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Sorey pov
The presence of the flame gave me hope and courage to move forward, at the end of the flame's guidance, I came to where Velvet was.
She is by no means weak enough to be easily killed by the disaster, Edna and I are convinced of this and went to the depths of the dragon's belly to find her trace. All the purification flames that were deliberately left behind on the way here fully told me that she was still alive. The amount of malevolence is a little weak but burning tenaciously, just like its caster. The mana of the flame is strong and a little soft, that is the mana of Velvet, we are all familiar with her terrible side but with her gentle side as well.
I guess the reason for maintaining the lit state in such a wasteful manner is to protect Eleanor ,who came in together with her, from the malevolence. After all, she is always worried that the malevolence she produced would have a bad impact on the surrounding seraphim and deliberately avoid them, the gentleness hasn't changed at all since she was a daemon. Even if she feels uncomfortable about it, she doesn't want to hurt her friends because of her malevolence. She has a certain kind of tenderness towards others but never understands tenderness towards herself. I can't help worrying about whether she treats herself well when I wasn't there. The road here is frighteningly unimpeded, and the flame of purification guides us all the way to a place, I can guess that she is indeed making a lot of trouble here, enough to make the place full of malevolence has returned to clean, and the level of cleanliness here is enough for Edna to walk unaffected. If the source of the dragon's power is the malevolence in the body, then it should have been weakened by Velvet a lot by now.
Look on the way to the scene, even Efna couldn't help but admire: "As expected of the person my brother likes, even in such a harsh environment, it is still so incredible."
Edna and I went through the purification flame that was not harmful, came to the place on the other side of the flame, the place that became a sea of fire, a place like the center of the body, and I found her.
"I found them! They are there, they are both together."
Eleanor was also safe and sound by her side, it's really good that the worst situation like Eleanor turning into a dragon in the dragon body didn't happen.
"Oh, both of them are in a fine piece. Although it's a matter of course, it would be great if nothing happened. "Edna said this, in my opinion, is hiding her happy feelings, because she has been watching Velvet.
All previous worries dissipated like smoke, and everything in my body could no longer contain the urge to come to her side and the excitement of seeing her safe and sound.
Two of us jumped over the lake together and came to the place in the middle of the lake where Velvet is.
Velvet's expression also became brighter under the illumination of the surrounding light. Although she looks a little tired, her eyes are still those steadfast and powerful golden eyes. She believed that we would come to leave those flames behind, after all, maintaining the burning state of the Purifying Flame is a waste of mana. Seeing my arrival, her mouth lifted slightly, and it seemed that she was also happy for my arrival. I'm glad we were in the same mood.
"You've come to me."
"Well, no matter where you are, I'll come to you."
I responded with a smile, of course, from the moment I decided to make you happy, I am determined not to leave you alone. In every difficult moment, I will face the difficulties together with you.
In the past, you asked me what happened to the bird that doesn't want to fly, now I know vaguely that you are the bird that doesn't want to fly.
The wings are too heavy to fly anymore, old wounds make you afraid to take off, sin makes you deny yourself again for the right to take off.
I know it all, but I still want to see the day when you actually fly and take you around the world.
The moment you were declared eaten, I realized how scared I was to lose you, So I will always stand by your side and stop letting you walk into the abyss alone.
Velvet's eyes widened slightly, with a suspicious blush on her face, looking like a shy girl. Then she frowned in distress, showing a stoic expression, and after a long time she finally responded: "Thank you, I'm glad, but I'll misunderstand if you say it like that."
I made a confused noise after receiving this response, I don't understand what she means by misunderstanding, and what I said just now is not a blank promise. She has always worked hard, I want to support her, and I want her efforts to be rewarded. I don't understand her troubles, I tilted my head and continued: "But I'm serious."
Velvet murmured in a very low voice that I didn't hear well. She moved her gaze to the distance. Her eyes are still like a sinner's eyes, even if she decides to live does not mean she will forgive herself.
I know she can't forgive herself easily, she always tends to trap herself in the idea of wanting her retribution.
But she is also using her own way to atone for it, so no matter how much she hates herself, I won't leave her side until the time comes when she thinks she deserves happiness.
"Let's sort out the situation first." Edna diverts the subject at this somewhat awkward time.
The two who came first explained why and what happened.
"I see, that's how you two end up here, I understand but I'm not fine with this." Edna listened and eventually responded with a cold and dangerous smile. As I realized that before I came here with Edna, she was not happy with Velvet's disappearance.
“I know.” Velvet has expected that much from Edna, she isn't afraid or regretful about her actions.
“When this is over, you better be prepared." Edna continued, she hasn't thought of proper treatment for Velvet and she is not happy with her being indifferent with her words.
For Velvet's deep wounds still exist, I beg Edna to give a mercy punishment to Velvet after this: “Please be nice, Edna…”
“Sorey, you are going too easy on her, she needs to learn a lesson,” Edna said unsatisfied.
Knowing the reason behind, Eleanor silently sighed, giggled: "It seems that you would have a punishment after."
"Yeah, I still think this is for the best though. I am sorry Edna." Velvet wryly smiled.
"Yeah, what's new? " Edna coldly replied, rolling her eyes, knowing the former Lord of Calamity is that stubborn.
"Is this place really somewhere inside a dragon? It is kinda pretty." Sorey commented as he observed the environment.
The environment is lit up by Velvet's purification flame and the luminous and mysterious lake. They are in the 'land' in the middle of the 'lake' surrounded by the red spider lilies. The scene is eerie enough if you call it beautiful.
"That's what I thought a moment before we encountered Tartarus." Velvet mumbled.
"I never got a chance to see a place inside the Dragon if someone didn't go there, so I can't judge, but it gives a similar aura as the earthpulse." Edna stated her point somehow sarcastically mocking Velvet indirectly.
"Earthpulse?....I did see some chaotic clips, maybe it was the memory of the dragon." Velvet ignores Edna's mocking intention and replies.
"How do you know it was the dragon's memory?" Eleanor asked.
"Cuz I have seen Tartarus's one and it was nothing like his memory. Now I have a theory that this place is connected to the Dragon's consciousness."
The lake is definitely not normal and the team related it with the liquid in the earthpulse, given that strange memories flew in Velvet's mind when she touched the 'water', and she ensured that it was not Tartarus's memory, the place would probably a spot connected to Dragon's memory as well as its mind.
“. ….oh! Before we got in, Tartarus claimed he had fused with the dragon. Something to do with the mind. of the dragon?” I assumed the place would be something important enough to be th e centre part other than being the actual heart.
"As I thought….."
"Is it possible that a dragon contains it's mind?" Eleanor asked.
"My brother contained his mind while staying around me for decades as a dragon." Edna calmly stated, seemingly carefree but who knows what memories brought to her.
