Chapters 186 – 185. Until We Become (3)
“Uh… Wait, that’s kind of weird… “
Vera Shien, who had been peering into the crystal ball, raised her hand.
As soon as her long, outstretched index finger was directed to her temple, her fingers sank deep into her temple with a feeling that it would snap.
“… Can’t we talk about that beforehand?”
Erania, who was sitting across from her and peering into the crystal ball together, was startled.
Even though I had already seen Berasian’s actions that couldn’t be expressed in any way other than the word crazy, I couldn’t get used to it at all.
Of course, it has to be, because it is safe to say that the average person does not have a chance to see a cockroach poking his temple with his finger in his life.
It was after getting to know Veracien that Eranya, who had lived for quite a long time, saw such crazy things.
“Hey, wait a minute… Not… “
There was a sound like something muddy and heavy breaking through, and Veracien’s eyes began to tremble.
Then, at some point, she did a pot — and returned to her place.
“I remembered.”
“What.”
“That curse. I can release it I had completely forgotten about it.”
“… What?”
She was so surprised that even her pronunciation was strange.
Unaware of that fact, Eranya opened her eyes stupidly and looked at Serberacien.
“What if I forgot about that?”
“No… Well, it’s not like I forgot to forget either. It’s a curse with the power you borrowed from me anyway, so the basis is the same… It’s something I can release, but… “
Vera Shien scratched her head.
Her eyes are still on her crystal ball.
“I think it’s urgent to get some of them out.”
*
The black circle began to spread with explosive momentum.
Astrid rescued Asti, who was beginning to be eaten by her dreams, but Leopold unintentionally stirred up her emotions, causing Astrid to lose her composure.
A black circle spread out, and the screen that had been shown so far crackled and did not look normal.
Rather, even on the screen, black circles like concentric circles appeared here and there, gradually increasing in size, and began to fade into a turbid color like ink dropped into spring water.
“Eh, what is this… “
Leopold recognized that this was a truly dangerous situation.
The second of the things Berasien had warned about is spreading rapidly, and if it were to happen, even Leopold would be in danger of being eaten by this dream world.
“Astrid, it’s okay… “
Doesn’t seem to lose
Leopold saw Astrid whose face had already gone out of focus and recognized again that the current situation was not normally serious.
“If this is so… “
A single flower in the upper pocket of the uniform.
When I first met Astrid, she is the same species as the flower she gave me.
Leopold had the exact same flower that Astrid kept in her study.
For Astrid, who laughed at how nice the scent was, this flower is like an attachment she left behind in reality.
If you pick this flower, maybe—
Leopold plucked the flower with all his might.
It’s a delicate flower anyway, so it doesn’t take much effort to pick it.
Still, the surroundings did not change anything.
Now, the screen is crackling and not showing properly, and the black circle that blooms on it is already embroidered with splendor, showing off my presence to the fullest.
“… Under.”
To be eaten in a dream
Will I be consumed by this dream and live my life without even thinking about it?
There is nothing to be discouraged about.
But that’s probably not what he, Astrid, and Asti want.
There will be a number
There must be a way out of this place.
But what is it.
Should I slap Astrid hard on the cheek and tell her to wake up?
Leopold hardened his heart, thinking that it might be possible.
“Oh, it’s not too late.”
Until Berathien appeared.
Veracien appeared, and with a few light gestures, the surroundings suddenly changed.
When Leopold opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the familiar ceiling, the last thing he saw before falling asleep.
The ceiling is luxuriously decorated by fitting the frame with thick trees and finishing with colorful stones in between.
“… Are you back?”
“Huh.”
A voice came from right next to me.
Leopold straightened up and glared at the owner of the voice.
Still full of a relaxed smile on her face, she is a demon with purple hair, Vera Shien.
I am grateful that I let you into my dreams and made me aware of things I did not know, but there is one thing I need to consider now.
“… Didn’t I say it wasn’t dangerous?”
“It is not dangerous.”
There must be a different standard for her words that this woman is dangerous.
Leopold still remembered.
In Astrid’s and Asti’s dreams, black circles began to appear all over.
It was Vera Shien who said that if she gets caught up in that black circle, she doesn’t know which world she will fall into.
