The Strategist Knows Everything

The last page of the book of pitch black is over.

I don't know how much time has passed.

My own physical time was more than a day.

Swallow by a wave of information that never ends, the information finally brought from the pitch-black book came to an end when thoughts hung up.

"Yukito!? Yukito!?"

Sophia rubbed my shoulder off and I could finally get my eyes off the book.

If you look around, it's no different than when you received the book.

"……… How long has it been…………………?

"Is it time? It's about a few minutes. What's wrong, sir? I can't believe you suddenly stopped looking away from the book... you didn't answer me when I asked you..."

Sophia had an anxious look on her face.

Sophia isn't the only one with that look on her face.

I grew big and everyone around me seemed anxious.

Feeling a little sorry, I turned my gaze to Lelfa and Elfin after laughing small.

"That was quick."

"The magic of Lelfa is handy, but so is your magic."

"It's easy for me…… it hurts like an idiot………?

"Your pain has nothing to do with me. So? Is it possible that we can reproduce the secret art of ancient species?

Lelfa tried to move on without even looking at me.

Gwaigan hasn't shown any movement yet, either because he released his magic all at once. Even so, I don't know when it will move, so I also know that I don't have time to be so slow.

But I have a problem if you don't take care of me for a second.

I'm a human being.

"Honestly...... subtle. Five species and humans called ancient species are too different in body strength and magic power holdings. It's nearly impossible for humans to use the secret art of ancient species."

"I know a hundred things about that. Can't you do something about that with your magic? I hear that."

"Sorcery is the degradation of secret art. It was adjusted by me so that people could handle it. But that's not powerful enough to take him down. Can't you think of anything?

My magic reads information.

I can read past information and predict the future, but that's not useful right now.

What do you two expect from me?

"There is no magic impossible. There are limits to the body. Think about it. We'll stop him in the meantime. You don't get much time, do you?

That's what Relfa said, walking with Elfin to the edge of the wall.

Gwaigan glanced at both of them.

"Are you a fairy to the Dragon Nation... if you think it's a little tricky, were you helping?"

"I need a little help getting around. It is the power of the people here who have hunted you down so far."

"Did you corner him? Don't make me laugh. You can destroy humans whenever you want."

"Then do it. Black Dragon Gwaigan. That makes it harder to fight anyone who tries to use you."

"That mouthful... you know something? Who woke me up and tried to use me!?

Gwaigan, who has never spoken before, is opening his mouth and having a conversation with Lelfa.

Although humans don't admit to being enough people to have a conversation, they admit that ancient species are enough to have a conversation.

"Of course I know, but tell me that. What do you want me to do? You're just gonna get paid back, aren't you?

"I don't have anything I can't crush! So no one can beat me! Don't fuck with me, little man!!

In the wake of Gwaigan's intimidation, those who were on the walls began to fall continuously.

Must have broken my heart.

I didn't have to know if it was normal, after preventing Gwaigan from attacking and fighting the young dragon. Fatigue should have been close to the limit.

Besides, it is only a very small number of people who know that Lelfa and Elfin are ancient species at the edge of the walls.

From the perspective of many on the walls, this simultaneous attack will be prevented and it will look like Gwaigan is finally trying to get serious.

It's harder to keep your mind calm.

I know exactly what it's like for those who fall.

"Right. Then there's nothing I won't tell you, but the condition is to leave this place. Miss the humans."

I said, "No! You let me use my powers when I was like a bug!" I don't care if you eat it!

"He's a selfish guy."

"It's a dragon. It's useless to negotiate."

"Well, I knew it. Yukito Clay. He's motivated. If you don't do something about it, the people here will die."

That's all Lelfa said, walked out of the walls.

Outside the walls, of course, there is no way.

They are over ten meters tall, so normally they fall and get injured, or die.

However, the boulder should be called an ancient species, and Lelfa easily betrayed that expectation.

"Empty……………."

