physical strength was irl's
A soft hand lightly touched his face
” Why”
Adilisia's voice sounded like she was crying
”Why do even you enter here?”
Her words see
He couldn't understand
But he was glad that he seemed to be alive
Once again--this time completely--Iba Itsuki lost consciousness
”President! Addie?”
{I, i, it's no use! If you foolishly approach it and those ripples co back shorn!}
The white cat, panicking, restrained the witch rushi+ng at the ocean surface
”I, I know, but”
Honaretfully
She stared at the pure white sea
Yes, it hite now
After Itsuki and Adilisia were sucked in, the ocean surface froze all of a sudden The hundred square meter ocean had turned into white frost
One could feel the cold air across the bridge of the nose to the cheeks, causing the walls of the nostrils to become paralyzed
It was a change that was difficult to believe, but that was the scene of the reality they now faced
{I don't knohat thisinto an excessively large-scale cereoetia>'s demons, they can't have done this}
Byakko-kun narrowed his eye The cold air had reached the brooh his long hairs
{For the tioetia> et to theo over the situation with them}
””
{Er, Honami-san?}
””
{Honami onee-chan!}
Mikan's voice cah
” I understand I can't just jump in recklessly”
She stayed quiet for a long time, and then placed her hand on the brim of her pointed hat
”Since I can't juhtRather, if we don't look into this further, on't be able to get the president back,” she said in a low voice, her face hidden by her large hat
Byakko-kun nodded, and directed Hona on the end of the broom
Following hier across the broom
” I'm sorry, Icchan”
With that, Honah
Mikan and Nekoyashi+ki aiting in the middle of the frozen ocean
At the tip of the frozen ocean that gave off the iht meters in diameter was open It was the remains of Mikan's spirit barrier Honami took Mikan and Nekoyashi+ki out separately on her broom
First, they got out of the cold--froht> didn't reach, they looked down at the frozen ocean
”Yeesh, it was cold down there It's like a refrigerator, isn't it? I thought I was going to freeze to death”
Inside the thicket, Nekoyashi+ki, wrapped in his four cats, breathed into his hands and rubbed theether
Honalinted at his words
”He'll be alright in there, right?' she asked
”Hmm It depends on the style of spell, but I don't think the coldness would reach the inside of the ocean”
”Why?”
”To have frozen right as both <goetia>'s leader and our president fell in, it's like it was carefully aiht?” Nekoyashi+ki answered, pointing at the frozen ocean ”That is to say, can it not be considered that thespecially for those two?”
”Youpresident onii-chan to fall in?” Mikan interjected, looking up at Nekoyashi+ki
”No, our president probably had nothing to do with it He was a completely normal person until just recently, after all --However--and I oetia> tried to obstruct us fro this offer a little too obsessively, didn't they?”
””
Honami closed her mouth at Nekoyashi+ki's words
She remembered what happened in the park a week earlier
”Fighting us noroetia> probably wouldn't lose That er For all that, their reason was because they didn't want this to be seen?”
That wasn't logical reasoning
If you thought about it even a little, that was common sense At the end of the day, the question of ”What could this be?” didn't lead to a single answer
”What are you thinking of, Nekoyashi+ki-san?”
”<goetia>'s leader wanted to hide this situation However, before we get to that”
The sleeves of Nekoyashi+ki's haori fluttered as if they were dancing
As he turned around, a single white paper flew out from that sleeve
It was a seal
He affixed it to a tree behind the group, and in an instant it exploded from the inside It was as if the trunk had hollowed out and filled with blasting powder
” Do you plan on co out now?”
”My goodness That's quite a greeting”
A relaxed voice flowed through the air
Froerated bow Seeing his usual unreadable, expressionless face, Mikan clung to Honami's waist
” Kagezaki oji-chan”
”It's been about half a day, hasn't it?”
