The Magus of Genesis

"Sig, by the way, I have a lot to ask..."

Removal of ice walls trapped at the entrance to the ice chamber for the repair of fences and houses damaged by the cleaning of the carcasses of the mice and the treatment of the wounded. I asked Lizardman's boy, even as he bothered his head with the reprocessing of the enormous damage caused by the rats.

"How come you're here to help me?

"Why, uh, are you serious?

Sig asked me in a voice he said was out of his mind.

"I thought the rats would attack the village absolutely sooner or later. Sometimes you can win. I was on my way to gather my strength just in case.... Even the teacher said he understood."

"What? Why?

"'Cause you looked me in the eye back then."

I guess what he's saying is just before he left the village.

I'm sorry. I don't know, I just looked back.

But if you say so, the look on his face then. Not dissatisfied, disappointed, disgusted... it seemed like it was something of trust.

"You mean the rats are eavesdropping on the story, so you deliberately made it look like a fight goodbye.... but you found out that rats often attack villages?

Anyway, if it's just him, he even got involved with Lizardman, Lycoscentaur, and the elves. If you weren't so sure, you wouldn't have made it to that point.

"… they look a lot like me. Weak, small... but I can't stand it."

Staring into the void, Sig says, mocking himself.

"I don't think anything about my people.... but that's the same with Lizardman. The weak one is bad. So we just have to be strong. No one thinks of helping a dying companion. Neither do I.... Yes, it was"

And when he turned to me,

"Not until you meet your favorite dragon like a fool!

Saying so, he gave me an uncontrolled smile. It's probably the first time I've seen Sig smile so innocent.

"I knew they were always listening to us. That's why I hit a play and I went back inside. It was convenient and there was a way."

Spread the buckwheat and wings, says Sig. Wings......... wings.

"You said you were six-legged buddies about us.

That happened, too. It's Sig, Lynn, Luca, and me.

In the world of previous life, all vertebrates were four-legged. Some species have evolved their forelegs into arms, like humans, while others have turned them into wings, like birds. But in this world, like humans and elves, it seemed to be parted from the four and the six-legged creatures, like dragons, Lizardmans and Lycoscentaurs.

Although it is difficult to understand the mermaid, the lower back fin is a change in her leg.

"That's why I thought I could wing my arms like a teacher."

Say, Sig spread his wings to show.

"But often, that Mr. Beor helped us, didn't he?

"Oh, that's so easy. I'm stronger. So it's natural to follow. Because that's what Lizardman values are."

"You won!?

Yuki opens her eyes to surprise. Sig got a lot stronger, but I still didn't think I could beat Mr. Beor. The quadruple strikes launched from that giant have tremendous power and speed, and a decent fight could be tough on Amata.

"You can't lose. Those guys, they don't even throw stones because they don't use weapons. Why don't we just set the fire while flying at a distance that will never reach us?"

Ah.

"Is that an ant………?

"I wonder if they've sporadically said cowardice. He said winning like that wasn't real strength. But when I heard you were really strong, everyone shut up."

Well, I guess so. Because the pinnacle of strength they believe in is the Red Dragon, and Sig's method of warfare is the very way the Red Dragon hunts.

"Later, I used the teacher's scales to keep in touch with the purple, and had the elves check on the mice 'trends. Luca has returned to her hometown, so she gathered her strength."

"Then maybe Utah is dying?

Was it a lie to deliberately create a gap and make the rats act? When I thought so and looked at Lynn, she shook her head slowly.

"Utai... as soon as Shisei flies away,"

Leaning her eyebrow at the root, Lynn wept.

I'm not a kid who can act like that with lies and jokes.

"Utah, it seems like you've been working hard until you meet us."

"Right..."

But I wanted to think it was a joke.

I've tasted it many times before, a sense of loss. I felt cold from the tip of my hands and feet and something was lost from my body.

"Maybe... I didn't want your brother to see the end of it."

Pottori and Yuki whisper.

"You knew?

"Somehow, I felt that way"

If you ask me, it was Yuki who rushed me home.

"Because I feel like I know how Utai feels, somehow."

Yuki says so, gripping her fist all the time.

It was like praying for something, a trick.

"Brother, hey, I wonder if it's good"

It was that night that Yuki visited my house.

Somehow, I expected that visit.

I guess I'm tired, taking care not to wake up my sleeping Nina, while I leave the house and follow Yuki.

"Um... you know"

It was in the square in front of the ice room that she cut out.

The carcasses of the rats that were piled up like mountains were burned to mind for fear of infection, so there were few remnants of the tragedy during the day.

So, in the moonlight, Yuki looked up at me.

"I... I've been thinking about it. What your brother told you that day."

What she wanted to say, I immediately thought of it.

'Even you, it's the same thing. After less than a hundred years, you're gonna leave me.'

I still can't apologize for the words I let Yuki bathe me that day.

"Sorry, Yuki, I am…………"

"Yeah. I'm the one, sorry"

But before I apologize, Yuki lowers her head.

"I didn't even think about how your brother felt. I don't know what's left of it."

That's nothing, it's not like Yuki is bad. There's no way anyone can think that far away after they die.

