667 – 8. Will (41)
Healing is still possible.
My body was a mess. Even the slightest amount of mana made his intestines shake, and he had to vomit a bowlful of blood. Even without doing anything, it was my body that was collapsing in real time.
Still, treatment is possible?
It was hard to believe, no matter how much I studied forbidden magic. The fact that Leto actually invested less than a month in research further fueled distrust.
Yeah, common sense makes no sense.
The problem was that the person who said that was Leto. Because the Leto I knew was a man who never lied.
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Just like that, the moment I couldn’t control my pounding heart.
“How?”
Shien’s sharp question was fired. At first glance, it seemed like he wanted to deny Leto’s claim, but the trembling eyelashes testified to the girl’s hidden thoughts.
I want to believe.
That’s why I don’t want to be betrayed by expectations.
Thorough verification was the wizard’s destiny. Even Leto, who had been pressing down on his two snowballs as if tired, was no exception.
He said with a protracted yawn.
“While everyone is paying attention to Celine, I have been studying the forbidden occult. Especially the powerful magic called ‘Contract’.”
“However, the available data must have been limited. With that amount of data, you can’t achieve this kind of result…….”
“The amount of material doesn’t really matter. After all, the subject of the ‘contract’ is not the caster.”
And then Leto bumped his palms against each other. So that the inside can be seen in detail as if the three-dimensional figure floating on top of the document explodes as it is.
Scattered pieces of letters spin round and round to show off their features. Shien just stared at the bloody letters in silence.
With a serious face more than ever.
“Speaking, these texts are more like a ‘contract’ than a ‘spell’. Each clause is intricately matched and constructed in a way that ordinary human beings can never comprehend. They even have a few intermediaries.”
“Is that why the power of magic differs?”
“Yes, the more mediators there are, the further away they are from the true subject of the contract, so their power inevitably weakens. Even if the medium no longer exists in the world, it will not even be cast.”
“It couldn’t have been that simple.”
It was Cien’s conclusion after staring at the bloody text for a while.
At some point, her light gray pupils were torn vertically. It meant that she was interpreting the spell by mobilizing the ‘dragon’s eye’.
“If there is even a possibility of interpretation, there is no way that scholars who have been studying occult arts have not discovered it. We couldn’t build such a hypothesis because we didn’t see any analytically significant patterns.”
“That’s right. I had to go through a very complex structure analysis. There are too many things that depend on the location of the matching sentence elements or the matching of each item. That’s why I illustrated it with a three-dimensional figure like this.”
“Is it my imagination that it looks jumbled?”
“That’s right. That is the essence of this sorcery.”
As the story went on, Leto’s voice grew stronger. Should I say it’s a wizard’s unique habit, those who seek the truth always enjoyed arguing.
To the extent that vitality is restored to a body that has been battered by accumulated fatigue.
Leto moistened her lips with his saliva and continued to speak.
“Do you remember the creation myth? In a world where nothing existed, order was created with the birth of the heavenly god Arus. However, Omeros actually existed before Arus was born. It only revealed its existence when light appeared like a shadow.”
“What do you want to say?”
“In other words, Homeros is something that has not been incorporated into the order of Arus… You could also call it ‘disorder’. To be more precise, should we say ‘order outside order’? Those who don’t know us who live in the world of the heavenly god Arus… I am guessing that perhaps this grammar symbolizes the ‘Order of Omeros’.”
The light gray eyes narrowed slightly as he listened to Leto’s guess. And with a hand on his chin, he was silent for a while.
A pale flame began to form in the eyes of the girl who finished her worries.
“An interesting guess. However, then, how did Ain Stern-senpai interpret her spell?”
It was an important question.
I don’t know the details, but Leto called this formula a grammar that those who ‘live in the world of Arus,’ can’t understand.
Could it be that Leto came from the Demon Realm ruled by Homeros?
The answer was really unexpected.
“That was with outside help. That’s ‘Emma’…….”
“Emma? Could it be that the Emma I know?”
