Chapter 410

"Perhaps I came at the wrong time, but what's done is done. I can only say that your troubles are normal. No one can help but imagine 'what ifs,' and no one can deny the possibility that things might have gone more smoothly if they had been more capable or more unscrupulous. However, things have already developed this way, and we have no choice but to accept the fact that things have developed this way."

He asked slowly, word by word.

"Can you accept that, even if you haven't done anything wrong, you still have to accept that the deceased's death is your responsibility?"

Ash did not answer immediately.

The main reason is that anyone would be taken aback if a complete stranger, who looks strange, suddenly appeared and questioned them with such a forceful attitude.

However, after just a few seconds, the girl, having regained her senses, quietly nodded.

I'll take it--

"Yes, I don't think you have to accept it."

Novia narrowed her eyes, and with a sigh tinged with Sorrow, continued, "That must be it."

However, Ash ignored him and stubbornly continued speaking his unfinished words.

I accept.

For Ash, who has not yet become queen and reigns over Fairy Britain, the Fairy she loves, the entire Rain Clan, have already passed away, and she is carrying their wishes and her own responsibilities as she moves towards tomorrow.

It was the kindness of the Rain Clan that led her to become a kind girl as well. However, this kindness was also a shackle. It was the kindness of the Rain Clan that made Ash explore whether there was a way to prevent Britain from ending, to give Britain a new beginning, and to save the Fairy tormented by guilt.

Although the Rain Clan has now been wiped out by other clans who fear punishment, this wish still lingers in their hearts.

This led to a cycle in which, for the next thousand years, the person traveling in Britain under the alias Tonelico was caught in: suppressing calamities, then falling into a deep sleep to prevent being killed by Fairy. As a result, he gradually became only interested in maintaining Britain and no longer wanted to save Fairy or Protection humanity.

"Once accepted, one must have the awareness of a king, which is troublesome and not so easy to teach, especially in this world."

Novia didn't rush to refute, but simply led the conversation quietly.

"This world lacks a visible, Revelation Order, a magnetic force that binds and integrates living beings, and therefore cannot be born. Consequently, everyone chooses a self-serving way of survival. Whether good or evil, everyone prioritizes and acts upon their instinctive desires. No matter how good, everyone will naturally harm others; no matter how evil, everyone will sacrifice themselves for what they love. In this vast population, it's almost unimaginable that anyone with altruistic beliefs exists..."

Beautiful, twisted, and naive are the characteristics of most Fairy, and they also lack social skills. As time goes by, they are not only unable to defeat the Northern Fairy who were once wiped out, but they can also not defeat the humans who have been kept in captivity for a long time. As Wisdom beings, such a society is obviously extremely inadequate.

After all, neither of these wars involved a technological advantage, unlike the differences between Spain and the Aztec Empire.

Sociality is the manifestation of the consciousness of social animals, meaning that the survival ability of individuals within a society far exceeds that of individuals outside of society.

Altruism is zero; giving people poisonous alcohol every day shouldn't count.

With their cooperative nature, they might still be able to join forces and wipe out the Rain Clan.

Dependency is also almost zero.

Their sense of self-discipline is utterly lacking.

Fairy lack social interaction, and therefore, they have been unable to write philosophical texts or build local cultures over thousands of years. As a result, they are destined to lose all self-interest and face annihilation. Although Fairy, who have no pressure to survive or Desire to continue, have no reason to generate and abide by these rules set by humans.

However, Novia is currently holding back her desire to wipe them all out.

"What's the meaning?"

"To put it simply, I don't think you need to do this, but since you're so insistent, I can only outwardly agree while inwardly disagreeing."

"... What kind of human are you? Do we... know each other?"

Ash asked quietly, as intense killing intent and hostility once again filled Novia's surroundings.

The fact that they specifically mentioned humanity is quite telling; they are questioning what stance you're taking in saying this, which is utterly absurd.

If the Fairy of Paradise and the wielder of the Holy Sword were to truly clash head-on, the very fact that would cause Paradise itself to feel uneasy.

"If you're asking about the origin, I've already told you."

Novia told her.

"As for stance, that depends on how you interpret it?"

"Understand?"

"Teacher and student, although my understanding of Magecraft is only average, and my talent is probably not as good as yours, I still stand by your side..."

Ash fell silent upon hearing this, having understood its meaning.

She had thought that, at least for a short time, this strange human would conceal his true intentions and purpose. But instead, he claimed to be someone who had come to be her Teacher? It felt really strange. Did this person really possess that kind of ability?

