Okami Wa Nemuranai

12

The next day, Edda came to visit in the morning, and said, "I can't come for three days from today because I have three days of work."

On this day, all the preparations with the herbs collected, moss and nuts were completed.

Tasting the afternoon tea, Rekan finally uttered a decisive word.

It is a continually troubling word as to when to say it or when to say it.

If I pronounce this word, Sheila and I may not be mentors anymore. On the contrary, they could kill you. But Lekan decided to follow the voice of his heart, even thinking about it, that he should not leave the word in his chest.

Lecan had another option. It is an option to leave this town immediately and pierce silence about Sheila.

But I dare you, Lekan, chose to pronounce the word.

"Sheila."

"What?

"You said you couldn't use Purification."

That's what you said.

"But I didn't say I didn't master Purification."

"So?"

"Can't you use Purification because it destroys you?

Sheila sipped the tea and closed her eyes.

I let it look like I was tasting tea in my mouth for a while, then I opened my mouth.

"When did you realize that?"

"When I first walked through the gates of this town,"

"Huh?"

"I have the ability to detect humans, animals, warcraft and demons on a wide scale"

I was aware of that.

"In its detection, ordinary humans appear thin and red. Magical humans are displayed with a strong red light. Animals are green, and warcraft and demons appear blue. When I tried to enter this town, there was a strong, blue light that I thought was the boss of a deep hierarchy of great labyrinths. It's a light comparable to a dragon species."

"... right. When I was with you, I realized you were weirdly nervous, but that's how it was. I didn't think that kind of detection existed. I think the other world is scary."

"I didn't know why you were pretending to be human or why you lived in a human town. But I listened to the bard's song. It's the story of Elsira the Witch."

"Oh, that one."

"You were originally human. And I'm still trying to live as a human being."

"Even if I were a monster, wouldn't that mean I'm the same person as Elsira, the legendary witch?

"I can't say it well there, but I think it fell to the fu, or oh yeah, and the pieces connected. My instincts convinced me that you were Elsira."

"It's not intuitive."

"There seems to be a way of saying immortal, but you are exactly the demon they call immortal. But it's not like being born a demon who attacks people indiscriminately."

"The ghost demon is originally a human being. I guess I'm no different from that. However, my consciousness and memory as a human being remained strong. That's all wrong."

Then Sheila told the story of Mizu as a bummer.

Sheila's telling facts were roughly the same as the bard song Lecan heard and the flow of events. But the contents were as if they were wrong.

Elsira was the daughter of a regional nobleman. For a moment it came to the attention of the nobility of the King's capital, and the talent and beauty of healing magic were to be appreciated and ascended to the royal palace.

At first Elsira was to be the side chamber of the First Prince. But it came to pass in the eyes of the great king Mahazar, and Elsheila became the king's pet princess.

Elsira was not dissatisfied with her life. It was an unparalleled honor to take care of King Mahazar around himself, and the King gathered together excellent wizards and sorcery books to satisfy Elsheila's desire to learn. Elsheila showed her talent for the magic of all systems, and as masters, she called it a centennial talent.

One time the king commanded that the highest magic researchers should be gathered together. Trying to find a way to leave Elsira's beauty and talent in the world for a long time. To this impossible challenge, the wise men gave the answer in only three years. However, it must have a magic stone of unlikely power, and it must have been with the dead for more than a hundred years.

The king knew exactly what such demonic stones were. In other words, it is the demonic stone of the ancient dragon housed in the tomb of the first king.

Elsira herself objected. Because I understood that the sage's trick was not to make the living permanently as the living, but to take the life of the living and make them immortal, and to take away the change of life.

But by order of the king, the technique was carried out. Elsira became immortal, and her beauty and ability became eternal. The king was deeply satisfied with the matter.

If it stayed this way, maybe there wouldn't have been a problem. Elsira intended to lay herself beside that coffin if the king died. In the baptism of the divine light.

A few years later, the king thought. He wants to be eternal himself.

So he breathed his magic into the demonic stones of the ancient dragon again, and asked the wise men to exercise the same technique on themselves. The wise men disagreed. Although the technique itself is reproducible, last time it succeeded because the surgeon was Elsira full of magic and youth, and he thought that the treatment of the king would not succeed. Furthermore, prior to the treatment with Elsira, Elsira had applied "purification" to herself. The body had thus been lifted to its highest state. However, because Elsira became immortal, [Purification] cannot be used anymore. When Elsira is replaced, she can only use a much lower rank (Purification).

