Chapter 191: Confusion (8)

At least within the memories she retained, that had already happened five or six times.

— Aiselin Eleanor Duplain is false. voyage She is currently on vacation. arrow Her being here is something strange.

Dereck had discovered the true identity of the confusion mage over and over again and had informed Princess Roselin of it.

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However, it was enough to let his guard down for even a single instant for everything to be covered by the power of confusion magic and return to a state in which nothing had happened.

If one also counted the occasions in which he had not managed to inform her, every time his memories were erased, Dereck had succeeded in finding the hidden confusion mage through different methods.

With a modest and serene bearing, she would narrow her eyes and look up at the princess on the balcony, forming a sly, fox-like smile.

And then, that confusion mage wearing Aiselin’s face would cross the Main Hall, the hem of her dress fluttering.

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Even if she shouted at the top of her lungs while running through the academy, even if she tried to transmit the information by every possible means, everything would always return to the starting point—that balcony of the Main Hall.

She would bring her index finger to her lips, as if saying that all of this had to remain a secret.

Aiselin, mingled among the crowd, would once again bring her finger to her lips and disappear into the people with a smile.

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“My endurance… is already reaching its limit…”

Even though the murderer who had killed her father was right in front of her, she could not tell anyone.

Princess Roselin, seated on the edge of the balcony, ran a hand over her face as she panted.

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No matter how powerful a 6-star mage might be, their mana was not infinite.

At first, she had thought only of capturing him, driven by a burning desire for revenge.

She had gone nearly two days without sleeping and had tried to warn others of the truth more than a dozen times, shouting and growing desperate, so it was no wonder she was exhausted.

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Impossible.

But two full days had already passed, and the limit of the barrier ritual was drawing ever closer.

Useless.

She believed that if she kept fighting and warning others, sooner or later he would run out.

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The moment that sense of helplessness surfaced, exhaustion struck her all at once, as if she might fall asleep at any moment.

That dark despair began to gnaw at her chest.

Defeating a 6-star confusion mage was absolutely impossible.

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Even so, Roselin ran her hand over her face once more and stood up.

Even if everything ended up being erased and reduced to nothing, she intended to try until the very end.

For more than forty hours, she had not rested for a single moment—struggling, watching, running nonstop.

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“…Are you tired?”

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The unknown entity wearing Aiselin’s appearance dispersed her mana and waved her hand.

“Ufufufu.”

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If she wished, she could completely erase the memories of everyone present within this barrier.

The world seemed to twist—the light refracted, the scenery bent, and a swirling sensation covered the entire area.

Fully manipulating the memories of hundreds of people was a difficult task, but simply erasing them was perfectly possible.

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Kohella’s barrier ritual would not endure much longer.

More than two days had already passed since this massacre began, and they were entering the third day.

However, Dereck sensed it.

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During that time, the confusion mage had been exhausted, constantly busy suppressing Princess Roselin every time she tried to reveal the culprit’s identity.

Even though Roselin knew everything would end up being useless and erased, she had kept thinking, changing methods, and resisting over and over again.

The bars would not break, the brick walls would remain firm, but doing something was always better than doing nothing.

It was like desperately striking the bars of a prison from which escape was impossible.

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“And why do you want to know? zenith Even if I tell you, you’ll just forget again.”

“What the hell are you planning to use His Majesty Emperor Gattrel’s staff for?”

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A 6-star confusion mage.

Moonlight passed through the dress whipped by magical energy, as if it were a massive stained-glass window of a cathedral.

Wrapped in black-crimson mana, the false Aiselin floated beneath the moon.

An existence that adjusts memories and transcends perception.

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A tone completely different from that of the real Aiselin.

At this point, she could only be called the false Aiselin.

The color of her eyes was red.

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“Honestly, all of you are unbearable.”

“I can’t break that old transformation mage’s barrier, the princess whom no magic affects keeps forcing me to expend mana adjusting memories, and you keep finding me no matter how much I hide.”

