31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 575)
“Are words leading to destiny?….”
“I'm not sure.”
“It would be more plausible to say it was the magic of fate rather than words..”
“…….”
ting-!
Asmodon flicked his seal..
“So I gave it a name. The name of this seal. It's a seal of fate.”
“Oh, that's pretty good.”
“Wait, but if words are servants of fate... Does what I say to someone control that person's fate??”
“Not really. First of all, unless overwhelming magical power is granted, such a phenomenon cannot be brought about and fate is only slightly fixed..”
“difficult, difficult.”
Grinning…
Asmodon explained with a smile..
“What you need to be careful about though is if you misuse the power of fate..”
“What kind of tillage is that??”
“If you use it on yourself.”
“…ah.”
“If you don't believe in yourself and break down from within, fate will get closer to you..”
“…Really?”
“I haven't even tried the experiment, but if all of the previous hypotheses were correct, this one is also correct. Well, this one also needs massive magical power or something equivalent to it..”
Yuriko said excitedly.
“Has this revealed a clue to the roots of magic? of magic….”
“…I won't reveal it.”
“……uh?”
Asmodon shook his head at Yuriko’s words..
“Yuriko, I don’t know what it means that fate exists.?”
“……ah!”
I can't be sure.
However, if you know that even the shadow of fate definitely exists,.
“Can people find meaning in their lives??”
“…….”
“Yuriko.”
“surely… Until there….”
“haha… Don't take it too seriously. Because my thoughts can always change.”
Yuriko stepped forward and said.
“This time I'll show you what I found.”
“Oh my, was I too excited? Compared to what you discovered, my discovery is so huge that it must be overwhelming. Ha ha ha ha ha!”
Asmodon laughs humorously.
If Yuriko had been obsessed with an inferiority complex, she would not have been able to accept that smile comfortably..
However, it was a joke worth laughing about because we were friends before we were magicians..
And, Yuriko was a genius comparable to Asmodon..
“This place is narrow, let's go underground..”
“…That's about it?”
“Yes, Nierh also follow me. I'll show you something fun.”
“huh!”
Asmodon's laboratory extended underground. And the underground laboratory had a high ceiling that was several times that of the ground level, and the space was also vast..
Usually, risky experiments would be conducted here..
Tuk.
Mysterious sphere placed on the floor.
“uh? that….”
“Yes, it's something left behind by my father and Lord Vierik..”
“…I interpreted the research records.?”
“The research records were a mess. I approached it similarly, but I had a hard time finding a new answer because the method was calculated incorrectly from the beginning..”
“What on earth did you discover that makes you have such a long tongue?….”
Pajik-!
Holding support-!
Yuriko's eyes burned with magic..
Even though he is human, he has tremendous magical power..
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
A sphere rises.
Pajik…
grip support-!
“This….”
Asmodon's expression hardened..
Dangerous.
Holding support…
Gradually, the power emitted by the sphere increased..
“Stop, Yuriko. what about you….”
“Ughhh!”
Holding support-!
the sphere opens.
Like the moon reflected in a lake, a haze is formed that heads somewhere..
“ha… ha….”
“……Tell me, Yuriko. What's this?”
Yuriko said after catching her breath..
“It's the materialization of time.”
“…It's a lie?”
“Everything in here is time.”
“…….”
“Using this I can touch and see time.”
“…I don't understand.”
“I also evaluated the magic you showed me that way earlier..”
A bizarre incident between two genius mages who appeared in the same era after the first mage Ur..
Yuriko laughed..
“If you caught a glimpse of fate.”
Grinning…
“I stole time.”
Fatalist and Time Thief.
The two were caught up in the anxiety and excitement that today's simple demonstration would create something else..
* * *
Yuriko organized her personal laboratory..
A member of the Kagon Council, a huge budget was received from the Magic Council through a fake research plan that had already been carried out..
It was a vague excitement that I might find something worth risking my life on..
There is no time to persuade and convince.
All it takes is time to reach the light.
Even to live like that, life was short.
Because I wasn't sure how long the inspiration would continue..
“Yuriko, I checked what was organized there.?”
“I saw you in the morning.”
Asmodon's laboratory was now his laboratory..
they have grown up.
Nier, the lab's treasure, is also.
Nierh's mental world was vast..
I devoured knowledge surprisingly quickly..
Once I learned something, I never forgot it, and I remembered it without much difficulty..
The lifespan is unknown since it was not received from the already dead Puoh, but the two thought that with this power, they might be able to rule the world someday..
Architectural style, history, morals and ethics.
Law and culture, ideology and economy.
Endless knowledge seeped into Nier..
Knowledge breeds corruption.
Sow the seeds of distorted vision, prejudice, and stubbornness.
But Nierh didn't have that..
He was a cute dragon who accepted knowledge as knowledge and monopolized the love of Yuriko and Asmodon..
“You know, Yuriko..”
“huh.”
Gooooooo…
“Can I look inside this??”
“It's possible, unless you actually go in..”
“How is this possible without actually going in??”
“Throwing something that resonates with us at a time not too far away..”
“Wow, what a rotten idea..”
“Are you fine?”
This materialized time has been given a name by two.
Horos, Gate of Time.
That's the name of this bizarre artifact.
“But interfering with this vast amount of time could distort the entire axis of space and time. Time and space are not yet separable in my realm..”
“Then what happens?”
“Even if you send something to a set time coordinate, that something may fall in a completely wrong place and at the wrong time..”
“oh! It's gonna be fun!”
“……you.”
“huh?”
“You think the same as me.?”
The two mages were confused as to what was at work: madness or curiosity..
Still, it didn't stop.