Kagezaki lightly patted his dirtied suit
His horribly average appearance didn't fit the surroundings
He was an eanization>
Honami didn't know any anizations, and Honami had seen hiland, but she had no idea what kind of ezaki specialized in
Because he was so average, he contrarily got carried away in his normalcy--you could say that he was an uncanny existence beyond atypicality
”Were you watching us?” Hona
In contrast to her, Kagezaki gave a thin sently
”Not at all, I have to be here too to assess the 'job' Moreover there are ruoetia> has violated a taboo, so I've come to confirm or deny that”
That si
More than Honaezaki Perhaps startled by the change, even the cats wrapped around Nekoyashi+ki turned toward Kagezaki
” A taboo, you say?”
”Yes” On his bleach-white face, another surface-only sezaki slowly continued his words ”Oswald ・ lenn ・ Mathers--the original leader of <goetia> and the father of Adilisia ・ lenn ・ Mathers--is believed to have, during his lifetiic”
Part 2
Itsuki felt a soft touch on the back of his head
It was incredibly coh he wanted to simply vacillate forever like this
He felt so tickle his throat, and when he opened his eyes, he saw golden hair and a pair of emerald eyes
”Eh?”
”Huh?”
Their eyes were less than a finger's distance apart
For several moments, the two simply stayed like that, petrified
”Eek”
”WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!” Itsuki shouted with great vigor In that mo hard into concrete
”Ow!”
Thanks to the pain, he fully regained consciousness
Seeing the blonde girl sitting in front of him, he blinked his eyes several times repeatedly
”--A, a, Adilisia-san?”
” I, if you are that surprised ahead of me, then I will not have any time to be surprised, you know Is that also one of
”No, that, it wasn't anything like that ere you”
”I just intended to e for there to be so into an ocean tainted to such a degree with spell poould it?”
”I, I guess you could say that, but”
Then, he finally noticed his surroundings
”Ah, that's right Are you alright, Adilisia-san?”
”I don't know”
Her face turning deep red, Adilisia turned away
”No, I didn'tweird; are you injured?'
”Huh?”
The girl frowned, puzzled
”Say, those tough-looking de to be okay, Adilisia-san?”
Adilisia gave a sh and smiled at Itsuki's words
”As usual, you know absolutely nothing, do you? Unlike simple demons with ether bodies, rate fro so simple as spell power interference”
In high spirits, she pointed to the chest of her jet-black dress
She was the same old Adilisia It was as if the weak face she made the moment they fell in was a lie
Itsuki was somehow happy at her behavior
”So where are we?” he asked
He turned his head several ti around
For now, they weren't in the sea of the <night> They were in the corner of a rooe space like a parking lot, and there were several sharp-cornered pillars standing The dust-covered floor was cracked, and there were rusted, suspicious ht there was ca
”Is that by any chance”
He strangely recognized the area
He felt that he had seen this on the reference docu here That is to say, it had appeared froional TV before
Is this the goblin factory?
It suddenly hit him
” Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!”
In that instant, a screaernails to the top of his head
”------! Wh, what on earth are you” Adilisia protested, covering her ears with both hands
”B, because it's I didn't think this could be the goblin factory! I, if you think about it, then froht corams”
The girl looked at Itsuki incoherently explaining things with a curious expression
”You for someone as not afraid of my demons, what reason is there for you to be afraid of childish tricks?”
”I, I guess you could say that, but”
Repeating the saru
He was genuinely not above such shame
He was a loser who took the concept of e, and finally disposed of it in space
”Well, I suppose that is like you”
Adilisia lightly shook her head Her golden curls shook elegantly as she did
” Now that I think about it we're not wet?”
”Somehow”
”But I thought we fell into the sea There's even air down here, what's the deal?”
”My s of your mind”
As if confirether and nodded as she said, ”This will do”
”What will?”
”First, see the current situation with your own eyes It'll be faster than if I explain things, I think”
Standing up, the girl approached the
It could be called a , but it was crude, with a broken shade draped over it The sash and the glass had disappeared long ago, and a rusted frame and the shade were all that remained of as once a
Adilisia lowered the shade
”------!”
Itsuki's jaw dropped
Outside of thestretched a frozen ocean