Unnamed Memory

- This is a much older memory than it is now.

"How did you find me?

The witch tilted her neck when the boy asked her that.

The two are in the woods in the depths of the former Thurdar, a room in a building built in a place where no man can step in.

Tinasha, who once removed the tower with his death, who was king, and moved to this hall, found him again after ninety years of solitude.

A beautiful woman who suddenly appeared in front of a boy who lived alone in the mountain village of Mensan. He was surprised at her at first, but he also remembered her the other day. Tinasha smiles calmly at Oscar, who asks as he strokes his wife's hair, whose appearance age has been reversed.

"It's magic. I've explored your magic."

"Magic?"

"Yes, because as you grow, your body changes and your original magic returns. I've been searching for your magic all over the continent."

"That's... awesome"

Oscar recalls that she was once searching for a magician for her doomed homeland.

I'm guessing she's been doing the same or more searches for ninety years. He'll be back, wait for that time.

The boy closed his eyes to unspoken emotion. Pull gently when you insert your finger into the woman's hair.

"It doesn't taste good if I can't either. Tell me how to do it later."

"You don't like magic... but my magic is much bigger, so it's easy to understand."

"You don't even look prominent."

"Can you say something about people? It was quite floating in the mountain village, you."

Tinasha, who is sitting directly on the floor where the bristles are laid, changes her posture when she makes a small extension. She put her little head on the boy's lap sitting in the chair.

"And then, if I remember, I'll go back on my own. I don't know when, and it would be pretty hard if we were both out of memory..."

"It's a total hassle. I wish I had memories from the beginning."

"Our memories are heavy in our childhood."

When the witch laughed bitterly, she rose to the surface. I smile when I wrap my boy's face with both white hands. Blue and black eyes clearly reflected each other's appearance.

"Besides, I wonder if this is one trick to keep our spirit alive."

"A setup?"

"Yeah. Whether you can get the other person's mind the same, even if you re-meet them without remembering. You'd be tired of being so proud of your love, wouldn't you? I was wondering if you would repeat your loss and encounter so that you wouldn't."

"Again."

Some of the two deviants have already had a number of experiences where they once lost their memory and re-met.

They repeatedly met and parted over and over again, becoming the last heterogeneity between just the two of them as they passed through eternity.

But even now that they have been thrown out into the outer periphery of destiny that no one else can share, they must be tried. I guess that is both despair and hope.

Oscar laughed small.

"Well, that could be interesting, too"

"Yes. Let's do our best."

"I'll say no first, but if you were married to someone when I found you, I'd kill them."

"Wow...... That's probably more likely for you. I won't kill you, though."

"We're going to destroy every country. Because I'm angry."

"Don't interfere unscrupulously with humans. I'm not a witch."

To a frivolous word, Oscar focuses on Tinasha when he touches her hands silently.

"Hey......!

The witch, disturbed by magic, fell on his lap as she was.

- He's got Acacia in him. You can't use magic if you can touch it consciously.

Oscar gives people a bad grin to Tinasha, who holds his head down and crouches on the floor if it was a bad beating.

"You can always tell me if you don't like me, okay?

"Don't worry, it won't! You didn't say that, did you? I'm just thinking that if you were born with the body of a stillborn child, you'd fulfill as much of the responsibility that that child was supposed to bear!

"I see. I'll remember"

Oscar holds his wife's body up as she rises in a tsunami. Like an important, twofold treasure.

We'll see each other again someday. Even if I know that, I still don't want to lose someone. Better not lose it.

Tinasha spent ninety years alone losing Oscar.

I don't want her to think that again, he was so determined. But he was prepared that he would eventually taste the loss again, too.

Rendezvous with Anneli's magician on the way and using the transfer gate to return to Anneli, Arbel took a few days to go around the land, which was not wide, when he hid his face.

And he reconfirms. that not everything has been seen, but that the people live more or less in peace.

No repression or torture is taking place, and taxes are reasonable. It's just that the person you can fit has changed from the Anneli royal to the Ross Circle.

Arbel, who returned to his lair with subtle and mixed emotions of relief and regret, heard rumors there that it was finally spreading now.

"What about my sister is spreading?

"Yes, the princess who was secretly raised behind the castle was taken away by Rozsark."

Arbel frowned at Eileede's words.

The fact of claustrophobia is subtly deluded, but the very existence of Reeschen was quite confidential in the first place. fact known only to a limited number of humans, even those who served. I wonder what that means to be spreading.

He immediately confirmed to the literary martial arts officers entering and leaving the safe house, but naturally no one has ever divulged a secret. The boy couldn't forbid confusion when he gathered information afterwards and apparently found out that there were people stirring up the disobedience of the peasants as he went around talking about Reeschen and Arbel.

"I wonder who the hell is doing it for, what purpose"

"Those who do not know His Highness's whereabouts may be spreading the word in anticipation of His Highness's resurgence"

Arbel nods to the opinion of the civilian.

