The Magus of Genesis

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"Again?"

The servant raised his voice to Al, who said so in the exact same tone as usual.

"You just increased it last month."

"The eagles' companions are growing. Not enough for an equivalent amount of money"

Al's reaction to it is pale. Without any cowardice, I just stated the facts.

"I don't care if they only make demands. What happened to your promise to help me with my job? You didn't do anything for me."

"No such promise has been made"

"What did you just say?

Nina, who until then had fallen asleep in bed, listened and woke up her torso.

"The first time you promised, you said you understood."

"Affirms"

Al nods and answers Nina's words.

"'I'd be happy to help you with some village work,' said the dragon. The eagle knew it."

"Then..."

"There is no inevitability in this content that the eagles will help with their work"

Neither me nor Nina became flabbergasted by Al, who said so clearly.

The opposite is clear when you get here.

Recently, Al's personality became apparent. Him...... maybe she is, but the rats are thorough efficiency guys anyway. I only make extremely sensible decisions.

I mean, it's my fault for using the vague word "happy".

"I see, it certainly is. So, shall we do this? If you can't help me with my job, I can't increase my payroll."

"State your work."

If we talk about specifics, we'll get right back to you.

Maybe these rats are smarter than me or something.

"It's time to sow. You just have to help me with that. Right... If you can help me with enough fields, I'll give you one more bag of wheat per month."

"……… I understand."

I breathed heavily as I dropped Al behind me as I walked away.

"Don't get tired………………"

I'm not just tired of dealing with little rats.

I have been physically and mentally tired lately.

This is also simply because the problem of understaffing has been revived.

Sig disappeared eventually stayed put and didn't come back.

Mr. Purple successfully completed his wheat harvest and returned to the woods as promised.

Luca was reluctant at first to go home at a time like this, but she said she couldn't do it half the time and asked me to go home. If I said that, I wouldn't be able to go home forever.

Is it because half of the international students disappeared?

Lynn and Yuki are also somewhat unwell.

"New again, do you want to include international students?

"Take care of yourself if you want to."

I accidentally leaked a smile to Nina, the only one who never changed at all.

"Shisei-!

As I thought so, the door opened up vigorously, and Lynn rushed in.

I guess I'm feeling a little better now?

"Utai..."

Contrary to my optimistic thoughts, Lynn distorts her expression and grabs my sleeve with a crying voice.

"Utah is dead."

With Lynn and Yuki in the figure of a dragon, and a mermaid on my back who came to inform me of the emergency report, I hurried to the sea where Utah dwelt.

Even my wings, it takes half an hour. He went out of his way to retrace the river from the sea and came to tell me. Naturally, it takes a lot of time.

Will you do it in time?

Flying through the sky with a feeling of prayer...... what I saw when I reached the coast was the figure of Utah relaxing on a rocky reef and hitting the sun.

"Utah! Are you okay?

"Oh... Doctor. He came all the way to you."

The appearance of Utah, the first to see him in thirteen years, was as beautiful as any.

He has a firm tone and doesn't look very dying.

But the graceful hip fin, which was spreading as if it were a wedding dress, has collapsed and grown much smaller.

"Utai!"

Lynn jumped off my back, bouncing off the surface like Tobiuo and hugging me to Utah.

"How'd it go? On land."

"It was fun! There are so many things, Seisei is sweet, the rice is delicious, Sig is funny, Yuki is strong, Luca is scary sometimes, but Purple is amazing, Nina tells me so much fun, so, so, so."

Utai caresses her hair as she listens with her eyes narrowed as she diligently talks about her experience on land.

Seeing the trick, I realized she wasn't really long.

"The hell, why...... something, you're sick?

"No, Doctor."

Utai crooked his face and answered.

"I'm already a grandmother enough to have a great-grandson. It was rather too long."

I don't know how I saw her. I don't know if she's going to make it.

But his hands stroking Lynn's head were like dead trees.

"But at the end of the day, I can't believe I'm seeing Lynn like this."

The hand strokes Lynn's big hip fin.

"Yeah! Magic, I made it big! You can walk on your own now! With Utah, you can walk!

"Yes..."

Utai smiles and nods happily.

But it's obvious that you can't walk anymore with that hip fin that she wore out.

"Listen carefully, Lynn."

Utai pinched Lynn's face with both hands and stared into her eyes.

"You have two very nice things ahead of you and one very hard thing to visit together."

"Together…………?

Lynn inquires in wonder into Utah's words with certainty.

"Yeah, but then you do whatever you want. Listen carefully to your heart... and behave as you wish."

"I do......?

Yeah, I do. I almost snorted.

I don't know a child who lives as free and wide as Lynn.

"Right. You must be okay. My proud great-grandson."

