Ch.334329 – Dragonia Nascentia

In the Akashic Record stored in the mana particle world, it creates the brain, spinal cord, heart, and backbone.

Human existence is simpler than one might think.

There’s a saying that humans are just 35 liters of water, 20 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia, and 1.5 kilograms of lime—supposedly cheap enough for an elementary student’s allowance to purchase.

Yet simultaneously, humans are complex beings.

The human body contains at least 30 trillion gigabytes of information.

This equals the total data produced by humanity until the emergence of AlphaGo.

One might ask a scientific and philosophical question: how can a fragile, insignificant life created through love in just ten months hold more meaning than humanity’s 5,000 years of recorded history?

“I still can’t get used to this magic.”

Through the transparent membrane, the grotesque process of body formation is clearly visible.

I slightly twisted the magic circle, concentrating red mana threads on the round head.

Eyes, ears, and mouth gradually differentiate.

Arms and legs separate, and thin, slender fingers protrude.

As the skin thickens, it erases the redness of blood vessels that were visible to the naked eye.

Eyelashes lengthen, 100,000 golden hair strands grow, and the chest and pelvis swell.

Finally, a strong sense of déjà vu strikes my mind.

The body, curled up like a fetus, slowly rotates inside the dodecahedral magic circle.

“…!”

My heart sinks when I see the woman’s pale face.

“So past lives… really did exist…”

Yes, if past lives were fake, this magic wouldn’t work either.

[Innate Magic – Savior of the East]

At last, the Demon Lord’s body, once the target of the world’s hatred, descends into the present world as a mummy.

Facing my past life’s body like this gives me mixed feelings.

She’s certainly beautiful.

[Hmm, that perfect body—why don’t you just take it for yourself? Aren’t you tired of this childish cosplay?]

Suddenly, Jealousy thrashes wildly within me.

Smack-!

I fill my fist with aura and strike my right cheek hard.

I hit it so hard that my cheek feels hot and almost numb.

[You crazy bitch, use your words!]

As my mind clears, Schadenfreude’s auditory hallucination disappears.

There’s no time for lengthy appreciation.

That body is still a magically created entity.

From the moment the magic circle is released, it will return to nature within 3 minutes.

Within that time, I must complete all the work of converting mana particles to subatomic particles and settling the Aura Heart.

I take the wand again and replace the mana stone with a new one.

Setting the output scale to maximum, the tip of the wand splits open like a monster’s mouth.

Using all my strength, I move the wand through the mana resistance like wielding a large brush, creating a magic circle.

Now it’s time to summon Adella to reality.

[7th Circle Upper Casting: Persona Pisces]

* * *

Adella waited anxiously in the private room bedroom.

‘Did it work? What if something goes wrong… Should I write a will?’

Adella straightened a crooked frame that was bothering her.

The ticking clock had never felt so torturous.

In the slowed time, she stood blankly in front of the clock for a long while.

“Adella! Adella!”

An urgent voice calling for Adella echoed through the room.

Snapping back to attention, Adella quickly turned her head.

Name, with one cheek swollen, grabbed her sleeve.

“What? Sis, when did you get here? Wait, how did you…?”

Adella is in virtual reality.

For Name to meet her, she would need to access a capsule or take a pill and wear VR goggles.

There shouldn’t have been time for that, right?

“This isn’t virtual reality anymore. Or more precisely, it’s somewhere in between. Look at your hands, Adella.”

Adella’s gaze shot downward.

Her body was gradually becoming transparent.

“Aaaah! What’s happening to my body! Why is it like this!”

“Your mental form that was spread like a cloud in virtual reality is transferring to the Aura Heart. I’ll tell you what you need to do now. I don’t have time to explain twice, so listen carefully.”

“Is it important? If so, you should have told me earlier…!”

“Even if I told you earlier, you’d forget anyway. Can’t be helped.”

Wondering if something serious had happened, Adella scolded her impatiently.

Name continued speaking nonchalantly.

“From now on, think very strongly about who you are. That’s the only way information will gather faster.”

“Strongly? How strongly? I don’t understand what you’re saying at all!”

