Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent chapter 128

128 – That’s right. You said that.

Scarlett stood there blankly.

My younger self had long ago disappeared with Plan. But Scarlett was still standing in her place. Until the wind swept through her once more.

“My older sister… No… ?”

She muttered in a thin voice that seemed to be cut off. She tried to understand the situation, but there were so many things that still felt unnatural to her.

It’s because the puzzle pieces in my head are so lacking.

Also at the same time.

“Ugh.”

Once again, the feeling of her head breaking like glass.

Scarlett had a severe headache, and she put one hand on her head. At the same time, an unfamiliar hallucination began to unfold before her eyes.

─Be sure to keep this in mind. Scarlett.

It was the first time I had seen an old man who appealed with such a serious face. Her servile and shabby demeanor, a man who lacked even the slightest hint of grace held onto her hands tightly.

─Please remember this father’s words.

─If you want to survive, burning and starting a family are the only answers. Got it?

─Huh? If you know anything, please answer me. Hurry!

The hallucination ended there.

“Ha.”

Scarlett snorted at her with a contorted expression.

Her father is Theodore. The ugly old man’s appearance was never the family head’s.

But even while thinking about it, she couldn’t stop a feeling of uneasiness welling up in her heart.

Plan responded that she had no sister, a mysterious man who called herself her father. The speed at which anxiety multiplies is only accelerating. Scarlett was holding her head with both of her hands.

“Memories. I remember, more and more….”

A strange feeling.

The mysterious energy of space was slowly being absorbed into Scarlett’s body. Every time that happens, the number of puzzle pieces in my head increases one by one.

“… Is it like this?”

Libra built it using 「Storage」, And the owner of this space is, of course, Scarlett.

The method of recovering memories while absorbing this space itself. This hypothesis fits quite well.

However, how long will it take to absorb everything? I hadn’t figured out that yet.

First of all, it was time for her to leave her swordsmanship training ground.

The moment Scarlett took her steps.

Beep-

With serious tinnitus, her eyes went white.

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“Sweet!”

When I came to my senses, it was a completely different space.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa….”

Struggling to catch her breath, Scarlett wiped the beads of sweat on her forehead with her sleeve. Not only his forehead, but his whole body was covered in sweat.

It feels like her mind, which seemed to be sucked somewhere, has finally returned. My vision, which had been infinitely blurry, began to clear little by little.

My mind is still confused, but soon my eyes widen at the bizarre scenery that comes into my field of vision.

“… !”

Her own hands as she looked down her head.

Not only the palm, but also the knuckles of the fingers are small.

It was small enough to fit the expression small.

What’s more, there was still a ring on her ring finger.

“You’ve gotten smaller.”

The moment I spit it out like that.

Scarlett realized that her voice was also very young. She obviously belonged to a little girl.

She slowly raised her hand this time and touched her face. There was nothing applied on her skin, but above all, it felt soft.

“No, is it getting younger?”

In a sudden situation, I first looked around.

It was the drawing room of Judith’s mansion. She was alone in the space, and the identity of the girl reflected in the mirror….

“… Assimilation.”

Little Scarlett. She assimilated her body of that time.

Cool—!

Her lungs rip open, and she coughed out. The palms of her hurriedly covering her mouth were covered in blood.

“Right, it was like this.”

Come to think of it, she was sickly herself when she was little. No, you could say it was close to her corpse.

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Curse of Decay.

The cause was a curse. A curse that causes cells to slowly die and eventually leads to extreme decay.

While assembling while retrieving the memories, the door of the drawing room opens and someone enters.

There are three people in total. All of them were maids, but not one of them was a face Scarlett knew.

They moved in perfect order.

High-quality refreshments and tea are placed on the table in the drawing room, and the dust in the corner disappears in an instant. Scarlett watched the scene silently.

It was then.

“… Are you ignorant, or are you doing that on purpose?”

The maid began to speak in a whisper.

The maid next to her took over the words naturally.

“They must have done that on purpose.”

“Isn’t that true? It’s embarrassingly shameless.”

“The whole school has been destroyed, but I can’t do anything.

“I want to kick him out. Really.”

Extinction?

Scarlett listened to the strong words. She was about to reach the tip of her nostrils when the fragrant aroma of tea slipped into her.

“Shh. But just in case, lower your voice.”

“I can’t hear this enough. No, and how about listening to it? She’s not even in a position to speak loudly.”

