Chapter 24 – 24. Spreading Wings and Leaving the Nest (6)

As soon as I opened the warehouse door, what I saw was a space of space filled with starlight.

And as soon as I looked at it, I felt an unprecedented sense of comfort here. The others just have a mysterious look, but Lucy is the one who shows some reaction.

Next to that is my older sister who feels the same way as me.

Naturally, what did my father leave behind in this secret space? Since it is such a big deal that the house could be destroyed, there are more than enough reasons to open this place.

And what is hidden inside is a space like this?

…

The more I learn, the more I wonder what on earth my father was preparing.

After entering it, my sister also looked at this place and said.

“…It’s amazing. It’s like being inside my mother’s womb. Why on earth is my father doing this in the basement?”

“…Father said he was a star wizard. What do the stars say, sister?”

And when my sister had questions about it, I asked her questions. This isn’t a question I’m asking because I don’t know. It was just a question to check the academic opinion among wizards, and my sister understood it and told me.

“Exoplanets, outer space, and out of bounds?”

“…And what do you think about the fact that this place is somehow related to there, and that the secret of our birth is intertwined?”

“It’s not bad. Well, it’s not bad. In conclusion, I think if your friend was here, you’d probably answer right away, right?”

“You may know a lot, but if your mouth is locked, it is of no use.”

“That too.”

…

On the other hand, he is in a situation where he is controlled by an absolute being who is forcing him. Did he really want that?

Eternal and immortal life.

Judging from what he said about immortality making the mind sick, it’s clear…

He probably doesn’t live that long because he wants to.

She must have been subject to unavoidable restrictions, and it would not be strange for her to do something crazy like destroy her world in order to kill herself, but the guy is still alive.

The reason he has been able to endure for so long is because of the women who are with him.

If you think about the bond between them and that guy, she really has lived for a long time, and if you think about the fact that she talks about things that happened 3,000 years ago, that guy has lived with a human spirit for a very long time.

…

There will be a time to talk about it later, and I just hope that Dick can talk about it at the appointed time.

And then I had a question.

Did Dick know his father for a long time?

Considering my position as Demon Sultan’s Chosen, and considering my birth, it is clear…

She must have faced it one way or another.

And the recipe my father left for me.

After combining numerous words from the recipes, I was able to figure out what kind of magic my father had left behind.

…

‘Ritual of human sacrifice’.

And, the target of it is me.

He selected me as the target to be caught and eaten, and specifically dictated to himself that I was a ‘stellar being.’

In particular, the effect of giving ‘star beings’ an unbearable appetite.

Okay.

The fact that I felt an uncontrollable appetite at the point where I was already dying means that something began to awaken within me at the threshold of death.

From the beginning, my father knew everything and planned to die by being eaten by me.

At first, I thought I wrote it wrong. What my father said. Did I write it all down because I believed I would find all the words, and at the same time, because I believed I would accept the truth and not fall apart?

And when I found out, I really wanted to scream out loud and get angry.

I wanted to cry and ask what on earth you had done.

Why did you make me do this?

But there is no father.

It wasn’t there anymore.

…

“Clarke…”

And my sister doesn’t know how to comfort me after finding out the unpleasant truth. I needed to know about my birth and my identity, but there is no one who can tell me that.

No, there is no ‘existence’ to tell.

Solias doesn’t know me, and I don’t even know what it is. Gilgamesh understands who I and my sister are, but he already hates this shitty world ruled by elder gods, and after testing me once, he just watches me.

I don’t think I’ll tell you,

If only my father knew.

And if my father knew…

Obviously, they would have trusted my father, not me. I don’t know how much he knows about me, but at least he must have seen my father’s side more than me. The century in which he lived was over 100 years, so he must have lived longer than that.

I became a wizard to know everything about the world, but the more I know, the more I don’t know. That’s why my father told me to explore, not be proud of myself, and rather than accumulate knowledge, I should build ‘wisdom’ to use knowledge.

It’s as they say.

…Because I knew nothing about this or this situation.

Continue following the passage.

Lucy said as she looked at the starlight twinkling on the set path and outside the set path.

“…Pretty.”

Lucy’s words while looking at the drawings of twinkling stars and the Milky Way. Judging by the fact that he blocked me from going there even if I wanted to, did my father know about the dangers of this space? And I could see that the outside of this space was literally the other side of the universe.

Beyond the universe, I don’t even know where it is.

