Chapter 22 – 22. Spreading Wings and Leaving the Nest (4)
The house where I was born and raised until I left to catch the demon lord.
Dawn Bringer Mansion.
A place of memories where even though I spent my childhood without a mother, I had no sad memories.
To me, my father was a wizard and teacher I could respect, a father and friend, and someone I wanted to be with for a long time. Even though he always came home crying because the kids were teasing him, he just told his son that he was sorry and told him to be confident.
If there’s a bastard making fun of her because she doesn’t have a mother, she tells her to beat up the cubs who act like they don’t have a mother.
He was a cheerful father in his own way, and above all, he did not spare anything for his children, but he was a father who got angry and scolded his children when they did something wrong.
When Yeshi brought Anna right to her, she settled her magic circuit into Anna’s body.
Memories of being scolded to the point of tears for the first time, demanding to know what you had done and what you had done to satisfy your curiosity towards a single person.
You have arbitrarily fixed a person’s life as a ‘wizard’, so take responsibility for it.
How shocked I was when he told me that I would never think of you as my son again if I didn’t take responsibility for it.
In other words, it was my father’s strict education and discipline.
Perhaps, if I hadn’t held on to the reins at that time, I would have become a crazy person who wouldn’t hesitate to experiment on humans just for the sake of curiosity. In any case, the reason I brought Anna was mainly because of interest, and I continued to keep an eye on it, staying with my father who guided me on the right path, and to this place full of dreams and memories of spending time with my family for the first time in 7 years. Come back.
…
A ruined mansion.
A house that was broken and collapsed here and there. And only the traces of the old furniture showed that they were traces of the house I used to live in. Seeing my house, which I had returned to after a long time, in such ruin, the Magia archons, the priests of the Solias Church, and Medea’s madness. Was able to guess.
“…This is Clark’s house?”
“…It was a house.”
“Clarke, that’s sad.”
Lucy seems to have read the sadness in my words and pats my shoulder to comfort me. I also nodded and did not deny it this time.
It was truly completely destroyed. These bastards.
It’s tempting to want to find them right now and destroy them all over again, but I’ve already taken everything that could be taken from them, and the lives of those involved have been taken, rejected, and those who tried to run away have all been consumed by my sister.
The same goes for the bastards in the church, and I responded by burning them all to the ground as soon as the bastards who bowed down in front of Gilgamesh called the Inquisitors and Holy Knights to kill them.
“Clarke…”
And my sister looks at me with sad eyes.
A tragedy that occurred while my older sister was away for 10 years.
He was called an Archmage, became a professor, raised disciples, went to catch the demon lord to protect his disciples, was chased, lost his father, and had his house destroyed.
My sister also feels complicated seeing the place of old memories being raped and destroyed.
This was a place full of memories for my sister, and it was also a place where she had memories of learning magic from her father.
Even though my sister was not very compatible with her father’s ‘Sun’ and ‘Star’ magic to learn.
That’s why I kicked away the magicians around me who called me incompetent and criticized me, and I believed in my older sister because I knew she could use magic.
Because she didn’t want to see her older sister crying because she was disappointed that she couldn’t even use magic even though she was her father’s daughter.
Having a magic circuit means you can use magic, it’s just that you’re not suited for it.
That’s why I remember looking up the magic of each school that I started learning about.
A memory of the time when I investigated my sister’s magic circuit with direct permission from her sister.
It was taboo among magicians to reveal information about other people’s magic circuits, as it was like showing one’s own foundation, but my sister told me everything about herself, and based on that, I was able to find the magic circuit aptitude that was right for her. I was able to.
I hate seeing my family cry.
That’s why I told her father that I would try it myself, and Anna’s incident prompted me to stay up all night to help my sister.
And I figured out that my sister had an aptitude for black magic, and seeing that in addition to black magic, she also responded to various abysses, curses, and magic, magic circuits, curses, and magic.
In other words, he wanted to give his sister great power after seeing her react to the things of the witches, so he went to Gehenna, and after knocking out all the witches sent to intercept the man in Gehenna, he was able to turn his sister into a wizard and a witch. There was.
