We just kept walking ever since.
But go, go, go, go. There's nothing, just a desolate land going on.
If one thing is different, does it mean that the black sun is glaring at your face?
Seeing that, I muttered to myself.
"This is really the world I was in...?
As far as I can remember, forests and meadows. Various things coloured the world, such as towns in the mountains.
But this world is different now. In a nutshell, 'nothingness'.
Really, did I grow up in this world?
"... yeah. You see that sun-like thing?
"Yes. But what the hell is that...?
"That's 'Demon Nucleus'. Poison that inhales magic and withers the world"
"Magic nucleus...?
Is that the Nucleus?
But from what I saw, it was almost as big as the sun.
But that... was pretty much consistent with what I saw in Witch Country.
"The witch was born from that. After a man and a woman get married, that gives a child. Magic in human form. So even if they die, they just come from there again."
"... wait. So you're telling me I was born after that too!?
……
Mentila lays her eyes down.
That attitude was answering my question, even if I didn't say so.
"... So where are the humans!?
"I'm here. I'm not a demon, I'm not a witch. Just one, pure human being."
"Who is that?!?
"... that's what you think from there. But it's never far away."
... Isn't that a long way off?
But witches around me, etc...
No, there's one.
On my side, a man who uses magic.
"Zahr......?
"Ask the person. In the meantime, what do we do now?
Mentila sits down once and waits for my response.
That's when I remembered one thing.
"Speaking of which, Mentila. What's wrong with my wound?
"I used magic to heal it. I was a brave man, too."
"Really?
Mentila nods.
I thought about what to do while making sure my body wounds were blocked.
If we are to regain even one memory, we should stay in this world.
But now Zahr and Sophia are fighting in front of Dahlia and the Wise.
Then the answer is already set.
"Let's go back. To the Sofias."
"Okay. But are you sure? I'm sure we can't go back to this world, can we?
"... Yep. I don't mind. Because we know that the Devil's Nucleus is dangerous."
Now I have a clear idea.
Merchiades is not trying to help me.
Instead, he must be talking about me...
Either way, I have to tell you this.
"Mentila. As soon as you get back to your original world, why don't you go to Witch Country?
"... you have a demon nucleus."
"Yes.... only that world, I won't let it destroy"
Listen to what I have to say, Nodding Mentila.
And when you think you grabbed my hand, something like dizziness strikes me in the head for a second.
Not surprisingly, his eyelids covered his eyes, but when he opened his eyes again, there was Zahr, scratched and lying in a tree, and Sophia, who was just as attached to the floor.
"Sophia, Zahr!?
I can't keep my voice down on how they're doing, and I run over.
But by then, I was under siege.
"Good day, fake sage. Are you here now?
"... Dahlia"
"It's not just Dahlia, is it?
"Nikolai, you...!
Stop standing behind me. Look at the face of the man with the face, and I'll unwittingly squeeze his face.
But Mentila stood in between.
"... go home. I want to help them."
"Why, Master Michelle? Why do you put your shoulders so far into their lives?
"Because I like humans."
That's all Mentila says, he sticks his sword up at Nicolai's side.
But at that moment he becomes a shadow and wonders if he has melted, Mentila sticks a sword at his feet.
And after a while, the blood came out.
"... you can't beat me. It's gonna end the same way it did a hundred years ago."
"It's superimposed. If you don't want it anymore, you can wish."
"Really, you've changed."
"It was you who changed it, wasn't it?
That said, Dahlia's usual grin disappears somewhere, slowly approaching Mentila whining about something.
Clarifying his ears, all of that was a fanatical word of love for Mentila.
And once I stopped my leg and opened my eyes and asked Mentila.
"Do you love me?".
Mentila answers nothing.
Mentila stares back at Mentila with sad eyes, with trance eyes.
About a hundred years of jet lag had occurred there.
But Mentila's answer was heartless.
Stick a sword in her belly. Do you use the same magic as Sophia's? Blood runs out in a daze, not in a daze.
"Ah, ha. Dear Michelle, I'm delighted, at last, to have come this far, …"
"... sorry. I'm sorry."
She comes back from her demonic nucleus.
But every time I cut something in her shape, tears spill out of Mentila's eyes.
And finally, he hugs her, he drops his sword to the ground and keeps crying.
...... not rewarded. Dahlia can live again and again, but Mentila has to kill her each time.
Kill yourself someplace you can't stop resenting her, too, with me.
You noticed Dahlia was dead, and the soldiers nearby disappear somewhere.
For a while, the voice continued to sound on the spot killing the cry of one man.