Episode 48. change

‘A lot has changed.’

After thinking about the first word of the letter for a long time, Pi wrote a short text.

Warm sunlight shone over the collapsed ceiling of the cathedral, and fallen petals piled up on the broken windows.

The wind that blew, still carried a refreshing scent that was a little complicated for Pierre to properly express.

Spring has arrived in full swing at the cathedral.

Pierre put down the pen for a while and imagined the saintess enjoying the atmosphere of the new semester.

The image of her walking around a bright yellow and red school with her peers under the name of Karin Furand made Pierre smile.

It was not easy for Pierre, who spent most of her childhood in the cathedral, to recall the atmosphere of the school, but she was able to clearly draw the image of the saintess, who must be shining beautifully under the sunlight.

“If I had known it would be like this, I would have gone on a picnic together… .”

For the first time in his life, Pierre was feeling the season.

Like the beauty of spring… . Feelings that, just a few days ago, seemed to have nothing to do with her, were new every day.

“Someday together… .”

Leaving behind the regret of the memories that had not been accumulated for eight years, Pie continued to write letters, promising the next April to be spent with the saintess.

‘I, Tizan, and Dar went to Professor Ian and apologized.’

Contrary to rumors that he was cold-blooded, Professor Ian forgave the Saintstica Knights, who had accused him of being the devil, on the spot.

The short war ended peacefully.

‘Everyone is working on the restoration of the cathedral. It’s a bit bittersweet, but the children seem to enjoy playing in the ruined cathedral. It’s still awkward for me to hear the laughter of children here, but I think this is also the change the saintess said.’

After confirming that there was a trustworthy person in charge like Professor Ian at the school, the anxiety of Pierre and the other believers who had sent the saintess away faded a lot.

Priests and Paladins were repairing the collapsed cathedral, and children jumped over the holes and the collapsed stone statues to play.

“kidneys!”

“Aww!”

“Left liver!”

‘… What?’

Through the window looking down, I could see children playing mysterious games.

‘Kids these days… .’

Pierre picked up the pen again.

‘Just as the saintess moves toward the future, we will also strive to change.’

The church and the vagabond continued to uphold the solemnity abandoned by the times.

Even for the saintess who gave hope to this place full of tragedies, we must not block the winds of change she brought.

Since the saintess has embraced and raised us who were abandoned, now is the time for us to embrace our abandoned children and raise them properly.

‘I hope that you will put aside your worries about the cathedral for a while and come back with lots of classmates and various memories.’

In the white tower that Pierre protected, there was a window to look out on the world, and a space where many people could come. Of course, the bars are also gone.

Arranging the books the saintess liked, Fiere waited for the upcoming summer vacation.

‘Summer vacation, if you’re not busy. Please visit the cathedral once. There are many things I want to show you.’

I hope you will be happy when you see the changed Saengstica.

Blood wrote that hope differently on the letterhead.

‘From now on, the Stica Knights will fight for those who have been outcast and abandoned. Even if everyone in the world is silent-‘

“brother! What’s the kidney wizard’s name? I want to meet you too!”

“I don’t even know the name… . Was it Sepia-sama?”

Spring, the season of life and beginnings.

The spring of Saint Stica Cathedral came a little late, but it was in the middle of blooming valuable flowers enough to endure a long winter.

* * *

‘It’s different, are you leaving?’

‘Thank you so far.’

‘… It’s not your fault. We used your eyes to justify our evil deeds.’

‘In the first place, I was the one who drove an innocent person into a demon.’

A starless night.

Dar took a step into the pitch darkness towards his hometown, Snow Mountain Sharp.

He couldn’t see, but with his fox ears pricked up, he moved forward slowly, relying on his senses.

‘I… . Are you shaking?’

The goddess responded to the saintess’s heart, which she thought was shaking.

Professor Ian, who was fearfully dark-hearted, was not a villain.

The trust I had believed in so far was shattered.

What is the wisdom accumulated through repeated meditation and insight?

What the hell is a sage who gives lessons to humans?

