#120

One.

As soon as Amelia returned to the room, she sat down as if her legs had become weak.

As soon as the excitement that felt like a martyr in the desert subsides, a sense of self-destruction comes over me.

In addition to regretting that I should not have done that, I blame my own weakness.

It was unacceptable to mix with him now.

Siwoo is not fully back yet.

Seducing Siwoo with her body and satisfying her half-baked greed without knowing anything about it is a cowardly act that Amelia despises so much.

I shouldn't have even asked for forgiveness.

It's such a shameless act that you can't forgive me even if I regain my memories.

"Ugh...Ugh...Ugh..."

But I was so afraid.

The look in his eyes when he comes back.

The hatred he harbors when he remembers all the facts.

I thought it would be okay to listen to any harsh words as long as I could save him.

As I spent happy days with Siwoo, my heart became dull.

I became weak.

I felt like I couldn't bear to see him change so suddenly.

"Master... Master... What should I do...?"

No matter how much I plead, no one gives me an answer.

It felt like breathing in a stuffy fish tank.

-Ting!

A bottle of medicine rolled around at the feet of Amelia, who was crying quietly while covering her mouth to avoid being heard by Si-woo.

Amelia picked it up with a blank expression.

"If you don't have this...."

If you don't have the unidentified potion that Duke Keter gave you, you can continue this life forever.

In this cabin, where happy memories have increased, you can stay with Siwoo, who looks at Amelia with affection.

Whispering love to him, studying magic together, painting, playing the violin, baking pies, going for walks, all in a lie built on a forgotten truth.

"happily...."

Magic particles rise from Amelia's hand.

It was a particle with extremely high heat that could evaporate a small vial along with its contents.

All you have to do is be a little cowardly.

All you have to do is compromise a little.

Run away one last time.

I know it's something I shouldn't do.

This is trampling on his free will.

But doesn't Siwoo also consider this life happy?

There were far more smiles I saw during the month I spent with him than during the five years I was a slave under Amelia.

instead.

Instead, you just have to make them happier in the future.

The happiness that Amelia had taken from him would last ten years, twenty years, or even a lifetime, until he grew old and left this world.

If you give it back a few times...

As Amelia's flame slowly got closer and closer to burning the tag hanging on the bottle, something came into Amelia's field of vision.

The wreath that Siwoo made as a gift.

Amelia used a preservation spell on the wreath and hung it by the window like a dream capture.

The first gift he gave Amelia when he was still a child.

The moment you see it, the magic in your grip dissipates.

The almost maddening impulse that had been driving her also disappeared as if washed away.

"I can not...."

You can't do that.

This is something that should not be done.

Amelia slowly crouched down.

Her silent sobbing continued until late at night.

2.

I adjusted the blanket and touched my lips.

Amelia took care of Siu when he was unable to function as an individual.

Everything was fun with her.

Even boring and boring cleaning becomes a special event when Amelia is by your side.

Amelia was Siwoo's benefactor, a trustworthy teacher, and the first woman he had feelings for.

"It's going to spin, really..."

Siwoo sat down on the bed, holding his head.

A hot kiss with her.

My lips and tongue burned as if the residual heat was still there.

The moment Siwoo and Amelia mixed their tongues, he felt that the string of reason was broken.

Even though I didn't think the relationship was at that level yet, I was sure of what I was thinking and touched her breasts and pushed her down on the bed.

In fact, I remember seeing Amelia's breasts, touching them, and even sucking them.

However, Si-woo, who was very young at the time and regained 10 years worth of memories in just one month, felt like it was a long time ago, but a blur.

The meaning and results of actions performed with a firm will are different from actions taken as a pamper when the body and mind are young, and actions performed with a firm will after the body and mind have grown.

What on earth does Amelia think about this?

"This feels so fucking cheap."

Siwoo pulled out his hair.

Yes, I was aware that Amelia had some crush on Siwoo.

There is no way to confirm whether it is like the affection shown by a guardian toward a protected person or the love between a man and a woman, but for now, Amelia actively accepted the kiss today.

He didn't even resist Siwoo's groping touches.

So why did you reject Siwoo at the last minute?

Siwoo couldn't understand that.

'I also hope for what Siwoo wants.'

'But... I don't deserve it... I don't deserve this.'

After saying that, Amelia left the room.

"I'm hoping for what I want…"

Are you sure you knew what it was?

"But I'm not qualified…"

What qualifications do you mean?

I couldn't understand it at all.

I don't really know what it is, but I was thinking of a roughly similar situation.

There was one of Siwoo's friends.

He was in the stage of having a subtle relationship, so to speak, with A, a girl at his school.

So, when Ms. A first asked him out on a date, he took a picture of his erect dick and sent it to her. She was shocked and reported it, so he was expelled.

"You crazy bastard."

Siwoo remembered the absurd anecdote and laughed.

When I first heard that story, I remembered thinking, 'You're lucky to be a host.'

Anyway, I think this is a similar example.

Of course, it's not as good as Takasho, but I'm still left with the regret that I may have rushed into something like that.

Siwoo, who was thinking like that, suddenly felt a sense of discomfort.

"Takasho?"

Who is that?

Memories that pass by like a panorama.

Two men talking with smiling faces in a shabby room.

The other person's face is not visible properly, as if it is covered by a veil.

At the same time, I got a headache.

"Oh, it's like this again."

If you take the potion given by Amelia, your memories will soon become tangled.