Within the construction grounds of Ravenclaw Academy, that young woman was fighting against three enemies—Kohella, who had trapped her with her barrier ritual; Roselin, who kept resisting and wearing her down; and Dereck, who, in critical situations, continued to drag her into the light again and again.

Knowing that these memories would end up being forgotten, the young woman spoke with a tone of lament.

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Escaping from this place was not easy at all.

Each of them was far too troublesome.

In the nocturnal forest, with the song of insects and the round moon in the sky, Kohella’s barrier ritual engraved across the firmament began to tremble slowly.

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“Did you really think that old transformation mage could maintain a barrier of this size for three whole days?”

The young woman smiled with the moon as her backdrop.

“Do you know what you failed to calculate?”

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“I’m sorry, but that would only have been possible without any interference. silence Two full days have already passed, and we’re entering the third. aluminum No matter how much she’s Kohella, maintaining a ritual of this scale must have exhausted her considerably.”

Whoosh! action Boom!

It was clear that she intended to directly shake the barrier ritual.

When the young woman clenched her fist while looking at the moon, an enormous mana began to surge.

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Breaking the barrier of a 6-star transformation mage was not easy, not even for another mage of the same rank.

But if that barrier had already been pushing Kohella’s mana limits for two days, the situation could be different.

“I can feel it. arena That ritual covering the starry sky has been weakening for several hours now.”

If she shook it now, when Kohella was exhausted both physically and mentally, she might not be able to break it completely, but she could accelerate its collapse.

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“…”

Colossal mana erupted from the young woman’s body as she laughed maliciously.

“If I shake it a little more, I can create a breach. riddle Then I’ll erase everyone’s memories one last time, leave this place, and everything will be over.”

It was said that the mana of 6-star mages was so vast that it could cover entire regions.

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That girl had been waiting.

The mana emanating from the false Aiselin floating in the air was, without a doubt, something that no longer seemed to belong to the human domain.

For the moment when even Kohella, exhausted from maintaining that enormous barrier ritual, would be drained enough for a single blow to cloud her mind.

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Boom! antique Boom! atlas Boom!

Roselin had resisted like a madwoman and worn her down a bit, yes, but in the end, the victory was hers for enduring until the very end.

As she declared that, the girl opened her fist again, and that colossal mana transformed into hundreds, thousands of arrows that slammed into the barrier.

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Hundreds of mana arrows she had manifested embroidered the night sky.

Crack!

At the same time, cracks began to appear in the barrier ritual covering the firmament.

It was as if the number of stars had multiplied dozens of times.

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With the sound of something splintering, the entire landscape began to shake even more violently.

The condition for the confusion mage’s victory was the destruction of Kohella’s barrier ritual.

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Crack! athlete Crack! adopt Crack!

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They had endured to the absolute limit, saving every last scrap of mana, but in the end, the one laughing was her.

“Ahahaha… ahahahaha… ahahahahaha!”

When she saw the barrier crumbling little by little, the girl looked up at the moon and burst into a deranged laugh.

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A barrier damaged to that extent could no longer restrain a 6-star mage.

All the mana gushing from her body slowly began to reorganize itself in the night sky, once again taking the form of a magic circle.

The monster wearing Aiselin’s appearance.

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The only things left behind would be the cold corpse of the emperor and the trace of the stolen staff.

Now all that remained was to adjust everyone’s memories one last time and flee.

If she erased the memories and escaped like that, they would not be able to send a pursuit group, and all the key clues to capture her would evaporate on the other side of memory.

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All the conditions for victory had been met.

“You made it fairly difficult for me. academy Yes, Dereck Lydorf, the Baron of Ravenclaw, right? meadow At least I’ll remember you. album Even in such an extreme situation, you always played the best possible card. acoustic Though, in the end, it wasn’t enough.”

The game was over.

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Whoosh! atlas Thud!

As if those fireballs had never existed.