“It is true that it is pitiful. She literally lost everything after being caught by a top-notch demon.”

It was ominous.

It wasn’t that the content of the conversation was ominous, but the glances towards Scarlett were ominous.

‘What is it?’

… As if it was a story about Scarlett.

“By the way, isn’t this a situation in which Judith should rather express that Mine benefited?”

One of the maids snapped.

“Looking at it this time, I heard that the debt was beyond imagination. If it wasn’t for the demon attack, she wouldn’t have been brazenly hiding it.”

“That’s right. You mean she’s hiding her debts and getting engaged? Crazy sh*t It’s a scam, it’s a scam.”

Once again, the feeling that my head is popping and breaking.

The background of the story, his status, and the gaze of the maids. Scarlett understood everything in an instant.

She herself is not the person of Judith.

She’s not flan and her sister.

Rather….

“… !”

Surprised, Scarlett spurred her seat and stood up. She did not go through her brain, but only her instincts made her move. The maids, too, were startled and stopped.

“….”

It became quiet as if the concept of sound had been annihilated.

The maids, who are much taller than themselves, open their eyes wide and only look at Scarlett.

It was a cold gaze that lacked contempt, and it was a gaze that awakened the fear that was imprinted somewhere in Scarlett’s memory.

Memories keep flowing in.

This happened every time I visited Judith’s mansion. Without a single exception from her, this gaze always clung to her.

Scarlett swallowed her dry saliva.

She felt that the floor she was standing on went down endlessly. The maids began to focus even on their own work.

“Why are you like that? It’s a story about yourself.”

“Only the young master felt sorry for me. But, are you going to break up anyway? Otherwise, it makes no sense.”

At that moment, the door to the parlor burst open.

It was the flan who opened the door and appeared, and the maids hurriedly cleared their throats and lowered their heads.

“Oh, you are here. Young master.”

Plane stared at her maids without saying anything. They get restless and quickly leave.

In the living room where only the two of them were left, Flann took a seat across from Scarlett.

Scarlett kept her head down.

Even though what was in front of her eyes was only fragments of her memories, now she recalled her birthplace. It was because she didn’t know how to look at something in the shape of a flan.

Cool—!

I vomited blood again. This time she was in so much pain that she couldn’t even cover it with her hand.

“Are you okay? Why did you come all this way, Scarlett? You said I was going I know you’re not feeling well….”

“….”

Scarlett still has her head down. Without even wiping the blood off her chin, she just catches her breath.

As I looked at her thighs like that, at some point, Plan’s hand popped in.

There was something on her palm. It’s probably a handkerchief.

However.

“Can you clean it by yourself? Or should I wipe it?”

“….”

It didn’t even come into Scarlett’s field of vision.

She catches flan’s fingertips with her trembling hands. As if this was an unexpected action, Plan’s hands stiffened for a moment.

“Why? Scarlett.”

“Ring….”

Scarlett looked at the ring on Flanne’s ring finger.

Just like her own. It was when she was so young, and even though she just remembered it, her heart sank.

“You…. Why, why are you engaged to me?”

“Huh?”

“I don’t have a family, I don’t know when I’ll die, and there’s no reason not to break up. Why the hell….”

“Is your head hurting now?”

Plann pushed Scarlett’s forehead with his index finger. Only then do their gazes meet in midair.

“Scarlet is Scarlet. That’s right.”

I was speechless. I forgot what she was going to say.

Scarlett’s expression looked stunned and she looked at Flan’s face.

Young flan is unconcerned, and grown-up Scarlett is confused. It was a strange situation even for her to think about.

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Drift in the memory space has begun.

At some point, it is because the memory absorption suddenly stopped.

As the memories that were slowly emerging no longer disappeared, Scarlett spent each day in a state of trepidation in her memory space.

Even in the midst of all that, the damn curse deprived Scarlett of bodily freedom.

So, a room in Judith’s mansion.

“Uh-.”

Moaning in pain that seemed unbearable to her mind, Scarlett lay motionless in her bed.

“It’s hard to pass today.”

Muttered the maid who was changing her towels. Another maid next to her tapped her on the shoulder.

“It is, though. You are listening.”

“You must know first, right? Even the famous wizards fail to heal, the divine power doesn’t work, and the witches come up with the wrong solution….”

With a squeaking sound, the maid twists and squeezes the wet towel.