And behind the starlight, something black and wriggling was following me.

And-

Likewise, I can see something writhing inside me.

However, it was definitely smaller than my sister’s.

When I looked behind my sister, there were monsters I couldn’t even imagine walking around in space.

As a bonus, there is even a faint light that is visible to Lucy. Fire and lightning are swirling –

…

…What should I say?

Is this a space where you can discover your true self?

I’m still in a state where I don’t know anything.

The baby has just begun to emerge, and my sister…

There was even an unimaginably gigantic mountain goat and other ‘lambs’ following it. That’s probably my sister’s true appearance.

Am I seeing all the cosmic horror I will ever see here?

Of course, the cosmic horror hadn’t even started yet, and I was only just getting into it, but I knew intuitively that there would be more to see in the future. The next gateway appeared.

Gateway?

No, should I call this a gateway?

It was literally something made of flesh, and it had a mouth.

The black flesh, like a grape, wriggles and cracks are drawn, and the golden color shines in contrast with the black flesh. And something shining with golden eyes. At the same time, it reacted as soon as I got close, and again its mouth parted beneath it and spoke to me.

“Oh, I can’t believe I’m waking up. By the way, did Marcus die as planned?」

“…!”

“Calm down. It’s just… I have no will. I’m just saying what’s recorded. It’s appropriate for the situation.”

And for a moment my sister was surprised by that. The black flesh moves and golden eyes look at me. And it looks at me all the time. He doesn’t react to what I just said, and he only says what he has to say. Naturally, it looked at me and spoke in an extremely bizarre voice.

It’s the kind of energy you get when your sister gets angry, or when Dick gets a little more serious.

“Marcus is dead…Ah! That guy finally ‘succeeded’, that’s right. Coming here means that you are Marcus’ child, and no matter how you died, Marcus would have been eaten by you… And you would have absorbed everything about Marcus. Isn’t that right?」

And it looks at me.

It was looking at me as if observing me, making various evaluations, and it seemed to have realized that my father was dead and that I had eaten him, but that my father would die to me in some way.

These were the words of someone who knew that I would kill my father.

“Just in case, I’m telling you, there’s no use getting angry. I don’t know if we would have met, but I wouldn’t have met you ‘now’, and if we met and came here… Well, that ‘hound’ would have to suffer even more. I don’t know if you know. He’s having a hard time too. If you’re friendly, don’t make it too difficult.“

I don’t know why I talk so much nonsense. That was the first thought that came to mind.

Second, this guy knows Dick.

It seemed like they were close friends, and beyond being close friends, they seemed like close friends.

“And if you ask me a question, I have no answer for you. So don’t think of useless questions or anything like that. I don’t think I’m that stupid. That’s what it means to come this far.”

And light appears from the golden eyes of the black flesh. And that light had purple magic, and it began to surround this area. The place I entered just a moment ago.

And of course, the exit is blocked.

And soon it spoke to me.

“To get past this, you have to ‘give up’ something. You will only be asked questions that you can answer.“

“What did most people choose?”

“He would kill the person next to him without hesitation. There are five of you too. They say there’s one out of five that’s trash, so it’s okay to get rid of one of them, right? You can kill here what you think is unnecessary and useless.“

And I instantly felt heated by the words it spoke. Of course, before I could say anything, she saw Anna’s willingness to sacrifice herself and could tell how her father felt.

Ah-

…

Father.

Did you think that way from the beginning?

“Master, I-“

“Stop it before you get really angry, Anna.“

“…!”

A completely different voice came out without me even realizing it. Of course, I have no intention of sacrificing anything here. Of course. It was a hero party where we promised to come back together, both alive and in death, and I was a member of that party.

And getting rid of something with my own hands. I sacrifice myself to get what I want.

There’s no way you can choose something like that.

I remembered something my father once said.

Don’t cry and abandon your family.

He had said something like that.

Only then did he have a vague idea of ​​what had happened to his father. And who was sacrificed for that? Someone was sacrificed. My father must have thought a great deal about this and agonized endlessly about it.

Clearly, he has love and hate for the subject of the photo that his father tore up.

Surely, my father would have done something towards the object of his love and hate.

…

…

My father always emphasized the heart to me.

Good and evil are just divisions.

So, follow the path that you know in your heart is right.

And I just discovered my father’s technique.

