In the world of Maripja, the library of all things stored, the Akashic Records create the brain, spinal cord, heart, and spine.
Human beings are simpler than one might think.
It is said that a mass composed of 35 liters of water, 20 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia, and 1.5 kilograms of lime could be purchased with the pocket money of an elementary school student.
But at the same time, humans are complicated beings.
The human body contains at least 30 trillion gigabytes of information.
This is comparable to the total amount of data produced by humanity before the advent of AlphaGo.
How can such a frail, insignificant life, created in ten months as a result of a man’s and woman’s love, hold more significance than the 5,000-year history of humanity?
One might throw out scientific and philosophical questions.
“I still can’t get used to this magic.”
Through the transparent membrane, the grotesque process of the body being created is clearly visible.
I slightly twisted the magic circle and focused red magical energy onto the round head.
Eyes, ears, and mouth slowly start to differentiate.
Limbs separate, and thin, delicate fingers emerge.
The skin gradually thickens, erasing the visible red glow of the veins.
Eyelashes grow longer, and over 100,000 golden strands of hair sprout as the chest and pelvis expand.
Suddenly, a strong sense of déjà vu hits me.
The body, curled up like a fetus, spins slowly inside the dodecahedron-shaped magic circle.
“…!”
Seeing the pale face of the woman makes my heart skip a beat.
“Indeed, there was a past life…”
Yes, if the past life were fake, this magic wouldn’t have been cast.
[Unique Magic – Savior of the East]
Finally, the body of the Demon Lord, who bore the hatred of the world, became a mummy and descended to the present world.
Seeing the body facing my previous life in this manner makes me feel odd.
It is certainly beautiful.
[Hmm, that perfect body, why not keep it all to yourself? Isn’t it about time to get tired of the child cosplay?]
Suddenly, jealousy surged inside me.
**Thud!**
I filled my fist with aura and struck my right cheek hard.
I hit it so hard that my cheek felt hot, and I could barely feel anything.
[You crazy girl, say it with words!]
As my mind cleared, the hallucination of Shardenfroide disappeared.
There was no time to dwell.
That body is still a being made of magic.
It will return to nature within three minutes from the point of unsealing the magic circle.
I have to finish all the tasks of substituting the Maripja as a small particle and stabilizing the aura heart.
I brought the wand again and replaced the magical stone with a new one.
Setting the output scale to maximum, the end of the wand split open like the mouth of a monster.
With all my strength, like waving a giant brush, I pierced the magical resistance and moved the wand to draw the magic circle.
It is time to bring Adella into reality.
[7th Circle High Cast: Persona Physis]
* * *
Adella anxiously waited in the private room bedroom.
‘It has to be successful, right? What if something goes wrong in the middle… Should I prepare a will?’
Annoyed by a crooked frame, Adella straightened it on the wall.
The ticking of the second hand had never felt so painfully acute.
In the slowed-down time, she stood dazed in front of the clock for a long time.
“Adella! Adella!”
A panicked voice calling for Adella echoed in the room.
Immediately alert, Adella quickly turned her head.
NaeMe, with one cheek puffed up, grabbed her sleeve.
“What’s up, Sister? When did you get here? No, wait, how did you…?”
Adella was in a virtual reality.
In other words, for NaeMe to meet her, she had to connect to a capsule or take a pill and wear VR goggles.
There shouldn’t have been enough time for that!
“This isn’t virtual reality. To be precise, it’s more like a middle ground. Look at your hand, Adella.”
Adella’s gaze fell downwards.
Her body was slowly becoming transparent.
“Whaaaat! What’s happening to my body? Why is this happening?”
“Your mental form, which was spread out like clouds in virtual reality, is now transitioning to the aura heart. I’m going to tell you what you need to do from now on. I don’t have time to explain twice, so listen carefully.”
“Is it important? You could have told me earlier…!”
“Even if I told you, you’d forget anyway. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
Could something serious be happening? Adella admonished her in anxiety.
NaeMe casually continued.
“From now on, think very strongly about what kind of person you are. Only then will the information gather faster.”
“Strongly? How strongly? I don’t understand what you’re saying at all!”
NaeMe let out a small sigh and took her hands.
