Irina, who had a blank expression on her face for a while, began to mumble in a low voice.
“Hey, what’s this memory…? Why, I’ve been doing this…”
Kania, who looked at her quietly, sighed and asked a question.
“You were the person who noticed Young Master’s false evil, Irina-san, right?”
Irina, who had confused eyes at those words, nodded slowly and clasped her hands.
“Then… Frey is trying to protect me… his mother…”
“Yongke remembered it too. Young Master had to access his subconscious mind to recall it.”
“Ahh…”
“Is it because the memory is manipulated in a way that is different from the Young Master and me? Even when I entered this room, I couldn’t remember anything. Well, I know the truth, so I don’t need to explain it painfully.”
As Kania spoke calmly, Irina sat down with a completely soulless expression on her face.
“I didn’t want to know the truth…”
“Me too. I feel so guilty right now, I want to confess everything to Young Master and make atonement.”
Seeing Irina like that, Kania, who sat across from her, began to speak in a low voice.
“However, this shouldn’t be known to the Young Master until it’s all over.”
“Uh, that’s…”
“Young Master always says it’s okay, but… I think Young Master’s mental state is at its limit. If you’ve been with us for a day or so, you’ll understand.”
As Irina’s expression darkened as she recalled Frey’s face in a vision at those words, Kania sighed as if she knew it would.
“Besides, there are still many trials that Young Master will face in the future. The first trial is only coming to an end… I’m honestly afraid of what comes next.”
“…
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Eventually, when Kania mentioned the ‘trial’, Irina bowed her head and began to tremble.
“…Irina-san, can I ask you a favor?”
“What…”
Kania, who had been staring at Irina like that, asked quietly, and Irina responded with a voice that had run out of energy.
“Please don’t blame the Young Master too much.”
“What?”
After speaking to Irina with a bitter expression on her face, Kania let out a deep sigh and continued her conversation.
“There is no one in the world as pitiful as the Young Master. So, please don’t hate me too much.”
“…under.”
Looking at Kania, who earnestly begs her not to, even if she asks for help, complaining about the lack of help, Irina could roughly guess how lonely the two of them had been in their fight.
“Tell me everything you know.”
“yes?”
And, that’s why she finally came up with an answer.
“I want to know the more detailed truth.”
The answer to whether you will turn away from the truth and run away, or accept it and become your strength.
“It’s not going to be an easy road. Every moment will be painful, and sometimes there will be impulsive thoughts.”
“I do not care.”
“Really, are you ready to be together?”
Looking at her like that, Kania asked again and again until the end.
Above all else, knowing how painful it is to choose this lonely path that no one knows about, despite the urgent need of a colleague, implicitly expressed sympathy and compassion.
But even Kania like that already knew inside.
“Come on, let me know.”
It means that Irina, who has already made up her eyes, will never change her will.
“ha…”
After hearing Irina’s confirmation, Kania let out a sigh of relief and resignation, then looked straight at Irina, who had the same appearance as herself, and said:
“Well then, let’s get started.”
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“Ha… Okay, what else this time?”
As I was grabbing my head in the room I followed Arya into, I collapsed and found myself in a closed, dark space I terribly hated.
“Uh… no, no, no.”
Tired of this, I laid down on the floor, and immediately began to laugh and mutter.
“Still, it’s good for mental training.”
In the old days, when I only entered a space like this, my hands were shaking and I had trouble breathing.
Not only that, I was able to train my mind by watching many other terrible scenes, I had a birthday party, and I got to meet my mother.
Looking at that, the ordeal of the system is still for the purpose of making me stronger…
“Fh, Frey…”
“…Ugh.”
I was trying to compliment the system somehow, but my mother appeared in front of me with a fatal wound. After all, the system guy must be a bastard who can’t do business with him.
Thanks to that, I felt a little uncomfortable, but I can’t make my mentality explode just by showing a scene like that. First of all, isn’t that just a fantasy?
“Help me… Frey…”
“My mother never asked for help, you idiot system.”
Having said that, pushing away the illusion of reaching out to me, I sighed and fell into thoughts.
“By the way… we’ll have to find out who the hell noticed…”
I still haven’t figured out who noticed me, so I’m starting to get nervous.
At least I found out that Irina and Clana were ‘suspecting’ me with their ‘mind reading’ skill, but even if that’s not enough, it’s not enough.
