178 – Abyss
“Clarice? What’s going on?”
Public lodging for elves.
Charlotte approached Clarice with a worried expression.
Clarice, who had her back against the wall and her face buried in her knees, heard Charlotte’s voice calling to her and raised her head to look at her.
Clarice’s eyes were red and swollen.
“Woah, did you cry? “What’s going on?”
Clarice’s face was clearly shedding tears so much that her eyes were swollen.
Charlotte looked around her face and asked what happened.
Clarice whimpered and answered in a hushed voice.
“I barely… barely met my mom… but she doesn’t recognize me… she doesn’t recognize me…”
Clarice tells the whole story with a face full of sadness.
Recently, Charlotte, who had become close to Clarisse through a common interest in ‘forests,’ listened to her story in silence.
And Clarisse’s story, which lasted about 30 minutes, contained her life story.
She lived in the kingdom of elves until she was 6, but suddenly when she was 7, she had to return to the empire with her father and live away from her mother.
Afterwards, Clarisse missed her forest and her mother, but she says her father never wanted to let her go.
Well, Clarisse’s mother tried to abandon her human father because she caught another man’s eye, so she forced her to quickly forget about such a woman.
“Still, I wanted to know the reason… At least the reason. “It was hard to believe what her father said.”
However, in Clarice’s memories, her mother said that she was not that type of person.
Also, it is said that Clarisse’s father was not good at lying, so she could instinctively know that her father was lying.
Because of this, Clarice says that ever since her father died in a sudden accident, she has been looking for a way to enter the kingdom of elves.
And as she wanted, she entered the Eldar Kingdom and met her mother…
“Do you not recognize yourself at all?”
“·····Yes. “I think you have a mental problem.”
Not only does she not recognize herself, she says, she has mental problems.
She stares blankly into space all day, as if she has no soul.
“···Why did you become like that? Since when?”
Charlotte then asked when her mother’s symptoms began.
Clarice responded with a sobbing expression.
“Right after I left… “I guess you’ve been suffering from mental illness since then.”
“······.”
Charlotte sat near Clarisse and held her hand.
Clarice said, shaking her shoulders.
“I feel resentful towards my father… “I was happy here… But I always missed the forest…”
Clarisse said that and she said her mother did not cheat.
When she asked her eldest father, the Elf King, to see if her father’s words were a lie, she answered that her father had a serious case of suspicion and that her mother had never cheated on her. .
“Once this is over… I won’t go back. “From now on, I will be by my mother’s side… And she will stay with me until she gets better.”
Clarice wiped away tears as she said that.
Charlotte held Clarice’s hand and reassured her that everything would be fine as long as you were by her side, and not to worry.
***
Same time.
The Elf King ‘Gideon’ was taking a night walk with his nephew ‘Elarien’.
Elarien is the daughter of Gideon’s younger brother, the god ‘Altarion’. She has followed her uncle and king, Gideon, since she was young.
The two are so close that they often take night walks together like this.
“···Don’t worry, ma’am. “If this matter is resolved well, we can go back to the way things were before.”
However, Gideon called his nephew Elarien in a strange tone.
Her niece, she calls her ‘her wife’ and even uses honorifics for her.
And Elarien’s reaction was also unusual.
“hehehehe… I only trust you. But at the same time, I feel sad… “This is the body you like.”
Ella Lien said and pressed her own breast to her Gideon’s arms.
Gideon spoke to Elarien with a grin on his face.
“Someone might see it.”
“hehehehe… It’s such a late night~? “It was also quite far away from the palace~?”
Ella Lien said that and smiled mischievously.
He placed his palm on Gideon’s chest and slipped his hand through the sleeve of her dress.
When he moaned softly, it rubbed its palm against his skin and spoke.
“There are not many days left to live in this body anyway. Because ‘that kid’ is back.”
“····Kkkkk. “Of course.”
“hehehehe. So. “I… and you… could be the last in this body.”
As Ella Lien said this, she hugged Gideon.
She said, looking up at him with mischievous eyes.
“Hug me.”
“······.”
The two look at each other with deep eyes.
Soon, Gideon attacked Elarien’s lips.