But everyone felt that was not an optimistic opinion. Would a man who truly thinks of Anneli do something that would purposefully incite the people and make Rossack wary?

I think of the demonic magician I met at the distance of the castle behind Arbel's brain.

"Maybe you're from another country...... let me know the next time that person shows up. I want to see what kind of person you are."

"Is Your Highness going himself?!?

"I do want my sister back. But I don't want the people to rebel for that. I want to put away my useless bad feelings for Rozsark. But that will require us to identify who is spreading the rumors."

Feeling reason for the boy's words, his subordinates shut up.

Near Castel Annelli, it was only two days after that that that a person appeared in the matter of rumbling.

Since she showed up in the colloquium that day, Dita has been recognized as a cautionary figure for Elsie.

When he shows up pretentious at some point, he blows something out of the ordinary into Rieschen. The princess herself doesn't care and rather seems to want to listen to the man, but from Elsie's point of view, all he talks about is what makes Reeschen suspicious of Oltveen. In order not to cause extra rubbing, Elsie had to keep Dita as close to the princess as she could.

Reeschen shrugs her shoulders to Elsie, who is still peeking around at the table in the talking room for tea.

"You don't have to worry about that"

"Don't worry about it. 'Cause I'm just looking out for that guy personally."

"But what Dita says sounds like a fact."

Elsie turned out not to float in Reeschen's thoughts.

- Surely that man doesn't lie.

It is also certain that Oltveen is not open and fair.

But even if you tell the facts, if a trace of subjectivity is put in there, the listener will be made to illusion.

It is true that Oltveen leaves Reeschen in the castle as being of political value, but it is also true that he will see more to her than that. Nevertheless, Elsie frowned and would always whisper corrections and denials in Dita's discourse, which skillfully claimed only the former.

That seems annoying to Dita, too, and she seemed to be after Elsie when she was forced to leave beside Rieschen.

"Anyway, I hope you don't listen to that guy very much. It's not good."

"Okay. I'll keep it in half."

Elsie nodded with a worried look, pulling her hair back but exiting from her front to take over.

Then in a couple of minutes, the man in question is coming, so much so that I suspect he was really watching somewhere. The man, who naturally pulled the chair and sat next to Rieschen, makes him laugh as he picks the sweets.

"Princess, how are you feeling?"

"I hate Elsie when I talk to you too much"

"Too bad they think you're a bad bug"

She tilted her neck and rebelled at the man who constantly made room.

"Are you a bad bug?

"I don't know. Depends on the princess."

It's a word that can be taken as an invitation, but Rieschen didn't change his expression and didn't respond at all. Instead, he shoves confectionery into his mouth as well.

Little does Reese Shen talk a lot from herself when she is with Dita. Always enough for him to speak unilaterally and return a couple of questions to it.

- But this day was different.

When Dita drank tea and wet her throat, she said, "I hear the prince stopped hearing from Anneli." Understanding what it meant, Rieschen changed his complexion and stood up unexpectedly. Grab both shoulders of the man and peek into his face from above.

"True? 'Cause he's been missing, hasn't he?

"Apparently it's true. The prince's eyewitness testimony had been successive everywhere for some time. Maybe he was watching Anneli. But the other day, with the magician who was circulating information about you to the people, I hear there was a prince. I lost that testimony at the end."

"Then you must have hidden from the Ross Circle."

"And, normally, I think, something's wrong from here. A woman jumped in yesterday saying she was a prince's escort to a civilian stationed in Anneli. Naturally, she was detained, but she insists on 'returning Her Highness'."

"What... so?

If that's true, it means that Arbel is missing from his side as well.

Where the hell have you been?

Strength falls out of Reeschen's hands. Dita looked up with a bitter smile at the woman, who seemed faceless but stunned.

"Come on? Maybe someone in Rozsark caught him, or maybe he's not moving on himself. She wanted you back, so she might be lurking somewhere close by now."

"Me?

"It's just two sisters and brothers. Naturally."

She couldn't return anything to Dita's words.

He's my sister and brother, who I've never met before. Besides, I was repelled and locked up. Is it true that despite this, he was trying to get himself back?

A voiceless breath caught my throat.

The back of my eyes gets hot.

As she hid her crying face with one hand, she pulled the hem of the dress and turned her heel back. There's a man's voice in his little hindsight.

"Go where? Princess."

"At Oltween's. Ask me about my brother..."

Your Majesty is not on the princess's side.

"Say it, you'll understand. Oltveen is really sweet."

Dita snorted and laughed whether Reeschen's innocence was hilarious. Shadows mix with cool voices.

"Your Majesty only thinks of the princess as a tool. Shall I give you proof of that? What His Majesty intends to use the structure of the magic board that the princess is struggling to make for."

Dita smiles at Reeschen, who inadvertently stops and looks back.

The sun is already falling outside the window and the clear blue is spreading.

The evening scenery is no different from yesterday's.

But those who knew that this night would be a long night were still few in the castle.