Perhaps she might have been caught in the wrong footsteps there, but isn’t that dangerous?
“If it’s dangerous, I can just go in and take it out, so it’s not particularly dangerous.”
“…”
Certainly, demons are strange.
Not having the energy to continue talking any longer, Leopold stood up from the bed.
He woke up quickly, but Astrid — Asti hadn’t woken up yet and had her eyes closed.
“Oh, it’s not dangerous. Just sleeping I’ve confirmed that the soul has returned to normal. Sleep some more and you’ll wake up. Oh, and.”
After Eranya took the glass of water she handed her and quenched her throat, she finally realized that she had returned to reality.
Leopold stared at Berasien, who was trying to say something more.
I don’t know what else you are trying to say.
“Astrid is surprised again.”
“… Not really. I’ll tell you that story when you wake up.”
“Hmm… Yes, what Maybe.”
Vera Sien tapped her table with her fingers.
Understanding that she meant that she come and she sit down, Leopold came silently to the table and sat down.
“So, how are you feeling?”
“… How do you feel?”
“That’s Asti. Aren’t you a soul that was born less than a year ago?”
Berathien was laughing round and round.
And seeing her smile like that, Leopold had a bad feeling about something.
Just when he wondered what that demon was trying to say again, something ominous foreboding crossed his mind from Veracien’s words that it was a soul that was born less than a year ago.
“So to speak, a soul that is only one year old. Is not it? How does it feel to have a relationship with a 1-year-old like that?”
“What are you talking about?”
“That’s right, 1 year old. Only the body of an adult, but the mind of a newborn baby, right? No?”
No… There was Erania, who shook her head, and Leopold, who was dumbfounded and unable to answer.
It was an outrageous conspiracy.
*
Astrid, fortunately, woke up well.
“Asti is sleeping. Don’t worry, I’m fine.”
“Is that so?”
Leopold nodded his head politely.
Looking at Astrid, he is really confused about what to say.
“So Astrid. Please explain.”
“What do you mean, Demon?”
Astrid’s minty eyes stared at Berathien.
What explanation are you asking for?
What the hell
It was difficult to understand that he was asking for an explanation even though he had already seen it through the crystal ball.
“You, the soul… Didn’t you know that there was originally one?”
“I didn’t know. How do you know that I’m not a demon like you or a northern savage. I didn’t even really believe in the existence of a soul. Asti dwells… No, until Asti was created.”
Veracien’s question and Astrid’s answer came and went.
Astrid didn’t know about split souls or anything like that.
However, when I woke up after losing consciousness, I was taken aback when I realized that someone else was moving my body.
And she—was aware that there was a mass of curse that was persistently wriggling at the bottom of her consciousness, trying to gnaw at her soul.
Since then, Astrid has been struggling alone to suppress this mass of curse.
The curse was so relentless that it seemed to crush it completely, but when Astrid distracted herself from moving her body, it would strike again.
So, one hour a day.
It was only for an hour a day that she could fully move her body.
That’s what it is.
Astrid didn’t know most of the facts either.
She From her point of view, she suddenly collapses and wakes up and is pushed behind her, and someone else is moving her body, which has been stagnant for 20 years, and a mass of curse that is unpleasant to her is clinging to her.
I don’t know who sent the curse, but it probably wasn’t a good intention.
Astrid has been fighting the curse ever since.
In recent years, the curse has weakened considerably, so the allowed time has begun to lengthen, but after that, Asti had a child, and she was afraid that the curse might have a bad effect on the child, so she could not bear to go out with her body. .
“You too… You lived a hard life.”
“I thought it was fate.”
Erania sighed as she watched Astrid calmly explain these facts.
Come to think of it, Berashien isn’t talking about this again.
“Come to think of it, Bessie, you. Don’t you have something to say about the curse?”
“Ah. Didn’t you say that?”
“I didn’t. Talk quickly.”
“Um, that’s it.”
Astrid’s gaze and Leopold’s gaze were simultaneously directed toward Veracien.
“That curse, I can break it. Well, since it’s a curse I put on my own, there’s no way I can’t break it, right?”
Suddenly, silence hung over the room.
