Chapter 171
Covenant Stone.
The medium of the second mythic magic ‘Factio’.
With it hanging around my neck, I headed for Mimir’s chair.
“Come on, succession… … ruler?”
A red jewel hanging around my neck.
“… … You passed.”
Mimir smiled with a mysterious expression after checking the Covenant Stone.
It’s like a bitter smile, and it’s also like a smile that makes you feel relieved.
It was a smile that revealed the complicated screening.
“Stupid Aslan. Where are you really going?”
Mimir lowered his gaze and murmured softly.
It was Mimir who sang a song that he hated Aslan. She probably didn’t really hate it.
He seemed to feel sorry for Aslan, who left without saying goodbye.
“Seeing that you went in such a hurry, it was about the stone of the covenant. You didn’t explain properly, did you?”
“… … uh.”
“He’s really until the very end… … .”
Mimir pursed his lips.
Just like Asran said, he seemed annoyed at the fact that he skipped the explanation because it was annoying again.
“Can I ask what your relationship was like?”
Asran and Mimir.
It seems that the relationship between the two is not as flat as I thought.
“The relationship between me and Aslan?”
Mimir pulls back his lips, which he had been sticking out like a duck, and looks at me with serious eyes.
“If it’s something that’s hard to answer, you don’t have to tell me.”
I am not shameless enough to pry into personal affairs.
“It doesn’t matter. It’s not such a big deal.”
Mimir stared into space with his blind eyes.
“Do you know what made me hate Aslan?”
“Isn’t it because he played a lot of practical jokes on you?”
“no.”
… … isn’t that the reason?
Mimir met my eyes and smiled.
“Do you think I’m the kind of person who hates people openly just because I’m joking around?”
“hmm. You’re not like that.”
Mimir is hairy and hot.
It can be said that it is a typical extroverted insider style.
I’m not the type to dislike someone just because I’m mischievous.
“The reason I hate Aslan is because he treats me like a child.”
“… … Are you treating the child?”
“huh. It’s not just a child, it’s almost like a newborn baby.”
I definitely felt like I was being treated like a kid.
But it was just the feeling of seeing a cute nephew, not the feeling of being treated like a baby.
“Heir. Do you know why Aslan keeps saying that he is not good at explaining?”
“Didn’t you say that it was just to pass it on because it was annoying to explain it?”
I had said that before during a conversation between the two of them.
“Heir. Aren’t you ignorant when it comes to real human relationships?”
Mimir smiled smugly. It’s the expression that he didn’t notice such a simple thing.
“There’s no way that naive man, who is the personification of a sense of duty and responsibility, would force someone to explain it just because it’s annoying to explain.”
“that… … hmm.”
I heard it and it is true.
“There is only one case where Asran leaves the explanation to someone else.”
“… … You seem to be leaving a lot of explanations for that kind of thing?”
I’ve only seen it three times right now.
“That’s because it all fits the conditions.”
Mimir laughed bitterly.
“The only time Asran leaves an explanation to someone is when he can leave an explanation to me.”
“Are you limited?”
“huh.”
You’re leaving the explanation only to Mimir?
“… … why?”
“Why do you think it is?”
“hmm… … . To bother you… … will not be.”
As long as you look at the flow of the story, you wouldn’t have shifted the blame for that reason.
“The answer is, to give me a chance.”
Mimir’s expression darkened.
“Give me a chance? what chance?”
“A chance to explain. Or a chance to prove my worth.”
“A chance to prove your worth… … .”
What does that mean?
“You don’t know what I mean? huh. You won’t know. To understand this story, you need to know my story first. It’s only natural that heirs who don’t know my past can’t understand.”
A sad atmosphere settled around Mimir.
“… … Where should I start talking?”
Because her head is lowered, her face is covered by her bangs, and her expression cannot be seen.
I could tell just by looking at the drooping top of my head.
Mimir is currently grieving.
“I am the only descendant of the Ray Bell bitenor. 1st Princess Mimir Bell By Tenor.”
Mimir began to speak slowly.