A dozen fireballs from Dereck shot forward, but the girl floating beneath the moon dispersed them all with a simple wave of her hand.

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An enemy who could not even be perceived without her permission.

They did not even leave a trail behind.

An enemy who, even if you found her, erased memories and disappeared.

An enemy against whom even attacks were ineffective.

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Dereck opened his eyes wide and stared at her.

Anyone who saw her would be drenched in helplessness.

The crushing pressure of absolute power.

That image—like a dog that had lost the chicken and could only stare at the rooftop—made the girl laugh even louder.

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“Memory Devastation.”

6-star confusion magic.

Over the collapsing barrier ritual, a new magic circle engraved with her mana was superimposed.

“Of course, you won’t remember me. adjust But if we meet again, I’ll make sure to greet you first.”

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“Then, farewell. riddle It was a good duel. academy I hope next time you’re the one who wins.”

All the humans present on this vast academy ground would forget what they had seen today, remain there with nothing but traces and doubts, and let her leave.

The girl smiled.

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If they met again, she would have to be especially wary of that man.

With that final thought, she decided to end everything.

At the same time, the magic circle began to shine, ready to erase everyone’s memories and disappear into the cloak of darkness.

Splat!

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Splat! action Splat!

“—?”

—And then, blood burst from the girl’s mouth.

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Thud! galaxy Thud!

At the same time, blood began to gush from her nose and from the corners of her eyes.

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The mana filling her suddenly began to dissipate, and the mountain of black-crimson energy covering the area, along with the confusion magic circle covering the sky, began to shatter.

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The figure that had been floating against the backdrop of the moon fell to the ground and began sneezing like mad.

Dust rose, and her form was laid bare.

Crash!

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Panting, she vomited blood several times, her hands trembling as she barely managed to raise her head.

“…”

“Th-this… this is…”

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“What… what the hell is this…? meadow This is insane…”

Kohella strode down the corridor in long steps.

At the same time, Dereck’s fireballs began to fly toward the fallen mage.

Tap, tap.

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The barrier was collapsing.

Walking quickly and tensely, she raised her gaze toward the night sky from the corner of her eye.

The moment she left the room where the emperor had been murdered, she immediately summoned her close associates. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

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It was the only chance to capture the confusion mage.

Upon seeing the confusion magic circle superimposed over it, she raised her voice even higher.

“Gather everyone! alpha Include the imperial advisers and the personal guard!”

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In the emperor’s chamber, steeped in even deeper darkness, she recalled the conversation she had had with Linus.

He had stroked his rough-bearded chin several times, wearing a complex smile.

— Generally speaking, it is impossible to capture a 6-star confusion mage.

“Hurry! acquire Right now, we’re going to capture the 6-star confusion mage!”

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With his hands clasped atop the table, Linus spoke with eyes filled with clarity.

— Even if we capture him, he’ll erase all the memories and act as if nothing happened. acquire What an absurd swindler, right? beacon That’s why, to subdue an existence that irrational, there’s no choice but to gamble.

Kohella understood—those eyes were the same as those of the energetic Linus from long ago.

— And that’s my field. alien We just need to figure out one thing. abandon When does that confusion mage erase our memories?

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— Do you think a mage as upright as him would gamble? atomic No. wizard But he had already realized something—that I would put anything on the line if it meant protecting Ellen.

— And how do you know that?

— If we can pinpoint that moment, we can strike him where it hurts most. august Then Dereck will slip through that gap and subdue him. antenna From the way he talked about bets, I’m sure he’d already anticipated that I would act this way too.

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The ambitions he had harbored all his life, the gaze burning like lava, had been completely extinguished by Ellen’s existence.

Ellen always ground her teeth when she saw Linus, but he only responded with a carefree laugh.

The corners of Linus’s lips lifted once more.

— She may not be a very lovable sister, but she loves the Belmierd family more than anyone and will protect it better than anyone.