"I'm sorry to mention it…" Eleanor immediately apologized when she thought this topic brings Edna bad memories.
"Don't be, I am the one who mentioned this."
"I see, he was being a good brother even at the very last moment …." Velvet murmured.
Velvet looked at the giant column behind her which was like a giant tree and Tartarus tried to protect it. He has a reason to protect it. Now she knew he fused with the dragon, to achieve it, she thought it would require Tartarus to occupy the Dragon's mental world. For the mental stuff, she thought of something.
"Eleanor, could you explain again what you did last time? When I was nearly a daemon again." Velvet turned and looked at Eleanor and asked.
"Huh? Okay, I hacked into your mental world to find your spirit in that time.-----"
"You can enter her mental world!? How?" My curiosity raised as I heard that, enough to lead me abruptly interupts the conversation. I saw something similar last time, the mental world stuff is possibly related to the special spiritual ritual recorded in the last ruin. I haven't looked into the detailed content in the ruin where we made Tartarus retreat since we were supposed to find a way to defeat him with traps but I still love to know what is the story behind.
"Eh? Well I have learned an ancient seraphic arte from the books collected by my gramps a very long time ago. It may allow the user to enter one's mental world." Eleanor seems surprised by the sudden question, considering we still have time to talk, she doesn't mind having a side talk. She looks like she is thinking about other things at the same time, likely Velvet's question towards her past actions I guess.
"I've never heard of it." Considering Edna actually quite an aged seraph, it isn't a surprise she expressed her doubt here. A mysterious piece of knowledge here exposed would be intriguing.
"It was prohibited, entering the mental world may cause mental change to both the world owner and the visitor, it is considered as evil somehow by someone who used it in a bad way, so the succession didn't pass along generations despite it once being a technique to save people before Maotelus's presence. Gramps was a very ancient generation of Seraphim and he possessed ancient knowledge. He eventually agreed to teach me as I kept insisting." Eleanor explained it detailly, seemingly it is her plan to let us realize the risk of the secret arte.
"I wonder, what keeps you insisting to learn it when he told you it was dangerous." Edna asked.
"Hmm….by that time, I haven't recovered my memory fully, I was thinking of helping others as a seraph, knowing that there were hellions that can't be purified by the purifying flames. My mind told me I had someone I wanted to help but I didn't know who it was, I just tried my best to learn all the techniques required to help people."
"...Had you....ever enjoyed your life at that time?" Listening to Eleanor working so hard in the past seems to have raised Velvet's worry, Velvet once mentioned Eleanor saying she was a person always trying her best as an exorcist, guess that she didn't change after Velvet's sacrifice. Hearing Eleanor worked hard even in her seraph life for a vague target from instrict doesn't sound fun to her.
“Hmm?.....Of course I am, I am not alone, and the people around me would force me to rest and have fun if I was working too hard. Don't worry, I will do the same thing for you too.” Eleanor was confused for the moment as she heard the question, thinking about what Velvet was trying to say, she assured her .
“........oh, shut up.” Velvet murmured and turned away, seemingly being shy at the moment. I chuckled as I saw her reaction.
“I want to get you out of the shadow, even in the last time you were nearly a hellion."
“…I need you to do that to the dragon, taking us all into its mental world, so that we may cut the connection betw een the dragon and Tartarus." Velvet ignored Eleanor and gave an order.
"There is a risk, you could be affected by the objects inside one's mental world. When you die there, you can never return." Eleanor warned.
"I expect no more, I know the risk of the choice. Sorey said Tartarus fused with the dragon, we both fought with him in that fused state and he was too powerful in that state. I assume we may separate them in the mental world so as to weaken him." Velvet stated her concern which I agree, it would be ruthless to encounter Tartarus by only 4 of us.
"That seems the most suitable way to deal with him when we have too few people here and with your weak body." Edna agreed, not forgetting to tease Velvet.
"I won't deny that part of me wants to be helpful." Velvet looked at her left hand and murmured.
"Alright, that is good enough for me too."
"Alas, if you all agree, I won't stop. Just let me explain the risk clearly before we get in."
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Like how the environment inside a dragon gives surprise, the mental world is as surprising as that. Following Eleanor to enter the mental world of the dragon, we see broken pieces of ancient buildings distributed everywhere in the desert.
The team silently observed the world, which was terribly peaceful, like an abandoned world, with scattered relics everywhere, like dusty memory fragments. There is no clear path here, and although the light of the day is in the sky, it has no guiding effect, but only shows the loneliness and desolation of this world. This can't help but make people feel at a loss as to where to look and where to learn.
Eleanor said that a person's inner world scene is a manifestation of the heart, so what kind of heart does such a world represent? Is it decadence that abandons everything? Or the despair accumulated by layers of gravel? In this seemingly normal world, there are stacks of despair and loss.
Civilizations of the Advent Age,
the Architecture of the Pioneering Age,
the Prosperous Palace of the Kingdom of Divine Right,
the sculptures of Meliodas,
the Temple of the Dark Ages,
and the Treasure of Asgard.
"It looks like the real world, and the line between the real and the spiritual is blurred here. Please make sure Be careful." Eleanor looked around, reminding us.
"How are other spiritual worlds?" I asked curiously.
"Actually, I have only been to two spiritual worlds. My grandfather's spiritual world is full of light, and I feel the purity in the world. Velvet's world is..." Eleanor hesitated whether to say, after all, this is considered as her friend's privacy, she looked at Velvet as if seeking permission. The lady noticed her wink, nodded, and she continued: "When I came, Velvet's world was full of scolding and curse-like voices, it was too dark to see the environment clearly, there was an abyss that swallowed everything, There is only deep stillness and nothing."
After hearing the description, everyone was silent, maintaining the atmosphere that they wanted to say something but didn't say it in the end. Until Eleanor added again: "But people will change, and I am sure that the world in her heart will also become better."
She said her prayers and blessings to her friend's future with trust and tenderness, smiling, with hope in her eyes. On the other hand, Velvet, who was standing beside her, seemed a little overwhelmed, perhaps because she lacked self-confidence, perhaps because she felt shy about what she heard. Eleanor also seemed to notice this, and clenched Velvet's hands lightly.
"...I will...try hard." Velvet replied softly.
Eleanor nodded at her answer with a grin.
The ruins exposed in a corner show the remains of different eras, which are vaguely expressed from different architectural styles, technologies and texts.
I probably know a lot of historical styles of buildings, but there are also a lot of them that I don't know, but I didn't feel the curiosity like I usually do, I just felt a sense of sadness, I even felt that Lailah and the master of this world are a little bit in a same picture. Everything here is presumably alluding to the time the dragon has gone through.
The lifespan of the Seraphim is infinitely long, but the lifespan of the mind is limited. They are not much different from humans, and their hearts are very fragile, but their longevity makes them have to overcome or escape. So why is this dragon so desperate?
