The pocket watch was when the Great Sage was in his twenties. It's something I stumbled upon at an ancient tool store I stopped by when I was just Carlotte Gildrea before I was still called the Great Sage.
I liked it at a glance and bought it impulsively, having the same silver color as my hair, and I still carry it with me.
Nothing. I'm not a substitute for my ancestors, and I didn't unearth it from some ruins.
I always thought it was just a little stylish, pocket watch with no weirdness whatsoever.
There's no way even the Great Sage can imagine having a girl in it.
"I'm Alpina Acai. Now 11,425 and sixty-three days ago, I copied my consciousness into this pocket watch and saved it."
But the girl tells something even more out of her imagination.
11,425 and sixty-three days ago...... If that is true, then this girl will be the one who lived in the days of ancient civilization.
"I can't believe it... but even if it wasn't from ancient civilization, it seems certain that this pocket watch isn't the norm. Humans came out of the inside. Besides, you're not normal either."
The Great Sage stares at a girl named Alpina.
I still looked like myself.
Not only the appearance, but also the signs of magic emitting.
"Ancient civilization... that's what you call those days, isn't it? And yeah. I'm not like a normal person. The Battle Wizard, created by genetic manipulation in the Barthelink Republic, which existed during the time you called ancient civilization… I'm the strongest of them all."
Alpina had a nostalgic grin and spoke in a light-hearted tone.
But its content is not something you can laugh at and listen to.
Anyway, she says that even ancient civilizations that had magic technology that went further than it is now were 'the strongest' wizards.
I still don't know if I can believe that word.
But I can't ignore just the anomaly of coming out of my pocket watch.
Right now.
She is irresistibly strong.
You don't have to fight. The Great Sage has figured it out.
So much so that this girl might be more than mutually reinforcing with herself.
"You just said, 'Strong people of this era' looking at me, right? Does that mean you came to me for it?
"Yeah. That's right. You mean you're the strongest in this age when I'm here? Strong people who don't even know their names"
Alpina spreads her skirt to make it look good.
Polite on the surface, but he looked like he was kidding around somewhere.
"Yeah, right. My name is Carlotte Gildrea. Sure, I'm proud to say it's the strongest. But I found this pocket watch at the store and bought it of my own free will. Isn't it paradoxical that you came after me? Or have you stayed in your pocket watch since I bought it?
"Carlotte Gildrea? I see, that sounds like a strong name. And I doubt you. Like I said, I've been in that pocket watch for 11,425 and 63 days. You seem to have bought it of your own free will, but you're not."
"No?"
"Yes. I enchanted my pocket watch 11,425 and sixty-three days ago. Let's get to the strongest person in the world then. So you walked into the store selling the pocket watch, and you were going to buy it, and you were led by my magic. The magic of manipulating fate... that's pretty amazing."
Alpina laughs naughty like a jerk.
Well, if that's true, it's terrible magic.
Even the Great Sage can't use such magic.
"I see... so how did you have to come to the strongest person using such cumbersome magic? What do you mean," enemy "?
"The enemy is the enemy. Enemies that must be defeated for mankind. Kill them with you and me. I won't let you say I don't like it. Because if you don't, the world dies."
and.
Alpina said with a smile.
As if we would even talk about tomorrow's weather.
The Great Sage narrows his eyes.
Her Majesty the Queen, who was listening by the way, raised her voice upside down, "Hey, what the hell!?"
"The world is doomed! Are you kidding me!?"
"I'm not kidding, ma'am. You're so cute. Is that Carlotte's kid?
"Why is my concubine his child?" My concubine is Emeline Greda Fallleon! Not the queen of this country!
"Heh, I'm the queen. You're small, but you're great."
Alpina approached Her Majesty familiarly and gave her head.
Her Majesty the Queen becomes a musty face.
"The concubine is certainly small, but that's not the magic of this great sage. I'm not really an adult."
That is what Her Majesty the Queen has been staring at the Great Sage.
"Magic? Yeah, magic that makes adults children. You're pretty amazing, too."
Alpina said as impressed and stared at the Great Sage.
"Thanks for that. But better than that. Can you tell me what an enemy is like to destroy the world?"
"Oh, yeah! The destruction of the world does not mean that this kingdom of Fallleon will also perish! You mustn't, that's not true!
Questioned by the Great Sage and Her Majesty the Queen, Alpina began to speak with a voice singing "That's right -" with a clear face.
It is an enemy that could destroy the world.
enemies that once inspired the decline of ancient civilization.
Alpina tells the story.
The Great Sage felt the war since the demon god once appeared.
A catastrophe that falls above the sky. That name...