Episode 521
One morning, several months had already passed since the coronation ceremony, which felt unusually long, had ended.
“I mean, how many times have I told you that it’s impossible?”
“How many times have I told you this? No matter how much I think about it, I think it’s possible?”
I came down to the first floor of the mansion with a dazed mind that had just woken up, and I saw that Serena and Irina had been arguing since morning for some reason.
“No.”
“You can!”
There were a mountain of documents piled up in the living room on the first floor and countless formulas written on the blackboard next to them.
And looking at the flushed faces of the two, it seems like there was a difference of academic opinion.
However, it is truly strange that their opinions diverge.
Until now, there would have been no conflict of opinion between the two in such a situation.
When Serena creates a seemingly impossible magic formula, Irina makes it possible.
That was the mechanism so far.
“What are you two doing? Where have all the other kids gone?”
“Oh, honey. We were just having a light discussion.”
“Frey? You’re up early.”
I was curious as to why a crack occurred in that thorough system, so I asked a question, and the women turned their heads and started talking with blank faces.
“Ruby went grocery shopping. I’m in charge of Roswin with her this morning.”
“The others all followed along just now. They weren’t sophisticated enough to listen to our high-level discussion.”
“Yes, I see.”
It may have been due to the survival instinct rather than lack of culture. Once two people start a discussion, there are times when it doesn’t end no matter how many times it changes day and night.
“So what is the topic of discussion?”
“Oh, that’s…”
With that thought in mind, I asked the question again, and Serena opened her mouth with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“Time travel.”
“what?”
“Frey, listen carefully. Are you saying time travel might be possible?”
I looked confused because the words that came out of her mouth were so unexpected, and Irina looked at me with an excited expression and said.
“Roswin taught Serena something interesting the other day. I just applied it a little…”
“Wake up from your dream, Irina.”
“No, just listen to me? Actually, I’ve already succeeded in time travel once.”
If someone else had said it, it would have been something that would have been laughed at.
However, what caught my attention was the fact that the person who was saying those words was none other than a genius and eccentric on par with Serena, and the best archmage at the moment.
“Do you remember the third trial? That trial I carried out without even realizing it. The formula I created back then was a kind of key.”
“key?”
“The ancient magic that was preventing the world from turning back time. In other words, the key to bypassing the management system.”
“hmm…”
“Hmm… no, it’s simple if you think about it a little, so…”
The words that came out after that were a series of complicated technical terms and formulas that were difficult to understand no matter how hard I listened.
After all, there was a reason why all the others ran away.
“So… just to conclude. The formula that Irina created is ancient magic. In other words, it has the effect of bypassing the rules of the world. You can use it to travel through time.”
“…Yes, that’s it, Serena.”
When my head was overloaded and steam was escaping, Serena gave me a summary and I was finally able to understand.
“If that’s true, that’s awesome.”
I just said it with a smile, but if it’s true, it’s quite an amazing thing.
According to my knowledge, there is no power that can turn back ‘time’ in this world, or even in the entire dimension.
Only the ‘system’, i.e. the ‘management system’, could make it possible.
However, someone who is not even a cosmic being can handle that.
It must be a huge deal on all levels.
“Don’t make me say this again and again. Time travel is impossible.”
“You just said that time travel is possible.”
“That’s just an explanation of your hypothesis.”
I wondered if I should at least applaud, but Serena, who had a dark expression on her face, began to retort in a stern voice.
“There were errors in the formula I wrote down in the first place. Here, here, and here.”
“I know there are problems with the formula, but you can provide enough security…”
“No, I have tried calculating it several times, but no matter how I touch it, the formula itself is overturned. It is a structure that cannot be established in the first place.”
“But then what about the third trial? What happened to that?”
“We succeeded because the system helped us at that time.”
“Are you saying you did it to me on purpose even though you knew? A magic that played on yourself? No, did you even have the will to begin with?”
Despite Serena’s stormy attack, Irina persistently presented her counterargument.
Judging by the sparkle in her eyes, it seems that Irina’s chronic obsession with learning has been cured for the first time in a long time.
“Frey, the system has will, right?”
“uh?”
“Wouldn’t you know?”
However, her passion for learning could not help but fade away in front of Serena’s cold voice and me.
“…There is, right?”
Actually, I tried to answer no at first.
Although there was hidden malice in the system I had until now, it was because of the Demon God who was controlling it from behind the scenes.
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“Are you sure?”
However, considering the existence of Glare and the being I met at the coronation ceremony a few months ago, I think it is right to answer ‘yes’.
“…………”
For some reason, Serena’s expression as she stares at me is unusual.
“Yes, I’m sure.”
“Hmm… I guess that was it. It’s a shame…”
As I answered with confidence, Irina’s expression suddenly became glum.
Who would look at that and think she is a great dragon lord?
“It doesn’t matter, right? Time travel isn’t necessary right now. It could actually be dangerous.”
“Yeah, that’s right… you’re right, Frey.”
When I spoke to her while stroking her head, which was hanging down like a dead puppy, she, who had been pouting, gradually nodded and muttered.
Judging from the way its tail, which had been briefly raised due to its recent rapid growth in strength, was waving, it seemed as if all of its gloomy mood had been lifted just by stroking its head.
A great dragon lord wagging his tail while being petted.
Would the people of the Nivelia family, who faced the dragon long ago, be shocked if they saw this?