No one could be seen along the way, and there was no movement until a strong wind blew.
Suddenly there is an undercurrent in the peaceful world, and in the distance is a sandstorm galloping towards us.
"I thought we needed to walk the desert forever, and now this is exciting." Edna said nonchalantly, but looked sternly into the distance.
"What?!...Quicksand!!" When Velvet was about to move, she found that Quicksand was clutching her feet. . . Not only hers, but all of us were trapped in the quicksand, sinking constantly and unable to move our legs.
"Edna.....can you-----" I turned my head to look at Edna, only to see her face ashen, as if she couldn't activate the spell, the situation has not changed.
"...Leave it to me. Hephsin Yulind” I chanted her real name and armatized with her. The armatization went smoothly, and being in the spiritual world did not affect what could be done in reality.
What I need to do now is to escape from the quicksand, then, there is only one thing I can do.
I manipulate the fist of the boulder floating in the air with my magic power, and slam the ground into quicksand.
Velvet and Eleanor, who are not far away from us, noticed our action and made it at the same time. With the same action, after armatizing, she slashed the ground with all her strength.
Under the huge impact, the sand flowing on the surface immediately sank into a big pit, and we left the ground a little bit due to the reaction force, and got rid of the quicksand.
But I still have no idea how to escape the coming sandstorm. At this time, the sandstorm has come close at hand.
This time, Velvet took my hand and flew forward in the sky, but The speed was far less than the sandstorm approaching with all her strength. While remaining in a state of armatizing with Eleanor, she started a conversation like talking to herself.
"Eleanor, in the spiritual world, as long as you imagine, you can make what you want to appear, right?" I was also very interested in the peculiar phenomenon of the spiritual world mentioned by Velvet when Eleanor explained it, but the atmosphere of this world was so realistic that I almost forgot that this was a spiritual world.
"Theoretically yes, but the intensity and authenticity cannot be guaranteed, only It can be constructed to the extent of your imagination.”
Eleanor re-emphasized this point mentioned in the briefing session, indicating that imagination is fragile and unreliable, and she is warning us that we can’t easily trust the influence of imagination in this world.
"Enough for me."
In the next second, the air under our feet gradually formed wooden boards, such as the railings with carved decorations, and the long logs pointing forward, on which were fixed several red slanting sails pointing forward, like arrows pointing straight to the target ---Like the bow of a ship.
I turned my head to look at the sandstorm behind, which was gradually obscured by huge white sails, with skulls printed on the sails, showing that this was a pirate ship. The sail was fixed by a huge thick mast with an observatory on top and a blond boy at the wheel. The boy was wearing a somewhat worn straw hat with a bird sitting on it. The whole look of the ship was just like the images of the two-masted schooners that I had seen in books. I recalled all the details I had read at the time and sighed at the grandeur of the real thing.
Before I could fully understand the situation, the Velvet stopped flying, and I had no time to be surprised, and she naturally continued. She takes my hand and let our bodies fall naturally on the huge sail in the air, and finally slides down the deck of the ship.
I look at the hand that is still holding me, then I look at Velvet who is still holding me. She seemed to notice my gazes and frozed for a while with widened eyes, and then she saw that she was still holding my hand, and she let go of her hand as if startled, turned her head and dismissed the armatus . Eleanor, who had changed back into human form, looked at Velvet, who was standing still. I could see that Velvet's ears were all red, and Eleanor seemed to be able to see Velvet's expression from the front. Eventually she smiled happily as if she thought of something.
I stared blankly at the hand that had been caught, and slowly realized that this was the first time I had been caught by a female. Although it was a dangerous moment, I was always thinking about her opinion of me in my heart. Thinking about whether she has a good opinion of me, gramps said that these actions should be paid more attention to the female, because the female will be very concerned about these behaviors, and it will be offended if they are contacted by unfamiliar people, but now she is taking the initiative to contact me, is this mean. . . .?
No, this contact behavior has happened before(I guess?), just because of her special reaction this time, I noticed it.
So did she feel good about it before?
No, what am I thinking?
If it is true, how should I react? What do I think about her?
No, no, it's just my imagination.
But I still want to make sure of her thought to me.
Thinking about a bunch of things that may not be real, I am silently and alone in my heart, throbbing like a galloping horse.
Edna disbanded herself, turned back into a humanoid, stood next to me, and said in my ear like a prank: "You are a virgin after all."
The surface temperature of my face rose a few degrees and I am speechless. She's right, I don't know anything about things between men and women, that's why I'm thinking like this.
The strong vibration of the boat due to the strong wind brought us back to our senses and adjusted our standing position. Velvet's attire changed back to the original, somewhat tattered and battle-hardened outfit after the armatus was removed, and Eleanor smiled nostalgically when she saw the ship's materialization. This ship should be something they all know, the most familiar place in their journey, and I am more convinced after hearing Velvet's entrustment to a man: "Eizen, can you give us a ride and escape from the sandstorm?"
Standing on the deck The blond man in a black robe turned his head and replied: "Of course, don't look down on Van Eltia."
Then he ordered the crew without hesitation: "Everyone, set sail, even if it is a desert, this is where the sea we're sailing on. Let's conquer it if you are a man."
"Ay, ay, sir! Turn the slanted sail to the right, the upper sail is taut, and cross the mere sandstorm." A person ordered the crews. He must be the one who is familiar with the structure of the ship, and who is familiar with the operation of the ship, and who gives instructions so that the ship can survive the storms and waves of the sea safely.
The navigator kept giving orders, and the crew did not hesitate to carry out the orders, because as long as they hesitated for a moment, they would immediately be buried in the sandstorm. Even so, each of these crew members is still driving the ship with a smile, as if enjoying an exciting adventure. They, like the protagonists of the pirate stories I've read, are adventurous men at sea who greet danger with a smile.
After thinking that there was no need for a fight ,for the time being, we are not armatizing or preparing for battles, and Edna stared at the blond man in a black robe with a batwing pattern on his back without saying a word. From the moment he turned to look at Velvet, I felt that he was very similar to Edna, both with blond hair and blue eyes, gave me feeling his strength as solid as a stone. I just heard Velvet call him Eizen, I guess he is Edna's brother Eizen.
Velvet once said that Eizen was an important partner in her journey and that without him and his pirate group, she would not be able to freely achieve revenge. She said that Eizen advocated people to walk their own path, and was a strong-willed seraph who liked humans. I originally thought that the seraph was not in the company of evil, but I had long recognized the exception of Symonne, and I was not too surprised that he was in the company of the pirates.