Name sighed softly and took both her hands.

“Then don’t think too deeply, just answer what I ask immediately, even if you’re wrong. What’s your name?”

“My name…? Adella. On my ID, Asaneko Adella!”

“Height and weight.”

“164cm and 49kg… Wait, what are we doing?”

“Keep thinking about your measurements, hair color, eye color, anything.”

“I’ve never measured my three sizes! My chest is probably not quite D, but a full C? Silver hair and blue-green eyes…”

Adella, feeling frustrated, answered rapidly without even remembering to breathe.

She should at least be told why they’re doing this.

“Besides physical information, what else? Three things you like.”

“Things I like? Um… uh…”

“Hurry, we don’t have time!”

“Salmon, electric heating pads… and oh, I don’t know, can I say Name?”

Name’s eyes narrowed at the randomly blurted answer.

“Doesn’t matter. Keep thinking about everything you just said, non-stop. When you first get your body, your entire body will feel incredibly itchy. Don’t scratch your skin or cause a commotion. Keep your ears wide open, understand?”

“Don’t scratch, don’t make a scene, keep ears open…”

“Keep your eyes open and don’t lose consciousness. Don’t think about biting your tongue to commit suicide either.”

“Keep eyes open, stay conscious, don’t bite tongue… wait, what?”

“If it really hurts, open your mouth and bite my finger. Got it?”

“Well, I understand, but…”

“Good. We’re almost there, just hang in there a little longer, Adella.”

At that moment, the space between Name and Adella expanded rapidly.

“Sis!”

Adella reflexively reached out to grab her, but sadly, her hand passed through her arm.

‘I can’t grab her…!’

Name suddenly disappeared, and the space where Adella stood turned black.

A strange sensation of being watched from afar swept over her.

Adella instinctively followed the white lights that flashed by quickly.

Thud-!

“Hup!”

Extreme weakness enveloped her body.

As her vision expanded infinitely, Adella separated from her body.

A black sky, sparkling dust, a blazing light bulb, and a blue orb entered her field of vision.

“This isn’t Earth, is it? Where am I…”

Facing the fear of the unknown, Adella trembled.

“I’m asking where this is… Can’t anyone hear me…?”

Fear crept into her mind like a flood, causing tears to trickle down.

The absence of sound made it even more terrifying.

“Why am I even here…”

Her memory was as dark as if it had been blacked out.

She stares blankly at the planet rotating on its axis.

From her stiffened lips, a familiar name escapes.

“Adella.”

At that moment, a massive path cutting through the planet illuminated.

Adella’s eyes widened as she repeated her name like a chant.

“Adella, Adella, Adella, Adella, Adella.”

She scratched the black canvas with a needle, stealing fragments of memory.

“164… I’m under 50kg… Ah!”

Thunder and lightning crashed in her mind, and suddenly the Earth was right in front of her.

Below the hazy clouds stretched vast deserts and grasslands.

“I wash my hair well too. Blue-green eyes go so well with silver hair.”

Thoughts from conversations with someone surfaced freshly.

Who was that again?

“I want to eat salmon sashimi on a warm electric heating pad…”

Adella bit her lip hard.

If she could just think a little more, it seemed like it would come to her!

It felt so uncomfortable, like a sneeze that stopped midway.

Whoosh-

“Kyaaah!”

Adella’s body was blown away by strong air pressure.

When she came to her senses, she was free-falling toward a blue sea.

“What is thiiiiis! I don’t want to die!”

She wished it was just a nightmare.

As absurd events continued to unfold, Adella began to deny reality.

“I hate you, Name! You didn’t tell me anythiiing!”

Pop-!

Did a parachute open?

Or did her body become as light as a dandelion?

Her body was drawn somewhere like a magnet, riding a gentle breeze.

At that moment, she became aware of what she had said.

“That’s right, Name…! NoName…! NoName!”

How could she have forgotten that name?

Losing memories was enough of an experience in the game.

Adella desperately repeated Name’s name.

‘Sob… I’ll never forget… never!’

Tears flowed endlessly from her pale face.

