The dreamer’s hallucinations were broken.
Vera opened his eyes on the bed in the dormitory, staring blankly at the ceiling and regained his composure.
There was a tremor that still hadn’t left.
It was the feeling of that moment when he stabbed her heart with his own hand.
Vera closed his eyes for a moment, then took a long deep breath to calm the tremor, got up and started walking out the door.
I stuttered to the next building, and in front of the door to a room somewhere in there.
Vera stared at the tightly closed door and slowly raised his hand and knocked on the door with a ‘tick’.
“Lady, are you there?”
-Come on in.
A muffled voice rang out from within.
Vera slowly turned the doorknob to enter, then looked at Renee, who was sitting on the bed.
It’s like someone who just woke up.
It was just like that with her fluffy white hair, her expression full of dazed look, and her blue pupils that couldn’t focus.
Vera looked at it for a moment, then went up to her in a loud voice and asked:
“… Were you not hurt?”
“Yes, how about outside now?”
“The sun is just rising. It doesn’t look like it’s been a long time since the Grimore has been up and running.”
“That’s fortunate.”
“It really is.”
Vera nodded and looked out the window.
Under the little blue sky, students in pajamas jumped out from the front door of the academy’s dormitory and looked around.
A look full of bewilderment.
Vera looked at it and added one more word.
“… It can also end with a happening.”
It must have been a bizarre night where everyone had an impressive dream, fortunately, it was an atmosphere where we could say that and move on.
Renee nodded slightly at Vera’s words, then slowly reached out and placed her hand on the back of Vera’s.
“… Is Vera okay?”
It was about what Vera had done the moment the hallucinations ended.
Maybe it was somehow hurt. Maybe he was forced to come out to take care of himself while he was in pain.
With that in mind, Vera’s eyes widened for a moment before answering the question with a small smile.
“I am okay. Thank you for your consideration.”
As he spoke, he held Renee’s hand.
It was in the midst of raising gratitude inside.
It was thanks to Renee who stood by my side at that moment so that I could close the past on my own.
*
A few hours later, after confirming that each other was okay, the two separated again and prepared to sit on the terrace in a corner of the academy and organize their experiences.
“For now, the next destination has been decided.”
Renee’s words.
Vera nodded his head to answer it.
“Yeah, whatever it is, you’ll have to go to Maleus to get that ‘coffin’.”
It was a story about the words Renee uttered in the 1st episode just before the hallucination broke, and while the extinction continued.
Go to Maleus and get the ‘Coffin’.
It was an object that temporarily resurrected Vera, who died in the last episode, and at the same time, it was an object that would be a clue to the last episode, which is immediately shrouded in the unknown.
Renee’s expression softened.
“… Maleus.”
“In the eastern end, in the cradle of the dead.”
“Ugh… .”
let out a sigh
“Am I out on a pilgrimage or to see an ancient bell… .”
Words spoken with a smirk.
As Renee spoke, he remembered the idea of a very plausible metaphor.
Isn’t that right?
Terdan, Aedrin, Orgus, and the clone of Alaysia that I saw in the Empire, now even ‘Maleus, King of Rotten Flesh’ in the Cradle of the Dead.
It’s already five. And if we went like this, we might end up meeting all nine.
“Did anyone go to the cradle of the dead and come back alive?”
“… It was not without it, but in history, I remember that those who returned were also sick and died.”
Vera continued with a look of trouble.
“… There must be a way, so go there.”
That means it doesn’t catch on.
tock. tock.
As my thoughts continued, my fingertips, which I had moved unknowingly, tapped on the table.
Vera pondered for a long time, and finally came up with an answer.
“I think we need to gather information first. After all, the academy is where we are, so it won’t be too difficult to find it.”
“Yeah, that’s nice. next… .”
Renee blurted the tail for a while, then added those words.
“… After all, the Demon King was also an ancient species. You have to look at it that way, right?”
The traces of the Demon King who followed their path all the way.
It was about them.
Vera nodded in response to Renee’s words.
“It would be fair to look at it that way. Considering the actions of other ancient servants in the past history that she has shown, it can be said that the Demon King was also called out as an ancient servant.”
Fortunately, he was able to extract the true identity of the Demon King through the elimination method.
“… Ardain.”
Ardein, the eternal sacrifice.
God’s first creation, and at the same time, the last creation.
An ancient species shrouded in unknowns with as little information as Orgus.
He will be the Demon King.
“It’s a mountain beyond a mountain.”
“Obviously there will be a way out. She probably didn’t bring me back without any measures.”
“… A naughty woman.”
While speaking, Renee, who suddenly frowned, uttered such a mumble.
Vera’s body trembled at that.
Because there was something that came to mind in that color.
– Hurry up and get out.
At the last moment of the hallucination, the image of René speaking with crossed legs crossed as if trying to deal with a nuisance is played back in Vera’s mind.
‘… How did you get here?’
It reminds me of how he seems to be becoming more and more violent.
Vera, who was thinking about the cause, thought to himself, ‘Maybe this is my influence,’ and then shook his head to shake his head.
‘… not.’
It is true that he has a violent personality, but he was very careful in front of Renee, so it was not his fault.
Vera struggled to come up with that rationalization.
… Like most humans, Vera was a man who could not hold himself to the strictest standards.
*
“Oh my gosh… ! Are you here!”
Private laboratory in the faculty building.