Velvet didn't like to talk about herself in the early days, and he was one of the few companions that Velvet mentioned in the early days. The reason for mentioning him is because of the ruins and ancient artifacts, and also Edna. If he is still alive, I will chat with him very much. Velvet said a lot about him, including his fondness for collecting historical relics and the curse of bad luck he bears. Pirates don't mind coexisting with bad luck, which is one of the reasons why he is with the pirates, and perhaps also the reason why he has been away from Edna for so long. But from what I see now, Eizen continued to be a pirate because he really thought it would be fun to take risks with pirates.
" First mate, the wind is so strong that the hemp rope holding the sail is about to break!"
"Go find the rope to tighten it, and you two who are standing here, go and hold the sail!" So, Eizen ordered us to help. We pulled the sails on both sides, seraphim extended chains from the ground to fix the sails, Velvet and I pulled the sails with all our strength to prevent them from flying away. We stayed that way until the crew brought in new ropes to replace, doing what we could do with all our might.
Not long after the crisis of breaking the mainsail, we encountered a large quicksand, a hot storm, and a giant basilisk. It was like a focal point of disaster, as if some formless existence was chasing us. Even though we are like the center of singularity in this world, the pirates and Eizen around us are not discouraged at all.
"Tch, it's endless, have you thought about where to go? Velvet." Eizen saw that the disaster was chasing after him, guessing that this situation would not end easily, he asked Velvet if she had a destination.
"...There are some flying creatures in the sky, there seems to be something hidden in the sand and dust, maybe we could go there and have a look?" Velvet suggested it to everyone.
"Well, there are no other breakthrough points, just go there." Eleanor agreed.
"It's better to say that you are a singularity." Edna commented a little sullenly.
"Anyway, let's go there first, I also think there will be new discoveries there." I said.
"Heard? Guys, set sail, full rudder."
Accompanied by disaster, we finally reached our destination. At the destination, the giant rock several times larger than the ship blocked the sandstorm for us, and the cloth-shaped flying creatures flying around it seemed to be inoffensive. We moored the boat behind a boulder, and in fact, the boat couldn't move without the wind in the desert, so we couldn't use it as a means of movement.
After stopping the boat, Eizen and us looked at each other without saying a word, glanced at each of us, and finally settled on me.
"Are you the one who was traveling with my sister? You really have the guts. Appearing in front of me means you are ready, right?" Eizen made a fighting stance to me.
Hmm? What's the situation! ? Why did he want to attack me?
Well, I remember Velvet said that he was very protective of his sister, so that should be the reason.
"I will protect her when I bring her out, because she is my important partner."
I answered without thinking carefully, and this quick and affirmative answer seemed to be affirmed by him, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. Charging his fighting stance to normal stance.
"A Quick answer? Very good, it seems that you are a trustworthy person."
Although his eyes looked fierce, he helped us through the sandstorm, worried about Edna, and seemed to be a bit of a vicious, but he’s a good guy.
"Eizen...."
"Take care, Edna.” Eizen gently stroked Edna's head, and his body was slowly turning into little golden particles of light, as if he was fading away. I only realized it when I saw this phenomenon. He is not a person who actually exists here, Eizen is a dead seraph, but the Eizen standing in front of us is so real. He was about to disappear, but at the end of the time, he still wanted to examine the people around his sister. Every word and every sentence showed real feelings, and it was hard to believe that he was just an illusion.
"Velvet...Take care, live as long as you can to find the answer, and same for you, Eleanor." Eizen turned his head to 2 ladies standing there while his body slowly turned into golden particles.
"..... ...Leaving already?" Eleanor asked while Velvet hadn't answered Eizen's words.
"Yeah, I set sail for my own expedition. Look after Edna for me." Eizen answered with his body turning transparent while fading.
"I will, that was what I had promised…..” Eleanor answered with her words fading in regret, like remembering something.
“That was my request, you are free to accept, and don't let that become a shackle to you.” Eizen said in a strict tone to Eleanor, unwilling to form any restrictions towards a friend.
“I…okay, I will try my best.”
“I will…live for my own sake. I will look after them too, you don't have to worry. So, goodbye.” Velvet finally answered.
“That's what I want to hear from you guys, good bye.” Eizen turned and walked towards his ship with both fading into golden particles an d turning into transparent.
“Eizen,” Edna called his name and the brother turned around to look at her.
“I went on my own journey, I went to see the world you once saw….And I think I understand why you like humans." Edna finally spoke to her brother, what she can't speak in the last time they met, she understood that through the existence of Sorey and Velvet and the humans she accompanied in journeys
"That would be the best thing I hear from you.” Eizen released a great smile as he heard, that's a smile they had never seen, warm and charming as a brother got to know his little sister got things she liked. The sails were raised, the ship was sailing again. After a strong blow of sandy wind, he and the ship disappeared into the gust of golden sand without regret.
"Velvet, is this all your imagination? Watching Eizen go away, Eleanor asked Velvet. She remembered that Eizen should be a phantom, and wondered about his actions, after all, these were too real. This Eizen relieved her guilt and just It's like the real one he's talking to her, but Eizen is already dead.
"I don't particularly imagine it, but I think he'd have the same reaction in his presence. I think he is not just a product of my imagination, he and this ship are the result of the imagination of the four of us. This imagination is far more powerful and real than ordinary imagination. "
"Because we also have a perception of them, the imagination is superimposed, and there is a possibility that it is already an imagination like 'you think he will react like this when he presented'. The one who imagines and misses Eizen the most should be Edna." Eleanor seemed to want to prevent Edna from noticing what they were discussing, and silently looked in the direction of Eizen's disappearance. At the same time, there was a hint of loss in her eyes, and a corner of her heart hoped that he was real , so that all this will not be so empty.
When familiar people appear in front of me, it will bring back memories, and the knowledge of the books I have read on the ship will also strengthen the strength of the ship. It is the combination of four people who have different cognitions. There will be such a real result, but I always feel that the person in front of me is real.
"Who knows if it is just imagined, it is not very important. Because he is the god of death now, maybe he will also get into this world. Come and visit old friends." Velvet said with a smile, putting a hand on her hip.
Velvet is right, it is meaningless to care about the real and the fake, maybe the imaginary existence in this world will make people feel the boundary between the real and the fictional Chaos, but even the imaginary Eizen is woven from real memories. Everything is possible and real in the face of the imagination, and maybe that's why Eleanor wants us to try not to use the imagination in the world as much as possible.
Edna Still looking at the direction in which Eizen disappeared, smiling, I hope this will become one of her beautiful memories.
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Velvet POV
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The end of the sandstorm voyage is a landmark with boulders, and flying creatures like cloth strips are hovering on it.
This kind of place finally makes people feel special, the shape of the boulder is like a perfect cut body, and there are ancient texts on it, It looks like a relic of an ancient civilization. Only here is the floor with a neat grid.
