Chapter 443 – #93_Your Memory

#442

One.
I remember watching a shocking video when I was young.
It was a video shown by a friend whose name I forgot, at a time when I could google all kinds of things because there were no proper regulations on the Internet yet.

It was a video of a person caught in an EF5-class tornado that connects the sky and the ground on a wide stretch of land from a distance.
In the video, the tornado was seen pulling up people like weeds and swinging them along with wreckage of buildings and vehicles.

What happened to the person who got caught up in it?
If you fainted from low barometric hypoxemia, good luck out of misfortune.
It would be the worst of misfortunes to be crushed like tomatoes in a blender with gravel, or tossed hundreds of feet into the air and stained the floor.

Anyway, I have memories of not being able to sleep for several days because of this disturbing imagination and the helplessness of humans shown by the power of Mother Nature.
I was relieved to find out that it was safe because there was no terrain in Korea where such a huge tornado could form.

I don’t know why I suddenly had this thought.

“…… !”

A storm of suddenly expanded particles and a tilted world.
It was because the feeling of being caught up like a pitiful ant in the pit of ant hell was exactly the same as that of a person who was swept away by that tornado.

There is no bird to scream.
Particles that surround the body everywhere, regardless of top, bottom, left or right.
The distortion field was destroyed in less than 0.2 seconds.
Did the armor last 10 seconds?

In the darkness falling to the bottomless end of hell.
The boundary between space and body seems to be blurring.
The particles invaded Siwoo’s body, where all defense elements were gone, and soaked in it like poison.

As soon as I got tired, my vision changed completely, and even the strange sound of bubbles bursting disappeared as if it had subsided.
What Siwoo feels as he sinks endlessly while all other senses and senses disappear.

It wasn’t horror.

It was a loneliness that gripped my heart so coldly that my teeth ache.

– Hwaaaaagh!

Finally, with the end of the thinly connected consciousness being cut off.
Siu was swallowed up by the sea of ​​particles.

2.
The commotion earlier seemed like a lie.
The sound of air bubbles that had been bubbling as if tearing at the ears went somewhere, and again there is only a suffocating silence.
As if everything had been a dream, Siu was standing still in a dark space.

“What….”

It was a car that was bitter inside in that the last will was ‘such a fuck’.
No matter how much he risked his life, if he dies without seeing his face, what kind of dog death is this?
However, the feeling of falling endlessly, the storm of particles that destroyed the distortion field in two seconds, and the tactile sensation of the magic circuit bursting due to the feedback that broke the magic remain vivid….

“Where are you?”

Yes.
It’s dark.
At first, I thought it was ‘autonomous defense’ that had been activated, just like before.
Just like the time when I was deeply immersed in Ain and handed over control of my body to another consciousness.

But that wasn’t it either.
It was because the solid ground was clearly being stepped on at Siu’s feet, and there were no large magical structures in this darkness.

“…….”

Ignorance makes people afraid.
A randomized space is like a black box where nothing happens.
As long as you don’t know the purpose and intention of this pitch-dark space….

At that time, a girl ran next to Siwoo.
Siu quickly recognized the identity.
She doesn’t radiate golden light like the girl I saw earlier, but her body shape, height, and silhouette overlap like decalcomani.

“Little boy! It’s dangerous here!”

Rather than how he got here, who he was, and where he was, he was appalled that there might be another victim caught up in this unknown place.
I tried to put my hand on her shoulder while calling her name….

-Udadadadadada!

The figure of a golden girl straightening her hands and moving away with the momentum and speed that would rival that of a track and field athlete.
She was so fast that I could only see her profile.
Still, she is somehow familiar.

“Baby!”

Siwoo looked at the girl who was moving away like a runaway train.
From one to ten, what the heck is….

In the meantime, you discover something.
Her footprints remain along the way the girl ran.
Like a trail in the woods, the path is not tamed at all, only trodden by weeds and grasses.
Siu grabbed the red branch and cautiously followed the girl.

