The Grand Mage who transcends by returning Chapter 323
The place where Malpas disappeared.
All that was left was me and Weiss.
Weiss, who looked almost like me, was quietly staring at the spot where my corpse had been.
I waited quietly.
Because I understood what this place meant to Weiss.
‘It’s a sacrifice for the future… ….’
I don’t think unconditional sacrifice is right. Forced sacrifices are, of course, wrong.
But my progenitor was not forced.
There must have been an option to return to the Demon God again.
The drinker would have accepted it.
I would have forgiven him in the end, considering the attachment he had to my ancestor.
Of course, that ‘forgiveness’ would have been forgiveness based on obedience… ….
I could have gotten down on my knees anyway.
But Sijo didn’t.
Instead of giving up and surrendering, he chose to throw himself into endless pain.
The decision was obviously sublime.
It’s a decision worth respecting.
I felt sad at the decision of the founder, but at the same time I felt a little proud.
How long must he have been immersed in thought while looking at the place where Solomon’s corpse was?
– Solomon once considered himself a ‘chosen one’.
The guy continued talking in retrospect.
– It wasn’t strange. In fact, he was a life directly created by God.
“Are you saying that you had the idea of the chosen people?”
– You can see it that way. It may sound like an excuse, but it wasn’t soggy.
“…hmm.”
In fact, he was born of a god and is favored by that god.
To put it bluntly, Solomon at the time must have been the chosen people themselves.
– what…I did, but it turned out to be a bad idea. It was arrogance to think that you can perfectly lead everyone because you are a special being.
Saying that, Weiss shrugged.
– Even that god wasn’t perfect in the first place. And Solomon was just a being born of such a god… ….
“….”
– How ridiculous it is to talk about qualifications by birth.
After saying that, Weiss let out a small sigh.
– …After all, Solomon felt guilty about the life that started from that thought.
“….”
A way of thinking that differentiated itself from humanity by thinking of itself as a chosen people.
In fact, as much as he was born with the blood of a god, he was special, but he could not be a god completely.
After all, the other half were human. That contradiction was the beginning of the tragedy.
– God used Solomon’s ‘misunderstanding’ to look good, and many lives were sacrificed due to that.
“…is it.”
Solomon did not only create a weapon called < Longinus >.
He created magic and not a few magic tools, and all of them were used by demons to divide and attack mankind.
The world got confused.
Solomon later regretted seeing the results of his ‘discovery’.
There must have been a reason for that.
The moment when a demigod named Solomon broke his prejudice and stood on the side of mankind.
Then Solomon slowly approached the place where his body was.
Looking closely, the traces left in the place where the corpse used to be are a little strange.
what to say
It’s like hugging something.
– I saw flowers.
Weiss said as if flowing.
– A long time ago… …It was the flower I received. It’s a flower that I can’t even remember, and it’s a flower that must have disappeared in an instant, but it was quite similar.
“Was the flower meaningful?”
– maybe.
Too much time has passed since then, and even that has faded.
All that remains is the obvious fact that I couldn’t follow the will of my creator.
But remembering that single flower… ….
‘That must have been enough.’
I don’t know the details.
Even if Wise remembered a lot of things, he wouldn’t share that information.
That would be entirely Wise’s own memory. Your own memories that cannot be shared with anyone else.
well by the way
“How on earth did you wake up on my staff?”
There must have been no significant connection between the ‘World Tree’ and Solomon… ….
– I didn’t think I’d wake up either. It’s not like I was self-aware from the beginning.
Wise grumbled at my words.
– At first, it was a real spirit. Shall we say that the trajectory of the contractor ‘Mikhail Walpurgis’ itself is embodied?
“But in the end you….”
– To guess, the contractor had too much overlap with ‘Solomon’. And maybe… …It is possible that it was one of his arrangements.
After saying that, Wise looked at me quietly.
– Even if it looks like this, anyway, the contractor is hmm… …That’s it.
“What is that?”
– Should I say that it is the result of Solomon’s hope sprouting? this… …I don’t know if I should call it hope.
I don’t know if I should call it hope. Where is such an example?
“I don’t know! Hopeful and bright like me… …!”
– No I… …So what Solomon imagined… ….
Weiss, who looked at me for a moment with a cold expression, said.
– …It was a bit more classy.
“I am classy too.”
– Dignity… …?
“Besides, you aren’t particularly different from the start. Where did my personality and blood come from?”
– It’s not… ….
Weiss desperately denied it.
– I, not Solomon… …He was a very rational being. Of course, I admit that my later years were a little ugly, but I was very thoughtful and….
“For that matter, don’t you think that Walpurgis bloodlines have been far from normal for generations?”
– ….
At my words, Weiss slightly looked away.
I would like to say that I am normal, but can this family’s starting point be normal in the first place?
– …How did you get here?
“What’s new?”
– At least I used the staff as a medium of magic, I didn’t even think of wielding it.
“The blunt weapon is meant to be wielded.”
– no….
