BLACK MOON - Black Magic War Beginning with Jailbreak - [Full story illustration available]

Episode 7: The Mark of Fire

The dry sun is shining. One military vehicle drove through a rolling evil road of great gravel. Its body jumps big and sometimes snakes as if it were drunk driving. It's Lili driving such a dark green car.

"Don't you really know how to drive a car?

"Wow, I get it!... because I used to watch your father drive from the passenger seat..."

That's the same as not knowing how to drive. When Bell tries to get the scratch in, the body shakes a lot.

"Hey, can't you drive nicer?

To Lili's abusive driving, Bell had hit every part of his body in the car over and over again. The interior of their vehicle is never wide. Even though it's narrow, Allen, with his eyelids, is playing with his hands and legs stretched out with pirate temptation.

"I can't afford to be nice! You're concentrating, don't talk to me!

Lili, who was focused on driving the car, is upset that Bell has spoken to her. Snake operation on steep accelerator/steep brake. I can't even flatter you for driving well, but the person in question is serious in itself.

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Caring ahead. That's what Bell wanted to say, but he didn't dare put it in his mouth. So strange to get in Lili's driving car and not get car drunk. After a while, the car driving dangerously went into the woods.

Tall trees lined up, blocking the sun that was illuminating the area. Going through the woods, even though it was only day, the sight was as dark as night.

Into the woods, the car never calmed down. Lili's driving car rocks violently, as if it were an amusement park attraction, and Bell's mind never rests.

Wanting to distract him at all, Bell was remembering an experience some time ago.

That was a year ago.

By the hands of Arrosha and Belzebab, Bell, who had broken out of Rabbitney's prison, had reached the vast Amnis Desert. An endless desert linking the Union of Limia to the Kingdom of Sertria. If you're a smart person, a dangerous area you'll never set foot in.

Bell, who didn't know the right or left at the time, stepped into the rugged desert. Bell's vision, as he fled prison town in a heartbeat, was cloudy. He didn't see anything in his eyes at this time.

"Where are we...?

After breaking into the desert for a few hours or so, Bell finally realized he was in the desert. Only Belle, dressed in gray prisoner clothes, is in the desert alone.

Spread on one side of the perimeter is the irreplaceable yellow earth. The yellow earth spread everywhere as far as it looked as if it had been anointed with paint.

"Me, what are you doing?

No one, just one person nestled on a wide earth, Bell had a bright white head. He at this time, shortly after Belzebub told him the shocking facts. I escaped from prison and killed a human being. Having heard that word too shocking, Bell had a temporary amnesia.

"I... who am I"

Too much shock robbed Bell of his memory. Although temporary, he can't even remember his name right now. It's empty, so to speak.

Empty bells just keep walking in the desert. A 16-year-old boy who hasn't even had a decent meal shortly after his escape slows down the harsh desert by just one person. Amnis Desert, where even the inflexible adults never set foot.

Some say there is a monster lurking in this place beyond intelligence, but the number one cause people avoid was in its environment. In the dry desert it is hot to cook during the day and cold to freeze at night.

If you break into this desert without enough food, you'll be dead in no time. In addition, this desert is much wider than all of Adford. Even if you bring enough food, it won't be easy to reach your destination because of the blasting dust and the unchanging scenery.

That's not all. In the Amnis Desert are also lurking bandits targeting the lost. Knowing all about the desert, they target travelers if they only show up in the desert for a certain short time. Having food doesn't make sense if they take it away from you.

Amnis Desert with all kinds of dangers. Only a person like Bell who keeps running away without thinking about it will ever set foot in the land.

Bell had already been walking in the Amnis Desert for over half a day. Belle has spent about 10 years in prison. Especially here lately, I hadn't eaten properly. It was a bell that had already reached its limits physically, but an instinctive obsession with raw was pounding and moving his body.

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It didn't take long for Bell's body to reach its limits. Less than a few hours later, Bell becomes unable to move his legs and kneels in the sand. The knee on is buried in deep sand.