“Then, it’s okay to be wrong, just don’t think too deeply and answer right away. What’s your name?”
“My name…? Adella. My ID says Asaneko Adella!”
“Height and weight.”
“164 cm and 49 kg… Wait, what is this about?”
“Think about three sizes, hair, eye color—anything, just keep it in mind.”
“I haven’t measured, so how would I know my three sizes! My chest is roughly around C, but not quite D? Silver hair and turquoise eyes…”
Adella replied rapidly, forgetting even to breathe, feeling frustrated.
Shouldn’t they at least tell her why she was doing this?
“What else is there besides body info? Three things you like.”
“Things I like? Uh… um…”
“Quick, there’s no time!”
“Salmon, electric blanket… and ugh, I don’t know, does NaeMe count?”
NaeMe’s gaze narrowed at Adella’s haphazard response.
“It doesn’t matter. Just keep thinking about what you said without stopping. When you first gain your body, it will tickle like crazy all over. Do not scratch your skin or cause a ruckus. Keep your ears wide open, okay?”
“Don’t scratch, don’t cause a ruckus, keep my ears open…”
“Keep your eyes wide open, and don’t lose consciousness. Don’t even think about biting your tongue to commit suicide.”
“Keep my eyes open, stay alert, don’t bite my tongue… what, what?”
“If it hurts really badly, open your mouth and bite my finger. Got it, did you not know?”
“Yeah, I understand…”
“Good. We’re almost there, so hang in there a bit longer, Adella.”
At that moment, the space between NaeMe and Adella expanded rapidly.
“Sister!”
Adella instinctively reached out to try to grab her, but unfortunately, her hand passed right through NaeMe’s arm.
‘I can’t catch her…!’
As soon as NaeMe disappeared without a trace, the space where Adella stood turned black.
A strange sensation swept over her, as if someone was watching from a distance.
Adella instinctively followed the rapidly passing white lights with her eyes.
Boom-!
“Ugh!”
An intense sense of weakness engulfed her body.
As her vision expanded infinitely, Adella parted ways with her own body.
The black sky, sparkling dust, glaring light bulbs, and blue orbs came into view.
“This isn’t Earth, is it? Where on earth am I…?”
Facing the fear of the unknown, Adella trembled.
“I’m asking where I am… Can’t anyone hear me…?”
Fear surged into her mind like a tide, and tears began to trickle down.
It was even more horrific because she couldn’t hear any sound.
“Why am I here…?”
Her memories felt like they were smudged, blanketed in darkness.
She stared blankly at a planet spinning around its axis.
A familiar name slipped from her stiff lips.
“Adella.”
In that moment, a massive path piercing through the planet was revealed.
Adella’s eyes widened as she recited her name like a spell.
“Adella, Adella, Adella, Adella, Adella.”
She scratched at the darkened canvas, peeking into fragments of memories.
“164… I don’t weigh more than 50 kilograms… Huh!”
Thunder rumbled in her head, and Earth suddenly loomed closer.
Beneath the hazy clouds, vast deserts and grasslands unfolded.
“I can wash my hair really well. My silver hair goes so well with turquoise.”
Thoughts from conversations with someone came back to her.
Who was it?
“I want to eat sushi on a warm electric blanket…”
Adella bit her lip hard.
It felt like if she thought just a little harder, the answer would come to her!
The sensation of a sneeze being interrupted left a profound discomfort in her heart.
Swoosh—
“Kyaaaak!”
Adella’s body was swept away by the fierce wind.
When she regained her senses, she was free-falling toward the blue ocean.
“What is this?! I don’t want to die!”
She wished it were just a nightmare.
As absurdities unfolded one after another, Adella began to deny reality.
“I really hate NaeMe for not saying anything!”
Boom-!
Could it be that a parachute had opened?
Or perhaps her body had become as light as a dandelion.
Her body was drawn somewhere like a magnet by the gentle breeze.
In that moment, she became aware of the words she had uttered.
“That’s right, NaeMe…! No Name…! Unspecified Gender!”
How could she forget that name?
Experiences of losing memories were enough from her gaming days.
Desperately, Adella repeated NaeMe’s name.
“Ugh… I will never forget… never!”
Tears flowed endlessly from her pale face.
