The Magus of Genesis

Sixty-nine years have passed since I met Eye.

Both D'Arga and Ken...... all the members of the cave where Eye first lived are already dead.

While their children, grandchildren and grandchildren supported the village, only Eye survived.

"-... Thou art old in name, in the flow of time, in death... turn away from my body, and disappear."

After a long long chant of spells, Eye breathes and lays on the bed.

It is specially made from felt sheep's wool caught from another continent.

I wouldn't be so comfortable sleeping, but Eye laughed at me that it was still out of step with just straw laid on the ground.

"Eye, are you okay?... I don't have to, it's fine."

"It's okay. It's like a routine."

Eye says slowly in an unbridled tone.

The magic of life extension, stretched to stretch by adding more and more spells, was starting to take enough to chant. Eye said it was indispensable every day when I wasn't around. The habit continues even though it is almost unbearable to stand anymore.

The magic I thought was ineffective, but given that only Eye lived long enough, maybe he didn't even seem to be out there.

Nevertheless, that is only a degree of rest.

"Besides... Either way, it won't last that long."

I couldn't answer Eye's words, I just combed her forehead.

The same thing Nina told me.

Eye's life will be in a few days.

I can't imagine her gone from this world at all.

While I think so, somewhere in my mind, I was certain that the feeling of giving up was spreading.

As a person of this age, she lived far enough.

Old and decaying bodies can no longer run wild, can't speak happily, and can barely hear.

It was painful for me to keep seeing her like that.

"Doctor."

Eye looked up at me.

Straight, all the way, her black eyes staring at me won't change forever.

"Just one last thing, may I ask?

"What? I'll give you some answers."

Don't tell me it's the last time.

I make a desperate smile as I desperately suppress my tenacious chest.

"I want to know the teacher's name."

"Name?"

Dragons do not flock to any species, and even parents and children rarely live together.

So I guess, I didn't even mean to give it a name.

Of course they are highly intelligent, so they must also know that their souls will be mastered by knowing their names.

I also felt strange about naming myself, so I asked Eye to call me 'Doctor'. The call spread to the people of the village, and only two people don't call me a teacher. It was just Nina and D'Arga.

"Didn't I explain? The dragon doesn't have a name. So my name is the teacher you call me."

That said, Eye shakes his head as he sifts.

"What I want to know is the teacher's … name as a person"

To her words, I remembered all the time.

Yes, I used to be human.

Of course, I didn't forget.

But after becoming a dragon, would it have been as long as human life?

I am completely accustomed to living as a dragon, and I am almost unconscious of what used to happen.

"Notice... you're here"

I didn't tell anyone that I was an ex-human.

It's not like I'm in trouble where I was found out otherwise, but I thought no one would believe me.

"I know everything about the teacher."

Eye chuckled when he said so.

That's not an exaggeration, it could be true.

She's deaf, and for some reason, she can't just mishear me.

"I... yes. I was human. That's not a person in this world either. He was a living person in a completely different world."

Eye has no way of questioning my absurdity, and he listens with a nod.

"There was no magic in that world.... No, there was only one, should I say? One of them was… to be reborn as a dragon in this world."

"Born, changed..."

Put my words on my lips so that I can rebel.

"Lyoji. Sekiguchi, Lyoji was my name."

I draw kanji in the hollow.

"……… Lyoji………."

The moment Eye shrugged so, my whole body felt a burning heat.

I've never felt this heat before, even when I soaked it in warm water, when I accidentally burned the trees around me and got caught in the fire, or when I took a magma.

It was the first sensation I felt 'hot' when I was born into a dragon.

"A...... i......"

I raise my voice to squeeze.

"This, is…… you?

"Maybe… yes, I think so"

Eye opened his eyes and stared at me.

I stretch out my trembling arms and gently stroke my eye cheeks.

And I hugged her full of strength.

"Oh......"

Eye's arms are turned on my back, and she leaks an exclamation.

"I was a blessing."

In his ear, Eye shrugged so.

"But"

More and more power is lost from its lips, from its eyes, from its fingertips.

"I am……"

Ahead he does not speak, but slowly, Eye's mouth moves without sound.

And, uh, spit out the air in your chest.

That was her last breath.

"……… it's over?

With this, Leo will be able to establish himself as the fourth faction in the current three-ways succession war.

I nod back to Nina, who asks quietly, and then I realize.

"Often, you know it's me, right?

Even though my appearance has completely turned into something else.

"You haven't changed anything. Its golden eyes, its red head."

But Nina said so, as if nothing had happened.

"Where you look pathetic."

"I'm so sorry…………………"

I touch my face with a pebble. There's no hard scales, no long mouths, no sharp corners, just a soft feeling.

"Well, if you say so."

Looking up at me, Nina says.

"I thought you were more of a child."

"As a dragon, I guess so."

I don't know because I don't have a mirror, but I guess I'm around twenty years old now because of my height, my voice, my hands and feet. Dragons don't even know how old their life span is, but at least they should be of good age to say they're still young.

"……… You're not more depressed than I thought."

"No, I'm very depressed."

Without Nina's eyes, I'd like to cry now.

However.

"Nina. Let's build a magic school."

I said what I once said to her, and I said it again.

…… You made it. "

Eye was truly my best wife.

To the end, you thought of me.

"Bigger, bigger schools."

So I believe what she's left behind and still turn forward.

"Make such a wonderful school that everyone in this world will know."

Someday.

One day, for when she returns.