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by fnovelpiaI may have found the ultimate gem.
This was the initial idea of Hadas Schneider, the president of the Imperial National Academies Sarasa.
“… That was a completely wrong decision.”
Usually, people only see well-refined, shiny precious metals, so when they think of rough stones, they tend to think of beautiful gemstones embedded in between the stones.
It is a big mistake. Only when a gem is refined with advanced techniques and carved into a shape in which refraction, reflection, and dispersion of light are precisely calculated, does it gain brilliance.
For example, even that sparkling diamond, if cut at a slightly different angle, will turn into a dull stone rather than a brilliant one.
In other words, even if you look at a gemstone, you cannot tell it from a regular stone unless you have a discerning eye!
This is why I had completely misjudged it. I wondered how this could happen.
It was already shining brilliantly. It was complete.
It was literally embedded in the rock, a perfectly carved, brilliant-cut diamond the size of a fist.
In front of that ecstatic light, I had no time to feel pain or anything. In any case, I had devoted my life to discovering and nurturing outstanding talent. Now, I was just filled with a trembling emotion.
‘We have to catch it.’
Completion didn’t mean the end. The basic magical power right now was at the 5th class level.
If there is no further development from here, he is below average by his standards, let alone a genius. He will probably develop to a level that is incomparable to what he is now.
The president looked at the wrist where the hand was missing. Blood spurted out from the smooth cross-section. It was a sticky mixture of fat, bodily fluids, etc.
In that moment, they were all burned cleanly, like a terrible burnt offering.
What completion means is the completion of the structure.
However, the sign that he was a Class 8 unmanned wizard was not for decoration. It was not that he did not recognize Irusia’s attack. He had already been giving me a hand to attack him in the first place.
However, it was too fast to take full defense.
Magic is something that moves with theory, calculation, and clear laws. In cases where talent is strong enough, there are often people who use mana intuitively when they are in extreme situations or when their emotions are intense.
‘But if you do that, you won’t get this level of perfection.’
Since he wouldn’t be able to completely block it anyway, at that moment, the General concentrated all his attention on the flow of magical power that was tearing through his flesh and bones, and analyzed Irusia’s attack.
It wasn’t something that was made hastily. It wasn’t something that I instinctively swung around with the mana I had in my hand. At the point when I had the mana, it was a rare talent in its own right, but it was nothing compared to this.
The theory of magic had already been completed. In Irusia’s attack, it was filled with principles that no one else in this era had discovered, laws that no one had been able to prove.
A fragment of the 9th class magic Gehenna.
He simply poured his magical power into the circuit of the already established calculation formula and technique. That is why he was able to penetrate at a speed that even the commander could not properly defend against, without even a hint of casting.
“Thank you for showing up.”
The excessive use of magic power was beyond the level of words to describe it. The president spoke softly as he held up Irusia, who had fallen and was bleeding in return.
***
Irusia opened her eyes on a white bed.
It was a hospital room.
Before the low ceiling, Sid’s face appeared before my eyes. It was because Sid was quietly looking at Irusia’s face while feeling sentimental and melancholic.
“Oh, whoa, oh whoa… ! You’re awake… !”
‘You crazy kid… Look at the timing. As soon as you open your eyes, you get dizzy, and you look like a prince for no reason… Ugh.’
Irusia looked around.
“… How long has it been?”
Seed lowered his eyes and spoke with a bitter expression.
“Half a year.”
“… … !”
Irusia couldn’t say anything. She covered her face with both hands and stayed still for a moment. She was dazed. It didn’t feel real at all.
and.
“Oh my, human. Stop it!”
He picked up a pillow and hit Seed’s head with it.
“Wow, ugh, hahahahahaha!”
Yes, it was just Seed playing a prank. It doesn’t feel real.
After spending some time together, I thought I could read facial expressions as easily as holding them in my hand.
However, the incredible delicacy of Somnium, which can manipulate every muscle in the entire body, even seems to be able to shape the muscles of the face.
I was so fooled that it looked like I was fooled.
“Yeah. It’s been 3 days. Oh, but you know soon? ”
While covering her eyes with both hands, Irusia had widened her magical power detection.
All living things are imbued with a faint magic. Plants are no exception, so you can roughly tell the season by reading the magic of flowers growing around you or seasonal crops.
“Half a year has passed and it’s already fall. Do you think the cherry blossoms will be in full bloom, human?”
It was something that only Irusia could do, but it is usually impossible to read the magical power of a plant as small as a speck of dust to the extent of distinguishing the species or the level of growth.
If the president had heard this story, he would have been jumping for joy. Anyway, it was certain that not even half a year had passed. The rest was a guess.
“Uh, Uh.”
But then, Irusia suddenly started vomiting.
I remembered something I had briefly forgotten in my dazed sleep. I had clearly cut a person’s wrist. I couldn’t bear it.
Isn’t there a case where a person who has been through something hard suffers from trauma and has a seizure? That’s what it felt like.
“Ha, haaak… .”
Even though Irusia was the perpetrator, it was a bit shameless for her to do this. Sid liked that.
