Magicraft Meister Part 1

"Father!"

Neige jumped at <, who opened his eyes.

"Father, father ......!"

"Neige?"

The words came out of her mouth in a trace. Anne took out another bottle of the restorative and offered it to him.

"Can you drink it?　Can you take it?

"I'll make you drink it!"

Gently accepting the ampoule, Neige carefully placed it in her father's mouth and poured the contents into it.

"......"

Slowly swallowing the restorative, <> inhaled heavily.

"...... thank you."

His voice had become much stronger. The restorative seemed to have worked.

"Neige, wake me up."

"Yes, Father."

With Neige's support, Neige's father sat up in bed.

He looked around at Anne, then at Reiko, then at Alectus, and stopped at Alectus.

After staring at Alectus in silence for a full minute, Neige's <> softened his expression.

"Excellent. You have come this far, descendant of the Fallen. I commend you for having found this place.

At these words, Alectus, who had been unable to keep up with the developments, opened his mouth.

"Oh, you ......, you are ......<>?"

"Yes, I am. I am Servant 700672. I am the one you call ."

"This is ...... no, what exactly is this facility?"

Reiko asked this time.

"Oh, an automata with a will. Excellent. Let's answer: ....... This place was once part of the ship. And this room is my final resting place.

. The word sounded familiar.

"Are you one of those who came here on the ship?"

"Yes. I came here with my master.

And where is your master now?

He is nowhere to be found. Our masters' lives are short compared to ours.

And who are these Fallen Ones?

This time the question is from Alexas.

"The Fallen are the children of the Masters who were born after they came to this planet.

"Then the descendants of the <> are ......"

"So. The children of the masters, their distant descendants."

* * * *

Jin in Horai Island knew that the roots of the human race and the demon tribe were about to be revealed.

Jin who is in Horai Island orders Lao-kun to summon the urgently.

"Brother Jin, ...... interesting."

Erza is already listening beside him.

"Jin, what is it?"

Then Saki.

What's wrong?

Jin-kun, what's wrong?

Jin-kun, what's going on?

Jin-sama, you wanted to see me?

Toa, Stearina, Vivienne and Meine...

Jin, what's going on?

Jin-sama, what's going on?

Finally, Reinhard and Bertsche arrived.

Jin pointed at the screen and told them to keep an eye on the situation.

* * * * * *

"My masters left the resource-depleted Hale and came here to Ars. The abundance of resources and free ether here has revitalized them.

Hale is their home planet, and Ars is the planet where Jin and the others are located.

"Some of the masters intermarried with the natives of this planet and began to procreate. They are called because their master's blood has been diluted.

"......"

"Do you understand?　This is the answer to your question. is nowhere to be found. There are only you who have his blood in your veins.

* * * *

Jin in Horai Island wondered if it was true that those who had strong blood of the as he said could use magic and those who did not could not use magic.

"Jin-kun, this is ......."

"Oh, yeah, right, Vee. Once upon a time, and once upon a time!

"A precious truth is being told now, isn't it? ......

* * * *

"So what have you been doing here all this time?"

Anne asked the next question.

"I will answer. I am the Last Servant, 700672. I am just waiting for my masters to rot away in their sleep.

How old are you, ......?

I am a creature of my master. Therefore, the question of how old I am is meaningless. To answer the question with the closest concept, I am more than 5,000 years old in terms of this planet's calendar since I was created.

"5000 years?

Reiko, Anne, Alectus, and everyone else listening on Horai Island were astonished by the answer.

"That's right. I am a homunculus. A false life. Therefore, there is no concept of death. I only age, cease, and decay."

Then why did you put the Needle in us to control us?

Needles?

Looking as if he had no idea, No. 700672 continued to ponder for a while, but finally found an answer.

"You mean a magic tool about two centimeters long and one millimeter thick?"

"Yes!　Answer me!　Why are you trying to control us?

Alexas, apparently overcome with emotion, gradually became louder and louder. But No. 700672 looked as if he didn't understand.

"Control?　What are you talking about?"

Don't play dumb with me!

"No!"

Neige interrupted the excited Alexus.

"Good, Neige. I'm sure he has his reasons."

In contrast to Alectus, the 700672 replies in a calm manner

"I was in a long sleep until you came into the room a few minutes ago. ...... it has been about 300 years in your time."

700672 looks at a window in one of the walls.

"So the disturbances you speak of are unknown to me.

"Three hundred years ......"

Alectus and the others listening in Horai Island were half-amused and half-surprised at the length of time.

"But I have a thought that it might be possible. Tell me what's going on.

"Okay, okay. Actually, ......."

Forgetting to use honorifics any longer, Alexus explained about his clan. Then Reiko and Anne added their own explanations about the other clans.

"Hmmm. Perhaps it is the work of the <>."

"<>?"

"The last of the servants created by our masters. But this planet didn't have what the Masters needed, so it was left incomplete. They didn't listen to us."

So it's a homunculus, too?

Yes. The homunculus created by the masters was a failure, and that is .

"......"

Alectus was speechless. He still could not believe that the technology existed to create humans, however imperfectly, and that the being in front of him was one of them.

"I have not been able to move my body for about 400 years now. I have not been out of this place. That's why I didn't know what was going on out there.

According to 700672, 13 Dexiconai were created and all of them were supposed to be destroyed. and all were supposed to have been destroyed.

"But perhaps there was a Dexiconai that escaped obliteration.

"That being who called himself a 'negative doll', could that be the Dexiconai?"

Reiko interrupted.

"<>?　Is that what they call themselves?"

"Yes. We met just before we came here, outside this room. She escaped by shifting her body.

I see. I have a general idea of what's going on. I see... I have a general idea of what's going on. ...... let me think about it for a minute."

700672 then lay down on the bed again, perhaps tired.