Memories

Thanks to the increased speed she got from her drop, Beatrice able to travel extremely fast, and as such, in what seemed like a few short moments, she reached the location of her underground home.

But even so, Beatrice did not seem to want to slow down, as she continued using her extremely powerful wings to fly towards the entrance.

Then, just a few tens of meters in front of the entrance, Beatrice suddenly stopped.

In a single instant, Beatrice's speed changed from several times the speed of sound to nothing, but although this was the case, Beatrice did not seem to have been affected by this in the slightest.

In fact, even though she had completed such an impossible maneuver, that was in fact extremely dangerous, a faint smile was present on the face of Beatrice.

A moment later, after making sure that there was nobody around following her, Beatrice opened the door to the underground abode and walked inside.

...

Just a brief moment after she entered the underground abode, Beatrice, who previously had nothing to do, got to work.

Firstly, Beatrice had to think about the memories of her past self a bit more thoroughly

Secondly, Beatrice had to have all of her robes remade so that they could fit her wings, as even though Beatrice knew that she could retract them in her body, for some reason, she didn't want to do something like that.

Lastly, Beatrice had to of course begin practicing a lot more Rank 1 Spells, as well as continue her research into the soul, as she could now learn that Soul Technique her teacher had told her about.

Even though there were only three main things that Beatrice had to do, one mustn't underestimate the time that these things can take, as practicing Rank 1 spells isn't nearly as simple as practicing Rank 0 spells.

...

As she reviewed the memories that she had obtained, Beatrice couldn't help but shake her head, still feeling embarrassed by the sheer stupidity of her past.

In her first life, even when she knew that someone was after her, upon learning the fact that a deadly plague was spreading in a certain area, Beatrice immediately went to use her Light Magic to help.

Sadly though, as one might expect, this plague was actually created by Beatrice's pursuers, who used it to sneak attack her and kill her.

Upon first obtaining these memories, Beatrice felt quite shocked by the fact that in her first life, she actually had Light Magic.

But upon going through the contents of her second life, as well as the hypothesis that Beatrice had created back then, that shock disappeared, having been replaced with some apprehension.

After being reborn once again, past Beatrice discovered a rather scary fact, her death had corrupted her.

This did not mean that the fact that Beatrice had died had changed her, no, if that was the case past Beatrice wouldn't have been so worried.

Rather, it seemed as though Beatrice had been corrupted after she had died.

Back then though, Beatrice didn't know if this was a one time thing or a continued side effect of her death, furthermore, Beatrice wasn't really sure that she could die a second time back then.

But as shown by Beatrice's magic affinity, which had actually changed after she had died, this process wasn't a one time thing, rather, it was a continued side effect of her deaths.

Perhaps because she had been corrupted, after being reborn, Beatrice was no longer as kind and self-sacrificing as she was in her first life.

Even so, a huge amount of kindness and love remained within her.

Sadly though, this love and kindness would be crushed by her second death, which unlike her first one, did not come at the hands of her enemies, rather it came from her 'friends and allies' as well as the people that Beatrice had helped.

No matter how much someone does for them, no matter how kind someone is to them, as long as the price was high enough, humans would betray anyone and everyone.

This is what Beatrice learned in her second life.

Sadly though, she had to have her soul shattered for her to learn this fact, causing her to lose her memories and become the current Beatrice, whose soul had managed to heal itself.

But even so, this newly born soul did not contain those old memories, rather, they were contained in shattered fragments of Beatrice's soul, which had only been reabsorbed after Beatrice became an Official Mage and could bear their weight.

In truth, these fragments were actually the cause of the voices that Beatrice had begun hearing after her Spiritual Power became powerful enough.

Even though in truth, things weren't as bleak as the first Beatrice made them out to be before her death, these thoughts and feelings greatly influenced Beatrice, causing her to become who she was now.

...

As she went through her memories once again, Beatrice couldn't help but let out a slightly exhausted sigh.

'I guess no matter how powerful an Innate Talent is, it can't let someone endlessly die without any consequences,' thought Beatrice as she looked at her white wing with a somewhat weird look on her face.

At first, after becoming an Official Mage, Beatrice had felt quite bewildered why half of the wings on her back looked so much like the wings of Angels.

Right now, though, Beatrice knew the answer and no longer thought about this topic, rather, she began thinking about what she would do next.

Of course, Beatrice would follow the plan that she had created not too long ago, but in the back of her mind, a certain thought tempted Beatrice.

After thinking about taking revenge for a few moments, Beatrice shook her head and discarded that tempting thought.

"Taking revenge wouldn't bring be any benefits, it will even make it harder for me to hide myself, doing that would be really stupid," mumbled Beatrice before beginning to think about something else.