Chapter 258

[Side Story] Wind Flower (8)

It has been more than ten days since Katen Palover did not return to Toren Village.

After learning that Fcrorox’s curse had a contagious nature that reacted to magical power, Katin never tried to return to the village.

Numerous villagers searched the forest and wandered the mountain ridges to find the girl who suddenly went missing... but Katin did not come forward.

In fact, there are very few people in Toren Village who know how to use magic properly. Considering that its ability increases in proportion to the amount of magical energy, it will not cause much damage no matter how many times it returns to the village.

The city that Flucurox’s curse Beomjin destroyed was a magic city in the West.

A rural village like this won’t suffer such devastating damage, but there’s no guarantee that someone with a talent for magic will show up again. In the first place, it is nearly impossible to accurately tell who has magical power and who does not.

Katin’s presence will take the lives of those who manipulate magic. It may already be too late, but we must reduce the possibility even now.

After realizing that fact, Katin wandered around the forest and changed his residence. With Tyr’kalax.

“...” I

wonder if the people of Yenikana village are also seeing this scene.

If so, it doesn’t feel very good. Because... Keitin’s appearance, little by little, being covered by the curse of Pkurox, was very similar to the appearance of Yenika, who was dominated by Glaskan’s curse.

The state of Yenika when she confronted Taily and the others at the nail salon. When I think about that time, it was a sight I couldn’t help but laugh at.

Due to the curse, Katin’s condition became more serious day by day.

He lost his eyesight in one side, felt nauseous from time to time, suffered from high fever, and sometimes lost consciousness. Now it was not Tyrkalax who was lying in the hospital bed, completely unable to control his own body, but Katin.

Tyrkalax’s condition actually improved.

His magic power was coming back little by little, and he was now able to generate more power than ordinary humans.

While managing the cabin where Katin was recuperating, she was preparing to completely escape from the curse of Plucurox.

But the sight of Katin dying was eating away at his heart. It had to be that way.

Flucurox’s curse is spread by magic power, and its power grows stronger in response to magic power. I wasn’t sure, but looking at the symptoms, it was almost safe to say that was the case.

If so, it was all because of Tyr’kalax that Katen suffered from a curse and eventually died.

The reason Katin came into contact with the curse of Pkurox was because she used her power to save Tyr’Kalax.

And the reason why the power of the engraved curse became stronger was because he took care of the highest-ranking spirit, interacted with it, and grew as a spiritist.

If I hadn’t found Tyrkalax while walking through the forest that day in the first place, or even if I had found him, if I had run away in fear or left him alone... I wouldn’t have had to experience the pain of death like this.

The short human life of less than 100 years. The person who ruined Katin’s life was Tyrkalax himself.

Little by little, Tyr’kallax regained his strength and nursed Caitin as best as he could... but no matter what he did, he could not lift the curse of P’kurox.

The curse that the high-ranking dark spirit Flecrox engraved in exchange for his life was closer to a ‘phenomenon’ than magic.

It is a law engraved on the order that any living being living on providence must follow. With the magic power of a high-ranking spirit, it might be possible to resist on its own over a sufficient period of time, but it is impossible with the magic power latent in a mere human being.

Still, Tyrkalax tried his best to do something. They analyzed and studied the flow of magic power, dug up all of Pkurox’s corpses, and even conducted all kinds of experiments.

Nevertheless, the curse imprint on Katin’s body could not be removed. In the end, Katin had to overcome it with her own magic.

Of course, there was no way that Katin could have that level of magical power. Keitin is a person born with ordinary talent as a spiritist. The reason he was able to communicate with even the middle-ranking spirits was because he was influenced by Tyrkalax, the highest-ranking spirit.

– ‘Don’t make that face. Tyr’kalax.’

This was something Katen had a habit of saying while lying in her hospital bed.

She always comforted Tyr’kalax first, even though he developed a habit of biting his lower lip every time he looked down at Katin.

– ‘I told you. Compared to spirits, human life is fleeting and short. Just because it’s pulled a little doesn’t mean it’s a big problem.’

– ‘That’s not the way to talk...Katin.’

