episode_0308

A small waist, breasts hidden under the bath water.

Thanks to the heat of the bath, the blush blooming here and there is unfamiliar.

At first glance, the naked body feels beautiful.

…But if you look just a little bit, the blood flow that was surging becomes cool and subsides.

There are blue veins on the nape of the neck, but not on the chest.

The hollow shape of the collarbone is somewhat monotonous.

The pores, which would exist if body temperature could be controlled, are smooth and without any fluff.

An elf, before that, lacks something to be called a living being.

A definite sense of discomfort that I don’t know why I didn’t notice before. Seira suddenly stood up, feeling distraught.

Sigh-

“I’d like to take a closer look.”

“Don’t you just look, do you want to feel the pulse?”

“Mac?”

“Yeah, it’s really interesting? You wouldn’t know it if you weren’t conscious of it, but I think you would be able to notice it even if you heard it now.”

Future Seira raised her arms towards Seira coming across the water. Seira held onto his wrist with a nervous expression.

‘What on earth are you feeling that makes you want to check your pulse? The academy confirmed that my heart was racing.’

My heart is pounding, my heart is pounding.

As if to dispel my worries, my pulse beat properly in my slender wrist. Seira wiped the sweat from her forehead and opened her mouth.

“It’s normal?”

“Well, would you like to count your pulse?”

Future Seira stretched out her hand and grabbed the hourglass in the corner of the bathroom. As the overturned hourglass began to drop sand, Seira carefully counted the numbers.

…When she counted up to 300, Seira let go of the wrist she had grabbed. Even though half of my body was submerged in warm water, my hair bones felt bitter.

Future Seira smiled as she stroked the hourglass that ended just right.

“How about it? A heart that beats at exactly 5-minute intervals?”

“It’s creepy.”

Seira chanted in a trembling voice.

The hourglass lasted exactly 5 minutes, but it also implemented a notification magic that made a notification sound at 1-minute intervals just in case.

After one minute, the pulse beat 58 times.

After that, number 70. I thought I was feeling uplifted because I kept squeezing my wrist.

Next is 66. I thought I was gradually getting used to the feeling of elation.

62.

Yes, it is time to calm down. However, in the next minute, Seira is clearly shocked.

44.

My pulse dropped during the last lap. As if they were intentionally hitting a certain number of times.

“Really, I was surprised when I first found out.”

Awkward – The naked body stands up and is revealed, but it doesn’t feel like beauty at all and only creates awkwardness.

Seira’s deteriorated body, one can’t help but think of it that way.

“When you are out of breath, your heart speeds up, and when your heart is high, it speeds up, but that is only when your emotions reach their peak. Once you get used to it, it falls like a puzzle.”

The moment I felt uncomfortable was when someone important to me died.

The boy who was the first to be able to remember her, who had to live alone for 500 years. A young man who brought colorful colors to a world filled with gray.

The person who was so precious turned into a cold corpse. At the hands of an ‘old friend’ who was able to remember him for the second time.

I wondered how it could be this miserable. Because they were both people who could remember Seira, her sadness grew uncontrollably.

Because elves live long lives, it is difficult for them to harbor passionate emotions.

The heart rate is also significantly lower than that of humans. However, I was so sad that I stopped eating and drinking for a whole month and locked myself in my room.

I didn’t starve to death.

Because starvation still exists in this damn world.

However, the problem was that the heart beat actively even when the body was on the verge of starvation.

Has the researcher’s soul been on fire? Maybe you’ve been sad for too long and it’s time to let go.

“Can you believe that I have a new life goal after that? I’m also really weird. I can’t believe I gained the will to live because I found something that bothered me.”

“…It’s not strange. Because I did the same.”

Seira shook her head in denial. Moist hair shakes.

Originally, wizards had that kind of personality. Rather than looking at the sunlight outside, I prefer to stay in a closet, where I spend a long time immersed in whatever interests me.

Seira also had that moment.

I locked myself in a closet to lift a curse that was easily forgotten by people.

As there were no research results even after hundreds of years, she gave up for a while, but as the number of people who could remember her gradually increased, Glenn, Hugo, Eldrina, Johan… her life gained vitality.

“Well, to summarize the results of the research in one word, it is that this world is extremely lacking in information. Should I say that it is lacking in details?”

Future Seira smiled brightly and shrugged her shoulders.

“I knew it by looking at your body and directly touching and feeling my disciple.”