My sister thanked me, and through her tears she told me that she would die for me who helped her make her own path. That’s what she said.
I hoped my sister wouldn’t do that.
A sister should live for her sister’s life, but if that becomes a life for someone else, that’s the end of the story.
I was a little kid who just wanted my sister to be happy, and she just wanted her to stop crying.
Because she belonged to Gehenna and left, her older sister was able to avoid disaster here, and in the end, her older sister was the only blood relative she had left.
“When I think about it now, I think she’s lucky that her older sister left Magia and went to Gehenna. If she had stayed here… It would have been difficult for her as well.”
“…On the contrary, I think it would have been better to wait for you here rather than in Gehenna.”
“What happened?”
I also knew that he held a high position in Gehenna.
Starting with the Great Witch, I heard that the demons who made a contract with the Great Witch of Gehenna also thought highly of their sister.
However, looking at my sister’s reaction, it seemed like she was quite regretting going to Gehenna.
And my older sister laughed at that and started talking about it.
“It’s not a big deal. We had a contract anyway, we saw everything we could see, and now the time has come for us to part ways. From the beginning, my place was always by your side, right? Gehenna had its share of interesting things, but I still want you. “I like being by your side the best.”
…
Tsk.
“…It doesn’t seem like a good thing to say it’s nothing special, does it?”
“It’s really no big deal.”
“…”
I know.
Something very unpleasant happened.
And even when my sister was struggling to hide it and use her magic before my eyes caught the accusations of incompetence towards her, she didn’t even say a word to me or even tell her father.
…Well, it’s the same now as it was in the past, my sister.
I knew how much of a hard worker my sister was, and when she gave me direction, the efforts I had made so far immediately paid off, and as a result, I was able to use magic that was several times more powerful than what I could produce with simple destructive power alone, as well as spells or curses to find secrets and special objects. When I first entered Gehenna, showing my talent for Edo, I was the one who played the game, and the great witch who came to subdue me looked at my sister and immediately asked where I got such a genius from.
They said he was not just a genius, but a precious genius.
When her older sister suffered so much, she tried to hide it somehow.
In the end, I guess she thought it was a nuisance to me.
Well, that’s good.
“I’ll just skip it for now.”
“…”
And only then did my sister’s expression harden.
How many years have I known my sister in the first place?
“But I hope you don’t make me worry too much.”
Obviously.
Just as my sister can cook anything for me, the same goes for me.
Just as my sister drowned out every single person who caused me pain and suffering and destroyed Lavinia and the Waitleys, I can do the same.
Just like my father, if what happened to my sister happens to my father, I will never stop, no matter what happens, until this world is destroyed or I die.
“If something happens to my sister, I don’t have the confidence to forgive this world.”
“…!!”
And Solias, who was next to me, was startled. Adramelech is startled and stands in front of Solias, but his sister smiles and hugs me tightly.
For some reason, I could feel joy and even ecstasy in that expression.
The next thing I saw was my sister pulling my head tightly against her chest, and I was holding my head in my sister’s arms, and the smell of roses coming from her body, and my sister was holding me. I hugged him tightly. My sister used to do this in the past too.
…
I got angry for my older sister, and because I didn’t want my older sister, who was part of my family, to be ignored, she gave me a new path for my older sister so that she wouldn’t be ignored.
My older sister hid it so she wouldn’t worry me, but the moment I found out, for the first time in my young mind, I thought about killing something. If my father hadn’t consoled me and told me that it wasn’t for my sister’s benefit, I wouldn’t have spared any of the insults to my sister.
Childhood,
She was the older sister who comforted me when I was persistently bullied for being different from others, and along with her father, she was the only refuge for me as a child.
Stroking my hair, I feel my sister’s warmth. And only after doing that does the boiling murderous intent and anger subside.
As I did not have a mother when I was young, my older sister, who was 5 years older than me, was like a mother to me, and whenever I am around her like this, I feel an indescribable comfort in her. Nevertheless, there were things I was worried about, and the things my sister hid were all things that caused her pain.
However, the difference from before was that I wasn’t trying to force myself to look bright like I did back then, but if it was comforting, it was comforting.