Now, after carefully looking at the silver-haired human in front of him, Ash realized that he was actually just as miserable as he was, soaked to the bone.

Therefore, a look of confusion appeared in Ash's already dim eyes as he stared at Novia.

"To suddenly appear in this situation and volunteer to be someone's Teacher —putting aside any other reasons—I'd be very troubled if such a strange excuse could work on me! Therefore, I reject and will not agree to this explanation. Please leave."

"But I refuse."

Novia paused. "Although you're not my student now, since that commission has been accepted, that person can only consider you a student, even if it makes you hate me, there's nothing I can do about it."

Ugh... why is this person like this? Can't they stop being so stubborn and inflexible?

When the blonde girl was speechless at Novia's words, she gritted her teeth in frustration and covered her eyes with her arm, as if to express her dissatisfaction. Novia then seemed to remember something and continued speaking.

Oh, right, there's one more thing I forgot to tell you.

"... What?"

He said that.

"If we don't run now, we might run into Fairy."

Upon hearing this, Ash paused for a moment, then resumed running.

However, unlike before when she ran away alone, this time Novia was there to accompany her. If Ash could look at the night sky, she should be able to see that stars were also appearing around that lonely star.

Meanwhile, Novia wasn't idle either; she began introducing herself.

"Let me introduce myself first. I'm a teacher commissioned by the God of Wisdom, who hung upside down on the World Tree for seven days, to teach you Magecraft. Yes, that's right, and also a commission from Paradise..."

Perhaps because Ash, while running, was displaying an indifferent attitude that said 'you can say whatever you want, I won't listen to a single word,' Novia deliberately cleared her throat.

"The sage Novia, who led Vivian to Onik."

Chapter 436 The Fairy Britain's Western Ice Storage Gift Package

Simply walk into any human ranch, and the similar-looking people will nod their heads, waiting for the Fairy to buy them.

Because the Wing Clan is relatively gentle by nature, their human pastures are quite large, unlike other clans that confine them to one place or let them roam freely in a City. However, the personalities of these humans are all very similar, and they seem to have little difference.

Of course, these are all distant memories of Muryan Winged Fairy lives alone in the deep mountains far from the City.

She wasn't particularly interested in humans because they were too boring. She felt there was no need to communicate with them, including her fellow the Crowd. After a while, it all became meaningless, so she came to live in the mountains to make it easier for her to read.

This Muryan, if everything had gone according to plan, might have been the last survivor of the Wing Clan's massacre by the Fang Clan thousands of years later, or perhaps its predecessor. In any case, there was indeed such a Fairy around four thousand years into the Fairy Era.

Recently, this Fairy saw a human, not by intentional observation, but by chance.

After all, it's normal for a human to fish by the river, but it's very abnormal to fish without bait and without going underwater.

When she first saw him, Muryan thought he was some kind of foolish human and glanced at him before leaving. However, since she had seen him several times over the past few months, she became interested again. When she went up to mock him, before the human could even speak, the white Raven on his shoulder opened its mouth.

"Get out of here and stop bothering me."

This surprised Muryan; she never expected that the Raven could talk.

At first glance, she thought it was a special kind of Fairy, and this strange human was its servant.

But after casually exchanging a few words with this human while holding these thoughts, her opinion of him changed drastically. He was completely different from the humans on the ranch, and at least the conversation was quite interesting, even though she couldn't understand some of his words.

After all, Divine Language, though incomprehensible, are subtly fascinating; at the very least, I've never heard of them before.

And in the gentle human voice, one can sense something very warm, drawn in by this light and airy atmosphere, which is why one becomes interested.

After thinking about it for a few days, she decided to make a purchase request to the human's owner Raven.

"Hey, human, I want to buy you from your master."

She remained in a dazed, excited state, staring intently at the silver-haired human and the Raven perched on her shoulder... Strange? Why is everything black today?

An inner impulse made the little Fairy suppress her Desire, take her back to her dwelling place, and then use the Fairy Domain Bug Space on her.

My powerful self reached out and wrapped my arms around his shoulders from behind, holding him tightly. With fingertips filled with mystery and wonder, gentleness and tenderness, I caressed and touched him, carefully trying not to break him, hurt him, or toy with him.

But if it gets really broken, you can just repeat the process.

Seemingly aware of her thoughts, the silver-haired youth glanced lightly at the excited Fairy girl.

In fact, this human was Novia, Tonelico to the Britain mainland. It had been a year or two since they arrived. During this time, he taught Tonelico the magic of Mo and watched her suppress the calamities in the Fairy village.