As if you were watching dozens of TVs at the same time, all kinds of images and voices start to run wild in your head.

The resulting nausea. For a moment, Si-woo felt an excruciating pain in his left eye.

"Bwak!"

It was such extreme pain that I couldn't even scream, as if I had been stabbed with an awl.

Siwoo lay in bed for a while, unable to move, experiencing hellish pain.

The intense pain that lasted for about 10 minutes disappeared in an instant.

It's like a pain that never existed.

However, Siwoo's entire body was drenched in sweat from the intense pain.

"W-what is it...?"

Siwoo was in a hurry to find Amelia.

In the end, it is the potion given by Amelia that improves his condition.

I had to report the abnormal condition to her.

Siwoo staggered to get up and tried to walk, but felt something strange.

My left eye is dark.

It was a natural story.

According to Amelia, he lost his left eye in the fight.

The empty eye sockets were filled with artificial eyes and covered with an eyepatch.

But this darkness is different.

Rather than saying that the eyeballs are completely non-existent and cannot be recognized, it seems as if they are obscured by something.

Siwoo untied the straps covering the back of his head and took off his eye patch.

At the same time, light poured in as if it would burn the eyeballs.

Like a person who has been trapped in a dark place and suddenly sees light, the optic nerve that has not been used for a long time is overloaded.

"Ugh....!"

However, it took a while for his eyes to quickly adjust to the light.

What on earth is going on?

Siwoo closed one eye and awkwardly walked to the dressing table.

"Why is this happening?"

The eyeball, which was just a prosthetic eye, was moving around as if it had been part of him from the beginning.

I can clearly identify objects with my left eye and see my own reflection in the mirror.

His eyesight was fully restored.

However, compared to the right eye, there was a clear difference.

Only the color of the left pupil is shining bright gold.

Moreover, complex equations appear and disappear repeatedly in the surrounding white space, as if tattooed on them.

Siwoo's confusion did not stop there.

"Surprise!"

Si-woo looks back, startled by the faint light visible around him.

Something is floating in front of my eyes.

Colorful lines are visible.

White lines were floating all over the room like air currents.

At first, I thought it was a hallucination due to my optic nerves being shocked by the light I had not seen in a long time.

But soon Siwoo instinctively realizes it.

This is the flow of magical power.

Every time he strokes it with his fingertips, the flow of magical power is disturbed and then returns to its original state, like winding a thread floating on the surface of the water.

"Wow… that's amazing…"

It was a sight that Siwoo could not quite understand with his magical common sense.

In general, the flow of magical energy floating in the air is very, very, very fine.

Moreover, it is impossible to visually observe such neat strands of magic power because they become disorganized the moment you try to observe them.

The moment you try to use magic to observe, the magic will break the flow.

Siwoo's heart almost jumped out as he inadvertently turned his gaze to look at the desk.

The moment he looked at the magic formula he had scribbled down from memory, several letters and formulas jumped out as if he was watching a 3D movie.

Siwoo opened his eyes and looked at the scene.

In Ajin, the magic circle consists of three or more dimensions.

The magic formula was just a means to transfer it to two-dimensional paper.

Just by looking at the magic formula, the essence of the magic began to appear as if it were in Ajin.

It's as if I can vividly hear the orchestra in my head even though I'm just reading the score.

It was a very strange and disconcerting experience.

Siwoo raises his hand and covers his left eye.

Then the three-dimensional model disappears.

When you lower your hand again, the three-dimensional model is revealed.

"that's interesting."

It was an extremely thrilling experience for Si-woo, who had become so passionate about magical exploration that he had recently put math aside.

Before informing Amelia of this strange phenomenon, there was something I wanted to test.

In fact, it's true that it's embarrassing to see him face to face after such a shameful incident just a few minutes ago.

What Siwoo took out was a magic formula that copied what only existed in his head.

Even though he couldn't interpret even the slightest bit, Siwoo's memory contained all of the 200 complicated formulas.

That means it's an important memory.

And the moment Siwoo flipped through the stack of paper and read it, he felt as if lightning had struck his head.

I feel like my body is tilting backwards and I continue to sink into endless darkness.

When Siwoo came to his senses, he was in a dark space.

'Ain' is a place where only endless darkness unfolds, like the universe.

A world of ideas and thoughts that only witches who have honed their magnetic magic can have.

I was invited into the space I had only heard about.

There is a large structure standing in the dark center of Ain.

It looked like a circle, a cluster of black shadows, or a large loom... and I couldn't make out another one.

Cognitive dissonance came from not being able to recognize it even though I was clearly seeing it with my eyes.

It felt like I was looking at a being of a higher dimension rather than something of the same dimension.

"..."

In front of him was Shin Si-woo.

Shin Si-woo looks a little older than he is now.

I thought I would look like this when I got older, around my late 20s.

He was sitting expressionlessly on a throne made of shadows, staring at the structure.

"Did you say there was something like that?"

I've heard about Ain, but this is the first time I've ever heard of someone else (even if it's just me) in that space.

Shin Si-woo's head turns.

The two people made eye contact.

At the same time, a black chain wrapped around Siwoo's entire body.

Without even having time to say anything, Siwoo was thrown out of Ain.

It was truly unknowing.

Si-woo, who was dumbfounded, was about to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

Memories of magic fill my head again.

Like opening a dam that has been imprisoned for so long, countless amounts of knowledge begin to penetrate the brain.

Siwoo stood blankly for a while and took it in.

Something was changing.