The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"

"Two? You figured something out?

Weishardt reacts to words Mariela leaked by accident. Sieg's hand softly lays over Mariella's shoulder as she stood up at the entrance to the room. Mariella lays her hand over Siege's. I took a small breath and said this to Weishardt.

"Can I use the magic of sleep on this man?

Mariella, with Weishardt's permission, asked Siege to use the magic of sleep on Caroline's father, Lois Agwinas.

"It's okay, just stay asleep for a little while"

Mariella's words, approaching Royce's lying bed with Sieg, against whom?

After staring at Mariella, Royce nodded lightly, closing her eye lid and opening it.

From the side, it would have looked like I blinked slowly.

"……, although the magic of sleep does not seem to work"

"No, it's working. Who are you?

To Mariella's question, Royce, lying in bed, answered:

"Ooh, ha, ruis. Rufus aguwi nas. Kono, Ye's, Tosh, Da"

"Lewis?"

"This is my older brother."

An old family order answered, standing with soldiers just outside the room.

"It has been a while. Master Lewis."

"O...... oh, hisa, no, nah"

The man named Lewis answers. But that was the only time I felt sane, and soon those eyes would look at the universe and scream words that I didn't think were sane.

"It's Tu Su Gu! Moosug, Koleja......, A 'ida No, Ni 'e Miga, Ma 'da......"

Looking at Lewis as he complained of the pain, the old butler began to cloud his face and speak quietly as if he felt the pain in himself.

"My predecessors were twins. Brother, your Master Lewis and brother, your Master Lewis. It was the Sacrificial Clan that Lewis took as his adopted son."

"Sacrificial clan?

Weishardt frowned and listened back. A clan of sacrifices. I've heard rumors.

Sacrificial clan to protect the emperor.

Many people malign high-ranking figures like the Emperor. It's probably not a question of who the emperor is. Consciously or unconsciously, by short-circuiting that person at the apex for reasons of resentment, jealousy, hatred, ridicule, and his own cause of unluck, a man who affirms himself is as numerous as an ant crawling through the earth.

No matter how many spells you forbid, if the malicious consciousness with magic combined with thousands, it would become a definite curse and reach the emperor. These are not the only collections of uncertain malice. Some of them point their blades at the emperor with a clear will and physical aggression.

He said that there are those who will receive every malice of these tangible intangibles as a 'sacrificial clan' on his behalf.

"I thought it was just a rumor..."

An old butler keeps talking to Weishardt's grunt.

"The Agwinas family has sent children who do not succeed the housekeeper under the authority of the alchemist and healing magic of the Imperial capital in order to create an alternative magic drug to the potion. It was your brother, Lewis, who would inherit his predecessors, and your brother, Lewis, was to be adopted into the sacrificial clan."

Lewis, a smart and brilliant brother who closely resembles Robert, and Royce, a kind brother who closely resembles Caroline. The two were very close, and Lewis, who spared him a goodbye from Royce, who was going to adopt him, said he went to see his brother off to the Imperial City. That's where fate went crazy. The sacrificial clan that found Lewis strong propriety as a sacrifice wanted Lewis to adopt him, not Lewis.

In exchange for giving him as much knowledge as he wanted, Lewis became the adopted son of the sacrificial clan.

"No one could know what happened to Master Lewis, who was adopted by the sacrificial clan. But a few years ago, Lewis told me."

The news from Lewis happened to be picked up for research by the Agwinas family, who say it was planted inside a unicorn horn. It turned out that there was a strange shade of liquid in a tiny bottle about a pinky finger that was red and black, but emitting white light, and that it was addressed by Lewis to his brother Royce from the tiny piece of paper that was wrapping the bottle.

It was said that Lewis could convey the knowledge that Lewis had gained in the sacrificial clan by drinking the strange liquid on the piece of paper. Just around that time, there were numerous cases of the sending to the Agwinas family being lost one after the other. Lewis sent this liquid to Royce in several ways, and everything except this one must have been blocked.

Royce, who admired his brother, said he didn't even hear his surroundings pick up and drank that strange liquid.

"Then it is. It's only now that Mr. Lewis can get mixed up with Mr. Lewis."

At first, it was only a short time while Royce was asleep. Robert and Lewis told Robert the secret of Sacrifice in a remote workshop to spare Lewis a little time of appearance.

Over time, however, Lewis began to complain of suffering, and the time appeared longer as if trying to escape the suffering. Finally even Lewis showed up when Royce was awake and the two went mixed up as if they were going to be cloudy. So that no matter how much water and oil they stirred, they never turned it off and melted together, Lewis and Royce remained another human being, and their consciousness and thoughts were finely dispersed and mixed together.

"Please, please make it easier for Lewis."

Older family ordinances plead with Weishardt.

This kind of thing is not a disease or anything. That's what everyone here knows.

"Something, is there no help? The cursing potion is…………………."

Mariella shakes her head at Weishardt asking.

