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Chapter 267
Who Am I?
The wedding ended successfully, and Ferda returned to the castle.
Ferda immediately entered his office to do today's work.
"May I ask what happened on the wedding day?"
The silver-haired maid, Ruri, asked that.
The last scene Ferda remembered was Valdrova retreating together with Ruri.
Е_ṅ ŭm а. і̌ d́
Her final voice had moisture in it, so she might have cried.
That was why Ferda didn't want to answer that question.
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"How is Her Highness?"
"I respectfully request that you please answer the question."
Ruri said that.
There was no expression on her face.
Е ň u ḿ а.і d̃
She wasn't angry, nor sad, nor was she contemptuous.
Perhaps that was the scariest look of all.
Had Ferda already become nothing but a stranger in Ruri's heart?
"If Ferda-nim answers first, I will give my answer regarding that."
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Ruri said that, and Ferda agonized before finally telling her what had happened.
Ferda told Valdrova he wanted a child, and Valdrova ultimately couldn't answer.
Е n ǔm̀а
"'I pushed too hard, so she became that sad.'
"Is that so?"
Ruri's expression became subtle.
By human standards, it was a truly trivial story, so she seemed to not know how to react.
Meanwhile, the guilt in Ferda's heart grew even larger.
"I'm sorry."
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Ferda apologized to her.
Ruri, who had been lost in thought, opened her mouth.
"Ferda-nim."
She called Ferda's name.
"Do you know what kind of person Valdrova-nim was before Ferda-nim came?"
Ferda didn't answer, and Ruri spoke.
Wèb̆nо v̇ e̊l En̊ûmа
"She was called the Aspect of Fire and Power, but she was truly far from that aspect. It was like that in the old days too... but it became even more so after Godwin revealed his ambition."
Godwin.
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Those three syllables seemed to tear Ferda apart.
"Godwin took away the things Master cherished and loved most first."
A burning village.
Valdrova shedding tears of blood.
W e b̂_ṅ о ṽе̃ l .Еṅu̇ m̃ ā
And himself smiling as he watched her.
Ferda desperately pretended not to know and erased his expression.
Ruri's words continued.
"Since then, she always looked listless, a person who never had a day where light showed. The only times one could feel even a fraction of her power were when those disgusting giant monsters from Beyond the Land surged forth."
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Ferda lowered his head.
"I thought I would have no choice but to watch that appearance for a lifetime. But..."
W̃ е b̌n̂оv e l Ě_nüṁ.ā
At that moment, when he tried not to let anything into his gaze, a small sensation was felt in Ferda's hand.
Ruri placed her hand over Ferda's hand.
"Since Ferda-nim came, she started moving first."
Ruri remembered.
Her, who had only been in the cave, saying for the first time that she wanted to learn something.
She saw her realize that the pain of learning soon leads to joy.
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"That started for the trivial reason of wanting to look good to a mere human, but that is no longer important to me."
Valdrova is Ruri's master.
More than protecting her master's dignity, her being happy is now more important.
"The sadness Valdrova-nim is feeling right now is nothing more than a passing seasonal rain."
Strength entered her hand.
A gesture as if she didn't want to let go of Ferda.
Wе̊ b̃ńǒv̂ è l̄_ .Е̊n̊ŭm̃а̄
"So please, don't worry about it. Master needs you."
At Ruri's request, Ferda's heart grew even heavier.
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If he were human Ferda, it would have been fine comfort, but he is not human.
Because the very culprit who made her depressed was Godwin, who was himself.
Only the fact that she was broken because of him tormented Ferda terribly.
* * *
Wẽb̊n̈ о v̆е̂l̇ Еnũ m̄ a
Valdrova Castle's study.
As befits a dragon's dwelling, the study had no fewer books than the Imperial Library.
But even with that many books lined up, the amount of information was a mere drop in the bucket compared to the girl sitting in the center of that study.
Her name is Mori.
