410 407. Real magic.txt (2/2)
The older brother turns to the screen and begins to play the game by himself.
Next to him, his sister continues to stare at the screen as well.
On the screen is a high street role-playing game.
Uzumi doesn't like oddball games. The more effort the 'hero' put in, the more results he would achieve, the more people around him would praise his efforts, and he liked games that promised victory in the end.
Inevitably, swords and magic would be the subject matter of the game.
It's very fantastical, there's a concept of levels and stats, and the spectacle of fighting monsters is on the screen.
Uzumi was so engrossed in the game that he couldn't see anything but the game screen.
Yotaki didn't hate watching his brother.
Most of all, this was the only time--.
...... Today, it's another fantasy RPG.
...... Yeah.
Your brother likes to play games with magic, doesn't he?
'It's like ....... The magic in these games only becomes available as you level up. This has nothing to do with the player's talent or anything else. Maybe the speed at which you learn it won't change much if you do. Maybe it's because it's .......
It became a conversation.
There were many reasons.
But the biggest reason was that Yotaki liked the world of the Royal Roads Role Playing Game where everyone was equal, just as much as his brother did.
His brother also admitted that his love for it wasn't a lie, and he allowed himself to stand shoulder to shoulder with his hated enemies in this way.
'I see. ......'
'Oh, yeah. ......'
They answered each other briefly and the conversation was over.
Any other topic of conversation would be too much for his brother to bear, so Yotaki looked at the screen again.
Of course, the story of that royal role-playing game is obvious even before you complete it.
There is a 'hero' who will one day become a great hero, a 'heroine' to support him, and at the end of the 'adventure', he fights a powerful enemy and has a happy ending.
At the end of the adventure, the heroine fights a powerful enemy and comes to a happy ending. On the other hand, the ”hero” spits out some unnerving lines like, ”Even if you make the world your enemy, the heroine will save you.
Uzumi repeats that same kind of story over and over again.
He puts himself on top of the ”hero” and always clears it up in earnest.
In other words, the harder he works, the more he tries, the more he achieves, and the more people around him praise him for his efforts, and he's always hoping that in the end, he'll be promised victory--
Oh.
It was a game over screen.
Uzuraha let out a pitiful voice as he lost the important last battle.
After a few moments of silence, he looked at Yangtaki next to him with a bit of embarrassment, and then he slowly loaded the data and tried again for the final battle.
Then, after an hour or so of fierce fighting, Uzurinami sees the emotionally invested 'protagonist' saving the world, and with a sense of satisfaction, he gets to work on the next game.
Yotaki was watching it behind him - with one simple question in his head.
''.............''
What will happen to the world after the game over earlier?
There was no continuation to the game. It ended at the game over screen.
But before that 'last enemy' fought the 'hero', they had talked about some ridiculous future plans like 'crushing all futures and turning everything back to nothing' or 'continuing to eat the world and live forever'.
Yotaki is curious about the story after they have won that.
Of course, no matter how much he thought about it, there was no way he could get an 'answer' as long as there was no continuation prepared for the game.
It can never come out.
There is no continuation to that story.
That's what Yotaki wanted to believe - but he was shown.
Soon, the ”answer” will be visible to you.
【--Aikawa Yotaki is the only one who has finished the final battle and is now alone.
The ”world” was frozen and destroyed, and all living things were turned into ice sculptures.
No one can defeat Aikawa Yotaki.
Above all, this situation was Aikawa Yotaki's innate mission and role.
Having sucked out the ”demonic poison” of the ”world”, Aikawa Yotaki continued to survive as the ”last man”. And before long, he will have no choice but to go on a journey.
In the next world as well, she will absorb all the demon poisoning from her natural mission and role.
And the same thing will happen in the next world. The next ”World” will have exactly the same ending. Aikawa Yotaki is alone and will continue to rotate through the ”World”.
Forever.
Forever and ever and ever and ever, alone in ”The World” --]
The game I was supposed to be enjoying as an escape from reality is the catalyst, and I see the rest of my endings that I've been avoiding.
Fear seeps like oil.
Anxiety spreads like a flame.
