Gaiden – 2
Me and Akshi walked aimlessly. It wasn’t a very significant move. It’s just a step for the two of us to have a conversation.
You could say it was a waste of time. In the past, it was probably not something the country would do. Because there was no time to waste the time when the ending was set.
But now it didn’t matter. Sometimes, talking while walking like this wasn’t a bad choice.
Being able to waste time was a feeling I felt after being possessed. I was relieved rather than frustrated.
I turned my head to the side. Akshi was staring blankly at the sky.
The sky was clear, and there was a slight longing in Akshi’s eyes. What does the sky mean to a dragon that originally spread its wings and flew?
I didn’t know.
Before silence completely enveloped my surroundings, I hurriedly opened my mouth.
It was a question related to the rarity.
“What kind of place is Rare? Maybe it’s full of gold.”
“I don’t know who spread the rumor that dragons are greedy for gold. That’s a hasty generalization. Some stupid dragons are greedy for wealth.”
Akshi frowned as she said that. Apparently, universal legends and rumors about dragons seemed to have spread wrong.
For what reason would a dragon, which is said to live for several thousand years, be interested in a shiny stone?
“In the beginning, have you already entered the Dragon’s Rare?”
“When are you talking about?”
“Your mother.”
Akshi’s eyes trembled slightly as she spoke the word “mother”. I didn’t know why I was shaking. What I heard a little while ago was more important than that.
White Dragon, or White Dragon. Deron’s mother was such a being. The dragon, who is now my mother, helped me.
“Then the hut I went into?”
“okay. That hut must be your mother’s rare.”
Akshi nodded her head. I closed my eyes for a moment and imagined in my head the hut I had entered.
It felt warm and cozy, but it was not a good place for a giant dragon to live. It was a married couple who returned to the countryside or a hut where they could live.
Akshi frowned and continued.
“I know what you are thinking. I wonder why the dragon’s rarity is so small?”
“The size of a dragon known so far is not enough to live in that cave.”
“I think I’m misunderstanding something… .”
Akashi’s eyes twinkled.
“Rare is not just a place to rest. If you need a place to rest, why do you call it rare? You can just go somewhere and rest.”
“but.”
Excluding the place where the Demon King lived, how many people can interfere with the dragon’s rest?
By simply transforming into a human, the dragon would be able to rest. Wealth is a dragon that has lived for thousands of years, so it shouldn’t matter.
Occasionally, dragon slayers and so on appeared, but those were only a few.
… In some of them, Akshi would be dead.
This story was not brought up. Because there was no way I could have a good memory of meeting death.
Akshi opened her mouth while swiping the surface of the wall with her hand.
“Rare is both a resting place and a storage room.”
“Storage?”
“A place where you store your precious treasure. As you can imagine, there are those who collect precious metals, and there are those who collect medicinal herbs.”
Akshi laughed, stating that there are other species that collect human bones from time to time. I hoped that the alien species was not Aksi.
“Anyway. True to the name of the store, the rare is packed with things that the dragon wants to cherish.”
“The rarity overflowing with gold is because the explorers found it.”
“right. And there is one thing that most dragons must save.”
It’s one thing that most dragons always keep. What is it? I got curious and tilted my head.
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Just as each person has different personalities and tastes, dragons will also have different personalities and tastes. Herbs, human bones, riches. Even what Akshi said is free-spirited.
Those dragons unconditionally save it.
Akshi looked at me tilting her head and smiled. He even opened his mouth.
“memory.”
Her mouth did not smile. Akshi put the memories in her mouth in a calm and detached tone.
“If you live for thousands of years, you will inevitably forget. Even if the memories are so precious, they tend to fade in the winds and waves of time.”
Forgetting is a curse Just because not losing one’s memory is a curse does not mean that forgetting is a blessing. People were sad because they forgot, and they were happy because they had forgotten.
Living while forgetting his past was close to a curse that only he could not realize.
And the dragon had to bear both of those curses.
“Let’s say humans live roughly 80 years. So, how many memories should not be forgotten in those 80 years of life? 5 percent? 3 percent?”
Acci’s pupil narrows vertically. Those eyes, similar to those of snakes, were one of the characteristics of dragons.
“Even if we are only 1 percent, we are dozens of times as many as you.”
nodded. The long-lived clan, of course, would have had more memories and experiences. Elves and dwarves were like that.
Those who had a lifespan that surpassed even those who could easily pass a century were dragons.
“There are too many things to remember, and the mind is slowly filling up.”
So the curse of oblivion was chosen. Memories that I forgot because I wanted to forget, not because I wanted to forget.