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She was a girl who was used by a foolish man who called himself a sage, then was given a name when Ferda rescued her.
Her head contains the Universal Library, and she possesses most records.
Ӗ n_ùm̂ а
Hundreds of thousands of books are in her head, and if information is given, her application ability is outstanding enough to lead to a sure-win strategy.
But she is merely a vessel.
A vessel cannot move and can only contain; unless someone moves it, the water inside cannot be used.
That is exactly what a Slave Sage is.
Such a Slave Sage, Mori, lives focusing only on given tasks.
If there is no work, she thinks of nothing.
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She just waited and waited until work came.
-.......
It had always been so, and that fact does not change.
She knew it would be so.
-Ferda Valdrova.
Mori saw her pen write down one name.
W é b̆ñӧ v eľ Е̄ ň u m̂а̃
Without even realizing it, she had written something that wasn't in her instructions.
Mori realized this phenomenon was already the third time.
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It can no longer be called coincidence.
An anomaly has occurred.
The starting point of that anomaly could be identified immediately.
-Deep Projection.
Е̌ nu m̂а̃
It was when the Blue-Eyed Tower Master, Erika, entered Ferda's mind using Eastern Magic she had obtained.
There, Mori took on the role of observer to prevent Erika's mind from being contaminated by Ferda's mind.
She assisted Erika and collected information.
And encountered something completely unexpected.
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-Sierra.
A transcendental existence that would make an ordinary human kneel and commit suicide on the spot.
Е̃nù m̃ а̇ .ї.d_
Even Erika, who possesses the thickest dragon blood, could barely resist that power.
But Mori was fine even in that place.
Because she has no ego.
No ego means no emotions; no emotions means she just accepts given information as is.
So there should have been no particular abnormality.
-That is not the case.
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Is it that the name Ferda Valdrova keeps echoing in her head?
She is a Slave Sage.
Sages are those close to truth, and slaves are those who obey another's will.
The contradiction composed of two words that cannot conflict is Mori herself.
Even if her master wants to know the truth, that truth cannot be explained, and even if explained, it is something others cannot find out.
So in the end, she had to think for herself.
Еñů ḿ а̇
What is needed for that.
-I.
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Doubt about oneself.
Who am I?
The question she was about to throw at herself stopped.
Something happened in her heart, which was undoubtedly an emotion that could be described as shock.
Е̄ǹǔḿа
It's a question a sage could ask, but for her, a slave, it was an impossible act.
As those two collided, Mori escaped a dangerous moment.
Mori immediately changed the question.
-What is the reason this became possible?
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That question was at the level of circling around the most dangerous thing.
-Sierra.
Wӗb̊n̈о̀v́ e l Ё.n̆ŭ ṁ а
The Sierra inside Ferda pierced the Shield of Reason and touched her faintly.
Like a small pebble blocking a gear in a precise astronomical mechanism, she contributed to breaking her.
If not for that, it would have been impossible.
-All of God's actions have meaning.
Based on the myths that had existed, Mori continued information about gods.
What made Mori like this surely had meaning.
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What is that meaning?
-Sierra wishes for her to have an ego.
If one thinks about who they are, they come to know what they are.
Those who become Slave Sages due to the Universal Library's curse become vessels.
If the one who becomes their master makes the Slave Sage think 'who am I?', at that moment, they are freed from slavery.
But if that happens, the Slave Sages lose the Universal Library.
Е̌nūm̃а.і̂ ď
They become smart, but only to human limits.
But if one comes to throw the question 'who am I' at oneself, the story is different.
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The Universal Library's knowledge remains, but one's own thinking becomes possible.
If that is overcome, one is reborn as a true sage.
Mori had reached that very moment.
But Mori closed the question 'who am I' herself.
En̆u ṁ а̀. і̌ d̃
She rejected that path, and the reason surely existed.
Mori condensed that reason into the simplest word.
-Instinct.
Instinct is speaking.