“Ha… Should I buy the mind reading skill LV2? No, the vitality recovery skill is more urgent than that.”
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Even if you push the earning points into the family investment system, it will be quite a serious loss to buy a skill that is tens of thousands of points.
However, there are pros and cons, so you have to think a little about this part as well…
– Grip Jijik!!
“Child, great.”
After thinking for a while, I started hearing a roar in front of me.
“under…”
When I asked what kind of fantasy he would show me this time, my mother was running through the forest holding something.
“…Now I’m giving it a story.”
The system, which I thought would tremble because of trauma if I threw my mother’s body, seemed to have been properly prepared when I reacted with anger.
– Crazy! Crazy!
“Ugh.”
The mother, who was running with wounds all over her body, hurriedly radiated stellar mana when a black energy flew from behind and threw her body aside.
“Ugh…”
The mother, who managed to avoid the dark energy, continued to run to somewhere.
“I can’t… as long as it’s like this…”
Mother, who had been running for such a long time, suddenly looked down at what she was holding and started talking.
“Umm… Mom?”
“…Shh.”
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Eventually, when I heard my voice as a child, I could only recognize what my mother was holding and running.
“My Frey, would you like to play hide and seek with your mother?”
“Yeah! I want to play hide and seek!”
When the young me answered brightly, my mother said with a soft smile.
“Okay, then Mom will talk to you.”
“Because I want to talk?”
“You’ve already done it once before.”
Hearing that, the young me put on a prickly expression on my face, and my mother said with a sly smile.
“Instead, I’ll just let you talk to me from now on.”
Then, when I smiled, my mother put me down and opened her mouth.
“I’m going to change the rules this time, Frey.”
“Change the rules?”
“Yeah, our clever Frey will understand right away, right?”
As I nodded, my eyes lit up, my mother quickly began explaining the rules.
“Mom is counting to 100 here, so Frey is running and counting to 100. Did you understand this far?”
“Of course!”
As I shouted confidently, my mother continued, stroking my young hair.
“When you count to 100, you must stop moving and hide from what is around you. And, you must never reveal yourself.”
“yes!”
My mother, who was still looking at me, who was still answering brightly, suddenly closed her eyes tightly and hugged me.
“Mom, why are you suddenly like this?”
When I asked with a smile on my face at such an action, my mother, who had been silent for a while, answered with a trembling voice.
“The game ends only when Mom finds Frey and hugs her tightly like this. Did you understand everything?”
“I understand everything!”
“Yeah, if you resist with a wooden stick like last time, you’re prepared to eat it up, aren’t you?”
“Hehe.”
I smiled brightly at those words, and when I tried to run forward, my mother stopped by holding my arm for a moment, and added in a low voice.
“I love you, my son.”
“me too!”
With those words, my mother, who had let me go as a child, gathered star mana in her hand and muttered as she walked in the opposite direction from where she had run so far.
“…So you must survive.”
And the next moment, my vision began to see a narrow, dark room again.
“f*ck.”
After witnessing the scene made quite plausible, I frowned and muttered.
“…well, anyway, it’s just a fantasy.”
Suddenly, I remembered the scene I saw in my last dream, where my mother told Irina to hide.
If that’s true, that explains why my memory was manipulated into a memory of hide and seek, but
Although I am guessing the truth to some extent,
Anyway, that’s just a fantasy. It’s the ‘illusion’ that the system shows to make me painful and annoyed.
So, seeing an illusion created for such a frivolous purpose does not harm me at all.
It will be.
“Fray.”
As I was thinking about it, my surroundings suddenly became blurred and someone’s voice began to be heard.
‘Ah, I see it’s time to wake up slowly.’
At the same time, I felt my head clearing up, realizing that it was time to wake up from the illusion, I quietly opened my eyes.
“Good morning?”
Then, someone who had been staring down at me came into my sight.
“Ugh… the head.”
For some reason, looking at the unknown being, I felt a pain in my head for a moment and looked around, then muttered with a grin.
“What, is this an illusion?”
“What do you mean?”
As someone tilted their head at my words and asked, I pointed over there and said.
“You know there’s Irina over there wearing Kania’s clothes, right?”
“I see.”
“Even if it’s too tight, I’m pulling my suit off… fu-h-h-h-h-h-hh…”
I smiled at Irina, who had been quietly bowing her head for a while, then realized that Kania, who was next to her, was talking to Irina.