It seems to me that there is an irreconcilable difference between them on this point.
‘It’s sad to think so.’
Of course, I have no intention of succumbing to the madness that runs through the Walpurgis family.
– You gave in.
“….”
no i didn’t
I glanced at him with those eyes and saw Wise quietly looking at me.
The eyes are devastatingly painful.
…Whatever.
“Thank you, Wise.”
I said that and held out my hand.
No matter how you define yourself, your relationship with Weiss is like starting over.
At my words, Wise smiled.
– Me too.
took my hand
* * *
After finishing the work, Weiss and I headed to the original Shabuti base.
The scenery was quite different.
Just like the first time I saw it, now it’s just a forest.
An ordinary forest where Shabti is said to have been sighted on occasion.
If there is a difference, it is that a huge temple has been built in the center of the forest.
Shabti was waiting for us at the entrance of the temple, dressed in a tidy priest’s uniform again.
He lowered his head as if he had no face and opened his mouth.
“…Are you here?”
Since he had been tormented by Malpas for a long time right now, his condition would not be good, but more than that, it seems that he has no face with Wise.
Shall we call it an apostle?
In the meantime, he seems to have noticed that Wise is Solomon.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes thanks….”
He replied with a gloomy expression, then carefully turned his gaze to Weiss, who was standing next to me.
Since a relationship is a relationship, I feel like I pay more attention to Wise than I do.
‘It must be obvious.’
From the point of view of the apostles, the existence of Solomon is no different from their original sin.
No matter how much they try to defend themselves, the fact that they rejected and destroyed Solomon at will does not change.
What would have happened if the apostles had actively cooperated with Solomon and helped him from the beginning?
It is an undeniable fact that at least the situation would have changed a lot from now.
Right now, not only Shabti but also Set were watching our side as well.
“….”
A subtle silence followed.
It was only natural that Shabuti and Set had no face, and Wise had nothing to say.
“so….”
It was Remegeton who broke the silence.
He squeezed between Set and Shabti, stepped forward, and faced Weiss with arms crossed.
“…What did you do when you didn’t come?”
– ….
That resoluteness that goes straight to the point.
Remegeton said with a frown as if there was no need for unnecessary talk.
“My Creator…Well, it looks like you’re using the name Wise, but I’m going to put aside that no-nonsense story for a while.”
– Well, I don’t think that’s a good story, but first about my new identity… ….
“Oh, so you don’t know me?”
Remegeton is a creature of Solomon.
Strictly speaking, it could be said to be the same existence as the son of Solomon. In addition, a child who has a lot of regret for him.
“I have a lot to say. After that, it was tucked away in a corner of the family and left unattended for a very long time.”
– …uh hmm
“Thanks to Mikhail there, I’ve been able to come out a little bit, but that doesn’t mean this has been resolved at all, right? There are a lot of regrets.”
– I am an existence that does not already exist… ….
Solomon shrank rapidly.
But even when I think about it, the thing about Remegeton was a bit harsh.
There was not even the slightest consideration as a creator.
“I wonder if I was born because I wanted to be born dangerously. You made it that way, right?”
– Uh uh… ….
Weiss has reached a point where he can’t even deny it.
That’s because there was nothing wrong with Remegeton’s words.
In an instant, Weiss hunched over, shrunk her size slightly, and took refuge on my shoulder.
But Remegeton did not stop bombing.
“Besides, I wondered if I would have finished my last years well, so I looked it up and it ended up like this? Without saying anything about that end… ….”
– ….
Wise couldn’t answer Remegeton’s complaint.
He knows better than anyone else that he has nothing to say about Remegeton.
Wise, who had been scolded by Remegeton for such a long time, glanced in my direction and sent out a rescue signal.
I was thinking of stepping in.
As a Lemegeton, I have a lot to say, but it will take me a while to listen to all of my laments about my situation.
“Calm down Lemegeton. I understand you have a lot to say, but that’s not what’s important right now.”
“what are you talking about.”
“The thing I need to hit now is Wise’s side rather than yours, so this is it.”
“…huh?”
Remegeton, who came to his senses belatedly at my words, moved his gaze back and forth between Wise and the two apostles… ….
“ah.”
He nodded his head as if realizing it, and smiled.
“Well, I can talk to you later. It’s not like I don’t have time.”
“Uh um….”
All sorts of anguish rushed across Shabti’s face in an instant.
With Remegeton standing behind me, there really is now nothing in the way between Shabti and Weiss.
“Uh um….”
– hmm….
An awkward atmosphere filled between the two.
In fact, it would be correct to say that the relationship has improved to some extent at the point where Shabti regrets it and somehow manages to shoulder Solomon’s burden together… ….
still a bit lacking
The regret of this delicate relationship.
A solution is… ….
‘ah.’
It came to mind at that moment.
A groundbreaking way to somehow sort out this old relationship.
“good.”
I looked at the two of them looking at each other with awkward expressions and smiled benevolently.
“Kill each other from now on.”
Someone once said
Kids grow up fighting.
