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But Mayumi Haga refused.

Everything seemed to be spiraling out of control, but Mayumi Haga would still follow her own code of conduct.

She was born to protect others and to fulfill her duty.

Even if the hope is slim, even if Lania has declared that she wants to give up and set her free, Mayumi Haga will not give up looking for another solution.

She has always been very patient.

Even at this moment, despite the well-intentioned advice of the gods, Mayumi Haga remained unmoved.

But the moment she passed through the gates of the World Library, what she saw left her speechless.

It was expected that there would be an ambush here.

But she remained frozen in place, her fists clenched so tightly that her nails dug into her skin, offering no resistance even when bound and suspended by chains.

Because the shock was so overwhelming and sudden, or perhaps because she had received a prior divine hint, her mind was in turmoil, and her gaze was fixed on the familiar figure beside the witch.

"..Mother?"

That was just an insignificant segment in the long course of life.

Is it a hallucination?

Or is it just a disguise?

Could it be Lania's idea...? No, that can't be.

A proud wizard like Lania would never do such a thing.

Yuga Mayumi was in a state of utter confusion. She stared at the face that had long since become blurred in her memory, yet had become clear at first glance. She opened her mouth, but her throat was terribly dry.

No, hadn't she already confirmed that her mother had entered the River of Life and been reincarnated? She even went to search for her every fifty years, watching from afar the birth, aging, sickness, and death of that unfamiliar soul... How could this be? How could a soul that had been reincarnated many times appear here intact?

Moreover... in Mayumi Haga's memory, Junko Haga was always gentle and frail.

Years of illness have ravaged my mother's body, leaving her so thin that she's practically just skin and bones. She lies in bed all day, looking exactly like an ordinary human being!

Moreover, hadn't it already returned to the long river of time? The precious lesson that Mayumi Haga experienced for the first time in her life—the separation of life and death—was taught by Junko Haga herself.

Therefore, when faced with such a familiar and almost heartbreakingly ugly face, Mayumi Haga's first reaction was to question it.

The shape of the soul will be reshaped after returning to the long river of time; it is impossible for it to revert to its original form after so many reincarnations.

Moreover, that river of life had long been swallowed up by calamity, and many souls had become nourishment; it would not be an exaggeration to say that it had vanished into thin air.

But... what Lania did before the world line changed was to fish out the remaining souls from the rubble.

Moreover, what Mayumi Haga herself cannot deny is that, as a guardian, she possesses the instinct to recognize the aura of souls.

If it were just appearance, given her current resistance and magic resistance, there's still a slight possibility she could be deceived.

But as for the soul, now that she has the blessing of the Fire, she can see through the essence of the Alamo soul, which comes from the same source as her.

But now, looking at the person she once missed so much, she sees a different kind of "essence".

Mayumi Haga's appearance is seven or eight parts similar to Junko Haga, but the latter's eyebrows and eyes are much more mature and gentle than the sharpness of a young girl.

Her black hair was smooth and her eyes were round. She had a non-aggressive appearance, and was gentle and generous. Fine lines had appeared at the corners of her eyes, and her loose hair was long enough to cover the ground, with many white hairs mixed in.

Holding a staff in his hand, inlaid with the skull of an animal, upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the skull of a shrunken dragon.

His wide, black and red cloak was made of dragon skin that exuded a strong, ominous aura, his clothes were sewn with dragon scales, and his soft armor was made of snow-white dragon bones.

Even though his face looked familiar and repulsive, I still couldn't understand it.

Yumi Haga felt an uncontrollable chill run down her spine, as if the blood in her body was screaming to escape. The hair on the back of her neck stood on end, and her fingers felt icy cold.

But she was firmly bound. The chains, which she could usually break free from, now had blood-red runes appearing on them, and they even began to drill into her body, causing a piercing pain.

Her body seemed frozen, her muscles stiff, and Mayumi Haga's eyes remained unblinking as her expression slowly calmed down.

Her emotions were not as calm as they appeared; a multitude of thoughts flashed through her mind, but she only found them absurd.

"..【Dragon Slayer】Curse.

"Haga Mayumi had also heard about it from Senior Urzana, and this was the first time she had felt how this attribute could restrain her after she had completed her black dragon transformation."

