445 441. Life in the mirror.txt (2/2)

'What?　Ah, ah, ......

The cleaners' confusion grows. But he manages to chew out the Lord's words well and understands that he is no longer concerned with his own life and death.

'I have properly finished telling Mr. Fafner the basics of the Neysha family's research. Without a doubt, he will be the best scholar in the world and a gem of a man who will go down in Fania's history. It's a shame, but he's already surpassed me as both a researcher and a politician. I guess that's what they call 'innate differences'. If you know the basics, the rest will go as far ahead on its own. That's why I was able to make up my mind to experiment with the 'theft of reason'.

...... Surely he will stop if he finds out that you are going to experiment with your own body to become 'the one who steals reason'. If you're not good at it, he likes you enough to go after you after it.

'Chasing me?　How can you do that when he's already ahead of me?

The conversation is not engaging.

No matter what the topic, Helmina keeps answering in a research-centric manner, so the conversation keeps shifting.

Compromising that this is no longer an option, the cleaner asks.

'You don't like him, do you?'

'I love it.' -- because his return marked the end of my role. It was a real thrill to see my once beloved apprentice return as an adult. Because it's a ghost mix, a ghost mix!　'Soul Fiends' that are rarer than the higher level Fiends!　The culmination of tens of thousands of 'demons' sacrificed, thousands of 'demons' failing to conform, and finally the culmination of the Neysha family being born alone!　And now he's back, with a body of knowledge that surpasses even mine!　When you told me that I would be the hope for all 'demons', I was convinced!　The Neisha family didn't just connect to Lady Tiara and the Apostles!　That I was connected to so many people, even when I couldn't see them!

Helmina isn't lying, and she's using the same language we are.

But she can't converse well, and the cleaners' reactions are slowly slowing down.

All the while, Helmina-san continues to report happily to the ghosts of the Neisha family.

'Ah, ancestors ....... Truly, Fafner, you are wonderful. If only he were here, there is no doubt that the world doesn't need me anymore. Unlike us who are weak, he's strong, he can even be the cornerstone to save the world. I am deeply, deeply grateful for the fate of someone as smart, resilient, and 'strong' as he is, who has become a long-lived species. ......

'Dear Helmina, he will follow you. Even if that path is not the right one (・・・・・・・・), because I like it (・・・・・), I will follow it.

...... Huh?　It doesn't fit, but ......, why?

Helmina-san was wondering from the bottom of her heart.

Looking into her eyes, the cleaner couldn't find her next words in the middle - the only door in the 'Goddess Storage Room' is opened roughly.

A man appears from there and throws out an alternative word.

'It's no use continuing to talk. That's what a vessel with a crack in it is.

...... ro, Mr. Lomis?

A short, dark brown man with short dark brown hair, dressed in the white robes of the Research Institute.

Romis Neysha, once a lord, interrupted his hiding to show his appearance to Helmina Neysha.

The appearance of Romis, a man of a cautious and cautious nature, means that the time has come.

This scene (page) is ”-- Romis, who could not give up the power of the 'miracle', returns to Fania. In order to become a lord once again, he takes his relative Helmina into his hands,” and my face, reading a story from a thousand years ago, gets twisted.

And in the lowest level of the ”God's Body Vault”, I can hear the earth shaking.

It's not the screams of the experimental bodies.

All over the top of the floor, there were many diverse disturbances occurring at the same time.

An event as large as the 'First Change of Lords Incident' three years ago was about to happen here now. The noise must have reached Helmina-san's ears, but she welcomed the appearance of her family as if nothing had happened.

'Welcome home, Lady Romis. ...... It looks like you've shaken off that betraying 'curse' on your own. Now you can rest easy about the rest. If Romis-sama and Fafner-kun both take advantage of me, who has become the 'one who steals the truth of blood', Fania will be safe in the future.

Romis's sudden appearance did not surprise Helmina at all.

Rather, the cleaner, who knew he was hiding out beforehand, widened her eyes in astonishment.

''Heh, Helmina-sama?　Did you know in the past that Master Romis was hiding in this Seventh Magical Research Institute?

For a while?　No, I didn't know that, did I?　But I had faith that he would come back. I promised Romis-sama that I would take care of Fania's absence. I thought the time would come when I would hand everything over to a true lord who had overcome the 'curse'.

Helmina's day job is as a researcher, and that's what we knew originally.

Everyone looked at her and smiled bitterly, saying that she was not really happy with the current situation and wanted to devote herself to research.

That's true. However, no one could see through to the heat of the moment.

The only person who was able to break through the pretense (...) that was masking his insane preoccupation was ......, perhaps that saintly tiara.

Then, looking at his successor and predecessor, Lord Hermina Neisha, Romis announced his plans with a frown.

''I'm ready for a change of lordship. It's because I was made to prepare for it just as you ”Stealers of Reason” wanted. Thanks to ......, we're in a less than perfect situation.

'Thank you, Lord Romis. This is your second usurpation of a lord, isn't it?

Helmina almost laughs and tries to remind him of the first time he usurped the lord.

Romis says, ”Five years ago, I met the Apostles when I was sent to investigate the 'Fire God', and there, my only childhood friend was turned into the Dark God. There, he is reminded of the scene where his only 'childhood friend' is turned into the Dark God,” he says, and he is slightly hostile.

You're just like Tida. I'm not going to be the same as you, I'm going to be the same as you, I'm going to be the same as you. ...... shameful.

That wooden idol will build up and one day become a way to reach heaven. ...... Dear Romis, I'll be waiting for you in hell first.

Helmina's theatrical reply was clearly laced with the teachings of the Inscription White Church.