"Sorey, can you read the text on it?" I knew Sorey held a great interest towards the ruins and history, so he studied a lot in the relative existence, and he is reliable in such time.
Sorey nodded with a smile, stepped forward to read the text: " 'The dusty history is buried here, and the secret truth is on the inside of the world. The dance of the holy flame Inheritance will guide the door to the truth. '"
A short sentence, several words of the same essence and of interest appeared, all of which were saying that there were hidden secrets behind the door. And this world is a spiritual world, so it can be said that the memory of the master of the world lies ahead.
How to open the door is the most concerned at the moment.
"What? The Dance of the Holy Flame Inheritance?"
"This is the first time I heard this. "
"If everyone present doesn't know, there's no way to do it, right?" "
"Forcibly dig a way out. " Edna said it a little mischievously, and it didn't sound like seriousness, but Eleanor would respond seriously: "Absolutely not! "
"But this is the quickest and most convenient way, and we can't help it. "It's cute that Eleanor is seriously objecting, and I can't help but join the prank. But I also think it's a method.
"Anyway, it's a last resort! I'll think of a way now. ' Eleanor protested
“Why don't we think about the relative phrases? Let's say the Holy flame, I thought of Lailah. . . " Sorey tried to reconcile the atmosphere.
"Then inheritance, I thought of the Sacred Blade Festival. . . "But it took the thinking options to an unsolved direction.
"It's still Lailah. "Edna pointed out the fact that Lailah hides a lot of things, and because of the oath, she can't tell the truth. Even if she is on the scene, it may not help to solve the mystery of this world.
" At this time, Lailah was not there. "
"After all, manpower is needed outside. "
“But Lailah can't dance, she's good at making jokes. . . "
It feels like it's going to make Lailah sneeze out there, and then Lailah will be proud of her bad joke.
"Is there anyone able to dance?" If that's the case, just jumping around might be fine. "
". . . I don't know." The four of us thought about it and said in unison.
"Edna, I thought you knew how to dance normin dance."
"That's just a product of spoofing, I don't think it's used here." In other words, she knows and doesn't want to dance here.
"Eleanor feels like she knows how to dance."
"Why do you think so? I do know ballroom dancing, but it feels like a solo dance. " Again, she's someone who understands but isn't going to dance here.
2 people pretended not to know, and the rest of us really didn't know how to dance, so it should be.
Still, I try to recall dance-related images as much as I can, because I have a feeling that I have seen them.
A red-haired girl flashed in my mind, dancing happily in a thin white dress in a maple forest covered with maple leaves. It's a beautiful picture, but I'm sure I've never seen it in real life.
"I always feel like I've seen similar clips, but it doesn't seem like I've seen them in reality." I said doubtfully about my troubles.
"Why is it so vague?" Eleanor doubted.
"Have seen but not seen, that is Tartarus's memory." Sorey seemed to remember that I had 2 sets of memories, and made a reasonable guess.
"It seems so. For a while, he quietly watched someone dancing, repeating it day after day. "I reassembled the strange memory and tried to describe it.
"Hehe... Could this be his first love?" Eleanor took a guess like joking.
“Why do you think it was?”Sorey asked in confusion and Edna just smiled.
"Because he hated everything but he watched a person's dance quietly and obediently. The whole personality is different in the manifestations, and what rationalizes this is love." Eleanor explained like he was telling a textbook, as if it was book knowledge, a reasonable thing.
"...Are you sure it's not because you have read too many love stories?" I asked helplessly.
"Why, didn't you change for the person you love?" Eleanor answered my rhetorical question with a smile.
"You said as I've changed." I narrowed my eyes and smirked, thinking she was joking.
"Yes, a lot. You should have confidence in yourself, like.."
Well, she was going to list them all, it must be some embarrassing content. Let's stop this topic before that happen, after all, this is not the subject of the original discussion.
"I'll just accept your assumption."
At this time, Edona chuckled as if she had seen through my thoughts, and then proposed an idea that people couldn't understand the logic of.
"Anyway, Velvet, let's do a performance of dance first."
"Why is it like this?!"
"Only you can see the image of the memory, this request is reasonable."
Edna smirked at me, which made me think It's a prank she planned.
But...damn, it makes sense...I can't argue with that.
"Or you can describe it, I'll try to do the action."
Eleanor looked at me and decided to help me. Then I seemed to hear some Earth-seraph muttering about boredom. Sure enough, she was trying to piss me off? Let's pretend I didn't hear it.
That shouldn't be fun, right?
Then I tried desperately to think of suitable adjectives to describe each action, and Eleanor tried very hard to do it, but it was always unsatisfactory. The reason is that I couldn't express the picture properly, so that Eleanor couldn't understand the action. I felt irritated and unhappy seeing Eleanor kept falling and Edna laughing beside her.
I remembered that the reason why Eleanor kept falling was that I was too shy to come out and dance, but this was what was necessary, it was not my turn to say shy and not dance. I have to reflect on myself for being so childish, Edna is telling the truth, she is telling the truth even though she obviously wants to piss me off. Only I know the memory and I have no means of sharing it, so only I can dance the dance closest to my memory.
"Enough, Eleanor, thank you, I will be the one to dance it out."
"Oh….alright…"
"Finally," Edna smirked.
After taking a deep breath, I took off my shoes and walked timidly to the floor where I suspected the starting point, closed my eyes, and told myself countless times that there was no one here.
Then carefully recalled the figure of the girl dancing barefoot in the unfamiliar memory.
The right hand first grabs the corner of the skirt, the left arm is flat, and the feet are crossed.
I didn't wear a skirt, so I had to grab the corner of the robe.
Rotate with the right foot as the center of gravity, slowly squat down with the right foot as the center of gravity, lean forward with the center of gravity of the body and point to the sky with the left arm.
The squatted right foot stands up while maintaining the rotation, and then rotates for 2 circles. . .
No, this move alone made me fall, and because I was always concerned about other people's eyes, I was super nervous and felt like I did it strangely. In my memory, the girl did it easily, because she was devoted to the dance.
But I have to do it, because I don't have any foundation in dance, so to reproduce the dance in my memory, I have to work harder and repeat it until I succeed. I practice a movement and I think it looks good and starts doing it. an action. Fall down again and stand up again, and practice until I can.
After thinking about it, I probably know that the movement is a rather monotonous but beautiful dance. I should be glad that the dance movements are very repetitive so that I can reproduce the whole dance very quickly after practicing one movement.
After the corner of the skirt rotates 2 times, jump to the left for a short distance, and put your arms in front to form a self-contained ring. After a short pause, stretch your arms naturally and rotate clockwise, jumping one step to the right with each turn. After repeating 7 times, raise your hands to your head to form a ring and cross your feet to stand firm and pause for a while.