“…”

“Compared to the world created by God, the world created by those below is extremely crude.”

“The build quality is quite amazing, even though it is crude. Still, we created a world.”

“If you have the original, even the creation will become easier. Then, what is needed is the size of a vessel to sustain the world… I think so.”

The Apostle must be putting a lot of effort into maintaining the world. Needless to say, if we rush into battle and run out of time, or if the Apostle dies.

‘You are calm in the face of death.’

The death of the apostle means the end of the world. Nevertheless, Future Seira confessed her situation with a detached face.

Seira soon felt a feeling of awe.

How much thought did it take to get here? How many tears were shed?

with a splash-

Just as I was about to think something bad, my lifeless body suddenly stood up.

“Let’s stop here. I’ve been in the bath for too long and I’m dizzy.”

“…”

Seira watched the back of him leaving the bathtub, then turned around.

“I’ll leave first. I also got a little dizzy”

“…Yes.”

Yoru nodded briefly and then took a deep dive.

Growling-

Bubbling water bubbles burst before your eyes.

‘Is this what you said you would regret?’

*

A place where there was a mountain range with no end in sight. The group sighed as they looked at the empty space.

“It looks like it collapsed quite cleanly. Was there anything like an earthquake?”

“This is my first time coming here.”

Yuma bowed his head in regret. Siron patted her shoulder and said it was okay.

‘Does this mean I can erase an entire mountain range as I please? The Creator has died.’

It was a world created with the power of an apostle, but its origin was an absolute being called a demon god, so the search was not easy.

A size modeled after an existing continent. No matter how hard Dawn tries, it is impossible to search them all.

However, it is possible to roughly pinpoint where the apostle is hiding.

Creating and maintaining a world is a task that requires considerable effort.

Siron, who remembered the setting that even the Creator needed protection, took out a crystal ball from his pocket.

Gooo-

The strange energy that was emitting became even stronger. Its role is not to make the demonic beast retreat. It resonated in order to fulfill the karma of the [Key].

-Quarrr! The snow field shook. The mana in the air fluctuates. Siron felt the energy deep within the ground stirring.

“Hold on tight.”

Siron lifted Yoru, who could not use magic, into the air.

Bubbles formed in the snow beneath my feet. The demonic beasts coming over from the demonic realm sank and struggled as if they were being sucked into a furnace.

Part of the world collapsed.

No, it would be more correct to say that it revealed the essence.

The land covered in snow turns into a rainbow-colored swamp.

“Wow!”

Yuma, who was floating, suddenly became nauseous. Is this a warning that you saw something you shouldn’t have seen?

“Yuma, thank you for your hard work. From now on, this is ours.”

“…I wish you good luck.”

Yuma distorted his face and chewed his lips. She is also quite a wizard. It would be easy to see that my body’s pain had nothing to do with the nausea I just felt.

Shiron looked at Yuma leaving and then looked back.

“…Are you okay?”

“Huh? Me?”

Unlike Yuma, future Seira looked fine. He doesn’t feel nauseous and looks the same as usual.

“I discovered my own trick.”

Siron chuckled at the gesture of tapping the eyepatch.

Losing one’s eyesight in battle is an obvious lie. A high-ranking priest could easily do something like fixing an eye, but for some reason, he didn’t ask for it.

“Is it okay if I come in?”

“It’s about seeing the performance of a proud student. It’s not difficult to protect yourself.”

“You really prepared thoroughly.”

Siron slowly lifted the floating magic. Yoru let out a long scream as he was being sucked into a swamp.

“…Is it really okay to go in?”

Seira looked back and forth between future Seira and the rainbow-colored land. Apparently, just before the demonic beasts were sucked in, they turned into powder and crunched…

“I told you. I want to see the performance of my proud student.”

Future Seira raised her magical power and placed a protective barrier. Even Seira, who knows 10,000 magic spells, was seeing this for the first time.

“And wouldn’t it be cool to make your own decisions at the last moment? You know.”

“…Yeah, I think so too.”

I even feel a sense of determination in the lines drawn under the eyepatch.

Seira held her breath and released the floating magic.

‘I’m not that strong of a person. ‘It seems like you’re stronger than me.’

The rainbow-colored swamp is soggy and surrounds the body.

‘I’m so attached to you.’

A corner of my heart hurts, and the bridge of my nose feels sore. It was too soft a feeling to have before a fight.