If I Had To Say, I Would Say I Am A Evil Magician 224 (Patreon)

Insanity

After that, six months went by. When Hazen returned to the mansion in the middle of the night and entered Liana's room, she had scattered her books all over the place and was bawling.

"Wha-, what's wrong, Liana?" 

"......hikku......hikku......Otou-san, I......want to meet Asch"

"......"

"Can't I......meet him somehow? I can't......no matter what?"

With her shoulders quivering, she buries her face in Hazen's chest.

"......"

"He's doing his best for my sake after all. And yet......it's impossible huh......but, I want to meet him. I want to meet him. It's impossible huh......but......I want to meet him......my time is, already......but......"

From the looks of it, it seems she had a nightmare. It looks like she's slightly in confusion.

"......sorry, you can't. That fellow......Asch, he's now......"

"......"

Before long, Liana raised her face and showed an angel-like smile.

"Juーst kidding. I'm joking, I'm joking......were you surprised? I have to believe in Otou-san......believe in Asch and wait"

"......sorry"

"Don't apologise. Thanks to Otou-san and Asch, I can see the future as well. I can live without giving up hope. I'm alone......but I'm not alone......that's how it feels"

"......uu"

I can't cry. There's no way, I can shed my tears here. If I myself cry......it's as though, I'm sad. My daughter won't die. She's not going to die.

While saying it over and over again for himself to hear, he relaxed both hands and moved his hands away from Liana.

"I'm going off......"

"......un"

Without even getting any sleep, Hazen returns to the Taboo Mansion once again.

On his way there, he encounters a bizarre group. Tens of carriages lining up and heading straight for the mansion. The drivers of that, they had vacant eyes and weren't in the right state of mind......no, rather, they weren't even alive. Despite thinking they're a strange bunch, he doesn't have the time for that now with his daughter's crisis at hand. He ignored them, quickened his pace, and overtook those carriages......

"......"

, but the bad feeling won't go away no matter what.

The insanity there that knows no bound.

The ominous expressions(faces) of the drivers.

They wouldn't get out of his head no matter what, and before he knew it, he had shouted at the carriages he overtook once.

"Who's the Necromancer!?"

Responding to that voice, the corpses stop altogether.

Before long.

From the inside of the carriage at the very front, a single man comes out.

"Sensei......this sure is a coincidence huh"

At that figure he met for the first time in a few months, Hazen gulps. Like the corpses, it's an expression from which one can't feel any sense of life. His body, too, was utterly frail to the extent that it felt like he'd collapse from malnutrition at any moment, and he was like an entirely different person. However, those jet-black eyes of his alone are, strangely, emitting an uncanny glint.

"......"

Passing right by Asch who stands unmovingly, Hazen checks the inside of the carriage.

"There is, nothing interesting"

"......"

He instinctively gets chills throughout his entire body.

In front of his eyes is,

a mountain of piled-up living humans.

Perhaps all of them have magic cast on them, they're sleeping, without moving even the slightest.

"What......is this?"

"Tch......you ended up finding it huh"

Like a kid whose prank got exposed, Asch raises a disappointed-sounding voice.

"I'm asking you what this is!"

Hazen's voice bursts in anger.

"......they are guinea pigs. Like you said, I could not buy them with money, so I procured them from battlefields"

He answers nonchalantly, as though he's not in any wrong.

"What......did you sayy!?"

"They, of their own volition, made the choice to kill people. Anyway, they are going to kill each other. Having the resolve to kill, means you have to carry the resolve to die. Which means, even if they're killed by me as guinea pigs, they have to accept it. Don't you think so?"

"......what are you saying?"

The goosebumps that well up from Hazen won't stop. He's undoubtedly, insane. Asch＝Dahl is, insane.

"Haa, Hazen-sensei......are you still, over there?"

"......what......did you sayy"

"It is the path you showed me, and yet it looks like I ended up going pass you. One day, you will understand as well when you come all the way here. Please come quickly"

The Dark Magician laughs softly.

That smile, it was overly ominous, infinitely sinister.

"At the very least, please do not get in my way. Just, a bit more. I will forcefully age them, induce the God Guided Disease, and look at the process of that from here on out. There are only one every thousand people, so if there are just three......this alone is in God's hands though......kukukuku......"

"......"

He understands that he has to stop him. He understands, how very sinful this is.

In the first place, showing Asch this path itself was too early. No matter how talented a Magician he is, he's immature if his mind is young. An endless regret haunts his very self who didn't even consider something so obvious. Both the morality issue he'll eventually run into and the contemplation, are extraordinarily important processes.

As a result of ignoring all of that and passing right by it, the human known as Asch=Dahl ended up breaking. Everything.......everything was too early......all because of himself......

"......"

However, his voice won't come out. That voice of his, just won't come out. Now, if he ends up stopping him, there'll be no way, to save his daughter's life. It's with absolute certainty that this genius, is the closest to elucidating the God Guided Disease......

Even if, that is, an unforgivable act.

"......I am glad it looks like I managed to get you to understand. Well then"

Asch turned around emotionlessly and entered the carriage again.

After that, Hazen could do nothing but simply stare, at the sight of the carriages moving forward.