Then rotate counterclockwise, keep rotating on one side, move to the right like a large circle, and finally stop at a position, slowly kneel down on one knee with the right foot and the arms will droop with it.
Under the concentration practice without special counting, I gradually forgot that there were audiences, just thinking of the mysterious girl's figure, the movement gradually became natural, until the final movement was completed, after the jump that I thought was the closest and the best. Someone applauded, and then I remembered that someone was watching me all the time.
I looked for the source of the applause and found that it was the teenage Shepherd. He stared straight at me with wide eyes, as if he was really applauding for the dance I imitated.
"It's so beautiful..." He whispered softly, and I am feeling a burst of heat on my cheeks.
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Sorey POV
'The dusty history rests here, and the secret truth is on the inside of the world. The dance of the flame heritage will guide the door to reality. '
According to the instructions written on the mysterious boulder, we must know that this place is related to the 'Dance of the Holy Flame Inheritance'. In the endless desert scattered with ruins, there is only a complete and undamaged stone floor here. A well-defined stone floor There are 2 footprints engraved on it, which seem to mean the starting point.
Among all of us, only Velvet has a memory that seems to be related. I heard that Tartarus in the memory quietly watched the dance of the girl, and recorded the whole dance in In mind. If Velvet's dance is the answer to this place, I think that girl might be the predecessor of this dragon, so out of so many dragons, this dragon is the only one that may fuse with Tartarus.
Because the dance is in this place The necessity of the dance, and Velvet seemed to be unable to see and do nothing when Eleanor keep falling and did not perform a similar movement to the dance in memory. Eventually, Velvet gave up resistance and tried to reproduce the dance by herself.
At first, her movements were very stiff, it seemed even Kinda hilarious, even more hilarious than Eleanor, who was supposed to dance. But no one is laughing at her at the moment, not even Edna, who I thought was going to make a fool of Velvet.
Oh, but I think Edna is She tried her best to hold back her laughter and her whole body was shaking, but she probably didn't want to impress Velvet who mustered up the courage to dance. After all, it was a necessary dance, and even if she wanted to see her funny, she would agree that it was necessary.
Velvet, who seems to have no dancing experience, kept falling down at first, but she kept getting up again, her eyes had a sense of what she must do, and she never gave up. The firm eyes didn't look like she was enjoying the dance at all, but I know she decided to recreate the dance, maybe that's why everyone didn't laugh, Edna, who was holding back laughter, became calm, because watching a person go all out to do a good job It's not funny in itself.
She keeps failing, but the dance moves are getting lighter and more natural, and she can do the whole dance without falling over at all. Some of the floors turn red where she stops, but Maybe the dance steps are not complete and the environment has not changed completely. After a period of time, the floor will return to its original state. And she doesn't care, it seems that it is normal to return to the starting point for her.
I have a hunch that the next try will be successful.
She stretched out her right arm again naturally, and lifted the corner of the robe with her left hand as if imitating the graceful gesture of lifting the corner of the skirt.
With the right foot as the center of gravity, she squatted down gently and then jumped straight up with the rotation, the corner of the clothes was spinning Under the action, it lifted into the air, as if she had opened her wings.
She always closed her eyes, as if recalling the details carefully, but her dancing steps did not stop at all, imitating the dance that was only in memory, her clothes and hair bind were flies freely in the air with the rotation of the dance steps.
she rotates her light body, sometimes she relaxes her hands, and her body moves slowly like a light cloud, as if she is dancing ballet and painting vermilion on the all-white checkered floor by the trajectory of her.
I vaguely saw maple leaves flying in the wind beside her, the figure of a shimmering girl and she overlapped, like a fantasy transformed from memory. The fantasy girl had red hair, wearing a white dress, and danced in the same way as Velvet, maybe she was the girl in memory. The overlapping of the figures Makes her look like a dancing fairy, charming and dreamy.
Velvet is completely unaware of the girl's existence, and continues to dance as if she is wholeheartedly focused on the dance. She danced, sometimes dancing like an unquenched flame. She stretched her limbs naturally, like a bird flying freely with its wings outstretched, dragging the whirlwind to dance with her. The red maple leaves caught in her whirlwind were like flying sparkssame.
In the end, she sat on one knee, her feet moved slightly closer, her arms slowly dropped, and she finished the finished pose and stopped the dance. However, the dance, like a melody, left a rhythm that left people unfinished.
I was stunned for a while until she finally opened her eyes after the dance, and I applauded.
"It's so beautiful..." Without thinking, I said my true feelings.
Velvet, who heard my feelings, was stunned for a moment, and she turned away from the posture of concentrating on dancing, face flushed red, as if she was feeling shy.
Speaking of which, she was surprisingly easy to feel shy, and I love to see it.
After the dance seemingly finished, the traces of scarlet did not dissipate, but the floor vibrated instead.
First, the grid behind Velvet was the first sinking quickly, and Velvet lost her balance and fell backwards due to the vibration.
Seeing this, I jumped on the stage and jumped to her side without hesitation. I picked her up before the back of her head hit the ground and jumped off the stage.
After securing my footing safe, I looked at the stage where the squares were sinking one after another, and there was a big hole.
I strentch my neck to take a futher look at the content in the hole, I found a spiral staircase leading to the depths.
"...uh ....Thank you..You may put me down..."
The girl in my arms seemed to say something, I couldn't hear it clearly, and hummed a questioning syllable.
"... say, I can come down and walk by myself."
She continued to blushed and said with difficulty, seeing her shy and cute appearance made me want to hold her all the time.
It’s like my heart get a critical hit.
Suddenly I didn't want to let her go, so I just kept holding her and walking.
"But You must be tired after dancing for a long time, I don't mind holding you for a while longer."
Follow my own heart, and when I say such words, I am also startled by myself.
"...... But I haven't put on my shoes yet----"
"You mean this? I've already put them on for you." Eleanor smiled at Velvet, unknowingly helped her put on her shoes and cut her off from using an excuse to get down.
“Wha…..when did you—-no, You don’t need to do that, I'm not a child." Velvet said with a bit of shame.
“It's no big deal to do that for a friend. You didn’t notice the geometric change nor my action, let’s admit you are too tired to notice. Just take good intentions from others, Velvet." Eleanor said nonchalantly, and then the last sentence always felt a bit like a mum talking to her kids.
"Right, right, just take good intentions from others, Velvet." Edna narrowed her eyes, repeated Eleanor's sentence in a sarcastic tone.
Under the one-sided opinion of the team, Velvet shut up and silently accepted my offer. Perhaps because she was too embarrassed, she didn't say a word as we walked down the stairs , she just shrank her body slightly, so she was closer to my face and turned the other side, seeing everything but not my face.
Haha, this makes her cuter, what should I do? I seem to have become strange, and there is a kind of inner pulsation that is different from when I was exploring the ruins. Maintaining silence until we reached the bottom, under Velvet's strong appeal, I put her down finally.