Because he was a mage.
The desire for knowledge destroys all values..
Asmodon said.
“Actually, the reason I brought this up was because one of the time coordinates kept bothering me..”
“Oh, I felt it too.”
“A time that strangely matches Kagon's energy! you felt it too?”
“huh.”
“if… Isn’t that time fate??”
“…I want to deny that it's not, but I'm upset that I can't because there's nothing for sure..”
Asmodon stroked his chin and said:.
“It's a time that is bound to us by fate... The people who live there may….”
“It's either another us or….”
“Yeah, maybe it's God?”
“that god exists?”
“Ha ha ha ha ha! I confirmed that time and fate exist, but there is no way God doesn’t exist.?”
“…It's not wrong.?”
Madness seeps in..
“Let's check.”
“Yeah, I have no choice but to check..”
the existence of god.
that they exist.
“What resonates with us is... What is better?….”
Asmodon spoke to Yuriko's words..
“doppelganger experiment!”
“that? You completely failed..”
“I failed to turn the monster doppelganger into a human. Instead, the homunculus was created using that theory..”
“Homunculus….”
Forcibly inserting a cloned personality into artificially created bones and flesh.
Although it was no different from a cloned human, it was a technology that had already been commercialized due to the nature of Kagon, who quickly threw away ethics for the development of magic..
However, only half as many personalities are cloned..
Since the homunculus itself was limited, it was impossible to go any further than that..
“…Let's lift the restrictions. There is nothing we can do to increase the probability of response..”
“Then, when you become conscious,?”
“I have to seal my consciousness and throw it into the maze..”
“That's murder.”
“If you don't wake up, there are no victims. person… I haven't tried killing it?”
“…I've killed quite a few.”
A mage could not always do clean work. They had to do anything for Khagon..
“Our goal is not to create perfect humans. We need a signal to check how long this time continues. ah! for a moment… Then….”
Asmodon hesitated..
“Before we reach the designated space-time coordinates, we may grow old and die first.….”
“That can't be possible. You can adjust the time value to reach there. If the coordinates are not wrong, it will arrive someday, right? If the ‘event’ of arrival definitely occurs….”
They say it will arrive someday.
“That means we can make it arrive tomorrow..”
“Then last! Let's just decide on this.”
“What?”
“…Which of the two should I take on??”
“of course….”
killing another self.
I hesitate.
“…let me do it.”
It means Yuriko..
“Everything happened because I became a mage..”
“…That's right?”
“So, I have to take responsibility..”
“…do not do that. I'll do my best too.”
……
Yuriko and Asmodon, 32 years old.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
Yuriko's personality was planted in a pre-made young life..
A seal shone on one cheek of a young life..
It is the Seal of Destiny created by Asmodon..
He placed a new seal on the homunculus in addition to his own..
“Let's say goodbye.”
“Don't you have to give me a name??”
“hmm… is it?”
“okay. Baby, your name is… hmm… ah! I remembered!”
“What?”
“This morning, what did we do??”
“It snowed, right? I went outside. What else… ah….”
“how is it? It's the perfect name?”
“…That's right.”
Asmodon and Yuriko spoke together.
“From now on, your name is Snowman. Please take care of me!”
“I'll take care of you!”
“good… I'm ready?”
“send!”
Fajieeeeeeek-!
The homunculus rises and disappears into the maze..
Life goes somewhere through the gate of time.
A day has passed.
And, a year has passed.
Yuriko and Asmodon, 33 years old.
The two climbed the huge clock tower in the Kagon Council plaza..
Sometimes, the two spent time here.
I came here when my heart felt heavy..
All my anxious feelings disappeared due to the very nice scenery..
The sight of the developed magic empire chilled their hearts..
“It's a failure.”
“…Well, there is no mage who succeeds in all research..”
“…….”
“Yuriko?”
“You know, Asmodon. I have strange dreams sometimes these days.”
“okay? dream?”
Yuriko tilted her head..
“Sometimes, I dream of someone looking down on me.”
“It must be very unpleasant.”
“ha… It must be because the research went wrong..”
“Should I squander all my research funds in one night and jump into the maze??”
“Arthur, you're going to die. No, you'll feel like it's better to die.”
“…That's about it?”
“It's being torn into thousands, tens of thousands, or even more pieces. You will only truly die when everything about you dies in it.….”
“Well, if it's that complicated, let's just die comfortably..”
eat-
Strongly…
Yuriko, who was smiling brightly, suddenly grabbed her head..
“Ughhh….”
“Yuriko? what's the matter?”
- The power of the Mutani family has not become too strong.?
- I need some training.
- for a moment! There's my horse, let's wait until after my horse dies.!
- …Then it's too late.
A solemn voice seeps into my head.
“Ahhhhh!”
Yuriko is panting and foaming at the mouth..
“Yuriko!”
dump…
Yuriko tried to fall down the railing..
Wow!-!
Asmodon grabbed his arm..
“Yuriko! Don't let go of my hand!”
“Huh... Heo Eok….”
Yuriko hanging on the railing, holding Asmodon's hand.
He looked at the sky beyond the clock tower and said.
“you… who is this….”
“what are you talking about….”
I began to see it in Yuriko’s eyes..
An old man wearing a snowman mask is seen moving a piece that looks exactly like Yuriko on the game board..
the old man muttered.
- Don't fall! Yuriko!
“Since when… Since when?….”
It took over my life..
“you… Since when….”
Cause and effect are mixed in chaos.
Kagon's timeline collapse.
the snowman survived.
A being that couldn't even be human survived and became Yuriko's god..
the snowman muttered.
- Come on, we have to run.….
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