Romis turned bitter, giving up quickly when he couldn't get through to her and switching his conversation partner.

''Right now, my handful of things are moving up there. The change of lords will be quick with the help of the 'North'. However, the problem is the artificial 'blood-stealing thing' transformation. The only materials used here are impurities, unlike the ”thing that steals the logic of light” which is made from scratch. ...... You can help yourself, too, and you're a failure.

It was the cleaner who had talked to her, I didn't expect her to be the one who had talked to him.

She stiffened at the order.

It's not that she can't communicate due to language problems. Right now, there are only people here from the Neysha family who know how to pretend they are crazy (...), so they can speak freely without using the 'madman's manual'.

However, when it comes to assisting the suicide of the Lord who has been with her for many years, even if it's her, she can't answer immediately.

But relentlessly, Romis tries to make up her mind.

'...... It's urgent, I know. But the time has come. With the return of Fafner Helvilleshain to his 'home', the study of the Neysha family is over. If the noblemen who are connected to the 'North' push me up to become their lord, Helmina will definitely be beheaded. Before that, I need to finish it off in a way that everyone can agree on. ...... You know what I mean by everyone, right?　This is exactly how this guy wanted it to end in the first place, and that's what he's wanted for years.

The cleaners understand this because they have been together for many years.

In the first place, it was Helmina Neysha who brought Tida and Romis to the ”Apostle” five years ago with the hope of researching the ”Flame God” in the region.

Three years ago, it was also Helmina Neesha who brought Tida, who had been transformed into the Dark God, to the city of Fania because the Flame God's research had stagnated.

It's not just that I'm not a fan of the newcomers, I'm also a fan of the newcomers.

--Everything about Fania to this day began with her wish.

I want to be a 'real' researcher.

The voices of the dead are hard to hear, so she wants to fall into the hell that awaits her family as soon as possible.

For her wish, everyone and everything was swept away.

All of them, including Romis, who is here now, and the janitor, were used.

In the face of that truth, the cleaners had no choice but to make up their minds.

She didn't want to let Helmina-san escape, hide her, or save her now.

The only way out, protection, and salvation is to make her a 'blood stealer' anymore, the only way out, protection, and salvation.

'Yes ....... If that's what makes you 'happy', Helmina-sama.

Satisfied, the cleaner nodded.

Romis nodded back, and preparations for the change of lordship were immediately underway.

All the while, Helmina-san continued to dip her hands in the pool of blood. There she saw things she couldn't see, heard voices she couldn't hear, and talked to people she hadn't even spoken to.

--After this, Helmina Neisha's heart is removed.

The suicidal person himself was cooperative, and coupled with Romis' coolness, the procedure was completed without delay.

And thus, unbeknownst to me, it was all over.

When I found out that there was a lot of noise about Helmina-san's experiments against humanity and corruption in the streets of Fania, I was surrounded by 'blood puppets' holding torches. Because I believed the nobles who had been in the know with the 'North', I was easily captured.

However, at first I was solicited to say that Master Lomis, who had reclaimed Fania from the evil lord, was paying a high price for my excellence. But I was so enraged that I refused to listen at all.

As a result, I ended up in that room with the tendons of my hands and feet cut and everything taken from me.

In the 'God's Body Storage Room', which had been smeared with blood in one night, I reunited with the transformed Helmina-san--

”....my fluid, my rodents, my pleasure.

'Ahhhh, ......, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh--'

Tainted by despair, I break down in tears.

I wail in wailing, not knowing that this is what Helmina herself wanted.

I can no longer trust anyone, and I begin to see only 'my world'.

Just like Helmina-san, I reach out to the pool of blood.

”Helmina-san ......, also ......, please ....... Please .......

”I'm going to ■■■■ flesh and blood, and I'm going to count it.

I had always believed it to be a moan for salvation.

But the truth was different.

Helmina-san was trying to tell me that she was 'happy'.

She wanted me to use the sacrifice of this ”blood thief” as a foundation and use it to move forward.

And yet, I became an agent, even though I didn't want or fit in with anyone else (・・・・・・・・・).

I even start pretending (...) to be ”the one who steals the reason for blood” because I want to know how Helmina-san felt when she died without speaking.

I made the most 'unfortunate' choice for Helmina-san.

I know that outcome better than anyone else.

Now, I feel it more keenly than anyone else, so--

It's all right, Kanami-san.

A thousand years later, I admitted, watching the back of that stupid past me.

And then I would mutter my thoughts on the story.

''The 'unfinished business' is, I understand ....... And that me and Helmina-san's 'happiness' was out of sync, properly .......

-- ”The One Who Steals the Reason of Dimension” Kanami's hands stop rolling up the pages.

With a snap.

At the same time, the world, which had been reflecting the past, also stopped.

The air in the ”Shintai Vault” has stopped, and the echoing voices have also stopped.

The flow of blood, the flow of time, and everything else in the past world stopped.

If you wish, Kanami, the one who steals the reason for the dimension, will respond to it to the fullest extent.

I will never do anything I don't want to, and I will never force you to do anything I don't want to.

But in that stopped world--

Welcome home.

The voice of a third party, not Kanami or me, came from behind me.

I turned around.

There, I saw the cleaner from the past standing still, watching over me from the past.

Only, there was another one next to him.

One 'blood doll' was watching over me from a thousand years later.

A terrifying figure that looked as if it had been stripped of all of its skin.

At first glance, it's hard to tell the difference between it and the other ”blood dolls”.

But I could tell.

We were friends who were trapped in the same hell and had the same longing.

That's why I understood that the ”blood doll” was that scavenger.