My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending

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"... you woke up sooner than I thought."

"You can't seem to sleep slowly..."

Cody and I woke up. Fincent exchanges light mouths. I also feel that Cody's eyes are slightly moist, but it would be impeccable to say so anyway.

Harold is surprised that Fincent seems to be regaining more than just consciousness to himself than that.

That possibility was taken into account during the battle. But I wasn't sure it would happen, and I didn't know why the brainwashing had solved it in the end.

Harold was baffled just because he thought it would be difficult to awaken completely.

"... something's hard... you look"

That's what Fincent hears when he senses the look on Harold's face as he seeks, even though it would be hard to speak out.

I do not know, I want to check with Fincent. But first there was something I had to do before that.

"Hey, the patient's awake."

That's what I told the nurse who just called in front of the hospital room.

I was pretty stunned you didn't think you'd regain consciousness within that day from that serious illness, but I'll go get a doctor soon. Then a doctor checked him out, but apparently there's no way he's going to wake his body up with an extraordinary rate of recovery.

The doctor said it was "the mystery of the human body," etc., but Fincent's resilience is simply stained outdoors. The boulder is boss character. Well, I guess Harold's healing magic is helping him recover.

That's why Fincent woke up about an hour later.

Once again, Harold, Cody and Fincent were to do a grasp of the situation. Even so, just to tell you what Harold knows, you two almost become listeners.

"I want you to let me listen, Harold. What the hell is Dr. Justus's purpose?

That's what Fincent hears in a voice that's regained some strength.

Honestly, I have to wonder how we talked about it, but this mouth is hopelessly unsuitable for prepositions, ambiguous things, etc. I decided to tell her straight in.

"He's trying to bring the dead back to life."

"Uh, how?

Cody's doubts were particularly so.

But just to bring the dead back to life is quite a euphemism, but when it comes to the method, it is even less realistic content. Anyway, it's about getting involved in the formation of this planet.

Well, it doesn't make much sense to go into that much detail, so I'll just tell you the minimum part you need.

"Do you know what an astral body is?

"I've heard of it, but I don't know the details."

"I do remember it was Dr. Justus' research theme..."

"Yes."

“Astral” is a word that has the meaning 'like a star' or 'world of stars'.

And the "astral body" is considered to be "responsible for emotions in mental activity." It's difficult around here because it includes the game's own settings, but it's something like 'integral with the body and spirit and constituting the human self', to be brief.

Astral bodies are supposed to be diffused throughout the universe in the first place and to be ready for all humans. In other words, every human being will have an astral body, but after a person's death, that astral body is gathered in a certain place.

That is the supermassive solid astral body that is the nucleus of this planet. Finally, the energy leaking from the nucleus of the star may be the source of magic. To put it close to you, there's something going on that's gushing out of the dragon hole in Smeragi territory.

"Er, it's a little hard for me to be unschooled, I can't believe..."

"I don't need to understand exactly. It's just the realization that there's something like that."

Even Harold doesn't know anything more about the astral body than it was described in the game.

That's just what astral bodies are like in this world.

"And Justus is trying to reanimate the dead astral body by sorting it from within the accumulated solid astral body"

"... is that really possible?

"It's a plan that that man has been preparing over a decade of months. Yeah, I don't think so."

That was some kind of trust. In fact, I can't hope to fail because even the original would have succeeded if the liners hadn't stopped.

It would be catastrophic if we did not stop the plan before it was activated at any rate.

"The problem is that if the plan succeeds, there is a good chance the continent will sink"

"What?"

Cody makes a grumpy voice, and he looks like Fincent even though he can't believe it.

I can't help it. That would be the reaction if they suddenly said that.

"... why would that happen?

"Even when it comes to sorting an individual's self from the nucleus, that number is enormous. So Justus is trying to synchronize himself with the nucleus, not with outside interference."

In the original, it was a happy ending by knocking it down before it was synchronized, but still, when I exercised the magical power of the star's nucleus, I banged out a high-powered attack.

"If Justus performs full synchronization, the nucleus collapses by eliminating useless egos in the astral body for sorting. If we lose our nucleus, the continent will sink, and most of humanity will die."

"Such an idiot... then even if we could bring it back to life, the doctors wouldn't be able to live"

"Oh, right. I can't do that with normal human beings."

"... what do you mean?

"There are also those who can live in a world where only the remains of the nucleus of the continent sink and collapsed stars drift. The names of the Soytes are the Star Wing" Stella "clan."

"No way......!

I guess we both figured it out by putting that name out.

to the link between Justus' plan and the battle in the Bertis Forest. Well, it wasn't just that. It was supposed to put a mental load on Finn St. by discrediting the Knights there, but it also made sense to try to give power to the National Army, starting with Harrison, who was a relative pawn of his own.

It is very painful to have a double, triple trap set in one hand.

"Though they are, to be precise, the ancestors of the Star Wings, the Son of the Stars."

As Justus used to speak, the Xingyang people are equipped with special organs. That makes me use magic differently than normal humans, but that's the key to living in Astral, the world of stars.