In the middle of the room, which was cluttered enough to show at a glance that the owner of the room is a person who lives by organizing and building walls, Miller greeted the two with an awkward tone.
Red curly hair flowing with oil from not washing properly, and messy troubles on the face that I don’t know if it’s dirt or freckles.
Even the eyes that roll Vera up and down as they roll to the peak of the fire.
Vera frowned at the sight and waved goodbye.
“Did you have a good last night?”
“Yeah, what… .”
It was an answer that I did while sweating profusely as if something was stabbing me.
As to where the sign came from, everyone in the room knew.
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Of course, he was afraid that Grimore’s runaway would be found out by others.
As a person aiming to become the academy’s head professor, wouldn’t it be troublesome if the academics found out that the grimore exploded due to his own management mistake?
Vera stifled a sigh that was about to burst, and continued.
“… I came here because I wanted to ask something.”
“yes? ah! You have to ask me anything! Well then! I am very kind! We will ‘explain’ each and every detail!”
Miller’s face, as he spoke, had an unconcealable sense of anxiety and a hint of doubt.
Naturally, there were doubts about Vera’s reaction to Grimour’s blood.
Miller, unaware of the series of events related to Rene in Episode 1, thought.
‘It’s so suspicious… .’
The mere sprinkling of blood gave Grimour the same reaction.
That is, the grimore was originally reserved for Vera.
At this time, more than several hundred years after the ghost’s extinction, the Grimoire was prepared for a man who had just become an adult.
Isn’t that too suspicious?
As the thoughts continued, the growing doubts began to change into curiosity.
‘… perhaps.’
Maybe he’s immersed in some very big plan right now.
Maybe that man is at the center of that plan.
Miller’s heart pounded.
As a scholar who studies magic that has been passed down since creation, it was an expectation that came to mind while facing the unknown.
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Of course, Vera’s ignorant face was frowned even more harshly.
‘I have to finish my business as soon as possible and leave.’
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Only those thoughts began to fill my head.
So Vera asked.
“Is it possible to alter human memory or cognition through magical processing?”
It was about one of the things I was thinking about with Renee.
A memory of himself that there is no place to believe right now. While he was thinking about how to find it, he remembered Miller he had seen in a hallucination and came here to ask a question.
Miller might know something.
Wasn’t Rene, who was related to the ‘coffin’ and hid herself from the public at the same time, the only person who sought help?
In response to the question posed from such a thought, it must have been someone who contributed to the twisting of the memory.
“… right? There are so many related magic that I need to dig into my major.”
He gave a really cool answer.
Vera and Renee’s bodies shook at the same time.
His expression brightened up a bit.
Renee, who had been keeping her mouth shut until then, asked Miller with a bright voice.
“Then, do you know any way to recover the distorted memory?”
A question I asked in urgency, thinking that maybe things might be solved easier than I thought.
Miller paused for a moment to ponder the question, then nodded slightly.
“It’s possible, but… .”
“But?”
“Is it difficult?”
It seemed a little troubled, and he said it while scratching his head.
“Is that so? No matter what you do, fixing it is much harder than breaking it, right? So is memory. If you want to mess it up, you can just tear it off and knead it… To fix it, I had to go back and put it back one by one.”
“ah… .”
A sigh filled with regret escaped Renee’s mouth.
Miller added, feeling a sense of embarrassment about it.
“But why are you asking that?”
asking why.
Vera thought for a moment, ‘Should I tell the truth?’
‘… The fact of the regression, and about the saint of the last episode, the fewer people you know, the better.’
Since you don’t know what variables they will lead to, it’s good to hide them for now.
However, if you do not say anything, the work itself will not proceed.
Vera continued to ponder, and began to assemble the words he had given him inside.
Mixing up the truth, but hiding the most important part.
“There seems to be a problem with my memory.”
“Yes?”
“It was like seeing hallucinations in Grimore. Hallucinations are obviously based on memory, and strangely, things that I didn’t know were constantly unfolding before my eyes.”
Miller’s pupils dilated greatly at the words he spoke.
‘What do you really have?’
It was because of such a surprise that the ‘giant plan through Vera’ that he had envisioned might exist.
Miller opened his mouth wide and answered quickly with a look of surprise and excitement.
“If that’s the case, I’ll help!”
“Yes?”
“I! I know how to do it! I’ll fix your memory! Please join me too!”
It was like a child with a new toy in front of him, running around and saying it.
Vera, who was trembling at the seemingly absurd appearance, then asked such a question.
“… How are you doing?”
A deep smile crept across Miller’s lips.
“It’s making Kyungsoo dementia.”
Renee’s face made a blank expression.
“… yes?”
“Ah, that’s the analogy. So hypnosis temporarily erases the memory of the present, bringing out Sir Vera’s past. That’s how we cross-check with reality to find the wrong parts of our memories one by one and put them back together.”
It was something the two of them did not understand well.
Therefore, his expression began to blur a little, and Miller, who saw it, unraveled it again and added an explanation.
“Oh, so! That’s it! By shamanism, Sir Vera’s past is brought out in the form of a personality! Observe the Vera wonders of the past and check the facts that are different from what you remember!”
This time, the explanation was a little more clarified.
It cracked Vera’s expression.
Because it was then that I understood what he meant.
‘… now.’
I will hypnotize myself and bring out the personality of the last episode.
Miller was saying that.