They were tinged with the sound of her sobbing.
* * *
[Spell Casting: Cancellation Interference]
“First, it can’t get too loud, so at least a soundproofing spell—”
While NaeMe cast a first-circle spell, a dying nude woman twitched her fingers.
“Ugh… Huh… Hah…!”
Breath erupted chaotically from her, as if she was on the brink of death.
NaeMe hurriedly grabbed the woman’s nape and lifted her up.
First, to secure the airway, and second, to check consciousness through pupil response.
“Adella. Breathe deeply! Can you hear me?”
“Hah… Ugh…! Ahh…!”
Adella’s nails crawled up her arm.
Though her blunt nails couldn’t dig into her flesh, they were enough to redden it.
Red lines were randomly drawn across her pale skin.
As NaeMe grasped her hand, Adella scratched her head with her other hand.
“My head… Ugh… It’s itchy… It’s driving me crazy. Haaaah…!”
“Just hang on a little longer. It’s not your body right now, so your aura heart and central nervous system are reacting negatively.”
The place where Adella particularly cried out in pain was where her cat ears originally were.
In virtual reality, sounds are instantly processed in the mind.
Yet simply mistaking that she was hearing with her fuzzy ears made her spirit adjust accordingly.
“Breathe through your nose and mouth at the same time, Adella.”
“Haa… Haaahaaahaaah…”
“Good job. Adella, it’s going to sting a little, no, a lot from now. Raise your hand if it hurts.”
“Faster… Ahhhh, it hurts so much… It feels like I’m really going to die…”
Adella felt an itch, accompanied by pain as if she was being pricked by needles.
She was at a loss for words, not even knowing what she was saying.
NaeMe laid the poor girl’s head on her lap and activated the final magic circle.
When the third magic stone broke in the middle, she immediately replaced it with the last one.
An immense amount of mana surged, causing the wand to overheat in red.
Mana was being lost in the form of thermal energy.
“Up to this point, it wasn’t calculated.”
NaeMe’s hands moved more busily than ever.
Her horns also glowed golden as they aided in the triple casting.
A spell that integrates body and mind.
A verbal spell developed to wish for the immortality of a hatchling just born into this world.
She clearly named even the runes she usually kept to herself as she cast the final spell.
“El, Arhen, Lumiere, Haifrit, Randanteiska, Reshaikbar, Serenityarnashentia.”
The seven major components interlocked like gears, ravenously absorbing all mana.
Smoke began to rise from NaeMe’s hands that gripped the wand.
The smell of burning flesh, the chaos of a ruined tent.
Only sheer will would guide them.
[7th Circle High-Spell: Dragonia Nashentia]
Swoosh—
A red beam pierced through Adella’s abdomen, and a strong shockwave swept past.
“Adella! Hold on for exactly 30 seconds, no more, no less!”
NaeMe hugged Adella’s head tightly and shouted in her ear.
In that moment,
“Aaaaaaaaaah!”
Adella, who had been clenching her fists to endure the itching, let out a scream.
The pain was extreme, incomparable to earlier.
It felt as if every single cell was crying out to be saved.
This time, it was pain she absolutely could not endure.
“Haah! Huh… Kyaah… Guh…”
Adella seemed overwhelmed even to catch her breath, a cough mixed with a metallic sound escaping her lips.
Her bones broke and reattached repeatedly, while her muscles were torn apart.
Adella raised both hands late in the game.
This was not an act of will but an instinctive movement.
With bloodshot eyes, she looked despairingly at NaeMe, who was maintaining the magic circle.
“I-I’ve raised my hands… I’d rather die… Guuh…”
Adella stuck out her tongue.
Before her sharp teeth could close in, NaeMe shoved her fingers into her mouth to silence her.
“Ugh…!”
“Adella, focus! You’re almost there! Just endure a little longer!”
“I… can’t take it anymore… Aaah…! Please… just kill me… this isn’t right.”
Adella shook her head desperately.
“Anesthesia…”
“Absolutely not during the magic!”
“I… I was wrong… just end it… this is more than enough…”
Her sobbing moans grew weaker. She was on the verge of losing consciousness.
“You will endure this for a lifetime.”