“…that’s all the story Young Master has been through so far.”
“Ahhh…”
Seeing that, I began to approach the two of them who were sitting at the desk hurriedly, with a look on my face that was getting more and more frightened.
“I’m sorry… Frey.”
Her eyes were red and bloodshot, and her nose was red, and there were tears marks on her face.
As soon as I saw that, everything that had happened so far began to be organized in my mind.
A shelter that was somehow familiar, Kania who had a different reaction than usual, Kania that Irina caught when she was young, and a forest full of memories with Irina when she was young.
“ha ha ha…”
I quickly grasped the truth because of the needlessly fast-moving head, and immediately began to laugh.
“Ha ha… ah ha ha…”
After laughing for a long time, I asked Irina, who had her head bowed, in a low voice.
“Were you the one who discovered my false evil two months ago?”
“Fray, my… I’m wrong… uh…”
However, she was just crying with tears in her eyes.
“No, you don’t have to feel guilty…”
I reached out to comfort her, but…
“…what?”
For some reason, my hand passed through Irina’s shoulder.
“What, what is this?”
I was so embarrassed by this that I hurriedly removed my hand from her shoulder and then touched my hand with the other, which, as it should have been, passed through each other instead of intertwining.
“…I’m dead?”
“Okay.”
I stared blankly at him for a while and muttered in a dismayed voice, then turned my gaze to the side when someone next to me responded to my words.
“What, what? You?”
However, it was impossible to figure out who it was because its entire body was shining, so when I asked with a frown, the being slowly opened its mouth.
“First, take a good look at what’s going on.”
And as soon as Kania had finished saying those words, Kania opened her mouth, so I turned my gaze again and started looking at the two of them who were sitting at the desk.
“Irina, are you really going to do that?”
“…Yeah, that’s the only way to avoid the ‘curse’ you’re talking about and do anything to help Frey.”
“Yes, I see. Then…”
As Irina, who had already stopped crying, spoke with a determined expression on her face, Kania began to wiggle her hands carefully.
“Ugh…!”
Then, the huge black magic above the room began to be sucked into Irina’s body.
“Irina-san, I’ll say it again… This method is to force black magic into a mana circuit that has been dried and twisted by mana exhaustion, so it’s a lot of pain…”
“Whatever it is, it won’t be any less than the pain Frey felt.”
“Then, be patient.”
Kania, who warned Irina once more before long, began to infuse black magic into Irina even faster.
“Ugh…! Ugh…”
“I’m sorry. It would have been a little less painful if I had added my black magic.”
“With the black magic you have… you don’t even have to accumulate a few years. It should be about the same black magic over there… Success… Awesome!”
After absorbing black magic for a long time, Irina eventually fell on her desk and began to tremble.
“Maybe… before the mana exhaustion period is over, fill the mana circuit with black magic to deceive the system?”
As I watched the scene, I realized their plans and began to stick my tongue out.
Because such a thing is mana exhaustion and only Irina, who has a natural sense of mana management, can try it, and things can go wrong.
If that black magic ritual fails, the mana circuits in Irina’s body may be permanently damaged, rendering her mana disabled.
The inability to mana that wizards fear more than death.
“Ahhh!!”
“Hold on a little longer, Irina. It’s almost done.”
As I was thinking about that, Illa, who was in front of me, suddenly started to scream terrible.
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Embarrassed by this, I tried to run to her, but soon looked down at the hands still passing through each other, realizing that they were of no help now, and quietly began to observe the result.
“Uh uh… uh…
“Are you okay? Irina-san?”
After a long time passed, as black smoke began to rise from Irina, Kania cautiously turned to her and asked a question.
“Because this is… nothing.”
Then, the mana circuits all over her body were dyed black, and Irina, who appeared all over her body like blood vessels, exhaled her harsh breath and answered.
“…a ceremonial success.”
Then Kania sighed and sat down on her seat, wiping the cold sweat from her forehead as she answered.
“Now then, the Young Master and the young lady…”
The two of them held their breath for a while, then turned to the bed where Aria and I were lying, but…
– Whoa, whoa…
“…what?”
For some reason, I started to panic when the dark energy that appeared from somewhere began to seep into me, who was still lying in bed, and Arya, who was sleeping soundly.
“Joe, why can’t you control it?”
Confused at the sight, Kania hurriedly stretched out her hand, but for some reason the black magic couldn’t be controlled, so she panicked and started running to the bed.