"Something that wraps around the ice column clothes, something that drops leaves in the autumn trees, something that melts in the spring sun, the snow and ice spirits Jack Frost. Please, show yourself before me."

When Yuki complained toward the ice room, the flickering white came down to say it was still autumn. That shapes the appearance of a small snowman, even though there is no wind, if you think that it has been swirled around and gathered together in one place.

"Long time no see...... what is it, huh?

"Ho, ho, ho"

When I greet Jack Frost that way, he leaks an owl-like voice from his mouth open to the three-day moon shape.

"Jack Frost. Can you bring me an array?

To Yuki's words, JackFrost stares at her and then turns his gaze to me. As always, I have no idea what you're thinking from your eyes as empty as those holes.

"Howe."

But there was some satisfaction in him, and when he rang, Jack Frost went inside the ice chamber.

"What's inside?

"The secret to be passed on to the sword ministry… it's like…"

Unexpectedly asking Yuki, she said that. Was there such a thing? One person, he didn't tell me.

After a while, JackFrost came out of the ice chamber with a hug of ice.

"Brother, try to melt it"

"………… Are you sure?

The ice chunks are so huggable that JackFrost can really melt them together if he tries to melt them. Well, although I know very well that you don't die where you melt.

Seeing JackFrost snort, I let off the flame as I was told.

The little jackfrost makes a juicy noise with all the ice it holds and evaporates in an instant.

- It's been a while, Doctor.

As soon as I heard a voice, I stiffened my whole body.

Soft, gentle voice, like morning sunshine.

You can't even forget it.

It was Eye's, voice.

"Eye!?

"Shit. Be quiet, brother"

To me screaming, Yuki puts her finger on her lips and issues a warning.

"When I hear this voice, I think I am no longer on your side."

To the voice of the ensuing eye, I understood everything.

That's the message left. It was magically frozen, a remnant of my voice.

"Since then, has it been ten years? Or is it a hundred years? If it's too short, just a little bit, it's sad."

It's four hundred and fifty-four years, Eye.

It's been four hundred and fifty-four years since you were gone.

"... I lied. The truth is, for years, it's sad. 'Cause that's all that's left of you."

Its tone and voice color are no different from those in memory.

"But I'm sure the teacher still listens to my selfishness. Oh, well, if it's off at all, don't ask me after this because I'm embarrassed. Are you all right, sir?

I don't know what Eye's selfishness refers to. I don't think what she said to me about being selfish was creepy. But there's no way I could have done that without asking.

"Maybe it's Utai? Is it Jirgo's children? Or is it someone I don't know at all? … or……………………………………………"

So I cut the words once so that I could get lost.

"No, anyone. The kid next to the teacher now, I'm sure, loves the teacher. … Me and you."

Unexpectedly, I saw Yuki's face. She stared seriously in the eye at where Jack Frost was, and shyly laughed when she noticed my gaze.

"Please, love him. Forget about me...... if you can really forget, just a little, sad though. Never mind me."

Dragons have good memory. Nearly five hundred years after that, I was able to remember each and every look on Eye's face with clarity. As if I were in front of you, I find her phantom in a void with nothing.

Modest, discreet. But laugh happier than anyone else.

"Mixed, please, Doctor. That's all I wish for. I just want you to be happy."

Eye looked up at me and said so.

So her voice broke off, and until then something like her signs drifted in the air disappeared putridly.

"- I wasn't ready."

Like a monologue, Yuki said.

"Sister Eye has always thought about her teacher after she disappeared. I didn't even think about it."

And she turned around and looked straight up at me.

"But I can't lose. Because I love your brother. I've been on your side the whole time. Eye, I'm sure I'll try what your sister couldn't do. If you mean me, like my sister, but only like my daughter, that's fine."

A resolute, strong eye captures me.

"So…… I like you, okay………?

As soon as it broke her confidence, she asked me.

"…… Shit. Surrender."

Raise your hands and I will answer that.

My heart was set at a time when I gave priority to her life over the villagers.

On top of that, if they even take me out to Eye, I don't even have any more excuses.

"If I'm attracted to you as a woman, I can't give you a clear answer."

Around Nina, over this period, they're going to say, but that's how I feel about not faking it. If you're such a clever man to change your mind, you haven't bothered Gudagda in over four hundred years.

"But Yuki. I'm sure I love you... and I want you to stay by my side."

"Brother!

At those moments, Yuki jumped.

"Thanks, love it!

He plays his voice and rubs his cheeks. That hasn't changed at all since he was a child.

"The habit of embracing her right now is not enough."

On the other hand, delighted with the feeling of a long time, I say, bitterly smiling at her as a child no matter how long it takes.

"... as a kid, you're the only one I do this to when I grow up, right?

Yet Yuki tilted her little neck and answered that as she looked at me upwards.

My chest pounds in its gaze and the soft feeling of being pressed.

"Or did you think you were doing it to someone else?

"No, that's not true, but..."

If you ask me, I certainly never saw Yuki stick around besides me. And imagine that… I realize that it is an even more unpleasant sight than I thought.

- For this matter, my fall may be quicker than I thought.

Should I mourn my weak will or be afraid of Yuki's charm?

I was just a little worried.