Let’s follow the girl’s footsteps and take one step at a time.

An amazing thing happened.
A forest blooming in the dark.
Whether the God of the beginning created the heavens and the earth by creating a void, the darkness is cleared like the dawn and a dazzling light blooms that hurts the eyes.

“Ugh… !”

Too much light.
As if scraping off the black crayon covering the colorful landscape, the girl’s light illuminated the world brightly.

Looking around, I saw a forest that looked somehow familiar.
It is a forest densely lined with sycamore trees whose sharp mouths flutter in the wind like a lady waving a handkerchief.
It was a summer day when the freshness of the deep green green filled the nasal passages with a pleasant feeling, and the chirping of the mountain birds singing happily made the ears sore.

“Whoa… Whoa… Whoa….”

In the meantime.
I see a girl crouching between the stumps of a tree, watching her surroundings with eyes like a wild beast.

“Calm down, trying to get through….”

I don’t know why, but Siu, who tried to calm her girl down and ask about the situation, felt the shock of being hit on the head with a hammer.
Blonde hair on one side of her twisted like a pigtail.
Sky-blue eyes that shine more beautifully than the clear midsummer sky.
Even a witch’s hat that seemed overly large for her size.

“Amel… Lia… ?”

Because of her sharp nose and tense, rough breathing, her lips purr like her words.
It was Amelia’s beauty that, once seen, could not be forgotten, was pulled back to her childhood.

“…….”

An accident that gets messed up again.
Why is Amelia here, looking so young?
Besides, being extremely wary of this side?
Siwoo soon realizes that her last paragraph is wrong among the thoughts that bite her tail.

“Amelia! Where are you!”

A noble voice from behind the forest road the girl had passed adds undoubted certainty to Siu’s guess.

At the same time, Mini Amelia hides like a mole under the trunk of a large tree.
It looks like she’s trying to hide somehow, even though she can’t be covered by her big hat.

“Oh hey, Amelia. How long are you going to play hide and seek? He’s not in good shape.”

The person who passed Siwoo’s shoulder and found Amelia hiding was a witch.
Blonde hair like Amelia.
However, if Amelia’s beauty is difficult to talk to because she is so beautifully crafted, this side shows a more approachable and warm-heartedness.

Furthermore, the cloak on her shoulder was so familiar that Siwoo could easily guess her identity.

Ancestral Marigold.
He is Amelia’s teacher, although I don’t know his name.

When the ancestor Marigold, who had passed her Siu as if she were a missing person, stands in front of Amelia, she crouches down on her body and mumbles in a dejected voice.

“I do not like it. I don’t study.”
“You’ve been doing well so far. Come here, I’ll make you some delicious cocoa when you’re done studying today.”
“… I do not like it.”
“Would you like some marshmallows too?”

Looking back on Amelia’s deepest impression in Siwoo’s memory, she was a very cold and difficult person.
He must not have been a great man who could be pacified only with cocoa.

“… Five things.”

But it doesn’t seem like she’s been like that since childhood.
Amelia raised her head above the tree stump.
The corners of her mouth were salivating, and her eyes were already shining with joy that bordered on ecstasy.

“Okay, five marshmallows and two ginger cookies. How are you?”
“Bird… Even ginger cookies?”
“Then~ When did you see me lie?”
“Hmmmm, good! In fact, I think I really like studying.”
“Yes, yes, come here, my baby.”

Amelia took a few short steps, her cheeks flushed red, and was embraced by her master.

This scenery flickering like fireflies in the dark.
Siwoo recognized that it was a fragment of Amelia’s memories.

“How can our Amelia run so fast? Is she faster than a squirrel?”

After stroking Amelia’s hair as if it were adorable and watching the priest disappear along her forest path, Siu silently followed her.

3.
Siu had no way to explain why he was able to enter Amelia’s memory.

I can only speculate that Amelia’s magical power and the coalesced particles and Siwoo’s magnetic magic, the Memory Palace, interacted and received the invitation.