The bottom is a calm and dark environment, as if there is malevolence everywhere, but there is a flame suspended in the middle to illuminate, only the surrounding is a clean environment.
My Intuition told me that this was where the ‘truth’ lie . When I was about to reach out to touch the flame, I looked back at Velvet for confirmation.
She nodded, and all four of us reached out to touch the flame, and the light surrounded us.
----------Dragon's Memory-------------
*
I remember the situation where he rescued me that day, and I won't forget it even if I am no longer myself.
In the prosperous heavenly realm, the resources are overflowing, but the feudal class consciousness still exists. Seraphim like me who were born in the lower realm as known as the human realm was regarded as low-level seraphim, and the seraph who tied me to the heavenly realm intends to sell me to those who are interested.
By the way, freak exists throughout various eras and places, and even the heavenly realm is no exception. An underground auction is held in a secret venue, where all kinds of freaks gather, and the auction of beautiful children is carried out enthusiastically. When the children are in the hands of those perverts, they can only be at the mercy of others.
I was one of those merchandises who described it so calmly, I just hoped it would make myself less uncomfortable.
The moment I was put on the auction block, all the spotlight was on me being ragged and tied. I was too young and poor to know any spells that I could cast, and the handcuffs on my hands seemed to have the ability to absorb power.
I couldn't see the seraphim under the stage, only heard the bidding sounds one after another, all of which were screams like wild beasts, Beasts of obedience to themselves.
I disdain to fall into the hands of these people, but there is nothing I can do but to be tied here.
Except for the dazzling spotlight, the rest is dark until he appears like the sun.
Auction The door was suddenly kicked open, but what made the audience quiet was the opening remarks he shouted imposingly next.
"Hey, today is the end of your day, scumbags of society."
His tone was a little angry, and as soon as he came in, he announced their end loudly, with what should be a bunch of soldiers behind him. They quickly surrounded the scene to make sure no one could escape from the scene.
He neatly directed the entire suppression and arrest operation as commander, of course, including the rescue of kidnapped children.
He personally came to my side and gently touched my head, comforting me: "Are you scared? It's all right."
His eyes were firm, like a burning fire, he looked at me smiled, and that smile was as bright as the sun.
He gave up after finding a home for every kidnapped child, and I, who had no relatives before being kidnapped, was adopted by him. He gave me the name Vermillion, that it was come up with the color of my hair.
I grew up under his guidance and learned Martial arts and spells, become stronger and only hope that one day I can help him.
"There is no distinction between races. As long as there is enthusiasm, they can understand each other. Humans and serpaim can coexist." He always taught me this, and this is what he believed at the same time. I also want to trust his will.
During the period when it was rumored that a hybrid of the seraphim and Humans came to the Heavenly realm, the unspoken class consciousness among the seraphim suddenly surfaced on the table. The seraphim are divided into three factions on their stance towards mankind: Coexistence, Opposition and Neutrality. Under the consensus of the council, the Coexistence faction will go to the Nether to prove that humans and seraphim can coexist. Of course, my lord who is one of the 12 knights will also go to the lower realm, and I will follow him to be his guardian.
We were also blessed by the priest before the lower realm, he claimed that it was a blessing for a higher resistance to malevolence, but I doubt it. My lord accepted the blessing magnanimously. Our eyes light up with strange coat of glyph, which is the mark of a special technique.
Up to now, we have been unable to pursue it, no matter what curse he placed, we can only bear the result of our choice.
"Thank you, and may the seraphim coexist with people." He answered the priest religiously, and then we went down to earth with the 5 knights of the twelve, who later the 5 Empyreans of the lower realm.
My lord was Musiphe, the Empyrean of the Fire element in the mankind realm.
We strive to achieve our ideals, but only a one-sided embrace of ideals is useless. The increase in malevolence under the influence of war has turned many people into daemons. This is probably the curse that we were given at that time, and we guardians who are the pillars of our vows were given spells that were difficult to be affected by malevolence to maintain the operation of the curse. And when the malevolence is overflowing, the Empyrean of supression, the leader of the Empyreans in the operation to ascend the lower realm, ruthlessly eliminates the feelings of human beings, eliminates all malevolence on the earth, and even he himself is no longer himself.
Few of the guardians and the seraphim knew this fact, and even if the My Fire Lord knew the truth, he did not shake his determination. He said: ‘What we should do has not changed.’
Over the past 700 years, we have started working on from the religion, followed the footsteps of the Fire Empyrean who never gave up, and repeated the collapse of civilization. We have established the temples of the 5 Holy Empyreans, helped mankind develop science and technology, and finally established a common kingdom of seraphim and people--Kingdom of Divine Right. Everything went well, and the technology we brought along with humanity developed a prosperous culture. This advanced age flourished for 300 years, until one day a large number of humans suddenly lost sight of us, which greatly reduced belief and protection, resource poverty also fuels wars. We who cannot stop the war and death as the price of war drive the loss of believers, and malevolence increases as a result. The turbulent emotions have spawned more daemons.
In order to prevent Innominat from reawakening again, the seraphim and the remaining believers and spiritual responders jointly studied the spells and derived the appearance of those who can contract. The appearance of Praetors and Excorist has changed a little of the situation, and we can also fight against malevolence and daemons, but we are still no match for daemons who have occupied the land for decades. The more the daemons absorbs the malevolence, the stronger it becomes, and there is a danger that the earth is covered with malevolence, Meliodas, the king of karma. These existences make human beings more desperate, more angry, and more selfish. Sadness arouses anger and becomes an asura, and the weak create selfishness for self-preservation, thus giving birth to more daemons.
I understand that human beings have emotions, and that enthusiasm is our favorite, so even if there is malevolence because of it, there is nothing we can do, because it is an inseparable part of human beings.
Destruction is much easier than protection. In just a few years, the earth has been smeared by war and politics, lost faith, and was forced to sleep with my master, the Holy Fire Lord. The karma on the ground fought and failed miserably. I committed suicide, left the contractor behind, and was resurrected with the power of the oath.
This desperate cycle has been repeated hundreds of times for 700 years, and I have died and been resurrected hundreds of times because of the power of the oath. The blessings given by the priests do have such a protective effect: the guardians keep their chastity with death, the Empyreans keep their sanity in malevolence with sleep, and the seraphim gain power by turning into dragons and losing their minds.
Although the protection of the oath is strong, it is not enough to make me completely immune to malevolence. Every time I am tainted and nearly become a daemon, I will commit suicide. For this reason, I sometimes even have to die before my contractor. I will all return to the fire pedestal and wait.
