Thus, the wise strive for light - to start over with a life in different worlds

After that, Manica takes me to a single family brick house.

And when she puts me to sleep on the couch, I put a candlestick on fire near it.

Then, her vision suddenly brightened, her blonde hair was lowered to her shoulders, and a woman with some active and calm atmosphere entered her vision.

After a while of silence, I open my mouth from the woman.

"Er..., long time no see"

"Oh. Long time no see"

"... haha, I don't know what to talk about. That's what I've been thinking."

"... ha"

I smile at her to strike a match.

At the same time, pain runs all over my body and blood spits out of my mouth.

I grabbed it with my hands and tried not to tarnish the couch.

"Don't force me to heal the wound right now"

"... thanks"

"Fine. We're friends."

When she says that, she puts her hands on my body and does healing magic.

Meanwhile, I noticed Ferres staring at me.

"What's wrong, Ferres?"

"... are you okay?

"Oh. I'm fine. You made me look bad."

When I say that with a bitter smile, she shakes her head.

... the same creatures licking each other's wounds?

Maybe... No, maybe not.

I was unconsciously laying my former self on her.

So... maybe I'm trying to forgive you.

That made me laugh from somewhere in my heart.

I don't know if that's self-derision or if it's from appeasement.

"What, suddenly. What's the matter with you?

"No, Manica hasn't changed either."

"That way. You look different, but the contents are the same."

"That's why I said 'Manica too'.... Honestly, I'm relieved it hasn't changed"

"Yeah, me too. Who's that kid? Sister?"

"... Huh? You don't know about Ferres?

"Yeah. I haven't been in this city for a week. What, are you a celebrity?

... I'm pretty sure I'm a celebrity, but what should I do?

But if you hide her spell, she may touch her right arm on a mundane clap.

"... she has the power to kill what she touches with her right arm. So the..."

"Oh well..."

When she snaps so, she gently strokes Ferres' head.

That was not like Gazelle's, it was accompanied by an enveloping feminine kindness.

"Hi, my name is Manica. Nice to meet you, huh?"

"... Manica,?

"Yeah, Manica's fine. This is Ferres, okay?

"Yeah."

She shakes her head wide and vertically.

... Honestly, the treatment of children seems to raise armaments to her.

I felt somewhat lonely because of the part where I had just a little bit of myself.

"Speaking of which, Lazareth, what about Sophia? Could it have been a fight?

"No way. I was on my way to see her now."

"Heh. So, what brings you so far?

"... the explanation is so hard. Well, think of it as an enemy trap."

"Huh? Even sage can get trapped."

I laugh bitterly at Manica for saying that and making a mean grin.

... but at the same time I was uncomfortable with the words I had unleashed myself.

Why did you bring me here now?

If you had kidnapped me like this and wanted me, you could have kidnapped me all the time.

But she didn't.

So there's a reason you can't do something, then?

... No, these speculations would be more appropriate for Sofia than for me.

"Let's go. We have to hurry, Sophia's in danger."

I can move now. Get your body up and take Ferres' hand.

And I looked back in the front door, and I saw Manica's eyes.

"Well, I'll go now. Injury, thank you."

"Wait! Can I go, too?

... Again, I thought she would say that.

But this time, it's never safe.

Like four years ago, it was never a war between witches or human beings.

Maybe the humans on this side are repelling witches.

If so, wouldn't it be dangerous to have her, the witches, meet the Sofias...?

That's when the shock of blowing all my enforcement hit me in the head.

When I suppressed myself to much pain, I offered my right hand forward and there was a look of Manica laughing.

After a while, I finally got my thoughts on what was now her decopin.

"You don't have to look so hard. I can protect myself as much as I can."

"... it's such a simple problem."

"It's okay. And what if we get attacked in this city again?

... Sure, my magic hasn't recovered yet.

Here and now, if I meet around Graham, I'm sure they'll kill me.

Maybe... then, I'll be using Ferres.

"... ok"

"Yeah, that's settled. Nice to meet you, Ferres!

"Say hello."

That said, Manica holds Ferres' left hand.

I look at her like that and I notice her cheeks are loose.

... for the first time in a long time, I think I laughed sincerely.

And to that fact, I had myself somewhere in the ho.

Manica glances at me like that and then opens the door and goes first.

And after I dropped her off like that, I turned off the candlelight and whined towards the darkness without turning around.

"... hey, what the hell is your purpose?

My voice clings to the room.

After a while, my ears blurred with a voice that seemed a little silly.

"Oh, you noticed. I thought I'd run away like that. Yes, I was angry with you."

"... just answer me, Nicolai. The only apparent reason you and the others are putting 'equality' on the table is because Ferres is broken."

"... for Christ's sake, Lisette's guy. I brought you troublesome."

He sighed when he said so.

... No, maybe I just exhaled.

I didn't turn around, so I had no idea what his intentions were.

"Devil, you know that word, don't you?

"... oh"

"We're killing people to stop it from coming back to life. Maybe the devil's already in this world."

"Ha, you're crazy."

"Isn't it each other?

... the devil, the being.

I can poke at how irresponsibly I lived in the fact that it is rocking this world so far.

Without that night, maybe there wouldn't have been a world like this?

If I had stood up that night...

"... hey, where did you find out about that demon"

"Alba, do you sound familiar to a man named He gave me the information. At the same time, it should be done as soon as possible."

……

"He was a really good comma. He was the one who passed the information that you were a wise man into the land of witches, and he was the one who passed the information that the law of wise men was attacking the king."

"... right"

"Oh, aren't you angry?

"Now. He already betrayed me."

"And I, too, betrayed the Mercures. You have no right to betray me."

When I said that, I opened the door and left the room behind.

I couldn't help but notice the light of the moon in my eyes.