Bell instinctively understood that he was going to die.

Even at Seto time of death, Bell's memory remains unrecognized.

Bell lost her mind, not even knowing who she was and why she was here.

Even as I was feeling death close, I had no fear of Bell remembering anything.

"Oh, did you notice that?"

I don't know how much time has passed, but I woke up. Someone's voice reaches Bell's ear.

What spreads to Bell's present is a breathtaking sight. Blue and lush grass fills his sight, and a bright blue sky is clear over his head. The grass that surrounds the bell blooms with color-picking flowers, as if just watching makes you feel happy.

Move your gaze down and you'll see clear water there. That's a bright blue build-up of water, as if it reflected the blue sky exactly as it was. Apparently something like a small spring is there.

That's a desert oasis sight I heard about once, but to that so beautiful sight, Bell thought he was dead. That this is heaven or something.

"Look, look, over here."

When Bell is blinded by the scenery around him, he suddenly feels a pain in the back of his head.

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To the pain, Bell looks back unexpectedly.

Before I looked back, there was a wooden wand poked at me. The wand was like a cob ahead, like that the great wizards and immortals have.

The wand had a clear blue sphere, and there was something blue shining in the center of the cob as well. A tree is swirling so as to involve something like a crystal. The wand held together a mystical atmosphere.

There he was, an old man with unconstructively grown gray hair and a face covered in white mustaches. He's covered in long, bright white eyebrows, and Bell can't see his eyes.

And the mysterious old man was dressed in a brown robe.

That was exactly what Bell wore when he first visited Adford a year later. A sandy robe with a strange pattern.

What was most distinctive was that there was a tuna growing in his head. On his head was growing a pair of thick tunos that stretched straight. That was like a goat. With his face covered in bright white hair, all the more so, he looks like a goat.

"............ goats?

Bell, who thinks he's dead, accidentally puts what he was thinking straight in his mouth.

Kotsun!

"Stupid mon! I am not a goat! I have a proper name to say bluese!

Bruce, who was offended, slaps Bell on the head with the wand he had.

"Bruce... who am I?

"Who you are. Before I talk about it, I have to explain everything. I'll tell you a lot about this place. Except for the answer to who you are."

Bruce uttered something that Bell could not understand. Why doesn't he try to answer the question? In the first place, does he know about Bell?

"This land is a land of illusions. People rumor about the land, but few have actually seen it."

Bruce sits in front of Bell and starts talking. When he saw it, Belle sat back imitating Bruce.

"This is a fountain of stardust. It's what people call a phantom oasis. Normal people cannot visit this place. Only a very small number of people can find this place."

Stardust Fountain. It was a completely unfamiliar name for Bell. As soon as I heard the word "Fountain of Stardust," I wondered why Bell's vision was.

"But strangely, this is how you stay here. You know why?

In response to Bruce's question, Bell just tilts his neck. Bell couldn't have answered that question.

"That's because you're empty. Unless you're a human being, only an empty person can come here."

What Bruce is saying makes no sense.

"You just had a lovely eye, didn't you? The more knowledge we gain, the more invisible the fountain of stardust becomes from the human eye. So only people like you who have lost their memory can get there. That's why I'm not telling you who you are."

"Tell me."

Bell whispers his eyebrows against Blue Se, who speaks of all the difficult things.

Bruce just confuses Bell's head and tells me nothing. To not impart knowledge to Belle, Bruce may be purposefully in a difficult way to understand way, but that only confused Belle.

"Who you are. That's the last thing I'll tell you. Before you know it, after you know what you need to know."

Bruce's words, once again, confuse Belle.

"You're going on a journey. Let's just say we give you what you need to do that."

That's what Bruce took out, the exact same robe he was wearing. Bell, who had no idea what was happening now, received the robe for now and wore it as it was. The thin dirty prisoner clothes were hidden in sandy robes.

"That's not all. Because I'm so sweet, I got more presents for you?

