360 357. Stand behind the scenes.txt (2/2)

Obviously, someone had entered the room now.

Unnoticed by me, a dimensional wizard, he appeared suddenly and disappeared.

Then he left his sword behind.

I can't take my eyes off the sword.

The more I look at it, the more I feel like the precious emotions that were lost are coming back. I can also see that this sword is the uncomfortable feeling I've been remembering all day, and the piece I'm losing.

If it were a landscape painting, this sword would be the sun.

I'm convinced that it's the 'big reason' for Snow and Maria's example, and I reach out my hand - and

............

Halfway through, I stopped.

It was a physical experience that had seeped into his body.

This was no different than when I was once deprived of my memories.

The protagonist, deprived of his memory, interacts with his former friends, touches things that are related to the past, and slowly regains himself...

--It's impossible.

Unlike before, I know this one won't be as nice.

'I'm not like that guy ....... Yangtaki is different .......

In the midst of a light house search, did you find an important piece?

Conveniently, your memory is starting to come back a bit now?

--there shouldn't be.

'Yotaki is not normal ....... He is stronger than any guardian (Guardian). Definitely stronger .......

To be honest, I didn't sense any hostility from the brown kid I saw earlier. On the contrary, I sensed a willingness to cooperate with me. I can't confirm it, but I believe it's a gentle rescue with a different mouth from Yotaki's.

But that gentle relief is in the palm of Youtaki's hand.

I want to tell you that, so I continue talking to myself in the empty room.

'Yotaki is strong ....... More than the apostle, more than me, more than anyone else in this world ....... If I can be equal to Yotaki, it's only me ....... There is only me. So--

I'll appeal to you that you don't need any relief.

I'll advise that 'reason' so that the gentle rescuers don't continue to challenge an opponent they can't beat.

''--[No one can defeat Aikawa Yotaki]

This much is absolute.

No joke, Yotaki will always win in the end, no matter how unreasonably unfavorable the rules are.

This 'in the end' is a particularly terrible part of the game.

My sister doesn't let the defeated realize that they're going to lose before they know it. On top of that, she's very good at manipulating them behind the scenes.

That's what happened to our family not long ago.

I was the ultimate example of that since I came to this other world.

The first time I was summoned to another world, I was elated and said ”I'll cure Yotaki's disease”. It's not just a matter of time before you get to the point where you can't get out of the magic of sleep.

--No way.

Because it was all a lie, Yotaki was able to come to the 'summit' of Fuzzyards Castle on that 'day Aikawa Uzumi came back to life'.

He came to snatch the 'best' of this other world at an unparalleled time.

This meant that she could move whenever she wanted, without needing to receive treatment from Ayd or Nosfi, she could move whenever she wanted.

All along, behind the scenes, Yotaki had been doing everything the way she wanted it to be done.

The result is this lukewarm illusory world. Naturally, everything I do here is in the palm of YouTaki's hand. Probably, what I'm thinking about now is also within the range of Yotaki's expectations. I've been manipulating my sister behind my back for a long time, and I've been following her manipulations without any sense of discomfort, and so...

”--Ha. ...... Let's have some water.

The memory had returned a bit, and the childhood trauma was about to return.

My thoughts were about to fall into a dangerous circle of circles - but I took a breath without panicking and calmed myself down.

Then, without using magic, he grabbed the 'Heavenly Sword Noah', placed it in his 'possessions' appropriately, and walked out of the guest room.

The destination is the kitchen in the living room.

There's a magical stone line in there, so you can always have safe and cold water to drink.

It's a good idea to be able to have a good time with them.

--I'm sure that I may be in the palm of Yotaki's hand right now.

But that doesn't mean that everything is hopeless.

From The Gentle World of Winter, we get a glimpse of Yotaki's intentions, which have been invisible all along.

Now, what is most emphasized here is probably ”the friends who are leaving one by one for the mainland”.