It was all arrogance and self-righteousness.

The fact that all the sermons he had been talking about must have sounded like the nonsense of a frog in a well who doesn’t know anything to humans, so he couldn’t stop his self-loathing.

Sharpe’s eyes certainly don’t lie.

However, even if you look back at your own attitude of trying to judge everything only with the results you can see. It was disgusting enough to make me dizzy.

‘Don’t trust your eyes too much. Because faith comes from the heart, not the eyes.’

‘Prayer is to close your eyes, Knight Sharp.’

Thanks to the help of the girl who used magic by burning her soul, Dar was able to recall a lesson she had forgotten while descending the snowy mountain.

‘You’re praying today as well.’

‘Yes, Master.’

‘Darya, do you know why everyone closes their eyes during prayer?’

‘that’s… . I haven’t thought about it yet.’

‘It is to block all senses and serve the goddess with only the heart.’

Sharp’s eyes don’t lie, but that’s just one side of the world.

Putting this behind me, I had forgotten that it was also important to look at the world from a different perspective.

Dar’s tears of repentance were recognized and whispered in his ear.

“Brother, why are you crying so sadly?”

“Mir… . I am sorry for you.”

“Yeah?”

“I must climb the snowy mountain again.”

Dar’s younger sister, Mir, will be an adult this year and will soon go on a pilgrimage like Dar.

I know that Mir has been looking forward to the day when he can go on a pilgrimage with Dar, but Dar has no qualifications to continue the pilgrimage.

It was right for the humans and for himself to end his journey like this.

Through the dark forest, Dar confessed to his sister everything he had done.

As red tears flowed from his remorseful eyes, Mir’s voice began to tremble.

“Ha, but my brother just said that black is black-”

“Mir, you should never have such thoughts. Facts and truth are different. Behind the facts you looked at, you must not turn a blind eye to the truth that will exist.”

“… ?”

At that time, Dar tripped on a tree and fell down, and the voice of Mir, who could see Dar’s face nearby, started to cry little by little.

“Oh, brother, no way… .”

“Myrrh… .”

His eyes, which should have been as beautiful as the evening sky, were covered with red bandages.

The bandage, which should have been white originally, was completely dyed red.

Mir eventually burst into tears. Although he is a Sharpe who values calm emotions above all else, he couldn’t calm his mind at the thought that his suffering had taken away both of his eyes.

“me too… . I will go back to the mountains too! A lower world without a brother-”

“Mir, it only makes me suffer more. You will go on your own journey.”

“but… .”

“Instead, take one piece of advice from your failed brother.”

Dar, who could no longer see the light, smiled as he remembered the brightest light he had last seen.

“When the Sharps descend, they all head to the cathedral… . You, go to school.”

“Yeah… ?”

“Kiruna. You will definitely learn a lot there.”

It’s just a little regretful that we won’t be able to see Mir’s white tail again.

I was able to keep the last glimpse of the saint and goddess in my eyes for the rest of my life.

Darn did not grieve at all for the loss of perspective.

* * *

“Because I gave Karin wings once. The rankings will go up a lot. The atmosphere in the churches is not what it used to be… . Wouldn’t the emperor like it when he sees the changed Saint-Stica Cathedral?”

“Are you patronizing me? You originally helped Karin. Because you helped Yuri while fighting Pie-”

“Where in the world is the original?”

“The original is original… !”

“The original doesn’t even have a shape left?”

“I know… ?”

I decided to expand my position in Kiruna even if I twisted the original, so there was no dissatisfaction with the changed surroundings.

Anyway, Karin looks happy, and the school is slowly returning to normal.

but… .

“The main character… . It’s becoming air… !”

There was a minor problem with the white-haired little boy next to Karin not growing at all.

“I’m just going to ask student Mina to do everything?”

“I told you before. You can’t do it because of the lead role!?”

“In the end, Yuri probably won’t be looking for all the leading roles.”

“… That’s not it though. And even if it’s worse than the original, the main character is the main character. I can’t let that talent rot.”