It is an urgent situation.
Outside, your body might be in tatters, and you don’t even know what’s at the end of it.

Maybe it doesn’t make any sense.
It can be a waste of time in vain.

But I have a vague certainty.
This scene is right in front of your eyes.
A series of landscapes that Amelia would have treasured as “Memories” Are important.

The overflowing memories of the past were not constant.
There were parts that were disconnected without context, like playing a videotape that had been stored incorrectly, and at times, only unkind images were shown, like tangled pictures.

But in any landscape, Amelia was shining like a star.
Sometimes in Master’s arms, sometimes cooking together, playing the violin against the animals in the forest, picking pretty flowers and putting them in her hair, tearing her hair out and throwing her homework into the fireplace, sprinting to avoid the chasing ancestor Marigold. Even when doing .

Amelia glowed.
The light that illuminates the darkness dispels the desolate darkness like the flames of a warm fireplace and fills the empty darkness with shining memories.

“…….”

Siwoo stood quietly and watched them.

The predecessor of Marigold was a good teacher.
At the screening of memories that flowed without a break, it was seen that she cared for Amelia like her mother with her thread.
When she kissed Amelia’s round forehead, Amelia burst into her master’s arms with a smile on her face.

By the way, when I first met Amelia, she seemed very distant.

Amelia has an enormous amount of activity, like an energizer that never turns off.
Amelia Rani runs away because she is poor at studying magic and hates it.
Amelia Lani, who spends half of her day with a smile on her face.
Can you imagine where this is?

Siwoo’s smile, which naturally spreads into laughter, is distorted at some point.
It was because I felt a strong sense of deja vu every moment Amelia and her ancestor Marigold spent.

When the two wake up, they have breakfast together.
After breakfast, I packed my lunch and went out for an outing until lunchtime.

It’s like making memories one day at a time.
As if he would put at least one precious photo in the album before the relationship full of strong love and bond ends.

On some days, we would grab an easel, canvas, and pencils and sit on a hill in a barley field that had grown out of control and painted together.
On some days, she plays the violin and gives concerts exclusively for her master.
Other days we would fish or swim together in a nearby lake.

Climb up on the roof and lie down side by side to look up at the stars,
Stepping on the bed sheets in a basin full of foam while washing them vigorously,
Occasionally, we bought ingredients and made an apple pie together in the oven in the annex.

“…….”

Just get used to it
All the moments when Amelia, shining like a fairy, shined the most remained with Siwoo.
Because it was what Amelia did for the young Shiu.

Suddenly, a brief Q&A with Takasho came to mind.
Love is wanting to share my joy with others.

The warm days, which felt like deception due to momentary anger and betrayal, shared precious memories for Amelia.
He said that he just wanted to spend the scenery in the album, which he picked out one by one with his clumsy hands, with Siwoo.

Siu was speechless.
My breath choked as if I had swallowed something hot.

The moment when she couldn’t overcome the emotions of the moment and spat out harsh words passes through her head.
In front of Siwoo, who gives off intense emotions.
What did Amelia want to say?
What kind of words did she not exchange?

Siwoo, who had been frozen in a daze, realized that he was feeling a terrible sense of incongruity.
There was something missing in the chaotic life that he wanted to keep even if he drew hundreds of pictures.

Amelia was lying on the bed.
She had always been a lively and healthy woman, but sometimes she lay in her bed with her violent cough and couldn’t lift a finger.
Her ancestor, Marigold, sat at Amelia’s bedside and wiped her sweaty body with her handkerchief.

Master looked at the haggard Amelia with her worried eyes and brushed her forehead.
Amelia coughed a few times before she asked.

“Master, when can I become a witch?”
“Um~ well? Will it be a year or two after the coming-of-age ceremony?”
“I want to take over quickly. Then it wouldn’t hurt like this, and she would be able to be happy forever with her master.”
“… Then. Should I get up early and study for that?”
“Huh…. I hate studying….”

A tragedy that all witches accept as common sense.
The predecessor Marigold hid her truth from Amelia.