Protected by the Alais family, Dear has started a new life with a new friend.

Maria and Snow, hand in hand under House Walker, heading to their new home.

From the sequence of events up to today, it's clear that they're trying to convince me to part with my friends without leaving me 'untreated'.

'I guess I'm trying to reduce the number of people who get in my way ....... I'm trying to diminish my people, and diminish them ....... After that, you can go to .......

Also, I feel like Yotaki is trying to end my story in my other world.

And that too, in a way that I won't be frustrated with, very nicely.

If that's why I'm raising my level to the limit and organizing my friendships in the other world, ...... that means my real time up might not be the moment my level rises to the maximum, but when I don't have a single person I know around me anymore.

When that time comes, I'll have no choice but to move.

Just like ■■■■, I have to take advantage of Yotaki's gap that I'm sure of winning.

Even if I couldn't understand Yotaki's feelings by then, I'm absolutely obligated to carry it out.

Otherwise, the world outside the hallucination would forever remain swallowed by the glacier.

.............

Honestly, it would be difficult to exploit Yotaki's slackness.

However, I can never lose. Because I know that this is the last time, I, as the older brother, have to end up winning.

With that strong sense of responsibility in mind, I walk to the kitchen.

Then, with trembling hands, I pump cold water into a wooden cup and pour it down my throat.

'Feng ......'

I slowly dropped my gaze as my stomach chilled.

There was a faucet there that looked exactly like my world.

A thousand years ago, I might have told Tiara about the water supply and the refrigerator.

That's why today's world is so full of civilization.

Of course, we don't have enough accumulated science, so we're just using magic to replace them.

The energy infrastructure that replaces electricity and heat is done with these 'magic stone lines' (lines). The demon energy runs through the magical stones unique to this other world and runs through the entire city, and this is how I can taste cold and hot food. When I was looking at the ”Magical Stone Line” in the kitchen, I became a little distracted.

.......

I found a red stain.

--Is that blood?

There's a drop of blood on the ”magic stone line”.

Maria may have made a mistake while cooking.

I was casually trying to wipe it off with a nearby rag--

What?

-- its blood avoided the rag (...).

Then it moves agilely, as if it were crawling, and adheres to my skin, not the rag.

Furthermore, the blood has heat, emits magic power, and activates the engraved magic formula.

The magic goes into effect.

Wha--?

Many questions fly while trying to get rid of the blood with my hands.

The blood--!　Why?　Who owns this magic?　It's hot, but it's not Maria. Probably not Fafner or Yotaki. But other than these three, I don't have any idea who else would use such magic power--!

Without an answer, that blood interferes with my blood.

It seeps in like the light from the former ”The One Who Stole the Reason of Light” and forces me to activate my magic, ”Dimensional Decisive Operation (Dimension Graduate) 'Prequel (Recall)'”.

I began to lose consciousness from my own magic.

''This is--''

Great (...).

When I realized this was a trap, I didn't swear, I envied the brilliant maneuvering.

I was completely caught off guard. For me, who had been wondering how to exploit the gap in the impresario yotaki, there was nothing more admirable than this.

However, before all of that praise can come out of my mouth, I go back in time.

The last thing I saw in my field of vision was the light of the magical stone line. The demonic stone line shines with unprecedented misery and envelops my body.

And beyond that memory, I knew.

The name of the person who nearly took me by surprise.

◆◆◆◆◆ ...

--the second 'past vision' has begun.

However, it's a big change from the original plan.

I would be transported not a thousand years ago, but to a more recent past.

I knew the date immediately.

I was certain that even in the long history of this other world, this scene could only happen once.

The place is the great holy city of Fuzzyards on the mainland. At the 'top' of that castle, two enormous magical powers were facing each other.

--Today is 'the day Aikawa Uzumi (me) came back to life'.

Light and stars.

From the color of the magic power reflected in my vision, I immediately recognized them as Nosfi and ...... Lagune.

