The Magus of Genesis

"I'm sorry we got along in the corner."

"Well, you can go see him again. It's just a little farther away."

On the way back to the village of Hiiro, Cruse and Nina talk like that on my back.

"You were listening, weren't you? It's not good for a dragon to travel too much."

"I wish I could skip you."

"What for!?

Stabbing the nail at Nina, who casually tells me, gave me that answer.

I wonder if we can get along too well with anything.

"Oh, Dad, it's Ala-kun."

If Cruse got himself up on my head and looked at the tip pointing at him, he was certainly about to see Ala rushing toward me. A little further behind it, I can see Innis and Mel too.

"I'm coming down. Get caught."

I told him that on my back, and I folded my wings and landed.

"Hey, Ala, is something wrong?

"Hey, there's not something going on! All of a sudden the mountain blows fire, so be worried......!

Oh, well.

The mountain where my mother lived was a volcano, but it had never erupted in a thousand years.

My mother must have managed the heat and flames because they didn't have to be harmful, and the ashes, rocks, smoke and gas associated with them were uncomfortable for the Fire Dragon.

If that suddenly blows out the fire, it's natural to be anxious even if it's not a worrying allah.

"Look, that's why I told you there's nothing to worry about"

"Wow! It's been a long time since I've had a dragon -!

Innis, who later caught up with me, told me like he was scared, and Mel rushed over to me and hugged me. Hi. When I'm looking like a dragon, they're treating me like a no-count in Mel asking me not to stick around too much.

"No, but, no matter what, the teacher who is a firedragon will not be a fire or anything, but Dr. Nina or Cruse will be dangerous."

"…… I wonder why the teacher is more worried than Dr. Nina, who is so firm."

Innis squeaks so with an indescribable look at Ala, who seriously says it back. I'm extremely sorry, but I can't say it back because I thought so myself.

"Exactly. It's not like I'm in danger because this guy has no problem."

On the contrary, Nina herself stood over my head and declared that. That being said, even though it protected it from volcanic shells, it is just a tone of saying that it did not happen.

"Ala-kun, you're hurt."

Cruse accidentally jumped right off my head and gently took Ala's hand. There was a scratch running like a cramp there, and the hardened blood creeping in.

"Nn? Oh, this much is a loot wound"

"Uh, no, I can't, I need to make a proper allowance..."

"Mm."

When Cruse looked back at me, he fell apart from the top of his head and bandaged the pills. I took it out of the white coat Nina wore. Shizukuishi, you're all set.

"Is something wrong?

"Nothing. The first time I saw the type of spirits came out...... just a little clumsy"

When I ask, Innis answers looking boring instead of Ala next to Cruse, who is worthy of medication and wraps a bandage around her.

"Ala-kun got hurt sheltering Innis. It's an honor injury."

"Iron dolls have power, but too little mobility is the downside. But the Transparent Butler doesn't have enough power."

When Mel explains the situation, Innis whines abominably about bumps and such. The sweet atmosphere was not dusty, even though he said he had been sheltered by his favorite opponent. Somehow, that's the kind of place where this kid's love doesn't progress at all...

"Guys, there's a lot going on."

"Hmm? Everybody?

Asking Mel, who shrugged, she grinned bitterly with a rare and slightly troubled look.

From the day I visited my mother, just ten days, full moon night.

"Nina, before you go to bed, can I have a moment?

"Mm-hmm. That's good."

When I spoke, Nina nodded without even asking back what she was talking about.

"Don't you have to ask me what I need?

"Your explanation is hard to understand."

I'm shocked to be given that back lightly. Only Nina didn't want me to say this about my ability to explain......!

"Father, I'm coming, too."

This one thinned out my purpose, I guess. Cruise, who usually falls asleep at sunset, stops us from going out and declares so.

"… ok. Shall I come with you?"

After a moment of patrolling, I nod honestly.

We took the three of us and went outside.

The village of Hiiro is still dark after sundown. Magic or magic, because we have not been able to overcome the disadvantage that its effects expire in a certain amount of time. No matter how long you make it last, it's a two-dragon engraving at best to keep it. It's not enough for one night.

Of course, if I took turns and stayed up all night and called back in light magic, I'd be able to keep the brightness all night, but so far, it's not as insecure as that, or as if I had to work.

Or... maybe all night long, when you can easily fill the world with light, is when you don't really need me.

With that in mind, the three of us walk the dark road.

By the way, the dragon, the elf, I don't know the race, but the cruce has a night's eye, so there was nothing wrong with not turning on the light in particular.

Eventually we are at the northern end of the village of Hiiro. We reached a small forest.

Head further into the splendid trees.

There are many trees lined up, the ground covered with fallen leaves, where the little creatures breathe, but not exactly the forest.

Finally, I reached my destination and looked up at a large tree.

- Well, what do we do?

Although I have been able to carry some certainty, it is in fact a no-plan.

"Can you ask me to lend you a branch?

I was a little worried and asked Nina to do so.

When Nina nodded and raised her hand gently, it just sounded painful and a bottle of Ogi branches came down in front of me. It's about the thickness of Cruise's wrist, and it's a branch about the length of my back.

The root of that branch was so beautifully crossed that I didn't think I'd broken it myself, and when I gripped it, it kind of tightened.

"The moon. Stars who have seen it all, the light of the sun returns and shines."

I raise its branches in the sky with leaves on them and cast a spell.

"Put that light on. Lights that illuminate the glow of sleeping deep inside people."