A wizard like Rania, who only has a tiny bit of her bloodline left, couldn't have done this.

Moreover, Rania's physical body had long since disappeared, so what could the other party, who was now just a soul, possibly do? Then... 8MA Mayumi Haga's gaze shifted to the woman who looked exactly like Junko Haga, and she began to purse her lips, which turned pale.

Something seemed to flicker in those bright golden eyes, gradually dimming as if it might go out at any moment.

His face turned extremely pale.

"Who are you?

"When Mayumi Haga heard her question, her voice remained as calm as ever."

The other person seemed to be taken aback for a moment, and then stared at her with a questioning look.

Their reaction time is half a beat slower than that of ordinary people.

"...Haga...Mayumi?" It seemed as if she had unearthed this name from the depths of her long and chaotic memories. Junko Haga tried to call out to her.

That brief period of time resurfaced from the depths of her memory, but compared to a long life, the existence of Mayumi Haga, this little child, was but a drop in the ocean, and her emotions were insignificant.

So for a moment, her tone was still a bit awkward.

But then came a wave of nostalgia. She instinctively asked Rania to loosen the chains a little, and with just one step forward, she closed the distance between herself and Mayumi Haga. She was a little surprised: "Little Feather? What are you doing here? I thought all the Guardians were..." Mayumi Haga didn't show any joy.

She noticed that the skin on the other person's exposed cheeks, neck, and wrists also had bright red ancient shamanic script, radiating an energy fluctuation that could not be ignored.

However, the witchcraft system she used did not belong to Lania's era.

Of course, it was definitely not the era of Mayumi Haga, but rather long before Mayumi Haga was born.

Having acquired fragmented knowledge of elven bloodlines and the inheritance of black dragon transformation, Mayumi Haga was able to recognize that the other party was a great shaman from the mythological era.

Whether it was the staff made of dragon bone in his hand or the terrifying energy fluctuations, they were on a completely different level from those of later wizards.

Moreover, since wizards are capable of communicating with heaven and earth, Mayumi Haga, who possesses the World Fire, was naturally able to recognize who the other party was immediately.

A great sorcerer who could move about draped in the remains of a dead dragon... that could only be the one from legend.

The source of the dragon-slaying curse on Lania is the legend that when she was banishing the dragon, she "accidentally" killed the plague dragon. After igniting the fuse that ended the mythical era, the great witch Haga Mayumi disappeared. She was curious about the whereabouts of the other party. Logically speaking, such a being should have communicated with the guardians of the ancient beings, and may even have been besieged by the guardians.

But it didn't.

Aside from the seemingly insignificant curse of the dragon slayer that led to the extinction of the wizarding lineage, she appears to have suffered no real retribution whatsoever.

Because Mayumi Haga had asked many senior guardians, none of them had seen any special souls reading sins in the River of Life.

Perhaps it has been erased, but the quality of the river of life has not changed.

This wizard, who should have been guilty of heinous crimes, seemed to have entered the river of life and been reincarnated as if nothing had happened, just like other innocent souls...r8MIA But that's not actually the case.

What Mayumi Haga didn't know was that this great shaman did indeed pay a price; the one burdened with sins was actually the guardian's manifestation, resolving the issue of the world's consciousness changing eras.

After that, the Great Shaman continued to walk among men, reincarnating in different identities and fulfilling the tasks of each one.

Until one day, she was reborn into the world as Junko Haga.

She needs to raise a special child.

This child has not reincarnated in the long river of life; he is a brand new soul that has grown out of the remnants of the past.

The Alamo is a special world where the quality of souls is constant. After losing vital signs in the mortal world, they are reincarnated, thus the number of lives always remains constant.

But the emergence of a new soul shattered this cycle.

The World Consciousness theory states that only such a life possesses the potential.

Only then can we shoulder the responsibility for the future and the spark of revolution.

So you've always remembered.

While Junko and Mayumi were talking, Rania stood silently to the side, watching everything with a complicated expression.

Her originally faint and weak soul has solidified, all thanks to Junko Haga, the great witch she found among the remnants of the calamity.

To be honest, she had already decided to entrust all the remaining usable souls to Mayumi Haga after she had found them.