And through my father’s magic, I learned that if I repeated this, I could gain tremendous strength. Of course, other crazy people would boldly use this and kill someone on the spot.

I brought out these spells.

“Oh, I chose a spell. And this…Aha! Certainly, seeing as you chose this…“

And, I broke the spell just like that.

It destroys and destroys the combination of spells so that the form can never be achieved again. I destroyed the ‘human sacrifice’ spell my father used on me and gave it up.

I didn’t want to use this anymore.

Surely, if I sacrifice, kill, and eat someone with this, I can become stronger. The difference between after catching and eating it and before eating it was huge. Power tempted me, not to give it up, but to sacrifice the weak one right next to me.

And it was pointing at Anna, and a wicked temptation was urging me on.

I no longer wanted to see my family killed or eaten because of me.

Naturally, that black lump of flesh giggles at me and disappears.

“Congratulations – you passed your father’s test. And…Go find the person who is waiting for you. And…Please take care of ‘me’ in this world.“

Just like that, it disappears, and the barrier blocking the path breaks down.

And at the end, the space of the universe disappears, and what remains in the underground warehouse.

It was a ‘memory space’ that was exactly like our mansion, Dawn Bringer’s mansion.

A space of memories literally means a place you wanted to see in the past,

“…This!?”

“…It must be my father’s resting place.”

The universe that existed just a moment ago disappeared everywhere, and when I looked back at the same time, I saw the seal of the warehouse and the underground warehouse that had been lifted earlier. Is it some kind of space magic? It certainly looked larger than the old Dunbringer Mansion, and the decoration was different in many ways.

It was more flashy, bigger, and above all – the picture of the person hanging in the middle was a completely different person.

4-story mansion.

If the place I was in was a three-story mansion, this was the fourth floor, and it was filled with more ornate decorations than anything else, and the things decorating the walls were a bunch of artifacts that I had never seen before, not even at home, not even my father.

“This is my first time seeing this. These are artifacts I have never seen before in Gehenna. I can feel the power. They are artifacts with powerful powers that should not exist in this world… This is-“

“Anna, are you okay?”

And, the power that those artifacts possess, not only for me but also for my sister.

Since I know the source and identity of that power, I look at Anna’s pale complexion as soon as she enters this space. Holding Anna with her pale face, she tries to tell her that Anna is somehow okay, but-

“It’s okay… It’s okay, master… B…”

-Is there any way it would be okay? This is a space filled with the power of ‘star beings’.

“…!”

And a nostalgic voice came from behind.

And soon after, her Anna’s body was covered with the golden light of the sun, and only then, as if the mighty power of the artifacts that had been shooting at her Anna, had eased, her Anna’s complexion slowly began to return, and she followed behind her. Let’s look back, there…

My father was standing.

“…Father?”

“Accurately, you can think of it as containing my memories of the past, son.”

A neat-looking middle-aged man with blond hair and a thin beard. Father, my father Marcus – Dawn Bringer. And as soon as I saw it, I could immediately see tears flowing from the corners of my eyes. My father, whom I really missed for the past seven years.

My family, my father.

And as soon as I saw it, I ran to my father without hesitation.

And it accepted me in a familiar way and stroked my head. I couldn’t feel any warmth, but it clearly had substance. It’s just a doll, but it’s my father’s voice. Seeing that person in the likeness of my father, I shed hot tears.

I wanted to save it.

I wanted to save him, but I couldn’t save him.

I can’t even imagine how much suffering he must have suffered for the past 7 years, how much suffering he must have endured while I was on the expedition, and how much suffering he must have suffered from Medea’s madness, when he was just a young boy full of blood.

I said it was just something I had to do, but seeing my family suffer because of it, and having to free that family from that pain and save them.

I tried to protect them all without giving up on any of them, but I couldn’t even do that.

Despair and frustration.

And above all else, the guilt of having eaten my father alive.

Amidst complex emotions and anger over this, I ransacked numerous priests and their hideouts, but there was nothing left.

Ah-

“…Father, Father…!!!”

“Look at how much trouble he went through… You really don’t have to look, son.”

I cried as I hugged the memory of my father, who was just a doll and could not feel any warmth. The world was too harsh and cruel for an 18-year-old kid who only knew how to use magic to live in the world.

Over the past 7 years, I have interacted with more people, fought together, and barely survived the assassins who were targeting me. When I returned home, my fiancé had been acting with the intention of destroying my family from the beginning, and the house was completely destroyed. .