Then a round, pale light lit the branches of the tree that were kneaded toward the brilliant and radiant full moon, as if they had ignored the proximity.

I hoist it like a pine and point it at Nina's chest.

"Light of the moon, it is a reflection. Illuminate me. - Her, her soul."

The soul, there is. My mother, a dragon who lived thousands of years, gave me a heartbeat.

I don't know if I should call it soul, mind, or memory. But it's not that I'm lost, it's that there must be.

If so, you should be able to find it again.

"…… It won't shine."

But Nina's breasts never glowed like I imagined.

Nina stares at her chest and frowns. On the contrary, when I grabbed my two hills, I let them pull over.

"No, I think it's useless to do that"

"You're selling fights?

No. That's not what I meant. I'm just saying that the size of your chest is useless because it has nothing to do with the essence or your soul...

"The essence…… the essence"

"I'm trying to say that my essence is this!?

"Not really."

Hit Nina's forehead with some heat up. Why is she crying so lightly?

"Nina. There's nobody else around, is there?

"He's not here, though?

I push the branches of the tree against Nina's chest and pull my body closer to my face.

"Hey, what..."

I whispered in her ear raising her voice like a rare panic.

"Nina."

As soon as I did, the sun-like light flooded out of her chest. It's as if your surroundings have changed during the day, bright... then a light that never crushes your eyes.

"This is the light of the soul......!

Intuitively, I was sure of it. A soul is the root of that person.

So if you don't call your real name, you can't call it.

"Father, can I, too, please?"

With a determined hard expression, Cruse asked.

Although he only looks like a child, neither the years he has lived nor the contents of him, Cruse is not the child himself. I guess she's getting to the same idea as me, too.

Isn't Cruse a ghost?

That is the answer that I and…… perhaps Cruse himself arrived at.

She was also taught the situation when we discovered the baby Cruse. Anyway, it's the Fire Dragon and the Elf that I'm talking about with my parents, and they're not even married. I can't even delude you.

The ghoul we repelled resided in the remains of the beast, but suppose it was possessed by a human baby. Wouldn't he be like Cruse?

And if so, she probably shouldn't have a soul.

"Cruse.... crusinisos"

I laid the light of the moon on the bosom of Cruse and called his true name in a prayerful way.

- And then.

"Glowed……………."

Cruse leaks a grunt as she hugs her own body and falls zero.

Compared to Nina's soul, much smaller and whisperer light.

But there was a definite glow.

"There was... there was! Father, I also have a soul………!

"Yeah. There it is. Really, you had a soul in Cruse, too!

I can hug her jumping on me and put my strength into my arms all the time.

I don't know who I am anymore, but I don't care. The fact that a soul existed firmly in her was above all a pleasure.

"Here."

Where there was a glimmer of cruce and joy, Nina picks up the branches of the tree I removed and hands them to me.

"This isn't all of it, is it?

"Oh. But the second thing is, I don't think so."

The purpose for which I came here. I went out of my way to visit my mother for a total of three purposes, including the case of Cruse. All of that has to do with whether the soul is real or not.

The first is who Cruse is.

"O light of the moon, it is a reflection. Illuminate me. Here's the leftover incense of a sleeping soul. … of the eye, the soul."

And the second is where the first wife I once lost - Eye.

She's reincarnated, probably for sure. And again, the loss of that life.

The problem is then. Has she fulfilled her second reincarnation?

Are you reincarnating for the third or fourth time?

I didn't even have to think about it.

Absolutely.

That's what she is. If that's what I think, it might just be paranoia, but Nina agreed.

But still, Eye doesn't show up in front of me.

Then I'll have to go find it here.

This is not a forest. Cemetery.

Once, whenever people died, Nina was sprouting new buds as its tomb marker.

It eventually became a tree and became a great tree and began to shape the forest.

Too much space for boulders, so I stopped this format along the way...

Eye's soul should still be held by this tree. You gave me that branch, an eye tree.

"Doesn't glow,"

But I laughed bitterly at the tree.

Eye herself is already dead, so maybe there's no such thing as a soul here anymore.

Even if it stayed, maybe it was too long ago to call it in.

And most importantly, I don't know Eye's real name.

I didn't hear the true name she was supposed to have in her chest.

He said it should not happen in the unlikely event that someone else would know and manipulate him.

How silly it was.

"Neither does Nina... you don't know her real name, do you?"

When asked, she nodded with a sinking face. You don't have to look like that because I was just an idiot.

"Well, it's our last test."

Draw out your soul with the help of the full moon light and the tree of eyes. Of that purpose, third.

At the same time, it is also an exploration of the greatest of mysteries yet to be uncovered.

I put a wand on my chest and worried a little.

I have two real names. Dragon's and man's.

My mother didn't give me a name, but instead Nina gave me a name as a dragon.

Which one should I call to show my soul?

"Sekiguchi, Ryuji"

I don't even have to think about it. I call my name as a person.

An amount of light that would even multiply Nina overflowed from my chest.

I was wondering if the intensity of light would be determined by the number of years I've lived so far, but that's not how it seems. At my age, Nina is older, even including in her previous life.

"Light, tell me"

Either way, I commanded the light.

"Where are you from?

As soon as I thought the light had converged, I stretched straight up.

"…… Oh my God."

Light refers to heaven, the other side of the sky. It shows a point in the sky with a slight angle, but not directly above it.

I understood the meaning of it without further ado.

It's not a different world.

Beyond this sky... somewhere in the universe, there is.

My hometown - the planet.