“A rar is a repository of memory used so as not to be forgotten.”
Forget in order not to forget. How contradictory is this?
The memories the dragons had to endure such contradictions must have been precious. Without that, there’s no way I can even save it like that.
After a moment’s hesitation, I opened my mouth.
“Where is your rarity?”
“My rare?”
As I nodded, Akshi looked up at the sky for a moment and then explained her rarity.
“It was originally a temple. I don’t know what kind of god it was enshrined.”
“The ruined temple respects your rare? taste, but I don’t think you’ll understand.”
“It’s not like that, so listen to the end, you child.”
Akshi lightly slapped my head with her fist and continued.
“Did you know that God only exists without being revealed?”
“In fact, it is not even clear whether it exists or not.”
“Are you the one who believes that there is no God?”
After hearing my words, Akshi asked. I paused for a moment and thought about the question Aksi had asked. Do I believe that God exists?
In fact, he already knew the answer to that.
‘Maybe it exists.’
Before, after the Morax subjugation, when I went to a place called the Fountain of Fortune with my party, I had an unknown message.
[Someone’s good fortune resides in your body.]
If I recall the sense of the strange aura in my body along with that message, it was similar to the divine power I received after the magic disappeared.
It was a little more noble than divine power, but it made me feel cold.
I can’t be sure, but I can vaguely guess that it was God who wished me luck.
“It is the one who thinks it exists, but it doesn’t mean much.”
“okay?”
“Why aren’t you asking?”
Akshi shrugged.
“Why am I asking that? It must be one of the reasons why you don’t need to know anyway.”
“… … .”
“I’m speechless. Anyway, I felt a peculiar energy in that temple. Neither mana nor spirits. But it’s a kind of energy that suits the word noble rather than special like Magi.”
“… Wasn’t it divine power?”
Akshi shook her head. She said that although the energy sleeping in the temple was noble, it was not as cozy as the divine power.
“If it was cold, it was cold.”
Her feelings wouldn’t be different from mine. Because I have received the same divine power before. But I don’t think I even felt the strange aura in my body.
If I had felt that energy, I would have known what kind of doubt I was having now.
“It’s an abandoned temple… .”
I imagined the sight of Ray for a moment. Stone pillars covered with moss because they were broken and unmaintained, and objects that used to worship gods.
And the intangible and unknown energy that will remain in the abandoned temple.
That was enough to get my attention.
Promising to make time sooner or later, I set out again. Akshi looked at me like that and tilted her head.
“What are you up to?”
“Are you kidding me?”
“I mean, because something always happens when you put on that expression.”
Akshi opened her eyes and looked at me. Her gaze moves back and forth as if trying to dig into my intentions… .
“Eh, I don’t know.”
went away with a sigh.
“Now that you’re stronger than me, it’s strange to worry about it.”
“Did you know?”
“Isn’t it strange not to know?”
Still, it would have energized me. So I was also surprised when Lee Han guessed my status.
Reaching the superlative level is not just using the sword. Of course, although most of them are swordsmen, it meant that they could capture enough momentum to use them.
“I don’t know about the other kids, but I can see it in my eyes. His name is dragon.”
“but.”
“Other kids. At least Rebecca and Agnes are glancing at it, right? Because when you first came out, the mood changed drastically.”
“Is that so.”
Akshi glanced at me and took a deep breath. She slapped me on the back with her hand with a frustrated expression on her face.
“Why all of a sudden… ?”
“It’s just rude. This bastard.”
Akshi said so and turned around. When I tried to follow him, he told me not to follow him. When I asked the reason, he said that he was going to find what he needed when he went to Rare.
I don’t know what it takes to go to Rare, but he told me not to follow him, so it would have been right not to follow him.
With that in mind, I took a step back. Being alone wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. I felt emotions that I couldn’t feel while talking.
And there was a person who caught my breath.
A figure with his back leaning on the corner of the corner and taking a pose that he does not know whether he is hiding or not.
I paused for a moment, looked straight at where he was hiding, and opened my mouth.
“What are you doing there?”
“… … .”
“I see it all already.”
“Isn’t there any point in hiding? I should have listened to Belle’s advice.”
A man walked out of the corner with a mischievous smile.
I knew that man. It was a face that anyone living in the Empire could not recognize. The eyes and hair were even more so.
“I know it’s a pointless question, but I’ll ask anyway.”
Keeping your posture straight, looking straight ahead. while maintaining the dignity of nobility.
“Why are you here? Degradation of the Crown Prince.”
He posed a question to the small sun of the empire.
At that question, the little sun raised the corners of his lips. It looked like he was up to something.