The day of the procedure arrived.
“It’s a procedure to recover Princess Ione’s mind by protecting both of your minds through the miracle of ntal stability, while completely releasing the blocking magic in stages. Powerful miracles and delicate magical procedures must be perford simultaneously.”
After adjusting the complex magic circle installed inside the Magic Tower, the court mage explained to the Emperor like that.
“I understand it’s a procedure that uses the characteristics of conjoined twins, where if one side’s mind is injured, the healthy opposite side can recover it. Is that correct?”
“Exactly, Your Majesty.”
“The goal is for Alne’s intact mind to transfer to Ione, recovering both of them, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Conversely, what’s the possibility of Ione’s negative mories and emotions transferring to Alne and causing problems?”
At those words, the court mage nodded worriedly.
“Of course it exists. Completely releasing the block ans all mories, emotions, and thoughts of both will be shared in real-ti. There’s a sufficient possibility of joint collapse rather than ntal recovery.”
“That would be the worst case.”
“But we can’t artificially block the minds of conjoined twins, which should normally be connected forever. This artificial and forced blocking could eventually fester to the point of damaging the very soul the two share.”
His Majesty the Emperor rubbed between his brows with a complicated expression.
It was natural to be worried.
If left alone, it was harmful to both in the long term, but if released, there was a possibility of both minds collapsing together.
As if reading the Emperor’s mind, the court mage calmly continued his explanation, “Of course, the possibility of both princesses getting better is higher. Both have a strong will to recover, and multiple priests will cast very powerful miracles of ntal protection. And above all.”
After saying that, the court mage looked at .
“We have the Saint, don’t we? Even assuming the worst case, there’s a possibility if the Saint steps in.”
It wasn’t wrong.
I had the ultimate cheat-level skill called Absolute Hypnosis.
Of course, my Absolute Hypnosis was a skill that made the other person absolutely follow my orders, not a skill to delicately repair a broken mind.
So it would be best if the worst situation where everything had to be staked on my skill didn’t co in the first place.
I was just playing the role of reassuring everyone as a last resort. Nothing more, nothing less.
“Don’t worry too much, Your Majesty. I’m here.”
Even though I was going to leave soon anyway, my wish for the two sisters, Ione and Alne, to be happy is genuine.
Today’s procedure.
I intended to lead it towards recovery sohow.
At my words, His Majesty and Her Majesty’s expressions beca a little more comfortable.
“I understand. Begin!”
“Yes.”
Priests of the Lilia Order and court mages approached the two princesses.
Ione snarled a little anxiously at that sight, but she seed stable when I held her hand by her side.
“It’s okay, Ione. Don’t be nervous.”
At my words, Ione stopped snarling.
“If I get better, kiss.”
I nodded.
“Yes, I’ll give you one. So you must get better. Okay?”
At those words, Ione smiled happily and beca quiet.
After calming Ione, it was Alne’s turn.
She, sitting next to Ione, extended her trembling hand to .
“I’m nervous, Saint. Could you hold my hand too?”
I nodded.
Alne and Ione.
I held both twin princesses’ hands.
“It’ll be okay. Both of you. You’re both strong. And even in the worst case, I’m here. Don’t worry too much.”
Alne smiled faintly at my words.
After taking a deep breath for a mont, Alne then nodded.
“Please begin. I’m ready.”
“ too.”
Ione also nodded with a serious face.
At those words, all the priests and mages in the room started moving.
The huge magic circle drawn on the floor spewed light, and priests of the Grace Order began pouring holy power onto the princesses’ heads.
“We’ve cast the miracle of ntal protection!”
“Princess Ione’s emotional state is good!”
“Slowly! We must release the blocking magic in stages, not hastily! If the magic circle activation is ready, we’ll begin!!”
Ione’s right eye.
The blocking magic engraved on Princess Alne’s left eye began to shine.
Both of them gripped my hands tightly at the sa ti.
“Blocking release. We’ll begin.”
The mont the mage’s tense voice rang out.
“Ugh…! Ahhh!!”
Screams burst out simultaneously from both princesses’ mouths.
“Endure! You must endure! Alne! Ione!”
At my words, the two princesses desperately tried to endure the pain while gripping my hands as if to crush them.
They gripped so tightly that blood started flowing, but I couldn’t even feel the pain.
I can just heal with body modification.
You two, please.
Please be safe.