My head, which is already full of it, is filled with negative emotions.
I'm afraid of that future. It's just so scary and frightening -- because even though he tries to pay it off, his head keeps creaking, heavy and painful all the time -- he can't help it, and Yotaki looks at his brother.
--Even though he tried to stop thinking, that 'promise' was the only thing that came to his mind.
--I realize that there is no more form, it was just a passing of the time.
--I also feel guilty that my brother's current condition is my fault.
Still, Yotaki wishes.
It was a reflex, not something that could be stopped by his own will.
【--No, I'm not alone.
The two of them are going on that 'eternal' journey.
Next to Aikawa Yotaki, there was always a 'family' next to her that loved her in the true sense of the word.
At all times, always.
Because it was the two of us for a long, long time, 'forever'.
There was nothing to fear anymore--]
Yangtaki wished and the ending of the story wavered.
The ”answer” was simple.
If there is someone who is an ”equal”, all problems will be solved.
The worries you have had since childhood, the fears and anxieties you have now, are all there.
It's a good thing that there's just one more person - so in your ear, Yotaki kept whispering to you all the time, and that 'answer' was annoying and unbearable - but it was so simple and clear that you could not help but love it! So, in the end, you end up asking for it.
”Ni, brother--
My brother.
It was a given from the beginning.
And then, for the first time, I'm going to talk to him about my problems.
'If ......, it is if. If you could use that magical kind of power, what would you do, brother?
If you ask me that, Yotaki knew with his skills that his brother couldn't ignore him.
So this wasn't an invitation, just an act of dragging him in.
''What? Magic, because ......? What the hell did you do to deserve this?
If you could use it in real life, would you want to use it, brother?
............. ...... lies.
Unlike Yangtaki, Uzura Wave was not crisp.
''I'm not lying,''
'Lies and ......, of course ......'
Magic.
Because Uzurinami had always been passionate about the fantasy game - but not because of the trauma of his childhood, which made the unreasonable and ridiculous word ”magic” seem real.
To Uzumi, Yotaki's talent could not be explained if it wasn't magic.
On the contrary, there were many aspects of magic that would have made sense in defeat.
Using Uzuraha's trauma, Yotaki - fascinated.
''You'll have to watch.
First, Yotaki manipulated the temperature in the room to lightly create an icicle.
Next, he used his 'massless arm' to move things he hadn't touched.
He showed the power of all sorts of 'demonic poisons', from practical psychic-like things to fantastic things that just looked good. And my brother, who was fascinated by it.
'...... ha ha. ...... ha ha.
Laughter.
The response was that he had to laugh.
And then, very sadly, he mumbled and admitted, pensively.
'What's that ....... What the hell, that's ......! Ha, ha, ha, ha ......
I forced myself to keep laughing and hung a paragraph.
Just like in my childhood, I felt deeply defeated, overwhelmed by my sister's abnormality.
This time, however, it didn't end with despair. It was partly because he was beginning to get used to despair, but the word 'magic' was just barely holding his body together.
'You're going to tell me that, ......? You?
Following Yotaki's guidance, Uzurinami spat out those words without any shame or outward appearance.
''Of course. If it's your brother, you should be able to use it. ...... because we're 'brother and sister'.
Yangtaki agreed and immediately explained about the 'Demonic Poison'.
Using this, it's not impossible to make magic like a game.
Suggesting that, he begins to train his brother, trying to drag him into the same realm as him - but things don't progress that easily.
''--Crap!''
Calm down, brother: ......
...... You were born with this? Really?
Yes ......
”...... d*mn it.
Youtaki had hoped that his brother, who had performed the 'contract' before him, would be able to learn it quickly.
However, the reality was that he couldn't even feel the 'demonic poison'.
Vortex Wave couldn't even do what he was told to do, ”It's the basics first,” and he swore in frustration many times.
He still had faint expectations somewhere in his heart.
Even if he was inferior in the field of practical studies and entertainment, he had the last hope that he might be able to use it better in the field of his specialty, which involved games.
With that hope shattered, Uzurinami clenched his fists so tightly that his skin split open and mocked himself.
