Chapter 213 – 213. Moon Village (2)
“God…”
“Isn’t that a bit out of the blue?”
“Honestly, I’m a bit embarrassed.”
Alice had no intention of denying her belief in the existence of God.
However, the reason why the ambiguous existence of the upper dimension, which is invisible and inaudible, is supported and recognized is because the priests who perform miracles by receiving the power of the divine are proving the existence of God.
Denying the existence of the goddess Vesta on the Arcena continent itself was tantamount to blasphemy, and she had no intention of ridiculing or denying the divinity, the source of the power of Agnes, the priest she had fought alongside.
But nonetheless.
“To be able to bring the dead back to life…”
It is an impossible miracle even for Agnes, who is known to have received the most grace from Vesta.
“At first, I also had doubts that some misogynist was playing a prank on me.”
Illyana remembered the first time her Eunhyun came to the curator’s office of the Mervis magic library where she was.
At that time, it was to the point where she doubted whether Eun-hyeon, who had appeared in front of her, was a fake, or that someone was playing tricks on her own feelings and memories.
However, she realized that Eun-hyeon’s voice, face, and the energy of mana she felt were all the same as the man she hadn’t forgotten for 20 years, and only then was she able to accept the reality.
“Okay…”
She didn’t quite understand everything, but Alice nodded her head and smiled.
“Still, I’m really happy to be able to meet you like this again.”
Upon hearing the news of Eun-hyeon’s return, Alice decided to be purely happy.
Although her eyes were blind, she overcame her blindness in her own way, looked in the exact direction Eun-hyeon was, and held out her hand to shake her hand.
“Okay. Me too.”
After greeting her old colleague with a smile on her face, Eun-hyeon asked about Alice’s exact current condition.
“What happened to your eyes?”
“At that time, while fighting, I was attacked by the emperor.”
“Couldn’t you be cured?”
“It was a situation where the eyes were directly contaminated with contaminated mana. Agnes-sama took out my eyes and even restored them with divine magic, but my eyesight never recovered.”
Perhaps the polluted mana was the cause, Alice guessed.
“Even with purification… A problem that I can’t see a solution to… ?”
“If it’s at a level that can be solved by purification, Agies must have already tried it.”
There was no way that Agnes, who was the same priest and possessed even greater divine power, had not tried the method Eleanor had thought of.
In the end, even Agnes could not fix Alice’s eyes.
“After the war, I am satisfied just to be alive like this.”
Rather, considering the situation at the time, he should have been considered fortunate to have prevented the spread of the contaminated mana that had eroded his eyes to his whole body.
“You can’t see, how are you living?”
“Because we are borrowing the power of the spirits.”
“Government ordinance… ?”
Eleanor tilted her head at the thought of the ambiguous spirit concept.
As Alice operates her magic, a cool breeze blows into her room.
Soon, in the air, a small wind fairy formed by Alice’s magical power flew through the air and sat lightly on Alice’s left shoulder.
“Wow, that… Are you a spirit?”
“The Spirit… Can you see it?”
“Yes? Uh, yes.”
Eleanor responded with a puzzled expression to Alice’s question, which showed a surprised reaction.
Before long, Illyana also raised her hand and said.
“Can you see me too?”
“Even Illyana-sama… ? But Illyana-sama…”
Twenty years ago, at the time she traveled with Illyana, she hadn’t recognized Alice’s spirit.
Illyana was also puzzled by the fact that a mysterious creature called a spirit was witnessed with her own eyes.
“How… ?”
“I have a guess for one reason.”
Illyana recalled that the reason why she saw a special being was after a certain point, and she glanced at Eun-hyeon, who was the cause of that moment.
“Ah…”
Eleanor, who noticed the meaning of Illyana’s gaze at her Eunhyeon, also noticed what part she cocked as the cause.
The reason why the invisible mysterious being became visible to her all happened after she had a relationship with Eun-hyeon.
“…”
Her grace caught the attention of her two wives and soon turned her attention to her own goddess floating in the sky.