But this great shaman is different.

Unlike other souls whose minds were clouded by calamity, she was clear-headed and showed no signs of being corrupted.

She was able to survive after being swallowed by the calamity on her own.

Even though it only preserved the complete soul and could not do more, it was still terrifying enough.

It's like unearthing a living person who has survived to this day from the ruins of Pompeii... It's unbelievable!

Yet this very person is Mayumi's mother?

The mother of that Makoto with zero sorcery talent?

Rania clearly remembered that Mayumi Haga's mother had passed away long ago, yet the latter clearly possessed such power, so why...? Thinking of the plan proposed to her by Junko Haga, or rather, the great shaman whose real name was [Shimha], Rania suddenly felt a bit complicated.

Lania naturally wanted to preserve the remaining traces of Alamo's existence, but relying solely on her and Mayumi Haga's abilities to rebuild the world was nothing short of a pipe dream, and if it wasn't dealt with in time, the remaining souls would dissipate.

Her departure from Mayumi Haga was also a silent betrayal; she abandoned their shared goal and went to find other solutions.

Is there any way to revive all souls and rebuild a cycle of reincarnation like the river of life?

Shmha has a way.

She is able to extract the concept of "death" from this world, and use it to return to the Alamo to build a kingdom for the dead.

This is the content of the agreement reached between the gods here and the world consciousness of the Alamo. The former doesn't really care about death, so giving it to the Alamo world, which desperately needs it, is no big deal.

However, God also set corresponding conditions, allowing Himha and Rania to design a theatrical version of the story with a shift in the world line, which would at least provide some enjoyment.

As for the others, God does not prevent them.

Himha then transformed into [Ain], took over the World Library here, first temporarily removing the magical girl concept that might hinder him, and then cooperating with the gods to start an idol competition.

r8MIA Rania watched silently and offered assistance from the side.

After all, the other party has always been working for the world's consciousness and is a great shaman who is even closer to the world's origin than the guardians. It's not surprising that he has his own methods.

just.

After Lania decided to help Shimha, she also realized a problem.

The other party's solution is indeed the only one at present, and it can bring all the remnants of the Alamos back to their homeland. After tens of thousands of years, it may be able to give birth to a brand new life.

But this plan, this plan that abandons the idea of ​​reshaping the entire Alamo and instead rebuilds the Kingdom of the Dead on the ruins of the River of Life, will exclude one person from it all.

That is Mayumi Haga, who is still alive and trapped in the old world mechanism, and can never die.

In order to preserve the flame, Mayumi Haga, who has managed to survive to this day, is destined to be rejected by the land of the dead.

This is indeed unfair to Mamiya.

But that's what she was born for.

Only by accumulating these infinite lives and tiny hopes could the flame be preserved to this day.

Yuga Mayumi's mission should have ended at this point. She only needed to hand over the flame to Shimha, who was waiting in the remnants of the River of Life and had also been swallowed by the calamity without having had time to digest it. Moreover, the world consciousness had already arranged a final resting place for her.

The gods here took in Mayumi Haga, a wanderer from another world, and Mayumi Haga forged a bond here, gaining a second home.

She could have simply shirked her responsibilities and lived the rest of her life in this world.

Although this will mean she will never see her old friends again, she has new friends, and this world is better than the other one. Isn't that a good thing? "Besides, you should be used to it by now."

“Simha said.”

She didn't walk up to Mayumi Haga, but stood on a slightly higher step, looking down at the child she hadn't seen in so long.

She felt a little complicated, but very little.

Whether in her childhood, after becoming a guardian, or even now in the children's world, Mayumi Haga has inevitably experienced many partings.

She met, gained, and then lost again.

This is nothing unusual; in fact, the very first lesson was taught to her by Shimha herself when she was still her mother.

For Mayumi Haga, having nothing is more like the norm. And now, the arrangements that Shimha received from the world's consciousness have not yet taken away all of Mayumi Haga's cruelty; at least they have left her with everything she has in this world.

It could even be argued that the land of the dead might not necessarily be better than this place even after millions of years.

All that Mayumi Haga needed to accept was separation.

Those who were about to leave her had even left once before, and those who were able to spend time with her afterward were considered lucky.