‘Under the circumstances, the essence of fire is Rachel’s dragon heart.’
It’s just a feeling, but in fact, I was almost 100% convinced that it was right.
“… that’s right. The contents of my nightmares you saw are related to my dragon heart.”
At my question, Rachel hardened her expression and eventually opened her mouth. I rubbed my forehead and grabbed a pen to write it down, and Rachel grabbed my wrist.
“This is a secret to no one. Don’t leave a record, don’t open your mouth. okay?”
“… good. Instead, I wish I could tell you everything. do you know I wonder if I can help.”
As I let go of the pen and laughed, Rachel let go of my wrist and pursed her lips.
“you? puck. no… That kid is secretly useful, so maybe something comes out… … .”
“I’m right in front of you, so don’t worry while muttering openly.”
Anyway, just be strong. I opened my mouth as I shook my wrist once in the air.
“It has something to do with not releasing mana out.”
“… that’s right. It’s honestly incomprehensible.”
Rachel slowly raised her hand and placed it on her chest.
“I only have half a dragon heart.”
“Since when?”
Rachel’s eyebrows furrow at my question. As if he didn’t want to say anything, he opened his mouth slowly.
“From every moment of my memory.”
The last time I talked about it for a while, but dragons are beings that don’t forget.
since hatching from the egg. No, from the time you are in the egg and can think, you can probably remember everything.
‘But at all those moments, do you remember that you only have half a dragon heart?’
“If you had half a dragon heart from birth until now, wouldn’t that just be the original whole? Why did you think it was half?”
At my question, Rachel scratched her head and gnashed her teeth with ferocious eyes.
“no. It has to be absolutely half.”
She raised her hand and pretended to cut the air from top to bottom with her blade.
“My heart. It’s like this. Very exquisitely, precisely split in half. Maybe that’s why I can control the mana inside my body, but I can’t easily control the mana outside.”
Rachel paused once, lifted the teapot, opened the lid, and drank in gulps.
“If I make a mistake, I’m saying that the area around me could explode while trying to use magic once. Do you know what’s funny about this?”
Having my dragon heart cut in half, I have to risk my life to use magic.
Rachel sighed and twisted the corners of her mouth.
“Does it make sense that the dragon, the source and suzerain of magic, can’t use magic properly? Even polymorphs have to be used in conjunction with external mana. That means I have to risk my life even to manifest as my own body.”
But I definitely have memories of having fun flying in the sky with my huge body and shooting breath.
As Rachel muttered, she sat cross-legged and buried herself in the chair.
“What part of the memory was manipulated?”
“Never.”
Be assertive. If Rachel says that, that’s right.
It makes no sense.
“Up to a certain point, I lived as if I had a whole dragon heart, even if I had half a dragon heart. without any doubt. But at some point it happened.”
A hand gesture as if tapping the air. It feels sarcastic, but unlike the way he speaks with a smile, it seems like hot flames flicker in his eyes, as if red stones are about to melt.
A dragon with pride itself. The red dragon is the most hot-tempered among dogs and has a destructive and ferocious nature.
But how strong and deep will Rachel’s stress and anger be at this absurdity and absurd reality?
‘A violent addict.’
angry and angry Did the fact that the dragon had to risk its life to use magic make it unbearably angry and suppressed it by wiping out the monsters?
‘So both in the original work and in the game.’
It was not revealed until the end of the last. After all, she must have prepared for death and incarnated as the main body.
The problem is that the facts are so intertwined.
“Call Zero.”
“okay. I’m going out for a drink, so don’t call me any more today.”
Rachel goes out waving her hand in an unusually subdued atmosphere.
Zero sneaked in as I was clearing the table while retrieving the artifact that creates the mana field into the subspace.
“I. Did you do anything wrong?”
“doesn’t exist. Sit there.”
As soon as he saw my face, he asked if I had done anything wrong.
I told Zero to put up some mana and picked up the pen I had put down because of Rachel.
“Can you guess why I called?”
As I tapped the parchment with my pen, Zero forcibly condensed his large body and made it smaller, and opened his mouth with a face as if he had done something wrong.
“Roughly… I guess.”
okay? Guy Zero, when did your heart grow so deep?
I nodded and touched my chin.
“What.”
“… Isn’t it because of the nightmare of the dungeon?”
I think it’s true that you’re smarter than Rachel. I nodded at Zero’s words and opened my mouth.
“that’s right. That’s why.”
The moment I was about to say something, Zero knelt on the floor instead of a chair.
I was surprised by that appearance and looked at it without saying a word, and Zero lowered his head.
“I have no intention of ever doing that. Adelian. Really. I am… … .”
Zero raises his head into the jewelry that has somehow become depressingly deep. I instantly realized why he was doing that.
“I didn’t call you to blame you or treat you as a dangerous person, so sit back.”
I grabbed Zero’s shoulders and put him back on the chair.