"Walked!?

Micana and Roy, who were nearby, raised their surprises.

I only know that Sophia, the greatest mage in the wind, is capable of such a craftsmanship, perhaps before breakfast for the ancient species.

"Human common sense doesn't make sense..."

"Yukito. Did the book say the art of ancient species?

He was blind to Lelfa's behavior, and Sophia asked.

Don't, don't. What we need to do now is not to be watching Lelfa or Elfin.

I have to replicate some of the secrets in this book.

"Yeah. I just don't have enough magic power. No, not with the magic that people can have."

"Even if I had enough magic... with such a technique, I wouldn't have Yukito's body......!

"I guess. I need to think about it……………………."

"Is there anything you can do to help us? There's not much magic left."

I appreciate Fio's words. But it's not even the kind of situation where someone would be useful.

If you don't have enough magic, you can use some magic equipment to replenish it, but it's not the amount of magic you can replenish in such a dicky way.

I'm here, Master Sophia, Dear Kaguya, and I doubt it's enough to gather all the magic powers of the highest-level mages like Fio.

"Yukito! I'm sorry I'm thinking, but I only have a kind of bad feeling! Hurry up if you can!

"I can't think of a solution that convenient!

"You can't do this, just do something! Whatever! There must be something!? Look, a combined attack or something!

"There is no way... No, there is..."

When Gwaigan broke the ice and destroyed the golem, I came up with something.

Dear Dio, such as a combined attack.

There is certainly something similar to that.

"Consolidated magic...... that makes up for the missing magic, and the burden can be dispersed!

"I can't. Consolidated magic isn't that easy. First of all, you can't use witchcraft you don't know, and it's personal and compatible with witchcraft. Flames for me, thunder for Kaguya, wind for Sofia. There's nothing else I can't use, but basically magicians only use magic that's compatible. Because it's hard."

Erica frowned and denied my words.

Sure, I've read that in a book, and I've heard it from Sofia and Master Kaguya.

Consolidated magic in the first place is the exercise of one magic by a few people.

Something to increase the power and accuracy of existing sorcery rather than making unknown sorcery a success for everyone.

The purpose is too different.

In the first place, I'm the only one who knows the secret to the ancient species written in this pitch-black book.

As others will remember, they will not be able to decipher the words written in the book.

If I could decipher it, it would take too long.

Erica is difficult. Mastering witchcraft would be quite difficult.

If they poured information directly into my head like I did, I still don't know how long it would take me to read, understand, and practice the book.

"No……………!

"It doesn't mean you can't, does it? Magic can do anything. Hey, Elfin."

"Don't ask me. I'm a secret, not a wizard."

Lelfa, who was flying Gwaigan's newly created young dragons from the side of his birth to somewhere, came back near the walls, and so on.

Aiming at such a relfa, Elfin returned the brace released by Gwaigan to the relfa as he received it on a wall that was easily invisible.

There's plenty of room for both. Instead of knocking it down, if you're thoroughly stuck, the two of you are going to be able to hold up quite a bit.

Even so, there are limits to both of us. Gwaigan had run out of words that if he felt like it, he could be wiped out at any time, and there's a chance he still doesn't mean it.

"What can I do!?

"Think for yourself. However, if you are going to advise...... Yukito Clay. What kind of magic is your magic?

"What kind of magic? It's magic to read information."

"That's a little different. The essence of magic is hope. One way to fulfill your wishes is to read information. Hope first, and act. And then the world will come true."

The last one's a lot of trouble.

But is it the nature of my magic?

My magic is based on the desire to understand the hearts and minds of others.

As a result, it is expressed as an eye that can see the status and past of others.

Are you saying that there are other abilities and methods of application to observe the words of Lelfa?

What we need now is for others to understand me, not for me to understand others.

More importantly, as long as you understand the contents of the book I saw, the secret art of ancient species can be reproduced in the application of combined magic.