Yes, Ragne Kaikwola - it took me a little while to recognize her because her name had been erased where I was earlier. Apparently, Ragne is severely disliked by Yotaki.

The two of them are at the 'summit' who can no longer exist only in the past. However, the gaze shifts as if they are not the ones to look at.

First of all, the castle is directly below.

More than ten thousand Fooziers soldiers were roaring with victory in the decisive battle, pushing back all the blood that had invaded the Great Sacred City to the inside of the castle.

However, the cheers did not last long. A huge wolf appeared from inside the castle, carrying many of the wounded, and a great unrest ran through the soldiers, which could be seen from a distance.

There, the gaze moves further.

The eyes, which were shaken by the shaking, finally arrived at their own feet.

It is my own toes standing on the roof of one of the many houses on the ground in the Great Sacred City.

That's where I came to know the person who was the starting point of the ”past vision”.

Black shoes on my toes. Above my knees, the hem of a frilly black dress. Black nails on the tips of his fingers.

'Ah, ah, here we are (...) ....... Maybe that (...) is now ......

It was the girl with the faintest memory in my mind - one of the students of 'The One Who Stole the Reason of the Tree' Aide, Noir-chan, the black 'Magic Stone Human (Jewelculus)'. The girl who always looked me in the eye and had been turned back many times.

On this day, the ones who were heading to capture Hoozeyards Castle, controlled by Ragne Kaikwola, the self-proclaimed 'The One Who Stole the Reason of the Stars', were led by 'Nosfi' and the nine members of 'Nosfi', 'Dia', 'Rustyala', 'Snow', 'Maria', 'Maria', 'Reaper', 'Reiner', 'Persiona' and 'Sera'. --However, this tenth person, Noir-chan, was the only one who did not participate and seemed to be in the background. To her, the base of magic is now overlapping with her.

''That's ...... in the castle.

Noir-chan was shivering with frost all over her body.

From the way she looked as if she had walked through the extreme cold, she seemed to have received some kind of freezing magic.

''I lost again ....... I was chosen by Sith-sama as a 'saint' ....... I am the most precious, wonderful and noble being in the world ...... but that was ....... That is ......!

His voice is trembling, too.

Thanks to my 'past vision', I was able to see into Noir's inner life.

Now she remembers the fight just before and is terrified.

She managed to inspire herself by calling herself a 'saint', but it was an emotion she couldn't shake off with just those words.

It is true that 'saints' are precious, wonderful, noble and strong. However, I met a monster that lightly surpassed that. The magic power that it wore was divine, and it was too much in another dimension. Black hair and eyes that seemed to be cut out of the darkness - that's where my brain refused to recognize that thing's appearance.

''Ugh, aaaaaaah......!

--just one look at me and I was defeated.

Not by magic, but just by being cursed by magic, I was frozen to the core to the point that my exhaled breath turned white. Ice grains covered my skin and took all the heat from my body and mind, and I fell face down and squatted down.

I was broken, not only in my body, but also in my mind.

With a single glance ......!

I don't want to remember any more.

Remembering it will break my broken heart the next time.

I'm confident that I'd rather choose self-determination than face that again.

A lot of things had been entrusted to me by people I know, but it doesn't matter anymore.

What's the point, ”We're going to put all of our strength into retaking Kanami from now on.” ”So, I'm leaving it to you. You're just going to have to hide.” ”We'll take out the enemy ourselves.” ”I was the best of the lot,” you said. ”Just be far away and protect her” - that was a big lie.

It was supposed to be called ”The Girl Trapped by the Sleeping Curse”. ......

It moved. It moved and spoke to me. ......!

'You want me to protect that thing ......!　It's crazy: ......!　Mr. Quager, Kiza's Elmirado, the Kiza's Elmirado, the idiot present god, everyone and everybody, no one in this world, no him!　You're all out of your minds!

Especially horrible, after I moved.