Bruce, smiling, took a beautiful glass vial out of his nostalgia and stood up. Bell is just observing Blue Se trying to do something.

Bruce walked to the front of a clear fountain and sat down just like earlier. And when I opened the plug, I stuck a glass vial into a beautiful fountain.

"All right, that's it"

The vials removed from the fountain were filled with beautiful liquids that glowed blue. The brilliance of its liquid had a strange beauty that fascinated humans.

Bruce, who holds the water from the fountain in a vial, plugs it into the vial and grips it like it matters.

"Here."

Sitting in front of the bell again, Bruce handed Bell a beautiful vial that glowed blue.

"Let me tell you it's a gift! Don't take someone else's favor in silence."

Bruce said so in all likelihood, forcing the blue vial into Bell's hand. Bell, who has no reason to resist, receives that beautiful vial as it is.

"It's Shizuku in the starry sky. It's strange if you lick a drop. No matter how badly you get hurt, it's beautiful and refreshing as it was. There will have been no broken bones, no open wounds, nothing. Keep it. There will always be a time when it will come in handy."

Everyone was surprised that Bell was in possession of Shizuku in the starry sky. This is how Bell acquired the Shizuku of the Starry Sky.

If the liquid in that vial is Shizuku in the starry sky, say that all the water in the spring in front of you is Shizuku in the starry sky. The Fountain of Stardust was truly an illusory oasis that everyone sought.

"Well, knowledge isn't the only thing left. Finally, the time has come for you to stop being empty, too. Are you ready to stop being empty?

Bruce, who rises again, often mentions something that doesn't make sense again.

Blue Se, laughing when he saw the bell with its mouth open without knowing, walked to the back of the fountain.

Snoring, but the fountain is round in shape. Now Bell is sitting near the fountain. Bruce sandwiched the fountain and walked to a position opposite Bell. From behind the fountain, what the hell am I going to do?

"It's Belle Quille Faust. I'll give you the memory you lost."

Bruce stood up and raised his hands high with his cane in his right hand. The wand glowed blue, and the blue gemstone on the tip looked even more radiant.

Then the water of the Stardust Fountain moves out as if it were a willing creature. The water, twirling out like a snake, rises like a fountain. A fine splash is scattered over the fountain, reflecting various memories of the bell in its space. Countless droplets act as screens.

10 years ago Lonely days spent in jail on a flame-wrapped night. A mysterious figure who tells Bell that you have sinned.

As if it were a projector, the memory of the lost bell shifts visibly.

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

In Bell's head, the memories of the 16 years he was losing push at once. The amount of information held Bell's head.

I don't know who the hell Bruce is, but he had all of Bell's lost memories.

Bell's vision had already gotten worse at this time. That showed that Bell was starting to disappear empty.

"With additional services, I'll even give you information you didn't know about."

When Bruce crossed his arms and opened them again, the fountain of stardust shined ever more.

At that time, at the same time, an old thick book emerged from nowhere, and hundreds of pages gained momentum.

Eventually, the book stops moving on a page with the phrase “Legendary Wizard End Bell”.

And the book sank into the fountain of stardust.

The footage continues to be shown from the fountain, which is so beautiful that it is likely to suck in your soul and emit a blue glow, just like it did earlier.

But the fountain of stardust already in Bell's eyes had begun to glow and become invisible. Bruce, who understood it, plays the footage shown in the fountain directly in Bell's head. That was very clear.

That the real culprit in the Black Moon case is Johann Faust. Shortly after the Black Moon incident, the demon Arrosha ran wild and made a certain case. It was the demon Belzebab who conspired with the demon Arrosha in the bell to escape from prison.

Ahead of the Amnis Desert there shall be border posts with poor security. The journey to get that far.

The last time I jumped into Bell's head was the mark on his right palm. A red mark with six stars surrounding the small circle and a larger circle surrounding it.

Flame marks. Bell didn't just see the abomination mark. That abomination made me know that I could use the power of Arosha, the sleeping devil, in me.