Justus calls that special organ the Oracle Organ. How ironic it is that a man who does not believe in the presence of God or other fine dust is the trustee Oracle.

"But ancestors don't have that star child anymore, do they?

"Oh. That's why Justus was capturing the Xingying tribe and conducting human experiments. To make ancestral returns."

Although not portrayed in the game, the truth is that human experiments using the Xingying tribe seemed to have been conducted in secret for a long time before the original began. That's information Harold learned because he became a handkerchief for Justus.

If I told you, it even felt like the battle in the Bertis Forest was weighing more on rocking Fincent toward finishing the plan than on recovering the experimental body. I guess that's why I could afford the vegetarian body to break into Wentos and Lilium while saying that the consumption was intense. Their suppression of emotions may also have been caused by being stigmatized with oracle organs associated with themselves and emotions.

Whatever it is, it's a bad story about chest shit.

"The Oracle organs that are equipped for the Star Wings have the power to increase their emotions and amplify their power over magic. But that's the current use of organ degeneration compared to the child of the star, who used to pull energy directly from the nucleus of the star and use magic."

"Is that why the star child,"

"Astral bodies, the nucleus of the stars, talk about their own collective, too. It's a power I don't want to think about putting together the emotions I pulled from it and making it magical."

"But that's possible. The primitive body is already ready. And then after Justus synchronizes to the nucleus and sorts, he's going to use the Oracle organs of the body to influx himself."

"The more you ask, the less it's a plan. Is that why Harold was moving to stop it..."

I exhaled loudly as Cody exhaled what I had accumulated.

And on behalf of the silent Cody, Fincent cuts out the story.

"If what we're talking about is true, how can a star child live in a world without a continent?

"I'm not familiar with the details, either, but I hear the use of Oracle organs wasn't one thing. Maybe there's some trick there."

The area was a total no-touch in the game as well. The fan's discussion also made it possible for the star child to become a phantom by synchronizing with the nucleus, and there were hypotheses such as whether he could preserve himself even in the star world if it was in that state.

It's called astral projection... if you say it in familiar terms, it's like a phantom exit. Totally part of the mythical occult, but still more so in a world where magic and monsters are real.

"More than that. Fincent."

"What is it?

"How did you get back out of that state of sanity? Why did it happen in the first place?

"Sorry, but I don't remember very well. I do have vague memories from around where Dr. Justus spoke to me at his lab..."

"What's the story?

"As far as I can remember, it's not a big deal. I haven't been feeling well lately, so if it's a distraction to have a chat,"

"When was that?

"Yeah, today?

"Eleven days."

"Then... that was four days ago"

Did you do something in the meantime? I don't think Justus fought a direct battle, or put him to sleep with drugs or something and brainwashed him.

But because I couldn't take the time, the brainwashing was bad, and I can't even think that I solved it while I was fighting. As for Harold, it just didn't really happen.

"What's going on with my memory until I wake up?

"From the middle of nowhere, but I remember when I was fighting you. It was more like dreaming than just being conscious."

"I mean, was it just when you woke up completely?

"Oh, it will...... no, you're not. At the end of the battle with you, just moments before I lost my mind, but my consciousness and senses cleared up."

"Well, didn't you just wake up in pain?

"If so, I think he was awakened by the attack before that..."

Well, it's hard to think of pain alone as an awakening trigger given that you're eating fissure lightning, Harold's greatest firepower in his moves to a scattered slash quote.

At the end of the day, he just punched himself in the abdomen with a sword pattern.

(... Sword pattern?

I came up with it, and Harold pulls a blunt straight sword out of his sheath inside the two swords he was standing against the wall. Its roots, body and pattern borders are embedded with emerald-colored crystals.

The crystal is a testament to the sword. It improves combat power by absorbing the magic of the user, but it cuts its life at the price.

In fact, Harold knows what it's like to activate the power of a sword. I was convinced that was why it was such a substitute.

(But really? If you're really absorbing magic, aren't you going to lose the power of magic or make the magic of physical strengthening unusable?

The original character. It may just not have been harmful because it is Harold, who has the magical power of being out of digits, but if he still loses enough to be life-threatening, it will cause some kind of hindrance.

Then I feel more comfortable explaining that the ability to fight improves because it absorbs life rather than magic.

But if it's simply about absorbing life, it doesn't have to be explained as magic or anything like that.

What if it was something other than magic or life that this sword was absorbing? And what's with the "sole”? Something life-threatening if not magical or vital, but absorbed. Who is this crystal that absorbs something of it in the first place?

Doubts and unpleasant feelings keep spreading once you care.

"Harold? What's going on?

Cody speaks to me, and Harold looks up ha-ha. Apparently, he was focusing too much on his thoughts.

"... nothing"

"Really? You looked scared staring at that sword."

"He says it's nothing"

"You don't know you're gonna be honest."

Cody shook his neck to the side saying, "Oh, boy."

It's the usual mild word and deed, but I'm sure he's worried about it. Maybe he tried to get the heavier air to get rid of him.

Guess what, Fincent has been asking these questions to finish the conversation once.

"Can I ask you one last thing?

"What?