“At this point, we did our best. How many days have you been nursing the impostor all night?”

Damn it.

She wanted to mutter that, but she couldn’t even afford to purse her lips. As her maid said, Scarlett was well aware of her condition.

Today is the day.

The word “Today” Is too long.

Sooner or later you will stop breathing. For sure.

In my mind, I want to endure even for one more second.

Memories that flowed in every second, emotions that came back every second. This is because I wanted to finish reading with a little more feeling of those things.

‘I can’t remember….’

Isn’t it because he overcame this period that he has the confidence he has now as a knight of the flames?

How the hell did he overcome and survive such a terrible curse?

… Anyway, I don’t remember.

Then I heard the door slam open.

“Move aside for a moment. Don’t let anyone in.”

What I hear is Flan’s voice. At the same time, the sounds of the maids leaving the room were heard.

Turning her head slightly to the side, she saw Flan staring at her.

“….”

He didn’t say anything. Just stick to Scarlett who struggles in pain and stay still.

“… Why.”

“….”

Even if I talk to her, no answer comes back.

Now, she didn’t have the energy to ask Scarlett back. She breathes heavily and closes her eyes. She could only focus on getting through her pain like that.

I finally heard Plan’s voice.

“Now, this is really the only way.”

His voice was firm. It was as if he had made up his own will.

Beep—

Meanwhile, his tinnitus only grew. Her head began to burn with high heat, and Scarlett’s mind also went into a stupor.

Meanwhile, Scarlett realized something about her.

“Room…. Law… ?”

It’s not because I don’t know, I asked it back because I thought it wouldn’t be possible.

The reason Scarlett has been able to exist as a knight of the flames. If the reason fits the guess she came up with….

“Right. Scarlett.”

As if Scarlett was right, Flan nodded her head slowly.

“I’ll hand over my incandescence. That is the only way.”

Burning.

Was this how you came to handle flames?

As soon as I heard that, my heart pounded and my legs trembled. The eyes shook like crazy as if there was an earthquake.

“Okay? Leave it to me.”

At Plan’s words, Scarlett shook her head as if it was broken. Even though her body didn’t move very well, she somehow stirred.

“No, no. No. That’s not allowed….”

“Why?”

Plan asked.

Scarlett couldn’t come up with a clear answer.

She couldn’t even understand her own thoughts, and she didn’t even have the energy to express them. Even at this moment, every breath felt like the last.

The boy watched Scarlett carefully.

And soon after, she nodded. As if she understood everything she was thinking.

“Aha.”

Beep

However, the curse did not allow the two to continue their conversation. The tinnitus sounds like a tear in the ears.

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Beep

Scarlett looked at Flan’s face even as she seemed to lose consciousness. Plan smiled as if to reassure her.

“….”

A fleeting moment.

Like a kaleidoscope passing by, the world slowed down.

At the same time, Scarlett was afraid.

Even if the person in front of her was only a fragment of her memory, Scarlett wanted to talk a little more. There were many things she wanted to ask and she wanted to make sure of them all.

Even if I get her memories back, if I finish browsing like this, I won’t have another chance to talk to Plan at this time.

“It’s okay. Scarlett.”

“… !”

Calling her own name in her warm tone, Flanne placed her palm on her Scarlett’s crown.

She met Flan’s face. He was smiling at himself.

“Even if there is no such thing as a unique ability.”

The world is becoming blurred.

Scarlett tried to look at Flan’s face.

In the midst of the whitening field of vision, his face is exceptionally bizarrely clear.

His smile, his voice, his expression. Scarlett had forgotten everything about her. At the same time, she realized that she had never given Plan a face like that.

“Anytime, I am always flan. You know?”

“….”

Scarlett is at a loss for what to say.

She

She forgot what she was going to say.

All memories came back.

I bit her lower lip until the blood burst, barely holding back the torrent of emotions that surged like waves.

“It was…. Goa….”

No, I couldn’t stand it. Her body started vibrating very loudly. The voice is thin, as if it would break at any moment.

“It was like that….”

The more I endured, the stronger the torrent of emotions grew, reaching the size of an irresistible tidal wave.

“You give me that kind of face and that kind of voice.”

Something hot ran down her cheeks.

“I told you that….”

Plan grabbed Scarlett’s hand.

The girl looked at the boy quietly. Inside Scarlett’s body, an extremely warm flame began to enter.