Utai smiled at Lynn like that and said so.

"Hey, Doctor."

When she takes her hand off Lynn's cheek, she slowly turns to me.

"About the end, isn't it good that you came to see me?

"…… Right."

When I asked Yuki and the mermaid to come down, I turned into a person and stepped into the sea.

Floating sensations envelop the whole body and vision is covered in bubbles and water.

Is it because I am a dragon, or did Utai magically do something about it? I have no breathlessness at all.

And utai pulled my arm to shake underwater.

I was pulled with stronger force than I thought, and I wondered if her palm pinched my cheek, and at the next moment the soft feeling was pressed against my lips.

"I'm so sorry for your grandmother."

"If I were your age, I wouldn't be so different."

I shrugged my neck and gave it back to Utah. I guess she still did something for me. They say they're underwater, but their voices are clear to each other.

"Besides, I confess for the first time - actually, I prefer older."

"Oh -"

I saw Lynn's face dabbled in Utah's face laughing at Couscous.

No, you're not. This is... when we just met. When I was just a girl, it was Utah's face.

"Thank you. I was so happy... my first love."

Whisper so, then Utai leaves my arm.

"Utai......"

"…… you won't die soon if you don't look at me like that."

Doesn't it just go away as a bubble?

Unexpectedly, Utai said to me with a grumpy tone.

"Come on, Doctor. You should go now."

"Huh? No, but..."

"Go."

To me confused, Utai said in a strong tone.

"Let's go, brother"

From the top of the rocky reef, Yuki said so.

"……… Okay."

She looks better than I thought, and it could be a year or two of talking about dying. He's a mermaid who's been alive for over five hundred years, so it's no wonder he's that long.

Maybe I'll bring it back to life for a few more decades. I can't even be so absent from the village on a boulder.

"Lynn, do you have my scales?

"Yeah."

Asked so, Lynn explored the area of her hair as gasagoso and removed the red scales. I give each and every student in the special classroom a piece of my scale.

"You know how to use it, don't you?... let me know if something happens"

"Mmm...... ok"

Lynn holds it in her chest and snorts.

And when I returned to the dragon with Yuki on board, I left the phosphorus to flap my wings high in the sky.

"I was in a hurry, but I'm glad you look better than you did."

"Yeah……………."

Talking like that while flying at about half the speed when I arrived, I got a careless reply back.

"Are you okay, Yuki? Want to take a break somewhere?

Come to think of it, it's also a pretty tough story to keep riding my back all the time.

Even planes with solid chairs are pretty hard, but instead of reclining, they don't even have walls. Wouldn't it use a lot of physical strength to be grabbed by horns and thorns during a breeze blow?

"Yeah, I'm fine"

But in disagreement with the plan, Yuki shook his head.

I'm not well, but I can't even see how tired I am.

"Really? If anything happens, call me."

"Yeah."

As soon as I answered that, the conversation between me and her broke.

Uhm, it won't last...

On the outbound route, there were the Lynns, and most importantly, I couldn't afford that much in a hurry, but when we were alone, the silence bothered me as soon as possible.

I think if we don't talk about something, but I can't think of a topic at all.

"Hey, brother. Um, a guy named Utai...... you've known him for a long time."

As I was in a hurry to think about the topic, Yuki accidentally talked to me.

"Oh, right. I've known her since she was just about Lynn. So it's been almost five hundred years."

"Five hundred years..."

I guess it was a length that didn't come pin to Yuki. She blurts.

"Your brother... how long can you live?

"I don't know"

That's what I honestly replied to those words that were thrown at me.

"What do you mean you don't know?

"I don't know any dragons who died in their lifespan. No one."

I'm not immortal. Even dragons die if you kill them. I've actually seen it before, so that's for sure.

But it was very suspicious whether there was old age or not.

Instead of dying of life expectancy, they are not even known to age and fade dragons.

Although there is no possibility that dragons are basically uninterrupted without creating any herds.

"Well, at least I'm sure I'll live about 20,000 years. That's how much the dragon that hits my grandfather lives."

"Twenty thousand..."

He totally exceeded the limits of his imagination, and Yuki groans like a groan.

Even I've been out of my imagination for so long.

"Hey, brother......... me"

Like I decided to do something, Yuki called me in a serious voice, that was then.

"Can you hear me?"

In my ear, I heard voices coming from nowhere.

Its unique sense that even the ear of a dragon cannot locate the source is communication magic through scales.

"What's wrong, Lynn?

'It's not Lynn, it's me. Nina.'

"Yeah, what the hell, Nina?"

I felt like something had happened to Utah already, so I stroked my chest down.

But as if to crush my relief.

"Come back soon. - The rat attacked me.

Nina replied, with a voice that seeped in a hurry.