The Empyrean of Fire, whom I protect, was forced to sleep to save himself because of malevolence, and the interval between each time became longer and longer. In this dark age, I had to sacrifice the soul to awaken the empyrean, but the character also changed because of the soul of the victim. He became more and more unfamiliar to me, and made me wonder what I had been protecting. I should carry out my duty and find a way to wake up the Empyrean and make the dream of coexistence between Seraphim and Humanity come true, but I am tired. Every faith that has been built and managed so hard will be wiped out by Innominat, together with the malevolence, and will be burned to pieces together with my lord one day. All efforts seem to be meaningless, we just keep going back to the original point, and my former companions have only a few left, the malevolence has never diminished, the memory of the Kingdom of Divine Right has become like a dream, I don't think I can take it anymore.
My contractors always apologized to me at the end and died with a wry smile, but I was always afraid of breaking taboos and didn't tell them all the truth. I am afraid of them leaving me, afraid of their despair, but more than that, I am afraid of the fact that I am still living shamelessly, how many times I must betray the my pact-former so many times to survive to the illusory goal I was going forward?
The longer I live, the more I feel the disgust and guilt of being alive, how my contractors try their best to help the world and how I hide the taboos and let them follow me to protect the world with no regrets.
I hate myself so much, but it's my job.
In the end, Meliodas, the king of Daemon, unified the continent with a powerful force, and the Seraphim were completely forced to live in hiding. Due to the unification of the continent, the amount of malevolence barely touched the awakening of the Innominat. Dark Period have come.
I gave up everything and wandered aimlessly, witnessing the despair of the world. I can go anywhere. I am the one who betrayed my pact-former countless times still neither save the world nor save my lord, I wanted to die more than anyone else.
It is precise because I was so desperate that I accidentally landed on a pirate ship, and I met a strange earth-seraph, his name is Eizen.
Because he is the seraph of the Earth, he can't swim, but he is accompanied by pirates, even if there is a daemon among the pirates.
"I can't understand why a noble seraph is a pirate's companion."
"We share the same goal and we enjoy tresure hunting with exciting adventures along. Why not?"
His understatement fired me up.
"There's daemon on board, are you crazy? Are you going to be part of a bunch of people who mess up the world?"
"Who decides daemon is bad? He just enjoys indulging in desires. And my life is controlled by myself, this is my creed."
“Why can you live so irresponsibly... The outside world is so turbulent, why are you so happy?"
An unspeakable feeling poured out that made me want to blame him, but he wasn’t wrong.
"Why can't you be happy? Because everyone is suffering? It's because this era is too chaotic and painful, so you have to find a way to live that makes you happy. You seem to want to teach me big things. Is it the living way that makes you miserable is your so-called responsible way to live?" He asked condescendingly, not knowing whether it was because of his fierce looking eyes or his clear and sharp eyes, his words made me startled, He didn't know anything about me, but he was right in saying that I was in pain.
"I have always performed my duties alone, even if it makes me feel guilt and pain, that is what I have to bear." But I am still very unwilling for my way of living has been denied, even when I felt helpless about it.
"That's the way you choose to live, I won't comment much, if you think it makes sense to torture yourself in this way, you may continue."
If it makes sense...
"...I don't know if it makes sense anymore. I didn't achieve anything, I just lost, but I was the only one left, and I had to perform my duty."
He maintained his attitude as an outsider, but I couldn't help showing a lost expression, feeling lost in what I was doing now, I am not in the position to blame him...
"...that means what you're doing isn't feasible, you should be looking for ways to win, not pointlessly repeating mistakes. How about you pause what you're doing, come and try my life like this? You will definitely see a different scene."
"I can't be in the company of evil.”
I am not wanting you to be in the company of them, but simply observe everyone's life from the sidelines, whether it is daemon. Daemons are still human beings. Go help if you like to help, just watch or leave if you don’t want to. Just treat it as a long vacation, do what you want, not what you need to do.”
I gently nodded and accepted his suggesion, so I started being an invisible ghost doing human observation.
Not surprisingly, in this era, many people are oppressed by daemons and live hard, but miraculously some people are trying to live happily, so I stayed by his side to observe him.
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Meanwhile those watching memories:
Sorey: "These clips are treasures..the long-lost history and the original appearance of the ruins."
Edna: "I didn't expect Eizen to have a relationship with this dragon."
Velvet: "I think they won’t meet again after this….This is not the reason why she became a dragon though. The memory is true LONG."
Edna: "This dragon has lived longer than me, you should be glad you didn't start watching from her birth."
Velvet: "Yeah, maybe she's older than Eizen, to say, Eizen is no different from a brat when he talks to her."
Sorey: "Sometimes young people can give innovative ideas."
Eleanor: "Why can you all relax like this in the mental world of the enemy?!"
Sorey: "There is no danger for the time being."
Edna: "You also said you prepared the defense mechanism before entering, so there is no need to worry for the time being, isn’t it?"
Velvet: "You said that the flow of time is not the same as reality. Well, there will be no enemies for the time being, so don't worry too much."
Eleanor: "Ugh...I don't wanna care anymore."
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A.N.
oh oh, I made another one chapter that doesn’t really contribute progress of the plot. Please believe me, I didn't mean to, I just thought it was strange to jump to the dragon's memory all of a sudden, someone mentioned Eizen recently and I wanted to find a chance to insert him into the story again, so he inserted some 'vignettes' in the middle. Anyway, I've been writing very tensed plots recently, so let's add some more relaxed ones. It is good to add a little description into the relationship. I don't know much about relationships, but I will keep helping them warm up LOL.
It was that I suddenly thought that I had settings about imaginary production in the mental world before, so I could let the Earth-seraph siblings meet after a long absence to each other (in)directly. The part where Velvet danced was an episode added to make things not so smooth and boring, and it was also because I recently watched ‘Fena: Pirate Princess’ and I came up with that. I have to say that the dance episode is really beautiful like a work of art (while writing that episode, I LOOPED countless Fena’s dancing clips).
I didn't know how to describe the beautiful movements of that dance at first, As a result, I wrote the Velvet POV's very straightforward words that said the action. It can also be said that it was the unimaginable action that Eleanor heard. The description of the work. Because it is too unsightly (somehow I thought it funny and I just keep it there), it is rewritten in Sorey POV with the goal of writing very romantically and beautifully.
About the memory of the dragon, before I could fully set her story, someone was guessing that the dragon was a clone of Eizen, so I wanted to write that and Eizen had an influence on her. By the way, her story was mentioned in the ruins where Sorey found Lailah, because I didn't want that story to appear once and then be discarded, so I reused and elaborate it.......
Thank you to Kisechuu’s Zestiria World Guidance, it helps a lot:
https://kisechuu.tumblr.com/post/132045752912/heyo-ive-done-some-more-zestiria-world-guidance
May be a lot of nonsense though in the chapter, I hope you like it.
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