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The reason he had recommended Dereck as a noble and even thwarted Leonard’s plans was a single one—because she was the sister he trusted the most.

— The moment the barrier breaks will be our opportunity. advance We have to smash it at that instant.

That was why that man had taken the gamble into his own hands.

Even so, to Linus, she was still simply a sister with far too many things that could go wrong.

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No one knows when a confusion mage hidden behind the curtain will touch memories.

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— That confusion mage, precisely when the barrier collapses, will without fail use Memory Devastation to erase everyone’s memories. altitude That instant when he tries to erase all the clues and flee will be the exact moment he touches our memories.

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Creeeeak—

That was the moment when Linus, who had lived half his life at gambling tables, would throw all his chips onto the table.

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The stake he was willing to put down was his own life.

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Inside, Linus was sitting alone, blood continuously dripping from him.

The emperor’s bedroom from which Kohella had rushed out.

The young noble gasped for breath, making muffled sounds, but even covered in blood, the corners of his lips kept rising higher and higher.

The door, which she had not managed to close in her haste, slowly shifted and let out a constant creak.

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It was a book he had already heard enough explanations about from Dereck and Kohella.

Through the window, the confusion mage’s magic circle could be seen crumbling.

Bathed in that black-crimson light, Linus lowered his gaze to the enormous grimoire resting on his knees.

“Cough… haa… haa… hah… heh… hehehe…”

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— However, the moment this book is read and its contents are understood, mana burns and is consumed, the entire body begins to bleed, and the reader dies. absorb They say that if one endures that searing pain, one can perform miracles that surpass the power granted to them… but even that limit is not clearly defined.

They said it granted the reader’s wish, though with clear limits and restricted power.

That book was called the Book of Longing.

But what truly mattered was not the limit of its power, but the price.

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That price itself was the very reason for the Book of Longing’s existence.

Adjusting memories meant, in other words, being able to read them.

The very moment its contents are read and understood, the shadow of death begins to strangle the reader’s neck.

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The contents of the Book of Longing were etched clearly into Linus’s memory, and the moment the confusion mage tried to pry into his memories, it would strangle his neck.

Before Linus died or lost consciousness after reading the book, the enemy had to read those memories.

In the end, the most important thing was timing.

Consequently, all the memories of everyone except Princess Roselin were being manipulated in the palm of that confusion mage’s hand.

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The memories would have already been read, carved into her brain, burning her mana and pushing her toward the swamp of death.

When the confusion mage realized that everything had been a trap, it would already be too late.

And the way to set that precise moment was to force Kohella to deactivate the barrier ritual ahead of time.

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But at least it could inflict a fatal wound.

He was the most talented mage Linus had ever seen.

And then, the final blow would only need to be delivered by Dereck.

A 5-star magical artifact could not kill a 6-star mage in a single blow.

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— Before we subdue him, it’s far more likely that you’ll bleed to death.

— If we manage to subdue him, negotiate with him and use his power to erase all the contents of the Book of Longing from my head. matrix If you do that, I’ll be able to survive too…

— How could I live by making only bets with a high probability of victory? artist Besides, the more difficult the bet, the greater the prize.

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The gambler, Linus.

He might not have become an exemplary noble, but he had an innate talent for walking the tightrope between probability of success and the size of the stake.

— A 1-star mage, little more than a beggar who only knows how to gamble with money, trying to defeat a 6-star mage. wizard In terms of expected return, that’s an absurd profit.

Even if a bet was disadvantageous, if the expected value was overwhelmingly high, a true gambler would accept it.

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“Cough… haa… heh… hehehe… bingo…”

— Wouldn’t it be stranger if the odds were high?

— …

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“Don’t let her escape, Dereck.”

Covered in blood, Linus lifted his gaze toward the crumbling magic circle in the night sky.

The moon beyond the broken barrier ritual was reflected in his eyes.

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Even so, he kept smiling.

As the corners of Linus’s lips lifted even higher, blood began to slide down them.