[Whoops, why is that?]
‘… No. I’m a bit confused.’
The fact that the existence of her goddess, which she had only seen to herself until now, was now being recognized by her two wives, made Eun-hyeon feel an indescribably subtle feeling.
‘It’s a bit like I’ve been exposed to some embarrassing secret.’
[Am I ashamed of the child?]
‘No. Rather…’
It wasn’t that there was a problem with Belldandy, but she was right in expressing that she was very embarrassed about her current situation.
The reason why the two of them directly perceived the existence of Belldandi was that.
“We married him.”
“Yes… Joe?”
“Huh.”
“In the end, your wish came true.”
“I know. Whoops.”
Hearing Illyana’s laughter, Alice covered her mouth with a small laugh.
She could not hide her pure joy that she had achieved what she so longed for.
Recalling her memory of the time when she cried while holding Eun-hyeon’s corpse, which had become a cold and gruesome corpse, she felt even more congratulatory.
“Anyway… I think it was probably because of Hyeoni’s influence that Eleanor and I were able to see the beings called spirits with our own eyes. He could see the existence of spirits with his own two eyes before.”
“It was.”
“Because me and Eleanor had a relationship with Hyun, she was able to recognize a being that she normally could not recognize.”
“…”
Alice did not bother to ask what that ‘existence’ meant.
And what kind of relationship she ended up with, she had a rough guess.
When it comes to relationships that adult men and women will have after getting married, only one thing came to Alice’s mind.
“Why are you making such a strange face?”
“No… I just want you to talk more freely than I thought.”
“Hey, what’s the point of being ashamed to open up about Alice not being a kid and having sex with her? She’s even married.”
Having said that, there is nothing more to say.
Eunhyun let out a small sigh and returned the story.
“Anyway… Are those spirits replacing your eyes now?”
“Yes. That’s right. I borrowed the eyesight of the spirits I contracted with, and now I am replacing the eyesight that has fallen away.”
But even this could not replace the completely lost sight.
The way Alice is using it is a way that she shares the perspective her spirits are looking at, and it is very different from what she sees with her own eyes.
Since the point of view changes dramatically depending on the gaze of the spirit, it is not free to switch the point of view, such as looking down from the sky, looking up from the bottom, or looking to the right while trying to look left.
Although they are talking calmly now, Eun-hyeon guessed that Alice must have put a lot of effort into adapting to this method.
“This is not a method that can be used for a long time because it consumes not a small amount of magic power.”
Alice looked at the faces of Eunhyeon and Illyana slowly through the eyes of the spirits and said with a wry smile.
“Really… You haven’t changed at all.”
“You have changed a lot.”
“Now I am at an age where I can hardly be called the youngest member of the team.”
After Eun-hyeon was resurrected, she couldn’t find the appearance of an 18-year-old young girl in her old colleague, an elemental magician girl whom she met again.
She realized again that a lot of years had passed.
When she met Leo De, she couldn’t afford to be immersed in her proper feelings because of the incident where she kicked her crotch, but she witnessed the girl becoming a man’s wife and her child’s mother. And soaked in her feelings.
“Anyway… I’ve lost my sight, but I’m not that uncomfortable with my current life. My husband and daughter are also helping me.”
“Okay.”
Eunhyeon nodded calmly, but Eleanor didn’t.
“To you too… Is it impossible?”
Eleanor looked at her and asked Eunhyeon.
If it is Eun-hyun, who has always suggested solutions and ways in some way, perhaps there is a way to fix Alice’s eyes.
“Sorry, but I don’t have a way either.”
It is impossible even on Earth to completely fix a person’s physical defect.
Rather, it is impossible to treat using miraculous powers such as magical power or divine power, but there was a limit to making sharp numbers called Eunhyun.
“Even Eleanor knows. Divine magic isn’t omnipotent. Wounds can be healed, but disease cannot be eliminated.”
It is a truly unique case of the disease immunity characteristic of Agnes, which has a strong body and has a top-notch immunity, so that even pathogens cannot invade it.
