The great mage who transcends by returning Episode 21
One of the pillars of the Empire and the family of Duke Lindel, a renowned swordsman within the Empire.
The Duke Lindel family was enjoying a truly brilliant heyday thanks to their recent contributions to helping the brave.
The gait of the knights is full of pride, and the faces of the young people have a relaxed smile.
A peaceful era in which there are no worries is in progress.
not exactly.
“Aaaaaaagh!”
…had to go on
A desperate scream echoing through the castle.
The moment the sound was heard, the knights and servants of the castle closed their eyes tightly. It was such a horrific sound that I couldn’t even hear it.
Eileen Lindell.
A colleague of the brave Mikhail Walpurgis, and the future of the Empire with the Grand Master in front of him.
For three years, she, like the other hero’s companions, has been trying to stabilize the chaotic world.
And after 3 years, the time when the effort slowly showed results.
The ‘incident’ happened.
“Is today the start?”
Duke Lindel, who was sitting in his office, quietly closed his eyes and counted.
In my experience so far, my daughter would come to visit me on the count of five after that miserable scream had spread.
and after a while
thud!
“father!”
Right after counting to five, Aileen enters the office like a ghost.
The duke broke out in a cold sweat and tried to avoid his daughter’s gaze.
“Have you come? Eileen.”
“How the hell did that happen! Did you catch it?! You got it?! No, even if I didn’t catch it, the location is… ….”
“….”
Quietly, the duke averted his gaze.
He was a knight who had defended the empire from countless dangers, but he was just a weak father in front of his daughter.
Besides, to be honest, I didn’t feel like the duke was qualified to talk about this situation.
“that…It takes time. It’s not like you’re looking for results in 10 minutes.”
“It’s been two days since you said that…!”
“….”
right. It’s the second day.
A cold sweat broke out on the Duke’s forehead.
Eileen’s words were all right, so I couldn’t possibly refute them.
“As you know, my dignity as a human being depends on this. On the day that ‘that’ is discovered, I really just hang myself… …!”
“Is that what you say in front of your father!”
The Duke shouted, hitting the desk with a bang.
No matter how much I hang myself, there is nothing I can’t say in front of my father!
At the same time, the master’s momentum flowed from Duke Lindel’s entire body.
If it was Eileen from a long time ago, she surely wouldn’t have been able to say anything at that momentum.
but.
“Ah, then it would be fine if Dad didn’t make a job in the first place!”
Wow!
As a result, the Duke side was overwhelmed.
The duke erased the solemn expression from before and clicked his tongue slightly.
“Oh, this doesn’t work….”
Can not help it. The daughter who left the house and came back was too strong.
What can I do?
It wasn’t that he had become stronger than usual, but that he had become strong enough to surpass even himself as a Master.
‘Well, I was accompanied by that Mikhail, but the fact that I endured it means that it is not normal… ….’
Anyway.
She was an overly strong daughter, but really, there is no such thing as being so irritable. I did it when I was quietly practicing my sword or training alone.
then why are you doing that
“The daughter. Try thinking a little differently. Couldn’t you see this as an opportunity to show a different side of yourself to strangers?”
“dad…no father.”
Eileen clutched her throbbing head and said to the Duke.
“You know what? For humans… …There is such a thing as dignity.”
“It is, however.”
“The ‘it’ I missed this time is destroying my dignity in real time. Aww! Even if I copy it, why would my 7-year-old… …!”
“I mean.”
Really, why did I copy those days even if I copied it? The appearance is the current Eileen.
“I can’t get rid of it either… …I’m going crazy, really… ….”
Eileen nervously tousled her hair and complained about the damn situation.
The causes of this situation must go back to the past.
Three years ago, the hero Mikhail Walpurgis finally annihilated the Demon God.
The power of demons was reduced in an instant, and humanity was finally one step closer to peace.
However, it is not that there was no noise at all in the process.
mutant species.
A new form of life that did not exist until then was conceived.
The principle by which they were created has not yet been fully identified, but the claim that they are by-products of the process of the extinction of gods is becoming established as an established theory.
In any case, the characteristics of this variant can be explained in one word.
‘It has special abilities and is pure and has no malice.’
Ability cannot be described in one way. However, in any case, those abilities were all special, and there was no malice towards the mutated species.
The problem is that no malice doesn’t mean bad things won’t happen.
Isn’t there nothing more dangerous than untainted pure power.
In any case, among the problems that Mikhail’s colleagues were busy running around solving, there were also things about this ‘mutant’.
And what is affecting Aileen’s social image this time is also… ….
“Aren’t you a bad kid?”
“I know that! Rather pure. But that… …Ah that aaaaagh!”
As if she couldn’t say anything more, Eileen clutched her head and began to tremble again.
shame!
That was the emotion that filled her head right now.
‘Even if I duplicate it, how can I duplicate my 7-year-old memories… …!’
The mutant ability she had recently acquired was memory duplication.
Among demons, should I say that their characteristics are similar to ‘doppelganger’?
She faced a mutant.
– ah?
Mutants instinctively duplicated the memory of the being in front of them.
The problem is that there must have been some mistake, and the body is a copy of the ‘current Eileen’.
Yes.
The body is an adult, the mind is a child.
A monster was born.
“Ah, you know Father! What I was like when I was 7 years old… …!”