The uncle and nephew began passionately mixing their tongues and exhaling hot breath.
“Haa…Haa…Haa…”
However, there was no such thing as incestuous marriage in elf customs.
No matter how closed they were, close relatives were strictly prohibited.
“Fill me… Fill me up… Fill me up…”
But they didn’t care.
They had been in this relationship for several years and lusted after each other passionately.
Soon, Gideon put the stiff liquid into Alarien and poured out his affection.
They placed their bodies on top of each other and mixed their tongues once again.
***
The next day.
I gathered the entire contingent.
Everyone was gathered together for the ‘World Tree Purification’ operation requested by the Elf King a while ago.
“The World Tree is a space for spiritual exploration. “By drinking the sap of a tree and touching any part of the body, you can access the vast world of consciousness.”
I called everyone together and started explaining the characteristics of the World Tree.
For this operation, everyone must access the World Tree, so it is essential to be familiar with the characteristics of the World Tree.
“But it is dangerous to enter the World Tree alone. The World Tree contains the accumulated souls and memories of the past several thousand years, so it is easy to get caught up in other people’s memories. In short, you will forever drift within the world tree, forgetting who you are. In fact, it can be seen as being the same as being dead. “Because a body that has not regained consciousness is nothing more than a shell.”
“······.”
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The cadets’ expressions became serious.
Some cadets even expressed concern that they might die if they continue like this.
At that time, Elena stepped forward.
“That’s why we all need to connect together. “If we come together and connect, we can hold each other so that we don’t get eaten by other souls and memories.”
“Ah…”
“That’s why it’s important to cross-verify each other’s memories. When I recall the memories we had together, I can hold on to the consciousness that is fading away. “When the three closest people pair up, they can complement each other well.”
Elena said that and looked around at everyone.
The cadets who were sitting in groups of three looked at each other’s faces and nodded.
And in my case, of course Enya and Isabella were paired together.
Even though Isabella had a cold expression the whole time and was not making eye contact with me.
‘Now that I think about it… It must have been well over 49 days.’
We met once every 49 days.
But before I knew it, Isabella started avoiding me.
As in all her previous episodes, she accepted her fate and decided to become the head of the Graham family.
‘····Anyway, that’s it’
Anyway, right now it is important to focus on the task at hand.
I am confident that I will not be eaten by the World Tree, but the cadets who go in with me may be in danger.
In the end, I have to lead them well.
“Okay then, let’s practice first.”
So, I gathered everyone together and instructed them to practice.
Periodically, we carefully check whether the other person’s consciousness is drifting away, and if that happens, we train them to recall a memory that can hold onto their consciousness.
“Okay. “I think this is enough.”
This is the result of practicing for about 2 hours.
We were able to learn how to hold each other’s consciousness.
Now all that’s left is the actual battle.
“Everyone drink.”
I handed out bottles containing the sap of the World Tree to everyone.
After everyone took a shot of the sap, they placed their hands on the World Tree.
I felt a sense of floating along with a strange sensation of my mind being sucked somewhere.
It has entered the world tree.
〔Everyone hold hands! Unite!〕
The members of the contingent floating in the form of hazy souls.
I shouted to everyone to gather together as we had practiced.
Soon, the soul group of the contingent entered the Spirit Mana Shield formed by Elena and I, and we began to travel through the vast world of consciousness.
But not long afterwards─
-Paaa!
The powerful will of the World Tree began to exert pressure to disperse us.
A huge light appears and tries to ‘neutralize’ the memories accumulated over thousands of years by thrusting them into our souls.
‘Will that work?’
But he chose the wrong opponent.
I am a regressor who has repeated hundreds of regressions.
I remember that hundreds of times.
If you include regressions that I don’t remember, it’s impossible to know how many regressions there would have been.
‘Those are all f*cked up memories.’
However, all my regressions failed.
The best ending is to be surrounded and eaten alive by demons, writhing in tremendous pain.
In other words, in order for the memories of the World Tree to neutralize me, I have to accept all of my f*cked up memories.
-Shooooo!
But the result is obvious.
The huge light suddenly faded and began to bounce.
I looked into the abyss.