I'm sure this flesh is the closest thing to Lewis. Now it's better than Lewis' real flesh.

Mariella is an alchemist. If you have high alchemy skills, you can know the state of the material with your alchemy skills.

The plant, the animal, can feel the Shizuku of life in every life.

That's why I found out. That there are two kinds of Shizuku of life in Lewis' body. It's very unnatural, such as two human beings living in one body, which is why they must have lost their sanity.

But the state of Shizukuishi is not as black and unclean as it was possessed by evil spirits. There are two heterogeneous but identical root objects intertwined and intertwined, but they exist as separate individuals and one. Just distorted. And they both fit into this flesh. Mariella felt that way.

This man (Lewis), who was not dragged by the magic of sleep, is certainly not the Lord of this flesh.

"Can't you go back to your original body?

Mariella asks.

"Oh... Le's da..., ah... Ida no..., Co, I... 's, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

"If it's not a curse, is it the evil spirit? Did you show it to the clergyman or the wizard?

"Of course I showed you..."

"Can't you handle it," Weishardt frowned at the decree that Lewis could not be cleansed like an evil spirit. It is also the thought of the Schusenwald family that they cannot abandon the suffering, and their mission as deputy generals of the Labyrinth Crusaders that they must capture Robert hiding in the basement that is still far away. But in this state, my predecessor Royce couldn't tell me about the secret entrance to the basement.

When Weishardt began to think about dismantling the separation, Auntie and Mariella called out.

"Um, can I just talk to this guy for a second?"

"Fine."

Weishardt, who points the door to a family decree with a slight expression and exits himself.

"Sieg out, too. 'Cause it's okay."

Mariella told me, and after Sieg left at the end, the door closed quietly.

The hallway lights are cut off, and the bedroom with only a small light and fire by the bed is terribly dim. The air in the heavily distressed room with the windows closed for a long time reminds me of the deep hole in the warehouse.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Mariella asks Lewis, who complains of pain.

"Your real body hurts, huh?"

"Ahhh... ahhh... mo, it's Leno..."

"You can't go back. You want to go back, but you're not connected anymore."

Lewis' eyes look at Mariella. Its eyes were cloudy with pain, but Mariela didn't look like that of a madman.

"But this body is not yours. Whether Mr. Royce is gone or just you, I'm sure the pain won't go away."

It's hard for everyone to see someone who can suffer. Even more so if that's my real father.

How hard and sad Caroline was whenever she saw her father who lost his sanity and continued to suffer.

Everyone wants to help this man who continues to suffer, Mr. Royce with this man, and the old decree who had no choice but to watch over it.

Mariella thinks the word "I want it to be easier" in the decree is not something that can be spoken lightly.

"Ya... suke..."

Lewis is in love with Royce. He wants help, he wants to escape this suffering.

"If you can't go home to your body, there's only one place to return."

Mariella activates the alchemy and encloses Royce's body in "Training Space".

Shizuku of Life

That was too much of a sight to say Shizuku. It's like a fountain springs up. White glowing water springs up around Lewis. It also looks like you're in a dark room, like you're in a river of stars.

"Oh..., oh..., oh..."

Shizuku of life, which emits a warm and gentle light, loses its entity and disappears as soon as it touches Royce's body.

Oh, my God, what a mess. This body is so hungry and dry. Can't I touch and feel this water that has overflowed me so much?

How dare you?

I'd love to.

It's so, so hard, so hard, so sad.

So much for wanting to return to one - -.

"At the end of the Shizukuishi flow, there is a place where you, no, will all return.

Mariella tells. That's not a horrible place to be. From everything, it's a place where even the “self” can be freed from the snail and returned.

Mariella's line, which she signed up for in a very deep part of the vein, is fatter and stronger than anyone, though she doesn't even know it. Mariella didn't lose her "self” in a place so deep in the ground, because the plumage of her hugged master stained her to the bottom of her heart. And because the Spirit who became my friend was desperately protecting Mariella by squeezing her hand.

From a stronger line (bond) than anyone else, he continues to use a large amount of magic power to suck up Shizukuishi's life.

No matter how long you keep sucking it up, the Shizuku of life disappears from the edge that touched Royce's body as if pouring it into a bottomless barrel. While I remember dizziness in the intense consumption of magic like when I made sheet glass, Mariella still doesn't stop pouring the Shizuku of her life.

I don't know how Lewis got into Royce's body. It was the Spirit who took Mariella out of the flesh when connecting the pulse to the line, and I don't know how to get Lewis out of the body to Mariella or anything. The only thing Mariella can do is show her that there is a place to return the flesh away.

"Ah, ah, ah"

Lewis reaches out to the light. Let us seek the Shizuku of life, which will not be touched.

(Oh, someone. Lead this man............)

Mariella's magic is scarce. You've shown this man hope, and yet you make him feel the pain of living in pain again?

(Somebody)

"... e... Ria...?

Whose name was Lewis talking about?

At that moment, Lewis Agwinas melted into the light and returned to the earth's pulse.