No, if you look at the last heir of that family, he has been burning with his desire to create even recently.
I might have liked it unexpectedly.
“Okay, then… I’ll just go to the Magic Tower.”
“Are you going already? What about breakfast?”
I had been stroking Irina’s head for a while while fantasizing about that, and when she, who had been absentmindedly wagging her tail, suddenly came to her senses and prepared to leave, I asked a question with a disappointed heart.
“I’ve been very busy lately with the handover of the Magic Tower… but I’ll definitely have dinner with you.”
However, after saying that, Irina waved at me and walked out of the mansion.
“Then I’ll come back!”
A husband who sees off his wife from work at home.
I feel a bit strange for some reason. I feel like I have become a spoiled man.
“Hey, Frey.”
“huh?”
I was scratching my head, waving to Irina, and was about to leave, when Serena, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly spoke to me.
“Did I do well?”
“…………”
Her face stiffened slightly as she said that.
“As expected, was it possible?”
“…Like I said, it’s not impossible. If I dedicate my whole life to it, maybe I can complete it.”
Serena stands up and walks to the blackboard with the formula written on it.
“But this is too dangerous. In many ways.”
Then, Serena quietly stretches her hand forward.
“But, just in case. Just in case… It’s a case I don’t even want to think about…”
“……”
“If something happens to us, this might come in handy then.”
Then, the moment her voice started to tremble slightly.
“If you think about what happened a few months ago, even if it’s risky, it’s better to take out insurance…”
“no.”
I walked up to her side, held her hand, and opened my mouth with a quiet smile.
“That won’t happen.”
“but…”
“That’s the power I gained.”
As I said that and lightly breathed my power into her, Serena’s eyes widened for a moment.
“Since when…?”
“This will ease your anxiety.”
Serena, realizing what power I had obtained, looked at me with blank eyes and asked.
“Are you really going to leave?”
“It’s an ability I gained to be with you, so it can’t be.”
“But, when this power completely enters your body… you…”
“As you just felt, this power can be given to others.”
Her moonlight eyes are in my eyes.
“Is that okay? You’ll be with me forever, even after the rest of your life is over.”
And when tears started to form in those eyes.
“No matter how much time passes, no matter how long we are together.”
Serena, who was in my arms, answered with a trembling voice.
“I like you.”
At the same time, the lunar mana she poured out was erasing the formulas written on the blackboard.
“I love you, Frey…”
“I was planning to tell you when we’re all together.”
I was scratching my head as I looked at her as if she had just received a confession for the first time, as she snuggled into my arms. Then I looked at the now clean blackboard and asked a question.
“By the way, that formula.”
“yes?”
“Does anyone have a chance of finding it like Irina?”
Serena shook her head after hearing those words.
“It’s a formula that Irina discovered through coincidence. It won’t be discovered again until the end of the world.”
“Still, what if someone discovers Irina’s unfinished formula?”
“Still, it’s impossible.”
Serena smiled quietly as she looked puzzled by that stern voice.
“Honestly, even I don’t have the confidence to complete that.”
“okay?”
“So rest assured.”
Only then did I relax my slightly stiff expression and, as I was going up to the second floor with her, I suddenly muttered to myself.
“Anyway, have you decided on names for your children? It’s already been a few months since they were all born, so we need to register them soon…”
‘Surely there will never be a genius who surpasses Serena?’
“Frey?”
“Ah, yes. So…”
It’s really a pointless worry that there won’t be any problems for the next 10,000 years or so.
.
Meanwhile, at that time, in the forest near Starlight Mansion.
– It’s so hard…!!!
For a split second, an incredibly bright flash of light covered the place where there were few people.
“Ugh…”
“Cluck, clack…”
And, as the light fades away.
“W-what did you do… Arte?”
“This is a game of tag, not combat training…”
“…What kind of accident did you get into again this time?”
“You are now dead to your mother.”
At the same time, the voices of dissatisfied children began to be heard.
“Sorry! I guess I was trying to use a teleportation scroll and accidentally used a different scroll!”
A girl with long silver hair and moon-colored eyes, who they called Artera, began to rummage as she rummaged through her arms.
“But what did you take out? Flash Scroll? No, I left that behind… So is it a Blast Scroll?”
“Bo, do you usually use big explosions to play tag?”
“Tch, aren’t you going to use it because you feel like you’re going to get caught?”
“…what?”
This was not the first time this had happened, but it was when everyone’s unsatisfactory eyes were turned to her.
“Why was this in here…?”
Arte’s brightly smiling eyes, as she looked down at the scroll she had used, began to waver.
“Ho, I was secretly researching alone… Did I get mixed up in the room? Ugh, then… This is…”
“Arte, please explain.”
“Okay, what is this place? It’s similar to where we were, but also subtly different.”
“You didn’t create a subspace like last time, did you?”
As the children poured out questions at Arte’s unusually embarrassed appearance, she broke into a cold sweat.
“Uh, so…”
Immediately, he spread his arms to both sides and shouted with an awkward smile.
“Time travel!”
A long silence began to follow after that.
“…Success.”
In that silence, Arte, who spoke in a voice that was crawling with cold sweat as if it were raining, closed her mouth again and began to quietly observe.
“”……………………….””
She didn’t want to lose in the game of tag, so she accidentally got caught up in an interdimensional accident.
“”…….You’re kidding, right?””
His half-brothers and sisters.
fantasy,