At my immediate reaction, Leto meekly nodded his head. The same was true of the princess, who had a surprised expression.
“You don’t know, but Emma has always been interested in Shinhwa.”
Before I asked if it was so.
There was a scene that suddenly passed through my head. A long time ago, I went to ask Emma when I received a love letter from the future.
I wonder if this is really possible.
At that time, Emma told me the story of the mythical ‘Seven Sins’. If the Seven Sins had power, it might not be impossible.
As I rummaged through the past, Leto shrugged his shoulders and continued.
“Are you close with me? Mouth heavy, trustworthy… I didn’t go looking for it, but I heard somewhere that they came looking for me.”
“Where the hell did you hear that? It was a secret that we were studying secret arts.”
“You must have been drinking and talking. Or where did you hear that?”
No matter how drunk you are, you can’t forget something so important.
I tried to speak while swallowing a laugh, but suddenly a corner of my brain started to hurt. Come to think of it, I met Emma a while ago.
It was the day before Celine raided her academy. Looking back, my memories of that day were particularly vague.
Were you really drunk?
Since I’ve been immersed in my thoughts for a while, Leto’s expression naturally became confused. Originally, I would have started with a deeper story like this, but there was one person who had already put the story about Emma behind her.
“Yes, then!”
It was an excited voice that made it hard to believe that he had been wearing a serious face just before.
The girl with her hands clenched tightly asked, her eyes twinkling.
“Can Sir Ian live?!”
“Yes, for now… what.”
Leto let out a deep sigh as he said that.
“Of course, fine-tuning is necessary. Should I say that the work I have done is a kind of unfair revision of terms and conditions? It’s a revision of the conditions that are unilaterally unfavorable… Even if you make a deal with the evil spirits without going through an intermediary, there are problems.”
It was a statement that blew her heart, which was swollen with anticipation.
The culprit, Leto, had an attitude as if it was nothing special.
“In the end, it means that the evil spirit must agree to the deal for the secret art to work. Previously, there was no problem with the evil spirits freely touching the terms of the trade, but I am thinking of inserting the terms of the trade explicitly into the new ‘contract’ spell.”
“What if the evil spirit doesn’t like that condition?”
“Of course it will be destroyed. By the way, it was made by collecting a lot of valuable materials, so I don’t have the confidence to make it again. It seems that the technique needs some improvement. I made it into a usable state for now, but…….”
“The terms of the deal are not good.”
It is a price to return an incurable body to normal.
It couldn’t have been light. Even the cause of my body’s disintegration is imagery, so I was in a situation where I might reach the level of a master if I achieved the integration of images.
Will the evil spirit accept the deal?
Fatigue had returned to Leto’s face before he knew it. A weary voice uttered before long.
“We will try to adjust as much as we can. If you do well, you might even be able to fool the evil spirits…….”
“So you’re saying you need time after all.”
Instead of answering, Leto shrugged his shoulders. It was quite arrogant towards the princess, but it suited the attitude of a wizard who made a great discovery.
Actually, Cien didn’t even take this as an issue. It was just that she seemed genuinely happy that I had found the possibility of living.
All you need is time.
It was the exit I finally found. There was no problem with trusting Leto and waiting, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the precondition.
Is it that simple?
Of course, what I had to do was decided. In any case, I have to do my best.
My current body was a mess. Therefore, I felt the need to approach the case in a new way.
With the consent of the party, I let Shiene-senpai back into the room. Her one-armed woman on her crutches limped and looked downcast, but Shien didn’t even seem to care.
On the contrary, I just smiled and asked.
“Senior Alpenhauser, don’t you look good?”
“Ah, ugh… Oh no.”
Perhaps it was because that smile was too dazzling, Siene-senpai was breaking out in a cold sweat and had to slightly avoid his gaze.
Has it finally been sorted out?
As all four of us, including myself, sat down at the reception table, the real business of looking for Leto flowed from my mouth.
“Kill Dalton Alpenhauser.”
For all of us.
It only took a few seconds for the excitement to subside into silence.