“Because he was born after 30 years. Naturally, I received the expectations of all the people, including the vassals of the Bytenor Empire.”
As Mimir said, it was a natural expectation.
“… … But I didn’t meet everyone’s expectations.”
why?
It was impossible to ask.
Mimir’s sorrowful eyes, visible through the cracks in his bangs, were blocking my speech.
“I had no magic talent at all.”
Mimir raised his head and smiled.
He pretended to be quite bright, but he couldn’t hide the sadness hidden inside.
“Even though I inherited Obama’s blood, I couldn’t even weave a proper mana circle, let alone an infinity circle. not at the general level. It was Dunjae itself.”
The greatest wizard of his time.
The beginning of magic, the daughter of Ray Bell Bytenor.
The first princess of the Bytenor Empire has no magic talent.
what would that feel like?
“Everyone’s expectations quickly turned into disappointment, and I soon became like a sack of barley. It’s natural. An heir who cannot use magic is not an heir.”
You must have tasted despair on an unimaginable level.
It wouldn’t have been comparable to me either.
“But even if the sky collapses, there is a hole through which it will rise. Fortunately, you have talent as a scholar?”
Mimir caressed the book that was lying next to him.
“Since I found out about that, I have been reading books like crazy. I bet everything on analyzing the structure of magic, predicting the phenomenon of magic, and reading the flow of magic.”
Despite having found hope, Mimir’s expression was still dark.
“however… … Even so, the gaze of those around me did not change. A princess who cannot use magic. A descendant she could not be the heir to. Sack of barley sewn together. Gyereuk… … .”
“… … .”
Those words reminded me of a year ago.
Expectation turned into disappointment, and disappointment turned into condemnation.
That feeling when I saw that the friendly gaze towards me turned cold all at once… … It wasn’t a pain I could describe.
“Still continue… … I kept trying. Even if it was Dunjae, it wasn’t that he couldn’t weave a mana circle… … . Fortunately, you’re smart, so you’ve made your own achievements academically?”
Mimir’s lips trembled.
“still… … Nobody paid any attention.”
He looks like he’s about to cry right now.
“I knit 3 circles, 4 circles, 5 circles, but… … Nobody congratulated me.”
Suddenly, what Mimir had said in the past came to mind.
‘How sad it is to not be congratulated even though the circle has risen… … .’
Those words must have come from Mimir’s experience.
It was written inside the mouth.
“At that time, the only person who paid attention to me was Aslan.”
Mimir pursed his lips.
“It must have been from then. Whenever Aslan had something going on, he started leaving me with explanations.”
A facial expression with a clear expression of pouting.
“I am not good at explaining myself. Mimir will explain… … . Academically, it’s one of the top three in our empire, so I’m sure you know… … . He made me explain it while giving all sorts of excuses.”
After hearing this far, I think I know roughly what I mean.
“At the time, it was just fine. You’re finally recognizing my worth… … do. I was just genuinely happy.”
“… … .”
“however. It wasn’t. The reason Asran left me with the explanation was not because he really needed my knowledge, but because he wanted to give me a chance.”
Mimir’s expression showed a hint of anger.
It is an expression of wounded self-esteem.
“So… … It was because it was pitiful.”
and even snorts
“Are you treating me like a baby? what do you see me as Is this why I don’t get angry?”
“… … I think you know what I mean.”
“huh. I thought the heir would understand what I meant.”
When you fall into the abyss, the most miserable thing is not when someone points a finger at you.
when someone sympathizes with me
That’s when it’s the most miserable.
“Anyway, that’s why I told you not to do that? Then do you know what he said?”
“What did you say?”
“I am not sympathetic. It’s just that it’s annoying to explain, so I just passed it on. I know who is stupid.”
Mimir’s lips pouted out again.
“Then they kept leaving me with explanations. Oh, it pisses me off thinking about it again.”
I crossed my arms, turned my head slightly, and only pouted my lips.
Anyone can see that the pouting tee is a clear expression.
“Is that why you hate Aslan?”