Was my wish granted?
For nearly an hour.
The two princesses endured well.
The procedure also progressed smoothly.
“Phase 2 release complete! Now the last! Entering phase 3, release!!”
Everyone performing the procedure was drenched in sweat.
At the court mage’s words as he wiped cold sweat from his forehead, I looked at the two with an anxious face.
Please.
Please let nothing happen.
I hope they can just get better cleanly like this without needing to step in…
“N-no!! Ahhhhh!!”
Alne suddenly let out a sharp scream.
Ione also suddenly rolled her eyes back and started convulsing, as if having a seizure.
Unfortunately, it seed the limit had co.
“It hurts!! It hurts!! It’s painful!! S-stop!! Please stop! Please stop!!”
Along with Alne’s screams, the priests casting the miracle of ntal protection on her head beca flustered.
“The miracle is collapsing!”
“ntal state is very unstable! At this rate, it will collapse!!”
“It’s hard to endure!”
Alne looked like she was going mad with pain, and Ione’s convulsions were getting worse and worse.
“Saint!! Help ! Please!!”
And finally, the line I least wanted to hear flowed from Alne’s mouth.
Damn it!!
Should I order them not to feel pain with Absolute Hypnosis?
No.
It’s normal to feel pain.
I don’t know what side effects might occur if I forcibly tell them not to feel it.
Think!! You idiot Kim Min-gyu!! Think!!
What order should I give to keep both of them safe?
How can I make both of them overco this mont?
Co on! Please…!!
There it was.
A way to save both of them with Absolute Hypnosis.
[Activating skill Absolute Hypnosis!]
Hypnosis was cast on both of them simultaneously.
What I could do wasn’t the great feat of restoring the two’s minds.
I could just help the two endure a little more easily.
Please.
Please endure.
I begged and begged as I gave an order to the two princesses.
“Happy mories! Recall happy mories!!”
***
It was sothing she had started with a firm resolve.
Ione.
Her other half.
The being who had been painfully unhappy for 16 years.
She wanted to save her.
That was why Alne firmly insisted on the procedure.
It was sothing that had to be released soday, anyway.
Moreover, the Saint was here too.
She believed he would surely help her.
She started with that mindset, but when Ione’s 16 years of accumulated painful mories began to beat her, Alne realized she had made a mistake.
She endured desperately.
But no matter how much she endured and endured, there seed to be no end to the painful mories.
At so point.
Alne finally sensed that her limit had co.
She gripped the Saint’s hand with enough force to crush it.
It hurts.
It’s painful.
She wanted to avoid it.
“Saint!! Help !! Please!!”
Ione’s pain, like black waves, roughly beat Alne as if to swallow her.
After spewing out a scream, like a death throe.
Slowly.
Alne began to sink below the surface, consud by the waves.
If she sank underwater like this, that would be the end.
It was clear that she, too, would beco a being with a shattered self, similar to Ione.
It was pathetic.
Is my will and courage to save Ione only this much?
Just as she was sinking in fear and regret.
One intense command forcibly pulled her up above the water.
“Happy mories! Recall happy mories!!”
Amidst the mories full of pain and darkness rushing in like a flood, one tiny mory arose.
Father.
The mory of the Emperor hugging Alne ca to mind.
The mory of enjoying tea ti with her mother and father in a well-decorated garden bathed in sunlight arose.
The mory of seeing a cute puppy too.
The sensation of beautiful paintings and clothes made of soft silk.
Monts when sweet and soft desserts made her mouth happy.
And when she first heard about Ione from her father and mother.
The mont she made up her mind to save her also ca to mind.
Waves of pain still rushed in.
Ione’s mories of having to be in pain every week for 16 years and being left alone in loneliness were trying to scrape away Alne’s mind and self as they were.
But Alne desperately clung to her happy mories and endured those waves.
Happy and good mories were protecting her.
Compared to the fierce waves rushing in, the happy mories seed fragile and foolishly small, but no matter how much they were hit and shaken by the waves, they never disappeared.
Using those small and fragile-looking mories as a cane, Alne endured and endured, and at so point.
She realized that the waves were no longer crashing.
Calmness ca to her.
And in that calmness, Alne could hear the sobbing of a young child.
A young child whose mind had been eaten away by pain and loneliness, still unable to grow and collapsed, was crying sorrowfully.
Alne approached that child.