Even her sobbing was wet with tears.

* * *

[Casting: Cancellation Interference]

“First, I should cast a soundproofing spell so it doesn’t get too loud-“

While Name was casting a 1st Circle spell, the naked woman who seemed nearly dead twitched her fingers.

“Huk… huk… heok…!”

Rapid, labored breaths burst out like someone at death’s door.

Name hurriedly grabbed the back of the woman’s neck and lifted her up.

First to secure her airway, and second to check consciousness through pupil response.

“Adella. Deep breaths, deep breaths! Can you hear me?”

“Huk… urgh…! Aaargh!”

Adella’s nails moved up to her own arm.

Though her blunt nails couldn’t dig into flesh, they were enough to make it red.

Red lines were drawn haphazardly on her pale skin.

When Name grabbed her hands, she scratched her head with the other hand.

“My head… sob… itchy… it’s so itchy I’m going crazy. Huuurgh…!”

“Bear with it a little longer. Your Aura Heart and central nervous system are having a rejection reaction because this isn’t your original body.”

The spot where Adella complained of particular pain was where her cat ears used to be in virtual reality.

In virtual reality, sound is directly injected into the mind.

But just by her believing she was hearing through fluffy ears, her mental form adapted accordingly.

“Breathe through both your nose and mouth, Adella.”

“Haa… haahaahaahaa…”

“You’re doing well. Adella, from now on it’s going to sting a little, no, a lot. Raise your hand if it hurts.”

“Hurry… huaaah it hurts so much… it stings so bad I feel like I’m dying…”

Adella felt both itchiness and pain like being stabbed with needles.

She was beyond knowing what words she was saying.

Name placed the suffering girl’s head on her lap and activated the final magic circle.

When the third mana stone broke midway, she immediately replaced it with the last one.

An enormous amount of mana swirled around, causing the wand to overheat and turn red.

Mana was being lost in the form of heat energy.

“This is still within calculations.”

Name’s hands moved more busily than ever before.

Her horns also glowed golden, helping with the triple casting.

Magic to integrate body and mind.

A dragon language spell originally developed to wish long life for newly hatched hatchlings.

She cast the final spell, clearly naming even the rune words she normally wouldn’t speak aloud.

“El, Arhen, Lumière, Hyprit, Landancheska, Reshaikvbar, Serentiernascientia.”

The seven elements interlocked like gears, greedily sucking in all the mana.

Smoke rose from Name’s hand holding the wand.

The smell of burning flesh, the tent in chaos.

Only will would guide them now.

[7th Circle Upper Casting: Dragonia Nascientia]

Whoosh-!

A red beam penetrated Adella’s abdomen, and a strong shockwave swept through.

“Adella! Just hold on for exactly 30 seconds, no more, no less!”

Name shouted in her ear while tightly embracing Adella’s head to her chest.

At that moment,

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Adella, who had been clenching her fists to endure the itching, screamed.

Pain incomparably worse than before.

It felt like every single cell was crying out for help.

This time, it was pain she absolutely couldn’t endure.

“Haaaak! Huuuh… kuaaaa… kugh…”

Adella was struggling even to breathe, letting out coughs mixed with metallic sounds.

Bones breaking and healing repeatedly, muscle fibers being torn apart.

Adella belatedly raised both hands high.

It wasn’t by her will, but purely instinctive movement.

With bloodshot eyes, she looked up at Name, who was maintaining the magic circle, with a face full of despair.

“I… sob… raised my hands… ra… rather die… kurgh…”

Adella stuck out her tongue.

Before her sharp teeth could close, Name inserted her finger to block her mouth.

“Ubrbrgh…!”

“Adella, snap out of it! We’re almost there! Just hang on a little longer!”

“I… I can’t… aaaagh…! Please… kill me… this isn’t right.”

Adella shook her head desperately.

“An… anesthetic…”

“Absolutely not during the spell!”

“I’m sorry… just end it… this is enough…”

Her whimpering grew weaker. She was about to lose consciousness.

“For the rest of your life.”