''Haha ....... In other words, it's just another innate talent ....... Talent, talent, another talent wall .......''
He laments his own lack of talent.
However, in reality, that perception is wrong.
Aikawa Uzumi is better suited to 'Demon Poison' than anyone else. Not only is he not talented, he's the best qualified person in the world. Even if all of mankind were to compete against each other under the same conditions, he had the talent to be able to manipulate the 'Demonic Poison' before anyone else in this world.
However, he had the wrong person to compare it to.
What Aikawa Youtaki had acquired in a day was not in the dimension of effort or talent. It was because it was a 'phenomenon itself' that was close to how the world works, so to speak.
He couldn't realize that the biggest mistake he had made was using his abnormal sister as a reference point - the discrepancies that had continued since his childhood became even wider.
And the training of that 'demon poison' continues for a day, a week, a month, and finally--
That's enough.
Uzumi gave up.
He sat down on the bed in his room and covered his face with his hands to hide the tears that were spilling out.
''No, maybe this was just a bad way for me to teach--''
No, you're not wrong. You were never wrong about anything: ....... It never happened. So, maybe...
If anyone is wrong, it's me.
I stopped her when she almost said it was the fault of the talentless Aikawa Kaba (me).
Uzumi didn't even have the energy to torture himself.
He just looked into the distance with empty eyes in a feeling of emptiness that was spreading. Staring not at Yangtaki, but at the white wall that was not decorated with anything, he muttered quietly.
''If it's really ....... If I have any magic power ......, even a little bit of it, then .......
Uzura Wave had yet to taste victory just once.
She has been overrun by her sister, abandoned by her father, lost the meaning of her birth, and spent her days as a corpse as 'the one that isn't there', and today she experienced deep despair again.
That vortex wave wishes.
With a snatched voice as if to squeeze out of his soul.
'Just a little bit of ....... Just a little bit, 'Beyond this, I want hope' .......
I wished (・・・・・・・).
A very modest - but awe-inspiring 'future reorganization' for a person to wish for, that their life would work out a little better.
'Wow, I wish too: ....... If there is magic, 'Someday, you'll find hope' ...... and I too .......
Furthermore, Yotaki would also repeat the same wish.
At this time, the younger sister was also in deep despair at Uzumi's inability to handle the 'Demon Poison'. Shocked by her brother's expected weakness, she laments that she can't change her own future and wishes even more strongly than he did.
While the room is filled with 'demonic poison' through training.
The brother and sister, who continue to be distorted by discrepancies, speak of a craving from their souls.
--that's what the 'slice' heard.
With a pakkiri, a dry burst of sound could be heard.
No one could hear that sound.
But there was indeed a loud crackling sound.
It was the moment when the procedure of the ”One who steals reason” was carried out, albeit briefly.
-- it was also the moment when the first real (...) 'magic (...)' was activated, albeit unconsciously.
Of course, both ”magic” is incomplete.
Even if it's a prototype or template, it's a failed magic at this point in time.
The same 'magic' used by the future 'The one that steals the reason of the wind' and 'The one that steals the reason of the tree'.
The older sister is 'rolling down the road', 《The Road Falling Earth (Lord of the Road).
The younger brother is ”Keeping the Place of Return” and ”The Lord of the Road (Lost vi Aisia)”.
Both of them had become ”trying to get what they wanted and wished for, but missing what they really needed” failed magic.
The same quality as that sister and brother is now activated in the siblings.
That failed magic is the reward for the month-long training of the ”Demon Poison”, and that's the last time the two of them have to stop training.
What if - what if.
If they had continued to patiently train here for another year or so, the two of them would never have visited the other world.
However, the two of them were still young and too 'ideal'. Because of their excessively talented childhood, they couldn't conceive of spending a year on one thing, so they couldn't lead the real 'magic' to completion.
Thus, the power of that failed magic interferes with reality.
It appears in the form of ”Future Modification” in the story of the brother and sister.
She was a very straightforward and vivacious girl.
''--Long time no see, sir!
Her name is Konagi.
In the form of ”Childhood Friends”, a different approach to ”Family”, the siblings will find hope in life together.
Without knowing anything about it.