When the girl woke up from her sleep, she thanked me.

I can still tell.

That was really just a thank you.

I only spoke one word of thanks.

However, the magic power on a single word was so substandard - I was half-mad.

I felt as if I had been thrown into the monster's mouth, and without knowing what was going on, I unleashed an all-out attack magic in all directions. There was enough threat in that thing to do so.

''That was strange ....... That thing, it's already a person or magic ....... It's beyond ...... that kind of thing.

But that full-bodied attack of mine was lightly swallowed by her. I was just sucked into the magic of the girl who was just standing there - and disappeared.

The girl didn't even look at my footsteps.

After I thanked her, she treated me like I was a stone on the side of the road ....... She didn't seem to feel anything about freezing me with her magic, or being attacked by me with magic, and she walked away, leaving me ......!

' -- frustrated. But more than frustrated, I'm already ...... and I'm .......

Before I can say it, something falls on the tip of my nose with a plop.

Immediately I look up to see what caused it.

''Ti, magic rain (Tiarray) ......?''

I knew right away that it wasn't.

I am still one of the world's greatest wizards with this. I can at least tell if it's a particle of magic power or not, just by feeling the air.

In other words, this is not a phenomenon of magic power, but a change in the weather.

The color of the sky is gradually changing.

Little by little, the morning sun that illuminates the Great Sacred City is being swallowed up by darker colored clouds.

I knew that weather.

Accidentally, Dr. Aide had told me about it.

'Snow?'

So we know how unusual this is.

An unusual weather event that had never been possible in the past thousand years of history.

In the face of this cataclysmic event, the one word that comes to my mind is.

--se, the end of the world (・・・・・・) ......?

It would have been a ridiculous word in normal times, but it was familiar to me now.

It was because I had an idea of what caused it.

--It's that. Absolutely, it was that thing from earlier.

With a single glance, it froze a person.

It could have changed the weather just by walking.

And at the same time, I'm worried.

The girl who woke up didn't respond to my best magic. I didn't have to, so they let me off the hook.

However, the place I'm heading to now is Hoozeyer's Castle.

It's a place where the monsters known as 'The Stealers of Reason' are located.

They have all the greats to rival them.

This could be a situation where that girl needs to be proactive.

And what happens if she does?

It started snowing just as we were walking.

If you fight, what happens?

Scary, scary, scary.

Scary, scary, scary.

Just scary, scary, scary--!

'I'm scared, Rouge: ......

I unintentionally uttered the name of the supposedly separated half of my body in a pitiful manner.

It was also the moment I admitted that I had given up on challenging the strong man.

'Yes, I did ....... I knew it. I knew it, since the very beginning!

I fully acknowledge that everything is broken.

Hence, I will no longer mend my thoughts.

I'm going to fill my broken heart with a sore loser.

It's crazy.

Everything has been strange since that man showed up.

That sister was even stranger.

I can't hang out with her. ......

I shouldn't have to deal with that brother and sister anymore.......

You're never going to see them again. ......

And that's a good thing. Best move. Wise choice. I finally get it: ......!

'So!　I'm not going to help you. ......!　I'm getting away!　To the north with the rouge!　Rouge, Rouge Rouge Rouge. ......!　My precious half of my body!　Don't hold it against me, folks!　It's the fault of everyone who continues to be involved with a man like that: ......!

So I let the swearing fly, and turned on the heat to my own frozen body.

Fortunately, my frozen body isn't that seriously ill.

I have enough magic and strength left to escape.

Immediately I turn on my heel and turn my back on the castle and the battlefield and try to run out.

Only to feel a strange magical power at my feet at the start of it, and I stop in my tracks.

''--?''

Wriggling-- blood?

A spoonful of blood was moving along the 'magic stone line' of the street.

Is it the magic of the ”One who steals the reason for blood” as usual? Even if the knights of the Fusyars had done the job of removing the blood, it was far from perfect. Thus, the fact that a small amount of blood remained is not that strange.

