[Eon's POV: ]
I wasn't sure if he would actually be around or not but the obvious presence that he was not even trying to hide gave it away.
"What gave it away? The cold and the soil wouldn't be the only things."
He was asking about the location and how I figured where this place was.
He knew I was smart and had good deductive capabilities but there was still a lot that even I should not have been able to tell.
I surely said how I had figured it out, but he knew there was sothing more to it. He knew pretty well so he also knew I was just trying to get his attention by saying sothing that he already knew many people other than might have already figured out already.
There were a lot of things here that pointed at many things and there were a lot of guests here that were even smarter than , perhaps had more experience than and were so extraordinary that I could only look up to them and admire them.
He knew just how well they had made this place so deducting what this place exactly was should not have been possible even to those great geniuses.
But I figured it out, and he wanted to know how.
"Well…"
It's not easy, I'd certainly say that. And if not for my cursed mory I would have forgotten about this as well.
"The path."
What simply gave away the exact location of this place aside from it being on the western continent was simply the path that we took to get here.
"Just like the rest of us, others should have also taken a unique path."
We went to a dessert first, then we went to so calr place, then to so humid place, then to so cold place, then to a proper windy place, and lastly, we passed through places that had a unique environnt.
There was no need to pass through such diverse environnts. There was no need to even go all around the world just to misdirect us.
Even if they had directly brought us here or just passed through so certain gateways connecting this place, it would have been difficult for any of us to figure out what this place was.
This primordial volcanic region was not the only hot place in the west. This could very well have been so volcanic island of northern sea, so outskirts of the demonic plains, so plateau of scorching lands of the east, or sowhere in the central region where there still are so inactive volcanoes present.
This place could have very well been under the earth sowhere very deep that it was too hot to maintain this kind of stable environnt.
If that were the case, a shield like this one would have been more justifiable.
It could have been any hot place in the west and there would have been no need for them to bring us through so many different places.
In the first place, it was ineffective and costly going around so many places so… why did they do it?
Was it simply because they wanted to make it complicated?
Surely even the headmaster wouldn't have enough resources to do sothing like that for so many attendees.
"There was no need to pass through so many environnts, but since we did, our body and senses adapted to the unstable environnts and temporarily beca insensitive to the 'change' of environntal factors."
Since it was sothing very natural and very inherent, even the individuals like our grandparents who possessed blessed and experienced bodies did not find this artificial garden as strange as .
Even Rein, soone that could see the true nature of everything and knew all of this was fake and was astonished by the barrier above us did not feel anything weird when we got here.
"You tried to perform spontaneous artificial conditioning… but you should have taken soone like into account."
Thanks to my unique body, I had the power to control Solnova. And it was a kind of power that was more raw and pure in nature than the other kind of energies.
My cursed mory made very sensitive to the 'change' since it naturally compared anything and everything with the past experiences so, when I am in snow, I think every ti I have felt snow.
When I am in a warm place, I think about every ti I have been in a similar kind of warm place, and when I am experiencing sothing for the first ti, my mind compares it with every freaking kind of thing it could possibly compare it to and practically, I don't really have any control over this process.
I've grown cold to it with ti, and though painful, thanks to Lucy, I've learned how to manage it a little in the past few years.
"Oh… I see."
The headmaster knew how this cursed mory worked– being able to rember every single second of your life was not sothing good. Especially when it's as sensitive as mine.
Sure it has so upsides, but the downsides are just too much.
It's not every day that I get a goodnight's sleep without a headache.
"Don't think too much about it though, headmaster. And you. Stop that please. Just at least relax for a little."
Headmaster was surely worried about and what might happen to , but there was nothing for him to worry about.
There was nothing we could do about this problem anyway, and Rein. She was tense and worried all this ti already, but hearing how I figured out where we were thanks to my mory just made her even more worried.
"If you act like that for a little longer, we are going to have a long chat and will miss the preparation ti. Do you want that?"
"...! Wait! We have to go through these things-."
"Then calm down."
If I had Anna's power to calm people down and make them feel refreshed even if it was forcefully, I would have used it on her at this mont.
Sadly, I did not have that, so she will have to work it out with a normal kiss.
"Anyway, as I was asking, can we have a look outside? I really wanted to see the crimson landscape of infamous western hell."
The headmaster was looking down at now, right in my sincere eyes that really wanted to have this experience.
"Hmmm…"
He looked deep into my eyes that wanted it, and then in the still worried eyes of Rein who was looking at as if I was so kind of a lunatic.
She knew if these were actually the lands of Dhargni then the environnt out there would be sothing that the two of us who were still nowhere near the level of our grandparents could never handle.
Despite how strong we were, we were still weak. I know that already. But, missing this precious chance would be the sa as missing out on an opportunity to et a dragon.
"You really want to go out, hun?"
"Yes."
I really wanted to go and have a look out there.
It was said that the creatures in these lands, even in the outskirts of these lands, were so strong that even soone like the headmaster would have difficulty facing them.
These lands were also ho to not one, but a group of calamity bringing creatures called [Hell's guards].
There was no way to fight those creatures, so they had been restricted to their territories by the 'forces of nature'.
I wanted to at least see one of them.
"I see…"
Of course, it would not be possible without the permission and help of the headmaster since, well, without him protecting us with his powers, neither of us might even survive for a minute in the environnt out there.
"Well, it is not going to be possible today. I still have a lot of matters to attend to."
There was a smile on his face, so he wasn't saying that it was going to be impossible.
He did not deny outright as he would at my dangerous request like this one.
"Tomorrow will be fine, right?"
And if he was directly saying this, it ans he also wants to show sothing out there.
"Tomorrow is great, yes."
Mr. Crow was still following along with our conversation, sohow.
He did not know many things that we were talking about, things about my mory, things relating to my request, or why we even have such profound understanding with one another.
He was the headmaster of the grand academy of Hope. Even the emperors of this world could not talk with him as casually as we talked about.
'From the look in his deep eyes, I can at least tell he knew the two of us had so kind of special relationship but he must not know the depth of that relationship.
That was the only way to explain that surprised look in his eyes hidden behind his crow mask.
"Then…"
He placed his hand on both of our shoulders, and turned us around towards the big gates in the centre.
"Go and rest. I can tell you'll faint tomorrow if you don't rest today. Tomorrow starts the big day."
He pushed both of us a little, and waited for us to start walking.
This was his way to tell us to go inside since there were still other guests coming– and with outside chatting like this, he knew the arrival of the others that he was masking with his perfect illusion spells would beco difficult.
"Don't push yourself too much, headmaster. Please look after yourself a little as well."
I had brought a treat for him, so I first turned around and handed it to him before bowing to him and saying our goodbyes.
He was working hard, and since Mr. Crow worked hard as well, I gave him so snacks that he might enjoy before bidding him goodbyes and finally walking inside the door to the underground.
'He was an interesting person. I had to set the foundations now if I wanted him in the future.'
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