Seeing Adella suffering, Name finally resorted to extreme measures.

“You’ll have to.”

[Casting: Pain Synchronization]

“Thank me.”

* * *

The moment the beam struck, Adella’s head was filled with unbearable burning pain as if her entire body was on fire.

Her desire to get a body changed in just one second.

Adella would do anything if she could end this pain that was burning her head, severing her limbs, and tearing through her internal organs.

It was too late to regret all the moments she had asked for a physical body.

The pain kept intensifying, but her mind was becoming clearer, which was maddening.

Then suddenly, the pain lessened.

Finally remembering Name’s advice, Adella opened her eyes, took a deep breath, and started counting time.

‘How long has it been?’

Having lost her sense of time, 10 seconds felt like an hour.

“Argh! Hoo hoo… haa…”

She belatedly starts counting seconds.

1 second.

2 seconds.

3 seconds…

10 seconds.

Though the pain was gradually decreasing, it still wasn’t over.

Adella thought something had gone wrong when the pain didn’t end even after counting past 20.

Just as she was about to call for Name,

“Hnngh…”

Adella saw her.

Name, whose entire body was drenched in cold sweat.

“S-sis! What’s wrong! Sis!”

Bewilderment crossed her face.

Adella, who had been lying comfortably, urgently got up and grabbed her shoulders.

Name’s face contorted severely.

“Lie back down. It’s not over yet…”

“Huk, what’s wrong! Why are you in pain too! You didn’t mention this!”

“I did talk, and you seem okay…?”

A small magic circle spinning beside the 7th Circle magic circle.

Adella’s pupils shook violently.

“Don’t tell me you used pain synchronization? What were you thinking! How do we turn this off!”

“Leave it. It’s too late.”

Although Adella wasn’t versed in magic, she could read how long the magic circles had been active.

Dragonia Nascientia approaching 1 minute.

And the pain synchronization spell had well exceeded 40 seconds.

Even worse, the ratio was set unfavorably against Name.

Psssss-

The magic ended.

The small magic circle disappeared too, and Name’s horns crumbled to dust.

Devastated, Adella couldn’t speak.

Name could have certainly restrained her to stop her from harming herself.

Adella hugged Name with all her might, tears dripping.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry sorry sorry. It’s all my fault… I’m so sorry…”

Adella went from sniffling to bursting into tears.

She soaked Name’s sweat-drenched t-shirt a second time with tears.

“Phew. All done?”

Name gently, very slowly, stroked Adella’s back.

“Huaaaaaang!”

“Why are you crying? Everything ended well.”

“How is this well! There are so many problems! So many!”

It seemed difficult to stop Adella, who was begging forgiveness with her cracked voice.

She had caused Name great pain because she couldn’t endure this brief time.

The guilt stabbing her heart made it impossible to hold her head up.

“Can I see our Della’s face?”

“Hmm.”

“I need to check if your eyes, nose, and mouth are attached properly.”

Name examined Adella in detail.

At a glance, Adella looked exactly like her virtual reality self.

Her charming silver hair and brilliant green eyes shone brightly under the dim light.

But perhaps because the body was based on her past life, there was no trace of cat ears, nor was there a tail on her behind.

‘Is she slightly younger? It’s hard to tell like this.’

Her height and weight would be the same, but her face seemed two or three years younger than before.

Seeing Adella covered in tears and snot, Name burst out laughing.

“You look really ugly right now.”

“Huk… really?”

“No, you’re too pretty.”

“Huaaaang! Siiiiiis!”

Adella jumped into Name’s arms.

Her slightly heavier chest crushed Name.

“Ugh, you’re getting snot on me! And before that, could you please put on some clothes? It’s embarrassing.”

“I don’t care! We’re really family now, so what does it matter!”

“Aren’t you cold? You’ll catch a cold in the real world like that.”

“Your body is warm, sis. That’s enough.”

Name was enveloped in Adella’s embrace.

A gentle voice as soft as her smooth skin brushed past Name’s ear.

“Name, thank you so much…”

Name quietly smiled at the calm yet heart-touching resonance.

It was a night in March.