But I am certain that this is the blood of a monster.

I felt as if I was taking it out on them, and trying to kick that blood--

d*mn it!

--But the blood leapt like a beast and avoided my feet (...)

--Huh?

And the blood sticks to my skin and immediately emits light.

What's more, the 'magic stone line (line)' that had been wriggling just now also shines in the same way.

Magic power runs through the blood and the 'magic stone line (line)', passing through the same magic formula, and a single magic is activated.

''......!　Why--why is this here--?

As the blood invades me, I understand.

--this is different.

This is not the blood of the one in the castle. This is the one that has been hiding behind the ”blood thief” that is reputed to be destroying the world - a being of a higher order.

That thing caught me as I was about to escape from offstage, saying, ”This is convenient.

And I can't resist.

I'm the world's greatest wizard, and I can't resist that blood magic at all.

This me, this me, this me ......!　This me, ah, ......!

'Yes, I have to go (・・・・・・) ......'

I was forced to mutter words I didn't want to say, and I performed a 'demonization' that was hard on my body.

Forming wings from my black clawed fingertips to my sides, my entire body is transformed into a thin layer.

Becoming a black bat, I leap onto the roof.

My goal is not outside the Great Sacred City, but the castle, the center of the battlefield.

I can't stop sweating cold.

I say I don't want to go, but I'm being made to go.

My whole body is trembling with fear, but my mouth moves on its own.

''Because we're--''

I hate .......

I don't want to go .......

”We (...) 'Jewish Stone People' were born from--

And yet, I will make my role known to me.

'The one who built this Great Sacred City of Fuzzy Yards--'

It also marks the end of this great holy city.

”All the thousand years of this continent have been spent on this occasion...

On the contrary, it even 'predicts' the fate of this world.

Yes, this is a 'prediction'.

I click my back teeth and savor its true meaning as I leap forward on the roof.

Every time I landed, the light from the 'magic stone line' of the houses and roads lavished on the Great Sacred City increased and my body's freedom was taken away.

The power of the blood itself, which is stuck to my skin, is not as strong as it could be. However, it is the key to activation (the access key), pumping the magic formula and magic power from the earth. To put it simply, the magic that used one country is now attacking me.

Exposed to it, I am frightened and ask for forgiveness.

''Wow, I'm already ....... I can't fight anymore ......!　Please, let me get away with it: ......!　That one will absolutely freeze this Great Holy City - no, it will freeze this continent. ......!　Please let me get away before that: ....... Please. I don't want to die: ....... I don't want to die yet--

But I can't allow it.

Sleeplessly, a stronger magic flowed through my entire body, and I could only nod while biting my lip.

''Ha, yes ....... I understand. If you just want to look at it from a distance, you can ....... Se, Sei, 'Saint' Tiara-sama (・・・・・) ......--

His voice trembled, and he let go of the title he had been seeking for so long, now completely.

Because in the face of the real thing, I realized how awe-inspiring it was that a diminutive being like myself had deceived the 'saints'

-- The blood spinning says lightly, ”I'm not angry, I'm not angry,” but my body continues to tremble.

I'm afraid of the 'ice girl' who froze me.

But I'm also afraid of the ”real saint” who is here.

Both are equal disasters.

Caught between those two, my too small ego was on the verge of being blown away.

This is how the bat 'I', who is on no one's side, was manipulated and blown away.

As instructed, he was made to chant magic that was only allowed to the 'Jewelcrus' in the final stages.

Star Magic [Gravity].

It is the magic of the ”stars”.

Controlling the power of the stars that bound his body, he flew high in the sky.

It jumped into the sky where the snow had begun to fall and spread its thin wings and glided up to the Clock Tower, the highest point in this great holy city.

--with one purpose in mind.

The title of 'Saint', which had been given away recently. I'm going to take over that name and see the ”answer” to this generation's sacrifice.