Kaichen raised ducks, had a cozy yard, and yellow-leaved willow around his house. It was so unlike the cold exterior he put up for the world. He was a sentintal person with loads of emotions. The place exuded comfort and I had beco so comfortable in this place. It felt like ho.
I skimd through the items in Kaichen’s cluttered lab. After so trial and error and an accusatory gaze from Kaichen, I managed to clean up a spot to sit on. I rolled up the parchnt and secured it with a string, which I placed on a desk, and then sat down on the empty spot I had just created.
Whenever I ca in here, I would sit on the sofa after cleaning it or by the window, but today, these spots were full of things. It ant Kaichen was really busy. Kaichen didn’t say a word to all this while but raised an eyebrow when he saw casually sitting on the floor. He seed to be familiar with my easygoing behavior by now.
“It wasn’t a coincidence that you were chosen as the dium of ti magic that manifested in Acrab.”
“Hmm. As expected, right?”
“Do you rember anything? You must have co in contact with the magician.”
Do you think I have never thought about that before? I sighed.
“His Highness said he has found traces of a mber of the Momalhaut visiting Acrab,” he continued, “You can say you are a victim of forbidden magic now, but since you have encountered Momalhaut, you can’t escape the suspicion that you might be on their side.”
“I don’t even rember!”
“Just because you don’t rember it doesn’t erase whatever you might have done in your past.”
“That’s true, but… I don’t think I would ever be conspiring with the Momalhaut.” Even in the original novel, Dalia hadn’t consorted with the Momalhaut. Dalia had died even before the third chapter. Granted Dalia was a drunken countess who wasted her life, but consorting with Momalhaut was even beneath her.
Ugh… I shouldn’t have been frugal with money and should have bought and read everything! I regretted reading the novel for leisure and skipping chapters.
“The focal point between you and Momalhaut is Acrab. Keep in mind that you can’t prove anything right now. And another important thing is that the magic connection with the dium and the definition of magic is completely dependent of you.”
“? I know that my ntal strength might have been sothing that maintained the magic but…….”
“Not much about the most dangerous forbidden magic – ti magic – has been revealed. Have you ever thought about it? Why was Acrab enchanted by the ti magic that repeats one day out of countless days? Why only ti magic?”
“That’s… um…”
“Ti magic varies depending on the dium. This is the connection between the dium and ti magic.”
“Magic was maintained based on my ntal strength. Are you saying that I created the source of magic that repeats the day?”
“That’s right,” Kaichen replied calmly. The notebook he was holding was already tattered with how many tis he had looked through it. It was almost new two months ago. While nursing and treating , he had found the ti to study on his research until his notebook was this worn out.
Right now, rather than his dedication and effort, I was more shocked that I had created the ti magic. No, I corrected myself, it was Dalia. It was created by Dalia. Damn you Dalia! The bad choices of Dalia would always haunt . Dalia… . I had created hell on my own.
“But… how is that possible? Why on earth…,” I mumbled.
“As soon as the dium is selected and the magic is activated, the magic changes form according to dium’s desire. Forbidden magic is tricky and takes a lot of mana, but what’s more important is the dium.”
“dium’s desire?”
“That’s why we usually choose those with desperate desires as the dium. You… what did you desire back then?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know what I wanted….” I was so frustrated. I had no mory. Over a period of 100 years, I had cursed the magician who created the ti magic a thousand tis.
Dalia, who lost her mind. Dalia, who gave up everything. Dalia, a drunkard. Surely, she was in a tight spot. She was suddenly betrayed by a neighboring count who was close to her parents. Her parents then died suddenly and the situation of her land and estate was deteriorating. Because of the burden and responsibility, she turned to alcohol to cope. That might have been an opportunity for the Momalhaut.
“I don’t rember, but maybe… I might have wished for no tomorrow.” If the ti magic beca attuned to the dium’s desire, then this made sense.
Dalia didn’t want tomorrow to co and having to deal with everything again. But why? Why Dalia? Only thing that was apparent was that Dalia was the head of Acrab. And Dalia was already at the edge with depression. She had turned to alcohol, but it wasn’t enough. She had no one she could rely on. I felt like I understood why she might have desired sothing like that. And because of it, she must have seed like a good bait for Momalhaut.
“Then, Teacher… is it who set the characteristics of ti magic, and is it because of that I spent a hundred years in it?”
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