Dumbledore took the object Vizet handed him, his fingertips brushing its cold metal surface, and a layer of complicated emotion rose in his eyes.
"Its name is the Deluminator..." He sighed with some feeling and began introducing it to Vizet. "A Magical Artifact I made with my own hands... designed to work with my Soul Power."
"Thinking back on the battle just now..." Dumbledore continued, "perhaps I instinctively realized..."
"That obtaining the Resurrection Stone in a short time would be extremely difficult, so I had to look for another solution."
Vizet blinked. "Headmaster Dumbledore, the solution you thought of was... through Soul Power?"
"Precisely!" Dumbledore nodded in admission. "My state at the time was very special. I was mainly relying on instinct to act, making responses that instinct deemed appropriate."
"For me in that state, using Soul Power to achieve my goal counted as the fastest method, so I used the Deluminator."
Before he knew it, he thought back to the last time he had used the Deluminator.
The reason he had used the Deluminator last time was to awaken his nephew, to keep his nephew from being blinded by hatred and deceived by others.
This time, however, the situation was quite special. The person blinded by his own emotions, even driven to extreme actions, was no longer his nephew, but himself.
Although his thoughts at the time had been filled with desire, and he had fought only by instinct, he had also been very clear that even that version of himself could very easily cause enormous destruction.
Fortunately, he had brought Vizet along. Perhaps only a Guardian who was gradually growing could, under such circumstances, make him regain his clarity without causing even more mistakes.
"Fortunately..." Thinking of this, Dumbledore let out a soft breath, his gaze sweeping over