Of course, thanks to what I saw this time, I realized once again how dangerous Zero was.
In a way, it is similar to the undead’s jundong in which the black magician was involved in the main encounter.
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‘But Zero is worse.’
Yesterday’s comrades are today’s comrades themselves, but fighting only with a change of ideology would be more hellish than yesterday’s comrades fighting as skeletons today.
‘But what?’
How to bend the original arm inward.
Unless I am Buddha or Jesus, if I am a human, I can’t help it.
Besides, Zero has an insurance called a contract, but the evil god cult doesn’t even have that.
‘Besides, I actually meant to do it, what did you do… uh?’
I looked at Zero and opened my mouth.
“The nightmare I saw in that dungeon.”
Zero lowered his gaze at the words I said with a smile.
“That, remember?”
“no.”
Zero answered my question very quickly. Looking straight into my eyes as if it were the truth.
I think it was intended to emphasize its own truthfulness.
I giggled.
“You have to ask what that means, Zero.”
If you deny it right away like that, it’s only showing how well you understand what I’m saying.
I pull up a chair and Zero flinches at the sight.
“Don’t hide it, tell me everything.”
“… It’s really not my memory. Not me.”
“Then you’re saying it’s another you?”
Zero’s complexion darkened at the words I recited casually.
Memory is the brain’s storage of what happened after all.
But most people don’t remember everything. Very important things, or even important ones, eventually forgotten memories tend to pass into the unconscious.
But it won’t be completely deleted. So, such a nightmare must have come from the sea witch’s dungeon, which shows the most dreadful fear that starts from the deepest part of the unconscious.
Of course, the current Zero has never been like that, but I was convinced from Rachel’s nightmare and from Zero’s reaction.
‘Stone moss. What the hell did he hide from the original work and how much?’
Rachel, who sent me here, and Rachel, who can’t use magic recklessly because she doesn’t have half of her dragon hearts here.
Although the level of power is different, it is true that they are both Rachel in the end.
If so, it’s just guesswork. However, as Suho Kang, who has been involved in the subculture world for many years, he was almost certain.
‘I think this is some kind of regression or loop.’
Restlessly, I smiled brightly at Zero, who was watching me, and put his hand on my shoulder.
“It’s zero.”
“Yes, yes… Adelian.”
“Just tell me everything you know.”
Because it’s comfortable for you and it’s comfortable for me too.
* * *
It shook.
In front of my eyes, the colors melted into pale smears.
‘Pretty.’
A warm and cozy light when looking at it.
Life consists of water. If the golem is not made of metal or stone up to the inside of the body, there is usually a soft part, which is made of water.
It was Levinia who had no choice but to split her strength even before she was born because her power was so strong.
A being who could have mastered the power of the sea itself had he successfully become an adult and had gone through the succession ceremony.
However, Levy, who can only freely use the power of recovery and purification now, was also special with his eyes.
‘The light that really cares about me unselfishly.’
The wave of unconditional friendship and affection that I have seen since I was very young.
‘why?’
Not all emotions could be seen. Only the fairly deep sincere feelings towards Levinia were reflected like a faint aura.
The level of malice or hostility comparable to that of the brothers who brought him to the cave was invisible.
Baruch, who was obsessed with selling himself, had a negative color, but it was usually invisible.
A little contempt, curiosity, intimacy. Or even sympathy or superiority. The very dimly embraced things were not revealed to the eye.
‘But why?’
Levy stared at Adelian, who swayed warmly every time he saw him, and quickly clung to his leg.
It wasn’t a wave that actually existed, but somehow, when it touched it, it warmed my heart like a father stroking my hair.
from the moment I first saw it.
‘Actually, I thought he was a trustworthy person.’
Even Levinia herself wouldn’t have been able to see herself with such a swaying look.
I was sure that Levinia would not criticize or ridicule anyone who looked at her with that kind of flutter, even if she didn’t hide it and showed all her weak points.
“So it is. How can he not be cured?”
For a while, Adelian only played with Rachel and Zero.
Now, when I summoned Levi and glanced at Kane while sneaking the contract, Levinia blinked her eyes wide and shook her head.
“To be honest, I’m not good at such meticulous control.”
Both hands are covered with mana of water, and they turn into a light blue ink like Shakshak Bibini. Levinia smirked at it as she signed the contract with God and stamped her hand.
“So you do it.”
One hand on the contract and the other on Adelian’s chest.
“What are you talking about?”
“Elf or Fairy. Gnomes or dwarves. And mermaids are fairies.”
“I know that.”
Adelian rolled his eyes long and smiled arrogantly. If it wasn’t for that warm and gentle sway, he would have thought he was an arrogant, self-aware human.
“Even fairies are spirits. In particular, since I am in a sub-adult state, I have a higher affinity for the spirit realm than the material realm.”
“so?”
“You can make contracts with spirits.”
Levinia laughed and patted Adelian’s chest.
“You do it instead of me. contractor.”