Still, by the king's decree, the technique was carried out. The king gained eternal life, but he became like a broken doll, without memory or knowledge.

Elsira told the Prime Minister the facts and hoped to respond.

The Prime Minister immediately initiated the procedure for ceding the throne to the First Prince. At the same time, he commanded Elsira and made the king do the magic of [dominion]. "Dominance" is at the top of mental magic, and if you give simple orders, you can also base it on complex behavior, even if the practitioner is not near the surgeon. I was persuaded to do such a thing to the great king because he was long gone, but only a few moments later.

But the first prince died at that arrow tip. Even though he is a prince, he is old enough to have a great-grandson, and there is no doubt about his death.

In the kingdom of Wapud, the king is the first-born heir. King Mahazar, who was healthy, also hoped that the first prince would inherit the trace and that his eldest son, Prince Salima, would inherit the trace. The Chancellor initiated proceedings to make Prince Salima the next king by deciding that the throne had been formally ceded to the first prince, the dead, because the ceding to the first prince was the decree of King Mahazal.

But here I was, in an action that Prince Salima never expected.

He proclaimed three years of mourning, and withdrew.

In the kingdom of Wapud, the eldest son who wants to inherit if his parents die is put to mourning. But it is only a matter of form, and even those of high stature only do so to the extent that they refrain from strife or ministerial punishment for a certain period of time. But Prince Salima mourned strictly according to the ancient ritual. Moreover, three years is the period of mourning to be performed by the eldest son when the king dies. This is more disrespectful than King Mahazal is dead, but he was put on hold without question.

Competent practitioners, culminating in the Chancellor, took the form of kings' pro-government in government (that is, in each case). Elsheila was to maintain the technique of "domination" for three years.

Eventually the mourning dawned and Prince Salima begged King Mahazar to look at him. Elsira was not allowed to be present. Prince Salima hated Elsheila, who had been established as the side chamber of his father, the First Prince, but who caged King Mahazar to fit in his pet when it was easy.

There was a tragedy in the sight.

What Elsira saw when she perceived the anomaly and rushed, were the chancellors and escorts sinking into the sea of blood and the entourage of Prince Salima, exactly what Prince Salima was about to kill King Mahazar.

Elsira relieved Prince Salima of his stiffness and saved the king. But the Chancellor was completely dead, and could not save him.

Prince Salima was interrogated and the truth was revealed. Prince Salima hated King Mahazar. Because the old King Mahazal clings to the throne forever, naturally his own father, who should be king, could not finally take the throne. Prince Salima decided to assassinate the king in revenge for his beloved father.

Elsira was on her way. There is no longer a prime minister who gives proper instructions. But you must let the king give you some kind of life.

Elsira gave her life.

Prince Salima's assault is unquestioned and, as soon as he is ready, his life is to cede the throne to Prince Salima.

Later, I realized that Elsira should have given Prince Saleema severe punishment. By doing so, those admiring the Chancellor should have also been able to forgive Prince Saleema.

But Prince Salima was forgiven without any atonement. Therefore all who were under the command of the Chancellor hated Prince Saleema. Even those who were the prime minister's political enemies and generals who had repeatedly clashed with the prime minister turned evil feelings towards Prince Saleema.

From then on, everything got screwed up.

There is no more one who remembers the details of what happened then.

When he realized, Prince Salima was leading the army against the king's capital.

At this time, up to four of the six grandchildren of the king became the guardians of the royal palace. The only thing that creaked Prince Saleema was his real brother.

Prince Saleema was a minority force and could easily be crushed. But it didn't. Because Elsira took Prince Salima's side. All the lives of the king were such as to favour Prince Salima and his unity, and the civil war prolonged when it was sloppy.

Later, we should have captured Prince Saleema and shut him down and set up the other king grandchildren for the next king. But Elsheila at the time could not make such a decision, and just stupidly obeyed King Mahazar's former will.

There were disputes everywhere in the country.

The kingdom that seemed peaceful would also have a spark of strife everywhere beneath its surface.

Eventually Prince Salima finally took control of the royal palace.

Elsira secretly escaped. To take things from afar, to cause the king to die in the right place, and to die himself. If you die first, people will see you as a king turned into an unbroken doll. That must never be all.

King Mahazaar was burned to death by Prince Salima.

But shortly afterwards, and again, Prince Salima went into unexpected behavior.

He killed himself.

Less surprised and disappointed, Elsira also forgot to die and just wandered through the fluttering, secluded mountains.

And a long time has passed.