However, although divine magic can activate the body’s basic metabolic ability or restore lost parts, it is only within the scope of alchemy to eliminate pathogens in the body and reactivate lost immune function.
‘But if you look for it, you can figure out a way…’
Eun-hyeon didn’t even come up with a definite way, but he didn’t want to promise to fix things blindly to Alice, who was satisfied with her current life.
“Okay…”
Eleanor, who had a sad expression on her face, nodded her head slightly.
“More than that… Did Eunhyeon-nim have any contact with the village of the moon?”
“Well, a little bit.”
“… Okay.”
“Why?”
Seeing Alice’s reaction as she nodded her head with a delicate expression, Illyana asked.
“No. It was the first time in my stay in this town that her husband had a human guest. Until now, there have been very few cases in which humans have visited the Village of the Moon.”
In addition, the fact that Eunhyeon and Derkin, who had only thought they were meeting for the first time, had been dating each other was something Alice could not help but be concerned about.
Eventually, she remembered the memory of her husband telling her about the past.
“I heard that there was a human benefactor who trained him more than 300 years ago… No way… ?”
I couldn’t understand how humans could live a long time of over 300 years, but it didn’t make sense that a person who had once died would come back to life and appear in front of his eyes.
Moreover, seeing Eunhyun’s reaction with a wry smile, Alice was convinced.
“Actually… I see…”
“Alice. Talk about that later.”
“… All right.”
Alice nodded her head with a firm expression at Eun-hyeon’s action of resolutely cutting her off and preventing the story from coming out.
– He was such a great person. I didn’t expect her to leave like that…
While recounting the education and memories he had received from his benefactor, he recalled that Derekin, who had been smiling brightly, expressed much longing and regret at the end.
Assuming that the benefactor was Eun-hyeon, the problem between Eun-hyeon and the elves was not a problem that she could rush into or step out of, she thought, Alice.
“Alice. The reason we came to the village of the moon was for my personal business, but also because I thought you might be here.”
“Did you find me?”
“I wanted to get some advice from you.”
“Eunhyeon-nim… To me?”
What on earth can you do to help yourself?
Alice put on a puzzled expression at Eunhyun’s words.
“Huh.”
Eunhyun nodded slightly and took out a crystal ball containing black aura from his chest.
Wearing her black eyepatch, Alice was not staring at her crystal ball, but through the spirit’s eyes she saw exactly what the crystal ball was.
“That…”
“Alvin. Come out.”
In a short word, black shadows flowed out from the trembling crystal ball, forming a shape and forming a human shape.
Eventually, the Shadow Spirit, who had been sleeping for a long time, looked around and explored the unfamiliar environment and grasped the situation.
“Have you arrived?”
“That’s right.”
Eunhyun took a look at Alvin, then moved her gaze back to Alice, who was stiff.
“Affection… Soul? No, this…”
Not a spirit
Spirits don’t have a substance like that, and because they don’t have substances and vocal cords, they can’t even make a voice, and they can’t even communicate properly unless it’s the spirit magician who contracted it.
At least from Alice’s point of view, the shadow spirit Elvin that Eunhyeon introduced was like an irregular being outside the frame of a spirit.
“Alice, we came to you for one reason. This guy, I want to make Alvin into ‘self-supporting magic’.”
“Independent… Magic.”
Alice could not immediately answer Eun-hyeon’s simple request.
“I need your help to do that.”
Eun-hyeon, who only knew about the existence of spirits and had never even entered into a proper spirit contract, had no doubt that Alice would be able to fill the gap in knowledge that could not be filled.
In fact, half of it is a number close to gambling.
From Alice’s point of view, who maintains friendship with the spirits and regards them as sacred, the existence of Elvin is closer to a heterogeneous being similar to an artificially created spirit.
Even if she resented her blasphemy against the spirits, she was not strange.
Eunhyun, Illyana, and Eleanor quietly waited for Alice’s answer.
Alice’s mouth finally opens.
“Circumstances… Can you explain?”