“Um um. know…don’t know.”
Before Eileen knew about the sword, there was a time when she was also full of childhood in her own way.
Whether you consider yourself a princess or wait for the day to face a wonderful prince… ….
Anyway, because of that, the outfit I was wearing at the time was really cute… ….
Then the duke said.
“Calm down, Eileen. Anyway, I’ll fix it soon. Anyway, Walpurgis decided to cooperate… ….”
“…yes?”
At those words, Eileen, who was going mad, snapped her head back.
“Where are you…?”
“Walpurgis.”
“No, that me…Heil’s… ….”
As if expecting that, the duke smiled broadly and said.
“Hey Eileen! Aidan That friend hasn’t seen my son for over 3 years already! I can’t believe that Mikhail will come at this timing!”
“no.”
“Don’t worry. No matter how unlucky it is, I hope that such a situation will come.”
The more my father tried to reassure Eileen, the more the sweat dripped down her face.
Humans are learning creatures.
And Aileen has been accompanied by Mikhail and learned one unchanging truth.
Mikhail Walpurgis.
‘He doesn’t have common sense… …!’
Common sense? are you eating that?
Until now, Mikhail had never walked the ‘common sense’ path. And even if Mikhail didn’t mean it, things went that way.
The moment I thought about it.
“Aaaaaaa!”
Wow Jangchang!
Aileen even lost her poker face, which was her symbol, and broke the window of the office and ran outside.
“Daughter, why are you doing this again! You can rest assured!”
I couldn’t hear what my father said.
Right now, there is only one thought flooding Aileen’s head.
‘I have to find it!’
Before Mikhail discovers the mutant… …!
* * *
“This is true.”
I looked at Eileen, who was holding the magic wand, and quietly turned my head to the side.
There’s nothing I shouldn’t see, but I didn’t want to see it as strange.
is there such a thing
Just by looking at it… …It’s like it’s just coming up.
For now, one thing is clear.
“This is not Eileen.”
“No what…I guess so.”
Lian also looked at Eileen, who was sitting still, with a complex expression on her face.
“If it’s Eileen, something… …This is a very serious problem.”
“yes. It’s a big problem.”
Of course, it wasn’t just me and Rian who were shocked. How shocking it must have been for Set to bury his face in my head.
Weiss seems relatively less shocked, but… ….
Then Eileen said something.
“Brother, I am lost.”
“Uh uh…That’s right.”
Path…You lost.
It would have been nice if I hadn’t lost and met normally, but things in the world aren’t easy.
“For now, that child…? Anyway, that being must be a ‘mutant’.”
“Yes, I guess.”
The image of the first moment I saw it was so intense, but I quickly grasped the situation itself.
“Is it a mutant with the ability to copy others? It seems that the replication of the body and mind did not match what caused the problem… ….”
“Yeah, it seems that way.”
In short, the state of that mutant now is by no means normal.
If it works properly, it should be more stable.
but it’s kinda weird
“…Unless you’re a demon, a mutant must have consent to clone an existence, right?”
yeah that’s the problem
The fact that the mutant, albeit imperfectly, is copying Eileen and moving means that Eileen agreed to some extent.
But why did Aileen agree? …was there?
Even if there is no malice, no one welcomes the cloning of existence. And that would be no different for Eileen.
Well, we’ll figure that out later. I’ll have to fix this issue first.
“What is your name?”
“My Name?”
The mutated species tilted its head.
“I need to know your name so I can adjust your imbalance to some degree. I think you know that much.”
“My Name….”
The mutant muttered the words for a long time, then spoke.
“…Liuel Lindell.”
“….”
Considering that he even had the last name ‘Lindel’ in his mouth, Aileen must have given him his first and last name.
Why did you give my family’s last name to a mutant?
‘…Because he wanted to be treated as equal to himself?’
Mutants somehow came to exist in this world. The mutation itself is neither good nor bad.
Would it be like a blank sheet in itself?
In other words, what kind of existence these ‘mutants’ will become depends on future work.
“Rian.”
“why.”
“What did you do with these mutants? I think you’ve been involved in this kind of thing for three years.”
“that….”
At those words, Lian frowned. It is a very complex expression.
“It was different on a case by case basis. In some cases it helped, in others… ….”
“Did you remove it?”
“They are pure beings. If you get involved with the good, you become good, but if you get involved with the cunning, you become cunning.”
Ryan spoke again.
“And once it’s fixed like that, that tendency doesn’t change easily. Aren’t people like that too?”
“that…yes.”
That’s why some mutants were saved and some mutants were eliminated.
“So, first of all, Aileen is this mutant…That’s why I saw potential in Riuel.”
“I see it so.”
“…hmm.”
Looking at me like that, Riuel tilted her head. Anyway, since I know the name, I think it’s possible to match the memory with the body… ….
That was the time when I was about to reach out with that thought in mind.
dump.
Could it be the sound of something collapsing on the other side?
I met a familiar face.
“….”
“….”
A moment of silence passed.
An indescribable awkwardness passed between me, Rian, and this ‘familiar face’.
“Uh that….”
I said, looking at the half-fazed woman, Eileen.
“Long time no see….”
“Eh eh!”
Before he could even finish talking, Eileen slammed him on the ground, covering his face with his palms.