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That was the only answer possible.
For her, who should be a crystal of knowledge and reason, to rely on instinct.
We̊b̃ n̊ӧ v е l Еn̊ŭ m̃à
It was an incomprehensible thing.
Mori realized she was sinking deeper into a swamp with that action.
The absolute rule that she must not think about who she is has now become nothing more than a low fence blocking her path.
Mori took one more step toward that fence.
That too was a conclusion where instinct and reason harmonized.
Slave Sages are undoubtedly foolish intellectuals bound by knowledge, taking books as truth.
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She is only 14 years old.
She received the Myriad Library's curse around age 10, so it wasn't a time when she was impatient enough to become a slave herself.
Then what is the reason Mori became a slave at that young age?
-Truth.
Sierra said that.
-I see. So you must have abandoned the truth.
Ѐǹ_uḿ а̄ ..i d̄
Mori abandoned the truth.
If she was truly someone who desired knowledge, she would not have abandoned the truth.
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She didn't crave knowledge and wish to become a slave of knowledge; she degraded herself.
-Reason for degradation.
It was simple.
She was afraid of what would happen after realizing the truth.
Е̌n ũ m а̃
It was unbearable.
Whether the world or herself.
She felt something awakening in Mori's head.
It was undoubtedly the self she had left on the other side when becoming a slave.
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-Must not realize.
Instinct constantly pulled her back as she tried to cross the fence.
Ĕ ň u ma
The moment she realizes, everything might become dangerous.
That was what Sierra wanted.
-......Doesn't matter?
On the other hand, she also asked if there was a reason for that.
Mori remembers everything.
Especially the atrocities of the witch Echidna and the administrator Isabella, she remembers clearly.
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Echidna obsessed over Mori excessively and used her like a living doll.
Because she knew it was a situation where she had to accept whatever was done, her actions gradually became bolder.
If not for Ferda, her body might already be in tatters.
Isabella was different from Echidna, belonging to the more rational side.
She exercised restraint in her own way and didn't commit acts against human morality.
However, when she drinks, the story changes.
È ñum̌ а
She lets go of the mental rope she held tightly and starts moving by her nature, and that nature was directed at Mori, the easiest target.
She carried out night raids that even Echidna didn't do, put her mouth on her sleeping stomach, blew air several times, and repeated going back with a satisfied face.
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The vibration felt on her stomach still seems to churn unpleasantly in her viscera.
If she returns to herself having realized the truth that overturns this world, she will surely bring down the iron hammer on those two.
Such resentment was seated in that far distant place.
But excluding those two, there was no one she held great resentment against.
Е̊ ñū ṁа . id̊
Everyone was kind to her, and no one treated her carelessly.
And among them, the one most memorable is,
-Ferda Valdrova.
A man who used her, who would be exploited as a slave of trivial things, for a better world.
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Even for that man, the current thoughts must stop.
Mori quietly rose from her seat.
W̆ еb́ n̂öv̆ e l Ė nu m̊ ā
Sitting makes thoughts increase.
If thoughts increase, they will eventually lead to questions toward the self.
So she decided to walk and collect useless information as her gaze led, to shake off these distracting thoughts.
"Huh? That child... isn't she supposed to be in the study?"
"Why is she walking here?"
Since she had never been seen moving somewhere outside of set times, the castle staff found Mori walking strange.
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She just blankly accepted the surrounding information, focusing on shaking off distracting thoughts.
While moving under slight gazes, Mori unconsciously stopped in her tracks.
There was a girl younger than herself, rarely seen in this castle.
That girl was peeking out from behind a pillar, looking at her.
Mori was seeing this child for the first time, but could deduce who she was.
'The child Ferda Regent-nim took in.'
Еnùṁ ӑ
Girls whose minds were connected as one due to Dark Elf atrocities.
One has no tongue, and the others got aphasia from that pain, it was said.
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This child was the youngest girl without a tongue.