And called the child’s na.
“Ione.”
At those words, the young child, bruised and injured and full of self-harm scars on her body, raised her eyes.
“It hurts. It hurts.”
Ione burst into tears.
“It hurts so much. I’m lonely. There’s no one. I want to die. I don’t want to live anymore,” Ione muttered foolishly.
Alne, as if understanding.
Hugged Ione.
“I know. Now, I can understand everything too. But you know.”
Alne handed Ione the happy mories that had protected her from the waves.
The small lumps of light.
“There are still many happy and good things in the world. Your pain will be a burden that we two will have to bear together from now on. But my happiness will also beco mories that we two can enjoy together.”
Ione carefully.
Took the light.
Tears quietly flowed from her eyes.
Ione caressed Alne’s light and then burst into a smile.
A clear and distinct voice, not a clumsy, childlike voice, flowed from Ione’s mouth.
“I want to try the baumkuchen and desserts you ate. The cookies and cakes, too.”
At Ione’s words, Alne smiled while shedding tears together.
“Let’s eat them. We can eat them.”
“I want to hear the words ‘I love you’ from mom and dad.”
“They’ll surely say it. They’ll definitely say it.”
“I want to walk barefoot on the grass under the warm sun like you did, Alne.”
“Of course we can do that. And I also want to like you…”
Alne to Ione.
No.
One person’s happy mories quietly declared to their own unhappy past.
“I want to keep seeing the face of the man I love in the future.”
The terrible mories too.
The happy mories that seed about to float up too.
Now they all belonged to one person.
There was no difference anymore.
Now the only difference was the nas distinguishing their bodies.
***
“ntal block release! Both of your self-states are good! It’s perfect! A perfect success!!”
Along with the court mage’s excited voice, both princesses opened their eyes simultaneously.
The magic circle that had been keeping one eye of each closed was no longer there.
The two looked down at the saint holding both their hands with their eyes wide open.
Blood was flowing because they had gripped his hands so tightly that their nails dug into his flesh, but the saint didn’t show any sign of it.
“Ione. Alne. Are you okay?”
The saint’s eyes were full of only worry as he looked at the two.
At that gaze, the two seed unable to hold back any longer. They threw themselves simultaneously.
They jumped into the saint’s arms.
And they began rubbing their faces against the saint’s body at the sa ti.
“I-I’m sweating a lot right now…!”
It was good.
Even that sweat sll felt like an intense pheromone.
We love him.
We love this man in front of us.
We love this man who saved us and finally made us happy so, so much.
Really to the point where our breath stops.
“”Thank you.””
When the two princesses said that while shedding tears, the saint soon smiled and quietly hugged them.
“I’m glad. I hope both of you beco happier than all the pain you’ve felt until now.”
That was the plan.
The two were determined to be happy.
After hugging the saint tightly, Ione and Alne stood up.
The two turned their gaze to the Emperor and Empress, who were sitting on one side watching them with anxious expressions.
Alne carefully stepped back and pushed Ione forward.
Ione slowly approached her parents.
She smiled.
She was smiling and sobbing at the sa ti.
“I… I’m back. Mom. Dad.”
It wasn’t clumsy.
It was a clear and accurate voice.
“It hurt so much all this ti. So much…”
She opened her arms.
“Hug . Tell you love .”
At those words, the Empress rushed to her daughter, throwing away all dignity.
She was crying too.
It was tears mixed with happiness and guilt.
“My daughter.”
The Empress hugged her daughter.
“My beloved daughter. Ah… God. Lilia. Saint. Thank you so much. Thank you…”
The Emperor, even more slowly.
With a face weighed down by guilt and regret, began to approach Ione.
“Can I… Can I love you? Can I hug you and tell you I love you? Can you forgive ? Ione?”
The Emperor was crying too.
And Ione smiled at such a father.
“Hug , Dad. And tell you love .”
The Emperor hugged Ione tightly.
“I love you. I love you, Ione. I really love you.”
Ione started crying like a child.
She wailed and wailed miserably, as if spewing out all the pain of 16 years at once.
But strangely, there was also a relieved smile on her face.
The Emperor and Empress hugged Ione even more tightly.
Everyone in the room quietly watched that scene.
There was no Emperor, Empress, or Princesses there.
There was only a saved father, a forgiven mother—who were not the august rulers of the empire—and two daughters shedding happy tears.
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