– ‘are you okay. Even if I die, Tyr’kalax will remember me. If you think about it that way, even if it were a few decades earlier, something that would be remembered for that long would be much more valuable to me...’

That can’t be his true intention. Katin is simply comforting Tyr’kalax.

Tyr’kalax knew this well, so he repeatedly searched for a way to remove the curse.

The conclusion I came to after thinking about it for so long was not an ordinary one.

– ‘Katin... You... become a greater elementalist...’

If you can’t resist the curse with your own magic, but can resist the curse with Tyr’kalax’s magic...

Then, Tyr’kalax. A relationship in which magical power can be exchanged and received. In other words, it has to be a contractual relationship.

However, is there any spiritist in the world who can make a contract with the highest-ranking spirit?

Even if he is summoned once in a while, he is considered a historical feat... If he wants to even create a contract, he must become a spiritist so great that it has never been seen before in history.

He knew that at this point, he was the only one who could ease Tyr’kalax’s pain.

– ‘Leave the memory of this loss in your body and return to the physical spirit as a spirit belonging to nature.’

Looking up at the image of a huge bear with tears streaming down her face, the girl raised her staff straight up.

– ‘The hierarchy of the spirit world ultimately goes around and around. As of today, the position of highest ranking wind spirit will be vacant.’

Amid the swirling storm of Aspect magic, Tyr’kalax held heartbreaking pain in his arms. It was the pain of loss.

Tyrkalax shed tears endlessly until the moment he was returned to nature by the hand of the great sage.

At the edge of my vision, a single pansy flower was blowing mournfully along the wind.

Katin called it Wind Flower.

* * *

When I opened my eyes, the sun was setting.

The sight of a red sunset coloring the square of Toren Village as red as its own body.

It was difficult to adjust to the sudden return to a peaceful and idyllic landscape after seeing the Pulan mountain range being devastated just a moment ago.

However, as if my somewhat confused feelings were somehow gone, the sky of Toren Village was still high and blue.

“Ugh...”

“You’re awake.”

I think I fell asleep, leaning on an old, small bench in Toren Village Square.

Chief Glems, who was guarding next to me, saw me come to my senses and greeted me.

“Ugh... what time is it now?”

“It’s pretty late. “A long time had passed since the magical engineering equipment was put into operation, and most of the villagers left to make a living.”

“I see... I haven’t even been able to say thank you properly yet...”

“It’s okay. Everyone was happy to hear that they were helpful to Master Ed.”

My left shoulder feels heavy. When I wondered what was going on, I found Yenika sleeping, leaning against my left shoulder.

Since it is a device that operates on magical power, it seems that only I and Yenika, who can properly receive magical energy, were able to get a glimpse of its past.

Chief Glems, who was sitting across from me, asked in a polite tone.

“How did you achieve some academic results?”

“...Yes, quite a lot.”

The fact that Pkurox and Sylvania were involved in the end of Tyrkalax has not been reported even within academic circles.

It seems that the descriptions of many books on elemental science will change considerably.

Is it because I used too much Aspect magic power? A pounding headache came over me and I pressed my temples.

I narrowed my brows and let the pain go for a moment, and eventually Jenica’s hand that was wrapping around my arm tightened.

Then Yenika also opened her eyes.

“Ugh...”

Yenika moaned for a moment and then barely opened her eyes to make eye contact with me.

He looked up at me while holding my arm tightly... and soon tears began to leak out of the corners of his eyes.

“Wow...”

What did that scene look like to Yenika?

You probably knew that it was a story with a bitter aftertaste, but seeing it for yourself would feel completely different. Especially since she is a girl with a soft heart and a good ability to empathize with everything.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...” He

lowered his head and looked at Yenika, who was shedding tears, and then quietly hugged her.

Although he was embarrassed by the sudden situation, Chief Glems sat quietly and waited for us without saying anything.

It may have been an especially heartbreaking story for Jenica. I was already feeling it to some extent.

A pansy flower just swaying quietly in the ground, looking at the wind blowing through it.

Yenika felt a sense of kinship

with that delicate single flower, which dies as soon as it lifts up its roots, admiring the free-flowing wind .

While adding to my love for a man named Ed Ross-Taylor.