[Side story] Chasing butterflies (13)
People can never understand others.
In the end, only you can understand yourself to the end.
There are things you can imagine because you are yourself.
Lucy Meiril could imagine what she would have been like if she lost Ed.
That’s why I could predict what kind of life Lucy would have lived in this world right in front of me.
Imagine.
How did he survive in this place where Ed Roth Taylor died?
If you are bound by the man’s will to survive at all costs, what value can you give to a life that cannot die?
All you have to do is ask Lucy of this world who is crying in her arms.
However, there are some things you can know without asking.
He hugs Lucy, who is in grief, and sniffs the tip of her nose.
As always, a ray of bitterness rises from one side of the dry expression and seeps into Arin’s heart.
Even though Lucy in this world was alive, she did not inform anyone of her existence.
Leaving this island of Aken, which was turning into hell, into seclusion, she did not appear in front of anyone.
There must have been a reason for that.
It was a much more important task than stopping Jenika from being in grief and reviving the people who were left on the island.
If you close your eyes, you can fully anticipate it. isn’t it yourself There were enough clues.
– ‘Ever since I decided to make this island of Aken into a sanctuary, I couldn’t find Ed’s body no matter how much I searched every nook and cranny of the island.’
– ‘Did you take Ed’s body?’
Yenica guessed that Lucy from this side of the world had taken Ed Rosteeler’s body.
The reason that the speculation was credible was that even Lucy herself would have done so.
If I had lost Ed, I would have tried to get him back.
It is because a long time has passed that you can think that what you have lost is lost, and that you can dismiss it as a relationship in the past. That’s how he sent Glockt away, but Ed can’t do that.
A teacher who taught me life, and a companion who lived life together.
The two look similar, yet completely different. Only then did I realize more clearly how much Ed meant to me.
He would have managed to wipe away the wounds that hadn’t healed, and continued to study Aspect Magic while preserving Ed’s body.
It cannot be dismissed as an empty goal.
It was because I knew one person who studied Ascension Magic all his life and actually implemented the Lion Resuscitation Magic. Professor Glast, no longer in the world.
The reason he didn’t use Professor Glast’s Aspect Magic to save Glockt was because he was a person who considered it a sin to violate such a taboo.
Forcibly reviving the archmage who decided to live according to his destiny would only serve as an insult to him.
However, Ed is different.
To Lucy, at some point… He was a man who came to mean as much as Glockt, or even more than Glockt.
He was not bound by taboos, and he was the only companion who would understand and live with Lucy.
It was not difficult to imagine that he would have done anything to save Ed.
However, Professor Glast is not in the world.
The academic legacy he left behind was all burned away.
Lucy is overwhelming in terms of the absolute amount of magical power and application power, but she will not be able to follow the old professor in terms of academic understanding and research on Aspect Magic.
So, I had to study Aspect Magic on my own from the bottom up.
Not only that, researching lion resuscitation is a taboo among taboos in the field of magic. I can’t even ask someone to help me. If you get involved in this kind of thing, it’s obvious that the end will be bad, and the more people involved, the more people will notice.
So, Lucy Meiril must have needed an environment where she could study Aspect Magic without being interfered by anyone for a long time.
That is the sanctuary created by Yenika. The closed world of Aken Island would be the most ideal space.
Close your eyes and imagine.
As for the location… the West Coast Cave, where Glockt’s tomb was located, would have been appropriate. It is a space that only Lucy and Ed knew about, and if you pile up a lot of research facilities and apply stealth magic, you won’t be seen even after several years.
Ed’s corpse is preserved there, and he somehow collects research materials from the ruins of the burnt academy to study Aspect Magic.
Even if he succeeds in reviving Ed, he will be recorded in history as a wizard who has violated a taboo and become an enemy of the magic world. He’ll probably spend his whole life hiding and running like Jellan, but he doesn’t care.
That’s why, I carry it alone. He writes all sorts of Aspect magic theories on hundreds and thousands of sheets of parchment, and even if he has to devote most of his life to research, he is willing to accept it.
Professor Glast had to spend his whole life mastering the magic of reviving the dead.
However, Lucy is a genius in both her understanding of magic and the speed at which she learns magic theory.
Although it is an academic achievement that he has dedicated his life to, Lucy might be able to reach it much faster.
Even so… it is clear that a lot of time must be devoted.
I don’t know if it will be 5 years or 10 years.
The years of endurance will feel like the time of eons.
Even if the outside is becoming more and more hellish, and the life force is fading in people’s eyes.
Sitting in the middle of a dark coastal cave, the pencil creaks, developing and unfolding theories of Aspect Magic.
The record of research theories that filled the entire cave is skyrocketing.
It wasn’t until around the time when I couldn’t even feel the ticking flow of time… I would suddenly stop teasing my hands and shake my head.
it’s tough. Lonely. sad. sick.
At some point, I transcended those emotions, and I lived for several years, buried in the one goal of reviving the dead.
At some point, there must have been a moment when the embankment of emotions collapsed as if the power in a fist was released… and unbearable tears surged up.
Emotional dykes burst like that intermittently and without warning.
Seeing Gelan’s appearance, he realizes why he felt strangely sad.
