Volume 8 Chapter 3 Part1 (2/2)
No reply She seemed to not even hear anyone
“…Mohts?”
Yukizona said She turned off the electricity Yuri’s pal in the darkness What was that? Everyone except Yuri began staring at that orange light
With her eyes still closed, Yuri spoke calmly
“Mother, brother, I enius”
“Is that Magic?”
Yukizona said as he looked at Yuri’s hand Yukizona had never seen any Magic in the fourteen years of his life
“Yes, it is Magic”
“When did you go through that Magic Deliberation or whatever?”
Yuri shook her head
“I did not I just beca it”
“Is that even possible?”
At the time Yukizona didn’t know this, but it was an extremely rare occurrence It was only made possible due to a sincere wish and a powerful will
Yuri then spoke
“At first I just thought I would like to do soht be able to do so Just noas sure I could do it And then…”
“Yuri!”
While still in the process of healing, Yuri’s ed her
“This is a miracle, aaah, I can’t believe it The Present Overseer helped us, letting such a thing happen…”
The servants also shed tears as they talked to Yuri
“Lady Yuri! I’m so happy, I really, really don’t knohat to say…”
The doctor also shrugged while s
“Dear me, just now I’ve felt the powerlessness of science It sis no les”
Yuri, her mother, the doctor and the servants Yukizona looked at all of the Yuri with somewhat cold eyes
That’s probably a Magic Right meant to help with my disease It would probably not be able to treat any other illness Perhaps it ht not even work on another person with the same disease
My sister is a anything about Magic, she was still able to save me
But just what does that mean for me?
For soh all around him were only people orried for him and loved him
Yukizona raised his body
“Uet out?”
Yuri looked at Yukizona as if he had put a das He muttered embarrassedly as if he disturbed them
“What’s thebrother?”
“It’s not that I’ry I’m just fine already is all”
nobody could understand whatEven he himself couldn’t really understand it
“…No, I don’t mean it in a bad way I’m really fine”
Yukizona raised a smile With a worried expression, Yuri and the rest left the room
No one could probably understand his feelings Because that
The , miraculous scene was Yuri Yukizona was just a side character He was nothing more than a poor boy saved by a miracle
He was pitiful No one would be able to understand him, but they probably felt horrible pity
Starting that day, Yukizona became somewhat taciturn
Yukizona was in low spirits His father showed so him like that
“This happens to all boys your age”
There’s no way it does, thought Yukizona How er sister’s miraculous powers?
Co more than a shadow He was only a side character in her brilliant story
Yuri annoyed him It didn’t mean he didn’t love her; the fact that she was the ed But that only further promoted his sense of inferiority
And then…
A strange daily routine began for Yukizona At night, when everyone slept and he was left alone, he began looking at the flowers in his roo finished his nursing for that day
He didn’t feel any adrateful to her
Yukizona looked at the floith intent to kill buried in his eyes He was sier He tried to absolve his unspent feelings for Yuri by staring at flowers He never thought of finding any fault with her Neither would he hit the vase or stoht that he would, at least, stare it to death
These were trivial and inally was
However, at the sa of his talent
Geniuses soenius was born fro That’s hoas
Yukizona stared at the flowers He did so with everything he had That impossible behavior distorted the laws of the world
One month later, Yuri was puzzled by the fact that the floere quick to wilt recently
Three erms in Yukizona’s room, so the doctor ca inside of him
And half a year later… Yukizona becaers
A year passed No it was no longer just flowers; he could also kill bugs and rodents He called his own ability the Decay Wave That very saest later
It was a strange story The opportunity that gave birth to the strongest man was the jealousy for his excellent sister
He never spoke of this to anyone He was too ashamed of it
He obviously also never told it to the originator, Yuri However, he later wondered whether she actually had a vague idea about this
Yukizona decided to pursue the path of an Armed Librarian There was obviously opposition to this His sister, his parents, his doctors, his servants and all of his friends opposed; , everyone who knew him
But Yukizona overcame that opposition
His as, rather than si for death, to try andhis life for that sake
Yukizona was promoted from a student to a trainee in no time When he was a student his Decay Wave was half perfected All he needed to do was to acquire bodily reinforcee and experience
Four years passed since his ability has awakened
One day, Yukizona spoke with his friend Mokkania They were at the cafeteria near the Library Yuri was also at his side, but she barely opened her mouth except when Yukizona spoke to her
“You’ve changed recently”
They cae They both possessed a cruel and brutal ability People around them spoke of them as rivals, but they didn’t have a bad relationshi+p
“Yeah”
Yukizona noticed his own change He was silent even originally, but it became even worse recently
“You started having a dreadful look in your eyes It’s hard to talk to you recently”
“A dreadful look?”
“Yeah The same kind that Photona-san, Mattalast-san and Ireia-san have”
“What kind of look is that?”
“Eyes that are norentle, but can readily kill people”
Yukizona thought for a while
“I have no choice when it’s forthem”
“Killing people is your mission?”
“I ht kill people for the hter”
Mokkania seemed lonely as he shook his head
“You’ve changed”
“I haven’t changed I grew up”
Yukizona definitely has changed, though Froentle, sickly boy, he becae that it surprised even hi one’s environes in people
“Why have you changed like that?”
Mokkania asked drearily Despite his powerful ability, his naiveté never disappeared
Yukizona thought of his life as an Armed Librarian for the sake of his still-naïve friend For a while he organized the thoughts in his head and then spoke
“I’ve been thinking about so lately I believe that life is a duty”
“Meaning?”
“I don’t know if one needs some sense of duty to live, or if it shapes life by itself, yet both of them are inseparable”
“…”
“People all have their own duties And it’s not so they’re born with; I believe that they find it, or perhaps are given it, during their lives
In some cases they find it by theht it forth Soive them their duty; they have to defeat their enemies I believe that fate is also a kind of duty
Duties brings hardshi+ps However, at the sa happiness
It is said that adjoining happiness and misfortune creates completeness A duty lies within that
In short, I believe that life is iven duty and their approach to it”
Yukizona glanced at Yuri who sat next to him
In the past she had happily nursed hi she found her duty in him
“I believe that beco it is the sae”
Mokkania shook his head
“This worldview is full of holes”
“I’m neither a philosopher nor a teacher I don’t know if this is correct But that’s how it is for me”
“I’m different I won’t become like you”
“No way You will definitely change as well”
Mokkania shook his head again, a miserable expression on his face
“In the past I had had no duty I lived without being burdened with anything However, I’ot myself a duty”
“…A duty, huh…”
“I’rateful for the Ar”
“You’re grateful for your duty, and because of that you can fight That gratitudeHow fortunate for you”
“Yeah”
“…But I’m different”
In the end Yukizona’s words didn’t reach Mokkania’s heart Later they ended up going on separate ways Mokkania beca Director
It’s not like he couldn’t understand Mokkania’s feeling It’s just that Yukizona felt differently
I will keep being grateful to everything that gave me a duty To Yuri… to my family… to Bantorra Library and to my comrades To the people of the world and their Books
To everything that gave me a duty
Yukizona had received innumerable favors to repay - thus he felt