In fact, I wish I had just thrown away whatever it was, whether it was karma or a mistake from a past life.
So, once everything is resolved, Sid’s wish is for her to leave the person who only brings back bad memories, meet another great person, forget everything, and live as a normal girl.
Maybe even run a flower shop?
Still.
“… Ah, it’s so hard. Hey. Come here. Hold me. ”
When I see Irusia in front of me, with a voice that seems like it will break at any moment, and who is forcibly saying, “Hold me,” not “Hold me,” but “Hold me.”
A small desire arises. So I brought my body closer. I hugged Irusia’s trembling shoulders. It was very warm.
at the same time.
The hand of Irushia that was holding him, the flames in that hand, burned Seed’s back.
“This time, you… got fooled, right? Heh, heh. Ah… .”
The most diabolical impulses reared their heads. Self-destruction. The drive for destruction.
Because I wanted to be hated by the person who was most precious to me. Because I wanted to be abandoned. Because I wanted to be left. Because I just wanted to end it all.
It’s harassing. It’s hurting. Contradiction runs down my spine.
“Ah, aha. Hehe, huaang…! Huh, ahh! Ahaha, ahh, huh… .”
I laughed while crying. I cried so happily, and I laughed so sadly.
“Ha, hahaha, I’m such a bitch… . Yeah? Why don’t you just give up… ? Someone like me is worthless. No, I’m a minus. I’m no help and just a nuisance. Ah, I’m going to throw away all my seniors and everything. I’m done here. Got it? ”
If it’s Seed, it doesn’t have to be someone like me. No, it would be better if I wasn’t there. And somehow, I saved my senior. How nice.
Because she was already unable to think normally, Irusia believed it with all her heart.
“You’re special now. In swordsmanship, in aura. At this point, you should stop being like me and eat well and live well. Okay?”
The pure heart of Sid who wants to be happy by leaving him, and the twisted desire of Irusia who wants to leave him and make him unhappy. The two interests strangely coincide.
Suddenly, a memory.
-I thought about how I could eat well and live well.
-Huh?
In a back alley of a slum, a young boy spoke to a young girl of the same age.
– I’ve seen people who are doing well. They have special talents. Or they have some great coincidences. Or they work incredibly hard. Oh, there are people who don’t succeed no matter how hard they try. I wonder if that counts as talent.
-So? … Ugh, this, this is really bad! Phew! Ugh, kekeke… .
The girl who was eating a moldy piece of bread spat it out on the floor with a pained expression on her face.
The boy continued, calmly picking it up and swallowing it as if he felt sorry for it.
-Omnom. Or, you meet good people. Anyway, there are times when you’re lucky. … Whatever it is, special people are special because they deserve it.
The little boy was precocious for his age and also extremely cynical.
-There’s no hidden talent or anything, and there’s no luck in discovering great relics or being chosen by a god. If there’s no cause, there’s no effect. To put it simply, we can’t become special if we don’t have any special virtues. Of course.
-I see, that’s right. I see. I see. … Then we have no value. We can’t exist.
The two children remained calm as they said those words.
-That’s right. But I kept thinking about it. Value is something that ultimately comes about because someone else wants it. By demand.
-Yeah. Sure, gold is essentially just yellow stone. People die someday. Buildings collapse, and poetry is forgotten. That’s true. Maybe there’s nothing in the world that’s truly meaningful and valuable.
– Then in the end, what you value is truly valuable, that’s the conclusion that comes out like a zen question. It might be a mental victory of a fool, though.
Phew. The two little children let out a sigh of relief at the same time.
-That’s why I say. Let’s form an alliance.
-Alliance?
The boy spoke calmly, without even looking at the girl.
-We cherish each other, right? That’s the kind of alliance we have. How about that?
Old memories.
Sizzle, the sound and smell of grilling meat were like a sizzle, and Seed’s skin was burning. It was indeed grilling meat.
“Does it hurt? Does it hurt! Hehe, really, does it hurt? ”
Irusia was shedding tears of blood. She couldn’t hold them back.
A precious person. A person who silently embraces me even though I cannot forgive or understand myself.
Burning the skin of such a person and melting his flesh was so ecstatic that I wanted to die. I wanted to die because it was so ecstatic.
“No… It hurts. Really, it doesn’t hurt.”
An electric current flows through Seed’s brain. It hurts like crazy. Even though he feels the thrilling and hot pain in detail with his sensitive senses, Seed does not let go of Irusia. The alliance is still valid.
Instead, he hugged her even tighter. As if he was pressing meat against a grill, a sudden pain came over him.
“Like this, huh? Even like this! Gyaha, gyahahaha, huh, huh. Aaaah… !”
Leaving himself would be for Irusia. It would be a truly happy thing for Irusia. Cid thought that with his pure heart.
… Give a pure heart to a dog. In this life, can I be a little greedy? It’s so precious. I want to tell them to eat all the food and just monopolize it.
Also, Seed thought so at the same time.
“It’s hot.”
“Oh, it’s nice because it’s warm.”
“I’m bad.”
“Not bad. Good.”
“I really hate it.”
“Really good.”
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