– Bubbly!!
“…hot!”
However, when Arya suddenly got up and spewed star mana from her hand, Kania rushed back and asked a question in a tense voice.
“Lady? Why are you like this?”
Then, Aria, who looked at her like that, raised the corners of her lips…
– Bubbly Bubbly!!
“Ugh!!”
Soon after, indiscriminately, he began to pour star flashes at Kania.
“This, how did this happen?”
And when everything stopped at that point, I started looking around with a confused look.
“It is thought.”
“yes?”
Then, someone who had been by my side until then started talking quietly.
“The thoughts of two people who died in an accident while searching for foolish truth were mixed with black magic, and when the black magic disappeared, it was revealed.”
“Uh, that’s…”
“Even if it was a thought, it seems that desire has not disappeared. Seeing you and your brother as hosts.”
“ah…”
Having understood the situation roughly with those words, I sighed and said.
“Then am I dead?”
“No, now I’m just losing control of my body.”
“okay.”
As I silently nodded and stared blankly at the moment I stopped, the existence next to me asked a question.
“Do you want to give up?”
Hearing that, I frowned and looked to the side, and the being began to speak in a soft tone.
“From now on, it’s only up to you.”
“Is it my choice?”
“Yeah, it all depends on that choice.”
Saying that, the being began to approach me, and I asked the being with a calm expression.
“What if I give up here?”
“Eternal rest. Maybe, it’ll feel pretty good.”
“okay.”
I nodded quietly, and the being continued speaking in a soft voice.
“No one will blame you. You did your best, and you deserve it…”
“What if I keep moving forward?”
But when he stopped talking and asked the question again, the being answered with a dry voice.
“It must be a series of hardships and adversity.”
Hearing those words, I closed my eyes tiredly, and the being hurriedly added words.
“Maybe we may end up in a more absurd, more terrible situation than we are now… We may face the end without making such a choice. Still…”
“Okay, give me a hug.”
I cut off the words of that existence once more and said with a smile.
“I’ll try drinking too.”
Then the light that flashed in front of me spread out in all directions and started to brighten up the room.
“…how did you know?”
And then, with the twinkling light spreading everywhere, the woman who appeared in my sight tilted her head and asked a question, and I slowly approached her and began to give her an answer.
“The ceiling is full of black magic, and light coming into the room means that there is something more powerful than that energy on top of the black magic…”
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Eventually, I hugged my mother who appeared in front of me in an intact form, and I ended the conversation with a bright smile.
“Above all, you care so much about me, how can you not recognize me?”
“You’ve grown up straight.”
I hugged my mother for such a long time, and I muttered quietly as I felt the warmth of warmth and the light that had spread all over the place seep into me.
“I will definitely survive.”
Then my mother, who slowly became a piece of light and penetrated me, replied with a grin.
“Then, whose son is that?”
After saying that, my mother completely permeated my body with the mana of the stars that had filled the ceiling, and immediately after that, a system window appeared in front of me.
[The first trial ends early!]
[If the following conditions are met…]
“Girl.”
Having removed the system window right in front of my eyes, I muttered softly, feeling the scene around me gradually changing.
“…where you dare put a spoon.”
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“Do, Young Master! Lady!”
When he came to his senses, a rather gruesome scene was unfolding before his eyes.
“Ugh…”
“Calm down! Please!”
It was because Kania and Irina were lying on the floor of a half-broken room, full of shit, Arya was approaching them with a lot of black magic, and I was surrounded by the mana of the twinkling stars.
“Please…! Please…!”
“Cania.”
With a desperate expression on my face, I called Kania, who was trying to stop me and Arya somehow, in a low voice.
“I know that?”
“yes?”
When I suddenly asked in a calm voice, who had been violently attacking her up until now, Kania began to make a bewildered expression on her face.
“I mean…”
As I stared at her like that, I stretched out my hand upwards and finished the conversation with a grin.
“…I’ve always wanted to try magic once in a while.”
And in the next moment, the twinkling flashes of light from my hand enveloped everything except Kania and Irina in an instant.
– Shaah…
Then, the black magic spread in the room began to be purified in an instant, and Arya, who was approaching Kania and Irina, lost her mind and fell to the floor.
– Shoo!
After a while, a black sphere popped out of Arya’s body and started flying towards me with bullet-like speed.
“Still, I’m still more familiar with the sword.”