The Magus of Genesis

"…… give up?

For a moment I didn't know what she was talking about.

"Why is that?"

I ask reflexively, understanding that that's what I'm referring to eye.

Nina should know better than anyone how much I've been looking for Eye. That's so much more familiar than I think I am myself.

I had no idea why she would say that in front of Eye's rebirth.

"Because... it's not weird. Cruse said that Aisha was an eye."

"No, it's not weird. I just got another confirmation from Cruse that it was the armor she was wearing that was reacting. Cruce's magic is not very precise. I guess I couldn't tell the difference between the body and its scale."

The original connection itself is fine and insignificant. Cruse said he had reacted more strongly to something nearer.

"As soon as we met, I knew. That white dragon is the rebirth of Eye.... Nina didn't feel it?

Sifting, without force, she shakes her head.

"Me too…… yes, I think"

That feeling wasn't the only one I felt. I was originally convinced, but if Nina would say so, I can believe it more than my own senses.

"But... it's not a dragon. I was human, wasn't I? And I don't even remember us. Still, can you say I'm an eye?

"I can tell you."

Nina seemed terribly surprised at me snorting lightly.

"Is that it? Speaking of which, you never told Nina.... Me too, I am reborn. I was human before."

"What…………?

It was over a thousand years ago. Although I remember my previous life as a special knowledge, the time I lived as a dragon was too long, and I no longer had a real feeling that I was just less than a hundred years old.

"I wasn't hiding anything else. That's not a big deal, is it?

You think the bread prefers the ear to the white part, or that it is somewhat disgusting if it is not from the right when wearing shoes? Such information is not enough to take. Things that Nina, who has been dating for a long time, seems to know thinly.

What a story of a previous life to me was at best that much recognition.

That's why.

"Liar... Liar, liar... no"

I never thought I'd be so shocked that I shook my voice as I shook my head to the side again and again.

"So... now that girl is the same as you...?

"Oh, you will. I didn't even think about it but I didn't see it......"

In retrospect, it may not be surprising.

"At the time of her death, she swore to me that she would come back knowing that I was an ex-human. It's not strange to hope to be the same dragon. Rather, that way we can be together all the time without having to taste the goodbye again soon in our lifetime"

Though I was surprised, if you think about it carefully, it would be inconvenient to hope or fulfill it.

"So I need you to help me get her memories back."

That way, everything will work out. What I've been hoping for since I was born into this world can finally come true.

…… and to say.

For some reason, my partner, who has been supporting me for so long, kept his gaze off the floor and kept his mouth shut.

"Nina?"

"……… No."

Was there a problem with the way she prepared it?

My first thought was that.

"I don't like it. I don't want that girl's memory back."

But it is not what came back. It was a clear, refusal.

"Huh…… why?

I had no idea why Nina would mention that.

"Because...! She didn't remember you!

It's like a scream, a sad scream. But hearing that, I can only be confused.

"Wait. Nina thought about the possibility, didn't she? That's why we had the means to do something about it."

"…… If that child……… had been reborn into a human being, that would have been good."

I was surprised at Nina's face when she complained. Shizukuishi glowed over her cheeks.

"That girl... live as a person again. If I remember you again and fall in love to scorch myself again and live. I've been meaning to help you do that many times."

Nina is an elegant woman. Seeing her tears isn't so much for even me.

If only recently, when Cruse died. And a few other times.

I was very anxious that she was in tears.

"Then why………?

"I respect you, I respect you."

But I somehow found out that these tears were not sadness.

Even with tears, my sharp eyes stare at me as I shoot through.

"That kid, Ai...! I loved you more than anyone! For as short a life as you can...... full of spirits, about you!

It is.

Angry, tearful.

"… I didn't think I could do that. Until I die... Yeah, even if I die, I can't believe I like you and keep staying. I do…… however much I like you. That feeling is absolutely no match for Eye. Yes, because I thought..."

The feeling was well understood by me, too.

People's lives are too daunting, which is why we feel it is powerful and honorable. Somewhere I envy and admire them for living each moment diligently and quickly overtaking us.

"It's good if that kid remembers you. Even if I was born as a dragon, I remember you properly and keep liking you. If that makes you... happy... I'm sure you'll be blessed."

Nina grabbed her fist a long time and said, in a painful voice.

"But it wasn't. That kid wasn't a person. I didn't remember you. I didn't come to see you. I dropped the most important thing somewhere."

But gradually, it's feverish.

"So I... don't admit it. If I see that kid as an eye, I won't admit it. Even if the soul was the same. I can't admit that a dragon who forgot about you is taught by me to restore peace and memory and to sit next to you forever!

Eventually he replaced it with flaming intensity.

"While that girl's forgotten about you, I've always been! I was right next to you! I'm better than that dragon... what I love about you!

I didn't know there was so much intensity in her.

I once expressed to Cruse that the affection Nina and I have for each other is calm, like sleeping in the shade of a breezy shade, like floating on a raging sea plain.

I understood that it was closer to the love I had for my family than the love I had for the opposite sex.

But that's mine... no. Even for Nina, it might have been a assumption.

"... that, but..."

Nina drops her gaze on the floor again, opening Luc's mouth.

Um, she brought it all the way here, a backpack the size of a mountain.

"Still, if that girl is good………………………"

A huge chunk of rock or a bunch of wood chops came out of it.

"This is……"

The pattern depicted on the surface of the rock mass was familiar.

That's the mural Eye once painted me on the back of the cave.

I thought it had disappeared because it was exposed to the wind storm. But before Nina did, she cut off the rock and kept it for me.

I also remember a bunch of chopped wood. The traces of charcoal that linger slightly are written with long spell complaints.

It's the oldest magic book in the world that I've ever given to Eye. There was no paper back then, so I was carving letters on wooden boards, painting charcoal from the top and reading them.

Many other old tools, packed with our memories. All this is more than a thousand years old.

Something that even I forgot existed.

Nina took care of herself.

Someday......... to Eye, for the day of reunion.

Or she is. Perhaps he wanted to see Eye more than I did.

"Show me this... I may recall. You don't have to remind me, you can do magic, right?

The magic book also contains a number of things written by Eye himself. It's a record, a memory. The intention of the eye at the time of writing is caged. So much so that Cruse feels his soul.

If I could magically put that in my eyes right now, at least, the memory of that time would go back into her.

I looked at it, and worried...

After being distressed, I crushed it. Items that Nina would have desperately conserved for a thousand years would easily collapse if pressed lightly and magically at her fingertips.

"………… Are you sure?

With her eyes swinging in stray, Nina asked.

With this, Leo will be able to establish himself as the fourth faction in the current three-ways succession war.

I exhale slowly... and answer that.

"That's okay."