Yuri in the novel always faced extreme situations, but overcame them and achieved growth.

But now there are no saengstika priests to grow Yuri, and no blood to rush to kill her.

If you spend your time like this… . Yuri will become a completely different person from the original.

“I’m going to use my nickname on Yuri for now. Maybe that’s not enough, but then I have no choice but to roll for death… .”

“That’s fine. I don’t know if that will work for you, sir.”

“Why are you anxious again?”

“Always go well, but at least once. You’re blocked. Now, like Carol.”

“… ha.”

He said he was a genius of magic calculations, but in fact, considering Carol’s weight in the original work, the title of third place in the Ministry of Magic was also a waste.

Now that the content of the novel has changed, the proportion was expected to be reduced further, because the battle scene with the warlock Sepia, which was showing an active performance, disappeared altogether.

Although there was still room for her to play an active part in an all-out war against Greyvine, it was a situation where Mina was sure to overwhelm him. That much power could have been filled by other personnel.

So I was thinking of letting him go.

As soon as Carol in the original work finds out about her father’s research results, she immediately leaves school to help her father with his research.

I was very impressed with the way he ran to his father, resisting the dissuades of the department and family that had been suppressing him… .

“Hey, why don’t you cancel your classes?”

I reconciled with my father a little earlier than in the original work, so I tried to get him out of school as soon as possible.

Whatever he was thinking, Carol still remained in Kiruna.

* * *

‘Carl? Even Carol can’t be like this. You’re not trying to say that you were persuaded by Professor Ian magically, right?’

‘you’re right. Professor Hadley. I want to continue taking his lessons.’

As soon as Professor Ian’s class ended, Carol obtained her father’s paper on circle rotation theory and read it over and over again.

My father, who thought he was living a life full of wrong answers, made an achievement that would forever leave his name as a wizard.

“This is a real genius… .”

Carol set the thesis down on the desk with trembling hands.

For the sake of her mother who was left alone, so that she would not cry, Carol had lived her life according to the answers given by her.

When he did what his mother told him to do, everyone called him a genius. When he looked around, thinking it was strange, there were many children around him who couldn’t even do what he was told.

There were many cases in which he was stubborn or stubborn with short thoughts, and showed a look he couldn’t see.

yes… . like a father

Compared to those people, I thought I might be a genius.

To be exact, that was the case until I took Professor Ian’s class the other day.

‘Is the magic formula you learn really academic?’

No, what I had been holding on to as a magic formula was actually just a simple calculation.

With Ian’s class as an opportunity, Carol began to look at herself objectively.

At least one calculation speed was fast, but there was no ability to create a new magic formula, and it was possible to build high-ranking magic in succession, but the mana sensitivity was not high.

Carol didn’t know if she understood her father’s thesis correctly.

Attitude toward learning, interest in various studies, depth of knowledge, and even understanding. He lacked everything.

There were many things I wanted to ask my father about right away, but in order to visit my father with dignity.

I wanted to make a proof that I could walk the same road together.

And, above all… .

‘Again, magic is self-expression. Whether it’s magic or free magic, walk the path that best expresses yourself.’

Will I really be able to substitute myself into the magic formula, and if so, what form will it take?

Carol was very curious about the changes and results she would experience in the Department of Magical Linguistics with Professor Ian.

“hello? uh, mom?”

“Karl! I just got over the phone from my professor in charge. Why don’t you listen to the professor and try to learn strange things from a strange instructor!? Do you know how much Professor Hadley loves you? If you listen carefully, you will get a job-”

“Now I, too, will do my research.”

“Do you say that even when you see your father!? Carol! don’t you answer? I need to go find that Ian or something!?”

Carol suppressed the headache and disconnected the magic engineering phone.

“… .”

It was only after I exploded the phone with the more efficient explosion magic that reflected the rotation theory that I felt relieved.

“When is the next class… .”

Carol’s eyes, which always looked sleepy, caught the sparks on the phone and began to shine.