“It’s okay. It’s just that this time it’s a ‘insignificant’ matter that you don’t need to worry about.”
“Really?”
Nod your head. My sister nods confidently and touches her own horn, then pats my head.
“I’m a ‘black goat’? So you don’t have to worry about it, Clark. It’s annoying, but the shit that was mean to me isn’t okay anyway. Before I came to Magia, I was really annoying… And in Gehenna, I was really bothered. “I didn’t kill him because I had fun with him, but it was annoying.”
I don’t know, but it looks like he did quite a bit of shit there too.
“…Don’t hide it for no reason. There’s no reason to hide something that’s annoying.”
“And you?”
“…”
My sister said to me. Of course, the question “Are you okay” Had many connotations, and I couldn’t say anything to my sister’s words.
Contrary to the fact that I was worried about my sister, she was the same way.
“…You mean, you’ve been like that for a long time? You try to look out for others even when you’re hurting yourself. That’s a good thing, though.”
After saying that, he released the hand that was stroking my hair and stroked my face.
“But, you are the one who is having a harder time than anyone else here right now. You came back with all kinds of injuries, and you were almost killed by that monster wearing your father’s skin.”
It was always like that.
Sometimes, my sister would come in like this.
“It means that we are the same as each other. So, you don’t have to act so distant.”
…
And look around.
Even though Champias and Adramelech were like that, Anna and Lucy also looked worried about me, and Anna especially seemed to understand how I felt because she grew up here with me.
“Master, don’t try to bear it alone. The sorrow and pain that you went through when you accepted me here as a house elf… I will join you. Master, don’t bear it alone.”
She also said Anna, whom I brought with her when she was 10 years old. A house fairy, the owner of the house, and a being who becomes so weak that he cannot live properly without a home.
And I accepted her, and she too, this house became her home.
This is her hometown, and she will feel just as much sadness about her hometown being destroyed as I do.
And Lucy said:
Lucy,
A dragon taken over from a fugitive.
She knows that she has some birth secret, she knows what the fugitive said, and so does Lucy.
-Is this bastard who looks like he’s about to die worried about me? Hell, no matter how much I think I’m going to fall behind, I’ll be better off than you, who’s magic circuit has been destroyed and you’re being chased by the gods, you bastard!
Just as he said.
Lucy said the same thing to me.
“…Clarke, you were like that during the journey. Even though you weren’t feeling very well, you were more worried about me. However, you should worry about yourself first. Only when you are healthy can you carry others. “Clark, you carried me and brought me back even though you weren’t feeling well. So, now I’m going to carry you.”
“…”
I had only carried her on my back once, but that time, Lucy had also lost consciousness, and thanks to the fugitive giving me time, I was able to run away with Lucy.
Based on her memories from that time, she said she would give her a piggyback ride as well, but even so, it’s still a bit weird for me to be carried by Lucy.
Let’s just accept that feeling.
My sister giggled after hearing Anna and Lucy’s words, patted my head and said,
“Now, this is the last place we need to clean up. Do you remember the place your father told you to go down and open if there was a big problem in the house, it would be fine no matter what happened? To be honest, you can solve the problem there. “It’s a problem that only you can solve… I’m curious too, but since your father left it for you, it’s only right for you to solve it.”
Nod your head.
Now it is time to open the warehouse, the last legacy left behind by my father.
My father’s inheritance that the consuls robbed, and the inheritance that his priests took away.
After my father was captured three months ago, Seungnyang was taken away in many ways, but most of it was in Magia’s wife, and above all, everything in Magia was recovered, and those who resisted were made into blood clots.
Of course, if you don’t give up the money you bought with money even though you knew it was someone else’s property, you have no choice but to take your life.
If you just give up, they’ll save you, but if you can’t give up, you’ll have to die.
In addition to that, there are also things that went abroad.
I would like to find it, but since that is not the purpose of my journey, I decided to be self-respecting.
I have no intention of claiming ownership of my father’s legacy, but if it is being used in the wrong place for personal reasons, I will collect it if I see it during the journey, and if there are those who misuse it, I will kill them all. That’s it.
Because in the end, everything flows as one.
