The Magus of Genesis

"No matter how far you run, it's no use."

Trapped a white mouse in a trail in the figure of a dragon, I declared so.

Without holes to hide, there's no escape route.

"More than you are the one who created those goblins... the connection can be followed by magic"

"I wonder if that's where you're wasting your time."

The white rat said so in a calm tone.

"As you know, I just killed an individual named the eagles, and they mean nothing. We're just going to have another new, white individual."

"Yeah, I know you very well."

The rats have one life in their entirety, a group organism. I just killed a talking white mouse, and I knew it was like pulling out a piece of human hair and it didn't make any sense.

"Unfortunately we failed this time, but there are many opportunities. Unless you destroy the eagles. Well, I guess not."

"I don't know about that. Cruse."

"Yeah!"

Cruse pulls out his sledge and sword with both hands. It's a sword made of Hiirokane, borrowed from the sword department. Cruce shaken it down with a grueling hand and cut the void.

"Now…… what, did………?

The white rat asked.

"I hung up."

Cruise answers that.

To be honest, I was half-hearted myself.

But as far as the reaction is concerned, it must have worked.

"Your... it was spreading like a mesh, a soul connection."

"Stupid............!

Cruse is a specialisation of souls. I can see my soul with my naked eye, even without the light of the moon.

If it was her, it would be possible to break that connection.

That's what I thought and brought Cruse, and the prospect, apparently, was a success.

"... So, what's up? The eagle... is just an individual given the function of conversation. I told you before. The eagles are not responsible for the decisions of the eagles, nor are they at the top of the list."

But the white rat quickly regains his composure and answers so.

"How about that?

But it also seemed like he had managed to remain calm and tell himself.

"Words are very special in this world. For example, magic is made by name. The spell stabilizes the magic. Magic can be handed to others"

Many mysteries I have ever found in this world.

"It's all... in words, it's made up"

Even if you don't speak in your voice, there are words to be named. So you can't use magic on a beast that can only roar.

The rats once said that there are other individuals who can speak, but who can solve the language. But is that true?

"If everyone is connected, the words they hear themselves are passed on to the whole of every individual they hear. But isn't the white mouse the only one with the ability to interpret that meaning?

I'm sure the rats themselves don't have the ability to verify that. Because they are all individuals and they are all individuals.

"Even if not, the instructions to the goblins were made with a voice. I'm not connected to the spirits I created."

"…… If so, what happened to it"

Like roaring, White Mouse says.

"If the eagle dies, a new white individual is born. I just disconnected the eagle, it's totally pointless."

"Even with your soul disconnected, will you be born?

When I told him mean, Algernon pressed silence.

I've never tried it before, so you can't possibly tell.

But what I was trying to do was make it worse.

"You know this."

What I took out of my nostalgia was a complicated copy of the text.

"This is……"

"Innis', the magic of immortality."

Before you chase a white mouse. What I asked Innis to do and let me photograph.

That's too complicated, but still better than the Golem, she said.

"You're good at stealing technology, aren't you? With it, you can live far beyond your life expectancy."

"What's the meaning of this?"

I guess he hasn't come with a pin yet. White rats raise their confused voices.

"If you don't use it, you'll die," he says.

"The eagle dies…………………?

I don't know where the soul of the dead goes. Do you ascend to heaven or return to earth, or are you reincarnated like me? Or will it just disappear?

The only thing I know is that if you don't take over your memory, it's just like extinguishing it.

- Conversely, if you're going to take over the memory, it's the same as not dying.

Just as I am.

"Yes. You're going to die. If you stay put, you die. Not you guys, but yourself here... in less than a year, you die."

And that's the same with the rats. With a short life span of only one year, they have essentially never died. That's why I'm not afraid of death.

"The eagle, but…… die…………………?

If you have more than some intelligence, the horror of extinction must be the same.

The white rat seemed to have finally swallowed the fear.

"Impossible...... no. Stupid, things."

"So you can use that granting magic. As long as you use it, you can live."

As the only, unconnected white rat.

"Algernon. Again, let me name you that. Live. Death is scary, isn't it?

As long as Algernon lives, the rat population loses its word.

No matter how huge it is, it's just a rat.

It could have been, or… the first time I had called, a curse.

Terribly nasty, evil, unhappy others, curse.

But the only way to contain these rats is to do so.

Scattered all over the world, it's impossible to wipe out all the rats that live lurking.

"Stupid...... stupid, stupid, stupid! That's ridiculous............!

The little mouse, Algernon, shouts his emotions in dew too.

That gaze wandered everywhere...... and accidentally turned towards me.

"How dare you!

When those red eyes burned in anger, and Algernon looked at me with the intensity of just blowing fire, he shouted.

"Sekiguchi, Lyoji!

Why, that name.

Before I thought so, my body got feverish as it burned.

The scale-covered arms shrink, the point of view drops, and the clear five senses blur and fade.

Is it because I can force it to change from the outside? The change from dragon to person, which would only take a moment to transform itself, progressed slowly with heat and pain.

Think of it, when I first changed to what people looked like... even when Eye called me my real name, this is what happened.

Oh, well. Were you listening then?

Waiting for a change without being able to do anything, I recall.

Nina said there was no one around her when she called her real name in front of Eye's grave.

But only in the woods can she look into it. For example, I can't even notice the little rat lurking in the ground...

"Ice Spear!

And as I changed, spiritual magic was unleashed. Water and ice magic is too incompatible with me.

If I were a regular person, I would faint, even magic to the extent of a water bullet that would soak with a light stroke. Regardless of what the dragon looks like, if you eat the ice spear on the third staircase in a human figure, you will surely die.

We have to avoid it. I can do everything I can to think of it, but my body in the midst of changing from dragon to person doesn't even move Pickle.

No...!

When I was ready, I was shocked, and I rolled on the ground.

... alive. I have general pain, but it's not a big pain.

I woke up a body that managed to move...... and I saw it.

"Cru............ se............?

A spear of ice pierced my chest, my daughter.