The Raven on Novia's shoulders are Odin's two, Huginn and Muninn. They appeared when Novia appeared at the World Tree in Orkney and even provided some assistance to Novia in finding Ash.

"W-what? You want to buy my master?"

The black Raven, Muninn, stared incredulously at the excited, unknown Fairy.

What nonsense is this guy spouting? He's only been in charge of replacing Huginn for a few days, how come he's already encountering this situation? The master only ever reads the Bible to the Fairy...

At the same time, upon hearing the Raven call out "Master," even the excited Muryan subconsciously frowned.

... Master? No, who exactly is this human's master?

Just then, a white Raven that Muryan recognized flew out from the nearby dense forest, landed directly on Novia's shoulder, and spoke to Muryan:

"You little Fairy, how many guts do you have, or how many lives do you have? How dare you speak to my master like that? Are you some kind of mass-produced bastard?"

"Hey, it's Huginn, you--"

Just as the black Raven, Muninn, was about to speak as usual, it was unexpectedly kicked by Huginn's two claws.

"You piece of Muninn, how dare you allow such scum to openly provoke the master? Odin has been giving you the cold shoulder, hasn't he? You've only been here a few days, and these bastards have already dared to get too big for their britches?"

"No, I'm so sorry, it definitely won't happen again..."

Muninn fluttered its wings timidly, and at first glance, it looked as if it were kneeling on my shoulder in a very human way, offering forgiveness.

"A next time? Believe me or not, I'll send you straight to eat with that drooling Nidhogg right now!"

"Please don't treat me like this. Nidhogg's tone is too arrogant; I simply cannot accept it..."

Huginn and Muninn, the Raven originally raised by Odin, are quite a pair. Don't be fooled by their current tough -Huginn -Muninn; once Novia takes them to do what becomes routine in Britain, the ravens will likely change.

"Alright, Huginn, what did those Fairy do to Tonelico this time?"

Upon hearing Novia's words, the white Raven Huginn coughed twice, fluttered to the other shoulder, and began to answer earnestly.

"That's right, sir. Tonelico is still the same as ever. After dealing with that disaster for those damned goblins—those lousy Fairy whose Flesh and soul I wish I could sew their rotten eyes and stinking mouths completely shut—they're still all the same Fairy, throwing stones at Miss Tonelico— "

At this point, Huginn continued, beaming with pride.

"However, thanks to my efforts, those damned Fairy failed. But given Tonelico's personality, as you know, sir, besides throwing stones, those bastards also intended to imprison, imprison, behead, imprison in water, burn at the stake, and so on. And Miss Tonelico saw through that, after all, she has the Fairy Eyes..."

As Huginn continued speaking, his tone became increasingly harsh.

"He's even more deserving of a beating—no, a death wish—than that stinky squirrel Ratatoskr, who talks nonsense all day long. At least that guy wouldn't treat his benefactor like that."

"Tonelico will probably be practicing her magic again in a huff, thinking she must do better next time. I've told her so many times not to carry the Rain Clan's burden, I wonder when she'll listen. Luckily, I taught her some dark Magecraft, so it's not a bad thing for her to come and relieve stress."

Novia rested one hand on her chin, as if striking a pose, while the two Raven on her shoulders flapped their wings in a similar manner.

"By the way, doesn't that village even have a single Fairy who admires Tonelico, or is forced into it but still unwilling to do so?"

"Absolutely not."

Huginn shook his head. "My lord, it's practically impossible to find Fairy like the one you described. Even if I tortured them all, I'd still feel like I'd dirty my hands."

Novia didn't say much about this, only stating the following:

"Huginn, Muninn, it's time to go. The time has come to crush 'them'."

"Hehe, sir, this time I will definitely try my best to make up for my previous behavior, and I will definitely make you very happy!"

The black Raven, Muninn, smiled in a chilling tone, completely different from when she was being beaten and scolded by Huginn earlier. At this moment, Huginn dared not say another word. After all, it was Muninn who did the work of killing the Fairy; she herself was not that efficient, being a pure intelligence agent.

"... Um, aren't you taking me with you?"

Although, according to Muryan's understanding and her ability to put herself in others' shoes, she shouldn't have let herself off so easily in this situation.

But... why did they ignore me?

Upon hearing this, Novia turned around, her back to the Sun, and smiled with an unreadable expression in the shadows of the dense forest.

I knew you would catch up.

I don't understand what you mean.