The question is, how do we do that?

Wish, if you act, the world will come true, says Lelfa, but it shouldn't be that easy.

"Goddamn it... there's nothing there...?

"Yukito? What's wrong......?

Worried about me thinking alone, Sophia peeked into my face.

I almost laugh that I'm okay with it normally, but not right now.

If I can't do anything here, many lives will be lost.

Sophia will also be in it.

Right now, the walls are home to some of the most powerful men of Velis and the Empire, such as Lady Caguya and Fio, Liacia and Arnold.

These people suck, they don't mind abandoning Albion. Because it is not Albion that should be protected, it is my own country.

There must be no such thing as a leader dying in the defense of another country.

But Sophia is different. Sophia is an Albion person and would not be able to abandon the people who live in Albion in character.

Even if it's easy to imagine Albion staying on this spot trying to get away with the fire of Gwaigan's braces.

It's not the same as it was during the civil unrest.

Sophia never nods at running away.

So the only way to protect Sophia is to defeat Gwaigan or to retreat.

I know what I need to do for that.

One more step forward in our ability to understand others.

Just because one understands, it's not empathy to understand.

Both sides understand each other and can be considered empathetic for the first time.

My magic is that I look at others myself and I just understand.

But what I want is not such a lonely ability.

That moment of death.

Why did I want to be able to understand others?

Sometimes it was sad that I didn't like the fact that I ran my best friend into murder.

I was going to understand. We were going to understand each other.

The “intention” was sad.

I didn't even like myself for not being able to truly understand myself, even with a friend I thought was closer to than anyone else.

That's why I hoped.

He wants to be able to understand others next.

Its final form is, after all, to understand with others.

"Empathy...... Sophia. When do you empathize with people?

"Empathy......? The... Ask Me..."

I feel wrong.

Yes, Sophia came.

In contrast, I was convinced.

Rude, but Sophia probably has little experience empathizing with others.

It's a position problem, and I've had less to do with other people since I was a young girl, so I can't help it.

"Sorry. Bye, Master Kaguya"

"Then what's the rest, then? I'm not replacing Sophia, am I?

Without even trying to hide his grumpy appearance, Master Kauya said so.

Oh, already, in this busy time.

You're a nervous person.

"I get it. Excuse me. Fio. When do you empathize with people?

"Empathy...... hmm"

"Wait! Why are you swinging to Fiona!?

Kaguya yelled as he pointed at Fio, who thought with his index finger on his chin.

No matter how they say it, if neither Sofia nor Master Kaguya can do it, it's because only nature and Fio will be there.

"Because I answer, Fiona. You can keep your mouth shut, okay?

"Didn't you hate replacing Master Sophia? I don't mind at all."

"I've changed my mind! Feel it!"

"It's selfish. Well, fine. Because I've already come up with some answers. Think fast, Kaguya."

"What!? Hey, wait a minute!

"We don't have time for this. Ten seconds... seven, six... three, two, one. Yes, zero."

"Ha, it's too soon! Let me think for a second!

"Because I don't have time. So, Yuki. My answer, but I think it's a common experience. The same experience connects you with others. It doesn't make sense if you don't feel the same way."

Same experience.

With it, I can empathize with others.

It doesn't make sense if you don't have the same feeling.

Hearing Fio's words, I came up with an attempt.

Seems very simple and very difficult.

It bothered me, but if I could do what I came up with now, everything would be fine.

It's shared.

I myself, I don't know why I understood the secret of the ancient species, I probably can't tell the three of them.

Then you can share the power to decipher my information.

As long as that is possible, it is enough to make each person understand the knowledge of the secret surgery they want to perform.

It's a little roundabout, but I feel like this is the BETTER than the only information I can understand with my senses.

First you want it, Lelfa said.

The aspiration is the first step towards action.

"Huh, I need to talk to the three of you a little bit."

In the meantime, let's do it from an explanation to the three of us.