“… … no. It’s not like I really hate it or anything like that.”
Mimir folded his arms and smiled bitterly.
“It’s just like a promise to myself. I decided to hate it until Aslan stopped pushing me to explain it.”
Mimir’s cheeks puffed up slightly.
“You should have said that.”
“I told you. do you think you didn’t I even told him that he wouldn’t answer me no matter what I said until I stopped passing on that beggarly explanation. But Asran, that idiot… … .”
Mimir chewed his lips. He must be swearing at Aslan inside.
“really… … How long will you treat me like a child? I really hate Asran.”
The strength in Mimir’s expression faded.
“Because it’s completely arbitrary. My heart doesn’t even think… … . It’s the last one… … When it disappears, it doesn’t come back… … . When I said I would come again… … .”
It was a complex expression that could not be expressed in one sentence.
Even if I could read Mimir’s mind now, it would be impossible to understand Mimir’s mind 100%.
“Can’t we meet again?”
“… … huh. Aslan is already dead. I… … The Aslan that the successor met was simply an illusion that reproduced the records of his past. If it disappears, that’s it.”
maybe did
Like Aslan or Elena.
Maybe someday we will have a chance to meet again.
I had such hopeful thoughts.
However, it seems that it was literally just a hopeful observation.
“And that… … .”
Mimir lowered his head and murmured.
“that?”
I couldn’t hear anything behind the scenes.
“… … Yes. Nothing.”
Mimir raised his head again and smiled.
“ruler. Now you have a rough idea of what Asran’s relationship is like, right?”
As if he didn’t want to talk about it any more, he forcibly changed the subject.
“Then this talk is over. The talk has been too long. Now, let’s move on to the explanation of the Covenant Stone and ‘Factio’.”
I wanted to dig deeper into something, but I decided to stop.
If Mimir doesn’t want to talk about it, I don’t want to ask any further.
Because everyone has secrets they don’t want to tell.
“okay. The stone of this covenant. How do you write it?”
I jumped on the bandwagon of Mimir’s forced topic change.
It was my own consideration.
“… … thank you.”
Mimir lowered his head and said so.
As if he noticed my consideration, he smiled warmly and stared straight into my eyes.
Looking at Mimir like that, I shrugged my shoulders.
“what?”
“… … just.”
Mimir raised his face.
“Thank you all.”
Then, he made eye contact with me, smiling calmly, and smiled broadly.
* * *
that afternoon.
I was sitting alone in my room, concentrating.
‘Mythic magic cannot be used here. Go outside, put the Covenant Stone around your neck, and integrate the Infinity Circle and Mana Core 100%.’
‘And then recite the magic formula in the same way as when chanting.’
‘If you do, the stone of the covenant will respond.’
Remembering Mimir’s words,
I engraved the start word of the second mythic magic, ‘Factio’, in my head.
“Nothing can break the cycle of the seasons—”
The ancient characters of the Bytenor Empire were reproduced in my mouth.
A language system in which one sentence has more than ten meanings.
It is similar to the permafrost used before, but it is a real magic letter with a different ‘gyeok’ itself.
“Like the thread of ties also spins through the seasons—”
I uttered dozens of sentences over one minute.
Wing, Wing, Wing!
A red jewel worn around the neck.
The light emitted by the Covenant Stone is getting stronger and stronger.
“The promises you and I will make also circulate according to the right flow—”
sparkle!
The red light emitted by the jewel soon filled the room.
In the center of the room, which seemed to be painted red all over.
I muttered the last starter word.
“Not even death will be able to separate this covenant.”
“Páctĭo”
Kugoong!
The next moment, the room shook like a mirage.
Mana cheered.
As if celebrating the birth of something. As if blessing the birth from now on. It was like dancing.
“Come.”
I reached out both hands to the center of the distorted void.
and that moment.
widely!
Something came out of the center.
White hair and bright eyes.
The only difference from before is that nine tails have been reduced to five.
“nice to meet you.”
Shinsoo Gumiho.
He held me in my arms and acted aegyo.