Even my father was caught there.

It was a time when I couldn’t stay sane, but I still had to hold on.

And I managed to find my father after slaughtering countless troops, but my father was already dead, and the ‘reincarnated person’ who took over my father’s body almost killed me with my father’s body –

I ate up my father like that.

Did I cry like that for a long time? Just barely, Anna was next to her, wiping her swollen face with a handkerchief, and her older sister also approached her father. And I hugged my father. She seemed to have missed her father just as much as her older sister, and she hugged him tightly.

Despite this, he made a sad expression as he felt the warmth that he could not feel.

“…Father. I didn’t want to see you like this.”

“I’m sorry, Mira, but it was necessary. And…You’ve grown a lot. You’ve come back as a truly great lady.”

“I wanted to hear it directly from my father.”

“…My sins are deep. I’m sorry. Right now, all I can do is say I’m sorry, my daughter, my children.”

My father said that to my sister, and with a very sad expression, he said it to us. It was a part of my father’s memories and consciousness, but even about that, I don’t think there was much he could say about it.

“Anna…You are still protecting Clark’s side. Thank you.”

“No, great master. For me, if I wasn’t taken away by you, I would…”

“No. Clark was able to come here because you were by his side and you were protecting the place he would return to.”

“Huh? What is that…”

“…Lavinia, and the betrayal of the Waitley family. And the betrayal of Magia, and the gods who were about to throw up, and when the whole world betrayed my son, you stood by my son. That’s enough. “My son was saved by you. If no one had been waiting for me, my son would have been screwed, saying he couldn’t trust anything in the world.”

“…That’s a bit-“

To be honest-

“…But Anna was waiting for me, and I quietly told her not to follow me… But it was true that I was happy to be treated like a host.”

“…Ah, ugh-“

And at that, Anna’s ears droop and her face starts to turn red. Her tail begins to sweep the floor, and she is understandably helpless, unable to cover her face as blood rushes to her face and turns red.

Everyone has someone to wait for them at home.

I often contacted my older sister, and I was her fiancée, but the person who was always with me wherever I went was my exclusive maid, Anna.

Because she was my home.

This time I get a bored look from my sister. Jii Street wasn’t like that, but what can I say. That kind of gaze that seems a little too sticky?

And my older sister, who was facing me, smiled as if she had never done that before, and soon after seeing that, her father said to her older sister.

“…You only look at your younger brother the same way you did before and now, Mira.”

“Father?”

“It’s no use talking to me like that now, Mira. You two siblings were born like that in the first place.”

“Huh? You were born that way, what are you-“

And when I questioned it, my father looked at my sister and said to me.

“Your sister was born to truly ‘love’ one of her closest blood relatives.”

“…Yes?”

And my sister and I make eye contact once again. Then, my older sister blushed and avoided looking at that, and soon after, her father confirmed the death.

“That’s why I sent you away when I had the chance to go to Gehenna in the first place. Clark, you were young, and it was still too early to have a ‘child’.”

“Father!!”

My older sister spoke to my father while giggling, but of course my father spoke to me while giggling, with a pitiful expression on his face as he revealed his eldest daughter’s hidden secret.

“Now that you’re all grown up, let’s both coordinate the timing of having children, Clark. You’re now at the age where you can legally ‘have a baby.'”

“Aren’t you being a bit too hard on your sister, father?”

“This father is not kind to his daughter, who always asks about you rather than me. All he sends is a routine letter of greetings, and I wish he would pamper me like he did to you. “Son, how do you think this father feels when he receives nothing like that and only those things?”

What is the letter sent to me from Gehenna…

Literally stories about what happened in Gehenna. Stories about what kind of magic I learned as a member of a witches’ association, and stories about witches who are literally annoying.

Stories of people trying to trick me with witchcraft that only they knew about, and as a bonus, I also used to tell my older sister about things that happened at school, and as a bonus, I also told my older sister about my personal, wizard-like views on witchcraft and, as a bonus, the knowledge of a wizard. He also taught me about application methods suitable for my older sister, who also has a .

Thanks to this, a happy letter was written saying that she had been chosen well, and the rumor about the new witch from Gehenna also spread further.

Of course, I installed a security device because someone could see it.

From what my father said, it seems like the letters he sent to him were nothing more than routine greetings…

What is this, eating that shit?

I think about it sometimes, but this father often has the same tension as Dick.

Really.