The appearance of the mutilator Gelan… is very similar to the appearance of Lucy who lost Ed.
If he had lost Ed, he would have become like a wizard wandering aimlessly through life.
Feeling that fact intuitively, Lucy couldn’t possibly get close to Gellan.
“It was hard.”
He quietly opens his mouth and pats the back of his sobbing breath in front of his eyes.
I can’t console myself in front of my eyes.
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I have no idea how many more years I will have to endure.
In the swamp of endless sadness that can’t even be measured, all Lucy can do is sympathize with the pain.
Lucy in this world was very different from herself.
With a more haggard impression, all sorts of research scrolls and books are tied with string here and there.
Just by looking at her… she realizes that the trials Lucy must have gone through here are not very different from what she had imagined.
However, it was so difficult and difficult… that I couldn’t stand it, so I called the current Lucy.
The haggard girl speaks in a cracking voice.
“You are who I want to be.”
Even if it’s nothing more than a futile and distant goal right now. Even if I stretch out my hand, it seems like I won’t be able to get anywhere near it.
There is a possibility that it could be. That’s what I wanted to confirm.
Life is never empty.
Everyone struggling to survive deserves respect.
Life is full of valuable things, and it shines just by living each day.
Being able to speak so confidently and stand up to Yenika must have been too dazzling to this girl.
Anyway, he himself existed somewhere in this vast world of possibilities.
Then there’s no law that says you shouldn’t be like that either.
Lucy nodded her head as she held herself in a tight embrace of grief and sorrow. He didn’t have to speak long.
“huh.”
One day all this sadness will come to an end.
Even if it is a goal that is too far and far away, if you don’t stop moving forward, you will inevitably come into your hands. As if after chasing a butterfly endlessly, at some point you end up holding that beautiful butterfly in both hands.
So close your eyes and imagine.
This is the scene of the day Ed opened his eyes after constantly studying Aspect Magic and raising its academic level.
Ed, who has come to his senses, opens the coffin and greets Lucy with a dejected smile.
Lucy will shed tears and cry for a while hugging Ed.
And there’s a lot of work to be done. The journey still has a long way to go.
You will have to take out Yenika from the time prison, take care of the vengeful Lortel, and find Valveroke who is recovering while taking a long break somewhere on the continent to finish it off.
It probably won’t be too difficult since he succeeded in cutting out most of the heart. Still, you will have to go on a very long adventure. And if it’s two people, they will definitely overcome many trials and make it.
After that, it’s time to leave and find a new home.
Ed, who is officially dead, and Lucy, who broke the taboo, will not live a bright life. Still, it didn’t matter.
It’s okay to live with each other in a cabin in a place like the Rameln Mountains, or to live while watching the sea while fishing in the Clem Coastal Area. If it’s two people, it won’t matter much where it is.
“At that time, you too will be able to talk about how valuable life is.”
Lucy asserted.
Lucy in this world, Lucy now may seem too far away.
One day, you will be able to celebrate life and regard the present pain as a scar from the past.
Tightening the arms that were holding her back, Lucy’s frowning nose trembled.
“…Yes, it’s time to go back now.”
Lucy from this side of the world spoke while wiping her tears.
However, even if I wanted to go back, I didn’t have the magic to go back. Lucy, who has used up all her magic power to subdue Jenika, needs at least several years to regain her magic power.
However, Lucy from this side of the world took out a cracked phoenix ring from her bosom.
“That…that’s…”
Glast’s golden phoenix ring was destroyed while forcibly using magic to subdue the great sage Sylvania.
However, in this side of the world, the phoenix ring remained intact.
It was only then that he remembered that Sylvania hadn’t intervened in this side of the world. It was no wonder that the ring, which was Ed’s keepsake, was still there.
Magical power rises from the phoenix ring again. After drawing out all that enormous amount of Aspect Magic, Lucy from this world gave all of that magic to Lucy now.
Lucy closed her eyes in disbelief… and listened to her words in front of her eyes.
“I don’t have enough horsepower. If you don’t concentrate… you may not be able to return to the world you want. So… Now erase all your thoughts.”
“…what?”
“It was good to see your face. Just knowing that you are so alive and happily affirming life has been a great relief to me.”
After wiping away all the tears, Lucy in this world spoke with clenched teeth.
“Now, you have to go back to where the people looking for you are.”
Lucy made a pitiful expression, but Lucy in this world said with a firm face.
“If you return to the flow of that world, concentrate your mind and find Ed Rosteylor’s magical power.”
In the space where hundreds and thousands of streams swirl, he has to grab Ed’s arm once more, who must be searching for him.
“If it were him, he would still be looking for you. We must return before it is too late.”
“you…”
“Because I have so much left to do. too busy.”
Having said that, Lucy in this world smiled with difficulty.
She was one of the few Lucy who had ever smiled in her life, so she looked more awkward in front of her eyes.
It may have been a habit that was not like one’s own, developed while walking on a thorny path.
“Thank you for being alive.”
After those words, a feeling of floating wrapped around Lucy’s body.
The power of the Aspect Magic that was wrapped around her body was at a higher level than Lucy had ever known.