“Hello, Scarlett.”

A brief greeting from Plan.

Shoot aaa~

Her eyes went white, and the [Reading] Came to an end.

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“Ugh—!”

Right after she finished browsing and jumped out of the portrait, Scarlett vomited up a handful of blood.

“Ugh, ugh.”

Gradually, reality and fantasy are not easily distinguished. It was because her mental power was consumed so greatly.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa….”

Scarlett staggered and ended up leaning her body against the wall. Although she was physically exhausted, the impact she received mentally was so enormous that it could not even be compared with it.

“It was dangerous.”

A fragment of Libra muttered.

“To drift forever in memory. If you had come a little later, it would have really happened.”

Scarlett didn’t look up yet.

There were so many questions left of her.

Why did she never question the fact that she was Judith’s eldest daughter?

How did she forget the existence of flan?

… Why did she hate him so much.

“Can you give it back?”

A fragment of Libra held out one of her hands.

“This is enough for reading. No, nothing more than this is impossible. The main body warned her over and over that if she overdid it, she would lose her life.”

“Yes.”

Scarlett nodded her head.

She slowly raised her sword.

However.

“Even if I die….”

She didn’t lift it to give it back.

“I need to know the truth.”

The moment she muttered, the moment she blinked, the blade of the sword plunged deep into Plan’s portrait.

“… !”

A fragment of Libra raised her eyes.

“No! She might lose her life… “

I couldn’t even hear what she had to say.

Scarlett felt her mind wandering once more, and she was sucked into the portrait of Flan.

Her bones are being crushed and the nerves throughout her body seem to be cut off. It was more painful than her death, but she endured by clenching her gearkoi.

And finally.

─The scorching heat was successfully transplanted.

Libra’s calm voice.

The time is a quiet dawn.

The space is Judith’s mansion.

─However, most of the energy is being used to offset the curse. Even if Scarlett’s flame burns, she will only stay in the embers.

As expected, Plan passed on her scorching heat to the Scarlet Crab.

Why the hell did Plan make that choice? Scarlett didn’t even have the strength to shake her head.

And this browsing isn’t over yet.

─I also tried my hand at the memory. Plan, will you be satisfied with this?

Even Libra’s voice was mixed with a little embarrassment. Theodore quietly nods her head.

─I can’t let the scorching heat leak out of Judith. Scarlett has no relatives left anyway, and it would be best for both of them to let her live as Judith’s eldest daughter.

─Not you, I asked Plan.

Libra and Theodore’s eyes turn to Plan. Scarlett also waited for his answer.

Plan doesn’t open her mouth.

His entire body was covered with bandages. It was red all over the place, so it was a look that didn’t look normal at all.

Libra’s face became more serious.

─You have to live by calling your fiancé your sister from now on. Won’t you regret it?

Scarlett stumbled and pressed against the wall.

She thought she was prepared to face anything.

It was an illusion.

A thumping heart and a parched mouth. Her head feels like it’s about to explode, and her cold sweat drenches her whole body.

─Of course, there are things I regret.

A word from flan.

Scarlett swallowed her saliva. Even in the midst of the pain, I could feel the fishy taste of blood.

─I regret holding the sword.

─Why is that?

The owner of the questioning voice is Evelyn Judith. Scarlett’s mother…. No, it was just a burning article.

─I realized that a sword does not exist to protect something.

Plann quietly looks down at her palm.

─In the end, it was her unique ability that saved Scarlett. It’s not my swordsmanship. As a knight, my only goal is to cut down Scarlett’s enemies.

─You realized that.

Evelyn nodded her head. She had a very happy face.

─From now on, I want to do something that truly protects my precious things. Something close to a miracle.

─Proof of protecting something important, good. And it must have been magic.

Magic.

Magic?

Evelyn stares at the open notebook on one side of his desk. Scarlett’s expression as she looks at such Evelyn becomes even more dazed.

What are you listening to? Can I listen to it? I even started thinking about it.

“The method, magic… ?”

The moment Scarlett muttered that.

─Yes. I’ll cheer you on, Plan.

Evelyn taps him on the shoulder.

─As you wish, please protect Scarlett.

“… ?”

Scarlett tilts her head. I couldn’t understand the situation at all, so my expression naturally twisted.

But her eyes rolled instinctively.

A boy’s diary comes into view.

─I want to become a great wizard.

In the boy’s diary, it was written like that.