Unable to watch Adella suffer any longer, NaeMe finally decided on a drastic measure.
“To me.”
[Activation: Pain Synchronization]
“You should be grateful.”
* * *
At the moment the light shone down, an unbearable burning pain tore through Adella’s head as if her entire body were on fire.
The desire to gain a physical body changed in an instant.
If it could end the pain of having her head burned, her limbs severed, and her insides stirred, Adella would do anything.
Regret for every moment she had pleaded for a body felt futile.
As the pain intensified, her mind sharpened to the point of madness.
Suddenly, the pain diminished in an instant.
Only then did Adella recall NaeMe’s advice; she opened her eyes and took a deep breath, counting the seconds.
‘How long has it been?’
Her sense of time lost, ten seconds felt like an hour.
“Ahh! Hoo… Hah…”
She finally started counting the seconds.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds…
Ten seconds.
While the pain was gradually decreasing, it was still not over.
Even after counting over twenty, the unending pain made her think something was wrong.
Just as she was about to call NaeMe,
“Huh…”
Adella saw it.
NaeMe, drenched in cold sweat, her entire body soaked.
“W-What’s wrong! Sis!”
A look of confusion crossed her face.
Adella, who had been lying comfortably, jumped up in a panic and grabbed her shoulders.
NaeMe’s face twisted dramatically.
“Stay down. It’s not over yet…”
“W-What’s wrong! Why are you in pain too! You never said this would happen!”
“I can still talk, so it seems okay…”
Beside the 7th circle magic circle, a small rotating magic circle.
Adella’s eyes trembled intensely.
“Did you really use Pain Synchronization? What the hell were you thinking! How do we turn this off!”
“Let it be. It’s too late.”
Though Adella had little knowledge of magic, she could read the elapsed time of the spell.
Nearly one minute had passed in Dragonia Nascentia.
And the Pain Synchronization magic had easily exceeded forty seconds.
Moreover, the ratio was set unfavorably for NaeMe.
Frssss—
The magic ended.
The small magic circle disappeared, and NaeMe’s horn crumbled into dust.
In a state of despair, Adella couldn’t find the words.
If it were NaeMe, she could surely have restrained herself to stop the self-harm.
With tears streaming down her face, Adella hugged NaeMe as tightly as she could.
“I’m sorry… I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for everything… it’s all my fault… I’m sorry…”
Adella, unable to hold back, burst into sobs.
Her T-shirt, completely soaked in cold sweat, was soaked through with tears twice.
“Phew. All done?”
NaeMe gently and slowly stroked Adella’s back.
“Why are you crying? It ended without any problems.”
“Why is there no problem! There are so many issues! So many!”
It seemed challenging to calm down Adella, who was pleading her mistakes with a choked voice.
She had caused NaeMe immense pain for failing to endure such a short time.
The guilt that stabbed at her heart made it hard to look up.
“Shall we take a look at your face, Della?”
“Yeah.”
“We need to check if your eyes, nose, and mouth are all okay.”
NaeMe examined Adella closely.
At a glance, Adella looked exactly like her in virtual reality.
Her attractive silver hair and stunning green eyes shone brightly beneath the dim light.
However, it seemed that since her previous body was used as a reference, there were no signs of cat ears, and the tail at her backside was similarly absent.
‘Did she look slightly younger? It’s hard to tell at this angle.’
While her height and weight might be the same, her face appeared two or three years younger than before.
In the meantime, seeing Adella covered in tears and snot, NaeMe burst out laughing softly.
“You look really ugly right now.”
“Wha… really?”
“No, you’re really pretty.”
“Uwaah! Siiiis!”
Adella jumped into NaeMe.
Her slightly heavier chest pressed against NaeMe.
“Ew, you’re getting snot on me! But before that, are you going to wear some clothes, at least?”
“I don’t care! We’re family now!”
“Aren’t you cold? You’ll catch a cold in the real world like this.”
“Your body is warm, Sis. That’s good enough.”
NaeMe hugged Adella tightly in return.
A soft voice brushed past NaeMe’s ear as gentle as her delicate skin.
“NaeMe, thank you so much…”
With a tranquil yet heartwarming resonance, NaeMe quietly smiled.
It was a night in March.
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